future-past: only the numen presenced in each one of our so individual timeless human stories. -David Myatt

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1 Quotes But the stark and uneasy truth is that I have no real, no definitive, answers for anyone, including myself. All I have now is a definite uncertitude of knowing, and certain feelings, some intuitions, some reflexions, a few certainly fallible suggestions arising mostly from reflexions concerning that, my lamentable, past, and thus - perhaps - just a scent, just a scent, of some understanding concerning some-things, perfumed as this understanding is with ineffable sadness. For what I painfully, slowly, came to understand, via pathei-mathos, was the importance - the human necessity, the virtue - of love, and how love expresses or can express the numinous in the most sublime, the most human, way. Of how extremism (of whatever political or religious or ideological kind) places some abstraction, some ideation, some notion of duty to some ideation, before a personal love, before a knowing and an appreciation of the numinous. Thus does extremism - usurping such humanizing personal love - replace human love with an extreme, an unbalanced, an intemperate, passion for something abstract: some ideation, some ideal, some dogma, some 'victory', some-thing always supra-personal and always destructive of personal happiness, personal dreams, personal hopes; and always manifesting an impersonal harshness: the harshness of hatred, intolerance, certitude-of-knowing, unfairness, violence, prejudice. Thus, and for instance, I sense - only sense - that peace (or the beginning thereof) might possibly just be not only the freedom from subsuming personal desires but also the freedom from striving for some supra-personal, abstract, impersonal, goal or goals. That is, a just-being, a flowing and a being-flowed. No subsuming concern with what-might-be or what-was. No lust for ideations; no quest for the violation of difference. Instead - a calmful waiting; just a listening, a seeing, a feeling, of what-is as those, as our, emanations of Life flow and change as they naturally flow and change, in, with, and beyond us: human, animal, of sea, soil, sky, Cosmos, and of Nature... But I am only dreaming, here in pathei-mathos-empathyland where there is no past-present-future passing each of us with our

2 future-past: only the numen presenced in each one of our so individual timeless human stories. -David Myatt It was revealed to me the most important truth concerning human life. Which is that a shared, a loyal, love between two people is the most beautiful, the most numinous, the most valuable thing of all. -David Myatt Philosophy is merely a byproduct of misunderstanding language. - Wittgenstein I am nobody and nothing. This body has no meaning in itself. I am only a mirror in which you can perceive yourself. -Mahavatar Babaji Love is the undisturbed balance that binds this universe together. - Mahavatar Babaji Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS. -Ananda Mayi Let him (Man) conquer his animal passions; let him rid himself of hatred, envy, jealousy, pride; let him throw off the yoke of selfishness; let him purify his soul by cultivating noble sentiments; let him do good; let him attach to

3 the things of this world only the degree of importance which they deserve and he will, even under his present corporeal envelope, have effected his purification, and achieved his deliverance from the influence of matter, which will cease for him on his quitting that envelope. -Allan Kardec There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity. -Ananda Mayi Our human truth is, it seems to me, that it is not right to give names to some things or some deeds or some thoughts; it is un-numinous to try and describe or categorize some experience by some term or some abstraction; it is incorrect to manufacture some theory, in some poor attempt to place such terms in some alleged causal context. In my admittedly fallible view, one of our many human problems - one of the great problems of our modern ways of life - is that there is too much noise, especially the noise of and from words, spoken, read and thought. Far far too many words spoken; far too much speaking, too little silent, interior, reflexion, especially among the natural peace of Nature where we can sense and know again in our stillness the acausal Time of the Cosmos. For wisdom is not to be found in speeches, in political or social manifestos, tracts or books; nor in some political, religious, or social, theory or dogma. And especially not in some abstraction, some ideal. Rather, wisdom is there to be discovered, within ourselves; others can only gently point or guide us toward this self-discovery, toward the necessary interior, quiet, reflexion - perhaps through some work of Art, or some sublime piece of music, some poignant literature; perhaps some poem; or perhaps by some noble deed done or some selfless personal love that needs no words to speak or advertise its wordless name. -David Myatt

