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Topic 2: Ego, Essence and Personality

Manchester University Gnostic Studies Society 1

T O P I C No. 2

EGO, ESSENCE AND PERSONALITY

1. INTRODUCTION

Certainly, one of the most difficult problems of our epoch is the intricate labyrinth of

theories. Undoubtedly, in these times, pseudo-esoterist and pseudo-occultist

schools have multiplied exorbitantly here, there and over there. The merchandise

of souls, of books and theories is frightful; it is rare for anybody to really succeed

in finding the secret path, among the cobweb of so many contradictory ideas.

Intellective fascination is the gravest of all this; there exists the tendency to nourish

ourselves strictly in an intellectual way with all which reaches the mind. The vagrants

of the intellect do not content themselves any more with all the subjective book ware of

general type which abounds in book markets, but now, even worse, they also stuff

themselves to indigestion with the cheap pseudo-esoterism and pseudo-occultism

which abound everywhere like weeds. The result of all these actions is the manifest

confusion and disorientation of the rogues of the intellect.

Samael Aun Weor constantly received letters and books of all kinds; as usual their

senders asked him about this or that school, about this or that book, and he limited

himself to answer the following: “Please, give up mental idleness; you should not be

concerned with other people's life, disintegrate the animal “I” of curiosity, you should

not be concerned with other people’s school, become serious, know yourself,

study yourself, observe yourself, etc, etc, etc.” Really, what is important is to know

ourselves profoundly in all the levels of the mind.

For this reason, it is urgent to understand that within each person exist three basic

elements:

1) Personality;

2) The consciousness, sacred Essence, psychic material, or Buddhata.

3) The Pluralized Ego or “I”;




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However, there exists, among the students of psychology, much confusion

surrounding Personality, Essence and Ego. Some confuse the Personality with

the Essence and others confuse Ego with the Essence. The Revolutionary

Psychology of the Gnostic Movement, in a clear and precise way, makes an in-depth

difference between Ego and Essence.

During the first three or four years of life only the beauty of the Essence manifests

itself in the child. Then the child is tender, sweet, beautiful in all his psychological

aspects.

When the Ego begins to control the young personality of the child, all the beauty

of the Essence starts to disappear and, in its place, come up the psychological

defects typical of every human being.

In the same way as we should make a distinction between Ego and Essence, it is

also necessary to distinguish between Personality and Essence. The human being is

born with the Essence but not with the personality. It is necessary to create the

latter. Personality and Essence should develop in a harmonious and balanced way.

In practice we have been able to verify that when the Personality develops in an

exaggerated way at the expense of the Essence, the result is a rascal (dishonest

person). Observation and the experience of many years have allowed us to understand

when the Essence develops totally without paying attention, in the least, to the

harmonious cultivation of the Personality, the result is a mystic without intellect,

without personality, of noble heart but not adaptable and incapable. The harmoniousdevelopment of Personality and Essence gives as a result, brilliant men and women.

It is urgent that children receive nourishment for the Essence and nourishment for

the Personality. The Essence feeds itself with tenderness, limitless affection, love,

music, flowers, beauty, harmony, etc. The Personality should feed itself with good

examples form our elders, with wise teaching at school, etc.





2. HUMAN PERSONALITY

PERSONALITY is formed during the first seven years of childhood. The Personality

is a mere vehicle of action, a vehicle that needed to be created, fabricated. The

Personality is formed by the example of our elders, what we have learnt at home, in

school and in the streets. The family environment, the life in the street and

school give the human personality its original, characteristic tint . Hence, in

the Personality we have everything that is borrowed.

The quality of the Human Personality depends exclusively on the type of

psychological material with which it was created and nourished.

Many are the pseudo-esoteric or pseudo-occultist schools that have as a goal of their

studies the Impersonal Life. It is necessary to clarify that it is not the Personality

that we have to dissolve. It is urgent to know that we need to disintegrate the Ego, the

“Myself”, and reduce it to cosmic dust.

The child learns more from example than form precept. The mistaken way of life,the absurd example, the degenerated customs of our elders give the personality of the

child that peculiar, sceptical and perverse tint of the era in which we live.

In these modern times there are many children that in these times have to bear,

filled with pain and resentments, the lashes and beatings of the stepfather or

stepmother. It is clear that in this way the personality of the child develops within the

frame of pain, rancour //RENGKER// and hate. Naturally there are also exceptions butthese can be counted on the fingers of one hand and we even have fingers left over.

The disputes between father and mother about matters of jealousies, the crying and

laments of the afflicted mother or the oppressed, ruined and desperate husband leave

on the personality of the child and indelible mark of profound pain and melancholy

that is never forgotten his entire life.





In elegant houses the proud ladies mistreat their servants when the servants go to

a beauty salon or put make-up on. The pride of the ladies is mortally wounded. The

child that sees all these infamous scenes feels profoundly hurt whether he be on the

side of his proud and haughty mother or from the wretched vain and humiliated

servant and the result is often catastrophic for the child's personality.

Ever since television was invented, the unity of the family has been lost. Within

modern homes the father, mother and children seem to be zombies before the

television screen. Now the husband cannot talk with his wife about any of the

problems of the day, of work etc., because she looks like a zombie watching yesterday's

movie, the Dantesque scenes of action movies, the latest fashionable show, etc.

The children brought up in this new type of ultramodern home only think of

cannons, pistols, toy machine guns to imitate and relive in their own way all the

Dantesque scenes of crime just as they have seen them on the television screen.

