“All that has come to man, in his evolution, which tends toward nobility, true religious feeling, kindness, humanity, justice,
unselfish love, mercy, sympathy, etc., has come to him through his slowly unfolding Spiritual Mind.
His love of God and his love of Man has come to him in this way.
As the unfoldment goes on, his idea of Justice enlarges; he has more Compassion; his feeling of Human Brotherhood increases; his idea of Love grows; and he increases in all the qualities which men of all creeds pronounce ‘good,’ and which may all be summed up as the practical attempt to live out the teachings of that great spiritual Master when He enunciated that great truth saying: ‘And thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart, and with all they soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength,’ and ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’
As man’s Spiritual Consciousness begins to unfold, he begins to have an abiding sense of the reality of the existence of the Supreme Power, and, growing along with it, he finds the sense of Human Brotherhood — of human relationship — gradually coming into consciousness.
He does not get these things from his Instinctive Mind, nor does his Intellect make him feel them. The Spiritual Mind does not run contrary to Intellect — it simply goes beyond Intellect. It passes down to the Intellect certain truths which it finds in its own regions of the mind, and the Intellect reasons about them. But they do not originate with Intellect. Intellect is cold — Spiritual Conscousness is warm and alive with high feeling.
When man learns of the existence of his Spiritual mind and begins to recognize its promptings and leadings, he strengthens his bond of communication with it, and consequently receives light of a greater brilliancy.
When we learn to trust the Spirit, it responds by sending us more frequent flashes of illumination and enlightenment. As one unfolds in Spiritual Consciousness he relies more upon this Inner Voice, and is able more readily to distinguish it from impulses from the lower planes of the mind. He learns to follow Spirit’s leadings and to allow it to lend him a guiding hand.”
Fourteen Lessons In Yogi Philosophy, Yogi Ramacharaka, p. 41- 46.
