The Difference Between the Personality of Our Lower Nature and the Identity of Our Higher Nature
An “idea”, which originates in an invisible and generalized state, can only be understood in the practical sense by forming it into a working mental concept that serves to demonstrate how it functions as a fundamental part of our everyday reality. In order to understand the dual nature of...
“16” – The Lightning Struck Tower, Destruction of Illusion, and the Dark Night of the Soul
The major Arcane of the Tarot, also known as the Hermetic texts, is comprised of 22 Universal Archetypes that operate simultaneously on multiple planes through the creative process conducted through the utilization of the 10 primary Universal Laws that govern all material manifestation. The first 11 principles involve the...
“15” – The Archetype of the Devil: Overcoming Weaknesses, Material Attachments, and Transcending Illusion
In all forms of Esoteric Sciences ideas are communicated in the universal language of Archetypes, numbers, and symbols. We’re given a grand formula as a composite image or idea that must be intuitively interpreted in order for its hidden knowledge to be apprehended. All actual learning takes place through...
Humility, Shedding the False Ego, and the True Path of Liberation
There always seems to be a strange kind of reality around ideas that exist as a form of paradox that breeds constant illusions as misunderstandings produced through incorrect interpretations. What’s commonly referred to as ‘shedding our ego’, or experiences that come as the ‘death’ of the ego, can seem...
Realizing your True Self and Transcending the False Ego of Your Past
One of the most fundamental spiritual errors we make in life is in believing that we are the personality of our body and conditioning. As a human soul born into an animal body, we acquire the physical characteristics and ancestral memory that’s inherent in our genes. Our genetic makeup...
Humility – Dissolution of the False-Ego and Masterful Liberation of the Soul
What has historically been called the ego may be more correctly referred to as the false ego, because the term ego is synonymous with identity and is used in many spiritual texts interchangeably as meaning the same thing. Our identity is formed by whatever we associate with, and how...
The Shadow and the Ego – Self-Creation and the Art of Personal Transformation
What we refer to as the mind or soul (which are synonymous terms), is threefold in nature (3 aspects of One essence) and resides simultaneously on three parallel planes or levels of consciousness, which combine into a single unit on a fourth plane as a material reality. Within the...
The Nature of Projection, Judgment, and Emotional Reactions
The idea that whatever we see in others and have a strong reaction to is something that we also have in us, can be difficult to understand because of course we don’t see ourselves as being anything like them and may even despise them for being that way. We’re...
The Self-Conscious Mind, the False Ego, and the Most Basic Form of Ignorance
What we call the mind is three-fold in nature, as three aspects that systematically birth each other as outgrowths, all of which perform different functions as a unified being within a multi-dimensional reality. These three aspects of the mind are what we call the higher, superconscious mind, the middle...
Personality, Identity, and Ego – Our Main Tools for Transformation
The personality, identity and ego have a tendency to be used intermittently, and their actual meaning can remain somewhat obscured or vague. This may be due to the fact that they emerge out of each other as a natural growth process of becoming. While our personality is related to...