Careful what you write. The Mafia may come along and spray garlic in your lawn. It is difficult to form a correct estimate of the significance of contemporary events, and the danger that our judgment will remain caught in subjectivity is great. So I am fully aware of the risk I am taking in proposing to communicate my views concerning certain contemporary events, which seem to me important, to those who are patient enough to hear me. I refer to those reports reaching us from all corners of the Earth, rumours of round objects that flash through the troposphere and stratosphere and go by the name of Flying Saucers, soucopues, disks, and “Ufos” (Unidentified Flying Objects). These rumours, or the possible physical existence of such objects, seem to me so significant that I feel myself compelled, as once before when events of fateful consequence were brewing for Europe, to sound a note of warning. I know that, just as before, my voice is much too weak to reach the ear of the multitude. It is not presumption that drives me, but my conscious as a psychiatrist that bids me fulfil my duty and prepare those few who will hear me from coming events which are in accord with the end of an era. As we know from ancient Egyptian history, they are manifestations of psychic changes which always appear at the end of one Platonic moth and at the beginning of another. #RandolphHarris 1 of 20

Apparently they are changes in the constellation of psychic dominants, of the archetypes, or “gods” as they used to be called, which bring about, or accompany, long-lasting transformations of the collective psyche. This transformation started in the historical era and left its traces first in the passing of the aeon of Taurus into that of Ares, and then of Ares into Pisces, whose beginning coincides with the rise of Christianity. We are now nearing that great change which may be expected wen the spring-point enters Aquarius. It would be frivolous of me to try to conceal from the reader that such reflections are not only exceedingly unpopular but even come perilously close to those turbid fantasies which becloud the minds of World-reformers and other interpreters of “signs and portents.” However, even if it means putting my hard-won reputation for truthfulness, reliability, and capacity for scientific judgment in jeopardy, I must take this risk. I cand assure my reader that I do not do this with a light heart. I am, to be quite frank, concerned for all those who are caught unprepared by the events in question and disconcerted by their incomprehensible nature. Since, so far as I know, no one has yet felt moved to examine and set forth the possible psychic consequences of this foreseeable astrological change, I deem it my duty to do what I can in this respect. I undertake this thankless task in the expectation that my chisel will make no impression on the hard stone it encounters. #RandolphHarris 2 of 20

The symbolic history of the Christ’s life shows, as the essential teleological tendency, the crucifixion, viz. the union of Christ with the symbol of the tree. It is no longer a matter of an impossible reconciliation of Good and Evil, but of man with his vegetative (=unconscious) life. In the case of the Christian symbol the tree however is dead and man upon the Cross is going to die, id est, the solution of the problem takes place after death. That is so far as Christian truth goes. However, it is possible that the Christian symbolism expresses man’s mental condition in the aeon of Pisces, as the ram and the bull gods do for the ages of Aries and Taurus. In this case the post-mortal solution would be symbolic of an entirely new psychological status, viz. that of Aquarius, which is certainly a oneness, presumably that of the Anthropos, the realization of Christ’s allusion: “Dii estis” (Ye are gods). This is a formidable secret and difficult to understand, because it means that man will be essentially God and God man. The sighs pointing in this direction consist in the fact that the cosmic power of self-destruction is given into the hands of man and that man inherits the dual nature of the Father. He will [mis]understand it and he will be tempted to ruin the universal life of the Earth by radioactivity. Materialism and atheism, the negation of God one becomes deified, id est, god-almighty-like, and then one knows what is good for humankind. That is how destruction begins. The intellectual schoolmasters in the Kremlin are a classic example. The danger of following the same path is very great indeed. It begins with the lie, id est, the projection of the shadow. #RandolphHarris 3 of 20

