Human Development Stages and Personality vs Individuality

Men should be tall, have 100 meters... Of course, the phase of physical development is a phase limited to a very specific time. Then, this creative energetic force passes from the physical world to the vital or etheric world. So here there is a development of boys from the etheric point of view. Then, from 14 to 21 years old, on the contrary, the emotional body is born and flourishes. Therefore, around 14 years old, what were emotions - children, boys already had thoughts, emotions, but the vital, emotional matter was still not dynamized. The true birth of the astral body, that is, the emotional body happens at 14 years old. That's why the great emotions, adolescence, all the colors, all the contemporary depressions, all the creative activity that before was constituting the physical body and then the etheric body is now constituting the emotional body and the astral body. So if before boys, children, more or less, lived from emotions reflected from parents - that is, they were not strong enough to produce them themselves -, here emotions are originated by them. The mental body is still missing. So, from 21 to 28 years old, in the boy or adolescent, in the young person, the mental body is born. He becomes independent from the mental point of view, while before mental conditions were dependent in opposition or in conjunction with those that were transmitted by the family. Here a mental body is born and the person is capable of formulating their thought. Within the best cases... But still the personality is not totally developed. So that's why 21 years old was formerly considered the critical year, that is, a man was adult at 21 years old. Actually, a superior aspect, now in the present - because sometimes development ends here. There are not sufficient conditions to have an interior development; while there is another body which is the superior mental body, the astral mental body can develop in this phase. Therefore, generally, it is around 35 years old that it is said that the personality is effectively complete, that a person has a developed personality because until that moment the personality, in general, is not yet formed. Therefore, this can be very interesting because the personality not being developed, that is, all those bodies, all those interior mechanisms, many times in this phase here, when the boy is still a child, individuality manifests itself, that is, the most advanced aspect because it still has no construction, no barrier that could alter or modify this influence. It is important to distinguish personality versus individuality. That is, personality is the complex of all our energetic bodies, mechanisms, what we know, what we experience, of all this; individuality is what we are, the deepest part. To bring an example from the East, there is a single individuality that manifests through various personalities. For example, a string of pearls in the East: this comparison is very common. The personality are the pearls and the thread that joins all the pearls is the individuality. An individuality manifests various personalities, builds various personalities to manifest itself. An individuality the seeds, the essences. In individuality, we are poets, artists, mathematicians, dancers, musicians, anything, we are all these potentialities. In personality we develop one [potentiality], and the aspirations of one life are the predispositions of another life. In general, each personality manifests only a small sector of the possibilities of our individualities. For example, another comparison, also from the East: individuality is a tree and personalities are the leaves that, receiving sunlight, elaborate the necessary juices for the individuality to assimilate the contents. But a more interesting one: personality derives from persona - that is, it's from Greek mask. That is, mask that the actor used when he performed a theatrical play. So, individuality is the actor and the theatrical play that he will interpret is the mask, is the personality. The role that he will interpret is the personality. Each one of us chooses their role. Before we incarnate we choose a role that sometimes we realize and other times we don't realize. Because it's like this. But for the next time we will deepen more this aspect of the difference between individuality and personality.