how to gain dynamic power, how to gain the wisdom of the sages, how to become an adept, how to find a short cut to mastership, etc.; all intended to feed the desires of self for such powers.

Few of these advertisers probably think there is anything wrong in such advertising or in such teachings, not dreaming that they are being used to mislead earnest seekers, and themselves are being led away from Jesus’ strict teaching to “seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all things else will be added.” But of course it is self in the teachers that listens and responds to such misleading, and it is such teachers, if they do not awaken and listen instead to the Voice of the Higher Self, that are finally lead completely astray and are used to draw hundreds along with them into the darkness, from which it may take many years and perhaps lifetimes to free themselves. And it is well known in the higher consciousness that all teachers are held responsible for souls coming to them for guidance, and those teachers that consciously or unconsciously mislead any followers into wrong-doing are compelled by the Great Law in future lives to watch over and some day to lead them back onto the truth Path.

But it is those who promiscuously teach how to develop and open the psychic faculties, without the support of the necessary spiritual unfoldment, that cause the greatest harm to unwitting aspirants. For when the inner faculties are opened, without the proper spiritual understanding and the guidance of the Higher Self, they are at the mercy of the many false teachers and “masters” that abound in the astral realm, and who claim to be able to give them high powers and promise adeptship, if they will follow and obey them.