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Reason, A Barrier or A Bridge… M. Dehghani Firouzabadi and M. Islami / (109
knower with that which • Declares that nothing
is known. would exist at all apart
3. Man possesses a double from the divine Reality.
nature, a phenomenal ego • Asserts that individual
and an eternal Self, Souls has the potential
which is the inner man, to know the divine
the spirit, the spark of Reality and be united
divinity within the soul. with it directly.
It is possible for a • Claims that man can
man, if he so desires, identify himself with
to identify himself with the eternal Self which
the spirit and therefore paves the way to know
with the Divine Ground, the Divine Reality.
which is of the same or • believes that the final
like nature with the spirit. goal of man is to attain
4. Man's life on earth has union with divine Reality.
only one end and purpose:
to identify himself with Having discussed Huxley’s
his eternal Self and so ideas, it is clear that underlying
to come to unitive Huxley's argument is man’s
knowledge of the Divine separation from the “divine
Ground. (Huxley, 1945: 13) Ground” and his attempt to be
united with it. Almost all
Each of Huxley's four religions agree on this issue
fundamental doctrines proposes that man lives in the state of
a type of connection between separation and isolation through
the individual Soul and the wrong perception and wrong
divine Reality: action and his final goal is
