When I was a little boy, I searched the heavens for a miracle. Since then I tried to find the miracle through studying psychology, religion, and philosophy. Sensation and intuition are irrational functions, because they are both concerned simply with what happens and with actual or potential realities. Thinking and feeling, being discriminative functions, are rational. Sensation, the fonction du reel, rules out any simultaneous intuitive activity, since the latter is not concerned with the present but is rather a sixth sense for hidden possibilities, and therefore should not allow itself to be unduly influenced by existing reality. In the same way, thinking is opposed to feeling, because thinking should not be influenced or deflected from its purpose by feeling values, just as feeling is usually vitiated by too much reflection. The four functions therefore form, when arranged diagrammatically, a cross with a rational axis at right angles to an irrational axis. The four orientating functions naturally do not contain everything that is in the conscious psyche. Will and memory, for instance, are not included. The reason for this is that the differentiation of the four orienting functions is, essentially, an empirical consequence of typical differences in the functional attitude. #RandolphHarris 1 of 22

There are people for whom the numinal accent falls on sensation, on the perception of actualities, and elevates it into the sole determining and all-overriding principle. These are the fact-minded human, in whom intellectual judgment, feeling, and intuition are driven into the background by the paramount importance of actual facts. When the accent falls on thinking, judgment is reserved as to what significance should be attached to the facts in question. And on this significance will depend the way which the individual deals with the facts. If feeling is numinal, then one’s adaptation will depend entirely on the feeling values one attributes to them. Finally, if the numinal accent falls on intuition, actual reality counts only in so far as it seems to harbour possibilities which then become the supreme motivating force, regardless of the way things actually are in the present. No wonder, then, that humans of any school of thought obstinately cling to their one-sided truth. For humanly understandable reasons they are unwilling to give up a beautiful, rounded theory in exchange for a paradox, or, worse still, lost themselves in the confusion of contradictory points of view. #RandolphHarris 2 of 22

Father and mother play a large part here; whatever other significant influences or conditions enter into life of the patient go back in a direct line of causality to one’s perpetual dependence on, and in relation to significant objects. The piece de resistance of Dr. Freuds theory is the concept of transference, id est, the patient’s relation to the doctor. Always a specifically qualified object is either desired or met with resistance, and this reaction always follows the pattern established in earliest childhood through the relation to father and mother. What comes from the subject is essentially a blind striving after pleasure; but this striving always acquires its quality from specific objects. With Dr. Freud objects are of the greatest significance and posses almost exclusively the determining power, while the subject remains remarkably insignificant and is really nothing more than the source of desire for pleasures and a “seat of anxiety.” When it comes to human temperament, there is a contrast between two types of human mentality, one of which finds the determining agency pre-eminently in the subject, the other in the object. #RandolphHarris 3 of 22

A middle view, it may be that of common sense, would suppose that human behaviour is conditioned as much by the subject as by the object. The numerous compensations of the basic type are generally due to experiences which teach a human, perhaps in a very painful way, that one cannot give free rein to one’s nature. In other cases, for instance with neurotics, one frequently does not know whether one is dealing with a conscious or an unconscious attitude because, owing to the dissociation of the personality, sometimes one half of it and sometimes the other half occupies the foreground and confuses one’s judgment. This is what makes it so excessively trying to live with neurotic persons. In the hand of the good doctor, of one who really knows the human soul, when applied to the really sick part of a soul, are wholesome caustics, of great help in dosages measured to the individual cause, but harmful and dangerous in the hand that knows not how to measure weigh. For the human psyche, be it sick or healthy, cannot be explained solely by reduction. Eros is certainly always and everywhere present, the urge to power certainly pervades the heights and depths of the psyche, but the psyche is not just the one or the other, not for that matter both together. #RandolphHarris 4 of 22

