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108 International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 9 (29): 103-136, Winter 2022
In the first chapter of the “The Minimum Working
book entitled “That Art Hypothesis”.
Thou”, Huxley proposes that According to Huxley, the
orders of reality could be perennial philosophy consists
divided into two hierarchical of four fundamental doctrines
levels. The higher order is as follows:
complete; and the lower is in 1. The phenomenal world
constant flux, impermanent of matter and of
and conditioned. It is the individualized consciousness-
place where we live. Huxley the world of things
refers to the higher order and and animals and men
the man who is in that state and even gods- is the
(union with the divine manifestation of a Divine
reality) as “That”. Thus it is Ground within which
possible to consider the lower all partial realities have
order as “This”. their being, and apart
Therefore, according to from which they would
Huxley’s idea, in the fundamental be non-existent.
canons of all religions, 2. Human beings are capable
something exists other than not merely of knowing
what man observes in this about the Divine Ground
world and the mystic is by inference; they can
trying to be united with also realize its existence
“That”. In his Introduction to by a direct intuition,
the Bhagavad-Gita (1951), superior to discursive
Huxley shed light on this reasoning. This immediate
connection. He called this doctrine knowledge unites the
