Hierarchy Index Cards - S
Card-S-39-01 Date: 18.5.45
Card-S-39-03
Streeter: “If my conscious mind believes in God but I am for ever anxious for the morrow, it is because my subconscious mind does not believe. The subconscious mind is always learning from the conscious, but it both learns and forgets more slowly. And the lessons it takes to heart most deeply are not the purely intellectual notions of the conscious mind, but the values and emotions associated with them.”
DH: A man may believe men are brothers but only if he acts accordingly will his subconscious believe this also. If he affirms love and acts ‘hate’, his subconscious will learn hate attitude. Values and emotions dominant in conscious must dominate subconscious also. C. and unc. [unconscious] interact, but conscious can in long run direct the whole by selecting ideas and values upon which to ponder in moments of quiet meditation. Let us select what our intellect at its keenest and our insight at its acutest sees to be truest and best and meditate on this — especially before sleep.
Card-S-39-07
DH: Vicarious suffering as a fact demands some sort of unseparateness. Karma is one answer, Christianity is another (i.e. that we should bear one another’s burdens and that we are one in Christ etc.) Mabel is another: Justice demands unseparateness.
Card-S-39-12
DH: You haven’t digested any experience of yours, the bitter & the sweet, till you have made it yours & got its value. Pain is medicine, tastes unpleasant, but is good for you in the end. Nothing is finished. No experience is experienced in full till the end of Time — & by then it will be perfect.
Card-S-39-13
Beryl, who feels for the suffering of man, is truly extended here…
Index Card S-39
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