It is also what it has made and will make out of them. A human is only half understood when we know how everything came into being. If it were al, one could just as well have been dead years ago. As a living being one is not understood, for life does not have only a yesterday, nor is it explained by reducing today to yesterday. Life has also a tomorrow, and today is understood only when we can add to our knowledge of what was yesterday the beginnings of tomorrow. This is true of all life’s psychological expressions, even of pathological symptoms. The symptoms of a neurosis are not simply the effects of long-past causes, whether infantile sexuality or the infantile urge to power; they are also attempts at a new breath urge to power; they are also attempts at a new synthesis of life—unsuccessful attempts, let it be added in the same breath, yet attempts nevertheless, with a core of value and meaning. They are seeds that fail to sprout owing to the inclement conditions of inner and outer nature. The reader will doubtless ask: What in the World is the value and meaning of a neurosis, this most useless and pestilent curse of humanity? To be neurotic—what good can that do? #RandolphHarris 5 of 22

Neurosis can do much good, possibly, as flies and other pests, which the good Lord created so that humans might exercise the useful virtue of patience. I have myself known more than one person who owed one’s entire usefulness and reason for existence to a neurosis, which prevented all the critical follies in one’s life and forced one to a mode of living that developed one’s valuable potentialities. These might have been stifled had not the neurosis, with iron grip, held one to the place where one belonged. There are actually people who have the whole meaning of their life, their true significance, in the unconscious, while in the conscious mind is nothing but inveiglement and error. With others the case is reversed, and here neurosis has a different meaning. In these cases, but not in the former, a thorough-going reduction is indicated. A value is a possibility for the display of energy. However, in so far as a negative value is likewise a possibility for the display of energy—which can be seen most clearly in the notable manifestations of neurotic energy—it too is properly a value, but one that makes possible useless and harmful manifestation of energy. #RandolphHarris 6 of 22

Energy in itself is neither good nor bad, neither useful nor harmful, but neutral, since everything depends on the form into which energy passes. Form gives energy its quality. On the other hand, mere form without energy is equally neutral. For the creation of a real value, therefore, both energy and valuable form are needed. In neurosis psychic energy is present, but undoubtedly it is here in an inferior and unserviceable form. The two reductive theories act as solvents of this inferior form. They are approved caustic remedies, by means of which we obtain free but neutral energy. Now, it has hitherto been supposed that this newly disengaged energy is at the conscious disposal of the patient, so that one can apply it at one’s pleasure. Since it was thought that the energy is nothing but the instinctual power of pleasures of the flesh, people talked of a “sublimation,” in other words, could apply it non-sexually, in the practice of an art, perhaps, or in some other good or useful activity. According to this view, it is possible for the patient, from free choice or inclination, to achieve the sublimation of one’s instinctual forces. We may allow that this view has a certain justification in so far as a human is at all capable of marking out a definite line along which one’s life has to go. #RandolphHarris 7 of 22

However, we know that there is no human foresight or wisdom that can prescribe direction to our life, except for small stretches on the way. This is of course true only of the ordinary type of life, not of the heroic type. The latter kinds also exists, though it is much rarer. Here we are certainly not entitled to say that no marked direction can be given to life, or only for short distances. The heroic conduct of life is absolute—that is, it is oriented by fateful decisions, and the decision to go in certain direction holds, sometimes, to the bitter end. Admittedly the doctor has to do, in the main, only with human beings, seldom with voluntary heroes, and then they are mostly of a type whose surface heroism is an infantile defiance of a fate greater than they, or else a pomposity meant to cover up some touchy inferiority. In this overpoweringly humdrum existence, alas, there is little out of the ordinary that is healthy, and not much room for conspicuous heroism. Not that heroic demands are never put to us: on the contrary—and this is just what is so irritating and irksome—the banal everyday makes banal demands upon our patience, our devotion, perseverance, self-sacrifice; and for us to fulfill these demands (as we must) humbly and without courting applause through heroic gestures, a heroism is needed that cannot be seen from the outside. #RandolphHarris 8 of 22

This heroism does not glitter, is not belauded, and it always seeks concealment in everyday attire. These are demands which, if not fulfilled, are the cause of neurosis. In order to evade them, many a human has dared the great decision of one’s life and carried it through, even if in the common human estimation it was a great error. Before a fate such as this one can only bow one’s head. However, as I say, such cases are rare; the others are in the vast majority. From them the direction of their life is not a simply, straight line; fate confronts them like an intricate labyrinth, all too rich in possibilities, and yet of these many possibilities only one is their own right way. Who would presume—even though armed with the completest knowledge of one’s own character—to designate in advance that single possibility? Much indeed can be attained by the will, but, in view of the fate of certain markedly strong-willed personalities, it is a fundamental error to try to subject our own fate at the costs to our will. Our will is a function regulated by reflection; hence it is dependent on the quality of that reflection. #RandolphHarris 9 of 22

