(The following passage summarizes an important principle of Occult
Science: that the after-effects of negative thoughts and emotions
linger in the atmosphere. These effects can adversely influence
those individuals whose physical, mental, or emotional health
are not strong enough to maintain their own individuality.
- from The Theosophist, vol.1, no.8, May 1880. Published
in Bombay, India by H.P. Blavatsky.)
"...Near the Earth's surface there hangs over us -- to use
a convenient similie -- a steamy moral fog, composed of the undispersed
exhalations of human vice and passion. This fog penetrates the
sensitive to the very soul's core: his psychic self absorbs it
as the sponge does water, or as fresh milk effluvia. It benumbs
his moral sense, spurs his baser instincts into activity, overpowers
his good resolutions. As the fumes of a wine-vault make the brain
reel, or as the choke-damp stifles one's breath in a mine, so
this heavy cloud of immoral influences carries away the sensitive
beyond the limits of self-control, and he becomes 'obsessed,'
like our English patient..." p. 208
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