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Creation of a thought. Method of thinking by building within a point. Human thinking. Thinking done by Intelligences. Thinking which does not create thoughts, or destiny.
The point is the...
The law of thought does not decree events beyond the physical plane, that is, beyond physical destiny.What then is psychic destiny?
Psychic destiny is a name for two kinds of destiny.
One kind,...
Geometrical symbols. The Circle with the Twelve Nameless Points. The value of the zodiacal symbol.
A symbol is a visible object which is used to represent an invisible subject for thought.
The...
Many of the subjects on this site may seem strange. Some of them may even be startling. However, you may find that they all encourage thoughtful consideration.
As you become familiar with the...
The noetic destiny of the majority of human beings is the condition of the noetic atmosphere of the human, (Fig. V-B).
That condition includes the amount of knowledge of the conscious self in the...
Into the physical world of the earth sphere reach the form, life and light worlds the sphere, (Fig. 1-B), and through and around all of these are the spheres of water, air and fire,(Fig. 1-A).
The...
Recapitulation: Make-up of a human being. The Triune Self. The Light of the Intelligence. A human body as the link between nature and the doer. Death of the body. The doer after death. Re-existence...
Religions; on what they are founded. Why belief in a personal God. Problems a religion must meet. Any religion is better than none.
Religions must be considered because they deal with the conscious...
The Brotherhood of Freemasons. Compass. Membership. Age. Temples. Intelligences behind Masonry. Purpose and plan. Masonry and religions. The essential and the temporary teachings. The fundamental...
The descent of Man. There is no evolution without, first, involution. The mystery of germ cell development. The future of the human. The Great Way. Brotherhoods. Ancient Mysteries. Initiations....
The objections to the doctrine that man is the maker of his destiny are that men have no choice in being created, and no choice concerning their destiny; and that there is not more than one life on...
All destiny begins with thinking.
When the thought is developed to exteriorization, that is the physical result;
from that comes a psychic result,
from that a mental result and from that a noetic...
The system of thinking without creating destiny. With what it is concerned. With what it is not concerned. For whom it is presented. The origin of this system. No teacher is needed. Limitations....
The Universe is guided according to a purpose and a plan. There is a simple law by which the purpose is accomplished and according to which the plan is carried out.
That law is universal: it...
Physical destiny is everything that affects flesh and blood and nerves.
It includes the features, frame and fabric of the physical body, the skin, the outer organs of sense and of action, and the...
An "accident" is an event which happens to one or more persons or things unexpectedly, without being foreseen and without intention. Therefore the accident stands out from the general and foreseen...
An Intelligence is on the intelligent-side of the Universe and is a self-conscious unit of the Eternal, acting in the spheres which may operate in the four worlds of the sphere of earth through the...
It is important to understand the distinction between an Intelligence and a Triune Self, (Fig. V-C).
The Intelligence lends its Conscious Light to its Triune Self.
Without the Conscious Light, the...
Classes of Gods. The Gods of religions; how they come into existence. How long they last. Appearance of a God. Changes of a God. Gods have only what human beings have who create and keep them. The...
A thought is a being, conceived by thinking, with a purpose and a plan. It is like an invisible blueprint to be exteriorized as an act or an object.
The exteriorized action is physical destiny.
The...
Four kinds of units. Progression of units.
To understand the purpose of the doer's re-existences and the length of time they continue, one should keep in mind the origin of the doer, some of the...
Method of thinking in fashioning nature. The forms of nature come from human thoughts. Pre-chemistry.
The third application of the principle of the point extending towards the circle may be...
The machinery of the law is nature.
Nature is a machine composed of the totality of unintelligent units; units which are conscious as their function only. The nature machine is a machine composed...
Recapitulation: The make-up of the human being. Units. The senses. The breath. The breath-form. The aia. Human bodies and the outside universe.
A human being is,
first, nature units organized into...
Meaning of the preliminaries. A free man. Recommendation. Preparations in the heart and for initiation. The divestment. The hoodwink. The fourfold cabletow.The candidate is the conscious self in...
Psychic destiny is of six classes.
The first class is the feeling of pleasure or pain when the physical body is affected by contact.
The second is the feeling of joy or sorrow when the doer is...
Knowledge, which is the permanent result as accomplishment in the noetic atmosphere coming from the thinking of the human, is stored in the noetic atmosphere of the human.
It depends upon thinking...
You are aware of your body, and of all else that is of nature, by means of the senses. It is only by means of your body senses that you are able to function at all in the physical world.
You...
The Triune Self complete. The Threefold Way, and the three paths of each Way. The lunar, solar, and light germs. Divine, "immaculate" conception. The form,life, and light paths of The Way in the...
The circle represents a whole, a oneness.
It represents all there is, space, time, beings, events and all this as one, as a whole, as inseparable.
No part of this whole can be dispensed with, any...
A Triune Self is a self-knowing unit of the Eternal and is to act in the four worlds of the earth sphere.
The Triune Self knows itself to be an eternal knower and thinker and doer, as a Triune...
The purpose of an accident is to call one's attention to the thought of which it is one of the exteriorizations. One to whom an accident happens can always, by searching, find out something about...
The human qualities of a God. The knowledge of a God. His objects and interests. Relations of a God. The moral code. Flattery. How Gods lose their power. What a God can do for his worshippers; what...
Raising of the aia to be a Triune Self in the Realm of Permanence. Duty of its doer, in the perfect body. Feeling-and-desire produced a change in the body. The twain, or dual body. Trial and test...
