So long as men fail to understand that they are able to know they are experiencing the world only because there is an infinite Consciousness which is behind and which makes possible their own little consciousnesses, so long will they spurn truth and sneer at truth-revealers. (21-3-93)
The world-idea is thought by the individual mind and, in the process, inevitably shaped according to its limitations. But the first cause and ultimate source of that idea cannot be this mind. For the idea is "given" to it. It must be sought for in that wherefrom the individual mind derives its own existence. It must be sought, therefore, in the World-Mind. (21-3-96)
It is not enough to say that the world is man's idea. We need to know why he has it at all. To be sufficiently explained, his world-idea must be brought into relation with the World-Mind's world-idea, because his individual mind is inseparably rooted in the World-Mind. (21-3-97)
It is on account of this union existing between the individual minds and the World-Mind that we are forced to give our attention to the world-idea. (21-3-98)
If the egocentricity of human beings were to have free and full play in the making of their world-environment, the consequence would be a disorderly, disharmonious chaos and not an orderly, harmonious cosmos. But the fact that they are unable to create or mold the world to their will shows plainly that they have only a very limited role in world-making. It just is not true that the human mind can build a new body for itself or transform an old one, or shape its surroundings entirely according to its desires. (21-3-99)
-- Notebooks Category 21: Mentalism > Chapter 3 : The Individual and World Mind > # 93
