Ether Parasites - Part II

 

The After-Death State

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As soon as a human being dies, a temporary splitting takes place in the etheric body. Normally, the two lower ethers stay behind with the material body, while the two higher ethers remain temporarily with the departed, although some of the two lower ethers are often taken along. The more earth-bound an individual was during his material existence, the more directed towards the earth he was (which does not imply that he was bad but only normally biological), the more lower ethers will be gathered around the deceased.

In this condition the deceased goes to the sphere of transition, the intermediate sphere which is often described as the sphere of purification or purgatory. It consists of the three lower spheres of the desire-world, the kama-loka of Eastern philosophy. You should bear in mind that the remnants of the etheric garment of the deceased keep him bound to the earthly sphere, since the etheric body of man is also built of and maintained by material and powers of this sphere.

It will be clear that since the deceased has left the etheric plane, the remnants of the etheric garment cannot be maintained; they decompose, they volatilize; the deceased cannot maintain them. This is of the utmost importance, for as soon as the remnants have also disappeared the time comes for the human being to assimilate his knowledge of his true state-of-being. Only then does he come to true insight with regard to himself, and then he departs for the heavenly or hellish domain, according to his state-of-being. Everyone can now readily understand that the possession of ethers after death causes a strong tie with the earth.

When a human being finds his earthly tie undesirable, when he is no longer interested in it but on the contrary wants to get rid of it as soon as possible, he will do nothing to hold back the process of volatilization of his ethers. However, if it is the other way round, if his interest is directed towards the earth and he wants to maintain his tie with it at any cost, he will do anything to check the process of volatilization. He will try to replenish every loss of ether to increase his ether supply, and in this way he will artificially prolong his sojourn in the sphere of transition.

It is in these things that we find the cause of spiritualism and all related phenomena, such as satanism, earth-bound spirits and so on. It stems from the many thousands of entities in the sphere of transition who are out for ether robbery, parasitizing and exploiting the earthly sphere. That is spiritualism: robbery of some of the lower ethers, but mainly of the two higher ethers.

Of  course, these things require a thorough study and serious consideration because they concern a real horror, a danger which practically no one can escape. All of us are victimized to a greater or lesser extent by these hordes of ether parasites. Many of our less pleasant and less virtuous characteristics grow to proportions far beyond our real state-of-being because they are deliberately aroused by these entities. The base feeling of jealousy is one example, for every act of jealousy is at the expense of the light ether of the person who develops it. It is the same with the activity of opposition, intentional, conscious opposition, for whatever reason it may be. Such an activity costs light ether but more especially reflecting ether, since it is the thinking capacity that prevails.

Such lower activities can be stirred far beyond their normal proportions by the powers from yonder side, to the extent that self-control becomes impossible. It is this ether-bleeding that forms food for the lurid entities that we have been describing here.

It is the same with passion, perversity, melancholy and -- not to be forgotten -- intellectual excesses. They are accompanied by ether explosions at the cost of a great quantity of ether. All forms of psychological abnormality are largely to be explained from the activities of ether parasites.

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From "Spiritualism" - Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Invisible forces are arrayed against incarnate humanity, who for the most part have no idea that they are being victimized. How many of our thoughts are really our own? How many of our impulsive and sometime inexplicable actions are driven by forces that cannot be seen with the naked eye? This is why the seeker must obtain insight into his or her true state-of-being. Recognizing the reality of the invisible worlds and the activities of some of the desperate entities that reside there is huge step in that direction. Once one knows who his enemies are, one can take proper and effective measures to disarm them.

Where are our thoughts and feelings really coming from? Why that thought? Why that emotion? We must endeavor to always think soberly before we speak or act. This must become habit. Never speak or act impulsively. We must be on guard constantly, lest our poorly-policed thoughts and desires drag us to places we really do not wish to go. Ultimately, this allows us to be used as a nourishing source of ether-food by the opportunistic, desperate, hungry denizens of the regions beyond the veil.

Deception abounds in the reflection-sphere. The more one knows about the shenanigans taking place there, the better prepared one will be for the traps and pitfalls that will surely be encountered along the Path of Return.

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"The Food Of The Gods"

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As we know, the reflection-sphere hierarchy is in great distress because their demand for light-force exceeds the supply of light-force being produced on the material-sphere.

