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foreign this is our fifth class and today we are going to continue our exploration of the the mental plane and we are going to focus more on the the different vehicles of Consciousness that are on the mental plane the different bodies if we want to call them like that which if you see in the on in the table that you have there on the mental plane there are two bodies the mental body and the causal body as we are going to see the causal body is the the vehicle of consciousness of the Soul what we could call our soul and the mental body is the the expression of the Soul at the level of thinking and and the the reason as we as we know it and also in more transcendental ways so that's what we are going to explore today let us start with uh a little recap of what we saw at the end of our previous meeting mental plane part two the three highest subdivisions of the mental plane are the habitat of the Thinker himself the vast majority live on the lowest level in various stages of evolution a comparatively few of the highly intellectual dwell on the second level so remember that the mental claim is divided in two subdivisions the each plane has seven subplanes so the lower four are part of the lower mental plane or lower Manas in Sanskrit and the three higher subplanes are part of the higher mental play so the The Thinker is Hawaii besan calls this um this soul and we discussed why she calls it calls it The Thinker is not thinking in the necessarily in the sense that we understand thinking but in a far more transcendental way what we call thinking here is a is a shadowy reflection of of the quality of the The Thinker on its own plane so what she says is that out of those three subplanes which are different states of Consciousness or levels of evolution if you want to to see it that way um most Evolution the the soul of most people at this point in evolution is aware on the lowest of these three subplanes some people who are more intellectually bent and by intellectual doesn't necessarily mean intelligent in you know in in memorizing information but intellectually in the sense that it's these are souls that are trying to understand life understand the world maybe probably many of us the soul dwells on the second subplane that is a little uh higher than than the previous case and as we are going to see on the third subplane the highest subplane on the mental plane is the The Dwelling Place of uh people who are on the path of discipleship at the stage now reached by The Thinker he is fully conscious of his surroundings as in and is in possession of the memory of his past he knows the bodies he is wearing through which he is contacting the lower planes and he is able to influence and guide them to a great extent he sees the difficulties the obstacles they are approaching the results of past careless living and he sets himself to pour into them energies by which they may be better equipped for their task so this thinker or or sometimes is called higher ego ego in the sense of uh sense of highness not like the psychological ego of modern spirituality this um thinker or higher ego it is ourselves but in a particular State of Consciousness right now for example because we are working through the body and through the emotional body and through the mental body through all these bodies it are the the possibilities of perception are limited by this and we are limited also because of our lack of experience now when the body goes to sleep as we have seen previously our Consciousness is working through the astral body in people to whom the emotions are not so so such a strong factor in their lives even when we go to sleep their Consciousness is not stuck in identification with the emotional body or the astral body these are synonyms so Consciousness may go to the mental body and uh even in in in a few cases the in a in a person that is trying to go beyond the even the the mental function in our daily life if this is part of our spiritual practice when the body is sleeping Consciousness may even become aware on the higher mental plane which is the level of the Soul well any businesses here is that at the at this level most people at this point in evolution are aware at this level we remember past lives we remember or we see the future um actions or or situations that are coming that were already created by Karma and uh from this level also the the Consciousness tries to impress the brain the physical human being and in according to the the level of Awakening of that particular person that that attempt by Consciousness may be more or less effective his directions are sometimes felt in the lower Consciousness as an emperor imperiously compelling force that impels to a course of action for which all the reasons may not be clear to the dimmer vision of the lower consciousness people who have done great Deeds following a compelling inner power were acting as the real man remember that this and to explain she uses the word man as coming from the root the Sanskrit root man that means The Thinker the Manu so Consciousness since since Consciousness is omnipresent it can be working at the same time on all these different levels because Consciousness is really one now we are self-conscious only on one particular level so when we are self-aware of our our thinking for example our thoughts and our emotions still there is another aspect of our Consciousness that we could call the higher Manas this this uh thinker the real thinker that is trying to influence itself himself herself in the Consciousness on the on the physical plane so for example sometimes we feel that we have to make a particular decision and uh we may not know why our mind May invent some justification as to why we do something but for all we know we are choosing to do something that maybe even um detrimental for the personal self but it's good for the general good you know the greater good so when we Act impaled to do the right thing this impulse doesn't come from our thinking process it comes from a truer aspect of our Consciousness and that is impressed in our brain in a similar