Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Glamor - A World Problem - I - The Nature of
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Glamor - A World Problem - The Nature of Glamor
As you deal with illusion and as you free your minds from its
effects, and as you dissipate the astral glamor in which you are all more or less
immersed, you will enter into a greater freedom of living and usefulness. As the maya of
distorted energy currents ceases to swing you into lines of undesirable activity, the
light that is in you will shine forth with greater clarity. Incidentally the Dweller on
the Threshold will slowly and surely disintegrate and leave your way, to the door of
Initiation, free and unimpeded.Strongly mental types are subject to illusion.
This illusion is in reality a condition wherein the aspirant is being definitely
controlled by:
A thought-form of such potency that it does two things:
Controls the life activity or output.
Tunes the aspirant in on the mass thought-forms, which are of a similar nature, and which
are built by others under the dominance of a similar illusion.
This, in
its worst aspect, produces mental insanity or idée fixe, but in its least
dangerous and normal result produces the fanatic. The fanatic is usually - even if he
realizes it not - a bewildered man, who has a potent idea of some kind or another, but who
finds it quite impossible to integrate it into the world picture; to make those needed,
and often divinely directed, compromises which profoundly help humanity; to find the time
or place for the realities which are within his natural grasp.
When a man
is highly developed, the mental illusion is built around a definite intuition and this
intuition is concretized by the mind until its appearance is so real that the man believes
he sees so clearly that which should be done or given to the world that he spends his time
endeavoring [30] in a fanatical manner to make others see it too. Thus his life slips away
on the wings of illusion and his incarnation is a relatively profitless one. In a few rare
cases, this combination of intuition and mental activity produces the genius in some field
or another; but then there is no illusion, but clear thinking, coupled with a trained
equipment in that particular field or enterprise.
The weaker
and more average mental types of people succumb to the general field of illusion and of
mass illusion. The mental plane manifests a different sort of distortion to that of the
astral plane or the etheric. The faculty of discrimination which is being developed has
produced sharper lines of demarcation, and instead of the dense fogs and mists of the
astral plane or the swirling tides and currents of energy of the etheric plane, we have on
the mental plane masses of sharply indicated thought-forms of a particular quality and note
and tone, around which are grouped lesser thought-forms, created by those who respond to
these forms, and to their note, quality and tone. Similarities are then seen to exist
which constitute channels or avenues for the magnetic drawing power of the more potent
thought-forms. Ancient theologies in modern garb, fixed presentations of half truth, the
wild thinking of various world groups, and many similar emanating sources have - down the
ages - produced the world of illusion and those mental states which have held humanity
prisoner to wrong concepts and thoughts. So many are these thought producing illusions
that the effect in the world today has been to cause a general division of the human race
into varying schools of thought (philosophy, science, religion, sociology, etc., etc.),
into many parties and groups, all of them colored by an analogous idea, into groups of
idealists fighting each other on behalf of their pet concepts, and into tens [31] of
thousands of participants in group mental activity. These are today producing the world
literature, through which the world platforms are colored; by their means the world
leaders are inspired; and they are responsible at this time for the mass of experiments in
the field of government, of education, and of religion which are producing so much of the
world unrest, and consequently so much of the world illusion.
What is
needed therefore at this time, are thinkers who are training themselves in that mental
attitude and one-pointedness which is divorced from the danger of a negative receptivity
and is responsive, at the same time, to the higher intuitional inspiration. It is
mediating interpreters of ideas that are needed and not mediums.
The emotional types respond with facility to world glamor and to their own
individual inherited and self-induced glamor. The bulk of the people are purely emotional
with occasional flashes of real mental understanding - very occasional, my brother, and
usually entirely absent. Glamor has been likened to a mist or fog in which the aspirant
wanders and which distorts all that he sees and contacts, preventing him from ever seeing
life truly or clearly or the conditions surrounding him as they essentially are. When he
is a somewhat advanced aspirant, he is aware of the glamor and occasionally sees in a
flash in what direction truth for him may lie. But then again the glamor settles down
upon him and he is rendered powerless to release himself or to do anything constructive.
His problem becomes further complicated by his consequent distress and his deep disgust
with himself. He walks ever in a fog and sees naught as it truly exists. He is deceived by
the appearance and forgets that which the appearance veils. The emanatory astral reactions
which each human [32] being initiates ever surround him and through this mist and fog he
looks out upon a distorted world. These reactions and the surrounding aura which they
constitute blend and merge with the world glamor and fog and form part of the miasmas and
unhealthy emanations for which the masses of men, for millions of years, are responsible.
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