human essence
essence is our own. Personality is what is not our own.
The crux of our mystery is that blind conviction that any influence moving through our through thought, feeling, body, is our own.
Essence can be described as a knot of many possibilities of different orders – and as a range of tendencies. It is not the same thing. A lot of possibilities are the same for all: everybody can walk, swim, line, etc, etc, and, in principle, every human essence has been given the possibility to grow and evolve.
But not everybody has the same dexterity, nor the same bodily attitude. Nor can everyone become a good musician or a great painter – all go on to higher mathematics – become a very good position or a strong gang leader. Not all of us can experience very strong emotional attachment, or very strong hates.
These are very few examples, of course.
Essence is also every duty at different degrees in different centres. This is important. We could call it hunger for impressions in sensation, movement, feelings, intellect. What in me is the most hungry?
– This brings the question: how is essence, fed?
– What possibilities are developed?
– What tendencies are encouraged, or thwarted, or distorted?
Again we realise the immense difficulty of education, which the aim ought to be a preparation for the harmonious development of man.
We also know that essences like malleable wax, or even like a white sheet of paper on which everybody can write anything. It means that newborn essence has to be taken charge of – educated (with or without quotation marks).
Essence is created unique. It is the root of individuality, the seed of being. It could not be so, if it was not also 'Angel and Devil.'
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