way when we see when we are selfishly and we think that we are choosing to accept selfishly what we are doing is responding to a lower aspect of our being the what we call in theosophy Kama we which is the source of uh selfish or or self-protective attitudes so this is why I mentioned last week uh the the question of Free Will is far more difficult to solve than or or to approach than the the simplistic view of whether we are a thinking entity choosing or not would suggest so there are many influences coming into what we call our mind and we may choose something but being actually impaled from a lab another level of ourselves so the Sheep animation gives this example as how the higher Consciousness even if we don't know it you know in in a very clear way is maybe constantly pushing us in a sense or pushing itself to take a particular direction on the third level dwelt the egos of the Masters and of the initiates who are their cellas from this world of subtlest mental forces the Masters carry on their beneficent work for Humanity so the third level on the higher mental plane would be the highest and that's where the the coastal body of the the Masters and the the disciples dwell and this is why when we talk about the Masters we say generally speaking they don't they don't go beyond the highest subplane of the mental plane you may find the you know the Masters may be very rarely on the on the mental plane itself except for the highest level or on the astral plane and list of all on the acting on the physical plane although in the philosophical view of course the Masters have a physical body live in a physical place but their work is for the most part they work in meditation and on the inner planes on on the the highest planes at the level of our highest principles and from there the poor influences that go through all the lower planes every Force they're generated Rays out in Myriad directions and the noblest purest Souls catch most readily these helpful influences a discovery flashes into the mind of the patient Searcher into Nature's Secrets a new Melody enters a new Melody entrances the ear of the great musician the answer to a long-studied problem illumes the intellect of a loft lofty philosopher a new energy of hope and love suffuses the heart of an unwaryen philanthropist so they are constantly pouring out inspiration to humanity for to humanity or for Humanity to to develop spiritual aspects in in any particular activity and those who are more receptive they may receive that in that influence us uh in in a way of insights or discoveries or Inspirations artistic Inspirations or emotion and inspiration so that's part of the work that the adapts to for for Humanity of course they do many other other things but normally the the the highest we can be receptive to the closer we are to being a kind of channel of these energies in the sense that when we can receive that inspiration then out of that inspiration we may generate an action that everybody can profit from you know a beautiful music or a great idea or a great act so in that sense people who are able to be inspired by the work work of the Masters are channels that bring that inspiration into actual actions that everybody else can also profit from Incarnation The Thinker the individual human soul when he is coming into Incarnation first radiates forth some of his energy and vibrations that attract around him and clothe him in matter drawn from the four lower subdivisions of his own mental plane Liberia used to talk about the soul as him blavaski would talk more about the about the soul as it and of course the sword has not no gender gender is only real that the the level of the physical body and it's real only at this point in evolution according to the theosophical view the before and after this cycle or cycles of evolution um both male and female aspects are together in the same person so you know when she talks about his uh or just take it as describing the the soul what she explains here is that the the first motion because the the the higher mental plane is the the home of our soul so when when we when a person dies the soul lets go of all the lower bodies and returns home returns to the higher mental plane when the process of incarnation Begins the first thing that happens is that the soul directs its attention outwardly to the lower planes and that vibration begins to attract matter of the low from the lower mental plane that matter from the lower mental plane arranges itself around so to say the the soul and generates the mental body as you see they are in on the table the the mental that's how the mental body is generated exactly according to the vibrations sent out by The Thinker will be the nature of the mental body that he thus draws around him the finer kinds of mental matter answer the swifter vibrations and take form under their impulse the coarser kind similarly answer the slower ones so allegorically speaking and the you know any time that we use an example from the physical plane can be applied to the higher planes only allegory for one particular aspect of the question but we could say the if we have if we will have to build our own clothing we would be able to build a piece of you know cloth as good or or as bad according to our our skill so how the quality of the mental body will also depend on the skill of the soul and that skill of the soul is the result of this process of evolution so as the soul awakens more and more then the mental body that can be attracted around will be one that responds better to the nature of the Soul none of his energies which are too subtle to move this matter can express themselves through it he is therefore limited conditioned or restricted by it in his expression of himself it is the first of his prison houses during his incarnate life while his energies are acting within it he is largely shut off from his own higher world for his attention is with the outgoing energies and his life is thrown with them into the mental body so the there is only so much that the mental body can express of the Soul so that the there is an intrinsic limitation no matter