Author: win r

"Where is then that matter which you all pretend to know so well; and from which - being so familiar with it - you draw all your conclusions and explanations, and attribute to it all things? ...That, which can be fully realized by our reason and senses, is but the superficial: they can never reach [...]

"There is a reflection of every one of these views in Schopenhauer's philosophy. Our "investigating" scientists might consult his works with profit. They will find therein many a strange hypothesis founded on old ideas, speculations on the "new" phenomena, which may prove as reasonable as any, and be saved the useless trouble of inventing new [...]

"The opposing power alone of unbelief and skepticism, if projected in a current of equal force, can check the other, and sometimes completely neutralize it. Why should spiritualist wonder that the presence of some strong skeptics, or of those who, feeling bitterly opposed to the phenomenon, unconsciously exercise their will-power in opposition, hinders and often [...]

"Pythagoras brought his doctrines from the eastern sanctuaries, and Plato compiled them into a form more intelligible than the mysterious numerals of the sage - whose doctrines he had fully embraced - to the uninitiated mind. Thus, the Cosmos is "the Son" with Plato, having for his father and mother the Divine Thought and Matter. [...]

""The incorporeal world then was already completed, having its seat in the Divine Reason", says Philo who is erroneously accused of deriving his philosophy from Plato's.   In the Theogony of Mochus, we find Aether first, and then the air; the two principles from which Ulom, the intelligible νοετος God (the visible universe of matter) [...]