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from Motion, therefore the Essence of Motion must inhere in that. And
so they formulated the idea that Absolute Essential Motion was a second
aspect of that—but in their conception of that Absolute Essential Motion
they regarded it as of such infinite degree of power and rate of vibration
that to all human thought it must be regarded as Absolute Rest—Motionless
Motion consisting of vibration of such a high rate and degree that to the
highest human consciousness it would appear as absolutely at rest, just as
a rapidly whirling wheel seems to stand still. Therefore the Hindu’s second
aspect of that may be stated as Absolute Essential Abstract Motion-at-Rest,
if the term is permissible—something that is unthinkable “in-itself.”
In the third place, the early Hindu thinkers were compelled to recognize
the Real Existence of a Law which was manifested in all the phenomena of
the Universe, and which was constant, fixed, unchangeable and possessing
all the attributes of Reality. They could not reason, think, or imagine this Law
out of existence, nor could they conceive that it had ever Not-Been, else they
would be committing the absurdity of assuming that the fundamental facts
recognized by the reason could ever, at any time in the past, not have been—
for instance, that the principles of Geometry of Space ever could have been
not-true; that mathematical principles and the laws of logic ever could have
been untrue and nonexistent; in short, that things which were perceived
to be superior to change and time, and which manifested all the elements
of reality, ever could not have been, or ever could have been otherwise
than they are. Therefore, the philosophers were forced to recognize
Absolute Abstract Law as a third aspect of that—their conception being
of an Abstract Absolute law which was impossible of being understood
“in-itself,” but which existed as an aspect of that, and which governed all
of the phenomenal manifestations of Motion, or Matter, or even of Its own
expressions in the shape of the Laws of Nature, in which shape it manifests
in the phenomenal world. The Law was sometimes regarded as the will of
that.