FALSE SELF                                                                                       ESSENTIAL SELF
        Constructed, Fearful, Compulsive                                                                     Compassionate, Expansive, Free

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The above is taken from Kabir Helminski's book Living Presence, p. 12.  Helminiski defines the "heart" (in the understanding of his  Sufis tradition) as "the subconscious/ superconscious mind; all the subtle faculties that are nonintellectual." p. 178.  He defines the "soul" as "individualized Spirit." I think of the wonderful saying of the prophet Muhhammad (praise and blessings to him):
"There is a polish for everything and the polish for the heart is remembrance of God."  (See above, p. 67)

        Think of Helminski's diagram above in the following way:  Intellect and heart can be understood through the lens of the False Self as if the False Self is a stage light that colors the intellect and heart (say) orange. Here the intellect and heart are understood and lived "in small mind," to use my favorite terminology.

        Imagine that the Essential Self is also a lens or a stage light that colors the intellect and heart (say) green.  Here the intellect and heart are understood and lived "in large mind." Perhaps we might modify Helminski's diagram in this fashion:
 

                CONSCIOUS MIND                                                    CONSCIOUS MIND
            Ego, "I," Intellect, Personality                                               Ego, "I," Intellect, Personality

                   FALSE SELF                                                               ESSENTIAL SELF
        Constructed, Fearful, Compulsive                                              Compassionate, Expansive, Free

            SUBCONSCIOUS MIND                                            SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
        Heart, Emotion, Subtle Perceptions                                        Heart, Emotion, Subtle Perceptions

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A memory device to remember the seven stages:

                            COMPULSIVE, REGRETFUL, WITH LOVE NOW INSPIRED.

                                    TRANQUIL, RECEPTIVE, WITH EGO RETIRED

                            TRANSPARENT AND TURNING, IN ONENESS ATTIRED.                                            JGS

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        Kabir Helminski, Living Presence, p. 60                                     Fadiman & Frager, Essential Sufism, pp. 20-23

1.The self of compulsion seeks satisfaction                                 1. The commanding self -- self that
        primarily in satisfying its selfish, carnal desires                         incites to evil. Unbridled
        and its will to power. [also called ‘the will to evil’]                      selfishness, no sense morality

2.  The self of conscience has begun to                                         2. The regretful self -- the negative effects
        discriminate between right and wrong and                                 of a habitually self-centered approach
        can sometimes resist the temptation to evil                               to the world becomes apparent.
        and selfish actions. . . .                                                                 Person repents from time to time,

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4.  The soul of tranquillity has reached the                                 4. The contented self -- old desires and
      level of presence in which a conscious intimacy                         attachments are no longer binding.
      is possible. . . . .                                                                             The ego-self begins to let go, allowing
                                                                                                              individual to come more closely in contact
                                                                                                              with the Divine.

5.  The soul of submission has reached the                                 5. The pleased self -- pleased with even the
        level where its desires and actions are in harmony                 difficulties and trials of life, realizing that
        with Reality. It accepts each moment as it is and                    these difficulties come from God
        submits itself to Reality. . . . .

6.  The soul of total submission is even more                             6. The self pleasing to God -- all power to act
      completely identified with the Universal Will.                           comes from God, that they can do nothing
      This is the stage of the great saints whose lives                       by themselves. They no longer fear anything
      may be a profound and miraculous example of                         or ask for anything. "The inner marriage of
      human wholeness. They are people lost in God.                       Self and soul."

7.  The soul of perfection is a theoretical absolute,                     7. The pure self -- There is no ego or separate
        the perfected or complete human being. . .                               self left, only union with God. Only the Divine.

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Helminski writes:

    "Stages 1 and 2 are more or less under the domination of the false self.
    Stage 3 might be called the natural self,
                                                    whereas stages 4 through 7 represent various degrees of the essential Self.
        We can have no sense of the essential Self unless we arrive at our core -- that which is deeper than thoughts and
           emotions, likes and dislikes, or opinions and ambitions."  p. 61
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