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Could You
Talk on Western Mysticism, Alistair Crowley, and Gurdgieff? Q: Could you talk on Western mysticism like Alistair Crowley, Gurdgieff,
and some of the Western schools and maybe why they aren’t practiced more for
potential development? RK: Goethe picked up most of his information from people who we
might call Eastern philosophies or involved with Eastern Philosophies. I
think he had a value in turning around some of these concepts so that they
would be more understandable by typical Western thinkers. I think that was his biggest
contribution. Actually he posed more questions than he answered, but, at the
same time, it is kind of nice to consider some of these things and try find
an answer to them. In many cases you do, but in some cases you don’t. He got
another lifetime later on so… Alistair Crowley, I think,
is probably one of the foremost exponents of evil in the world. There are
some things which are factual that he talks about: things like witchcraft and
sorcery are very real. But, just because they are real does not necessarily
mean that you should do them because it is possible. There is a morality that
says a person should not interfere with another person’s environment in any
way. He encouraged people to get involved with spirit entities which, in many
cases, he would promote as being beneficial, but really were nether types
with lower Astral influences. Alistair Crowley gave a bad name to metaphysics
in the West and it has taken a long time to overcome the prejudice of that.
That is just one person. There are many other people who have offered quite a
few valuable things. Q: He was the primary
figure, I think, who had the highest amount of knowledge in some circles as
just about anyone.
Q: Why do you say that he emphasized the negative side of that?
From most of what I have read, he just tells you what is out there. He is
telling you to use if for good or bad and actually seems to be telling you to
use it for good, but there is a negative side. I would think that would be up
to the individual who is using it whether it is used for positive or
negative.
Most
of us are not real good hypnotists mainly because we do not really believe
our ability to have much influence over another person. But, entities who are
no longer incarnate are fully aware of what their mental powers are and use
them quite freely. Of course, they cannot just contact anybody they want
anytime to try to influence them in some negative or evil way because of the
protection that Christ setup two-thousand years ago. But, if an individual
chooses to overcome that protection—does it on his own—then Christ is
obligated not to interfere with that person’s freewill. So the powers that
work with Christ that help maintain that screen that protects people who are
incarnate from these entities operating from the lower Astral Plane then has
to be dropped for that individual while he seeks to work with that. I am
afraid there are a lot of people who ended up in insane asylums either
obsessed or possessed as a result of that and not being sophisticated enough
or given sufficient forewarning to be discriminating in what it was that they
were getting into. Most nether entities will present themselves as being
Christ unless the person is getting into devil-worship or witchcraft in which
event they present themselves as being the objects they are tying to find. The
next person they deal with they may present themselves as the Christ or the
Archangel Gabriel or somebody. There are all kinds of ways a person can get
ensnared because they do not know how to discriminate. (04-1982) |
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