A Philosophy of Mind

[Barbara Brooks]

Courage makes a person fearless whereas wisdom makes people wise. Courage under all circumstances, do not lose even in grief, terror, and longing. Socrates gives an illustration of what he believed courage equaled by using dyers when they wanted to dye wool for making the true sea-purple. They begin by selecting white wool first; prepare and dress with much care and pains, in order that the white wool may take the purple hue in full perfection. The dyeing then proceeds; and whatever is dyed in this manner becomes a fixed color, and no washing either with lyes or without them can take away the bloom.

This is courage, indelibly fixed by nurturing and training, not to be washed away by such potent lies as pleasure opinion sorrow, fear, and desire. Courage, is a sort of universal saving power of true opinion, conforms with rules about real and false dangers,

[Barbara Brooks]

Try not to grapple with sheeropinion. If knowledge were the mere representation of opinion then it would be a very dull study. Thus in studying knowledge we must have profound thinking must be infinitude of ideas and truth. The process is twofold labor and talent is solely a unity of subjective and objective and the unconditional sacrifice and labor. Master and slave is in themselves truth

Socrates believed to seek after truth for the sake of knowledge must coldly look upon opinion. Wipe out opinion because it causes dishonest administration. I know this is no easy task, leaving a clean plane, but whether easy or not, will lay the difference between civilizations. Nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, the highest truth worthy of attaining, the highest truth is the idea of good that is the highest knowledge, all other things become useful and advantageous.

[Barbara Brooks]

Learning is recollection and when I perceive something, either by the help of sight or hearing, or any other senses, there is some conception of some thing other like it or unlike it. Therefore, I either had this knowledge before birth or right after birth and continue to know through life; those who learn only remember.

Knowledge is speculative thinking conceiving without conception, pure no division can be looked at the same as crystals of the earth they are passive transparency free from earthy flaw unrestricted is simply opaque. Pure crystal is transparent and perfect homogeneity, the inner essence is ideal pervades the whole inner and outer of the crystal nucleus molecule integrants attach themselves to the surface of the nucleus in a kind of successive array.

Pure knowledge is the ultimate idea here there can be nothing so remote that can be reasoned. If we want to describe something and grasp the spirit of it, and gather reason, we must leave it alone, and relate with the world where we assimilate to Nature.

[Barbara Brooks]

Being is a kind of enlightenment that is without judgment, beyond consciousness, has no self-distinguishing consciousness. It is simple immediacy of thought nothing else than pure being, called pure matter the inner reality of pure consciousness, the ultimately simple without judgment ; it is the pure ideal being, pure thought within itself.

[Barbara Brooks]

Willpower is a part of being, strength of mind consisting in two forms self-certainty and truth.

Willpower is indeed consciousness, enclosed within Thereby, the object of consciousness has the form of freedom and independence within self; in the first place, and self-consciousness and consciousness are objective being. In the case of consciousness, certainty, and perception are distinct phases belonging specific particular whole. That is why individuality assumes what is called the mediate element, consciousness, self-consciousness, and so on.

Willpower is constituted by the appearance assumed by individuality. Willpower, belief, appropriation, and adoption are distinctive form of being , which is specially developed in the case of consciousness, self-consciousness, reason, and makes this its actual determination. Belief pervades and permeates all these aspects and stamps them with this common quality is the main point of consciousness and its self-consciousness coming to terms.

An excellent illustration of true being is Earth; it ties together the elements air fire and water into a series of procedures. Being is the meteorological, the study of the earth’s atmosphere, the process earth affirms itself the unity of elements, air, fire and water in the form of barometric index level demonstrates changes are inside the terrestrial earth. For example, earth attracts the atmosphere either more or less; the higher level of the barometric level puts an end to the forming of water and the lower level permits the form of water. The higher the level is a greater tension of earth inwardness is earth's way of showing the spirit of being.

[Barbara Brooks]

Socrates believed, the perfected philosopher is compelled to have the charge of the society whenever the Muse of Philosophy is queen. There is no impossibility in all this; there is difficulty, he acknowledges.

[Barbara Brooks]

The philosophical nature there should be no secret corner of illiberality; nothing can more antagonistic than meanness the cowardly and mean nature has no part in true philosophy. No covetousness no meanness no boaster, or a cowardliness in their dealings. For although philosophy today is in a sad casing still it remains a dignity about it which is not to be found in other arts will go on a keen edge not blunted, nor forced or abate until philosophy has attained the true nature of every essence of truth by a sympathetic and kindred power in the soul.

And by that power, the philosopher will have knowledge and will live and grow truly, and then, and not till then, will philosophy cease from its travail.

But when a philosopher spends time consorting with the multitudes and exhibits to them its writing or other works of art or a service which it has done for society making them judges will only oblige the philosopher only produces whatever the multitude praise.

Socrates believed we must contrive for our future philosophers another and better life and then we may have a well-ordered society; philosophers they are truly rich, not in silver and gold, but in virtue and wisdom, which is the true blessings of life.


