A Philosophy of Mind

[Barbara Brooks]

Science dependent on principles, rules that is to say knowledge. We are so accustomed to consider things by images are adapted to materiality raise the mind above senses.

Philosophy is love of knowledge has been cultivated for many ages by the most illustrious people. Philosophy demands not superficial consideration but profound eternal science,

The philosopher has the gift of memory, courage, and magnificence. To philosophers opinion is merely hypotheses, that is to say, only one step of departure into a world above opinion. The true philosophers go to the first principle by taking successive steps, which are an aid to any ideas, through ideas, and in ideas.
Namely, the basic concepts of philosophy are principles of science, in which are three main ones: logic, philosophy of nature, and philosophy of mind.

Even now disregarded and injured as science is today and although none of the teachers can tell the use of knowledge still forces it’s way by natural appeal and the light of reason. This kind of examination will enable students to endure the highest of all knowledge, which is good. It takes a long and circuitous learning, but nothing short of the most finished satisfying picture knowledge here. The best way is not by rhetoric fancies, or the best poet’s embellishment but knowledge contributing to the advancement of sciences. It is only in modern times philosophy has been separated from the sciences.

There is a perfection, which all philosophers ought to reach, attain, and not to fall short of. When all these are reached not till then will the pursuit of science have any value or profit.

[Barbara Brooks]

Knowledge is not found anywhere in the field of subjective opinions, it is not a matter of clever turns of allusiveness phrases, or half utterances but knowledge consists in open, unambiguous, meaningful, and purposeful science.

The first philosopher Thales thought the universe was all embracing whole developed microbe and water was all-powerful sustainer of life. He thought God was water. There called Thalassography, is a science that treats the sea, also, Thalassocracy the word means mastery of the sea.

The Greeks in Thales time were in a transition from patriarchal system of kings into one of rules or regulations. Thales fame was his axioms. "Principles in the form of matter were the only principles of all things" In so far as philosophic and speculative Thales demonstrated a comprehensive universal significance to political affairs


Thales was born according to the best calculation in the first year of the 35th Olympiad 640 B.C, was the author of the Ionic sect. He was born in the first year of the 35th Olympiad 530 B.C. Thales was a contemporary of Pythagoras. If Thales was born in the 35th Olympiad and Pythagoras was in the 43rd then Pythagoras would be only twenty-one years younger then Thales.

Now Thales believed the universe was all embracing whole developed germ like animals are and that water was the powerful sustainer of life. Greeks scholars in those days had already considered the sun, mountains, earth, sea, rivers as independent powers to be revered but Thales thought God was water.


One of the seven wise men of ancient Greek was Thales. He introduced geometry, measured the pyramids and the distance from shore of ships at sea. And it is believed to estimate them he used calculus. There are still remains of his physical geography that treats the sea, called Thalassography named after the first philosopher Thales. The word Thalassocracy means mastery of the sea


Philosophy demands students who exalt profound love of knowledge and truth. Without philosophy let the other sciences try as much as they like to get along without it, they are unable to keep alive science without philosophy, or to have any spiritual significance and truth in science

[Barbara Brooks]

I found it hard to sleep last night woke up at six thirty in the morning with no desire to study or meditate, I then went back to sleep until eight in the morning. I did write but only studied a couple of hours.


In ancient times, philosophy had significance in education. There was an eagerness to behold truth nourish the spirit of philosophy.

Almost all who have read Hegel’s work find it hard to understand. Only a few do, yet he is one of the greatest philosophers in all time. Actually, Hegel himself believed only one person understood him and that was Hölderlin the poet his good friend and he roommate with Hölderlin and Schelling. Hegel even requested to be buried next to Hölderlin.

When philosophy reaches the point of public understanding, it will have value? Philosophy is the copingstone of all sciences, is considered a great advantage in all spheres of science and art. Just let the other sciences try, as much as they like to get along without philosophy.

Philosophy made its first appearance around six hundred B.C with Thales and Pythagoras profound thinkers who exalted in truth, knowledge, justice, courage, and temperance


Philosophy is forgotten must be rediscovered so long as we leave philosophy unexamined sciences, never can they behold reality.

