1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:05,919 Speaker 1: The ninth lesson, the Mental Planes, Part One. In our 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,400 last lesson, we told you something about the operation of 3 00:00:09,439 --> 00:00:14,400 the mind outside of the field of consciousness. In this lesson, 4 00:00:14,759 --> 00:00:18,440 we will attempt to classify these out of consciousness plains 5 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:23,000 by directing your attention to the several mental planes above 6 00:00:23,039 --> 00:00:27,320 and below the plane of consciousness. As we stated in 7 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:31,519 the last lesson, over ninety percent of our mental operations 8 00:00:31,719 --> 00:00:35,960 are conducted outside of the field of consciousness, so that 9 00:00:36,039 --> 00:00:39,200 the consideration of the plains is seen to be an 10 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,399 important subject. Man is a center of consciousness in the 11 00:00:44,399 --> 00:00:49,320 great one life of the universe. His soul has climbed 12 00:00:49,359 --> 00:00:52,399 a great many steps before it reached its present position 13 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,920 and stage of unfoldment, and it will pass through many 14 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,079 more steps until it is entirely free and delivered from 15 00:01:01,119 --> 00:01:05,760 the necessity of its swaddling clothes. In his mental being, 16 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:10,480 man contains traces of all that has gone before, all 17 00:01:10,519 --> 00:01:14,439 the experiences of himself and the great race movement of 18 00:01:14,519 --> 00:01:19,040 which he is a part. And likewise his mind contains 19 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:23,239 faculties and mental planes which have not as yet unfolded 20 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,239 into consciousness, and of the existence of which he is 21 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:32,599 but imperfectly aware. All of these mental possessions, however, are 22 00:01:32,719 --> 00:01:37,280 useful and valuable to him, even the lowest. The lowest 23 00:01:37,359 --> 00:01:41,599 may be used to advantage under proper mastery, and are 24 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,599 only dangerous to the man who allows them to master 25 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,719 him instead of serving him as they should, considering his 26 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:54,519 present stage of development. In this consideration of the several 27 00:01:54,599 --> 00:01:58,760 mental plains, we shall not confine ourselves to the technical 28 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:03,239 occult terms given to these several planes, but will place 29 00:02:03,359 --> 00:02:07,640 them in general groups and describe the features and characteristics 30 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,680 of each, rather than branch off into long explanations of 31 00:02:11,719 --> 00:02:15,479 the growth and reason of the several plains, which would 32 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:19,400 take us far away from the practical consideration of the subject. 33 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,560 Beginning at the lowest point of the scale, we see 34 00:02:23,599 --> 00:02:27,159 that man has a body. The body is composed of 35 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:32,039 minute cells of protoplasm. These cells are built up of 36 00:02:32,199 --> 00:02:37,680 countless molecules, atoms, and particles of matter, precisely the same 37 00:02:37,759 --> 00:02:42,960 matter that composes the rocks, trees, air, et cetera around him. 38 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,479 The Yogi philosophy tells us that even the atoms of 39 00:02:47,599 --> 00:02:52,439 matter have life and an elementary manifestation of mind, which 40 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,879 causes them to group together according to the law of 41 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:02,479 attraction forming different elements, combinations, et cetera. This law of 42 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:06,879 attraction is a mental operation and is the first evidence 43 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:12,520 of mental choice, action, and response. Below this is prana 44 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:18,039 or force, which strictly speaking, is also a manifestation of mind, 45 00:03:18,599 --> 00:03:22,960 although for convenience we designate it as a separate manifestation 46 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:28,000 of the absolute. And therefore we find that this law 47 00:03:28,039 --> 00:03:31,680 of attraction between the atoms and particles of matter is 48 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,719 a mental action, and that it belongs to man's mental kingdom, 49 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,560 because he has a body and this mental action is 50 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:44,680 continually going on in his body. So therefore this is 51 00:03:44,719 --> 00:03:47,840 the lowest mental plane to be considered in the make 52 00:03:47,919 --> 00:03:51,599 up of the man. This plane is of course far 53 00:03:51,759 --> 00:03:55,960 sunken beneath the plane of consciousness, and is scarcely identified 54 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,120 with the personality of the man at all, but rather 55 00:03:59,199 --> 00:04:02,759 belongs to them the life of the whole manifest in 56 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:07,080 the rock as well as in the man. But after 57 00:04:07,159 --> 00:04:10,280 these atoms have been grouped by the law of attraction 58 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,319 and have formed molecules of matter, they are taken possession 59 00:04:14,439 --> 00:04:18,000 of by a higher mental activity and built up into 60 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:22,040 cells by the mental action of the plant. The life 61 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,639 impulse of the plant begins by drawing to it certain 62 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:31,240 particles of inorganic matter chemical elements, and then building them 63 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:36,480 into a single cell. Oh mystery of the cell. The 64 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:40,480 intellect of man is unable to duplicate this wonderful process. 65 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:45,680 The mind principle on the vegetative plane, however, knows exactly 66 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,360 how to go to work, to select and draw to 67 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:54,519 itself just the elements needed to build up the single cell. Then, 68 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,800 taking up its abode in that cell, using it as 69 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:03,839 a basis of operation, it proceeds to duplicate its previous performance, 70 00:05:04,439 --> 00:05:07,920 and so cell after cell is added by the simple 71 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:13,399 reproductive process of division and subdivision, the primitive and elemental 72 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:18,399 sex process, until the mighty plant is built up from 73 00:05:18,439 --> 00:05:22,560 the humblest vegetable organism up to the greatest oak. The 74 00:05:22,639 --> 00:05:26,680 process is the same, and it does not stop there. 