An important word concerning the occult powers and meditation
Specifically at the present time, so many a searching human being is confronted with topics that refer to the occult. Many are fascinated by it and therefore turn to fields of the occult, without actually knowing what the occult or the occult powers commonly are about. Delusional guidance and erroneous assumptions have become very common, whereby especially those contribute to it, who, overly boastful, describe and call themselves esoterics or parapsychologists, who want to know everything better, and who provide everything with a nimbus of secrecy and mystery and the non-terrestrial, although they have not the slightest idea of all the trappings of the occult and occult powers. The esoterics and parapsychologists, especially, are such top-notch know-it-alls, who, with mysterious and often incomprehensible explanations and irrational assertions, make crazy all those who are in search for the real truth, or those who fall prey to an enormous irrational belief due to their already given deluded belief-lability and drive them into a state of anxiety and horror, into blatant misery, fanaticism or into a crazy deluded belief and to erroneous assumptions.
Certainly, many human beings actually already become dismissive merely by hearing or reading something concerning the occultism or the occult. Many distance themselves from it or even become enraged at the mere hint concerning occult powers. And indeed, this reaction is not really wrong because too much swindle, lies and deception, greediness for profit, irrational teaching, know-it-all attitude and obvious deceit, and even murder and manslaughter, are connected with the term occult, whereby gullibility, deluded belief and fanaticism are playing particularly abject roles. With these sneaky machinations, particularly all those cheaters, lunatics, profit-sharks, charlatans, 'saints' and 'emissaries of god', or those possessed by 'the holy spirit' or by 'the devil', and other self-deceivers and liars appear, who call themselves mediums and channellers, as well as the so-called contactees to the-devil-only-knows which possible and impossible spirits, demons, life forms of all kinds in this world and the other world and the entire universe. But that everything as a rule is only lies, swindle and deceit and many times self-deceit, this of course is something those directly concerned and their believers don't want to accept.
Fact is, however, that practically all channellers and mediums are nothing other than self-deceivers or liars, swindlers and cheaters, who, through their sneaky machinations, make the lowly intelligent believers and other followers pay up for it and exploit them. However, if they are not liars, swindlers and cheaters in the usual sense, then they fall under the aspect of those who live in delusional ideas through belief or fanaticism and cheat themselves, because they create in themselves Wesenheiten1 and bring them to life through their own powers of thoughts and powers of feelings, by which they are dominated in a short time, such that these Wesenheiten can get in contact with the maker-person at every appropriate or inappropriate moment and are able to communicate with him/her. In this way, the makers of these, in themselves self-created Wesenheiten, hear soft or vociferous, self-created imaginary voices, with which they can have a conversation, just as two human beings do together. It is also possible, and very often appears, that human beings make Wesenheiten in themselves through their unconscious occult powers that communicate with them, and which speak in voices of people who had passed away already months, years, even centuries or millennia ago, without the makers of those inner Wesenheiten ever themselves having known the deceased. The reason that these voices can come about is simply based therein, that all human beings are building a we-form in material-subconscious and spiritual connectedness, that stores its entire knowledge as a unity as well as also individually in the storage banks (wrongly called Akashic Records) of the planet, from where the impulses of knowledge (in this case simply a voice) are retrieved by the maker of the inner Wesenheiten, in order to let these voices speak through the self-made inner Wesenheit, though which he/she is ruled and confusingly led.
In very ausgeartet2 cases, and this has been proven over thousands of years throughout the entire history of humanity, it happens again and again, that human beings make in themselves their own Wesenheiten through their occult powers, which then dominate their maker to the last fibre of his/her own ego, and have absolute might over him/her, and indeed such, that slowly but surely, the physical body of the Wesenheit-maker finally breaks down and will be destroyed. This can happen especially when a human being makes several Wesenheiten in himself/herself which then alternately dominate him/her or mutually destructively interact with each other and so therefore destroy likewise the human being.
