Harmful magnetic conditions, as the result of man's wrong handling of force are the causes of evil in the world around us, including the three sub-human kingdoms. How can we, as individuals, change this? By the development in ourselves of Harmlessness. Therefore, study yourself from this angle. Study your daily conduct and words and thoughts so as to make them utterly harmless. Set yourself to think those thoughts about yourself and others which will be constructive and positive, and hence harmless in their effects. Study your emotional effect on others so that by no mood, no depression, and no emotional reaction can you harm a fellow-man. Remember in this connection, violent spiritual aspiration and enthusiasm, misplaced or misdirected, may quite easily harm a fellow-man, so look not only at your wrong tendencies but at the use of your virtues.
If harmlessness is the keynote of your life, you will do more to produce right harmonious conditions in your personality than any amount of discipline along other lines. The drastic purgation brought about by the attempt to be harmless will go far to eliminate wrong [Page 102] states of consciousness. See to it therefore, and bring this idea in your evening review.
I would like to urge each one who reads these pages to make a fresh beginning in spiritual living. I would say to him, forget all past achievements, realize fervour, and concentrate upon the Plan.
By this time some progress in group realization has surely been made, and less interest in the separated self has been gained. More faith in the Good Law which guides all creation to ultimate perfection has been visioned without doubt, and, through this vision, has come the capacity to take one's eyes off the affairs of individual experience, and fasten them on the working out of the purpose for the whole. This is the objective and the goal. Breadth of vision, inclusiveness of understanding and a widened horizon are the preliminary essentials to all work under the guidance of the hierarchy of adepts; the stabilizing of the consciousness in the one life, and the recognition of the basic unity of all creation has to be somewhat developed before any one can be trusted with certain knowledges and Words of Power and the manipulation of those forces which bring the subjective reality into outer manifestation.
Therefore, I say to you at this time, I—an older and perhaps more experienced disciple and worker in the great vineyard of the Lord—practice harmlessness with zest and understanding, for it is (if truly carried out) the destroyer of all limitation. Harmfulness is based on selfishness, and on an ego-centric attitude. It is the demonstration of forces concentrated for self-enforcement, self-aggrandisement, and self-gratification. Harmlessness is the expression of the life of the man who realizes himself to be everywhere, who lives consciously as a soul, whose nature is love, whose method is inclusiveness, and to whom all forms are alike in that they veil and hide the light, and are but externalizations of [Page 103] the one Infinite Being. This realization, let me remind you, will demonstrate in a true comprehension of a brother's need, divorced from sentiment and expediency. It will lead to that silence of the tongue which grows out of non-reference to the separate self. It will produce that instantaneous response to true need which characterizes the Great Ones who (passing beneath the outer appearance) see the inner cause which produces the conditions noted in the outer life, and so, from that point of wisdom, true help and guidance can be given. Harmlessness brings about in the life caution in judgment, reticence in speech, ability to refrain from impulsive action, and the demonstration of a non-critical spirit. So, free passage can be given to the forces of true love, and to those spiritual energies which seem to vitalize the personality, leading consequently to right action.
Let harmlessness, therefore, be the keynote of your life. An evening review should be carried forward entirely along this line; divide the review work in three parts and consider:
1. Harmlessness in thought.
This will primarily result in the control of speech.
2. Harmlessness in emotional reaction. This will result in being a channel for the
love aspect of the soul.
3. Harmlessness in act.
This will produce poise, skill in action and the release of the creative
will.
(Alice Bailey, A Theatise on White Magic, pp. 101-104)
I tell you that the achieving of harmlessness in the positive sense (not in the negative) means the attainment of that step which leads definitely to the Portal of Initiation. When first mentioned, it sounds of small moment, and to bring the whole subject of initiation into such small account that it becomes unimportant. But let him who so thinks practice that positive harmlessness which works out in right thought (because based on intelligent love), right speech (because governed by self-control), and right action (because founded on an understanding of the Law), and he will find that the attempt will call forth all the resources of his being and take much time to achieve. It is not the harmlessness that comes from weakness and sentimental loving disposition, which dislikes trouble because it upsets the settled harmony of life and leads to consequent [Page 318] discomfort. It is not the harmlessness of the little evolved negative impotent man or woman, who has not the power to hurt because possessing so little equipment wherewith damage can be done.
