anthropology
Higher Self
The deeper aspect of the individual's own consciousness aligned with divine or spiritual truth, distinct from the ego or everyday personality — a locus of guidance and identity that can speak with its own recognisable 'voice' in moments of crisis, carrying memory or knowledge the ordinary self lacks. Distinct from inner_light (a static luminous quality or spark, not an alternate seat of identity and agency) and kingdom_within (the claim that the divine realm generally is present inside the individual, not this specific personal higher consciousness).
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page xvii]] INTRODUCTORY.
------- "Gently to hear, kindly to judge." -- S HAKESPEARE.
S INCE the appearance of Theosophical literature in England, it has become customary to c…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 5)
“The impalpable atoms of gold scattered through the substance of a ton of auriferous quartz may be imperceptible to the naked eye of the miner, yet he knows that they are not only present there but that they alone give his quartz any appreci…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 4)
“I am merged in Sekten." This last sentence gives the corroboration of, and repeats the doctrine of, esoteric Buddhism, for it alludes directly to the fifth principle (Manas), or the most spiritual part of its essence rather, which merges in…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 11)
“But there is still as little cause to regard them as devils, and this is precisely what the Roman Catholics maintain against all reason and logic.
( b ) The concluding sentence of this sloka shows how archaic is the belief and the doctrine…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 3)
“[But Nephesh , the "breath of [[first column continued on next page]] [[second column]] Say the Theosophists: -- E SOTERIC P NEUMATICS.
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Ditto, for it is Atma-Buddhi- Manas.
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Ditto.* 3.
Spiritual Soul.
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Mediator between Spirit…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 3)
“(5.) Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is CONSCIOUS: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.
We men must remember that because we do not perceive any signs -- which we c…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 5)
“As Hermes says, "Knowledge differs much from sense; for sense is of things that surmount it, but Knowledge (gyi) is the end of sense" -- i.e., of the illusion of our physical brain and its intellect; thus emphasizing the contrast between th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 2)
“Without doubt, this one-sided mode of dealing with the problem is due largely to the pernicious Western practice of subordinating consciousness, or regarding it as a "by-product" of molecular motion.
[[Vol.
1, Page]] 328 THE SECRET DOCTRI…”
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The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter XIII, Section 1b
“The supreme spirit in this body is called supervisor, adviser , supporter, enjoyer, the great lord, and the supreme self also.
He who thus knows nature and spirit, together with the qualities, is not born again, however living .
Some by c…”
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book II | Sutra 3
“These are the hindrances: the darkness of unwisdom, self-assertion, lust hate, attachment. Let us try to translate this into terms of the psychical and spiritual man. The darkness of unwisdom is, primarily, the self-absorption of the psychi…”
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book III | Sutra 29
“Perfectly concentrated Meditation on the centre of force in the lower trunk brings an understanding of the order of the bodily powers. We are coming to a vitally important part of the teaching of Yoga: namely, the spiritual man's attainment…”
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book III | Sutra 38
“Through the weakening of the causes of bondage, and by learning the method of sassing, the consciousness is transferred to the other body. In due time, after the spiritual man has been formed and grown stable through the forces and virtues…”
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book IV | Sutra 24
“The psychic nature, which has been printed with mind-images of innumerable material things, exists now for the Spiritual Man, building for him. The 'mind,' once the tyrant, is now the slave, recognized as outward, separate, not Self, a well…”
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The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 1 (part 1)
“p.
33 THE DOCTRINES OF JACOB BOEHME.
"Our whole doctrine is nothing else but an instruction to show how man may create a kingdom of light within himself.
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He in whom this spring of divine power flows, carries within himself the d…”
The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 7 (part 12)
“145:1 This was the divine Man, out of whom the world was created, while the natural man is a product of the world.
145:2 Because everything was within his own will, within himself.
145:3 This celestial Adam has not died, but still exists…”
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Select Works of Plotinus | Select Works, Section 112 (part 1)
“Section 9 9.
This brings us to the Spindle-destiny, spun according to the ancients by the Fates.
To Plato the Spindle represents the co-operation of the moving and the stable elements of the kosmic circuit: the Fates with Necessity, Mothe…”
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Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 20. Methods Of Defence IV-b
“From being in the midst of turmoil one is suddenly raised high above it and sees all the circumstances of one’s life spread out like a bird’s-eye view, as one might see the land from a high place, and one knows intuitively the out come of t…”