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Mask is the Daimon’s sense of personal significance:  whatever dreams, hopes, ambitions the person holds in his or her heart of hearts   Where Body of Fate operates on a level of mind, Mask operates more on a level of feeling; where Body of Fate connects the Daimon to other people in individual relationships, Mask connects the Daimon to other people in group relationships.  Mask includes the person’s responsibilities, loyalties, dedication, competence, and sense of social duty, which are offered voluntarily out of a sense of connectedness to nature and to future generations.  Mask is not a level of fantasies but of purpose:  it seeks to understand what is worth living for and what is worth dying for.  This is a weightier part of the person than Will or Body of Fate.  Mask refers to a moral sense – a sense not so much of social responsibility (Body of Fate) as of responsibility to truth, to one’s own heart.  Mask is what leads people to stand up for what they know is right in the face of certain rejection or death.  Where Will is lower self, Mask is higher self; and Body of Fate is like an intermediary between these two.  Mask is the ultimate individualized part of the Daimon (memory above this level – Creative Mind – is no longer individualized but shared amongst all humans).  Mask is what you discover when you run a lot of past life regressions and come to know the feel of who “you” are in your totality; of what you keep coming back in human form to accomplish; the overall mood which informs the totality of your past and future lives. 

Creative Mind is the part of the Daimon capable of awe and wonder.  It is the most humble and self-effacing aspect of the Daimon:  a feeling for the sacred and holy, whether this be considered a matter of patriotism, religious devotion, or philosophical meditation.   Creative Mind is what we have termed the Voices of the Ancestors – our role in the panorama of human evolution and history.  It has nothing to do with us as individuals but has everything to do with our true purpose in incarnating on this earth at this time.  It is – as Desiderata put it – our right to be here.  It is our sense of connection to an ongoing process that unites us to the eternal.  Creative Mind is our solidarity with the human race from the beginning of its evolution.  Creative Mind is like a wind that blows across the earth and orients all people this way or that.  It’s like the mood of the times – the Zeitgeist – the unfolding of human experience as directed by the spirits of our ancestors; and also each individual’s personal adaptation to this Gestalt.   It is precisely because our decadent, degenerate society has lost its ability to listen to the Voices of the Ancestors that it no longer cares about future generations or our mother, the earth; and it is therefore headed for self-destruction.

The point is that a person’s moment-to-moment decisions in any lifetime are made on one or the other of these four levels.   For most people, 99.9% of decisions are made on the basis of Will, or socially-conditioned actions and reactions.  But every now and then everyone has affecting moments – moments of consciousness or conscience or conscientiousness – when they sense that probable realities are branching off this way or that; or they can feel echoes from other lifetimes and realities; or they obey voices from deep inside them.  At these poignant moments people feel connected to something deeper than their usual everyday routines and habits; and that something is their true purpose in this lifetime. 

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