Hierarchy Index Cards - C

Caird. Card-C-01-08 DEH: Only in the light of the whole whose higher Self it is, can the behaviour of any monad be understood. And every monad save God has such a higher Self. Look then for the higher Self.Card-C-01-09 J Caird. Date: 9.6.45
Index-Card-C-02-01 DEH: cf my Moral Recapitulation Theory. Every good deed is evolved upwards in you through the various telescoped degrees of selfishness. But all deeds in the end feed the Divine Goodness which we must appropriate — There is none good save God.Index-...
Card-C-03-01 J Caird. Date: 5.6.45 Card-C-03-05 J Caird. Date: 11.6.45. The Self as SpacelessCard-C-03-15 J Caird. DEH: The condition of a higher knowledge is realisation of ‘unknowability’ at the level of the lower knowledge. Mystery, wonder, awe, are the channels ...
Caird. Index-Card-C-04-08 Thought. DEH: …the Law that thought of a thing is participation in the very being ^v of the thing at the thing’s own level, in the thing’s own Time. What is more, your thought of a thing is the thing’s own ‘extended’ super- or sub- ...
Card-C-05-16. Empathy. DEH: You have, in my terms, to realise them as P.H’s [picture heads] as things in themselves. This means less subjective, more objective treatment. It means you are humbler, and at the same time you know your object far more intimately. … you ...
Caird. Card-C-06-04. Vertical knowingDEH: …improvement in knowing is the change from horizontal or shallow knowing to vertical or developmental knowing. Thoought corresponds more & more with Reality, which is Vertical. Thus the thought which refers all to God, the...
Card-C-07-03 Date 13.6.45 Caird. Moral recapitulation.Card-C-07-12. DH: The saint, on external reading, is still in Time. Some of him is really in the Far Future, in Eternity even. For his world has evolved with Himself — he lives in a perfect world much of his time.C...
CairdCard-C-08-02 [no mixing of levels] DEH: …there are no organs in the living man, only in the corpse, no molecules in the cell, no atoms in the molecule, no men in Soc. Kill the cell & you produce out of it molecules. Cell & molecules are mutually incompati...
Carlyle; CarpenterCard-C-10-01 Intentionality. Carlyle: “The Situation that has not its Duty, its `ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal: work ...
CarpenterCard-C-11-03 DEH: Ideas, inspiration, knowledge, are from below, from cells, molecules, atoms etc. Look at your cells. Every cell in your body is the bearer of tidings from God that the cell cannot understand, that even you do not fully understand. You & th...
CarpenterCard-C-12-13 DEH Do Man, Earth, sun & universe worship, in increasingly complete ways, God? And does the real mystic retire into these ‘upper’ consciousnesses of his?Card-C-12-20. DEH: This feeling of the unfriendliness of the world, one’s ‘lostness...
CarpenterIndex-Card-C-13-08 DEH: Is our knowledge an affair of two aspects: (1) something we wrest from our environment & (2) something that we externalise from ourselves, which is already in us? For instance, did we know unconsciously that the Earth revolved round ...
CarpenterIndex-Card-C-14-10. DEH: Our civilised, hard-boiled attitude too Earth is really tragic. How much more real & beautiful & true is a sanctified earth, a living earth.Card-C-14-19Reading H.W. Car: Contemp. Brit. PhilKnowledge of Object & Conditions of...
H.W. Carr: Philosophy of ChangeCard-C-15-01 diagramDEH We have again the invaluable diagram: to continue, you cannot go on growing indefinitely but must at a certain stage reduce almost to nil, before you can proceed. This is not just what Alice experiences with her fie...
HW Carr — Philosophy of ChangeCard-C-16-01. Date: Ripon, Aug 14 1945. The Brain and Realism.Card-C-16-01. DEH: The mind body problem is no academic one: our purpose, our raison-d’être, is its solution.Card-C-16-02 DiagramCard-C-16-04 Time. DH: Consider: Light from ...
CarrCard-C-17-03. DH: Space needs time to be space. Distance and motion imply time.Card-C-17-13. DH: …Mabel’s Realist doctrine — we perceive the actual world, not events in our brains… how can one extend a sound when one should ‘extend’ a battery? [when an e...
CarrCard-C-18-01. Unity of Mind and Body.Card-C-18-07. DH: Philosophy, mysticism, religion, art are different sorts of victory over C.S. Life is a battle against C.S. — which is necessary as an obstacle to be overcome. But in so far as a man is deep and real he has va...
CarrIndex-Card-C-19-04Index-Card-C-19-06 DiagramCard-C-19-10. DH: …when you see the Whole as experiencer, mind and body, spirit and matter disappear: these distinctions belong to what isn’t yet incorporated. Experience is reality and experience is indivisible.Card-C...
