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Cognition

noun

The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning. Synonyms: knowledge, noesis.

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... when this outpouring of life originally came forth from the Deity, at some level altogether beyond our power of cognition, it may perhaps have been homogeneous; but when it first comes within practical cognizance, when it is itself in the intuitional world, but is ensouling bodies made of the matter of the higher mental world, it is already not one huge world-soul ...

— A Textbook of Theosophy • C.W. Leadbeater

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