The difference between the higher self & the lower self....

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In Chapter 8 of the Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, Elihu, having met his pupils

under a sacred grove of trees, describes the difference between the higher self

and the lower self. This is one of the best descriptions that i have ever read

of the " higher " and " lower " self.

 

Violet

 

 

CHAPTER 8

 

(Elihu's lessons. The unity of life. The two selfs. The devil. Love, the saviour

of men. The David of the light. Goliath of the dark): -

 

AGAIN Elihu met his pupils in the sacred grove and said, 2 No man lives unto

himself; for every living thing is bound by cords to every other living thing. 3

Blest are the pure in heart; for they will love and not demand love in return. 4

They will not do to other men what they would not have other men do unto them. 5

There are two selfs; the higher and the lower self. 6 The higher self is human

spirit clothed with soul, made in the form of God. 7 The lower self, the carnal

self, the body of desires, is a reflection of the higher self, distorted by the

murky ethers of the flesh. 8 The lower self is an illusion, and will pass away;

the higher self is God in man, and will not pass away. 9 The higher self is the

embodiment of truth; reversed, and so is falsehood manifest. 10 The higher self

is justice, mercy, love and right; the lower self is what the higher self is

not. 11 The lower self breeds hatred, slander, lewdness, murders, theft, and

everything that harms; the higher self is mother of the virtues and the

harmonies of life. 12 The lower self is rich in promises, but poor in

blessedness and peace; it offers pleasure, joy and satisfying gains; but gives

unrest and misery and death. 13 It gives men apples that are lovely to the eye

and pleasant to the smell; their cores are full of bitterness and gall. 14 If

you would ask me what to study I would say, yourselves; and when you will have

studied them, and then would ask me what to study next, I would reply,

yourselves. 15 He who knows well his lower self, knows the illusions of the

world, knows of the things that pass away; and he who knows his higher self,

knows God; knows well the things that cannot pass away. 16 Thrice blessed is the

man who has made purity and love his very own; he has been ransomed from the

perils of the lower self and is himself his higher self. 17 Men seek salvation

from an evil that they deem a living monster of the nether world; and they have

gods that are but demons in disguise; all powerful, yet full of jealousy and

hate and lust; 18 Whose favours must be bought with costly sacrifice of fruits,

and of the lives of birds, and animals, and human kind. 19 And yet these gods

possess no ears to hear, no eyes to see, no heart to sympathise, no power to

save. 20 This evil is myth; these gods are made of air, clothed with shadows of

a thought. 21 The only devil from which men must be redeemed is self, the lower

self. If man would find his devil he must look within; his name is self. 22 If

man would find his saviour he must look within; and when the demon self has been

dethroned, the saviour, Love, will be exulted to the throne of power. 23 The

David of the light is Purity, who slays the strong Goliath of the dark, and

seats the saviour, Love, upon the throne.

 

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[Guest guest]

Dear Violet,

Thank you for posting this lovely chapter. The chapters from the

Aquarian Gospel have answers to the deepest questions. Reading this

has reminded me that it is really ourselves that we have to face and

overcome, and ourselves that we are struggling with.

Love, Semira

 

, " Violet " <vtubb@b...>

wrote:

> In Chapter 8 of the Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, Elihu, having

met his pupils under a sacred grove of trees, describes the

difference between the higher self and the lower self. This is one

of the best descriptions that i have ever read of the " higher "

and " lower " self.

>

> Violet

>

>

> CHAPTER 8

>

> (Elihu's lessons. The unity of life. The two selfs. The devil.

Love, the saviour of men. The David of the light. Goliath of the

dark): -

>

> AGAIN Elihu met his pupils in the sacred grove and said, 2 No man

lives unto himself; for every living thing is bound by cords to

every other living thing. 3 Blest are the pure in heart; for they

will love and not demand love in return. 4 They will not do to other

men what they would not have other men do unto them. 5 There are two

selfs; the higher and the lower self. 6 The higher self is human

spirit clothed with soul, made in the form of God. 7 The lower self,

the carnal self, the body of desires, is a reflection of the higher

self, distorted by the murky ethers of the flesh. 8 The lower self

is an illusion, and will pass away; the higher self is God in man,

and will not pass away. 9 The higher self is the embodiment of

truth; reversed, and so is falsehood manifest. 10 The higher self is

justice, mercy, love and right; the lower self is what the higher

self is not. 11 The lower self breeds hatred, slander, lewdness,

murders, theft, and everything that harms; the higher self is mother

of the virtues and the harmonies of life. 12 The lower self is rich

in promises, but poor in blessedness and peace; it offers pleasure,

joy and satisfying gains; but gives unrest and misery and death. 13

It gives men apples that are lovely to the eye and pleasant to the

smell; their cores are full of bitterness and gall. 14 If you would

ask me what to study I would say, yourselves; and when you will have

studied them, and then would ask me what to study next, I would

reply, yourselves. 15 He who knows well his lower self, knows the

illusions of the world, knows of the things that pass away; and he

who knows his higher self, knows God; knows well the things that

cannot pass away. 16 Thrice blessed is the man who has made purity

and love his very own; he has been ransomed from the perils of the

lower self and is himself his higher self. 17 Men seek salvation

from an evil that they deem a living monster of the nether world;

and they have gods that are but demons in disguise; all powerful,

yet full of jealousy and hate and lust; 18 Whose favours must be

bought with costly sacrifice of fruits, and of the lives of birds,

and animals, and human kind. 19 And yet these gods possess no ears

to hear, no eyes to see, no heart to sympathise, no power to save.

20 This evil is myth; these gods are made of air, clothed with

shadows of a thought. 21 The only devil from which men must be

redeemed is self, the lower self. If man would find his devil he

must look within; his name is self. 22 If man would find his saviour

he must look within; and when the demon self has been dethroned, the

saviour, Love, will be exulted to the throne of power. 23 The David

of the light is Purity, who slays the strong Goliath of the dark,

and seats the saviour, Love, upon the throne.

>

> (http://reluctant-messenger.com/aquarian_gospel_008_014.htm