how good the mental body that the soul builds is that itself sets a certain limitation for example if you if you want to paint um there is only so much even if you are very skillful there would be only so much that you can express through the painting you could not express through the painting a whole philosophy where you would need words you may convey a lot of philosophical aspects in a symbolic way through painting but the medium of painting itself would limit how clear you can express your idea so many of your ideas will be beyond what you can express with a painting now in making the painting itself you can be more or less skillful so in the same way in making creating the mental body the soul may be more or less skillful but no matter how skillful the soul is there is a whole aspect of what the soul is that that will be it's not possible to be expressed through the mental body so that is part of a limitation that is intrinsic and also as the soul begins to work through the mental body it gets identified with it and uh and begins to be confused thinking that this this awareness is the same as the mind as the process of thinking which is what happens in most people in humanity we think that the the this process of thinking this mind this memory this uh you know ideas that that is ourselves and the mental body which is the source of all these things is different from what we really are so that is part of the process of identification that we need to to transcend little by little also his energy still pulsing outwards draw around him the coarser matter of the astral plane in his astral body during his incarnate life the lower kinds of mental matter are so readily responded to by astral matter that the two bodies are continually vibrating together and become very closely interwoven the coarser the kinds of matter built into the mental body the more intimate becomes the union so that the two bodies are sometimes classed together and even taken as one called kamamanus so if you look at the table we have at the level of higher minus the causal body then we have the mental body in the process of incarnation going deeper into matter the next body is the astral body the the body through which emotions are felt so the in the same way that the mental body was built now the the soul within the mental body pays attention or focuses on on the emotional plane the astral plane and Builds an emotional body this emotional body again will be the result of the the past experience of the soul and and the past actions and there is an affinity between the emotional body and the mental body especially if the mental body contains the the lower subplains of the it's made of matter that belongs to the lower subplains of the mental plane in those cases the lower you go in the mental plane the more uh in tune that matter is with the emotional matter so many times emotions and and thoughts they they work together one stimulating the other this is what in theosophy sometimes called as an investors they are kamamanas being part of the the emotional plane and manners of the mental plane the mental body according to the stage of evolution reached by the man will be the type of mental body he forms on his way to become again incarnate we may study as we did with the astral body the respective mental bodies of three types of people an undeveloped person an average person and a spiritually developed person doesn't go down all the way to the physical body in explaining the process of incarnation because that is not the the subject of this chapter in a similar way the soul will develop the aesthetic double and then the physical body but she mentions the astral body just because many times he is as we said entangled with the mental body so now she's going to explore the how the mental body looks uh and and functions in these three stages of evolution like the the very early when at the beginning of humanity then a more or less average stage and then a later stage that is close to finishing the human experience as you are going to see when we saw this at the level of the the the astral body the difference between the bodies was a little more a little more noticeable at the level of the mental body because the mental matter is very subtle uh the differences are not so evident as they were before if you do know what the colors mean and if you take into account that the the how brilliant how shiny the colors are it's a very important difference in the mental bodies then you can begin to perceive the differences better but at the level of shape and you know General structure you you probably won't see much difference anyway I brought some images so we can see them the undeveloped person his mental body is but little perceptible a small amount of unorganized mental matter chiefly from the lowest subdivisions of the plane this is set vibrating feebally by the astral storms raised by the contacts with material objects through the sense organs except when stimulated by the astral vibrations it remains almost quiescent and even under their impulses its responses are sluggage so as we explore with the astral body at the beginning of evolution the these inner bodies are quite negative negative in the sense that they are passive and they begin to be awakened by the experience of the physical plane so the the Soul at the very beginning of evolution as we are going to see is in a in a state in a kind of sleepy State just as you see in a baby that Consciousness is kind of asleep it's not really awakened and in touch with environment but it is through the the interaction with environment the outward stimuli that the that produces an emotional response and begins to make to make the the astral or emotional body awake and then the emotional activity generates some mental activity so a primitive human being has a certain desire and that desire will awaken in his mind the idea of how can I get that object of Desire at the beginning at the beginning in a very feeble way but as Evolution goes on the inner Consciousness begins to be more and more awakened and then many times at some point in evolution we don't even need