Leadbeater, Charles W.: Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of different types of men as seen by means of trained clairvoyance (London, 1902)

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HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS.

When we turn to the consideration of the band
of colour which represents humanity, we at once
. note several quite new features. In this case the
band retains its full width not only through the
whole of the physical plane, but also through the
whole of the astral, showing that man is capable
of all varieties of desire to the fullest possible
extent, the highest as well as the lowest. It also
exhibits the full width in the lowest level of the
mental plane, indicating that as far as that level
is concerned, man's reasoning faculty is fully
developed. Higher than that, however, the
development is not yet full; but an entirely new
factor is introduced in the presence of the dark
blue triangle on the higher mental plane, indicat-
ing the possession by the man of a causal body
and a permanent reincarnating ego. This blue
triangle corresponds to the other triangle in the
circle which is seen in Plate III. In the case
of the great majority of mankind the point