Meeting Darkness in Humans

[paul]

Humans obviously are a mixture of light and dark in order to function properly. The balance however is usually overdone towards darkness by the presence of an entity that makes its home in most human minds.

The entity seeks self-preservation and it does that by concealing its existence including by persuading the human that it is he (or that it is the divine presence).

The entity identifies with its self-image and that is based on the perservation of its belief systems. Thus the entity is threatened by disagreement with its beliefs. It manages disagreement with its beliefs by disposing of whatever disagrees. Thus it may allow the physical body to die rather than admit wrong beliefs about what is healthy. Similarly for relationships.

Human society deals with this dark structure by encouraging a socialisation process: sharing, humility, respect for authority, working for the greater good.

Generally this works reasonably well, eventually after many lives allowing the human to transmute the entity so that it becomes creative rather than defensive.

Now while the mental lodger is primarily dark the human is susceptible to greater dark influences and this can lead to a wide variety of inhuman crime.

If the junior initiate is properly prepared then it is possible to locate and interrogate such dark overshadowing entities. The authoritative demand: "show me your light" often works well with the entity becoming less dark, shrinking and turning away.

Occasionally there are dark over-shadowings by artificial entities that have no light at all. These need to be dealt with in other ways that generally require a greater capacity on the part of the initiate. For example the initiate that is beyond light and dark (on the lower planes) might suck the dark energy out of the entity thereby forcing it to shrink.

Another option is to look for the sponsor of the artificial entity. The sponsor almost certainly has some light, but commonly exists beyond the level of the human soul - so that soul-consciousness is not sufficient protection in dealing with the greater entity.

Indeed there is a tradition that some entities can consume human souls
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_eater_%28folklore%29

The junior initiate therefore does not proceed too far up the chain of dark entities without clear support from an inner patron.


So should one attempt to intervene when conscious of the presence of a dark lodger in a human?

This is a difficult question and involves karma, free will, safe working practices, and sponsorship. For example, some over-shadowed humans feel lost if their familiar darkness is pushed away.

I am inclined to leave such situations until it is clear that I should act.

[LorrB]

I found that post most interesting on many levels, and it is something I have been thinking about lately.

At world level it made me think of the current North Korean vs Rest of the World situation.

This part leapt out at me also..

If the junior initiate is properly prepared then it is possible to locate and interrogate such dark overshadowing entities. The authoritative demand: "show me your light" often works well with the entity becoming less dark, shrinking and turning away.

Reminds me of the IG function.

[paul]

>What is to be said of a human with a dark entity soul, and he absolutely refuses to serve his master

I had a friend who was a genuine 3rd degree initiate at the time who told me that he incarnated to be with Jesus at that time but that he was killed before those events and then his soul was so put out that it went on to the dark path for several incarnations.

Given my current understanding of the Jesus mythology I am not sure how literally to take the circumstances that he described, but I do not doubt that the solar angel (intelligence that informs the soul) might well turn away until called back by the human.

If the solar angel turns away, the soul body (elemental intelligence), having reacted adversely to its unrequited expectation may well be informed (ensouled) by a dark entity. Such an example may well have been the prompt leading to this thread.

[LorrB]

RE: the authorative demand: "Show me your light" - can you do that mentally, one might get carted away otherwise

How would one know one was strong enough to handle the results of such a command? Have been attacked by the invisible once before, do not wish to repeat the experience.

[paul]

I would suggest that until you know how to control your level of consciousness (in order to know your adversary and to rise above it) it is wise to stick to heart operations and even then not to confront so much as just send love.

The knowledge and control of the levels of consciousness is sometimes termed Rising on the Planes. That, depending on the form learned, allows directed metaphysical actions.

The thread on the 21 steps to enlightenment gives a few more details.

I was taught a numerical form of Rising on the Plane one morning during meditation. The numerical form is particularly useful for experiments and peer observation, being able to be very specific e.g. 4.2.3.3.2

[paul]

The demand :show me your light - is an inner demand. It will be mental if that is the level on which the demander is operating at the time.

[LorrB]

Can a possessing entity give away hints of its presence to others without the human being aware of it?

I know a few people with eccentricities (most of us do). When they are good they are very, very good and when they are bad they are 'not themselves' - behaviour like snorting like a pig repeatedly, frothing at the mouth, inability to dress themselves properly, disrupting smooth proceedings for no reason. Fortunately these behaviours do not belong all to the one person

I believe they are totally unaware of the effect they have on the people who view this conduct.

[paul]

>Can a possessing entity give away hints of its presence to others without the human being aware of it?

Certainly, particularly if the entity has explained that it is the true human. Even on a superficial level you may notice people say: I don't understand myself, or, I don't know what came over me.

Such statements are not necessarily indicative of a possessing entity but may indicate that the nature spirits running the chakras have problems and agenda that intrude without the witnesser seeing what is happening.