[Barbara Brooks]

We sentient creatures our feelings are reveal in voice, emitting cries when pained, in need, in pleasure and in heat; just like horses neigh, insects hum, cats purr. Birds have a higher kind of voice when it launches forth in song. They soar freely in the sky separated from the heaviness of earth they utter feelings.

The process of mind is feeling, animals reproduce and act not by some anatomical connection but feeling, comes from the constructive instinctive mind. This liberation from gravity has determination within self. A high privilege of being is voice, which can be magnificent in its utterance of feeling.

Now metals do sound but they do not show a specific quality like voice, metals sound only when struck. Voice it sounds a spiritual nature vibrating inwardly causing the air in us to vibrate. Motion is what makes the body organism vibrate into voice. It is the subjective becomes objective spiritual mechanism.

Sound is intriguing, when a body sounds enters into a higher sphere in a conscious awaken state there is immediate reflection into self; it is called feeling that differentiates self from the outside forces.

When bodies sound they enter into a higher sphere affects the innermost feelings and inner being is revealed, meaning inner being coming into existence.

In order for bodies to sound requires continuity, homogeneity that is why especially precious metals give out clear sound, This phenomenon of sound is so hard to grasp, it took me years to reach this point of understanding sound because it varies causing it to be difficult to exhibit.


Outside affects our feelings and because of it, we have a voice. We sound our own accord, announce our spirituality, it is only activity that makes body vibrate into voice, therefore voice lies in our power.

The particular sound strictly speaking, is revealed through instruments that have their own specific sound. The inner oscillation of is capable of giving out a sound in two ways, by friction and vibration. Vibration is the moving to and fro, an elasticity and friction sound is noise, badly made instruments you hear clatter.

[Barbara Brooks]

Courage my only saving power under all the circumstances befallen me. Kant supposedly disliked women and never married but had a female maid to care or his needs. Aristotle believed women were inferior and men superior,

Kant would not even associate with woman. Hegel was different he believed women were divine and men human. Plato never married was very wealthy had servants to care for his needs, Socrates thought women were equal to men.

Nicolo Machiavelli thought, “fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.”

Herodotus, and Homer women was a commodity, a prize; Herodotus in the very first pages of history, wrote the Egyptian king’s daughter was abducted by a Persian merchant. When finally she was returned her father would not take her back because the value of her had declined.

If not for courage that mightier than any sorrow, or fear, the mightiest of all other solvents I would have not have persuaded to be a philosopher.

[Barbara Brooks]

Through some inherent good I had my eyes opened and learned little by little philosophy. From my earliest youth I loved truth but I was not absorbed in knowledge of any kind.

Now for me, knowledge is more heavenly than any of other learning, always the handy helper of greater good, and useful and beneficial.


God’s blessing gives us a mind, for a body can be moved from but to be moved from within we must have a mind.

I imagine God shining in company with the celestial forms, and on earth shining in the clearest space of the mind God traverses everywhere the whole heaven appearing perfect and fully winged God soars upward, and orders the whole world. For no body else can. The maker, is the author, lifts the mind up into the world even though carried round in a revolution, troubled indeed and with great difficulty behold; rise and fall we fail too eager to behold truth. In order to see reason is the climb

[Barbara Brooks]

Writing and all other arts God mingle in as the go-between who crosses the gulf and all is bound. In affect writing and all art is an action both divine and human.

Through a mirror of self comes truth and compassion of other and reveals the path of purpose. What is truth but objective reality, in other words, the assurance of self? Truth bare and simple comes forward asserts not just certainty of self but purpose.

Philosophy is a kind knowledge that is ever longing after truth.


Socrates believed the true philosopher always strives after truth, this is their character, and will live and grow truly, and not until then, will the philosopher cease from travail.

Each moment already presupposes the other is purpose and hence seems unable to find a beginning because it only gets to know the whole purpose but in order to act we must have pleasure, desire, passion, and reason. Desire is to be understood, as the materialist who craves sensual pleasures? While passion, is the strong overpowering pleasures of ambition, merriment, and love? Reason exclusively is directed to the attainment of truth and knowledge.

