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<blockquote>The race memory and the memory of nature is divided and subdivided again and again into such minutiae of manifestation as to put to shame the minds of the greatest scientists. We who see from the inner behold sublayer after sublayer of the creation that has not yet been split by the sharp blade of man’s penetration.</blockquote> | <blockquote>The race memory and the memory of nature is divided and subdivided again and again into such minutiae of manifestation as to put to shame the minds of the greatest scientists. We who see from the inner behold sublayer after sublayer of the creation that has not yet been split by the sharp blade of man’s penetration.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>There is the memory of the individual to consider, the memory of self—names, faces, places, concepts, recepts and precepts.... Of men’s acts and thoughts this may be said, that they are all recorded, each one. Every subtle shade, every nuance of meaning finds its way into the storehouse of the subconscious memory. These are literally interred with the bones of man, and they survive transition after transition; each time man reembodies, they come with him again, composing his life record.</blockquote> | <blockquote>There is the memory of the individual to consider, the memory of self—names, faces, places, concepts, recepts and precepts.... Of men’s acts and thoughts this may be said, that they are all recorded, each one. Every subtle shade, every nuance of meaning finds its way into the storehouse of the subconscious memory. These are literally interred with the bones of man, and they survive [[transition]] after transition; each time man reembodies, they come with him again, composing his life record.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>When the life-giving accuracy of this record is pondered for a moment and the effect of beautiful thoughts is considered with the heart, the need to rise to angelic levels of perception ought to occur to many. Why should men live in the dark, dank cellars of their human creation? Why should the subconscious knowledge that men have stored about themselves be tumbled out upon psychiatric couches? Is this what we may call therapeutics? Or is it the putrification<ref>Obscure form of “putrefaction.”</ref> of old ideas disgorging themselves upon the consciousness of present-day man?</blockquote> | <blockquote>When the life-giving accuracy of this record is pondered for a moment and the effect of beautiful thoughts is considered with the heart, the need to rise to angelic levels of perception ought to occur to many. Why should men live in the dark, dank cellars of their human creation? Why should the subconscious knowledge that men have stored about themselves be tumbled out upon psychiatric couches? Is this what we may call therapeutics? Or is it the putrification<ref>Obscure form of “putrefaction.”</ref> of old ideas disgorging themselves upon the consciousness of present-day man?</blockquote> | ||