The persistent desire of consciousness to consider itself a single and indestructible system does not withstand either logical analysis or empirical testing, which shows the instability of all those conglomerates that people usually call “personalities” and consider bearers of their “I”, their selfhood

Neither the soul, nor the personality, nor the self is usually a complete and stable support and expression of individuality. The most important illusion, the source of all problems and obscurities of existence, is precisely the idea of ​​the “real” existence of the “I” as a self-existent unit. Psychocosmos is represented as a monarchy, in which there is a “reigning” personality and elements “subordinate” to her. Each such individual is merely a “caliph for an hour”—a temporary usurper, leading the general system of consciousness to achieve his limited goals, whims and caprices. One state gives way to another, and one subpersonality gives way to the next, some aspirations pass into others, and often the connection between these successive states is very conditional and fragile, and rests only on the self - that is, the original idea of ​​​​the division into “I” and “not” -I"

In other words, ideas about both reincarnation and cause-and-effect relationships between incarnations exclude the presence of any “reincarnating fundamental principle,” something that steadily passes from life to life. The Monad as the source of individuality and the “seed atom” as a permanent basis, the embryo of crystallization in the chain of births, are not carriers of the “I”, and cannot give the individual hope for “eternal life”

However, although it is impossible to preserve personality, it is nevertheless possible to make it the most appropriate expression of individuality, and the psychocosmos itself can be brought to a state of integrity and harmony as much as possible

As long as a creature identifies itself with temporary “heaps” of affects, or even with the “super-ego” of the logos of its existence, it is doomed to destruction. Only when consciousness achieves identification with the Great Spirit itself in one of its infinite number of individual aspects, does it become identified with its Monad, and goes beyond both forms and their absence, both being and non-being, and - or dissolves in the ocean of nirvana, or - enters the fullness of the Pleroma, which in essence are also united and inseparable