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The Ninth Lesson: The Mental Planes.623
The Ninth Lesson: The Mental Planes.
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n our last lesson we told you something about the operation of the mind
outside of the field of consciousness. In this lesson we will attempt to
classify these out-of-consciousness planes, by directing your attention to
the several mental planes above and below the plane of consciousness. As
we stated in the last lesson, over 90 per cent of our mental operations are
conducted outside of the field of consciousness, so that the consideration
of the planes is seen to be an important subject.
Man is a Centre of Consciousness in the great One Life of the Universe. His
soul has climbed a great many steps before it reached its present position
and stage of unfoldment. And it will pass through many more steps until it is
entirely free and delivered from the necessity of its swaddling clothes.
In his mental being man contains traces of all that has gone before—all the
experiences of himself and the great race movement of which he is a part.
And, likewise, his mind contains faculties and mental planes which have not
as yet unfolded into consciousness, and of the existence of which he is but
imperfectly aware. All of these mental possessions, however, are useful and
valuable to him—even the lowest. The lowest may be used to advantage,
under proper mastery, and are only dangerous to the man who allows them