CarrCard-C-20-10. DEH: But what about the sub-e [sub-electron] Presumably it is Nothing, but an essential & functional (Hegelian) nothing, like the centre of a rotating wheel.Card-C-20-12 DEH: Your evolution is evolution of your appreciation of other monads. The mor...
CarrIndex-Card-C-10 DEH: Yet W.C. [Carr] says minds have nothing in common. They have the universe in common. Yet of course each monad has its own perspective which is quite different from others…Card-C-21-14. DEH: Carr’s great mistake is the mistake of all pluralis...
Card-C-22CarrCard-C-22-12 DEH: Increasing flying & land speeds then really is significant as part of the conquest of space & time. Hence thrill of fast riding & flying? Hence day-dreams of flight. Hence the swiftness & bodily largeness of the gods. Growt...
CarrCard-C-23-02: constant fieldCard-C-23-07 Carr: Examples: When I say London, 2nd syllable is in specious present when 1st syllable is pronounced. I’m reading, mental apprehension is ahead of sensed word. DEH: I hear a clock stop & 3 or 4 beats before it stops, ...
CarrSpecious present.Index-Card-C-24-03 DEH: Do you not, when looking at a patch of colour, constantly ‘revivify’ the sensation by comparison of the patch with its surroundings by a a darting of attention to & fro? Thus you can’t contemplate the pure sensation...
CarrCard-C-25-05. Date 12.44. Carr. Death and immortality.DEH: This is just what Verticality denies. Firstly, all you are comes down to you from the Eternal & is an expression of what cannot be lost or diminished. Secondly, all you are ascends, momentarily, to the E...
CarrCard-C-26-01 and -02 DiagramsCard-C-26-12 DEH 1. So also is the 8 [Hierarchy] a working model, as necessary, I believe, to our understanding of man as the model of the SS [solar system] is to our understanding of that. We can’t perceive you any more adequately tha...
Card-C-27-07 Date: 12.44. Carr. Alice’s Vision involves her EvolutionCard-C-27-07. DH: Half of what an atom is is what it is to all other atoms; the other half is what all other atoms are to it. What an atom is therefore involves all atoms, in 2 different ways.Index-C...
CarrCard-C-28-03 Date: 12.44. Carr. A World of Picture HeadsCard-C-28-04. Empathy. DH: To see the world as a world of P-Hs [picture-heads] is the way God sees it. Only thus is the physical finally overcome. You are, in this world of P-Hs all P-H appreciation of you and ...
CarrCard-C-29-01 Date: 12 44 Carr. Independent Reality & Things in Themselves.Card-C-29-07 Date: 12 44 Carr.Card-C-29-13 [not clear when this is written]1.2.6 [chapter 1, section 2, para 6]2 The Missing Head6. No. I am certain I am not shut up in the gloomy interior...
ChestertonCard-C-30-20 [probably 1944]I look at my human self1. Mystery & difficulties of nearer views2. disapper when I come to the human region. CS’s own3. Yet, a few times in a lifetime, one is aghast, staggered at this commonplace ‘human’ self. Familiarity...
Card-C-31-02 I look for my boundaries [clothes]Card-C-31-04 Growth and amputationCard-C-31-06 The living organ and the deadCard-C-31-07 Body extension means Mental ModificationCiceroClifford
CongerIndex-Card-C-35-10 DEH For God to be God, He must, as His parts, ‘degenerate’ right down to sub-e. Cells lose many freedoms in a man’s body. The saint has to pay for his growth by much loss of human delights. Life’s development requires the degeneration of...
CongerCard-C-36-4 DEH: Surrender of individuality to gain it. The negative path is really the most positive. Evolution has been due to this judicious & fruitful surrender of independence, or refusal to become independent.
Coleridge, CookCard-C-38-05 Date 1.45. Cook: Rebirth of ChristianityCard-C-38-06 and -07 Diagrams — hierarchy pyramidCard-C-38-09 DEH So men can represent Constituencies, T.U. Branches, Institutions of all kinds etc Gatherings of Representatives. These representatives...
CookCard-C-39-03 Date: 1.45 Cook: Rebirth of ChristianityCard-C-39-04 — Natural and Man-made Law.Card-C-39-10 DiagramCard-C-39-16 DEH Our discovery of the laws of Life is a part of Life’s self-consciousness as a Person.
CookCard-C-40-03 DEH C [Cook] means presumably that one should have some theology & some philosophy, and should practice one of the fine arts, if one’s religion is to be kept sweet [?]. I think this is a laudable ideal & very right in principle. The law is, th...
Card-C-42-02 Cook: Rebirth of Christianity. DH: The words we give things are a part of those things.Index-Card-C-42-05, -13, -14, -15 Diagrams

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