Theos-Talk Archives (December 2005 Message tt00029)

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" Exaltation of the intelligence is one of the commonest things that happenin the hypnotic trance, and speaking the other day to a famous Parisian hypnotiser, the Colonel de Rochas, he told me that he had succeeded in pressing the memory of some of his subjects back into infancy in the most literalsense of the term; that the memory had been pressed back to the birth of the child. He was in search of certain facts; in search of memory of previous lives, and he is working back and back along the present, across the birth-gateway, across the inter¬mediate life, across the death-gateway on theother side, back to a previous state of existence in this world. He [17] has found a greater increase of the power of memory than had been before observed, but that is already so definitely established that it is hardly necessary to dwell upon it now save as marking that it has been pushed further back than before. Memory loses nothing which has reached us through the senses or the brain.
Exaltation of the intelligence carried to a further point would be genius. Press the exaltation further, make it self-stimulated, instead of stimulated from without; make it a simple heightening of the consciousness without loss of consciousness, instead of a heightening of consciousness with loss of consciousness of trance, and you have the beginning of genius, one of themost striking testimonies to the existence of a larger consciousness. "

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