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have and therefore in our normal state inaccessible to us
and, if we can go down into the subconscient, we find there
a consciousness other than our own at its lowest mental limit
and therefore ordinarily inaccessible to us. The Inconscient
itself is only an involved state of consciousness which like
the Tao or Shunya, though in a different way, contains all
things suppressed within it so that under a pressure from
above or within all can evolve out of it — “an inert Soul
with a somnambulist Force”.
The gradations of consciousness are universal states not
dependent on the outlook of the subjective personality; rath-
er the outlook of the subjective personality is determined by
the grade of consciousness in which it is organised accord-
ing to its typal nature or its evolutionary stage.
It will be evident that by consciousness is meant some-
thing which is essentially the same throughout but variable
in status, condition and operation, in which in some grades
or conditions the activities we call consciousness can exist
either in a suppressed or an unorganised or a differently
organised state; while in other states some other activities
may manifest which in us are suppressed, unorganised or
latent or else are less perfectly manifested, less intensive,
extended and powerful than in those higher grades above
our highest mental limit.
CWSA 28: 15-17

Awareness and Force
Consciousness is made up of two elements, awareness of
self and things and forces and conscious power. Awareness
is the first thing necessary, you have to be aware of things
in the right consciousness, in the right way, seeing them
in their truth; but awareness by itself is not enough. There
must be a Will and a Force that make the consciousness ef-

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