It is the harmlessness that springs from true understanding
and control of the personality by the soul, that leads inevitably to spiritual
expression in every-day life. It
emanates from a capacity to enter into the consciousness and to penetrate into
the realisation of one's brother, and when this has been accomplished—all is
forgiven and all is lost sight of in the desire to aid and to help.
[...]
The practice of harmlessness is the best and easiest [Page 319] way for the
aspirant to work. There is then nothing
in him which is inimical to any life in any form, and he therefore attracts to
himself only that which is beneficent.
He uses the beneficent forces thus attracted for the helping of other
beings. This has to be the first step,
and the discipline it entails and the constant supervision of all the
activities on the three planes of human evolution and of all reactions bring
the emotional body under the
dominance of the illumined mind. They
also bring about the understanding of one's fellow men.
(A Theatise on White Magic, Selection of texts from pp. 318-319)
The need for an increasing subtlety of discrimination is
constant, and all dedicated students are urged to take stock of themselves at
this time. They face a new cycle of
service and must avail themselves of a new day of opportunity. There is a great need to stand in spiritual
being; where there is this poised standing, there will be no need for others to
incite one to service. Let the "Forces
of Light" flow through, and the ranks of the world servers will be rapidly
filled. Let the "Spirit of
Peace" use the lower nature as an instrument, and there will be peace and
harmony within the personal field of service.
Let the "Spirit of Good Will" dominate our minds and there
will be no room for the spirit of criticism and the spreading of destructive
discussion. It is for this reason and in
order to develop a group of servers who can work along true and spiritual
lines, that there must be increasing emphasis upon the need for Harmlessness. Harmlessness prepares the way for the inflow
of life; harmlessness dissipates the obstructions to the free outpouring of
love; harmlessness is the key to the release of the lower nature from the grip of the world illusion and from
the power of phenomenal existence.
(Εsoteric Phychology ΙΙ, pp. 129-130
It can be seen, therefore, why I have so emphatically impressed the need of harmlessness upon all of you, for it is the scientific method, par excellence and esoterically speaking, of cleaning house and of purifying the centres. Its practice clears the clogged channels and permits the entrance of the higher energies.
[...]
It is not easy for me to show or prove to you the effectiveness of the higher aspect, spiral or phase of harmlessness as employed by the Hierarchy, under the direction of the Perfect One, the Christ. The harmlessness with which I have earlier dealt has relation to the imperfections with which humanity is wrestling, and is difficult for you to apply in and under all circumstances, as well you know. The harmlessness to which I refer in connection with you is not negative, or sweet or kindly activity, as so many believe; it is a state of mind and one which in no way negates firm or even drastic action; it concerns motive and involves the determination that the motive behind all activity is goodwill. That motive might lead to positive and sometimes disagreeable action or speech, but as harmlessness and goodwill condition the mental approach, nothing can eventuate but good.
On a higher turn of the spiral, the Hierarchy also employs
harmlessness, but it is related to the will-to-good and involves the use of
dynamic, electric energy under intuitive direction; this type of energy is
never brought into activity by man; it is energy which he cannot yet
handle. This type of harmlessness is
based on complete self-sacrifice, wherein the will-to-sacrifice, the
will-to-good and the will-to-power (three phases of the will aspect, as
expressed through the [Page 671] Spiritual
Triad) are all fused into one dynamic energy of a deeply spiritual nature. This energy is the epitome of complete or
perfect harmlessness, where humanity and the subsidiary kingdoms in nature are
concerned, but it is expulsive in its effect and dynamic in its annihilating impact,
where the Forces of Evil are concerned.
(Esoteric Healing,
Selection of texts from on 318-319)
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