Higher Self/Magical Personality as Analog

[Sacred Fool]

Personally, I get lost in the jargon almost immediately when trying to disentangle stuff like this, so I will mostly try to step around it.

I do not see the "magical personality" and the "higher self" as being "essentially the same thing."


Taking a step back from all that jazz, when one, say, tries to come to terms with what he's gonna eat for lunch just now, he uses his eyes to see what's available, his emotions to determine which of that looks appealing, his intellect to decide what's actually practical.  Then, maybe he eats.

When one sits down to work in spirit (I'll call it that...you can call it magical working or whatever you please), none of that other stuff is particularly helpful, except as it might limit distractions.  That is, you cannot see with your eyes, feel with your hands, and intellect is of very limited utility.

When one works in spirit, one employs a different profile of sensory elements such as intuition and instinct and the ability to sense intimations coming from subtle beings.  My guess is that the term "magical personality" refers to the aspect of the larger self which can act (sometimes wholly independent of the conscious self) on subtle planes.  This is not the higher self.  The higher self is a much higher level beastie, so to speak, but it might well feel like a higher self to one who cannot see one thing clearly from another.  In some sense it is analogous to a higher self because it does have the capacity to function on higher levels than the lunch-eating self and, one might say, it is a bridge to the higher self because it allows self to explore higher level sensory experiences.  That's my take on it.  Rots o' ruck!