Higher Self/Magical Personality as Analog

[rva_jeremy]

This is a complicated question -- frankly, I've avoided it for a while as I mulled over whether I had anything to say at all. I'll offer what I think might be helpful in arriving at one's own, nuanced view.

When I read "analog" I interpret it as akin to a "projection". There's a relationship, but it spans over two different systems. For example, the whole Flatland metaphor talks about a world of 2-dimensional beings. To them, a sphere being just looks like a circle, except that it has this unfathomable ability to change it's diameter in 2d. Of course, this is merely a matter of moving on the z-axis through the plane of 2d existence, but to the 2d guys they can only interpret it as change on the x and y axes. The circle is the "projection" of the sphere into 2d. Perhaps you've seen representations of 4d constructs like the tesseract, which of necessity are projected into 3d representations but of course are more than just what can be represented.

I propose using that metaphor to help with starting to understand how the magical personality could be a projection of the higher self into time/space: the magical personality is configuration of consciousness we enter into, perhaps, in order to make time/space tools "tractable". In order for them to be useful in space/time, they have to be projected into space/time. In other words they have to be limited in some basic ways in order to yield value to the space/time entity.

Sometimes I think the precision of those of Ra can lend to just as much misapprehension as the vagueness that attends most metaphysical information. They seem to desire to give as complete a picture as they can, so they make distinctions between the same thing in different contexts while at the same time tending towards describing the actual thing in totality, separate from the more limited contexts.

So yeah, I have always understood them to say that the higher self is a time/space thing, the magical personality is a space/time thing, and that those two things are actually the same thing in different contexts. Does that help? The magical personality is how we "get a hold of" the higher self in order to relate to it, but in order to distinguish our limited agency in space/time with the higher self, they use a different term to denote the more limited nature of the magical personality relative to the higher self. I don't feel that I've given you much more than you posted in your original offering, but perhaps the idea of a projection is useful.