Thus in this most excellent essay on the “Higher Self,” this term is applied to the _sixth principle_ or _Buddhi_ (of course in conjunction with Manas, as without such union there would be no _thinking_ principle or element in the spiritual soul); and has in consequence given rise to just such misunderstandings. The statement that “a child does not acquire its _sixth_ principle—or become a morally responsible being capable of generating Karma—until seven years old,” proves what is meant therein by the HIGHER SELF. Therefore, the able author is quite justified in explaining that after the “Higher Self” has passed into the human being and saturated the personality—in some of the finer organizations only—with its consciousness “people with psychic faculties may indeed perceive this Higher Self through their finer senses from time to time.” But so are those, who limit the term “Higher Self” to the Universal Divine Principle, “justified” in misunderstanding him. For, when we read, without being prepared for this shifting of metaphysical terms,[48] that while “fully manifesting on the physical plane ... the Higher Self still remains a conscious spiritual Ego on the corresponding plane of Nature”—we are apt to see in the “Higher Self” of this sentence, “Atma,” and in the spiritual Ego, “Manas,” or rather Buddhi-Manas, and forthwith to criticise the whole thing as incorrect. To avoid henceforth such misrepresentations, I propose to translate literally from the Occult Eastern terms their equivalents in English, and offer these for future use. { Atma, the inseparable ray of the Universal THE HIGHER { and ONE SELF. It is the God _above_, more SELF is { than within, us. Happy the man who succeeds { in saturating his _inner Ego_ with it! THE SPIRITUAL { the Spiritual soul or _Buddhi_, in close union _divine_ { with _Manas_, the mind-principle, without EGO is { which it is no EGO at all, but only the Atmic { _Vehicle_. { _Manas_, the “Fifth” Principle, so called, { independently of Buddhi. The Mind-Principle THE INNER, { is only the Spiritual Ego when merged or HIGHER { _into one_ with Buddhi,—no materialist being “Ego” is { supposed to have in him _such_ an Ego, however { great his intellectual capacities. It is { the permanent _Individuality_ or the “Reincarnating { Ego.”