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The First Step for Transformation

into the Higher Spiritual Consciousness

The psychic is the first of two transformations necessary — if you
have the psychic transformation it facilitates immensely the oth-
er, i.e., the transformation of the ordinary human into the higher
spiritual consciousness — otherwise one is likely to have either a
slow and dull or exciting but perilous journey. ...
CWSA 30: 380

... it is difficult for man’s mind to distinguish entirely the soul or
self or any spiritual element in him from the mental and vital for-
mation in which it makes its appearance; but that is only so long
as the emergence is not complete. In the animal mind is not quite
distinct from its own life-matrix and life-matter; its movements are
so involved in the life movements that it cannot detach itself from
them, cannot stand separate and observe them; but in man mind
has become separate, he can become aware of his mental opera-
tions as distinct from his life operations, his thought and will can
disengage themselves from his sensations and impulses, desires
and emotional reactions, can become detached from them, ob-
serve and control them, sanction or cancel their functioning: he
does not as yet know the secrets of his being well enough to be
aware of himself decisively and with certitude as a mental being in
a life and body, but he has that impression and can take inwardly
that position. So too at first soul in man does not appear as some-
thing quite distinct from mind and from mentalised life; its move-
ments are involved in the mind movements, its operations seem
to be mental and emotional activities; the mental human being is
not aware of a soul in him standing back from the mind and life
and body, detaching itself, seeing and controlling and moulding
their action and formation: but, as the inner evolution proceeds,

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