an external stimulus to generate a desire the mental activity of memory for example would awaken a an emotional activity which is the desire itself and that will push the body to go get it so get the objects so you can see how it begins by being stimulating from stimulated from the outside and little by little the inner Consciousness will be the source of action and not only the external the more violent the blows the better for the progress of me of the man for each responsive vibration AIDS in the embryonic development of the mental body riotous pleasure anger rage pain Terror all these passions causing whirlwinds in the astral body awaken faint vibrations in the mental and gradually these vibrations stirring into commencing activity the mental Consciousness so at the beginning of evolution strong emotions are needed and that's why human beings evolve in in Savage in a relatively Savage environment subtle emotions would not be strong enough to awaken the dormant mental activity so at the beginning all these these feelings that for us at this point in evolution would be negative emotions would be negative psychological responses at that point they are not negative they are necessary before we go on let me show I didn't mention anything about this the the image but as you see the the mental body there is not very bright see the lower part is is you know quite the colors are are pale and muddy and this is the result of mental matter that is not active that is not really organized um then the the other colors are you they are see there although they have a certain pattern are still very dull and uh as you are going to see later all these colors are brighter and normally the mental mental activity manifests itself in colors as blue and yellow which you don't see too much here the average person his mental body is much increased in size shows a certain amount of organization and contains a fair proportion of matter drawn from the second third and fourth subdivisions of the mental plane so see that there are far more yellow there only on the the borders you see matter that maybe a little you know muddier but there is a beginning of of this more brightness and there will be as you are going to see in the spiritually developmental body you will see that the this is beginning to be more well organized and the the material remember that the the lowest subplains of the of any plane are the the denser kind of matter in the first mental body the Primitive mental body most of the matter is so in the of the first or lowest subplane here little by little there is higher matter that begins to be part of the this body every vibration set up in the mental body causes changes in its constituents throwing out of it in the part affected the matter that cannot vibrate sympathetically and replacing it by suitable materials drawn from the practically illimitable store around the more a series of vibrations is repeated the more does the part affected by them increase in development so from a certain point of view this is not too different from how our physical body works when we eat the matter that we are incorporating is assimilated and and some of the the you know the other matter will be let go and that's how we grow and depending of what kind of food we eat it's a kind of body we have in this case the food is the mental activity so if our thoughts are entangled with negative emotions and the thoughts are always about concrete objects and you know not things that are more materialistic that is the kind of mental body that we build for ourselves if on the on the other hand we start turning our attention to higher things then we begin to attract matter that is needed to express those higher interests and that that higher matter will push away the the lower matter because there is only so much matter that can be in the mental body so this is a way in which the mental body changes in time the habit of quiet sustained and sequential thought directed to non-worldly subjects of meditation and study develops the Mind Body and renders a better a better instrument the effort to cultivate abstract thinking is also useful as this raises the lower mind towards the higher and draws into it the subtlest materials of the lower plane so you know our daily life is constantly drawing our mind to very concrete things and the matter that is needed to think about these things is the lowest matter of their mental playing sometimes people ask why should we study things that are abstract you know they study the loss of of nature from a spiritual point of view or some abstract subjects that you can find in philosophical literature or try to conceive our true nature Beyond thoughts emotions and and body and they may say This is Not Practical I need something practical how is this going to help me in my life but the very fact of paying attention to non-worldly subjects and to abstract thinking generates an evolution in your mind which that that mind you will use then to do your regular day your regular business you will be able to deal with life with regular life from a different point of view so even though putting your mind in abstract aspects may not give you information that you may deem practical the very fact of placing your attention on these subjects will produce a practical effect a transformative effect in in your mind so this is one of the reasons why study is recommended of course study meditation service all these are different aspects of the spiritual life none none of those isolated will will be uh you know the enough from a you know if we want to put it that way but it is this is one of the the effects of the study of abstract subjects when a new study is commenced or a change in favor of high morality is initiated the early stages are found to be fraught with difficulties sometimes the effort is even abandoned because the obstacles in the way of its success appear to be insurmountable at the beginning of every new mental undertaking the whole automatism of the mental body opposes it the materials habituated to vibrate in a particular way cannot accommodate themselves to the new impulses this