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process of evolution begins througii the steps as desa cribed. We thus have involution and evolution alterDately; involution proceeding in the reverse order, with the last evolute disappearing first in point of time,
This order is the most important part of Sinkhran Metaphysics, and it is also very important for us; for it clearly proves that the system is the outcome of the notion that the world-process proceeds upon the analogy of a consciousness that is lieing awalsened from sleep. In a rough general way be following transformations may be conceived as occurring before the world of waking reality may be said to burst upon human consciousness when it wakes up from sleep:
(1) the manifestation of intellect; (2) the dawning of the notion of "1" xha:
kóra) in the intellect; (3) the unioidment of the faculties and fupce
tions of the "I", that is of the ritunas (attention or mind) and of the organs of sensation
and action; (4) the stimulation of the senses, i. e., sensation
and (5) the projection, in external space, of sensa
tions, i, e., of the data or bundle of sensible
qualities of which objects are composed. If you would only bear in mind the notion entertained by certain idealists that the sensible world is only held in the mind of its percipient and the objects
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