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Vol. 5, Metaphysics, The Experience of the Soul Through the Different Planes of Existence
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1. Our Physical Constitution
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The Constitution of the Mind
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Vol. 5, Metaphysics, The Experience of the Soul Through the Different Planes of Existence
1. Our Physical Constitution
The Constitution of the Mind
The mind is composed of five faculties. Even as our hand has five fingers, the physical world has five chief elements which constitute it. As ether is an element separate from earth, water, fire, and air, and yet contains all these elements, so is the faculty which we call "heart" a faculty separate from the remaining four; and yet it contains the four faculties within itself.
- The special work of the heart is to feel and to produce emotions out of itself.
- The second faculty is mind; its work is to think and to produce thoughts.
- The third faculty is memory; its work is to collect and to supply impressions.
- The fourth is reason; its work is to discriminate and to decide things.
- The fifth faculty is the ego, which makes one think of one's own person, and all else as a separate entity.
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