It is a pity that this marvellous invention of television is used with destructive

purposes. If humanity would use this invention in a dignifying way whether it be tostudy natural sciences or to teach the true real art of Mother Nature, to give sublime

teachings to people, then this invention would be a blessing for humanity. It could be

intelligently used to cultivate the human personality.

It is absurd in any count to feed a child's personality with arrhythmic,

inharmonious, vulgar music. It is stupid to feed the personality of children with stories

of thieves and policemen, with scenes of vice and prostitution, dramas of adultery,pornography, etc. We can see the result of such actions in the revels without a cause,

the premature murderers, etc.

It is unfortunate that mothers whip their children, that they beat them, that they

insult them with cruel and indecent words. The result of such conduct is resentment,

hate, the loss of love, etc. In practice we have seen that children brought up among

beatings, lashes, and screams become vulgar people full of boorishness and a lack of every sense of respect and veneration.





It is urgent to understand the need to establish true equilibrium within homes. It is

indispensable to know that sweetness and severity should be mutually balanced on

the two pans of the scale of justice. The Father represents Severity. The Mother

represents Sweetness. The Father personifies Wisdom. The Mother symbolizes Love.

Wisdom and Love, Severity and Sweetness mutually balance each other on the twopans of the cosmic scale.

It is urgent, it is necessary that all parents understand the need to sow in the

child's brain the eternal values of the spirit. It is unfortunate that modern children no

longer possess the sense of veneration. This is due to the fact that television, movies,

etc., have perverted the mind of children.

3. CONSCIOUSNESS OR ESSENCE

Above all it is urgent to know what is that which is called consciousness, for there are

many people who have never been interested in knowing anything about it. People

confuse consciousness with intelligence or with intellect and the very intelligent or

intellectual person is called a conscious person. We should not confuseconsciousness with memory, since they are as different from each other as the light of

the car's head lamps in relation to the road upon which we drive.

Any ordinary person would never ignore that a boxer loses consciousness when he is

knocked out in the ring. It is quite clear that when the unfortunate boxer comes round,

he regains consciousness.

When we come into this world we all have in the existence a three per cent of

consciousness and a ninety-seven per cent which can be distributed among

1) sub-consciousness,

2) infra-consciousness and

3) unconsciousness.





CONSCIOUSNESS OR ESSENCE:

• It is a type of energy with a very high frequency of vibration.

• Consciousness in man is a very particular type of “Understanding of Internal

Knowledge”, totally independent of all mental activity.

• The faculty of consciousness permits us the Knowledge of Ourselves.

• Consciousness gives us integral knowledge of what is, where it is, what is

really known, what is certainly ignored.

• Consciousness is the light which the unconscious does not perceive. A blind

person cannot perceive physical solar light either, however, it does exist in

itself.

• In the Essence we have everything that is ours. In the Essence we have our

innate qualities.

• What makes every newborn child beautiful and adorable is his Essence; the

Essence in itself constitutes his true reality.

• The language of the consciousness is symbolic, intimate, profoundly

significant and only those who are awake can understand it.

DICTIONARY.COM DEFINITIONS

Consciousness (noun):

1. The state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations,

thoughts, surroundings, etc.

2. The thoughts and feelings, collectively, of an individual or of an aggregate of

people: the moral consciousness of a nation.

3.

Full activity of the mind and senses, as in waking life: to regainconsciousness after fainting.





4. Awareness of something for what it is; internal knowledge: consciousness of

wrongdoing.

5. Concern, interest, or acute awareness: class consciousness.

Conscience (noun):

1. The inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives ,

impelling one toward right action: to follow the dictates of conscience.

2. The complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions

or thoughts of an individual.

3. An inhibiting sense of what is prudent: I'd eat another piece of pie but my

conscience would bother me.

4. Obsolete: consciousness; self-knowledge.

In all creatures, the normal growth of the Essence is certainly scanty, insufficient.

The human body grows and develops in accordance with the biological laws of the

species; however, such possibilities in themselves are extremely limited for

the Essence. Unquestionably, without help, the Essence can only grow to a small

degree.

Speaking frankly and bluntly, we will say that the spontaneous and natural

growth of the Essence is only possible during the first three, four and five

years of life; in other words, during the first phase of life.

People think that the growth and development of the Essence always occurs in a

continuous way, according to the mechanics of evolution, but Universal Gnosticism

teaches clearly that this does not occur in such a manner.

Plainly and bluntly speaking, we shall state that the ninety-seven percent of

Essence that we carry within ourselves is bottled up, stuffed, inserted within each

one of the “I’s” which in their conjunction constitute the “Myself.”

Obviously, the Essence, or Consciousness, bottled up within each “I” processes itself

in accordance to its own condition.





Something very special must happen, something new must be fulfilled so that the

Essence may grow more. I want to emphatically refer to the work upon oneself; the

development of the Essence is only possible on the basis of conscious works

and voluntary sufferings. This work is for any person who has developed his

personality; it concerns something psychological.

3.1 The different types of energy and the consciousness

In addition, various types of energy exist within us, which are:

1) Mechanical energy.

2) Vital energy.3) Psychic energy.

4) Mental energy.

5) Energy of the will.

6) Energy of the consciousness.

7) Energy of pure spirit.

However, all these types of energy are graded into different levels and dimensionswhich have nothing to do with consciousness. It is not possible to increase

consciousness by exclusively physical or mechanical procedures. No matter how much

we multiplied the strictly mechanical energy, we would never awake consciousness.