75 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,160 The body of man is also built up in just 76 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:34,519 this way, and he has this vegetative mind also within 77 00:05:34,639 --> 00:05:39,079 him below the plane of consciousness. Of course, to many 78 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,720 this thought of a vegetative mind may be somewhat startling, 79 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,920 but let us remember that every part of our body 80 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:51,279 has been built up from the vegetable cell. The unborn 81 00:05:51,399 --> 00:05:56,639 child starts with the coalition of two cells. These cells 82 00:05:56,959 --> 00:05:59,759 begin to build up the new body for the occupancy 83 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,680 of the child. That is, the mind principle in the 84 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:08,079 cells directs the work of course drawing upon the body 85 00:06:08,079 --> 00:06:12,079 of the mother for nourishment, and supplies the nourishment in 86 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,680 the mother's blood, which supplies the material for the building 87 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,920 up of the child's body, is obtained by the mother 88 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:25,199 eating and assimilating the vegetable cells of plants directly or indirectly. 89 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:31,279 If she eats fruit, nuts, vegetables, et cetera, she obtains 90 00:06:31,319 --> 00:06:35,519 the nourishment of the plant life directly. If she eats meat, 91 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,199 she obtains it indirectly, for the animal from which the 92 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:44,000 meat was taken built up the meat from vegetables. There 93 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,360 is no two ways about this. All nourishment of the 94 00:06:47,399 --> 00:06:51,439 animal and human kingdom is obtained from the vegetable kingdom 95 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:56,519 directly or indirectly, and the cell action in the child 96 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:01,079 is identical with the cell action in the plant cells 97 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:06,600 constantly reproducing themselves and building themselves up into bodily organs parts, 98 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:10,720 et cetera, under the direction and guidance of the mind principle. 99 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,279 The child grows in this way until the hour of birth, 100 00:07:16,079 --> 00:07:20,160 it is born, and then the process is but slightly changed. 101 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:25,319 The child begins to take nourishment, either from the mother's 102 00:07:25,319 --> 00:07:28,399 milk or from the milk of the cow, or other 103 00:07:28,439 --> 00:07:32,439 forms of food, and as it grows larger, it partakes 104 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,639 of many different varieties of food. But always it obtains 105 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:41,160 building material from the cell life of the plants. And 106 00:07:41,279 --> 00:07:46,360 this great building up process is intelligent, purposeful to a 107 00:07:46,439 --> 00:07:51,920 wonderful degree. Man with his boasted intellect cannot explain the 108 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:57,439 real thingness of the process. A leading scientist who placed 109 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:01,360 the egg of a small lizard under micro scopical examination 110 00:08:01,839 --> 00:08:05,399 and then watched it slowly develop, has said that it 111 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,480 seemed as if some hand was tracing the outlines of 112 00:08:09,519 --> 00:08:14,120 the tiny vertebrae and then building up around it. Think 113 00:08:14,199 --> 00:08:17,240 for a moment of the development of the germ within 114 00:08:17,279 --> 00:08:20,240 the egg of the humming bird or the ant, or 115 00:08:20,279 --> 00:08:24,600 the gnat or the eagle. Every second a change may 116 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:29,480 be noticed. The germ cell draws to itself nourishment from 117 00:08:29,519 --> 00:08:32,320 the other part of the egg, and then it grows 118 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:37,799 and reproduces another cell. Then both cells divide, then subdivide, 119 00:08:38,159 --> 00:08:41,399 until there are millions and millions and millions of cells, 120 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,919 and all the while the building up process continues, and 121 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,840 the bird or insect assumes shape and form, until at 122 00:08:49,919 --> 00:08:53,559 last the work is accomplished and the young bird emerges 123 00:08:53,799 --> 00:08:58,919 from the egg. And the work thus commenced continues until 124 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,240 the death of the animal. For there is a constant 125 00:09:02,759 --> 00:09:06,720 using up and breaking down of cell and tissue which 126 00:09:06,759 --> 00:09:11,080 the organism must replace. And so the vegetative mind of 127 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:15,639 the plant or insect, or animal or man is constantly 128 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:19,960 at work, building up new cells from the food, throwing 129 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,440 out worn out and used up material from the system. 130 00:09:24,639 --> 00:09:28,200 Not only this, but it attends to the circulation of 131 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,480 the blood in order that the materials for the building 132 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,960 up may be carried to all parts of the system. 133 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,759 It attends to the digestion and assimilation of the food, 134 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:43,799 the wonderful work of the organs of the body. It 135 00:09:43,879 --> 00:09:48,000 attends to the healing of wounds, the fight against disease, 136 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,639 the care of the physical body, and all this out 137 00:09:52,639 --> 00:09:56,840 of the plane of consciousness in the infant man, the 138 00:09:56,879 --> 00:10:04,320 animal world, the vegetable kingdom ever at work, untiring, intelligent, wonderful, 139 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,720 And this plane of mind is in man as well 140 00:10:08,759 --> 00:10:12,080 as in the plant, and it does its work without 141 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,600 aid from the conscious part of man, although man may 142 00:10:15,639 --> 00:10:19,480 interfere with it by adverse conscious thought, which seems to 143 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:24,559 paralyze its efforts. Mental healing is merely the restoring of 144 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:28,399 normal conditions so that this part of the body may 145 00:10:28,399 --> 00:10:32,240 do its work without the hindrance of adverse conscious thought. 146 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,519 On this plane of the mind is found all of 147 00:10:36,519 --> 00:10:41,159 the vital functions and operations. The work is done out 148 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:45,399 of consciousness, and the consciousness is aware of this part 149 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,559 of the mind only when it makes demands upon the 150 00:10:48,639 --> 00:10:53,919 conscious for food, et cetera. On this plane also resides 151 00:10:54,159 --> 00:10:59,480 the elementary instinct that tends toward reproduction and sexual activity. 