One of our ancient brethren here, when she got rather old, regressed to her WW2 mannerisms that would have shocked her parents. I expect that was because her higher parts had departed leaving the emotional or even only the physical chakra in charge.

[LorrB]

Mar 7, 2013 8:18:32 GMT 9.5 paul said:

The numerical form is particularly useful for experiments and peer observation, being able to be very specific e.g. 4.2.3.3.2

Whilst I can follow what you are saying re 7.6, 6.2 etc the numbers you selected above I have no idea about. Just out of curiosity (and only with a short window of time before I was interrupted) I meditated on that sequence of numbers. Whilst I usually see beautiful blues from the pale malecraft masonic blue to deepest of blues surrounded by a lovely mid yellow green. With those numbers in mind the green disappear altogether and a red flame appeared in the centre (a longish narrow flame). Just coincidence?

I looked for 'Rising on the Plane' exercises on the net but couldn't find any using that search key. Any suggestions?

[paul]

>With those numbers in mind the green disappear altogether and a red flame appeared in the centre (a longish narrow flame)

Too good!

I put those numbers there specifically for you.

4 indicates buddhic plane - heart energies.
4.2 indicates 2nd to highest subplane and being a 2 is closely aligned with the energy of the monad that manifests in the heart as a flame.
4.2 breaks into 7 - hence 4.2.3 is the 3rd sub-sub-plane
That in turn breaks into 7, thus 4.2.3.3
That in turn breaks into 7 but this time taking the 2nd sub-sub-sub-sub-plane.


Rising on the Planes is taught by that name by some Kabbalists and was by the Golden Dawn. Simplified 7 step or 7 colour versions exist but they are not suited to technical work. Generally a competent teacher is required to check that the process is working properly.

[LorrB]

I am still not sure how to do what you suggest but will go through my library and see if I can find more detailed instructions.
Thank you for helping to make this subject much more understandable for me.
I am quite keen now to work on this.

[LorrB]

Will do, but I am thinking we may have all we need on the 21 Steps thread.

I am confused about technique, ie who really wants to meditate 7.7? What can be gained from that and how would one use it. As I said I am confused.

[LorrB]

And thanks for that link foxfires, I have saved it up to read later. You really read for 10 hours a day? Oh my.

[paul]

>I am confused about technique, ie who really wants to meditate 7.7?

The operative Freemason can operate at all the levels of existence within his/her competence.

For example I inherited a Wagner LP from a fellow who was sometimes possessed. I played the record and found it disturbing. So I went through the lower subplanes pulling that substance out of the LP and after that I found playing it uplifting.

There are of course less trivial reasons for being skilled and having right relationship upon all the sub-planes within reach - for example using the knocks to call those elementals to order.

In the case of meditation it is good to start at the bottom and work up - giving each level of the chakra its due wages.

[LorrB]

Is recognition the keyword here?

[paul]

Right relationship with all of the subsidiary intelligences is a precondition for mastery of internal energies of a human.

One of the side effects is the resolution of trauma leading to resolution of personal karma.

Further the matter of the denser subplanes needs to be transformed into higher subplane matter - eventually leaving the initiate with only 1st subplane matter.

[paul]

Part way into this video it is possible to see images of entities in a human aura

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrj_HiTOxL4

[paul]

Darkness in humans can manifest in various ways, particularly in disturbing relationships and in limiting thought patterns to approved forms.

What then of modern training systems that have replaced education?

Educo: I draw out.

[LorrB]

Stumbled over this this morning and knew it would fit into the forum somewhere... very interesting. Talk about pointing swords...

The Tarot, the Vortex and Larvae

This article was written around 2003, after a profound psychic and experience, which resulted in me destroying the larva. However, the illusory nature of psychic and spiritual experiences means that it is easy to make mistakes. Looking back, life for me got harder after killing the larva, but after all those years, it has returned, and I am going to allow it to live and prosper, for it is actually a powerful sign of spiritual development! So, the article below has been modified in this light. Now, it is quite possible that there are larvae that are dangerous, and are masquerading as the good guys, so, as ever, discrimination is the key.

The true significance of this article is that the power and deep study of the Tarot can result in spiritual experiences that are better known in Eastern Philosophy, particularly Chinese.

There is a fascinating correlation between those few authors who have written on Tarot and magic and the subject of Larvae. These authors are: Eliphas Lévi, The Key of the Mysteries; Mouni Sadhu, The Tarot; and Franz Bardon who wrote four books on Hermetic Tarot inspired by the first four Arcana. Neither Lévi, Sadhu or Bardon give practical information on how to properly deal with larvae, but in the light of my experiences, nurture is the best course.

