Researchers of the Truth
understand the triadic nature of sub-consciousness. One chamber
of the subconscious contains all the elementals composing our
personality. A second chamber is the storehouse of etheric
vitality --sometimes called our "animal vitality"--. The third
and most valued chamber is that of the Logos and Holy Spirit,
for it is through the subconscious that the Holy Spirit and the
Logos impart Total Wisdom, Total Power and Total Love.
We, as human beings, possess
what we have called Holy Spiritual sub-consciousness, which
refines in our gross material body, the psychic and noetical
bodies and empowers them with Total Wisdom. It is that part of
Mind within our personality which we call the subconscious mind.
Each cell and atom of our gross material body also possesses
instinctual consciousness. And, as we have said, the Holy
Spirit, God, who is everywhere present, works from the center of
each atom and cell, apparently beneath Self-consciousness, but
in reality in a super-conscious way. It is from an infinite
number of points that It simultaneously manifests Its creative
force. We have seen It as impersonal, though nevertheless
omnipotent and totally loving, working together with the Christ
Logos, within the universes - from the material to the mental
and beyond - as provided for in the Divine Plan.
For most of us our
subconscious, depending on its composition and quality, decides
the circumstances in which we experience life.
The subconscious, primarily
located in the area of the solar plexus, is divided into three
chambers. The size of each chamber varies according to the
psycho-noetical development of the individual.
These three chambers of the
subconscious are:
1) One chamber is
the storehouse of vital energy or, as others term it, our
animal vitality. It is through this part of the subconscious
that our source of life, our daily bread, is drawn in and
stored for distribution within and without. Living a
healthy, gentle life, having developed a proper
understanding of the circumstances surrounding life, and
being of service to others, in other words, becoming good
Researchers of Truth, we will gain control over this energy.
Otherwise it is likely to gain control over us! Apart from
maintaining our own full health --our psychic and physical
well-being-- we will harness this etheric vitality, as the
various forms of ether, for healing others. As Christ says,
"He that believeth in me, as the scripture hath said, out of
his belly shall flow rivers of living water" (John 7:38).
Christ here speaks of etheric vitality as water.
2) Another chamber,
so often a dense jungle, is the body of
elementals that we
generate and regenerate within our personality. These
elementals, largely the product of subconscious activity,
are contained within this chamber where they stir about
waiting for opportunities to express themselves. As we
previously mentioned, although many, many elementals are
working against us, we also benefit from healthy,
life-giving elementals, stored within our subconscious. It
is in this chamber where we must apply ourselves in sorting
out the good from the bad, that is, clearing the brush from
the jungle.
For this is the very seat of
our egoism as a present personality. This chamber unless it is
cleared and cleaned, will bind us - and make the others suffer -
lifetime after lifetime adding misery along the way. “He must
increase, but I must decrease'' as it is beautifully stated by
our beloved Yohannan (John 3:30), here referring to the process
of ridding ourselves of egoism - selfish elementals - and
opening ourselves to the Love of Christ and God.
A common misperception prevails
these days in popular psychology. Many psychotherapists believe
that in order for a patient to recover he must relive certain
emotions and events, venting memories and frustrations that have
been plaguing the personality. In this process of "letting the
steam out" more often then not the elementals surrounding a
memory, rather then being weakened, are revitalized by the
attention with which they are served. This method is
counterproductive - except in a few cases - to the client's
recovery as it lends only more energy to the problems.
3) The third chamber
is where the Holy Spirit and the Christ Logos guide and
influence us. Here we enjoy our Holy Spiritual
super-conscious awareness, a type of instinctual awareness.
We all marvel at the fact that we can drive a two ton
automobile for miles and miles and not recall a single
detail of the drive, as all along we were lost deep in
thought. Other examples include our ability to act most
swiftly and wisely when emergency situations arise.
Moreover, it is from this holy chamber that each one of us
knows intuitively the value of goodness and has the ability
to discriminate between right and wrong. And should we
transgress, from here spring the stings of conscience which
move us to correct our thoughts and actions. We speak here
of the Holy Spiritual and Logoic influences in our higher
centers, yet here too, in the subconscious we are well
guided in our development.
Three quarters of our
personality is subconscious, or subconscious mind. We will come
to know Mind in another form and will be surprised when we have
established that Mind, even at its lowest degree of expression,
holds within it the Total Wisdom, Total Power and Total Love of
Absolute Beingness. The human personality is constructed both
individually and in communities. A person receives influences
from within the personality and the environment around, to which
the individual reacts with thoughts, desires and ambitions,
which have their source largely in the subconscious.
In addition, both our
subconscious and our personality are situated simultaneously in
our three bodies --noetical, psychic and gross material--. If
this were not so, the personality would be annihilated upon the
dissolution of the material body. In such a case, those who left
the material body, whether at "death" or in exosomatosis, would
lose their individuality. But this does not happen.
From The
Esoteric Teachings by Dr. Stylianos Atteshlis (Daskalos)
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