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First ray people can overcome glamour with relative ease, once they become
aware of it as a personality limitation |
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Second ray aspirants are usually aware of their glamours because they have an
innate faculty of clear perception Their
problem is to eliminate their too rapid response to the ‘magnetic pull of the
astral plane’ and its many glamours They
are less responsive to a glamour
than to all glamours, albeit in a
relatively temporary manner, which delays their progress greatly Because
of their clear-sightedness, they add to their sensitivity to glamour an
ability to suffer about it They
register their responsiveness as ‘sin and failure,’ and thus delay liberation
from it by their ‘negative’ attitude of inferiority and distress They could profit enormously from
constant use of the formula until they can be aware of glamours, but are not
‘touched’ by them |
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Third ray people are as susceptible to glamour as are those of the sixth
ray Their
devious, twisting, planning minds, and the rapidity with which they can
deceive themselves (and others), hinders them from clearing away glamour Their
tendency to be ‘victims of glamour’ (or ‘glamourised’) is shown by their
difficulty in conveying meaning clearly by speech The third ray person has guarded himself for many lives by devious formulations
of thought and ideas, and can seldom convey meaning clearly This
is why sixth ray people and third ray people
almost inevitably prove unable to teach very well. Both must, therefore, learn to
use this formula Sixth ray people and third
ray people could hasten the process of dissipation if they would
force themselves to speak or write their thoughts clearly, and if they would
never allow themselves to be ambiguous, or deal in half thoughts, innuendo or
suggestion They should (make great effort to)
clearly enunciate any ideas with which they are dealing |
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Fourth ray people are peculiarly prone to fall into glamour; this can
produce extreme difficulty They
tend to bring their illusions
down to the astral plane, and there clothe them with glamour They
have consequently a double problem upon their hands - they are faced with a
unification of glamour and illusion They
are, however, the group of souls that will eventually reveal the true nature of the intuition This will be the result of their illusory glamorous fight in the world
of appearances |
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Fifth ray people suffer the least from glamour but are primarily the
victims of illusion For
them the Technique of the Presence is all-important; it brings in the fact of
the Higher Self, a factor the fifth ray person is apt to negate or even
refuse to admit He
feels (too) self-sufficient Fifth ray people respond tooeasily and with such satisfaction to the power of thought Pride
in mental competence is their ‘besetting sin’ and they become too set in
their purposes and too preoccupied with the world of the concrete and the
intellectual The
moment the Angel of the Presence becomes a reality to them, their response to
illusion weakens and disappears Their
major problem is not so much the negation of the astral body (for they are
apt to despise its hold), but they do have difficulty in recognising that
which the mind is intended to reveal — the divine spiritual Self Their lower concrete mind interposes
itself between them and the vision |
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The
majority of those working in the field of glamour are sixth ray aspirants
(those who have sixth ray personalities or souls, plus those on all rays who have
powerful sixth ray astral vehicles) These
make the most effective workers in this field but they are subject to one
major difficulty - in spite of aspiration
and good intention, they are
seldom aware of the glamours that control them! It
is exceedingly hard for a sixth ray aspirant to admit that s/he is held by
glamour, particularly when it is glamour of spiritual connotation or of a
very high order Their
glamour is actually enhanced by
their energy of devotion, which ‘stiffens’ it, making it most difficult to
penetrate Their
complete assurance is a serious
obstacle to clear-sighted work, because all
that has to go before the work of dissipation can be carried forward
successfully This
is why sixth ray people and third ray people
almost inevitably prove unable to teach very well. Both must, therefore, learn to use this
formula Sixth ray people and third ray people would greatly
hasten the process of dissipation if they would force themselves to speak or
write their thoughts clearly, and if they would never allow themselves to be
ambiguous, or to deal in half thoughts, innuendo or suggestion They should (make the effort to)
clearly enunciate any ideas with which they are dealing |
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The seventh ray
person is faced with the difficulty of his
being able to create exceedingly clear-cut thought-forms The
glamours that control him, therefore, tend to be precise, definite and, to
him, all compelling They rapidly
crystallise, however, and die their own death |
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