Recapitulation continued. The doer portion in the body. The Triune Self and its three parts. The twelve portions of the doer. How long a human is dissatisfied.
What the soul is has not been shown...
Religions center about a God or gods. These deities are credited with universal powers to account for the operation of universal forces. Gods and forces alike, however, are subject to the...
The knowledge which a human acquires is available to him only during that life, except for a small portion, the essence of that knowledge, which is assimilated and stored up by the...
The degree of Fellow Craft. How the candidate is received and the meaning of it. Being brought to light. What he receives. The tools of a Fellow Craft. Their meaning. The two columns. Building the...
While your body sleeps you are out of touch with it; in a certain sense you are away from it. But each time you awaken your body you are immediately conscious of being the selfsame "I" that you...
Physical destiny is, however, not only what results from that first act.
The physical destiny of that thought comprises all the successive exteriorizations which are projected out of it. These take...
The first of these three things, the aia, is the principle of form for a human.
It is matter in a neutral state, matter which is no longer nature-matter but is not yet intelligent-matter and does...
The constitution of matter. Units.
Objects that last for ages, such as marble rock or granite, are not permanent in their make-up.
They are in principle no more permanent than is a flowing...
The loose use of the term intelligence is due to the fact that people do not know about a real Intelligence.
Therefore, no words are ready to designate the Intelligence as beyond the Triune Self,...
The Way of thinking. Honesty and truthfulness as the foundation of progress. Physical, psychic, mental requirements. Changes in the body in the process of regeneration.
The second of the three Ways...
The zodiac related to the human body; to the Triune Self; to the Intelligence. The zodiacal figure shows that man in his physical body is the microcosm of the macrocosm, that is, of the Universe or...
Benefits of a belief in a God. Seeking God. Prayer. Outside teachings and the inner life. Inner teachings. Twelve types of teachings. Jehovah worship. The Hebrew letters. Christianity. St. Paul....
An aspect of noetic destiny is the amount of Light of the Intelligence present in the noetic atmosphere and available to the human.
An Intelligence lends to its Triune Self a certain amount of...
Entering The Way. A new life opens. Advances on the form, life, and light paths. The lunar, solar, and light germs. Bridge between the two nervous systems. Further changes in the body. The perfect,...
Erroneous conceptions. Dimensions. The heavenly bodies. Time. Space.
Erroneous conceptions about the world in which they live interfere with men's understanding the worlds which penetrate it and...
There is no accident or chance connected with such occurrences. Each of the events is in accordance with the working out of the law as destiny, and is an exteriorization of some thought, issued by...
Thoughts are generated and must be balanced through the action of mind and desire concerning objects of nature.
By mind is meant that which uses the Conscious Light of an Intelligence loaned to its...
An error is commonly made in believing that the soul is something above or superior to that which is conscious in the human.
The fact is that the conscious self in the body is of the doer of the...
Recapitulation continued. The doer as feeling and as desire. The twelve portions of the doer. The psychic atmosphere.
The embodied portion of the doer is passively feeling and actively desire.
The...
Life, death and resurrection of Hiram Abiff. The great lesson of Masonry. What Hiram symbolizes. The two triangles. The designs on the trestle-board. The South gate. The workmen. Hiram is...
The second of the three things affected by psychic destiny, the breath-form, has an active side which is the physical breath, and a passive side, the form, which receives impressions from the...
The "fall of man", i.e. the doer. Changes in the body. Death. Re-existence in a male or a female body. The doers now on earth. Circulations of units through the bodies of humans.
The doer that did...
A personality is the persona, mask, through which the actor, the doer, speaks. It is therefore more than the body. To be a personality the human body must be made awake by the presence of the doer...
These three orders of Intelligences and the complete Triune Selves are those who order and direct the operations in universal nature.
Their thinking contacts the form world and the physical world...
The first purpose is to let the doer-in-the-body learn what thoughts are, their meaning and how the physical world is built by them; that it is responsible for its thoughts and will be rewarded and...
Likewise the zodiacal symbol reveals to a greater extent than any science or religion the ultimate purpose of the manifestations of the Universe.
That purpose is to have Substance become...
Accidents which happen to a community, like a conflagration, cyclone, inundation or pestilence, are likewise the exteriorizations of thoughts of those affected.
Under this head fall also the...
Nearly everyone who hears or uses the word soul fancies that he knows what it means. But he cannot define it or explain it because he does not know what the soul is, or what it does or does not do....
All worlds depend on the physical plane of the physical world of the sphere of earth for their development.
Progress of the matter in any sphere can be made only while the matter of that sphere is...
Fourth Civilization. Changes on the earth crust. Forces. Minerals, plants and flowers. The varied types were produced by human thoughts.
Since this Fourth Civilization began there have been many...
Interpretation of Bible sayings. The story of Adam and Eve. The trial and test of the sexes. "Fall of man". Immortality. St. Paul. Regeneration of the body. Who and what was Jesus? Mission of...
Meaning of the lodge as a room and as the brothers. The officers, their stations and duties. The three degrees as the foundation of Masonry. The work. A Mason's own lodge.
The lodge as a room or...
When you commence a new life you are conscious, as in a haze. You feel that you are a distinct and definite something. This feeling of I-ness or selfness is probably the only real thing of which...
There are two kinds of thinking, real thinking and human thinking, and human thinking is either passive or active.
Human thinking is concerned with physical things almost exclusively.
In human...
Recapitulation continued. The thinker of the Triune Self. The three minds of the doer. The minds of the thinker and the knower. How desire speaks in place of rightness; the reversed round. The...
