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Page 63 - Doctrine, Vol. I., p. 248). And again: "Everything in the universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious, ie, endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception. We men must remember that because we do not perceive any signs
Page 63 - kingdom of Nature, making all instinct with life and consciousness, one throbbing whole. "Occultism does not accept anything inorganic in the Kosmos. The expression employed by Science, 'inorganic substance,' means simply that the latent life slumbering in the molecules of socalled 'inert matter,' is incognisable. All is L,ife and every atom of even mineral dust is
Page 19 - that is the grossest of all our 'principles,' but verily the middle principle, the real animal centre; whereas our body is but its shell, the irresponsible factor and medium through which the beast in us acts all its life" (Secret Doctrine, Vol. I., p. 260). United to the lower part of Manas, as
Page 18 - and divine primordial man, down to the unconscious agents that construct matter. . . . From the ONE LIFE, formless and uncreate, proceeds the Universe of lives." {Secret Doctrine, Vol. I., pp. 249, 250.) As in the universe, so in man, and all these countless lives, all this constructive vitality, all this is summed up by the Theosophist, as
Page 31 - of certain aptitudes throughout a long series of past incarnations must finally culminate, in some one life, in a blooming forth as genius, in one or another direction" (Lucifer for November, 1889, pp. 229-230). For the manifestation of true genius, purity of life is an essential condition. Kama-Manas is the Personal Self
Page 56 - feels truth intuitionally; he could not err in his judgment, notwithstanding all the sophisms suggested by cold reason, for he is ILLUMINATED. Hence, prophecy, vaticination, and the so-called Divine inspiration, are simply the effects of this illumination from above by our own immortal spirit" (Vol. I., pp. 305, 306). This Augoeides, according
Page 17 - Science, dimly perceiving the truth, may find bacteria and other infinitesimals in the human body, and see in them but occasional and abnormal visitors to which diseases are attributed. Occultism—which discerns a life in every atom and molecule, whether in a mineral or human body, in air, fire, or
Page 33 - vibration," says HP Blavatsky. But, she goes on to point out, "in their origin they belong to a different and a higher world of harmony." Their origin is in the Manasic essence, in the Ray; but on the material plane, acting on the molecules of the brain, they are translated into vibrations. This action of the
Page 17 - discerns a life in every atom and molecule, whether in a mineral or human body, in air, fire, or water— affirms that our whole body is built of such lives, the smallest bacteria under the microscope being to them in comparative size like an elephant to the tiniest infusorium
Page 25 - the Sons of (universal) Mind.' This individualised 'Thought' is what we Theosophists call the real human EGO, the thinking Entity imprisoned in a case of flesh and bones. This is surely a spiritual Entity, not Matter* and such Entities are the incarnating EGOS that inform the bundle of animal matter called mankind, and whose names are Manasa or 'Minds'