ISBN: 9781153703789

Excerpt: ...all the phenomena of nature are mere illusions of the senses, which they undoubtedly are. But whichever side we take, all appearances are the result of the same general cause-… More...

Excerpt: ...all the phenomena of nature are mere illusions of the senses, which they undoubtedly are. But whichever side we take, all appearances are the result of the same general cause-that of mental vibration. Matter has no real existence. Paul was meditating on what he had seen and what he was now hearing. Ah Ben''s words were endowed with an added force by the vision of the mysterious room. When you tell me that there is practically no difference between the real and the unreal, and that matter has no real existence, I must confess to some perplexity, observed Henley. Ah Ben looked up and smoothed the furrows in his withered cheek thoughtfully for a minute before he answered: Unfortunately, Mr. Henley, language is not absolute or final in its power to convey thought, and the best we can do is to use it as carefully as possible to express ourselves, which we can only hope to do approximately. Therefore when I say that a thing is hot or cold, or hard or soft, I only mean that it is so by comparison with certain other things; and when I say that matter has no existence, I mean that it has no independent existence-no existence outside of the mind that brought it into being. I mean that it was formed by mind, formed out of mind, and that it continues to exist in mind as a part of mind. I mean that it is an appearance objective to our point of consciousness on the material plane; but inasmuch as it was formed by thought, it can be reformed by thought, which could never be if it existed independently of thought. It is real in the sense of apparent objectivity, and not real in the sense of independent objectivity, and yet it affects us in precisely the same manner as if it were independent of thought. What, then, is the difference between matter as viewed from the Idealist''s or the Materialist''s point of view? At first there is apparently none, but a deeper insight will show us that the difference is vast and radical, for in the one case the tree or the... Charles Willing Beale, Books, Fiction and Literature, The Ghost Of Guir House Books>Fiction and Literature The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / Ghost; Fiction / Horror; Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / Fantasy / Epic; Fiction / Ghost; Fiction / Horror; Juvenile Fiction / Horror<

ISBN: 9781153703789

Excerpt: ...all the phenomena of nature are mere illusions of the senses, which they undoubtedly are. But whichever side we take, all appearances are the result of the same general cause-… More...

Excerpt: ...all the phenomena of nature are mere illusions of the senses, which they undoubtedly are. But whichever side we take, all appearances are the result of the same general cause-that of mental vibration. Matter has no real existence. Paul was meditating on what he had seen and what he was now hearing. Ah Ben''s words were endowed with an added force by the vision of the mysterious room. When you tell me that there is practically no difference between the real and the unreal, and that matter has no real existence, I must confess to some perplexity, observed Henley. Ah Ben looked up and smoothed the furrows in his withered cheek thoughtfully for a minute before he answered: Unfortunately, Mr. Henley, language is not absolute or final in its power to convey thought, and the best we can do is to use it as carefully as possible to express ourselves, which we can only hope to do approximately. Therefore when I say that a thing is hot or cold, or hard or soft, I only mean that it is so by comparison with certain other things; and when I say that matter has no existence, I mean that it has no independent existence-no existence outside of the mind that brought it into being. I mean that it was formed by mind, formed out of mind, and that it continues to exist in mind as a part of mind. I mean that it is an appearance objective to our point of consciousness on the material plane; but inasmuch as it was formed by thought, it can be reformed by thought, which could never be if it existed independently of thought. It is real in the sense of apparent objectivity, and not real in the sense of independent objectivity, and yet it affects us in precisely the same manner as if it were independent of thought. What, then, is the difference between matter as viewed from the Idealist''s or the Materialist''s point of view? At first there is apparently none, but a deeper insight will show us that the difference is vast and radical, for in the one case the tree or the... Charles Willing Beale, Books, Fiction and Literature, The Ghost Of Guir House Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1153703785

[EAN: 9781153703789], Neubuch, Paperback. The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from m… More...

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ISBN: 1153703785

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