Growth, generation, is not a quantity but a quality of being.
Thought is not a quantity but a quality of being.
Emotion is not a quantity but a quality of being.
Objective experiences/sensations are recorded in subjective bodies (surrounding objective body) .
Study, true study, is not the introduction of concepts into the mind but the reception of the mind of that which is greater than it. It is not an active mental process, therefore, but a passive one. Study is not the use of the mind as an active agent . When the mind serves as a channel for truth, the mind approaches illumination.
What is "intrinsic" is what is beyond mind and consequently beyond creation.
The predicament of man is that he is not life nor lifelessness, he is suspended betwixt the two. His "free will", his egoic self, his mind principle, allows him to choose between the two extremes. Almost invariably he chooses death because temporal reality is evident, whereas eternal reality is only imminent.
The mind of man is his only salvation, but also his greatest enemy. The problem is that man is not a mind-being -- he is a universal being, a divine being, a spiritual being. The egoic-consciousness is locked within the principle of mind, the Orphic egg from which Phanes, the universal savior, must burst forth for illumination to occur.
Beauty exists without mind, and mind is a condition of the beautiful.
The mediocre mind believes that it can think its way to knowledge. The disillusioned mind knows that it is properly the servant of the real and so long as it tries to be its arbiter, it will be the slayer of the real.
The mind can receive life, it cannot bestow life.
My lifelong search for perfection has lead me to the conclusion that perfection can never be conceived by the mind, but it can be received by the mind. Perfection, beauty, cannot be comprehended, but it can be apprehended -- this apprehension results in the illumination of the mind, the end of evolution and the creation of the "star man."
It is hopeless for the mind to try to annihilate itself, it can only acknowledge that which is greater than itself.
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