Now, what are these Wesenheiten the human being makes in himself/herself through occult powers? Very simply: Such a Wesenheit represents a second ego, i.e., a second 'I'. This, however, can become so strong towards the person making it, that it becomes autonomous, so it can, therefore, arbitrarily get in contact with the ego of the maker-person. This autonomy and arbitrariness is, however, based on the fact, that the ego of the created Wesenheit is more strongly formed than the ego of the maker. This means, that he/she grants through his/her own labile ego, a leading position to the second ego (Wesenheit) created in himself/herself, and subordinates to it. Thus, it can cause that a second ego, or simply a made inner Wesenheit, completely takes possession of the human being who has created this Wesenheit in himself/herself, no matter what the motives may have been for making it. One of the most frequent reasons for the creation of such inner Wesenheiten can be found in inferiority complexes of the persons making them. Equally frequent are those reasons which are based on religious delusion and fanaticism. The more of such inner Wesenheiten or egos the labile human being makes in himself/herself, the more dangerous it becomes for him/her. He/she quickly loses control over himself/herself and along with it also over the inner Wesenheiten, which begin to dominate him/her. In simpler cases the fact appears that the maker-persons of such inner Wesenheiten can speak to them and receive answers from them, whereby often an active communication is being held. In order to get in contact with the inner Wesenheit, persons bearing Wesenheiten think up states of trance or some movements and contortions, concentration exercises, blinks of their eyes, or whatever it is through which the connection comes about. Believers and irrational esoterics and parapsychologists call this kind of Wesenheit-bearer a medium, contactee or channeler (as is the case with the American women Chris Griscom and Jane Roberts, author of SETH. Seth, by the way, was a fratricide, who killed his own brother to come to might himself) completely unknowing of what the whole is about, and not having the slightest idea that the persons concerned are a kind of human being with extremely labile egos, who are not able to master their egos. In more severe cases, one speaks of a 'mental illness' (e.g., voices that come along with already visible or recognisable psychic or consciousness-related disorders and lunacy), while with extreme manifestations there is talk of possession, and, as a rule, that is the moment when exorcists swagger themselves about 'exorcising one or several devils from those human beings' who, truthly, are only dominated by their own, self-made Wesenheiten (egos), which, to make them disappear, can truthfully not be the work of the one who 'exorcises devils and demons', but only pure rationality and love by truth-assiduous human beings, whereby also psychology and good psychiatry play a decisive role.
Above all in connection with the meditation, the topic of the occult powers has to be brought up. It particularly has to be broached because the occult powers belong to a very low level, and besides they drive the searching human being onto a way that leads him/her very far away from everything creational, from all truth and from all creational laws and recommendations.
Particularly with the meditation, occult powers can call forth confusion and irrationalities which lead to catastrophic imaginations and to delusional ideas. But, what are these occult powers?
Occult powers, as they are familiar to the human being, have to be specified in two levels. The first level of the occult powers is the one which has to be referred to as other-dimensional, because it is outside of the coarse-substantial world. This means therefore, that the occult powers come from a level which is invisible and impalpable to the human being of the coarse-substantial, material world. These are occult powers which, behind the veil of invisibility, can be realised in a mental form by reception-sensitive human beings, whereby the realised powers are exclusively powers of the fine-fluidal and immaterial level. The reason why they are immaterial and fine-fluidal is, because they are space- and time-displaced to the coarse-substantial world of the human being. These levels, invisible and impalpable for the human being of Earth, are very manifold, and they are both in the past as well as in the future, whereby, however, also the realm of the present has to be considered. From all these levels, however, the human being of Earth doesn't have to fear mights and powers at all, unless life forms, who can be peaceful or hostile towards the human being of Earth, appear in a material form on Earth. Occult powers from all these levels can, as a rule, in no wise be a threat to the human being, because the various dimensions build unsurmountable barriers; solely and exclusively through material time-travel, a danger can occur if other-dimensioned and hostile life forms could penetrate in material form into the configuration of time and space of the human being of Earth.
