more about the Ineffable
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novapsyche"The divine Ground of all existence is a spiritual Absolute, ineffable in terms of discursive thought, but (in certain circumstances) susceptible to being directly experienced and realized by the human being. This Absolute is the God-without-form of Hindu and Christian mystical phraseology. The last end of man, the ultimate reason for human existence, is unitve knowledge with the divine Ground--the knowledge that can come only to those who are prepared to 'die to self' and so make room, as it were, for God."
-- Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, p. 21.
"We have seen that many thoughts are unthinkable apart from an appropriate vocabulary and frame of reference. But the fundamental ideas of the Perennial Philosophy can be formulated in a very simple vocabulary, and the experiences to which the ideas refer can and indeed must be had immediately and apart from any vocabulary whatsoever." -- p. 19.
"'I live, yet not I, but Christ in me.' Or perhaps it might be more accurate to use the verb transitively and say, 'I live, yet not I; for it is the Logos who lives me--lives me as an actor lives his part." -- p. 12.
-- Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, p. 21.
"We have seen that many thoughts are unthinkable apart from an appropriate vocabulary and frame of reference. But the fundamental ideas of the Perennial Philosophy can be formulated in a very simple vocabulary, and the experiences to which the ideas refer can and indeed must be had immediately and apart from any vocabulary whatsoever." -- p. 19.
"'I live, yet not I, but Christ in me.' Or perhaps it might be more accurate to use the verb transitively and say, 'I live, yet not I; for it is the Logos who lives me--lives me as an actor lives his part." -- p. 12.