E.S.T. Instruction (V) by William Q. Judge

The Lower Manas, or Kama Manas.

The Lower Manas is, in many respects, most difficult to understand. There are enormous mysteries connected with it. We shall here consider it as a Principle, taking later the workings of Consciousness in a Quaternary, and in each member of it.

The important point to grasp is its relationship to the Higher Manas.

Manas, as it were, a globe of pure, Divine Light, a Ray from the World Soul, a unit from a higher sphere, in which there is no differentiation. Descending to a plane of differntiation it emanates a Ray which is itself, which it can only manifest through the personality already differentiated. This Ray is the Lower Manas, while the globe of Divine Light, a Kumara on its own plane, is the Higher Ego, or Higher Manas, Manas proper. But it must never be forgotten that the Lower Manas is the same in its essence as the Higher .

1894

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E. S. T.

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ORDER NO. II OF 1894.

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Fraternally yours,
WILLIAM Q. JUDGE.