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CHAPTER 16. ATHEISM, THEISM AND REALITY
communicate with the world. The gods cannot communicate, they lack bodies. Gods also know what
Buddha has known, and they are anxious to communicate it to the world, but they are helpless. Here
is a person who has known the ultimate truth and is still in his body and in the world. And it is only
rarely that a member of the human race stumbles upon the ultimate truth. Therefore these bodiless
souls insist that Buddha must speak, and speak without any further delay. And with great difficulty
they succeed in persuading Buddha to speak, and they rejoice at their success.
But these astral souls are not going to use Buddha as their medium. It is not that Buddha will convey
their message to the world. Buddha has his own message, his own speech.
What Alice Bailey says is right. But it is difficult for her to assert that what she says is right because
she is only a medium, the messages belong to somebody else. A medium can say only this much;
the messages are received at the level of his inner space. But he cannot claim that whatever he
receives is right, that it is not his own mind game, a trick of his unconscious. A medium cannot
assert that he is not a victim of self-deception, because countless people are deceived by their
own unconscious into believing that they are mediums of great souls or gods. It is really hard for a
medium to assert his authenticity, and the psychologists can easily corner Alice Bailey.
And lastly you want to know if I am in contact with any such masters.
No, I don’t believe in borrowing knowledge. I am not in contact with any of these masters; I stand
wholly on my own. What I am saying, right or wrong, is my thing, and I am wholly responsible for it.
I have nothing to do with any bodiless masters. And if I accept someone as my master, then there
is every danger of my becoming somebody’s master in turn. I don’t indulge in such games. I am no
one’s disciple, nor do I want to be anyone’s master. Therefore I say only that which I know, and I am
not interested in the masters. If I speak about them it is only in passing, and by way of reference. I
have nothing to do with their authenticity or otherwise.
All I want to say in this context is that there are both good and evil souls; good souls are known as
gods and evil souls as ghosts. In the West these gods are known as masters: the word ”master” has
become a synonym for god in the current use in the West. These gods have always sent messages,
and they continue to do so. Similarly, even evil souls send messages; they are also looking out for
suitable mediums. If ever you are in a frame of mind that suits the evil souls, they will not fail to
utilize you.
Many times people do things they would not do on their own. They become just instruments in the
hands of evil spirits. So when a murderer swears before a judge that he committed the crime in spite
of himself, he is not necessarily Lying. It is possible. There are spirits that use people to commit
heinous crimes on their behalf. There are buildings all over the world haunted by evil spirits, and if
you go to live in them you will be compelled to commit murders at their behest. Feuds and vendettas
are carried on not only from one generation to another, but also from one life to another.
A young man was brought to me recently. The house he has been living in was bought three years
ago. And ever since, a process of deterioration in his personality set in and by and by he became
a different man altogether. Before coming to this house this young man was known for being very
gentle and meek; now he is arrogant and haughty, irritable and violent – ready to fight at the slightest
provocation. This metamorphosis, this mutation in his personality took place the very day he entered
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