Mental Background

The Flowers Of Guidance Volume One The Path to Acquiring Knowledge

Therefore, when intelligent people obtain new knowledge, they find background on that matter in their minds1. The philosophy supporting this idea is that time is an illusion and does not exist, and this perfect universe has always been, and it cannot improve in principles and general terms. Whatever exists has always been and will always be. However, the evolution we observe in all the corners of creation is due to the small parts trying to become one with the infinite supreme divine.   

 

Footnotes

  1. This notion occurs to people from time to time that envision something that he sees for the first time as a known fact and thoughts that he has seen and has read before. This state occurs explicitly in times of tiredness and fatigue. A Japanese ethics writer named Konko in the 14th century wrote in his book, “Dezorgosa”: “It is common that I hear words that I think I have heard before, or I see things that I imagine I have seen before, but I cannot recall when and where.” English Poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, also described the same state in beautiful poems. Lafcadio Hearn recognizes such a state with the individual’s past life, and Hefting thinks that in such situations, people tend to generalize a small part of that situation. Many other psychological explanations have noted on the aspects of these same situations with no conclusive outcome. Henri Bergson described this issue in detail in his book “Mind-Energy,” pages 117 to 161. (Translation from the psychology book by Félicien Challaye)