We reach our first step in elemental devic instruction when we aspire for Truth, and the second step is that of observation.
We have to learn to observe upon two planes of consciousness, to observe and penetrate deeply with our mind the physical objects which we see about us; then, as our clairvoyance develops, we have to seek the manifestation of the spirit which is in all things.
It is our aspiration for Truth which places us en rapport with the information periods of the elementary intelligences. They impress us with their objects of thought, and to a certain extent we visualize these thought impressions. For instance, they will show us a tree, and with their power of radiation they will cause the tree to radiate its own atmosphere, until we discover that the objective tree which we see is only a shell form of a still greater tree. The real tree, or etheric double surrounding it, enlarges its form, so that it is often thirty per cent larger than the physical structure. Its wavering, quivering atmosphere of color has the power of expansion as well as of contraction, both outwardly and inwardly. The devas play upon a tree as an instrument is played upon by a musician and cause it, when challenged, to express itself in its tree character; thus, the oak and the pine tree stand far apart in their native character of expression.
The devas may cause the tree to give forth its own character of beauty, be it of masculine or feminine expression, and then they will say to you, “We have shown you the fruits of the tree, both in its higher and finer, and lower expression. When you can do this, do it likewise to the men and women that you meet. Bring the truthful character of their natures into expression, to be perceived by those about them for as you enter deeper into union with your own real man in nature you will find that the same laws that apply on our plane can be applied to those in your objective world of being.”
This was known to the medicine men of the early American Indian tribes, for they took their pupils to nature, away from all physical contacts with men, and submitted them to the ordeal. In those days the medicine men whose prophesies did not prove true, met their death at the hands of their own tribe, for the Indians had their Golden Age, as well as other races, and they sought to obey the secret command of nature—honesty.
The early Druids also always impressed upon their hearers this great edict of nature—honesty. Those who are born underneath the sign of Taurus have a close relationship with the elemental worlds of nature, for, as the devas say, “Their feet are planted on the earth,” and other signs of the zodiac also are important in dealing with nature’s consciousness and the underworld of men.
Within the nature of men are untold depths of expression, for every man possesses an underworld of being and many submerged states of activity, and he possesses dynamic powers which, when tapped, will greatly surprise him. The average man today lives on the surface and is skating upon very thin ice, unless he seeks union with the consciousness of nature within the depths of his own being. Bubbles of greater realization, coming from the depths of his Neptunian nature, seek to impress him with a greater knowledge of his being and greater eagerness for self realization, but the bubble usually strikes the surface of the ice beneath his feet, and seldom registers its profound truth within his mental atmosphere. But if man does contact these deeper essences, he achieves the power to penetrate more deeply into the real nature of his being and environment, for he has an underworld submerged within him, and these planes of consciousness will relate him to the underworld of man about him, the underworld of crime.
We possess a microphone1 at the base of the spine, which registers the vibrations of this world of evil and transmits the information to our human brain. The brain center at the navel, when fully developed in man, produces dictators like Alexander the Great, Mussolini, or Hitler, for it registers the knower consciousness, and these men know intermittently what they can accomplish. For instance, when Alexander the Great placed his foot on the soil of Asia, he shouted, “Asia is mine,” for he knew that which he could conquer.
To develop this center, the student in Yoga practice sits edgewise upon a chair with a belt tightly buckled round his abdomen, and rotates his body rapidly in the direction of the sun. This pressure placed upon the navel, this “churning of the butter,” causes the atmosphere about him to ooze out and stand some two inches above the shoulders, thus producing a microphone which registers nature’s will—intuition. Thus the student, aspiring through nature for Truth, receives from nature’s will quick flashes of intuition, for this atmosphere is nature’s sounding board in man, about which her will plays. It is similar to the vibration of the higher counterpart of fire, which is a cold vibration that enters the student’s body between the shoulder blades, thus the experienced student can often answer questions correctly without thought.
This is called the knower consciousness, and many Yogis are most proficient in answering your questions without going through the process of thinking. As the devas constantly say, “Tell us what you know, not what you think.”
When the student can realize this, he will try to answer a person’s questions truthfully without thought, from his world of intuition.
The ordinary body today is like a beautiful musical instrument partly strung and out of tune, it hears, sees, feels, tastes, and smells a little of the real world about it. It lives in an environment of its own thought creation, and is a prisoner bound in a mire of illusion, like the frog in the moat is content with its own little world, paying no attention to the voice of the tree above which says, “Come up here, and I will show you a world you have never seen.” Man does not realize that bliss and knowledge are within his reach, and therefore does not try to tap those planes of consciousness.
