[307]. Compare with this the interesting proofs in Bücher: “Arbeit und Rhythmus,” Leipzig 1899.
[308]. Amusement is undoubtedly coupled with many rites, but by no means with all. There are some very unpleasant things.
[309]. The Upanishads belong to the Brâhmana, to the theology of the Vedic writings, and comprise the theosophical-speculative part of the Vedic teachings. The Vedic writings and collections are in part of very uncertain age and may reach back to a very distant past because for a long period they were handed down only orally.
[310]. The primal and omniscient being, the idea of whom, translated into psychology, is comprehended in the conception of libido.
[311]. Âtman is also considered as originally a bisexual being—corresponding to the libido theory. The world sprang from desire. Compare Bṛihadâraṇyaka-Upaniṣhad, I, 4, 1 (Deussen):
“(1) In the beginning this world was Âtman alone—he looked around: Then he saw nothing but himself.
“(2) Then he was frightened; therefore, one is afraid, when one is alone. Then he thought: Wherefore should I be afraid, since there is nothing beside myself?
“(3) But also he had no joy, therefore one has no joy when one is alone. Then he longed for a companion.”
After this there follows the description of his division quoted above. Plato’s conception of the world-soul approaches very near to the Hindoo idea. “The soul in no wise needed eyes, because near it there was nothing visible. Nothing was separate from it, nothing approached it, because outside of it there was nothing” (“Timaios”).
[312]. Compare with this Freud’s “Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory.”