There is need of people knowing about their shadow, because there must be somebody who does not project. They ought to be in a visible position where they would be expected to project and unexpectedly they do not project! They can thus set a visible example which would not be seen if they were invisible. The divine being is present in every person but only dim echoes may succeed in emerging from the hinterland of consciousness. The absence of the ego is the presence of the Overself. However, this is only a surface impression in the person’s thought, for the Overself is always present. We may have the intuitive assurance that this higher power does exist even when we have no person experience of it and no direct knowledge of its nature. Amid all the perplexities and oscillations of life, the witnessing and understanding Overself waits with infinite patience. No one is ever left out. This is the only God we can hope to know, the true Teacher for all. Those who yearn to unite with it should plead persistently for its Grace. The Overself’s power to alter circumstances, create opportunities, and uphold persons is available to anyone who fulfils the requisite conditions. These include some amount of mental preparation and more purification some clear perception of the fact that the Overself is present here and now, an instant and constant remembrance of this fact, and finally a willingness to trust completely to its providential help, supply, and support no matter how undesirable or intolerable a situation seems to be. #RandolphHarris 4 of 20

Well, I did not need to go far. Bianca visits at the home of Mr. Baxter the wholesaler. Here I found not only her but also a person who for me appeared just as opportunely. Edward, the son of the house, is head over heel in love with her—it takes but half an eye to see it when one looks into his eyes. He is in the business, in his father’s office, a good-looking fellow, very pleasant, a bit shy, and I believe this last trait does not damage him in her eyes. Poor Edward! He does not have the slightest idea how to procced with his love. When he knows she is going to be there in the evening, he dressed for her sake alone, puts on his new black suit for her sake alone, his fancy cuffs for her alone—and thus cuts an almost ludicrous figure among the other daily company in the drawing room. His bashfulness verges on the unbelievable. If it were a guise, then Edward would be a dangerous rival to me. It takes great art to use bashfulness, but one does achieve a great deal with it. How often I have used bashfulness to trick a little miss! Ordinarily, young ladies speak very harshly about bashful men, but secretly the like them. A little bashfulness flatters a young lady’s vanity, makes her feel superior; it is her earnest money. When they are lulled to sleep, then at the very time they believe you are about to perish from bashfulness, you show them that you are so far from it that you are quite self-reliant. #RandolphHarris 5 of 20

Bashfulness makes man lose his masculine significance, and therefore it is a relatively good means for neutralizing intimacy. Therefore, when they perceive that it was only a guise, they become so abashed that they blush inwardly, feel very strongly that in a way they have overstepped their limits; it is just as if they continued to treat a young man as a child for too long. So now we are friends, Edward and I. There is between us a true friendship, a beautiful relationship, such as has not existed since the most beautiful days of Greece. We were on intimate terms at once when, after having involved him in a multiplicity of observations about Bianca, I managed to make him confess his secret. Of course, when all the secrets come out together, than this one can come along. Poor fella, he has been pining for a long time already. He spruces himself up every time she comes, then escorts her home in the evening; his heart pounds at the thought of her arm resting on his. They walk home, looking at the starts. He rings her doorbell; she disappears; he despairs—but has hopes for the next time. As yet he had not had the courage to step across her threshold, he who has such a superb opportunity. Although I cannot refrain from secretly deriding Edward, there is nevertheless something beautiful in his innocence. Although I ordinarily fancy myself to be fairly conversant with the whole sum and substance of the erotic, I have never noticed this state in myself, this anxiety and trembling of infatuation, that is, to the degree that it deprives me of my composure, for at other times I know it is all right, but with me it is such that it makes me stronger instead. #RandolphHarris 6 of 20

