Theos-Talk Archives (September 1997 Message tt00016)

Every human being has a personality. A few personalities are
remarkably bland so as to appear nonexistent, but everybody has
one. There are some people who strive to eliminate their
personalities; a few come close to doing so, but nobody is
totally successful in that effort. It is plausible that a being
might achieve no personality, but that being is no longer human.

Some theosophists conceive of and define humans in non-human
terms, ascribing to some humans such abilities as existence
without physicality. There are beings without physicality, but
they are not human -- unless one wishes to distort the word human
into something outside of its conventional usage and connotation.

A human being as construed in conventional language is a
corporeal being having all the limitations of physicality:
respiration, metabolism, etc. Likewise, so long as a human is
alive, it has personality. Some personalities are not nice, but
that's life -- more particularly, that's human life.