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'''Personality''' is a term used in [[Theosophy]] to refer to the four lower and transient [[principles]] in a human being, namely the physical body, [[liṅga śarīra]], [[prāṇa]] and [[kāma]].
'''Personality''' is a term used in [[Theosophy]] to refer to the four lower and transient [[principles]] in a human being, namely the physical body, [[liṅga śarīra]], [[prāṇa]] and [[kāma]].


== Personality and Individuality ==
[[H. P. Blavatsky]] defined it as follows:


The seven [[principle|principles]] that constitute human beings are frequently separated in two great divisions, grouping the three higher (or Individuality) and the four lower (or personality). [[H. P. Blavatsky]] defined it as follows:
'''Personality''' . . . the animal man—the lower quaternary or the purely astrophysical being . . . [which] embraces all the characteristics and memories of one physical life.
 
'''Personality'''. In Occultism—which divides man into seven principles, considering him under the three aspects of the divine, the thinking or the rational, and the animal man—the lower quaternary or the purely astrophysical being; while by Individuality is meant the Higher Triad, considered as a Unity. Thus the Personality embraces all the characteristics and memories of one physical life, while the Individuality is the imperishable Ego which re-incarnates and clothes itself in one personality after another.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==

Revision as of 19:04, 27 March 2012

Personality is a term used in Theosophy to refer to the four lower and transient principles in a human being, namely the physical body, liṅga śarīra, prāṇa and kāma.

H. P. Blavatsky defined it as follows:

Personality . . . the animal man—the lower quaternary or the purely astrophysical being . . . [which] embraces all the characteristics and memories of one physical life.

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