II. _Buddhi_ (the spiritual soul) is only its vehicle. Neither each separately, nor the two collectively, are of any more use to the body of man, then sunlight and its beams are for a mass of granite buried in the earth, _unless the divine Duad is assimilated by, and reflected in_, some _consciousness_. Neither Atma nor Buddhi are ever reached by Karma, because the former is the highest aspect of Karma, _its working agent_ of ITSELF in one aspect, and the other is unconscious _on this plane_. This consciousness or mind is, III. _Manas_,[37] the derivation or product in a reflected form of _Ahamkara_, “the conception of I,” or EGO-SHIP. It is, therefore, when inseparably united to the first two, called the SPIRITUAL EGO, and _Taijasi_ (the radiant). This is the real Individuality, or the divine man. It is this Ego which—having originally incarnated in the _senseless_ human form animated by, but unconscious (since it had no consciousness) of, the presence in itself of the dual monad—made of that human-like form _a real man_. It is that Ego, that “Causal Body,” which overshadows every personality Karma forces it to incarnate into; and this Ego which is held responsible for all the sins committed through, and in, every new body or personality—the evanescent masks which hide the true Individual through the long series of rebirths. ENQ. But is this just? Why should this EGO receive punishment as the result of deeds which it has forgotten? THEO. It has not forgotten them; it knows and remembers its misdeeds as well as you remember what you have done yesterday. Is it because the memory of that bundle of physical compounds called “body” does not recollect what its predecessor (the personality _that was_) did, that you imagine that the real Ego has forgotten them? As well say it is unjust that the new boots on the feet of a boy, who is flogged for stealing apples, should be punished for that which they know nothing of. ENQ. But are there no modes of communication between the Spiritual and human consciousness or memory?