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FEBRUARY 1954

of deep pliable awareness of its own stupidity. But once the awareness of
the false comes to such a mind it begins to free itself, and in this freedom
there is silence and in this silent tranquillity the Real is.

When we realize what knowledge is we will see that it is imperfect.
Paul says, “for our knowledge is imperfect and our prophesying is imperfect,
but when the Perfect comes the imperfect will pass away.”
If we look into our minds we will see that it is only the relative

which we can think about. We can have ideas about Reality, but that is not
Reality. In the process of our knowledge we can understand the relative. In
understanding the relative we are able to discern that which is preventing

our experiencing of Reality.
We have classified the mind into an arrangement which psychologists
have promulgated, so we accept what they say without due examination

from our own experience. What we believe to be true we accept, and our
conclusions are the acceptance of our beliefs. We can see clearly now that
even our conclusions regarding the relative are limiting our knowledge of

the relative.
We have been told that the mind is divided into various compartments.
The major compartments are the conscious mind and the subconscious
mind. In our investigations we can only investigate the relative and not the

Reality, but in our investigations we can to a great extent acquire a working
knowledge that is not imitative, but, in a sense, free so that new knowledge
can be dealt with without prejudice.

Now what I say I do not ask you to accept rigidly, but examine carefully
according to your own experience. Nor do I want you to repeat what I say
as absolute fact, because our knowledge is limited. There can be no finality
as regards knowledge, knowledge of today is always giving way to new

knowledge of tomorrow, so the mind must be kept pliable, free from rigidity
and imitation.
The conscious and subconscious minds are not really separate, the

one is active the other passive. What we believe consciously is accepted by the
subconscious. In the subconscious is the mechanism that controls the body
function through the nervous system. The brain is the root of the nervous

system, the brain is also the physical instrument of the mind with conscious
and subconscious activity.
Thoughts then become actions in the body through chemicalization.

We have had the experience of our thoughts influencing the tissue structure,

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