Note: In this lesson Vitvan begins with a review of material described in earlier lessons. He frequently reiterated important points he had previously covered in order to provide better understanding for students who were new in the class. In past editing this kind of material has often been omitted. However, in an effort to make this a complete written counterpart of the tapes, we are including the review. Vitvan claimed that repeating material did not embarrass him because, this is a School and repetition helps students work their consciousness into the teachings. Often his rephrasing in the repetition leads to an insight that was missed in the first presentation. Because of the length of some of the prior lessons, which we divided, this is actually the material from Tape 6.

I want to call your attention to the fact that we are still working at setting up a referent for the term, telekinesical. It was necessary to describe the process of the Power-to-be-conscious united with the substance that we label the Mother, which operates as a unit, as one. Neither can operate without the other—according to this teaching, our perception and understanding. We lay great stress upon one particular point: This union of the Positive Power and the Negative Substance must not be construed or interpreted as a descent of something called 'spirit' into something called 'matter'. Rather, it is a meeting of a Positive Power and a Negative Substance comparable to an electric field setting up a magnetic field, and the operation of the polarity between a positive electric field and the negatively charged magnetic field.

To the layman who has never consciously functioned in that, or to one who has not studied modern field physics, that doesn't mean very much. However, the operation of the two is essential for all creative processes. The operation of the two as one becomes essential for the configurational process that we label the cosmic creative work, the cosmic creative process itself, in which you and I and every other unit of energy are integrated. We are part and parcel of that great process, not separate from it.

A vast, positively charged cosmic field functions in polarity with a similar vast magnet field, and the polarity of the two eventuates in what we call the cosmic process, the creating process. That is the configurational process as representation of the states in which the Power-to-be-conscious is expanding, emerging, into 'higher' states of development, into more and more Self-awareness. To understand that better, I suggest you go to a physics book and study the description of the operation of a simple solenoid. In a solenoid when a current is passed around a bar of iron a positive field is set up, and automatically a negative field appears. I hope you catch the implications involved in this, because as we work our understanding into it, become identified with that process, and consciously function in it and with it, worlds within worlds open to you. Vast illuminating worlds open to you, and the goal of our efforts is to learn how to do that. Most assuredly it is operating in you whether you know it or not—every second, night or day, it never stops. Isn't it preferable to know the forces by which we are motivated instead of being motivated and run ragged by them, with no understanding, no control, and no realization of what it is all about? Otherwise, in trying to find the way and with the best of intentions, one gets out of one mess and into another.

That is what we mean when we say in this School we are striving to give meaning and purpose to this thing we call life. We want to function intelligently and cooperate with it, instead of in our blindness, ignorance, and stupidity contravening it 98% of the time and then wondering what went wrong. "What have I done to bring this on me?" one functioning in ignorance might ask. If a higher one were to speak to him he might say, "My God, what haven't you done?" There is nothing mystical, occult, or metaphysical about this process!

There is a Positive Power in polarity with a negative substance struggling to become conscious. In that process there comes a time when the psychic nature is born. At the moment one individualizes from the animal group oversoul the psychic nature is born. (Some animals have a rudimentary psyche, because there is a sort of a beginning of the development of the psychic nature.) We have described how that came about through objective identification. That is, this Power-to-be-conscious awakens to the consciousness of itself by identifying itself with the configurational world as objective. But there is no phenomenon to the configurational world. The thingifying, objectifying, image making, or picture making, is in the consciousness of each and every person, not in the configurational world. The phenomenal aspect of this world is in our consciousness, but we are integrated in the configurational process.

To those of you who are becoming acquainted with this system of thought as taught in this school, allow me to tell you this. It will require two years of close attention to the literature and the exoteric teaching before you can grasp in a sufficient degree the overall structure of this system of thought. So please do not judge this teaching or system of thought by any one or two or three or twelve lessons, because we just pick up a little point and work that one out, then pick up another point and work that one out, etc. This is a little review before I begin talking about the psychic nature.

