the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
this disease.” So also with the Unknowable, God, à priori,
First Cause, etc., etc., this metaphysical sickness can be cured.
Not certainly in the same manner as small-pox can be; for
physicians have a scientific language wherein to express their
ideas and thoughts, whilst a mystic too often has not; but by a
series of exercises, or a system of symbolic teaching, which
will gradually lead the sufferer from the material to the
spiritual, and not leave him gazing and wondering at it, as he
would at a star in the night.
A fourth dimensional being, outside a few mathematical
symbols, would be unable to explain to a third dimensional
being a fourth dimensional world, simply because he would
be addressing him in a fourth dimensional language. Likewise,
in a less degree, would a doctor be unable to explain
the theory of inoculation to a savage, but it is quite conceivable
that he might be able to teach him how to vaccinate
himself or another; which would be after all the chief point
gained.
Similarly the Yogi says: I have arrived at a state of Superconsciousness
(Samâdhi) and you, my friend, are not only
blind, deaf and dumb, and a savage, but the son of a pig into
the bargain. You are totally immersed in Darkness (Tamas); a
child of ignorance (Avidyâ), and the offspring of illusion
(Mâyâ); as mad, insane and idiotic as those unfortunates you
lock up in your asylums to convince you, as one of you
yourselves has very justly remarked, that you are not all raving
mad. For you consider not only one thing, which you insult
by calling God, but all things, to be real; and anything which
has the slightest odour of reality about it you pronounce an
illusion. But, as my brother the Magician has told you, “he
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