Before conception of the physical body, the aia is in the psychic atmosphere.
There it revivifies the form with its breath as the breath-form unit. Gradually the breath-form sinks to the light...
The scarcity of Light in the noetic atmospheres of human beings is because of happenings, long years ago, when the doers now in human bodies were in perfect bodies and were conscious as doer parts...
The Way in the earth. The ongoer leaves the world. The form path; what he sees there. Shades of the dead. "Lost" portions of doers. The choice.
Having described The Way in the body and The Way of...
The zodiac as a historical and prophetic record; as a clock to measure progress in nature and on the intelligent-side, and in the building out of a thought.
The zodiac is like a clock that measures...
Thoughts on subjects in the physical world are of four classes.
They are sexual, elemental and emotional thoughts, all of which are stimulated by sensations, that is, elementals, nature units,...
Human thinking is either passive or active.
Thinking of one of these two kinds goes on continuously, even during automatic work, such as house work or labor in office, field or factory.
Passive...
A thought is a being. It has a system, though only a rudimentary one.
The system is made up of Light of the Intelligence, which represents some of the faculties of the Intelligence; of projections...
In the prenatal state the aia reawakens some of the impressions of the past lives, and so provides for the signatures on the form of the breath-form which will be quickened at the proper season...
The cable-tow. The Royal Arch. The candidate as the keystone. Realization of the great Masonic symbol. The fifth degree. The fourth degree. The keystone with the mark of Hiram. The sixth degree....
Every human body that comes into this world is fashioned in its mother according to the form, the soul, which enters her body through her breath and causes the conception of the body which is to be...
Fourth Civilization. Lesser civilizations.
During the time when there was an earth age, when the earth element was dominant and the people were adjusted to it, there were great civilizations...
The signs of the zodiac can be arranged in characteristic groups which, when connected by lines, are geometrical symbols for everything in the macrocosm, excepting of course the twelve abstract...
Physical conditions begin with birth onto the physical plane. The sex, family,race, country and environment are determined by previous thoughts.
The parents of whom one is born may be his old...
Plato, probably the most illustrious and representative of the philosophers of Greece, used as a precept to his followers in his school of philosophy, the Academy: "Know thyself"—gnothi...
The projection of the female form and the transfusion of matter from the perfect physical body of the doer into that form, can be illustrated in two ways.
First, by a temporary materialization...
Recapitulation continued. The knower of the Triune Self, selfness and I-ness. The noetic atmosphere. What a human is conscious as. Isolation of feeling; of desire. Being conscious of...
Religions, which turn around personal gods, seem incompatible with the law of thought as destiny. Some of their doctrines are particularly designed to settle inquiries into the mysteries of the law...
The ongoer on the life path; on the light path, in the earth. He knows who he is. Another choice.
When the ongoer has announced his choice for the life path, the guide and he pass through a...
The ancient teaching of India is summed up in the cryptic statement: "that art thou" (tat tvam asi). The teaching does not make clear, however, what the "that" is or what the "thou" is; or in what...
The breath-form is for communication of the doer with nature by the body-mind, through the senses.
Animals do not have a breath-form; they do not need a breathform,because they do not think, though...
Fourth Civilization. Governments. Ancient teachings of the Light of the Intelligence. Religions.
At all times and in every one of the four ages of any cycle the people were of four classes: the...
The human worships nature in terms of personality. The reason for this is that the human identifies himself with his body, and so does not think of nature, power, love,or intelligence, except as...
The Triune Self is a unit which the Intelligence has raised from the state of aia to the state of Triune Self.
When it became a Triune Self it was under the direct influence of its Intelligence...
Preparing oneself to enter upon The Way. Honesty and truthfulness. The regenerative breath. The four stages in thinking.
This section is written for those who feel that they would like to find and...
Summary of the teachings of Masonry. They center around "Light." The symbols, acts and words of the ritual. Ritualists and their workings. The permanent forms of Masonry and twisted teachings....
There is a nature organization as well as the constitution of a Triune Self for thinking and the consequent production and exteriorizations of thoughts.
The nature organization in the body...
In all the varied conditions of life it is true that the environment in which one is born is due to those desires, ambitions and ideals for which he has worked in the past; or it is the result of...
The System of Thinking. What it is. Stages on: The Way to Conscious Immortality. This system of thinking is for you, you choose and will: to have knowledge of nature and of your Triune Self; to...
To briefly restate at this point certain facts made evident in the Introduction: The doer is feeling-and-desire in the body. Feeling, though generally believed to be a fifth sense as touch, is not...
The thinker is that part of the Triune Self which really thinks. It is in its mental atmosphere, (Fig. V-B).
Only a part of it contacts the doer in the human through the heart and lungs and works...
In this section is presented a comprehensive system of the Universe, a system of development by progression, not evolution.
This system takes in the Universe in its entirety, in its largest...
Concerning the nature-side of the Universe:
1) The Universe exists in four vast primordial and fundamental spheres: the spheres of fire, air, water, and earth, as elements, (Fig. 1-A). The fire...
6) A human body is the model or plan of the changing universe; in it nature units pass through series of the fourfold states of nature-matter.
7) Thus four physical masses of units constitute the...
17) The Triune Self represents the intelligent-side of the Universe. A Triune Self has three parts, and three atmospheres, and three breaths, (Fig. V-B).
The three parts are:
the psychic or doer...
