Enthusiasm

personality is the objective man, the individuality is the subjective man, and the work of life is to transmute the two into one, and 40 make the outer man respond to the inner man. One sees the personality, he only feels the individuality; it is the subtle something which radiates from us. One may possess a very displeasing personality and yet radiate a very pleasing individuality. There are personalities which are really repellent, but often after we know them we find a wonderful individuality hidden within them, and are charmed with it and so learn to forget the displeasing exterior. Individuality is the positive pole of being and thinking, and our personality is the negative pole. The one who has a displeasing personality and a pleasing individuality, tells every passer-by that he has lent himself to negative inharmonious lines of thinking, if not here then in some other state of consciousness, and that he has lived in the external mind and has been caught in the diverse currents, and the laws of common consciousness, and that in this life he has not yet learned to join the two forces within his own being. Often we have heard this expression, "He is a grand individual and his personality is in keeping with his character." This means that the same quality runs through and through, that the warp is the same as the pattern. Our personality will naturally put on a different expression from the individuality when, by force of habit, either racial or acquired, we make our consciousness dependent on external things, instead of controlling and directing all external conditions by the law of life from within. Individuality is an expression of conscious growth and our personality may be made the perfect objective expression of this growth. The purely personal life is not a whole life at all, it is only a part, just as the body is only a part of the divine man. Individuality is often latent in every life and after the development of the personality is over, the individuality begins to speak forth; it is nothing but the finer thought life that has been growing throughout all time. Every moment of our life individuality is adding to itself and personality is adding to itself and when the two become one, the same material is used for both and there is no longer need for transmutation. But as long as there is separation between them, one may know that there is some work yet to do in life. The whole scheme of existence makes for absorption of the lesser into