The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-21
The Dual Nature of Man.


 Those who have lived in countreis where burros are used, and seen the master leading one home by means of rope attached to the neck, have seen a picture which gives hint of the mysterious relation between the higher and lower Mauas spoken of in the last article. If we can imagine the rope to be part of them, and inseparably connected with them, the illustration will be better, though still imperfect, because the higher Manas cannot be thought of as itself descending. Those who have watched this have seen that the fractious little animal rarely fol- lows unresistingly. Every impulse given by the leader, arouses one in him in different directions His path is full of zigzags Sometimes, so vigorous is his opposition, the leader can only stand still Sometimes he must even retrace his steps. This crooked path is the one followed by the lower Manas because of it's ignorance. The higher
  should be pursued, and it's directions if followed, will carry the lower con- sciousness, (often spoken of as the pilgrim') to it's goal, over the straight and narrow way. But there are few at any one time who find it.
 ! It is necessary often to use terms of space and time to suggest changes in evolution, but it must always be un- derstood that really all advance is an advance in consciousness. It can mean nothing else.
 These directions of the higher con- sciousness can be better spoken of as an illumination, shedding light over every faculty of the organism, which is open to it's rays. It is moreover the only source from which the lower re- ceives light External forces can only 1 help it to appropriate more or less of it's own light. They can never give it.. The whole object of the presence of | the divine man here is to raise up the lower man. The whole object of the lower man, even though unconscious of l it. is to unite himself with the higher, and he will never find permanent rest or happiness until he does therefore it is not strange that this has been the burden of all of the religious messages that have ever come. 'WhosoeVer will save his life, shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake" Cor what I represenD shall find it." Matt 1925 Give up thy life, if thou wouldst live" Restrain by thy divine, thy lower self" Cook of the Golden Precepts.)
 These messages, of course. when ex- ternal, have always come to the lower man, and have been forced to come in such expression as he could receive. | From within the message comes first as call to duty This is often obeyed so unwillingly as to cause great inter nal friction, but if not disregarded, there will in time grow within a knowledge that what is duty is also the highest pleasure. The lower con- sciousness cannot for a long time per- ceive the wisdom of this course. It is too limited. It naturally seeks hap piness and is not willing to subordinate l it's desires, and since it cannot under stand that by so doing it has its only chance of lasting happiness, it has of ten to suffer to learn the lesson of obedience. But when man begins to know himself, and realize by experience what it means to sink the personality, he learns that his desires, which he seemed to be killing, are little by little resurrected on a higher plane, so that they are in harmony with his spiritual, which are his real ones. His work then becomes labor of love, and he is able, not only from the head, but also from the heart, to say: Father, not my will, but Thine be done"
 SEPHUS
 (To be continued)