Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00003)

>What do see as the relationship between spirit and consciousness?
>What does spirit have to do with continuous consciousness?
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>DALLAS AS I UNDERSTAND IT SPIRIT IS THE SOURCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
> See SD I 14 39-40 49-51 167 199-200 233 266 274 277fn 234
>329fn-30
> SD I 373 570 573   SD II 24 241 525 598-9 673 701-2
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This is interesting, because I have also read these passages, and with
a somewhat different interpretation. I view consciousness as totally
without cause or effect, being beyond causality. Spirit is the effect of
the split of divinity into spirit and matter, and is the cause of mind.
Thus spirit is within causality while consciousness trancends it.
This is how I interpret HPB and while I could be wrong, I don't think
so.


>ACCORDING TO HPB IN "THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY" THERE ARE 3 "EGOS"
>(or Souls)
>Spiritual (BUDDHI-MANAS);  2)  Human  (MANAS per se);  and, 3)
>Animal
>(KAMA-MANAS - Mind linked to the desire principle - of which our
>daily
>consciousness in our physical brains/bodies is an example.
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Consciousness can, and does, function through any of these three souls.
I think that most people would distinguish between soul and ego,
though. The way I see it is that when we think of ourselves externally
we obtain the concept of body, and when we think of ourselves
internally we obtain the concept of soul. One is inner while the other
is outer, but both are attempts at self-definition. In much the same way,
when we look at spiritual force or energy outwardly we see gods and
goddesses and when we look internally we see archetypes.

Jerry S.