Consciousness is mental awareness; it is both objective and subjective. Objective consciousness is a state of conscious awareness. It has the faculty of understanding, whether of the objects immediately presented in sense perception, or those known by process of reasoning. Its reasoning is both inductive and deductive; it also has self choice. It is mind or intelligence and sometimes involves the higher thinking powers, as distinguished from the senses and memory. Memory should not be confused with intelligence, however, our learning institutions stress memory, and those who possess good memories are at the top of the class. Memory is only a faculty of the mind and, as far as universal states of consciousness are concerned, an average memory is good enough. It is only a part, not the whole. One of the best memories you may find is a good book; it is perfect and timeless. But a book cannot think or reason, or analyze, determine and form an opinion; it cannot determine what is true or false as in the science of logic or the art of reasoning.
The Supreme Intelligence of the universe is more than law and principle, whether physical or mental laws. It is the Limitless Conscious Life of the universe and it is conscious of itself. Since it is all it cannot know anything outside itself. All Life is within it; we are a finite intelligence; it is an infinite intelligence. We are potential; it is already complete. Therefore we are in mental states of evolving back to it, and here man is not equal.
