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CAUSAL-SELFThis is the higher mental Self which arises from the duality of mind and emotion when union of the two takes place. The causal-self, or causal consciousness, communicates itself as inner memory or reminiscence, through the personality to the lower planes, and by attracting and enlisting the receptive and inquiring mental qualities, implants ideals in the mind, which in the form of mental images at once serve as symbols to typify the eternities of Wisdom, Love, and Truth and show the correspondency between things above and things below. "And Achilles, fleet of foot, made answer to Kalchas and spake to him: Yea, be of good courage, speak whatever soothsaying thou knowest; for by Apollo dear to Zeus, him by whose worship thou, O Kalchas, declarest thy soothsaying to the Danaans, no man while I live and behold light on earth shall lay violent hands upon thee amid the hollow ships; no man of all the Danaans, not even if thou mean Agamemnon, that now avoweth him to be the greatest far of the Achaians." - Iliad, Book I. The Personality or lower self,- swift in its processes, is the means whereby intercommunication between the inner memory consciousness (Kalchas), or causal-self, and the outer nature is eventually established. The mental attitude becomes receptive, and through wonder and curiosity, a questioning spirit becomes aroused and active. The soul is thus perceived to be not only existing as a state of consciousness, but persisting as the spark of the Eternal Fire of God. Through the establishment of memory is the lower mind awakened. lower mind, so long as the Personality exists, shall not succeed in extinguishing the ray of the Eternal which passes through the reflection from Above. No mental quality,-not even the collective Desire-mind-but is aware of the transcendent power of the Causal-self on the higher mental plane. The "hollow ships are the higher mental patterns of the lower bodies of the incarnating ego. "The region above the heavens is the place of true knowledge. There colourless, formless, and intangible being is visible to the mind, which is the only lord of the soul. And as the Divine intelligence and that of every other soul which is rightly nourished is fed upon mind and pure knowledge, such an intelligent soul is glad at beholding being; and feeding on the sight of truth is replenished.' - (PLATO, Phædrus, 247.) But whenever a soul is unable to maintain its vision of truth and fails to nourish its wings with the sight of pure being, that soul falls to this lower world and lives here among the shadows. But it never altogether forgets the realities it has seen in the eternal home. Deep in its memory it holds those realities it has known and, when it sees the shadow-image of the real thing, it remembers the 'Idea ' which it knew in the other sphere, so that all true knowledge is reminiscence. This means that the soul has within itself, whether by reminiscence or otherwise, the power of rising above the transitory to that which is permanent, and that there is something in the soul kindred to the Reality which it contemplates." - R. M. JONES, Mystical Religion, pp. 61, 63. The "shadow-image " may be taken to mean a symbol of the real thing above. |
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