No matter how much we increased the vital forces within our own organism, we would

never come to awaking consciousness. Many psychological processes take place within

us without the consciousness taking part at all. However great the disciplines of the

mind may be, mental energy can never achieve the awaking of the diversefunctionalisms of the consciousness. The strength of will, even if multiplied infinitely,

can never achieve the awaking of consciousness.

The Essence is the only worthy thing we have interiorly, unfortunately it is trapped

among all those multiple “Is” of the revolutionary Psychology. It is lamentable that the

essence always processes itself by virtue of its own bottling. Unquestionably, the

essence or consciousness which is the same, sleeps deeply. The





consciousness can only be awoken by conscious work, upright efforts and

voluntary suffering. This means that to awake consciousness one must eliminate

from within all the undesirable elements which constitute the Ego, the “I”, the

“Myself”, within which the essence is bottled.

Newly born children are marvelous. They enjoy total self-cognizance. They are

totally awake. The Essence or Consciousness is re-embodied within the body of the

newly born child. This is what gives the baby its beauty.

We do not mean to state that one hundred percent of the Essence or Consciousness

is re-embodied within the newly born child; it is only the three percent of free

consciousness that normally is not bottled up within the “I’s.

Nevertheless, that free percentage of Essence, re embodied within the organisms of

newly born babies gives them full self-cognizance, lucidity; etc. Adults look at the

newborn with a type of pity. They think that the baby is incognizant; nonetheless, they

are lamentably mistaken. The newborn looks at the adults exactly as they actually

are: unconscious, cruel, perverse, etc.

3.2 The Importance of an Awaken Consciousness

Revolutionary Psychology teaches that only man himself can know his own

consciousness, and whether it exists or not at a given moment. Man himself and

nobody else but himself can become aware for an instant that before that instant,

before that moment, he was not really conscious, that he had his consciousness asleep.

He will then forget that experience or keep it as a memory, as the memory of a strongexperience.

It is urgent to know that the consciousness in the rational animal is not something

continuous or permanent. Normally, the consciousness in the intellectual animal

called man sleeps profoundly. Rare, very rare are the moments in which the

consciousness is awake.





The intellectual animal works, drives cars, marries, dies, etc., with his

consciousness totally asleep and only in very exceptional moments does it awaken.

A human being's life is a life of dreams. However he believes he is awake and will

never admit that he is dreaming, and that his consciousness is asleep.

If someone was to awaken, he would feel terribly ashamed of himself, he would

immediately understand his tomfoolery, his own ridicule. This life is frightfully

ridiculous, horribly tragic, and rarely sublime.

If a boxer in the middle of a fight was to awaken all of a sudden, he would feel

ashamed before the honourable public and would flee from the horrible spectacle

before the astonishment of the asleep and unconscious multitudes. When a human

being admits he has his consciousness asleep, you can be sure he has already

begun to awaken.

Those who confuse the consciousness with psychological functions, thoughts,

feelings, motor impulses and sensations, are in fact very unconscious and they sleepprofoundly.

Those who admit the existence of the Consciousness but flatly deny the different

degrees of Consciousness, revel lack of conscious experience and sleep of the

Consciousness.

Every person who has, at least once, momentarily awakened, knows very well bypersonal experience that different degrees of observable consciousness exist in oneself.

1) Time: how long did we remain conscious?

2) Frequency: how many times have we awakened consciousness?

3) Amplitude and Penetration: what was one conscious of?

Revolutionary Psychology and the ancient Philokalia affirm that through super

efforts of a special kind, consciousness can be awakened and made continuous

and controllable.





Gnosis has the aim of awakening the Consciousness. Ten or fifteen years of study in

school, college and university are useless if when leaving the classrooms we are

sleeping machines.

It is not an exaggeration to affirm that through some great effort, the intellectualanimal can become conscious of himself for at least a couple of minutes.

Clearly, today there are rare exceptions, that we must seek with the torch of

Diogenes //DAYOYINIS//. Such rare cases are represented by the Authentic Men:

Buddha, Jesus, Hermes, Quetzalcoatl, etc. These founders of religions possessed

continuous consciousness. They were great enlightened men.

Normally, people are not conscious of themselves. The illusion of being

conscious in a continuous way is born from the memory and all processes of

thought. A man who practices a retrospective exercise to remember his entire life

can truly recall, remember the number of times he married, how many children he

begot, who his parents were, his teachers, etc. However this does not mean awakening

of consciousness.

There are exceptional moments when the intellectual animal awakens, but these

moments are very rare. They can occur in an instance of great danger, during and

intense emotion, in some new circumstance, in some new unexpected situation, etc.

It is truly a disgrace for the intellectual animal not to have any control over those

fleeting states of consciousness and that he cannot evoke them and make them

continuous. Nevertheless, Gnosis affirms that a man can achieve control over

Consciousness and acquire Self-Consciousness. So that the three per cent of

awake consciousness can be increased as we work upon ourselves.

Many acts take place within ourselves with no participation whatsoever of

that which is called consciousness. Many adjustments and readjustments take

place within our organism, without the consciousness taking part in them. The motor





centre of our body can drive a car or direct the fingers which play the piano keys,

without even the most insignificant participation of the consciousness.

3.3 The Dialectic of Consciousness

Awaken consciousness allows us to experience reality directly. Unfortunately, the

intellectual animal mistakenly called man, fascinated by the formulative power of

dialectical logic, has forgotten about the dialectic of consciousness. Unquestionably,

the power to formulate logical concepts is basically terribly poor. From thesis we can

pass onto antithesis and through discussion reach synthesis, but the latter remains in

itself an intellectual concept which in no way can coincide with reality.

