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shamans/demonic
was living in a human form at one time.
Second, that which has not experienced the
human form. The second group here, I
possession would describe as that which is considered
an "elemental being" and/or a "demon". The
first group, which is usually the case, I
would describe as the "personality" of the
Having been involed in "exorcisms" deceased. It is not the soul of the deceased.
for nearly three decades, I would like to pre- I find that different methods of exorcisms
sent some observations and thoughts on the work according to the particular type of pos-
subject. sessor within the body.
I see the possession being split into Outer possession occurs in a number
two types. Inner possession and Outer pos- of ways. There is partial possession and full
session. Inner possession refers to a "pos- possession. Partial possession is described
sessor" that resides within the body. Outer as a direct influence upon another with the
possession refers to a possessor that resides intent to fully control another's will and ac-
outside of the body. tion, but is only partially successful. Full
possession is when there is success and the
In the case of inner possession, I have will and control of an individual is totally
noticed physical signs. First there is the guided by another. Both of the above
breathing. A type of growling noise can be groups participate in this, as well as humans.
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I do not know how much of a detailed In any event, the "Big Bang" may still be
answer is wanted, and have attempted to a viable concept — so long as we realize it may
keep things as general as I can. If more is just be the apparently singular instant at the be-
desired, or a particular point of info has been ginning of (our sidereal) time when the universe
omitted, let me know. fell into matter and changed from its spiritual
(noumenal) to its physical (phenomenal) state.
On the issue of shamans. I have been (Of course, in Cosmic time, since it also had to
acquainted with many and can speak with evolve through the mental and astral planes, that
some experience on this subject. Hallucino- may have taken ages.) Before that sudden ap-
pearance in our sidereal space-time level, the
genics are used by some shamans, not by
numbers, spatial directions, frequencies, and
others. The reason it is not used by some is time relationships used for scientific measure-
not because of a belief against it, but be- ment in our visible metric universe, would have
cause a satisfactory need has not arisen. The no reality.
purpose of its use is to change their state of
awareness in order to perceive a certain mat- So, as far as science is concerned, that's
ter in which they would not otherwise be where everything appeared to begin — all at
able to. The "true" shaman only utilizes the once. Because of that, somebody, said it seems
hallucinogenic when no other recourse is like an explosion, so they gave it the name "Big
seen. The hallucinogenic is a tool that is Bang," and it stuck. But, then, a lightning bolt
seems like an explosion to us, and that's an elec-
used. Because the hallucinogenic is the
trical effect, too, that has a finite velocity of
cause of an artificial change of state, vs. a propagation. Between those last two states is
natural one, it is not to be taken lightly. That where modern science (that tries to imagine the
which is artificially done has its repercus- whole by examining all the parts and figuring
sions, therefore the need has to outweigh how they interrelate) gets lost in space.
that.
ZAKK DUFFANY One problem, besides getting hooked on
the particles as being fundamental (rather than
the wave) is that they don't yet fully understand
the fundamental electrical nature of the material
universe that must originate in the abstract mo-
tion (superspin or spinergy) of the nonmaterial
energy source behind their "Big Bang." And,
Super-Spin or that spin must lead to cycles, and cycles lead to
waves, and waves have to flow like electricity
Spinergy and obey all the same laws of electrodynamics
Leon Maurer such as voltage (pressure), amperage (volume),
resistance, capacitance, inductance, phase, reso-
Scientists are getting closer to my ABC nance, harmonics, etc., as well as generate wave
theory (which was almost presaged by HPB and fronts that act as particles that smash into things.
pretty much consistent with everything she (Incidentally, these laws are analogously similar
taught). to all the laws of hydrodynamics.)
But they still haven't figured out how all Another problem is that the parts keep
those electrical fields come into being. Or, more shifting around trying to get back to that super-
importantly, how they relate to consciousness spin or spinergy (the root of electricity, cycles
and give rise to mind, memory — and brains and periodicity) they came from. (All funda-
(not to mention, bodies:-)? mental electrical forces, including gravity, can
be both attractive and repulsive depending on
It would be nice if the cosmologists and the polarity.) So, when science gets down to
string theorists get together... (And then ask me observing the smallest parts (quantum particles),
[or HPB] to fill in the links to the missing zero- they change their motion (energy level) and,
points of pure consciousness between the em consequently, their position just by looking at
fields and the strings.:-) them. Quantum physics thinks that's because
these properties are indeterminate and subject to
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statistical probability laws. (But, maybe, those approaches infinity (by our measurements). Of
mites know what they are doing. :-) course, this completely violates all the rules of
quantum physics, since its mathematics can only
Actually, these apparent effects may be deal with finite particles having finite energies.
because we can only observe something by re- So, what to do?
