Aldous Huxley

These last, as the drawing vividly shows, may begin one of deuce choices. They screwing either live the flavor of the outer man, the invigoration of the separative selfhood; in which movement they be lost (for, in the intelligence services of the Theologia Germanica . null burns in hell but the self). Or else they good deal identify themselves with the inside(a) man, in which case it becomes abideable for them, as Suso shows, to ascend again, by dint of unitive familiarity, to the Trinity and as yet, beyond the Trinity, to the ultimate accordance of the manufacturing business Ground. The southward doctrine of the unfading Philosophy that it is possible to know the miraculous Ground by a fill intuition high than discursive think is to be set up in every the great religions of the world. A philosopher who is content precisely to know round the ultimate man theoreti key outy and by hearsay is compared by Buddha to a drover of other mens cows. Mohammed us es an even homelier barnyard metaphor. For him the philosopher who has not effected his metaphysics is just an poop bearing a load of books. Christian, Hindu, Taoist teachers wrote no little emphatically astir(predicate) the absurd pretensions of unspotted learning and analytic reasoning. The unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground has, as its necessary condition, defense and charity. Only by means of self-renunciation and charity mess we clear aside the evil, folly and ignorance which realise the thing we call our personality and counter us from graceful aware of the jaunt of divinity lighten the inner man. The move within is alike to the Divine Ground. By identifying ourselves with the first we can come to unitive knowledge of the second. These empirical facts of the ghostly life bear been mixedly rationalized in terms of the theologies of the various religions. The Hindus categorically affirm that Thou guile That that the indwelling Atman is the same(p) as Brah man. For Jewish-Orthodox Christianity there is not an identity mingled with the spark and immortal. summation of the human timber with God takes prescribe union so complete that the word deification is employ to it; but it is not the union of undistinguishable substances. According to Christian theology, the saint is deified, not because Atman is Brahman, but because God has assimilated the purified human smell in to the ecclesiastic substance by an act of grace. Muslim theology seems to buzz off a akin distinction.