Our will, if it really is a reflection, is supposed to be rational, id est, in accord with reason. However, has it every been show, or will it ever be, that life and fate are in accord with reason, that they are too rational? We have on the contrary good grounds for supposing that they are irrational, or rather that in the last resort they are grounded beyond human reason. The irrationality of events is shown in what we call chance, which we are obviously compelled to deny, because we cannot in principle think of any process tat is not causal and necessary, which it follows that it cannot happen by chance. In practice, however, chance reigns everywhere, and so obtrusively that we might as well put our causal philosophy in our pocket. The plentitude of life is governed by law and yet not governed by law, rational and yet irrational. Hence reason and the will that is grounded in reason are valid only up to a point. The further we go in the direction selected by reason, the surer we may be that we are excluding the irrational possibilities of life which have just as much right to be lived. It was indeed highly expedient for humans to become somewhat more capable of directing their lives. It may justly be maintained that the acquisition of reason is the greatest achievement of humanity; but that is not to say that things must or always will continue in that direction. #RandolphHarris 10 of 22

The whole World is agreed that the present state of armed peace is untenable and is gradually becoming impossible. It demands tremendous sacrifices from each single nation, far exceeding the expenditure for cultural purposes, yet without securing any positive values. If humankind could discover ways and means for doing away with these preparations for wars which never take place, together with the immobilization of a large part of the nation’s humanhood, at the age of maximum strength and efficiency, for the furtherance of warlike aims, and all the other innumerable evils which the present state of affairs creates, such an immense economy of energy would be effected that from this moment onwards we could look forward to a blossoming of culture hitherto undreamed of. For war, like personal combat, although the oldest of all possible means of settling contests of will, is on that very account the most inept, and entails the most grievous waste of energy. Hence the complete abolition of warfare, potential no less than actual, is the categorical imperative of efficiency and one of the supremely important cultural tasks of our day. The irrationality of fate, however, did not concur with the rationality of well-meaning thinkers. #RandolphHarris 11 of 22

The irrationality of fate ordained not only the destruction of the accumulated arms and armies, but, far beyond that, a mad and monstrous devastation, a mass murder without parallel—from which humanity may possibly draw the conclusion that only one side of fate can be mastered with rational intentions. What is true of humanity in general is also true of each individual, for humanity consists only of individual. And as is the psychology of humanity so also is the psychology of the individual. The World War brought a terrible reckoning with the rational intentions of civilization. What is called “will” in the individual is called “imperialism” in nations; for all will is a demonstration of power over fate, id est, the exclusion of chance. Civilization is the rational, “purposeful” sublimation of free energies, brought about by will and intention. It is the same with the individual; and just as the idea of a World civilization received a fearful correction at the hands of war, so the individual must often learn in one’s life that so-called “disposable” energies are not one’s to dispose. #RandolphHarris 12 of 22

By an act of faith we may accept the religious belief in creation, that God brought the Universe to be, and it was. By an act of logic, we may think that the Universe formed itself according to the mechanical laws of nature. The Medieval concept of the Universe as a drama being played out according to a plot, a first beginning and a final end fully revealed to humans, is unacceptable. For the Universe is beginningless and endless, its everchanging activity moving too mysteriously for the finite brain of humanity to comprehend much more than just a significant hint. Is the World-Mind having a game with its hapless creatures, or playing tricks on itself, or expressing its own irrationality and idiocy? Well, of course, we have no right to demand that our small finite minds should have the secret revealed to them. They are incapable. Yet intellectual curiosity and spiritual aspiration for truth keep pushing us to seek answers for apparently unanswerable questions. The human mind, whether in one’s own country or in the West, has been unable to solve the problem of creation. However, this failure was inevitable. #RandolphHarris 13 of 22