flection. And that means sending out a ray of
electromagnetic energy (light, electrons, x-rays Science needs a new paradigm that can
or otherwise) to bounce off the object. bring these two theories into conformance with
each other. Well, that's what string physics is all
When that energetic corpuscle or "inqui- about.
ray" (sic) wave front has the same energy as the
small particle (which is also an electrical wave So, the more advanced Superstring/M-
front) the particle reacts by moving backward brane theorists are beginning to see that these
and/or changing its direction of spin — like a vibrational patterns on the one dimensional ray
billiard ball when tapped with the cue stick. of energy ("superstring") that composes the sur-
(Since, from a theosophical point of view, the face ("M-brane") of the adjacent zero-point
observer's consciousness, or consciously di- hyperspace fields (theosophically, the Astral
rected will or intent which must be a projection realms linked to the mental realms), are what
of minute energy, can interfere with the con- determine the vibrational nature of the 2-
sciousness aspect of the quantum particle — dimensional "strings" that compose the quarks
could this be a partial explanation of the mecha- and gluons that make up the 3-dimensional
nisms behind some forms of psychic phenom- quantum particles.
ena?)
From there on, electrodynamics takes
So, when we try to locate the position of over and determines the nature of the atoms and
an electron, we can't determine its momentum, molecules, and eventually, all the beings in the
and when we try to measure its momentum, we universe — from viruses to stars, quasars and
can't determine its position. But, to the scientist, black holes. A process — starting from zero,
that can only mean that the universe is governed and ending up with our space-time continuum
by probability laws... When, actually, it is gov- — that is as simple as ABC.
erned by the informational wave patterns of
electrical energy carried by the invisible hyper- (That is, if you look at it simultaneously
space fields that exist in the apparently empty from both the inside out AND the outside in.)
space between the zero-point and the quantum
particle. Science labels this space, the Planck infinitely small — the consequence is that the
distance, and fills it with perturbations or "Cos- velocity of the resulting motion is infinitely
mic foam" of the "vacuum" — without really great, and that the ‘thing’ . . . is at any given
moment neither here nor there, but everywhere
knowing what they are talking about. Although, — that there is no real presence; it is
they know from Einstein's theory of relativity, impossible, therefore, to construct matter by a
that the closer you get to the zero-point the synthesis of forces” (Stallo, Concepts and
Theories of Modern Physics, p. 161).
greater the energy,1 until at the zero-point, it
This may be true in the phenomenal world,
1
It is incorrect, for instance, to say, as Stallo inasmuch as the illusive reflection of the one
does, that “matter can no more be realized or reality of the supersensual world may appear true
conceived as mere spacial presence than as a to the dwarfed conceptions of a materialist. It is
concretion of forces,” or that “force is nothing absolutely incorrect when the argument is applied
without mass, and mass is nothing without to things, in what the Kabalists call the
force” — for one is the noumenon and the other supermundane spheres. Inertia, so called, “is
the phenomenon. Schelling, when saying that force” according to Newton (Princ. Def. iii.), and for
“It is a mere delusion of the phantasy that the student of Esoteric Sciences the greatest of the
something, we know not what, remains after occult forces. A body may be considered divorced
we have denuded an object of all the predicates from its relations with other bodies—which,
belonging to it” — could never have applied the according to physical and mechanical sciences,
remark to the realm of transcendental give rise to its attributes—only conceptually, only
metaphysics. It is true that pure force is on this plane of illusion. In fact, it can never be so
nothing in the world of physics; it is ALL in the detached: death itself being unable to detach it
from its relation with the Universal forces, of which
domain of Spirit. Says Stallo: “If we reduce
the one FORCE or LIFE is the synthesis: but simply
the mass upon which a given force, however
continues such inter-relation on another plane.