Mouni Sadhu

Larvae are first mentioned in Sadhu's commentary on the second card, the Priestess. He makes the statement that he is discussing the tarot, but then he talks about the larvae:

“Let us imagine that a man has a common evil desire, but makes no attempt to realize it on the physical plane. He only draws his dark desire on the astral plane, and so creates a kind of 'entity', by condensing the astral according to his intention. This artificial 'being' does not a physical body, but it is a kind of astrosome, and its correspondence to the human monad (spirit) is just the mental idea of the evil intention or wish. Such a being - according to the property of its 'monad' - can act and influence only in one direction as intended by its unwise creator, man, who is usually unaware of his foolishness.

Now, on whom will the influence of such a demon be exerted? Yes, firstly on the father of it himself, the draughtsman who created the astral picture of the evil deed. We will call this type of ominous artificial entity a larva. Such a larva will watch its 'father' in order to prevent him from forgetting his evil intentions and desire, and to fortify the larva's life by new meditations about the same theme. But it can also attach itself to another man, who has certain astral and mental affinity with the first one. We then say that a larva has left one man and fastened itself (like a leech) to another.
How can we free ourselves from such larvae, no matter whether our own or of foreign origin? I can recommend three means.

1. A conscious effort of the will in the form of a desire not to succumb to the evil entity, to defy it, to expel it, to act like a painter who looks with contempt on his own obscene creation.

2. To concentrate mentally on another object, and not to allow any thought about the larva to enter into the mind. Frequent thinking about the chosen object will cut the possibility of attending to the larva. Prayer is the best and most recommended means of this kind, because every prayer is an act of concentration, and every act of concentration can be considered a form of prayer, not matter if it is directed to God, man himself or even to the Devil, depending upon the nature of the concentration.

As the Devil, we understand, from the Tarot's point of view, a picture of Higher Origin deformed to the ultimate depths reached through the synthesis of all anarch and disorders.
This means of concentration may be compared to the method of turning away from an unwanted picture so as to contemplate another, more desirable one.

3. The use of the power of realization based upon the physical plane, that is the destruction of the larva with a magic sword, which consists of a metallic blade with an insulated hilt made from dry timber, ebonite or, nowadays, from plastic (a thick woolen glove will also serve the purpose). The action of the magic sword is based on the proximity of a sharp metallic projection that in the event of the sword entering a ganglion of a larva, it will bring about its full disintegration.

This means that larvae should be sought for in the aura of persons attacked by them, for they usually adhere to the astrosome of a man like a leech. This method is similar to the destruction of the whole of an obscene picture by the annihilation of the canvas on which it is painted.

The Tarot: A contemporary Course of the Quintessence of Hermetic Occultism

Sadhu also recommends the Trident of Paracelsus as “... especially useful against all kinds of larvae, created by enemies or even by man himself.”

The preferred method according to Sadhu is to stab the larva many times. He notes that the larvae cannot see humans, so they do little to escape, but they may 'see' the points of the trident or sword. However, larvae do feel the danger, so they may try to escape.

Inner and Outer Guards, swords, cowans and intruders all spring to mind.

[LorrB]

And from the same source and article ...

newtarot.com/tarot/larvae-vortex.htm

Franz Bardon

In his book "Initiation into Hermetics", Franz Bardon (1909-1958) has his views on the subject:

Another kind of being is the larvae, which have been brought into life consciously or unconsciously, by intense sensorial thinking, through the astral matrix. They are not real beings, but only forms thriving on the passions of the animal world, on the lowest step of the astral level. Their instinct of self-preservation carries them into the sphere of those men whose passions are responsive to them. They will try, directly or indirectly, to raise and kindle the passions slumbering in man. If these forms are succeeding in seducing men to give in to their suitable passion, they are feeding and thriving on the emanation of this passion produced in man. Man laden with many passions will attract a host of such larvae in the lowest sphere of his astral plane. A great fight takes place and, in the problem of magic, this fact plays an important role.

Initiation into Hermetics

According to Franz Bardon we all have this problem:

This involuntary formation of larvae occurs in any human being, young or old, magically trained or not, regardless whether the person knows or ignores it.
Larvae are at the cause of many psychic problems:

The more one returns to the cause of the psychic excitement and the more attention one pays to it, the stronger the larva will become. Any larva that is condensed very strongly will show a great deal of self-preservation instinct and will try to prolong its duration of life as far as possible. For this reason, it stimulates the mind of the given person, trying at every opportunity to draw his attention to the cause of excitement and to revive it constantly. Such a well-fed larva can become fatal to a sensitive or emotional individual, and numerous mental disturbances such as persecution mania and the like are the result of it. Many people are living under the erroneous supposition of being haunted and destroyed by black magicians, whereas they are in fact victims of their own fantasies, or putting it correctly, victims of the larva they have been creating themselves.

Franz Bardon gives some indication of how to control larvae:

Now the magician will realize why such stress has been laid on the importance of introspection, control and mastering of the thoughts at the beginning of the practical part of this work. Supposing he did not get the thoughts under control of his willpower in the course of his development, he would unconsciously create larvae that might become fatal to him sooner or later.