The Dialectic of Consciousness is more direct, permitting us to experience the

reality of any phenomenon in itself and by itself. Natural phenomena in no way

coincide exactly with the concepts formulated by the mind. Life develops from instant

to instant and when we capture it to analyze it, we cause its death. When, observing

this or that natural phenomenon, we try to infer concepts, in fact we stop perceiving

the reality of the phenomenon and we only see in it the reflection of theories and stale

concepts which have nothing to do at all with the observed fact.

Intellectual hallucination is fascinating and we forcibly want all natural

phenomena to coincide with our dialectical logic. The dialectic of consciousness is

based on lived experiences and not on mere subjective rationalism.

All of nature's laws exist within ourselves and if we do not discover themin our interior, we will never discover them outside of ourselves. Man is

contained in the Universe and the Universe is contained in man. Real is what we

experience within ourselves, only the consciousness can experience reality.





3.4 How the Consciousness is wasted in Life

The small percentage of consciousness which humanity possesses, instead of being

increased, is usually futilely wasted in life. It is obvious that by identifying with

all the events of our existence, we uselessly waste the energy of theconsciousness. We should see life as a film, without ever identifying with any

comedy, drama or tragedy, thus we would save conscious energy.

The pluralized Ego clumsily wastes the psychological material in atomic

explosions of envy, jealousy, greed, etc. It is necessary to dissolve the pluralized Ego

with the purpose of accumulating within the psychic material for establishing a

permanent centre of Conscience in our interior. Whoever does not possess apermanent centre of Conscience cannot be integral. Only a permanent centre of

Conscience gives us true individuality. Only a permanent Centre of Conscience makes

us integral.

4. THE EGO

4.1 Introduction

This question of the “myself”, of what I am, that which thinks, feels and acts, is

something we must auto-explore in order to know it profoundly. Everywhere there are

very nice theories which attract and fascinate. Nevertheless, all that would be of no

use if we did not know ourselves.

It is fascinating to study astronomy or to enjoy some serious reading matter.

However, it is ironic to become erudite and not to know anything about oneself, about

the “I am”, about the human personality we have.

Everyone is very free to think whatever he pleases and the subjective reason of the

intellectual animal mistakenly called man is enough for everything, it can make a

mountain out of a molehill as well as a molehill out of a mountain; many are theintellectuals who live playing with rationalism. And after all what? To be erudite





does not mean to be wise. Learned ignoramuses //IGNORÉYMESES// abound

like weeds and not only do they not know, but they even do not know that they do not

know.

By learned ignoramuses it should be understood the know-alls who believe that

they know and they do not even know themselves. We could theorize beautifully on the

“I” of Psychology, but that is not precisely what interests us in this session.

On the one hand, some authors who affirm the existence of a permanent or

immutable ego or “I” are sincere and well intentioned, but they are mistaken. The

greatest error of cheap pseudo esotericism and pseudo occultism is to assume that

others possess or that one has a permanent and immutable “I,” without a beginning

and an end...

On the other hand, many pseudo-occult or pseudo-esoteric schools divide the “I” in

two. They assert that we have a superior, divine, and immortal “I” or Ego and believe

that the “superior I” or divine Ego should control and totally dominate the “inferior I

or Ego.” This concept is totally false because superior and inferior are the two sectionsof the same thing. The “know-it-alls” of this dark age in which we live do not want to

realize that the Superior “I” or Ego or the Inferior “I” or Ego are two sections of the

same pluralized Ego... The learned ignoramuses of this tenebrous era pay homage to

the “I” they deify //DIEFAY// it; they place it on altars; they name it Alter Ego,

Superior “I,” Divine “I,” etc. The so-called divine “I” or superior “I,” alter ego or

anything of the sort, is certainly a trick of the “Myself,” a form of self deceit. ‘When the

“I” wants to continue here and in the beyond, it deceives itself with the false concept of being a divine and immortal “I”.

The “I” enjoys being divided between superior and inferior, the “I” likes to think

that a part of itself is divine, eternal, immortal; the “I” loves to be praised, to have

homage rendered, to be worshipped, to have divine status, etc. In reality, no such

superior or divine “I” exists. Within us, there exist only the Essence and the legion of

”I’s” that is all.





Indeed, the humanoid does not have a Permanent “I,” but instead he has a

multitude of different infra-human and absurd “I’s.” The truth is that the ego is a sum

of various, distinct entities. There is no permanent or immutable “I.” Only the

pluralized “I” (legion of devils) exists within us. Thus, the humanoid, in regards to his

internal state, is a psychological multiplicity, a sum of “I’s”. We need to know that wehave a pluralized “I” within us.

Indeed, the rational mammal mistakenly called the human being does not possess a

defined individuality. Unquestionably, this lack of psychological unity in the

humanoid is the cause of so many difficulties and bitterness.

The physical body is a complete unit and works as an organic whole unless it is ill.

However, the internal life of the humanoid is in no way a psychological unit. The most

critical aspect of all of this, in spite of what the diverse pseudo-esoteric and pseudo-

occultist schools might say, is the lack of psychological organization in the intimate

depths of each person.

