From: "Charles Gavette" <chaosmosis-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Leibnitz tablet
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 21:54:52 PDT


"In the language of E. Husserl's phenomenology of transcendental 
consciousness: the reduction of the world plenum to particular own world 
is indeed always reduction to the "life world" proper to me: for 
"consciousness determines its actions in accord with its quality. Its 
singularities shape what is accessible to it." (W. Szilasi, 1959, p. 90) 
This holds in the same way for the properties of receptivity as well. 
The soul is no Lockean tabula rasa, on which anything can be written, 
but rather the tablet of Leibnitz which registers only what its own 
constitution admits. "The tablet carries out an active selection. Only 
those signs are accepted by it which fit its receptive 
predisposition."(Szilasi)" (Hubertus Tellenbach, Melancholy, Duquesne 
University Press, Pittsburgh, 1980)........"In cool empyrean, beyond 
haze and piled clouds/ At Triple Five, the jade toad in Autumn!/ The 
starry chronograms are correct in their serried fields/ Set in the void, 
the ghosts and trolls are gloomy/ Wellhead limpid-cold protopsyche 
crystalline/ Dew dripping-chilly light gloating/ Under the snapping 
cinnamons/ I chant as I watch; I could not bear to rest." (Fan Kan, 
"Chung Ch'iu yueh", (T'ang-tsu Chiu, han 10, ts'e 3, ch. 2, 9b), in 
"Pacing the Void", Schafer)

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