TO OUR physical eyes man is a body of flesh, but to our mental eyes he is much more and not so easily seen or found. We say, “I walk, I see, I think, I understand, I know.” But what do we really mean when we use the pronoun “I.” What is it that does these things? Does the eye see—or do “I” use the eye to see? Does my brain think, or do “I” use my brain to think? If “I” use these things, what am I?

Some will say that I am my mind, but why then do we use the word “my?” What is it that owns the body, the eye and the mind? If the mind is the highest part of us, how is it that we can change our minds, stop thinking of one thing and think of something else?

The “I” must be something higher than even the mind.

Again we ask: “What am I?”

Our intuition tells us that we are an invisible Power, or Something, living in us and using our body and mind to do Its wishes. Like God, the great Universal Spirit that lives and manifests in the visible Universe, so too are we Spirit, dwelling within our bodies, invisible, but knowable by our actions.

We are Spirit, not flesh. We own our body, not the body owns us. We ARE Souls, not we have Souls.

We are Spiritual Beings, here in this life, living in physical bodies, which we use to help us in our climb toward Perfection.

—The Great White Brotherhood, From Humanity Magazine.

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O EYES of me,
Look sharp and see
The Godliness of things in life,
That heart and mind
Will grow in kind
To likeness of His purity.
—Selected.

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