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Episode 10 - Occult Reasons · Vegetarianism and Occultism

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  Section ten Occult reasons. Under this heading, also we shall have two sets
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  of reasons, those which refer to ourselves and our own development, and those
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  which refer to the great scheme of evolution and our duty towards it, so
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  that once more we may classify them as selfish and unselfish, although at a
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  much higher level than before. I have I hope clearly shown in the earlier
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  part of this lecture that there is simply no room for discussion in regard to
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  this question of vegetarianism. The whole of the evidence and of the considerations are
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  entirely on one side, and there is absolutely nothing to be said in opposition
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  to them. This is even more strikingly the case when we come to consider
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  the occult part of our agreement. There are some students hovering around the fringes
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  of occultism who are not yet prepared to follow its dictates to the uttermost,
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  and therefore do not accept its teaching when it interferes with their personal habits and
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  desires. Some such have tried to maintain that the question of food can make
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  little difference from the occult standpoint, but the unanimous verdict of all of the
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  great schools of occultism, both ancient and modern, has been definite on this
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  point, and has asserted that for all true progress, purity is necessary,
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  even on the physical plane and in matters of diet, as well as in
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  far higher matters. In many books and lectures, I have already explained the
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  existence of the different planes of nature and of the vast unseen world all about
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  us, And I have also had occasion to refer often to the fact that
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  man has within himself matter belonging to all these higher planes, so that he
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  is furnished with the vehicle corresponding to each of them, through which he can
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  receive impressions and by means of which he can act. Can these higher bodies
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  of man be in any way affected by the food which enters into the physical
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  body with which they are so closely connected. Assuredly they can, And for
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  this reason the physical matter and man is in close touch with the astral and
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  mental matter, so much so that each is, to a great extent a
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  counterpart of the other. There are many types in degrees of density among astral
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  matter, for example, so that it is possible for one man to have
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  an astral body built of course, and gross particles while another may have one
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  which is much more delicate and refined. As the astral body is the vehicle
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  of the emotions, passions, and sensations, it follows that the man whose
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  astral body is of the grosser type will be chiefly amenable to the grosser varieties
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  of passion and emotion, whereas the man who has a finer astral body will
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  find that its particles most readily vibrate in response to higher and more refined emotions
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  and aspirations. The man, therefore, who builds gross and undesirable matter into
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  his physical body, is thereby drawing into his astral body matter of a course
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  an unpleasant type as its counterpart. We all know that on the physical plane,
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  the effect of overindulgence in dead flesh is to produce a course gross appearance
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  in the man. That does not mean that it is only the physical body
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  which is in an unlovely condition. It means also that those parts of the
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  man which are invisible to our ordinary sight, the astral and the mental bodies,
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  are not in good condition either. Thus, a man who is building
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  himself a gross and impure physical body is building for himself at the same time
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  coarse and unclean astral and mental bodies as well, that is visible at once
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  to the eye of the developed clairvoyant. The man who learns to see these
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  higher vehicles sees at once the effects on the higher bodies produced by impurity in
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  the lower. He sees at once the difference between the man who feeds his
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  physical vehicle with pure food and the man who puts into it this loathsome decaying
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  flesh. Let us see how this difference will affect the man's evolution. End
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  of Section ten.