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A Treatise on White Magic - Rule Fourteen - The Use of the Hands
B. The quality of the force used is necessarily
dependent upon the ray from which it may emanate. You ask me to differentiate between the
words type and quality. I would say that the type of force indicates the
life aspect, whilst the quality indicates the consciousness aspect, and that both of them
are aspects of the entity or the being who is the embodiment of a ray. The type will
manifest primarily through what we might call dynamic direction and through its power to
produce an effect. This has, of course, to be coupled to right quality and skill in
action. The quality will be indicated more by its power of attractive approach. It has in
it more of the magnetic aspect than the type has. Students can arrive at the quality of
the force they may be using by noticing what they attract to themselves, both in
circumstances, in people, and in the reactions which people show to what the student may
say or do. In the type there is a preponderance of the will aspect, in the quality the
desire aspect is primarily to be found. It is profoundly true that according to a man's
desires so will be the forms of life which he will, like a magnet, attract to himself.C.
The strength of a particular force brings us back to the Rule we are studying, for
it involves in itself the factor of true persistence, and we have earlier seen that the
emergence into functioning life and activity of any form is dependent upon the persistent
attention of its [580] creator. Energy can be used dynamically or steadily and the effects
of these two modes of the application of energy differ. One is primarily used in
destructive work, and this is the dynamic method. There are, for instance, certain dynamic
words of power which, when employed by the Creative Destroyers, bring about the
destruction of forms. With these, however, aspirants have naught to do. Their important
work is to learn the meaning of persistence and of strength. It is literally a
time-persistence, and strength is beyond all other things the power to endure, to
hold out, to stand steady, and to go forward undeterred. Study, therefore, most carefully
the types dynamic, the quality magnetic, and the strength persistent of the forces which
constitute your equipment. When you can wield, either destructively or constructively,
either selfishly or selflessly, or in line with the Plan Universal, or the plan selfish
and personal then you will work consciously and will knowingly tread the right or the left
hand path.
D. The speed of the force used is dependent upon these three previous
factors. Speed in this sense has no essential relation to time, though it is hard to find
another word to use in the place of speed. It relates to the world of effects as they
emanate from the world of causes. It has, perhaps, essentially a relation to truth, for
the truer an impulse is and the clearer the understanding of the subjective purpose, so
will the right direction and the impact of the force, follow automatically. Perhaps speed
could be more correctly translated by the words "correct direction", for where
there is correct direction, true orientation, exact understanding of purpose and
recognition of the type of force required, then there is an instantaneous effect. When the
soul has registered the desired quality and possesses the strength of the Timeless One and
the persistence of the One Who is from the beginning, the process of force expression and
the [581] relation between cause and effect is spontaneous and simultaneous, and not
sequential. This can scarcely be understood by those who have not yet the consciousness of
the eternal Now. But this spontaneous and simultaneous effect is the clue to the entire
magical work and in these four words - type, quality, strength and speed - the story of
the work of a White Magician is told. But more I dare not give and it is not permitted to
me to speak more clearly. Few are yet fitted to be magicians and few (perhaps fortunately)
have as yet all the seven centers awakened so that they can work freely on the seven
planes and with the seven types of the seven ray energies.
I would
point out that these four aspects of energy can be studied by the aspirant in his own
nature. On the physical plane he is apparently the initiating cause and as he works with
these energies they will call forth a response and a reaction from those who feel the
impact of them and who demonstrate their effect. It is true, therefore, is it not, that we
work and live in a world of forces? We need no distant field or special domain in which to
live and learn and work, for we dwell in a world of force and energy; we are ourselves
constituted of force or energy units; and we wield force, knowingly or unknowingly,
throughout the twenty-four hours of the day. The field of our occult training is the field
of the world and the world of our peculiar circumstances and environment.
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