It is this lower _Manas_ which retains all the impressions of a life-time and sometimes strangely exhibits them in trances or dreams, delirium, induced states, here and there in normal conditions, and very often at the time of physical death. But it is so occupied with the brain, with memory and with sensation, that it usually presents but few recollections out of the mass of events that years have brought before it. It interferes with the action of Higher _Manas_ because just at the present point of evolution, Desire and all corresponding powers, faculties, and senses are the most highly developed, thus obscuring, as it were, the white light of the spiritual side of _Manas_. It is tinted by each object presented to it, whether it be a thought-object or a material one. That is to say, Lower _Manas_ operating through the brain is at once altered into the shape and other characteristics of any object, mental or otherwise. This causes it to have four peculiarities. _First_, to naturally fly off from any point, object, or subject; _second_, to fly to some pleasant idea; _third_, to fly to an unpleasant idea; _fourth_, to remain passive and considering naught. The first is due to memory and the natural motion of _Manas_; the second and third are due to memory alone; the fourth signifies sleep when not abnormal, and when abnormal is going toward insanity. These mental characteristics all belonging to Lower _Manas_, are those which the Higher _Manas_, aided by _Buddhi_ and _Atma_, has to fight and conquer. Higher _Manas_, if able to act, becomes what we sometimes call Genius; if completely master, then one may become a god. But memory continually presents pictures to Lower _Manas_, and the result is that the Higher is obscured. Sometimes, however, along the pathway of life we do see here and there men who are geniuses or great seers and prophets. In these the Higher powers of _Manas_ are active and the person illuminated. Such were the great Sages of the past, men like Buddha, Jesus, Confucius, Zoroaster, and others. Poets, too, such as Tennyson, Longfellow, and others, are men in whom Higher _Manas_ now and then sheds a bright ray on the man below, to be soon obscured, however, by the effect of dogmatic religious education which has given memory certain pictures that always prevent _Manas_ from gaining full activity. In this higher Trinity, we have the God above each one; this is _Atma_, and may be called the Higher Self. Next is the spiritual part of the soul called _Buddhi_; when thoroughly united with _Manas_ this may be called the Divine Ego.