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The initial guide to The Man, as depicted in Etidorhpa, was apparently a mind reader. And, according to The Man, his creature-like guide of the underworld told of many of our fellow humans on the surface who move among us us and influence events, who are mind readers. I imagine that these people have been cultivated in the depths below. Now we can imagine for what purpose are the abductions that go on. Supposedly for a good cause, but who determines what our good cause is. The demons must surely have such people, and I'm sure that they have their justifications, and the hollow earthers must, too, with their justifications. They must be everywhere; department chairmen at universities, chief executive officers at a company, the chief librarian at county library systems, police chiefs, et cetera. No wonder we don't get the promotions and careers that we deserve. So keep this in mind. The rascals at your company who play good cop, bad cop with you are there to keep you out of any decision making; and make a fool out of you in the process. Be careful and limit your exposure. And remember, they are from below!
So, in Chapter Nine of Etidorhpa the Man comes to understand from his underworld guide that his initial, surface guide was a mind reader:
"His accomplishments, for the methods of his perception were unaccompanied
by any endeavor to draw me into word expression, made me aware at least,
that, in him, I had to deal with a man unquestionably possessed of more than
ordinary intellect and education, and as this conviction entered my mind he
changed his subject and promptly answered the silent inquiry, speaking as
follows:
'Have you not sometimes felt that in yourself there may exist undeveloped
senses that await an awakening touch to open to yourself a new world, senses
that may be fully developed, but which saturate each other and neutralize
themselves; quiescent, closed circles which you can not reach, satisfied
circuits slumbering within your body and that defy your efforts to utilize
them? In your dreams have you not seen sights that words are inadequate to
describe, that your faculties cannot retain in waking moments, and which
dissolve into intangible nothingness, leaving only a vague, shadowy outline
as the mind quickens, or rather when the senses that possess you in sleep
relinquish the body to the returning vital functions and spirit? This
unconscious conception of other planes, a beyond or betwixt, that is neither
mental nor material, neither here nor located elsewhere, belongs to humanity
in general, and is made evident from the unsatiable desire of men to pry
into phenomena latent or recondite that offer no apparent return to
humanity. This desire has given men the knowledge they now possess of the
sciences; sciences yet in their infancy. Study in this direction is, at
present, altogether of the material plane, but in time to come, men will
gain control of outlying senses which will enable them to step from the seen
into the consideration of matter or force that is now subtle and evasive,
which must be accomplished day means of the latent faculties that I have
indicated. There will be an unconscious development of new mind-forces in
the student of nature as the rudiments of these so-called sciences are
elaborated. Step by step, as the ages pass, the faculties of men will,
under progressive series of evolutions, imperceptibly pass into higher
phases until that which is even now possible with some individuals of the
purified esoteric school, but which would seem miraculous if practiced
openly at this day, will prove feasible to humanity generally and be found
in exact accord with natural laws. The conversational method of men, whereby
communion between human beings is carried on by disturbing the air by means
of vocal organs so as to produce mechanical pulsations of that medium, is
crude in the extreme. Mind craves to meet mind, but can not yet thrust
matter aside, and in order to communicate one with another, the impression
one mind wishes to convey to another must be first made on the brain matter
that accompanies it, which in turn influences the organs of speech, inducing
a disturbance of the air by the motions of the vocal organs, which, by
undulations that reach to another being, act on his ear, and secondarily on
the earthly matter of his brain, and finally by this roundabout course,
impress the second being's mind. In this transmission of motions there is
great waste of energy and loss of time, but such methods are a necessity of
the present slow, much-obstructed method of communication.
There is, in cultivated man, an innate craving for something more facile,
and often a partly developed conception, spectral and vague, appears, and
the being feels that there may be for mortals a richer, brighter life, a
higher earthly existence that science does not now indicate. Such intimation
of a deeper play of faculties is now most vivid with men during the perfect
loss of mental self as experienced in dreams, which as yet man in the quick
can not grasp, and which fade as he awakens. As mental sciences are
developed, investigators will find that the medium known as air is
unnecessary as a means of conveying mind conceptions from one person to
another; that material sounds and word pulsations are cumbersome; that
thought force unexpressed may be used to accomplish more than speech can do,
and that physical exertions as exemplified in motion of matter such as I
have described will be unnecessary for mental communication. As door after
door in these directions shall open before men, mystery after mystery will
be disclosed, and vanish as mysteries to reappear as simple facts. Phenomena
that are impossible and unrevealed to the scientist of to-day will be
familiar to the coming multitude, and at last, as by degrees, clearer
knowledge is evolved, the vocal language of men will disappear, and
humanity, regardless of nationality, will, in silence and even in darkness,
converse eloquently together in mind language. That which is now esoteric
will become exoteric. Then mind will meet mind as my mind now impinges on
your own, and, in reply to your unuttered question regarding my apparently
unaccountable powers of perception, I say they are perfectly natural, but
while I can read your thoughts, because of the fact that you can not
reciprocate in this direction, I must use my voice to impress your mind. You
will know more of this, however, at a future day, for it has been ordained
that you are to be educated with an object that is now concealed. At present
you are interested mainly in the affairs of life as you know them, and can
not enter into these purer spheres. We are approaching one of your former
friends, and it may be your pleasure to ask him some questions and to bid
him farewell.'"
"'Do you mean that, among men, there are a few persons possessed of powers
such as you have mentioned?"
"Yes; they move here and there through all orders of society, and their
attainments are unknown, except to one another, or, at most, to but few
persons. These adepts are scientific men, and may not even be recognized as
members of our organization; indeed it is often necessary, for obvious
reasons, that they should not be known as such. These studies must
constantly be prosecuted in various directions, and some monitors must teach
others to perform certain duties that are necessary to the grand evolution.
Hence, when a man has become one of our brotherhood, from the promptings
that made you one of us, and has been as ready and determined to instruct
outsiders in our work as you have been, it is proper that he should in turn
be compelled to serve our people, and eventually, mankind.'"
Do visit the Etidorhpa site. Also, you can buy the book on the web.
Dean