Threefold Act of the Intellect
John Cowper Powys writes in his Autobiography :
My own feeling is—it may be a rooted insanity but I do not think so—that the only profoundly philosophical way of taking life is a threefold of the intellect. First to accept our sense impressions of the world as the world’s true reality, against all electronic reduction. Secondly, to accept what interiorly we feel of our consciousness and will as our deepest hint as to what causes the nature of this reality to be as it is. Thirdly, to force ourselves to enjoy in a particular way this self-made universe that we are for ever destroying and recreating.
So far, Autobiography is living up to its reputation of hardly being an autobiography at all… more like a determinative self-description, an inlaid belief system meticulously thought-out, worked-out over fifty years. John Cowper Powys is a monster!
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