List of features of our fallen nature

Here's a list of features of false personality categorized:

FOUNDATION OF FALSE PERSONALITY:

1. Sleep
2. Imaginary 'I'
3. Many 'I's (lack of unity)
4. Buffers
5. Self-Will (Self-Will opposes the Work)
6. Integral Lies (i.e. lies you're not aware of like thinking you're awake, or that you can do things, etc.)
7. Vanity & Pride

BASIC FEATURES OF FALSE PERSONALITY:

1. Identifying
2. Internal-Considering
3. Lack of Presence (Lack of Self-Remembering)
4. Expressing Emotional Energy Negatively (i.e. Negative Emotion)
5. Out-of-Control Talking & Out-of-Control, and Negative, Imagination
6. General Lying & Self-Justifying
7. Formatory Thinking (i.e. using Formatory Thinking for ALL your thinking)

VARIOUS TOOLS OF FALSE PERSONALITY:

1. Mechanical Roles
2. Vain, Prideful, (Self-Glorifying), and/or Dishonest Self-Pictures
3. Negative or Useless Attitudes
4. Fake Suffering
5. Mechanical Associations
6. Mechanical Dislikes, and Opinions
7. Mechanical Annoyances (Including also ‘making requirements’ which is a sort of vain, self-centered impatience with anything and everything – traffic, people, objects, weather, etc. – that aren’t exactly as you ‘require’ them to be)

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3 Big Features of our Fallen Nature:

Self-Justifying, Resentment (without even a notion of the very concept of gratitude), Violence and/or Self-Pity

(Splash SIN in red paint over all of this. The point is, though, to have practical, pin-point things to observe in ourselves. Things that stay in the dark and we don't see in ourselves until we have a language to see them.)

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Some positive things:

Separation
Aim
New Thinking/Active Reasoning
Effort/Zeal/Super Effort

Self-Remembering
Observation of Features of False Personality
Non-Identifying
Non-Internal-Considering
External-Considering
Transforming Negative Emotion

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Conscious Labor / Intentional Suffering

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[The above list was put together from various Work books (Fourth Way, Ouspensky). This has been called practical, or esoteric, Christianity. It is not establishment Christianity. Which is good, because establishment Christianity is various degrees shallow to purely Satanic; and pretty much always has been. The terms above have to be understood from the sources. Start with Fourth Way by Ouspensky. In real book form. The online versions are not good for many reasons. It's not for everybody, but it's available to anybody. Regeneration, discernment from the Holy Spirit, and a pretty well-rounded true development (intellectual, emotional, physical) needed. A balanced development.]