Controlling Your Destiny – Sri Paul Twitchell
February 16, 1964
My Dearest One:
I would like to get into that phase of creative imagination which is dangerous to those who wish to control others from a leadership position.
This is an old story which you will recognize from your childhood days; it is evident around you in so many ways that often it slips your guard without your detecting its malignant force, and the seed is planted in your mind: Suddenly one day you awaken and find that your mind is acting in accordance with what another wishes you to do. Let's go back to that article on yin and yang, which i discussed this from another viewpoint — from cause and effect, etc. If you remember, I kept pointing out that yang is the positive aspect of the dual nature of the law which governs our earthly lives.
Now, yang is that part of the law which builds positive desires in your mind — planting the seeds that a product, a religious belief, or a certain person as a mate is best. Advertising is a good example of this — an ad must be written in the manner which strikes that part of the individual's mind — the imaginative faculty and feeling — to make him buy the product. There is a billboard at the corner of Forty-eighth and Geary streets for a Japanese airline. It reads: "Fly with me to Hong Kong" and displays the picture of a flight attendant, a Japanese girl, who is making the speech. It is aimed for the male trade — and the first time I looked at it, there was a desire created for the idea of taking a trip to Hong Kong with a beautiful flight attendant on board. It was a personal-appeal sign! It was designed exactly for that reason — romance, travel, adventure! Something that appeals to every person in the humdrum of life! See what I'm saying?
This control of the imagination comes on every side of you. When your boss wants agreement on something which he or she desires, it is a control of your imagination and feelings. This is perfectly all right under the circumstances, provided that you know what is being done and do not let it affect you . You do not subject yourself to control by others , but you play out a role with them , never letting anyone know your inner feelings. Thus it comes to the point of playing games — a subject that I dwelled on in the letters first written for you last year. [See Letters to Gail, Volume I, March 1 and 7, 1963.]
This business of advertising is an ancient art of the occult. It is black magic, and black magic has to do with controlling the imagination. I once heard a story in India of a black magician who would kill for a price and made a good living at it. The story goes that a woman, who had been widowed, once approached him to murder a stepson who had been named in her late husband's will to inherit the family fortune.If the stepson died she, as the remaining member of the family, would get the fortune. But somebody overheard them making the agreement to kill the youth and informed him. He went to another black magician and asked for protection.
The plan was to send a phantom — a fierce warrior on horseback — to the boy's room at midnight. The very sight of the wild phantom would kill the boy through fear. But the protector told the boy to put a rope around himself and sit in the circle made of it, within his room, and that under no circumstances should he go to sleep.At midnight the phantom appeared and tried to charge the boy; but it couldn't get past the rope, and at 12:30 a.m. disappeared to kill its originator. Now the whole theory behind this is that through the use of imagination a real magician can conjure up such evil phantoms, for they are a living reality on the Astral Plane. One exists there in the same manner as described above — and all black magicians who bilocate (i.e. Soul Travel) come in contact with these demons and can control them. But it is still under the Law of Cause and Effect. The black magician sends forth these demons to kill the boy, and by so doing creates the cause from himself. But the demon fails, and being so aroused in its desire to kill, must kill something — so it returns to its originator and destroys him.
This is the real point I'm making: That those who try to force evil upon another will be destroyed by that evil; for the Law of Cause and Effect, Karmic Law, will destroy the creator — provided the victim is protected by love, devices given by another creator, or the natural protection of God, the almighty SUGMAD. Under no circumstances should a person have to suffer the devious machinations of another.
Another interesting event I'll give you as an example is that of a widow who became the victim of a group of men who knew the art of occultism. She had money, and they were working to sell her a piece of worthless stock, which she recognized as such. But after a few days she had the urge to purchase the stock against her better judgment and willpower. She consulted an occultist who told her to conjure up pictures of refusing the stock no matter what the consequences might be for her. She won out, but she didn't know until later that three of the schemers had sat together in silence, constantly making images of her buying the stock they were trying to palm off on her. It amounted to hypnotism at a distance. One who sends out mental or inward whisperings to you, combined with mental pictures, to control you and your actions, can eventually control you if necessary.
This is why public figures like politicians often get bad health — because they have so many people who dislike them, curse them, or wish them evil. Such is the case with the Kennedy family, a terrible tragedy. We can even find this in the religious field, especially in the Catholic religion where all those who die are assigned to purgatory and must remain there until they are ready to move into heaven. The image is established in the minds of the followers — they expect this and will get there, then they will not be able to get out until they are either prayed out or are able to leave because of someone else . Now this might be a revelation for you — Spiritualism believes in the same thing, but the terminology is different, and they describe a purgatory in a manner different from the way the Catholics do.
What I am trying to tell you is that you need not let anyone else control your imagination and feeling, even from the other side of the veil. You must become your sole master, taking the responsibility of controlling your destiny even in the spiritual world. Nobody is going to do anything for you except for his own benefit. Gaining something from your labors and your body is what they want, and believe me, you'll find plenty who will use their own imaginative powers and feeling force to put you under their control. As long as you know and understand what is going on around you, then you can decide whether you want something to happen or not. More later.
Paul
From Letters to Gail, Vol. III by Paul Twitchell, © 1990 Eckankar
