Strange as it may seem most negative manifestations stem from anxiety, including the awful sin of masochism….it is so unnecessary for men to become apprehensive about life in general or even life specifically to the point where their apprehensions unbalance their thinking, their emotions and their entire psyche.
Anxiety is the great warp of life, it warps prospective without producing any perceptible benefit whatever. Anxiety is the cause of people’s tendency to hoard the goods of this world; like frantic squirrels they pile up their winter’s supply of nuts. They accumulate an oversupply of every imaginable item and they deprive themselves of happiness by their unwarranted concerns and their unnecessary and time-consuming preparations for every eventuality.
Just as we do not expect that the student will cease to be providential so we do not expect that they will become unduly involved in anticipating a doomsday that never arrives. Anxiety is a symptom of insecurity, it stems from man’s incorrect concept of himself and from his lack of perspective. Many people feel unfulfilled, unloved, unwanted, and they are not sure of just what they should be doing with their lives. Their uncertainties under adverse conditions are easily turned into mental and emotional states of depression bordering on extreme self-depreciation….
This is one of the problems that arise among those who follow some of the so-called mystery schools where the ego is catered to at the personal level instead of being disciplined at the impersonal level. As these students develop “soul power” it is inevitable that they amplify their negative momentums along with the great positive qualities which they seek to manifest. For whatever is in their worlds when they are brought into direct contact with the sacred fire must expand even as their total consciousness expands.
In some cases the negative completely cancels out the positive and many times because of earthly affinities the additional boost of power that comes about as the result of experimentation will make a magnet out of their negatives even when they are completely involved in the divine search. Thus will their own negative momentums hidden in the recesses of their unconscious minds draw to themselves more of their kind from the thoughts and feelings of others. This phenomenon is often the underlying cause of disharmony in religious groups….unless the deterrent forces which are imbedded in the psyche of man are brought under the power of divine Grace and emptied of their content they will peer as haunting specters waiting to devour the offspring of all benign activities and to literally turn man’s light into darkness.
We would do the opposite, we would create in the lives of the would-be alchemists the transmutative effects that will enable them through awareness and through dedication to the Christ-Spirit of living harmony to manifest all good things under divine control. Thus shall divine Grace fill the temple of the mind and heart of the alchemist and make him truly a wonder-worker for God….
Anxiety stems from lack of faith in the ultimate purposes of life….I urge therefore that all students take into account the tender care and consideration of the universe manifest in the wondrous working of the physical body when it is not interfered with by human pollutants. In Him you live and move and have your being; without Him you have neither life nor identity. Ask yourself this question, is it wise for you to pollute the divine Identity by the intrusions of self-will and self-indulgence? Ask yourself this question, have you really given the Father a chance or has yours been an on-again, off-again vacillating attempt to realize God? There is nothing complex about the origin of the soul and its everlasting communion with Him. To become as a little child then, as we shall see in our next lesson, is to prepare the way for the greatest manifestations of alchemy….
If there ever was a secondary enemy to anxiety it is confusion. This too can and should be healed by the fires of the Christ mind….I urge you to consider then the negative thought-pools of the world with a view to disengaging your energy and your activity from involvement with the misqualified energy contained therein. And I urge you to make your God-determination that you are going to clean your consciousness inside and out of all residual substance which is there as the result of your contact with the cesspools of human consciousness….Anxiety must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan….In fact all deterrents to the abundant life can be knocked down as you cease to fight “as one that beateth the air,” as Saint Paul once said (1Cor. 9:26). …
But why should man draw God’s energy for alchemical experimentation and creation when his own world is still full of the miscreations of the mass mind and weeds in his garden that will choke out his efforts and destroy the good fruit as well? 
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Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, addresses the opening ceremony of the China-Eurasia Expo in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Aug. 30, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge) http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/30/c_137431276.htm
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8-28-2018
The doors of mosques closed by authorities in Xinjiang (Thomas Peter / Reuters)
Here’s an excerpt from an official Communist Party audio recording, which was transmitted last year to Uighurs via WeChat, a social-media platform, and which was transcribed and translated by Radio Free Asia:
Members of the public who have been chosen for reeducation have been infected by an ideological illness. They have been infected with religious extremism and violent terrorist ideology, and therefore they must seek treatment from a hospital as an inpatient. … The religious extremist ideology is a type of poisonous medicine, which confuses the mind of the people. … If we do not eradicate religious extremism at its roots, the violent terrorist incidents will grow and spread all over like an incurable malignant tumor.
“Religious belief is seen as a pathology” in China, explained James Millward, a professor of Chinese history at Georgetown University, adding that Beijing often claims religion fuels extremism and separatism. “So now they’re calling reeducation camps ‘hospitals’ meant to cure thinking. It’s like an inoculation, a search-and-destroy medical procedure that they want to apply to the whole Uighur population, to kill the germs of extremism. But it’s not just giving someone a shot--it’s locking them up for months in bad conditions.” (Rather, locked up indefinitely -r)....
In one township police officials said they were being ordered to send 40 percent of the local population to the camps....A government document published last year in Khotan Prefecture described forced indoctrination as “a free hospital treatment for the masses with sick thinking.”...
“Historically it’s comparable to the strategy toward Falun Gong,” (or to Tibet -r) said Adrian Zenz, a researcher at the European School of Culture and Theology in Germany. He was referring to a spiritual practice whose followers were suppressed in the early 2000s through reeducation in forced labor camps. “Falun Gong was also treated like a dangerous addiction. … But in Xinjiang this [rhetoric] is certainly being pushed to the next level. The explicit link with the addictive effect of religion is being emphasized possibly in an unprecedented way.”...
Tahir Imin, a U.S.-based Uighur academic from Xinjiang who said he has several family members in internment camps: “If they have any ‘illness,’ it is being Uighur,” he said. In addition to Uighurs, The Washington Post has reported that Muslim members of other ethnic groups, like the Kazakhs and the Kyrgyz, have been sent to the camps. “I think the Chinese government is saying: ‘This ideological hospital—in there, send every person who is not [ethnically] Chinese. They are sick, they are not safe [to be around], they are not reliable, they are not healthy people.’”....
They know that Beijing treats any Uighur who’s traveled internationally as suspicious and that their family members are treated as suspicious by association. For example, a 24-year-old Uighur attending graduate school in Kentucky, who requested anonymity for fear that China would further punish his relatives, said it’s been 197 days since he’s been able to contact his father in Xinjiang. He tracks the days on a board tacked to his bedroom wall. “I’m afraid for my dad’s life,” he said. Asked why he believes his father was sent to an internment camp, he replied without a trace of doubt: “Because I go to school here in a foreign country. Now I know that if I ever go home I will be imprisoned just like my dad.” https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/china-pathologizing-uighur-muslims-mental-illness/568525/
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