152 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,360 The demand of this part of the mind is always 153 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,519 increase and multiply, and according to the stage of growth 154 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:11,120 of the individual, is the mandate carried out. As we 155 00:11:11,159 --> 00:11:16,200 shall see presently, the elementary impulses and desires that we 156 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,720 find rising into the field of consciousness come from this 157 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:25,039 plane of the mind. Hunger, thirst, and the reproductive desires 158 00:11:25,639 --> 00:11:28,879 are its messages to the higher parts of the mind. 159 00:11:29,879 --> 00:11:34,000 And these messages are natural and free from the abuses 160 00:11:34,039 --> 00:11:38,519 and prostitution often observed attached to them by the intellect 161 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:44,240 of man. In connection with his unrestrained animal impulses. Gluttony 162 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:48,799 and unnatural lust arise not from the primitive demand of 163 00:11:48,879 --> 00:11:52,559 this plane of the mind, For the lower animals even 164 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,879 are free from them to a great extent. But it 165 00:11:55,919 --> 00:11:59,639 is reserved for man to so prostitute these primitive natural 166 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:04,200 tens deencies in order to gratify unnatural and artificial appetites, 167 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,080 which served to frustrate nature rather than to aid her. 168 00:12:09,039 --> 00:12:12,879 As life advanced in the scale and animal forms appeared 169 00:12:12,919 --> 00:12:16,519 on the scene, new planes of mind were unfolded in 170 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:21,039 accordance to the necessity of the living forms. The animal 171 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,000 was compelled to hunt for his food, to prey upon 172 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,480 other forms, and to avoid being preyed upon by others. 173 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:31,879 He was compelled to struggle for the unfoldment of latent 174 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,039 powers of his mind that would give him means to 175 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,799 play his part in the scheme of life. He was 176 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,759 compelled to do certain things in order to live and 177 00:12:41,879 --> 00:12:46,679 reproduce his kind, and he demanded not in vain, For 178 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:50,200 there came to him, slowly and unfolding knowledge of the 179 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:54,399 things necessary for the requirements of his life. We call 180 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:59,759 this instinct, But pray remember by instinct we do not 181 00:12:59,799 --> 00:13:03,879 mean the still highers something that is really rudimentary intellect 182 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,600 that we notice in the higher animals. We are speaking 183 00:13:07,639 --> 00:13:11,840 now of the unreasoning instinct observed in the lower animals, 184 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,440 and to a certain degree in man. This instinctive plane 185 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:20,279 of mentality causes the bird to build its nest before 186 00:13:20,279 --> 00:13:24,240 its eggs are laid, which instructs the animal mother how 187 00:13:24,279 --> 00:13:27,519 to care for its young when born, and after birth, 188 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,399 which teaches the bee to construct its cell and to 189 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:35,960 store up its honey. These and countless other things in 190 00:13:36,039 --> 00:13:39,679 animal life and in the higher form of plant life, 191 00:13:40,039 --> 00:13:44,480 are manifestations of instinct, that great plane of the mind. 192 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:48,200 In fact, the greater part of the life of the 193 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:52,519 animal is instinctive, although the higher forms of animals have 194 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:57,960 developed something like rudimentary intellect or reason, which enables them 195 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:03,120 to meet new conditions where intellect alone fails them. And 196 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:08,159 man has this plane of mind within him below consciousness. 197 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,120 In fact, the lower forms of human life manifest but 198 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:17,240 little intellect, and live almost altogether according to their instinctive 199 00:14:17,279 --> 00:14:23,120 impulses and desires. Every man has this instinctive mental region 200 00:14:23,159 --> 00:14:27,120 within him, and from it are constantly arising impulses and 201 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:31,120 desires to perplex and annoy him, as well as to 202 00:14:31,159 --> 00:14:35,840 serve him. Occasionally, the whole secret consists in whether the 203 00:14:35,919 --> 00:14:40,720 man has mastery of his lower self or not. From 204 00:14:40,759 --> 00:14:45,120 this plane of the mind arises the hereditary impulses, coming 205 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:49,399 down from generations of ancestors, reaching back to the cavemen, 206 00:14:49,879 --> 00:14:54,000 and still further back into the animal kingdom. A queer 207 00:14:54,039 --> 00:15:04,039 storehouse is this animal instincts, passion, appetites, desire, feelings, sensations, emotions, 208 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:11,600 et cetera. Are there. Hate, envy, jealousy, revenge, The lust 209 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,600 of the animals seeking the gratification of his sexual impulses, 210 00:15:16,039 --> 00:15:20,399 et cetera. Et cetera are there and are constantly intruding 211 00:15:20,519 --> 00:15:25,240 upon our intention until we have asserted our mastery. And 212 00:15:25,399 --> 00:15:28,919 often the failure to assert this mastery comes from an 213 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:33,480 ignorance of the nature of the desire et cetera. We 214 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,480 have been taught that these thoughts were bad without being 215 00:15:37,519 --> 00:15:41,200 told why, and we have feared them and thought them 216 00:15:41,399 --> 00:15:46,000 the promptings of an impure nature or a depraved mind, 217 00:15:46,559 --> 00:15:51,600 et cetera. This is all wrong. These things are not 218 00:15:51,799 --> 00:15:56,799 bad of themselves. They came to us honestly. They are 219 00:15:56,879 --> 00:16:00,600 our heritage from the past. They belong to the animal 220 00:16:00,639 --> 00:16:03,879 part of our nature, and were necessary to the animal 221 00:16:04,159 --> 00:16:08,120 in his stage of development. We have the whole menagerie 222 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:11,159 within us, but that does not mean that we should 223 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:15,919 turn the beasts loose upon ourselves or others. It was 224 00:16:16,039 --> 00:16:20,600 necessary for the animal to be fierce, full of fight, passionate, 225 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:25,519 regardless of the rights of others, et cetera. But we 226 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:29,399 have outgrown that stage of development, and it is ignoble 227 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,639 for us to return to it or to allow it 228 00:16:32,799 --> 00:16:36,960 to master us. This lesson is not intended as a 229 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:41,480 discourse upon ethics or morals. We do not intend going 230 00:16:41,519 --> 00:16:45,039 into a discussion of the details of right and wrong, 231 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,120 for we have touched upon that phase of the subject 232 00:16:48,279 --> 00:16:52,000 in other works. But we feel justified in calling your 233 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,080 attention to the fact that the human mind intuitively recognizes 234 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,480 the rightness of the living up to that which comes 235 00:16:59,519 --> 00:17:03,120 to us from the highest parts of the mind, the 236 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:09,359 highest product of our enfoldment, and it likewise intuitively recognizes 237 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,680 the wrongness of the falling back into that which belongs 238 00:17:13,799 --> 00:17:17,279 to the lower stages of our mentality, to the animal 239 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,559 part of us, that is our heritage from the past, 240 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,640 and that which has gone before While we may be 241 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,400 puzzled about many details of morals and ethics, and may 242 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,839 not be able to explain why we consider certain things 243 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:36,160 right or wrong, we still intuitively feel that the highest 244 00:17:36,319 --> 00:17:39,480 right of which we are capable is the acting out 245 00:17:39,839 --> 00:17:42,720 of that which is coming to us from the highest 246 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,440 pole of our mental being, and that the lowest wrong 247 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,240 consists in doing that which carries us back to the 248 00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:54,279 life of the lower animals. In so far as mentality 249 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:59,880 is concerned, not because there is anything absolutely wrong in 250 00:18:00,039 --> 00:18:04,440 und the mental processes and consequence of the animals. In themselves. 