The Ego, The Soul and The Monad

The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there. ~Thomas Merton

As strange as it may seem, few religious people and only a hand full of students of mystic doctrines really knows how to distinguish and separate the concepts of Personality, Soul and Spirit, or Monad. Often the concepts of Soul and Spirit are mistaken and many actually think that these two words are synonymous.

Many religions are not really interested in guiding their followers about the constitution of our transcendent levels: our Spiritual “biology”. Most are just content to poorly define the difference between body and soul, leaving out important concepts and elements that would greatly facilitate our understanding of the dynamics of the spirit.

We believe that this lack of explanation comes from a purpose to divert the attention to very “superficial truths” in order to hide what is essential to us. The interest of many organized religions is to maintain the status quo, to keep the level of “obedience” by the means of fear, ignorance and imposed power, so that there is a perception that an intercessor is required to connect with the Divine. Many of these deep truths were labeled as “the Mysteries of Faith”, allegedly because they escape the common understanding of the common human mind, but, in reality, this way, they can keep themselves from the work of explaining, educating and ultimately giving back the keys of reconnection with our Divine Nature.

Many religions and cults that are associated with some medium phenomena usually overshadow the concept of Soul with the concept of Spirit. In her book about Human and Solar Initiation, the theosophist Alice Bailey defines the Spiritual Human physiology as having a trine Nature: Monad, Higher Self (or Soul) and Lower Self. Pythagoras also had the same concept about the trine nature of man, but he used a different terminology: Spirit, Soul and Personality.

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