The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | OCTOBER 1933

garments of consciousness on each lower plane of expression available for use whenever they enter such planes. Think, must this not be so?

Let us consider a Son of God, the Higher and Divine Self of an advanced soul, one who has “descended” into the soul at its rebirth and has gradually through the course of ages “lifted” it in consciousness until it has risen above the astral and mental realms and is now dwelling in the higher levels of the Spiritual consciousness. Remember, a Son of God is a Celestial Being, whose home is far above even the Spiritual but, who has descended—in order to redeem His creations of the long, long ago past—into the soul, now representing the sum-total of all His past mistakes in consciousness gathered together in the millions of centers of consciousness comprising the soul’s consciousness.

Naturally in the lifting of the soul’s consciousness from one plane to another and establishing it in and accustoming it to each, a garment of consciousness or a body suitable for its use in that plane had to be built; and as the soul would have occasion to enter each plane constantly in its service for the Christ and the Brotherhood, such garments would thus be always available.

A perfect example of this would be Jesus’ etheric body which He utilized to visit His disciples after His resurrection; by simply desiring to appear in it, His Consciousness thereby immediately vitalized it and made it visible to them—or to anyone He wished to see Him. Not to speak of His other bodies seen in the various other realms of spirit.

Likewise in every plane of consciousness are seen the Brothers of Light or Their disciples, whose true soul


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