Philosophy was planted in Greece proper made home the Phoenician philosopher Thales; the author of the Ionic sect was born according to the best calculation, in the first year of the 35th Olympiad 640 B.C. Of Asia Minor, philosophy came with Thales when the Ionian Greek society was in decline people had no insight the state of Athens was in its course of deterioration.

[Barbara Brooks]

Thank God for England's Justice system, I have been watching the Iraq Inquiry Tyranny is the extreme opposite of philosophy, one is the best and the other the worst. The tyrant is the most miserable person, look into penetrate their inner self, and do not get panic-struck by their vain pomp of oppression Tyrants are masters of others when they are not masters of themselves; Their better part is enslaved to the worse they are full of misery and sorrow.


A just government does above all protect the people against the tyranny of the wealthy.

People need to be watched over, and rich people need controlling. It is on the middle class who is powerless against the treasures of the rich and the destitution of the people. The rich poke fun at middle class.

One of the most important functions of government is to prevent extreme wealth and secure citizens from becoming poor.

The unequal distribution of wealth today at the expense of business trade has been pushed to such an extreme some filthy rich and others of sheer poverty form hatred indifference among citizens, and the common cause, corruption weaken the springs of government.

[Barbara Brooks]

Philosophy my dearest friend can any thing be any greater blessing than this? I am caught up in some sort of infectious blind beholding me, there cease from pain, and when away from long for its friendship.

What is begotten has a beginning but the beginning is begotten of nothing, for if it were begotten then the begotten would not come from a beginning.

I knew nothing, of philosophy I started with a clean slate. Before I used to accept anything at all given as knowledge until philosophy’s gentle hand came to aid and lift me up to understanding

Philosophy has a sympathetic and kindred power that draws near where knowledge lives and grows. Another thing, philosophy has pleasure in learning, for no one will love that which gives them pain, or make little progress after much hard work.


I became an independent and free objective being not merely a garment or form, which does not attain to what it ought to reveal, spirited conscious self.

[Barbara Brooks]

Philosophy is more heavenly than any of the other studies, it is usefu and beneficial a handy helper for greater understanding. What is truth but reality? It is the assurance of being.
You kindred minds quick to learn noble gracious and friends of truth, justice, courage, temperance always striving after knowledge will not rest in mere opinion have the gift of sympathetic and kindred power draws the philosopher near where knowledge lives and grows. Willpower you must have to give profound thought that exalts ideas and truth not superficial rhetoric.

Philosophy is full of rich meaning that lies deep down in our heart, feel express moves along the highway of reality as an inspiration of profound creative higher knowledge insight that can be won only by conviction. Pure inner thinking quivers within philosophers as like the simple motion of sun rotating on its own axis.

[Barbara Brooks]

It has only been in modern times that philosophy has been separated from scientific knowledge. There is a perfection, which philosophy ought to attain and not to fall short of, if it is to have any value.

Hegel thought that those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick to learn or even not so quick but have arithmetical training becomes quicker than they would otherwise have been.

Philosophy has a very great elevating effect, compels mind to reason about things, compels the mind to view the vision of true being and which everyone ought to behold not in a narrow squaring, extending and applying but seen with the mind for the sake of truth.

Geometry is truly called necessary for the attainment, it is a kind of knowledge that compels you to turn and gaze toward where the idea of the full perfection beholden good in all arts and skills. First in education, everyone has to learn that little matter of distinguishing one, two, and three.

All studies, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy reach the point of inter- connection with one another and come to be considered in their mutual affinities are the hymn of knowledge and truth.

Astronomy and geometry wants to know the truth. Then they should let the heavens alone and employ to the proportions of night and day, or of both to 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. .

The relationship of the sun to earth brings the difference of day and night; without the connection earth would be a without process. The sun mounts higher and higher is daytime and sunlight is caused by condition when it reaches its highest point sinks to its lowest to night.

Physics is this scientific study of matter, energy force and motion and how they relate to each other. The study starts with sun a luminous matter that relates only to itself like a phosphorescent light shines. The mode and manner in which sunlight reveals it is everywhere present as pure universal actuality, and has the possibility of unifying with all things that enter into community with; everything exists because of sunlight.

[Barbara Brooks]

To understand sunlight is most difficult because it is a product of external conditions, does not show itself being but everywhere present

Here we enter into the sphere of reflection. The sunlight comparison darkness reveals reflection, For example, the volume of water is seen in transparent air as if air in which the water is place has greater specific weight, as if air were contracted into a smaller space, this is so called refraction.

Sunlight is pure reflection, an unrest whirlpool absolute velocity of self-relating pure return to itself. It has the possibility of unifying with all things it enters in community with, sunlight exists within itself, and no objects are in its way. When the sunlight passes onto another, thus begins the manifestation of material being-for-self. Light is the sharing of a common existence, brings interconnectedness; everything exists because of sunlight.

Pure reflection the Hindus believes the ego if it were maintained in pure sameness would pass into transparency as determinateness indeterminateness. The ego is pure reflection-into-self, and is an unlimited likeness of sunlight.