4.2 What is the Ego?

The Seven Deadly Sins, also known as the Capital Vices or Cardinal Sins, is a

classification of objectionable vices (part of Christian ethics) that have been used since

early Christian times to educate and instruct Christians concerning fallen humanity's

tendency to sin. Gnosticism emphasizes that these seven sins are in reality seven

categories in which we can classify our psychological defects. In other words, these are

“heads” of Legion of the many different Egos we have within our own psychological

space. Every capital sin or defect has trapped a determined virtue, and this is shown

in the following table:





T ABLE 1 – Defects and Virtues

DEFECT VIRTUE

1. Lust Chastity

2. Loftiness, Arrogance, Pride Humility

3. Wrath (Anger) Serenity

4. Greed Generosity

5. Envy Abjure

6. Idleness (Sloth, Laziness) Diligence

7. Gluttony Moderation

In Oriental Tibet, the “Is” are called psychic aggregates, or simply, positive ornegative values. The Doctrine of the many “I’s” was taught in Oriental Tibet by the

true clairvoyants, by the true enlightened ones...

The Ego is the Satan of the Bible, a handful of memories, desires, passions, hates,

resentments, concupiscences, adulteries, and inheritance of family, race, nations, etc.

The Ego is also known in Gnosticism as psychological defects, “I”, “Is”, or Egos, the

seven deadly sins, etc. Hatred, jealousy, anger, covetousness /CÓVETUSNES/, lust,envy, pride, laziness, gluttony, etc., all emotions, all sensations, all thoughts, all

sentiments, and all passions consist of small “Is” that are not in any way related to or

coordinated with each other.

4.3 The Ego in the Different Civilizations

The pluralized Ego has also been called by the ancient civilizations as follows:

1. Egyptians: The Red Devils of Seth /DÉVOLS/.

2. Tibetans: The psychological aggregates.

3. Budha: He fights against Legions of demons.

4. Hindues in the Ramaiana: Rama and Lakshmana destroy the Rakshasas

(evil creatures) when they interrupt their meditation. Then, a Rakshasa

princess try to seduce Rama and Lakshmana wounds it. The King of Lanka is





Ravana and sends a golden deer to capture Sita. Sita is the essence and is

captured by Ravana. Rama wiped out Rávana shooting the Brahmastra arma

weapon.

5. Aztecs: The 400 southerners and the Coyolxauhqui, the enemies of Coatlicue

and her son Huitzilopochotli.6. Christians: Legion of Demons or seven deadly sins.

It is said that Jesus of Nazareth drove seven demons out of the body of Mary

Magdalene, seven “I’s”, living personifications of the seven deadly sins.

“Now, when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary

Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils”. New Testament, Mark 16, 9.

“And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village,

preaching and shewing /SHOWING/ the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and

the twelve were with him, and certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits

and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils”. New

Testament, Luke 8, 1:2

Obviously, each of these seven demons is head of legion, therefore we can establish

as corollary that the intimate Christ was able to expel from the body of Mary

Magdalene thousands of “Is”.

THE POSSESSED MAN STORY

“And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which

had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in tombs.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him and with a loud voice

said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee,

torment me not. (…) And Jesus asked him, What is thy name? And he said,

LEGION: because many devils were entered into him. And they besought him that he

would not command them to go out into the deep. And there was there an herd of

many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer





them to enter into them. And he suffered them. Then went the devils out of the man,

and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the

lake, and were shocked.” New Testament, Luke 8, 27:33.

4.4 The Lack of Psychological Integration and the Intimate

Contradictions of the Human Being

In fact, one of the greatest longings in psychology is the attainment of total

integration. If the EGO was one, the problem of psychological integration would

be resolved with the greatest of ease, but unfortunately for the world, the EGO existswithin each person in a pluralized form. In the light of revolutionary psychology we

can understand that the EGO is a legion and the human organism is a machine.

The pluralized EGO is the fundamental cause of all our intimate contradictions. If

we could see ourselves in a full length mirror the way we are psychologically with all

our intimate contradictions, we would arrive at the painful conclusion that we still do

not have true individuality.

Thus, from a psychological point of view, the intellectual mammal is continuously

changing... To think that a person named Louis is always Louis is like a joke made in

very bad taste... That subject called Louis has other “I’s,” other “egos” in himself, who,

in different moments, express themselves through his personality. Therefore, even if

Louis does not like covetousness, another “I” within him, lets call him Peter, likes

covetousness, and so on…

No person is the same in a continuous manner. Indeed, one does not have to be a

sage in order to fully realize the innumerable changes and contradictions of each

individual... Therefore, to assume that someone possesses a permanent and

immutable “I” is equivalent to committing an abuse against our fellowmen and against

oneself...





Thus, many people, many “I’s” live inside each person. Any awakened or conscious

person can, in a direct way, verify this by himself... If for at least one instant, we

awaken consciousness, we would then clearly see for themselves that the rational

humanoid is never the same “one” through a long period of time...

The human organism is a wonderful machine controlled by the pluralized EGO

which is studied in depth by revolutionary psychology. To deny the doctrine of the

many is to foolishly ignore oneself because, in fact it would be the height of absurdity

to ignore the many contradictions each one of us has. I am going to read the

newspaper, −says an intellectual EGO; to hell with such reading , −exclaims the “I” of

movement−−−− I prefer to go for a ride on my bike. I want to go to a party, −exclaims an

emotional EGO; to hell with the party, −grumbles an EGO of movement−, it is better if

I go for a walk; I don't want to go for a walk, −shouts an EGO of conservation

instinct−, I am hungry and I am going to eat. If we could see ourselves completely in a

mirror, the way we really are, we would discover for ourselves directly the doctrine of

the many. Each of our small selves which constitute the EGO, wants to rule,

wants to be the master.

