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.The manyare marshalled, led or directed by four desire-generals: the desire for food, the desirefor possessions, the desire for a name, and the desire for power.By an examination ofthe four desire-generals, all the many are included, but before the examination somethings about these desires should be understood.No desire will hold fast to anyimpression of an object when that desire is conscious of what that impression orobject is, to which it is attached; it will then let go of that impression.No desire reallywants any object of nature.Each desire really wants to be at one with the desire forSelf-knowledge, and with the Triune Self.The desires are under the sway of darknessbecause they shut themselves off from the Conscious Light in the Triune Self.Thesedesires grasp the impressions of objects of nature which the senses bring in, hopingthat through the objects they will find what they seek.They will let go of someimpressions of objects, but will hold on to the others, like as one who cannot swimgrasps and holds any object, fearing he will sink.These desires are led by the light ofthe senses, which is as darkness when compared to the Conscious Light in the TriuneSelf.Light in the Triune Self shows the darkness of the senses.Desires are vaguelyconscious of that Light and fear it because it will make them conscious of theirignorance and of their mistakes.So they turn from the Light and seek the objectspresented by the senses.When the desire for Self-knowledge turns to the Light andwould lead the way, there is war.The desire for sex behind the forms of food,possessions, a name, and power, urges the four and they lead the many desires inbattle--and they have won.No power other than its own can separate a desire from animpression which it holds.No power can change a desire; that desire, and that desireonly, can change itself.A desire will not let go the impression it holds until it isconscious that that impression is not what it wants.A desire cannot be conscious ofwhat the impression it holds really is, because of darkness; it must have the ConsciousLight to be conscious of what that impression really is.Therefore, the ConsciousLight in the Triune Self must be turned on a desire with the impression it holds, sothat it may be conscious that neither the impression nor the object is what it mostdesires.Light comes with the desire for Self-knowledge, by thinking on the desirewith the impression or object to which it is attached.The desire so thinking with thedesire-mind calls to its aid the body-mind for nature.This thinking holds the Light onthe desire with the impression or object it desires.The Light makes that desireconscious of what the object is to which it is attached; that the object is different fromitself, is not of itself.Then that desire changes itself from attachment to disattachment.It is conscious of the difference of itself from the object it then does not want, and itlets go, and thereafter it will not again be attached to that object or attracted by it.Each desire must let go of the impression, to free itself from the object, and makeitself unattachable, so that the many desires divided or opposed to each other may beunited as one.Therefore, when the desire for Self-knowledge appears in the Light bythinking, rightness approves it.Rightness does not approve of any other desire whichmay appear.15.Then begins the proving of the desire for Self-knowledge as the purpose of yourthinking: you prove it by testing it with other desires.You summon all your desires tocompare them with and adjust them to the desire for Self-knowledge, which is to be the desire of your life, the purpose of your efforts.The summons is made by yourmental declaration that you desire knowledge of yourself as a Triune Self above allelse, and that your purpose is to be or to have Self-knowledge.This is a summonswhich is answered by the cunning of age-old desires, through the events of life.Byyour thinking, each of these is put in the Light beside the desire for Self-knowledge.One desire only can remain in the Light.First come the desires for food.As yourthinking turns and holds the Light on them, the strength of your desires for food istested by the strength of your desire for Self-knowledge.Then food is seen to be notof you or for you, but entirely of nature, made by innumerable combinations of unitsof fire, air, water and earth, for the nourishment of the four systems in their upkeep ofthe physical body.The appetites are seen to be devices for nature elementals, whichstimulate and compel your desire to keep nature-matter in circulation.When thedesire for Self-knowledge has been chosen as your purpose of life and approved byrightness, no desire for food can stand in the Light against it.As each desire for foodlets go the impression, that desire becomes disattached; then the strength of yourdesire for Self-knowledge increases and the desire for food is no longer a hindrance.When your desire for food becomes conscious that the appetites are not its desires,and that they are sensation-decoys which are binders to nature, it lets go; they losetheir power over it; food ceases to be a hindrance and your desire for food serves yourdesire for Self-knowledge.Then are summoned the desires for possessions.As yourthinking arraigns in the Light the desires for possessions, the possessions are seen tohave value for the body only, as they answer to its needs of clothing and shelter andits position in life, and that in all other respects they are snares, cares and shackles.The desires for possessions, such as avarice, covetousness and rapacity, areundeceived by your thinking; they change.Possessions other than for service losevalue as your desire for them becomes conscious of what they are, and they aresubordinated to the desire for Self-knowledge.Freed from the binding power of thedesires for possessions, your desire for Self-knowledge increases and becomes moreclearly defined.Then the desires for a name are brought into the Light, with yourdesire for Self-knowledge.In the Light desire becomes conscious that a name is acluster of impressions of indeterminate attributes for a personality, which are asempty and as evanescent as a bubble.These desires now let go of the impressions andwillingly enlist for service under your desire for Self-knowledge.Then the desire forpower is summoned into the Light.In the Light, power over objects of the senses asagainst Self-knowledge is revealed to be an illusion created by that desire which is theoffspring and adversary of the desire for Self-knowledge.The illusion will bedispelled in the Light when the desire for it changes into your desire for Self-knowledge.When your desires for food, possessions, a name and power have becomeconscious in the Light that the things they desired were not what they wanted, andhave put themselves under the control of your desire for Self-knowledge, and mergewith it, your desire for sex can be examined.The desire for sex is summoned byturning the Light on it as the subject of the thinking.In the Light your desire for sexbecomes conscious that it is selfishness grounded in ignorance and that it calls forthand stimulates the desires for food, possessions, name, and power [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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