If the above is carefully studied, it will become apparent
that the cleavages which exist in man are cleavages in certain inherent or basic
relations: [436]
- Found
within the man himself, in one or other of these various focal points of realization
or awareness:
- Unrecognized by the man himself or by those around him. When this is the case, the man
is unevolved and the cleavages or gaps in his consciousness do no real harm relatively,
either to himself or to those in his environment. They simply indicate lack of
development.
- When recognized, they produce distress and difficulty and the man becomes in need of
sound psychological help. Correct information along the lines here laid down can be given
in those cases where the intellectual type is involved; the psychologist is then dealing
with people who should be able and willing to help themselves.
- When the man has effected the necessary bridging and unification, he then becomes a
unified personality. Then the mystic can emerge. This means that he has achieved the point
wherein the higher bridging between the integrated personality and the soul becomes
possible. Finally, a Master of the Wisdom, Who is an exponent of the Christ consciousness,
in its unifying, salvaging and constructive aspects, appears.
The at-oning of the higher and the lower nature will produce results which will be
determined in their field of expression by a man's ray. These ray conditions will result
in a man's finding his right field of usefulness and right expression in the political,
religious, or scientific fields, and in other modes of divine manifestation.
Found
between a man and his environment. The effect of this may mean that he is an
anti-social human being, or unpopular, full of fear of life, or expressing, in many [437]
other forms, his inability to tune in on his surroundings. Lack of understanding, of right
relationship, and inability correctly to blend the inner and the outer forms of the life
structure, will be evidenced. The cause of the cleavage in this case is usually found
somewhere within the astral body itself.
Found
between a man and his life task, or the life activity to which fate ordains him and
predisposition inclines him. The difficulty here lies in a definite break or failure of
continuity between the mind nature, determining purpose, and the astral nature, governing
impulse.
Found
between a man and his over-shadowing (and slowly dominating) soul. This leads to much
realized unhappiness, dire conflict, and the eventual and symbolic "death of the
personality."
Here again
I would like to pause and to point out that the concepts of death, of substitution, of the
vicarious at-one-ment and of sacrifice, will - in the New Age - be superseded by the
concepts of resurrection or of livingness, of spiritual unity, of transference and of
service, so that a new note will enter into human life, bringing hope and joy and power
and freedom. |