(Q) "After awakening in fright, I turned the above dream
over in my mind and upon falling asleep again saw the
following: [
137] died, and I noticed his corpse. It
seemed very natural, life like. I went into a University,
or hospital, and saw many such corpses. I noted closely the
artificial work of the undertaker, for the faces and their
life like appearances. They seemed in glass cases or closed
in and as I looked at them I said to myself: 'Just as if
they were sleeping - that is how they look. Yet they are
dead - i.e. their higher form of life has changed to a
lower form.' The World claims its own and the Universe
claims its own, the latter including the former. Here are
two propositions: 1. I know my consciousness and have
reason (analogous) to believe in a higher consciousness or
higher consciousnesses. 2. The One Consciousness includes
many other and lower forms of consciousness. Now how may I
prove by analogy, or any other way, that the higher forms of
consciousness than my own are all embraced in One inclusive
consciousness? Therein lies the problem of Rationalism.
Will you answer this for me?"
(A) In this vision there is seen again that demonstration,
as it were, of the subconscious and superconscious forces of
the entity attempting, as it were, to reason or to experience
to the entity those visions, those conditions as go to make
up that called Life and Death in the physical plane. As is
seen by the entity's reasoning, the variation or the error in
the first reasoning begins with this: To pass from the
physical consciousness to the spiritual consciousness is to
RISE, not to lower the condition.
As to the analogy of these various conditions as are seen or
experienced in these various conditions, these may be
reasoned and may be gained the full concept of how
Rationalism, as is viewed from the material viewpoint, may
be reasoned by the entity through those same series of
various conditions as have been studied and as are visioned
in this way and manner.
As is seen here in the vision, the entity is seeing the
MATERIAL as represents that Whole Oneness in action - that
is, the physical body made by the act of a physical being to
represent in stillness, in inanimation, that vision of the
likeness of the real, see? that is, of the living. The
lack of animation is felt within the individual viewing this
condition. What change then has taken place? How would this
be reasoned that this is not the same as has been viewed?
What is lacking with the body? What is it that has changed
this condition? It looks alive - like the appearance of the
whole individual as if that it must be - yet it lies
sleeping. In the normal sleep the whole condition is
viewed as a normal condition, yet there is the ever present
evidence, by the rise and the fall of the respiratory
system, that the heart or life act, or engine of that
physical body, is still alive, awake to the conditions, yet
the NORMAL, or the consciousness of the earthly plane, is
not present. Then, we find there remains that spark called
Life, that breath of life breathed into the being that
became the living soul. Then in this inanimate object that
looks so life like, this then is lacking. To whence has it
taken its abode, whence has it gone, remaining ever unto
that plane to which it has attained in that existence in the
earth's plane, modified by those various conditions that
change in the various elements, for this may be reasoned as
in and from a physical viewpoint.
In the embryo, or the life giving sperm as begins in that
first atom that creates the physical being, there is seen
this begins first with the one cell. The uniting with the
other cell - the male, the female - the two - begins with the
two cell. Cell by cell the body is builded, each cell having
that full life principle to conform to that element of the
One Spiritual Infinite Mind to build to that purpose, that
intent, for which it is set; taking first from that source
from which this is begun, and adding to, cell by cell, until
the full time has elapsed, when it becomes a living organism,
capable of sustaining and propagating those same cells from
itself. As each cell functions NORMAL, the Whole is a normal
full living being. As each functions abnormal, or the MIND
of each cell in at variance to the Whole, does the condition,
PHYSICAL or MENTAL, take place that prevents this Whole One
Beginning Unit from being One with the Full Being of that to
which the Spirit Force, the breath of life, the ever giving
fluid, goes in its departure from the physical body. In this
analogous way, in this manner and form, may this be reasoned
by this entity, [
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