Excerpt's for consideration from the books of the Tibetan teacher, Djwhal Khul:
Manas has been defined as mind, or that faculty of logical deduction and reasoning. Yet it is something much more than that, for it underlies all manifestation, and the very shape of an amoeba, and the discriminative faculty of the lowest atom or cell is actuated by mind of some kind or another. The fire of mind is fundamentally electricity, shown in its higher workings.
Love is the great unifier, the prime attractive impulse, cosmic and microcosmic, but mind is the main creative factor and the utilizer of the energies of the cosmos. Love attracts, but the mind attracts, repels, and coordinates, so its potency is inconceivable.
The race is progressing into an era wherein men will function as minds; when intelligence will be stronger than desire, and when thought powers will be used for appeal and for the guidance of the world, as now physical and emotional means are employed.
The mind creates or formulates those thought-forms (embodied energy) which express, on the mental plane, the measure of the student's understanding of the Plan, and his ability to convey the embodied mental energy to the etheric body (called the Golden Bowl in the Bible)unimpeded by the emotional nature, or by any upsurging lower desire.
The developed man, with an integrated personality ( his threefold lower human nature, physical, emotional and mental ... his three Magi)under the control of mental energy, symbolized in the Bible by the birth of the infant savior which passes through stage after stage of development until it becomes "Christed."
As this maturing occurs, physical plane activity is not so much implemented by instinct or desire (which dies daily) as by thought energy; thought energy dedicated to and expressive of, the nature of the man's plan.
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