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
Theosophy; Theosophy -- Study and teaching
So, in looking at this consciousness unfolding and these bodies becoming
organised, we can trace throughout the purpose of that long unfolding—to
make the Spirit master of matter, to enable him to act in every world;
and when we catch a glimpse of that great purpose, we realise how perfect
is the plan, how complete our triumph will be. First we notice, when we
are looking at the lower forms of consciousness in ourselves, that we
can understand a certain relation between matter and Spirit which we are
told exists all the way up to the highest spiritual world. And so far as
investigation has been carried by the students of to-day, they find that
relation in each successive world that they enter and finally subdue.
It is a relation, then, that runs right through between consciousness
and form, between Spirit and matter; it is this: that every change in
consciousness has a corresponding vibration in matter, and that every
vibration in matter has a corresponding change in consciousness. We are
told that that relation is imposed by the Logos Himself in His first
shaping of the matter side of His universe; that all the vibrations of
which He makes the atoms capable answer one by one to changes in His own
consciousness, and that throughout the whole of His universe, in all
the mighty realm of spirit-matter that He rules, this correspondence
is universally, unchangeably found—for every change in consciousness
a corresponding change in vibration, for every change in vibration a
corresponding change in consciousness.
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