The Puppet Master

Now that it is has been established that the so-called "higher self" is no more than the collective astral embodiment of all the karma, experiences, qualities and powers of the multitude of personalities that have inhabited the microcosm, the following will try to outline how it influences total control over the unawakened human-being.

The lipika, also known as the auric being, the dialectical higher self, can be thought of as a magnetic firmament. It is magnetic in the sense that it has an aspect of attraction and one of repulsion. It can be considered a firmament due to its astral relationship to the physical body, just as the stars in the heavens encircle humanity and radiate their particular energies to mankind without ceasing.

The auric being acts in much the same fashion. There are seven rings in the auric firmament. In the average microcosm, six are in latency, only the seventh ring is active. This seventh ring can be thought to contain twelve major force centers, along with myriads of other lesser lights and power centers. The twelve major force centers are receptors for the energies that stream from the dialectical twelvefold Zodiac. The lesser centers receive or reject impulses from other dialectical astral forces.

The lipika is both gatekeeper and prison warden. It will allow entry only to those forces that agree with the general nature of the microcosm. Any impulse that does not vibrate in harmony with the overall frequency of the microcosm or with some specific attribute of the microcosm, will be repulsed. By way of example, this is why some human-beings are prone to impulsively commit murder while others never consider the thought. It is because that particular vibration is not predominant in the microcosm or does not exist at all.

The lipika also has a hand in composing each new personality that appears in the respiration field of the microcosm. Although each new personality represents a new physical instrumentarium, the cumulative karma and life-experience of the personality is very, very old. There is one continuous life that runs through the microcosm. Different personalities are created to live each "new episode" of the one microcosmic life on earth. The lipika stores all past information resulting from all past lives. The new personality is endowed with those attributes required to make progress in the new life, while also taking on all of the accumulated karma generated by previous personalities.

The auric being that encircles the personality continually radiates its forces towards the personality. Think of how a magnifying glass gathers up the sun's rays and concentrates them into a single focus that results in a tremendous heat and then, a fire. This can be used to describe the effect of the lipika upon the human-being. We are continually trapped under its influences and, as a rule, will act and behave just as the auric being impels us.

We are the center of an unholy focus. No matter which way we turn, the auric being will always be there to influence our every thought and desire. In ignorance, we believe our thoughts and desires to be our own when, in actuality, they are simply responses to the impulses radiated towards us by our so-called higher self. We think as it suggests we should think. We behave as it impels us to behave. As it has often been said, "Man does not live, he is lived!".

How do we break the grip of our prison warden? How do we tear ourselves away from this mental and astral slavery and begin to truly think and feel? There is an answer and it is always the same answer. We must begin to listen to another Voice! We must begin to heed the promptings of the Other One within us. As we shift our attention to the Voice of the Rose, we can slowly begin to disengage ourselves from the control of the dialectical higher self. The lights of the seventh ring of the lipika must be extinguished, while those of the sixth ring of the lipika are vivified.

The important thing is to gain insight on the manner in which we are controlled. In honesty, we must learn to admit that we are not the masters of our Fate (yet) but are merely puppets, marionettes in the hands of our so-called higher self. The strings of the puppet master must be severed before there can be any hope of progressing along the Path of Return.

First, understand and accept that you are held prisoner by astral forces currently beyond your ability to control.

Next, resolve to do something about it.

~ g
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