All entities living in the material-sphere and, consequently, making use of a physical body, generate earthly light-force; which means that they transform the ethers which they themselves receive from the cosmic regions surrounding us. This transformation or transmutation of inter-cosmic light-force takes place through

- the blood,
- the internal secretions (hormones),
- the nerve fluid,
- the serpent-fire, and
- the consciousness fluid.

This light-force thus transformed by human-beings, both individually and in groups, constitutes 'the bread of life' for all of those who dwell in the reflection-sphere. The dwellers of the reflection-sphere themselves are unable to transmute inter-cosmic light-force for their own use, for the reason that they lack the necessary personality organism. They no longer have use of the indispensable physical body, since their densest vehicle consists of the etheric body. Therefore, if they wish to maintain the remains of their personality (g: astral body, mental body and perhaps a portion of the etheric double), they have to do this by absorbing light-power which is either put at their disposal voluntarily or is simply stolen by them.

All great religious, idealistic and occult groups in the material-sphere furnish their counterparts in the reflection-sphere, either voluntarily or involuntarily, practically all the light-power which they produce through their activities. Collectively, those who live in the physical life-field thus maintain a gigantic parasitical group in the reflection-sphere.

Now, what do we see developing in the practices of the present time?

We notice that in the past century, as a result of all kinds of terrible events which hit mankind so hard, a general decline of the religious and idealistic inclinations of the masses, and a widespread slackening of related activities. Humanity, to a considerable extent, is becoming 'realistic' and completely a-religious. By this we mean that, although  humanity holds a theoretical faith, as a sort of mystic decorum, this faith no longer has any concrete influence over them, nor does it lend any force to the life of the multitude, in the sense of its original purpose. The religious and idealistic tendencies have been completely diverted in a political, social and economic direction.

The churches are becoming nearly empty, and the light-force operations from the reflection-sphere, as applied to church-goers, do not give such a rich harvest as before. Idealism becomes more and more extinct; and practical idealism manifests itself in the form of contributions to various organizations. Moreover, these organizations, out of political considerations, are more than ever being taken over by the governments, who know that poverty and need breed revolution and revolutionary factions. This is why, at present, the general humanistic practices usually are not based on philanthropy, but prompted by purely matter-of-fact, 'realistic' considerations.

Now, as a result of all this, of which you are fully aware, humanity has brought about, either through individual activity or that of groups, a very great change in the transmutation processes of light-power.

The present transmutation processes produce excessive chemical-ether and life-ether and a very great amount of reflecting-ether of very dubious quality, but very, very little light-ether!

Here the reflecting-ether (or thought-ether) is only attracted and converted insofar as man needs it for projects of a grossly material nature, whilst the light-ether, which formerly was abundantly unleashed by religious, humanistic, and idealistic waves and mass movements, is now only attracted for the immediate maintenance of the body. Only the two lower ethers -- the chemical-ether and the life-ether -- which are to take care of the formation of creatures and things and their maintenance, are produced in sufficient quantity.

In view of this situation, we can now affirm with certainty that the dwellers of the reflection-sphere have no use for the two lower ethers, except those entities belonging to the lowest gradations of earth-bound beings (g: known as "shades"). But those entities have never yet had to complain about a lack of 'food' or the possibility to obtain it.

However, the light-ether and the pure reflecting-ether -- the so-called "higher" ethers -- are the ones that constitute the bread par excellence for the dead who desire to maintain themselves on yonder side, because the remains of their life-bodies, at the moment of passing, are composed of those ethers. Therefore, it is clear that when humanity, in the material-sphere, no longer supplies sufficient light-power composed of the two higher ethers, the entire reflection-sphere hierarchy and their vassals are brought to very great distress, compelling them to exert themselves to the utmost to reactivate the production of light-force, which is indispensable for maintaining themselves in the reflection-sphere.

Now, the Great Play that is to be performed finds its ground in this particularly deadly struggle for life.

From "The Shadow of the Coming Events" - Unmasking - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The human personality-system attracts and assimilates various ethers from the surrounding cosmos. This is one of the main functions of the chakras. The five fluids listed above and certain ductless glands also play key roles. What is required for the maintenance of the human personality is transmuted and retained. Anything in excess of that is thrown off from the body, or liberated. This excess portion of light-force is what Greek "mythology" referred to as ambrosia, the Food of the Gods.

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In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia (Greek: ἀμβροσία) is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods (or demigods), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whoever consumed it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves, so it may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the Earth - Wikipedia
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