Secret_History

614 The Secret History of the World
the place of the lower emotional center and we are left with the figure at right
which those acquainted with esoteric work will recognize as the true esoteric
representation of the Pentagram: the “Ascended Being”.
At this point, the false personality is replaced by true Individuality which has,
itself, a long series of stages of growth and development to undergo.
In Chapter 5 we spoke about the pre-Adamic race, what we also call the Organic
Portal. The OP does not have the higher centers. They can and do however mimic
them, reflecting back to the individual who has them in potential an image which
can become a trap. The potentially souled individual can take the reflection, the
illusion, for the real thing. Plate 4 models how this works. [See Plate 5.]
We have learned that a major part of our esoteric work is to learn to extricate
ourselves from the energy feeding dynamic inherent in relationships with Organic
Portals. Moreover, because those who have the higher centers in potential are
subject to the same programming and are mechanical, reaction units until they
undertake the work to develop their higher centers, the same thing holds true in
our interactions and dynamics with them. We are all feeders until we learn to stop
our feeding off of others and how to stop others from feeding off of us. Esoteric
work demands enormous amounts of energy, and this energy is the energy off of
which others feed.
In order to progress in esoteric work, it is fundamental to understand this
underlying dynamic of feeding; it is pointless and dangerous to attempt to identify
and to classify individuals as organic portals because we are all OPs until we
choose to be otherwise. To turn a tool for understanding the true terror of our
situation in this world of the fallen into a weapon against individuals is to empty it
of its spiritual importance and render it a tool of our enslavement in the material
world, the same process that has occured to all of the world’s religions during the
course of our unhappy history.
A true understanding of the organic portal and the world in which we live gives
us the knowledge necessary for getting out “alive”, whether that is literally or
whether it is just being alive to our true nature as souls locked in material bodies in
order to learn important lessons that only this world can teach. We can no more
hate those who have no access to the higher truths because of who they are than
we can hate the cat who plays with the mouse prior to killing and eating it.
Let me quote again the C’s comment on the matter of Organic Portals in their
relations with human beings who have the higher centers:
Q: (A) Now, I was reading in the transcripts that sleep is necessary for human
beings because it was a period of rest and recharging. You also said that the SOUL
412 Ibid., pp. 59-60.