PERSON AND SUBJECT
105. The fundamental alienation, the fundamental decline is the personality itself: when I myself am alienated from myself.
106. Personality means that I am not perfectly myself but only secundum quid, only by something; but I want to be myself by myself, secundum se.
107. Being cannot have several subjects, only one, and this subject may only be I myself.
108. There cannot be such a spiritual vision when the subjective nature of someone else could be revealed. For the Subject is not in someone else; the Subject is in me. I am allowed to speak about someone else as subject-bearer only in that case when I experience him/her as myself.
109. I might be able to see the soul or even the spirit in someone else. But the Subject can not be seen in someone else because the Subject is in me only.
110. The Subject is always I am.
111. Man is a subject-bearer but not only in the sense that every existence is subject-bearer. In the human consciousness, »itself« manifests from the infinity behind personality: itself as Subject.
112. Though in the person always the Subject manifests itself and there is no distance between the two, yet the entire cosmos and the totality of existences lie between person and Subject separating them by wedging in between them.
113. The person is one of the identification points of the Subject: what is in concreto experienced.
114. In my actual condition I am not the Absolutum as Myself but even in my actual condition there is that which is I myself in the absolute sense.
115. The person, that is the mask, properly speaking conceals the Subject - though at the same time in the sense of a specific aspectual self-revelation it manifests it as well.