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"'In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God.' Herein lies a truth of such profundity that the language which We are using is not capable of the requisite elucidation. Suffice it to say that the spoken word carries a power and force as great, in its own way, as the power of thought. These 2 phenomena are of different kinds, however, and call forth effects in different spheres."
"While thought places an immediate imprint upon the aetheric substance in which the lower worlds are embedded, the vibration of human speech when added to the originating thought (speech requires thought as its antecedent) gives a more powerful effect to the thought and focuses it more directly into The Physical World. Speech acts as a transformer and intensifier of thought, enabling it to access many levels beyond those available to pure thought alone."
"Let Us give an example. When a person thinks a negative thought about another without uttering it, he sets up a thought-pattern which that other person can tune in to at the subconscious level and which will cause that other person to feel a coldness from and towards the originator of the thought -- again at the subconscious level. Nonetheless, from that subconscious level the coldness will have its influence upon the normal interchanges between the 2 persons involved."
"However, if the person gives voice to the negative thought regarding his brother, the effects are more far-reaching. In the first place, the uttering of the criticism or whatever will erect around The Throat Chakra of the person stating the negative thought a tight ring of darkness, which will act as a wall or barrier preventing other more noble thoughts from entering his thought-sphere. Here is the origin of the esoteric saying, 'Until the tongue has lost its power to wound, it cannot speak the truths of the spirit.' Those who are clairvoyant can often see, at the throat region of those habituated to voicing criticism or harsh words toward others, a dull, cloudy, or dark-reddish patch in The Aura."
"Now, when the negative words are said in the presence and hearing of the one against whom they are directed, an additional factor enters in. The person upon whom the negative words are focused, literally, is set back in his advancement due to the fact that the words enter into his subconscious and form part of his identification picture, i.e. the thought-form which he has of himself. How serious this process can be will be evident from the study of those who as children were told repeatedly by their parents that they were lazy or sloppy or ugly or just 'no good'. The damaging words thus spoken then acquire, for the speaker, an additional karmic burden, which is normally discharged by having the speaker, in a later life, undergo similar negative programming while a child."
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