In Search of the Miraculous

moon. The moon as the weight of a clock. Talk about a universal language.

Explanation of the Last Supper.

CHAPTER VI

Talk about aims. Can the teaching pursue a definite aim? The aim of

existence. Personal aims. To know the future. To exist after death. To be

master of oneself. To be a Christian. To help humanity. To stop wars. G.'s

explanations. Fate, accident, and will. "Mad machines." Esoteric Christianity.

What ought man's aim to be? The causes of inner slavery. With what the way

to liberation begins. "Know thyself." Different understandings of this idea. Selfstudy. How to study? Self-observation. Recording and analysis. A fundamental principle of

the working of the human machine. The four centers: Thinking, emotional,

moving, instinctive. Distinguishing between the work of the centers. Making

changes in the working of the machine. Upsetting the balance. How does the

machine restore its balance? Incidental changes. Wrong work of centers.

Imagination. Daydreaming. Habits. Opposing habits for purposes of selfobservation. The struggle against expressing negative emotions. Registering mechanicalness. Changes resulting from right self-observation. The idea of

the moving center. The usual classification of man's actions. Classification

based upon the division of centers. Automatism. Instinctive actions. The

difference between the instinctive and the moving functions. Division of the

emotions. Different levels of the centers.

CHAPTER VII

Is "cosmic consciousness" attainable? What is consciousness? G.'s question

about what we notice during self-observation. Our replies. G.'s remark that we

had missed the most important thing. Why do we not notice that we do not

remember ourselves? "It observes," "it thinks," "it speaks." Attempts to remember oneself. G.'s explanations. The significance of the new problem.

Science and philosophy. Our experiences. Attempts to divide attention. First

sensation of voluntary self-remembering. What we recollect of the past.

Further experiences. Sleep in a waking state and awakening. What European

psychology has overlooked. Differences in the understanding of the idea of

consciousness.

The study of man is parallel to the study of the world. Following upon the law

of three comes the fundamental law of the universe: The law of seven or the

law of octaves. The absence of continuity in vibrations. Octaves. The seventone scale. The law of "intervals." Necessity for additional shocks. What occurs in the absence of additional shocks. In order to do it is necessary to be