Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE HOLY TRINITY.
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The subject pertains to what is known as psychology ; but, unfortunately, that department of knowledge is yet far from being a science, psychologists being still bent on constructing a science of the soul (psyche) without the soul itself. We must, therefore, proceed to investigate the subject ourselves, and shall, accordingly, now begin our study with an analysis of imagination, with special reference to its function of dream-making.
To any one who will take the trouble of looking into its nature, it will be apparent that imagination consists of
(1) consciousness, (2) ideas, and
(3) mental energy which operates on ideas. Let us turn to dreams for a moment. The question is, how is a dream created ? Is it not the illumination of an idea, or of more ideas comprised in one single psychosis or thought, just as the magic lantern display is an illumination of its slides? In the magic lantern the apparatus consists of three parts, namely, (1) a lamp, or an illuminator, (2) a number of slides, or films, and (3) the energy supplied by the operator who pushes the slides before the lamp. Similarly, the apparatus of the living bioscope of Mind consists of the identical three parts. Consciousness is the illuminator, living ideas, that is, memory, furnish the 'films,' and will supplies the necessary energy. It is an apparatus perfect and complete in itself, and stands not in need of an outside operator.
Such, briefly, is the mechanism of the apparatus of dreams, which may be said to consist of consciousness, memory and will. But as the psychologists and philo