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Our
Surface Being
There are three occult sources of our action
-the superconscient, the subliminal, the subconscient,
but of none of them are we in control or even aware.
What we are aware of is the surface being which is
only an instrumental arrangement. The source of all
is the general Nature, -universal Nature individualising
itself in each person; for this general Nature deposits
certain habits of movement, personality, character,
faculties, dispositions, tendencies in us, and that,
whether formed now or before our birth, is what we
usually call ourselves. A good deal of this is in
habitual movement and use in our known conscious parts
on the surface, a great deal more is concealed in
the other unknown three which are below or behind
the surface.
But what we are on the surface
is being constantly set in motion, changed, developed
or repeated by the waves of the general nature coming
in on us either directly or else indirectly through
others, through circumstances, through various agencies
or channels. Some of this flows straight into the
conscious parts and acts there, but our mind ignores
its source, appropriates it and regards all that as
its own; apart comes secretly into the subconscient
or sinks into it and waits for an opportunity of rising
up into the conscious surface; a good deal goes into
the subliminal and may at any time come out -or may
not, may rather rest there as unused matter. Part
passes through and is rejected, thrown back or thrown
out or spilt into the universal sea. Our nature is
a constant activity of forces supplied to us out of
which (or rather
out of a small amount of it) we make what we will
I or can. What we make seems fixed and formed for
good, but in reality it is all a play of forces, a
flux, nothing fixed or stable; the appearance of stability
is given by constant repetition and recurrence of
the same vibrations and - formations. That is why
our nature can be changed in spite of Vivekananda's
saying and Horace's adage and in spite of the conservative
resistance of the subconscient, but it is a difficult
job because the master mode of Nature is this obstinate
repetition and recurrence.
SABCL
Vol 22 page 358-59
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