The changing world, and lectures to theosophical students.: Fifteen lectures delivered in London during May, June, and July, 1909Besant, Annie
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The changing world, and lectures to theosophical students.: Fifteen lectures delivered in London during May, June, and July, 1909
Besant, Annie
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within yourself you have chosen, whether it leads to pleasure or pain,
whether it leads to gain or loss in the lower world. Will is determined
from the spiritual Self; Desire is guided and stimulated by objects in
the lower world. Hence that which is Will in the Spirit is Desire in the
soul. And so you find the soul represented by these three well-known
attributes: Mind, with all its powers; Emotion, the root emotion being
love; Desire, the reflexion of the determining power in this lower world.
When you come down into everyday life you find the whole of these make
up your waking consciousness, showing itself out in the denser matter
of the brain; in your waking consciousness you know the working of the
mind; in your waking consciousness you know the working of the emotions;
in your waking consciousness you know the working of desire; so that
the waking consciousness, the limited, the conditioned, the smaller
consciousness, is that which is within the limitations of your brain or
physical body, but is none other than the larger consciousness which
shows itself in the subtler worlds as soul, in the spiritual world as
Spirit. If you realise clearly that outlining, with its subdivisions,
you will find that consciousness is a unit, and the differences are
differences of the material in which it is working rather than in itself.
The triple division is the only one, whether you look at it in the brain,
in the subtle body, in the matter of the world where the Spirit rules.
Everywhere consciousness is one, expressing itself in three modes, by
three qualities, but everywhere a unit, yourself, the reality within you.
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