The herald., 1898-03-15

| OF truth inevitably necessitates . single
philosophy existent somewhere, IN wnlch
hsrs are no hut tsqsn n
tion, instead Of dissociated.
In this volume the essays are very brioi
and not one of them wastes your time oyer
the meat or the bone. or augnt inaeeo OF
otherwise, these essays dive into and open
out the pith, the core, the very marrow OF
the meat and bone. and evaporate mys-
terry. They illumine the occult within the
meat and bone; they take you not by steps.
be 1t observed, but at once place you upon
solid, unquestionable, unyie!ding founda-
tions; they land you from the trouDlous
illumined heart of the occult, into the clear
sight of the actual soul of being! They re-
veal to YOU that human CONSEQUENCES is
what 1t Is because each unit or force OF
which consciousness Is phase has been,
and constantly is, the expression, the sum
total of the varieties of experience.
A remarkable feature of the book is that
it contains not line of ratiocination, put
series of clear-cut truths, as II OF pom
ards; plunged through all integuments
into the very heart of truth. so that no
sooner are these withdrawn than the oc-
cult Is poured forth through each riIt from
the light within. Yes, the greater llgnt,
hitherto enclosed. dimming by contrast the
but half-light of the external!
We look in vain down the lines of Hlose
PHILOSOPHERS which the ancients formulat-
still cling; we glance over the. sum total
of wisdom reached by the Alexandrine
Greeks; we think of those lectures deiiv-
cred by Hypatia. when at the zenith OF her
power, cut short by the professedly Chris
tian fanaticism but actual butchery or
Cyril; vet by none of these has the occult
ever been presented as non-occulted, nor
have any of them ever attempted, still less
succeeded. to clear mystery away. as we
find mystery got rid of in this strange vol
ume. In a word. by the laying down of
a most obvious but neglected law-the law
Of opposites-the pairs by the ineuication q Q,
truth becomes separated from mystery;
mystery disappears. and truth stands out
alone-wherefore then, and only then, phi
losophy instantly is!
Love and wisdom or knowledge, of which
philosophy is constituted, exist only in
their every phase awakened In conscious
ness. by reason of the cOntrasted co-ex-
istence of the not-love and not-wisdom-
hate and folly or ignorance Once rightly
apprehended, the perpetual co-existence of
the opposites is seen to be the most potent
key to the occult. which Is by far the
largest and most intense factor of truth,
tinues unaware Of the immensity of his
potentlality, and the but small portion
thereof is thus far kinetically energized.
We have taken some pains to apply this
law; the results of its operation are sig
niflcant.
we commend this book not alone for It's
unique character. its direct thrusts, and
its power of conviction without argument,
but also because of Its simplicity. and rem
dering diaphanous the veil of mystery,
which is perhaps the special charm-let-
ting out the light from within, instead of
letting in the light from without.
Taking modern philosophical writings,
from Emmanuel Kant down to Cousin,
Locke, Hamilton. Mansel, Mill. even to
Herbert Spencer, you look in vain through
their ponderous arguments for what Is here
n 1,x- Of ,ckn
without argument. To what. then, can we
liken this teaching, when with nothing of
the Dryasdust philosophy of human intel
ligence. as we commonly experience that.
does 1T seem in any manner connected?
Nor has 1t much more to say in relation
to science, saving that it lays fast hold
upon the law of conservation. or preserva-
tion or all which Is eternal, by continued
The philosophy of the pairs then, stands
out In strong NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. in
capable of moestation. because all-inclus-
i've The pairs. or opposites, always exist
Life and death are always-both eternal.
but variable. Is this philosophy then, not
rightly deemed hermetic? Because it has
found this duality. this law of opposites
IN each unit of being, which teaching. we
was proclaimed by the Trismegistus' voice
In Egypt ages before the people of the
Nile lost the ancient light, but having lost
1t gave birth to the concept of mystery,
the riddle, its embodiment, the Sphinx!
In the psychic realm the law of oppo-
sites becomes an analyzing instrument
whereby to survey the occult and dssect
It, not less powerful nor less certain than
the spectroscope has become in the physi-
cal; whilst this law possesses a feature
which In the spectroscope is lacking, for
the spectroscope is not an instrument of
synthesis. This law is-whilst it tears
asunder it also rebuilds--it shows the pro-
cess of building up the unit of conscious
ness-that, whereby the "all' in the now
is apprehendcd. 1t proves that highest and
lowest must ever co-exist; the demon mot
the church's devil, however, as inevitable
as the good-the untrue as essential as the
true.
ST. JOHN V. DAY, F. R. G.. e.