Intoxicants and Narcotics

Lets be clear, if there is a wave of drug abuse then it is not a way of true spiritual growth. It is a way of seeking by the means of short cut and clearly is stated as being the way of black magic, even if it appears on the outset as a harmless pastime. There are clear and definite rules laid out by the masters and their messengers over the years which lucidly indicate to us that such a pursuit is detrimental to the subtle bodies and the intellect. Further, it is akin in gravity to the use of mantras of a dark nature. Such a wave of abuse only reflects the moral and spiritual level of consciousness.

Let us review the teachings of Agni Yoga and note that Drugs/Narcotics kill the intellect and only require increase for same results due to addiction and effect. It is easier and more effective, we are told, to decapitate for a spiritual high. If we study the teachings, we will clearly note that the only material worthy of the yogi for ingesting or external use are the flowers of a brilliant colour such as heather, just one example given by the Master Morya, and such tonics as Valerian "the blood of the vegetable kingdom" which kindles the fires and psychic energy, whereas ether and all drugs, kills the fires and centres. "Cedar – One of the family of coniferous trees. One of the "lifegivers" "which store the heart energy of nature and nourish all the nerve centres with fiery energy MM."

Clearly then there is a vast distinction between that which nature provides, such as tobacco, Grass/Pot, and all poisonous plants which kill the fires and eventually the organism, and the plants of the vegetable Kingdome which are "lifegivers" such as the resin/oil of cedar and the fiery nature of the energy in the pine needle, to name a few.

I doubt whether there are many who are not today aware of the great advance in drug treatments in the medical. Also as many may be aware of the serious side effects attributable to these drugs. But let us be sure to distinguish between the generally sound advise of a doctor and that of the street dealer pushing crack cocaine or any mind altering substance. The disciple by law may only follow the rules as laid down by the like of Patanjali. Meditation, concentration ect. The use of ingested substances are not in line with spiritual law. There is no law other than the spiritual. The control of the mind is to be achieved by the internal effort of the aspirant.

We are surely aware of the great step towards natural homeopathic remedies. The teachings do cover the misuse of the mineral kingdom in medicinal matters, and the advice given is that the vegetable kingdom is karmically conducive and altogether a more natural solution to the ailments of the human kingdom. The misinformed souls as you say are all part of a karmic group and there is no hard done by attitude to be taken. The great many will simply take the contempory advise and medicine or drug available today and that is simply that. The consequences of humanity will simply be reaped by humanity until a more harmonious situation is met. But the striving disciple is supposed to be taking responsibility for his or her self and their place on the path are they not.

The Master states that dangerous entities attract to dangerous substances. Well that seams to pretty much go hand in hand and would be a simple matter of common sense also. The words of a master are not given lightly but they may easily be rejected at the students peril.

The yogi is a delicately balance entity in itself at best and to my knowledge the teachings clearly indicate the distinct differences between the plants and minerals which Kill the fires of the centres and the organism and those of the plant Kingdome which kindle and protect those fires so delicately adjusted in the yogi.

Simply put, those dangerous entities will not be attracted to any amelioration which kindles and protects the centres and nourishes the constitution. Whereas, they will be attracted like flies to anything not conducive to the finely balanced apparatus of the subject. Soma means Moon and the legend is that old. The Moon rules the vegetable kingdom and all matter. So the exoteric tale has taken the materialised form.

The Soma root so called Asclepias acida, does have certain properties which are beneficial it seems, I have never tried it, but it appears it has antiseptic properties and purgative effects which are beneficial to the body. I would think it kindles the fires of the body rather than kills them as drugs do. The nearest thing I could place it to is Valerian as mentioned in Agni Yoga. Asclepias acida is not a drug. It is not addictive and does not seem to have any ill effects. It has long been used medicinally "in cases of asthma and typhus fever attended with catarrh, producing expectoration and relieving cough and pain. It has also been used in scrofula with great success. botanical .com"

JPC.

IN ANSWER TO ADDICTION

There is no form of business life which would afford them more opportunity for direct contact with those who, of all people, most required their service, namely, those who were addicted to the excessive use of stimulants and narcotics.

The prohibition of intoxicants and narcotics, enforced upon disciples by the initiates of the White Lodge, is a vital necessity. The main reasons for such prohibition have not been given to any body of disciples belonging to lesser degrees of the Lodge until now. This is due to the almost inevitable misconstruction placed upon our endorsement of one fact, a fact which might injuriously modify the minds of those who seek for license or indulgence and who, in all too many instances in past eras, have believed they found such license in esoteric teaching of one particular kind. it has always been a mystery to extremists why so many gifted people of both sexes indulged in narcotics and intoxicants for the purpose of doing their best and highest work. The said extremists could not reconcile that fact with the well known teachings of prohibition given by the Initiates of the White Lodge and many other religious, scientific and ethical teachings on this head. When I tell you that the highest as well as the lowest planes of life are contacted by those addicted to the use of the said narcotics and stimulants and that much of the very highest teachings anent art and religion ever given to the world were received under such stimulation, you must be careful how you reject or erroneously criticize my words.