251 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:08,440 They are all right and perfectly natural in the animals. 252 00:18:09,279 --> 00:18:12,720 But we intuitively recognize that for us to fall back 253 00:18:12,759 --> 00:18:16,559 to the animal stage is a going backward in the 254 00:18:16,599 --> 00:18:22,200 scale of evolution. We intuitively shrink at the exhibition of 255 00:18:22,319 --> 00:18:26,880 brutality and animality on the part of a man or woman. 256 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,799 We may not know just why, but a little reflection 257 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,960 will show us that it is a sinking in the 258 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:39,920 evolutionary scale against which the spiritual part of us revolts 259 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:44,279 and protests. But this must not be construed to mean 260 00:18:44,559 --> 00:18:47,799 that the advanced soul looks upon the animal world with 261 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:53,000 disgust or horror. On the contrary, there is nowhere to 262 00:18:53,039 --> 00:18:56,680 be found a higher respect for animal life and being 263 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:01,680 than among the Yogi and other advanced souls. They delight 264 00:19:01,799 --> 00:19:06,039 in watching the animals filling their places in life, playing 265 00:19:06,079 --> 00:19:10,200 out their parts in the divine scheme of life. Their 266 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:15,400 animal passions and desires are actions viewed sympathetically and lovingly 267 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:20,039 by the advanced soul, and nothing wrong or disgusting is 268 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:24,319 seen there. And even the coarseness and brutality of the 269 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:29,519 savage races are so regarded by these advanced souls they 270 00:19:29,599 --> 00:19:33,000 see everything as natural. According to the grade and degree 271 00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:37,119 of development of these people, it is only when these 272 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:42,119 advanced souls view the degeneracies of civilized life that they 273 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:46,759 feel sorrow and pain, For here they see instances of 274 00:19:46,839 --> 00:19:53,759 devolution instead of evolution, degeneration instead of regeneration, and advancement. 275 00:19:54,599 --> 00:19:57,160 And not only do they know this to be the fact, 276 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,920 but the degenerate specimens of mankind themselves feel and know it. 277 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,640 Compare the expression of the animal or savage going through 278 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:10,960 their natural life actions and performances. See how free and 279 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:16,640 natural are their expressions, how utterly apart are evidences of wrongdoing? 280 00:20:17,839 --> 00:20:20,799 They have not as yet found out the fatal secret 281 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:25,039 of good and evil. They have not as yet eaten 282 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:29,440 the forbidden fruit. But on the contrary, look into the 283 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:34,039 faces of the degenerates and fallen souls of our civilized life. 284 00:20:34,799 --> 00:20:38,640 See the furtive glance and the self consciousness of wrong 285 00:20:39,079 --> 00:20:43,519 evident in every face. And this consciousness of wrong bears 286 00:20:43,519 --> 00:20:47,200 heavily upon these people. It is heavier than the punishments 287 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:52,039 heaped upon them. That nameless something called conscience may be 288 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,640 smothered for a while, but sooner or later it comes 289 00:20:55,680 --> 00:21:00,000 to light and demands the pound of flesh from its victim. 290 00:21:00,279 --> 00:21:03,319 And yet you will say that it seems hard to 291 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,400 think that the same thing can be right in one 292 00:21:06,519 --> 00:21:11,200 person and wrong in another. This seems like a hard 293 00:21:11,279 --> 00:21:14,920 saying and a dangerous doctrine. But it is the truth, 294 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:20,160 and man instinctively recognizes it. He does not expect the 295 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:24,319 same sense of moral responsibility in a young child or 296 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:27,880 in a savage that he does in a mature, developed, 297 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:32,359 civilized man. He may restrain the child and the savage 298 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,839 for self protection and the welfare of all, but he 299 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:41,160 realizes the distinction, or at least should do so. And 300 00:21:41,279 --> 00:21:44,920 not only is this true, but as man advances in 301 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:49,279 the scale. He casts off many ideas of wrong that 302 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:53,599 he once held, having outgrown the old ideas and having 303 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:58,359 grown into new conceptions. And the tendency is always upward 304 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:03,559 and onward. The tendency is constantly from force and restraint 305 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:08,880 toward love and freedom. The ideal condition would be one 306 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,799 in which there were no laws and no necessity for them, 307 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,359 a condition in which men had ceased to do wrong 308 00:22:16,759 --> 00:22:20,599 because they had outgrown the desire, rather than from fear 309 00:22:20,799 --> 00:22:25,359 or restraint or force. And while this condition as yet 310 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:29,640 seems afar off, there is constantly going on an unfoldment 311 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,400 of higher planes and faculties of the mind, which, when 312 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:37,319 once fully manifest in the race, will work a complete 313 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:42,000 revolution in ethics and laws and government, and for the better. 