Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00038)

Hi Leon,

You wrote:

>>Until that is done, however, one must be able to separate as well as
consolidate all categories in the rational or lower mind-- by means of
concentrated
meditative thought (which is different from discursive rational 
thought) --
and, thus, not become bound by them. (This is just another way of 
looking at
what HPB has taught us.)>>

One must be able to separate as well as consolidate all categories in 
the rational and lower mind???? I am at a total loss what that means. 
If it means: one must have control over the lower mind, I guess I 
agree. But to consolidate everything - that seems so weird. Most of 
what the lower mind thinks is so totally irelevant - it might as well 
be forgotten. What importance is it, in the ultimate search for 
truth, that my lower mind needs to remember to do the laundry 
tomorrow-night, or that because I lost weight I have to buy new 
clothes? Totally irelevant. Mere chatter that at most times is best 
forgotten, though to totally silence it, would be impractical...

Katinka