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Mind, is, as a temporary "Principle," of the Substance of the Astral Light. As a pure ray of the
"Son of the Universal Mind," it could perform no functions in the body, and would remain
powerless over the turbulent organs of Matter. Thus, while its inner constitution is Manasic, its
"body," or rather functioning essence, is heterogeneous, and leavened with the Astral Light, the
lowest element of Ether. It is a part of the mission of the Manasic Ray, to get gradually rid of the
blind, deceptive element which though it makes of it an active spiritual entity on this plane, still
brings it into so close contact with matter as to entirely becloud its divine nature and stultify its
intuitions.
This leads us to see the difference between the pure noetic and the terrestrial psychic visions of
seership and mediumship. The former can be obtained by one of two means: (a) on the condition
of paralyzing at will the memory and the instinctual, independent action of all the material organs
and even cells in the body of flesh, an act which, once that the light of the Higher Ego has
consumed and subjected for ever the passional nature of the personal, lower Ego, is easy, but
requires an adept; and (b) of being a reincarnation of one, who, in a previous birth, had attained
through extreme purity of life and efforts in the right direction almost to a Yogi-state of holiness
and saintship. There is also a third possibility of reaching in mystic visions the plane of the
higher Manas; but it is only occasional and does not depend on the will of the Seer, but on the
extreme weakness and exhaustion of the material body through illness and suffering. The Seeress
of Prevorst was an instance of the latter case; and Jacob Boehme of our second category. In all
other cases of abnormal seership, of so-called clairaudience, clairvoyance and trances, it is
simply -- mediumship.
Now what is a medium? The term medium, when not applied simply to things and objects, is
supposed to be a person through whom the action of another person or being is either manifested
or transmitted. Spiritualists believing in communications with disembodied spirits, and that these
can manifest through, or impress sensitives to transmit "messages" from them, regard
mediumship as a blessing and a great privilege. We Theosophists, on the other hand, who do not
believe in the "communion of spirits" as Spiritualists do, regard the gift as one of the most
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dangerous of abnormal nervous diseases. A medium is simply one in whose personal Ego, or
terrestrial mind (psyche), the percentage of "astral" light so preponderates as to impregnate with
it their whole physical constitution. Every organ and cell thereby is attuned, so to speak, and
subjected to an enormous and abnormal tension. The mind is ever on the plane of, and quite
immersed in, that deceptive light whose soul is divine, but whose body -- the light waves on the
lower planes, infernal; for they are but the black and disfigured reflections of the earth's
memories. The untrained eye of the poor sensitive cannot pierce the dark mist, the dense fog of
the terrestrial emanations, to see beyond in the radiant field of the eternal truths. His vision is out
of focus. His senses, accustomed from his birth, like those of a native of the London slums, to
stench and filth, to the unnatural distortions of sights and images tossed on the kaleidoscopic
waves of the astral plane -- are unable to discern the true from the false. And thus, the pale
soulless corpses moving in the trackless fields of "Kama loka," appear to him the living images
of the "dear departed" ones; the broken echoes of once human voices, passing through his mind,
suggest to him well coordinated phrases, which he repeats, in ignorance that their final form and
polish were received in the innermost depths of his own brain-factory. And hence the sight and
the hearing of that which if seen in its true nature would have struck the medium's heart cold
with horror, now fills him with a sense of beatitude and confidence. He really believes that the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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Mind, is, as a temporary "Principle," of the Substance of the Astral Light. As a pure ray of the
"Son of the Universal Mind," it could perform no functions in the body, and would remain
powerless over the turbulent organs of Matter. Thus, while its inner constitution is Manasic, its
"body," or rather functioning essence, is heterogeneous, and leavened with the Astral Light, the
lowest element of Ether. It is a part of the mission of the Manasic Ray, to get gradually rid of the
blind, deceptive element which though it makes of it an active spiritual entity on this plane, still
brings it into so close contact with matter as to entirely becloud its divine nature and stultify its
intuitions.
This leads us to see the difference between the pure noetic and the terrestrial psychic visions of
seership and mediumship. The former can be obtained by one of two means: (a) on the condition
of paralyzing at will the memory and the instinctual, independent action of all the material organs
and even cells in the body of flesh, an act which, once that the light of the Higher Ego has
consumed and subjected for ever the passional nature of the personal, lower Ego, is easy, but
requires an adept; and (b) of being a reincarnation of one, who, in a previous birth, had attained
through extreme purity of life and efforts in the right direction almost to a Yogi-state of holiness
and saintship. There is also a third possibility of reaching in mystic visions the plane of the
higher Manas; but it is only occasional and does not depend on the will of the Seer, but on the
extreme weakness and exhaustion of the material body through illness and suffering. The Seeress
of Prevorst was an instance of the latter case; and Jacob Boehme of our second category. In all
other cases of abnormal seership, of so-called clairaudience, clairvoyance and trances, it is
simply -- mediumship.
Now what is a medium? The term medium, when not applied simply to things and objects, is
supposed to be a person through whom the action of another person or being is either manifested
or transmitted. Spiritualists believing in communications with disembodied spirits, and that these
can manifest through, or impress sensitives to transmit "messages" from them, regard
mediumship as a blessing and a great privilege. We Theosophists, on the other hand, who do not
believe in the "communion of spirits" as Spiritualists do, regard the gift as one of the most
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dangerous of abnormal nervous diseases. A medium is simply one in whose personal Ego, or
terrestrial mind (psyche), the percentage of "astral" light so preponderates as to impregnate with
it their whole physical constitution. Every organ and cell thereby is attuned, so to speak, and
subjected to an enormous and abnormal tension. The mind is ever on the plane of, and quite
immersed in, that deceptive light whose soul is divine, but whose body -- the light waves on the
lower planes, infernal; for they are but the black and disfigured reflections of the earth's
memories. The untrained eye of the poor sensitive cannot pierce the dark mist, the dense fog of
the terrestrial emanations, to see beyond in the radiant field of the eternal truths. His vision is out
of focus. His senses, accustomed from his birth, like those of a native of the London slums, to
stench and filth, to the unnatural distortions of sights and images tossed on the kaleidoscopic
waves of the astral plane -- are unable to discern the true from the false. And thus, the pale
soulless corpses moving in the trackless fields of "Kama loka," appear to him the living images
of the "dear departed" ones; the broken echoes of once human voices, passing through his mind,
suggest to him well coordinated phrases, which he repeats, in ignorance that their final form and
polish were received in the innermost depths of his own brain-factory. And hence the sight and
the hearing of that which if seen in its true nature would have struck the medium's heart cold
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