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sidered an unchanging metaphysical entity like the Soul, or a principle like the pure Ego, viewed as out of time. It is a Thought at each moment, different from that of the last moment, but appropriative of the latter, together with all that the latter called its own."*
CREATION.
Prof. James maintains that personality implies
"the incessant presence of two elements, an objective person, known by a passing subjective Thought and recognized as continuing in time."
But the question is, what is this so-called subjective Thought, and where are we to look for it? The answer to this is not to be found in the books of Materialism, but in Religious philosophy, and, in the language of Swami Abhedananda, may be expressed thus:
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Again, this Prana or life-force is inseparable from intelligence The Self has two powers, which express themselves as intelligence and as the activity of the Prana or life-force. Intelligence is that which is the source of consciousness. The life-force or Mukhya Prana is something independent of the sense-powers, but the sense-powers are dependent upon the lifegiving Prana. Where life-force is unmanifest, the sense-organs m remain perfect, but there will not be any expression of the sensepowers in the form of the perception of sensation. The eye of a dead man may be perfect, the optic nerve may be in good condition, the brain cells may be in a normal state, but as the life-force is not working in that body, the sense-organs must remain dead, without performing their functions, without producing any sensation. Thus we can see that all the sense-organs remain active in the body, because Prana, the source of all activity, is there, and because the life-force governs and regulates all the senses."-(Self-Knowledge, pp. 72, 73, 76 and 77).
According to Theosophists, are identical, two names for from within and from without. consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.
* See The Principles of Psychology,' Vol. I, p. 400.
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