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98 matter, and Adwaitee Cosmogony accounts for the evolution of Bahipragna from the original Chinmatra. As the different conditions of differentiated Cosmic matter are but the different aspects of the various conditions of pragna, the Adwaitee Cosmogony is but the complement of the Arhat Cosmogony. The eternal Principle is precisely the same in both the systems and they agree in denying the existence of an extra-Cosmic God.

"H. X." is pleased to inform his readers that the Arhats call themselves Atheists. They will be justified in doing so if theism inculcates the existence of a conscious God governing the Universe by his will-power. Under such circumstance the Adwaitees will come under the same denomination. Atheism and theism are words of doubtful import and until their meaning is definitely ascertained, it would be better not to use them in connection with any system of philosophy.

WILL.

It is with the greatest interest that I read the profound article by T. Subba Row, "A Personal and an Impersonal God,"—logically arriving at a condition of unconsciousness, though containing the potentiality of every condition of "Pragna," the only permanent state in the universe.

The theory of the Idealistic thinker John Stuart Mill is metnionedmentioned [sic] in connection, who is certainly the type of Western Idealistic philosophy.

But there is another Idealist, another Western thinker, who has expressed the same long before J. S. Mill in other words, but with a candid reference to Asiatic philosophy, und given these ideas at the same time a far more palpable objectivity, as far as regards our conscious world.