REASONING AND SUBCONSCIOUS MIND 33 



The problem has no solution so long as we 

 regard it from a human point of view. 



People speak of the wonderful acts and per- 

 formances achieved by animals, birds, etc., as 

 if they (the animals) possessed human reason- 

 ing faculties. This is the point — animals can- 

 not reason ; their actions are due to infallible 

 subconscious mind. 



The difference between the two minds would 

 appear to be this : Whereas the self-conscious 

 reasoning mind has an open field, it has no 

 knowledge beyond what, by slow degrees, is 

 acquired from instruction, experience and 

 experiment. The subconscious mind — ^pure 

 expression of All-Mind, on the other hand, has 

 already perfect knowledge within a certain 

 compass ; i.e., absolute perception of the 

 imminent necessities of the material body it 

 controls, with power to engender actions which 

 further existence and ensure continuity. 



As illustration : A spider, in order to obtain 

 its food — a fly, of whose existence it is not 

 consciously aware — is capable of spinning a 

 web, geometrically correct, by which to entrap 

 the fly ; but to no other purpose can it turn 

 its geometrical knowledge. 



The reasoning mind (of man) considers the 

 spider's web ; is struck with the idea that it 

 is a very practical device ; copies it, and after 



