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== Psychic Being ==
 
The soul is something that comes from the Divine into the evolution and as the psychic being it evolves and assumes different personalities from life to life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-self-or-atman#p14</ref>
 
In this lower manifestation, aparā prakṛti, this eternal portion of the Divine appears as the soul, a spark of the Divine Fire, supporting the individual evolution, supporting the mental, vital and physical being. The psychic being is the spark growing into a Fire, evolving with the growth of the consciousness. The psychic being is therefore evolutionary, not like the Jivatman, prior to the evolution. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-jivatman-in-the-integral-yoga#p10</ref>
 
The soul or psychic is immutable only in the sense that it contains all the possibility of the Divine within it, but this it has to evolve and in its evolution it assumes the form of a developing psychic individual evolving in the manifestation the individual Prakriti and taking part in the evolution. It is the spark of the Divine Fire that grows behind the mind, vital and physical by means of the psychic being until it is able to transform the Prakriti of Ignorance into a Prakriti of Knowledge. This evolving psychic being is not therefore at any time all that the soul or essential psychic existence bears within it; it temporalises and individualises what is eternal in potentiality, transcendent in essence in this projection of the spirit. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-jivatman-in-the-integral-yoga#p18</ref>
A psychic entity is there behind these occult activities which is the true support of our individualisation; the ego is only an outward false substitute: for it is this secret soul that supports and holds together our self-experience and world-experience; the mental, vital, physical, external ego is a superficial construction of Nature. It is only when we have seen both our self and our nature as a whole, in the depths as well as on the surface, that we can acquire a true basis of knowledge. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/memory-ego-and-self-experience#p15</ref>
 
The soul individualises itself and progressively transforms itself into a psychic being. (The Mother, 28 July, 1960) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/28-july-1960#p2</ref>
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