82. It is difficult to annihilate an evil action. So many superstructures and towers one would have to construct in order to muffle the shrieking of a malicious prisoner who attempts to make his way through each half-closed door. Ask people how persistently they follow not only the evil but even unsuccessful thoughts and deeds. The path of life is surrounded by the signs of actions revealed as uneradicated spots, therefore it is so wise to strive into the future. In this flight one has no time to sully the white wings.
165. To understand the common striving means to construct a temple of the New World. To strive, mutually nourishing one another, will already be the understanding of the Teaching. Such striving will pave the path to the fiery world, but one must have the courage to look at Fire, to acknowledge it as one's only nurture.
(N. Roerich Fiat Rex, 1931)
-Morya: Heart 1932......................................................................................................................
-Josie Grant: 8 Immortals, series, SF Chinatown mural, 1979
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The desire for communion with loved ones has often brought individuals into spiritualistic séances and the pursuit of the phenomenal. We do not deny that there are many seemingly marvelous expositions that occur, many of which are outwardly inexplicable to mankind. But we wish to draw the line of cosmic demarcation in order to show that men who can produce phenomena or manifestation at will, who can invoke the spirits of the departed or enter the astral realm, who can transfer thought or receive extrasensory perceptions even of prophecy, are not necessarily holy or pure, nor are they necessarily vested with any specific level of divine attainment. Inasmuch as the exponents of these arts are not necessarily adepts themselves it follows conclusively that they are not able then to guarantee adeptship to others.
Unfortunately many individuals who are involved in these pursuits are sooner or later overpowered by forces completely outside the reckoning of their minds until the stability of their lives is interfered with and they are no longer free, if they ever were, but bound into a greater and greater bondage of confusion of ideas, concepts and a form of egomania that often takes possession of them at the precise time when they feel they are losing all control of their worlds. When they feel that they are losing hold on reality they sometimes yield to a mass entity that promises to exalt their person while bringing them strange commanding powers over the universe. Even if they succeed in demonstrating such control in various states of limitation, the Mephistophelian bargain is never kept and as in the opera Faust the soul is stripped of her opportunities for true reality.
The apostles have said that "the devil as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." There is no more deadly substitute for the true expansion of the soul than psychic indulgence and psychic power. It does not matter, precious ones, whether or not people so connected are able to perform healings or even miracles. It is the state of the consciousness of the soul that counts. It is the expansion of what El Morya has called "cosmic morality"--it is the absorption of the nature of God into one’s world that actually shows the stature of each individual to himself as well as to others....
The psychic world is the world of images. It is a hall of mirrored forms, but these are not necessarily arranged in any form of order. The modes of the inhabitants of the psychic world resemble almost the sea itself in depth. A seemingly weightless condition persists there and forms may be tipped at any angle and piled up haphazardly as the substance of which dreams are made. A sense of timelessness is also apparent, with the past, present and future all blending into a montage of incongruent ideas.
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Beware however of the penalty for engaging in automatic writing, in psychic activity and in all of those things that are contrary to ascended master law. Take heed that you understand that there is no need for man to do these things that tie in to the psychic world. The Ouija board and many of these other activities bring mankind downward. I tell you, there are few upon the planet who understand how to operate the cards of the tarot.
You ought to understand then that the safest and best journey [course] for the elect is under the direction of the ascended masters. It teaches you how you ought to study their words and to pray unto them, to call unto them, to seek initiation, to be a real person, to be a divine person, to activate the flow of cosmic energy within your forcefields by sounding the Word, by humming the majestic concept of the living Christ, by feeling the surge of the resurrection current, by entering in to the power within the Holy of holies of your own being.
Men do not have to go outside themselves to find salvation, for the kingdom of heaven is within you. And that kingdom that is within you is our kingdom.
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