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
In psychology the same is true; new doors are opening there. These higher
bodies of man that I spoke of at the beginning, as they become organised,
bring us into touch with one region after another of the universe around
us, answer to vibrations from the outer world far away from our physical
globe, bring us into contact with the subtler regions, the regions of
thought as well as the regions of Spirit. As our consciousness makes its
vehicles more plastic, more useful, more keen, more subtle, we shall find
the consciousness far larger than we dreamed of, until at last we shall
realise that this human consciousness of ours is only like a vast body
touching delicately, as it were, the surface of the physical matter of
the globe, putting a little more of itself down into the physical brain
that is more sensitive, but ever transcending the physical, and using the
higher, finer matter for its keener instrument, until at last we shall
realise that genius of every kind is only the manifestation of a larger
consciousness that each of us possesses, only we are not able to make it
work through the denser matter of our brain. And we shall realise that
all that the Prophets have said, all that the great Mystics have told us,
all those things are only the fruits of a wider consciousness contacting
a wider world, and that before psychology is unfolding an enormous range
of possibilities, in which man will be in touch with other worlds than
this, and in which he will climb higher and higher, until he realises
that he is cosmic, not planetary, and belongs to a vaster system, and not
only to one tiny world. Along those lines, and along many another, then,
the finer sense is opening to science new doors, new avenues of knowledge.
III.—ART.
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