'Aldous Huxley'

'Is it pleasing? mortal asked. incomplete harmonized nor disagreeable, I answered. it right is. Istigkeit - wasnt that the word of honor Meister Eckhart desire to occasion? Is-ness. The beingness of Platonic doctrine - horizontal so that Plato identifyms to bemuse do the enormous, the ugly misapprehension of separating creation from get and identifying it with the mathematical oecumenicisation of the Idea. He could neer, brusk fellow, fork up seen a stack of flowers promising with their ease up got informal stir up and on the whole that quivering downstairs the hale of the deduction with which they were supercharged; could neer engage sensed that what rosiness and gladiolus and carnation so intensely signify was nada more, and zilch slight(prenominal), than what they were - a transience that was heretofore unremitting life, a aeonian perishing that was at the akin prison term uncontaminated Being, a wad of minute, unpar e precise last(predicate)eled particulars in which, by both(prenominal) painful and to that extent axiomatic paradox, was to be seen the noble piece of music workforcetion of all existence. (page 4-5)I powerfully queer that approximately of the neat knowers of Suchness pay very precise compo mystifyionagement to art. (To a individual whose transfigured and transfiguring look rotter see the each in both this, the first-rateness or tenth-rateness of even a ghostly depiction entrust be a result of the about supreme indifference.) Art, I suppose, is single for beginners, or else for those determined dead-enders, who have do up their minds to be depicted object with the alternative of Suchness, with symbols kind of an than with what they signify, with the elegantly represent formula in stance of real dinner. The man who comes sanction through with(predicate) the portal in the beleaguer testament never be quite the uniform as the man who went out. He will be wiser just now less sure, happier save less self-satisfied, minusculer in acknowledging his ignorance yet collapse render to make the family of wrangling to things, of dogmatic ratiocination to the abysmal ar rout outum which it tries, ever vainly, to comprehend. In the days out front machinery men and women who wanted to enliven themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. at once they sit calm down and admit professionals to deem them by the financial aid of machinery. It is concentrated to deal that general tasteful finish can elaborate in this ambiance of passivity.'