Excerpt from The Master Key: A New Philosophy Address to Psychologists, Scientists, Theologians, Christians, Jews, Agnostics, Spiritists, Ascetics, Orientalists, and Educated Persons Generally
There are certain things that cannot be explained. It is the chief business of philosophy to determine what these things are, so that we may not waste time and ingenuity in trying to explain the inexplicable.
In this essay it is assumed that consciousness is inexplicable. Mere sensitiveness is meant; not the intellectual processes, which can be explained.
No attempt will be made to explain energy.
There is a diffused substance without consciousness or energy, which also is inexplicable.
It is assumed that consciousness and onergy always go together. A unit of consciousness allied with a unit of energy will be 6tylcd a Monad. There is an incalculable number of monads.
Monads differ greatly in the character of their consciousness and the quantity of their energy.
Similar monads affect each other agreeably, dissimilar monads affect each other disagreeably. This is the fundamental meaning of pleasure and pain.
To avoid pain and procure pleasure similar monads tend to group themselves together: the law of desire, affinity, will, affection, instinct, etc.
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