The second level of the occult powers that can become an extreme threat to the human being of Earth, and are able to bring death and elimination, are in the psychic and consciousness-related realm of the human being of Earth himself/herself. These occult powers, which can become a threat to the human being, are created and forced into action by the human being himself/herself. This happens through the own thoughts of the human being, who makes imaginations in the form of delusions, religious and sectarian delusion and other deluded ideas, from which he/she is then dominated without hope of rescue. Thus, through his/her imagination, the human being creates Wesen3-powers in himself/herself, which then manifest themselves in all kinds of forms, and which the human being very often and also visibly projects through self-released powers. These Wesen-powers, made by the human being, form their own ego-personalities that provide and cram themselves full with the most hidden wishes and delusional imaginations of the maker. Pseudo-Wesen, made by the human being, which are truthly only deep wishes and deluded beliefs and deluded ideas, hidden in the subconsciousness, are able, through the power of imagination of the maker, to become so strong and dominating, that they can rule the material consciousness of the human being in question. Especially labile human beings let themselves be ruled by these self-made, pseudo-Wesen, in which case they submit themselves to the occult powers of these Wesen. In non-recognition of the truth, these pseudo-Wesen, self-made by and in the human being himself/herself, are described as astral and other-dimensional life forms with whom the human being could get in contact. This falseness is being strengthened by the fact that very often the human being making such power-Wesen can get in contact with them in such a way that an apparent connection and communication takes place by a so-called automatic writing, the hearing of whisper-like or loud voices and many other phenomena. All those human beings suffering from such delusional illusions are far removed from reality, live in pseudo worlds, have pseudo states, and are even able to imitate deceased persons in writing and pronunciation, etc. Fundamentally, however, the inner nature (inner Wesen) and the inner wishes of these human beings are full of doubt, which is why they are practically prisoners of themselves. Never are they able to behave themselves thus freely towards the outer world that they can let their inner wishes and impulsations leak out to the outside. Their unfreedom to do this then leads to the fact that they transform in themselves their inner wishes, drives and Ausartungen etc. to a deep-reaching might-block, which then becomes its own Wesen-power and, thus, its own Wesen that sets the pushed away wishes and drives, etc., free to the outside and into the material consciousness of the human being if he/she seeks communication with this pseudo-Wesen. The occult powers of these pseudo-Wesen, made by the human being himself/herself, very often become so mightful that the human being concerned is completely ruled by them. In the end, these occult powers become so mightful that the human being making them does not have to seek contact with them any more, but that a constant contact on the part of the occult powers themselves take place. The creation and contacting of such powers and Wesen, in particular, is attended with extremely great dangers. The Wesen of this level are very often hostile towards the truthly determination of an evolutive and creational life, because the person concerned himself/herself is hostile towards a truthly life and the truthly teachings. Already a short time after the creation of such pseudo-Wesen, they themselves contact the maker and the human being walking and searching on the wrong way and offer him/her powers and occult experiences, only, however, to lead this human being still further from the way of the truth and logic and into the unreal, or else to build a definitive dominance over him/her, or to take possession of him/her for its own purposes, because this false Wesen-form and Wesen-power finally becomes self-thinking and self-acting and pursues its own fulfilment, because this occult power becomes dominating in the material consciousness of the human being.
Due to the fact that, without exception, all human beings of Earth are more or less under religious or even strict sectarian influences that exert their efficacy deep down into the subconscious, these pseudo-Wesen, self-made by the human being, very often present themselves as godly mights, as angels, as Jesus Christ or simply as meek life forms and lead the human being concerned into the unreal through unreal and wrong influences, statements, impulses etc., distort the truthly teaching of the spirit, and demand from the human being an existence that is humble and devoted to a god. Fantastic irrational teachings, confusions, even demands for murder in the name of god and in the name of sects and religions, break forth from such pseudo-Wesen, which are passed on, as a rule, in the form of a command to the maker, and are carried out by him/her. The very danger in all this, is that practically no human being is protected against becoming his/her own victim, because every human being is practically burdened through hidden wishes and drives, which, through inappropriate treatment, can lead to the creation of such pseudo-Wesen and pseudo-powers, which then exert their occult powers on the human being concerned. This being so, it signifies one of the main dangers in the mystical life, which is why each human being is encouraged to be on guard and to follow the teaching of the spirit correctly and precisely. Above all through grief, worries, separation from freedom, angst, loneliness, religious belief and wrong meditation, etc., such Wesen-forms can be created in the inner of a human being, which then sooner or later seize might and wield dominance over the human being to the absolute, if these inner occult and by the human being, self-made powers, get out of his/her control. As this danger, as already mentioned, especially exists due to grief, worries, separation from freedom, angst, loneliness, religious belief and wrong meditation, that is to say due to the wrong use and wrong exercise of the meditation, it is recommended to carry out the meditation exercises extremely precisely, accurately and according to the instructions. If a human being wishes to occupy himself/herself with these occult powers and to find clarification about them in himself/herself, then it is in any case better to first search contact, via the meditation, with his/her inner self, his/her psyche and his/her spirit prior to approaching this occult area. The one or the other human being may be able to already get in connection with his/her inner occult powers if this doesn't first have to be learnt through the meditation, however, even for him/her the safest way is to first contact the inner self, as well as his/her psyche and the spirit, prior to getting in connection with his/her own occult powers more closely.