The human intellect created the problem for itself; it is an illusory one: it simply does not exist in fact, in Nature. When the intellect itself vanishes, the problem vanishes—as both do in the deepest contemplation. Since no one could have been present before that Beginning which the New World calls Creation, no one could directly know why the Universe was manifested at all. However, the intuitive intelligence of self-actualized penetrated to this idea, that the infinite potentiality and indefinite expansion or contraction of the Universe expresses in space-time form and motion the infinity of the incomparable Void, the unique Reality. The Universal Pulsation and Rest has repeated itself, in its own varied way, endlessly. So the great Revealers tell us. Why is not known, not even to them. All starts and ends in Mystery. For our own Revealers not only were in communion with levels of consciousness beyond the Earthly one but had received visitation from others coming from higher planets. If it be asked why the World was brought into existence, what can insight say, what can anyone say? That God made the human beings in order to be sought, known, loved, and found? #RandolphHarris 14 of 22

Or maybe that God made the Universe as a mirror in which His image is reflected, and humans as a mirror in whom His attributes appear? That humans are a fragment forced by their inner most nature ceaselessly to desire reunion with one’s divine source? Why creation of the Universe? Alone, the eye cannot see itself; but with a second thing present, a mirror, it can do so. This Universe is as a mirror to the World-Mind. Through an unlimited variety of creatures, conditions, and objects, God is forever seeking to see His own attributes. Because God is infinite, this process of creation must likewise be unlimited in every way; it is “a becoming” and never achieves a final result. How could it? The Universe is beginningless and endless; it is its appearance which is intermittent and temporary. It cannot be said to have been created or to have needed a creator. That which has always been in existence, though intermittently in manifestation as humans see it, which has no beginning or end, requires no Creator. There is nothing for one to create. We reject all theories of the Divine Principle having a self-benefiting purpose—such as to know Itself or to get rid of its loneliness—in manifesting the cosmos. #RandolphHarris 15 of 22

It is the Perfect and needs nothing. The cosmos arises of itself under an inherent law of necessity, and the evolution of all entities therein is to enable them to reflect something of the Divine; it is for their sake, not for the Divine’s, that they exist. However, if the Universe has no internal purpose for the World-Mind, it has one for every living entity within it and especially for every self-conscious entity such as man. If there can never be a goal of World-Mind itself, there is a very definite one for its creature man. There is a rhythmic in-breathing and out-breathing that is God’s relation to the Universe. Only when we understand the foreverness of this relationship do we understand that there can be no ultimate purpose from God’s point of view, only from man’s. It is not possible to answer the question “What is the purpose of creation?” However, this will not deter the practical person and genuine seeker from continuing one’s attempt to fulfill the immediate purpose which confronts all human beings—that of awakening to the consciousness of the divine soul. If there were really a purpose in the brining of the cosmos into the existence, there would have to be an ultimate end to the cosmos itself when that purpose was realized. However, this is irreconcilable with the eternal nature of the Universe. #RandolphHarris 16 of 22

The management of human affairs, the values of human society, and the operations of human faculties are basic influences which necessarily shape human ideas or beliefs about divine existence which, being on a totally different and transcendental level of experience, does not correspond to those concepts. The biggest of these mistakes is about the World’s creation. A picture of plan is supposed to arise in the Divine Mind and then the Divine Will operates on something called Matter (or, wit more up-to-date human knowledge, called Energy) to fashion the World and its inhabitants. In short, first the thought, then, by stages, the thing is brought into existence. A potter works like this on clay, but one’s mind and power are not transcendental. The Divine Mind is its own substance and its own energy; its thoughts are creative of these things. Not only so but the number of Universes possible is infinite. Not only this, but they are infinitely different, as though infinite self-expression were being sought. The human understanding may reel at the idea, but creation has never had a beginning nor an end: it is eternal. Nor can it ever come to an end (despite rhythmic intervals of pause), for the Infinite Being can never express itself fully in a finite number of these forms of expression. #RandolphHarris 17 of 22

