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From "Dashed Against the Rock" by W. J. Colville, 1894
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(heavily influenced if not written by John W. Keely)
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Placed in the public domain on August 30, 1989 by Vangard Sciences, PO
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BOX 1031, Mesquite, TX, 75150:(214) 324-8741 (Jerry ) or
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(214) 484-3189 (Ron)
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Comments by Aldebaran (pseudonym for Keely in "Dashed Against the Rock")
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GNOSTICISM VS. AGNOSTICISM
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I hold that ONE SUPREME FORCE, which we may term the
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incomprehensible, holds within itself all these sublime qualities, as an
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octave embraces its many tones.
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This force expressed in the human organism, in the varied impulses
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already designated, has what may be termed CONCORDANT CHORD-SETTINGS
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dominated by one or other of the above-named differentiations of this
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supreme force. Now let us ask what makes human beings differ the one
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from the other.
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The reason we give for this striking natural phenomenon is that in
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one individual these chord-settings are allowed full amplitude in
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action, while in others they are suppressed, and by suppression rendered
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latent.
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To illustrate : we will picture a beggar asking alms of a richly
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dressed gentleman, who passes by entirely oblivious of the suppliant's
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needs; but here the wonderful law of sympathetic action intercedes,
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making the wealthy individual comprehend the necessitous condition of
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the pauper.
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At this point the EGO enters the chamber of ordeal; here, in
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commonplace life, in every-day surroundings, man is tried; this is
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INITIATION.
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The well-to-do man goes on his way, not caring to stop, hurried
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perchance by the urgency of worldly affairs; the chord-setting
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representing that differentiation of infinite force called by us
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COMPASSION, acting upon its concordant chord-setting, loudly proclaims
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to the EGO what is right action, and the opportunity passing when it
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should be seized, powerfully exerts its force against the will of the
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personality that would suppress its action.
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Here is where the battle is fought; simple though the illustration
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may appear, it forcibly sets forth the actual conflict continually
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waging between divine wisdom and mortal error, carelessness, and
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ignorance.
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The man of wealth and position goes on, perhaps, for some distance,
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the battle all the while continuing; finally, he stops and turns back,
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he yields to the dominating influence of that chord-setting; he gives
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the beggar alms and goes on his way with the skies bright above him: he
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has won a battle he will not have to fight again.
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Understand that victory is won, not by the giving of alms, but by
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YIELDING to that divine force-differentiation.
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If this chord-setting had not retained its dominance, it would only
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require a few instances of the above type to render it latent, and when
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latent the person is no longer amenable to influences calculated to
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arouse compassion.
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In like manner, other centres may be rendered latent by repeated
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suppression, until we find a person so dead to all appeals from the
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various chord-settings that his whole course in life is represented by
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the sum-total of the antagonisms internally produced: results proving
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this are seen every day.
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You ask why do people commit such blunders and perform such acts as
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they do, all the while seemingly unable to help themselves.
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The reason is that they have RENDERED LATENT these centres which
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otherwise would have given them the power to rightly control their deeds
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instead of being, as they now are, dominated exclusively by the forces
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of aggregated matter which we usually call the self-will of the outer
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personality, as distinguished from the distinctly humane individuality
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which always responds to a divine appeal.
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It can be readily seen from this example that a man can mould himself
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practically as he chooses; though he may have to encounter many
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obstacles erected by himself in past periods of earthly existence, as he
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comes to earth anew with these chord-settings latent, or developed to
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the extent they were so, at the conclusion of his last earth-embodiment;
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a man has therefore only to carefully examine the condition of these
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settings to learn whether they are latent or developed: if latent, he
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knows well that if he yields to the dominance of the chord-settings of
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the supreme force-and he needs no monitor other than these to instruct
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him, their voice being loud-toned, full, strong, deep, and high-to carry
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him on to the consummation of his highest ideal, their suppression
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leading him to the lowest condition in which we behold that section of
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humanity which is dominated by the action of the blind forces inherent
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in aggregated matter,-forces which are at all times powerfully and
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intimately associated with every one who possesses a material body.
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The work of arousing to activity the latent chord-settings is
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sometimes equivalent to giving birth to an entirely new condition in the
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person, the intellect and the imagination having to actively co-operate
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in the endeavor to produce even the minutest degree of activity.
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In such persons their hardest experiences may be of the greatest
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benefit to them, if rightly taken; for it is through certain orders of
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experience-not unattended with suffering-that these centres are
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powerfully acted upon. The fore-going illustration of the merchant and
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the beggar introduces one in whom the action of these centres is to a
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certain degree active.
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In experiences where the emotions are INTENSELY aroused their action
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is far greater, andwe may see the result of the conflict, inthe event
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of a person of hitherto unnoticeable traits being developed either into
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a person of crabbed, irritable disposition or into one of considerable
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moral beauty and attractiveness, and all because a centre hitherto
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dormant has been powerfully aroused or more completely suppressed.
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Who knows but that all the varieties of disposition we see expressed
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every hour in the persons of those about us is due to HABIT; in the case
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of the sweet and lovable, to the habit of constant yielding to the
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dominance of what we may term super-celestial force, while on the other
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hand, the sour and morose are but the suffering victims of their own
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habitual suppression of these same divine centres of radiation, which
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are continually dispersing the divine energy focalized upon
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them throughout the eternal ages of unwasting life.
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Concerning CIRCUMSTANCES let it be most emphatically stated that they
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never need be permitted to suppress the upward tendencies of our nature;
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that they have, like ALL experiences, an opportunity contained within
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them, to act either for the more perfect dominance of the celestial or
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the terrestrial, none need deny; but it rests with every individual to
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EMBRACE or REJECT opportunities as he will, to accept the honors of
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initiation or undergo the regrets consequent upon failure.
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Only the keen, sensitive soul can understand when these opportunities
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come and go, for only such have won this right by successive victories
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gained through yielding to these celestial streams of force, and the
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conqueror over himself is the victor ALWAYS, though he may SEEM
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sometimes to yield obedience to a force greater than himself.
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Let the supreme desire of each one of us ever be that these
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resonating centres, permanent throughout measureless cycles of time,
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graduated by the all-wise builders of the universe to perfect
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concordance with the Divine Force which is in essence incomprehensible,-
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shall vibrate to fullest amplitude of action; so shall we each escape
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from the pains, sorrows, and disappointments associated with their
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suppression and INEVITABLY resulting from it."
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