reflection as operation
it is I suggested above to create a picture
this in a sense is what thought per se is
the creating of a picture - an ideal picture
yes - a picture in thought
and if we reflect on this - what?
we can only think
we cannot get an objective vantage point
what we can do is come at it from different directions
different directions?
what is this?
what I am interested in is what is reflection on reflection?
do we make another image - another picture - of the picture given?
yes - I think so
but you might ask - in what sense is it fundamentally different?
and where does it come from - the new picture?
what is its basis?
to reflect is to look at
to create an object of -
of?
of view
this is the operation of mind
that it can step back from itself - and hold itself in view
this suggests what?
that
mind is subject and object
that it can become
either
that its position is not fixed
beyond this
what can we say of it?
we do not know -
the mind outside of its functions
(and these are quite mysterious anyway)
is fundamentally unknown
here I suggest is the door to possibility
some have taken it to open to another realm
eternal life
but really it is simply - and in all purity
the unknown
