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Thus the three aspects of divinity are released upon earth through the medium of an incarnated and fully developed consciousness, that of a Son of God. From the conscious appropriation of form back again to the conscious appropriation of divinity is the work carried forward and the plan of Deity worked out.

For the majority, the expert assistance of the modern trained educator and psychologist, the churchman or the physician, will suffice to give the needed aid, particularly when three happenings eventuate, which will inevitably be the case before so many decades have gone by:

1. These four types of experts—educators, psychologists, churchmen and physicians—will work in conjunction with each other, and each will place his skill and his peculiar point of view and interpretation of conditions at the disposal of his fellow workers.

2. The fact of the Soul will be admitted as a reasonable hypothesis, and the fact that there may be an indwelling entity, seeking to control in some measure the mechanism, will also be accepted.

3. The Law of Rebirth will be regarded as a law in nature, and place will be given in the thoughts of these four groups of human helpers, for a man's past and his rapidly developing future.

We shall study the process of coordination and the methods whereby two great integrations take place:

1.         The integration of the personality, or the means whereby the consciousness of the person:

• Shifts out of one body into another, so that a definite expansion of consciousness takes place.
• Begins to be active in all the three personality vehicles simultaneously.

2.         The integration of the personality and the Soul so that the Soul can:

• Function through any one body at will, or
• Function through all the three bodies which constitute the personality simultaneously.

Step by step, the various bodies have been developed, utilised, refined and organised; step by step the sensory apparatus of man has been sensitised and used, until the world today is full of men and women whose response apparatus, and whose instruments of contact are as far removed in effectiveness from those of primitive man as are the vehicles of the average modern man from those of the Christ and the Buddha, with Their immensely wide range of subjective and divine awareness. Step by step, the unfoldment of the nervous system has paralleled that of the inner psychical apparatus, and the glandular equipment has faithfully reflected that of the great centers of force, with their inter-connecting lines of energy.

Step by step, the consciousness of man has shifted from:

1. That of the purely animal, with its emphasis upon the natural physical appetites, into that of the vital, personal being, responding to the impacts of an environment which he does not intelligently understand but in which he finds himself. This is the primitive and so-called savage state of consciousness and lies far behind us today, in a distant racial history. This primitive stage saw the birth of that religious direction to which we give the name of animism.

2. That of a vital, primitive being into that state of consciousness which is coloured almost entirely by desire for material satisfaction. This in time transmutes itself into that of an emotional response to the environing conditions, leading thus to an intensified "wish-life" a development of the imaginative faculty. It ends finally in the production of the Mystic, with his aspiration, his sense of duality, and his reaching out after God, plus an intense devotion to an ideal of some kind or another.

3. That of the vital, emotional, desire emphasis and state of longing into that of a mental consciousness; intelligent, enquiring, intellectually sensitive, responsive to thought currents and reacting with increasing steadiness, vigour and sensitivity to the impact of ideas.

4. That of one or another of these states of consciousness, alternating in their emphasis, or predominantly active in some one or other of these lower aspects, to that of integrated personality, selfishly occupied with self-emphasis, self-interest, self-expression, and so demonstrating as a great or intrepid individual, demonstrating power and purpose in a world which he exploits for his own selfish ends.

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