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Manifestation of Consciousness
Excerpts Thomas Printz’ Private Bulletin, Vol. 2
Consciousness
A man’s consciousness is comprised of that of which he is aware or has been acquainted with through the experiences of life. The outer world divided the consciousness into the subconscious wherein is contained the experiences of the past which are sometimes buried deep within the nature; and conscious which comprises the experiences of the present; and the super consciousness or higher unfoldment, toward which man is striving.
The students, as well as the average man, are constantly enlarging their sphere of conscious knowledge through every day experience from the time of birth until the end of their embodiment. A child of two has not the consciousness of the grown man but the experiences, education and instruction of childhood make him aware of a great deal more in the universe than his infant mind could comprehend.
For illustration we shall take an individual at the foot of a great mountain. He is conscious through the medium of his sight and hearing faculties, of his surroundings, of the ledge from which the climb would begin, of his fellow travelers, of the plain, the shrubbery and other things. If it happens to be his initial journey or ascent he will not be conscious of what is at the apex of the mountain until, through his own life energy, he has made the grade.
He may have implanted in his consciousness, a vague picture of the top through the description given by others, through photographs and so on, but although the top of the mountain, the surrounding scenery, the snow capped summit shining in the sun is even now presented to him, it is a view, or a consciousness, into which he can enter only through personal effort. Now, once he has climbed the mountain by the energy of his life that experience will record the fullness of the beauty that is at the top and that consciousness will be his forever.
You will see then, that many men and many women will never make that climb and for them the consciousness of the mountain top will ever remain a super consciousness because it is one that they are not aware of except by the tales, descriptions or photographs of others and the effort daunts them.
It is exactly the same with the human and ascended master consciousness. The ascended master consciousness, like the summit of the mountain, is ever present. The mass of mankind live beneath it; the few hear of it through description or allegory; but in order to make it your own, the ascent must take place through the energy of your own lifestream. However, once you have achieved that summit of mastery, although you return again to the affairs of the outer world, there is a part of your nature and experience which no one can erase. No one can take from a man, ascended or unascended, any experience that widens the consciousness, whether it be a sight of exquisite beauty in nature’s cathedral, or whether it be the entrance of the soul into the realms of spirit, for consciousness is the sole property of each individual lifestream and is one activity that cannot be stolen or destroyed.
Therefore, what a man builds into his consciousness by contemplation and effort is his for eternity. The path leading to the summit is through contemplation, initiation, invocation and perseverance. “No one cometh unto the Father (the summit) but through Me - I AM - the Ascension in the Light!” Why stand ye at the foot looking upward? Ask your own Holy Christ Self to lead you to the apex and be free!
The Physical Brain
The physical brain is the instrument of contact with the world of form. It is a complex mechanism whose intricacies have never been fully understood or discovered by the scientific world of any age since the Great Illuminati, who governed the planet during the Golden Ages were withdrawn into the Heart of the Great Silence.
In the discourses by the Master Saint Germain you will find the statement that the brain is the first point of contact where wrong ideas begin to register within the consciousness of the individual lifestream. To describe the brain from the standpoint of its inner significance and reason for being, we shall consider it as a sun around which are seven rays representing the six senses and the ray to the physical heart, which ray should be, by far, the widest and most powerful channel or conductor of force.
The Divine Mind which is the full consciousness of all truth, desired to pour the flame into the physical heart and then let that flame pour up through the Seventh Ray into the brain structure, conveying to the personal self the fullness of all truth according to the individual’s particular study or desire of the moment. In other words, if there were a desire to express more beauty in music, that part of the Divine Mind directly connected with music would flow into the heart and naturally up to the brain structure, thence through the channels of the senses into the outer world as the manifestation of perfection from the Divine Mind through the individual so choosing to call it forth.
In other words, the original purpose of the brain structure, with its seven channels of force, was intended to be a radiating sun through which the Divine Mind might pour an ever-widening consciousness of truth into the universe. Every genius of art and music, every inventor, and every great statesman who ever served the people in a permanent capacity for good has, consciously or unconsciously, used the brain structure as was originally intended as a conductor of the Divine Ideas, with the Powers of Creation manifesting that perfection for the good of all.
Whence comes the human mind? Are the human mind and human brain synonymous? Firstly, the channels or rays that proceed from the brain represent the senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, intuition, and the Divine Ray of God from the heart that chooses to pour through these senses more and more of God’s Divine Plan - the senses being the instruments of creation. However, through distortion and inversion of the Law, the senses began to draw into the brain structure the various reports of the world without, and in time became the magnetic pull of imperfect manifestations from the outside world, until the central point where the senses focus in the physical brain became a conglomerate mass of impressions reported to the brain by these faulty senses, and this conglomerate mass became the human impure mind. This mind has no reality; it is not true; but yet it forms the beliefs, concepts and motivating power behind the acts, the thoughts and feelings of the people.
