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| A Treatise on White Magic - Rule Ten - Astral Energy and Fear |
| Let us confine our attention therefore to man and more [300]
particularly to average man, and see whence come the waves of fear which sweep him so
constantly off his feet. 1. The Fear of Death is based upon: I speak about Death as one who knows the matter from both the outer world experience
and the inner life expression: - There is no death. There is, as you know, entrance into
fuller life. There is freedom from the handicaps of the fleshly vehicle. The rending
process so much dreaded does not exist, except in the cases of violent and of sudden death
and then the only true disagreeables are an instant and overwhelming sense of imminent
peril and destruction, and something closely approaching an electric shock. No more. For
the unevolved, death is literally a sleep and a forgetting, for the mind is not
sufficiently awakened to react, and the storehouse of memory is as yet practically empty.
For the average good citizen, death is a continuance of the living process in his
consciousness and a carrying forward of the interests and tendencies of the life. His
consciousness and his sense of awareness are the same and unaltered. He does not sense
much difference, is well taken care of, and oft is unaware that he has passed [301]
through the episode of death. For the wicked and cruelly selfish, for the criminal and for
those few who live for the material side only, there eventuates that condition which we
call "earth-bound". The links they have forged with earth and the earthward bias
of all their desires force them to remain close to the earth and their last setting in the
earth environment. They seek desperately and by every possible means to recontact it and
to re-enter. In a few cases, great personal love for those left behind or the
non-fulfilment of a recognized and urgent duty holds the good and beautiful in a somewhat
similar condition. For the aspirant, death is an immediate entrance into a sphere of
service and of expression to which he is well accustomed and which he at once recognizes
as not new. In his sleeping hours he has developed a field of active service and of
learning. He now simply functions in it for the entire twenty-four hours (talking in terms
of physical plane time) instead of for his usual few hours of earthly sleep. As time progresses and before the close of the next century, death will be finally seen
to be non-existent in the sense in which it is now understood. Continuity of consciousness
will be so widely developed and so many of the highest types of men will function
simultaneously in the two worlds that the old fear will go and the intercourse between the
astral plane and the physical plane will be so firmly established and so scientifically
controlled that the work of the trance mediums will rightly and mercifully come to an end.
The ordinary common trance mediumship and materializations under controls and Indian
guides are just as much perversions of the intercourse between the two planes as are sex
perversions and the distortions of the true relationship and intercourse between the
sexes. I refer not here to the work of clairvoyants no matter how poor, nor to the taking
possession of the body by entities of high caliber, but of [302] the unpleasant phenomena
of the materialization seance, of ectoplasm, and the blind unintelligent work done by old
Atlantean degenerates and earth bound souls, the average Indian chief and guide. There is
nothing to be learned from them and much to be avoided. The reign of the fear of death is
well-nigh ended and we shall soon enter upon a period of knowledge and of certainty which
will cut away the ground from under all our fears. In dealing with the fear of death,
there is little to be done except to raise the whole subject onto a more scientific level,
and - in this scientific sense - teach people to die. There is a technique of dying just
as there is of living, but this technique has been lost very largely in the West and is
almost lost except in a few centers of Knowers in the East. More of this can perhaps be
dealt with later but the thought of the needed approach to this subject can rest in the
minds of the students who read this and perhaps as they study and read and think, material
of interest will come their way which could be gradually assembled and published. |
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