THE WONDERFUL POSSIBILITIES OF THE HUMAN BRAIN
the practical education of thought J. van Rijckenborgh The Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross claims that ethical and moral values naturally follow, if there is a great longing in the heart to partake of the pure and radiant field of consciousness of the world of the living souls. At the same time, it is very practical in this respect. In the following article, the Grandmaster offers a specific helping hand in the form of hints for a very necessary, intellectual self-education.
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he human brain, a combination of brain cells, has many wonderful faculties, among them the faculty of memory. All brain cells are able to simultaneously receive and store impressions, sometimes many impressions of a very varied nature. This particularly applies to the memory centre. The type and quality of this susceptibility to impressions wholly depends on our personal nature and directedness. When a group of people has assembled during a temple service, it is certain that no two people listen or assimilate the impressions of the service in the same way, so they will not be similarly attuned afterwards. This similar attunement may be desirable, but in our current state of being, this is not yet possible. Our susceptibility to impressions depends on our personal nature and directedness which, in turn, depend on the state of the magnetic system, the lipika. By lipika, we refer to the net of magnetic points in the auric being that was vivified upon our birth in nature. It is the net of magnetic points of the seventh ring of the auric being. This magnetic net, containing all 2 pentagram 2/2011
karmic influences, is projected into the brain and keeps the brain cells in a certain state. It is not only projected inwardly, but also outwardly into the astral sphere. There is an intimate relationship, a strong link, between the different aspects of the astral sphere on the one hand and the human personality on the other. The magnetic system is linked with the astral sphere on the one hand, and with the brain on the other. In addition, a flame burns in the head sanctuary: the flame of our mentality, the ordinary intellectual thinking. This flame develops from seven focal points, to be found in the seven brain cavities. When the personality is fully grown, it possesses a mentality that wholly corresponds to the nature of the brain cells, to that of the lipika, and to the astral sphere of ordinary nature. Consequently, our natural mentality is in absolute equilibrium with the disposition of the astral sphere of this nature. This sphere, and particularly some of its sections (forces or aeons), controls the human thinking. When, during the sleep of the body, the personality
