Science today divides men and women into three groups, the male, the female, and the intermediate type. The third type comprises people with a woman’s instincts ensouled in a man’s body and those with a man’s instincts ensouled in a woman’s body. Science attributes this intermediate group, or so-called Changelings, to some defect in gland secretions. When educated and trained they are brilliant, and they make great artists, but they are unreliable according to the standards of the Western world. In their own sphere of consciousness they are moral, but are looked upon as immoral by the normal man or woman. They, like the denizens of the air, fire, earth, and water, look upon things from an entirely different plane.
Some of this type display dual characteristics, for a man may do a man’s work, and yet at the same time he may have a strong urge to don the raiment of women. Also these changeling women are inclined to adopt things masculine. Science is beginning to realize that the glands and their secretions have great power in determining character in the human.
These changelings find themselves in a difficult position in society, for what is right in their world of nature may not be right in the world of man, and when they seek to obey their instinctive nature they may run counter to the moral laws of the Western world. When they are true to their instincts they live in constant fear that they will encounter the hatred of the human herd, and when they give way to their lower instincts they produce the skilled criminal who preys upon men and women through the passion and desire nature.
This type, when it resorts to black magic, attracts conditions which prey upon the minds and bodies of the healthy, and stimulate the hidden abnormalities which every human being possesses.
There are types who use their physical attraction in order to gain prominent positions and assured incomes without work, which is displeasing to them. They play upon the weaknesses of humanity, often stoop to blackmail, and are the destroyers of high ideals in youth. But when they live according to their higher instincts, they have a power of introducing beauty into this world of sordidness through music, rhythm, and the arts. Feminine instincts in a man’s body produces a love of personal adornment, and he is attracted to his opposite balance in nature, but when a man’s instincts exist in a woman’s body, she apes the garments of man.
Changeling people should not be condemned until they are understood, and medical science is making great strides in this direction. These types, though interesting, are obnoxious to the normal, balanced man or woman, and often a pathological case is condemned and crucified by humanity, when it should be given every assistance from modern medical science and psychology. Confessions have been made to me of experiences which the world would condemn, but under proper mental guidance and mental treatment science was able to effect a cure. In this changeling type the imagination manifests in two worlds at the same time, and their sensitivity is more highly developed than most people imagine.
Nature deals with people of this type who give way to their lower natures. However, if they can live up to their high ideals, they become vehicles for nature’s higher expression. Their ideals are easily crushed by the brutality of the world, nevertheless they have within them the qualities which make the natural magician. Through ceremonial magic they can easily evoke the lower conditions of nature into the atmosphere of humanity. Frequently they are practitioners of black magic, for the animal world beneath their feet attracts them, and in their ignorance they evoke forces contrary to the law. They have a great desire to possess things and always wish to be in the limelight, hence they often become the medium of the evil powers in the intermediate worlds.
One of their great arts is the power of ridicule, yet they are most susceptible to it, thinking that any genius or brilliancy of mind is tarred with their own brush. They live in great fear of discovery. At the time of the arrest of a great poet in England, the mob panic filled the channel boats with men of this description leaving the United Kingdom, for fear had reached them.
Unless the student is positive, such minds often bring about conditions of thought (through suggestion) very distasteful to a seeker of light. A healthy and normal person may enter a room infected by such conditions, and in this way often inoculates himself with these same conditions. Disease of the body is very infectious, but disease of the mind is doubly so. The sadist who takes pleasure in paining people by talebearing and suggestion is a most destructive agent in society, and innocent minds often suffer untold injury through their spoken words.
A lady told me the other day that her whole vacation had been spoiled by what someone told her people were saying about her, for she said there was no truth at all in the suggestion which had been made.
Elderly people, especially women, are apt to suggest, through ignorance, to the young of their own sex that marriage may bring dire suffering and disappointment. These people are usually unloved females, and their condition can invariably be traced back to submerged sex inhibitions.
Maliciousness towards others places a man after death in the same thought atmosphere which he induced in other minds, owing to his jealousy at seeing other people happy. In all humanity there is a compelling instinct to become and to create. There is a compelling urge to express as individuals (or collectively in groups), and when this malicious type is thwarted they try to bring disaster to other minds, and it is only by being positive that these attempts can be prevented.
Where a man places his thoughts, there you will find him, for his will and imagination constantly create “thought forms,” which the spirit in nature partly ensouls. He placards his mental atmosphere with these thought creations, be they of his lower or higher nature. This is why the Yogi finds the atmosphere of these criminal gigolos most offensive, for beauty of form and expression in both sexes is a target of the good or evil thought forms created in the minds they attract.
The actor and actress on the stage or screen are common subjects for the bombardment of people’s minds. One screen actor, living according to the finer purposes of his nature, was the target of thousands of feminine minds. I could see the screen of protection, invisible to the ordinary eyes, which surrounded him, yet at the summit of his manhood, death ensued.
Few people realize how this bombardment of evil can enter any loophole in a man’s character and dethrone him. One great soul, who was brought into prominence in the world, was under the tutelage of the great souls hidden from humanity. He had his audience, but for the sake of money, he changed the message which was given him for the world, because his editors thought it would offend the sensitivity of organized religion. From that moment he was never a happy man, for he had failed to give that light for which he had incarnated. But he left a pressure of love behind him which, in his next incarnation, should bring him into a consciousness of the light.
