I am not 100% sure on this but this is kind of the way I am learning it from the masters. I'm not specifically referring to faculties here though the will can work through the faculties. I view it more as pseudo-will than genuine will. Most of the pseudo-will is from our ego self. Which is not real.
Lets face it everything is conscious to some degree or another. Where does someone draw the line between there frontal lobes (which is the main consciousness center) and the rest of the brain to the body. We can feel our body and even develop a greater awareness of it. You can even raise kundalini consciousness up the spine if you wanted to. If we are what we eat then that implies that everything to some degree or another is conscious. Our food shapes our brain activity and even size. This fullness of consciousness is not perceived by the natural man that looks at everything from the outside. With practice though, bringing the attention on the inside everyone can experience this oneness of consciousness.
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Back to your second question.
Let's look at what one of the masters Hazrat Inayat Khan wrote on this subject.
WILLPOWER
When the mind inquires into the nature of willpower, it becomes a question whether it is a power of the mind, a power of
thought, or a power of the brain. Those who cannot see beyond the power of the brain, call it brainpower; those who cannot
see beyond the mind, call it a power of the mind. Those who cannot conceive of the existence in man of anything above the
feelings, consider willpower to be a power of feeling. A Sufi understands it to be the divine power.
It is the Divine Will that is manifested throughout the whole universe, which has created the whole universe; and it is part of the
divine will that manifests itself through us. Everything we do in life is governed and directed by that power. Were it not that
there is but one power to govern and direct, how would it have been if one foot determined to go the North, and the other to
the South? Our two eyes might have turned in opposite directions, one to the West, the other to the East, had there not been
one willpower behind them to direct their gaze towards one object. When lifting a certain thing, one hand might have gone up
and the other down, had there not been one willpower to govern both, and cause them to join in the one movement. This
shows that each individual has one willpower, which governs several organs of our physical existence as well as our thoughts
and imaginations; all are directed consciously or unconsciously by the one power. We could not have accomplished one single
thing in life had willpower not been at work.
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And again he says Hazrat Inayat Khan says:
Will is not a power; it is all the power there is.
The creation of the world is an act of will by God. Therefore that in us which we call will power is in reality God-Power. When this power is recognized and affirmed, it increases in potential and strength.
All that we do in life is the result of an active will-power. Our hands with their perfect mechanism, would not be able to even hold a glass of water if there was no will power to support them.
A person may seem to be healthy, but if will power fails him, he will not be able to stand, for it is not the body which makes us stand upright, it is our will-power.
Success and failure are the phenomena of will power.
The influence of will power over the mind is more significant than over the body. A man cannot hold a certain thought even for a moment if there is no strength of will to hold it. If a person cannot concentrate or hold a thought still, it means that will power has failed him.
What is will power made of?
In metaphysical terms will power is love. If one says God is Love, it really means God is Will. God loved creation only after He came to Will its creation.
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Now I guess you can call picking up a cup of water will power but again to me it seems most of the will power involved in doing even that is the will of God working through you. Or ego involved in someway or another.
What I mean by function, I mean it's fundamental capabilities. Not Pseudo-capabilities.
As evidence of the Pseudo nature of the will, mind, and consciousness look here. The teaching of enlightenment.
The tragedy of the human is that he is not a being at all, but a chaotic flux of subconscious thought. Only by giving birth to pure awareness can one awaken from this painful and fragmented state and enter the stream of conscious evolution.
For more on that Google anaditeaching teachinginner1.htm
Any other thoughts on the functions of consciousness/awareness. I think believing without doubting is another one. Jesus talked about that a lot. I am not talking about believing as in most people do in a deluded state of mind. I mean believing in a purifying sense where one can come to God and purify the mind doing something like japa and receive what one is believing for. This can only be done by faith. Faith means believing in. Though I am not sure how much will plays into believing. I'm sure it does to a good extant.
Anyone with other thoughts. I'm/were on to something big.
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well now ... i never tried the multiquote option
AND I DONT THINK I GOT IT DOWN...
ANYWAYS...
will mind consciousness stuff...
how about the bible sword thing...
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
and how about on consciousness ...
1Ti 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Jas 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Jas 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Jas 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Jas 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Jas 3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Jas 3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
Jas 3:4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
Jas 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
ALL RIGHTY AND THEN MORE TO CONSIDER HERE..
Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for it is the power of God unto life, to all who believe in it; whether first they are of the Jews, or whether they are of the Gentiles.
Rom 1:17 For in it is revealed the righteousness of God, from faith to faith; as it is written, The righteous by faith, shall live.
Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God from heaven is revealed against all the iniquity and wickedness of men, who hold the truth in iniquity.
Rom 1:19 Because a knowledge of God is manifest in them; for God hath manifested it in them.
Rom 1:20 For, from the foundations of the world, the occult things of God are seen, by the intellect, in the things he created, even his eternal power and divinity; so that they might be without excuse;
Rom 1:21 because they knew God, and did not glorify him and give thanks to him as God, but became vain in their imaginings, and their unwise heart was darkened.
Rom 1:22 And, while they thought within themselves that they were wise, they became fools.
Rom 1:23 And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into a likeness to the image of a corruptible man, and into the likeness of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles on the earth.
Rom 1:24 For this cause, God gave them up to the filthy lusts of their heart, to dishonor their bodies with them.
Rom 1:25 And they changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the created things, much more than the Creator of them, to whom belong glory and blessing, for ever and ever: Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this cause, God gave them up to vile passions: for their females changed the use of their natures, and employed that which is unnatural.
Rom 1:27 And so also their males forsook the use of females, which is natural, and burned with lust toward one another; and, male with male, they did what is shameful, and received in themselves the just recompense of their error.
Rom 1:28 And as they did not determine with themselves to know God, God gave them over to a vain mind; that they might do what they ought not,
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