Shapes and Forms of the Mirage World
from Magic and the Mirage World
Uranda June
2, 1953 Class
We have begun to recognize the
basic difference between white magic and black magic. There is another basic
difference, or we might say, a number of facets of difference. A jewel has many
facets but it is one jewel. So whatever aspects we may consider with respect to
the reality of divine magic, or white magic, we are considering one jewel with
many facets. But always there is a basic difference between these two types of
magic. One is that in divine magic there is always selflessness, and without
selflessness divine magic cannot appear in the individual life. With respect to
the workings of black magic you will find, even though it may sometimes be
camouflaged quite expertly, it is always projected on a basis of selfishness
and self-centeredness.
We recognize that all energy comes
from the divine source. All life, all of the forces, which under control and
directed in action become power, have their source in God. The power of black
magic comes from the misuse and abuse of the life forces granted to human
beings from the divine source. It is a process of stealing and
misappropriation, misuse and consequent abuse. When we realize that all of the
forces of the black magic realm, all of the energies of the mirage world, all
of the seeming powers of the realm of illusion, are stolen and they are
misappropriated, they have no true source of force, power and energy, we can
begin to realize that this contest can have only one outcome. It is utterly
impossible for man in his self-activity to win. Once we have a deep and abiding
realization of that central truth, the basis of fear is removed.
The reservoir of power, the
unlimited resources, are all on our side, in spite of the illusion in the
world, in spite of the fact that human beings seem to have the money and the
position and the setup from the standpoint of government programs or social
orders or what have you. We have all of the true resources back of us and all
of the material resources are seeking to escape from misuse and wrong control.
Note in the world of man how
quickly material wealth is lost, how unpredictably in the ordinary sense
position is lost, influence. The reason why human beings have such a hard time
hanging on to their material wealth is because material things are seeking to
return to the control of the divine design. Material things are not trying to
get away from us when we are functioning according to the divine design.
Material things are seeking to come to us as surely as a pet, like a dog, would
seek to come to its loved master or mistress. The things of this world are
seeking to get away from the wrong pattern of use and abuse. They are seeking
to come to us as long as we are working from the divine standpoint. So in
actual fact the stolen goods seek to return to the proper owner, proper use.
And all of the vibrational resources are back of us—not just some of them; all of them. Our adversary has to
depend on what he can steal from the divine source, because there is no
reservoir, no resource, except that which can be stolen. So once we begin to
actually realize this, to know it from the depth of our beings, the basis of
fear of the so-called power of black magic, or the world of the unreal, is
gone.
This brings to point the factors
with respect to selflessness and what is sometimes called faith, confidence,
the deep assurance with respect to the working of God and His powers and His
laws; and on the other hand, selfishness and that faith which is fear, for fear
is faith in the wrong thing. Let us examine these factors just a little.
Patterns of expression or form in
the outer sense, with respect to situation particularly, may vary tremendously;
but there is a very great limitation on those who work from the standpoint of
the unreal realm. They have only a few basic tricks, only a few basic patterns
that will work. They may manifest in a thousand different ways but there are
only a few basic methods and they all integrate, more or less—the attempt to
divide and conquer, confuse the issues, and in that confusion, attempt to
produce an appearance of superiority. We see the dictatorships of the world use
the same method, to produce confusion, to divide and conquer. And always in
this process there is the utilization of fear, and there is always a selfish
purpose, the seeking of some personal gain; not a genuine interest in the
welfare of the people involved.
You will recall that I emphasized
the point that the force of magic is possible only on the basis of deep
feeling, deep emotional influence. So we see here one of the very vital factors
with respect to the two types of magic. Divine magic uses the feeling pattern
of God's love. Black magic uses the feeling pattern of hate. The individual who
is subject to resentment can be made to feel that he is being imposed upon,
that after all he is a pretty good fellow; he really should not stop at
resentment; he should hate; he has got just cause for hate here. And so human
emotions of the baser nature, lower than the animal, are stirred up, stirred up
to a feeling pitch; and it is that feeling current which is utilized in the
processes of black magic, by reason of which the leaders can have a hold on the
people. Those who are subject to hate can be easily induced to have fear. So
whether it was Hitler's Gestapo or the Blackshirts of Mussolini's day, or the
secret police of Russia, they are instruments of fear and instruments of
torture.
Here we must examine for a moment
some of the basic psychological factors which appear in the distorted makeup of
human beings who have lost polarity in the divine source. We recognize that
there are people everywhere in the world who have a natural tendency to get a
great deal of satisfaction out of inflicting suffering on others. The only
pleasure which they have left in life is derived from causing other people to
suffer. But there is another side to this, because there are many people who
derive their only pleasure in life from suffering, and the two do their best to
get together: those who find pleasure in making others suffer and those who
like to suffer, looking for someone who will make them suffer. Often some
of the peculiar patterns in marriage that the ordinary person cannot possibly
understand come out of this basic fact.
