Consciousness

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.
When it is said that life is “more or less conscious”, it is not the abstraction life that is thought of, but “a living thing” more or less aware of its surroundings. The more or less awareness depends on the thickness, the density, of the enwrapping veil which makes it a living thing, separate from its fellows. Annihilate in thought that veil and you annihilate in thought also life, and are in that into which all opposites are resolved, according to Study in Consciousness by Annie Besant, wrote in ca. 1904. Besant intended this book to be a contribution to the science of psychology.
I say that we need that wisdom, and contribution. Materialists do not realize how much danger they are with their obsessional thoughts, they can make it the pre intended destruction of the finest parts of consciousness that are not yet developed as unsprouted seeds - and so therefore never develop any.

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