In this process, the union of the Positive Power with the Negative Substance, the electric field in polarity with a gigantic cosmic magnet field all so-called manifestation or configuration comes about. In this dynamic creative process, the psychic nature is developed. It is developed by reason of the objective self-conscious state, which is the first point of awakening to Self-consciousness on the part of the Power-to-be-conscious. The first awakening is to objective self-consciousness, where one looks upon this world as a creation, as objective, as thingified, etc. and then identifies with it. That self-awareness is the first stage.

The question has been asked, "Could not the Power-to-be-conscious, the essential self of each and every one of us, awaken to a higher, wider, broader state of self-awareness without creating a psychic nature? From a higher level looking at the whole process, that question is comparable to asking a similar one, by analogy: Could not a man, sound asleep, awaken without dreaming? The way it is seen from a higher level, yes, he could. He could awaken from deep unconscious sleep without dreaming, but he just doesn't do it. He dreams. We'll have to say that theoretically it could be done, but I've never known anyone to do it. He comes out of his deep unconsciousness, unconscious sleep, to the waking state through a process of dreaming. Then the dreams elicit more and more of his consciousness until he wakes up and gets out of bed. The dreams elicit more and more of his consciousness, particularly when they get realistic, and he awakens. That is generally the way it is. But the analogy doesn't hold good all the way through. In the first two stages of the development of the psychic nature that is true, but not in the second two stages. I will explain why now that we are through with the review.

There are four stages to psychic awakening. First, the dream begins. The Power-to-be-consciousness is awakening out of an eonian dark night of unconsciousness. Gradually it awakens until one has reached a point where he begins to dream. Let us analyze the dream state. Images and pictures look 'out there', they look real—in the dream now—and he gives values to those images and pictures, and he reacts to the value that he gives and gets all emotionally involved. When he gets sufficiently emotionally involved he is sweating. The dream becomes so intense that he wakes up. "Oh, my, it was only a dream!" I am playing between analogy and reality. He exclaims, "Oh, I'm glad that was only a dream. Why, he had me, he was throwing me over a cliff, when I finally woke up. I was sinking into an abyss of an unknown depth, and I was terrified, but that wasn't real. I'm glad that was a dream!" If you think that I am just putting on an act here, wait till you get through with this psyche! You will wake up and say, "My God, I'm glad that was just a dream." You'll say it, if you haven't already.

The first phase in the developing process of the psychic nature, the ensemble of the dream pictures, is the negative phase. That simply means that the Power-to-be-conscious is not sufficiently awakened to protect the operations in the dream phase, the developing psychic nature, from taking on conditions. At this state one is negative, on the receiving end of everything, subjectively and objectively speaking.

Teachers of high-pressure salesmanship have somehow stumbled onto the fact that those who are in the early phases of the development of the psyche are very amenable to suggestion. They teach their sales people to memorize their talks because they have been carefully worked out to be constantly suggestive. I've had many students in this negative state of development of the psyche come to me and ask me what to do. "I just can't resist the high pressure salesmanship. Some way or another I'll just buy. Even though I don't want what they're selling at all, after I bought it and put my name on the dotted line I realized, I don't need that and don't want it. But why couldn't I resist it?" "Why," I said, "it's simple. You must never look into the eyes of the salesman, because he is focused on his sales talk, and he going to sell you. Look at his feet." This is the way I protected these negative ones. I said, "You do nothing but look at his feet all the while he's going through his routine, you know. He's going through his routine. Keep your eyes on his feet. Pretty soon, he'll look down." And then I said, "If he doesn't look at his feet, then really stare at them. Sooner or later he will look at his feet. Then, the positive flow is broken; you've cut it."