People say, "Well why does
she live with the brute? Why doesn't she leave?" Well he naturally has to
have someone who will cringe, whom he can make suffer, and she would not be
happy unless she was suffering. Now sometimes it is turned around. Very often,
probably just as frequently, it will be the woman who has to make somebody
squirm in order to have any self-satisfaction, and there will be a man, a
so-called man, physiologically a male of the species, who is not happy unless
he has something to suffer about. He may talk about his wife, he may object
strenuously, to hear him talk—"Look how terribly she treats me"—he
will complain and fuss and fume and make all kinds of threats, and he loves it!
He would not give up that torture chamber for anything, not if it killed him.
Well now, when you are serving human beings you will run into many things that
you cannot understand unless you recognize these distortions in the human
makeup, human beings who like to suffer and who feel that when they are
suffering they have a purpose for living; they have a natural martyr complex.
This tendency in human beings is
utilized by all black magicians. We can see it perhaps more clearly in the
realm of gangsterism, whether it is a gang in Chicago or some other place, or
Russia; for the human being who has a natural suspicion of everyone else and
yet who is governed by greed, who is willing to make a "fast buck,"
as they say, wants to get something for nothing, is inside filled with shame.
By maneuvering a little—and here we have the basis of many of the con games
that are at work in this country—by maneuvering a little, putting on some kind
of an act, the man or the woman can be made to feel that he or she is guilty of
some particular crime or some particular thing that would discredit, etc. And
once someone gets something on someone else, the process of blackmail in one
form or another begins, and blackmail is not limited to the extraction of money
as such. It is used in producing a compulsion for personal services in various
ways, sharing in some kind of illegal activity, increasing fear and increasing
the pattern of suffering.
There is the old saying,
"There is a new fool born every minute." People like to be fooled. As
it is put in the vernacular of the, well, shady side, there is always a
gimmick, something, a little maneuvering proposition, by which you can fool
people, and people just love to be fooled and they are always looking for the
gimmick and take it on as a sort of a challenge—"I wonder what the gimmick
is?"—whatever it may be. As long as they can keep on being fooled,
searching for the gimmick, without really believing that there isn't any, they
can be quite happy. As long as they are convinced that there is a gimmick and
they just haven't found it yet, they don't mind being fooled.
But if you undertake to make a
straightforward approach to human beings on an honest basis, without any
gimmick, they will be so very sure there is one that they will distrust you;
they will be looking for the gimmick all the time, wherever you turn. The
people that come to you to get well, or anything else, they are always looking
for the gimmick. People just love gimmicks of various sorts; they love to be
fooled and they are so dishonest that they don't believe there is anyone on the
face of the earth who is honest. Therefore if you appear to be honest you are
dishonest, and if you would appear to be just a little dishonest, then they
trust you. This is the human creature we are dealing with. Oh yes, they are
peculiar things. All of these little quirks, tendencies, distortions, are the
prey of the black magician. They are the instruments of the black magician in
some way or other—fear, greed, selfishness, distrust, and so on.
Oh people will be honest; their
word is as good as their bond, you know. They will be honest up to a point, but
no one expects anybody else to be honest more than up to a point, and their
concern is to find out what that point is; then they can begin to do business.
People trade on weakness, in other words, and they are afraid of strength.
People trade on weakness, and if one does not show proper fear of some
particular outworking or threatened effort at blackmail of some sort—stop and
look at it, how many times have you acted on the basis of black magic? Maybe
you didn't think of it that way, but I am talking about being blackmailed into
doing something because somebody else was going to do something else; they were
going to say something, they just wouldn't be pleasant, unless you did. That is
blackmail.
The house was going to be grumpy
and an unpleasant place until you did thus and so. Well that is blackmail, pure
and simple. How many times in daily life are human beings subject to the
compulsion of blackmail. They are used to it. They are trained to it and they
don't understand, really, anything else. The good, honest citizens of our town,
or any city you want to go to, any state in the Union, they are so used to
being blackmailed into doing this and that, pressured into it: "It is good
business, you know, to let so-and-so have his way. Well I don't think I had
better buck so-and-so; I will just give in; I think it would be good
business." And so, back and forth, people are always looking for the level
on which others can be blackmailed, and once the keen operator, the good
businessman, finds out the levels on which he can establish pressure on his
fellow businessmen, salesmen, or something, so he can put on the pressure, he
is going to start going forward. Why? He has got blackmail, black magic in
other words.
I have outlined it this way so
that you could begin to see how people are trained practically from babyhood
either to exercise black magic or to be subject to it. The little one who
becomes a tyrant, all he has to do is yell long enough and loud enough and
Mommy and Daddy will give in, or this and that—blackmail, black magic.
Now of course that can be carried
to the other extreme, because sometimes human beings fail to consider the
feelings, the various factors that go into play in a certain circumstance. But
we have this distortion pattern, and it is a distortion pattern every way you
turn, as it is in the world. Whether you go to the Ladies' Aid Society and hear
the talk there, or function in relationship to it, an afternoon tea, whether in
the United States or Britain or anywhere else, up and down the line, the
innocent-looking affairs and those that are shady, there is blackmail pressure
being applied to force issues, to compel human beings this way and that,
everywhere you turn.
