Hierarchy Index Cards - H
Hegel
Index-Card-H-31-09 DEH Taking up Society’s Viewpoint. You do not know or perceive things by simple sight. Simple sight you discount; sight at one time, sight in one kind of light, sight from one particular angle, sight from one particular distance. You integrate all these & the various feels of the thing as well, into a many-placed & many-timed concrete perception. This is taking up Society’s viewpoint, for Society can see all round a thing at once … But progress to pure & absolute intelligence is not reached save via the intermediate stages between yourself & the circumference, via the super-monads. Hegel didn’t realise the immensity of the path that lies before us, & must be travelled before we reach Universality. We can in some moods spy out the promised land from the Delectable Mountains of mysticism, but we have to descend 7 painfully, in our future life, to identify ourselves with the viewpoint of each super-monad in turn.
Index Card H-31
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