again I think is is something that we can relate to because we see the same process on the physical claim if you start a new diet at the beginning is is difficult if you start a new exercise after you go to do this exercise for the first time all your body aches your body doesn't want to do it it reacts you know with pain but because we have more more or less I mean XP appearance on the physical plane we understand that the egg is part of the process now something similar happens with the emotional and mental activity when we we start a new a new way of thinking of looking at things we will find it difficult our mind and emotions we will say uh why am I wasting time with this how is this useful and all these reactions are just like the pain that you feel in the body when you do a new exercise these are the only that at the mental level in manifests in this in the way of ideas ideas of frustration you know and and these ideas that I was talking about or at the emotional plane they will manifest as emotions so we have to be aware of this because normally we identify with this so we are upset and it's not us that we are that are upset it's the emotional body because of the effort and then if we listen to what the emotional body says we abandon the effort and then that means that we are still acting not by an inner determination by our inner intelligence but we are acting by the external World in this case our emotions is the the external stimuli to our awareness that is you know the the innermost aspect of ourselves so it's important to keep in mind that these processes um take place also on the psychological psychological level not only on the physical the early stage consists chiefly of sending out Thrills of force which are frustrated so far as setting up vibrations in the mental body are concerned which because of the necessary preliminary as they but which are the necessary preliminary as they shake out of the body the old refractory materials and drawn into it the sympathetic kind during this process the man is not conscious of any progress he is conscious only of the frustration of his efforts and of the dull resistance he Encounters this is true to any anything we want to change in ourselves uh uh be it physical or psychological again so at the beginning all the energy is spent not to produce a clear result an evident result the energy is used to begin to attract the kind of energy and inertia that will allow the building of something new so there is always a lag time there is always a process in which we have to make the effort without seeing any result and the deeper the process the longer can be that lag time so this again many people don't really grow because they they work by fits they start they don't see results they stop and whatever effort they made is lost in in the time that they are not making any effort and then they start again and of course the same result will be there and so if if we know how this works then we can be confident and we can move in a certain direction confident that that will happen eventually all spiritual teachers say similar things in different ways you know fake it till you make it is a way of saying this just make the effort and eventually it will become a reality but you have to make the effort try to live as if you could you you are really perceiving this um first have the intention out there and then the results will follow if he persists as a newly attracted material begin to function he succeeds better in his attempts and at last when all the old materials are expelled and the new are working he finds himself succeeding without an effort and his object is accomplished the critical time is during the first stage but if he trusts in the law as sure in its working as every other law in nature and persistently repeated his efforts he must succeed and a knowledge of this fact May cheer him when otherwise he would be sinking in despair so after you have experience in this you are sure that this is like that and even if you don't see any result there is no doubt to you that you have to keep on going in the same direction because sooner or later the result will come the difficulty is when you don't have enough experience and this is like the Chicken and the Egg thing because experience allows you to to get through the preliminary process the lack of experience doesn't help you get through and if you don't get through you don't get experience so unfortunately Nature has this kind of of circles or you know that can become vicious circles or or virtuous circles and it's it it our effort is needed to break the circles then once you overcome the inertia that is always there in matter whether mental matter very emotional or physical then things can be manifested in a spontaneous way because Consciousness itself doesn't need effort Consciousness is a CDs by itself the problem is that as long as there is a resistance in the vehicles of Consciousness the effort is directed to reshape them so you know effort and spontaneity depend or are related far more to matter than to Consciousness itself the spiritually developed man from this body all the coarser combinations have been eliminated so that the objects of the senses no longer find in it materials that respond sympathetically to their vibrations it contains only the finer combinations belonging to each of the four subdivisions of the lower mental world the materials of the third and fourth subplanes predominate in its composition making it responsive to all the higher thoughts and emotions so if you see the image there there is a clear yellow aspect which is the part of the intellectuality and then you have that in the upper mental body more bluish tones that are again intellectuality and spiritual aspiration you see that there are no dark colors um they are brighter the you know have muddy also um you know tones so the the change in the mental body is more at the level of the the the quality of the colors than than the the shape and and patterns that you see there although there is a change in patterns too and the body tends to have more material from the higher subplains of the