THE EGO (Soul)
真正的自我（灵魂）
(1) For a long period of lives the Ego remains practically unconscious of the Personality. The magnetic link exists, but that is all until the time comes when the personal life reaches a point where it has somewhat to add to the content of the causal body – a body at first small, colourless and insignificant. But the hour comes when the stones are first brought perfected from the quarry of the personal life, and the first colours are painted in by the man, the builder and the artist. Then the Ego begins to give attention, rarely at first, but with increasing frequency, until lives come around in which the Ego definitely works at the subjugation of the lower self, at the enlargement of the communicating channel, and at the transmission to the physical brain consciousness, of the fact of its existence, and the goal of its being. Once that is accomplished, and the inner fire is freer in its passage, lives are then given to the stabilising of that impression, and to the making of that inner consciousness a part of the conscious life. The flame radiates downward more and more, until gradually the different vehicles come into line, and the man stands on the Probationary Path. He is ignorant yet of what lies ahead, and is conscious only of wild and earnest aspiration, and of innate divine longings. He is eager to make good, longing to know, and dreaming always of someone or something higher than himself. All this is backed by the profound conviction that in service to humanity will the dreamed-of goal be reached, will the vision become reality, the longing fructify into satisfaction, and aspiration be merged in sight.
（1）在很长一段时间里，真正的自我基本上对人格是无意识的。磁性链接是存在的，但是只有当个人的生活到达某个点，它可以在某种程度上丰富因果体之前，都会保持如此。因果体是一个身体，最初很小、无色、且微不足道。但是，当来自个人生活采石场的石块被完美地运来，第一抹颜色被这个人、建造者和艺术家涂抹上时，时间就到来了。然后真正的自我开始给予关注，一开始很少，但频率越来越高，直到这样的生活到来，真正的自我完全压制了低等自我进行着工作，扩大沟通渠道，并把它存在的事实和它存在的目标传输到物质大脑的意识中。一旦完成，内在的火焰在它的通道中变得更加自由，就会被赋予生命能量来稳固这个状态，并让那个内在意识成为有意识生活的一部分。火焰越来越往下闪耀，直到渐渐地，不同的载具进入校准状态，然后，这个人就进入了准备之路。他对前面的事情一无所知，只意识到狂野而热忱的愿望，以及与生俱来的神圣渴望。他渴望做好事，渴望知识，并总是梦想着比自己更高尚的人或事。所有的这一切都以一种深刻的信念作为后盾，即在为人类服务的过程中，梦想的目标得以实现，愿景将成为实相，渴望会结出满足的果实，愿望融入到眼前的景象中。
The Hierarchy begins to take action, and his instruction is carried out as aforesaid. . . . Until now the Teachers have only watched and guided, without definitely dealing with the man himself; all has been left to the Ego on his own plane. The Ego bends every effort to quicken vibration, and to force the oft-rebelling lower vehicles to respond and measure up to the rapidly increasing force. It is largely a matter of increased fire or heat, and consequent intensification of vibratory capacity. The egoic fire waxes ever greater until the work is done, and the purificatory fire becomes the Light of Illumination. Ponder on this sentence. As above, so below; on each rung of the ladder the process is repeated; the Monad, at the third initiation, begins itself to be conscious of the Ego. The work, then, is more rapid owing to the rarity of the material, and to the fact that resistance is a factor in the three worlds, but not elsewhere. (2 – 35/7).
灵性阶层开始行动，他的指引如之前描述的被执行着…直至现在，伟大的导师们只是观察和引导，并没有明确地跟这个人自身打交道；所有的一切都交给了位于他自己层面上的真正的自我。真正的自我竭尽全力加速振动，并迫使经常反抗的低级载具作出回应，并适应迅速增加的力量。这在很大程度上是火和热增加的问题，以及随之而来的振动能力的增强。在工作完成之前，真正自我之火燃烧得越来越旺，净化之火变成了启蒙之光。仔细思考这句话。如在其上，如在其下；在梯子的每个梯级上，这个过程都重复进行着；单子，在第三阶启蒙时开始对真正的自我产生意识。那时的工作将会更加迅速，这是因为材质的精致，事实是阻力只存在于三个较低等世界中。
(2) The factor of periodicity. Egos that are in incarnation, and egos that are out of incarnation, are differentiated and capable of different work. Egos whose reflections are in incarnation, are more limited than those who are not. It is almost as if the Higher Self were directed downwards, or willingly circumscribing itself to three-dimensioned existence, whereas the egos out of incarnation are not so limited, but work in another direction or dimension. (2 – 38). See also: “The Soul”, and (5 – 762).
（2）周期性因素。在转世中的灵魂、以及在转世之外的灵魂，是不同的，能够从事不同的工作。那些在转世中的灵魂，要比那些转世之外的灵魂更加受限。几乎就好像是更高的自我被向下引导着，或者自愿把自己限制在三个维度的存在中，转世之外的灵魂不受此限制，而是在另一个方向或维度上运作。
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