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 KEY OF ENOWLEDGE.
cause it is the very first manifestation. Now, since the manifested aspect of the Divine Essence is here regarded as Divine Thought, on a lower plane, the Son is identical with the Logos of the Greek philosophers. And, because an idea is a presentation in consciousness, it is to be regarded as the resultant of the activity of will, which represents our conception of energy with reference to mind or imagination, as already seen. Hence, when imagination is analyzed into its three components, and separate places are assigned to Consciousness and the Idea, but none to idea-tion or Will, we have the two Brahmans, the Revealed and the Unrevealed. If, however, Consciousness and Ideation alone are kept in view, Brahman and Vâch are the names by which they are respectively known. Vâch is generally described as the daughter of the Creator, who is, however, regarded as neither masculine nor feminine, on the ground of being the Absolute. .
If we can now imagine the world to be of the nature of a dream, we can easily see how Brahmâ or Ishvara, can be said to be its creator. For being conceived as the illumination, after the manner of a dream, of an all-comprehending Idea, it cannot but be described as the creation of Brahmâ, the personification of the collective aspect of knowledge or thought. It is in this sense that St. John writes :
"All things were made by him [the Word] and without him was not anything made, that was made” (John, 1-3).
Further identity of thought between the two systems, the Indian and the Greek, will appear most strikingly from the following table in which we shall compare their conclusions, side by side, with the metaphysical
John. 1-3).