Ether Parasites - Conclusion

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The Archetype

When a microcosm, tied to the Wheel of Birth and Death, prepares for a new manifestation in matter, he forms an archetype within the limits of his karma, a matrix in which  a certain vitality is contained for the future earthly existence. The force that flows from the archetype represents the potentialities of life. When this force is used up, when the '"candle of life" has burned away, death inevitably follows. If a rational use is made of this force and a correct attitude of life is observed, life will last longer, within the framework of the potentialities which have been granted. In case of a stupid, irrational use, life will be shorter.

If a person is forcibly removed from his body, as happens during war or as the result of an accident, it may be that death coincides with the normal death of the archetype, but it can still be premature death, striking while the archetype still has some vitality left. In this case, reincarnation follows promptly, within the vitality of the old archetype, and the new personality will usually die in childhood, or at least at an early age. This procedure is necessary because of the existence of the old archetype, whose remaining vitality must be used up.

Suicide

When death is caused by suicide, the consequences are terrible. The archetype is still fully active, but its potential is no longer used, due to the loss of the material body. The suffering will be horrible and without any possibility of release through reincarnation; there is no chance of entering the sphere of transition; one cannot achieve purification and there is no possibility of elevation to a heavenly sphere. Consciousness is all there is; mental and moral experience of the deed repeated over and over again; terror and remorse without relief. The only possibility of salvation is that relatives or friends, prompted by love, bring about a binding with the poor wretch, willing to take upon themselves his or her rejected karmic burden. Suicide always increases suffering on earth.

Why do we mention all this? Because many earth-bound spirits incite people to commit suicide and murder and all kinds of other horrible crimes. Their motives will now be abundantly clear: the forces which the archetype continues to radiate also contain a constant flow of ether vibrations, transmuted on behalf of the material body which no longer exists. What a splendid source and supply of nourishment for vampires...

Now we have arrived at the question: how can we rid ourselves of mediumship? How can satanism be fought? How can we cure humanity of this scourge? The answer is: by consciously changing and ennobling our way of life, from below upwards; by self-freemasonry, free from all authorities; by guarding against persuasion in whatever form and by rejecting all spiritualistic influences; by striving for first-hand Knowledge in an objective attitude of life; by fundamental reversal and by letting ourselves be guided by an ever-growing, all-embracing love for mankind, knowing that "though we have all things and have not universal Love, we have nothing and are nothing".

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

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Perhaps the foregoing may offer some insight into such matters as the reasons behind sudden infant death syndrome, or fatal childhood diseases. Life is a continuity. There is no "death". Because man looks at life from the outside-in, he sees only tragedy and despair. When we gain much-needed insight such as that offered above and endeavor to look at life objectively, we begin to see the workings of the Plan.

In the matter of suicide, Max Heindel once said, "there is no skipping school". The suicide attempts to get away from life, only to find himself alive as ever and in a much more miserable state. The fact that so many are urged to consider and execute this rash decision by unseen denizens of the lower realms of the reflection-sphere only adds to the ignominy of the deed.

Man in his relentlessly mis-guided self-focus, sees only one side of the coin when it comes to explaining his existence. It is imperative that we obtain insight into the workings of the Invisible Worlds in order to craft a full, complete picture of how things are and how things come to be. Only then can we accurately identify the forces that are arrayed against us and take rational, informed measures to overcome them.

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Ether Parasites - Part III

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Satanism

One might ask whether these entities, who are so set on remaining earth-bound, cannot satisfy their appetites with ethers that volatilize through the efforts and activities of the many who direct themselves to the higher planes; or with ethers liberated in the ordinary earthly life-processes. There are indeed thousands who try this and there are also hordes of elementals that parasitize in that way.

There are countless entities in the sphere of transition who use this method. For instance, if their earth-binding is mainly due to dipsomania (def: insatiable craving for alcoholic beverages), they will haunt bars and other places imbued with alcoholic vapors to satisfy their appetites. Tens of thousands of others suffer from nicotine addiction, which is even more dangerous than dipsomania. They, too, can be found in the drinking places and in houses where there is much smoking, and especially in the smoking carriages of trains. Many of these entities stay near human beings to get the food they long for by means of this vulture-like practice.

There is hardly a photograph which, on keen observation, does not show several elementals. A photographic plate is often more sensitive than the human eye. On photographs, taken immediately after the death of a relative, we often see an impression of the deceased who was not yet ether-free and still had a tie with the earth. Of course, such a phenomenon is not lasting.

Parasitism in the form of vulture-like practices is only a temporary phenomenon with these wretched creatures. They are not sufficiently bad, conscious or cunning and besides, they do not possess enough higher ethers to be able to maintain themselves. They are only loathsome, dirty like vermin.

