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<font size="4">The
Revealer and the Revelation</font></b><font size="4"><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>How the horizontal view limits and maims one's spiritual
perception is further illustrated in the case of the famous Gloomy
Dean. Dean Inge is a divine and as spiritual a person as one can hope
to be in the modern world. He has, however, voluntarily clipped his
wings and in the name of a surer rational knowledge and saner
spirituality prefers a lower flight among known, familiar and
nameable ranges to a transcendent soaring in mystic regions beyond.
He has made a somewhat trenchant distinction between the Revelation
and the Revealer. He says we can know God only by his qualities: what
he is, if anything, besides his qualities none can define. In the
words of the poet,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>These are His works and His veils and His shadows;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>But where is He then? by what name is He known?<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">&sup1;</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>According to the Dean the qualities themselves are God,
the living God whom one can worship. The True, the Good and the
Beautiful – the Hellenic trinity he adores more than the Holy
Trinity. &quot;The God of religion is rather the revelation than the
revealer. The source of revelation cannot be revealed: the ground of
knowledge cannot be known&quot;.<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">&sup2;</FONT>
This, one might say, almost echoes the Upanishadic mantra, &quot;How
can one know the knower?&quot; <I>(Vij<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">&ntilde;ÄtÄr</FONT>am
are kena vij<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">Ä</FONT>n<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">ī</FONT>y<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">Ä</FONT>t).
</I>The Upanishad says indeed that he who thinks he knows does not
certainly know, but he who says he knows not is the one who knows; he
knows who knows not, he knows not who knows. This simply means that
God, the supreme Reality, is apprehended in and through other
channels than mind and reason. It is a commonplace of</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 9pt">1 Who-Sri Aurobindo</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 9pt">2 <I>Mysticism </I>in <I>Religion,
</I>by Dean Inge, p. 155. 341</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt">s<FONT SIZE=3>piritual
experience that the Spirit is directly, immediately realisable,
although its indirect approaches are walled in by a thousand
appearances. A direct non-rational experience is not however
something vague, nebulous, inarticulate; it is even more concrete,
precise and tangible than a sense experience or a rational idea. Not
only so, a suprarational knowledge can be grasped and presented by
the intellect if it is purified _and illumined. A brain mind under
the sway of the senses and the outgoing impulse is an obstacle: it
disturbs and prevents the higher Light. But passive and transparent
it can be a faithful mirror, a docile instrument and channel. That is
why the Upanishad says in the first instance that the supreme Reality
cannot be seized by the reason, but in another context, it declares
that the mind, the intelligence too has to hold and realise the same.
Normally intellect acts as a lid, but it can also be a reflector or
projector.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>One knows the Revealer for one becomes it. Knowledge by
identity is the characteristic of spiritual knowledge. If one keeps
oneself separate and seeks to apprehend the Divine as an object
outside, the Divine escapes or is caught only by the trail it leaves,
its echoes and shadows, its apparent qualities and attributes. But
one with the Divine, the being realises and possesses it in full
consciousness, the Revealer reveals himself as such <I><FONT FACE="Arial Narrow, sans-serif">(vrnute
tanum sw<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">Ä</FONT>m) </FONT></I>and not merely
in or as his phenomenal formulations.</FONT><BR>
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