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1Being self-conscious, as far as the mind and brain are concerned, he scorns the idea of mediumship, but in real truth he is as much a me¬ dium as a trance speaker. In this state he comes into magnetic rapport with certain thought forms within the astral karmas of the disem¬ bodied, and in this condition a semi-transfer of identity takes place, and he seems to exist in some previous age. He becomes identified with the karmic form controlling his sensitive sphere, and under these cir¬ cumstances he becomes deceived by his ignorance, and imagines that he is recalling some incarnation of the past, if he is acquainted with the dogmas of the re-incarnation school. If ignorant of these doc¬ trines, then he simply puts the whole matter down as a sort of day dreaming. Esoteric Buddhists, and others of the same school of thought, because of their benighted ignorance and unable to account for such phenomena, have invented their “re-awakened memory” theo¬ ries. They consider these phenomena as veritable recollections of their past experiences, whereas they are nothing of the kind. They are in¬ deed past experiences, but not theirs. They come into contact with this karma because of their magnetic mediumship. The forms they thus contact are those of individuals who belong to the same spiritual state of life, and who possessed, when upon the earth, a similar mental and magnetic temperament. All such evidences of re-incarnation are due to the simple action of mediumship. When the soul receives its true spiritual initiation, all these earthly errors vanish, and the fleeting phantoms of the astral world appear in their true light. The author once believed in such images as evidences of his past earth lives. Further development, under strict discipline, revealed the whole de¬ lusion. There is no true evidence to be obtained in support of that which is fundamentally false, neither is there any experience that ap¬ pears to favor or sustain a re-incarnation theory which cannot be ex¬ plained by the laws of mediumship.
2Another form of this recondite phase of mediumship is that of thought diffusion. It is by this means that the potent, self-willed minds, behind this veil of outward Buddhism, are silently subjecting certain sensitive minds, in order to regain their lost sacerdotal power upon humanitv. Thought diffusion is the power of diffusing certain thought forms containing certain positive ideas. These currents of thought cir¬ culate around the various mental chambers of the human mind, and, wherever they contact a sensitive sphere possessing any magnetic affinDigilized by Google MEDIUMSHIP—ITS NATURE AND MYSTERIES 81 ity to the center of such thought, they gradually impress their force and ultimately (in the majority of cases) subject that soul to their dominant ideas, and so prepare the way for the reception of the doctrines they want to teach. In this way, by the subtle mental magic of its devotees, religious theology obtained its first foothold upon the human mind. Though the action of this mediumship is sure, as long as the positive ideas have sufficient force to conquer, the reaction is equally certain, and it is this re-action that ultimately destroys the Theology. The magi¬ cal offspring destroys its magical progenitor.
3This diffusion of ideas is in active operation upon every mental plane; thus one potent mind evolving thought forms in Boston may suddenly set in vibration hundreds of sympathetic but less positive minds upon the other side of the Atlantic. They begin to think simi¬ lar ideas, and to form similar conclusions. These ideas may become universal and constitute public opinion, if the projecting minds are potent enough. But few, very few indeed, are conscious of such rami¬ fications of mental magic. Esoteric Buddhism owes its origin to such magic, and depends absolutely upon such Occult processes for its con¬ tinued existence, but re-action is already apparent. Its followers never dream that instead of being independent, self-conscious thinkers, they are the mediumistic sensitives of Oriental control. The reader should never forget that upon the external plane there is nothing so potent as the magic of the human mind.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1Being self-conscious, as far as the mind and brain are concerned, he scorns the idea of mediumship, but in real truth he is as much a me¬ dium as a trance speaker. In this state he comes into magnetic rapport with certain thought forms within the astral karmas of the disem¬ bodied, and in this condition a semi-transfer of identity takes place, and he seems to exist in some previous age. He becomes identified with the karmic form controlling his sensitive sphere, and under these cir¬ cumstances he becomes deceived by his ignorance, and imagines that he is recalling some incarnation of the past, if he is acquainted with the dogmas of the re-incarnation school. If ignorant of these doc¬ trines, then he simply puts the whole matter down as a sort of day dreaming. Esoteric Buddhists, and others of the same school of thought, because of their benighted ignorance and unable to account for such phenomena, have invented their “re-awakened memory” theo¬ ries. They consider these phenomena as veritable recollections of their past experiences, whereas they are nothing of the kind. They are in¬ deed past experiences, but not theirs. They come into contact with this karma because of their magnetic mediumship. The forms they thus contact are those of individuals who belong to the same spiritual state of life, and who possessed, when upon the earth, a similar mental and magnetic temperament. All such evidences of re-incarnation are due to the simple action of mediumship. When the soul receives its true spiritual initiation, all these earthly errors vanish, and the fleeting phantoms of the astral world appear in their true light. The author once believed in such images as evidences of his past earth lives. Further development, under strict discipline, revealed the whole de¬ lusion. There is no true evidence to be obtained in support of that which is fundamentally false, neither is there any experience that ap¬ pears to favor or sustain a re-incarnation theory which cannot be ex¬ plained by the laws of mediumship.
2Another form of this recondite phase of mediumship is that of thought diffusion. It is by this means that the potent, self-willed minds, behind this veil of outward Buddhism, are silently subjecting certain sensitive minds, in order to regain their lost sacerdotal power upon humanitv. Thought diffusion is the power of diffusing certain thought forms containing certain positive ideas. These currents of thought cir¬ culate around the various mental chambers of the human mind, and, wherever they contact a sensitive sphere possessing any magnetic affinDigilized by Google MEDIUMSHIP—ITS NATURE AND MYSTERIES 81 ity to the center of such thought, they gradually impress their force and ultimately (in the majority of cases) subject that soul to their dominant ideas, and so prepare the way for the reception of the doctrines they want to teach. In this way, by the subtle mental magic of its devotees, religious theology obtained its first foothold upon the human mind. Though the action of this mediumship is sure, as long as the positive ideas have sufficient force to conquer, the reaction is equally certain, and it is this re-action that ultimately destroys the Theology. The magi¬ cal offspring destroys its magical progenitor.
3This diffusion of ideas is in active operation upon every mental plane; thus one potent mind evolving thought forms in Boston may suddenly set in vibration hundreds of sympathetic but less positive minds upon the other side of the Atlantic. They begin to think simi¬ lar ideas, and to form similar conclusions. These ideas may become universal and constitute public opinion, if the projecting minds are potent enough. But few, very few indeed, are conscious of such rami¬ fications of mental magic. Esoteric Buddhism owes its origin to such magic, and depends absolutely upon such Occult processes for its con¬ tinued existence, but re-action is already apparent. Its followers never dream that instead of being independent, self-conscious thinkers, they are the mediumistic sensitives of Oriental control. The reader should never forget that upon the external plane there is nothing so potent as the magic of the human mind.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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