Alice Bailey - From Intellect to Intuition - III - The Nature of the Soul
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From Intellect to Intuition - Chapter Three - The Nature of the Soul
The head and the heart become united in their endeavor. Mind
and pure reason are blended with [60] love and devotion in an entire readjustment of the
personality to a new realm of awareness. New states of consciousness are registered, a new
phenomenal world is gradually perceived, and it begins to dawn upon the aspirant that his
life-focus and his consciousness can be lifted entirely out of all past fields of
endeavor. He finds that he can walk with God, dwell in Heaven, and be aware of a new world
lying within the familiar outer forms. He begins to regard himself as a conscious denizen
of another kingdom in nature, the spiritual, which is as real and as vital, as ordered and
as phenomenal as any we now know. He steadily assumes the attitude of the soul towards his
instrument, the human body. He regards himself no longer as a man, controlled by his
emotions, impelled by energy, and directed by his mind, but knows himself to be the Self,
thinking through the mind, feeling through the emotions, and acting consciously. As this
consciousness stabilizes and becomes permanent, the work of evolution in his case is
consummated, the great at-one-ment is made, and the union between the Self and its vehicle
of expression is established. Thus a divine Son of God consciously incarnates.Through
the work of education in all its many branches, the coordination of the personality has
been tremendously hastened. The mentality of the race is steadily mounting the ladder of
achievement. Humanity, through its vast groups of educated and mentally focused people is
ready for self-determination and soul-direction. Now the intensive [61] culture of the
individual, as taught in the Eastern system, can be undertaken. The education and
reorientation of the advanced human being must find its place in our mass education. This
is the plea of this book and the object of its writing. How can a man find his soul, or
ascertain the fact of its existence? How can he readjust himself to the conditions of
soul life, and begin to function consciously and simultaneously as a soul and as a man?
What must he do to bring about that union between the soul and its instrument which is
essential if the driving urge of his nature is ever to be satisfied? How can he know, and
not just believe and hope and aspire?
The
experienced voice of the eastern wisdom comes to us with one word: - Meditation. The
question naturally arises: "Is that all?" and the answer is: "Yes." If
meditation is rightly followed, and if perseverance is the keynote of the life, then
increasingly soul contact is established. The results of that contact work out in
self-discipline, in purification, and in the life of aspiration and of service. Meditation
in the eastern sense is, as we shall see, a strictly mental process, leading to soul
knowledge and illumination. It is a fact in nature that "as a man thinketh so is
he." [65]
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