(The text below is an extract of the article written by the United Lodge
of Theosophists in England, and you can read it here.)
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THE DANGERS OF UNTIMELY CLAIRVOYANCE
By Antony Philip Halas (author and journalist)
“Beware of false prophets. Ye shall know them by their fruits. A good
tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good
fruit.”
(Matthew 7, 16-18)
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« Bewildered by the astounding
rumors concerning the work of that prolific writer Mr. Rudolf Steiner (the
famous founder of the University of Occultism “Goetheanum” at Dornach, Basel,
Switzerland, and of the epoch-making School of “Anthroposophy”); and being
since my earliest youth devoted to the pursuit of Knowledge and Truth – I
thought it advisable to obtain all his existing works.
One of Rudolf Steiner’s works,
which particularly attracted my attention, was: “How can a man obtain consciousness or knowledge of the higher Worlds.”
As soon as I obtained possession of the book in question, I began studying it
with the enthusiasm and transport of a neophyte, carried away by the mastery of
the great writer.
When I came to that portion of
the book, where the author gives with painstaking examples and facts all
desirable details for those who wish to become clairvoyant, – I blessed my good
luck and stars for coming across such an unexpected treasure, the more so as I
was athirst to be once for all deprived of my spiritual blindness and obtain at
last the intensely longed for Internal Sight and regain the function of my
Third Eye.
Alas! How far away I still was from that “consummation, devoutly to be
wished”!
How uninformed and unaware was I of the horrible dangers that were lurking
around me!
With avidity and eagerness I
devoured every page, fervently perusing every detail, ready to fulfill every
instruction and commandment. As I was told in that book that I ought to buy a
multifaced crystal, I immediately did so; and though more than thirty years
have elapsed since that time, my life was full of startling events and
adventures and in the meantime – I still have in my possession this relic,
which I preserve as a sacred memorial and a token of gratitude towards my
greatest Benefactor, who, as I will narrate soon, intervened miraculously at
the right moment and checked me in time from continuing to put in practice to
their full extent the most dangerous methods.
Strictly and faithfully following
Rudolf Steiner’s instructions, I used to get up early in the morning, an hour
before the rising of the Sun and for more than a fortnight I was deeply and
earnestly meditating on the seed’s evolution and development, i.e. on its
germination, on its embryo, integuments and endosperm, on its growth, which
gives rise to the stem of the plant.
To cut it short, having before me
the seed, and carefully complying myself with Rudolf Steiner’s instructions, I
mentally followed the whole evolution of plant life: birth or germination,
growth, blooming, flowering, marriage, impregnation or perpetuation of kind,
fruit bearing or seed bearing, waning, withering or decline, old age, death.
A similar exercise consisted in
meditating on the sperm of an animal and man: namely, on the whole evolution of
animal life from birth to death. Needless to say that I did not miss be it one
single exercise of those promising to endow me with the Second Sight,
Clairvoyance, Clairaudience or Spiritual Sight and Hearing.
Side by side with the above
mentioned exercises, always in strict accordance with Rudolf Steiner’s
instructions, I was earnestly engaged in crystal gazing.
Under such circumstances,
predispositions and tendencies or “gifts” was I devoutly engaged in the
dangerous practices, so light-heartedly and copiously lavished and described
with every possible detail and without any precaution or restraint in that treacherous
and misguiding book.
The catastrophe was imminent. I
was doomed to unrepairable wreckage, to which I was approaching at full speed
and as sure as two and two are four.
Fortunately some one was watching over me!
A fortnight or so since I had
started the above mentioned exercises one unforgettable night (thirty years ago
or more) I was visited, when in Spirit, by a dark haired and bearded Man, in
the full of his manhood, whose blooming health and exuberant vitality.
He addressed me in French and
said in an imperative and convincing voice:
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“I am an occultist
and I shadow you. Beware! Death waits for you.”
I, at once understanding the
meaning of his warning, replied:
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“How could I satisfy
my unquenchable thirst for knowledge?”
My benevolent Benefactor replied:
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“My answer will be
given you by means of a verse of Pindar.”
And, saying so, he recited in
ancient Greek the following quotation:
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“When the Sun shines
in the vastness and chaos of Heavens, and you, my Soul, want to sing, praise,
and celebrate the deeds, fame, and merits of a Hero or Heroine, you will in
vain seek therein another star worthy of more exaltation or glorification: no
rival dares to appear before the unsurpassed Glory of the Lord of Sky.”
And when I asked him to point out
to me the Intellectual or Spiritual Hero, who could so fully, satisfactorily,
and radically quench my thirst for knowledge, my Benefactor put his right hand
in the inner pocket of his jacket and took something, which he showed me.
It was a Portrait of Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky!
And that's why I contacted you, and I do not regret it because I
discovered that the Theosophical teaching is the most complete and profound of
all esoteric writings. »
(Note: I translated into English
from my corresponding article in Greek, published in the “Scientific Encyclopaedia,”
Athens, 1958)
OBSERVATIONS
I can not tell you if that meeting that Mr. Halas
had with this mysterious man really happened or was the product of his
imagination, but I still put his story here because there are interesting
things to comment.
To begin, the fact that Rudolf
Steiner gives his readers techniques to develop their clairvoyance, shows that
Steiner was not in contact with the Masters as he claimed, because the Masters warned that it is not convenient to want to awaken
the occult faculties while the person has not yet developed his spirituality,
because then the person will open his aura and runs the risk of being very
easily parasitized, vampirized and even possessed by the lower entities of the
astral.
And that is why it is necessary to first develop
spirituality, because the best protection to avoid being invaded by dark
entities, is precisely through the light that a higher spiritual being emanates
and moves away all those harmful entities.
On the other hand, I do not know if the techniques
taught by Rudolf Steiner to activate the Third Eye are effective or not,
although personally I doubt it very much because Steiner shown a terrible
clairvoyance and he was a very
liar man.
However, as Master Pasteur explained, an important
factor is the intention you put in your effort to achieve that, and since Mr.
Halas already had his faculty a little developed and he was putting a lot of
intension, it is likely that regardless if the exercises he was carrying out
were useful or not, he was still awakening his clairvoyance through his effort,
but at the cost of endangering his evolution.
And that's why it does not matter
if this mysterious man was a true being, or his subconscious who may have taken
that appearance to warn him, because his message certainly prevented him from
getting lost in the psyche because of following deceitful
instructors and not having deeply studied the true esotericism.
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