Hierarchy Index Cards - H

Haeckel; HaldaneCard-H-02-05 DH: “Realise that Paradise Lost & the Fifth Symphony are reptilian. They were written by developed reptiles. We must not think of our ideal being separate from birds & fish & flies. Even the soil & the clouds & the air ...
HaldaneCard-H-03-15 Date: Luton June 46. Animal PsychologyCard-H-03-16 DEH: “Then, in Mabel, boldly go on, like H with his ‘philosopher’s barnacle’ & Stapledon with his conscious Stars & Galaxies, to draw a picture of what it might be like to be at all l...
Card-H-05-04 DEH I am not a body in a house but a blank in a house. A nothing/centre of the house.Card-H-05-13 Date Bury Nov ’45. Reading Hallett: The Essential Nature of Knowledge.Card-H-05-18 List of books read.Hallett
Carpenter; Von Hartmann; HartshomeCard-H-06-17 Bury Nov 22/45. Reading Hartshorne. DEH: “Soc also works because of & not in spite of the instability & freedom of the relations between its members.”
Gerald HeardCard-H-06 DEH the Chemist would really understand what atoms were for & meant, if he replied they are for him: their meaning begins to emerge in his existence & interest & use of them.
Card-H-14-12HeardDEH: Our study since the Renaissance has been of the world that lies between the Centre and Man and we have ignored B. [diagram. The lack of study of the higher levels as higher and not just in terms of the lower.]Card-H-14-15 Gerald Heard: I must learn...
Heard: Creed of ChristCard-H-15-05 DEH Our view of the world as not heaven, as evil, meaningless, hell, is the result of a sort of turnover. If we could see truly we would see — Reality, God.
Heard: Creed of ChristCard-H-16-10. Heard discussing Purgation. DEH: I go much further and say that Purgation must go on, not merely alternating with advance… in which, in a sense, one has to eventually completely purge oneself, admitting that all particular existence...
HeardCard-H-18—01 diag. The magic square.Card-H-18—04 DEH I am groping for, I sense, an utterly new, revolutionary, attitude to these sciences.Card-H-18—05 DEH Mabel doesn’t dogmatise but asks the reader to decide whether a case has been made out.Card-H-18—07 ...
HeardCard-H-20-05 Date Ripon 4.8.45 Reading Heard: Training for the life of the spirit.Card-H-20-08. DH on the stages from events being external and imposed to being internal and willed:Acceptance of what happens…5. Understanding the factors which control you external...
HeardIndex-Card-H-2109. Alert passivity.Index-Card-H-21-11 Quoting Heard: St Francis is said to have repeated for a whole night: “My God & my All! What am I & what art Thou!”Index-Card-H-21-13 DEH The book illustrates the 2 principles: (a) The Duality of the...
HeardIndex-Card-H-22-04 DEH: In terms of office:- the problem put up to you is solved at once. In effect this means that you do not know how it was solved. It was not solved mechanically, reflexively, but as far as you are concerned it was so settled. Deli, thought abou...
HeardIndex-Card-H-23-06 DEH Do we have to go over and over what we have done, till we die to it all into a higher life, of our own choice?Index-Card-H-23-13 DEH My generalisation… is that the only things that affect one another are wholes & their parts…
Heard; HegelCard-H-24-02Beryl didn’t see my moustache had gone. Boys didn’t see beard. [seeing without analysing]HegelIndex-Card-H-24-05 Diagram
HegelIndex-Card-H-25-06 DEH Religion, true religion, is your activity only in so far as you are Society — and the other high monads. No by-passing to God. Vastly important doctrine.
HegelIndex-Card-H-26-01 Date Colchester 18.1.46Card-H-26-04DH: This is a very important principle of wider application. It is no use forcing on people the solution of problems which they have not yet recognised as problems. This is the meaning of the doctrine that convi...
HegelIndex-Card-H-27-14 DEH Hegel’s categories are I think somewhat arbitrary & artificial, but his insistence on concreteness is admirable. I make sure of concreteness by making my hierarchy one of spiritual substances, monads, than which nothing can be more conc...
Card-H-28-01. Hegel.DEH: Whole and Parts - one of H’s basic conceptions. Any part of whole is what it is because of its relation to system as a whole and to the other parts. Thus in living organisms each organ is what it is because it is part of a whole. No part can a...
Card-H-30-11 (Hegel)DH: “Whatever you do, you will with your whole will. At human, c.s., level, you don’t realise your whole will, & growth is at once becoming conscious of your whole will (=wiil-from-above) and adjusting your will accordingly. But whether adjus...
HegelIndex-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 ...
HegelIndex-Card-H-32-20 DEH Hegel overstressed our part in this, neglecting the hierarchy of super-minds, but it is still true, & of supreme importance, that every discovery we make, every bit of self-consciousness or world-consciousness we achieve, is God realising...
