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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (272059)5/4/2015 9:17:43 PM
From: T L Comiskey   of 540690
 
re..Thanks Albert

or...

Thanks Be....

Whosoever thy tutelary deity may be, meditate upon the form for much time " as being apparent, yet non-existent in reality, like a form produced by a magician

Then let the visualization of the tutelary deity melt away from the extremities, till nothing at all remaineth visible of it; and put thyself in the state of

The Clearness and the Voidness " which thou canst not conceive as something "

and abide in that state for a little while. Again meditate upon the tutelary deity;

again meditate upon the Clear Light; do this alternately.

Afterwards allow thine own intellect to melt away gradually, beginning from the extremities.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

As a final summing up of the whole matter we may cite a sentence of Eckhart's.

'He who seeks God under settled form

lays hold of the form, while missing the God concealed in it/

Here, the key word is ' settled'

It is permissible to seek God provisionally under a form

which is from the first recognized as merely a symbol of Reality,

and a symbol which must sooner or later be discarded in favour of what it stands for.

To seek Him under a settled form " settled because regarded as the very shape of "Reality "

is to commit oneself to

illusion and a kind of idolatry.
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