To speak the Truth, means (esoterically) to express the Transcendent Glory through one’s form (personality).
By Roberto Assagioli, undated, From the Assagioli Archive in Florence[1]. Original Title: Essere. Translated and Edited With Notes by Jan Kuniholm.
By making a vital distinction between having a Soul (in which the first place is given to personality, and the soul is considered as an “accessory”) and being a soul (which is precisely the opposite, and an affirmation of truth) we must come to realize that our personal life is only the consequence of incarnation, and all its vicissitudes are only incidents (that are more or less serious). And then the Soul — and the life of the Soul, and the Plan of the Soul to be implemented — becomes (is) the reality, and personal life is the “accessory,” the transitory, the incidental, the relative one.
Therefore, BE a Soul, and live accordingly. Stick to the absolute Truth of our being, freeing ourselves from the clutches, burdens, bonds, and oppressions of lesser truths. Everything can be true on its own plane and level, but going to the ultimate limit, to the widest truth, is the continuous urge, the continuous yearning of the Soul.
Climbing a mountain, one gradually sees beautiful vistas that in themselves might be satisfying and fulfilling, but the desire of the climber is to reach the top, the highest peak; and from there contemplate the widest panorama, above the obstacles that limited him. The views left below were not and are not ugly or despicable for all that (those who cannot go any further, stop there and are fulfilled by them), but they are necessarily more limited; and the brave, vigorous mountaineer always aims to reach the highest peak, which opens the widest and freest horizon. From height to height to the summit, which is like the absolute truth of that particular ascent (which is like the task given by the Soul-Self for that particular incarnation). No summit that is reached is the highest in truth; it is only momentarily and relatively so, but precisely for the moment it is the maximum height (the maximum realization of oneself as Soul) beyond which it is not possible to go. Reaching that goal is — or should be — our daily work. The Soul cannot stop on the ledges,[2] nor stop at the narrowest views, at the Truths that are less than His Truth. The Soul must do its work, implement its plan, fulfill its purpose. Therefore, during our most acute suffering, in the dullest and grayest moments, let us remember that we ARE a SOUL; let us remember that our daily work is liberation: it is the ascent to the highest and purest truth that our Soul, that WE, as SOULS, must and will conquer.
BE a Soul. All of us are Souls: realizing this breaks down the materialistic illusion of being bodies — bundles of emotions, feelings, thoughts — and leads into the realm of Truth. It reverses the meaning of life, and the values of life. It is the true essential Awakening. It is self-recognition, breaking down separation; it is a real shift from ignorance to knowledge, from an illusion, “a dream” and “a lie” to essential “sincerity,” to TRUTH.
“To speak the Truth, means (esoterically) to express the Transcendent Glory through one’s form (personality).”
[1] The original document was not found by this editor in the Online Archives. However, not all have been uploaded yet. Source of this document: www.psicoenergetica.com. —Ed.
[2] Assagioli’s image of the “ledges” recalls the many ledges in Dante’s Purgatorio,which is certainly a model or image of what Assagioli is describing. —Ed.
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