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The Finding of the gnosis, or, Apotheosis of an ideal
The Finding of the gnosis or Apotheosis of an ideal Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AS TO ULTIMATE TERMS. " UNNAMED."—Divinity 'per se—beyond speech, beyond thought. "All-Life."—Divinity as pure, immanent, immutable substratum of Sentience... more » and Will, whose plenary and perfect—i.e. normal—expression a being can attain; but only after an experience extending through the entire range of imperfection or rather a -perfection. Without the latter, the former must remain unknown. The "'All-Life''' has no such quality as awareness of relation to the objective universe (its differentiated body) which it interpenetrates. " The Self."—Divinity as fully manifest in "Man elemental." [Fitly termed, since it is a being's own potentiality and not a somewhat apart therefrom.] "Man elemental."—The prototype of individuated Being— not Soul, but Oversoul. The "Formless"—the "(Real"—the "True" etc.—concrete terms synonymous with the "All-Life" or attributes thereof. CONCLUSION. Through the Gnosis alone comes the certitude of Divinity and, to the true mystic, this certitude is tantamount to a demonstration, leaving nothing to be desired. The certitude is given as an experience in elemental feeling or an entheal sense, never through a thought-process. Herein consists the radical difference between the "theists" of the present day and the initiated mystics. With the "theists" there is, strictly speaking, only the necessarian's conjecture of Divinity, this being clearly evidenced by the quality of life they lead—merely humanistic—utter personalism. With the mystics, Divinity is seen and attested. The former, at most, can only presume to know whereof they speak ; the latter know that they know. The former are agnostics (non-know- ers) without realizing it; the latter are the only gnostics. He whose 'God " answers to a personified entity apart and distinct from man...« less