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The lower self is not just your animal nature. It is your animal nature, your inner child, your shadow, your past lives, and your ancestral line. All of the subconscious ROOTS to your being.

It is not the bad, sinful, selfish parts of you that you have to wrestle with like puritanical new agers make it out to be. It must be fully understood and integrated. Being at war with yourself is what harms you and causes the lower self to "overpower" you because you are experiencing a disconnected dualism that creates push and pull.

Integrate it and it cannot harm you or lead you astray. Shame and repression is the source of inner turmoil, not temptation.

And constant attempts at "healing" are often just shame and repression under a different name. Just an attempt to "get rid of" aspects of the lower self.

True healing is self understanding, self forgiveness, self acceptance, and self love, for all parts of the self.

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The grail cup is the symbol of the creative force of nature; it is also the symbol of the human race which is slowly learning the mysteries of creation. Within the cup is the blood of Christ, that force which is transmuting the body into soul, fast or slowly as we give it greater or lesser opportunity. In the sacred spear we find symbolized again the creative force, which in the hands of Klingsor, the evil one, wounds and causes suffering, but which when held by the pure Parsifal heals the very wound that it caused.

A great lesson is being taught to man through these allegories, but the average person is unwilling to stop and consider them. They do not realize that they themselves are the ones whom the Elder Brothers of humanity must use in the fight against the forces of evil. They do not realize that the dragons and ogres of the legends are their own lower natures which they must overcome.

They do not see in the hand to hand combat of the knights of old for a lady’s hand the higher and lower man fighting for the soul within. The knight of today does not realize that the white armor that he wears is his own purified body which is proof against all the attacks of vice and passion, but nevertheless this is the meaning of the legend.

His shield is truth, which is a perfect protection to the inner man. His strong right arm is the knowledge and spiritual power he has developed within, and the sword that he uses is the spiritual light with which the pure flame of the spirit fire dispels the darkness of ignorance and the demons of lust. The sacred spear and the cup which he serves are the two poles of the creative life force within, the development of which he gains as he daily serves his fellow men.

Far from the uninitiated the twelve Elder Brothers of mankind sitting around the circular table of the universe watch the knights in their battle of life, and the time comes when the student having finished his work here is liberated at the foot of the Grail.

There the candidate stands robed from head to foot in the armor of spirit and in the pure white of a body that has been cleansed. Then the cloth is lifted from the sacred cup, and he is illuminated by the light which would have killed him had he seen it without purification. He then takes his place among the knights of the Round Table, and joins those who give up all and labor for humanity.

Initiate of the Flame - MPH