The Secret Doctrine
Vol II - Anthropogenesis
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Then, from the turning point, it is the Higher Ego, or incarnating
principle, the nous or Mind, which reigns over the animal Ego, and
rules it whenever it is not carried down by the latter. In short,
Spirituality is on its ascending arc, and the animal or physical
impedes it from steadily progressing on the path of its evolution only
when the selfishness of the personality has so strongly infected the
real inner man with its lethal virus, that the upward attraction has
lost all its power on the thinking reasonable man. |
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Here we have an allusion to the "Egg-born," Third Race; the first half
of which is mortal, i.e., unconscious in its personality, and having
nothing within itself to survive***; and the latter half of which
becomes immortal in its individuality, by reason of its fifth principle
being called to life by the informing gods, and thus connecting the
Monad with this Earth. |
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In other words, the two higher principles can have no individuality
on Earth, cannot be man, unless there is (a) the Mind, the Manas-Ego,
to cognize itself, and (b) the terrestrial false personality, or the body
of egotistical desires and personal Will, to cement the whole, as if
round a pivot (which it is, truly), to the physical form of man. It is the
Fifth and the Fourth principles* - Manas and Kama rupa - that
contain the dual personality: the real immortal Ego (if it assimilates
itself to the two higher) and the false and transitory personality, the
mayavi or astral body, so-called, or the animal-human Soul - the two
having to be closely blended for purposes of a full terrestrial
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The only difference, a grave one, no doubt, - as implying a spiritual
and divine nature of man independent of his physical body in this
illusionary world, in which the false personality and its cerebral basis
alone is known to orthodox psychology - is as follows. |
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In actual life that ignorance is, unfortunately, but too real.
Nevertheless, the permanent individuality is fully aware of the fact,
though, through the atrophy of the "spiritual" eye in the physical
body, that knowledge is unable to impress itself on the consciousness
of the false personality. |
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" The Logos, being no personality but the universal principle, is
represented by all the divine Powers born of its mind " |
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...the terrestrial and the divine; after which he becomes impermeable
to the lower titanic forces, invulnerable in his personality, and
immortal in his individuality, which cannot happen before every
animal element is eliminated from his nature. |
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... it is the Logos Demiurge (the second logos), or the first emanation
from the mind (Mahat), who is made to strike, so to say, the key-note
of that which may be called the correlation of individuality and personality in the subsequent scheme of evolution. |
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The Logos it is, who is shown in the mystic symbolism of
cosmogony, theogony, and anthropogony, playing two parts in the
drama of Creation and Being, i.e., that of the purely human personality and the divine impersonality of the so-called Avatars, or
divine incarnations, and of the universal Spirit, called Christos by the
Gnostics ... |
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It is in this latter character that he seeks, to save himself from
destruction, to destroy the coming "babe" destined to conquer him:-
the babe, of course, allegorizing the divine and steady will of the
Yogi- determined to resist all such temptations, and thus destroy the
passions within his earthly personality. |
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