“Mr. B. Keightley: Perhaps I might quote the lines of Olcutt” “There’s a spirit above, and a spirit below; a spirit of love, and a spirit of woe; the spirit above is the spirit divine; the spirit below is the spirit of wine!”
Mr. Sargeant: And yet the “spirit of wine” is only an expression of the “spirit divine”. If you read your esoterical works, you will see what affinities there were between these things.
Mme. Blavatsky: Now this man’s intuition tells him you are trying to humbug me; he does not understand English, and yet his intuition tells him that. You are trying to tease me, he says.
Mr. Old: I wanted to say I didn’t think I was agreeable to the proposition. But unconscious thought, cerebration – no, ratiocination – not the physical action which is called cerebration, but the higher, the metaphysical correspondence – this unconscious though is not in itself intuition, because, reasoning from analogies, we have these two things represented on the lowest plane which we can apply to every one of the seven principles.
There is in nerves – the automatic arc of nerves and the influential arc of nerves – the voluntary and involuntary. Exactly the same with the vital process; there is the voluntary and involuntary. There are functions over which we have voluntary control, and there are those over which we have none, except in strange, complex cases like Captain Townsend and others who are able to control the vital processes as well as the muscles.
Seeing there is the unconscious and the conscious, the dark and the light side of every bifacial monad, might we not argue that there is the conscious and the unconscious cerebration, both identified with Manas? Because I have seen instances precipitated in the form of automatic writing where a person has been holding a conversation on one subject and writing on another.
Mr. Kingsland: Supposing we say that intuition is the unconscious action?
Mr. Old: I wish to say it is not.
Mr. Kingsland: You take the unconscious vital action, for instance. The action goes on without your will. How does that come about? Is not that the accumulation of numerous past experiences?
Mr. Sargeant: No.
Mr. Kingsland: What is it, then?
Mr. Sargeant: It is simply owing to the action of a universal flood on nerves which are termed involuntary. They affect these nerves in such a manner that they restore any equilibrium which has been lost.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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