Concerning The Government of the world:
23) Complete Triune Selves constitute The Government of the world. They are in everlasting, perfect bodies of the, to mortals, invisible, physical Realm of...
Concerning units:
25) All nature-matter is of units. A unit is an indivisible, irreducible one; it has an active and a passive side, either of which dominates the other. There are four kinds of...
Because of this lack of terms, there are no words to designate the seven "minds" of the thinker with their many functions, or the knower and its powers and attributes, or the nature and actions of...
The doers now on earth came from a prior earth age. Failure of the doer to improve. The story of feeling-and-desire. The spell of the sexes. The purpose of re-existences.
Doers now on earth and...
A consideration of feeling and desire introduces one of the most important and far reaching subjects put forth in this book. Its significance and value cannot be overestimated. The understanding...
When the doer responds to the claims of the god, Light of the Intelligence goes out in the doer's thought which follows the pull of nature.
Light of its Intelligence furnishes the doer with the...
Now, concerning the generation of a thought.
In or through the physical atmosphere there is a constant pressing by elementals of the different worlds, to reach the organs and centers of the...
Heredity is destiny.
Physical endowments, habits and traits, may seem to be clearly those of one's parents, especially in early youth.
Yet ultimately these physical peculiarities, habits of...
The aia is not the astral or radiant-solid body, nor is the breath-form the astral body.
The astral body is a body of radiant matter, not a unit. It is made of radiant matter of the physical plane,...
The Triune Self receives Light from the Intelligence to which it is related;
that Light comes from the light faculty of the Intelligence into the noetic atmosphere of the Triune Self.
The Light is...
The System of Thinking. What it is. Stages on: The Way to Conscious Immortality. This system of thinking is for you, you choose and will: to have knowledge of nature and of your Triune Self; to...
Human thoughts when issued are beings, not merely things.
They are points having a potential system which gives them certain inherent qualities and power.
They are centers of force and take on...
The Eastern teaching recognizes the fact that in order to attain to knowledge of the conscious self in the body, one must be freed from the illusions of the senses, and from the false thinking and...
Emotional elementals and thoughts enter through the openings in the breasts.
They are of ordinary religious exercises, of social activities at dances, card games, races and banquets, of oratory, of...
The first kind of psychic destiny, form destiny, comprises the prenatal influences which mold the physical body.
These influences are the doer's past desires while in animal forms, which come...
Whether the new body is diseased or healthy depends among other things upon the abuse or care that was given to the past body.
If the body inherited is healthy, it means sobriety, frugality, work...
Importance of the flesh body. Reclamation of Light. Death of the body. Wanderings of the units. Return of units to a body.
The exteriorizations of the thoughts of all doers make the common ground...
The following is a partial outline of the plan of the Universe relating to the earth sphere. This outline, though sketchy and incomplete, indicates enough to show what the plan is, and to explain...
The Light is clear in all of the noetic atmosphere that does not penetrate the mental and psychic atmospheres of the human.
The Light is taken into the noetic atmosphere by the noetic breath, and...
The threatenings of a god cause fear. The human fears that he is not immortal. He fears the wrath of his God. He senses that he does wrong, and that he cannot help but do wrong when temptation...
The System of Thinking. What it is. Stages on: The Way to Conscious Immortality. This system of thinking is for you, you choose and will: to have knowledge of nature and of your Triune Self; to...
Concerning Christianity: The actual origins and history of Christianity are obscure. A vast
literature has grown out of centuries of effort to explain what the teachings are, or what they...
Every thought has in it an aim, a design or plan to carry out the aim, the exteriorization or exteriorizations of the aim, and a balancing factor which will compel exteriorizations until through...
Forms of grace and beauty are externalized thoughts.
As to beauty, two kinds may be distinguished. That a face or figure is beautiful does not necessarily signify that the thoughts are beautiful,...
The seat of feeling is in the kidneys, at present. Feeling is usually not felt there; it extends throughout the body wherever the blood goes and nerves are.
There is no feeling in the involuntary...
The six classes of strictly psychic destiny are all subjective states. These, as well as mental and noetic destiny, are the interiorizations and their effects, which are produced upon a doer by...
The doer-in-the-body. Error in the conception of "I". The personality and reexistence. The doer portion after death. The portions not in the body. How a doer portion is drawn out for...
The chief characteristic of the psychic atmosphere is a feeling for and the desiring and rushing after something it longs for, yet fears.
That something is the Light of the Intelligence and...
The System of Thinking. What it is. Stages on: The Way to Conscious Immortality. This system of thinking is for you, you choose and will: to have knowledge of nature and of your Triune Self; to...
The thoughts of one life which have not been adjusted are carried over by the doer to the next life, and to the next; and from one civilization to another, until they are adjusted. Families,...
From the universal plan outlined in the foregoing pages it will be seen that the sphere of earth is of nature-matter and intelligent-matter; and that Consciousness, unchangeable and the same...
Up to the time when the breath-form puts elementals and thoughts in touch with feeling in the voluntary nervous system, in the kidneys, the procedure is the same, but after that a distinction must...
This adjustment is a critical and most important process.
Some advancements made by units in the perfect body are: The unit of the sense of smell, that is, its active aspect, breath, is, together...
One's form destiny begins with prenatal influences on the body in which he will dwell, and lasts through life and beyond death until the end of his heaven period.
The race to which the body will...
There are limitations to human thinking.
Some limitations are insuperable, others are restrictions which may be overcome by desire, exercise and discipline in thinking.
The first of these...
The limbs and organs of the body are instruments for using great powers in the Universe. One may not misuse or leave unused the instrument of a universal power without paying the penalty; for each...
