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1compelled to attain whatever he lacks of perfection after he leaves his physical body, within the purgatorial states of purification of the soul world. Ignorance and selfishness; or else, the jarring discords produced by the combination of the two; force the great majority of mankind out of the central line of march mapped out by progressive evolution. At the present time, mankind has evolved but five physical senses. A few sensitive souls are aware of the higher two, but are not able to make much use of them. The perfect composite man possesses not only seven physical senses, but also seven soul senses, related to each other as follows: Physical Senses Soul Senses 1 . Touch 1 . The power to psychometrize 2. Taste 2. The power to absorb and enjoy the finer essence of the life wave 3. Smell 3. The power to distinguish the spiritual aromas of Nature 4. Sight 4. The lucid state called clairvoyance 5. Hearing 5. The* ability to perceive the ethereal vi¬ brations termed clairaudience 6. Intuition 6. The capacity to receive true inspiration 7. Thought transference 7. The power to converse with spiritual in¬ telligences at will
2When the human soul has attained unto these seven states, his divine right to rule follows as a natural sequence. The powers of the will increase as the attributes of the soul expand; therefore, it is perfectly useless to preach so much about cultivating the will, since, that is accomplished by evolving the soul qualities or senses. The magical powers of the adept, which enable him to partially control the elements and to produce various kinds of physical phenomena, at will, are not the outcome of that terrific will force, so pleasing as a sentiment to many drawing-room occultists, but, they are the mild expressions of a firm but gentle soul in the process of evolving forms, in the spiritual imagery of thought. There is nothing “tremendous,” nothing of the “fearful intensity,” about it, for the slightest tremor of the purified soul, when consciously placed en rapport with the astral light, will produce surprising results. And the higher the plane from which the embodied adept projects his thought desire, the more extensive and potential the phenomena in the sublunary world of effects. Digitized O THE TRIUMPH OF THE SOUL—ADEPTSHIP 167
3Such, then, is adeptship; such are the glorious possibilities at¬ tainable by the human race, when the spiritual attributes of their being are allowed to grow and expand in the sunny atmosphere of a pure and unselfish life. It is a state that may well be regarded as the climax of our Earth’s possibilities upon her outward plane. A victory of which the human race may justly feel proud, is the grand triumph of the Soul over the forces of matter. Ill HOW ADEPTSHIP IS ATTAINABLE
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1compelled to attain whatever he lacks of perfection after he leaves his physical body, within the purgatorial states of purification of the soul world. Ignorance and selfishness; or else, the jarring discords produced by the combination of the two; force the great majority of mankind out of the central line of march mapped out by progressive evolution. At the present time, mankind has evolved but five physical senses. A few sensitive souls are aware of the higher two, but are not able to make much use of them. The perfect composite man possesses not only seven physical senses, but also seven soul senses, related to each other as follows: Physical Senses Soul Senses 1 . Touch 1 . The power to psychometrize 2. Taste 2. The power to absorb and enjoy the finer essence of the life wave 3. Smell 3. The power to distinguish the spiritual aromas of Nature 4. Sight 4. The lucid state called clairvoyance 5. Hearing 5. The* ability to perceive the ethereal vi¬ brations termed clairaudience 6. Intuition 6. The capacity to receive true inspiration 7. Thought transference 7. The power to converse with spiritual in¬ telligences at will
2When the human soul has attained unto these seven states, his divine right to rule follows as a natural sequence. The powers of the will increase as the attributes of the soul expand; therefore, it is perfectly useless to preach so much about cultivating the will, since, that is accomplished by evolving the soul qualities or senses. The magical powers of the adept, which enable him to partially control the elements and to produce various kinds of physical phenomena, at will, are not the outcome of that terrific will force, so pleasing as a sentiment to many drawing-room occultists, but, they are the mild expressions of a firm but gentle soul in the process of evolving forms, in the spiritual imagery of thought. There is nothing “tremendous,” nothing of the “fearful intensity,” about it, for the slightest tremor of the purified soul, when consciously placed en rapport with the astral light, will produce surprising results. And the higher the plane from which the embodied adept projects his thought desire, the more extensive and potential the phenomena in the sublunary world of effects. Digitized O THE TRIUMPH OF THE SOUL—ADEPTSHIP 167
3Such, then, is adeptship; such are the glorious possibilities at¬ tainable by the human race, when the spiritual attributes of their being are allowed to grow and expand in the sunny atmosphere of a pure and unselfish life. It is a state that may well be regarded as the climax of our Earth’s possibilities upon her outward plane. A victory of which the human race may justly feel proud, is the grand triumph of the Soul over the forces of matter. Ill HOW ADEPTSHIP IS ATTAINABLE
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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