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Notes on Personality Ways of Thinking - (4937)

Introduction

It is really difficult to know how our personality thinks. We can only really know how the personality thinks when we come up against something that is not the personality.


We can only really study the personality way of thinking in confrontation or contrast with the work way of thinking.


Take this post as a kind of calibration session. Where we can calibrate our ideas against the work or what the teachings say.


Notes

A good way to present this, is to bring an issue and present the personality's way of thinking and the work's way of thinking about the same issue. 


Issue:             Vision of Life

Personality:   Various different visions taking various forms all based on matter, society and personal                           ideas.

Work:            No particular form to the vision - only the inner action of doing the work.


Issue:            Identity

Personality:   That of a person, a human being in and of society with all the rights to the norms.

Work:            That of an essence in a human body with knowledge of the human and the spiritual.


Issue:            Problems

Personality:   Worry, do something, decide, fix it, solve it, organise it, run, 

Work:            Forget and put it in the hands of the Inner Being and the Divine Law.


Issue:            Conflict

Personality:   React, fight with forceful means, borderline ethics, etc. 

Work:            Silence, turn to the Divine Law, refuge in the principles and values of the soul, refuge in                          Inner Being.


Issue:            Justice

Personality:   Take justice in one's hands, apply justice, create injustice, protest, complain, 

Work:            Trust in the principle of justice, trust in the Divine Law. Leave justice to the Gods. Seek                           inside for the why and the how to proceed.


Issue:            Service

Personality:   When convenient or to receive a return.

Work:             To serve unreservedly, openness, declared worker of the Great Cause.


Issue:            Guru

Personality:   Unheard of, and acceptable as long as advice benefits personal convenience and                                      commitment is light. Full explanations to be forthcoming.

Work:            Respect and open consideration for the path. Readiness to obey for the Being and path                              and the values in question: loyalty, humility, respect and love.


Issue:            Obedience

Personality:   Only if it makes sense and does not upset my sense of self.

Work:             Recognition of benefit to the work and path.


Issue:            Authority

Personality:  Tendency to disregard and eqaulise.

Work:            Respect and cooperation with.


Issue:            Spirituality

Personality:    Great tendency to mould to suit the likes and dislikes of the personality.

Work:            Accepted as it and work upon oneself to be match its principles.


Issue:            Gnostic People

Personality:   Some that attract and some that repel. Like and dislike.

Work:            Respected and valued and are essences like mine and have a lot to teach and those our                              work can also help


Issue:            Gnostic Association

Personality:  Good socially, good for human support and when we need help. 

Work:           Part of he work and the Great Cause of the Father.


Issue:            Gnostic School

Personality:   Good to learn what personality is interested in. Regularity does not give freedom. 

Work:           Part of the work and the Great Cause of the Father. Necessary place to calibrate ourselves                       and strengthen and advance our inner work. 


Issue:            Gnostic Instructor

Personality: Like or dislike the personal outer specifics.

Work:           Respect, acceptance, listening, appreciation and openness to learn from. Seen as a great                           aid to one's personal work.


Issue:            Love

Personality:   Great according to personal interests and criteria.

Work:            No definition of - formless and shapeless and all that enhances the work, the essence and                       the Inner Being.


Issue:            Path

Personality:  Seen and take and changed as per the likes of the personality. Not respected, nor accepted.

Work:           Taken as it, greatly respected and yearned for.


Issue:            Secrets, Secrecy and Silence

Personality:  Disliked, unfair and incorrect.

Work:           Understood and seen as necessary so as to not profane and to create.


Issue:            Gnostic Activities 

Personality:   Often not internally present for. Very boring.

Work:           Participated in with concentration and will.


Issue:            Progress

Personality:   According to plan and mental schemes and schedules. 

Work:            Focus on the work and leave that to the consciousness and the Inner Being. Know our                              part and leave that to the facts.


Issue:            Behaviour of Others

Personality:  Judges based on what we have in our personality. Like, dislike, accept and reject. React and correct.

Work:         Comprehends and observes our own reactions. Uses the behaviour of others to work on ourselves for self-discovery and for the dissolution of our own own defects.  


Issue:            Essence of Others

Personality: Vagueness and not too important, only a second's thought.

Work:          All about the active essence and its development,. All is done for that aim.


Issue:            Sickness

Personality: 

Work:


Issue:            Learning

Personality:

Work:


Issue:            Karma

Personality:

Work:


Issue:            Reward

Personality:

Work:


Issue:            Gnostic Retreats

Personality:

Work:


Issue:            Judgement 

Personality:

Work:


Issue:            Pain

Personality:

Work:


Issue:            Success and Failure

Personality:

Work:


Issue:            Dreams

Personality:

Work:


Conclusion

What is of value here is to establish a pattern by which we can identify the personality's way of thinking.


Why does this interest us. Only so that we can pacify it. Because in the work going with the personality brings us error and complications, in other words a high possibility of karma.


Here below are some conclusions that we can draw. 


The way of thinking of the personality is to subject what we see before us to our personal criteria which is made up of our egos and our experiences in life.


The criteria of the work and essence is that there is no reference to personal criteria but reference to principles. That is to the essence of things, the spirit of things, the nature of the thing in itself. The truth of it, the real of it, the inner value of the activity, action or expression.


There are perceptions and ways of thinking that are:

1.) Pure personality perception

2.) Mixed essence and personality

3.) Pure essence


We should at least be able to recognise the pure personality and have the capacity to chose to go beyond it to find the second or third way of thinking.


Personality focuses on the personal, as its names suggests. 


The work focuses on the overriding principles just as does the sun. Note how the light of the sun covers the whole solar system. When focused it is devastating.


The smart and refined personality justifies itself with arguments that come from the work.


Personality does not see the essence in others nor is it capable of loving. The essence loves 'what is'. From that stand point it always wins. For the personality there is the statement: 'always have to win', because loss is not impossible to live with. The truth is the personality can not dictate life and so it will and does lose, which equals suffering.


When we are in rigid mode we are in the personality. When we reject the work and do not see anything else but our side as correct we are not in the work.


End (4937).

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