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WORLDA symbol of the soul in its lower aspect; the arena of the mental life; the planes of form and illusion; or the lower quaternary perceived in the mind. "I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." - JOHN Xviii. 37. The Christ is the great king of the inner realm; he is the end and aim of all evolution. He enters the soul (world) in order to rule it through love, and his witness is the love of goodness and truth. Every quality that partakes of this love co-ordinates itself with him. "'The world,' the name by which we describe the connected elements of experience in general, is regarded not merely as connected causally or otherwise from end to end; it is regarded as a whole. And these two-Truth' (the aim of intellectual effort), and the world,' the unity of experience which lies beyond the causal connection of its facts-confront one another, and demand some further whole which shall include them both. These two wholes must become one in God." - W. RICHMOND, Personality. p. 109. When the mental nature (world) perfectly conforms itself to Truth, Wisdom and Love, then the two Selves the higher consciousness and the lower-become One. "That the world is a phenomenon of mind is the fundamental thought of modern philosophy from Kant downwards; and that philosophy is accordingly in its essence idealism. Mind is invisible nature, Nature is mind made visible; mind is the inner side of all that is outward, the real working principle in all that is actual, as all that is outward is but its representation of itself, all that is actual, the form and means of its self-realisation." - PFLEIDERER, Phil. of Religion, Vol. II. pp. 1, 2. "Thus from that ether he (Brahman, the Highest Self) wakes all this world, which consists of thought only, and by him alone is all this meditated on, and in him it is dissolved." - Mait. Upanishad, VI. 20. "You are not in this world, nor are you experiencing anything in connection with it, however dark and drear, because an almighty being sent you here without consulting you and without your having anything to do with the matter. That is not the way things are ordered. You are here by the operation of a law which is the law of your own nature. Being what you are, you could not choose but come, any more than a plant can help growing." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., The Eternal Self. "A child was born yesterday. How he lies to-day in his serene, superb unconsciousness! And all the forces and resources of the earth are gathered about his cradle offering themselves to him. Each of his new-born senses is besieged. Each eager voice cries out to him, 'Here I am. I have waited for you. Here I am.' He takes what they all bring as if it were his right. Not merely on his senses, but even on his mind and most unconscious soul, the world into which he has come is pressing itself. Its conventionalities and creeds, its standards beaten out of the experience of uncounted generations, its traditions of hope and danger, its prejudices and limitations and precedents, all its discoveries and hopes and fears- they are the scenery in which this new life stands, they are the mountains in whose shadow and the skies in whose light he is to unfold his long career. They are here before him, and he comes into them. You cannot separate him and them from each other. He and his world make one system, one rich, complex unit of life, as he lies this Sunday morning in his cradle, sleeping his unsuspecting sleep." - PHILLIPS BROOKS, Light of the World, p. 42. |
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