This is a device I worked out to protect these negative ones. I used the example of high-pressure salesmanship. But it can be used against any line, for any purpose. Understand? You are all 21 years of age, so I'm not going to pull the ears of that one and stroke it. I'm going to let it ride right there. Negative ones need protection because they are vulnerable. Later they will be able to say, "Oh, I'm glad that was a dream!" In the first phase it's easy to get in, but it's something to get out! Suggestively, you fill in all the gaps.

The second phase in the development of the psyche has two aspects. In the first, the psychic nature takes on that which is cultivated. This occurs in the etheric substance. Between the energy phase and the plasmic phase of the Mother Substance is a band or level that we label the etheric. (Remember, that is level of the substance of the Mother between the energy world and the teleplasmic world. We could say the plasmic phase, because plasmic means form-building, configurating.) The etheric substance operates as a reflector, and the ensemble of that which is reflected is what we call the psychic nature. That which is acquired by the psyche is based upon this reflecting process of the etheric substance in the background of the creating process. The ultimate configuration is the malkuth. For those of you who are conversant with the tree of life, I put that in—malkuth, the furthest out.

Keep in mind that the negative phase of the psyche operates by taking on conditions, reflecting what is presented to it; but it is the etheric substance that is the reflector, and the ensemble of that which is reflected is called the psychic nature. Now, let's unify the two aspects for the present. The psyche reflects that to which it is exposed. There are some motivations that are due to the basic state in which the Power-to-be-conscious is conscious. We could call those motivations creative urges. Those creative urges that are basic to the state are natural order, no matter what they are. There is no 'high' nor 'low' nor 'good' nor 'bad' to this. The aborigine is in a certain state and he operates like an aborigine. The Power-to-be-conscious in what we call a dog is a dog, and he can't be anything else but a dog. Nothing 'good' nor 'bad'; nothing 'high' nor 'low'. Take all of the gradations of development from the aborigine, tribal state of humanity, on up to where we are now—emerging out of the animalized state into a higher consciousness of our humanity. Striking a broad, general rule, we are just emerging out of the animalized state into a higher cultural state.

Those motivations that are basic to the state in which the Power-to-be-conscious is conscious are internal, telekinesical, urges. Up to a certain point it is natural order to create, to express those creative urges—to fulfill the state in which one is conscious at the moment. But the rule is this: generally man does not stop at the fulfillment of his basic creative urge. He goes beyond and cultivates more than is necessary. He steps over the line at his basic creative urges, the motivations that are deep within him. We acknowledge the fundamental rule that only as one fulfills the state in which he is now basically conscious can he expand his consciousness beyond that state. That is getting to be a cliché in our school. It is the fulfillment, not the striving for advancement and running away trying to get on some higher 'spiritual' level. If you're a dog, be a good dog. See how good a dog you can be, if you find out that your creative urges are at that state. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Do not attempt some flight from reality, trying to get into some 'higher', 'spiritual' world before you have fulfilled the state in which basically you are now conscious. The you in that sentence means anyone—or any thing or any creature.

Those of you, who want to preserve your myths and illusions about taking flight into the spiritual worlds of devachan and nirvana, please don't come to this school. Go take your flights and fly your kites. You may go up like a Fourth of July skyrocket, but you're going to fall down like a dead stick sooner or later, because the basic state in which you are conscious is going to bring you back to that basic state. We are trying to understand that basic state and go along with it, cooperate with it, instead of taking some flight out of it or beyond it and soar and soar until we can't soar any sorer, and then bang, down we come like the dead stick. No need to do that, because it's false teachings that lead us astray that cause all of that flight. You have it in your Good Book, "I come to fulfill the law and the prophets, not to destroy them." Why do some students attempt this flight away from reality? False teaching. So up to a certain point, express the creative urges where you are basically conscious, but don't go beyond and cultivate false conditions, because those conditions will accumulate as desire forms, thought forms, qualities, gunas, aggregations of them in the psychic nature. That is the cultivated part, the first aspect.

