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.He can becomeconscious of himself and as the doer, the psychic part of his Triune Self, by feelingand thinking of and as feeling-and-desire.He can become conscious of the thinker, themental part, by feeling and thinking of rightness-and-reason.He can becomeconscious of the knower, the noetic part, by feeling and thinking of I-ness-and-selfness.All depends on what he desires to feel and to think about.He may become conscious of any of these things, but there is that, by thebecoming conscious of which, he will be enabled to reach all things through histhinking, because that is in and through all things and enables all things to function inwhatever capacity: Consciousness.While still a human and far from the end of hisjourney, it is possible for one to become conscious of Consciousness by feeling anddesiring and thinking of it.A human does not last long.He appears and disappears.But the things which arehis make-up continue after the combination has ceased to be visible.Each part, evento the least unit, has a continuity because of the presence of Consciousness.The unitchanges, but it is never destroyed, because it is indivisible.It lasts as a unit until it hasceased to be an Intelligence and has become Conscious Sameness.There is the same number of breath-form units as there are aia units and TriuneSelf units.The number of Intelligence units is greater, and the number of nature unitsis vastly greater.There is a steady slow progression all along the line which is nofaster than the progress of the Triune Self in its course to become an Intelligence.Thus nature units pass through human bodies and bring about the phenomenawhich give experiences to human beings.Units of the fire are present with units in theradiant state and enable the sense of sight to see, wood to burn, changes to occur.Thepresence of units of the air with units in the airy state enables the sense of hearing tohear, beings to fly and matter to take life.Water units with units in the fluid stateenable the sense to taste, and matter to combine as a fluid, and to take form.Earthunits with units in the solid state enable the sense to smell and to contact, and matterto concrete and to be tangible structure, and the breath-form unit to coordinate thefunctions of the body.Nature units from the highest to the lowest never cease to function.If they are notactive they function as the passive.There is no death for them.They cannot go backto where they came from.Everything that is visible and tangible changes, but units remain the same units.Theycirculate from combination to combination, from phenomenon to phenomenon, astransient units.The structures of outside nature partake of the model of the humanbody and are built after it and specialize it in the various forms of animals and plants,all objectifying human thoughts.The units which compose the four spheres and the four worlds are moving on,graduating, and becoming conscious in higher degrees, as their functions.But thespheres and worlds are permanent.They are permanent institutions, having amanifested side which remains always manifested.There are no periodic appearancesof the spheres or the worlds.The cyclic appearances and disappearances, called in Eastern literaturemanvantaras and pralayas, occur only in the four states of matter on the outer earthcrust of the human world of change, (Fig.II-G).The objects there are made of thefour kinds of compositors, here called causal, portal, form and structure units.Theycome from human bodies and are the builders of outside nature.These compositorscompose transient fire, air, water and earth units which, if sufficiently massedtogether, make up the objects perceived by the senses.All these objects exist for atime only.The stars, the sun and the planets, the moon, and the land and water on theearth crust, are subject to this law of creation and dissolution or appearance anddisappearance, as is a human body.The law is the law of thought.The fourfold earthremains, but the forms on the outer earth crust are according to the physical body ofman, and that is determined by his thinking and his thoughts.The manvantaras andpralayas come and go only as long as the human body appears and dies.They aresummations of the totality of human beings and exteriorizations of the thoughts ofman.The visible world in which things appear and disappear, in which time signifiesgrowth, decay and death, is surrounded and pervaded by permanence, (Fig.V-B,a).The nothingness, out of which visible things come and into which they go, means thatthe temporary combinations which made them visible, are dissolved for a time.Theunits that made them up and became visible because they were held as a mass in aform continue, though they are invisible as individual units, and can therefore not betraced into new combinations.The fact of a continuity as distinct from visibilityescapes observation.The run of human beings are acquainted with only a small part of the solid earth,the outer side of the earth crust and with those features there which they perceivethrough their four senses.They even perceive surfaces of units of the fourfold solidstate only when these units are massed closely enough.If they are not so concretedthere is nothing that can be seen, heard, tasted, smelled or contacted.The four states of matter on the physical plane are arranged as follows, (Fig.I-E):Within a globe of radiant matter, there is the radiant-solid substate, which has in it thestars; within that globe is a globe of airy matter, which has in it the sun in the airy-solid state, and some planets; within the airy globe is a globe of fluid matter which hasin it the moon in the fluid-solid state; and within the fluid globe is a globe of solidmatter, which has in it the solid earth crust in the solid-solid state.The units of thesolid state are penetrated by and are borne up by the units of the fluid state; the unitsof the fluid state are supported by those of the airy state and these by the units of theradiant state and these by units in the solid state of matter on the form plane.Thesebodies are not permanent; they will disappear when thinking and thoughts make themno longer necessary.The upheavals and destructions of large portions of the outerearth crust are the manvantaric days and nights mentioned in Eastern tradition.Because of the limitations of on-ness, human beings cannot perceive the earthy,fluid, airy and fiery globes of the states of physical matter, or these globes as being onthe inside as well as on the outside of the crust, or that inside and outside of the crusteach globe is one and the same; nor can they perceive the functioning of the celestialbodies in these globes.The run of human beings do not understand the make-up of their own bodies, orhow they are a part of nature, the impersoned part as distinct from outside nature, orhow the units in their bodies pass from there into outside nature and from there backinto human bodies, or how some of the units are 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