314 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:47,160 Of course, In the meantime, mankind moves along, doing the 315 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:54,599 best it can, making a steady, though slow progress. Part two. 316 00:22:54,839 --> 00:22:57,480 There is another plane of the mind, which is often 317 00:22:57,519 --> 00:23:00,559 called the instinct but which is but a part of 318 00:23:00,599 --> 00:23:04,680 the plane of the intellect, although its operations are largely 319 00:23:04,759 --> 00:23:08,839 below the field of consciousness. We allude to what may 320 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,559 be called the habit mind in order to distinguish it 321 00:23:12,759 --> 00:23:17,880 from the instinctive plane. The difference is this, the instinctive 322 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,400 plane of mind is made up of the ordinary operations 323 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,920 of the mind, below the plane of the intellect, and 324 00:23:25,039 --> 00:23:29,319 yet above the plane of the vegetative mind, and also 325 00:23:29,799 --> 00:23:33,400 of the acquired experiences of the race, which have been 326 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:39,359 transmitted by hereditary et cetera. But the habit mind contains 327 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,599 only that which has been placed there by the person himself, 328 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:47,319 and which he has acquired by experience, habit and observation, 329 00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:52,119 repeated so often until the mind knows it so well 330 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,680 that it is carried below the field of consciousness and 331 00:23:55,759 --> 00:24:01,640 becomes second nature and akin to instinct. The text books 332 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:06,200 upon psychology are filled with illustrations and examples of the 333 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,440 habit phase or plane of the mental operations, and we 334 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,559 do not think it necessary to repeat instances of the 335 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:18,160 same kind here. Everyone is familiar with the fact that 336 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,960 tasks which at first are learned only by considerable work 337 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,640 and time, soon become fixed in some part of the mind, 338 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,880 until their repetition calls for little or no exercise of 339 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:35,240 conscious mental operation. In fact, some writers have claimed that 340 00:24:35,319 --> 00:24:39,079 no one really learns how to perform a task until 341 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,799 he can perform it almost automatically. The pupil, who, in 342 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,759 the early stages of piano playing finds it most difficult 343 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,680 to control and manage his fingers, after a time is 344 00:24:51,759 --> 00:24:55,039 able to forget all about his fingering and devote his 345 00:24:55,279 --> 00:24:59,240 entire attention to the pages of his music. And after 346 00:24:59,279 --> 00:25:02,279 this he he is able to apparently let his fingers 347 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,319 play the entire piece of music by themselves, without a 348 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,400 thought on his part. The best performers have told us 349 00:25:10,759 --> 00:25:13,920 that in the moments of their highest efforts, they are 350 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,279 aware that the out of conscious portion of their mind 351 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,440 is doing the work for them, and they are practically 352 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:25,359 standing aside and witnessing the work being done. So true 353 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,920 is this that in some cases it is related that 354 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,680 if the performer's conscious mind attempts to take up the work, 355 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,839 the quality is impaired, and the musician and the audience 356 00:25:37,039 --> 00:25:40,880 notice the difference. The same thing is true in the 357 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:45,400 case of the woman learning to operate the sewing machine. 358 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,319 It is quite difficult at first, but gradually it grows 359 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,960 to run itself. Those who have mastered the typewriter have 360 00:25:54,079 --> 00:25:58,559 had the same experience. At first, each letter had to 361 00:25:58,599 --> 00:26:03,640 be picked out with care and effort. After a gradual improvement, 362 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,160 the operator is enabled to devote her entire attention to 363 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,359 the copy and let the fingers pick out the keys 364 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:17,119 for themselves. Many operators learn rapid typing by so training 365 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,799 the habit mind that it picks out the letter keys 366 00:26:21,039 --> 00:26:25,200 by reason of their position, the letters being covered over 367 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,880 in order to force the mind to adapt itself to 368 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:34,599 the new requirements. A similar state of affairs exists wherever 369 00:26:34,759 --> 00:26:38,319 men or women have to use tools of any kind, 370 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,799 the tool soon is recognized by the mind and used 371 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,599 as if it were a part of the body, and 372 00:26:45,759 --> 00:26:49,559 no more conscious thought is devoted to the manipulation than 373 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,640 we devote to the operation of walking, which, by the way, 374 00:26:54,079 --> 00:26:57,799 is learned by the child only by the expenditure of 375 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:02,200 time and labor. It is astonishing how many things we 376 00:27:02,279 --> 00:27:07,000 do automatically in this way. Writers have called our attention 377 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,720 to the fact that the average man cannot consciously inform 378 00:27:10,799 --> 00:27:13,319 you how he puts on his coat in the morning, 379 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,240 which arm goes in first, how the coat is held, 380 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:22,240 et cetera. But the habit mind knows knows very well. 381 00:27:23,319 --> 00:27:26,119 Let the student stand up and put on his coat 382 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:30,400 in the regular way, following the leadings of the habit mind. 383 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,000 Then after removing it. Let him attempt to put it 384 00:27:35,079 --> 00:27:39,680 on by inserting the other arm first. For instance, he 385 00:27:39,759 --> 00:27:42,960 will be surprised to find how awkward it will be 386 00:27:43,079 --> 00:27:46,880 for him and how completely he has been depending upon 387 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:51,519 the habit mind. And tomorrow morning, let him find out 388 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:55,119 which shoe the habit mind has been putting on him first. 389 00:27:55,599 --> 00:27:58,839 And then try to reverse the order, And notice how 390 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:03,039 flurried and disturb the habit mind will become, and how 391 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:07,799 frantically it will signal to the conscious mind something wrong 392 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:12,759 up there. Or try to button on your collar, reversing 393 00:28:12,799 --> 00:28:15,440 the order in which the tabs are placed over the 394 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:20,519 button right before left or left before right, as the 395 00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:26,559 case may be, and notice the involuntary protest. Or try 396 00:28:26,599 --> 00:28:30,559 to reverse the customary habit in walking and attempt to 397 00:28:30,599 --> 00:28:34,119 swing your right arm with the movement of your right leg, 398 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,400 and so on, and you will find it will require 399 00:28:37,519 --> 00:28:42,640 the exercise of great will power. Or try to change 400 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:47,519 hands and use your knife and fork. But we must 401 00:28:47,519 --> 00:28:53,960 stop giving examples and illustrations. Their number is countless. Not 402 00:28:54,079 --> 00:28:58,440 only does the habit mind attend to physical actions, et cetera, 403 00:28:59,119 --> 00:29:02,240 but it also takes a hand in our mental operations. 