Volume 2 : Lights on the Teachings (2), Lights on the Ancients (2), Lights on the Fundamentals, Flame of White Light, The way of the Light
Volume 2 includes multiple books : Lights on the Teachings (2), Lights on the Ancients (2), Lights on the Fundamentals, Flame of White Light, The way of the Light.
The human being is made up of many parts, as it were, and it is not a simple but a very complex existence; our common experience justifies us to hold that it is so. First, there is the body, then there is the life-force without which no activity is possible, again there is the mind—the thought and other faculties of the mind; and there are other parts of our being which are not ordinarily developed in all men. Yet they are there, though in an embryonic or nebulous condition. Occult science, Yogic know-ledge would call them by various names,—Psychic Being, the inner being or the soul, the subconscious self, the subliminal soul and so on. Thus we can see that man is a complex being, and has many parts in and of him known and unknown to him. Even the known parts are divided and heterogeneous, warring elements. The body does not obey the mind, life does not obey the mind, life and mind do not cooperate, and there is no harmony among the various elements and man is really divided in his being, and this disharmony is the root-cause of all trouble, of all defects and weaknesses, mental, moral or spiritual.
To bring about harmony therefore should be the aim of our endeavour.
1933
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