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    Wakonda, The Hindus As Shakti, and The Christians As The Power Libido.' and Its Manifestation in The Cosmos Is The Structure

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    This document summarizes the universal doctrine found across many religious and philosophical traditions. It explains that all things in the visible world arise from an underlying ubiquitous power, are sustained by this power during their existence, and ultimately dissolve back into it. This power has been referred to in different traditions as energy, mana, wakonda, shakti, and the power of God. The document states that while this universal power manifests itself in diverse ways in both the psyche and cosmos, human faculties of sense and thought make directly apprehending its source frustrating.

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    This document summarizes the universal doctrine found across many religious and philosophical traditions. It explains that all things in the visible world arise from an underlying ubiquitous power, are sustained by this power during their existence, and ultimately dissolve back into it. This power has been referred to in different traditions as energy, mana, wakonda, shakti, and the power of God. The document states that while this universal power manifests itself in diverse ways in both the psyche and cosmos, human faculties of sense and thought make directly apprehending its source frustrating.

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    This document summarizes the universal doctrine found across many religious and philosophical traditions. It explains that all things in the visible world arise from an underlying ubiquitous power, are sustained by this power during their existence, and ultimately dissolve back into it. This power has been referred to in different traditions as energy, mana, wakonda, shakti, and the power of God. The document states that while this universal power manifests itself in diverse ways in both the psyche and cosmos, human faculties of sense and thought make directly apprehending its source frustrating.

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    the Divine Comedy of Dante, the Book of Genesis, and the timeless

    temples of the Orient? Until the most recent decades, these


    were the support of all human life and the inspiration of philosophy,
    poetry, and the arts. Where the inherited symbols have been
    touched by a Lao-tse, Buddha, Zoroaster, Christ, or Mohammed—
    employed by a consummate master of the spirit as a vehicle of
    the profoundest moral and metaphysical instruction -obviously
    we are in the presence rather of immense consciousness than of
    darkness.
    And so, to grasp the full value of the mythological figures that
    have come down to us, we must understand that they are not
    only symptoms of the unconscious (as indeed are all human
    thoughts and acts) but also controlled and intended statements
    of certain spiritual principles, which have remained as constant
    throughout the course of human history as the form and nervous
    structure of the human physique itself. Briefly formulated, the
    universal doctrine teaches that all the visible structures of the
    world—all things and beings—are the effects of a ubiquitous
    power out of which they rise, which supports and fills them during
    the period of their manifestation, and back into which they
    must ultimately dissolve. This is the power known to science as
    energy, to the Melanesians as mana, to the Sioux Indians as
    wakonda, the Hindus as shakti, and the Christians as the power
    of God. Its manifestation in the psyche is termed, by the psychoanalysts,
    libido.' And its manifestation in the cosmos is the structure
    and flux of the universe itself.
    The apprehension of the source of this undifferentiated yet
    everywhere particularized substratum of being is rendered frustrate
    by the very organs through which the apprehension must
    be accomplished. The forms of sensibility and the categories of
    human thought,' which are themselves manifestations of this
    power,3 so confine the mind that it is normally impossible not

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