Pearls of Wisdom

Vol. 48 No. 21 - Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet - May 22, 2005

Psychic Thralldom

Part 8

After Phineas Quimby’s initial experiments with hypnosis, he found that healings could equally be accomplished by means of conscious suggestion. He came to believe that illness was the result of incorrect beliefs and that healing came about through discovering the truth.

Many came to him for healing; several went on to become famous healers in their own right and leaders in the New Thought movement. One of these was Mary Baker Eddy, who went to him for treatments when she was experimenting with a type of faith healing.

Mary Baker Eddy saw the limitations of Quimby’s methods, and when she started to work with mental healing, she realized that one could go higher, to the Divine mind, to the Christ mind, as Saint Paul called it,1 and receive healing from God directly, instead of simply transferring thoughts from one individual to another at the mental level. And so, because her consciousness was highly attuned to Jesus, for she had walked with him as Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, and had received teachings directly from him at that time, she was given, by a form of dictation from Jesus, Mary and Hilarion, the revelation that she called Christian Science. Because of her lack of knowledge of the violet flame (which had not yet been released to the world), there were some errors incorporated into Christian Science. However, it was sponsored by the ascended masters, whereas the practitioners of hypnotism were not.

Christian Science is based on the affirmation of Good and the denial of Evil, the affirmation of principles, of qualities of God, the affirmation that man is made in the image and likeness of these qualities, and therefore is whole. The same principles are taught by Unity and other New Thought organizations.

Unfortunately, like hypnosis, this process of affirmation and denial also has its drawbacks; for even though appealing to the Creator, once again we see that without transmutation, without the use of the violet flame, practitioners of these various organizations may, in this process of affirmation, fall to the level of the mental body, and once again it does descend into a form of hypnosis—not hypnosis in the name of the power, however, of the lower mental body, but in the name of the Christ. And therefore, today, you will find Christian Science has to its record many testimonies of healing, but ninety percent of these healings are the pushing back of the disease into the etheric body; one day it will have to come forth again so that the karma may be expiated or transmuted by the violet flame.

The True Science of Prophecy

Spiritualism is not synonymous with spirituality, and true spirituality never leads to spiritualism. All religion presupposes revelation of some kind. However, prophecy is not for the unbelieving but for those who believe2 because they maintain some degree of contact with the Spirit of Christ that dwells within them. Through this contact they are able to verify communications that come forth from higher spheres through the prophets of God, even before they themselves are able to make positive and accurate attunement with the masters.

In the matter of prophecy, the unpredictability of human will—the fact that it is free and can at any moment change its course—must be taken into account. If the fulfillment of divine predictions were inevitable, this would circumscribe man’s free will. Instead of providing him with a warning of the outcome of his inordinate behavior, prophecy, being inevitable, would preclude the possibility of man’s turning from his downward course and averting the action of the karmic hammer, even at the very last moment. (See the Book of Jonah and note Jonah’s prophecy of the destruction of Nineveh and its nonfulfillment due to the repentance of the people.)

Inasmuch as the Deity ever desires to provide for transcendence in life at every level of consciousness, the science of prophecy always takes into account mankind’s ever-present opportunity to change. If he changes, prophecies may also change. Nevertheless, the plotting of trends on the graph of human consciousness is done at divine levels, and the masters can and do foretell with great accuracy the denouement of personal and world karma. Since the harvest of current events is so delicately intertwined with mass and individual sowings, the latter often determine the former, and current events can therefore be predicted by the masters who have access to the karmic records of the earth and her evolutions.

Psychic Predictions

Dire foretellings that enter the subconscious minds of large numbers of people (especially when such predictions are publicized) tend to be fulfilled by the focusing of the mass energies of the people in the belief that the prediction will come to pass. In some cases, so much fear of impending doom is magnetized that great harm is brought to entire communities, even if events do not come to pass precisely as they were predicted.

A stir among psychics that infected many groups was caused by a prediction concerning the asteroid Icarus. This asteroid was to have collided with the earth on June 15, 1968.3 Five hundred people gathered at Boulder, Colorado, for the end of the world—even though scientific calculations showed that the asteroid would continue in its cigar-shaped orbit and come no closer than 3,950,000 miles from the earth.4

Commenting on this prediction the year before, the ascended master Cha Ara5 said: “At the present time, there is a tremendous activity being focused through the psychic forces of the world concerning the asteroid Icarus, which has now been located in the heavens by the astronomers.

“I would like to call to your attention that from time to time, mankind have had much greater perils sent against them from within their own forcefield, as a result of their impure thoughts and feelings, than that which has been directed against them from outer space. And for the record, I would reiterate this point: mankind have here upon this planetary body, if they wish to measure the potential of evil, far greater dangers threatening them from within than from without in outer space.

