Originally Posted by
Airman
If I really get what you're trying to say, it is because of the following: humans, until they attain some sort of spiritual awakening, or better said, until they have some sort of real spiritual experience, which may be personality-conscious or personality-unconscious, are driven by the Will to Power, this Will the author F. Nietzsche based his work on, and he was widely misunderstood as supporting it. After there is the awakening or the 'light-bringing' into the personality, this may be either through conscious or unconscious processes, then the human being is basically driven to Wisdom and Love, and Understanding which is part of Wisdom. So, Se is widely regarded as 'positive' because it implies power, but not the true Power. After the soul has began pouring its influence on the personality level, then it can be said the individual may choose between pursuing Power first or Love first. Then Power has a whole different dimension to it and is worthy calling it Power, and it has its toll also. But before the individual has gained Wisdom and Love to some measure, the most primitive instincts tell him to achieve power over others, and strength to survive, and basically this most animistic primitive part has its control over the human being until some spiritual awakening happens. The Power that may come after a spiritual development has begun is also related to Se in a sense, but in a completely different manner.