lower mental plane and remember we talked at some point that on each subplane there are also there is also matter that is let's say magnetically Pure or more or less pure by pure that I mean that has a tendency to respond to Consciousness faster or slower so as the mental body evolves not only the bulk of matter is from the higher subplains but also even the matter from the lower subplanes have a more evolve or the more spiritual kind of of matter of the lower subplanes such a body is rapidly becoming ready to reproduce every impulse from The Thinker which is capable of expression on the lower subdivisions of the mental plane it is growing into a perfect instrument for activities in this lower mental world so it begins to be more and more in tune with the soul and respond naturally to to the the the presence of the Soul there the causal body so now we are going to explore the this the vehicle of expression of the Soul itself that is on the higher mental plane let us now pass into the 4 forms of the mental plane the region which is man's true home during the cycle of his reincarnations into which he was born a baby Soul an infant ego an embryonic individuality when he begins his purely human evolution formed of the matter of the three highest subdivisions of the mental plane it is exquisitely fine a film of rarest subtlety even at its first Inception as it develops it becomes a radiant object of supernal glory and Beauty so both in the emotional Elemental bodies they they may they grow in size a little uh with Evolution but they are more or less always this kind of this kind of avoid um you know figure in the case of the causal body as we are going to see if we have time the the appearance of the causal body itself May greatly change and also the size of the causal body changes very much with Evolution Sunny Basin says they are at the very beginning this infant ego ego from the Greek ego that means highness so this infant sense of highness is still asleep and with Evolution it begins to awaken the technical name of this vehicle is causal body because the ego gathers up within it the results of all the experiences and these act as causes molding future lives it is the only permanent one among the bodies during Incarnation the mental the astral and physical bodies being reconstituted for each fresh life as each parishes in turn it hands on its Harvest to the one above it and thus all the harvests are finally stored in this permanent body so the coastal body is permanent during the whole stage of human evolution uh eventually is also discarded but the mental astral etheric and physical bodies they are changed after every Incarnation so you could say that there is a mental body that that is the particular expression of Pablo and an astral body and an etheric and physical body and all that after death is gradually dissolved and the essence of the experience of Pablo is retained and absorbed by the causal body then that causal body will generate the the mental body of who will become married and the astral body and the etheric dabble and the physical body and then you have a new personality which is different from the previous personality now the coastal body itself is the same and that's what we really are what we really are I mean we are something even beyond that but relatively speaking what we are is this pure sense of being this impersonal sense of being or trans person a sense of being that is the essence of Pablo Mary of the the African person the India and the American you know in each different incarnation what is the Thinker he is the Divine self as already said limited or individualized by this subtle body drawn from the materials of the formless region of the mental plane this matter drawn around array of the self a living beam of the one light and the life of the universe shuts off this Ray from its source so far as the external world is concerned in closing and closes it within a film shell of itself and so makes it an individual the life is the life of the logos but all the powers of that life are lion latent concealed so she asked who is what is this Soul or this thing thinker so she says it is the Divine self let's say adman there and it but it is admin when it is limited and limited in the worlds of Illusion as animation says they are as far as the external world is concerned but it is a limited expression of the universal admin if you want to put it that way so my personality and my sense of individuality is a limited expression of the one being and your individuality is another limited expression of the one being and so with each one of us so the the whole humanity and in fact the whole universe but let's say the whole Humanity are different experiences of this one being and when we realize our one being we realize that we are not this particular experience we are the being but we are the being looking at this particular experience at the point of realization of the the ultimate self we as being the oneself can also experience the universe through any other personality and this is what the mystics experience that they can you know perceive through any one of uh of us even through animals through plants or rocks there is no limitation for Consciousness at that point but when expressing on the on the lower planes that Universal admin expresses itself in a limited way as a particular person the Eternal man the individualized self is the actor and everybody that he wears it is his presence that gives the feeling of I a like to body and mind and the eye being that which is self-conscious and which by illusion identifies itself with that vehicle in which it is most actively energizing so in the theosophical view the the body itself has a series of activities but the body doesn't have a sense of highness our mind is a is a process of thinking but the mind doesn't have a sense of highness in itself same with the emotions for example you have a computer the computer can think any software is a kind of thinking process you can make a computer play chess and be the best of us so the computer can think but that computer doesn't have the sense I am a computer