From
the Book, "Tempus Procedium"
 I
carry papers from several ministries, several churches in Los Angeles. I did
that because it gave me an opportunity to bring science to those poor people
in the churches; not that I gained anything from this but it gave me a
chance to teach those people who were ready to accept something that
was not the same old balderdash that had been handed down to them for age
after age. Those are pagan beliefs which were born out of the
primitive jungles of yesterday, the bowing down and worshipping, all of these
indulgences and hypocracies that people not only experience but what they let
others tell them.
You might say that I am opposed to
orthodoxy, and in a sense of the word I would take any opportunity that was
within my power to show anyone a better way who is ready for it. But I also
know the value of orthodoxy to those who are not ready for this better way. I
respect their position on their path of evolution very
much as a sensitive whereby certain people can begin the first stages of their
evolution in the recognition of greater forces, mystical forces or whatever
you wish to call them. My position is not radical; it is not fanatical;
it is realistic and it works. I would not be that big a hypocrite to get up on
any platform and teach anyone a better way of life if I have not demonstrated
it myself. And I have not seen a minister yet who could demonstrate
what he taught or even half of what he taught. I used to see a certain
and quite popular minister of a large Unity Church in Los Angeles step down
from the platform and he could not get into the back room quickly enough
before he had a cigarette lit and would stomp up the aisle to check out his
people. Not that I am any better than he but I would not smoke a cigarette; I
think too much of myself and I'd not have the unmitigated gall to ascend
any platform and try to tell people a better way of life that I did not
understand and practice myself, or that I could not demonstrate what I taught.
There is nothing worse in this world to me than a hypocrite; and it
speaks of them in the New Testament: "Beware ye in the latter days of
false prophets and teachers and of wolves in sheeps clothing."
By the time I was five years old, I had
read the Bible through three times.
I had a father who was about as well versed on the religions of the world as
anyone was and we had many a good argument about them, also many an agreement.
It is fine for those who need a crutch, who need some sort of a moral opiate—and
that is all religion is. It is only an escape mechanism; it is only a way in
which they can relieve their psychic pressures. They can hand all their
burdens, their guilts onto some fancied saviour and it is very unrealistic. There
is not anyone in this world who is going to be any more than what he develops
within his own self. Take the words of Jesus; "Seek ye the
Kingdom of Heaven which is within and all things shall be added unto
you," and that is exactly what it meant. He did not mean that any priest
in any temple was going to hand it out to you with or without fees. He
meant that you and you alone are going to have to live life and learn about
it; and in living life you will find that Kingdom of Heaven. As you live that
life, you assume your own moral responsibility for every act, for every
thought, everything that you manifest, because that becomes part of
your psychic anatomy; that is what you construct for yourself in
that great invisible world which supplies everything. Your thought and
your action constructs or destroys any suitable or unsuitable body to live in
any other world.
You
may wonder, therefore, and reasonably analyze that the development of the evil
person could assume staggering proportions. This person could eventually
develop into a similar form of an "evil" Avatar, just as is posed in
the development of a "good" Avatar, and this, too, is so. We will
find in these spiritual worlds there are developments, in proportion of evil
persons, to a degree which is quite comparable in force and power to those who
have assumed a more constructive elevation in life. However, evil does, in its
own intent and purpose, always eventually destroy itself.
There is a basic reason why the development of an evil person reaches only a
certain point, a point which can be considered, in modern psychological
terminology, as the point of diminishing returns. In other
words, in the development of this evil person as he is concerned with his
Superconsciousness itself, instead of becoming an outwardly expanding and
constructively minded polarity with the Infinite, it becomes increasingly
condensed or concentrated within itself in its evil intent and its evil
purpose. Therefore, as this development—or rather should we say, this
degeneration—progresses, the superconsciousness will find itself
increasingly compressed and thus, in this compression, lacks accessibility to
the common and general spiritual aeration which is so necessary to support and
to regenerate its own purpose in the spiritual worlds.
This, in a sense of the word, means that the Superconsciousness is
slowly destroying itself by its own growth. This point is rather
difficult for the average individual to visualize in his own mind; but it can
be fully explained and justified when we have incepted the principles of
relationship which involve life in the spiritual worlds. In other words, the
normal progression and evolution of the Higher or the Superself does, and must
always, involve an increasing number of various affiliations with what might
be considered infinite planes of relationship, for it is the very nature of
the superconsciousness to partake of the same infinite perspectives as the
creative force which first started its evolutionary process.
We can thus say that the evil person in the material worlds, in the common
relationships and in the patterns of his different lifetimes, first formed a
rather highly developed Superconsciousness in a positive way. Up to a certain
point, this evil person was formerly a very powerful and a very
"good" person and could be compared either to an Initiate or an
Adept, or perhaps even possibly a Master in his own sense, before he began to
deteriorate. In the spiritual worlds, in the development of his now negatively
biased Superconsciousness by the continual process of turning concept
inwardly upon himself and in the revolution of the transmissions of
his spiritual life as is concerned only with himself, he can
thus be considered destructive. In this selfishness, he consequently
compresses and degenerates his formerly developed Superconsciousness into
nothingness.
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