There is no once-for-all creation at a certain moment in time by s First Cause, but only the appearance of it. There is a series of appearances, as beginningless and endless as the unseen Mind Itself, which is the other aspect of World-Mind, and which is the Real behind all appearances. The creationist doctrine of Semitic and other later religions is not an ultimate once but an understandable one, given to the multitude as something comprehensible by limited mentalities. And we must remember that each “creation” is incomplete, partial, for humans know only their present level of experience and not what else is behind it. The origin in time and early history of the World, the varied phases and permutations of its evolution, are concerns only for those who believe in causality as an ultimate truth and fact. There is certainly the appearance of causality in the World, but when enquired into it is found illusory. The notion seems impossible but Planck has scientifically shown that strict causal sequence does not operate in the realm of ultimate atomic particles of the physical World. #RandolphHarris 18 of 22

My body is not my property. Nowhere does the modern frenzy of self-assertion and the “me” god come more clearly into view than in the claim now often made that “my body is my own.” This is taken t mean that I alone have the right to say what is done in and with it. Now, there is an important truth here—especially in a World where there are so many ways of getting at you through your body. However, it is a truth misstated and misunderstood. Our only safety lies in a proper solidarity with others, not in isolation and pretending to go it alone. Because we are essentially social beings and what is done with our body strongly affects others around us, I do not have exclusive say over what happens in and with my body. It is not mine to do with as I will. To think it is is only the irrational response of a being terrified and hostile about its vulnerability through its body. However, “no human is an island,” nor any other being that we know of either. I did not produce my body. I could not care for it for many years. It is not self-sufficient now. (Ask yourself where your food and water come from.) There will probably come a time when I can care for it again. I did not determine its basic properties, and there is very little about my body of any great importance that is due to me. #RandolphHarris 19 of 22

As a mature and competent individual, I am responsible for the care of m body, and it is the center of all the other responsibilities I have. However, that does not imply that I and I alone have the right to say what is to be done with it, or in short, that I own my body. And this is all the more true for an apprentice of Jesus, whose body and whole being has literally been brought back from evil by God through the death of his on. It is therefore God’s to do with as he pleases, and he pleases that our body should be “a showplace of God’s greatness,” 1 Corinthians 6.20. Christians are the last people on Earth who could say, “My body is my own, and I shall do with it what I please.” Accordingly, our “reasonable service,” the only thing that makes any sense for a human being who trust Christ, is to “present our bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, very pleasing to God,” reports Romans 12.1-2. This total yielding of every part of our body to God, until the very tissues and muscles that make it up are inclined toward God and godliness and are vitalizes in action by the powers of Heaven, breaks all conformity with Worldly life in this age and transforms us into conformity with the age to come, by completing the renewal of our minds—our powers of thought and imaginations and judgment, deeply rooted in our bodies. #RandolphHarris 20 of 22

“Do not even think it,” we sometimes say. And the mark of he renewed mind is what it will “not even think.” And this freedom from even the thought of evil—“thinketh no evil,” reports 1 Corinthians 13.5—requires that the automatic responses toward evil are no longer running the body and its parts. The bodily tendencies of the “living sacrifice” no longer incline us or start us toward evil without thinking, and then drag our thoughts and feelings after them—and very likely our will (heart, spirit) also. “And now I, Moroni, have written the words which were commanded me, according to my memory; and I have told you the things which I have sealed up; therefore touch them not in order that ye may translate; for that things is forbidden you, expect by and by it shall be wisdom in God. And behold, ye may be privileged that ye may show the plates unto those who shall assist to bring forth tis work; and unto thee shall they be shown by the power of God; wherefore they shall know of a surety that these things are true. #RandolphHarris 21 of 22

“And in the mouth of three witnesses shall these things be established; and the testimony of three, and this work, in which shall be shown forth the power of God and also his word, of which the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost bear record—and all this shall stand as a testimony against the World at the last say. And if it so be that they repent and come unto the Father in the name of Jesus, they shall be received into the kingdom of God. And now, if I have no authority for these things, judge ye; for ye shall know that I have authority when ye shall see me, and we shall stand before God at the last day. Amen,” reports Ether 5.1-6. I ask for wisdom from God, enlightenment in the late hours of night. Shall the tribunal of wickedness which write injustice into the law, have fellowship with Thee? They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood. However, the Lord hath been my high tower, my God, the Rock of my refuge. Surely He will bring upon them their own iniquity, and will destroy them by their own evil. The Lord our God will destroy their power. O come, let us sing unto the Lord; let us joyously acclaim the Rock of our salvation. #RandolphHarris 22 of 22

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