Lesson 2: Personality, Essence, Ego

Internally, we consist of 3 parts:

Essence -> Personality <- Ego

Is an energy vehicle that allows the expression of the “Essence” or the “ego”.
Helps us to interact with our surrounding.
It normally develops by the age of 7 years.
After this age, it no longer develops, it is simply enhanced by the various experiences of life.

Is created by:

The example of the elders.
Everything we learn at home.
Everything we learn at school.
Everything we learn on the streets.
The wise teachings, the good excamples and influences, create a personality which allows the Essence to express itself.
Bad examples and influenses, create a personality which allows the “egos” to express, more often.

Comes from the Absolute.
Is the best and noble thing that we have inside us.
It is located in the heart.
It is what allows us to have true love, compassion, freedom, peace, etc.
Seven seconds after birth, when the baby takes its first breath, it enters the physical body.
We can clearly observe it in little children and infants.
When the Essence is released and developped it provides us with superhuman abilities, such us: Intuition, Insight, extrasensory Perception, Telepathy, Astral travel.

Is what really belongs to us.
Is immortal.
Continues after the death of the physical body and re-embodies in a new organism.
It feeds on Tenderness, Love, Music, Flowers, Harmony, Beauty, etc.
If it developes more than the personality, then, the result is a man with a noble heart, but incompetent and misfit.

Is what we took from outside.
Belongs to Time.
When the physical body dies, the personality dissolves and we create a new one in the next life.
It feeds on good excamples, wise teachings etc.
If it developes more than the Essence, then the result is a “rogue”, an unethical person, a man lacking the principles of the Consciousness.

Each “ego” personifies a psychological defect of us (e.g. anger, fear, arrogance, lust, greed, hate, jealoucy, etc.)
We don’t have one single “ego”. We have a lot of “egos”.
- The various “egos” do not have any co-operation or coordination between them.
- Every little “ego” thinks that it is the only one, the master, and tries to gain control as often as possible.
- This is the cause of all our psychological conflicts.
Every “ego” has trapped a part of our Essence.
- Humanity has on average 3% free Essence and 97% trapped.
- Everytime we dissolve an “ego”, then, a part of our Essence that was trapped inside, is released.
“Egos” have always been known in various religions and traditions.
- E.g. in Christianity (seven deadly sins, demons), in Buddhism (psychological defects), in Egypt (red demons of Seth), etc.