The regicide in Servia shocked the WesternWorld by wiping out an
entire royal house in a most shockingly bloody manner, and the Minister of the Interior was
one of the chief conspirators. Later he wrote his memoirs, and therein he writes that
whenever the conspirators had tried to win anyone as a recruit, they always succeeded when
they burned incense. He did not know why, but simply mentioned it as a curious coincidence.
To the mystic investigator the matter is perfectly clear. We have shown the necessity of
having a vehicle made of the materials of any world wherein we wish to function. We usually
obtain a physical vehicle by going through the womb, or perhaps in a few special cases from
a particularly good materializing medium, but where it is only necessary to work upon the
brain and influence someone else to act, we need but a vehicle[pg 166]made of such ether as may be obtained from fumes of many different
substances. Each kind attracts different classes of spirits, and there is no doubt that the
incense burned at meetings where the conspirators were successful was of a low and sensual
order and attracted spirits who had a grudge against humanity in general and the King of
Servia in particular. These malcontents were unable to injure the King himself, but used a
subtle influence which helped the conspirators in their work. The released murderer who has
a grudge against society on account of his execution, may enter low gambling saloons where
the fumes of liquor and tobacco furnish ample opportunity for working upon the class of
people who congregate in such places, and the man whose spiritual sight has been developed
is often sadly impressed when he sees the subtle influences to which those who frequent such
places are exposed. It is a fact of course that a man must be of a low caliber to be
influenced by low thoughts, and that it is as impossible to incite a person of benevolent
character to do murder—unless we put him into a hypnotic sleep—as to make a tuning fork
which vibrates to C sing by striking another attuned to the key of G,[pg 167]but the thoughts of both living and dead constantly surround us, and no man
ever thought out a high spiritual philosophy under the influence of tobacco fumes or while
imbibing alcoholic stimulants. Were capital punishment, newspaper notoriety of criminals,
themanufacture of
liquor and tobacco eliminated from society, the gun factories would soon cease to advertise
and go out of business along with most of the locksmiths. The police force would decrease,
so would jails and taxes would be correspondingly minimized.
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