HPB-SB-14-109

H. P. Blavatsky Scrapbooks

from Adyar archives of the International Theosophical Society

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vol. 14, p. 109	volume 14, page 109 vol. title: vol. period: pages in vol.:
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< Soul Substance. (continued from page 14-104) >

formed immediately before proceeds from material causes; mediately, however, all older spirit-masses in cohesion with them are excited to activity, the weaker, the more remotely they were with them, and the less among themselves.

The most general and the simplest expression of the activity of the older spirit-masses is reproduction, which consists in the attempt of the active spirit to produce one resembling itself.

The formation of new spirit-masses depends on the common action, partly of older spirit masses, partly of material causes; and, indeed, everything working in common is impeded or advanced according to the inner heterogeneity or homogeneity of the spirit-masses which it strives to produce.

The form in which the spirit-masses construct themselves (or the quality of the representation accompanying their construction) depends upon the relative forms of motion of the matter in which they are constructed, so that a like form of motion of the matter determines a like form of the spirit-mass constructed in it, and conversely, a like form of the spirit-mass presupposes a like form of motion of the matter in which it is constructed.

All spirit-masses formed simultaneously (in our cerebro-spinal system) are combined in consequence of a physical (chemical-electrical) process between the places where they are formed.

Every spirit-mass endeavours to produce a similarly-formed spirit-mass. It thus endeavours to restore that form of motion of matter in which it was formed (itself).

The assumption of a soul as an individual (einheitlichen) substratum of the permanent which is produced in particular acts of the soul-life (representations),* reposes,

(1) On the strict cohesion and interpenetration of all representations. But to explain the combination of a particular new representation with others, the assumption of an individual substratum alone is insufficient; rather must the causes of its entering into these particular combinations in this particular strength be sought in the representations with which it combines. Along with these causes, however, the assumption of an individual substratum of all representations is superfluous. . . .

We now apply these laws of intellectual processes, to which we are led by the explanation of our own inner perception, to the explanation of the adaptability perceived on the earth—that is, to the explanation of existence and of historical development.<... continues on page 14-110 >

^* Vorstellungen.

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