The human mind is not synonymous with the brain which is a physical structure made up of atoms and cells but it is a mass of thought and feeling consciousness drawn into the brain which then works back through the senses in the outward motion as the controlling power of the lifestream’s experience.
This human mind is a powerful creation, which is not only an individual entity but a mass entity which has become the controlling power of the average human being. The Great Presence endeavoring to direct the lifestream projects the light ray into the heart and back up into this whirling, breathing mass of concepts, thoughts and feelings but the individual being so enamored of his own thought and feeling processes is seldom aware of this Voice of the Silence.
In the case of great men and women who have served the purpose of assisting the Divine Plan in nations, the God-Power had to raise that individual to a point where his human mind was stilled and there could be revealed to him the vision of the God Plan. These people usually had little accumulation in the brain structure and the over-shadowing Presence of the Masters held in abeyance the human thinking until the Divine Vision was revealed within the heart of the intellectual consciousness; then, through the channels provided by the senses, such individuals were given the opportunity of translating the ideas into physical manifestation. Here they had to be insulated in an oval of the Christ Consciousness to make sure that the human mind, of which they were primarily a part, did not flow in and obliterate the Great Vision. Further than this, there had to be a tremendous outpouring from the Presence and the overshadowing Masters to give such a one constancy and strength to remain true to this vision until it was accomplished.
When a great spiritual movement is about to take place, or a great patriotic venture, or any mission that will stir a forward movement in the race, this divine outpouring takes place through the mind of a central figure who is chosen because of his requisites of purity and strength, and in a lesser degree, the same Vision is imparted to many lifestreams who will have the strength and sustaining power of that Vision to its accomplishment. These individuals receive this inner inspiration usually completely unknown to the outer selves until it is started by the leader whom they recognize, and whose truth they have shared at inner levels. Thus you have a constructive group of lifestreams who have tasted the inner sweetness of a Vision yet unborn and who can work together in more or less agreement, according to the natural harmony of their beings, to the accomplishment of that Vision.
The Spoken Word
The spoken word is the Creative Power of God that molds the Universal Light Substance into forms similar to the cup which the spoken expression creates, whether it refers to persons, places, conditions or things.
The Holy Breath is within the word and the consciousness of the individual is charged and supercharged with distorted forms through the misuse of God’s Energy in speech. In the same manner, if the spoken word is peace giving and harmonious in its expression, the consciousness takes on an added glow of Light and the individual becomes a comforting presence to all he or she contacts. The decrees were consciously presented to man’s intellect as a balance for the misuse of the spoken word, as well as for the silent thought through the centuries he has taken embodiment.
In the first place, in order to shatter these distorted cups, one needs energy vibrating at the same rate but constructively qualified. In other words, it is policy to “break a cup” created by wrong speech by a vibratory action of correct speech rather then by mental force. Secondly, the constructive decree which is always an invocation to a member of the Ascended Host or to your own Christ Presence becomes a cup that the Masters or your own Christ Presence can fill with their Light Substance which creates a pulsating vibration in your consciousness of a quality and activity for a manifestation that will bring more of the Divine Plan into expression. Thirdly, the spoken word, vibrating at the low rate which can be heard by the physical ear, is more easily conducted through the mental and feeling worlds of incarnated spirits setting up forms of a constructive nature in their bodies and auras, whereas the finer ethers of mind substance would, by reason of the bodies’ density, pass around them unfelt and unnoticed.
One of the rules of the Great White Brotherhood is to never picturize an individual imperfectly. Every lifestream is endowed with the birthright of perfection. God, the Father, created everyone in His own Image and Likeness and decreed perfection as the natural law of their beings. When an individual recognizes imperfection in any other lifestream in the universe, he is dishonoring the Will of the Father who created all. Every person through thought, feeling and the spoken word emits energy and substance from his lifestream and when the substance and energy is charged with a picture of imperfection and driven against another individual through the channels of thought and feeling and intensified by the spoken word, it forms a film or coating around the one to whom the force is directed which seeks to cover up the divine image which God intended and makes a tremendous karmic link which can only be obliterated by powerful decrees or the use of the sacred fire invoked by the sender of the destructive energy. All mankind are condemned by one another but when an individual becomes a conscious chela, he must learn to think as the Father does about His creation.