...We assume that the well-dressed individual is a well-integrated individual... 

...This does not necessarily follow... 

...We assume that when we see the person fully attired in whatever style or manner he chooses... 

...that we are seeing the real person... 

...Though by degrees the perpetuation and glorification of the personality has become habitual... 

..until today it is very rare indeed to find the individual... 

...who is capable of clearly distinguishing between... 

...the person and its manifesting instrument...

...It is also well to bear in mind that the personality , because it is a defense organism... 

...does not represent the total nature of the individual... 

...It represents only such parts of his nature as have been awakened by reminiscence and have been... 

...brought forward because of need...

...Thus , in most cases , the personality probably does not represent more... 

...than a fractional part of the individuality behind it... 

...It only represents such parts of the individuality as are immediately useful on a protective level...

BEHIND THE MASK OF PERSONALITY  

JULY 29, 1956

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...There is on cure...

...except the change...

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 ...If we live each day serving as nobly as the wisest and the most loving servants of men have served...

...we shall be moving victoriously and beautifully in the right direction... 

...And we shall know as a personal experience of consciousness... 

...the resurrection of beauty and of truth and love within ourselves... 

...And whenever this occurs , on any day of the year...

 ...in any year of our lives , day or night , for each of us , that moment is Easter morn...

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Christ as an Archetypal Symbol of Man's Spiritual Maturity

 

...Thus , instead of gaining only an internal silence , in the common sense of the word...

...he gains also that strange dynamic silence which preceded creation...

...and from which all things come...

...the silence of the heart of God... 

...This silence is the root of sound , and from it pours forth the fiat that fashioned the world... 

...This is the dynamic silence of creation...

 

...the tremendous dramatic silence of new birth forever taking place...

 ...new worlds forever fashioning...

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The Dark Night of the Soul : Man's Instinctive Search for Reality

 

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...Today the philosopher in search of reality must retire deep into the recesses of his inner self... 

...and thus escape from the discordances of the outer life...

 ...If he would think , he must depart from the mob...

 ...which in its non-productive scrambling scatters the faculties of the mind... 

...and robs man of his most precious gift - the power of thought... 

...It should not be necessary for man to leave the world in order to find himself... 

...for his world should be a place where his true nature may mingle in concord with the true natures of all other beings...

...The sham of civilization is apparent when we realize that forces the majority of people to assume false lives... 

...to live in confit with their inner convictions...

 ...The idealist must keep silent or be reviled...

...the thinker must hold his peace or be persecuted... 

...the mystic dares not share his vision with the world... 

...which though aware that he is right , will crucify him if not in body at least in soul... 

...Hence , those with little knowledge babble continuously and their words become the laws of men... 

...while those of nobler vision must remain unknown , unhonored and unsung... 

...Never can we rise to the true heights seen by the eyes of the idealist... 

...while we are in servitude to the inferior part of ourselves...

Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

 by Manly P. Hall

 

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 ...Plato pointed out... 

...that in a democracy...

 ...each citizen must carry a far greater personal obligation than in any other form of government... 

...Anarchy has no obligation at all...

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...The final proof of man’s own integration lies in the fact... 

...that his imagination will reveal to him nothing but good... 

...This is the final integration... 

...The final integration of man is that he may accept mystery without fear on all levels of existence... 

...That the unknown no longer carries anxiety... 

...Actually , when the unknown no longer carries anxiety man is then religions... 

...Because theoretically at least , the unknown cause of things must be God... 

...And God can not be a cause of anxiety to man... 

...unless man is wrong...

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Dr. Carl Jung and the Flying Saucers 

 

...If the inner eye is opened , all darkness disappears... 

...The solar system unfolds in a vast flower-like pattern... 

...the colors of which are beyond description... 

...Within this structure are the auric bodies of the planets... 

...moving in stately procession about the sovereign sun... 

...Above and beyond the solar system are the blazing archetypal patterns of the constellations... 

...which in turn mingle their lights with the countless flames of the galaxy...

...Below on earth every flower and plant has its own auric field... 

...minerals shine with an interior light... 

...and the earth beneath our feet is a mass of tiny stars... 

...In the midst of this diffusion of colors stands the human being in an auric robe of glory... 

...Every moment of existence , even what we like to call death... 

...is bringing forth beings and creatures whose bodies will fade away...

...but whose invisible constitutions will shine forever...

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 ...You are growing... 

...or... 

...You are rotting...

 ...status quo is impossible... 

...the choice is yours...

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 ...Religion should give you relaxation...

 ...unless you are fanatic...

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...We need Nature...

...and...

...Nature needs Us...

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...Pythagoras suggested that we take a moment before going to bed...

...and review the events of the day... 

...recognizing which areas we are in need of improvement... 

...The idea is not to judge or condemn oneself... 

...but to just point out what we've done well... 

...and where we could be doing better... 

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 ...Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom...

...and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star... 

...To the ignorant , the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind... 

...But the wise man himself does not feel lonely... 

...Wisdom brings him nearer to life... 

...closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be... 

...Bookishness may lead to loneliness... 

...and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs... 

...but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness... 

...but a space full of life...

...truth... 

...and law... 

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