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The Secret Doctrine. 173
have thus resulting from this association Kama-
Manas; and the central organ of this conjoined or
dual principle is the human brain. Here is the
union of Thought and Sensation; or Knowing and
Feeling; the union of the desire to know with the
desire to feel. Here is, furthermore, the origin,
seat, and nature of self-consciousness in man. On
the upper side of the point of union we have the
Will; on the lower side, Desire. This union of
Manas with Kama, or Mind with Desire, is called
the lower mind (Lower Manas), because it always
involves the personal equation.
Let the union exist,
but the desire be entirely subordinate and impersonal,
and the Higher-Mind becomes free. The
terms of the personal equation are united with, or
merged in the n^ext higher. This is At-One-Ment
of the lower man with the Divine: or Christ at-one
with the Father. So long as the lower mind is held
in bondage by desire, man can not seek or discern
the Good or the True. He inquires, "What is good
for me?"
Freed from Desire, or the personal bias,
he inquires after and seeks for that which is good or
true in itself. When this condition is reached and
habitually maintained, the square is said to be inclosed
in the triangle. The whole lower nature is
said to be at one with the Divine, or Spiritual Soul.