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mean this inter-implication, with, of course, contextual emphasis on body [ Besides, mind, according to them, is a subtle (sūksma) form of body.] But logically before that, pure consciousness had had to individuate itself Pure consciousness as the impersonal absolute has no reference (not even free reference) to that body, it being referred to only by the individuated pure conscious, the pure I As, again, pure im personal consciousness cannot individuate itself without the resulting individual referring at the same time freely to that body and mind, the pure I and that body and mind should be regarded as simultaneous developments. Only, the pure I is but that impersonal absolute self-delimited (self-individuated), while that mind and that body are symbolic representations of the I.
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