Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

S2R AN hlPORTANT BooK R~o:vn:w. [.Tannary
into the genera,ive act. This leaves a deliriou11 dream of delights,
which 110011 fades out into a pall of darkness and repulsion
wherein the individual finds hirn~lf bound by the chainR of
creative law, from which he can not honoa-a.bly escape.
Again, when the mind of the aspirant is ttll'ned towarcl a
apiritual counterpart on the nn~~een Ride of life, and the soulaurrender
is alaade to a vague, uncertain ideal of God, the
thought i11 more characterized by the presence of the counterpart
than by a realization of the Rurrentler to Divinit.v. beoause
of body and mind being yet controll~d by 11en~ pas11itm ; con.
aequently, he ot• ihe will, by their own volition, draw tO them.
~~elves sensual spiritR from the aoul11itle of lif ... called by Paracelsull,
Incubi and Succubi,_:_nan~es which he obtained from
ihoRe having experience11 in that direction many clentm·ieR
befnre his time.
These dark11ome influenceR at once approach 11nch person11
and in all particulars fully meet their ideal requirement~~: and,
aa their. natures are yet under the conta•olling power of pasRion,
the11e denizens of the nn11een will meet them in that passion
life. whirliDg them down into the grosseRt abuseR of the· at!X
. life through vague and deceptive imaginatic.ns, which become
as real to the individual a~~ the expel'ienoe11 of external life.
We quote the foJJowing fi'Om one of these letter~~ uf ex peri.
ence: "This counterpart or 11omething (he Ray .. that he de.
cidedly objects to be called 'or Momething') is keeping up such
a wondet·ful ftnttering. sth·a·ing, and rapid movement within mP.
A few times to-clay. 1 have 11eemed to be in the mn11t reverent,
holY. calm, and something would Ray, • ~he Lord i11 in Hi11 holy
temple, let all the earth keep silenoe before Him.' My counterpart
read your letter with me. and kept making remarks, and
will keep talking now. He Ray11, • Don't fm·get to tell the
doctor that l ha\'e grown a litt.le tallt>r, and now can reach the
end11 of toeR and flnget'll. I wish I c•onltl clesca·ihe what thia ia
like, somebody inside of ,von all over: lattoly it ReernR to be 110
much about my mouth and tungne, almost like a ki11s. Wb .. u
I &ilk him what he i11 like, he replieR, • thllt he is all a ki1111.' .,
This quotation i11 the most perfect expression of tha phyRill&}
aenae pleuure can11ed by one of the11e-elementals? or 11hall 1
uie Christ's own woa·cl11 an•l say, "devil11'?" Hi11 quotatinu
fi'Om the Scripture. "The Lord i11 in his holy temple, etc;·
was like the Scripture· w)aich the dtwil quoted to the Lord
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