Besides the fear of the "wrath" or "vengeance" of God, and in addition to the desire for "mercy", there is in man a faith that somewhere in the world, notwithstanding all the seeming injustice,...
Because feeling-and-desire came into being through Light and had their greatest satisfaction while Light was with them, and because they can reach completeness only when they are in the Light, they...
The word mind as commonly used is the all-inclusive term which is made to apply to all kinds of thinking, indiscriminately. It is generally supposed that man has only one mind.
Actually three...
The System of Thinking. What it is. Stages on: The Way to Conscious Immortality. This system of thinking is for you, you choose and will: to have knowledge of nature and of your Triune Self; to...
The thoughts summarized at moment of death. Events determined then, for the next life. The flare-up in classic Greece. Something about the Jews. The stamp of a God at birth. Family. The sex. Cause...
The doer's mental destiny is of the character of the mental atmosphere, comprising intellectual endowments and their relation to the physical body.
All the thoughts one has created which have not...
Conception is caused by the presence of the form of the breath-form. It binds their two germs in the body of the woman by fusing the radiant matter in both germs and is the center at which...
Passive thinking is the play of desire and mind, that is to say, the play of desire in the Light of the Intelligence, which is diffused in a part of the mental atmosphere.
It is the haphazard,...
Also predetermined is the kind of body. Physical heredity and how it is limited. Chief mundane occupations. Diseases. The chief events in life. How destiny can be overcome.
Also among the events...
That which today is called psychology is not a science.
Modern psychology has been defined as the study of human behavior. This must be taken to mean that it is the study of impressions from...
But the doers of all human beings failed to pass that test and trial. They did not balance the newly advanced units in their proper relation. Feeling-and-desire allowed the body-mind to control...
Nature needs Light from Intelligences and in the human world of time gets it through human thinking and thoughts, which convey to it Light that reaches the human beings from their noetic...
The story of original sin is not without basis; it is a fable which conceals some true traditions.
One of these has to do with the procreation of the bodies of human beings. Many events are covered...
He who is unjustly persecuted, convicted or imprisoned, is he who in a past life, or even in the present one, has, through malice, greed or indifference, caused others to be deprived unjustly of...
When these become strong enough a different kind of thinking is started. When an impression is marked distinctly and deeply enough it suggests the subject of thought for which it stands. If this is...
The moral aspect of the thinking is much more important than the intellectual gifts.
Morals here mean the right relation of the doer, feeling-and-desire, to the thinker,...
Prenatal influences of parents. Thoughts of the mother. Inheritance of
former thoughts.
It is supposed that the child's future character depends upon the mother and her
environment. This is not...
It is supposed that the child's future character depends upon the mother and her environment.
This is not entirely true.
The mother is but the willing or unwilling instrument who works according...
The doer will continue to re-exist until it regenerates the imperfect mortal body into a perfect and immortal physical body, such as it originally had; more precisely, until the doer restores the...
A special case of physical retribution is that of a congenital idiot.
His condition is the result of past actions in many lives in which there have been only physical indulgences of the appetites,...
The unit which is now the Triune Self of the doer-in-the-body was once a primordial unit in nature, and later progressed through all stages in a perfect body in
the Realm of Permanence before its...
The pull of nature is exercised from the light plane of the physical world, through the generative system, and by the sense of sight through the eyes and the male or female organs, and especially...
It has long been understood and agreed by people generally, however, that man is made up of "body, soul, and spirit." No one doubts that the body is an animal organism; but concerning spirit and...
The time between existences. About the heavenly bodies. Time. Why people fit into the age in which they live.
The time between existences varies. Before a doer portion can exist again, the other...
Everything after death is destiny. Inventors. Classic Hellas. Re-existence in nation groups. Centers of succeeding civilizations. Greece, Egypt, India.
Everything after death happens as...
So nature pulling on the fourfold physical breath causes thereby a peristaltic action in the four systems, by which visible and invisible physical matter, in which there is hidden some Light, goes...
The length of the span is predetermined so as to let the person do the work and pass through the events called for by his destiny.
Within the span he generates new thoughts, does or refuses to do...
This unit is termed the breath-form. The active aspect of the breath-form is the breath; the breath is the life, the spirit, of the body; it permeates the entire structure.
The other aspect of the...
The first few years of life. Psychic inheritance.
When a child is born, its breath-form contains the rudimentary psychic destiny to
be experienced during life. This psychic destiny is held in germ,...
When a child is born, its breath-form contains the rudimentary psychic destiny to be experienced during life.
This psychic destiny is held in germ, ready to grow as soon as season and conditions...
Present in the mental atmosphere of every human is a ruling thought, a thought which dominates that part of the mental atmosphere which has to do with the present life.
This thought came into...
Desire comes into the heart impressed with getting or avoiding an act, an object or an event.
This desire is the subject of the thought, and it has in it nature-matter of the physical world...
The Light which a human has sent or allowed to go into nature is returned to the human.
It goes out again and is returned again.
This outgoing and incoming will continue until the Light is...
Your body is literally the result of your thinking.
Whatever it may show of health or disease, you make it so by your thinking and feeling and desiring. Your present body of flesh is actually an...
Training of the doer portion though memory is not present. The body-mind. Doermemory. Sense-memory. A good memory. Memory after death.
Throughout all the re-existences of a doer its training is...
Peculiar phases of form destiny and psychic destiny are furnished by persons in whom "astral senses" are developed prematurely or improperly, as in cases of mediumship, clairvoyance and the...