small, acts to its limit zero — or,
(SDI, 510-11)
mathematically expressed, until it becomes
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And, it will become so simple when these tail in its mouth), (4) follow a continuous spiral
scientists begin to understand how zero-point vortical path that has no separate inside or out-
consciousness (awareness and will) is physio- side (like a Mobius strip or Klein bottle), and (5)
logically, chemically, neurological, and psycho- simulates the analogous paths as well as the
logically linked to all those material entities topological molecular code of the eventual DNA
through their coenergetic hyperspace electrical molecule -- to finally form 14 inner spherical
fields. fields within the outer ring-pass-not field (in
accord with the formula in the Book of Dzyan,
Thus, such a new paradigm will eventu- "The 3, the 1, the 4, the 1, the 5, the twice 7, the
ally — by tying together and correlating holo- sum total," and the ancient concept, "As above
graphic information theory with Superstring/M- so below")
brane physics and its hyperspace fields (matter)
married to consciousness (spirit) which, to- Leon Maurer
gether, originate simultaneously at the cosmic
field's zero-laya-point center — give us a Uni-
fied Field Theory of Everything. Incidentally,
that is what the theosophical and scientifically
metaphysical theory of ABC has already done... An Interesting
Editorial
Although, conventional science, steeped
in its materialistic biases, is not yet ready to It is with a good deal of diffi-
fully comprehend or accept it. dence that I venture on the twenty-fifth year
But, when they do, which, as HPB pre- of our Canadian magazine with its cosmo-
dicted, is inevitable, theosophy will no longer politan outlook and interests that are at once
stand outside of established science, but will centrifugal and centripetal. Our centre is
merge with it. everywhere and our circumference nowhere,
but unfortunately most of our colleagues are
And, from then on, no one will be able to not happy unless they feel safely tucked in
refute the reality of both karma and reincarn by some circumabient limitation to which
ation and the unity of all beings, along with the
they can point with pride as their chosen
moral-ethical responsibilities to each other that
they imply.
boundary. It is sometimes a church, some-
times a society, sometimes an order, some-
But, didn't we theosophists already know times a science and very frequently just a
that everything in the universe is conscious — to fad. Our ideal of Universal Brotherhood has
one degree of expression or another — and, that a magic of its own, separating the sheep
consciousness is eternal? from the goats without their knowledge of
the difference until it becomes a question of
How could that not be — since the zero- dedicating one's life to the True Shepherd.
point center of the universe is everywhere, while There are disputes over names, quarrels
it's circumference, being the continuous inter-
about leaders, arguments over opinions, de-
connected surfaces (or M-branes) of all the co-
adunate but not consubstantial and multidimen- bates about organization, but these all miss
sional hyperspace electrical fields, is nowhere? the main issue. One cannot help being
And, further, while the fields are forever chang- amused at the bitterness with which any
ing, the zero-point (that is their origin) can never reference to Madame Blavatsky is met. It
change its essential "beness," or potential being. would be equally silly if sailors whenever
they heard a compass mentioned, threatened
To visualize (by using our imagination to mutiny because their captain worshipped
focussed meditatively in the higher mind) how
an idol. We worship no idol in Madame
these fields at the primal beginning are, (1) de-
rived out of a centralized zero (Laya) point of
Blavatsky. She is as impersonal as any
infinite spinergy, (2) coenergetically interrelated compass. She indicates the thirty-two points
with each other in their spiral involution's, (3) of seamanship. And she insists that every
have no beginning or end (like a snake with its mariner steer his own course. All the admi-
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rals and stevedores and boatswains insist science appeased till the sentence is pro-
that we follow the courses they may lay, but nounced. There is an oracle in the breast,
we prefer to use the compass and chart our and unsleeping police; and ever the court
own course. All who use the compass and sits, dealing doom or deliverance. Our sole
are honest mariners will reach the haven inheritance is our deeds. While remorse
where they would be. Otherwise they may stirs in the sinner, there remains hope of his
awake one day to find themselves on a pi- redemption. “Only he to whom all things
ratical craft with its ugly ensign and its self- are one, who draweth all things to one, and
ish and isolating instincts. I had the option seeth all things in one, may enjoy true peace
in 1889 after reading all the theosophical and rest of spirit.”
books then available, in Edinburgh, with six
months over The Secret Doctrine, of going None can escape THE PRESENCE. The
to London and meeting Madame Blavatsky OUGHT is everywhere and imperative. Alike
or of crossing the ocean to work for theoso- guilt in the soul and anguish in the flesh
phy. I did not go to London. The Secret affirm His ubiquity. Matter in particle and
Doctrine teaches the fundamental identity of planet, mind and macrocosm, is quick with
all Souls with the Universal Over-Soul. No Spirit. (Alcott’s Table-Talk, p. 159)
purely spiritual Buddhi (Divine Soul) can
have an independent (conscious) existence
before the spark which issued from the
Over-Soul has passed through every elemen- A Change of Condition
tal form of the phenomenal world, and ac-
quired individuality, first by natural impulse, Therefore, the “last vibration of
and then by self-induced and self-devised the Seventh Eternity” was
efforts, checked by its Karma, thus ascend- “foreordained” — by no God in
ing through all the degrees of intelligence, particular, but occurred in virtue of the
from the lowest to the highest Manas (or eternal and changeless LAW which
Nous), from mineral and plant, up to the causes the great periods of Activity and
holiest Archangel. Any true man can build
Rest, called so graphically, and at the
on that.
