The purpose is to show the
nature and the purpose of what has been called the
Dark Brotherhood, and explaining some of the
techniques which they are permitted to utilize in
order to draw human souls away from their
purpose. The dark ones do not seek to cast any
soul "into hell", as the popular religious
notions have it. Rather, they act as testing
agents for the race of man, as forces whose task it
is to weed out from among the human flock the souls
whose dedication, wisdom and insight are not
developed enough to allow them to move forward into
the higher ground of spiritual achievement.
They know that many human
souls would not be taken in by their seductions, that
many individuals can perceive clearly whenever
attempts are made to draw them away from the light.
But they know too that multitudes of incarnated
individuals on the earth have allowed the attractions
of pleasure and materialism to sway them, have
permitted the negative emotions of hatred,
resentment, grief, worry and self-pity to cloud their
days. And it is against these stragglers that
most of the Dark Brotherhood's efforts are
directed. They can only influence those who allow
them the necessary access, and they would not waste
their energy on souls who remain firm in truth.
Let's first speak about the
origin of the entities which we call the Dark
Brothers. The early phase of the human race is far
different from that which is believed by
scientists. Man thinks that he evolved upwardly
from unicellular creatures which appeared in the
primeval swamps of the slowly cooling earth many
hundreds of millions of years ago. It is true
that a number of the simpler animal life forms were
allowed to develop through natural selection from
such primitive beginnings, but we stress that the
evolutionary process as outlined by Darwin and others
is an extremely limited technique for the development
of life forms. Almost all of the forms that evolved
through natural selection from unicellular creatures
are now extinct, and those that have continued to the
present are mainly of the lizard variety -- all being
cold-blooded creatures of relatively simple
metabolism and with no prospect of ever evolving into
forms capable of the emotional or mental experiences
of man.
It is important to realize
that man has been the recipient of many additions and
imputes from other levels and other parts of this
galaxy. One of the most significant additions
to humanity occurred hundreds of thousands of years
ago, when entities from a higher plane and astral one
-- came to the earth, took on certain physical forms,
and interbred with man as he then was. As a
result of this miscegenation between the groups, a
number of mutations occurred in the offspring,
sometimes giving rise to creatures which would be
looked upon now as quite fantastical. Among the
mutations was one change which had extremely profound
consequences for the human race; this was referred to
by Edgar Cayce as the acquisition of the soul.
To explain that concept, we must point out that,
until this time of cross-breeding, the human group
did not know death. This may help to understand
that mankind then did not have the same dense
corporeality as the animals did and still do.
It was not necessary to go through an aging process
similar to that which man now knows, because the
bodies were capable of deriving from the ambiance
itself all the necessary energies to sustain life
indefinitely. This was aided to some extent by the
presence, in the atmosphere of the earth at the time,
of a large quantity of the inert gas Xenon. The
rejuvenation of all bodies was also made possible by
the fact that the human race was not then subject to
the many negative emotional states which are now
common. Greed, self pity hatred, anger and remorse --
all of these were unknown. The damage which
these negative emotions do to present physical bodies
is incalculable. If man only understood that
the aging and premature death now so prevalent is
largely due to his negative emotions, he would surely
make some attempt to stop them. Most individuals
think it is right to bear resentment against someone
they believe has harmed them, that they ought to hate
someone who hates them, and that they have every
justification to feel sorry for themselves, or to
worry excessively, or to grieve when parted from a
loved one never realizing that not a
single positive effect can ever flow from such
negative emotional states. For
example, not only does hatred not harm or debilitate
one's "enemy", it actually causes damage to
the one doing the hating, while feeding strength to
the opponent. The only way to disarm one's
so-called enemy is to love him, for only this way can
the feud be sapped of the emotion that was feeding
it. Without the negative feed-back, the enmity
disappears for want of sustenance. So it is too with
the other dark emotions; all of these harm the person
harboring them; none of them produces any positive
results whatever.
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