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1Having attempted to define the soul as distinct and yet insepar¬ able from the spirit, we will now try to give some idea concerning its attributes, and in this connection it will greatly aid us if we first point out the difference between the soul and the body, and also the correspondence. The physical body is evolved by a reflex action of the interior soul during the process of evolving its spiritual organism. The medium between the two is the astral form or spiritual body. It is from the latter that the physical body receives its form and force. The spiritual organism protects itself, so to say, from the external plane by evolv¬ ing an astral raiment. This raiment, or astral body, crystallizes a more or less distorted reflection of the spiritual form around itself and thus produces what is known as the human form divine, upon the external plane. This physical organism is constituted and evolved in such order as to render the most perfect expression (in unison) of the physical senses. No one sense is in excess of another, in a perfectly sound human organism; while the different animals generally typify the extreme expression of some one particular sense, as sight, scent, feeling, etc.
2This human body, through the mediumship of the brain, which is the sounding board of the senses, communicates with the external world which is composed of various elements. The result is form, sound, color, etc. Dur senses, then, constitute the only source of our external knowledge, and form the basis from which spring our ideas, thoughts and feelings. Our thoughts are thus moulded by the various phenomenal states through which we pass. This state is our external consciousness. It is purely an intellectual state, based upon, and de¬ pending upon the continuance of the physical senses while on earth. The sum total of human knowledge upon special subjects is tabulated and classified; this is reduced to a system and called science. We are thus able to see and appreciate the relation of the physical senses to the physical body, and grasp their importance to the still remoter [ by Google IZBA THE SOUL 143
3mind which utilizes the knowledge so gained. The attributes of the spirit, which we term the soul, bear a perfect correspondence to the physical senses of the body. That is, the soul bears exactly the same relation to the spirit as the physical senses bear to the human brain. Thus we have the senses which are physical, and we have the senses which are spiritual. The physical are simply a reflection of the spir¬ itual. The senses of the body and the senses of the soul are two halves of the same attribute, the external and the internal. We see the intelligence, the mind, which at the back of the senses utilizes and tabulates the impressions it receives of the outer world, the world which it, itself, is powerless to penetrate. The mind is some¬ thing above and beyond the senses, though it is absolutely dependent upon them. It is the same with the soul, and the spirit. All knowl¬ edge from without or within the universe of external life is received by means of the soul. But at the back of this soul, there rests the eternal scintillating atom of Deity above and beyond any human con¬ ception. There it rests in serenity and peace, tabulating and utilizing all the knowledge and experience which the soul in its various cycles is continually receiving. “As it is below so it is above.” This law of correspondences should ever be remembered. It is man’s universal but infallible guide, and anything conflicting therewith should be rejected as erroneous.
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.
1Having attempted to define the soul as distinct and yet insepar¬ able from the spirit, we will now try to give some idea concerning its attributes, and in this connection it will greatly aid us if we first point out the difference between the soul and the body, and also the correspondence. The physical body is evolved by a reflex action of the interior soul during the process of evolving its spiritual organism. The medium between the two is the astral form or spiritual body. It is from the latter that the physical body receives its form and force. The spiritual organism protects itself, so to say, from the external plane by evolv¬ ing an astral raiment. This raiment, or astral body, crystallizes a more or less distorted reflection of the spiritual form around itself and thus produces what is known as the human form divine, upon the external plane. This physical organism is constituted and evolved in such order as to render the most perfect expression (in unison) of the physical senses. No one sense is in excess of another, in a perfectly sound human organism; while the different animals generally typify the extreme expression of some one particular sense, as sight, scent, feeling, etc.
2This human body, through the mediumship of the brain, which is the sounding board of the senses, communicates with the external world which is composed of various elements. The result is form, sound, color, etc. Dur senses, then, constitute the only source of our external knowledge, and form the basis from which spring our ideas, thoughts and feelings. Our thoughts are thus moulded by the various phenomenal states through which we pass. This state is our external consciousness. It is purely an intellectual state, based upon, and de¬ pending upon the continuance of the physical senses while on earth. The sum total of human knowledge upon special subjects is tabulated and classified; this is reduced to a system and called science. We are thus able to see and appreciate the relation of the physical senses to the physical body, and grasp their importance to the still remoter [ by Google IZBA THE SOUL 143
3mind which utilizes the knowledge so gained. The attributes of the spirit, which we term the soul, bear a perfect correspondence to the physical senses of the body. That is, the soul bears exactly the same relation to the spirit as the physical senses bear to the human brain. Thus we have the senses which are physical, and we have the senses which are spiritual. The physical are simply a reflection of the spir¬ itual. The senses of the body and the senses of the soul are two halves of the same attribute, the external and the internal. We see the intelligence, the mind, which at the back of the senses utilizes and tabulates the impressions it receives of the outer world, the world which it, itself, is powerless to penetrate. The mind is some¬ thing above and beyond the senses, though it is absolutely dependent upon them. It is the same with the soul, and the spirit. All knowl¬ edge from without or within the universe of external life is received by means of the soul. But at the back of this soul, there rests the eternal scintillating atom of Deity above and beyond any human con¬ ception. There it rests in serenity and peace, tabulating and utilizing all the knowledge and experience which the soul in its various cycles is continually receiving. “As it is below so it is above.” This law of correspondences should ever be remembered. It is man’s universal but infallible guide, and anything conflicting therewith should be rejected as erroneous.
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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