The importance of the essential aspects is that they are more accessible than the ground true nature to the normal adult soul. They are more accessible because they embody qualities that the soul can recognize and to which she can readily relate. They are qualities, like love, compassion, and will, that the soul knows she needs and is happy to learn about. – The Inner Journey Home, Appendix D
Our understanding of the essential aspects reveals that they are the elements of the authentic experience of being simply and freely ourselves. They are the richness of the free and creative unfoldment of the human potential of our soul. Their presence indicates a measure of freedom in our experience and a degree of openness to the mysteries of our Being. – Spacecruiser Inquiry, ch. 16
When I refer to the essential aspects—especially when we are in intentional work situations, such as this retreat—I usually refer to them by color. I do this as a kind of shorthand because each essential aspect can be recognized in different ways through its several affects and experiential senses. For instance, the Black aspect could be experienced as peace, as stillness, or as power. So instead of calling it peace, stillness, or power, I simply say “Black.” – Brilliancy, ch. 4
This process of essential development continues as personality is clarified and worked through. Essence manifests itself to the individual’s consciousness as the true strength, will, joy, compassion, love, peace, truth, fulfillment, consciousness, awareness, knowledge, freedom, samadhi—as one aspect follows another. The amazing richness of essence manifests in that there is an essential aspect for every important human situation or condition. The aspect that is experienced is experienced as the complete and exact fulfillment for these situations. The exactness, the precision and fitness are astounding. The beauty of essential action cannot but fill the consciousness with wonderment. – The Elixir of Enlightenment, Ch. 3
Each aspect, quality, or dimension of being reveals true nature in one of its possibilities, yet without ever exhausting or defining true nature. Although true nature takes each form completely, it is never trapped or fixed in any form or kind of realization, enlightenment, or awakening. It is each of them and all of them and none of them completely at once. – The Alchemy of Freedom: The Philosophers’ Stone and the Secrets of Existence, Ch. 11