Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00028)

>HPB as I read her, makes this duality between the INDIVIDUALITY
>(Atma-Buddhi-Manas) and the Personality (kama-prana-astral and physical
>bodies)
>Clear not only in the KEY  but in the S D.
>


Dallas, I think the above quote touches on the reason that you (and many
others) don't seem to understand much of what I say.  The individuality
and personality do not make a duality in the proper sense of the word at
all. A duality is two polar things/forces/ideas/principles that come into
existence together and depend on each other (beauty-ugliness, high-low,
big-little, male-female, and so on) like two sides of a coin (heads and
tails are sometimes used to demonstrate the relationship between spirit
and matter, for example). If "heads" goes away, it takes "tails" with it.
Without "big" the concept of "little" is meaningless, and so on. Well,
we can eliminate the personality while the individuality keeps right on
going (the one is an expression of the other, not a polar opposite).
Hope this helps, because in order for a discussion to get us anywhere,
we will have to try to agree on the terms that we use. We can, for example,
say that men/women have a dual constitution, but these two parts do not
form a duality in the sense in which the term is normally used.

Jerry S.