B1190 <=> B1192 (BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1191)

Only then can the “I” which should be in a man, be his own “I.”

According to the already indicated seriously instituted experimental investigations carried on over many years, or even according merely to the sane and impartial reflection of even every contemporary man, the common presence of every man – particularly of one in whom for some reason or another there arises, so to say, the pretension to be not just an ordinary average man, but what is called “one of the intelligentsia” in the genuine sense of the word – must inevitably consist not only of all the said four fully determined distinct personalities, but each of them must of necessity be exactly correspondingly developed, to ensure that in his general manifestations during the period of his responsible existence all the separate parts should harmonize with each other.

For a comprehensive and visible clarification to oneself of the varied sources of the arising and the varied qualities of the manifested personalities in the general organization of man, and also of the difference between what is called that “I” which should be in the common presence of a “man-without-quotation-marks,” that is, a real man; and, as it can be expressed, the pseudo “I” which people today mistake for it, an analogy can be very well made. Though this analogy, as is said, has been “worn threadbare” by contemporary what are called spiritualists, occultists, theosophists, and other specialists in “catching fish in muddy waters,” in their cackle about what are called the “mental,” “astral,” and still other such bodies which are supposed to be in man, nevertheless it is well adapted to throw light on the question we are now considering.