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The human soul : its movements, its lights, and the iconography of ...

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THE HUMAN SOULintelligent tonalisation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> secondaryforces which penetrate us, bring about <strong>the</strong>individualisation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fluidic body, <strong>the</strong>development <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>soul</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>its</strong> body.<strong>The</strong> formed <strong>human</strong> <strong>soul</strong> posseses, like <strong>the</strong>universal <strong>soul</strong>, two planes, psycho-spiritual<strong>and</strong> animo-material, corresponding to <strong>the</strong>two poles <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> creation, <strong>of</strong> which good <strong>and</strong>evil, white <strong>and</strong> black, light <strong>and</strong> shade, are<strong>the</strong> most usual expressions, <strong>and</strong> havesanctioned <strong>the</strong> error <strong>of</strong> Manichean dualism.Man is three, body, <strong>soul</strong>, spirit. Godmanifested is three, non -manifested is One,In short, man <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fifth sense <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>fifth race, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fifth stage, a little godunconscious <strong>of</strong> his deity,hardly conscious<strong>of</strong> his free-will, <strong>of</strong> his Will-power, exists <strong>and</strong>persists by <strong>the</strong> law <strong>of</strong> successive <strong>and</strong>progressive lives, by <strong>the</strong> chain <strong>of</strong> repercussedexistences, being begot morally <strong>and</strong>succeeding each o<strong>the</strong>r equitably. At ourepoch, ignorant <strong>of</strong> his origin, misjudinghis ends, he twists <strong>and</strong> turns in vain between<strong>the</strong> allurement <strong>of</strong> animal instinctivity,<strong>the</strong>desire <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> attraction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> divine ray- 130 -

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