Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
30.08.2026
Verlag
KatrinaBooksSeitenzahl
198
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,1 cm
Gewicht
295 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798182715058
THE SOUL AND THE BODIES. I n a book dealing with the resurrection of bodies and the reincarnations of the Soul, a chapter must be devoted to the fundamental elements of the question. We will give the name of Soul to abstract Being, to the Unknown, that un- manifested Principle which cannot be defined, for it is above all definition. It is the Absolute of Western philosophers, the Parabrahm of the Hindus, the Tao of the ancient sages of China, the causeless Cause of all that has been or ever will be manifested in concrete time and space. Some feeble idea of it may perhaps be obtained by comparing it with elec- tricity, which, though the cause of various phenomena: heat, movement, chemical action, light, is not, per se, any one of these phenomena, undergoes no modification from their existence, and survives them when the apparatus through which they manifest disappears. We shall set up no distinction between this Soul, which may be called the universal Soul, and the individual soul, which has often been defined as a 3 THÉOPHILE PASCAL ray, a particle of the total Soul, for logically one cannot imply parts to the Absolute; it is illusion, limitation on our part, which shows us souls in the Soul. Bodies are "aspects" of the Soul, results of its activity-if, indeed, the Infinite can be said to be either active or passive; words fail when we attempt to ex- press the Inexpressible. These bodies, or, more precisely, the varied forms assumed by force-matter[2] are aspects of the Soul, just as light or chemical action are aspects of electricity, for one cannot suppose anything outside of infinite Being, nor can anything be imagined which is not a manifestation of the abstract Whole. Let us also define Consciousness. Taken absolutely, it is Being, the Soul, God; the uncaused Cause of all the states which, in beings, we call states of consciousness. This limited consciousness may be defined as the faculty a "centre of life" possesses of receiving vibrations from its surroundings. When, in the course of evolution, a being is sufficiently developed to become conscious of a sepa- ration between its "I" and the objectwhich sends it vibrations, consciousness becomes self-consciousness. This self -consciousness constitutes the human stage; it appears in the higher animals, but as it descends the scale of being, gradually disappears in non-individualised consciousness. In a word, absolute Consciousness is one, though, as in the above example, it is manifested differently, according to the differences in the vehicles which express it in the concrete world in which we live. The Soul, per se, is beyond the reach of beings who have not finished the pilgrimage of evolution. To know it, one must have attained to the eternal Centre, the unmanifested Logos. Up to that point, one can only, in pro- portion as one ascends, feel it in oneself, or acknowledge it by means of the logic which perceives it through all its manifestations as the universal
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