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| From Intellect to Intuition - Chapter Three - The Nature of the Soul |
The relation of the soul to the Oversoul is that of the part
towards the Whole, and it is this relation and its consequent recognitions, which develop
into that sense of oneness with all beings and with the supreme Reality to which the
mystics have always testified. Its relation to the human being is that of the conscious
entity towards its medium of expression; of the one who thinks, towards the instrument of
thought; of the one who registers feeling, towards the field of sensuous experience, and
of the actor, towards the physical body - the sole means of contact with that particular
field of activity, the world of physical life. This soul expresses itself through two
forms of energy, that which we call the vital principle or fluid, the life aspect, and the
energy of pure reason. These energies are focused during life in the physical body. The
life stream centers itself in the heart, utilizing the blood stream, the arteries and the
veins, and animating every part of the [55] organism; the other stream, of intellectual
energy, centers itself in the brain, and utilizes the nervous apparatus as its medium of
expression. In the heart, therefore, is the seat of the life-principle; in the head is the
seat of the reasoning mind and of the spiritual consciousness, which latter is attained
through a right use of the mind. Dr. C. Lloyd Morgan says in connection with this word,
"soul:"
Earlier in the same book he says that:
It is this revelation of Deity that is the goal of the mystical endeavor and the object of the dual activity of mind - God as life in Nature, God as love, subjectively, and as plan and as purpose, and it is this that the unification, which meditation brings about [56] reveals to man. Through its ordered technique, man discovers that unity which is himself. Through it, he later discovers his relation to the universe; he finds that his physical body and his vital energies are part and parcel of Nature itself, which is, in fact, the outer garment of Deity; he finds that his ability to love and to feel makes him aware of the love that pulses at the heart of all creation; and he discovers that his mind can give him the key which unlocks for him the door of understanding and that he can enter into the purposes and the plans which guide the Mind of God Himself. In fact, he arrives at God and discovers God as the central Fact. Knowing himself to be divine, he finds the whole is equally divine. Dr. F. Kirtley Mather of Harvard University has said in a most illuminating article:
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