527th OEDINAEY GENEKAL MEETING. 



MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19th, 1912. 

 David Howard, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Mioutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed and 

 the following elections were announced : — 



Member : Sir Robert Anderson, LL.D., K.C.B. 



Associates : Sir W. Mackworth Young, K.C.S.I. ; Miss Cecilia 

 Bramwell. 



THE REAL PERSONALITY OR TRANSCENDENTAL 

 EGO. Illustrated hy Pln/siccd Experiments. By Sydney 

 T. Klein, F.L.S., E.E.A.S.^ 



IN the last paper I read before this Institution I attempted to 

 show that what we call Time and Space have no real 

 existence apart from our physical Senses, they are only modes 

 or conditions under which those Senses act and by which we 

 gain a very limited and illusory knowledge of our surroundings. 

 Our very consciousness of living depends upon our perception 

 of multitudinous changes in our surroundings, and our very 

 thoughts are therefore also limited by Time and Space, because 

 change is dependent on these two limits, the very basis of 

 perceived motion being the time that an object takes to go 

 over a certain s^mce ; we must therefore look behind conscious- 

 ness itself, beyond the conditioning in Time and Space, for the 

 true reality of Being. I concluded my paper with the 

 suggestion that the true conception of the creation of the 

 whole Physical Universe was the materialization of the 

 Thought or Will of the Deity, He does not require time to 

 think as we do, the whole Universe is therefore an instan- 

 taneous Thought of the Great Reality ; the forming of this 

 World and its destruction, the appearance of i\Ian, the birth 

 and death of each one of us, are absolutely at the same instant, 



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