{"id":528,"date":"2013-03-19T18:55:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2013-05-31T02:05:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T00:05:13","slug":"the-footnote-in-sd-i-14-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/the-footnote-in-sd-i-14-15\/","title":{"rendered":"The footnote in SD I, 14-15"},"content":{"rendered":"

In SD I, 14 we find<\/p>\n

Herbert Spencer has of late so far modified his Agnosticism, as to assert that the nature of the “First Cause,”* which the Occultist more logically derives from the “Causeless Cause,” the “Eternal,” and the “Unknowable,” […]<\/i><\/p>\n

where the asterisk refers to the following footnote:<\/p>\n

* The “first” presupposes necessarily something which is the “first brought forth, the first in time, space, and rank” — and therefore finite and conditioned. The “first” cannot be the absolute, for it is a manifestation. Therefore, Eastern Occultism calls the Abstract All the “Causeless One Cause,” the “Rootless Root,” and limits the “First Cause” to the Logos, in the sense that Plato gives to this term.<\/i><\/p>\n

The \u201cFirst Cause\u201d is the manifested Logos, the Logos proper, \u201cin the sense Plato gives to this term\u201d, which is the Second<\/i> Logos, as we have shown earlier. (See The Three Logoi<\/i><\/a>)<\/p>\n

So the \u201cAbstract All\u201d, the \u201cCauseless One Cause\u201d, the \u201cRootless Root\u201d is the unmanifested Logos, which we have called the First<\/i> Logos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In SD I, 14 we find Herbert Spencer has of late so far modified his Agnosticism, as to assert that the nature of the “First Cause,”* which the Occultist more logically derives from the “Causeless Cause,” the “Eternal,” and the “Unknowable,” […] where the asterisk refers to the following footnote: * The “first” presupposes necessarily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,93,40,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-causeless-cause","category-first-cause","category-logos-logoi","category-rootless-root"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}