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Tag: John Woodroffe

  • Power as Causality

    In his important work The World as Power, John Woodroffe lays out the philosophical principles of Tantra, while relating them to the Orthodox Hindu schools and even Western thought. Creation is the manifestation of Consciousness-Power and liberation is participation therein. In successive chapters, he describes Power as Reality, Life, Mind, Matter, Causality, Continuity, and Consciousness.…

  • Knowledge and Power

    The fundamental being and expression [of Consciousness or the I] is Joy pulsating as Will-Power and manifesting Itself in an unspeakably sublime cosmic play. It is not a mere abstraction — a wilderness of Pure Being or Pure Nothing as some critics of Vedanta have imagined the abode of Reality to be. ~ John Woodroffe,…