Feb. 28, 2022

Solipsism

by William Goehler (author's profile)

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[William Goehler's name and shipping information, typed in a curly font:]
William Goehler K77832
Mule Creek State Prison
PO BOX 409040 B9/244
Ione, California 95640P

[The next two paragraphs are written in pen, by William Goehler.]

I was considering the word Solipsism recently and discovered; SOLIPSISM, a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the Self is the only existent thing.

Understanding the above, I realize below, that in the scope of YHVH — Eternal Self existence — I AM William the Conqueror; Logos incarnate. This must be what is meant in Genesis 3:5.

[The remainder of the document is a scanned page from a book.]

THE UNITED LODGE OF THEOSOPHISTS
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THREE KINDS OF FAITH

These three things we have to know: Each one is the Self in his innermost nature; every power that he has arises in that Self; every being of every kind is conscious, with the power of extension of its range of perception and action, while every instrument is due to the limitation of the conception of the individual's real nature. Never by looking at other beings, nor by any kind of faith whatever can man realize his oneness with the One Great Life; he can realize it only by looking into his own nature. His own nature is realized by seeing that which is NOT the nature of the Self. For anything seen, heard, or felt, or tasted or perceived is not the Self, but merely a perception of the Self. The Self perceives what may be perceived according to its own ideals, according to its own faith, but that which is perceived is never the Self. Within every being from whom we obtain any action or from whom we perceive anything, there is the Self, but we do not perceive That. It is only by realizing It within our selves that we realize its existence in every other being. Then honor the spiritual nature of every being and strive to aid that being to see for himself the true path by which he can realize his true nature! We all have to think and act with that true nature as our guide.

We find ourselves prevented on every hand from taking the position of the true nature—it seems impossible. But this is only a delusion born from the false faith we have held. We have established ideas, likes and dislikes, and feelings which under the law of the return of impressions recur again and again. The moment we attempt to take an opposite stand we meet the result of the combined action of all these forces within ourselves. This is what we may call "the war in heaven"—the war in the man's own nature. But if he remains true to his own spiritual nature, he is bound to be the conqueror.

Robert Crosbie, Universal Theosophy, "Three Kinds of Faith", p. 143

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