Is there a consolation in Philosophy ? In the mirages of Metaphysics ? If not, why do people turn to Wisdom ?
Boethius wrote the Consolations of Philosophy, De Consociation Philosohiae. It is Wisdom which alone can comfort Man !
Why do people read Books ? Do they find pleasure in reading ? Is there a Reader’s Heaven, which scholars averr ?
Longfellow defended this view. He wrote
The scholar and the world, the endless strife The discord in the harmonies of life, The love of learning, the sequesterd nooks, And the sweet serenity of books The Marketplace, eager love for gain Whose aim is Vanity, whose end is pain !
So it is better to be a scholar curled in his books than a bizman, who knows not what is mental peace !
Four major doctrines, Christianity,Freemasonry, Capitalism and Communism originated from the Jews.
Jesus was a Jew. He contradicted the Mosaic Law and founded Christianity.
Freemasonry is based on Gnosticism, which is Christian Mysticism. And Gnosticism is derived from the Kabbalah, which is Jewish Mysticism.
About Kabbalah, General Pyke wrote ” All dogmatic religions originate from the Kabbalah and return to it. One is surprised while entering the Sanctuary of the Kabbalah, at finding the doctrine so simple, so logical and at the same time so absolute. ” Freemasonry exists today as a Royal Science and as a Noble Art.
Capitalism – You will find some of the greatest capitalists amongst Jews. The Rockefellers, the Reynoldses, the Rothschilds, the Warburgs. the Soros et al.
Marx and Trotsky were Masons and Jews. International Communism was built up, so that its strength equalled the united strength of Dogmatic Theology.
The father of the Atom Bomb ( Oppenheimer ) was a Jew. So was Einstein. So was Ben Franklin, the man who founded the American Philosophical Society.
The world owes a lot to the Jews. Judaism is the Original Religion from which Chrisitanity and Islam originated.
” The priest is a scoundrel “, said Khalil Gibran. The priesthood indoctrinate their flocks with fanaticism. ” Our Religion is the greatest”, “Our Prophet is the greatest” and our ” Book is the greatest ” are their slogans.
So no wonder we find a lot of fanatics today. People believe the mythological tales to be historical, with the result they clash amongst themselves over allegorical and symbolic stories.
Books like ” The Davinci Code”, ” The Love in the East” and ” The Satanic Verses ” serve a good purpose. They give a clear message to the people, telling them to get rid of their fanaticism.
The God of the philosophers is not the God of Theology.
The priesthood talk about a jealous and vengeful God, sitting in some antisceptic corner of the cosmos, an extra-cosmic Deity. The Yogis talk about an Indwelling Presence, a principle which works from within and a Principle which gives Divine guidance
There is conflict when Philosophy meets Theology. ” We are dealing with a full size World Mystery here and a fight between the Black and White Brotherhoods “. said Frater Achad.
We are all one, according to this Theory. All human beings are the same.
It is an ” us against them” mentality which is responsible for all wars. We have forgotten that all are our brothers and sisters.
We think we are good and our enemies are bad. Such a mentality will plunge us in war.
Remember what Shakespeare said ” There is nothing good or bad in this world, but thinking makes it so “. It is our erroenous thinking that ” we are right and they are wrong” which is the cause of all wars.
Only the Theory of Global Oneness can save humanity ! Remember what Plato said ” Those who are caught up in the morasses of multiplicity are not philosophers “.
When we survey World Philosophy, we find that there are four major world views.
Secular Humanism
Egalitarianism
Cosmic Humanism
Evangelism
Secular Humanism consists of Atheism and Agnosticism. Atheists are people who deny God. Agnostics say that Reality is Unknown and maybe Reality exists, but That is not known to the human mind.
Egalitarianism – This is Marxism, aiming at an egalitarian society. According to Marx, society is an organic unity that is dialectially interrelated to the economic conditions. The materialistic conception of history indicates the struggle of Being for Self- Realisation through the well known three phase dialectic – of Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis.
Cosmic Humanism – This doctrine is similar to Secular Humanism. The only difference is the postulate of a Self, which exists in all human beings.
His great transparent mirror, Self !
We are all parts of the One Universal Substance which constitute the universe. The mystic tie binds all men into Brotherhood. Also all the elements of the Universe into the Unity behind diversity.
Evangelism – This doctrine states that some “Religions are superior” to other “inferior Religions” and people belonging to the ” inferior religions ” should be converted into the “Superior Religions “. There are millions of evangelists and these people create schism in soceity. All dogmas belong to Evangelism, which is the bane of this world. Those who follow Evangelism becomes fundamentalists and fanatics and they are the problem causers of this world. They label the earlier Universal Philosophy ( which existed even before the birth of their religions ) as ” Paganism” and their theological doctrines as ” Anti-Paganism”. This Anti Paganism is responsible for the world’s present malady. They also talk about Love, but then Love without Scientific Philosophy is superstition.
Philosophy without Love is madness Love without Philosophy is superstition.
This is where Universal Love steps in, along with Universal Wisdom. The world can only be united under Universal Love & Brotherhood. The salvation of the world is in Love and through Love !
Theology states that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh The priesthood do not believe in the Law of Evolution, which states that man evolved from the apes. This transvaluation instigated by Charles Darwin robbed man of the privilege of having been specially created.
From a broader philosophical perspective, we can say that the Lord did not create the world. He became this world. He is all this. ” All this is Brahman alone, all this magnificent Universe” averrs the Upanishads.
