"We must think, then,of a conscious self dwelling in vehicles that vibrate. The vibrations of these vehicles correspond, on the side of matter, with the changes in consciousness in the side of the self . We cannot accurately speak of vibrations of consciousness, because vibrations can only belong to the material side of the things, the form side, and only loosely can we speak of a vibrating consciousness corresponding with vibrations in sheaths.
The question of the vehicles, or bodies, in whichconsciousness, the self is working, is all important as regards memory. The whole process of recovering more or less remote events is a question of picturing them in the sheath-of shaping part of the matter of the sheath into their likeness-in which consciousness is working at the same time. In the Self, as a fragment of the Universal Self-which for our purpose we can take to be the Logos, although in verity the Logos is but a portion of the Universal Self-is present in everything; for in the Universal Self is present all which has taken place, is taking place, and will take place in the universe; all this, and an illimitable more is present in the Universal Consciousness. Let us think only of a universe and its Logos. We speak of Him as omnipresent, omniscient. Now, fundamentally, that omnipresence and the omniscience are in the individualized Self, as being one with the Logos, but we must put in here a but-with a difference; the difference consisting in this, that while in the separated Self as Self, apart from all vehicles, that omniscience reside by virtue of his unity with the one Self, the vehicles in which he dwells have have not yet learned to vibrate in answer to his change of consciousness, as he turns his attention to one or another part of his contents. Hence we say tht all exists in him potentially, and not as in Logos actually: all the changes which go on in the consciousness of the Logos are reproducible in this separated Self, which is an indivisible part of His life, but the vehicles are not yet ready as media of manifestation. Because of the separation of form, because of this closing in of the separate, or individualized Self, these possibilities which are within it as part of the Universal Self are latent, not manifest, are possibilities, not actualities. As in every atom which goes to the making up of a vehicle, there are illimitable possibilities of vibration, so in every separated Self there are illimitable possibilities of changes of consciousness.
To be continued.
The question of the vehicles, or bodies, in whichconsciousness, the self is working, is all important as regards memory. The whole process of recovering more or less remote events is a question of picturing them in the sheath-of shaping part of the matter of the sheath into their likeness-in which consciousness is working at the same time. In the Self, as a fragment of the Universal Self-which for our purpose we can take to be the Logos, although in verity the Logos is but a portion of the Universal Self-is present in everything; for in the Universal Self is present all which has taken place, is taking place, and will take place in the universe; all this, and an illimitable more is present in the Universal Consciousness. Let us think only of a universe and its Logos. We speak of Him as omnipresent, omniscient. Now, fundamentally, that omnipresence and the omniscience are in the individualized Self, as being one with the Logos, but we must put in here a but-with a difference; the difference consisting in this, that while in the separated Self as Self, apart from all vehicles, that omniscience reside by virtue of his unity with the one Self, the vehicles in which he dwells have have not yet learned to vibrate in answer to his change of consciousness, as he turns his attention to one or another part of his contents. Hence we say tht all exists in him potentially, and not as in Logos actually: all the changes which go on in the consciousness of the Logos are reproducible in this separated Self, which is an indivisible part of His life, but the vehicles are not yet ready as media of manifestation. Because of the separation of form, because of this closing in of the separate, or individualized Self, these possibilities which are within it as part of the Universal Self are latent, not manifest, are possibilities, not actualities. As in every atom which goes to the making up of a vehicle, there are illimitable possibilities of vibration, so in every separated Self there are illimitable possibilities of changes of consciousness.
To be continued.
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