Lesson V. - Will Focalization - p.35

The Neophyte who has advanced to the stage in which, in the ancient Occult parlance, he "has found himself," has discovered that his Real Self is something far different from anything that he ever had imagined it to be. Instead of being an entity with distinctly marked characteristics and personal peculiarities, he discovers that it is a something the nature of which can be stated only in the sense of Potentiality. We do not mean for a moment that the Ego is existent only in a potential sense --- on the contrary, it is actually existent in the most extreme and positive sense. In fact, its existent being is endowed with such a degree of actuality that all else seems to fade into relative non-existence. There is no question of "I Am Not" about the Ego --- it is first, last and always a Something of which the positive AM" can, and must be, asserted. It is only when we come to examine the nature, attributes and qualities of this "I AM" Ego, that we are forced to use the terms of Potentiality instead of