Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00297)

If I had more articles on practical occultism I could make a better
assertion. But I don't read them that often. From what I understand,
occultism frequently takes advantage of magnetic forces. That, and the
fact that apportation and levitation both take advantage of those
magnetic forces, leads me to believe that it relies heavily on the
Hutchison effect.

-Mark H.

On 5/9/05, W.Dallas TenBroeck <dalval14@earthlink.net> wrote:
> May 9
> 
>        Re: Hutchison effect
> 
> I read about this  and also saw a TV program on it.
> 
> Is there any confirmation on this?
> 
> I should  think so.
> 
> Dallas
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: Theos-World RE: : : Question for Occultists -- What is sorcery
> ?
> 
> Very interesting. He even describes the Hutchison effect--what he
> refers to as elementals. It changes the magnetic field of an object in
> order to perform apportation and levitation. But I can honestly I've
> seen the effects off all the items Judge mentions in that snippet in
> my dreams..
> 
> Side note about magnetism,
> Hutchison effect can cause some nasty outcomes if you mess up (It can
> liquify metals without heating them, and fuse a metal with an organic
> permanently). There was an incident at one point in time, where a ship
> was using high-powered electromagnets. What happened was it replicated
> a very simple magnetically-induced effect and caused people to be
> embedded into the hull. I think this was called the Philidelphia
> experiment? It obviously failed miserably, despite the fact that some
> people still say it worked.
> 
> Thanks again, Dallas,
> -Mark H.
> 
> On 5/7/05, W.Dallas TenBroeck <dalval14@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > May 6 2005
> >
> > May 7, 2005
> >
> > Dear M:
> >
> > To me your experience shows how relatively inexperienced we all are.  I
> can
> > understand desiring to validate -- but that desire may be of a quality
> that
> > only you know of.  What caused a failure I don't know.
> >
> > The "will" has to be well trained and focussed for any success.  This
> > implies motive as a stating point.
> >
> > I find in the "Key" a statement that is very general:
> >
> >        POWERS:  SPIRITUAL AND PSYCHICAL
> >
> > ENQUIRER. And what about the third object, to develop in man his latent
> > spiritual or psychic powers?
> >
> > THEOSOPHIST. This has to be achieved also by means of publications, in
> those
> > places where no lectures and personal teachings are possible.
> >
> > Our duty is TO KEEP ALIVE IN MAN HIS SPIRITUAL INTUITIONS.
> >
> > To oppose and counteract —after due investigation and proof of its
> > irrational nature— bigotry in every form, religious, scientific, or
> social,
> > and cant above all, whether as RELIGIOUS SECTARIANISM OR AS BELIEF IN
> > MIRACLES OR ANYTHING SUPERNATURAL.
> >
> > What we have to do is TO SEEK TO OBTAIN KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THE LAWS OF
> NATURE,
> > and to diffuse it. To encourage the study of those laws least understood
> by
> > modern people, the so-called Occult Sciences, based on the true knowledge
> of
> > nature, instead of, as at present, on superstitious beliefs based on blind
> > faith and authority.
> >
> > Popular folk-lore and traditions, however fanciful at times, when sifted
> MAY
> > LEAD TO THE DISCOVERY OF LONG-LOST, BUT IMPORTANT, SECRETS OF NATURE.
> >
> > The Society, therefore, aims at pursuing this line of inquiry, in the hope
> > of widening the field of scientific and philosophical observation. "
> Key
> > 48
> >
> > In the "Ocean:"
> >
> > The field of PSYCHIC FORCES, PHENOMENA, AND DYNAMICS is a vast
> > one. Such phenomena are seen and the forces exhibited every day
> > in all lands, but until a few years ago very little attention was
> > given to them by scientific persons, while a great deal of
> > ridicule was heaped upon those who related the occurrences or
> > averred belief in the psychic nature.
> >
> > This lack of AN ADEQUATE SYSTEM OF PSYCHOLOGY is a natural
> > consequence of the materialistic bias of science and the
> > paralyzing influence of dogmatic religion; the one ridiculing
> > effort and blocking the way, the other forbidding investigation.
> >
> > The Roman Catholic branch of the Christian Church is in some
> > respects an exception, however. It has always admitted the
> > existence of the psychic world -- for it the realm of devils and
> > angels, but as angels manifest when they choose and devils are to
> > be shunned.
