it follows that all differences of hue depend upon combinations in different proportion of the three primary colors.
Sound as I mentioned before, is like light in that it spreads by waves. In the case of sound also, we have to distinguish waves of various length which produce upon our ear impressions of different quality
Similar light produces under like conditions a like sensation of colour. Light which under the conditions excites unlike sensations of colour dissimilar.
Apicture is an image or representation of the original, first, because it represents the colours of the latter by similar colours, secondly, because it represents a part of its relations in space--- those, namely which belong to perspective---by corresponding relations in space.
We must not be lead astray by confounding the notions of a phenomena and an appearance.
A deceptive appearance is the result of the normal phenomena of one object being confounnded with those of another. But the sensation of colour can appear; so that there is nothing which we could describe as the normal phenomenon, in distinction from the impressions of color received through the eye
Here the principle difficulty seems to me to lie in of quality. All difficulty vanishes as soon as we clearly understand that each quality or property of a thing is, in reality, nothing else but its capability of exerciseing certain effects upon other things. These actions either go on between similar parts of the same body, an
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The universe in the Sufi view, is being re-created at every moment. At every moment what appears to be a time-connected universe returns to _____. There is continuous, instantaneous expansion and contraction.
THE manifestation of actualized individual things occurrs continually, as in successive waves. At every moment creation is annihilated and re-created. With each heartbeat we die and are reborn. The world is in intense motion, ascending towards the vertical axis within all things to meet the descent of the Absolute in manifested forms. The flow occurrs in such an orderly, successive manner, according to definite patterns, that we are unaware of it, and the world appears to stay the same. This ever-new creation is a process which only the human form endowed with consciousness of Self can come to know. Arabesque patterns, in rugs or in tiles, witness this concept of constant flux.
The wonders of wonders is that the human form and all other created things are in a perpetual process of ascending. And yet one is not ordinarily aware of because of the extreme thinness and fineness of the veil (when one looks at something through a very transparent veil, one does not become aware of the veil between oneself and the object) or because of the extreme similarity between the successive form.
to the sufi, creative expression which results from participation mystique--- that is, a state of being one with nature, although not conscious of the Dvine Presence-- is an expression of one's vision of self within self.
Each time one looks one sees another facet
the way of sufism is to become aware of the possibilities which exist within the human form, to conceive them, and then through spiritual practices to actualize them
Ibn 'Arabi says: Remove from your thought the exterior of words; seek the interior until you understand.
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