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The Eighth Lesson: The Highlands and Lowlands of Mind.605
The Eighth Lesson: The Highlands and Lowlands of Mind.
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he Self of each of us has a vehicle of expression which we call the Mind,
but which vehicle is much larger and far more complex than we are apt
to realize. As a writer has said “Our Self is greater than we know; it has peaks
above, and lowlands below the plateau of our conscious experience.” That
which we know as the “conscious mind” is not the Soul. The Soul is not a part
of that which we know in consciousness, but, on the contrary, that which we
know in consciousness is but a small part of the Soul—the conscious vehicle
of a greater Self, or “I.”
The Yogis have always taught that the mind has many planes of manifestation
and action—and that many of its planes operated above and below the
plane of consciousness. Western science is beginning to realize this fact,
and its theories regarding same may be found in any of the later works on
psychology. But this is a matter of recent development in Western science.
Until very recently the text books held that Consciousness and Mind were
synonymous, and that the Mind was conscious of all of its activities, changes
and modifications.
Leibnitz was one of the first Western philosophers to advance the
idea that there were planes of mental activity outside of the plane of