> >
> > In man are the same powers and forces which are to be found anywhere in
> > NATURE. He is held by the Masters of Wisdom to be the highest product of
> the
> > whole system of evolution, and mirrors in himself every power, however
> > wonderful or terrible, of Nature; by the very fact of being such a mirror
> he
> > is man.
> >
> > This has long been recognized in the East, ...
> >
> >        LEVITATION OF THE BODY
> >
> > in apparent defiance of gravitation is a thing to be done with ease when
> the
> > process is completely mastered. It contravenes
> > no law. GRAVITATION IS ONLY HALF OF A LAW. The Oriental sage
> > admits gravity, if one wishes to adopt the term; but the real
> > term is attraction, the other half of the law being expressed by
> > the word repulsion, and both being governed by the great laws of
> > electrical force.
> >
> > Weight and stability depend on POLARITY, and
> > when the polarity of an object is altered in respect to the earth
> > immediately underneath it, then the object may rise. But as mere
> > objects are devoid of the consciousness found in man, they cannot
> > rise without certain other aids. The human body, however, will
> > rise in the air unsupported, like a bird, when its polarity is
> > thus changed. ...
> >
> >        COHESION
> >
> > A third great law which enters into many of the phenomena of the
> > East and West is that of COHESION. The power of Cohesion is a
> > distinct power of itself, and not a result as is supposed. This
> > law and its action must be known if certain phenomena are to be
> > brought about, as, for instance, what the writer has seen, the
> > passing of one solid iron ring through another, or a stone
> > through a solid wall. Hence another force is used which can only
> > be called dispersion. Cohesion is the determinating force, for,
> > the moment the dispersing force is withdrawn, the cohesive force
> > restores the particles to their original position.
> >
> > Following this out the Adept in such great dynamics is able to
> > disperse the atoms of an object -- excluding always the human
> > body -- to such a distance from each other as to render the
> > object invisible, and then can send them along a current formed
> > in the ether to any distance on the earth. At the desired point
> > the dispersing force is withdrawn, when immediately cohesion
> > reasserts itself and the object reappears intact. This may sound
> > like fiction, but being known to the Lodge and its disciples as
> > an actual fact, it is equally certain that Science will sooner or
> > later admit the proposition.
> >
> > But the lay mind wonders how all these manipulations are
> > possible, seeing that no instruments are spoken of. The
> > instruments are in the body and brain of man.
> >
> > In the view of the Lodge "THE HUMAN BRAIN IS AN
> > EXHAUSTLESS GENERATOR OF FORCE," and a
> > complete knowledge of the inner chemical and dynamic laws
> > of Nature, together with a trained mind, give the possessor the
> > power to operate the laws to which I have referred.
> >
> > This will be man's possession in the
> > future, and would be his today were it not for blind dogmatism,
> > selfishness, and materialistic unbelief. ...
> >
> > Using the same powers, the trained Adept can produce before the
> > eye, objective to the touch, material which was not visible
> > before, and in any desired shape. This would be called creation
> > by the vulgar, but it is simply evolution in your very presence.
> >
> > Matter is held suspended in the air about us. Every particle of
> > matter, visible or still unprecipitated, has been through all possible
> > forms, and what the Adept does is to select any desired form,
> > existing, as they all do, in the Astral Light and then by effort of the
> > Will and Imagination to clothe the form with the matter by precipitation.
> >
> > The object so made will fade away unless certain other processes
> > are resorted to which need not be here described, but if these
> > processes are used the object will remain permanently. And if it
> > is desired to make visible a message on paper or other surface,
> > the same laws and powers are used. The distinct --
> > photographically and sharply definite -- image of every line of
> > every letter or picture is formed in the mind, and then out of
> > the air is drawn the pigment to fall within the limits laid down
> > by the brain, "the exhaustless generator of force and form." ...
> >
> > This, then, naturally leads to the proposition that THE HUMAN
> > WILL IS ALL POWERFUL and the Imagination is a most useful faculty
> > with a dynamic force.
> >
> > The Imagination is the picture-making power
> > of the human mind. In the ordinary average human person it has
> > not enough training or force to be more than a sort of dream, but
> > it may be trained. When trained it is the Constructor in the
> > Human Workshop. Arrived at that stage it makes a matrix in the
> > Astral substance through which effects objectively will flow.