It is a well established fact that the pineal gland and pituitary bodies are vehicles for the transmission of the highest spiritual forces. Anything which will stimulate the molecules of those vehicles to a more rapid vibratory action will open an interior plane to the psychic senses, whether the primary cause is due to high spiritual aspiration and love of humanity or to a strong impulse to escape from restrictions of matter or the inescapable sorrow and anguish of body and mind from which humanity suffers. Therefore that is the thing sought for most diligently by the normal human being. If the answer to prayer, consecration and endeavor does not come as quickly as seems desirable, to the naturally sensitive, highly developed man with a tightly strung nervous system, he is very apt to demand some other method for obtaining his desire. In other instances environment, association, etc., lead people into indulgence, which, unfortunately, temporarily opens the door to some inner plane. In other words, it increases the vibratory action of the pineal gland, and this increase, in turn, produces certain changes in the organs of sense which lead to grosser forms of sensation.

Be it remembered, the fundamental purpose in all instances is the same, i.e., higher – more rapid – vibration of the molecules of the pineal gland and pituitary bodies. However, the final effects are diametrically opposite. In the first instance, prayer, consecration and good works lead to the normal development of the said gland and bodies and to a vibratory action which may be indefinitely maintained, and this will eventually lead to contact with higher and higher planes of action. Finally the at-one-ment between mind and spirit is realized. In the last mentioned instances, the said bodies are not sufficiently developed, physically speaking, to stand the pressure of those more rapid vibrations for any long period of time. They break down, leaving only the possibility of contacting the lowest planes of being, until death ends the struggle on the physical plane. It is this condition which is primarily responsible for delirium, for with the breaking down of the physical envelopes of the said gland and bodies, the mysterious nervous organism of the whole body deteriorates and finally incapacitates all the organic structure. It is then subject to the control of low elementals.

If it were fully understood and accepted that narcotics and stimulants did, in reality, open the higher realms of wisdom and knowledge to the hungering soul, even the knowledge that it was done only temporarily and must inevitably lead to degeneration and decay would not deter the weak minded or vicious man or woman from such indulgence. Consequently, this deep mystery is held as one of the secrets of occultism. You have doubtless heard or read that in the performance of the mistakenly believed "sacred" mysteries in past ages, and even in the present age, the use of strong narcotics and stimulants was common. The black magicians of past ages knew, and the present ones know full well what the final results must be to the victims of their avarice and cunning. Their purpose was the destruction of the higher attributes in man and the cultivation of the sensuous and lewd, they kept such knowledge from their neophytes and urged them on to all forms of indulgence and sensuality. Finally nothing was or is left to the White Brotherhood but to withdraw and permit the destruction of all life on the planet, save the remnants left for the seed of a new race. Knowing these things, it surely cannot be difficult for you to understand what a high, holy calling it is for any man to block the efforts of the black brotherhood by healing the diseases engendered by such means, before the destruction of those all important vehicles of transmission, the pineal gland and pituitary bodies is complete, and the soul irretrievably lost.

The so-called prohibition movements can do naught but palliate the effects of the causes set up in the bodies and souls of those whom they would save. In all too many instances, the advocates of this measure only increase the danger, for they arouse the natural spirit of rebellion against enforced authority. The will that is striving to free itself from bondage to matter rebels against all things which tend to coerce it into further bondage, whether the nature of the bonds be good or evil. Enforced control tends to drive the victim into greater indulgence just to prove his power to defy control by pressure. Such a movement does not go deep enough. It works on the surface, while the disease it tries to conquer is too deeply seated for it to touch and heal, save in such cases are those where the higher aspirations have been awakened and as a result the vibratory action is decreased to some degree.

The human will has then become subservient to the divine will, but the real causes for such apparent effects are unknown and unsuspected by the majority of workers in that field. They do not realize that a point of decay in the molecules of the physical envelopes of the aforementioned gland and bodies must be reached and seared over by the action of one of the "sacred fires," if the victim of indulgence is to be saved. This may be done by the fiery elementals confined in some medicinal formulae, or by a higher grade of elementals subservient alone to the demands of the divine WILL, as is the case in those instances where the cure – the searing – is accomplished by the fires of high aspiration, prayer and effort. The mystery involved, the lack of understanding and right teaching and the inability of the masses to correlate the physical with the spiritual and astral aspects and forms of life are responsible to a great degree for man's inability to deal sanely with this very important phase of the problem which confronts humanity at this time.

