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the personality. If you see red, it is merely physiological, and is to be disregarded.
Green-bronze is the Lower Manas: yellow-bronze the Antahkarana, (Page 582) indigobronze
is Manas. These are to be observed, and when the yellow-bronze merges into
the indigo you are on the Mânasic Plane.
On the Mânasic Plane you see the Noumena, the essence of phenomena. You do
not see people or other consciousnesses, but have enough to do to keep your own.
The trained Seer can see Noumena always. The Adept sees the Noumena on this
plane, the reality of things, so cannot be deceived.
In meditation the beginner may waver backwards and forwards between two planes.
You hear the ticking of a clock on this plane, then on the astral—the soul of the
ticking. When clocks are stopped here the ticking goes on on higher planes, in the
astral, and then in the ether, until the last bit of the clock is gone. It is the same as
with a dead body, which sends out emanations until the last molecule is
disintegrated.
There is no time in meditation, because there is no succession of states of
consciousness on this plane.
Violet is the colour of the Astral. You begin with it, but should not stay in it; try to pass
on. When you see a sheet of violet, you are beginning unconsciously to form a
Mâyâvi Rûpa. Fix your attention, and if you go away keep your consciousness firmly
to the Mâyâvic Body; do not lose sight of it, hold on like grim death.
Consciousness
The consciousness which is merely the animal consciousness is made up of the
consciousness of all the cells in the body except those of the heart. The heart is the
king, the most important organ in the body of man. Even if the head be severed from
the body, the heart will continue to beat for thirty minutes. It will beat for some hours if
wrapped in cotton wool and put in a warm place. The spot in the heart which is the
last of all to die is the seat of life, the centre of all, Brahmâ, the first spot that lives in
the fœtus and the last that dies. When a Yogi is buried in a trance it is this spot that
lives, though the rest of the body be dead, and as long as this is alive the Yogî can
be resurrected. This spot contains potentially mind, life, energy, and will. During life it
radiates prismatic colours, fiery and opalescent. The heart is the centre of spiritual
consciousness, as the brain is the centre of intellectual. But this consciousness
cannot be guided by a person, nor its energy directed by him until he is at one with
Buddhi-Manas; until then it guides him—if it can. Hence the pangs of remorse, the
prickings of conscience, they come from the heart, not the head. In the heart is the
only manifested God, the other two are invisible, and it is this which represents the
Triad. Ãtmâ-Buddhi-Manas.
Christ and Apollonius (Page 583)
In reply to a question whether the consciousness might not be concentrated in the
heart, and so the promptings of the Spirit caught. H.P.B said that any one who could
thus concentrate would be at one with Manas, would have united Kâma-Manas to the
Higher Manas. The Higher Manas could not directly guide man, it could only act
through the Lower Manas.
There are three principal centres in man, Heart, Head, and Navel: any two of which
may be + or – to each other, according to the relative predominance of the centres.
The heart represents the Higher Triad; the liver and spleen represent the Quaternary.
The solar plexus is the brain of the stomach.
H.P.B was asked if the three centres above-named would represent the Christos,
crucified between two thieves; she said it might serve as an analogy, but these
figures must not be over-driven. It must never be forgotten that the Lower Manas is
the same in its essence as the Higher, and may become one with it by rejecting
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