Emotional Smoke

2005-6-6 00:35:00

Let us look at the next verse:

And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.  Revelation 9:2

"And he opened the bottomless pit." What does this mean?

The only one who can open the bottomless pit of the emotions is he who has mastered them, or has the key. Once the disciple obtains power over the emotional self and the emotional world he can then examine it from the top down rather than as one immersed within the bottomless world of emotion.

When immersed in the emotional world the seeker is as one in darkness with no top or bottom. He cannot see to solve the many problems brought on by the upside down emotional directions he perceives.

Things are much different when the emotions are mastered. The angel fell to the earth where he could stand on solid ground to examine the emotional world from grounded common sense (the earth) as well as through the use of the intuition (from heaven).

But opening the emotional world which has been suppressed or misdirected for lifetimes is a little like opening Pandora's Box, not only for himself but for all trapped in the bottomless pit of emotional focus. He must remember this injunction from the writings of Alice A. Bailey: "Let the magician (disciple) guard himself from drowning at the point where land and water meet. The midway spot which is neither dry nor wet must provide the standing place whereon his feet are set."

The disciple standing upon the earth, but linked to the soul, sees the problems created by suppressed emotion and pronounces the right words to stimulate ands release them. When he does this "there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace ..."

When the pent up and previously uncontrolled emotions are released and examined in the night of day a great emotional fire ensues and the smoke of that fire blurs the vision of all except the angel with the key.

The disciple works through his own emotions that were previously unseen and unrecognized as well as many others that he contacts. He finds that simple statements of truth create powerful emotional reactions among those polarized in the emotional world around him. It seems as if he creates an emotional fire in the hearts of friends, family and contacts and the smoke of that burning blurs the vision of all so nothing he says is understood correctly.

"and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit."

The sun (truth) and the air (reason/mind) were darkened because of the smoke of powerful emotional reactions.

Verse three reads:

And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

What are the locusts and how do they have power as scorpions?

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)