Human personality is only a marionette (puppet) controlled by invisible

strings. The “I” which today makes a vow /VAO/ of eternal love for Gnosis, is later on

displaced by another “I”, which has nothing to do with the pledge; then the fellow

withdraws. The “I” which today swears eternal love to a woman, is later on displaced

by another one which has nothing to do with that oath, then the fellow falls in love

with another woman and the house of cards collapses.

Amongst the many “I’s” there is no order or any concordance at all, they all quarrel

with each other and dispute for supremacy. When any of them gains control of the

capital centres of the organic machine, feels itself the only one, the master, but it is

finally overthrown.

Considering things from this point of view, we come to the logical conclusion that

the rational mammal does not have true sense of moral responsibility.





Unquestionably, what the human machine may say or do in any given moment,

depends exclusively on the kind of “I” which is controlling him in those instants.

The wretched intellectual animal mistakenly called a human being is similar to a

house in disorder where instead of one lord; many servants exist who always want to

command and to perform their own whims. The intellectual animal mistakenly

called man is like a house full of many people. The many Egos quarrel among

themselves, they fight for supremacy, each one wanting to be the boss, the master.

This explains the unfortunate state of psychological disintegration in which the

poor intellectual animal mistakenly called man lives.

People have their consciousness asleep and do not realize that they are envious

//ÉNVIUS//, cruel //KRUEL//, covetous //CÓVETUS// and jealous and when for some

reason they do realize all this, they justify themselves, they condemn and search for

evasions but do not understand.

None of us has a true “I” that is permanent, immutable, eternal, ineffable

//INÉFABOL//, etc. Indeed, none of us has a true and authentic Unity of Being.Unfortunately, we do not even possess a legitimate individuality. The ego, the “I,” is

never something individual, unitary, a total unity. Obviously the “I” is “I’s”

If we think of each “I” as a different person, we can then emphatically state the

following: “Many people exist within each person living in the world.”

Unquestionably, many different persons live inside each one of us, some of them arebetter than others, and others are worse... Each one of these “I’s” each one of these

persons, struggles for supremacy.

As often is possible, each one of these “Is” wants to be exclusive. Each one wants to

control the intellectual brain or the emotional and motor centers until another

substitutes it... Each of our defects is personified by one “I” or another. Since we have

thousands and even millions of defects //DÍFECTS//, it is obvious that many people livewithin our interior.





There is no integral, unitotal “I,” but a multitude of wretched, screaming,

quarrelsome “Is” that fight among themselves, struggling for supremacy.

The “I’s” which we have within us are true demons, created by ourselves. A

particular “I” may automatically follow another “I’s” and some appear to beaccompanied by others; however, there is no order in all this, no true unity, only

accidental associations, small groups associating in an unconscious and subjective

way. Each one of these small “I’s” represents only a small part of the totality of our

functions, but each one thinks, wrongly, that it is always the whole.

When the intellectual animal, wrongly called man, says “I,” he feels that he speaks

of his total self, but in reality, what he refers to is one of the small “I’s” of a legion of

“I’s”.

The “I” which today swears fidelity before the altar of Gnosis believes itself to be the

whole, unique, and complete person, but it is only one of the legions of “I’s.” When that

particular “I” falls from his position of command, another “I” which is the enemy of

Gnosis occupies its place. Then, that person who seemed so enthusiastic about Gnosis

is transformed into an enemy, attacking our movement, our doctrine, etc.

The “I” that today swears eternal love to a woman thinks he is the only one, the

master, the complete man, so he says, “I adore you, I love you, I would give my life for

you,” etc., but when that lovesick “I” is displaced from his position of command by

another “I,” then that man leaves that woman and falls in love with another.

In reality, the “intellectual animal” does not have true individuality, he does not

have a permanent center of gravity, and he does not have a true sense of moral

responsibility.





4.5 The Dream of Consciousness

I want to emphatically refer to the dream of the consciousness. The four Gospels insist

in the necessity of awakening, but disgracefully, people suppose that they areawakened.

What is even worse is that certain type of individuals exist everywhere,

who by the way, are certainly very psychic, yet, they not only sleep, but more

over, they dream that they are awakened. These kinds of people self-denominate

themselves (so to speak) ‘seers’. They become very dangerous because they project

their dreams, hallucinations and madness upon others. Precisely, they are the oneswho accuse others of crimes they did not commit, and this is how they destroy homes.

It becomes obvious to comprehend that we are not talking against the legitimate

clairvoyants. We are only referring to the hallucinating ones, to those sincerely

mistaken ones who dream that they are awakened.

Truly, we have evidenced that the cause of esoteric failure is due to the sleeping

consciousness. Really, many sincere, devout Gnostics who are lovers of the

Truth, fail due to the lamentable state of their sleeping consciousness.

In ancient times, the Great Arcanum was only taught to those neophytes who had

awakened their consciousness. The Hierophants knew very well that the sleeping

disciples sooner or later would abandon the work related to the Great Arcanum. What

is the worst is that these failing ones self-cheat themselves by thinking the best of

them. Almost always they fall over the arms of some new little school which will grantunto them some kind of consolation.

If these poor people could have their consciousness awake, then they could verify for

themselves that as above so below, and vice versa. They would directly experiment

with their crude reality, they would be perfectly aware of the lamentable state in

which they are in.





4.6 The Disintegration of the Pluralized Ego

We all know that we have within ourselves that which is called Ego, “I”, me, and

“myself”. Unfortunately, the Essence is completely imprisoned, absorbed inside the

Ego, and this is lamentable.