One's mental attitude and mental set toward any subject are a part of his mental destiny.
They are brought about by his past thinking and by his past thoughts relating to his experiences and...
The subject of money and what has monetary value deserves special attention.
The possession and the lack of money create today the thousand and one conditions through which the ways of destiny...
Clairvoyance, which is desired by some, is usually an abnormal development.
Such development at present is like gigantism, a disease where one part of the body grows to enormous size while the...
Why it is fortunate that the human does not remember previous existences. The training of the doer. A human thinks of himself as a body with a name. To be conscious of and as. The false "I" and its...
Some statements in this site, will quite possibly seem strange, even fantastic, until enough thought has been given to them.
For instance: the idea that the human physical body may be made...
In the mental atmosphere is sense-knowledge, that is, the knowledge acquired by the body-mind from the mass of records brought in by the four senses.
It is the systematized knowledge that...
A lunar germ is made of matter of the four worlds and has mingled with it essential matter of the four worlds, that is, matter which has circulated so long that it has reached ultimate states of...
The money god is a powerful earth spirit, created, kept alive and given his power, like other gods, by the worship of doer portions in human bodies.
Under this great earth god are little money...
Conscience is not a part of the mental atmosphere, but when it does speak it speaks in the heart.
Conscience represents the sum of knowledge as to what should not be done, acquired by the doer on...
He who is born in poverty, who feels at home in poverty and makes no effort to overcome his poverty, is a feeble, indolent and ignorant person, who has done little in the past and so has little in...
Psychic results may be obtained by breathing exercises known as pranayama, or inhalation, retention, and exhalation of the breath, to acquire occult powers; but one who advises another to practice...
Automatic reclamation is done by the psychic breath taking Light away from the lunar germ, and along the nerves of the digestive system upward from the region of the left kidney and adrenal.
The...
When re-existences of a doer portion stop. A "lost" doer portion. The hells inside the earth crust. The lecherous. The drunkards. Drug fiends. The state of a "lost" doer. Regenerating the physical...
Another mystery is time. Time is ever present as an ordinary topic of conversation; yet when one tries to think about it and tell what it really is, it becomes abstract, unfamiliar; it cannot be...
Consciousness is another mystery, the greatest and most profound of all mysteries. The word Consciousness is unique; it is a coined English word; its equivalent does not appear in other languages....
Summary of preceding chapters. Consciousness is the One Reality. Man as the center of the world of time. Circulations of the units. Permanent institutions. Records of thoughts are made in points....
The character of a mental atmosphere in its most general aspect is either honest or dishonest.
When it is honest the thinking is honest; it then respects the morals of an affair as shown by...
The run of human beings lose their lunar germs within the month, and with the lunar germ goes the Light that is in it. But if some Light is taken from the germ by the automatic reclamation, that...
Benefits may be derived from psychic development, as well as harm.
The psychic nature enables one to come more closely into touch with humanity, to share in the joys and sorrows of others, to...
The possession of wealth is the result of work or worship in the present or in the past life.
Physical labor, intense desire, worship of the money god, and continual thought, are the means by which...
From honesty in thinking come truthfulness, simplicity, sincerity, justice,rectitude.
There comes a condition of the mental atmosphere in which virtues flourish and virtuous thoughts are conceived...
While it is possible for one who has developed a lunar germ of higher degrees, that is, one carried for two, three or four months, to beget a body in which a doer more perfect than those in the...
Different from the future of the mere miser or dollar-hunter is that of those who are unscrupulous and dishonest in the acquisition of money.
The lot of successful usurers, engrossers of...
Among current tendencies is that to explain invisible things by the "law of vibrations" and to speak of "spiritual vibrations" and "thought vibrations."
These phrases sound well and mean...
Dishonesty in thinking results from the demands of desire to satisfy feeling.
Desire is neither honest nor dishonest. It wants what it wants.
If it does not want expressly honest thinking, the...
If a lunar germ is not lost, but on the return path to the head rises higher than the station at the lumbar vertebrae where the psychic breath takes off Light in the course of the automatic...
A religion is a part of the psychic destiny of a human and the religions of any time are those which are suited to the feelings and desires of the people and give them the training they need.
A...
One who overvalues the pleasures and indulgences which money can buy, and uses his money to procure these, must be without money at some time, and feel the need of it.
The misuse of money brings...
Group destiny is a destiny which affects alike a certain number of people. Their thoughts have made that destiny for them.
Members of a family may have a certain destiny in common. They have the...
It is likely that about the time the Christian teachings originated, one man had succeeded in retaining a lunar germ for thirteen lunations, had consequently reclaimed Light and had become...
The psychic destiny of a nation largely makes its government.
Many of the aspects of the government are mental, but the destiny of the governed is largely psychic.
A government which would care...
Thinking a lie disorders and upsets the mental atmosphere and perturbs thinking.
This is so even with the little lies of daily life, like those uttered while one brags or boasts, or the unuttered...
When people bind themselves together for special interests, their united thoughts take form.
This form is more or less defined according to the definiteness of the thinking.
It is energized and...
A man's mental atmosphere, if it could be seen, would show what he is responsible for. Of some, but not of all, of this responsibility he may be conscious.
He is responsible for his honest and for...
The rise or fall of a nation is due to a particular thought which becomes the national thought.
The same thought that is exteriorized in the power and greatest achievement of a nation is often the...
There are three degrees of the Light of Intelligences:
Light which is in nature;
Light which has been reclaimed from nature, has come back into the mental or noetic atmosphere of the human and is...
