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Esoteric Psychology II - Chapter II - The Ray of Personality - The Appropriation of the Bodies |
In this summary, we have sketched the broad general outlines
of the process. It will be obvious that there will be gradations in the process and men
will be found on earth at every stage of consciousness. One will be equipped with vehicles
in which the emphasis is upon the sensory life. In some cases there will be found a
consciousness which is shifting its emphasis out of one vehicle into another, and so [338]
becoming awake and more inclusive in its range of contacts and in its awareness. Others
again will be possessed of a consciousness which is organizing itself for full expression
as a man, as an integrated personality and as a worker for material ends, bringing to bear
upon those objectives all the force and power of an integrated functioning person. There
will be those whose consciousness is gradually awakening to a new and higher sense of
values, and is slowly at first and more rapidly as facility is acquired, shifting its
focus of attention out of the world of material, selfish living into that of true
spiritual realities. Little by little, the consciousness of the third aspect of divinity is coordinated with that of the second, and the Christ consciousness is aroused into activity through the medium of experience in form. Man begins to add to the gained personality experience of the three worlds of human endeavor, the intuitive spiritual perception which is the heritage of those who are awake within the kingdom of God. Paralleling this development of the consciousness in man is the evolution of the instruments whereby that consciousness is brought en rapport with a rapidly expanding world of sensory perception, of intellectual concepts and of intuitive recognitions. With the development of this form aspect we will not concern ourselves, beyond pointing out that, as the consciousness shifts from one body to another and its range of contacts, therefore, steadily expands, the centers in man's etheric body (three below and four above the diaphragm) are awakened in three major stages, though through the medium of many smaller awakenings.
This process of unfoldment is itself brought about by five crises of awakening, so that we have a threefold process and a fivefold movement.
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