The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 150

mental analysis on the part of
the student. But still the task
is possible for the advanced
student and even those not so
far advanced are able to see in
the imagination how the
process may be performed.
After this laying-aside process
has been performed the
student will find himself in
conscious possession of a
"Self" which may be
considered in its "I" and "Me"
dual aspects. The "Me" will be
felt to be a Something mental
in which thoughts, ideas,
emotions, feelings and other
mental states may be
produced. It may be
considered as the "mental
womb," as the ancients styled
it, capable of generating
mental offspring. It reports to
the consciousness as a "Me"
with latent powers of creation
and generation of mental
progeny of all sorts and kinds.
Its powers of creative energy
are felt to be enormous. But
still it seems to be conscious
that it must receive some
form of energy from either its
"I" companion, or else from
some other "I" here it is able
to bring into being its mental
creations. This consciousness

brings with it a realization of
an enormous capacity for
mental work and creative
ability.
But the student soon finds
that this is not all that he
finds within his inner
consciousness. He finds that
there exists a mental
Something which is able to
Will that the "Me" act along
certain creative lines and
which is also able to stand
aside and witness the mental
creation. This part of himself
he is taught to call his "I." He
is able to rest in its
consciousness at will. He
finds there not a
consciousness of an ability to
generate and actively create,
in the sense of the gradual
process attendant upon
mental operations, but rather
a sense and consciousness of
an ability to project an energy
from the "I" to the "Me", a
process of "willing" that the
mental creation begin and
proceed. He also finds that
the "I" is able to stand aside
and witness the operations of
the "Me's" mental creation and
generation. There is this dual
aspect in the mind of every
person. The "I" represents the