Mind must be distinguished from the states of mind, as the object must be
separated from knowing it, the act of knowledge. Spinoza opposed the phenomenal
world to the substantial, phenomena to substance; what others call relative to
absolute; what the Hindus call illusion to reality; and what the religionists
call matter to spirit. But all these statements can only be made because the
mind originally makes them, for the mind is the witness of both. We must give
the primacy to mind, for it Is. Whether illusion exists or not, whether the
absolute exists or not, Mind IS. If the world is constantly present to me, it is
a mind which is making it present, for awareness is a power of mind. It is mind
which makes the thought of material objects possible for us; and to make mind a
by-product of an alleged matter is a contradiction in itself........Category 21: Mentalism > Chapter 5: The Key To the Spiritual World....Paul Brunton
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