The Triune Self will then have three inner bodies, in which will be its three parts.
The doer will have absorbed its psychic atmosphere and will be in a form body made of the matter of the form...
The actual facts of history are little known. Glorification of their nation and religion in schoolbooks, selection of favourable topics on public occasions, suppression of facts, a catch phrase...
The habits, customs and fashions of an individual and of a people are psychic destiny;
they depend upon the bent of feeling-and-desire.
The thought connected with the desire gives them the astral...
There are two kinds of learning and two kinds of knowledge.
There is senselearning from the senses concerning nature, and doer-learning from the experiences of the doer concerning the doer;
and...
At critical times certain men arise and accomplish unusual results.
Such men are generally unconscious agents of the law. The group destiny of their people calls for an instrument by which the...
Free will is a phrase for one's freedom to feel, to desire, to think, or to act, as opposed to the inescapable necessity to feel, to desire, to think, or to act, in a given way.
It means the...
So far space has been given to form destiny, that is, that which affects the astral body and the senses, and to two classes of strictly psychic destiny, those which relate to feeling through the...
The human acquires sense-knowledge through the body-mind, and this knowledge is lost to the doer portion when it lives again, though aptitude and
inclination may become endowments.
The...
Knowledge of the Triune Self, that is, Self-knowledge, is the sum of all knowledge.
It is shared by all knowers, since they have a common part called the noetic world.
That knowledge is to be...
Gloom is a psychic state, a state of feeling and of unsatisfied desires. It is not a state created in the present, but comes from the past.
It was there created by brooding over unsuccessful...
Religions, too, belong to group destiny.
They develop out of prior religious institutions, which no longer fit the times and the thoughts of the people. Gradually new views spread, and provision...
The limitations which are obvious, and therefore principally the physical limitations, are what people call destiny or foreordination.
Because people limit themselves in their perceptions and...
The fact that a genius appears now and then is an example of something that goes on in the psychic and mental atmospheres of every human, though not to the degree where the result may be called...
Pessimism, though a state of the feelings, is more mental in its nature than gloom.
Pessimism results from thinking to satisfy desires. When the doer-in-the-body discovers that the desires cannot...
The persons belonging to such a religion are born into it because they belong to it. They are marked by the God of that religion before birth.
They can emancipate themselves only by individual...
Malice is a state of the doer in which without provocation it desires harm to another or to people in general.
The malice in revenge, jealousy, envy and anger is not referred to here. There are...
There are four classes of human beings according to the amount, quality and aim of their thinking: laborers, traders, thinkers, and knowers. The classes are invisible. The measure by which the...
The permanent physical world or Realm of Permanence, and the four earths. The trial test of the sexes. The "fall" of the doer. Doers became subject to re-existence in man and woman bodies. Within...
Fear is a state of the doer due to its ignorance and to wrong acts done. Fear is the feeling of impending disaster.
This ignorance relates to the uncertainty of time and place when the misfortune...
On the four invisible earths of the Realm of Permanence there is no need for what is called Civilizations. On the human earth, any First Civilization in the cycles of Four Civilizations, started...
Hope, which is concerned chiefly with feelings and desires, is born with the doer and is its companion. It is like a flash or reminiscence from the unmanifested.
Hope is one of the great things in...
A Fourth Civilization. Wise men. Rises and falls of cycles. Rise of the latest cycle.
Then began a Fourth Civilization in the recurring cycles of Four Civilizations, on the human earth. The last...
Joyousness is the sparkling good spirits that flow out of a healthy disposition.
This comes as the natural expression of good feeling and continued activities without intent to do wrong. It is...
The portions of doers that today are in the human race are the same doers that were once associated with their Triune Selves in the Realm of Permanence. The doers then created by the word, speech....
Trust is a natural feeling of the doer that it can depend upon life, that it will not be harmed, that it can get along and find its way, that whatever the conditions are it will be borne over them,...
The fourth class of strictly psychic destiny relates to sleep and to other states where the doer-in-the-body is not in full control of the four senses;
the thinker and knower are not concerned...
The present is a new wave in the Fourth Civilization.
The crest should carry humanity higher than any of the former waves of this Civilization, which has existed for untold years and has seen the...
Dreams occur during the time when the doer is withdrawing from the four senses into the state of deep sleep, and during the time when the doer is returning from deep sleep to its connection with...
Mysticism is an old practice in religions.
Buddhist, Sufi and Christian mystics and mystics who are not followers of any religion seek to get what they call Truth or God, by subduing the body,...
Hallucinations in the waking state, in fever, in narcotic and hypnotic states, are like impressions produced by dreams. Objects are seen, heard, tasted, smelled and touched when there are no such...
Spiritism, often called spiritualism, was known to every ancient people. It is the mark of the decadence of a people. It was condemned among the ancient Hindus and other Asiatic races. Many tribes...
In recent times a number of movements have come to the fore which use thinking to produce direct results on the physical plane, to cure disease and remove poverty, and in the doer to banish worry...
Death is the fifth class and is especially psychic destiny. It marks the end of the period during which the embodied doer works through the four senses in the physical world. The time of death had...
The sixth class of psychic destiny is of the states through which the doer passes after death, (Fig. V-D). After death the various entities that were combined into a human being gradually separate....
Diseases are the slowly accumulated sediments of thoughts which have passed through the parts affected. Thoughts which have been at home in the mental atmosphere of a doer, readily enter a body...
