Eugene begins by asking how long has talk of this been going on? He suggests approaching it from the idea of ‘stone’, S means ‘Spirit’, T means ‘fixation’ or ‘crucifixion’. N means both ‘negation’ and ‘intelligence’. “The fundamental idea in ‘ST one’ is that all matter is really spirit, self-fixated and when this stone is discovered it will confer immortality on the owner.” He then asks the audience: “What is mortality?” (There follows an interchange of ideas with members.) He defines the word ‘philosopher’: lover of ‘soph’, of wisdom. ‘Soph’ reversed is ‘phos’ which means ‘light’. So ‘soph’ actually means “the word ‘light’ turned around and back to its source.”i.e. “reflexive awareness.” We all know lots of things but can we say that we know that we know them? To be reflexively aware we have to be able to say that we can will, what we feel, what we know. To be reflexive is to be able to say: “I don’t only know it, I know that I know it, I don’t only will it, I will that I will it. That is the highest function of any conscious being; to be reflexive.”
The phonetics of ‘stone’ tell us that Spirit has crucified Itself and in the process, negated Itself. i.e. set up a self-resistance. If Spirit did not do this It would be a Field of awareness with nothing in it; objectless. As humans, we are able to “capture” an object in our field of awareness. The word ‘percept’ means: “rational capture” and a concept is a group of these. “Sentience gets hold of Itself
…and moulds Itself into a form which we call ‘conceptual essence’.” All of our control ideas are concepts which we have moulded with our will to attain formal control of a situation. Without concepts there is merely a field with nothing in it. This is difficult for us to imagine because we have a body, and that body is central to our field of awareness. Our body is the “condensation of an intent to exist.” If we lose this intent then the body diminishes and we can fade away and die.
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