Personality
<p>Personality is connected with the physical body and its psychical inheritances, and acquired tendencies. Individuality is connected with the Ego, or Real Self, which is over and above Personality, or the things of personality. Personality is bound
and tied by the relative things and persons connected with one’s personal present incarnation. Individuality is free from those bonds, ties, and limitations, and soars above them in its
Cosmic flight. Personality says “I am John Doe, of Akron, grocer, aged 48”; or “Mary Roe, spinster, aged 45”; as the case may be. Individuality says “I am that which I Am”—above names, and
forms, and personal sheaths or vehicles. Each Ego has been embodied in numerous personalities
during the Spiritual Evolution.</p>
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Personality is nothing but the “creative fiction” at the best—all that was real in those entities who dropped by the wayside is preserved. The One Life
is all that was real in them—and that One Life persisted and survived. It was but a changing of form in the One Life. It was not the destruction of a real thing. It was but the discarding of a poorly fitting suit of clothes, worn by the One Life and Real
Self. No one is injured—nothing is lost.</p>
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The All remains the All. Personality is but the mask worn by the One. The One discards its mask, but remains Itself. Justice and Equity are not violated even in the faintest degree. The Wise see this and smile—the Unwise see it not and weep.</p>
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There is a plane above that of Personality—a
plane in which Positive Will takes the place of Desire. Sovereign
Will is above Dominant Desire.
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