There are also acquired influences. Many students in the negative state take on influences, entities, etc., because these thought forms in the psyche can develop to the point where they can migrate from one psyche to another. On the objective level, the configuration of them, they migrate too. Just because you don't see them, hear them, etc. do not think they don't exist. They can be seen, touched, contacted, and heard. Those influences, forces, and entities that migrate from one psyche to another compose that which is acquired.

When we become acquainted with the way that the psyche functions, we treat these migratory influences similarly to the way we treat contagious diseases in the objective sense. We even go a step further. We attribute a large percentage of what is called objective physiological diseases to that, which has been acquired in the psychic side of ones person. If we were to have a class in new age therapeutics, we would take case after case and classify disorders and diseases one after another. We would be able to trace 98% of them back into that, which has been acquired by the psyche, and comes out as a representation in the configuration. We would regard them the same as one in objective identity would regard contagious diseases. When we learn how the psyche negatively takes on that to which it is exposed—rapports, synchronization of frequencies, etc., we become very circumspect. You can take on or exchange qualities from places you go, TV, radio programs, magazines and newspapers that you read, etc. That is, the one in this first or second degree in the development of the psychic nature must be very circumspect concerning that to which he exposes his psyche. What he allows in his consciousness, in his home, in his rapports, familiar relationships affects him beneath the level of the cortex. Beneath the level of the censorship, this is operating all the time.

Let's say one becomes loaded with what he has overly cultivated and/or acquired. Then he enters the third phase. The Power-to-be-conscious now is awakening—more. This is all still in the process of dreaming and becoming awakened. What awakens him in this third phase in the development of the psyche? Here is what yours truly looks for. I look for one who has reached the state of utter and complete disgust, not the one who is full of adoration, glamorized, enthusiasm, etc. "I'm so fed up; I'm just nauseated. I've gone out and literally vomited, I'm so sick with what I've cultivated and what I've taken on. And by the great horned spoon, I don't want to take on or cultivate any more. I'm sick, fed up, and disgusted beyond words." That is the one I'm looking for. I might say to such a one, "Come on in, the water's fine, but it's going to be a tough fight with a short stick. " The third state is nothing but a battlefield. 'Sweetness and lighters' might tell him, never mind all of the evil in the world. Just turn your face to the light." How I wish it were that easy! I wish it was that easy, but it isn't. It's a tough fight, because now, he is defending the plains of Kurukshetra described in the Bhagavad Gita.

Here in the Occident we call it the Battle about Armageddon. We enter the battlefield between the Light world and the darkness, between what we call The Good (as Plato used The Good), the God, and that, which deters us and holds us down, in the evil, in the darkness. There is the fight. Earlier in these lessons I described the fight between the north half and the south half. Here is where we enter it. Until the north half conquers, the Good has to live in the same configurational house and in the same psyche for quite awhile with the entities occupying the south half. At this stage one has both. He can raise his forces, at that state now, until the sound currents are singing and ringing, and while he is listening to the sound currents the entities in the south half are just kicking up hell to attract attention, to bring him back down. He must live in the house with the two of them until time is allowed for the complete victory—the fourth and last stage of the development of the psyche. In Kabalistic lore the rabbis labeled it Ardath. One becomes clear, from bottom to top. Remember the picture of the psyche of a person who had brought all of his forces up, raying through the crown center into the Autonomous Field? Clear to the bottom of his psychic nature he was clear. The entities in the south half all expurgated.

The Egyptians called this state the Garden of Aarru, and we in the School have copied the Egyptians. We did not want to call it the Garden of the Gods, because tourists have gone to Colorado and have seen the red rocks and they think the Garden of the Gods is a lot of red rocks in Colorado. We don't want to fall under that semantic interpretation, so instead of saying the Garden of Eden or the Garden of the Gods, we say the Garden of Aarru. At that state the battle is over. One stands clear and clean, polarized to Lights Regions, and infused with the descending power of Light, knowledge and wisdom.

—Vitvan, Tape series dated 1955 - 1956  —Marj Coffman, Ed., 1997