Chapter 12The Psychic Being · The Words “Soul” and “Psychic”

The Spirit is the consciousness above mind, the Atman or self, which is always in oneness with the Divine — a spiritual consciousness is one which is always in unity or at least in contact with the Divine.

The psychic is a spark come from the Divine which is there in all things and as the individual evolves it grows in him and manifests as the psychic being, the soul seeking always for the Divine and the Truth and answering to the Divine and the Truth whenever and wherever it meets it.

* All contact with the Divine through the essential substance of the consciousness is spiritual and it is that consciousness in the essential substance — what is called self — that is the spiritual consciousness. The soul or psychic being is a spark of the Divine that grows and evolves through successive lives and leads the rest towards the Divine. The spirit or self is the same always.

* the same. The soul is a portion of the Divine that comes down into the evolution and evolves a psychic being more and more developed through experiences of successive lives until it is ready for the divine realisation here.

* There is no distinction between the Self and the spirit. The psychic is the soul that develops in the evolution — the spirit is the Self that is not affected by the evolution, it is above it — only it is covered or concealed by the activity of mind, vital and body. The removal of this covering is the release of the spirit — and it is removed when there is a full and wide spiritual silence.

* The soul in evolution is only a power for the evolution, it