The principles desire, passion and reason are in accordance with nature are three kinds of people, lovers of gain, lovers of honor and lovers of knowledge. Desiring wealth is opposed to knowledge and honor if neither brings any gain. The pleasure of passion is lover of honor; show contempt of knowledge, and wealth if neither brings a prize.
The lover of knowledge reasons thinks that pleasures of gain and fame only are merely necessary pleasures. It is reason is the philosopher’s instrument and such is the most pleasant pleasure.

[Barbara Brooks]

The idea of good is. If everyone pursued virtue and make it their end of all actions they would shine with radiant intelligence.

To be sure I pray not be a deceiver about good I am most in need of confidefence because whether out of depth fallen into the middle of a swimming pool or into the middle of the ocean I have to try to reach the shore.

The true philosopher is an impersonator of truth. Whenever anyone says they know all the arts and know more then anyone else, they are unable to see truth. Truth is the appendage by which I learn. Truth is the highest part of the mind where pasturage is found nourished with truth.

In truth I first have to learn a little matter of distinguishing one, two, and three.

Knowledge to the rescue gives way before calculation, measure, and weight. In addition, is surely the rational principle in the soul? The better part of the soul is likely to be that which trusts to measure and calculate.

[Barbara Brooks]

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick at every other kind of knowledge; and even the not so quick and have arithmetical training become much quicker than they would otherwise have been.
Arithmetic is a very great elevating effect, compels the mind to reason about things, and defies any attempt to divide absolute, one is not lost in fractions. Numbers may be truly called necessary for the use of the pure knowledge and truth. Necessary in all arts and skills every one first has to learn are used in common, which,

Arithmetic’s is the first kind of knowledge in which the best learning natures should be trained in and they must not give it up. Geometry is second, because it compels our mind to view more easily the vision of the idea of good; there is full perfection of being everyone ought to behold. Not geometry in a narrow squaring, extending, and applying but to be seen with mind only truth.

Numbers require the best learners should be trained in all arts, science. Parmenides states one can't exist, for it is one if it were not one it would be no longer one

Computation and calculation leads mind out of the sea of change of opinion to truth by numbers. The eyes certainly see but cannot distinguish what means, whereas numbers small and great are never confused.

[Barbara Brooks]

If astronomy and geometry wanted to know truth they would let the heavens alone and study the proportions of night and day, the month, or of the month to the year, or of the stars to these and to one another, and any other things that are eternal and subject to no deviation. .

Socrates believed geometry aimed at absolute, the not perishing or in transient flight

Learn Geometry, by all means for it draws mind toward truth, and the spirit of philosophy, nothing should be more sternly laid down than that of science it can have indirect effects and which are not small.



The starry heaven must be apprehended by reason and intelligence. The true astronomer has feeling when looking at the movements of the stars. Know that God frames the heaven and the things in heaven in perfect manner. The starry heavens should be used as an outline a view to higher knowledge, the beauty of figures or pictures excellently wrought.

Any geometrician who saw them would Socrates believed, the hand of Daedalus, or some other great artist he appreciated their exquisite work. There is perfection that I ought to reach, and that all ought to attain. When I started on the discovery was only by the light of reason without any assistance I perseveres until my release from chains, and from the shadows to the light I ascent from the underground den the shadow to the a luminous sun.

[Barbara Brooks]

Geometry nothing should be more sternly laid down that draws mind toward truth, and the spirit of philosophy for it can have indirect effects and which are not small.

Astronomy is the study of the universe especially of motion, position, size, composition and behavior of the heavens. Kepler mathematician and astronomer divided the law of motion into rule. Astronomy merely displays a group of independent bodies essential to each other.

The starry heaven must be apprehended by reason and intelligence. The true astronomer has feeling when looking at the movements of the stars. Know that God frames the heaven and the things in heaven in perfect manner. The starry heavens should be used as an outline a view to higher knowledge, the beauty of figures or pictures excellently wrought. Without earth connection to sun and moon, earth would be devoid of life, day and night, and of heat and cold. Look how the sun h moves higher and higher in daytime and when it reaches, its highest point sinks to night,

[Barbara Brooks]

When I was in my early thirties I began studying. What happened a gentle person came to me and told me that I was a fool and that I must get knowledge, which can only be got by slaving for it.

