The Theosophist Monthly Journal devoted to Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism April 1885

So that thrg biological advance as well as the growth of consciousness implies a constant pushing back of the frontier-line between the realms of Thonght and Reality at the expense of the transcendental and unknown and to the profit of the known world." "This is the view of Darwin who has proved the necessary existence of a transcendental world for every organisIt is also that of Kant wh [...] Whatever wells up from the unconscious and crosses the threshold of consciousness the dreamer conceives as belonging to the " Not-self." Thus the dualism of conscious and unconscious the dividing psychphysical threshold is the common cause both of the dramatic division of the Ego in dream and also of the illusion in virtue of which we hold the dream to be real. [...] He points out that the brain and the solar plexus are two almost anatomically distinct centres each of which may well be the seat of a form of consciousness that of the solar plexus being in our waking state below the level of our consciousness ; and he inclines therefore to the view that the latter is the centre of that consciousness which takes cognizance of our bodily states in detail or a [...] In addition to the arguments already brought forward (from the phenomena of memory &c.) for the existence of a principle in man beyond and higher than the known laws of nature it may be urged that the existence of organised matter proves the action of some agency which suspends for the moment the operation of the usual laws of chemical affinity and brings about atomic and molecular combinatio [...] The whole of the human body is alive the brain is the seat of intelligence and infuses it—so to say—into the various parts of the body ; determining their movements and attitude% and the expression of the features.