… I’ve read your first 2 initial post’s and i have to agree very much on it.
When my Personality “splitered” the first times, i noticed a Need, to re-incorperate them into my being.
Those Things happened before i was drawn into magick.
Later, in Magick, it became almost logickal to me,
that in order to completly Ascend,
the Higher and Lower Consiousness of the Human,
Needs Aspect’s of both /(or as you beautifully described, the atractive gender),
for the completion of the into one Gender manifested Spirit, which lives within the human as it’s "Self"
So higher and lower self, for me was just Levels of conciousness back then.
My father had teached me to see it in a way, of being a complete, closed being, which can’t affect, nor can be affected, by others.
Later on, he came back to that Statement (for my understanding), explaining me the hughe interdependentness of humans.
That, when we are Born we are completly unable to do anything for ourselves,
and when we are old, yet, alive, we become like that again.
We talked a lot about “Adept”-ship, and how the best and easiest advice,
is to take it easy, and not let everything around you Control you.
I only took back on that decision once in my life,
becouse Spirits strongly suggested me to do so!
- And i’m still not completly sure, how this is supposed to Play out,
as for what i’ve seen, Spirits took a very aggressive Approach on me after opening These gates.
But in fact, for me right Hand is Higher Self,
Left Hand is Lower Self,
Both, the Innocence, and the Beauty,
being aviable to all of us, at any given time,
yet we Need to struckture it, give it life,
even become it, if necessary,
so we get best and most useful results out of it.
The main reason for this being,
that no matter in which Religion or enviorment you participate,
there will always be someone stronger, and someone weaker then you.
and if you are the strongest or the weakest of a System,
that gives you even more responsibility.
So, the higher self being the demon, and the lower Self being the Holy Guardian Angel,
as you described, his mirroring into the higher self, just seems like perfect evidance here,
…
I strongly feel, like that’s the base behind my “middle path Approach”,
Trying to “fully become myself”.
And in fact,
any Human haves different assets of his personality allready.
At the work you behave differently, then around your Kids.
Or while Shopping, differently, then on having a Party.
These “small frictions” of Self, life in complete harmony,
and complement and help each other.
For me, it seemed a logickal Approach,
to magick,
that if Salomon really Held the power over the demons,
by threatening them with angels,
more or less this became symbolic to me.
for “to be like solomon, you have to take the Spirit as you take yourself” - being composed of different Levels and aspects of personality.
Just to cover this up:
The Own self, the “I”, is supposed to Keep in Control of the other aspects,
this i call the “who is the busdriver”-principle.
Which also trains you at leadership,
automaticly,
since you take so much responsibility for your own actions,
even feelings and thoughts.
So there is definatly a benefit, of creating a own personal LOWER AND HIGHER SELF!
Sincerely,
¥’B