Although the Ego continues beyond the sepulchre //SÉPULQUER//, it has,

nonetheless, a beginning and an end.

To dissolve the psychological “I,” to disintegrate its undesirable elements, is

something unavoidable and non- excludable. This is the meaning of working upon

oneself.

We would never be able to liberate the Essence without previously disintegrating

the psychological “I.” No one would be able to annihilate //ANÁYELEIT// the

Psychological “I” without previously eliminating the inhuman elements that we

carry within ourselves.

We need to reduce to ashes the monstrous cruelty of this day and age: envy which

has unfortunately become the secret trigger of action, the unbearable covetousness

//CÓVETUSNESS// that has made life so bitter, the disgusting slander; the calumny

which gives rise to so many tragedies the drunken revelries, the lust, etc.

Accordingly as all these abominations are being reduced to cosmic dust, the

Essence, besides becoming emancipated will harmoniously grow and develop.

Unquestionably, the Essence shines within ourselves when our psychological “I” has

died.

This matter of the dissolution of the Ego confuses and annoys pseudo-esoterists.

These people are convinced that the Ego is Divine, they think that the Ego is the same

Being, the Divine Monad, etc. It is necessary and urgent to understand that the Ego

has nothing Divine.





The liberated Essence confers upon us inner beauty perfect happiness and

true love emanate from such a beauty. The Essence possesses multiple senses of

perfection and extraordinary natural powers. When we die within ourselves, when we

dissolve the Psychological “I,” we can then enjoy the precious senses and powers of the

Essence.

In the world there exist Caligulas, Atillas, Hitlres, etc. Every type of personality,

however perverse it may have been, can be radically transformed when the Ego is

totally dissolved.

It is urgent to dissolve the Ego so that the Psychological Essence of our True Being

manifests itself through our Personality. It is indispensable that we fully understand

the need for harmoniously cultivating the three aspects of the Human

Personality: a perfect equilibrium between Personality and Essence, a harmonious

development of Thought, Emotion and Movement.

A determined percentage of Consciousness is liberated when any “I” is

disintegrated. Hence, the emancipation or liberation of the Essence or Consciousnesswithout the disintegration of each “I” is impossible. The greater the quantity of

disintegrated “I’s,” the greater the degree of self-cognizance. Therefore, the awakening

of Consciousness is only possible by dissolving the “I,” by dying in oneself, here and

now.

Unquestionably, as long as the Essence or Consciousness continues bottled up

within each one of the “I” that we carry within our interior, it will always be asleep, ina subconscious state.

It is urgent to transform the sub-consciousness into consciousness. This is only

possible by annihilating //ANÁYELEITING// the “I’s” by dying within ourselves. So, it

is impossible to awaken without first having died within ourselves.

Those who try to awaken first and then die do not possess a real experience of whatthey affirm. They advance resolutely on the path of error.





4.7 The Tool for Starting the Destruction of the Pluralized Ego:

Auto-Observation

If any one of our readers does not yet comprehend the doctrine of the many “Is” it is

due exclusively to the lack of practice in the field of self (auto) observation. As long as

any person continues considering himself as only one, it is clear that any internal

change would be something more than impossible.

Those who deny the doctrine of the many “I’s” those who adore a divine “I” have

undoubtedly never observed themselves seriously. Pointing at them, this time in a

Socratic style, we state that those people not only ignore, but more over, they ignore that

they ignore.

As one practices inner self observation, one discovers for oneself many people, many

“I’s” who live inside our own personality. Certainly, we can never know ourselves

without serious and profound self observation. Indeed, when one wants to know

oneself, one must observe oneself and try to know the different “Is” which

abound inside the personality.

It is clear then that we need to know ourselves directly without the depressing

process of option. In no way would this be possible, if we did not auto-observe

ourselves in action from instant to instant, from moment to moment. It is not a matter

of seeing ourselves through some theory or through simple intellective speculation.

What is interesting is to see ourselves directly; only thus will we be able to reach true

knowledge of ourselves.

Although it might seem incredible, we are mistaken about ourselves. Many things

we believe we have, we do not have, and many things we believe we do not have, we

have. We have got false ideas about ourselves and we must make an inventory to

know what is too much in ourselves and what we are lacking. We suppose ourselves to

have these or those qualities which in fact we do not have, and we certainly ignore

many virtues which we have.





We are asleep people, unconscious people, and this is what is serious.

Unfortunately, we think the best of ourselves and not even suspect that we are asleep.

The Holy Scriptures insist on the need to wake up, but do not explain the

system to achieve such awaking. The worst of it is that many have read the Holy

Scriptures and do not even understand that they are asleep.

Everybody believes that they know themselves and they do not even suspect the

existence of the doctrine of the many. Really, the psychological “I” of everyone is

multiple, it always occurs as many. We mean by this that we have many “I’s” and

not a single one as learned ignoramuses always suppose.

We need to open ourselves for the light of the consciousness to penetrate the terrible

darkness of the “myself”, of the “oneself”.

Now we will understand better the meaning of John's words, when he said in the

Gospel: “The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness does not understand” .

It would be impossible however, for the light of consciousness to penetrate within

the darkness of the self, should we not previously use the marvellous sense of

psychological auto-observation. We need to make way for light to illuminate the

tenebrous depths of the “I” of psychology.

Darkness is unconsciousness; light is consciousness; we must allow light to

penetrate our own darkness; obviously light has power to defeat darkness.Unfortunately, people are self-incarcerated in the fetid and filthy environment of their

own mind, adoring their beloved Ego.

