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Originally Posted by carlo
As I stand before a field of flowers I am welled amidst this beauty in an aboriginal splendor. My companion , suffers from allergies , and experiences distress of the first order as we both manifest our particular relationships to the field of flowers.
But the both of us can and do note the growth of the plants during the spring, the fecundant flowing of summer only to return to a wilting of plant during fall and the subsequent destructive loss into the seed of the plant during the winter.
And so we have the spring, summer, autumn and winter of the plant being to which both of us, my companion and I can bring into thought activity which is not of our particular predispositions.
The thoughts to which we find the "truths" of the plant kingdom are contained within that kingdom and not dependent upon our particular dispositions.
I repeat, "the thoughts are within the plant kingdom " and not ours as ownership. Likewise, the thought movements of the planets of sun, moon, mars,....are within those bodies and not ours to own.
Now within the human being is the ability to "think" and in that I note the lunar rhythms and bring this thought activity into my soul and this experience then becomes my own , my experience of the lunar activity of thought has changed my being, in essence.
My companion can likewise bring the thoughts of the solar movements within her being and again manifesting this change within her very being, the being of her soul.
Each of us experiences life with variations of semblance such that there is the soul that opens to a plenitude of experience while others may be open to a lesser degree and in this, according to the soul experiences of each the human being gains form within the soul of Man.
I am immersed within the thoughts of Mary while Peter within Jean ; the feelings I have about Mary are my own as are those of Peter within Jean.
The "thought activity within Mary are the same whether Peter or I observe for they are the thought considerations of Mary, those of her very being, and likewise Jean.
The next question then becomes; what are the relationships of the thought activity of the field (Mary,sun,moon...) to my perceptions of sight, sound,taste, etc.....
Another way, do the thoughts of the field have a relationship to the perceptive field and and is Man able to bring forth this connection in his search for "truth" ?
From the above the individual Man lives within thoughts which are not his ownership. As the best example the mathematical thoughts are undeniable and truthful and the individual can glean the activity of this thought kingdom within himself.
You cannot "see" the mathematical truth through your eyes, ears,nose,..... for it is not exterior to Man but within. the fact that they are absolutely true leads science to present mathematics within its findings. Kant espoused this viewpoint as in his search for an epistemic basis for knowledge he faltered and called mathematics the sine qua non of scientific endeavors.
In his search for the moral tone he again faltered and called "duty" as the highest that man can achieve.
The question still remains: how does mathematics or thinking relate to our perceptions ?
I walk through a bush laden field and note a partridge fly up as I agitated the bush within my view. I bring thinking into action and bring forth the "concept" causality and see the movement of the bush by myself as causal to the flying of the partridge.
Cause was not within my field of view through the senses but through thinking I can bring forth the "concept" causality and solve the riddle of the partridge's movement.
Prior to bringing thinking into activity there was the "field' or perception and if the partridge flies there is no knowledge until thinking is brought into action. The bringing of thinking into action is half of the human experience while the other half is the perception through the senses.
I look out onto my perceptions and they present as an unconnected panorama of events such as the rain on my head, the warmth of breeze within, the hardness of the planted field. All of these matters are "percepts" to which knowledge cannot be obtained until I bring thinking into action to complete the issue. This is the human being's search for truth.
What is seen with our senses is in effect only one half of the world while we bring together creatively the two issues of percept and concept through thinking.
You see the tree and the thoughts which are behind or the creative aspect of the tree are ours to glean through thinking. Two parts , the percept and the concept. Through our senses we break off a portion of the world and through thinking we bring the world together in the creative process of thinking.
In this presentation "thinking" is a sensory process to which the "Ego" or "I" of Man works spiritually for thinking presents as a spiritual activity.
I relate to the thing which is on my shoulders as "head" while the Italian will call this"testa" whereas the German will say "kopf". the differences of language become apparent as we see individuals who travel the realms of pure thinking bring forth the words within their respective languages but the "thought presentation" to the thinker is the same whether Italian, English, German or Chinese.
the word concepts of the respective languages are and have been related to the earthly but this is the nature of the movement of the spirit of language within our times. The concept has deadened for the human being is unable at present to perceive the spiritual concept in toto for it will bring one into crasis.
The concepts , or thoughts, in which we are immersed now were perceived by us prior to conception in which we lived within thinking. The thoughts can be seen in this aspect as "beings within life", a life within the spirit.
The thoughts or concepts or ideas of more general nature are the living activity of the spirit to which mankind is progressing within a thought borne process. The spiritual world is not dependent upon our senses and exist within concept and idea with natures which do not manifest as an earthly sense.
This is the nature of supersensible thinking, within the powers of man, present and in process of growth of ability. This is the realm of truth.
Haven't forgot the idea of the moral for a man can reach up into the realms of thought beings and bring forth the moral in his earthly activity for it is not abstractions of thought to which we espouse but each thought borne activity presents with moral tone in which the individual man can bring forth in thought activity in his will laden activity inclusive of the earthly.
A man bows his head and accepts the mandate of "thou shalt" and in this acts without freedom whereas as thinker within the spiritual realm he makes the judgement to act in such a manner during a episode of morality and therefore he acts freely or that of "free will", the ethics of freehold or the free man.