If such a movement became strong enough to carry out its principles by force or by national control, there would inevitably occur such a reaction as would sweep all accomplished reforms away. Far worse conditions would result than those which now obtain. It takes poor, self-indulgent, violent, unrestful human nature a long, weary time to learn the deep truth that "true growth is slow growth." A bud may open in a night, but it has taken many nights and days for the plant to reach the point of putting forth its bud, and even then the bud may be blasted by any forced action. When it opens naturally, it is due to the inherent desire of the whole plant to catch the fructifying light of the sun that it may bring forth fruit. A like desire must be aroused in the masses of mankind to save them from the effects of evil in any form. Another phase of the same problem is responsible for much of the contradiction and antagonism aroused by any extremist who endeavors to inject his personal experiences into a discussion of this problem. Unfortunately, it is a phase which must be ignored to a great degree, for the same reason that renders it inexpedient to discuss some phases of sex, i.e., misunderstanding.

The elements of time, bodily infirmities, genealogical karmic effects, racial tendencies – all these must be taken into consideration. If so taken they will modify opinions and set up vibrations which may change the present opinions and set up vibrations which may change the present opinions and conditions. They can in no wise change the causes which primarily induced man to yield to his desire. The same effects may be produced by under stimulation that are produced by over stimulation, viz, molecular disintegration and final death of body, in those cases where genealogical and karmic effects are manifesting and racial or family tendencies have been set up which must be worked out before the soul is freed from their first causes. You have doubtless witnessed cases where an entire and sudden change has taken place in an inebriate who neither he nor others can account for in any rational way. This effect is generally the result of the release of full karmic indebtedness in one particular line, and with the payment of the debt, the searing process referred to has taken place as a result of some action by the higher self. If such an one had been forced into an undesired reform of habit, he would inevitably return to former ways as soon as the temporary restrictions were removed. This is one of the instances where time enters in as a big factor. TT144.

INTOXICANTS AND NARCOTICS

Before answering this question I wish to particularly enforce upon your mind the fact that the prohibition of intoxicants and narcotics, enforced upon their disciples by the Initiates of the White Lodge, is a vital necessity ; but the main reason for such prohibitions has not been given to any body of disciples belonging to lesser degrees of the Lodge until now. This is due to the almost inevitable misconstruction placed upon our endorsement of one fact, which might modify the minds of those who seek for license for indulgence and who, in all too many instances in past eras, have believed they found such license in esoteric teaching of one particular kind.

It has always been a mystery to the extremists why so many gifted people of both sexes indulged in narcotics and intoxicants for the purpose of doing their best and highest work ; and said extremists could not reconcile that fact with the well known teachings of prohibition given by the Initiates of the White Lodge and many religious, scientific and ethical teachings on this head. When I tell you that the highest as well as the lowest planes of life are contacted by those addicted to the use of the said narcotics and stimulants and that much of the very highest teachings anent art and religion ever given to the world were received under such stimulation, you must be careful how you reject or erroneously criticize my words.

It is a well-established fact that the pineal gland and pituitary bodies are vehicles for the transmission of the highest spiritual forces. Anything which will stimulate the molecules of those vehicles to a more rapid vibratory action will open an interior plane to the senses, whether the cause is due to high spiritual aspiration and love of humanity or to a strong impulse to escape from the restrictions of matter and the inescapable sorrow and anguish of body and mind from which humanity suffers, that is the thing sought for most diligently by the normal human being. If the answer to prayer, consecration and endeavor does not come as quickly as seems desirable, the naturally sensitive, tightly strung nervous system of the highly developed man or woman is very apt to seek some other method for obtaining his desire. In other instances environment, association, etc. lead people into indulgence, which, unfortunately, temporarily opens the door to some inner plane – in other words, increases the vibratory action of the pineal gland. This increase, in turn, produces certain changes in the organs of sense which lead to grosser forms of sensation.

But be it remembered, the fundamental cause in all instances is the same, i.e., higher – more rapid – vibration of the molecules of the pineal gland and the pituitary bodies. However, the final effects are diametrically opposite. In the first instance prayer, consecration and good works lead to the normal development of the said bodies and to a vibratory action which may be indefinitely maintained and lead to contact with higher and higher planes of action, until finally the at-one-ment between mind and spirit is realized ; while in the last mentioned instances, the said bodies are not sufficiently developed, physically speaking, to stand the pressure of those more rapid vibrations for any long period of time, and they break down, leaving only the possibility of contacting the lowest planes of being, until death ends the struggle on this plane. It is this condition which is primarily responsible for delirium, for with the breaking down of the physical envelopes of the said gland and bodies, the mysterious nervous organism of the whole body deteriorates and finally incapacitates all the organic structure.

