Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation homepage > Notebooks of Paul Brunton

---

They derive their own minds and all other minds, along with their bodies, from the primeval mud. Thus consciousness, the pitifully slender and fragmentary echo of an echo which is all we ordinarily possess, is degraded and falsified, so that its ultimately divine origin is utterly lost.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 6 : Science > # 71