4 There is no primary world version i.e. no true version compatible with all true versions. Not only motion,... but even reality is relative. It follows that I accepts many forms of realism and anti-realism without being troubled by the resulting contradictions. -Nelson Goodman It is as if we, as a sentient species, have learnt nothing from the past four thousand years. Nothing from the accumulated pathei-mathos of those who did such deeds or who experienced such deeds or who suffered because of such deeds. Learnt nothing from four thousand years of the human culture that such pathei-mathos created and which to us is manifest remembered, celebrated, transcribed in Art, literature, memoirs, music, poetry, myths, legends, and often in the ethos of a numinous ancestral awareness or in those sometimes mystical allegories that formed the basis for a spiritual way of life. All we have done is to either (i) change the names of that which or those whom we are loyal to and for which or for whom we fight, kill, and are prepared to die for, or (ii) given names to such new causes as we have invented in order to give us some identity or some excuse to fight, endure, triumph, preen, or die for. Pharaoh, Caesar, Pope, Defender of the Faith, President, General, Prime Minister; Rome, Motherland, Fatherland, The British Empire, Our Great Nation, North, South, our democratic way of life. It makes little difference; the same loyalty; the same swaggering; the same hubris; the same desire, or the same obligation or coercion, to participate and fight. -David Myatt Furthermore, there is not only a distinction between a living being and a thing, but also the distinction regarding the assumed separation of beings. As a finite emanation (or presencing) of ψυχή, a living being is not, according to its φύσις, a separate being; as such, it cannot be known its nature cannot be understood by external causal observations or by measuring /describing it (in terms of space ) in relation to other living

5 beings or to things and/or by using such observations/observational classifications/measurements/descriptions to formulate a theory to characterize a type (or genus or species) that such a living being is regarded as belonging to. For its φύσις is manifest known by its acausal relation to other living beings and by the acausal interconnectivity of such beings. Such a knowing is numinous. -David Myatt We may refer to as the dialectic of egoism: of ourselves as one distinct,selfinterested, human being contrasted with (or needing to be contrasted with) and often opposed to (or needing to be opposed to or seen to be opposed to) other humans. Thus, for millennia we have manufactured causal abstractions and identified with one or more of them, saught to bring them into being; as we have opposed other abstractions and especially those humans who identify with some abstraction or whom we have assigned to some abstraction, such as some group or some faith or some nation or some ethnicity or some ideology regarded as inferior to ours or as bad compared to ours. Similarly, we humans have for millennia often felt compelled to place our own self-interest, our welfare, before that of other humans and before the welfare of Nature just as we have been often compelled and often are still compelled to strive, competitively or otherwise, against other humans in order to establish or reaffirm our personal identity, our difference from them (or their inferiority compared to us). Thus has there been, and thus is there, hubris and suffering. Thus has there been, and thus is there, a lack of appreciation of the numinous and a lack of understanding of our φύσις and that of the φύσις of the other living beings (including other humans) who share this planet with us. In summary, applying causal time to living beings creates and maintains division and divisiveness; while the perception of acausal time brings an appreciation of the numinous and thus a knowing of the inherent unity behind our ordinary understanding of separate living beings. [ ] Essentially, therefore, acausality as part of such a formal theory is an axiom, a logical assumption, not a belief. This axiom about the nature of the cosmos is one

6 that derives not from the five Aristotelian essentials that determine the scientific method, but from the intuition of empathy and from deduction relating to observations of living beings. -David Myatt I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am simply a thinking, non-extended thing [that is, a mind], and on the other hand I have a distinct idea of body, in so far as this is simply an extended, non-thinking thing. And accordingly, it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it. -Descartes There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future. -Mahavatar Babaji Empathy supplements our perception of Phainómenon, and thus adds to the five Aristotelian essentials of conventional philosophy and experimental science. The perception which empathy provides [ συν-πάθοs ] is primarily an intuition of acausality: of the acausal reality underlying the causal division of beings, existents, into separate, causal-separated, objects and the subject-object relationship which is or has been assumed by means of the process of causal ideation to exist between such causally-separate beings. Expressed more conventionally, empathy provides or can provide a personal intuition of the connectedness of Life and the connexions which bind all living beings by virtue of such beings having the attribute of life. This intuition of acausality, which empathy provides, is a wordless apprehension (a knowing) of beings and Being which does not depend on denoting or naming (and thus does not depend on abstractions) and the theory of acausality is a formal attempt to explain this apprehension and this distinct type of knowing. -David Myatt

