Introduction
This post is a collection of notes on the personality that I
jotted down while listening to a class on the Personality given by my marvellous
missionary.
Definition
Personality in us is a psychological and energetic structure
that is used by people to relate to the environment in which they are in.
Personality is not used by people to relate to themselves but to the
environment.
Personality is not us, it belongs to us and yet it doesn't
because it is not really us.
Personality is developed through family, education and
environment. The personality is like a sponge, that absorbs impressions and
ultimately values from these three mentioned sources and stores them and then
begins to express these values and the particular way of expressing these
values is personality.
Personality is about expressing these vanes but not about being
developing those inner values. The values of the personality are really
external values.
Personality is what has been given to us. Our name, background,
nationality, image, religion, culture is given to us. Personality is also
developed within conditions and not according to an infinite totally
unconditioned way. Personality develops within the conditions or limits of
time, space, relativity and duality.
Foundations
The personality has two foundations which are physical and psychological.
Physical foundations are many, so are the psychological.
What are the foundations of our life? It is basically our way
of thinking, our self-concept and our self-image.
Self-concept is essentially a belief. Which means it is partly
true and partly false.
Self-concept is what we project onto ourselves. It is a concept
about ourselves. It is the result of mind, ego and personality taking the
events of life and adding to the self-concept.
Self-image is divided into two parts one which is internal and
the other which is external.
The self-image and self-concept that we have actually hinder
our development.
Personality has a foundation: ingredients and characteristics.
The foundations of the personality are false and subjective because they depend
on what others think about us or rather more exactly what we think others are
thinking about each us.
There are tangible and intangible foundations. Personality
is intangible, something we can't hold in our hands but it has tangible
manifestations. His like software, we can't hold, bend, bite, taste or touch it
but its functions produce tangible real effects.
It is easier to respond to something physical that we lose, than
something psychological.
The main foundation of our personality is our way thinking, specifically
the way or what we think about ourselves.
Sometimes some values are so important that we can't live
without it.
Characteristics
The characteristics of the personality are of the five
centres which are: intellectual, emotional, motor, instinctive and sexual
characteristics.
There are seven types of people, the three inferior, one in
the middle and then three superior. The three superior are the spiritual type.
The middle man is what we have to aim for, which is the person who has balanced
all the three brains into one and does not have contradictions, and such a
person has a high degree of responsibility in the maintenance of our
psychological house.
Personality and Concepts
What we have of other people is a mental photo or
representation of their personality. We develop concepts about people and because
those concepts about their personality we rarely know people. We only relate to
people through concepts.
Even concepts that we have of people are not really the real
person.
Formation
Personality is formed in the first seven years of life and it
develops through various experiences in life.
Personality is basically developed via imitation.
Personality can be modified though and indeed through the
course of our life does change.
Furthermore personality does have many facets. One person can
have a facet per environment, that is one facet at home and another with
in-laws and another at work.
Belongs to Time and Space
Personality is temporal and belongs to time and space and is
really the characteristics and qualities developed in time and space.
Personality of a Different Nature than the Work
We can't take the personality as a reference point for the
work. This is because the personality is of a different nature than that of the
work, the consciousness, the Being and the path.
Titles, social status etc. don't apply in esoteric schools became
a premise of the mystery schools is that each member is regarded as an equal
and the personality and its difference are not part of this, that is why when
we enter the internal temples we do so without our personality and we enter as
essences.
End (927).
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