You have doubtless heard or read that in the performance of the mistakenly believed "sacred" mysteries of the past ages, and even in the present age, the use of strong narcotics and stimulants was common. The black magicians of the past ages knew and the present ones know full well what the final results would be to the victims of their avarice and cunning ; but as their purpose was the destruction of the higher attributes in man and the cultivation of the sensuous and lewd, they kept their knowledge from their neophytes and urged them on to all forms of indulgence and sensuality ; until finally nothing was or is left to the White Brotherhood but the destruction of all life on the planet, save the remnants left for the seed of a new race.

Knowing these things, it surely cannot be difficult for you to understand what a high, holy calling it is for any man to block the efforts of the black brotherhood by healing the diseases engendered by such means, before the destruction of those all important vehicles of transmission, the pineal gland and pituitary bodies is complete, and the soul irretrievably lost.

But the so-called prohibition movement of the present era can do naught but palliate the effects of the causes set up in the souls of chose whom they would save. In all too many instances, the advocates of this measure only increase the danger, for they arouse the natural spirit of rebellion in man against enforced authority. The will that is stirring to free itself from its bondage to matter rebels against all things which tend to coerce it into farther bondage, whether the nature of the bonds be good or evil ; so they tend to drive the ignorant into greater indulgence just to prove their power to defy control by pressure. Such a movement does not go deep enough. It works on the surface, while the disease it tries to conquer is too deep-seated for it to touch and heal, save in such cases as are those where the higher aspirations have been awakened and have stopped the vibratory action in some degree.

The human will has then become subservient to the divine Will, and the real cause of such apparent effects are unknown and unsuspected by the majority of workers in that field. They do not realize that a point of decay in the molecules of the physical forms of the aforementioned bodies must be reached and seared over by the action of one of the "sacred fires." This may be done by the fiery elementals confined in some medicinal form, or by a higher grade of elementals subservient alone to the demands of the divine Will, as is the case in those instances where the cure – the searing – is accomplished by the fires of high aspiration, prayer and effort. The mystery involved, the lack of understanding and right teaching and the inability of the masses to correlate the physical with the spiritual and astral aspects and forms of life are responsible to a great degree for man's inability to deal with this very important phase of the problem confronting humanity at this time.

If such a movement became strong enough to carry out its principles by force or by natural control, there would inevitably occur such a reaction as would sweep all accomplished reforms away, and far worse conditions would result than those which now obtain. It takes poor, self-indulgent, violent, unrestful human nature a long, weary time to learn the deep truth that "true growth is slow growth." A bud may open in a night, but it has taken many nights and days for the plant to reach the point of putting forth its bud, and even then the bud may be blasted by any forced action. When it opens naturally, it is due to the inherent desire of the whole plant to catch the fructifying light of the sun that it may bring forth fruit. Another phase of the same problem is responsible for much of the contradiction and antagonism aroused by any extremist who endeavors to inject his personal experiences into a discussion of this problem. Unfortunately it is a phase which must be ignored to a great degree, for the same reason that renders it inexpedient to discuss some phases of sex, i.e., misunderstanding.

The elements of time, bodily infirmities, genealogical karmic effects, racial tendencies – all these must be taken into consideration, and if so taken, will modify opinions and set up vibrations which will change the effects while they in no wise change the causes. The same effects may be produced by under-stimulation that are produced by over stimulation, viz, molecular disintegration and final death of body, in those cases where genealogical karmic effects are manifesting and racial or family tendencies have been set up which must be worked out before the soul is freed from their first causes. You have doubtless witnessed cases where an entire and sudden change has taken place in an inebriate which neither he nor others can account for in a rational way.

This effect is generally the result of the release of full karmic indebtedness, and with the payment of the debt, the searing process referred to has taken place as a result of some action by the higher self. If such a one had been forced into an undesired reform of habit, he would inevitably return to former ways as soon as the temporary restrictions were removed. This is one of the instances where time enters in as a big factor. In other instances, where not sufficient stimulant was chemically provided to keep the organs of the body in natural action, the proportion required is constantly demanded by those organs and if supplied in a measure, there is no particular desire manifested. Any vibratory change in the molecular construction of the pineal and pituitary bodies is checked, and if the one so using stimulants does not die from other causes before a definite period of his life cycle, there will occur a change which will do away with the need for stimulants.

Then, there are still other instances, I refer to those who have fully developed those bodies of transmission in them beyond need or beyond power of being affected injuriously. They can take a stimulant or leave it alone, as they choose. They generally choose to leave it alone for the sake of others.

If you are able to see the points I have made in their entirety, you will be better able to form unbiased judgment on the whole subject of stimulation. It is the world-old subject of extremes, and extremes in either direction lead to disintegration and death. Temple Teachings 247. Hilarion.

Jeremy Condick. jpcondick@ntlworld.com