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SUTRATMA, THE “THREAD-SOUL”Symbol of the Divine Ray, Buddhimanas, which, issuing from above, penetrates to the lower nature. It constitutes in man the Individuality to which the successive personalities are attached. “A collective totality of subtle bodies is supposed to exist, and the soul, which is imagined to pass through these subtle bodies like a thread, is called the Sutrātman, ‘thread-soul’ (occasionally styled the Prānātman), and sometimes identified with Hiranyagarbha.” — Mon. Williams, Indian Wisdom, p. 124. “Who then doth have a Ray shining upon him through the Sun within his rational part — and these Rays in all are few — on them the daimons do not act; for no one of the daimons or of Gods has any power against one Ray of God.” (Corpus Hermeticum). — G. R. S. Mead, T. G. Hermes, Vol. II, p. 275. The Divine Ray extends through the Higher Self (sun) seated in the higher mind, and is quite unaffected by the lower nature. None of the desires, passions, or ambitions has any influence upon the spiritual ego, which is the centre of every soul and is in unison with the Supreme Soul (Hiranyagarbha). “When the ātman as the cause of the natural constitution of compounds endowed with the supreme consciousness appears in all bodies, like the string threaded through the store of pearls, he is then called the inner guide (antaryāmin)” (Sarvopanishatsāra, No. 19). In the Vedāntasāra, §43, the antaryāmin is identified with Īśvara. A similar place is held by it in the system of Rāmānuja.” — Deussen, Philosophy of the Upanishads, p. 207. “Being what you are, a spiritual being, a ray from the eternal light, a seedling from the eternal life, a mode of the eternal whole, you must work out your destiny in accordance with the urge of the whole, which is your own urge. It was the urge of the whole which sent you here and subjected you to the conditions under which you are uttering the divine truth latent within you; it is the urge of the whole, however little you may be conscious of it, which shows you sooner or later where you have made your mistakes; which leads you through success and failure, joy and pain, toil and conquest, to the heights of everlasting love. If the whole were not you, you might reasonably regard this discipline as arbitrary; but it is you; it is the life of your own life, your spirit is of its very essence, and you neither have nor could have any interests or any existence apart from it.” — R. J. Campbell, Serm., Who Compels? |
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