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'''Individuality''' is a term used in [[Theosophy]] to refer to the three higher [[principle|principles]] in a human being or, more specifically, to the fifth principle, the higher manas or [[reincarnation|reincarnating]] Ego.
'''Individuality''' is a term used in [[Theosophy]] to refer to the three higher and permanent [[principle|principles]] in a human being or, more specifically, to the fifth [[principle]], the [[higher manas]] or [[reincarnation|reincarnating]] Ego.


== Individuality and Personality ==


THE INNER, or HIGHER "EGO"; is Manas, the "Fifth" Principle, so called, independently of Buddhi. The Mind-Principle is only the Spiritual Ego when merged into one with Buddhi, -- no materialist being supposed to have in him such an Ego, however great his intellectual capacities. It is the permanent Individuality or the "Re-incarnating Ego."<ref>KT</ref>
The seven [[principle|principles]] that constitute human beings are frequently separated in two great divisions, the three higher and the four lower:
 
<blockquote>[H]e is composed of seven "principles," three of which constitute the Higher Triad, and the remaining four the lower Quaternary. It is in the latter that dwells the Personality which embraces all the characteristics, including memory and consciousness, of each physical life in turn. The Individuality is the Higher Ego (Manas) of the Triad considered as a Unity. In other words the Individuality is our imperishable Ego which reincarnates and clothes itself in a new Personality at every new birth.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Key to Theosophy'' (????), ???.</ref></blockquote>
 
 
== Notes ==
 
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Revision as of 15:06, 22 March 2012

Individuality is a term used in Theosophy to refer to the three higher and permanent principles in a human being or, more specifically, to the fifth principle, the higher manas or reincarnating Ego.

Individuality and Personality

The seven principles that constitute human beings are frequently separated in two great divisions, the three higher and the four lower:

[H]e is composed of seven "principles," three of which constitute the Higher Triad, and the remaining four the lower Quaternary. It is in the latter that dwells the Personality which embraces all the characteristics, including memory and consciousness, of each physical life in turn. The Individuality is the Higher Ego (Manas) of the Triad considered as a Unity. In other words the Individuality is our imperishable Ego which reincarnates and clothes itself in a new Personality at every new birth.[1]


Notes

  1. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Key to Theosophy (????), ???.