LIGHT ON THE PATH - 6

*🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 6 🌹*

*🍀 For those WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN - For DISCIPLES 🍀*

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

*🌻 1. BEFORE THE EYES CAN SEE THEY MUST BE IN CAPABLE OF TEARS - 6 🌻* 

43. C.W.L. – Our President has explained with regard to the first four statements in this book, beginning “Before the eyes can see they must be incapable of tears,” that they may be taken in quite a wrong way, and are then as acceptable to the black magician as to ourselves. 

He would understand them to mean that he must kill out all feeling, build himself into a shell and shut the sorrows and the troubles of the world outside it.

That is exactly the opposite of the teaching given to the pupil on the white path, who is taught to increase his power of feeling until he attains perfect sympathy with the sufferings of his fellow-men.

44. We hear a good deal about the black magicians, but I fancy that few people know much about them. 

I have met many specimens of the genus, and can therefore claim to know something of their nature and methods. Some of them are very interesting people, but by no means desirable acquaintances. There are many different types who are classed under the general title of black magician. 

For instance, the negroes in South Africa and in the West Indies, and probably the aborigines of Australia, practise a good deal of petty black magic. It is a very poor thing; even they themselves admit that it does not work on white people. 

One has heard of certain cases in which they have succeeded in making white people exceedingly uncomfortable, but one must add that it was made possible by the kind of life those people led. 

Such magic depends for its success largely upon the fear of the people upon whom the incantations are laid, yet it is a real enough thing in its feeble way. These primitive people have certain drugs, they know how to hypnotize, and they have power over some low-class earth-spirits and similar entities. 

They contrive to cause sickness to a man, or in his family, or among his flocks and herds, or to blast his gardens and fields so that they will not bear crops; though in the latter case they are not above aiding their magic sometimes by saltpetre as well.

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