The Supreme Doctrine - neo-alchemist

MET TAPHYS SICAL DDISTRESSS
We understand
thus t that our recen nt trianglee
was baddly
drawnn;
it wouldd
be
more ac ccurate to draw it th hus:
It is a triangle illusorily inversed d by ignoorance.
Inn
the casee
of the
enlighte ened by sa atori this inversion i disappearrs
and the triangle bbecomes:
Metaphysi M cal distres ss cannot be consccious
sincee
it is enttirely
illussory.
Man ca annot beco ome consc cious of it t without it annihilaating
itself.
One cannnot
even say s that satori results
from m the faact
of beecoming
consciouss
of
metaph hysical dis stress; it is i better to t say thaat
satori ooccurs
whhen
the mman's
centre awakens, a this centr re in which h the metaphysical
distress iis
supposeed
to
reside as a long as the centre e is asleep p.
All A the for rms of dis stress that t man cann
feel connsciously
aare
seconddary
distress s; none deserves d the name e of primmary
or metaphyssical
distrress.
Sometimes
man is distressed
conc cerning thhe
great pphilosophiical
probllems
88
man