Nothing that takes place no manifestation
however rapid or weak can ever be lost from the Skandhic
record of a man's life Not the smallest sensation
the most trifling action impulse thought
impression or deed can fade or go out from
or in the Universe We may think it unregistered by our
memory unperceived by our consciousness yet it
will still be recorded on the tablets of the astral light
Personal memory is a fiction of the physiologist There
are cells in our brain that receive and convey sensations and
impressions but this once done their mission is
accomplished These cells of the supposed "organ of
memory" are the receivers and conveyors of
all the pictures and impressions of the past not their
retainers Under various conditions and stimuli
they can receive instantaneously the reflection of these astral
images back again and this is called memory
recollection remembrance but they do not preserve
them When it is said that one has lost his memory
or that it is weakened it is only a facon de parler
it is our memory-cells alone that are enfeebled or destroyed
The window glass allows us to see the sun moon
stars and all the objects outside clearly crack
the pane and all these outside images will be seen in a distorted
way break the windowpane altogether and replace it with
a board or draw the blind down and the images
will be shut out altogether from your sight But can you
say because of this that all these images-sun
moon and stars-have disappeared or that by repairing
the window with a new pane the same will not be reflected
again into your room? There are cases on record of long months
and years of insanity of long days of fever when almost
everything done or said was done and said unconsciously
Yet when the patients recovered they remembered occasionally their
words and deeds and very fully Unconscious cerebration
is a phenomenon on this plane and may hold good so far as the
personal mind is concerned But the Universal Memory preserves
every motion the slightest wave and feeling that ripples
the waves of differentiated nature of man or of the Universe .
Lucifer, October, 1891
H. P. Blavatsky
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