I was drawn off into another channel absorbed in knowledge striving after truth—That is my nature I could not rest in mere appearance only I had to have knowledge and then, and not till then would I cease from my travail.

Time, which is the truth of all things is a circle of return, (past, present and future). Zeno’s meaning of time is that there are three different places, that which is about to be occupied, that which has just been vacated and throughout all these motions remains in place.

I occupy a place, then moves to another place yet both this before and after I occupy is the same place. But one place taken by me is only this place, meaning I occupy a place then moves to another place, but I do not leave my place. In short, motion is only a change of place. A circle of the unity and since there is motion something moves, what moves is matter.

The principle of independent bodies nesting in an objective essential relationship to each other is called universal gravitation where cohesion is the relationship of one and another together. .


Kepler divided the celestial bodies into two motions, cometary, and lunary, an elliptic motion is cometary that is when the path is circular, and a circle can only be uniform. The pendulum motion is the lunary motion where particular bodies have their center not only in itself but also in another. Together cometary and lunary motion demonstrate planetary motion one movement by two determinations.

It took twenty seven years for Kepler to write the law of motion using the celestial heaven as his relativity and had complete faith that in the heavenly bodies reason must be there, and through faith arrived at these laws the most beautiful, purest and least tangled with diversity, to be found.

[Barbara Brooks]

What is sunlight? How is light manifested? How is appearance made visible? Sunlight is luminous body as the sun is luminous body, but the sun is not caused by conditions as sunlight does Sun is mere luminous matter and relates only to itself and this is the reason why it shines.

I must investigate first, the determination, then second, the mode and manner in which sunlight reveals an un-resting whirlpool of self-relating pure velocity, and third, transparency that is everywhere present. Sunlight is pure universal actuality and has the possibility of unifying with all things it enters into community with. Everything exists because it is in sunlight.

The apprehensiveness I feel is sure to pass into confidence and I will continue. Skepticism brings about thoughts, and opinions of despair and that follows straight away to criticism. Most people only see knowledge as a test, but knowledge transcends what is limited, and transcends self-consciousness. Consciousness always remains in unthinking sluggishness, thought knowledge agitates our consciousness, disturbs its indolence is violated at the hands of purpose.

My skepticism is sure to pass into conviction. Knowledge is the instrument by which I get enlightenment. For knowledge is not a variance of light, but light itself.

[Barbara Brooks]

Look how sunflowers and the many other flowers follow the sunand actually turn toward the sunlight . In the early morning enter a meadow of sunflowers from the east no flowers are seen, not until the sun shines on them do the flowers turn towards the east.

The chief characteristic of sunlight is its shine or gleam on the surface of things. Any attempt to explain the shining or gleam mechanically results only into my wildest confusion but I will try. If I place two mirrors opposite each other and between is light, then visible of each mirror’s image in the other. I call these two mirrors A and B and I ask myself what is visible in A, the answer is B, and what is visible in B is A. Sunlight thus, is the continual repetition of reflective light.

[Barbara Brooks]

The sun has no mixture, does not show itself as physical, but creates a product, transparent sunlight is pure power, in face of all determinations sun shines has the possibility of unifying with all things it enters into community with, sharing of a common interconnectedness where everything exists because in sunlight.

Sunlight is pure reflection. The ego is like sunlight but an empty uncertainty of oneself, and unfortunately only an attitude, is subjective and excludes other; only gives identity to self. Sunlight is different from the ego, it manifest spatial for everyone. Self-luminous is similar to phosphorescent light is the reason it shines.

Sunlight is a real active agent kindles a process; arouses and governs the Elements. The Elements are four, they are as follows: air, fire, water, earth, they the root of individuality, air swayed by lunar and earth the separate individual shut up in oneself inert and rigid. That which is rigid is combustible same as moon’s rigidity must be given is waterless transparent, strives as it were to united with the sea and so to quench the thirst of moon causes the ebb and flow of the tides. The sea rises to escape to the moon and the moon snatches the sea away to itself.

The sun holds in it the stars and planets are related to each other according to space and time, the mind in body feels, perceives, reasons, wills, and imagines.