The Supreme Doctrine - neo-alchemist

PASSIVITY OF THE MIND
My mental consciousness is not made, in reality, to operate in this
reactive manner, which is female, but in an active manner, which is male.
The organic consciousness, on the other hand, is female; she is made to react
to the excitations of the outside world (primary reaction). But the mental
consciousness is not made to react against this primary reaction by a
secondary reaction. My refusal of mobilisation of my energy ought not to
succeed this mobilisation, but should be effected in the very instant at which
my energy comes out of non-manifestation. The action of my mental
consciousness, male, should directly balance the action of my organic
consciousness, female, and not its consequences in energy. Only then will
occur the conciliation between the two antagonistic and complementary
consciousnesses; and this conciliation will be revealed by the fact that the
energy will be mobilised without being seized by the formal domain. When
the refusal of mobilisation of energy, entirely accomplished, is replaced at the
very instant at which this mobilisation occurs, it does not suppress this
mobilisation (which would be death), but it exactly balances the organic will
which produces it, and this equilibrium results in the production of an energy
which remains informal, which escapes the imaginative-emotive disintegration,
and which is accumulated right up to the explosion of satori.
When my refusal of the mobilisation of my energy ceases to be passive in
order to become active it remains a refusal in the sense that it effectively
opposes the leakage of my energy in formal disintegration, but at the same
time it ceases to be refusal in the sense that it does not prevent the
actualisation of the informal non-manifested energy.
But of what in fact does this transformation consist? Is it a
transformation of the reactive-female functioning of the attention into activemale
functioning? We have said that my attention comes into play too late
with regard to the mobilisation of my energy. Must one then wish that it
succeed in coming into play sooner, in reacting more quickly? No; however
rapid might be the reaction, it is always late because it is reaction and not
action. Besides, the expression 'too late' should not be understood here in the
usual sense. Between the primary reaction and the secondary reaction that we
have described, no time passes, no duration, no matter how brief one may
imagine it. Our expression 'too late' does not indicate a second or even a
minute fraction of a second, but the fact that the reaction of the mental
consciousness, even though immediate, is belated because it is reaction
whereas it ought to be an action. My attention ought not to be awakened by
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