I am an individuality why because the self is not there so the self the manassic aspect of the self adma actually is there adman is the the foundation of everything but the sense of highness comes when man has ex when adman the self expresses itself through manners through this mental principle that's where the sense of I am comes from so we think we are the the thoughts just because we are identified with this thinking process and we are shedding or or we are uh conveying this sense of highness onto the thoughts and we think we are this body because we are conveying our sense of highness onto the body yogis that can break this identification they can Pierce their body and even though the body may feel the pain they they are separate from that pain because they are not identified with the body in in our case because of our identification we still think that the pain of the body is my pain so this is an interesting uh phenomena that happens with consciousness to the man of the senses the eye is the physical body and the desire nature he draws from these his enjoyment and he thinks of these as himself for his life is in them to the scholar the I is the mind for in its exercise lies his joy and therein his life is concentrated few can rise to the abstract Heights of spiritual philosophy and feel this eternal man as I with memory ranging back over past lives and hopes ranging forward over future births so according to what's the main point of identification of Consciousness is what a person feels more His Highness or where depends the person feels more His Highness or her highness so people who are very identified with the with the body they feel they are the body and then anything that is related to the body and the physical pleasure and the physical senses are what gives them a sense of being alive so any of any person that is very identified with the with the body would look at philosophy and and philosophize you know something terribly terribly dull and useless and why would you do that when we get more identified with the mind then that's where we get the sense of this is what what I am and then we play with ideas and we try to understand the world and we may even deny many physical bodies um manifest Pleasures because we are not so interested in that level of the experience but then of course we can even go beyond beyond the the ideas beyond the emotions beyond the body and we can even become self-aware on this level where the knowledge of the past and future exists human evolution of The Thinker at first as little conscious as a baby's Earthly body he almost slept through Life After Life till he experiences playing on him from without awaken some of his latent forces into activity gradually he assumed more and more part in the direction of his life until with manhood reached he took his life into his own hands and an ever increasing control over his future destiny so when we talk about Evolution we are basically talking about I mean of course according to blavaski there are three levels of evolution and that is a little complex but uh basically when we talk about human evolution as an investment says there is the evolution of the mental aspect why because adman is the Ultimate Reality itself it doesn't evolve Atman is aware from the very beginning but when that admin is expressing itself through the lower principles that awareness is somehow covered or not so much cover the awareness is always there but there is a loss a loss of self-awareness or perhaps the whole process of evolution has as a purpose to generate self-awareness that is an awareness of the awareness itself so the question is not a question without money itself the question is with the experience of admin through the a mind emotions and the body the more this this admin this ultimate subject and even Beyond subject originally but it Expresses in ourselves as the ultimate subject the more this ultimate subject can relate to the world in in a self-aware way the the more we would say that the person is evolving so changes are mainly at the level of the the lower planes and in particular with human beings it depends on the evolution of the Soul on the higher mental plane for the growth of the causal body itself is very slow for it can vibrate only in answer to impulses that can be expressed in the very subtle manner of which it is composed thus weaving them into the texture of its being hence the passions which play so large a part in the early stages of human evolution cannot directly affect its growth so we we've seen how the the emotional and mental bodies grow by external stimulation at the beginning you know very strong emotions very strong physical happenings generate emotions very strong emotions generate a mental activity and this is how all all these bodies little by little evolve the causal body is too subtle and beyond all these only what we would call spiritual aspirations uh High morality the the desire to understand to know our true self these things can really make the the Astra the the causal body grow or feelings of love feelings of or actions of self-sacrifice all these things are the ones that can reach the the causal body so since in the beginning at the beginning of evolution these activities are not very prominent the causal body evolves very slow very slowly and as we get closer and closer to the last stages of evolution then the coastal body uh evolves in a very rapid way because more and more of the the the daily activity of Consciousness has to do with all this we're doing the right thing with love with compassion with helping with understanding with discovering our true self all these activities are the ones that um if make the causal body grow and become a better vehicle of the the inner admin so the more these activities take place in our awareness the the more food is there for the coastal body allegorically speaking experiences that can be reproduced in the causal body belong to the mental region highly intellectual or loftily moral in their character otherwise its subtle matter can give no sympathetic vibration and answer a very little reflection will convince anyone