> >
> > It is the greatest power, after Will, in the human assemblage of
> > complicated instruments. The modern Western definition of
> > IMAGINATION is incomplete and wide of the mark. It is chiefly
> > used to designate fancy or misconception and at all times stands
> > for unreality. It is impossible to get another term as good
> > because one of the powers of the trained Imagination is that of
> > making an image. The word is derived from those signifying the
> > formation or reflection of an image. This faculty used, or rather
> > suffered to act, in an unregulated mode has given the West no
> > other idea than that covered by "fancy." So far as that goes it
> > is right but it may be pushed to a greater limit, which, when
> > reached causes the Imagination to evolve in the Astral substance
> > an actual image or form which may be then used in the same way as
> > an iron molder uses a mold of sand for the molten iron.
> >
> > It is therefore the King faculty, inasmuch as the Will cannot do
> > its work if the Imagination be at all weak or untrained. For
> > instance, if the person desiring to precipitate from the air
> > wavers in the least with the image made in the Astral substance,
> > the pigment will fall upon the paper in a correspondingly
> > wavering and diffused manner.
> >
> >        TELEPATHY
> >
> > To COMMUNICATE WITH ANOTHER MIND AT ANY DISTANCE
> >
> > the Adept attunes all the molecules of the brain and all the thoughts of
> > the mind so as to vibrate in unison with the mind to be affected,
> > and that other mind and brain have also to be either voluntarily
> > thrown into the same unison or fall into it voluntarily. So
> > though the Adept be at Bombay and his friend in New York, the
> > distance is no obstacle, as the inner senses are not dependent on
> > an ear, but may feel and see the thoughts and images in the mind
> > of the other person.
> >
> > And when it is desired TO LOOK INTO THE MIND AND CATCH THE
> > THOUGHTS OF ANOTHER and the pictures all around him of all he has
> > thought and looked at, the Adept's inner sight and hearing are
> > directed to the mind to be seen, when at once all is visible.
> > But, as said before, only a rogue would do this, and the Adepts
> > do not do it except in strictly authorized cases. The modern man
> > sees no misdemeanor in looking into the secrets of another by
> > means of this power, but the Adepts say it is an invasion of the
> > rights of the other person.
> >
> > No man has the right, even when he has the power in his hand, to
> > enter into the mind of another and pick out its secrets. This is
> > the law of the Lodge to all who seek, and if one sees that he is
> > about to discover the secrets of another he must at once withdraw
> > and proceed no further. If he proceeds his power is taken from
> > him in the case of a disciple; in the case of any other person he
> > must take the consequence of this sort of burglary.
> >
> > For Nature has her laws and her policemen, and if we commit
> > felonies in the Astral world the great Law and the guardians of
> > it, for which no bribery is possible, will execute the penalty,
> > no matter how long we wait, even if it be for ten thousand years.
> > HERE IS ANOTHER SAFEGUARD FOR ETHICS AND MORALS.
> >
> > But until men admit this system of philosophy, they will not
> > deem it wrong to commit felonies in fields where their weak
> > human law has no effect, but at the same time by thus refusing
> > the philosophy they will put off the day when all
> > may have these great powers for the use of all.
> >
> >        APPORTATION
> >
> > Among phenomena useful to notice are those consisting of the
> > MOVING OF OBJECTS WITHOUT PHYSICAL CONTACT.
> > This may be done, and in more than one way. The first is to extrude
> > from the physical body the Astral hand and arm, and with those
> > grasp the object to be moved. This may be accomplished at a
> > distance of as much as ten feet from the person.
> >
> > This will serve to some extent to explain several of the phenomena
> > of mediums. In nearly all cases of such apportation the feat is
> > accomplished by thus using the unseen but material Astral hand.
> >
> > The second method is TO USE THE ELEMENTALS of which I have
> > spoken. They have the power when directed by the inner man to
> > carry objects by changing the polarity, and then we see, small objects
> > moving apparently unsupported. These elemental entities are used
> > when things are brought from longer distances than the length to
> > which the Astral members may be stretched. It is no argument
> > against this that mediums do not know they do so. They rarely if
> > ever know anything about how they accomplish any feat, and their
> > ignorance of the law is no proof of its non-existence. Those students
> > who have seen the forces work from the inside will need no
> > argument on this.