The sum total Energy in the Universe is an absolute constant and does not change. This is the Universal Being, which knoweth no destruction. ” Know that to be imperishable by which all this is pervaded” says the Geetha.
Dr Erasmus Darwin drew inspiration from the Theory of Reincarnation and the Theory of the Ten Incarnations of Lord Vishnu. The first incarnation was that of a fish, indicating that life came from the sea and that our ancestors were aquatic. The summum bonum is the Enlightened One, the Buddha. Finally Charles Darwin, his grandson, established the Law of Evolution in his Origin of the Species.
While on the absolute plane there is no destruction, forms are changing on the relative plane. Matter exists in three forms – solid, liquid and gaseous. Nothing ever begins to be. It only undergoes a transformation into conditions which preexisted in other conditions. Ice when heated becomes water, which when heated becomes steam, which when cooled becomes water, which when cooled becomes ice again. So on the relative plane, forms only undergo transformation.
The Theory of Reincarnation – Symblic of the Evolution of Consciousness
The Theory of Reincarnation states that the Soul takes successive births and evolves to the Absolute, the Godhead, through the Evolution of Consciousness. Life does not, at physical birth, begin to be. It merely enters physical conditions and assumes physical guise.
There are three types of men
The Animal Man – Here Consciousness is on the animal level. Hence we find criminals and crackpots in society.
The Human Man – Here Consciousness is on the human level. Man is all mixed, viz, Virtue and Vice are mixed in him
The Divine Man – Here Consciousness is on the Divine level. He had achieved union with the Absolute Self.
The Evolution of Consiousness begins from Animal Man and ends in Divine Man.
The Theory of the Ten Incarnations is also symbolic. It depicts the journey of the Soul from the unicellular amoeba to the Enlightened Man.
Be the Enlightened Man, the Divine Man, is the message of Transcendental Wisdom !
Our negative aspect is always in conflict with our positive aspect. Hence this maxim ” Know Thyself” assumes great significance.
Atmanam Viddhi is the message of the mighty Upanishads. In Latin Nosche te ipsum !
What is the use of anything in this world if we dont know the Self ?
It is not for the husband’s sake that husband is loved. It is not for the wife’s sake that wife is loved. It is for the sake of the Self !( Atmanasthu kamaya sarvam priyam bhavathi ).
This Self is to be known and experienced. The Self, when known, everything is known ! (Atmano va are sravanena darshanena matya vijnanena idam sarvam viditham ).
Kanada, the father of Visheshika system of Indian Philosophy, propounded the Fivefold Atomic Theory long before Dalton and the Ninefold Elemental Theory.
The Ninefold Elemental Theory
The entire Universe is made up of Nine Elements – The Elemental Five – earth, water, fire, ether, air plus the four elements – Time, Space, Self and Mind.
Mind is finer matter in vibration. What is Mind ? Never matter. What is Matter ? Never Mind !
Mind is a steady stream of thoughts. Mind creates Reality, yet Mind veils Reality. Indeed Mind is omnipotent.
Everything is internalised and externalised By that arch villain, Mind ! From the Macrocosm to the Microcosm All this is Mind ! Know all this to be Non Self Know all this to be Non Being Like the blueness in the sky Like the water in the mirage So is this visible Universe In Self Supreme, Absolute !
Self is an utter Being and all these are its Becomings
This visible Universe Is verily the Self !
What Nature hath buried Is the living lordly Self The unfolding of this Self Is the process of Education
The Fivefold Atomic Theory
Matter is made up for five types of atoms – the aerial atoms, the igneous atoms, the aqueous atoms, the etheric atoms and the terrene atoms.
Berkeley denied the existence of Matter. Esse est percipii, perception is essence, Mind is the Substance !
Mentalism postulates that all this is Mind !
Mentalism is essentially Illuisionism, as Mind can conjure up only Illusions ! It is Mind alone which veils Reality !
Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi’s philosophy can be called Illusionism or Mentalism. He advised everybody to abide as the Self. ( ” In the infinite sky of Consciousness, the Sun of Self Realisation shines bright and brilliant. Disperse the cloud of Ego obstructing the moonlight of Consciousness and the bud of Truth begins to blossom. It is the only Absolute. There is no other. The Absolute Brahman becomes so the say the Cosmic Mind and spreads this world. As it thinks, so it becomes. It is the Lord of Creation. Dissolve the Mind by thinking about its real nature. Be beyond the dualities of attraction and repulsion. The Self fills the Universe, being colourless, timeless and spaceless”- Paul Brunton. )
Aurobindo was a Realist. He asseverated that Maya is Real. ” Maya is real, because it is the Self’s experience of the Self”. He averred that Leela, meaning the cosmic play of the Divine, is a better term than Maya. “Leela includes the idea of Maya and exceeds it “, said He. Leela is His play, Himself the play, Himself the player, Himself the playground ! His play which creates and recreates Himself in Himself for the sheer bliss of that self-creation !
This Art is about the dance of Nature, symbolised by the daughter of the Mountains, the mythological Parvathi, the consort of Lord Shiva. It is said that Nature cannot exist without Her Lord and She emparadised His mind !
She flings forth from Him in ecstasy, only to find Him playing in Time, She and He, two in one, inseparable. The entire Universe is nothing but She ! “Sarvam Khalvidam eva aham, nanyadasthi sanathanam” declared She in the Devi Bhagavatam. She deludes even the minds of the Rishies or the Seers and is divine in Her infinite origin. Jnaninam api chethmasi Devi Bhagavathee hi sah !
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