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The Seventh Lesson: The Beginning of the End.1021
their own plane of life, which reason, however, is not in place or keeping in
this work intended for general public reading.
The maniacs were restored to their normal condition, and the traditions
say that the Master instructed them regarding the evil courses which they
had been pursuing, and bade them desist from their nefarious practices
which had wrought such evil consequences upon them.
The church and its preachers, with but few exceptions, have seen fit to
ignore the frequent Biblical allusions to “devils,” “demons,” etc.; their position
being practically that the writers of the events of Jesus’ ministry (whom they
otherwise consider to have been “inspired”) must have been superstitious,
credulous people believing in “the absurd demonology of their times.” They
ignore the fact that Jesus Himself repeatedly spoke to these intelligences,
bidding them depart from the people whom they had been obsessing.
Does the church wish to hold that the Master was also an ignorant, credulous
peasant, sharing popular superstitions? It would seem so. We must except
the Catholic Church from this criticism, for its authorities have recognized
the true state of affairs and have warned its followers against indulging in
the dark practices of Necromancy or Invocation of Astral Intelligences.
Occult science informs its students of the various planes of life, each of
which contains its inhabitants. It teaches that on the Astral Plane there are
disembodied entities which should not be transplanted to our plane. And it
warns all against the dark practices, so common in ancient times and in the
Middle Ages, of invoking and evoking these undesirable denizens of that
plane. It is to be regretted that some of the modern Psychic Researchers
ignore these plain warnings, for some of them are laying themselves open
to grave consequences by reason of their wilful folly. We urge upon our
readers to refrain from this dabbling in the phenomena of the Astral Plane.
Some writer has well compared “Psychism” to a great machine, in the cogwheels
of which persons may become entangled only to be afterward
drawn into the machine itself. Keep away from the wheels!