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1. "There are dangers of possession from discarnate entities either of a temporary nature and lasting for a few moments or more enduring and lasting for a longer period. It may even be permanent and lasting through a lifetime."
"At this particular period of the world's history, The Emotional Plane (Astral Plane) is so densely populated and the response of The Physical Plane to The Emotional Plane is now becoming so exquisitely attuned, that the danger of possession is greater than ever heretofore. But for your cheering, the reverse holds good also, and response to the divine and rapid reaction to the higher inspiration has never been so great. Divine inspiration or that 'divine possession', which is the privilege of all advanced souls, will be understood in the coming years as never before and will be definitely one of the methods used by The Coming Lord (The Avatar of The Christ Consciousness) and His Great Ones for the helping of the world."
"In the case of the wrong possession, the man is at the mercy of the possessing entity and is unconsciously or unwillingly a partner in the transaction. In divine possession, the man consciously and willingly cooperates with The One Who seeks to inspire or to occupy or employ his lower vehicles. The motive is ever the greater helping of The Race. The possession is then not the result of a negative condition but of a positive collaboration and proceeds under law and for a specific period."
2. Causes of Possession:
"One cause is a definite weakness of the aetheric double in the separating web, which like a piece of relaxed elastic permits entry of an extraneous entity from The Emotional Plane. The door of entrance, which is formed by this web, is not closed tight, and entrance can be effected from without. Usually the sufferer is physically weak, intellectually feeble, but possessed of a powerful emotional body which suffers and fights and struggles to prevent entrance. The attacks are intermittent and more frequently attack women than men."
"Where there is a loose connection between the aetheric body and the dense physical vehicle, then possession can occur. Such cases are frequently regarded by the orthodox psychiatrist and medical man as forms of insanity, yet they are not truly so. If the afflicted person can be put again 'in possession of himself' by some understanding psychologist, and this is entirely possible, then the trouble is ended."
"Another cause is due to emotional reasons. A lack of coordination exists between the emotional and the physical, and when the man functions in the emotional body (as at night when asleep) the moment of re-entry is attended with difficulty, and opportunity exists for other beings to enter the physical vehicle and prevent its occupation by The Real Ego (The Soul). This is the most common form of possession and affects those with powerful physical bodies and strong astral vibrations but with weak mental bodies. Men are more subject to this than women."
"A rarer kind of possession is the mental. Mental possession involves the displacement taking place on the mental levels, hence its rarity. The physical body and the emotional body remain as a unit, but the thinker is left in his mental body, whilst the possessing entity (clothed in mental matter) enters the 2 lower vehicles. The cause lies in the fact of the over-developement of the mental and of the relative weakness of the emotional and physical bodies. The thinker is too powerful for his other bodies and disdains their use. He is too interested in work on mental levels and thus gives opportunity to possessing entities to assume control. It principally shows itself in childhood and is difficult to cure."
"A still rarer cause of possession is definitely the work of The Dark Brothers. It takes the form of snapping The Magnetic Link (The Silver Cord or Sutratma) that attaches The Ego (The Higher Self) to the lower physical body, leaving him in his emotional and mental bodies. This would normally result in the death of the physical body, but in cases such as these The Dark Brother who is to use the physical body enters it and makes connection with his own Cord. These cases are not common."
3. Kinds of Possessing Entities:
"a. Discarnate entities (on the lower Astral Planes) of a low order awaiting incarnation and who see their wanted opportunity.
b. Suicides, anxious to undo the deed and to again get into contact with Earth.
c. Earth-bound spirits, good and bad, who from anxiety over loved ones, over their business affairs, or eager to do some wrong or to undo some evil act rush in and take possession.
d. Dark Brothers as aforesaid who avail themselves principally of the 3rd and 4th cases already cited. They require highly developed bodies, having no use for weak or unrefined bodies.
e. Elementals and sub-human entities of a malicious nature who rush in on the slightest opportunity and where kindred vibration may be felt.
f. Some of the lower devas, harmless but mischievous, who from sheer freakishness and fun enter another body in much the same way that a child loves to dress up.
g. Occasional visitors from other planets who enter certain highly evolved bodies for purposes of their own. This is very, very rare."
4. Methods at cure:
"In the first type of cases, those due to Physical Plane weakness, the stress of the cure will be laid first on building up a strong physical body in both its departments (dense physical and aetheric), though especially the aetheric body. The strengthening of the aetheric web will be aided by means of the violet light with its corresponding sound, administered in quiet sanitariums."
"When the cause is lack of coordination between the physical and the emotional vehicles, the first methods of cure will be definite exorcism by the aid of mantrams and ceremonial, such as religious ritual. Qualified persons will use these mantrams at night when the possessing entity may be supposed to be absent during the hours of sleep. These mantrams will call the real owner back, will build a protective wall after his re-entry, and will seek to force the possessing one to stay absent."
"Mental possession must await greater knowledge. The work will have to be done mostly from The Mental Plane by those who can function there freely and so contact the thinker in his mental body. The cooperation of the thinker must then be procured and a definite attack conjointly made on the possessed physical and emotional bodies. The thinker has to win back his physical and his emotional bodies, hence the exceeding difficulty. Death often eventuates in these cases."
"In the severing of The Magnetic Cord (Silver Cord), naught can be done as yet."
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