Looking at all your feelings, emotions, moods, try to think that they do not belong to you, but to your friends or relatives, and you will see that each of these emotions refers to the “not-Me".

Then, moving on to intelligence, you will be able to consider all the mental processes and principles. If you think that this is impossible, read a good book on psychology and analyze all the intellectual processes. Gradually, the mental processes will be classified in your mind and you will be able to easily identify them, according to the similarity of plants according to the botanical definition. If this does not satisfy you, take a book on logic and consider the mental processes from the outside. Thus, the intellectual forces – these amazing tools of man-can also be attributed to the realm of the “not-I", because the "I" can stand aside and consider them, separating them from itself. The most remarkable thing is that the "I" can use these mental faculties to study them. Who is the master who makes the mental faculties analyze themselves? You become convinced that the master of the mind is the "I".

Reaching the higher areas of the mind - even the spiritual mind, you will be forced to admit that everything that passes into consciousness from this area can be studied in the same way as everything that you previously attributed to the area of "not-I". You might argue that the last considerations do not prove that not everything that comes from the spiritual mind can refer to “not-I” and there are things that refer to “I”. We will not argue now, because people know very little about the spiritual mind, since it is infinitely higher and has too little resemblance to what people generally call mind. People who have discovered the powers of an amazing spiritual mind say that even at the highest degrees of development, initiates and teachers always had the feeling that above their highest ideas, they still had an “I” that looked at these ideas from above, just as the sun looks at a lake.

The same testimonies say that the highest idea of “I” is only the faintest reflection of that “I” that breaks through the spiritual mind, although the spiritual mind is pure and light, like a transparent crystal, in comparison with our ordinary dull and cloudy mental state. And once again we recall that the highest mental state is only the instrument of the “I”, and not at all the “I” itself.

However, the “I” can be found in the weakest forms of consciousness. It animates a seemingly unconscious life. “I” is always unchanging. Its apparent growth is only the result of the mental development of the individual. "I" can be compared to a light bulb covered with several layers of transparent tissue. If you shoot one layer at a time, then the light will gradually become brighter and stronger. The light itself does not change; the change consists only in the removal of the covering and darkening shell. We do not even hope that the reader will realize the “I” in its entirety - this is inaccessible to people of even the highest development of those living on earth at the present time. But we hope that we will be able to lead interested persons to comprehend the higher idea of “I”, which is possible for him at the present stage of development. The process of realizing "I" consists in the gradual falling of the shells from it, and they are ready to fall and require only a skillful touch in order to fly away from the person. Leading a person to the fullest awareness of their own “I” as a reality, they will become real individuals who will understand the meaning and significance of the tools and tools at their disposal and dare to take these tools to work with their help.

After the reader is convinced that almost everything that he can think of belongs to the realm of “not-I” - these are just tools and tools that he can use, he will ask: but what, finally, cannot and should not be attributed to the "not-I" area? And the sages will answer: only “I” itself. Try to separate the “I” from yourself and look at it from the outside. You can try it a thousand times, but you will never be able to separate your true self from yourself. Sometimes it will seem that you have succeeded, but a short reflection will show that you have separated from yourself only some of your mental qualities or abilities. Where is “I” in this process? It looks at the process from the outside. You have to understand that the "I" cannot be simultaneously the contemplating and the thing being considered - the researcher and the investigated subject. The sun cannot shine its light on itself. You may consider the “I” of another person, but it is your “I” that is what is considering. You cannot step aside as "I" and see yourself as "I". Then what proves that we have a “I”? Firstly, you are always aware of yourself as reasoning and investigating person, without feeling that you are considered and investigated a thing, and secondly, you have self-awareness. What does our consciousness tell us? - "I am" (I exist). Only that and nothing else. This is all that the “I” is conscious about itself, but this self-awareness is worth everything else, because everything else is only “not-I” - a tool that the “I” can take and use it.

In the final analysis, you will find that there is something that the “I” cannot separate from itself and view from the outside. This something is “I” - eternal and unchanging, a drop from the ocean of the spirit, a spark of the sacred flame that cannot be extinguished (die). If we were able to detach the “I” from ourselves for consideration, who would actually consider it? The “I” can never become “not-I”, even during the wildest flight of fantasy, the imagination with all its praised freedom and strength recognizes itself defeated. We wish our readers to come to a true knowledge of who we really are and to realize as soon as possible the fact that they are, in a sense, dormant gods, in which all the forces of the universe are located, waiting only for words to manifest in action. For many centuries we have fought to reach the present position and there is still a long way before us before we reach the first great temple, but now we have already entered the correct conscious stage of spiritual evolution. Your eyes will now be open and you will be able to see all your movements along the path, starting from the present moment, each step will become clearer and clearer illuminated by the light of your consciousness. Let the Light shine!

To be continued…