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SPIRITUAL REALITY:
There is no life that is not also a condition of consciousness and,
therefore, a karmic situation, which is to say, a stage or process being
experienced by a spiritual being in relationship with other spiritual
beings. In other words, life is not only a-causal, but also causal in
the individual. If you think you already know this, you may have to
think again. The aphorism “you create your own reality” is often a first
call from the deepest recesses of the Spiritual Self. It is, of course,
meaningless if divorced from the Law of Adjustment, also known as the
Law of Karma, which states that we ourselves will come to experience
everything that we cause others to experience. So, in fact, we co-create
our shared reality. Spiritual Reality does not exist until we pass from
self-awareness to We-awareness.
The greatest error of the “self-improvement” brokers is their complete
disregard of Karma and their delusion that anything can be had if the
individual desires it strongly enough and can overcome whatever
psychological barriers they may have separating them from their desires.
They also ignore or gloss over the real meaning of creation and instead
concern themselves with devising ways of moulding a more
egotistically-gratifying personal situation out of the pre-existing
reality of a materialistic society. And yet the “self-improvement”
brokers insist upon trying to activate the spiritual faculties within
the chakras in order to gain advantages in a materialistic society. The
very idea of “visualization for success” means that a spiritual faculty,
namely the ajna or brow chakra, the gate to the Third Eye and the inner
spiritual dimensions, is being exploited, not to create anything of a
spiritual nature, but to grasp at egotistical and narcissistic wants
related to known material objects and images in a materialistic society.
The greedy use of spiritual faculties to secure material wants is the
psychic equivalent of pornography and is a vulgar insult to the divine
within the Self. What kind of people can encourage and profit by this?
It is obvious that we can’t want something that we can’t imagine, but
the only ethical realization of physical needs and wants is through work
within the laws that pertain to external life. By the same token,
spiritual development will involve an increasingly informed and
spiritually enlightened attitude towards the challenges of everyday
life.
“Visualization for success” is, at best, delusional and, at worst, leads
the unwary individual into very dangerous psycho-spiritual states and
the abomination of the forbidden arts. The use of magical powers for
self-centred motives is always a violation of Spiritual Law, which, in
turn, burdens the Self with deeply regressive mental and psychic Karma
for lifetimes to come.
“You create your own reality” is a challenge to embark upon a journey of
Self-discovery, of Self-realization, to discover how and with whom the
present reality came into existence in the first place. Only when the
heart and mind are free of distortion is this state of transparent
Self-awareness “in the Clearing” possible.
To be sure, psychology has seized power proclaiming itself to be the
most hopeful avenue of developmental self-transparency, and this for a
century already. Media and consumer-driven Western culture is by now so
deeply conditioned by the assumptions of psychologism that the pure
spiritual aphorism has been reduced to pop-psychological terms.
Psychologism can only concern itself with the effects of personal,
manifest Karma and not its causes, because that is all its assumptions
allow it to see.
The analysis of the content of the Astral Aura, in order to recondition
it according to some normative standard of psychological health, can
provide some band-aid relief from psychic suffering, but it can never
awaken to the innermost Spiritual Self. Psychologism’s failure to come
to terms with the whole nature of the human being and make it
transparent to itself is proof positive that psychology is neither
Wholistic nor Ecological in theory or practice. And so now vast numbers
of intelligent human beings have been brainwashed to the point where,
when they look within, they become hypnotized by their problematic,
psychological content and have been thus rendered blind to their true
identity as a whole being, a living Spiritual Self.
It is the Spiritual Self, also known as the Higher Self, which is the
source and animating principle of Individual Reality. The Spiritual Self
is, by its very nature, unable to act in an arbitrary manner, because
its reality is predetermined by the cosmic principle that has given it
life and caused it to be an evolutionary being throughout the whole
“Cycle of Incarnation”.
“The Secret Doctrine” states it thus:
“The fundamental identity of all souls with the Universal Over-Soul, the
latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root [the Absolute] and the
obligatory pilgrimage of every Soul – a spark of the former – through
the Cycle of Incarnation (or “Necessity”) in accordance with Cyclic and
Karmic law, during the whole term. In other words, no purely spiritual
Buddhi (Divine Soul) can have an independent (conscious) existence
before the spark which issued from the pure Essence of the Universal
Sixth Principle – or the Over-Soul – has (a) passed through every
elemental form of the phenomenal world of that Manvantara (great age of
creation), and (b) acquired individuality, first by natural impulse, and
then by self-induced and self-devised efforts (checked by its Karma),
thus ascending through all the degrees of intelligence, from the lowest
to the highest Manas (spiritual mind), from mineral and plant up to the
holiest archangel (Dhyani-Buddha). The pivotal doctrine of the Esoteric
philosophy admits no privileges or special gifts in Man, save those won
by his own Ego (Spirit Self) through personal effort and merit
throughout a long series of metempsychoses (transformations of soul) and
reincarnations.”
The “Awakening”, then, is knowledge of Spiritual Law. The Spirit-Self
lights up within the self as Authentic Identity. The “Spiritual
Awareness Space” opens within this life as it is now, in addition to the
present reality of the individual.
It is not surprising when the socially and psychologically-conditioned
personality maintains a shallow and self-centred attitude, if not
outright hostility, towards the New Spirituality, for this is just one
of the many forms that “checked by its Karma” can take.
The present life situation calls for complete Self-realization before
attempts are made to bring about radical changes of direction and life
purpose. The present reality, regardless of what it may be, is already a
spiritual condition, reflecting a karmic situation. The psychological
perspective sees only a fragmented part of the self and mistakes it for
the whole. The very fact that the individual has been found by the New
Spirituality, and recognizes it as what he or she has always been
longing to find, is sound evidence that it is the Silent Individual who
guides the path of destiny and not the socially-defined intellect mired
in its problem-filled, psychological content. Only the Awakened
Spiritual Self can give real meaning to life.
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