Remembering
So Socrates is right. Essential aspects or absolute forms can
be known only by being remembered, by being dredged up from the
deepest recesses of the unconscious and experienced consciously.
(Essence, pg 148)

The personal element is a specific and absolute aspect of Essence.
Like other aspects of Essence, it is a Platonic form. When one
experiences the personal aspect one is certain that one feels
a personal consciousness, or a personal state of Being. Just as
love, will or joy are readily recognized when they are experienced
in the pure form of the essential aspect, so is the personal aspect
readily recognized. There is always recognition of one's true
nature when it is experienced. As Socrates said, one does not
learn from anybody or from experience about the Platonic forms.
One remembers them from one's own deeper resources. One merely
remembers oneself. (The Pearl Beyond Price, pg 77)