The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | FEBRUARY 1933
of their Masters or of any outside power controlling them. In fact, all would deny and wholly refuse to believe in the existence of such Masters, so subtly have these Masters worked upon and deceived the thinking minds of men by instilling into them the wrong beliefs about a personal God and an abstract devil, thus twisting their understanding of the inner laws of being so they would listen to and follow the promptings of their Masters who could then continue to control and exploit them to the accomplishment of their foul ends.
But, you ask, are these Masters of Evil living men, or do they exist only on the inner planes of being, like the Masters of God?
If you can conceive of Masters of God, then you may know also of these Masters of Evil, for if the former exist, so do the latter; and as there is a Christ who rules, leads and inspires the former, so is there an Anti-christ who rules, leads and inspires the latter.
As the Christ can work on earth only through His disciples, who through love of their fellow men have emptied themselves of self so that their higher nature is ever waiting upon and serving Him; so the Anti-Christ can work only through his disciples, who, through hatred, jealousy, greed and a continual exploiting of their fellows have grown so big and fat from self-indulgence and in their feeling of superiority that their lower nature has become a perfect instrument for the use of the great Exemplar of Selfishness.
Also as it is true that there are such Masters of both Good and Evil working on the Inner Planes of being and ever inspiring their disciples, so it is equally true that both these Masters are working also on the physical plane,
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