And the principles of black magic
are utilized in advertising—the principles of hypnotism, the principles of
black magic. So as long as we are in this world, and the world is as it is, we
are going to be surrounded with people who are playing a game, trying to get
something for nothing, trying to beat the racket, trying to get a break; in
other words gambling, taking the long odds and using the modified forms of
blackmail on a basis that is considered to be good business, legitimate,
ethical. Most people would be horrified if you called it blackmail. It is not
blackmail until you threaten someone's life if they don't fork over so much
money—threaten to expose some skeleton in the closet.
My first encounter with a black
magician as such, who deliberately set out to utilize the principles of black
magic to prey on other people, came back in the early thirties, when I was
first beginning to emerge into the sphere of my own ministry. He posed as
something of a psychologist, etc. He was quite a mixture really. But he had
quite a method of getting people under his spell—I won't go into it at the
moment—being very compelling and uncovering the skeletons in the closet, and
then taking that step into blackmail. I helped, finally, to set the stage that
caused him to get out of town real fast. It was something that he was working
quite effectively—a lecturer. His contact was free lectures, and then
classes, and so on, something that we might conceivably use in the outer
pattern. But there are a lot of those who are giving such lectures around the
country who, when it comes right down to it, have a gimmick and they are not,
some of them at least, averse to blackmail. Whatever this fellow's name was in
actual fact, he called himself Edheid at that time. In any case, he actually
got people, particularly women, to open their hearts to him, a supposed process
of psychiatry, and then when he found the skeletons in the closet, why he got
itchy palms.
Well we could go on and on, but
you will notice that all of these approaches, all of these patterns, have a
basic desire. We do not have to make an extended study of all of the criminal
activities and all of the shady, just-barely-inside-the-law patterns, and so
on, in order to see these basic patterns. We see it carried out in Red Russia
and extending out into the seemingly innocent sewing circles of the church,
Ladies' Aid groups, etc., up and down the line.
The basic thing is that until you
begin to realize these things you will say, "Well now, I will be alert; I
won't be caught in that kind of thing," and you will be looking for the
devil to stand out there with a fork and horns and a tail, and as long as the
devil doesn't come in that garb you are all right. Everywhere you turn, if the
devil doesn't show up just so, he is not there. He may appear as an angel of
light, so to speak, and can be very convincing.
Well now, you say, you had better
take another look at me, Uranda. Go ahead and do it. But you can't understand
these things in actual fact in relationship to others until you understand
yourself and have reached a point where you are not controlled by these things
that control human beings.
In this pattern of distortion in
the world, the mirage world, the realm of the unreal, the illusion, human
beings are not independent creatures; they are not living their own lives. They
are pushed this way and that; they are blackmailed into all kinds of
activities, when they never think of it as blackmail. Up and down the line,
those who are out to make others suffer and those who are, perhaps only
subconsciously, deliberately maneuvering themselves into positions where they
will suffer. If they couldn't suffer, if they didn't have something to complain
about, they would not be happy—if they didn't have their miseries. They just
can't imagine themselves without misery, without suffering, and they are going
to suffer one way or another; they will find someone who will make them suffer.
And some of the most fantastic outworkings, in married couples for instance,
both ways; friendships so called, acquaintances, experiences in life: human
beings reaching a point—they go along on a comparatively rational basis for a
while—they reach a point where if someone doesn't come along and hurt them in
one way or another they will start maneuvering, with all the deliberate cunning
of the devil himself, until they can produce a situation in which someone will
hurt them; they have got to get hurt and they find someone who will do it.
Usually they don't have to look too far.
But the fact that human beings
have lost a consciousness, a personal consciousness, of the meaning of life and
the purpose of life until it has become so colored that in actual fact they are
seeking either to hurt or to get hurt—bring it down to that—either to hurt or
to get hurt, either to torture or to get tortured, once you see that, you will
have a basis of understanding many things that look utterly unreasonable. Well,
they are, but you can understand that.
These are the shapes and forms of
the mirage world. These things are the paraphernalia of black magic. And until
we can help people to find a new vision in life, a new purpose in life, so that
they are not either trying to get hurt or trying to hurt, we cannot really help
them. Why do so many churches emphasize the point of hell, a burning hell? Do
you think people really want to get to heaven? That is just the sheep's
clothing on the wolf underneath. They don't want to go to heaven; they want to
go to hell, and want to be sure it is a burning hell, where they can really
suffer. That's right! People talk about, oh they don't want to go to hell; they
want to go to heaven. But examine the patterns of religion and you will find
that the real appeal is the prospect of going to hell. Think of all the
interesting people down there! Think of all the things they can do and the
devil will not mind! A wonderful place that, and they can suffer just
beautifully. And they want to be sure it is forever. Class dismissed.
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