Article Selections | Notes by H.P.B.
We may hence alone assume that no second subsance is intelligible or logically thinkable, ubt that what savage medicine men, in whose steps Ontologists are still straying, have mistaken for this Animistic Fetish is nothing else than the function, exhibit, or sympton—to use a medical term—of this one material or somatic to Pan. “Where three physicians are, two are Atheists,” says the immemorial prover, coined before Physic had conquered a scientific status. Now the proverb, if up to date, must be amplified so as to include all three. When we eliminate “anima,” which really means vitality,1 or Soul, which is Anglo-Saxon for life, from the universe inorganic and organic . . . we get rid of Deity, as the active agent in function of “brute,” or living matter . . .
So that the Universe—abstract and concrete—of thought and thing, subject and object, is, in the last resort, a subjective, egoistic, cerebral or intercranial one, an organic function in short, generating all space and immensity, time and eternity, so that capping Louis XIV in his vaunt of being the state, each unit of sentient creation must say, “l’ Univers c’est moi.”2
1. Of which “vitality” biologists know no more than of the man in the moon.—Ed. [H.P.B.]
2. Just what every Brahmin and every Vedantin says when repeating: Aham eva parabrahma, “I am myself Brahma or the Universe.”—Ed. [H.P.B.]