‘Ruinous smoke’
‘If the people find out how they have been ripped off & enslaved by the powers that be…'
I internally debated the use of this particular piece of content. However, considering the emotive nature of this topic and the current state of affairs in American society, truth is neither soft nor kind. It simply is. Law. Karma is cosmic, and even nations carry negative karmas they must work through.
For this philosophical essay, I will be referencing two other Theosophical authors. The point of this piece being of grave importance to myself in particular and society at large. I have included links to the source material as well as the specific chapters for your independent review of argument.
Chapter 4: The Astral or Desire Body
‘These are entities of higher and lower types existing on that plane, given birth to by the thoughts of men; and there are also in the astral world depraved men, imprisoned in their astral bodies, known as elementaries. The elementals are attracted towards people whose astral bodies contain matter congenial to their nature, while the elementaries naturally seek those who indulge in vices such as they themselves encouraged while in physical bodies. Any person endowed with astral vision sees, as he walks along our London streets, hordes of loathsome elementals crowding round our butchers' shops; and in beer-houses and gin-palaces elementaries specially gather, feasting on the foul emanations of the liquors, and thrusting themselves, when possible, into the very bodies of the drinkers. These beings are attracted by those who build their bodies out of these materials, and such people have these surroundings as part of their astral life.’
Chapter 6: Kama—Desire
‘It is the “devil” of the Hindus, and a worse enemy the poor medium could not have. For the astral spook—or Kamarupa—is, but the mass of the desires and passions abandoned by the real person who has fled to “heaven” and has no concern with the people left behind, least of all with seances and mediums. Hence being devoid of the nobler soul, these desires and passions work only on the very lowest part of the medium’s nature and stir up no good elements, but always the lower leanings of the being. Therefore it is that even the spiritualist themselves admit that in the ranks of the mediums there is much fraud, and mediums have often confessed, “the spirits did tempt me and I committed fraud at their wish.”
This Kamarupa spook is also the enemy of our civilization, which permits us to execute men for crimes committed and thus throw out into the ether the mass of passions and desires free from the weight of the body and liable at any moment to be attracted to any sensitive person. Being thus attracted, the deplorable images of crimes committed and also the picture of the execution and all the accompanying curses and wishes for revenge are implanted in living persons, who, not seeing the evil, are unable to throw it off. Thus crimes and new ideas of crimes are willfully propagated every day by those countries where capital punishment prevails.’
‘Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountain side.’
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