Know Thy Higher Self
Many think of the Higher Self as something remote and far away - something we attain when we go to an invisible heaven.
To understand this deeper knowledge, we must see that the concept of evolution has made it possible for many levels of consciousness to live at one and the same time. To have many planes of conscious life, each going about its level of own business, development or awareness - irrespective of the other partner and of what particular condition they may be going through. These many levels are often shut off from one another, each appearing to have a special blueprint or programme, which it must perform within that part of its particular Karmic time.
We must see life in evolution as a constant state, where many problems may continue from one life to another, not dealing with just that which is immediate to our present existence. These are efforts of achievements, work programs which have probably extended themselves through the conscious levels of many lives. Sometimes it seems as if the soul gathers its strength and uses one life to eliminate as much as possible.
Often when people start putting their house in order, it appears that the whole world topples down on them; things constantly go wrong, little seems to go right, in fact all they do appears to result in confusion. It is literally a wilderness where they find themselves trying to work out the chaos, which has descended upon them as they try to open up the pathways to other awareness states.
Here we must realise that the human brain can only hold a fragment of consciousness. For that reason perhaps, the brain-mind is the least developed part of our personality. While this may be the lower strata of our conscious levels, there are on the other hand other conscious levels which are much more highly active. They are more highly evolved, of greater personality, deeper in wisdom and knowledge, yet which seem unable to contact the lower brain area.
To understand this more, we see that the trinity of being is a set of three laws in one. These are the laws which control the physical nature of the brain; another set controlling soul intuitional consciousness, which is the communication of the soul mind. Then above that, we have the spiritual cosmic level, which is part of the eternal, indestructible personality. All these are involved in activities and development to their various needs.
Man, by his very nature, is confused. Until he works through these areas of confusion to the trinity of himself, is unable to see the sequence of events moving into a constructive plan. This slow awareness has a purpose in which every experience is made use of and nothing is wasted. Everything is utilised into the development of the individual, that he may survive, for it is the personality of individuality which makes possible the great cosmic growth.
Until now we have been inclined to look down upon human personality as a poor relation to be discarded when we have risen to a higher state. We have not realised that this lower personality is perhaps the most powerful centre by which the spirit itself can experience matter in its densest point. It is from here, through the clouds of his outer esoteric nature, it can descend into the primitive planes of consciousness - and for a short time experience the brutality of primal creation and lower evolution; for a fragment of time, experiencing creation at its extreme.
When a soul comes from a very high cosmic level and descends through the various planetary bodies until it can arrive at a soul state to be immersed into the crudeness of a physical atom, this in itself is a great achievement. It must not be taken lightly, for it is not easy to come from great heights, to surrender much knowledge, wisdom and sensitivity so that in this pinpoint of actual experience in suffering, feeling and involvement, the incarnating soul meets its greatest initiation.
Do not let us look down on this human personality. It suffers the emotions of heat and pain. It goes through the shadows of night and darkness and disappointment. It goes through all the agonies of growing up and of having life suspended within, until it meets that great moment of birth called death.
As we look down from the higher life at our record, we shall appreciate that this human personality incarnated in a fragment of human brain, was the most important and essential part of the whole of the soul's growth. Before we sweep aside all those sad stories of the uselessness of the human body, how we would like to escape from it, or go away or to evaporate out of it and leave behind all the rubbish, we must realise that this is an opportunity for which the soul may have waited for generations, even centuries, to experience the depth of life each is living now.
Each experience, no matter how much one crowds in, cannot be digested in one human life. It must accumulate as a fund or reserve, which we shall analyse and criticise and re-adjust for may centuries to come. This will pass into the deep conscious memory, forming material by which we shall build and re-construct and from which, we shall extract a tremendous amount of wisdom and knowledge in the long years to come.