404 00:29:03,279 --> 00:29:07,200 We soon acquire the habit of ceasing to consciously consider 405 00:29:07,319 --> 00:29:11,279 certain things, and the habit mind takes the matter for granted, 406 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,839 and therefore we will think automatically on those particular questions 407 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,279 unless we are shaken out of the habit by a 408 00:29:19,359 --> 00:29:23,960 rude jolt from the mind of someone else, or from 409 00:29:24,039 --> 00:29:28,440 the presentation of some conflicting idea occasioned by our own 410 00:29:28,519 --> 00:29:33,680 experience or reasoning processes. And the habit mind hates to 411 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:38,079 be disturbed and compelled to reverse its ideas. It fights 412 00:29:38,119 --> 00:29:41,920 against it and rebels, and the result is that many 413 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,720 of us are slaves to old, outgrown ideas that we 414 00:29:45,839 --> 00:29:49,160 realize are false and untrue, but which we find that 415 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:53,799 we cannot exactly get rid of. In our future lessons, 416 00:29:54,039 --> 00:29:56,319 we will give methods to get rid of these old, 417 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:01,079 outgrown ideas. There are other planes of mind which have 418 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,839 to do with the phenomena known as psychic by which 419 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:12,279 is meant the phases of psychic phenomena known as clairvoyance, psychometry, telepathy, 420 00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:16,119 et cetera. But we shall not consider them in this lesson, 421 00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:19,480 for they belong to another part of the general subject. 422 00:30:20,279 --> 00:30:23,119 We have spoken of them in a general way in 423 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:28,799 our fourteen lessons in Yogi Philosophy, et cetera. And now 424 00:30:28,799 --> 00:30:31,880 we come to the plane of mind known to us 425 00:30:32,039 --> 00:30:37,599 as intellect or the reasoning faculties. Webster defines the word 426 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:42,160 intellect as follows the part or faculty of the human 427 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,160 soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power 428 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:51,200 to feel and to will, the thinking faculty the understanding. 429 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:57,880 The same authority defines the word reason as follows the 430 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,960 faculty or capacity of the human mind, by which it 431 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:07,119 is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals. We 432 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,200 shall not attempt to go into a consideration of the 433 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,880 conscious intellect, for to do so we would be compelled 434 00:31:14,119 --> 00:31:16,680 to take up the space of the remaining lessons of 435 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:21,079 the course. And besides, the student may find extended information 436 00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:26,440 on this subject in any of the textbooks on psychology. Instead, 437 00:31:26,839 --> 00:31:30,599 we will consider other faculties and planes of mind which 438 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:36,079 the said textbooks pass by rapidly or perhaps deny. And 439 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:40,680 one of these planes is that of unconscious reasoning or intellect. 440 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,960 To many, this term will seem paradoxical, but students of 441 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:51,519 the unconscious will understand just what is meant. Reasoning is 442 00:31:51,599 --> 00:31:56,759 not necessarily conscious in its operations, in fact, a greater 443 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,680 part of the reasoning processes are performed by low or 444 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:05,160 above the conscious field. In our last lesson we have 445 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,960 given a number of examples proving this fact, but a 446 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,319 few more remarks may not be out of place nor 447 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:17,519 without interest to the student. In our last lesson you 448 00:32:17,599 --> 00:32:21,920 will see many instances stated in which the subconscious field 449 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,359 of the intellect worked out problems, and then, after a time, 450 00:32:26,759 --> 00:32:30,119 handed to the conscious reason the solution of the matter. 451 00:32:31,319 --> 00:32:34,799 This has occurred to many of us, if not indeed 452 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,400 to all of us. Who has not endeavored to solve 453 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,480 a problem or question of some sort, and after giving 454 00:32:42,519 --> 00:32:46,119 it up, has had it suddenly answered and flashed into 455 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:51,720 consciousness when least expected. The experience is common to the race. 456 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,160 While the majority of us have noticed these things, we 457 00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:00,200 have regarded them as exceptional and out of the general rule. 458 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,759 Not so, however, with students of the mental planes. The 459 00:33:05,839 --> 00:33:10,160 latter have recognized these planes of reason and have availed 460 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:15,039 themselves of their knowledge by setting these unconscious faculties to 461 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,119 work for them. In our next lesson we will give 462 00:33:19,279 --> 00:33:24,279 directions to our students regarding this accomplishment, which may prove 463 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,119 of the greatest importance to those who will take the 464 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:31,759 trouble to practice the directions given. It is a plan 465 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,279 that is known to the majority of men who have 466 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,640 done things in the world, the majority of them, however, 467 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:43,000 having discovered the plan for themselves as the result of 468 00:33:43,039 --> 00:33:46,480 a need or demand upon the inner powers of mind. 469 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,920 The plane of mind immediately above that of intellect is 470 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:57,880 that known as intuition. Intuition is defined by Webster as 471 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:07,440 follows dire apprehension or cognition, immediate knowledge as imperception or consciousness, 472 00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:14,360 involving no reasoning process, quick or ready insight or apprehension. 