The Lower Self
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The Middle Self
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The Higher Self
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Automatic or Autonomic Self.
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This is the conscious and awake self, the
personality.
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The highest level of human consciousness.
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It operates 24 hours every day, 365 days each year.
It never sleeps nor rests.
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It operates only while we are awake. |
It is connected to the Universal Intelligence (the
Godhead). |
Its center is in the Solar Plexus
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Its center is in our head area.
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It exists outside and to one side of the head.
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It takes orders from and is commanded by the middle
self. |
It is involved with the business of the day.
Conducts functions like talking, thinking and
movement. |
It can only communicate with the lower self and with
the Intelligence of the Universe.
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Its purpose is three-fold:
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Its purpose is two fold:
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Its purpose is three fold:
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a) Manages all unconscious bodily functions: beats
the heart, digests food and maintains all memories.
b) Supports survival. This includes managing the
Fight or Flight, Stress Mechanism as well as the
immune and defensive systems of the body. In
addition it manages the Healing and Repair Systems
of the body.
c) Makes sure that the middle self gets everything
it wants and needs. All the middle self has to do is
ask for what it wants. It need merely to create a
thought of what it wants and the lower self will
make it happen.
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a) To maintain survival, it finds food and shelter.
It creates ego pursuits such as hobbies and career.
b) Creates civilization and civilizes the lower
self. It makes judgments and issues commands to the
lower self. Since the middle self is the personality
its commands always inherently have within them its
own particular viewpoint of the world, its likes and
dislikes.
c) To get what it wants, the middle self gives
commands to the lower self and then expects that it
will give it what it wants. It often confuses itself
with the lower self
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a) It is our connection to the Intelligence of the
Universe, the Godhead.
b) Connects us with the essence of Mankind and
Mankind with all other conscious elements of the
Universe.
c) Makes available to us all the potential of
"heaven," the bounty of the Universe. This occurs
through a specially constructed prayer. It creates
"miracles" upon request.
d) The Higher Self is not concerned with survival of
the physical body. It knows the three spirits
survive the physical realm at death.
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The lower self remembers everything, past and
present, and maintains this information to help the
middle self to create its future.
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It has a only short-term memory and relies on the
lower self for long term memory and recall.
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The Higher Self is beyond time and space. It has no
equivalent of memory. It knows all and sees all.
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It is often related to the Western concepts of
unconsciousness or subconsciousness. However, it is
never actually unconscious. |
The middle self can be illogical. It has likes and
dislikes and possesses intellect and intuition.
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The Higher Self is selfless and in the realm of what
might be called the Superconscious.
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It is generally considered to be our animal or
nature spirit.
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It is generally considered to be the human spirit.
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It is generally known as the Father or the Mother,
or as the Holy Spirit.
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It is ruled by internal (genetic) laws and it has an
inherent wisdom, yet it constantly learns from the
middle self.
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It is ruled as much by its likes, wants and desires
as it is by external events and forces. It wants to
be socially correct and craves love.
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The Higher Self operates under the rules of the
Intelligence of the Universe. These rules, as we
usually think of God, are unknowable.
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It can only think
deductively.
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It uses both inductive and deductive logic. It has
free choice and makes decisions about almost
everything.
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The Higher Self is neither logical nor illogical. It
is Truth. |
It serves the social aspect of the middle self as
well as the physical needs of the body.
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It plays social roles, imitates, speaks in words,
uses emotions positively or negatively. |
It has no equivalence in earthly terms.
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It holds all emotions and manifests them through
bodily feelings, physical signs and sensations often
thought of as symptoms.
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It manifests itself through emotions and feelings
and reactions to these emotions and feelings.
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It manifests itself in truth. It can heal instantly.
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It has a very literal mind, and always does what it
is told. It asks no questions but it can, however,
resist instructions.
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It has a rational and intuitional mind, it will
think about and ponder questions.
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It cares about the evolution of the lower self to a
middle self and the middle self to a new Higher
Self. |
It is designed as an achiever to complete goals and
tasks as rapidly as possible.
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It is also designed as an achiever and goal setter.
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The Higher Self has been described as the "Totally
Trustworthy, Totally Benevolent Parental Spirit."
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The lower self is essentially a child, it is also a
student and a servant. It is programmed to perform
and grow, to learn and repeat by habit.
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It is more likely to be the initiator, teacher,
parent or master.
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The Higher Self cannot act on its own. It must be
asked by the middle self through the lower self.
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Its subtle aka body is an etheric body and its
energy is mana or life force.
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Its subtle aka body is the astral body and its
energy is mana-mana or will power. |
Its subtle aka body is the auric body and its
energy, Mana Loa, is Spiritual Energy.
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