The Transforming Heliotrope: An Introduction to Sanctification
Man is the unity of body and soul. As a subjective experience of himself, his body is experienced via sensation. His soul is experienced via its three primary faculties, which are mind, heart, and will. The mind is chiefly associated with the powers of attention, thought, reasoning, and knowledge, with which we also include judgment (assessments). Annexed to the mind are memory and imagination. The heart is chiefly associated with emotions, feelings, intuition, and attitude, in which we also include passions, moods, and disposition. The will is chiefly associated with choice, conscience, and desire, desire being the inclination of the will towards some object. The path of active transformation begins with the intentional directing of awareness to the activity that is already occurring in these faculties. Firstly, awareness of the mind refers to the capacity to notice where the attention is being placed, what thoughts are passing through the thought-field, what knowledge is being ...