> >
> > CLAIRVOYANCE, CLAIRAUDIENCE, AND SECOND-SIGHT
> > are all related very closely. Every exercise of any one of them draws in
> at
> > the
> > same time both of the others. They are but variations of one
> > power. Sound is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the
> > Astral sphere, and as light goes with sound, sight obtains
> > simultaneously with hearing.
> >
> > TO SEE AN IMAGE WITH THE ASTRAL SENSES
> > means that at the same time there is a sound, and to hear the latter
> > infers the presence of a related image in Astral substance. It is
> perfectly
> > well known to the true student of occultism that every sound produces
> > instantaneously an image, and this, so long known in the Orient,
> > has lately been demonstrated in the West in the production to the
> > eye of sound pictures on a stretched tympanum. This part of the
> > subject can be gone into very much further with the aid of
> > occultism, but it is a dangerous one.
> >
> > In the ASTRAL LIGHT ARE PICTURES of all things whatsoever that
> > happened to any person, and as well also pictures of those events
> > to come the causes for which are sufficiently well marked and
> > made. If the causes are yet indefinite, so will be the images of
> > the future. But for the mass of events for several years to come
> > all the producing and efficient causes are always laid down with
> > enough definiteness to permit the seer to see them in advance as
> > if present. By means of these pictures, seen with the inner
> > senses, all clairvoyants exercise their strange faculty. Yet it
> > is a faculty common to all men, though in the majority but
> > slightly developed; but occultism asserts that were it not for
> > the germ of this power slightly active in every one no man could
> > convey to another any idea whatsoever.
> >
> >         CLAIRVOYANCE
> >
> > the pictures in the Astral Light pass before the
> > inner vision and are reflected into the physical eye from within.
> > They then appear objectively to the seer. If they are of past
> > events or those to come, the picture only is seen; if of events
> > actually then occurring, the scene is perceived through the
> > Astral Light by the inner sense. The distinguishing difference
> > between ordinary and clairvoyant vision is, then, that in
> > clairvoyance with waking sight the vibration is communicated to
> > the brain first, from which it is transmitted to the physical
> > eye, where it sets up an image upon the retina, just as the
> > revolving cylinder of the phonograph causes the mouthpiece to
> > vibrate exactly as the voice had vibrated when thrown into the
> > receiver.
> >
> > In ordinary eye vision the vibrations are given to the eye first
> > and then transmitted to the brain. Images and sounds are both
> > caused by vibrations, and hence any sound once made is preserved
> > in the Astral Light from whence the inner sense can take it and
> > from within transmit it to the brain, from which it reaches the
> > physical ear. So in clairaudience at a distance the hearer does
> > not hear with the ear, but with the center of hearing in the
> > Astral body. Second-sight is a combination of clairaudience and
> > clairvoyance or not, just as the particular case is, and the
> > frequency with which future events are seen by the second-sight
> > seer adds an element of prophecy.
> >
> > The highest order of clairvoyance -- that of SPIRITUAL VISION --
> > is very rare. The usual clairvoyant deals only with the ordinary
> > aspects and strata of the Astral matter. Spiritual sight comes
> > only to those who are pure, devoted, and firm. It may be attained
> > by special development of the particular organ in the body
> > through which alone such sight is possible, and only after
> > discipline, long training, and the highest altruism.
> >
> > All other clairvoyance is transitory, inadequate, and
> > fragmentary, dealing, as it does, only with matter and illusion.
> > Its fragmentary and inadequate character results from the fact
> > that hardly any clairvoyant has the power to see into more than
> > one of the lower grades of Astral substance at any one time.
> >
> > The pure-minded and the brave can deal with the future and the
> > present far better than any clairvoyant. But as the existence of
> > these two powers proves the presence in us of the inner senses
> > and of the necessary medium -- the Astral Light, they have, as
> > such human faculties, an important bearing upon the claims made
> > by the so-called "spirits" of the seance room.
> >
> >        DREAMS
> >
> > are sometimes the result of brain action automatically
> > proceeding, and are also produced by the transmission into the
> > brain by the real inner person of those scenes or ideas high or
> > low which that real person has seen while the body slept. They
> > are then strained into the brain as if floating on the soul as it
> > sinks into the body. These dreams may be of use, but generally
> > the resumption of bodily activity destroys the meaning, perverts
> > the image, and reduces all to confusion.
