The Inner Consciousness

mental activity—the actions of which we may call "the outer consciousness"—in the center of a scale, where the ends of that scale represent the higher and lower phases of "inner" mentation: the process of mental activity or thinking, respectively.

This view is not correct, for the so-called "conscious" mind is merely a "field of observation." Before this field pass the results of mental activity from other planes. When these results have evolved, they pass into the field of consciousness, just as a star passes into the field of observation of a telescope, or a tiny object into the field of observation of a microscope, and is then perceived by the watching organ of vision.

These objects passing into the "field of observation" of the outer consciousness may come from the higher or lower planes of the Inner Mind. In fact, the best observers know there can be no hard and fast line drawn between the activities and manifestations of the two respective groups of planes known as the "sub-conscious" and "super-conscious" minds. These activities shade into each other; they are like the degrees on a scale, which are merely symbols that record the comparative and relative stages of a thing's manifestation, but which do not divide that thing into absolute divisions or classes.

In fact, the very best occult: hidden or esoteric; here referring to experts in the study of the mind's deeper levels authorities inform us that there are very many degrees or "planes" of mental activity, higher and lower, outside of the