Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00159)

The Subconscious & Theosophy
  
   This is the quote in ES Instruction 5 
that I think is wrong, inserted, or phoney:
  
    ..."Your best method is to concentrate 
on the Master as a Living Man within 
you. Make His image in your heart, and 
a focus of concentration, so as to lose 
all sense of bodily existence in the 
one thought...."
  
    Why wrong?..... Because the heart is 
one's own "ray to the divine," so to s
peak.  It is what you are.  It is a 
mistake to visualize anything Within 
Oneself, which is just an obstruction 
to sensing one's own spiritual nature, 
- an obsession.  You can "center one's 
consciousness in the heart," or "dwell 
in the heart," as I believe Ramana Maharshi 
says, but you can't "meditate _on_ the 
heart," or put any image in the heart, 
because this is a dissociation, splitting 
what you are into two parts.
  
  These quotes below by Blavatsky (?) 
dan gives  may give the key between 
Theosophy and Depth Psychology, like 
that of Jung - and illustrate that 
the "subconscious" (voice of the heart, 
in one sense) is the antaskarana, or 
connecting link between normal 
surface consciousness and the 
spiritual self.
  
  "...But the Higher Manas cannot directly 
guide the ordinary man; it must act 
through the Lower Manas, and thus reach 
the lower Consciousness...... If the 
Heart could, in its turn, become positive 
and impress the Brain, the spiritual 
Consciousness would reach the lower 
Consciousness. The Spiritual Consciousness 
is active during deep sleep, and if the 
"dreams" that occur in so-called dreamless 
sleep could be impressed by the Heart on 
the Brain, your Consciousness would no 
longer be restricted within the bounds 
of your personal life. If you could 
remember your dreams in deep sleep, you 
would be able to remember all your past 
incarnations. This is the "memory of the 
Heart"; and the capacity to impress it 
on the Brain, so that it becomes part 
of its Consciousness, is the "opening of 
the Third Eye."  In deep sleep the Third 
Eye opens, but it does not remain open. 
Still, some impressions from the Spiritual 
Consciousness do reach the Brain more 
or less, thus making the Lower Ego 
responsible."  (BCW XII, pp. 695-96) 
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