Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Esoteric Psychology II - Chapter II - Microcosmic
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Esoteric Psychology II - Chapter II - The Ray of Personality -
Problems of Disciples and Mystics





I have several times used the expression "the premature
awakening" of the psychic powers. By that I mean the abnormal unfoldment of the
powers of clairvoyance and of clairaudience so that the entire lower levels of the astral
plane stand revealed, though the possessor of these powers can neither control the
phenomena of subtle sight and hearing, nor interpret correctly what he sees and hears. In
the earlier animal or savage stage, these faculties are frequently normal and there is no mental
reaction of any kind and, therefore, no undue strain is put upon the nervous system and
the brain. There is what I might call a flat or unemotional acquiescence in the condition
which is due to the complete lack of the interpretative sense and of the dramatic
self-conscious attitude of the man who is beginning to use his mind. The moment the
"I-consciousness" becomes uppermost, then the possession of these lower psychic
powers becomes a hindrance and a complication. Temporarily, they must be thrust into the
background [580] in order that the mind principle may assert its control and the life of
the soul can then flow out into matured and considered expression upon the physical plane.
This relegation of the psychic powers to a position below the threshold of consciousness
is the intent of the development planned for the Aryan race.I would like here to point
out that I use the word "Aryan" in contradistinction to the majority of the
races found in Asia. Speaking generally, we can today classify the races into three
groups:
The many remnants of the Atlantean or fourth root-race people, plus a very small
sprinkling of the Lemurian peoples - so small as to be negligible.
The Aryan race itself, which includes the civilization of India and all Latinos,
Teutons, Nordics, and Anglo-Saxons, and their various off-shoots.
A group which bridges between the Oriental races and the Aryan race which we call the
Semitic. This race is neither purely Oriental nor is it Aryan.

The Jews are a group of people in whom the principle of separation is pronouncedly
present. For ages they have, with determination and in obedience to the injunctions in the
Old Testament, insisted on regarding themselves as a people set apart. For ages they have
held themselves separated off from all other peoples in the world. The result is that they
are now evoking from the races among whom they are scattered a corresponding desire to
force that very separation upon them. Under the law, we draw forth from others what is
actually present within ourselves, and to this law, races and nations are no exception.
Through the interrelation of Jew and Gentile, of Semitic and Aryan, and through the
solving of [581] the Jewish problem will the great heresy of separateness eventually be
fought out.
It is not
intended that the Aryan race should be a psychic race. Their goal is bringing the mind
nature into prominence. This could not take place if the "drift" of the forces,
flowing into the human mechanism was in the direction of the solar plexus - the major
center, governing all lower psychic unfoldment. Just as certain transferences are going on
today between the centers below the diaphragm into those above the diaphragm, so the solar
plexus (which is like the controlling brain in the animal and the physical-emotional man)
must cease finally to control the activities of the human being and the brain must become
the seat of the directing agency in its place. Speaking again generally, there are three
major controlling factors in the career of a human being:
The solar plexus, corresponding to that stage wherein the play of the forces is
physical-etheric-astral.
This is the stage of psychic development.
The ajna center between the eyebrows, corresponding to the period of integration and of
personality control, wherein certain areas of the brain become sensitized and used.
This is the stage of mental development.
The head center, involving the entire brain area around the pineal gland, wherein the
spiritual man assumes control.
This is the stage of soul control.

It is in this latter stage that the higher psychic faculties come into play and the
lower powers can then again be used, if deemed desirable. The initiate has full control of
all faculties and powers, and knows both when and how to use them the most profitably and
with the least expenditure of energy. It [582] should be noted, however, that the average
modern psychic or medium does not come under this category, for the initiates and Masters
use all Their powers quietly and behind the scenes and not for demonstration before the
public. The majority of psychics today are solar plexus workers, though a few - a
very few - are beginning to shift their forces into the ajna center and to develop mental
faculties. This has an integrating effect and temporarily is marked by a complete and
necessary cessation of the lower powers. In this sense "the mind is the slayer of the
real", but only of the relatively real. That which has seemed real and of importance
or which proved interesting and exciting to the average psychic is eventually forced below
the threshold of consciousness by the unfoldment of the mind. It is this needed transition
period in the case of many of the modern psychics which lies at the root of a number of
their undoubted difficulties. They are faced with issues they cannot resolve and which
they do not understand as they have no background of occult practice or understanding.
They have been brought to the point of discarding the old ways and yet the new techniques
of living and of practice mean nothing to them. A future which must be faced without the
phenomena which has made the past so exciting, interesting and frequently remunerative
does not attract them. Yet, in reality, they are faced with the transition out of the
Atlantean state of consciousness into the higher and Aryan state of awareness. They are
offered a step forward and need to remember that every step forward in evolution and,
therefore, towards the spiritual goal, is always at a cost and through the relinquishing
of that which has hitherto been held dear.





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