Another Choice

inundates us at once like a torrent of recovered security – we are neither alone nor are we mad.!

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Nowadays we can, with one touch of the “mouse”, making use of word associations and research domains, access these very pages on internet.

This is an instrumental method which the mind has discovered for the inventory and classification of all information at the terrestrial scale so it is made instantly available to all.

But mind is itself an instrument – it is only an instrument, of consciousness: and if and when we forget this fact we lay ourselves at its mercy.

For, separated from consciousness, its very functioning tends to level all knowledge onto a single plane: dimensions thus and then elude us and we are reduced to its counts and its measures and further alienated from the very force of consciousness.

It is only by rising to the higher mind and settling there that one may preserve the perception of the deep inner truth of all beings, all energies and all things.

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Every epoch has had its dangers.

Ours has all the dangers accumulated joining with dangers never yet encountered by evolving humanity, as if all possible contradictions must present themselves together to this Consciousness-Force which works at the core of everything.

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The opaque veil which used to wrap our experience of the world has here and there dissipated and our ignorance, which until now protected us from this immense unknown everywhere,

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