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Difference
between the higher self & the lower self
From:
"Violet" <vtubb@bigpond.net.au>
Date:
Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:26 am
Subject: The difference between the higher self
& the lower self.
In
Chapter 8 of the Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, Elihu, having
met his pupils
under a sacred grove of trees, describes the difference
between the higher self
and the lower self. This is one of the best descriptions
that i have ever read
of the "higher" and "lower" self.
Violet
CHAPTER 8
(Elihu's lessons. The unity of life. The two selfs. The
devil. Love, the saviour
of men. The David of the light. Goliath of the dark): -
AGAIN Elihu met his pupils in the sacred grove and said, 2
No man lives unto
himself; for every living thing is bound by cords to every
other living thing. 3
Blest are the pure in heart; for they will love and not
demand love in return. 4 They will not do to other men what
they would not have other men do unto them. 5 There are two
selfs; the higher and the lower self. 6 The higher self is
human spirit clothed with soul, made in the form of God. 7
The lower self, the carnal self, the body of desires, is a
reflection of the higher self, distorted by the murky ethers
of the flesh. 8 The lower self is an illusion, and will pass
away; the higher self is God in man, and will not pass away.
9 The higher self is the embodiment of truth; reversed, and
so is falsehood manifest. 10 The higher self is justice,
mercy, love and right; the lower self is what the higher
self is not. 11 The lower self breeds hatred, slander,
lewdness, murders, theft, and everything that harms; the
higher self is mother of the virtues and the harmonies of
life. 12 The lower self is rich in promises, but poor in
blessedness and peace; it offers pleasure, joy and
satisfying gains; but gives unrest and misery and death. 13
It gives men apples that are lovely to the eye and pleasant
to the smell; their cores are full of bitterness and gall.
14 If you would ask me what to study I would say,
yourselves; and when you will have studied them, and then
would ask me what to study next, I would reply, yourselves.
15 He who knows well his lower self, knows the illusions of
the world, knows of the things that pass away; and he who
knows his higher self, knows God; knows well the things that
cannot pass away. 16 Thrice blessed is the man who has made
purity and love his very own; he has been ransomed from the
perils of the lower self and is himself his higher self. 17
Men seek salvation from an evil that they deem a living
monster of the nether world; and they have gods that are but
demons in disguise; all powerful, yet full of jealousy and
hate and lust; 18 Whose favours must be bought with costly
sacrifice of fruits, and of the lives of birds, and animals,
and human kind. 19 And yet these gods possess no ears to
hear, no eyes to see, no heart to sympathise, no power to
save. 20 This evil is myth; these gods are made of air,
clothed with shadows of
a thought. 21 The only devil from which men must be redeemed
is self, the lower self. If man would find his devil he must
look within; his name is self. 22 If man would find his
saviour he must look within; and when the demon self has
been dethroned, the saviour, Love, will be exulted to the
throne of power. 23 The David of the light is Purity, who
slays the strong Goliath of the dark, and seats the saviour,
Love, upon the throne.
(http://reluctant-messenger.com/aquarian_gospel_008_014.htm
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