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ous fragments and survivals of ego-habit can remain and have
to be eliminated.

Diminution of the Ego
Yes, if there is the solid experience, the ego habit is much
diminished, but it does not go altogether. It takes refuge in the
sense of being an instrument and — if there is not the psychic
turn — it may easily prefer to be the instrument of some Force
that feeds the satisfaction of the ego. In such cases the ego
may still remain strong although it feels itself instrumental and
not the primary actor.
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Although there is no ego in the spiritual planes, yet by the spiri-
tual experience the ego on the lower planes may get aggran-
dised through pride and wrong reception of the experience.
Also by entering into the larger mental and vital planes one may
aggrandise the ego. These things are always possible so long
as the higher consciousness and the lower are not harmonised
in the being and the lower transformed into the nature of the
higher.
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The first result of the down flow of the overmind forces is very
often to exaggerate the ego, which feels itself strong, almost
irresistible (though it is not really so), divinised, luminous. The
first thing to do, after some experience of the thing, is to get
rid of this magnified ego. For that you have to stand back, not
allow yourself to be swept in by the movement, but to watch,
understand, reject all mixture, aspire for a purer and yet purer
light and action. This can only be done perfectly if the psychic
comes forward. The mind and vital, especially the vital, receiv-

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