Hudson and the dual mind

Use in the book

XIV acknowledges the popularity of Hudson's theory, then claims that Hermetic teaching already contained what is useful in such accounts. It quotes a line from the beginning of Hudson's second chapter about the mystic jargon of Hermetic philosophers. The present author treats the line as an admission of an older insight.

The rest of XIV reorganizes the problem around the I and Me, masculine direction, and feminine generation. The author agrees that distinguishable activities occur but claims that gender and vibration supply the missing explanation of their relation.

Places to read

1. XIV Mental Gender · Block 1… “phenomena are struck by the persistence of the dual-mind idea which has manifested itself so strongly during the past ten or fifteen years, and which has given rise to a number” …
2. XIV Mental Gender · Block 2… “philosophy took cognizance of the phenomenon of the "dual mind," and accounted for it by the theory of Mental Gender. This idea of Mental Gender may be explained in a few” …
3. XIV Mental Gender · Block 3“The Hermetic Teachers impart their instruction regarding this subject by bidding their students examine the report of their consciousness regarding their Self. The students are bidden to turn their attention inward” …
4. XIV Mental Gender · Block 18… “of Suggestion to explain that it is the "objective or voluntary" mind which make the mental impression, or suggestion, upon the "subjective or involuntary" mind. But they do not describe the” …

In this edition

Hudson is Thomson Jay Hudson, the author of The Law of Psychic Phenomena. He must not be confused with J. J. Thomson, associated with electron research. Objective and subjective retain their historical local senses.

Reading the argument

Hudson's opening discussion refers to both dual and threefold descriptions of human nature. The short quotation selected by The Kybalion belongs to that wider discussion; it does not establish a direct ancient source for the complete scheme proposed here.

Related texts

Hudson, chapter II, describes the objective mind through sense perception and reasoning, and the subjective mind through intuition, emotion, memory, and susceptibility to suggestion. The lexicon uses that primary text to place the explicit quotation in context.¹²

Hudson

“Hudson” — 3 occurrences in 2 text blocks: XIV.1–2.

objective

“objective” — 3 occurrences in 3 text blocks: XIV.1–2, 18.

subjective

“subjective” — 3 occurrences in 3 text blocks: XIV.1–2, 18.

dual

“dual” — 10 occurrences in 8 text blocks: II.15–16; X.1; XIV.1–2, 8–9, 13.