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Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism202
quite understand the feeling behind it all, they endeavor to balance matters
by contributing to colleges, hospitals, charities, and other similar institutions
which have sprung up in response to the awakening consciousness of the
race to the reality of the Brotherhood of Man and the Oneness of All. Before
the end comes, they will feel in the depths of their soul that this success has
not brought them real happiness, and in the period of rest which will follow
their departure from the physical body, they will “take stock” of themselves,
and readjust their mental and spiritual affairs, so that when they are again
born they will no longer devote their entire energies toward the piling up
of wealth that they cannot use, but will live a more balanced life, and will
find happiness in unexpected quarters and will develop more spiritually.
This is not because they have been impressed with the sense of any special
“wickedness” in abnormal money getting, but because the soul has found
that it did not secure happiness in that way, and is seeking elsewhere for
it, and because it has lived out the desire for wealth, and has turned its
attention to other things. Had the Spirit not exerted its influence, the man
might have been born into the conditions tending to produce wealth, and
yet not have been made to see the one-sidedness of such a life, in which
case it would have continued to be possessed of such an abnormal desire
for wealth that it would have been born again and again, with increasing
power each time, until it would have become practically a money demon.
But the Spirit’s influence always counteracts abnormal desires, although
sometimes several incarnations have to be lived through before the soul
wears out its desire, and begins to be influenced by the Spirit to a marked
extent. Sometimes the Spirit’s influence is not sufficiently strong to prevent
rebirth into conditions greatly favoring old desires, but in such cases it is
often able to manage affairs during the life of the man, so as to teach him
the lesson needed to call a halt upon his unbridled desires, by bringing him
into the sweep of the Law of Attraction and causing certain pain to befall
him—certain disappointment—certain failures—that will cause him to
realize the pain, disappointment, failures and sorrow of others, and to bring