Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00296)

Extracted from:

Questions from "The Path"
Answered by William Q. Judge
http://theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/books/wqj-all/q_a-path.htm
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ABOUT BLACK AND WHITE MAGICIANS

How is one to recognize a black magician, and how to treat such an 
one?

It has been well said by H. P. Blavatsky that "each one has a 
potential black magician within." The black magician is the fruit and 
perfection of selfishness; selfishness is the triumph of the lower 
nature. The black magician is the opposite pole in human development 
to the white Adept, and the latter is the fruit and perfection of the 
highest qualities in man conjoined with entire communion with spirit; 
this is the triumph of all that is best in the human being; it is the 
conscious union with the divine. The black magician stands for self 
alone, and therefore for discord, separation, and destruction; the 
white one is the embodiment of union, harmony, and love. In the words 
of The Bhagavad-Gita the white adept "is the perfection of spiritual 
cultivation," and it must follow that the black one is the perfection 
of material cultivation. In this question, "black" represents self 
and "white" the spiritual whole.

The query then arises, "Why are there now only white magicians and 
merely embryo black ones?" We think there are but few black adepts 
existing today, but of the white school there are many. The age and 
the cycle have not yet come to that point where the black magician 
has blossomed, and it is easy to understand why there are perfect 
white ones. The question is answered in The Bhagavad-Gita where it 
says, "At the night of Brahma the Jivanmuktas are not absorbed nor 
destroyed, but all others are; and at the coming forth of the new 
creation those Jivanmuktas (white adepts) come forth intact and 
conscious." This means that at the preceding pralaya -- or 
dissolution -- all the black adepts were destroyed; and as now but 
the first 5,000 years of Kali Yuga have elapsed, there has not yet 
been time to evolve enough full black magicians to make a sensible 
impression upon us. The first part of the question, therefore, --
 "How are we to treat a black magician" -- is premature.

Each one of us may become a black magician if we let selfishness have 
its course, and hence we should ask ourselves, "How may we prevent 
the possibility of our becoming black magicians in some future age?"

As to the latter part of the question regarding the treatment to be 
accorded to these as yet mythical beings, it also is very far ahead 
of time. If such an adept were to appear to you now, he would laugh 
your threats to scorn. But the sole and sovereign protection against 
such things and persons is a pure heart and right motive.

HADJI ERINN

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Daniel
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