Article selections by G. M. McC | Notes by H.P.B.
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The Hylo-Ideal Thesis is this Ideal Concord, to be reached whether you travel by way of Eastern Idealism, or by the route of plainer Western Materialism. For, and here all contradictions are reconciled, in the one Subject-object which is Self, there is no diversity, neither Jew nor Greek, neither Idealism only, nor Materialism only, or exclusively, but all is one.1 And in Unity there is no class distinction, no nomenclature, no “otherness,” no Ebal and Gerizim, but only the Mount of God. What the Ego is, all is.2 It is the x of every problem and answers to any value save the spurious and indifferent one of the Dualist.
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The highest and the lowliest3 are ever thus akin—“Aryan worship secreted in the Holy of Holies the utensils of the dairy.” Grasp but the centre truth of truths—that the Ego and its products are one, that every one of us spins, from his own consciousness, the web of thing and circumstance, which envelopes him—and you see at once and as it were instinctively, that in this Universe-circle of Egoity there is no “otherness” even thinkable, no lower and no higher, no difference, nothing essentially common or unclean, everything being, not so much cleansed of God, as very theobroma,4 God’s food and nutrient element, seeing that in it, and by it, and through it, we and all things consubstantially exist.
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1. Hence the Spirit of Non-Separateness in esoteric philosophy must be the ONE truth.—Ed. [H.P.B.]
2. Only this “Ego” is universal, not individual: Absolute Consciousness, not the human Brain.—Ed. [H.P.B.]
3. Then why not term the philosophy “High-Low-Idealism” vice “Hylo-Idealism”?—Ed. [H.P.B.]
4. “Theobroma”—the same as cacao-butter. We take exception to the phraseology, not to Dr. Lewins’ ideas.—Ed. [H.P.B.]