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[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Huxley himself had been influenced not only by many psychotropic substances
also by a staunch dosis of advaita, this explains all.
And taking quotes from their context and using them as a proof is a well known
sport of all kinds of religous dogmatics and has been used to prove almost
anything.



-erik


Op 09-oct-97 schreef DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA:

>Random House Dictionary gives this information about Meister Eckhart.
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>Johannes Eckhart("Meister Eckhart"), c1260-1327?, Dominican Theologian and
>Preacher, Founder of German Mysticism.
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>The following quotations are taken from "Perennial Philosophy" by
>Aldous Huxley. He has taken them from WORKS OF MEISTER ECKHART,
>translated by Evans.

>"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should
>see God, as if He stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we
>are one in knowledge.

>"There is a spirit in the soul, untouched by time and flesh, flowing from
>the spirit, remaining in the spirit, itself wholly spiritual. In this
>principle is God, ever verdent, ever flowering in all the joy and glory
>of His actual Self. Sometimes I have called this principle the Tabernacle
>of the soul, some times a spiritual Light, anon I say it is a spark.
>But now I say that it is more exalted over this and that than the heavens
>are exalted over the earth. So now I name it in a nobler fashion....It is
>free of all names and void of all forms. It is one and simple, as God is
>one and simple, and no man in any wise behold it.

>"When I came out of the Godhead into multiplicity, then all things pro-
>claimed, `There is God'(the personal Creator). Now this cannot make me
>blessed, for hereby I realize myself as creature. But in the breaking
>through I am more than all creatures; I am neither God nor creature;
>I am that which I was and shall remain, now and forever more. There I
>receive a thrust which carries me above all angels. By this thrust I
>became so rich that God is not sufficient for me, in so far as He is
>only God in his divine works. For thus in breaking through, I perceive
>what God and I are in common. There I am what I was. There I neither
>increase or decrease. For there I am the immovable which moves all
>things. Here man has won again what he is eternally and ever shall be.
>Here God is received into the soul.

>"Thou must love God as not-God, not-spirit, not-person, not-image, but
>as he is, a sheer, pure absolute One, sundered from all two-ness, and
>in whom we must eternally sink from nothingness to nothingness.

>"When is a man in mere understanding? I answer `When a man sees one
>thing seperated from another.' And when is a man above mere
>understanding? That I can tell you: `When a man sees All in all, then
>a man stands beyond mere understanding.

>"Therefore I give you still another thought, which is yet purer and more
>spiritual: In the Kingdom of Heaven all is in all, all is one, and all
>is ours.

>"This identity of the One into the One and with the One is the source and
>fountainhead and breaking forth of glowing Love."

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>I need not point out how close are these quotations to the Upanishadic
>and Advaitic thought.

>sarma.