Perhaps someone would say that I have never really been in love—maybe so. I have taken Edward to task; I have encouraged him to depend on my friendship. Tomorrow he will take a decisive step, go in person to her and invite her. I managed to lead him to the preposterous idea of inviting me to go along; I promised him to do so. He takes it as an extraordinary show of friendship. The situation is just as I want it; it amounts to bursting unexpectedly through the door into the room. Should he have the remotest doubt about the significance of my appearance, my appearance will in turn confuse everything. In every grade of life’s manifestation, from every quality of human character, the divine is always present and never absent. There are resources within human’s grasp that could redeem one’s character and transform one’s life, yet they lie untouched and undeveloped. The silent secret part of the self is forever there, forever asking a little surrender of attention. However, few give it. All the time it is silently asking: “Will you not turn toward Me, accept Me, for I am your other self?” In one sense, we have never left the divine Source, never lost our divine identity. The Presence is inseparable from human existence, even though so many human beings may find the statement incredible, imaginative, or merely tied to a religious faith. If it would only announce itself more loudly! However, humankind has to accept its ways on its own terms. Those who wish may learn what they are. #RandolphHarris 7 of 20

There is something godlike in every person. By finding it in ourselves, we rise above the common human life as that in turn rises above the other terrestrial beings. And you will perceive that the Overself is always there, albeit you will have repeatedly to raise your eyes from Earth and your mind from ego to come into realization of this truth. Because we draw our very life from the spiritual principle within us, we can only ignore the truth that this principle exists but can never lose its reality. Retreat into one’s mystical home is every open to one, withdrawal into the blissful privacy of the Overself is one’s blessed right. God is both outside and inside us, is everywhere around and deep within. It is there but waits to be recovered by the individual consciousness. Where can one find this peace or practice this presence expect in oneself? This done, one can go about one’s daily business anywhere and everywhere. Jesus spoke in simple crisp sentences about this great fact that Heaven—the state of real happiness—is within humans here and now. Deep within human beings there is Something which waits for one’s discovery, something which reveals itself when one has penetrated far enough or when grace grants it or universal law favours it. This divine soul never withdraws from human’s life, is never absent from human’s fate. For the very purpose of these last two is to draw one to seek and find the soul. #RandolphHarris 8 of 20

The truth is that never for a moment are we really separate from our inner self. It is simply asking humans to accept themselves for what they are. A single train would still be too large to carry all the humans in American who are living in the awareness of the Overself. There is a center in every one’s Self which is divine and radiant. The same Overself is behind us all, contains us all. This divine element whose continuing presence in humans confers a guarantee of eventual salvation. In all of us there is this resplendent being dwelling in the deepest concealment, linking us with the Supreme Being. In this link lies range. Messages from the (inner and outer) environment are received, evaluated, and so on, and attached strongly (or less strongly) to self-regions and thus they become less (or more) a part of the World of other people and things. And, of course, the soul different in what it creates and what it experiences as impingement. One soul may create food and find company imposed on it, another will create company and find food imposed of it. Different vulnerabilities of faults will be consequent on such differences as to what feels “other.” Suppose I have a phantasy of whatever will make me feel good, and then what makes me feel good comes about and I feel good. Then this experience is almost wholly one of “me” and hardly at all of “not me.” I get a sense of strength and well-being. #RandolphHarris 9 of 20

Suppose, however, that I have a phantasy of whatever makes me feel good, but the event does not come about just then and there. After a brief and quite painless delay, whatever makes me feel good does happen, and I feel good. I do not have the experience that I made it happen (created it). However, I do have an experience of a nice not-self that appears at more or les the right time and makes me feel good. This, I imagine, happens after a relatively short delay. The effects of a relatively long delay are even less likely to make me feel that I am powerful and that everything is under my control; the delay may make me feel that the World is quite a difficult place to handle. In all these instances, however, my phantasy of something good is confirmed. Good things are there for me: they are mine or somebody’s who is willing to share them. And my phantasy of what makes me feel good does materialize and make me feel good. However, if the delay is too long, my phantasy of what makes me feel good is not confirmed, the good thing does not come, though some other thing (not necessarily bad) does—this disturbs me and makes me feel impinged on. We have a clue here about how different experiences may variously contribute to people’s self0imagery or their imagery of the World. Beginning with our experience of much or little impingement, we organize other people and things not just as good or bad objects, but as self, or other, according to the amount of their impingement and otherness that has been experienced in their connection. #RandolphHarris 10 of 20

