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Consideration Fifty-Eight …
Overview Four …
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Admittedly … this “Overview” has developed into something other than a unifying statement … but so much of an “overview” has to deal with what “divides” us even as individuals within ourselves. What makes for the specifics in our individual lives? To better understand the tools and their initial purposes should help draw this “overview” to a close.
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The mind is a mechanism which is used in dealing with problems of the present by making available … in the present … its storehouse of experience and pictures. It then sets about correlating, interpreting, comparing … and then coming up with re-relations of these images … and this seems to be new thoughts … but in actuality … is merely the computation of mental pictures and concepts on an “I am supposed to do … “ basis.
Soul is that which is the consciousness … the entity … the beingness which is aware of itself. It is very easy for Soul to confuse this awareness of being aware … with the illusive and dream-like mental processes and physical movements of daily living. When this loss of being aware is complete … the persons fondest belief is that he is a body.
One of the basic purposes in having a mind is to provide a storehouse of information. It makes pictures and files them away. This is both necessary and quite handy. You do not want to re-learn everything on a daily basis. We “refer” to the stored pictures in our mental bank first … and then “translate” that into mental thought / words. This happens instantly.
One reacts to this storehouse of imagery. Even from ten lifetimes ago … if some similar experience happens to us now … we instantly flash / refer to that image stored so long ago. We just … do. That is how the mind works.
In a sense … this is a great way to slow the mind down so that we can more understand our own mind. When thoughts dance into our mind … consider where these came from. What possible situations would have brought them on. ( I’m obviously talking about those deep patterns that often plague us … and not about where 1+1 comes from. ) Even if we cannot identify exactly where various initial experiences came from that gives rise to what we believe now … we can gain much from the assumed possibilities.
Remember … that with each new incarnation … these patterns are brought with us as preferred tendencies … and then when we try to use them in our current lifetime … we must update the tendencies to fit the current situations … thus giving rise to the idea that they are “new” … when they are not. By now … most of us have a stock of past life imagery that will address most anything we have to face … all done out of habit.
Association and differentiation are two of the basic functions of the mind. The mind differentiates … it compares. Oppositely … it conceives similarities. A mind is good shape does not identify. In an instant … mind can detect the differences and similarities.
The connection between the physical body and Soul … is the mind … which is monitored by Soul. ( Please remember … not until very late on the Path does Soul know this. ) Soul can initially “reside” most anywhere in the physical body … but as one advances on the Path … Soul begins to locate Itself from the throat on up … most often in the third eye and the crown. With the very advanced steps on the Path - Soul can just tether Itself close to the body … staying three to five feet from the body … mostly behind the head. By this time … Soul understands Its necessary connections to body, mind, and emotions.
In these lower psychic worlds … as is obvious … cause and effect is the name of the game by which we learn responsibility. The whole principle of sowing and reaping … cause and effect … is actually a gift … so that each can determine what is beneficial from the detrimental. The great trick is to learn to learn to live from cause … and NOT from past effects … and especially the effect of an effect.
Looking at our own mental pictures is looking at our current effects. We “already made them” from past experiences. This is one of the reasons why very few people think beyond conventional knowledge. We have been “educated” in convention information for eons.
No effect can be produced without adequate cause. Everything must “start” … somewhere … somehow.
If Truth is set before us … both as explaining the causes … and exhibiting or showing the full measure of the resulting effects of those causes … we have deep knowledge. Gradually we come to the knowledge that thought possesses creative power … and that creative power is Spirit. This is the whole foundation for that into which the Princes … upon becoming purified … grow. Thought … pure mental action … is the only possible source from which existing creation could ever have come into manifestation at all … and it is the truth which we all seek and grow into … through the knowledge of possessing this power.
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Tidbit …
The planes / dimensions / psychic worlds are separate from one another by etheric qualities rather than location in time and space. They are not stacked upon each other like pancakes. They are “separated” by rate of vibration. All dimensions are around us all the time. Our physical just cannot detect them … and our inner senses can be trained to do so … as Soul learns to control and acknowledge these inner senses.
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