Romantic Metaphysician-Magicians editionHoly Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason_(Meiklejohn)
But by far the greatest difficulty lies undoubtedly in the subject itself. The latest school esoteric kantianism has expressly characterized its philosophy as an ESOTERIC SCIENCE [emphasis added], which would at all times remain confined to the narrow circle of the initiated; yea more, which is also intended to be solely confined to them, inasmuch as what constitutes it philosophy is, that it does not lay aside the veil which is impervious to the eye of the unitiated-- its scientific garb.
>>25216968more like esoteric racism with protestant Baltic characteristics.
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>what at an earlier stage of development involved strenuous self-consciously directed attention through tedious reasoning, pain-stakingly connecting one thought to another in a chain of judgments, at a later stage becomes an almost immediate automatic process, where the reasoning itself happens so quickly it would appear to someone ignorant of the method as an intuition-esoteric kantanon>...we may fancy that we see or feel what we in reality infer. A truth, or supposed truth, which is really the result of a very rapid inference, may seem to be apprehended intuitively.-JS Mill, A System of Logic
psychometry is synthetic a priori knowledge of particulars by a cognitive capacity developed through the practical application of the techne arrived at through techno-practical reason's development of that techne in theory.
>If we were to flatter ourselves so much as to claim that we know the [things in themselves] , then we would have to be in community with God so as to participate immediately in the divine ideas [...]. To expect this in the present life is the business of mystics and theosophists.
>[The Science of Knowledge] constructs the entire common consciousness of all rational beings absolutely a priori, in its fundamental characteristics, precisely as geometry constructs absolutely a priori the universal modes of limiting space on the part of all rational beings.-Fichte, Sun-Clear Statement, Third Conversation
>How sweetly the stories from the holy dawn of the world resound, when all are still gathered together in the house of the father, until it is time for the sons to go out, each in pursuit of his own adventure, giving rise in the end to the clamor of tribes and nations! >But we will not speak of these things here, for what we propose is to describe the history of what happened in the life of the original being (des Urwesens), beginning indeed with its original and never yet disclosed condition, the time before the world even existed (der vorweltlichen Zeit).>From that age, no saga resounds, for it was a time of silence and utter stillness. Only in divinely revealed speech does an occasional lightning flash tear through the black clouds that obscure this oldest of the old.Remember to pay your respects to our dear brother on this solemn day of lead.
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>Our representations must be given previously to any analysis of them; and no conceptions can arise, quoad their content, analytically. But the synthesis of a diversity (be it given a priori or empirically) is the first requisite for the production of a cognition, which in its beginning, indeed, may be crude and confused, and therefore in need of analysis,—still, synthesis is that by which alone the elements of our cognitions are collected and united into a certain content, consequently it is the first thing on which we must fix our attention, if we wish to investigate the origin of our knowledge.
>If I make complete abstraction of the content of cognition, objectively considered, all cognition is, from a subjective point of view, either historical or rational. Historical cognition is cognitio ex datis, rational, cognitio ex principiis. Whatever may be the original source of a cognition, it is, in relation to the person who possesses it, merely historical, if he knows only what has been given him from another quarter, whether that knowledge was communicated by direct experience or by instruction. Thus the Person who has learned a system of philosophy—say the Wolfian—although he has a perfect knowledge of all the principles, definitions, and arguments in that philosophy, as well as of the divisions that have been made of the system, possesses really no more than an historical knowledge of the Wolfian system; he knows only what has been told him, his judgements are only those which he has received from his teachers. Dispute the validity of a definition, and he is completely at a loss to find another. He has formed his mind on another's; but the imitative faculty is not the productive. His knowledge has not been drawn from reason; and although, objectively considered, it is rational knowledge, subjectively, it is merely historical. He has learned this or that philosophy and is merely a plaster cast of a living man. Rational cognitions which are objective, that is, which have their source in reason, can be so termed from a subjective point of view, only when they have been drawn by the individual himself from the sources of reason, that is, from principles; and it is in this way alone that criticism, or even the rejection of what has been already learned, can spring up in the mind.
>The rose in the Fool's left hand is white, to indicate freedom from the lower forms of desire and passion, and also to show that it refers to the spiritual prototype of desire.>At the waist, the robe is encircled by a girdle having twelve circular ornaments, of which seven are visible. It refers to the twelve signs of the zodiac, through which are expressed the powers of the seven heavenly bodies known to the ancients. Thus the girdle typifies Time, and since the belt must be removed in order to take off the black coat, here is a plain intimation that to rid ourselves of ignorance and passion we must overcome the illusion of Time, which is, as Kant long ago proved, purely a creation of the human intellect.Guten Morgen
>>25219941Guten Morgen.Woraus stammt dieser Auszug?
>>25219978>There was the sect called the Rasayanas. Their idea was that ideality, knowledge, spirituality and religion were all very right, but that the body was only an instrument by which to attain to all these. If the body broke now then it would take so much more time to attain the goal. For instance a man wants to practice Yoga or wants to become spiritual. Before he has advanced very far he dies. Then he takes another body and begins again, then dies, and so on, and in this way much time will be lost in dying and being born again. If the body could be made strong and perfect we should have more time to become spiritual. The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages. Paul F. Case. Kant is only mentioned once though but going over it made me think of this thread.
>>25221217whoa, few know about Herr Case. How did you learn of him?
>>25221222The short version is Eliphas Levi on the Tarot, which led me to the Golden Dawn's version, then to Herr Case. I've got to say pairing his work with Kant's is rocket fuel. How'd you hear of him?
>>25221257The Spirit guided me to BOTA after my study of the critical philosophy.
>>25221266>Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?> Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.That makes sense. To turn the Theoria into Praxis. Did you join it or are you just reading his work independently?
>>25221288I joined.
