On Geometrical And Other Symbols.

ON GEOMETRICAL AND OTHER SYMBOLS .

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL KET . ( Continued from page 39 . J The question of the relative intensity , or power , of the Concentrative and the Eadiative , in the mental and corporeal operations , was an interesting one , which earlattracted my attention . It appeared evident

y that in concentrated , vigilant , connected , and collected thought , the concentrative was predominant or exalted ; and I soon came to be convinced that the very state of ordinary vigilance , or waking , itself implied the exaltation or predominance of the Concentrative , and the suppression and subserviency or humiliation

of the Eadiative as " a servant unto all . " And as the Concentrative Avas thus clearly plus , and the Eadiative minus , in the Avaking state ; and as it equally evident that the state of sleep , ordinarily or normally speaking , is more or less nearly an approximation to a perfectly neutral , equilibriate , and passive

state ; I soon saw that in sleep , as such , the Concentrative is reduced in intensity , aud the Eadiative increased in intensity , till the one becomes more or less nearly equal to the other . Supposing , then , the Concentrative , in the waking state to bein generalas 3 ( say ) to the Eadiative as

, , 1 ; in perfect passive and equilibriate sleep the Concentrative Avill be as 2 to the Eadiative as also 2 ;—these figures , hoAvever , in truth denoting algebrical and unknown powers or quantities , absolutely and

strictly speaking . But if Con . 3—Ead . 1 be a representation of the state of vigilance or Avaking ; and Con . 2—Ead . 2 that of passive or neutral sleep ; Avhat could Ead . 3—Con . 1 be ? This was plainly and inevitably a possible , if not a practical , state of existence or life , though normally dormant and unknoAvn ; a state bearing certain special and peculiar

relationships both to sleep and to waking ; but it could be neither the one nor the other : in fact , it Avas another state of Avaking , watching , or vi gilant life , of as perfect and complete a character , as such , as its relative antithesis , the state of Con . 3—Ead . 1 : it must , as I then saAVbe a strange state of Radiatii'eSiritualor

, , p , inspired and illuminated life or Vi gilance , or a waking Spirit or Pneuma , just as its antithesis is a state of Concentrative or animated Vigilance or life , or a waking anima , psyche , or Soul . The one might be called S pirit-waking , and the other Soul-Avaking ; and sleep a passiveimpotentstate of equilibriationor abeclouded

, , , state of misrule and mad confusion , in the midst of life , between these two extremes and counterparts ; dividing them , as it Avere , asunder ; as clouds may be said to divide heaven and earth ; an ocean or a river two lands ; or a veil too apartments . Sleep , in fine , was thus found to be a state in which neither the

Concentrative nor the Eadiative power , —neither the Soul nor the S pirit , is in full exaltation , and in cool and sober ruling poAver , with its fellow in subservient and orderly humiliation .

Though " the praise of all the earth , " and belov'd from pole to pole , " Sleep is life ' s Babel-waste of confusion ; Its simulative subtle sprite of lies and misrule , And mother of devils and delusion . s The whole of this process of reasoning I had gone through quite independently of any knoAvledge or consideration either of the Spirit waking of the Hinus ,

the God possession of the Egyptians , Druids , Greeks , and others , or the lucidity of entrancement . I also soon savf that other and intermediate states of existence , such as those of dreaming , delirium , and vivid imagination , could UOAV be ranged in their proper places , between sleep and ordinary or concentrative waking ; and that they constituted possible states or

currents of continuous existence at one time ; and , at another , were merely crossed , as more or less momentary existences , during the change from waking to sleep , or from sleep to waking . Next , too , it became evident that there must even be equivalent states beyond sleep , or on the spiritual

side of the scale , —a spiritual delirium and dreaming , in short , as well as an animate or soul's delirium and dreaming state . Further , and especially with reference to the respective influences of the Concentrative and the Eadiative , or the Soul and the Spiriton the bodily

, state , whether in sleep or in waking ; or as a resultant from the alternatiA'e and reversed operation of both ; it soon became manifest that , in the diurnal pendulation of life between its two states of waking and sleep , the radiative influence of mere sleep could not be a . comalete or sufiicieut counteractive and rest to the

concentrative influence of the ordinary waking state ; and that Ead . 3—Con . 1 alone could be an adequate aud proper , full , entire , and perfect reversal , counteractive , equivalent , restorative , and Eest , to such a state as that of Con . 3—Ead . 1 , or the ordinary waking state . In other Avords , it became evident that spirit-Avaking Avas the only true and perfect " rest "

and " reversal " of the soul-Avaking state ; and that so long as mankind oscillated or pendulated , alternately , between soul-waking and sleep , they could not be either perfected or fully developed or evolved , in their designed , created , nature ; or be fulfilling the great law of their manifestly twofold or hermaphroditic

species of existence . Sleep , in short , aud its wide margins of dreaming and delirious confusion both of soul and spirit , plainly constituted a vast and obstructive waste of wild misrule which must have no place in matured or fully developed humanity , or cannot exist in man ' s perfected twofold naturehuman and

, divine . On Avell considering the symbolical diagram , fig . 2 , as a " tree of life , " with Eadiative " Branch" and Concentrative "Eoot ;* " the central or superlativecontemplative , creditive , volitivef—soul appeared to be " the way , "—the " straitened " or " the strait and

narrow way , that leadeth to life , "—Spiritual and eternal or nontemporal ; or the concentrative , fixed , and rigid " living stone " or " rock , " as it Avere , Avhence " the living Avater , ' of " the Spirit" flowed in upon the soul : and , ultimately , I came to perceive that this superlative and fixitive , contemplative soul , and central source of identity , and faith , and moral will power ,