I believe in the existence of the material world as the expression of the spiritual or the real, and in the impenetrable mystery which hides (and hides through absolute transparency) the mental nature.
I believe in the existence of the material world as the expression of the spiritual or the real, and in the impenetrable mystery which hides (and hides through absolute transparency) the mental nature.
This is the heart of the matter: that the material world is not the Real, and that the Real is connected to our mental nature through a mystery that is transparent and therefore impenetrable. Emerson’s task is to make the transparent translucent so that we can see the glass, and not merely through it. He offers us the chance to see what eludes us, the immanent presence of the transcendent. We will go with Emerson on this journey, and if at the end we find only ourselves, perhaps by then we will not be surprised.
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