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Biblioteca Esoterica Esonet.ORG http://www.esonet.ORG multiplicity of the lower mind's thought processes into the unified revelation — the "seeing whole" — of the illumined mind, the mind of wholeness. The lower mind nevertheless performs an important function during the first phases of the development of human consciousness, when this consciousness emerges from the state of biological (vegetable and animal) consciousness — a state in which it is structured and controlled by instincts. When Natural Man enters the stage of biospheric existence, he is "overshadowed," as it were, by the power of the Godhead released through the primordial Avatar in whom the archetypal Image of Man manifests as a spiritual entity. Both the power of the Godhead and the archetype that gives it a form are almost totally beyond the consciousness of human beings just emerging from the biological state. These emergent human beings are still so close to the animal condition that their minds can operate only as the lower or concretizing mind. The function of this mind is to give concrete form to what makes protohuman organisms human. At that time, "giving concrete form" means expressing the inexpressible and incomprehensible in symbols based on unusual or particularly intense experiences of life in the biological world. The concretizing lower mind thus reflects the realities of the realm of archetypes — the realm of the higher mind — which is then utterly transcendent and ineffable. This, indeed, is what the lower mind always should do. Its function is to translate spiritual realities into life terms, thus into symbols, images, and ritual gestures which become the foundation of cultures uniting and "ensouling" increasingly large groups of human beings. However, the consciousness of primitive human beings is still bound to life energies and instincts operating as rigidly set mechanisms seeking release in fulfilling activities. Therefore, the symbolic forms and magical rites of the culture inevitably are misused and made to serve life desires. Sooner or later, human beings whose biological energies are particularly powerful use the concretizing mind to bring these energies to a sharper, more effective focus. The lower mind then performs two functions: it rigidly maintains the culture's traditional structures and form, and it gives strength to the developing psychism of the community, which usually is dominated by one or more powerful human beings. When the process of individualization begins and culture-wholes are formed whose dharma is to pay particularly focused attention to the archetypal ideal of autonomous and responsible individual selfhood, the concretizing mind gives sociopolitical form to such an ideal. The concepts of democracy, of the "worth and dignity of the individual," of the primacy of the individual over the collective, and of universal reason over particular feelings gradually become official tenets of a new social order. These ideals acquire some kind of religious sanction and eventually are formulated into political laws; but the majority of the people repeatedly and most often successfully circumvent sanctions and laws, often with the tacit approval of priests, prosecutors, and judges. The desires that fill and energize the psychic-astral realm use the lower mind, which has become the servant of the ego. The ego is a psychic structure organized by the concretizing mind, but it is also to some degree a reflection of the principle of individualization within the triune spiritual entity described above. Ideally, the ego reflects this spiritual principle of individualization as the 110
Biblioteca Esoterica Esonet.ORG http://www.esonet.ORG moon reflects the sun. Thus the ego and the other components of the personality over which the ego rules have been called the lunar self, while the triune spiritual entity in archetypal Man has been called the solar Self (or sometimes the Solar Angel). This solar Self and its servant, the higher mind, constitute a fourfold spiritual soul at least potentially active in every human being. It might be related to the Pythagorean Tetraktys (1+2+3+4). The solar Self persists during the entire cycle of Man; it retains its identity, not only through the symbolic Day period of the cycle of being, but also through the Night period. However, when the immense majority of human beings today proclaim, "I am Peter" or "I am Jane," they are not referring to this solar Self. They are at best but vaguely conscious of its existence in the symbolic form given to it by their particular religion or metaphysical group. Rather, when they say "I," they are referring to their personal or lunar self or (psychologically speaking) to their ego. Therefore the next chapter will give a more detailed account of the combination of factors which together constitute the lunar or "lower" self (the personality). Also it will examine the origins of these factors and whither they go when death disassociates them. This picture of what precedes the formation of a personality and will follow its disintegration will pave the way for a discussion of the process popularly known as, reincarnation. The reader may already have surmised that such a process is far more complex than is popularly believed and that the term reincarnation may be misleading. 111
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