A Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology |
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action Activity aggregations animal Anupādaka arises aspect astral and mental astral body astral matter astral plane astral sheath Atmā ātmic attraction become bliss buddhic called causal body caused cells centre change in consciousness connexion consciousness creative Desire devachanic developed divine Elemental Kingdom emotions energy ensouling envelope etheric evolved exists experiences expression external feel fifth Race force Group-Soul H. P. Blavatsky Hence higher planes human evolution impacts impulse Jīvātmā limited lives love-emotion lower planes Manas mānasic manifestation materials memory mental body mental plane mind molecules Monadic Essence nature nervous system ness object organisation permanent atom physical body physical plane prāņa present recognise relation repulsion response round sciousness Second Logos Secret Doctrine Self-consciousness sensations sense separate seven shaping Shining solar system Spirit spiritual Triad stage of evolution sub-planes sympathetic system Third Logos thought tion universe vehicle veil vibrations vibratory virtue vivified waking Wisdom
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Page 55 - Being's floods, in Action's storm, I walk and work, above, beneath, Work and weave in endless motion ! Birth and Death, An infinite ocean ; A seizing and giving The fire of Living : 'Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by.
Page 359 - Hate looking downwards is scorn, and looking upwards is fear. Similarly, hate between equals will show itself in anger, combativeness, disrespect, violence, aggressiveness, jealousy, insolence, etc. — all the emotions which repel man from man when they stand as rivals, face to face, not hand in hand. The common characteristic of hate between equals will thus be mutual injury. And three main characteristics of the hate-emotion are scorn, desire for mutual injury, and fear. Love is characterised...
Page 238 - What right have we to believe Nature under any obligation to do her work by means of complete minds only? She may find an incomplete mind a more suitable instrument for a particular purpose. It is the work that is done, and the quality in the worker by which it was done, that is alone of moment; and it may be no great matter from a cosmical standpoint, if in other qualities of character he was singularly defective- if indeed he were hypocrite, adulterer, eccentric, or lunatic....
Page 101 - of man with all its material potentialities, with the " spiritual plasm," so to say, or the fluid that contains the five lower principles of the six-principled Dhyan — and you have the secret, if you are spiritual enough to understand it.
Page 138 - With every day, the identity between the animal and physical man, between the plant and man, and even between the reptile and its nest, the rock, and man, is more and more clearly shown. The physical and chemical constituents of all being found to be identical, chemical Science may well say that there is no difference between the matter which composes the ox and that which forms man. But the Occult Doctrine is far more explicit. It says: Not only the chemical compounds are the same, but the same...
Page 322 - Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart, if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee .... if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee...
Page 32 - To begin with a definition of terms : consciousness and life are identical, two names for one thing as regarded from within and from without. There is no life without consciousness ; there is no consciousness without life.
Page 239 - If there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher realm, it might well be that the neurotic temperament would furnish the chief condition of the requisite receptivity.
Page 227 - ... physical memory may not become aware of it, lives, robed in his highest essence, in realms on other planes, in realms which are the land of reality, called dreams on our plane of illusion. A good clairvoyant, moreover, if he had an opportunity of seeing a Yogi in the trance state and a mesmerised subject side by side would learn an important lesson in Occultism. He would learn to know the difference between self-induced trance and a hypnotic state resulting from extraneous influence. In the Yogi,...
Page 286 - ... illumined by that lamp, in succession, for a single moment, while all the rest were in darkness, and after that single moment, would itself fall into darkness again. Let there now be not one but countless such spectators, as many in endless number as the objects of sight within the place, each spectator meandering in and out incessantly through the great crowd of all the others, each lamp bringing momentarily into light one object, and for only that spectator who holds that lamp.