From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



bearing is immediately understood; it enjoins before 

 all else, work and effort; not isolated effort, the selfish 

 struggle for life, but co-operative effort. 



All the lower order of feelings hatred, the temper 

 of revenge, selfishness, and jealousy, are incompatible 

 with the idea of solidarity in evolution and inherent 

 justice. The man who has attained to the knowledge 

 of palingenetic evolution will quite naturally avoid any 

 act which can injure another, and will assist him to the 

 best of his power. 



Trusting to the internal sanction of duty, he will be 

 able to forgive misdeeds against himself, and will look 

 upon the foolish, the malicious, and the criminal as 

 beings on a lower plane or as sick persons. He will 

 know how to resign himself to natural and passing 

 inequalities which are the inevitable result of the law of 

 individual endeavour in evolution, but will do his best 

 to remove the excessive inequalities, the artificial 

 divisions, and the mischievous prejudices of mankind. 

 He will extend kindness and pity to animals, and save 

 them, as far as may be, from suffering and death. 



Nevertheless, some moral objections have been made 

 to the idea of palingenesis. 



It has been alleged that oblivion of previous existences 

 must suppress the conviction of moral causes and effects. 

 How can that be ? Oblivion of a fact does not alter 

 the consequences of that fact. 



Moreover, as we have seen, the forgetfulness is 

 relative and temporary, pertaining to the cerebral 

 memory only; it does not touch the subconscious memory 

 pertaining to the true Self. The oblivion is but pro- 

 visional. The whole of its past belongs to the Self, 

 and though now latent in the higher consciousness, it 

 will some day be fully and regularly accessible to the 

 man. 



After all it matters little that man, during his earth- 

 life should be in ignorance of the deeper reasons for 



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