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CHAPTER XIII.— Other Branches of the Work · Invisible Helpers

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  Chapter thirteen of Invisible Helpers. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  LibriVox dot org. Invisible Helpers by C. W. Leadbetter, Chapter thirteen.
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  Other branches of the work. The turning back again now from the all
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  important work among the dead to the consideration of the work among the living,
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  we must briefly indicate a great branch of it, without a notice of which
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  our account of the labors of our Invisible helpers would indeed be incomplete. And
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  that is the immense amount which is done by suggestion, by simply putting good
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  thoughts into the minds of those who are ready to receive them. Let there
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  be no mistake as to what is meant here. It would be perfectly easy,
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  easy to a degree which would be quite incredible to those who do not
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  understand the subject. Practically for a helper to dominate the mind of any average
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  man and make him think just as he pleased, and that without arousing the
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  faintest suspicion of any outside influence in the mind of the subject. But however
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  admirable the result might be, such a proceeding would be entirely inadmissible. All
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  that may be done is to throw the good thought into the person's mind as
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  one among the hundreds that are constantly sweeping through it. Whether the man takes
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  it up, makes it his own, and acts upon it depends entirely upon
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  himself. Were it otherwise, it is obvious that all the good karma of
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  the action would accrue to the helper, only for the subject would have been
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  a mere tool and not an actor, which is not what is desired.
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  The assistance given in this way is exceedingly varied in character. The consolation of
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  those who are suffering or in sorrow at once suggests itself, as does also
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  the endeavor to guide toward the truth those who are earnestly seeking it. When
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  a person is spending much anxious thought upon some spiritual or metaphysical problem, it
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  is often possible to put the solution into his mind without his being at all
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  aware that it comes from external agency. A pupil, too, may often
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  be employed as an agent in what can hardly be described otherwise than as the
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  answering of prayer. For though it is true that any earnest spiritual desire,
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  such as might be supposed to find its expression in prayer, is itself a
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  force which automatically brings about certain results. It is also a fact that such
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  a spiritual effort offers an opportunity of influence to the powers of good, of
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  which they are not slow to take advantage. And it is sometimes the privilege
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  of a willing helper to be made the channel through which their energy is poured
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  forth. What is said of prayers is true to an even greater extent of
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  meditation for those to whom this higher exercise is a possibility. Besides these more
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  general methods of help, there are also special lines open only to a few.
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  Again and again, such pupils as are fitted for the work, have
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  been employed to suggest true and beautiful thoughts to authors, poets, artists,
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  and musicians. But obviously it is not every helper who is capable of being
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  used in this way. Sometimes, though more rarely, it is possible to
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  warn persons of the danger to their moral development of some course which they are
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  pursuing, to clear away evil influences from about some person or place, or
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  to counteract the machinations of black magicians. It is not often the direct in
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  instruction in the great truths of nature can be given to people outside the circle
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  of occult students. But occasionally it is possible to do something in that way
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  of putting before the minds of preachers and teachers a wider range of thought or
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  a more liberal view of some question than they would otherwise have taken naturally.
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  As an occult student progresses on the path, he attains a wider sphere of
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  usefulness. Instead of assisting individuals only, he learns how classes, nations,
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  and races are dealt with, and he is entrusted with a gradually increasing share
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  of the higher and more important work done by the adepts themselves. As he
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  acquires the requisite power and knowledge, he begins to wield the greater forces of
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  the mental and the astral planes, and is shown how to make the utmost
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  possible use of each favorable cyclic influence. He is brought into relation with those
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  great nirmaniciahs who are sometimes symbolized as the stones of the Guardian Wall, and
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  he becomes, at first, of course, in the very humblest capacity,
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  one of the band of their almoners, and learns how those forces are dispersed
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  which are the fruit of their sublime self sacrifice. Thus he rises gradually higher
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  and higher, until blossoming at length into a depth ship. He is able
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  to take his full share of the responsibility which lies upon the masters of wisdom,
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  and to help others along the road which he has trodden. On the
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  mental plane, the work differs somewhat, since teaching can be both given and
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  received in a much more direct, rapid, and perfect manner, while the
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  influences set in motion are infinitely more powerful because acting on so much higher a
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  level. But though it is youth ulic to speak of it in detail at
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  present, since so few of us are yet able to function consciously upon this
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  plane during life, here also, and even higher still, there is always
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  plenty of work to be done, as soon as ever we can make ourselves
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  capable of doing it. And there is certainly no fear that for countless eons
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  we shall ever find ourselves without a career of unselfish usefulness open before us.
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  End of Chapter thirteen,