I endeavored to lift thought
above physical personality, or selfhood in matter, to man's spiritual
individuality in God,--in the true Mind, where sensible evil is lost in
supersensible good. This is the only way whereby the false personality is
laid off.
He who clings to personality, or perpetually warns you of "personality,"
wrongs it, or terrifies people over it, and is the sure victim of his own
corporeality. Constantly to scrutinize physical personality, or accuse
people of being unduly personal, is like the sick talking sickness. Such
errancy betrays a violent and egotistical personality, increases one's
sense of corporeality, and begets a fear of the senses and a perpetually
egotistical sensibility.
He who does this is ignorant of the meaning of the word _personality_, and
defines it by his own _corpus sine pectore_ (soulless body), and fails to
distinguish the individual, or real man from the false sense of
corporeality, or egotistic self.
My own corporeal personality afflicteth me not wittingly; for I desire
never to think of it, and it cannot think of me.
PLAGIARISM
The various forms of book-borrowing without credit spring from this
ill-concealed question in mortal mind, Who shall be greatest? This error
violates the law given by Moses, it tramples upon Jesus' Sermon on the
Mount, it does violence to the ethics of Christian Science.
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