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- Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
- Kategorie: Ratgeber
- Sprache: Englisch
Experience the life-changing power of Jnana Marga with this unforgettable book.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020
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A Manual On The Path of Knowledge
Jnana Marga
PROEMIAL
THE Path of Knowledge in the Light of Inward Illumination has for its goal the Realization of the Absolute Truth.
Philosophy provides the foundation, the very pathway itself, upon which the Aspirant must establish himself. It is the High Ground from which he may the more clearly perceive, recognize, distinguish, unify and correlate aspects of Truth.
Symbology unfolds on all sides a perpetual panorama, the inner significance of which is more and more revealed to the Aspirant m the light of Philosophy. He glimpses Beauty as well as Truth, Harmony as well as Unity.
Mythology awakens his Intuitive Faculties, bringing them also into the quest for the True; calling him to the unsuspected heights and the wondrous profundities of the Divine Mysteries.
And lastly, Hermetic Science and Art lead the Aspirant to the portals of Mystical Participation through which the Below is to be transmuted into the Above.
—“HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY”
THE human mind naturally reasons about Truth. In its unremitting operations, wittingly or unwittingly, it is always seeking Truth.
To find Truth is to see Truth, therefore, in proportion as the mind is able to recognize and distinguish what is true from what is false, so it may be said to find Truth, or at least an aspect of Truth.
All things express or represent, in some manner, aspects of Truth. In fact, in this sense, Truth itself is the very Reason of their existence—objectively and subjectively.
Hence, since the Mind cannot conceive of anything that has no existence, it follows that whatever the human mind reasons about, is, in this same sense, an aspect of truth, however far removed from the final and absolute Truth.
Rut the full significance of any aspect of truth is to be understood only when seen in its correct perspective and proper relationship with all other aspects.
Therefore, a living consciousness of Truth is dependent upon the integrity and comprehensiveness of the human reason.
In like manner, universal and integral aspects of truth are more easily recognized and accepted than particularized and partial expressions.
But, m every case, the clearness of perception is modified by the pre-conceptions or prejudices already in the mind, and, likewise, by the objects or motives for which Truth is sought.
For instance, the object may be to collect and classify countless expressions of finite truth in order to formulate generalized laws for practical ends—personal or impersonal.
Such conceptions are scientific, in the common acceptance of the term.
On the other hand, the object may be for the sake of Truth itself, in order to attain, through It, a consciousness of the ultimate Reality.
Such conceptions are philosophical—in the original and best application of the term.
Philosophy, in contradistinction to Science, deals with the essential, universal and abstract nature of things, more than with their apparent, particularized and concrete characteristics.
Philosophy, as its name signifies, is wisdom rather than knowledge, and is more unitive and synthetic, while Science is more partitive and analytical.
Moreover, among Systems of Philosophy, those that are the most universal in world-view and most adequate in expression, are also the most self-evident and harmonious, both in themselves and in their relationships with other systems.
The Hermetic System of Philosophy may be defined as the Wisdom concerning God, the Universe and Man
As the Wisdom concerning God it presents a most exalted conception of Deity and is characterized by a tone of profoundest sanctity.
As the Wisdom concerning the Universe, or Macrocosm, it brings the Sensible World into the light of the Intelligible Sphere, and reveals the underlying unity substanding all duality.
As the Wisdom concerning Man, or the Microcosm, it is characterized at once by the principle of unity and universality, extensively unfolding all his principles, powers, vehicles and relationships, and intensively indicating his assimilation to the type and pattern of Perfect Man.
The principal Hermetic conceptions under these three headings are conveniently summarized thus:—
