Author: win r

"Enq:  Then you make of man a God?   Theo:  Please say "God" and not a God. In our sense, the inner man is the only God we can have cognizance of.  And how can this be otherwise?   Grant us our postulate that God is a universally diffused, infinite principle, and how can man [...]

"Enq:  Do you believe in prayer, and do you ever pray?   Theo:  We do not. We act, instead of talking.   Enq:  You do not offer prayers even to the Absolute Principle?   Theo:  Why should we? Being well-occupied people, we can hardly afford to lose time in addressing verbal prayers to a pure [...]

"Enq:  I once heard one of your members remarking that Universal Deity, being everywhere, was in vessels of dishonour, as in those of honour, and, therefore, was present in every atom of my cigar ash!  Is this not rank blasphemy?   Theo:  I do not think so, as simple logic can hardly be regarded as [...]

"Enq:  Stop! Omniscience is the prerogative of something that thinks, and you deny to your Absoluteness the power of thought.   Theo:  We deny it to the ABSOLUTE, since thought is something limited and conditioned. But you evidently forget that in philosophy absolute unconsciousness is also absolute consciousness, as otherwise it would not be absolute. [...]

"Enq:  What is, then, your definition of it {Pantheism}?   Theo:  Let me ask you a question in my turn. What do you understand by Pan, or Nature?   Enq:  Nature is, I suppose, the sum total of things existing around us; the aggregate of causes and effects in the world of matter, the creation [...]