"Marijuana, like all plant substances placed upon This Earth, has a proper use for The Human Race. However, using it to alter the threshold of perception was not that originally intended. This plant has many wonderful healing properties when used as a tea, an extract, and the like, but to burn the plant and inhale its fumes is a misuse, the danger of which cannot be too strongly underlined."
"Firstly, the inhalation of smoke of any kind is harmful to the physical body. Secondly, the nature of the chemicals contained in the smoke from this plant -- or more particularly the aetheric counterparts of these chemicals -- wreaks havoc on the delicate aetheric tissues of the head and lungs. This damage becomes permanent in a habitual smoker of Marijuana, and eventually the changes filter down to the Astral and physical bodies."
"The transfer to the Astral is more rapid than to the physical, and if this astral crippling persists to the point of physical death, then the individual will find himself in a deformed and weakened Astral Body after he dies."
"Finally, We should point out that Marijuana and any chemical that artificially opens the senses to higher or 'other' vibrations is not a proper way to acquire gifts similar to those developed by persons who have spent years on The Path and who have finally earned the right to these special faculties."
"In some cases, these drugs can serve the purpose of making the person aware that these higher experiences exist, but they should never be used beyond that simple discovery. After the seeker has been made aware of the existence of these other levels of being and awareness, he should forthwith abandon the artificial method and should work to develope the gifts from his own inner awareness."
"If he can do that, then the gifts will always be his birth-right in later incarnations. But those who continuously use the crutch of Marijuana and the other drugs suffer the opposite fate. They find themselves in later lives even further from their goal in terms of the developement of natural spiritual gifts."
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