Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
Mental Habits
The character-building lesson frames recurring mental tendencies as habits subject to the Ego's direction.
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What is a person, and how can a person change? These accounts explore soul, mind, emotion and perception. Each source supplies its own vocabulary for the relationship between inward experience and the wider world.
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Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
The character-building lesson frames recurring mental tendencies as habits subject to the Ego's direction.
L. Newton Hayes, The Chinese Dragon
Hayes connects the carp becoming a dragon with success in the old examination system.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
The wing-like form that Besant and Leadbeater associate with affection, peace and a wish to protect another person.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
A revolving cloud used to picture quiet, unselfish affection in the book.
Theosophical astral cosmology
The supposed memory of past events, only imperfectly reflected at the astral level.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
The clawed extensions used to depict acquisitive desire in Thought-Forms.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
Raja Yoga describes sensation as the mind becoming aware of an external object through the senses.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
The book treats sensory impressions as material from which the mind forms thought.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
The handbook places much mental activity outside the field of present awareness.
Egyptian funerary religion
The organ made witness to a person’s conduct at the balance.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
The coloured shapes that Besant and Leadbeater describe as expressions of thought and feeling.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
The book’s division between likenesses, imagined objects and forms expressing qualities.
Egyptian funerary religion
Funerary freedom to assume animal, plant, and divine forms.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
Ramacharaka describes changing awareness as an unfolding from within a larger mind.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
Character-building advice places the personal self within an encompassing Universal Life.