Although ego-emotions and ego-feelings are perceived in the spiritual
body, their egoistic nuance is generated in the mental body.
I don't understand what you mean. What are ego-feelings and ego-
emotions?
They are negative feelings and emotions generated by egoistic
attitudes. In reality egoistic attitudes are thoughts and therefore
originate in the mind.
So do feeling and thought have a different origin? I always thought that
both were a product of the mind.
Well they don't have the same origin. Feeling stems from the spirit
(spiritual body) and thought comes from the mind (mental body).
Let's see if I have understood correctly. So do you mean to say that
egoism originates in the mind and love in the spirit?
Yes, although as I have said, ego-emotions and ego-feelings are also
perceived in the spiritual body, even though their egoistic aspect is
generated in the mind.
Could you clarify this point? I still fail to understand how it is that egoism
originates in the mind and that feelings or egoistic emotions are felt in
the spirit.
Of course. Imagine that you find yourself inside a glass dome with a
lighted lantern. If the glass is transparent, both the light that shines out
of the lantern to the exterior and the light that enters from the exterior
to the interior will hardly suffer any change from having passed through
the glass. However, if the glass of the dome, instead of being
transparent, is opaque, then the passage of light through it will be
modified, both the light which shines out of the interior towards the
exterior as well as the light which enters from the exterior to the interior
of the dome. You and the lantern represent the spiritual body and the
glass dome represents the mental body. The opaqueness of the glass
represents egoism. Egoism will modify both the perception of feelings
and emotions of others (the light which enters), transforming them
before they make an impact on the spiritual body, as well as the
expression or manifestation of the feelings and emotions proceeding
from the spiritual body (the light which shines outward), now being
perceived by others with the egoistic nuance with which they were
impregnated on passing through the mind.
I still can't imagine very clearly how that relation between love and
egoism works in the human being's own nature. How can it be that we