The most important and decisive factor is and will always remain, that first the unfolding of the psyche must be achieved before approaching the occult laws and manifestations. This is to be considered a guiding principle.
In this context we are not able to avoid pointing out the existence of the antagonistic mights, which are mentioned in the kabbalah, in the old Egyptian mysteries and the old East Indian vedas, which however have long been known also to the christian world, even though they are presented and proclaimed under wrong aspects.
The learner of meditation, the human being, who begins his/her meditation with joy and optimism, driven by the hope of finally having found something that could give his/her entire life its true sense, will have, as a rule, quite good and mostly only positive experiences at the beginning of the meditation, which is right and good, because starting with a positive experience offers very many advantages.
As a rule, these first positive experiences do not last though, because after a certain time, resentment and couragelessness rise up in the human being, which soon will be paired with doubts. The firstly ebullient enthusiasm after the initial exercise period very soon is dampened. This can be explained by the fact that certain antagonistic mights become noticeable in the human being, which are invisible and unfeelable to him/her. These antagonistic mights, in turn, are nothing else but those deep, hidden inner wishes and drives of the human being that want to be more, and want to be capable for more, than what the material consciousness of the human being is able to realise at that actual point of time. This leads to impatience, which finds expression in resentment and listlessness, which are soon joined by doubts. Everything is just not moving ahead fast enough; one has difficulty in learning, and one does not learn enough. This is a characteristic of the human being that he/she always wants to have, reach, and be able for more things and faster, than it is possible for him/her according to his/her intellect and rationality. This impatience is connected with the fact that the human being lives in the erroneous assumption, he/she would be able to learn a subject quicker and better than is truthly possible for him/her. This erroneous assumption results from a self-overestimation in respect of intellect, rationality and understanding-capability, etc., etc. Unfortunately, the human being always sees and feels himself/herself greater and better than he/she truthly is, which is why the antagonistic mights in him/her gain presence, so that they can make themselves noticeable through hardly recognisable whisperings into the material consciousness of the meditator. A special main characteristic of such whisperings by the antagonistic mights, is to motivate the meditator to stretch the scheduled observance of time of the meditation or to drop meditation altogether. Furthermore, these antagonistic mights bring forth barbed thoughts that the meditation had nothing 'new' to offer at all, and that everything was already well-known to the meditator. However, these antagonistic mights never speak in their hardly recognisable whisperings thereof, that the deeply buried knowledge in the meditator from olden times and old learning processes only appears again as inspiration of the subconsciousness as unclear remembrance through the meditation. They also never talk about the fact that only through meditation these remembrances come again. The deeper and more urgent the whisperings of these antagonistic mights become in the human being, the more these doubts are preceded by depressions and anxiety states, which are often paired with excessive and unjustified critique of meditation. A further remarkable and important point to mention is, that with such whisperings and influences of these antagonistic mights, they insist that the carrying out of the stop of meditation or the break of the scheduled time has to come to advantage with immediate effect and realisation. These antagonistic mights have the characteristic inherent in themselves, to neither give the meditator time to ponder nor the time for resistance. However, if to all of these antagonistic mights, the meditator resists, then the kind and wise of the attacks change, calling forth in the human being a feeling of incapability, and indeed in this form that the meditator was not capable to understand, to work out and to evaluate the meditation. If this is also of no avail, then the antagonistic mights change in this form that they influence the meditator in this respect, that the publisher of the 'Introduction into Meditation' did not care sufficiently for his students and did not offer appropriate help (e.g., in the form of meditation classes, etc.). Also the whisperings that the meditation does not give what one would like, is not uncommon. All of these feelings originate from the whisperings of the antagonistic mights that are connected with the upcoming thoughts, that the meditating human being himself/herself is incapable of contacting his/her higher consciousness. If the human being is then not strong enough, he/she will soon be ruled by such feelings and be unable to get in contact with his/her higher consciousness. The ultimate phase of the whole antagonistic things and negative whisperings, is as such that the thought is formed, that the meditator is able to live quite well without meditation and without the teaching of the spirit and their living, and that he/she can spend his/her life also with something different, something ordinary. Also the thought that meditation is too time-consuming, and that something purely material can lead to success as well, is quite common.
