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Temptation
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particular concept cannot and should not be applied to the persons who are in
our common existence and to whom we refer as evil. Such people have found the
values of life only in such things as sex and various material attributes and
they commonly express all of the very negative elements of selfishness and
self-centeredness which an evil person can be considered to be expressing.
It must be remembered that these people are not, in any sense of the word,
developed as either spiritually "good" or spiritually "bad"
people. But whenever we find a person who has formerly developed a great
spiritual personality in a "good" sense and this same person has then
degenerated or switched the bias, so to speak, from the direction in which his
Superconsciousness has been developed, we shall find this person in dire
straits and circumstances. We shall find also that this person is
expressing outwardly into the physical world the sum and total of this great
negation in some manner or form.
We can thus find our Hitlers, our Genghis Khans, other kings, emperors and
exponents of what we might call evil forces, as they have been expressed in the
pages of history. Here again is posed another question which the student may
ask. It has been said that the door to reformation is never closed to any
individual, and that in the more crude or primitive translations, God is all
forgiving and—this is so.
Should a person at any time in this degenerative process (as he is now an evil
person), find he is thus slowly destroying what he had formerly built with great
care in the many lifetimes and in finding this destructive process, he can turn
about and change his direction of evolution, providing of course, that he meets
all of the necessary requirements as they are contained in various conjunctions,
energy transmissions, concepts and other particular cycles, which are most
necessary for this change-about condition. It must also be borne in mind that
the evil person has multiplied infinitely the necessary amount of force which
will be needed for him to change his direction. In other words, as an
evil person, he has been traveling in an opposite direction through "time
and space" at a tremendous rate of speed, so to speak. He can thus be
compared to a man in a rocket ship who is approaching a planet and wishes to
slow down the many thousands of miles an hour speed which he has attained
through free space, so that he will not be burned up and destroyed by the impact
with the planet which he is bent upon reaching.
The amount of energy and force necessary to change
the Superconsciousness in its destructive flight and purpose, is equally
proportionate to the amount of energy which was involved in constructing this
Superconsciousness and projecting it in the wrong direction. It can
therefore be easily conceived that this amount of energy must be tremendous and
cannot be remanifested or regenerated in any one particular moment or even in
one particular lifetime.
This person is now concerned with an evolutionary
pattern backwards, so to speak, to backtrack his former course of evolution; he
is now posed or biased in a completely positive manner, the opposite to the
former one which was biased in a negative direction. This, in a sense, means
that for every overt or destructive act which he has performed in his own
selfish intent and purpose, he must at least reconstruct an equally positive and
diametrically opposed positive force against it in order for cancellation and
catalysis to take place in this action. This process can therefore easily
involve the various purgatories which have been the common belief of many people
who have lived upon the planet earth, such as were described in Dante’s
"Inferno", and those which are preached from the pulpits of
the various Christian churches. These purgatories are, quite naturally,
the self-imposed conditions, as they are viewed introspectively by the
individual in the spiritual worlds, as he is concerned with his own evolution.
His remorse and self-recriminations are equally great and matched only by the
sins and acts of his own consciousness.
This will therefore resolve the individual’s own
particular philosophy of life into understanding the Infinite and his own
relationship to the Infinite; as the Infinite is, in itself as thus so
described, Infinite. It can be conceivable, within the individual’s mind, as
he is posed in the various biases which are contained in his psychic body and
superconsciousness that he views this Infinity in direct ratio in the common
terms of frequency relationships which he has thus so far developed.
In other words, there is nothing in this Infinite Cosmogony which concerns any
individual except that which he can conceive within the normal relationships and
processes as they are contained in energy wave forms and patterns in the daily
process and transmission of life. He will never, at any time, exceed the limits
of the concepts of his own mind and, quite naturally, these concepts must be the
direct result of development.
In this process of development, man gradually
expands the ability of his power of concept to include a much greater proportion
of the Infinite Cosmogony. When an individual has thus fully expanded his
consciousness to this degree, it is imperative then, that he must also
conversely, have developed the necessary determinants and attributes wherein he,
as an individual, can be selective in all the proportions in which he thus is
able to conceive. In other words then, he must always relate whatever
proportions of Infinity he conceives within himself as constructive proportions
and which are so positively biased in his own relationship of life.
Should he ever, in his process of conception and lack of knowledge of this
principle, inadvertently conceive and relate himself to these conceptions with
Infinity, in negative wave forms—or patterns of relationship—he is
thus automatically beginning his own destruction and precipitating himself in
the opposite direction into the negative worlds.
This has always been the common point of departure
for those who have instituted themselves as evil forces, not only in the
material world but in those various astral and subastral worlds in which they
function. Through the processes of life and in the determinant qualities of
introspection as they concern Infinity and in their expanded and conscious
state, these individuals were either not fully cognizant of or lacked the
necessary knowledge to determine these various relationships of Infinity with
their own inward concepts and relationships to Infinity in a positive manner.
Thus, they incurred that gradual change-about process which precipitated them
into the negative direction. Another factor which abets this trend is the
seeming lack of knowledge, or perhaps merely a lassitude, which could quite
naturally be incurred by the individual’s own false sense of proportion and
power which he had assumed in his development of the superconsciousness; for a
person developing to the point where he could be considered an Adept or an
Avatar, could quite easily be swayed, inadvertently or otherwise, with the
powers of his own Superconsciousness.
This was the problem which confronted Jesus in the
Holy Land and is so graphically depicted in His temptation by the Devil on the
Mount, which is only a parable in nature but illustrates the struggle which is
often incurred by those who are developed in their Superconsciousness, for
always this person is tempted within himself to use the power which he has
developed, for his own personal gain and for his own personal
development. This, as has been postulated, begins that compressive and
destructive process which will eventually destroy the Superconsciousness of the
individual, if it is continued in as great a proportion to that which was
formerly incurred in its development.
Relationships are basically all the same and the
equivalents can always be multiplied in the common terms of mathematical
formulas. In other words, two times two is four; if we incur a negative force of
a certain proportion and intensity and involve a certain determined amount of
energy, it is quite natural to suppose it is going to take an equal amount of
positive force to cancel out and neutralize this negative force, plus an added
quantity of bias which would perpetuate and sustain this positive force after it
has performed its operation.
Therefore, dear reader, in your new philosophy of life, you can always
commonly resolve the Infinite Cosmos and your relationship to it, in regard to
just how you can conceive this Infinity and just how much of this Infinity you
can relate to your own particular transmission of life. In this conception,
always be positively biased, for if a positive bias is not maintained, negative
bias is always the penalty to pay and negative bias means eventual destruction.
From the Book
"Cosmic Continuum"
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