But we can glimpse it within ourselves and become a conscious participant in it. Consciousness is the intelligence, the organizing principle behind the arising of form. Consciousness has been preparing forms for millions of years so that it can express itself through them in the manifested. Although the unmanifested realm of pure consciousness could be considered another dimension, it is not separate from this dimension of form. Form and formlessness interpenetrate. the unmanifested flows into this dimension as awareness, inner space, presence. How does it do that? Through the human form that becomes conscious and thus fulfills its destiny. The human form was created for this higher purpose, and millions of other forms prepared the ground for it. Consciousness incarnates into the manifested dimension, that is to say, it becomes form. When it does so, it enters a dreamlike state. Intelligence dreams, but consciousness becomes unconscious of itself
I said that the distinction between semantics and pragmatics was supposed to be that the former deals with the acontextual meanings of sentence types, whereas the latter addresses the social uses of linguistic expressions in con- text. But there are two reasons why that characterization is too simple. The first reason is that there is an important sense in which most sentence types simply do not have acontextual meanings. The second is that, as we shall see later on, social-use factors interpenetrate in certain special ways with what we would otherwise think of as propositional meaning. Here is the sense in which most sentence types lack acontextual mean- ings. Recall the phenomenon of deixis, brought up in objection 3 against the Truth-Condition Theory, and consider a heavily deictic sentence. Suppose you and I come into an empty classroom and find the following words writ- ten on the blackboard: (1) I am ill and will not hold class today.
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