Sunday, November 16, 2008

The Philosophical Mind

It is impossible for the Modern Mind to comprehend metaphysical principles as a true transcendent Reality. This is because the Modern Mind is taught to quantify experience into two opposing buckets of information:1) the rational and “real”, and, 2) the irrational and “imaginative”.

The relativist philosophers of the ‘Enlightenment', and forefathers of modern western thought, taught that all knowledge arises from external sensible perceptions. It is therefore impossible to have true knowledge of transcendent universal principles. As a result, the gnosis of the classical Philosopher, as Union with the object of knowledge, is unattainable by the relativistic Modern Mind. That which cannot be explained by rational analysis is therefore irrational and in the relativistic Modern Mind an inferior and imaginative sentiment.

This “left-brain”/” right-brain” split does not exist in the traditional Philosophical Mind, which instead accepts the Unity of all things. It does not differentiate between the physical manifestation and the metaphysical principle; the symbol does not represent meaning, the symbol IS the meaning. Through the lens of the Philosophical Mind the rational and irrational are merely vessels for transcendent principles.


Thanks to the "Enlightenment" , the modern world fails to see reality as a spectrum of truths, opting instead for discrete units of quantification. For this reason the Modern Mind struggles between the dualities of sacred being and profane existence… binary distinctions that do not exist in the qualitative mind of the traditional Philosopher.

The initiate who aspires to break the bindings of material and physical existence must first transmute the relativist Modern Mind into the universal Philosophical Mind. Only with this Promethean power of Philosophical Mind, can one aspire to steal the immortal Fire from the gods.

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