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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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