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the Occultist to remove evil habits, if the intention be perfectly pure; as on the higher
plane intention is everything, and good intention must work for good.
Q. Is the Auric Egg the expansion of the “Pillar of Light,” the Mânasic Principle, and
so not surrounding the child till its seventh year
The Dweller on the Threshold (Page 539) A. It is the Auric Egg. The Auric Egg is quite
pure at birth, but it is a question whether the higher or lower Manas will colour it at
the seventh year. The Mânasic expansion is pure Ãkâsha. The ray of Manas is let
down into the vortex of the lower Principles, and being discoloured, and so limited by
the Kamic Tanhâs and by the defects of the bodily organism, forms the personality.
Hereditary Karma can reach the child before the seventh year, but no individual
Karma can come into play till the descent of the Manas.
The Auric Egg is to the Man
As the Astral Light is to the Earth
As the Ether is to the Astral Light
As the Akâsha is to the Ether
The critical states are left out in the enumeration. They are the Laya Centres, or
missing links in our consciousness, and separate these four planes from one another.
The Dweller
The “Dweller on the Threshold” is found in two cases: (a) In the case of the
separation of the Triangle from the Quaternary; (b) When Kâmic desires and
passions are so intense that the Kâma Rûpa persists in Kâma Loka beyond the
Devachanic period of the Ego, and thus survives the reincarnation of the Devachanic
Entity (e.g., when reincarnation occurs within two hundred or three hundred years).
The “Dweller” being drawn by affinity towards the Reincarnating Ego to whom it had
belonged, and being unable to reach it, fastens on the Kâma of the new personality,
and becomes the Dweller on the Threshold, strengthening the Kâmic element and
thus lending it a dangerous potency. Some become mad from this cause.
Intellect
The white Adept is not always at first of powerful intellect. In fact, H.P.B had known
Adepts whose intellectual powers were originally below the average. It is the Adept’s
purity, his equal love to all, his working with Nature, with Karma, with his “Inner God,”
that give him his power. Intellect by itself alone will make the Black Magician. For
intellect alone is accompanied with pride and selfishness: it is the intellectual plus the
spiritual that raises man. For spirituality prevents pride and vanity.
Metaphysics are the domain of the Higher Manas; whereas (Page 540) Physics are
that of Kâma-Manas, which does the thinking in Physical Science and on material
things. Kâma-Manas, like every other Principle, is of seven degrees. The
Mathematician without spirituality, however great he may be, will not reach
Metaphysics; but the Metaphysician will master the highest conceptions of
Mathematics and will apply them without learning the latter. To be born
Metaphysician the Psychic Plane will not be of much account: he will see its errors
immediately he enters it, inasmuch as it is not the thing he seeks. With respect to
Music and other Arts, they are the children of either the Mânasic or Kâma-Mânasic
Principle, proportionately as Soul or technicality predominates.
Karma
After each incarnation, when the Mânasic Ray returns to its Father, the Ego, some of
its atoms remain behind and scatter. These Mânasic atoms, Tânhic and other
“causes,” being of the same nature as the Manas, are attracted to it by strong bonds
of affinity, and on the reincarnation of the Ego are unerringly attracted to it and
constitute its Karma. Until these are all gathered up, the individuality is not free from
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