What parts of a thought will be exteriorized as the sediments which are to be the seeds of disease, is determined in each case by the thinker of the Triune Self to bring about a balancing of the...
There are twelve states, stages, or conditions constituting one round which each doer portion passes through from one life to its next life on earth, (Fig. V-D).
When the doer eventually becomes...
Nothing more is there known about the after-death states than was known during life.
Sooner or later in this way the doer becomes aware that it is to be judged for its thoughts and deeds on earth....
All things that are possible can be done by thinking. A thought is a being.
Because it is issued from the light plane of the light world and is a sound, compelling elementals in the form world to...
Poverty, scarcity and lack of physical possessions bring on severe trials. These conditions are exteriorizations of long continued thoughts. Upon the aia are wrought the records which these...
The Conscious Light is Truth.
It reveals and makes the doer conscious of what the Light is conscious of.
As each thought, act and event is brought out, the doer is aware of the Judgment of the...
Faith and nature-imagination are what counts most in the cures by physicians, by healers who treat through laying on of their hands, by "miracles", at shrines and pools, by patent medicines,...
On the light plane the doer meets and feels the presence of what is to it an angel. It becomes one with that angel and finds itself in heaven (Fig. V-D).
When the doer parted from its breath-form...
The cure of disease is the drawing feature in other schools also, such as those of hypnotism, mesmerism and self-suggestion in its many applications. Both hypnotism and mesmerism are in the last...
Self-hypnosis is a deep sleep into which one puts himself intentionally, the hypnotizing and controlling of oneself by oneself. It differs from hypnotism in that the doer takes the part which the...
Self-suggestion is not self-hypnotism. The difference is that in self-suggestion the doer does not put the body or itself into an artificial sleep.
Self-suggestion is the impressing upon the...
Another movement which affects a considerable number of people in their mental destiny is the Eastern Movement. Over a hundred years ago scholars translated books of Eastern philosophy and religion...
Breathing is one thing, the breath is another. Breathing is the indrawing and expulsion of air into and from the lungs and is only one of the ways in which the breath enters the body.
The breath is...
The system of Patanjali. His eight steps of yoga. Ancient commentaries. Review of his system. Inner meaning of some Sanskrit words. The ancient teaching of which traces survive. What the West...
One of the signs of the times is the Theosophical Movement. The Theosophical Society appeared with a message and a mission. It presented to the world what it called Theosophy, old teachings which...
The states of the human beings in deep sleep, in trances and after death are generally psychic, but some at times go beyond the psychic atmosphere, which is the limit within which the happenings...
The round of twelve stages from life to life. Hells and heavens.
A part of the mental destiny of a human is experienced after death, in that part of the mental which reaches into the psychic...
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ACCIDENT, AN: is usually said to be an unexpected happening or eventwithout apparent cause. Nevertheless, an accident is the only visible segment in a chain or circle of unobserved or preceding...
BREATH: is the life of the blood, the pervader and builder of tissue, the preserver and destroyer, by or in
which all operations of the body continue to exist or pass out of existence, until by...
CELL, A: is an organization composed of transient units of matter from the radiant, airy, fluid, and solid streams of matter, organized into living structure by the related and reciprocal action of...
DEATH: is the departure of the conscious self in the body from its fleshly residence, the snapping or severance of the fine elastic silvery thread that connects the breath-form with the body. The...
EASE: is the result of the doer's reliance in destiny and in itself; a certain poise in action, irrespective of wealth or poverty, position in life or family or friends.
EGO: is the feeling of the...
FACTS: are the realities of the objective or subjective acts, objects or events in the state or on the plane on which they are experienced or observed, as evident to and tried by the senses, or as...
GAMBLING: is an obsession of one by the gambling spirit, or the exciting chronic desire to get, to win money or something of value by "luck," by "betting," by games of "chance," instead of earning...
HABIT: is the expression by word or act of an impression on the breath-form by thinking. Repetition of strange sounds or acts often causes uneasiness of the individual and of the observer, which is...
"I" AS IDENTITY, THE FALSE: is the feeling of the presence of the real identity of the I-ness of one's knower. I-ness is the self-conscious selfsame identity of the knower, changeless and without...
JEALOUSY: is the resentful and jaundiced fear of not getting or having one's rights in the affections or
interests of another or of others.
JOYOUSNESS: is the expression of the feeling and desire...
KARMA: is the results of the actions and reactions of mind and desire.
KNOWER, THE: is that of the Triune Self which has and is actual and real knowledge, of and in time and the Eternal.
KNOWLEDGE...
LAW: is a prescription for performance, made by the thoughts and acts of its maker or makers, and to which those who have subscribed are bound.
LAW OF NATURE, A: is the action or function of a unit...
MALICE: is the obsession by a spirit of ill-will and evil intent to injure, to cause suffering; it is an enemy to goodwill and right action.
MANNERS: Good manners are inherent in the character of...
NATURE: is a machine composed of the totality of unintelligent units; units that are conscious as their functions only.
NECESSITY: is destiny, compelling action, usually immediate, from which there...
ONE: is a unit, a unity or whole, the origin and inclusion of all numbers as its parts, in extension or completion.
ONENESS: is the right relation of all principles and parts to each...
PAIN: is a set of disturbing sensations as the penalty of improper thinking or doing, and is the notice served on the doer of feeling-and-desire to remove its cause.
PASSION: is the raging of...
QUALITY: is the degree of excellence developed in the nature and function of a thing.
REALITY, A: is a unit as it is, unattached, the thing itself; that which one