Esoteric Astrology: Esoteric Psychology

7.11.2021

Soul and Personality (esoteric thought)

Soul and Personality

(Integration)

In occult, esoteric texts and also in poems of clear mystical tendency, one can read that the first obligation of every good "disciple on the path" is to achieve integration between the Soul and the Personality, without this first step there can be no second.

The personality is a force consisting of three lesser forces, the so-called lower basic triad of physical/etheric¹, emotional and concrete mind, all of which together create a strong personality, a personality with an emotional and mental body expressing itself with "power" (success) on the material plane through its etheric/physical body.

2.20.2018

Psychology of the Soul (consciousness - personality)

The study (logos) of the Soul (psyche)

When one studies a concept as "intangible" as that of Alma, it becomes necessary, to make it accessible to the practical understanding, to oppose it with nature more "tangible" of the human being: the personality.

The objective experiences ("good and bad") of the personality are the tools that we have to deepen, through observation-reflection, in the subjective background of the experienced.

Any personal expression practiced, imagined or thought, if observed and analysed from impersonality, shows the reflection of a more deep, its true "reason to be". It is not gold everything that shines, but there is Gold.

What is the Soul in relation to the Personality?

We understand that the Soul is the subjective spiritual quality that conditions the expressive strengths of the personality.

The reality that we call soul is basically an expression of three types of energy-life, love and intelligence. The triple inferior nature (personality) has been prepared for the reception of these three energies, and the intelligence aspect is reflects in the mind, the nature love in the emotional body of desires and the principle life in and through the etheric or vital body "*

In all the relations between "the new and the old" there are frictions, crises, which are the sign that this relationship demands recognition in the consciousness and its consequent vital adjustment.

ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

I cannot too strongly repeat that esoteric astrology is entirely concerned with the forces and energies which affect the consciousness aspect of the human being, and condition the personality life.

This is the point which must be considered above all else. In other words, esoteric astrology is concerned with the soul and not with the form and, there-fore, all that I have to say refers to consciousness, to its expansion, to its effect upon its vehicles, the form, and –in the last analysis (as will be later established)- the Science of Initiation.

This I have earlier pointed out, but the idea is so new and the approach so universal or cosmic, that it is not easy for those trained in modern exoteric astrology truly to comprehend the significance of this teaching.

The Tibetan - Alice Bailey

THE INTUITION

Intuition is a comprehensive grip of the principle of universality, and when it is functioning there is, momentarily at least, a complete loss of the sense of separateness. At its highest point, it is known as that Universal Love which has no relation to sentiment or to the affectional reaction but is, predominantly, in the nature of an identification with all beings. Then is true compassion known; then does criticism become impossible; then, only, is the divine germ seen as latent in all forms. DK - Alice Bailey