Look where you will, go where you will, the higher power is there, whether in silence of in action. The Overself can become very real to one when feeling its ever-presence in all one’s experience, when awake to is now-ness. The revelation of truth may come directly from within oneself because of the presence of the divine spark within oneself. Since the higher individuality is a stable thing, it is not to be achieved by any efforts but is to be discovered as present. The doorway to truth stands wide open throughout the day. If humans would, or could, believe that with every breath they are acting in concert with the cosmic rhythm, that in clinging to the self they are actually sharing the divine presence! It is a presence which can be felt directly in daily active life, although not so vividly as when removed from the World and concentrated upon in solitary meditation. The Overself appears to all alike, regardless of colour or race, when they have made themselves ready for It. Anybody who as so misunderstood the message in the essay as to believe differently, is mistaken. A fortunate person gets one’s pleasures the very moment one begins to think of them and begins to look for them. The looking is a kind of anticipatory experience based on memories of having one’s needs met soon after one has begun to want. This is important. #RandolphHarris 11 of 20

 If the phase of dependence on spirituality goes badly, the individual is left with memories of helpless and frustrating dependence on God, for the good things are experiences as not coming at one’s behest but at the whim of an uncontrollable other. If the phase of dependence goes well, the individua retains memories of a state pretty close to omnipotence—“I get what I want, all I have to do is want it.” What a source of self-esteem! However, how we build faith is by recounting the examples of faith that have happened in our history and in our heritage and with our people. That is the value of history. It contains accounts of faith of our own blood and ancestry and of our own people and our children. If we do this, we cannot go one generation without losing faith. And to rear a generation of faith foe what we must do in these days, you and I simply must develop and increase faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. “And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation,” reports Romans 5.4. We sow our thoughts, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our character; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny. We must live a life motivated by good thoughts, expressed in good works, and sustained by inner peace and determination of righteous doing. The destiny we desire is an inheritance in the celestial mansions prepared by our Saviour for the faithful of God’s children. #RandolphHarris 12 of 20

Repeated experience of finding whatever one wished for, at the very moment when that thing was first thought of as desirable, helps one build up a sense that the World is a good place, that it is able to take care of itself, is safe, strong, competent, and skilled—a sense that starts as omnipotence becomes ego-strength. This is also called basic trust, an inner population of remembered and anticipated sensations which are firmly correlated with the outer population of familiar and predictable things and people. We can put this in the language of Being and Doing. Because all this has take place at a time when self and the Spirit had strong connection, and this was really fortunate for our experience because it gave us a feeling of being “grand”; and this self-region of “being-grand” becomes established when God gives us the privilege and opportunity of choosing which way of life we will follow—which habits we will form. Generally, when we practice good happens, we notice a reflection in the Universe that good things happen to us. So God wants us to use our agency and choose to do good with our free will so we will see more blessings. However, just because a person’s actions are bad does not mean that the Lord will not bless them. God loves all of his children and gives them all his grace. Yet, if you know better than being wicked, God expects you to obey His laws and be good and you will more likely see more blessing. Nonetheless, we still live in a human World and others also have free will so bad things may still happen, but use those moments to build your faith in God and keep being righteous. When we are righteous, our good fortune stands out more clearly than one who has prematurely developed ego-functions and do not realize everything is a blessing from God. #RandolphHarris 13 of 20

