III. The Personality, or lower self, physical plane man.

This aspect is also three-fold: —
1. A mental body lower manas.
2. An emotional body astral body.
3. A physical body the dense physical
and the etheric body. The aim of evolution is therefore to bring man to the realisation of the Egoic aspect and to bring the lower na- ture under its control.
THE LORD BUDDHA HAS SAID
that we must not believe in a thing said merely because it is said; nor traditions because they have been handed down from antiquity; nor rumors, as such; nor writings by sages, because sages wrote them: nor fancies that we may suspect to have been inspired in us by a Deva (that is, in presumed spiritual inspiration) ; nor from inferences drawn from some haphazard assumption we may have made; nor because of what seems an analogical necessity; nor on the mere authority of our teachers or masters. But we are to believe when the writing, doctrine, or saying is corroborated by our own reason and consciousness. "For this," says he in concluding, "I taught you not to believe merely because you have heard, but when you believed of your consciousness, then to act accordingly and abundant-
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(Secret Doctrine, Vol. Ill, page 401.)
INITIATION, HUMAN AND SOLAR.