Mental Bodies and Personality Development in Esoteric Philosophy

Receptivity - the more receptive you become, the mental charges accumulated during the course of days and years appear little by little. Especially when you want to cut ties with them. Because, for example, if you have a chain, if you are chained to a wall or a wall, while you remain still nothing happens, but as soon as you want to go somewhere, this chain stops your walk and therefore you become aware of the chain. The same thing happens with these thought forms: as long as you continue to feed the desires of these forms, all is well, but when you want to cut them off, these ideas appear. So these are also called companions in esoteric terminology, because we carry these forms everywhere. But we have seen that there is another typology of thought which is more abstract thought, thought without form. That is, for example, when you think before formalizing words, if you analyze yourself, think about a subject, want to say something, and even before this thing takes on words, what exists in your mind? It is simply an intention, an intention to say something without any form. The same thing happens - I don't know if you realize it, for example, in a subject, a problem, like a mathematician: many times you think about a problem, even solving a matter, and there is a moment when you already know you have found the solution. But this solution has not yet taken on a form, it will take a very, very long time: it can be minutes, hours or even years to formalize and write a formal consecutive discourse that makes sense, that can demonstrate the idea you already had. This intuition, which is not rational - it is meta-rational, it is more than rational - is made through another body, which is not our usual mental body that reasons, but is this body called causal, the abstract mental body. An abstract thought without form. So, we have two mental bodies: one concrete and one abstract. This causal or abstract body is very important because everything that is formal, with form... So, there are two fundamental states: that which is with form, the world of forms, images, mental images, desires, physical body, formal things, with a form and the world of forces which is a superior, abstract world. Everything that has a form can deteriorate, deteriorates. Sooner or later it will deteriorate and therefore everything that has a form is mortal. It is part of what we talked about last time, of personality. Personality is something we construct throughout each incarnation. We, little by little, construct our personality: that is, a physical body that little by little we construct over the years - the first 15 years (until age 7, the focus is only on building the physical body, but also the first 15, 18 more or less, attention is always building the physical body). Then we develop an etheric, vital body, emotions little by little become more and more subtle, refined, profound. And our emotions, although we may be happy or sad - each day can be a boring day or a happy day - all well, our emotions change, but the tonality of our emotions, the typology of our emotions remains more or less the same. That is, it remains the same for a long time. A person who is depressive, it is difficult for them to be depressed one day and super happy the next day. It is very difficult. It is not impossible, but it is very difficult. In general, we form our personality and we also form our mental schemes, mental structures and mental schemes and this leads to the construction of our personality which takes years. Last time we said that a personality can be finished after 35 years. Generally, in usual development, according to oriental and archeosophical tradition, at least 35 years are also needed to have complete personality development. We also talked about individuality. That is, this causal body, this more subtle, abstract body, does not contain mental forms, thoughts, but contains the seeds of these. Like, for example, an inclination toward pessimism. A person can be pessimistic in the 5th century, in the 15th century, or in the 20th century - these are completely different typologies of pessimism, but the idea or the seeds are always the same. A person, for example, has an inclination toward...