To the Greeks the word “persona” was synonymous with “mask.”
This is an appropriate term for the way in which the soul utilizes a host body for any life.
When we reincarnate into a new body,
the soul’s character is united with the temperament of its host to form one persona.
The body is the outward manifestation of the soul but it is not the total embodiment of our soul Self.
Souls who come to Earth think of themselves as becoming masked actors on a world stage.
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the king prepares for death by telling us,
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
and then is heard no more.”
In some ways this famous line perhaps describes how souls feel about their lives on Earth,
the difference being that once the play has begun
most of us don’t know we are in a play until it’s over, due to a variety of amnesiac blocks.
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