Personality

life, just as the unseen energy of a rose is shown forth in the perfume, and the energy of light is thrown out as heat. This energy of life is subject to control just as heat is controlled. The external body of man, that which we see and touch, is simply thought energy materialized; we have been taught to call this "personality." Personality is really only that energy which we have thought into expression and it bears witness to our own estimate of ourselves. Our body or personality becomes the expression of just what we have created in the infinite energy and localized on the objective plane for our use. When we study personality we must first start back at the beginning of our self, and in order to do this we must begin as far back as our race personality; every race has a personality as well as an individuality; one is a Jew, Gentile or otherwise in personal appearance how easy it is for even the common intelligence to detect the race personality. The individuality is just as easily recognized; some races are war-like, some peaceful, some mystical and some material. We say when we know anyone, "He is just like his kind," or "isn't that just like a Jew," and lately I heard someone say, "He looks like a Hindu and has all the characteristics of one," which proves positively that these two things personality and individuality stand out distinct in every life. Personality is an unstable thing, and can change from year to year; lives brought under the stimulation of different thoughts often lose their race personality, and take on the expression of their new surroundings. One day, in a clinic held for the treatment of the sick Jewish people, a young man presented himself for examination. He had no sign in his personality of his birth relationship; he was asked for his history and it was then found that he was the son of Jewish people. He had been born in America and had lived with American people, had grown up under a new type of thoughts which had utterly destroyed the old image. The chief of the clinic, himself a Jew, looked at the young man and said seriously: "What will become of our race if we continue to allow our children to lose the Semitic type?" This was proof positive again that our personality is only the expression of what we build for ourselves through thought relationship. The individuality does not change so rapidly; one has often been found who has lost his Semitic type, but is at heart a Jew and will continue a Jew to the end. The