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Chapter 26: Childlike Self-ConsciousnessWe have been very wisely told that we have ninety seven percent subconsciousness and three percent of consciousness.
Speaking frankly and clearly we can say that ninety-seven percent of the essence that we carry within us finds itself trapped, bottled up, stuck within each of the “I’s”, which together constitute the “myself”. Obviously, the essence or consciousness trapped within each “I” acts by virtue of its particular conditioning. |
Any “I” that is disintegrated liberates a certain percentage of consciousness. The emancipation or liberation of the essence or consciousness would be impossible without the disintegration of each and every “I”.
The greater the quantity of disintegrated “I’s”, the greater the degree of self-consciousness.
The smaller the quantity of disintegrated “I’s”, the less percentage of awakened consciousness.
The awakening of consciousness is only possible by dissolving the “I” dying in oneself, here and now.
Unquestionably, while the essence or consciousness is imprisoned within each one of the “I’s” that we carry within, it is asleep, in a subconscious state.
It is urgent that we transform the subconscious into consciousness, and this is only possible by annihilating the “I’s”, by dying in oneself.
It is not possible to awaken without first having died within oneself. Those who attempt to awaken first, in order then to die, do not possess real experience of that which they affirm. They advance resolutely on the path of error.
Newborn children are wonderful. They enjoy total self consciousness. They are totally awake.
Within the body of the newborn child, the essence is reincorporated, and this gives the baby its beauty.
We do not mean to say that one hundred percent of the essence or consciousness is reincorporated in the newborn, but rather, the free three percent which is not normally trapped within the “I’s”.
Nonetheless, this percentage of free essence, reincorporated in the organism of the newborn baby gives it full self-consciousness, lucidity, etc.
Adults look upon the newborn with pity, thinking that the baby is unconscious, but they are lamentably mistaken.
The newborn sees the adult as he really is, unconscious, cruel, perverse, etc.
The “I’s” of the newborn come and go, circling round the cradle, wishing to enter the new body. But, as the newborn child has not yet developed the personality, all attempts of the “I’s” to enter the new body prove to be more than impossible.
Sometimes, babies are frightened on seeing those phantoms or “I’s” that approach their cribs, and thus, they scream and cry. But adults do not understand this, and assume that the child is ill, or hungry, or thirsty. Such is the unconsciousness of adults. As the new personality is forming, the “I’s” which come from previous existences, are entering the new body little by little.
When the totality of the “I’s” have already been reincorporated, we appear in the world with that horrible inner ugliness which characterizes us. Thus, we wander everywhere like sleepwalkers, always unconscious, always perverse.
When we die, three things go to the grave:
1. The physical body.
2. The vital organic base.
3. The personality.
The vital base, like a phantom, disintegrates little by little before the grave, just as the physical body is also disintegrating.
The personality is subconscious or infraconscious, it enters and leaves the sepulcher whenever it wants, rejoices when mourners bring flowers, loves it’s relatives, and dissolves very slowly until it becomes cosmic dust.
That which continues beyond the grave is the ego, the pluralized “I”, the myself, a mass of devils within which the essence or consciousness is found trapped, which will in its appointed time return, and reincorporate.
It is lamentable that, on fabrication of the new personality of the child, the “I’s” also reincorporate.
The greater the quantity of disintegrated “I’s”, the greater the degree of self-consciousness.
The smaller the quantity of disintegrated “I’s”, the less percentage of awakened consciousness.
The awakening of consciousness is only possible by dissolving the “I” dying in oneself, here and now.
Unquestionably, while the essence or consciousness is imprisoned within each one of the “I’s” that we carry within, it is asleep, in a subconscious state.
It is urgent that we transform the subconscious into consciousness, and this is only possible by annihilating the “I’s”, by dying in oneself.
It is not possible to awaken without first having died within oneself. Those who attempt to awaken first, in order then to die, do not possess real experience of that which they affirm. They advance resolutely on the path of error.
Newborn children are wonderful. They enjoy total self consciousness. They are totally awake.
Within the body of the newborn child, the essence is reincorporated, and this gives the baby its beauty.
We do not mean to say that one hundred percent of the essence or consciousness is reincorporated in the newborn, but rather, the free three percent which is not normally trapped within the “I’s”.
Nonetheless, this percentage of free essence, reincorporated in the organism of the newborn baby gives it full self-consciousness, lucidity, etc.
Adults look upon the newborn with pity, thinking that the baby is unconscious, but they are lamentably mistaken.
The newborn sees the adult as he really is, unconscious, cruel, perverse, etc.
The “I’s” of the newborn come and go, circling round the cradle, wishing to enter the new body. But, as the newborn child has not yet developed the personality, all attempts of the “I’s” to enter the new body prove to be more than impossible.
Sometimes, babies are frightened on seeing those phantoms or “I’s” that approach their cribs, and thus, they scream and cry. But adults do not understand this, and assume that the child is ill, or hungry, or thirsty. Such is the unconsciousness of adults. As the new personality is forming, the “I’s” which come from previous existences, are entering the new body little by little.
When the totality of the “I’s” have already been reincorporated, we appear in the world with that horrible inner ugliness which characterizes us. Thus, we wander everywhere like sleepwalkers, always unconscious, always perverse.
When we die, three things go to the grave:
1. The physical body.
2. The vital organic base.
3. The personality.
The vital base, like a phantom, disintegrates little by little before the grave, just as the physical body is also disintegrating.
The personality is subconscious or infraconscious, it enters and leaves the sepulcher whenever it wants, rejoices when mourners bring flowers, loves it’s relatives, and dissolves very slowly until it becomes cosmic dust.
That which continues beyond the grave is the ego, the pluralized “I”, the myself, a mass of devils within which the essence or consciousness is found trapped, which will in its appointed time return, and reincorporate.
It is lamentable that, on fabrication of the new personality of the child, the “I’s” also reincorporate.