There is a main center in the throat called “the seat of Mercury,” and it is most difficult for the student to develop this center, owing to its seemingly atrophied condition from disuse. As this “seat of Mercury” (lord of the mind) is opened, it brings the student more closely into touch with the mind consciousness of the deva creation, and in his practice he chants a mantra which vibrates this center, calling upon the lords of the finer mind world to contact him, by an atomic link or chain, with these finer spheres in nature.
This is an exact science, known to the initiated in the East and West, and when the student is ready he receives personal instruction from those qualified in the development of these finer spheres of nature within him. In the West the teachers all aim for “God Realization,” and there are specialists in each branch of Yoga. One master is perhaps adept in teaching the development of the physical vehicle, and another is a master in the art of observation, and a third is skilled in some other branch, each with the same objective.
It is quite difficult to explain how you are taught truth by the falsity of phenomena. The knowledge of that which is false, namely the use of phenomena which is really scientific, has nothing really to do with the phenomena of nature. This comes as a shock to the student, at least it did to me. We must learn to perceive the difference in magic, as professed by our conjurors, like Maskelyne or Houdini, magic created by man’s inventiveness, and that which is built up from the phenomenal side of nature. A great teacher said, “You must have knowledge of how to place a man’s mind, in order to take it off the intent of evil, and place it on something constructive and good.”
Through clairvoyance one often finds that people have obsessions, of hatred, malice or anger towards a person, often with the intent to murder or commit a crime. Day and night, the man has a one-pointedness of mind for destruction. If you can remove or break that one-pointedness of thought, and attract the mind towards something else, you have a chance of preventing him from carrying out his formulated plan. If you can demonstrate to him by a simulative phenomenon, you take his mind off this preconceived idea, and bring the fear of God into his heart. Why waste your finer forces, when a simple simulative trick will bring about the required result?
It took me a long time before I realized that good can come out of evil, or what I had thought was evil. Often, among some of the colored races the fetish of an old stocking on a crooked stick before my tent caused the fear of God to enter the heart of the native, and my belongings were not molested.
No matter how humanity has evolved today, it still has its own fetishes. This was the greatest shock I received from my master in my occult teaching, but it often proved the means of protection for those in danger. The student is taught to use it in cases of great emergency to protect a great soul, while in the human body. He is also taught processes by which he can prevent the shock caused by an injury by the use of a counter shock.
Yoga is an extensive study of the philosophies of the world by which the student is able to acquire this information from within and check against historical evidence. The average man only realizes that there is crime going on around him, that the underworld of humanity preys upon the weakness and ignorance of others, but the Yoga student, as he purifies himself by aspiration and ascends into conscious contact with the finer spheres of being, discovers that crime has also ascended. He observes it often for the first time among the better class of humanity. He recognizes ignorance in the so-called leaders of the religious sects, and sees man-made religions at loggerheads with one another, witnesses the hypocrisy and ignorance of the self-styled holy men around him, and he perceives the selfishness and greed, the illusion and the falsehood—and with these he will have nothing to do.
His burning desire is to give help and aid to those whom he knows are seeking the cool nectar of realization and knowledge. The dying wish of a great saint who passed over some twenty-six years ago was that when she reached God Realization she might be allowed to bring that heaven to our earth, and today with various individuals we constantly have demonstrations of her power.
Just as we have specialized in the arts, so in the deva kingdom there are those specialists who analyze the real nature of our being. Instructors from the world of nature come to those who sincerely seek to be instruments of Truth. In the lower densities of matter we also find these same types of beings, seemingly instruments of Fate working in opposition to the universal good. It is these beings who teach the black magicians their secrets, so that the foolish and ignorant may suffer through experience and in time turn to good. The higher hierarchal beings say, “All men shall become good in time, and shall know God.”
So we find in life that as the student gains extension of consciousness, and inwardly ascends his spiral path, he will always discover a world beneath his feet. Realize for a moment the crimes that have been committed, the torture that has been inflicted in the name of Christ, or in the name of Buddha, Mohammed, or Krishna! Why do people attempt to teach of the hereafter with authority, whilst they are ignorant of the world in which they live?
Life could well be symbolized by Nijinsky’s dance to Debussy’s music Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un Faune. Crouched on his rock, Nijinsky’s faun watches some beautiful Greek girls dance. He gets up and shakes himself like an animal, seemingly drawing animal conditions out of the earth and joins the dance. The gods then clasp a silver sandal (symbolizing mind) round one ankle, and you perceive him gradually entering a mind world, and as he figures out the dance he catches up a gauze shawl which a Greek girl had dropped, and carries it to his rock, his whole nature changed, for love has dawned upon him, and he has become human. All this is brought out by the movements of the dance to Debussy’s music in Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un Faune.
