"It is not my intention to deal specifically with particular glamors but to give you a formula which - with slight changes and additions - can serve the individual and the group in the task of eradicating glamor. I would begin by saying that the first need is for the man to realize that his reactions, ideas, desires and life experience, as far as his emotional nature is concerned, are conditioned by some one glamor or glamors, that he is the victim of several glamors, engendered over many lives, deeply rooted in his past history, and to which he instinctually reacts. The time, however, comes when the probationary disciple becomes aware of these instinctual glamors and recognizes them on appearance, even when reacting to them; he seeks to free himself, working at first spasmodically, trying to use the mind to rationalize himself out of them and alternating between temporary success, when he can with deliberation act as if free from glamor, and long periods of defeat when he is overwhelmed, can see no light anywhere and acts like a blind, bewildered person. This indicates that he is drawn as by a magnet (the force of accumulated ancient glamor with its karmic effects) into the midst of the very glamor he would seek to avoid. Later comes the stage (a result of this alternating process) when the pull of the soul begins to offset the pull of these glamors: he [208] aspires to free expression and to liberation from astral plane control. The balancing process then takes place."
Glamour: A World Problem
Alice A. Bailey/Djwahl Kuhl
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