Third Man

For example, Mouravieff's Man # 3 is a man of rhetoric (ideas); he engages the world intellectually, even when acting emotionally or instinctively, he uses the intellectual sectors with emotional or instinctual coloring heavily. Such a man would need to beware traps of rhetoric, and also study to engage more deeply in the truest and best use of creative rhetoric. Rationality, self-control, and the "crown of thorns" (the crucifixion of the intellect) would be things most necessary for this initiate to attend to in his self examination and training. He would attend to them knowing that they were his greatest strength, and also his greatest weakness, whereas weakness in the other disciplines would manifest completely differently: they would either be far more obvious, or far less - A man #3 would either be grossly deficient in the emotional arena, or (perhaps), far less tainted in that area (than in the intellect), and more artlessly or naturally pure, simply because it was not the seat of his ego, and precisely because it had been less "developed".  Indeed, even in the exoteric literature, we find references to wisdom like this, as for example John Cardinal Newman recommending the benefits of liberal education for distracting the mind from idleness or temptation to fear, which is the besetting structural sin of a Man #3. [MS2019]
== Rhizomata ==
Mouravieff; Esotericism