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Kâmic impulses. The crucifixion of the Christos represents the self-sacrifice of the
Higher Manas, the Father that sends his only begotten Son into the world to take
upon him our sins: the Christ-myth came from the Mysteries. So also did the life of
Apollonius of Tyana; this was suppressed by the Fathers of the Church because of its
striking similarity to the life of Christ.
The psycho-intellectual man is all in the head with its seven gateways; the spiritual
man is in the heart. The convolutions are formed by thought.
The third ventricle in life is filled with light, and not with a liquid as after death.
There are seven cavities in the brain which are quite empty during life, and it is in
these that visions must be reflected if they are to remain in the memory. These
centres are, in Occultism, called the seven harmonies, the scale of the divine
harmonies. They are filled with Ãkâsha, each with its own colour, according to the
state of consciousness in which you are. The sixth is the pineal gland, which is hollow
and empty during life; the seventh is the whole; the fifth is the third ventricle; the
fourth the pituitary body. When Manas is united (Page 584) to Ãtmâ-Buddhi, or when
Ãtmâ-Buddhi is centred in Manas, it acts in the three higher cavities, radiating,
sending forth a halo of light, and this is visible in the case of a very holy person.
The cerebellum is the centre, the storehouse of all the forces; it is the Kâma of the
head. The pineal gland corresponds to the uterus; its peduncles to the Fallopian
tubes. The pituitary body is only its servant, its torch-bearer, like the servants bearing
lights that used to run before the carriage of a princess. Man is thus androgyne so far
as his head is concerned.
Man contains in himself every element that is found in the Universe. There is nothing
in the Macrocosm that is not in the Microcosm. The pineal gland, as was said, is quite
empty during life; the pituitary contains various essences. The granules in the pineal
gland are precipitated after death within the cavity.
The cerebellum furnishes the materials for ideation; the frontal lobes of the cerebrum
are the finishers and polishers of the materials, but they cannot create of themselves.
Clairvoyant perception is the consciousness of touch: thus reading letters,
psychometrizing substances, etc., may be done at the pit of the stomach. Every
sense has its consciousness, and you can have consciousness through every sense.
There may be consciousness on the plane of sight, though the brain be paralyzed;
the eyes of a paralyzed person will show terror. So with the sense of hearing. Those
who are physically blind, deaf or dumb, are still possessed of the psychic
counterparts of these senses.
Will and Desire
Eros in man is the will of the genius to create great pictures, great music, things that
will live and serve the race. It has nothing in common with the animal desire to
create. Will is the Higher Manas. It is the universal harmonious tendency acting by
the Higher Manas. Desire is the outcome of separateness, aiming at the satisfaction
of Self in Matter. The path opened between the Higher Ego and the Lower enables
the Ego to act on the personal self.
Conversion
It is not true that a man powerful in evil can suddenly be converted and become as
powerfully for good. His vehicle is too defiled, and he can at best but neutralize the
evil, balancing up the bad Karmic causes he has set in motion, at any rate for this
incarnation. You cannot take a herring barrel and use it for attar of roses; the wood is
too soaked through with the drippings. When evil impulses and tendencies have
become impressed on the physical nature, they cannot at once be reversed. The
molecules of the body have been set in a Kâmic direction, and though they have
sufficient intelligence to discern between things on their own plane, i.e., to avoid
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