> >
> > But the great fact of all dreaming is that some one perceives and
> > feels therein, and this is one of the arguments for the inner
> > person's existence.
> >
> > In sleep the inner man communes with higher intelligences, and
> > sometimes succeeds in impressing the brain with what is gained,
> > either a high idea or a prophetic vision, or else fails in
> > consequence of the resistance of brain fiber. The karma of the
> > person also determines the meaning of a dream, for a king may
> > dream that which relates to his kingdom, while the same thing
> > dreamed by a citizen relates to nothing of temporal consequence.
> > But, as said by Job: "In dreams and visions of the night man is
> > instructed."
> >
> >        APPARITIONS AND DOUBLES
> >
> > are of two general classes. The one,
> > astral shells or images from the astral world, either actually
> > visible to the eye or the result of vibration within thrown out
> > to the eye and thus making the person think he sees an objective
> > form without. The other, the astral body of living persons and
> > carrying full consciousness or only partially so endowed.
> >
> >        APPARITIONS OF THOSE JUST DEAD
> >
> > may be either pictures made objective as described, or the Astral
> > Body -- called Kama Rupa at this stage -- of the deceased.
> > And as the dying thoughts and forces released from the body are
> > very strong, we have more accounts of such apparitions than of
> > any other class.
> >
> > The Adept may send out his apparition, which, however, is called
> > by another name [Mayavi-rupa], as it consists of his conscious
> > and trained astral body endowed with all his intelligence and not
> > wholly detached from his physical frame.
> >
> > Theosophy does not deny nor ignore the physical laws discovered
> > by science. It admits all such as are proven, but it asserts the
> > existence of others which modify the action of those we
> > ordinarily know.
> >
> > BEHIND ALL THE VISIBLE PHENOMENA IS THE OCCULT
> > COSMOS WITH ITS IDEAL MACHINERY; that occult cosmos
> > can only be fully understood by means of the inner senses which
> > pertain to it; those senses will not be easily developed if their
> > existence is denied.
> >
> > Brain and mind acting together have the power to evolve forms, first as
> > astral ones in astral substance, and later as visible ones by
> > accretions of the matter on this plane.
> >
> > OBJECTIVITY DEPENDS LARGELY ON PERCEPTION, and
> > perception may be affected by inner stimuli. Hence a witness may
> > either see an object which actually exists as such without, or may be
> > made to see one by internal stimulus. This gives us three modes of sight:
> >
> > (a) with the eye by means of light from an object,
> >
> > (b) with the inner senses by means of the Astral Light, and
> >
> > (c) by stimulus from within which causes the eye to report to the
> > brain, thus throwing the inner image without. The phenomena of
> > the other senses may be tabulated in the same manner.
> >
> > The ASTRAL SUBSTANCE BEING THE REGISTER OF ALL
> > THOUGHTS, SOUNDS, PICTURES, AND OTHER VIBRATIONS,
> > And the inner man being a complete person able to act with or without
> > co-ordination with the physical, all the phenomena of hypnotism,
> > clairvoyance, clairaudience, mediumship, and the rest of those which
> > are not consciously performed may be explained.
> >
> >        PSYCHIC PHENOMENA AND SPIRITUALISM
> >
> > As it is plain that clairvoyance, clairaudience, thought-transference,
> > prophecy, dream and vision, levitation, apparitional appearance,
> > are all powers that have been known for ages.
> >
> > Perhaps also the question of materialization of forms at
> > seances deserves some attention. Communication includes
> > trance-speaking, slate and other writing, independent voices in
> > the air, speaking through the physical vocal organs of the
> > medium, and precipitation of written messages out of the air.
> >
> > Our departed do not see us here. They are relieved from the terrible pang
> > such a
> > sight would inflict. Once in a while a pure-minded, unpaid medium
> > may ascend in trance to the state in which a deceased soul is,
> > and may remember some bits of what was there heard; but this is
> > rare.
> >
> > Now and then in the course of decades some high human spirit may
> > for a moment return and by unmistakable means communicate with
> > mortals.
