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The
Material Mind v.
The
Spiritual Mind
THERE belongs
to every human being a higher self and
a lower self--a self or mind of the
spirit which has been growing for ages,
and a self of the body, which is but
a thing of yesterday. The higher self
is full of prompting idea, suggestion
and aspiration. This it receives of
the Supreme Power. All this the lower
or animal self regards as wild and visionary.
The higher self argues possibilities
and power for us greater than men and
women now possess and enjoy. The lower
self says we can only live and exist
as men and women have lived and existed
before us. The higher self craves freedom
from the cumbrousness, the limitations,
the pains and disabilities of the body.
The lower self says that we are born
to them, born to ill, born to suffer,
and must suffer as have so many before
us. The higher self wants a standard
for right and wrong of its own. The
lower self says we must accept a standard
made for us by others--by general and
long-held opinion, belief and prejudice.
"To
thine own self be true" is an oft-uttered
adage. But to which self? The higher
or lower?
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