The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MARCH 1936
natures, and by so doing, acquiring the spiritual strength, understanding and freedom that conduce to a selfless nature.
(3) To be able to see past and through what appears to the soul of things, means not being interested in the outer man, in what personalities say or do, but dealing only with their souls, and ever seeking to aid them gain spiritual freedom through right understanding taught the mind.
(4) In truly knowing that what appears is not real, one must see with one’s soul eyes and know with soul understanding,—in other words, must be in one’s soul or impersonal consciousness and freed from that of the outer mind. Only in that inner consciousness does one know that all things in the outer world are unreal and exist only in the personal “separate” mind; and such knowledge does not then allow himself to be concerned with what appears in the outer or with personalities, and ever deals with and treats them as souls, which means impersonally.
This realization naturally impresses upon one the necessity of freeing oneself entirely from one’s personality, from all the interests of self; which means from the outer mind and its concerns about the world, the flesh, and all the things it is ever trying to get for self.
The attainment of this becomes of supreme importance to the Spiritually advancing soul, who ever seeks to hide his personality and to deny every claim of self.
To such it is most obnoxious when admiring students and friends look up to and laud his personality and work, for well he knows that what they see and praise had no part in his work, no more than had his hands—his body and outer self being only the instrument he used to accomplish it.
In order to help gain this spiritual freedom we turn you to the book, “The Impersonal Life,” for more clearly than any teaching in print does it show just what is the personality and what the freedom it seeks to have you attain. Many hundreds through its teachings have found and are living in a new consciousness far above the former inharmonies and limitations of the personal life.
HEREIN we give you the key to the inner and impersonal consciousness, as taught in “The Impersonal Life,” in its second chapter, but with a slight difference in expressing it, which is
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