Further investigation shows that a good deal more cunning and quite different methods are necessary for permanent residence in the intermediate sphere. For entities who aim at this it is a question of "to be, or not to be". Their fear of hellish spheres is so terrible and their longing to prolong their lives is so dynamic that they have no scruples at all about what they do to maintain themselves by gaining ethers. The activities of the Nazis, their horrible bestiality, their incomprehensible cruelty and their lust for murder were, quite literally, derived from and inspired by satanism. Satanism can have such a grip on a human being or nation that it incarnates, so to speak.

Satanism is now stronger than ever before and hangs over the world like a dark cloud. As a result, spiritualistic activities are more powerful and widespread than ever before. Hundreds of thousands have been caught by it and theoretically the situation could be called hopeless as far as present-day humanity is concerned.

Conditions in the intermediate sphere are so chaotic, the grip on all living beings is so intense, such terrible advantage is taken of the decency still left in many people and the demons are with us so directly and in such numbers that ten years ago we would have considered it an impossibility. So many of the finest people have been caught by satanism that we must say that the prince of darkness has established his kingdom on earth; that satanism rules this world.

There may be those who think that we are exaggerating, but these things and these dangers cannot be exaggerated. What may seem to be the greatest exaggeration and the boldest fantasy is no more than a simple indication of a dreadful realty.

How does satanism work? To understand this we must begin with the fact that the etheric body of every man and woman is different in nature and vibration. This means that an entity in the intermediate sphere cannot simply usurp strange ethers. He will certainly try, but he will not be able to keep them for any length of time because they volatilize readily on account of his own differing vibration formula. So, to succeed in this he resorts to an extremely cunning process of over-shadowing. He must try to take possession of a being that lives on earth with whom he has a certain degree of polarity so that, after a few months or years, a suitable balance in vibrations will be established. He will then be able to vampirize the required ethers, literally draining them off and will live at the expense of his victim, who leads a miserable existence.

He associates with accomplices and in this way controls entire groups, drawing off ether and phosphorous forces, which he assimilates by way of a medium. In this way such entities keep their spiritualistic groups just as a farmer keeps pigs, hens and cows and lives on what they produce.

Sometimes there are accidents, when the controlling entities penetrate so deeply into the being of their victims that they dislodge them completely. The result is lunacy, from which most controls shrink since they could not very well use such a strange body, for then they would also lead a miserable life. In other cases, however, such entrances are forced for fear of being expelled from the sphere of transition, or for fear of colleagues, or on account of a fight between several entities who are controlling the same medium. Anything is possible with them.

There are still a number of problems and questions on this subject to discuss, such as the nature of the mystifications, the organization of satanism, the causes of suicide, the general nature of murders, the cause of bestial actions and the influence on religion and occultism. Above all, the way of curing satanism and the way of fighting it need to be discussed.

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

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From earliest youth onwards, every child is drilled to accept that "there are no such things as ghosts". This is a part of the clever mis-education of humanity that eventually results in countless numbers of adult human beings stumbling blindly through life struggling against forces we have been instructed to disregard as fantasy.

This writer has an acquaintance who is consistently depressed and has contemplated suicide on several occasions. Even after explaining the nature of the reflection-sphere and the reasons behind her emotional distress, she continues to play hostess to dark thoughts and emotions. She is obviously being over-shadowed by some fairly persistent reflection-sphere entities and has been since childhood. The only thing that has been able to give her pause was when this writer explained to her that those who commit suicide will face an even greater suffering when they transition to the reflection-sphere, due to the fact that the archetype from which the physical human was constructed still exists and cannot be dissolved prematurely. Perhaps there will be a short post on this in the future.

The point is that almost all psychological and emotional maladies experienced by humans can be explained by some sort of over-shadowing or outright possession by earth-bound entities inhabiting the lower realms of the reflection-sphere. They hover about us, constantly seeking an opportunity to prod us into performing the specific actions that will release ethers of the specific vibration quality that they require. If you think you are alone where you are right now, you are not. Your demons are with you, and will remain with you until you first gain insight into what is really going on and then take the steps to purify your thinking, willing and desiring.

Steady and constant purifying work, if successful, will raise the vibration of one's etheric, emotional and mental bodies to levels higher than these earth-bound entities can match. You will become useless to them. They must then flee from you and try to locate a new victim, a new host to parasitize.

It may be helpful to remember these things the next time one encounters an impulsive desire to drink, smoke, consume narcotics, argue, fight, indulge in promiscuous or self-harming behavior, depressive thoughts, etc. There are entities on the other side of the veil just waiting for you to make that move and who are more than willing to assist you so that they can gorge themselves on the ethers you will give off. The split-second you entertain such thoughts or desires, discarnate entities of like-vibration will instantly flock to your side, prepared to "fan the flames", as it were. Try to keep that visual in mind.

These points are not meant to inspire fear or dread. They are designed to provide the reader with much-needed insight into the extent that mankind has been enslaved. Fear/ignorance is like a dark room. Knowledge can be likened to a candle. Once this candle is taken into the dark room of fear/ignorance, we can see where everything is and what must be done to avoid danger. No longer ignorant, fear dissolves. We now see clearly and can navigate the Path that lies before us with some measure of confidence.

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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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