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not indicating in any way how an individual can become telepathic. All those developments
within the area or region of progressive contacts are only useful and truly available when
they are developed normally and naturally and are not the result of premature unfoldment.
When the development is premature there is always the danger of wrong, erroneous and
self-centered interpretations. The telepathic information can be of purely selfish or
personal import and that type of telepathy has no place in what I am seeking to impart.
People today frequently evidence a telepathic tendency or capacity. They tune in (a phrase
they regard as more euphonious than the words "telepathic rapport") with
something or someone, though they know not what it is. Everything that they purport to
register is regarded by them as of major importance: it is usually self-related and not
due to their high point of spiritual unfoldment which warrants their being the custodians
of mysterious spiritual messages - usually of a most unimportant and platitudinous nature.
There are many sources of these messages and it might be useful if I here mentioned some
of them; what I have to say may prove to be of value to the general occult public.
- Messages emanating from the relatively nice, well-trained subconscious nature of the
recipient. These well up from the subconscious but are regarded by the recipient as coming
from an outside source. Introspective people frequently penetrate into the layer of
subconscious recollection and are quite unaware of so doing. Their interest in themselves
is so intense. Not knowing that they have done this, [76] they regard what they find as
unusual, beautiful and important, and then proceed to formulate it into messages, which
they expect their friends and the general public to regard as spiritually based. These
messages are normally innocuous, sometimes beautiful, because they are a mixture of what
the recipients have read and gathered from the mystical writing or have heard from
Christian sources and the Bible. It is really the content of their right thinking along
spiritual lines and can do no one any harm, but is of no true importance whatsoever. It
accounts, however, for eighty-five percent (85%) of the so-called telepathic or inspired
writings so prevalent at this time.
Impressions
from the soul, which are translated into concepts and written down by the personality; the
recipient is deeply impressed by the relatively high vibration which accompanies them,
forgetting that the vibration of the soul is that of a Master, for the soul is a Master on
its own plane. These are true soul impressions but usually have in them nothing new or of
major importance; they are, again, the result of past ages of soul development (as far as
the personality is concerned); they are, therefore, that which an awakening personality
has contributed to the soul of the good, the true and the beautiful, plus that which has
entered into the personality consciousness as a result of soul contact. This accounts for
eight percent (8%) of the writings and communications put before the general public by
aspirants today.
Teachings
given by a senior or more advanced disciple on the inner planes to a disciple under
training or who has just been admitted into an Ashram. These teachings bear the impress
and conclusions of the senior disciple and are frequently of value; they may - and often
do - contain information of which the recipient is totally unaware. The criterion here is
that nothing (literally nothing) will concern [77] the recipient, either spiritually or
mentally or in any other way connected with his personality, nor will they contain the
platitudes of the religious background of the recipient. They will account for five
percent (5%) of the teaching given, but this is in relation to the entire world and the
percentage does not refer to some one occult group, one religious faith or one nation. The
recognition of this is of vital importance.
Communications
from a Master to His disciple. This accounts for two percent (2%) of the entire telepathic
receptivity, demonstrated by humanity as a whole throughout the entire world. Western
students would here do well to remember that the subjective Eastern student is far more
prone to telepathic receptivity than is his Western brother; this has a definite bearing
on all the above classifications, which is somewhat humiliating for the Western mystic and
occult student. The World Scriptures emanate from another department of the second ray
teaching faculty. In this statement I do not include The Old Testament except such
passages as the Twenty-third Psalm and certain passages out of the Prophets, particularly
the Prophet Isaiah. The World Scriptures were written for mystics, occupied with beauty,
comfort, and encouragement, and were not written for occultists. I would call this to your
attention.
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