The Word Volume 1, nos. 7-12
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. ...being. The mind is the instrument of the Thinker. The brain is the grosser material vehicle for the expression of thought but the finer and more delicate instrument of the power which moves the brain is the mind. The Thinker is the real man and he uses the "vestures of the soul" for the purpose of thinking and expressing thought. The Thinker does not appear on the plane of manifestation. We perceive the results of thinking but we do not perceive either the thinker or the thought, nor is our eye yet keen enough to see the mode of his thinking. The Thinker is that higher man, that divine principle, which is best considered under the three aspects of spirit, soul, and manas (the higher mind). The symbol of the higher man is the equilateral triangle. The two sides correspond to spirit and soul and the base corresponds to mind. Below this is the manifested man whose symbol is the square, the man as a whole being represented by a triangle above a square. The base line of the triangle is the upper side of the square and is, in its symbolical sense, the contact of the Divine with the physical world, hence its fitness as a symbol of mind. Mind is that vesture of the Thinker which connects the ever unmanifested Center of Consciousness with the manifesting cosmos. In the highest sense of the word mind refers to the thinking principle, which is 111 Sanscrit, manas. Manas, the thinking principle, has given its name to the human being, the thinking animal, so that in many languages he calls himself Man. Mind as a principle is that of spirit which seeks expression by thought. Mind as a vesture of the Thinker arises from the effort of Consciousness to express itself in thought. The soul is the artisan, the brain is the workshop, experience is...