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Vol. 5, Metaphysics, The Experience of the Soul Through the Different Planes of Existence
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2. The Experience of the Soul
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The Experience of the Soul Through the Mind
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Vol. 5, Metaphysics, The Experience of the Soul Through the Different Planes of Existence
2. The Experience of the Soul
The Experience of the Soul Through the Mind
The mind has five faculties: - the faculty of feeling (heart),
- the faculty of thinking (mind),
- the faculty of reasoning (consciousness),
- the faculty of remembering (memory),
- the faculty of identifying (ego).
The soul is like a light in this five-cornered room, for the soul perceives feeling, thought, memory, reason, and identity, and identifies itself with them. In reality it is aloof from them; change of feeling or thought does not change the soul. But as the soul cannot see itself, it thinks, by the help of the ego: I am sad, or I am glad, or I remember, or I have forgotten. The soul does none of these things; they are all the workings of the mind; but as the soul does not see itself, it identifies itself with what it sees at this time.
It is a fact that the light of the soul keeps the mind in working order. When its light is covered all confusion in life comes; and all intuitions and inspirations come as the soul discloses its light. When the mind is not in order the soul cannot perceive things rightly, the mind is like a telescope before the soul. Therefore both things are necessary: the mind in order, and the soul in perfect focus on the mind.
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