473 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,880 It is difficult to explain just what is meant by 474 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:23,639 intuition except to those who have experienced it, and these 475 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:29,039 people do not need the explanation. Intuition is just as 476 00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:33,679 real a mental faculty as is intellect, or, to be 477 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:38,159 more exact, is just as much a collection of mental faculties. 478 00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:44,360 Intuition is above the field of consciousness, and its messages 479 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:50,000 are passed downward, though its processes are hidden. The race 480 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:54,559 is gradually unfolding into the plane of intuition, and the 481 00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:58,679 race will someday pass into full consciousness on that plane. 482 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,039 In the mean time, it gets but flashes and glimpses 483 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,320 from the hidden region. Many of the best things we 484 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:12,519 have come from that region. Art, music, the love of 485 00:35:12,559 --> 00:35:16,519 the beautiful and good poetry, the higher form of love, 486 00:35:17,519 --> 00:35:23,559 spiritual insight to a certain degree, intuitive perception of truth, 487 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:28,519 et cetera, et cetera. Come from this region. These things 488 00:35:28,559 --> 00:35:31,920 are not reasoned out by the intellect, but seem to 489 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,639 spring full, born from some unknown region of the mind. 490 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:42,639 In this wonderful region dwells genius. Many, if not all, 491 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:48,239 of the great writers, poets, musicians, artists, and other examples 492 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,519 of genius have felt that their power came to them 493 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:56,800 from some higher source. Many have thought that it emanated 494 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,199 from some being kindly to them, who would inspire them 495 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:06,239 with power and wisdom. Some transcendent power seemed to have 496 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,960 been called into operation, and the worker would feel that 497 00:36:10,039 --> 00:36:14,480 his product or creation was not his handiwork, but that 498 00:36:14,639 --> 00:36:19,440 of some outside intelligence. The Greeks recognized this something in 499 00:36:19,559 --> 00:36:25,039 man and called it man's demon. Plutarch, in his Discourse 500 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:29,280 on the Demon that Guided Socrates, speaks of the vision 501 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:34,760 of Tamarchus, who, in the case of Triphonius, saw spirits 502 00:36:35,039 --> 00:36:39,000 which were partly attached to human bodies, and partly over 503 00:36:39,119 --> 00:36:44,440 and above them, shining luminously over their heads. He was 504 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,760 informed by the oracle that the part of the spirit 505 00:36:48,159 --> 00:36:51,119 which was immersed in the body was called the soul, 506 00:36:52,039 --> 00:36:56,199 but that the outer and unimmersed portion was called the demon. 507 00:36:57,519 --> 00:37:01,880 The oracle also informed him that every man has his demon, 508 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:06,920 whom he is bound to obey. Those who implicitly follow 509 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:12,239 that guidance are the prophetic souls, the favorites of the gods. 510 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,440 Gerter also spoke of the Damon as a power higher 511 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:22,280 than the will, and which inspired certain natures with miraculous energy. 512 00:37:23,599 --> 00:37:27,039 We may smile at these conceptions, but they are really 513 00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:31,239 very close to the truth. The higher regions of the mind, 514 00:37:31,679 --> 00:37:35,440 while belonging to the individual and a part of himself, 515 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,840 are so far above his ordinary consciousness that, to all 516 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:44,480 intents and purposes, messages from them are as orders from 517 00:37:44,519 --> 00:37:49,159 another and higher soul. But still the voice is that 518 00:37:49,519 --> 00:37:53,639 of the eye, speaking through its sheaths as best it 519 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,960 is able. This power belongs to every one of us, 520 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,639 although it manifests own in the degree that we are 521 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:06,480 able to respond to it. It grows by faith and confidence, 522 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:11,320 and closes itself up and withdraws into its recesses when 523 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:15,360 we doubt it and would question its veracity and reality. 524 00:38:16,639 --> 00:38:22,039 What we call originality comes from this region. The intuitive 525 00:38:22,079 --> 00:38:26,159 faculties pass on to the conscious mind some perception of 526 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,440 truth higher than the intellect has been able to work 527 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,119 out for itself, and lo it is called the work 528 00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:38,239 of genius. The advanced occultist knows that in the higher 529 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:42,360 regions of the mind are locked up intuitive perceptions of 530 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,679 all truth, and that he who can gain access to 531 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:50,519 these regions will know everything intuitively and as a matter 532 00:38:50,559 --> 00:38:56,280 of clear sight, without reasoning or explanation. The race has 533 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,880 not as yet reached the heights of intuition. It is 534 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,239 just beginning to climb the foothills, but it is moving 535 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:07,679 in the right direction. It will be well for us 536 00:39:08,079 --> 00:39:11,199 if we will open ourselves to the higher inner guidance 537 00:39:11,679 --> 00:39:15,480 and be willing to be led by the spirit. This 538 00:39:15,599 --> 00:39:19,480 is a far different thing from being led by outside intelligence, 539 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:24,920 which may or may not be qualified to lead. But 540 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,440 the spirit within each of us has our interests at heart, 541 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,719 and is desirous of our best good, and is not 542 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,679 only ready but willing to take us by the hand 543 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,840 and lead us on. The higher self is doing the 544 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,519 best it can for our development and welfare, but is 545 00:39:43,599 --> 00:39:48,519 hampered by the confining sheaths. And alas many of us 546 00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:51,960 glory in these sheaths, and consider them the highest part 547 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,840 of ourselves. Do not be afraid to let the light 548 00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,519 of the Spirit pierce through these confining sheaths and dissolve them. 549 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,639 The intuition, however, is not the Spirit, but is one 550 00:40:04,679 --> 00:40:08,800 of its channels of communication to us. There are other 551 00:40:09,039 --> 00:40:13,360 and still higher planes of mind, but the intuition is 552 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,159 the one next in the line of unfoldment, and we 553 00:40:17,159 --> 00:40:21,599 should open ourselves to its influence and welcome its unfoldment. 