There is still another way in which we can look at the entire
subject of response between broadcasting areas of [20] consciousness and the receiving
areas of consciousness. We might list the divisions of this process. Much must remain
theoretical, and little can, as yet, be worked out in practice. However, let me list the
various forms of telepathic work for your general instruction:
- Telepathic
work from solar plexus to solar plexus. With this we have already dealt. This is
closely connected with feeling, and little or no thought is involved; it concerns emotions
(fear, hate, disgust, love, desire and many other purely astral reactions). It is carried
on instinctively and below the diaphragm.
- Telepathic
work from mind to mind. This is beginning to be possible, and many more people are
capable of this kind of communication than is now realized. People today do not know
whence various mental impressions come, and this greatly enhances the complexity of life
at this time and increases the mental problem of thousands.
- Telepathic
work from heart to heart. This type of impression is the sublimation of the
"feeling" response registered earlier upon the ladder of evolution in the solar
plexus. It concerns only group impressions, and is the basis of the condition
spoken of in the Bible in connection with the greatest Sensitive humanity has ever
produced, the Christ. There He is referred to as "A man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief," but in this condition no personal sorrow or grief is involved. It
is simply the consciousness of the sorrow of the world and the weight of grief under which
humanity struggles. "The fellowship of Christ's suffering" is the reaction of
the disciple to the same world condition. This is the true "broken heart," and
is as yet a very rare thing to find. The usual broken heart is literally a disrupted solar
plexus center, bringing complete demolition of what is occultly called "the center of
feeling," and consequently the wrecking of the nervous system. It is [21] really
brought about by a failure to handle conditions as a soul.
- Telepathic
work from soul to soul. This is, for humanity, the highest possible type of work.
When a man can begin, as a soul, to respond to other souls and their impacts and
impressions, then he is rapidly becoming ready for the processes which lead to initiation.
There are two other groups of telepathic possibilities which I would like to list for you.
They are possibilities only when the four above mentioned groups of telepathic impression
are beginning to form a conscious part of the disciple's experience.
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