The ego is the mirror image of self has a likeness to sunlight. The ego it is like the light of reflection. The Hindus believe, that ego is light is maintained in pure transparency pure reflection like light, but ego is uncertainty not light, Pure inner essence is the ego, the sphere of reflection the same as the crystal nucleus molecules integrants that attach themselves to the surface of the nucleus in a kind of successive series that pervades the whole inner and outer like the crystal nucleus's successive array.

Ego comes forward asserts not just certainty of self but true purpose. therefore is the bare simple pure inner self is ego or in other words, real true inner being; the pure inner true being comes forward over against the world.

[Barbara Brooks]

Transparency principle develops into metallic principle. Black and white exists separately but is at the same time the uncovering of color.

The prism gives birth to color is perfect considering it; they are perfectly transparent glass the obscuration of white. Color exists on the boundary between white and black before any color can be produced white and black must be present.

Brightness is white, which is not yet color, darkness black materialized. Color lies between these extremes, produced by the combination of sunlight and darkness.

Look at the sky in night it is black, it is the atmosphere if there were no atmosphere the sky would be black. The atmosphere is full of vapors so the sky looks colored blue. But on mountains high where the air is purer, the sky is black.
Black, visible darkness white is visible light, and together create gray their first quantitative relationship. We either have a light ground or a dark ground and this gives rise to color. Darkness and lightness is a mutual relationship, if we look at a black object through delicately white woven cotton or if we look at a white object through delicate black woven cotton produces both create a mere gray.

The night sky is black, it is the air that makes it looks blue, and if there were no atmosphere the sky would be only a black sky. Consequently, the atmosphere is the obscuring medium, so the sky looks blue. Mountaintops where the air is purer, the sky looks black,

The prism is a way of bringing on color; if you look through a prism at a piece of white paper on which there are black figures or a piece of black paper on which there are white figures, you will see color on the edges.

[Barbara Brooks]

Black is visible darkness white is visible light, and together there first quantitative relationship creating gray. Darkness and lightness is a mutual relationship gives rise to. Look at a black object through white woven cotton or look at a white object through black woven cotton both produces gray.

The primary colors are yellow, blue, and red. They have an immediate obscuration, also green obtained by mixture. The primary colors are yellow, blue, and red. They have an immediate obscuration, also green obtained by mixture. Blue is shaded through by a darker background, example, the sky only looks blue because the atmosphere, no atmosphere the sky looks black, Between yellow and blue red, to which blue and yellow can be intensified; yellow is intensified into red by a darker tinge and blue when given a lighter tinge turns red.

, The dominant color is this active powerful color red the extreme intensity of both yellow and blue. Red corresponds to fire and green corresponds to water. These are called complimentary colors, included are the yellowish and bluish shadows of the morning and evening due to contrast.

Blue is shaded through by a darker background, example, the sky only looks blue because the atmosphere, no atmosphere the sky looks black, Between yellow and blue red, to which blue and yellow can be intensified; yellow is intensified into red by a darker tinge and blue when given a lighter tinge turns red.

Red, the dominant color is this active powerful color that is the extreme intensity of both yellow and blue. Whereas green is the common neutrality of yellow and blue coincided. Red and corresponds to fire and water, corresponds green. When one color is seen, the eye instructs the other color; yellow instructs violet, orange blue, purple green, and vice versa. These are called complimentary colors, included are the yellowish and bluish shadows of the morning and evening due to contrast. Say a red glass is held behind a lighted candle the illumination is red; but if a second candle is added the other shadow looks green because red and green are complimentary to each other.

How does color enter into substance, how does color from outside joins to become pigmentation of one? A metal is the answer. I had the opportunity of inquiring into this in a way, which I found the first of all, the principle of all coloring of things, the liberation of singular being-for-self. The idea that every metal in its pure state has a particular color, gold is congealed color and iron is loadstone color, can be represented as a metal pigmentation, even vegetables with their indigo coloring, the redness of blood can be traced to iron.

[Barbara Brooks]

Color can be altered by chemicals or by heat, for example; silver when heated reaches a point where it attains a silver gleam, only a moment. Before it reaches, the silver gleam runs through all the colors of the rainbow in sequence red, yellow, green, and blue.

The same as refined steel heated it takes on a yellow color, but if quickly removed from the heat keep that color, but as soon as it is heated again becomes darker yellow and soon into purple. This purple color is hard to retain and turns into a deeper blue, the deep blue is fixed if it is taken form the heat and put in ashes, but if heated further becomes bright blue and remains that.
Metal is easily turned white by any weak acid; lead is made white by acetic acid, zinc similarly. Not only metal change color under chemical change, also the juices of all blue and violet flowers change into green by alkalis and a red by acids. The extracts of red wood plants turn yellow by acids and violet by alkalis. Yellow plants subject to heat as turned dark by alkalis and lose almost all their color under the actions of acids.
World spirit is in reason makes one aware, certain and assured of each true being, the law of all hearts, knowing, consciousness of self and universal: this is good.