554 00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,880 Above the plane of intuition is that of the cosmic knowing, 555 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:31,079 upon which we will find the consciousness of the oneness 556 00:40:31,119 --> 00:40:34,360 of all. We have spoken of this plane in our 557 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,880 lesson on the Unfoldment of consciousness. When one is able 558 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:43,400 to conscious on this plane, this exalted plane of mind, 559 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,639 he is able to see, fully, plainly, and completely that 560 00:40:47,679 --> 00:40:52,199 there is one great life underlying all the countless forms 561 00:40:52,199 --> 00:40:56,519 and shapes of manifestation. He is able to see that 562 00:40:56,679 --> 00:41:01,800 separateness is only the working fiction of the universe. He 563 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,000 is able to see that each ego is but a 564 00:41:05,079 --> 00:41:09,320 center of consciousness. In the great ocean of life, all 565 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,960 in pursuance of the divine plan, and that he is 566 00:41:13,039 --> 00:41:18,119 moving forward toward higher and higher planes of manifestation, power, 567 00:41:18,519 --> 00:41:22,679 and individuality in order to take a greater and grander 568 00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:28,119 part in the universal work and plans. The cosmic knowing 569 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,559 in its fullness has come to but few of the race, 570 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,880 but many have had glimpses more or less clear of 571 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:40,159 its transcendent wonder, and others are on the borderland of 572 00:41:40,199 --> 00:41:45,400 this plain. The race is unfolding gradually, slowly but surely, 573 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,320 and those who have had this wonderful experience are preparing 574 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:54,000 others for a like experience. The seed is being sown, 575 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:58,159 and the harvest will come later. This and other phases 576 00:41:58,199 --> 00:42:01,360 of the higher forms of consciousness are before the race. 577 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:06,039 The individuals who read this lesson are perhaps nearer to 578 00:42:06,079 --> 00:42:10,480 it than they think. Their interest in the lessons is 579 00:42:10,519 --> 00:42:13,480 an indication of that hunger of the soul, which is 580 00:42:13,519 --> 00:42:17,760 a prophecy of the satisfaction of the cry for spiritual bread. 581 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,760 The law of life heeds these cries for aid and 582 00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:26,599 nourishment and responds accordingly, but along the lines of the 583 00:42:26,679 --> 00:42:31,920 highest wisdom and according to the real requirements of the individual. 584 00:42:33,079 --> 00:42:36,480 Let us close this lesson with a quotation from Light 585 00:42:36,639 --> 00:42:40,480 on the Path, which bears directly upon the concluding thought. 586 00:42:41,639 --> 00:42:45,280 Read it carefully, and let it sink down deep into 587 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,880 your inner consciousness, and you will feel the thrill of 588 00:42:49,039 --> 00:42:52,360 joy that comes to him who is nearing the goal. 589 00:42:53,679 --> 00:42:56,440 Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that 590 00:42:56,599 --> 00:43:02,400 follows the storm, not till then it shall grow. It 591 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:06,440 will shoot up, It will make branches and leaves and 592 00:43:06,519 --> 00:43:10,800 form buds while the storm lasts. But not until the 593 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:15,639 entire personality of the man is dissolved and melted. Not 594 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,079 until it is held by the divine fragment which has 595 00:43:19,199 --> 00:43:24,519 created it as a mere subject for grave experiment and experience. 596 00:43:25,679 --> 00:43:29,239 Not until the whole nature has yielded and become subject 597 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:33,960 unto its higher self. Can the bloom open? Then will 598 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,679 come a calm such as comes in a tropical country 599 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,239 after the heavy rain, when nature works so swiftly that 600 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:46,119 one may see her action. Such a calm will come 601 00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:50,480 to the harassed spirit, And in the deep silence, the 602 00:43:50,559 --> 00:43:54,280 mysterious event will occur, which will prove that the way 603 00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:58,199 has been found. Call it by whatever name you will. 604 00:43:59,079 --> 00:44:01,440 It is a voice that it speaks where there is 605 00:44:01,519 --> 00:44:05,960 none to speak. It is a messenger that comes, a 606 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:10,800 messenger without form or substance, or it is the flower 607 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:15,079 of the soul that has opened. It cannot be described 608 00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:19,559 by any metaphor, but it can be felt after, looked for, 609 00:44:20,079 --> 00:44:24,840 and desired, even among the raging of the storm. The 610 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:28,760 silence may last a moment of time, or it may 611 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:33,280 last a thousand years, but it will end. Yet you 612 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,320 will carry its strength with you again and again. The 613 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:41,119 battle must be fought in won. It is only for 614 00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:46,239 an interval that nature can be still. The concluding three 615 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,360 lessons of this series will be devoted to a practical 616 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,599 course of instruction in the development of the hidden plains 617 00:44:52,639 --> 00:44:56,519 of the mind, or rather in the development of the 618 00:44:56,559 --> 00:44:59,960 power of the individual to master the same and may 619 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,880 make use of them in his life. He will be 620 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,400 taught to master the lower principles, not only in the 621 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:10,360 surmounting of them, but in the transmitting of the elemental 622 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:15,079 forces toward his higher ends. Power may be obtained from 623 00:45:15,159 --> 00:45:18,519 this part of the mind under the direction of the will, 624 00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,119 and the student will be told how to set the 625 00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:25,880 unconscious intellect to work for him, And he will be 626 00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,599 told how to develop and train the will. We have 627 00:45:29,679 --> 00:45:33,159 now passed the line between the theoretical and the practical 628 00:45:33,199 --> 00:45:37,199 phases of the subject, and from now on it will 629 00:45:37,199 --> 00:45:42,719 be a case of train, develop, cultivate and apply. Knowing 630 00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,639 what lies back of it all. The student is now 631 00:45:45,679 --> 00:45:50,199 prepared to receive the instructions which he might have misused before. 632 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:58,559 Peace be with thee all mantram affirmation, I am the 633 00:45:58,599 --> 00:45:59,920 master of my soul.