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being,
ROSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
we are not deceived. Like all others in the Desire
World, elementals have this faculty of changing their
shape, and it is due to that fact that so many strange tales
or visions seen are thought true by untrained clairvoyants.
Nothing can be done to stop elementals from changing
their shape, but we may shoo them away from us as we
chase a serenading feline from below our bedroom
window.
QUESTION Xo. 124.
How can one avoid becoming obsessed?
Answer: Obsession is a state where a discarnate spirit
has taken permanent possession of the body of someone
after dispossessing the owner. But sometimes people who
have formed a habit of drunkenness or some other low
vice seek to excuse themselves by claiming to be obsessed.
Wherever a person makes that statement concerning him-
self, one may nearly always be sure that it is nothing but
an excuse, for a thief who has stolen something here in
the material world does not go about and tell people of
his theft, neither does an obsessing entity go around pro-
claiming the fact. It is very certain that such an entity