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EOSICRUCTAN PHILOSOPHY
QUESTION No. 63.
Please explain Jiow to concentrate in order to help those
in the other world? Do you mean sitting in the silence
and sending out loving, helpful thoughts to them?
Answer: The ability to send out a thought and the
power that that thought has to accomplish the purpose
for which it is sent, depends upon the definiteness where-
with the thinker is able to visualize that which he desires
to accomplish. And the usual occult schools, particularly
those along the lines of Eastern thought, advise the method
of concentration whereby thoughts are focused upon one
single point, as the rays of the sun are brought
to a focus
in a magnifying glass, for thus their forces are massed,
and as the sun's rays will burn when focused, so will the
thought invariably accomplish its object when concentrated
to a sufficient intensity.
It takes long practice, however, to learn how to do that,
and there are very few people in the West who are able to
thus direct their thoughts to any purpose. The western
religion, recognizing this disability, teaches another method
which is much more efficient than concentration, namely,
prayer.
Therefore, if we wish to help those who have passed
out of the body, we may pray earnestly for their welfare
and that they may learn the lessons of this life thoroughly
in their experiences in Purgatory and the First Heaven;
then we shall accomplish much more than if we try the
cold, intellectual method of concentration. The attitude
of the body sometimes has a great deal to do with the
intensity of the prayer, and if a kneeling position seems