Unfortunately, it shows that many human beings eschew the constant appearing of crises and tests because they have imagined everything concerning the meditation, etc., as being much easier than truthly is the case. However, it is truthly so, that the big efforts, the great difficulties and hardships concerning meditation exercises, have never been hidden, neither has the fact been kept a secret, that a long and hard work is behind the exercises of the meditation. The fact is, that also the serious and truly searching meditating human being must always strive very hard if he/she wants to reach his/her set determination. It will also very often be difficult for him/her to persevere. But he/she will have less difficulties not to follow an unrealistic impulse, to turn to a more pleasant, more exciting moment's work and some enjoyment, if he/she is attacked by antagonistical whisperings.
Everything necessary for the carrying out and perseverance of learning the meditation, is that the truthlyness is recognised – and exactly this possibility is offered to the meditator – and the human being opens up himself/herself to the contact with his/her inner self and the creational power.
The human being must be able to bring forth admiration for the spirit, to be capable of turning to higher joys and longings, and to be willing to comprehend and recognise the truth. This is the prerequisite for everything.
However, this alone is not sufficient by far! At some point in time, a recognition of the truthly truth and of all Wesenheiten must ensue. Even then there will remain great mysteries and difficulties, which, however, can then more easily be overcome. Once formed, the spirit is pulsing, and exactly this has to become clear to the human being. That which is vital in a human being demands; however, the consciousness feels and knows the creational, because this is revealed to him/her through the truth itself.
In conclusion of this theme, another word concerning the occult powers of the first level: for the human being of Earth it is very well possible to build up monologues or dialogues, contacts to the occult powers of the first level. As already mentioned, the occult powers of this level cannot bring about any direct dangers for the human being of Earth. This is based not least therein, that such contacts to occult powers of the first level can only then be made and brought about, if a human being of Earth has evolved himself/herself in terms of his/her consciousness very highly. For this reason, there are only extremely few human beings who are capable of such contacts. It is also given, that exactly these capable human beings do not go public to make their capabilities known. Only human beings go public with such assertions who are not capable of such contacts, because their so-called contacts referring to this do not belong to the first, but to the second level. Therethrough the human being can be assured, that all that he/she hears concerning supposed contacts regarding this, does represent and manifest nothing but hallucinatory deluded ideas and other imaginations. These, however, exclusively come from human beings who make contacts with the already mentioned second level, which is referred to as the level of the self-creation of confused deluded thoughts and delusional constructions, out of which the human being makes self-created Wesenheiten with which he/she can get communicatively in contact and which give him/her information, or which give him/her, the maker, any irrational and mostly religious information and likewise present irrational teachings, and in doing so, it is not to be left aside that such self-created and delusion-made Wesenheiten very often give deadly and murderous commands to the human being making them, which are based therein, that fellow human beings have to be murdered and slaughtered bestially etc., and this in the 'name of god' or in the 'name of Jesus Christ' or in the 'name of satan'.
Only in exceptional cases do human beings go public with their knowledge, if they really have real contacts with the first level, namely, if this is connected with a specific and life-important mission for the entire terrestrial humankind. This has to be said with absolute clarity.
by 'Billy'
Out of the Spiritual Teaching, Spirit Lesson no. 87
Complete revision of the existing translation: Mariann Uehlinger, Switzerland
1 Wesenheit noun – plural Wesenheiten
– An immaterial or material existence-form without a self-determining possibility of evolution, in which case, however, this possibility can be given to a certain extent, such as with the Creation universal consciousness, certain energies, stones, water and gases etc.
2 ausgeartet adjective
– having got out of the control of the good (human) nature or of a good kind/form
3 Wesen noun
– A Wesen is an independently existing life form with it own individuality and personality in an impulse-based, instinct-based or conscious consciousness-form with evolution-possibilities that are specifically directed towards everything, and with its own physical, psychical (relating to the psyche), conscious, part-conscious, unconscious, impulse- or instinct-based development-forms (human being, animal, creature and plants).