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The Thinker
By peace | November 18, 2007
When a man thinks deeply about himself, he realises that he is spiritual. He thinks for instance how at the age of thirty he can remember things he said and did at the age of twenty and ten. He knows he is responsible for all those actions. The same “I” acts at all stages of his life. Science tells him that his whole body has changed, yet he knows there is something which remains the same. A man talks about the thoughts, memories and actions of the distant past as his. He knows he can be proud of the good actions and should be ashamed of the bad. There is something responsible for them all which remains the same while the body changes, and will remain when the body ceases to function.
He knows he can think of things without shape, weight or size, which cannot be seen, heard, smelt, tasted, touched. He sees a beautiful woman, hears a beautiful song, smells a beautiful perfume, tastes a beautiful meal, touches a beautiful cloth. He takes out, or ‘abstracts’, from these the idea which they all have in common, namely beauty. This is called an ‘abstract’ idea, that is, something spiritual, existing outside the material thing to which the word is applied. Some philosophers define beauty as “the splendour of order”. This is a spiritual idea and can only come from a spiritual power.
Man can also turn inwards on himself, turn back, or reflect, on his own thoughts. He can think of himself thinking. He can think of his thought. He not only knows He knows that he knows.
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