— A.E.S.Smythe
same time so poetically, the “Days and
Nights of Brahmâ.” The expansion
“from within without” of the Mother,
called elsewhere the “Waters of Space,”
“Universal Matrix,” etc., does not
allude to an expansion from a small
CONSCIENCE
centre or focus, but, without reference
Ever present and operant in the breast to size or limitation or area, means the
is That which never becomes a party in development of limitless subjectivity
one’s guilt, conceives never an evil thought, into as limitless objectivity. “The ever
consents never to an unrighteous deed, never (to us) invisible and immaterial
sins, but holds itself impeccable, immutable, Substance present in eternity, threw its
Personally holy, — the conscience, coun-
selor, comforter, judge, and executor of the periodical shadow from its own plane
Spirit’s decrees. None can flee from the into the lap of Maya.” It implies that
Spirit’s presence, nor hide from himself. this expansion, not being an increase in
size — for infinite extension admits of
The reserved powers are the Mighty no enlargement—was a change of
Ones. Side by side sleep the Whispering
Sisters and the Eumenides. Nor is con-
condition. (SDI, 62-63)
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Dawn with its rosy smile gradually dis- The first object of the Theosophical Society
pelled the darkness, and the star was submerged being to promote the principle of the Universal
Brotherhood of Humanity, how can it be
1 reconciled with the aim that, at the same time, it
[This more descriptive name has been chosen for
our flower, instead of the very unromantic names presents in life to every individual being:—the
of four-o’clock and marvel-of-Peru, by which it is duty of developing his Higher Self, by the
known.] — C.W. I, p. 7-9 sacrifice of every selfish desire, by the conquest
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of all material interest, for the mere purpose of BARBARA MOSKVITINOFF.
attaining a higher spiritual perfection, in order Petersbourg, Petite Morskaia. RUSSIA
that this perfection should transform our faith in
the spiritual world into sight and knowledge, and ———————
give us “life everlasting.”
How can one practice altruism and The questions asked and the
philanthropy, when one devotes one’s life to the
cultivation of the inner spiritual being and the difficulties propounded in the
attainment of total indifference to the physical foregoing letter arise mainly from an
world? imperfect acquaintance with the
Can there be a compromise? Can one divide philosophical teachings of Theosophy.
one’s existence, and serve two principles at
once? Now if the first, which is the altruistic
They are a most striking proof of the
principle, be taken as a beacon for one’s activity, wisdom of those who have repeatedly
which is the right way to apply it? If neglecting urged Theosophists to devote their
all personal interest, one works for the welfare energies to mastering, at least, the
of people, by trying to give them a happier
earthly existence, may not the accusation be
outlines of the metaphysical system
raised against one that it is too materialistic to upon which our Ethics are based.
work only for the practical welfare of people, as Now it is a fundamental doctrine of
if men were born merely for enjoyment? Theosophy that the “separateness”
This reproach will be evaded if one holds to
the theory that presents the reign of the moral
which we feel between ourselves and
law as the aim of an altruist . . . But what is the the world of living beings around us is
right criterion for one’s judgment? . . . Can an illusion, not a reality. In very deed
anybody be certain enough of possessing the real and truth, all men are one, not in a
knowledge of truth, to demand blind submission
to it from others? And what right has anyone to
feeling of sentimental gush and
believe that his opinion must be accepted on hysterical enthusiasm, but in sober
authority—when he himself can err? If the earnest. As ail Eastern philosophy
Christian principle of giving away everything teaches, there is but ONE SELF in all
one possesses to the poor were universally
practised, there would be no poor in this world
the infinite Universe, and what we men
to be benefitted; or rather there would be nobody call “self” is but the illusionary
who would want to possess any wordly goods, reflection of the ONE SELF in the
and so the benefit of civilization would be lost? heaving waters of earth. True
This seems very irrational. If, by a firm
conviction in one’s spiritual immortality, and
Occultism is the destruction of the
complete indifference to all practical benefit in false idea of Self, and therefore true
this world, a certain calmness of mind, can be spiritual perfection and knowledge are
attained, but through moral suffering, has one a nothing else but the complete
right to impose it upon others? To try to show
identification of our finite “selves” with
them that all that makes the enjoyment of life is
but temporary and illusive; that we are on the the Great All. It follows, therefore,
eve of losing everything we love; would not that no spiritual progress at all is
such thoughts darken the existence of the possible except by and through the
majority, and deprive it of all energy for action bulk of Humanity. It is only when the
in practical life? In such a case, what is the use
of our faculties and talents, which must have a whole of Humanity has attained
physical plane to act upon? Must they be happiness that the individual can hope
neglected and stifled in order to give the spirit to become permanently happy—for the
the liberty and the means to devote itself to the individual is an inseparable part of the
attainment of self-perfection, and the study of the
higher spiritual knowledge that gives immortality? Whole
5/17 February, 1889,
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