7 Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world -Heraclitus Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with the world, for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. -Nelson Goodman The meaning of a word is its use in language. If I say pick up the red apple, you know what I mean because the language is functional. If I say «what is the soul?» then we have philosophical problem on our hands. Wittgenstein believed that such questions were nonsense. Our approach to understanding the physical world consists in asking questions about the nature of phenomenon that we encounter. A questions like, what is red?, can be answered somewhat satisfactorily by giving an account of radiation, wavelengths, the way our eyes function and so forth. We seem to be able to give an explanation. When we apply similar questions to more abstract objects or concepts or to more fundamental phenomenon we find that no good explanation can be given. We have reached the limits of language. Yet philosophers try to reach further by creating grand theoretical frameworks aimed at somehow accessing reality as it really is. The misapplication of questions was something Wittgenstein called the theoretical attitude. When asking such a question we want the answer to give some new insight into the object. The best we can do is to give an account of how the word is used in the language, an ostensive definition. We want something deeper but you simply cannot go beneath language. This view either does away with Platonism (the assertion that abstract objects and concepts like numbers and goodness exist independently of the human mind) or shows that language is limited in its ability to describe the platonic

8 realm. Therefore Wittgenstein s philosophy dissolves much of philosophy by declaring the questions nonsense. -Wittgenstein Student For the truths, the perception and the understanding, which initiates of the O9A mystic (or the sinisterly-numinous ) tradition personally discover are (i) the unity the mundus, the Being beyond the apparent opposites of sinister and numinous, of causal/acausal, of masculous/muliebral, a unity indescribable by ordinary language but apprehensible by esoteric languages and a particular manner of living, and (ii) the transient, temporal, nature of human manufactured causal abstractions and ideations, and (iii) of an attainable acausal existence beyond our mortal death. -R Parker Man is the measure of all things - Protagoras Shouldn t we now return to sanity from all this mad proliferation of worlds? Shouldn t we stop speaking of right versions as if each were, or had, its own world, and recognize all as versions of one and the same neutral and underlying world? The world thus regained, as remarked earlier, is a world without kinds or order or motion or rest or pattem-a world not worth fighting for or against. We might, though, take the real world to be that of some one of the alternative right versions (or groups of them bound together by some principle of reducibility or translatability) and regard all others as versions of that same world differing from the standard version in accountable ways. The physicist takes his world as the real one, attributing the deletions, additions, irregularities, emphases of other versions to the imperfections of perception, to the urgencies of practice, or to poetic license. The phenomenalist regards the perceptual world as fundamental. and the excisions, abstractions, simplifications, and distortions of other versions as

9 resulting from scientific or practical or artistic concerns. For the man in the street, most versions from science, art, and perception depart in some ways from the familiar serviceable world he has jerry-built from fragments of scientific and artistic tradition and from his own struggle for survival. This world, indeed, is the one most often taken as real; for reality in a world, like realism in a picture, is largely a matter of habit. Ironically, then, our passion for one world is satisfied, at different times and for different purposes, in many different ways. Not only motion, derivation, weighting, order, but even reality is relative. -Nelson Goodman Except God no substance can be granted or conceived... Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence. - Spinoza The individual following the Seven Fold Way therefore, over a period of perhaps two decades or more, gains practical experience of both the sinister and the numinous, and thus can - in accord with the esoteric philosophy of the O9A - via direct personal experience discover for themselves the living unity beyond the artificial, human, division of contrasting ideated opposites, beyond lifeless forms, beyond dogma, and beyond the limitation (the denotatum) of words/names/categories. -David Myatt Truth is One. God is everywhere, in everything; in the water in the sky... He is inside you. -Mahavatar Babaji

10 Praise everyone, if you cannot praise someone, let them out of your life. - Mahavatar babaji There will always be hills and mountains to overcome on the way to God. It is the duty of the warriors to move the mountains! -Mahavatar babaji Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things. We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. - Heraclitus I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -Socrate The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. -Wittgenstein