The intrinsic nature of the soul is spontaneous love but mans reactions, ideas, desires and life experience, as far as his emotional nature is concerned, are conditioned by some one glamour or glamours, that he engendered over many lives, deeply rooted in his past history, and to which he instinctually reacts. The time, however, comes when the probationary disciple becomes aware of these instinctual glamours and recognises them on appearance, even when reacting to them; he seeks to free himself, working at first spasmodically as a bewildered person. This indicates that he is drawn as by a magnet into the midst of the very glamour he would seek to avoid. Later comes the stage when the pull of the soul begins to offset the pull of these glamours: he aspires to free expression and to liberation from astral plane control. The balancing process then takes place. The light in the head is produced by the definitely planned bringing together of soul light and personality light, focussed in the mental body and producing an effect in the brain. This signifies a bringing together of the light of matter and substance (dense material and etheric light) and the light of the mind itself.This first focussed light is not of such a nature that it can do more than reveal. It has no dissipating power, nor can it render existing glamour ineffective. There is no peculiar or specific light in or of the astral body itself, for it is only an aggregate of forms, created by individual man, by nations and by races,and possess no inherent light as do other forms. They are not created as a form of expression for some dynamic life by the planetary Logos, and this is the real meaning of the expression that the astral plane in reality does not exist. It is the phantasmoric creation of human desire down the ages and its false light is a reflection of either the light of matter or of the mind. It can only make a man aware in his waking or brain consciousness that glamour holds him. This is related to the stage of concentration in the meditation process. Love is spontaneous and carries ever the free spirit of Christ. So many disciples are still shut up within themselves, hidden behind the wall of the personal self and little true out-going love is present. Until they break through and truly love, their usefulness is impaired. The Master looks for an effort on the part of the disciple to be impersonal in his dealings, both with Him and with his co-disciples; impersonality is the first step upon the road to spiritual love and understanding. The effort of most sincere disciples is usually concentrated upon loving each other and in this they put the cart before the horse. Their effort should be to achieve, first of all, impersonality in their dealings for, when that has been achieved, criticism dies out and love can pour in. Esoteric psychology, A.Bailey.
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