How To Attract Success

CHAPTER 2

Man may be classified in a general way as being composed of five entirely different states of consciousness, degrees of unfoldment, or conditions of development, viz: Instinct, Intellect, Inspiration, Intuition, and Revelation. Bear in mind, however, that while the Instinct is a manifestation of the Physical plane, the Intellect of the Mental, the Inspiration of the Soul, the Intuitional and Revelational of the Spiritual, all these states of consciousness are just as much spiritual as is the latter, the difference being that they do not express as much.

It is like ice, water, clouds and the invisible vapor, they are all one and the same but differ in their expression. Most persons are over-developed in one of these states of consciousness and under-developed in the others, and that is why it is so hard for them to understand the other states.

Few persons are so equally developed in all of them as to be able to impart their knowledge of the Inspirational, Intuitional and Revelational planes in such a way as may be understood by those manifesting only on the planes of Instinct and Intellect. On the Physical plane of consciousness man expresses what is called instinct. This is the cell consciousness referred to more at length in my lectures on How We Create Ourselves, How to Give Treatments, and others.

This cell consciousness which is really the intelligence in the cells of the physical body and in the atoms of the environment is the only consciousness which is under the direction and control of the intellect and is therefore in reality the only sub-conscious mind there is, for the egos mind is never subject to the conscious mind or intellect. In the creating, destroying, re-creating and re-destroying of our bodies which process is going on continuously every moment of our lives, awake or asleep we attract to us atoms which will express the same degree of intelligence as those which harmonize with the energy we are momentarily creating by the thoughts we are thinking.

As long as we remain wholly on the Physical plane of consciousness this process goes on under the Law of Instinct both as to our bodies and our environment. The natural Law of this plane of Instinct is an unconscious recognition an automatic manifestation of our oneness with all life, and so we do not have lack or poverty in our bodies or environment. This is best illustrated in what we call the uncivilized tribes which used to predominate in the world, some of which are still in existence, although few remain in their former purely Physical or Instinctive state of consciousness.

They did not work and did not need to for the Law of their lives led them to be born into an environment where Nature furnished them with sufficient to eat and wear without work. Those who continued to live entirely in the physical side of their lives became over-developed in it, were unable to understand or appreciate any of the other states of consciousness and so continued to re-embody in a purely physical environment. We only need to study all kinds of people all over the world to be convinced of this truth. As man went on in his evolutionary growth and unfoldment he began to use his physical brain to think thoughts, to imagine or image things and in this way he began to grow and develop his 13 intellect.

The more intellectual he grew, or as we call it the more civilized he became, the less instinctive he was, because, unconsciously to him, his intellect his thoughts dominated and controlled his instinct the intelligence or mind of the cells of his body and environment and they, obeying his intellect, were deprived of their own initiative and the harmonious relationship which was natural to them, and he consequently attracted to his body and environment only such atoms as vibrated harmoniously with the thoughts he generated with the new faculty his intellect.

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