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Esoteric Psychology II - Chapter II - The Ray of Personality - Some
Problems of Psychology





These are the basic premises which should emerge in the new
techniques which psychology will use when it has reached the point of accepting (or at
least experimenting with) the [430] above ideas. By their use, it will be found that the
problem case itself can be brought into functioning right activity, for all the innate,
and unused faculties of man will be swept into integrating activity. The process is always
and inevitably the same:
Cleavage.
A
recognition of duality, either subjectively or in the waking consciousness.
A period of
wild unrest, of frustration and futility, leading sometimes to disaster, to forms of
nervous or mental breakdown, and to generally chaotic and undesirable conditions.
An
intelligently applied bridging process, gradually carried forward, once the point of
cleavage is determined.
The
achievement of periods of recognized fusion, integration or true normality. A
process of analysis would here be useful. It will later be found that psychoanalysis will
come into its real usefulness when it comes to the aid of a man in explaining his
achievement rather than in unearthing the detail of his apparent disaster. There is no
real disaster. There is only an unrecognized point of crisis, a moment of unrealized
fulfilment. The disaster comes when this point of crisis is not utilized and understood,
for it then serves to increase the cleavage instead of being recognized as a moment of
opportunity.
The
establishment of a definite rhythm composed of the creative imagination, of discriminating
choice, of the value of the relation of the part to the whole, and of the acceptance of
group purpose. This rhythm, when duly established in a life or in a series of lives, leads
eventually to
Integration.
[431]

I would
like to stop here and point out that the foundation of the new psychology must inevitably
be built upon the premise that this one life is not man's sole opportunity in which to
achieve integration and eventual perfection. The great Law of Rebirth must be accepted and
it will then be found to be, in itself, a major releasing agent in any moment of crisis or
any psychological problem case. The recognition of further opportunity and a lengthened
sense of time are both quieting and helpful to many types of mind; its interpretative
value will be found illuminating as the patient grasps the fact that behind him lie points
of crisis wherein it can be demonstrated by his present equipment that he achieved
integration, thus guaranteeing to him victory in his present point of crisis and of
difficult conflict. The light which this throws on relationships and environment will
serve to stabilize his purpose and make him comprehend the inevitability of
responsibility. When this great law is understood in its true implications and not
interpreted in terms of its present-childish presentation, then man will shoulder the
responsibility of living with a daily recognition of the past, an understanding of the
purpose of the present, and with an eye to the future. This will also greatly lessen the
growing tendency towards suicide which humanity is showing.
It will be apparent to you, therefore, that the time element can enter into the problem
most helpfully and it is here that a real understanding of the Law of Rebirth, or of the
Law of Opportunity (as I would prefer to call it) will be of definite usefulness. Above
everything else, it will bring into the attitude of both psychologist and problem case,
the idea of hope, the thought of fulfilment and of ultimate achievement.
It will also be essential that the psychologist of the future should arrive at a
recognition and an admittance of the inner structure of the human being - of his emotional
vehicle, his [432] mind body and their close interrelation through the medium of the vital
or etheric body which serves ever as the linking web between the dense
physical body and the other bodies. The soul and its triplicity of energies (life itself,
expressing will or purpose, love and intelligence) work through the seven major centers,
whilst the mind body and the astral body work through many other centers, though
possessing also within themselves seven centers which are the transmitting counterparts of
those found in the etheric body. The integrations which evolution eventually effects are
carried out through the medium of all these centers. Through the heightening of vibration,
through the swinging into activity of the centers, and through the subsequent and
consequent development of the human response apparatus, new avenues of approach to
reality, new qualities of awareness, new sensitivity to that which has hitherto been
unrecognized, and new powers begin to open up.
Each man
is, therefore, within himself, a hierarchy, a reflection of a great chain of being
- the Being which the universe expresses. Psychology has to recognize eventually:
The fact of
the soul, the integrating agent, the self.
The Law of
Opportunity or Rebirth.
The nature
of the inner structure of man and its relation to the outer tangible form.







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