Secondly, this is a diagram of every individual human being. We are each made up of these four universes, though many of us don't pay much attention to anything beyond the physical universe and the lower half of the psychological universe (i.e. the lower half of the universe of 'mind', the universe which psychology addresses) and so we get buffeted about by our ids, egos and superegos.
The aim of personal evolution (or spiritual development) is to situate the place from where we observe and act as far up those four universes as possible
For example, as the diagram below sets out, a person's ego, which is the point from which most people see their world and make their decisions, is located in the psychological (i.e. mind/mental) aspect of a person, in the area which 'overlaps' with that person's physical body. A person can however, usually with some work, see the world from a more authentic sense of self, sometimes referred to as the 'Higher Self'. This vantage point exists 'further up' (i.e. closer to God) and is shown in the diagram at the mid point of a person's psychological (mind/mental) aspect.
Operating from the place of this Higher Self, a person can successfully and constructively integrate the impulses coming up from the id, ego and superego and down from the soul. A person's soul, as shown in the diagram, occupies the place where his/her psychological and spiritual aspects overlap. An even higher Self, our Christ Self, the Messiah, exists 'in the middle' of our spiritual aspect. Some Gnostic Christians say that Christ's second coming happens every time one us realises the Christ presence in ourselves.
I shall write more about the implications of this in a later post, called 'Vegetable, Animal and Human People'.
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