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able to control "additional shocks." Subordinate octaves. Inner octaves.

Organic life in the place of an "interval." Planetary influences. The lateral octave sol-do. The meaning of the notes la, sol, fa. The meaning of the notes

do, si. The meaning of the notes mi, re. The role of organic life in changing the

earth's surface.

CHAPTER VIII

Different states of consciousness. Sleep. Waking state. Self-consciousness.

Objective consciousness. Absence of self-consciousness. What is the first

condition for acquiring self-consciousness? Higher states of consciousness

and the higher centers. The "waking state" of ordinary man as sleep. The life of men asleep. How can one awaken? What man is when he is born. What

"education" and the example of those around him do. Man's possibilities. Selfstudy. "Mental photographs." Different men in one man. "I" and "Ouspensky."

Who is active and who is passive? Man and his mask. Division of oneself as

the first stage of work on oneself. A fundamental quality of man's being. Why

man does not remember himself. "Identification." "Considering." "Internal considering" and "external considering." What "external" considering a machine means. "Injustice." Sincerity and weakness. "Buffers." Conscience. Morality.

Does an idea of morality common to all exist? Does Christian morality exist?

Do conceptions of good and evil common to all exist? Nobody does anything

for the sale of evil. 'Different conceptions of good and the results of these

different conceptions. On what can a permanent idea of good and evil be

based? The idea of truth and falsehood. The struggle against "buffers" and

against lying. Methods of school work. Subordination. Realization of one's

nothingness. Personality and essence. Dead people. General laws. The

question of money.

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The "ray of creation" in the form of the three octaves of radiations. Relation of matters and forces on different planes of the world to our life. Intervals in the

cosmic octaves and the shocks which fill them. "Point of the universe."

Density of vibrations. Three forces and four matters. "Carbon," "Oxygen,"

"Nitrogen," "Hydrogen." Twelve triads. "Table of Hydrogens." Matter in the light of its chemical, physical, psychic and cosmic properties. Intelligence of

matter. "Atom." Every human function and state depends on energy.

Substances in man. Man has sufficient energy to begin work on himself, if he

saves his energy. Wastage of energy. "Learn to separate the fine from the