When one’s actions are righteous, there is less of a feeling of guilt, so this confirms our belief in being good with a sense of association of being competent, able, skilled strong, and we feel comfortable in these expressions of our personality. To be satisfied with anything less than this egoless Self is to worship at the shrine of an idol. The Overself is neither a cold metaphysical concept nor a passing wave of emotion. It is a Presence—sublime, sacred, and beneficent—which grips your heart, thought, and body by its own mysterious power, making you regard life from a nobler standpoint. The divine soul is the real essence of each person. If we do not come into the full experience of its existence, all our religion is a mere surface emotionalism, all our metaphysics a mocking intellectualism. Once you are clearly aware of the presence of the Overself, you will find that it will spontaneously provide you with a rule of conduct and a standard of ethics at all times and under all circumstances. Consequently you will never be at a loss to know what to do in difficult moral situations, nor how to behave in challenging ones. And with this knowledge will also come the power to implement it. When this contact with the Overself is established, its power will work for you: you will no longer go through the struggles of life alone. This is not to say that the spiritual contact will remove all difficulties and perplexities from your inner life, but that it will give you added power to deal with them. #RandolphHarris 14 of 20

From this seeming nothingness deep within one draws a peace of mind, an emotional freedom, a sense of God’s living presence that the World’s harshness cannot dislodge. The appearance of the sacred presence automatically extinguishes the lower desires. The holding on to that presence wherever one goes and whatever one does as if it were one’s real identity, will help to establish that release as a lasting fact. As one becomes more sensitive to the Overself’s presence, one knows that one has only to turn to it to receive divine strength and nourishment. When all other sources of help have been tried, there is no other source left to humans than the divine Overself, by whatever name one calls it or under whatever symbol one pictures it. Once the Overself is felt in the heart as a living presence, it raises the consciousness out of the grip of the egoistic-desire parts of our being, frees it from the ups and downs of mood and emotion which they involve. It provides a sense of inner satisfaction that is complete in itself and irrespective of outside circumstances. The extraordinary thing is not that one will feel the divine self is with one but that it has always been with one. How quiet it is! Yet is can transform all things. The stillness has magical powers. It sooths, restores, heals, instructs, guides, and replaces chaos and tumult by orderliness and harmony. You mould your character and future by good thoughts and acts. #RandolphHarris 15 of 20

The good habits of a child’s early training form the foundation for one’s future and sustain one in one’s later life. Parents, remember the Lord by revelation has given assurance that little children are incapable of committing sin, that they are alive in Christ, and that the devil has no power over them until they reach the age of accountability. The first eight years of a child’s life are golden yeas the Lord has given parents to teach and train their children to form good habits and develop noble character. We do not always know what lies ahead, but there is strength and safety in righteous conduct. We need to organize our lives according to gospel principles and chart a right course as we journey toward eternal life. In the conduct of our lives we learn that good character-building habits mean everything. It is by such behaviour that we harvest the real substance and value of life. The way we live outweighs any words we profess to follow. This life has a destined purpose, and that purpose is to conquer all habits, to overcome the evil in one and to restore good to its rightful place. The ways of life acceptable to the people of the World are not always acceptable to God. His standards, however, are for all people. They do not change but resolutely and continually point to the true way of life for His children. Bad habits are a reflection of our thoughts and personalities, our behaviour and conduct. They are degrading to the choice qualities which are our God-given spiritual endowments of faith honesty, integrity and uprightness. #RandolphHarris 16 of 20

When a person boasts of one’s bad habits, you may rest assure they are the best one has. “Humans are instructed sufficiently that they know good from evil,” reports 2 Nephi 2.5. In this mortal life we have two choices: the good, which is the desire of our Heavenly Father; or the evil, which is Satan’s plan and constant persuasion. Evil tendencies destroy character and ruin lives. When first yielding to sin, one’s resistance, self-control, and character are weakened and further transgressions usually result. With violation of spiritual laws and rejection of spiritual qualities, our powers of resistance are reduced. Eventually we seem to lose complete control of our ability to resist evil. Imagine the great misery suffered by a person who has practiced a vice for so long that one curses it, yet at the same time holds on to it. Our great challenge is to learn how to control ourselves. We must learn for ourselves and act for ourselves, being careful not to follow those who are divinely led. We have a responsibility to thwart the work of the evil one—not to assist or perpetuation his cause by yielding to his enticements to sin. Habits are subject to change and improvement, for the Lord has said, “For the power is in them [meaning people], wherein they are agents unto themselves,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 58.28. One cannot truthfully say one is confirmed in one’s bad habits, sins, or weaknesses to the point that they cannot be thrown off and repented. #RandolphHarris 17 of 20

