The Secret Doctrine Volume 3.pdf

3 Psychic apperception:
4 Vital perception
Of astral double, döppelganger, carrying
it higher to the Physical feeling,
sensations of pleasure and pain, of
quality.
These are the four lower scales, and belong to the psycho-physiological
man.
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Manasic discernment of the
Mânasic self-perception.
Lower Manas.
Will perception:
Spiritual, entirely conscious
apperception: **
Volitional perception, the voluntary taking
in of an idea; you can regard or
disregard physical pain.
Because it reaches the Higher, selfconscious
conscious Manas.
**Apperception means self-perception, conscious action, not as with
Leibnitz, but when attention is fixed on the perception
(Page 576) You can take these on any planes: e.g., bad news passes through the four
lower stages before coming to the heart.
Or take Sound:
1. It strikes the ear.
2. Self-perception of the ear.
3. On the psychic or mental, which carries it to
4. Vital (harsh, soft; strong, weak; etc.).
The Ego
One of the best proofs that there is an Ego, a true Field of Consciousness is the fact
already mentionned, that a state of consciousness, is never exactly reproduced,
though you should live a hundred years, and pass through milliards and milliards. In
an active day, how many states and substates there are; it would be impossible to
have cells enough for all. This will help you to understand why some mental states
and abstract things follow the Ego into Devachan, and why others merely scatter in
space. That which touches the Entity has an affinity for it, as a noble action is
immortal and goes with it into Devachan, forming part and parcel of the biography of
the personality which is disintegrating. A lofty emotion runs through the seven stages,
and touches the Ego, the mind that plays its tunes in the mind-cells. We can analyze
the work of consciousness and describe it; but we cannot define consciousness
unless we postulate a Subject.
Bhûrloka
The Bhûrloka begins with the Lower Manas. Animals do not feel as do men. The dog
thinks more of his master being angry than of the actual pain of the lash. The animal
does not suffer in memory and in imagination, feeling past and future as well as
actual present pain.
Vibrations and Impressions (Page 577)
Pineal Gland
The special physical organ of perception is the brain, and perception is located in the
aura of the pineal gland. This aura answers in vibrations to any impressions, but it
can only be sensed, not perceived, in the living man. During the process of thought
manifesting in consciousness, a constant vibration occurs in the light of this aura, and
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