“I therefore say to the students to take heed that you reckon with reality, and be not moved by those who seek to move mankind through the impulse of fear. For the actual vibratory action that God desires to direct to mankind is that which will magnetize their attention to the Divine Presence in order that they may have their immortal freedom. When individuals are constantly made to fear, they are thereby separated from the great pole of cosmic love. Perfect love always casts out all fear, for fear has torment,6 and torment is no part of the real nature of God.

“Those who continue to purvey into the world of form a constant series of scare tactics are cooperating with the sinister forces who seek to spread abroad upon the world a psychic and astral horror that is intended to deter mankind from pursuing the great cosmic love of the Christ Self of their own beings.

“True reality will ultimately show mankind that God is the only way to escape, for the perfect love that casts out all fear abides and dwells in God. God is the power by which men are raised, from all dangers that may ever threaten them, into the great master sheepfold of life. There the Good Shepherd cares for the sheep and nurtures them until they are able to go forth into other pastures and be, indeed, no longer sheep but shepherds in the everlasting fold of spiritual regeneration.

“The love of the Father, scattered abroad throughout the universe, teaches men and women upon all planets and systems of worlds where embodied life exists (and even out into the realms of the spirits themselves where God seeks to preserve the Divine Image inviolate) to know and to be that which he is in the fullness of himself. For the love of God teaches the creation to manifest his fullness in the Christ light that he has sent forth as the means to create, to sustain, to preserve and to regenerate all life.”7

All men hold a fragment of destiny within their hands. Each man, in a limited framework, is the master of his fate. Many prefer to interpret the flow of events as the will of God when they, by their own actions or inactions, are directly responsible for what has become of the gift of life that was so tenderly placed in their hands.

While it is true that God disposes of man’s proposals, it is also true that man’s obedience to divine decrees will without fail eventuate in his freedom to manifest under divine law the fullness of self-mastery. There is a divine plan for every man. Some may choose to interpret this plan as the doctrine of predestination; however, it must be remembered that until man by his free will chooses to accept this plan, it cannot be fulfilled in his life. And until he accepts this plan, there is no predestination. Destiny must be sought, forged and won.

A Plot to Discredit True Religion

Many sincere and trusting souls have been victimized by unscrupulous practitioners who have defrauded them of either their money or their energies or both. This is one of the principal reasons that the intelligentsia of the world have scoffed at the spiritual activities of the Brotherhood. Those who practice various aspects of wizardry and those who purport to receive messages from God have delivered a diatribe of obvious hoax and a flood of questionable materials that, by strange coincidence, always seem to center on the exaltation of their own egos. Their motive has obviously been to attract the more simpleminded to themselves for the purpose of psychic control or personal adulation. Such practices have not set well with honest and rational people. When investigators like Sir Oliver Lodge and others exposed these activities as fraudulent, many became altogether disillusioned and turned their backs on every activity that laid claim to the supernatural.

What man has done in the name of religion has so discredited true religion “undefiled before God”8 that it is no wonder that many intelligent, reasoning people have gone the pathway of an ethical humanism, of agnosticism, or even of atheism or nihilism. These would rather go hungry than partake of the mold that is substituted by modern theologians for the manna of heaven and the meat of the Word. We must admit that the purposes of Antichrist have been well served.

Perish the thought that there are no well-meaning investigators and spiritualistic mediums on the planet. We have contacted many and are aware of others. These individuals are honest of heart and, to the best of their ability, strive to serve God and man. The problem, however, lies not with their sincerity (which even the great ones do not question) but with their own misdirected efforts. These are the blind who lead the blind—and sooner or later both fall into the astral pit.9 Although they have the best of intentions, the road they pave can only lead to the hell that is the psychic world.

Continued in Part 9, published in Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 48 no. 22.


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“Psychic Thralldom” is chapter 2 of Paths of Light and Darkness, Book 6 of Climb the Highest Mountain series by Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Parts 1-9 of “Psychic Thralldom” are published in 2005 Pearls of Wisdom Nos. 14-22. The publications listed in these notes are Summit University Press publications unless otherwise noted. For ordering information, go to The Summit Lighthouse online store.

1. Phil. 2:5.

2. I Cor. 14:22.

3. Rocky Mountain News, June 15, 1968.

4. Rocky Mountain News, June 17, 1968.

5. The ascended master Cha Ara is an adept of the fifth ray. See page 52 of The Masters and Their Retreats by Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet for Cha Ara’s profile.

6. I John 4:18.

7. Cha Ara, February 19, 1967.

8. James 1:27.

9. Matt. 15:14


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