Spiritual Power of Sound by Samael Aun Weor

Author:Samael Aun Weor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Glorian Publishing
Published: 2011-12-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The “I” and the Being

In regards to psychological subject-matter, we must make a precise differentiation between the “I” and the Being. The “I” is not the Being, nor is the Being the “I.” Regardless, everybody says, “my Being.” Everybody thinks about their Being, yet no one knows what the Being is, thus they end up mistaking the Being for the “I.”

When we knock at a door, if somebody questions us saying, “Who is it?,” we always answer saying, “It is ‘I’.” In this we do not commit an error as the answer is exact. But when we say, “My entire being is sad, ill, tired, etc.,” then indeed, we torpidly err because the wretched intellectual animal falsely called “human being” still does not possess the Being.

Only the Being can do, yet the human machine, the wretched intellectual animal, is not capable of doing anything; everything happens to him. He is a simple mechanical toy moved by forces that he does not know. The intellectual animal has the delusion of doing something, but indeed he does nothing: everything happens through him. They beat us and we react by beating. They harass us to pay the rent for the house, then we react anxiously looking for money. Somebody hurts our self-esteem, then we react by committing madness, etc.

The wretched intellectual animal is always a victim of circumstances and is not capable of consciously originating circumstances; but he wrongly believes that he actually originates them. Indeed, only the Being (the Innermost) can consciously determine circumstances; yet regrettably, the intellectual animal falsely called “human being” still does not possess the Being (the Innermost).

Many students from pseudo-occult, pseudo-esoteric schools, full of refined metaphysical ambitions, commit the error of dividing their beloved “I” into two arbitrary and absurd halves. They qualify the first half as Superior “I,” and they contemptuously watch the second half, saying, “That is the Inferior ‘I’.” What is most intriguing of all of this—what is simultaneously the most comical and tragic—is to see that wretched Inferior “I” desperately fighting to evolve and perfect himself in order to someday achieve the longed for union with the Superior “I.”

The wretched mind of the intellectual animal is ludicrous when fabricating the Superior “I,” when conferring divine attributes onto it, when giving it arbitrary powers in order to control the mind and the heart. The same “I” divides itself into two. The same “I” wants to amalgamate itself after having divided itself into two. The same “I” splits and wants to join again. The ambitions of the “I” have no limits. It wants and wishes to become a Master, Deva, God, etc.

The “I” splits itself into two in order to join again and become one. Thus, this is how the “I” mistakenly believes that it can see its super-divine ambitions fulfilled. All of these tricks of the “I” are fine deceits of the mind, trivialities without any value whatsoever. The mind fabricates the comical Superior “I” to its taste, dresses it like a Mahatma, names it with a sonorous name, and thereafter exalts itself, falling into mythomania.

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