the World-Mind...

The universe is indeed an enchantment placed upon us by the World-Mind.

We are all enclosed within the scene set up by it but the scene itself is a thought-created one, the power which makes us feel its reality is a mental one and even the senses so bewitched are forms of consciousness.

Hence the operation of the cosmic upon the individual mind is nothing short of magic!

Those who scout the possibility of cosmic mind being able to present to the gaze and hold in the experience of its immense progeny of individual minds this great panoply of the universe should consider all the annals of proven cases of thought-transference, telepathic action, mystic visions, yogic magic and mesmeric phenomena.

If such things are possible among finite individual minds themselves how much more must it be possible for the cosmic mind to transfer its own great world-idea to us?

Thus if we examine our own narrow human life we may find there a revelation of the wider universal life.



The Wisdom of the Overself, Chapter III, The Meaning of Mentalism, "The World as Our Idea".
Paul Brunton