Re: Theos-World Sorcery and problems on the Path
Apr 22, 2005 11:55 PM
by M. Sufilight
Yeah...Cass
I agree.
Depression has increased.
The mental level has increased in our present informations society.
One reason behind it is:
Because of the increasing amount of information and knowledge
about all the "ugly" events going on in the world, which the
newsmedias pour out and we as human absorb like fresh air
- either by using a news channel or by lending an ear
to our informed friends - the level of depresion is on the rise.
Even my email about the
- - - Danger from the Dark side - - -
might make some readers depressed or at least afraid.
But, after some time, they seek out what to do,
and find out that the universe is governed by some
beautiful laws, which none of us can bend out of shape.
To Mark I have this one:
- - - On the Safe side - - -
"What are you doing hiding under the bed?" asked Mulla Nasrudin's wife.
"It's all lightening and thunder," said the Mulla. "And I don't want to get
struck by lightening. "Oh, that's silly," said his wife. "If lightening is
going to strike you, it will strike you no matter where you are." "THAT'S
ALL RIGHT," said Nasrudin. "BUT, IF IT IS GOING TO STRIKE ME, I JUST WANT TO
BE HARD TO FIND."
M. Sufilight
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cass Silva" <silva_cass@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Sorcery and problems on the Path
Hi Morten
Thanks for this Morten. I was also told by my teacher of many years ago
(a housewife) who told me that the black magicians are not interested in
us as "puppets" until we pass through, at least, the 1st initiation.
HPB also states to be very aware of Depression, and to avoid it taking a
hold over us, so perhaps the implicit message is to fight it off at the
beginning with will power (and a couple of wines wont hurt!). The dark
cloud, you mention.
Don't you find it interesting that Depression is now at plague proportions
in the world?
Regards
Cass
"M. Sufilight" <global-theosophy@stofanet.dk> wrote:
Hallo all,
My views are:
The following might be helpful...
- - - Danger from the Dark side - - -
I only want at this point to lay emphasis upon the fact that no danger
need be
feared by the average student from this source. It is only as discipleship
is approached
and a man stands out ahead of his fellows as an instrument of the White
Brotherhood
that he attracts the attention of those who seek to withstand.
When through application to meditation, and power and activity in service,
a man has
developed his vehicles to a point of real achievement, then his vibrations
set in motion
matter of a specific kind, and he learns to work with that matter, to
manipulate the fluids,
and to control the builders.
In so doing he encroaches on the domain of those who work with the forces
of involution
and thus he may bring attack upon himself. This attack may be directed
against any of
his three vehicles and may be of different kinds. Let me briefly point out
some of the
methods employed against a disciple.
1.
Definite attack on the physical body. All kinds of means are employed to
hinder the
usefulness of the disciple through disease or the crippling of his
physical body. Not
all accidents are the result of karma, for the disciple has usually
surmounted a good
deal of that type of karma and is thus comparatively free from that source
of hindrance
in active work.
2.
a)
Glamor is another method used, or the casting over the disciple of a cloud
of emotional
or mental matter which suffices to hide the real, and to temporarily
obscure that which
is true. The study of the cases wherein glamor has been employed is
exceedingly
revealing and demonstrates how hard it is for even an advanced disciple
always to
discriminate between the real and the false, the true and the untrue.
Glamor may be
either on the emotional or mental levels but is usually on the former.
b)
One form employed is to cast over the disciple the shadows of the thought
of weakness
or discouragement or criticism to which he may at intervals give way. Thus
cast, they
loom in undue proportion and the unwary disciple, not realizing that he is
but seeing the
gigantic outlines of his own momentary and passing thoughts, gives way to
discouragement, aye even to despair, and becomes of little use to the
Great Ones.
c)
Another form is to throw into his mental aura suggestions and ideas
purporting to
come from his own Master but which are but subtle suggestions that hinder
and
help not. It takes a wise disciple always to discriminate between the
voice of his
real Teacher and the false whispers of the masquerading one, and even high
initiates
have been temporarily misled.
Many and subtle are the means used to deceive and thereby curtail the
effective output
of the worker in the field of the world. Wisely therefore have all
aspirants been enjoined
to study and work at the development of viveka or that discrimination
which safeguards
from deception. If this quality is laboriously built in and cultivated in
all events, big and
little, in the daily life, the risks of being led astray will be
nullified.
3.
A third method frequently employed is to envelop the disciple in a thick
cloud of
darkness, to surround him with an impenetrable night and fog through which
he stumbles
and often falls. It may take the form of a black cloud of emotional
matter, of some dark
emotion that seems to imperil all stable vibration and plunges the
bewildered student into
a blackness of despair; be feels that all is departing from him; he is a
prey to varied and
dismal emotions; he deems himself forsaken of all; he considers that all
past effort has
been futile and that naught remains but to die. At such times he needs
much the gift
of viveka, and to earnestly weigh up and calmly reason out the matter. He
should at these
times remind himself that the darkness hides naught from the God within,
and that the
stable center of consciousness remains there, untouched by aught that may
betide.
He should persevere until the end, - the end of what? The end of the
enveloping cloud,
the point where it merges itself into sunlight; he should pass through its
length and out
into the daylight, realizing that nothing can at any time reach to and
hurt the inner
consciousness. God is within, no matter what transpires without. We are so
apt to look
out at environing circumstances, whether physical, astral or mental, and
to forget that
the inmost center of the heart hides our points of contact with the
Universal Logos.
4.
Finally (for I cannot touch on all the methods used), the means employed
may be to cast
a mental darkness over the disciple. The darkness may be intellectual, and
is consequently
still more difficult to penetrate, for in this case the power of the Ego
must be called in,
whereas in the former frequently the calm reasoning of the lower mind may
suffice to
dispel the trouble. Here, in this specific case, the disciple will be wise
if he not only
attempts to call his Ego or Higher Self for the dispelling of the cloud,
but calls likewise
upon his Teacher, or even upon his Master, for the assistance that they
can give.
These are but a few of the dangers encircling the aspirant, and I hint at
them solely for
the purpose of warning and guidance, and not to cause alarm.
from
M. Sufilight
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