how little material suitable for the growth of this lofty body a person affords by his daily life hence the slowness of evolution the little progress made so yeah that's what I just explained as The Thinker develops he becomes more and more conscious of his own inherent powers and also's of the workings of his energies on the lower planes of the bodies which those energies have drawn around him he at least last begins to try to influence them these Impressions we call conscience when they deal with morals and flashes of intuition when they Enlighten the intellect when these impressions are continuous enough to be normal we speak of their aggregate as genius so this is how the higher Consciousness begins to manifest on on our physical plane this sense of what is the right the right way to deal with something uh what is our duty um but not what is our duty as a as a moral weight but the the sense of this is what I should do this is my responsibility this is how I I add to the common the common goodness all these things are are within the field of what we call conscience you know they warnings against doing taking a wrong you know or doing a wrong action or making a wrong decision these are all the results of the higher influence on our brain on our personality and then the flashes of intuitions the these this sense the sense of what we should do or how we can proceed or how things are or what our true nature is all these flashes of intuition are also part of our higher Consciousness so the more are the more our awareness awakens and unfolds and the more the vehicles of Consciousness are brought into tune and to be in tune with this awareness the more these flashes become common and when they become common it's all these you know people they use this word genius in the a 19th century and early 20th century in a little more General sense you know anybody that would succeed in their field uh in some way or the other they would say that this is a manifestation of the genius that that was in in people the possibility of so especially when it comes to moral and spiritual aspects or artistic aspects or philosophical uh they they are frequently the expression of the higher consciousness so here we have um an image a series of images of the the causal body uh in a non-developed person the coastal body is pretty much like a bubble not with no particular colors uh quite passive then if you see that in the average person there are there is not too much of a difference with the previous one the the bubble is a little uh more seems to be more receptive you know you see clear a little clearer uh maybe a little you know thinner in a sense in a certain way but as the person begins to develop the colors begins to be arranged there and and you can see that there is some kind of radiation from the the causal body and this is how some Clairvoyance you know any base on the bitter have seen the causal body of an enlightened being uh in the theosophical way of talking about this we would say master of wisdom so you can see how there is this radiation the body itself May cover you know even uh many many yards and uh well this is just for you to to get an idea of the evolution of the causal body itself so this is what I I have to present tonight next week which is our last week we are going to talk about the higher two planes the nivanic and the budic there is not so much to say us with the lower planes because the higher we go the more these planes are beyond words and also the simpler they are from a certain point of view but we are going to explore that before we close is there any question or or comments about what we have been discussing you know in the one part of the the book why while Jeremy types there and he based on talking about the admin this the spiritual self uh she said the the spiritual self on its own plane is always aware and uh then when the spiritual itself has to express itself through different vehicles of Consciousness and you get to the physical plane that that spiritual selfie is completely overwhelmed by matter but then in the course of evolution through the experience that the spiritual self acquires and also through the reshaping of all these vehicles then that matter that was overwhelming the the real self becomes really a vehicle of expression of it it the vehicle is always limiting uh but when it begins to respond to what the spiritual self uh you know to the nature of the spiritual self then it begins to be useful uh in the sense of uh you know being being really if a form of expression of the self Jeremy asks he thanks you for your lecture and then I asked so did the Christ go through the same evolution in the theosophical view he did um the the Christ would be at the level of well it says here a master of of wisdom the idea is that every human being goes through a process of evolution some human beings have been uh have are already at the end of the process of evolution some others are quite you know in early stages and the reason why there are different stages there are many reasons uh Souls begin to evolve already with different levels of maturity it's not that every soul is created a new for this cycle of evolution and then we all start together so yes the idea is that that the Christ is underwent this process of evolution you know when if you listen again to because I know this is a lot of material or all at once if you are not familiar with this information but um if you listen to the recordings try to stop and and think about all these things so Sunny Basin said many times and she mentions something in passing here uh what makes our our mental body grow and also our our causal body is the reflection the thinking and not thinking only about Concepts but the pondering over they're trying to perceive not simply accumulating information so if we were in a you know in a class where we have more time we would stop after every every slide and discuss it so you can do it by yourself I'm always available on my email to answer questions if you need it but try to to be active in your your study of this material and that that will really provide more insight