> >
> > At the moment of death the soul may speak to some friend on earth
> > before the door is finally shut. But the mass of communications
> > alleged as made day after day through mediums are from the astral
> > unintelligent remains of men, or in many cases entirely the
> > production of, invention, compilation, discovery, and collocation
> > by the loosely attached Astral body of the living medium.
> >
> > MATERIALIZATION OF A FORM OUT OF THE AIR, independent of the
> > medium's physical body, is a fact. But it is not a spirit. As was
> > very well said by one of the "spirits" not favored by
> > spiritualism, one way to produce this phenomenon is by the
> > accretion of electrical and magnetic particles into one mass upon
> > which matter is aggregated and an image reflected out of the
> > Astral sphere. This is the whole of it; as much a fraud as a
> > collection of muslin and masks. How this is accomplished is
> > another matter.
> >
> > The second method is by the use of the Astral body of the living
> > medium. In this case the Astral form exudes from the side of the
> > medium, gradually collects upon itself particles extracted from
> > the air and the bodies of the sitters present, until at last it
> > becomes visible. Sometimes it will resemble the medium; at others
> > it bears a different appearance. In almost every instance dimness
> > of light is requisite because a high light would disturb the
> > Astral substance in a violent manner and render the projection
> > difficult. Some so-called materializations are hollow mockeries,
> > as they are but flat plates of electrical and magnetic substance
> > on which pictures from the Astral Light are reflected. These seem
> > to be the faces of the dead, but they are simply pictured
> > illusions.
> >
> > If one is to understand the psychic phenomena found in the
> > history of "spiritualism" it is necessary to know and admit the
> > following:
> >
> > I. The complete heredity of man astrally, spiritually, and
> > psychically, as a being who knows, reasons, feels, and acts
> > through the body, the Astral body, and the soul.
> >
> > II. The nature of the mind, its operation, its powers; the nature
> > and power of imagination; the duration and effect of impressions.
> > Most important in this is the persistence of the slightest
> > impression as well as the deepest; that every impression produces
> > a picture in the individual aura; and that by means of this a
> > connection is established between the auras of friends and
> > relatives old, new, near, distant, and remote in degree: this
> > would give a wide range of possible sight to a clairvoyant.
> >
> > III. The nature, extent, function, and power of man's inner
> > Astral organs and faculties included in the terms Astral body and
> > Kama. That these are not hindered from action by trance or sleep,
> > but are increased in the medium when entranced; at the same time
> > their action is not free, but governed by the mass chord of
> > thought among the sitters, or by a predominating will, or by the
> > presiding devil behind the scenes; if a sceptical scientific
> > investigator be present, his mental attitude may totally inhibit
> > the action of the medium's powers by what we might call a
> > freezing process which no English terms will adequately describe.
> >
> > IV. The fate of the real man after death, his state, power,
> > activity there, and his relation, if any, to those left behind
> > him here.
> >
> > V. That the intermediary between mind and body -- the Astral
> > body -- is thrown off at death and left in the Astral light to
> > fade away; and that the real man goes to Devachan.
> >
> > VI. The existence, nature, power, and function of the Astral
> > light and its place as a register in Nature. That it contains,
> > retains, and reflects pictures of each and every thing that
> > happened to anyone, and also every thought; that it permeates the
> > globe and the atmosphere around it; that the transmission of
> > vibration through it is practically instantaneous, since the rate
> > is much quicker than that of electricity as now known.
> >
> > VII. The existence in the Astral light of beings not using bodies
> > like ours, but not human in their nature, having powers,
> > faculties, and a sort of consciousness of their own; these
> > include the elemental forces or nature sprites divided into many
> > degrees, and which have to do with every operation of Nature and
> > every motion of the mind of man. That these elementals act at
> > seances automatically in their various departments, one class
> > presenting pictures, another producing sounds, and others
> > depolarizing objects for the purposes of apportation.
> >
> > Acting with them in this Astral sphere are the soulless men who live in
> it.
> > To these are to be ascribed the phenomenon, among others, of the
> > "independent voice," always sounding like a voice in a barrel
> > just because it is made in a vacuum which is absolutely necessary
> > for an entity so far removed from spirit. The peculiar timbre of
> > this sort of voice has not been noticed by the spiritualists as
> > important, but it is extremely significant in the view of
> > occultism.
