7.2.1.2 The Diagram

Figure 7.1: Depths of Mind

A

represents an animal which reacts from emotional habit;

B

the animal-man who does the same with the addition of memory, imagination and cunning;

C

the man-man who considers what likes and dislikes to encourage, in accord with ``natural law'';

D

the god-man, or philosopher, who feels for others, and reacts from the depth of intelligent love, or intelligence in service to love. For those who do not immediately see this as a natural and necessary fact, I will merely quote Emerson's statement, to be reflected upon:

I see that when souls reach a certain clearness of perfection, they accept a knowledge .and motive above selfishness. A breath of Will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the world into order and orbit.

This contains something of a still deeper depth, of which the god-man will become aware in due course - a spiritual intuition of the purpose of our being in the present moment, as though the future tree were talking to the seed or at least the seedling. Enough said. I hope we shall all experience this before too long.

I must prevent a possible error by pointing out that we are not to become desicated men, without likes and dislikes. We have flesh and blood and a heritage of emotions and ideas; but impressions from all these will be carried inwards on the afferent stream and dealt with according to their true worth as seen in the depths, and brought out again in full strength, but purified.