People do not want to realize that they are not masters of their own life. Certainly,

each person is controlled from within by many other persons. I want to refer

emphatically to all that multiplicity of “Is” that we carry within. Ostensibly, each one

of those “Is” puts in our mind what we must think, in our mouth what we must say, inour heart what we must feel, etc.





Under such conditions, human personality is just a robot governed by

different people who dispute for supremacy and who aspire to the supreme control of

the organic machine’s capital centres.

In the name of truth, we have to affirm solemnly that the poor intellectual animal mistakenly called man, though believing himself very balanced, lives in complete

psychological unbalance. The intellectual mammal is by no means unilateral, if he was

so he would be balanced. The intellectual mammal is regrettably multilateral. How

could the rational humanoid be balanced? An awaking consciousness is needed

for perfect balance to exist.

Only the light of consciousness, directed not from the angles, but in a full, central

way upon ourselves, can put an end to contrasts, to contradictions and establish

within ourselves true inner balance. If we dissolve the whole of those “Is” that we

carry within, there comes the awaking of the consciousness and, as a consequence or

corollary, the true balance of our own psyche.

Unfortunately, people do not want to realize the unconsciousness in which they live;

they sleep deeply. If people were awake, each one would feel his fellow men in himself.

If people were awake, our fellow-men would feel us in themselves. Then, obviously,

there would be no wars and the whole Earth would truly be a paradise.

The light of the consciousness, giving us true psychological balance, comes to

establish each thing in its place, and what before was in intimate conflict with us, is

left in fact in its suitable place. Such is the crowds’ unconsciousness that they are not

even able to find the relation existing between light and consciousness.

Unquestionably, light and consciousness are two aspects of the same; where there is

light there is consciousness. Unconsciousness is darkness and the latter exists in our

interior. Only through psychological auto-observation do we allow light to

penetrate our own darkness.





“The light shines in the darkness but the darkness does not understand it”. The New

Testament, John 1, 5.

4.8 The Problems Created by the Pluralized “I” In Gnostic Groups

For the disgrace of this poor human ant-hive, people carry within themselves an awful

secretary, which is always wrongly interpreting the Gnostic teachings. We are

referring to the pluralized ‘I’, the ‘Myself’.

We have seen many ugly things within our beloved Gnostic Movement. It becomes

dreadful to see the mythomaniacs, the sleepy, hallucinated ones prophesying madness,slandering their neighbours, qualifying others as black magicians, etc. Certainly, this

is dreadful. Devils judging devils! All of these ‘perfection boasters’ do not want to be

aware that in this painful world in which we live, it is sometimes almost impossible to

find a Saint.

Every Magician is more or less black. In no way can one be white while the demon,

the pluralized ‘I’ is inserted within the body. The attitude of going everywhere sayingthat such a fellow is a fallen one, is certainly a joke of very bad taste, since in this

world all the people are fallen. The attitude of slandering neighbours and destroying

families with false prophesies is proper of hallucinated ones, of people who dream of

being awakened.

Truly, if someone wants to Self-awaken, then he has to have the resolution of dying

from moment to moment. Let him practice deep meditation, let him be liberated fromhis mind, let him practice the Runes such as we have taught them in this book.

Constantly, many letters from many sleepy ones are mailed to me at this

patriarchal headquarters of the Gnostic Movement, which say: My wife, my friend, or

such fellow, is very evolved, is a very old soul, etc.





These poor sleepy ones who talk like this, think that Time and Evolution can

awaken them, can Self-realize them, can take them to the final liberation. These

people do not want to comprehend that Evolution and its twin sister Involution, are

exclusively two mechanical laws of Nature, which work in a harmonious and

coordinated way, in the whole of creation. When one awakens the consciousness,

then one comprehends the necessity of emancipating oneself from these two

laws and of penetrating into the path of the Revolution.

5. THE BEING: THE INNER GOD

The Divine Being, the Monad, the Inner Being, or Atman has nothing to do with any

form of Ego or “I”. The Being is the Being and is beyond any type of “I”. The Being is

the Being and that is all, the reason for Being of the Being is the Being. Our Real

Being is impersonal, cosmic, ineffable, and supremely divine.

Unfortunately, the “intellectual animal” cannot incarnate his Real Being ( Atman,

Buddhi, Manas) because he has only lunar bodies, and these would not be able towithstand the tremendous electric voltage of our true Being. We would die.

The Personality in itself is only a vehicle and nothing more. Through the

personality, the Ego or the Being can manifest itself; everything depends on us.

The demons inhabiting the lunar bodies of the intellectual animal are not

imprisoned in our physical bodies. Normally, they enter and leave, travelling tovarious places or walking subconsciously through the various molecular regions of

nature. After death, the pluralized “I” continues within the lunar bodies, projecting

itself anywhere into nature from these bodies.




REFERENCES

• Samael Aun Weor (1975). The Great Rebellion, Chapters: 3, 4, 7, 10 and 11.

• Samael Aun Weor (1967). Budha’s Necklace, Chapter 10.

• Samael Aun Weor (1969). Esoteric Treatise of Runic Magic, Chapter 45.• Samael Aun Weor (1970). Fundamental Education, Chapters: 14, 24, and 37.

• Samael Aun Weor (1975). Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, Chapters: 4, 10,

and 11.

• Samael Aun Weor (1965). Christmas Message 1965-1966 (or The Science of the

Music), Chapter 9.

• New Testament, Mark 16, 9. • New Testament, Luke 8, 1:2, and 27:33. • New Testament, John 1, 5.

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