Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00558)

Here are some points.
" The object of the whole previous evolution has been to produce the 
ego as a manifestation of the Monad. Then the ego in its turn evolves 
by putting itself down into a succession of personalities. Men who do 
not understand this look upon the personality as the self, and 
consequently live for it alone, and try to regulate their lives for 
what appears to be its temporary advantage. The man who understands 
realizes that the only important thing is the life of the ego, and 
that its progress is the object for which the temporary personality 
must be used. Therefore when he has to decide between two possible 
courses he thinks not, as the ordinary man might: "Which will bring 
the greater pleasure and profit to me as a personality?" but "Which 
will bring greater progress to me as an ego?" Experience soon teaches 
him that nothing can ever be really good for him, or for any one, 
which is not good for all, and so presently he learns to forget 
himself altogether, and to ask only what will be best for humanity as 
a whole. "
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