Index-Card-H-33Card-H-33-07. Reading Hegel.DH: “Make the point that talk is of little use. Interchange contemplation & reading. Here is a real development in communion with the mind of society, which is your true super-mind. Thus your growth is by the interaction ...
HegelFinding ourselves in the Not-SelfCard-H-34-02 DEH The world appears alien so that we shall make it our own, shall realise ourselves in it.
Card-H-36-15DEH Animals don’t worry. Consider the Lillies. The unregenerate man worries because, unlike the animals he has a considerable time grasp. He lives in an extended time — past-present-future. By drink & crazy gadding he can momentarily reduce this time...
HendersonIndex-Card-H-37-01 The fitness of the environment is one part of a reciprocal relationship of which the fitness of the organism is the other.
Index-Card-H-38-01 Heraclitus: Wisdom is nothing but the understanding of the way in which the world works.Index-Card-H-38-15 Heraclitus: “There awaits men when they die such things as they look not for nor dream of.”
Hesiod; Hinton;Index-Card-H-40-11, -12, -14, 15, -16 diagramCard-H-40-13DH: Is the man-ring of your space organisation NOW — or is the centre NOW? The centre, I think, because the centre is Here. In that case you at centre, Here, are really at the beginning of time. A...
Hobbes; Hobhouse;Index-Card-H-42-01 diagramCard-H-42-08DH: “The essence of man is his [wave-form drawing, the upward and downward movement between levels] inter-level travel. But the travel must be smooth & not a violent switching. We suffer terribly from lack of ...
Index-Card-H-44-02 DEH There is so to say an abstract way to God that does not involve taking with you the cumulative value of the stages you travel through. DiagramIndex-Card-H-44-03 DEH It is a false abstraction to consider machines as separate. Machines deal with sep...
Card-H-46-10Reading HobhouseDH: “To know yourself is to change yourself very deeply. This is a wonderful & exciting fact — “the more you know the more there is to know” because you are always one step ahead of what you are now fully conscious of.”
Hobhouse; HockingIndex-Card-H-47-06 DEH I would say that conflict does not decrease in the Universe, but tends to pass to higher levels. The two forces, which are the essence of all things, are always there: namely, the contemplative life & the active, thought and w...
Card-H-48-12 reading HockingDH: “The rebel has (perhaps by loyalty to a future society or to god) cut himself off from part of his vertical self. He is divided, unwhole. You must learn how to remain connected to society as it is, without cutting yourself off from the ...
Card-H-49-12. Reading Hocking. DH: All love is vertical and only seems to be lateral. You and the loved one unite in your common super-self. You cannot love each other laterally really. The unity of an Army lies in its common will to win. Your love for men is love for t...
Card-H-50-05 Reading Hocking, Human NatureDH commenting on Hocking: “Youth must tear down beliefs absorbed during his subordination to authority — & rebuild for himself. Youth has been attached to universe through the mental veins of its authorities; now it must...
Card-H-52-03. Reading Hocking.DH: “1. Ask C.S. How old are you, not by hearsay about yourself, but in your own experience of yourself? Answer: I had no definite beginning. Admit that I may, for all I know to the contrary, never have started at all. 2. You are as old a...
Card-H-56-09Reading Hocking: Types of Philosophy[Page] 447. Mystic is in some sense at the goal of evolution, therefore he can wait until the end for an achievement which only remote posterity will see. (DEH: “In some moods he [the mystic] has arrived. In others he re...
Card-H-57-15 Reading Holmes/SchilppPhilosophy can’t be popular… philosophy in the proper sense is not a field for easy exploration or popular discussion.DH: “I am gradually learning this. To keep my mouth shut about philosophy, save in the company of ‘philosophe...
Card-H-58-02. Invitation by Lucy Walpole, Woodbridge, private view.Saturday July 9 was in 1948Index-Card-H-58-06 Diagrams. Date: March 3/47Card-H-58-12. Possible chapter titles. August 4th, 1946
Card-H-59. Hoyle. Quotes from Listener Feb 1950Index-Card-H-59-16 DEH At all events it seems that for me — for this Centre — there are limits to the universe: & that there is a natural horizon, because the galaxies beyond it are receding at speeds greater than t...
A Huxley;Index-Card-H-60-02 Date 6 May 46 Self-Transcendence.Card-H-60-12Commenting on Aldous Huxley (Ends & Means)DEH: “This view is fundamentally wrong: we have all he sensitivity & the organs that our level requires to be our level. The inferred world beyon...
Card-H-61-02 Reading Huxley. [Reading Ends & Means Bury Nov 26/45.DH: “If taking a harmful drug made one believe in X; & eating healthy food alone made one believe in Y; & supposing there could be an impartial observer, would he not, all other things being...
Index-Card-H-62-11 Date 23.3.45Card-H-62-12. Reading Huxley: Grey Eminence. 23.3.45. [On the boat from Bombay to Glasgow] DH: “SELF-reliance must take the place of self-reliance.” Quotes Eckhart (from Grey Eminence, 157): “I tell you by the eternal truth, so long ...

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