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Part X. Impressions Upon Organ of Weight Through Visual Functions ; Study of the Soul and Relation of Mind to Mind; Scientific Control of the Will by the Intellect.
"BEFORE THE organ of weight can be exercised in •*-^ the determination of gravity as pertaining to specific substances, there must have been an observation through the eye; and the direction of such impression must be along the course of the optic nerve, commissure, and tract, to the termination of the nerve fibers. This is, of course, at the cortical area at the occiput, which coordinates in function with the organ that constitutes the vortical point of this specific activity; namely, the organ of weight on the superciliary ridge, as before described. The impression is made upon the occipital cortex, before it can be conveyed to the specific organ of weight. It follows, then, that the coordinating organ, situated at the back part of the head, must be equal to the demands of the frontal organ. If it lacks in size, it must make up in intensity or activity the amount of deficiency in proportion.
Size, all things being equal, is regarded as a measure of power. There are many principles involved in the solution of this question which the world is yet to learn, and which are infinitely beyond the possible conception of the materialistic mind. We often see power and brilliancy of intellect in small cerebral organisms and diminutive physiques, where we would expect, from the mental display, to behold a powerful body. With some minds more than others there are pneumic and psychic resources not necessarily included in powerful physical combinations, To comprehend this fact, it is important for the student to possess a knowledge of psychic laws and phenomena. There are three domains belonging to the human organism, so interblended that neither can exist without the other. These are the soma (body), the psuche {psyche, soul), and the pneuma (spirit). The life of the soul belongs to the cell, and of the spirit to the fiber. The union of these manifest the body, and in turn are manifested in the body.
To comprehend the character of the soul and spirit, it is essential that there be a scientific apprehension of the law of correspondential analogy; for it is only through this law that the mind is capable of comprehending those operations which belong to its inner activities. We make our knowledge of the law of order, involved in the form and function of the alchemicoorganic cosmos, the basis of our study of the vidual, individual,—man in his least form, as also man in his greatest form, the Grand Man, the man as a kingdom of social righteousness and organic order. If we study the personal man, the microcosm, the man in his least form, from a conception of correspondential analogy, we place him parallel with the alchemico-organic star; we must study the mind as we would study the star, in its relation to all other stars, for it must be borne in mind that between the star in the physical heavens and the star in the anthropostic heavens there is a strict analogy.
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the localization of energies, not merely from all other stars, but also from the energies proceeding from the earth and resulting from the dematerialization of matter. This statement is worthy of emphasis. The energies focalizing in the star are the product of the dematerialization of the matter in the star, which was there materialized from energy, together with the energies flowing into the star from dematerializations in the earth, from the matter which the earth contains. The double process of materialization and dematerialization is continuous and constant in every star. In every star are both matter and energy, the two reciprocal conditions of the same substance. If it were possible for the vortical point of influx and efflux to discontinue, the star would cease to be; but the energies focalizing from the numerous focal points whence it derived its substance, would absorb as much of the eliminations of the star as radiated from its center to all the other centers of its transmission. The energies of the star passing out of manifestation would have been transmitted to the stars into which it shone.
Tlie electric and magnetic combustion at any brilliant stellar center is very intense. Not only does it generate light and heat, but also electricity and mag- net ism,with still an interior degree of these energies, not only of the gravic but also of the levic character. These degrees may be compared to the three corresponding degrees of the human mind. The outer mentality is the ordinary intellect, with the external charac- ter of the coordinate called love. Intellect and love are the external light and heat of the mind. While these I are operative in the human brain, there are the interior light and heat of the mind, corresponding to the external intellect (light) and love, (affection)—the external heat. As none of the energies generated in and radiated from the star can exist except through combustion, resultant from the creation and burning of matter, so the mind cannot exist except in relation to an organic brain associated with an organic body.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 14, No. 19 · March 1900 · PDF pp. 3-4