> >
> > VIII. The existence and operation of occult laws and forces in
> > nature which may be used to produce phenomenal results on this
> > plane; that these laws and forces may be put into operation by
> > the subconscious man and by the elementals either consciously or
> > unconsciously, and that many of these occult operations are
> > automatic in the same way as is the freezing of water under
> > intense cold or the melting of ice under heat.
> >
> > IX. That the Astral body of the medium, partaking of the nature
> > of the Astral substance, may be extended from the physical body,
> > may act outside of the latter, and may also extrude at times any
> > portion of itself such as hand, arm, or leg and thereby move
> > objects, indite letters, produce touches on the body, and so on
> > ad infinitum. And that the Astral body of any person may be made
> > to feel sensation, which, being transmitted to the brain, causes
> > the person to think he is touched on the outside or has heard a
> > sound.
> >
> > MEDIUMSHIP IS FULL OF DANGERS
> >
> > because the Astral part of the man
> > is now only normal in action when joined to the body; in distant
> > years it will normally act without a body as it has in the far
> > past. To become a medium means that you have to become
> > disorganized physiologically and in the nervous system, because
> > through the latter is the connection between the two worlds.
> >
> > The moment the door is opened all the unknown forces rush in, and as the
> > grosser part of nature is nearest to us it is that part which affects us
> > most; the lower nature is also first affected and inflamed because the
> > forces used are from that part of us.
> >
> > We are then at the mercy of the vile thoughts of all men, and
> > subject to the influence of the shells in Kama Loka. If to this
> > be added the taking of money for the practice of mediumship, an
> > additional danger is at hand, for the things of the spirit and
> > those relating to the Astral world must not be sold. This is the
> > great disease of American spiritualism which has debased and
> > degraded its whole history; until it is eliminated no good will
> > come from the practice; those who wish to hear truth from the
> > other world must devote themselves to truth and leave all
> > considerations of money out of sight.
> >
> > To attempt TO ACQUIRE THE USE OF THE PSYCHIC
> > POWERS FOR MERE
> > CURIOSITY OR FOR SELFISH ENDS is also dangerous for the same
> > reasons as in the case of mediumship. As the civilization of the
> > present day is selfish to the last degree and built on the
> > personal element, the rules for the development of these powers
> > in the right way have not been given out.
> >
> > the Masters of  Wisdom have said that PHILOSOPHY AND
> > ETHICS MUST FIRST BE LEARNED AND PRACTICED
> > before any development of the other department is to be indulged in.
> >
> > Equally improper is the manner of the scientific schools which
> > without a thought for the true nature of man indulge in
> > experiments in HYPNOTISM in which the subjects are injured for
> > life, put into disgraceful attitudes, and made to do things for
> > the satisfaction of the investigators which would never be done
> > by men and women in their normal state.
> >
> > The Lodge of the Masters does not care for Science unless it aims
> > to better man's state morally as well as physically, and no aid
> > will be given to Science until she looks at man and life from the
> > moral and spiritual side.
> >
> > The Lodge hopes by the time the next tide begins to rise that the
> > West will have gained some right knowledge of the true philosophy
> > of Man and Nature, and be then ready to bear the lifting of the veil
> > a little more. To help on the progress of the race in this direction is
> > the object of this book, and with that it is submitted to its readers in
> > every part of the world.
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Dallas
> >
> > =============================================
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From Mark Hamilton Jr.
> > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 7:21 AM
> > To: Subject:
> > Re:  Question for Occultists -- What is sorcery ?
> >
> > if demonstrable, then what future use would it be for  ?   to pry
> > into others' minds ?
> >
> > Well I wouldn't go that far. I meant to possibly provide a method of
> > remote communication between 2 people.
> >
> > I'm just going off what I experienced, but the absolute first time I
> > tried this, the objection was to my actual intent of self-validation,
> > "if you live by self-validation, you will just need to see more
> > miraculous evidence in the future," or something to that effect;
> > basically stating that I was being driven by the need to see if it was
> > real, rather than some other more pure motive. What other more pure
> > motive than to always analyze what you're doing from a grounded
> > perspective? I like to look both ways before I cross the road.
> >
> > Perhaps it was because I was asking him to be the intermediary because
> > I can't establish a reliable "connection" with anyone else yet.
> >
> > -Mark H.
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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