There are two selves; the higher and the lower self.
The higher self is human spirit clothed with soul, made in the form of God.
The lower self, the carnal self, the body of desires, is a reflection of the higher self,
distorted by the murky ethers of the flesh.
The lower self is an illusion, and will pass away;
the higher self is God in man, and will not pass away.
He who knows well his lower self, knows the illusions of the world, knows of the things that pass away;
and he who knows his higher self, knows God; knows well the things that cannot pass away.
Thrice blessed is the man who has made purity and love his very own;
he has been ransomed from the perils of the lower self and is himself his higher self.
Men seek salvation from an evil that they deem a living monster of the nether world;
and they have gods that are but demons in disguise;
all powerful, yet full of jealousy and hate and lust;
Whose favors must be bought with costly sacrifice of fruits,
and of the lives of birds, and animals, and human kind.
And yet these gods possess no ears to hear, no eyes to see,
no heart to sympathize, no power to save.
This evil is myth; these gods are made of air, clothed with shadows of a thought.
The only devil from which men must be redeemed is self, the lower self.
If man would find his devil he must look within;
his name is self.
Elihu's lessons. Chapter 8;5 The unity of life. The two selves. The devil.