The human will is naturally inclined toward the right. We are spirit children of God and have born within us the power to overcome all evil practices. There is much confusion of understanding about what happens to the ego when it attains the ultimate goal. Some believe that a cosmic consciousness develops, with an all-knowing intelligence and an “all-overish” feeling. They regard it as unity with the whole Universe. Other asset that there is a complete loss of the ego, an utter destruction of the personal self. No—these are confused notions of what actually occurs. The Overself is not a collective entity as though it were composed of a number of particles. One’s embrace of other human beings through it is not in union with them but only in sympathy, not in psychic identification with them but in psychic harmony. One has enlarged the area of one’s vision and sees oneself as a part of humankind. However, this does not mean that one has become conscious of all humankind as though they were oneself. The true unity is with one’s own higher indestructible self. It is still with a higher individuality, not a cosmic one, and it is still with one’s own self, not with the rest of humankind. Unity with them is neither mystically nor practically possible. What we discover is discovered by a deepening of consciousness, not by a widening of it. Hence it is not so much wider as a deeper self that one has first to find. #RandolphHarris 18 of 20

With the rectification of this error, we may find the correct answer to the question: “What is the practical meaning of the injunction laid by all the great spiritual teachers upon their followers, to give up the ego, to renounce the self?” It does not ask for a foolish sentimentality, in the sense that we are to be as putty in the hands of all other humans. It does not ask for an utter impossibility, in the sense that we are to be as putty in the hands of all other humans. It does not ask for an utter impossibility, in the sense that we are never to attend to our own affairs at all. It does not ask for unless absurdity, in the sense that we are to become oblivious of our very existence. On the contrary, it asks for what is wise, practicable, and worthwhile—that we give up our lower personality to our higher individuality. Thus is it not that the aspirant is asked to abandon all thought of one’s particular self (as if one could) or to lose consciousness of it, but that one is asked to perceive its imperfection, its unsatisfactoriness, its faultiness, it baseness and its sinfulness and, in consequence of this perception, to give it up in favour of one’s higher self, with its perfection, blessedness, goodness, nobility, and wisdom. For in the lower ego one will never know peace where in the diviner one one will always know it. What this harmony means is that the hidden center of consciousness within the other person will be alike to the center within oneself. Through one’s higher self, a human can attain the highest good. #RandolphHarris 19 of 20

The concept of the Overself is foundational. It provides meaning for life. That humans are verily ignorant who does not know that what the Overself can give one is immeasurably greater than what one can gain from any other source. For on the one side there is infinite power, on the other only limited capacity. Lots of words are not needed to communicate what the Overself has to say. From its presence the truth, the power, and the virtue can make themselves felt. In that benign atmosphere, negative thoughts cannot exist. One who has discovered how to live with one’s higher self has discovered a serenity which defines circumstance and environment, a goodness which is too deep for the World’s understanding, a wisdom which transcends thought. Even in the midst of Worldly distresses, one will feel the Overself’s support to such an extent and in such a way that they will seem to be someone else’s, with oneself as a merely continuous spectator of them. One lives in the gratifying consciousness that one is supported by the divine will, the divine power. Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast sanctified us by Thy precepts and hast enjoined upon us the reading of the Hallel. Hallelujah. Praise, O ye servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forever. From the rising of the sun unto its going down, the Lord’s name is to be praised. The Lord is supreme above all nations; His glory is about the shining Heavens. #RandolphHarris 20 of 20

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