The Extinguished Soul vs The Undeveloped Soul, Part I

  

     Have you ever encountered someone who appeared to be a grey shell of a person--who appeared hollow, soulless, without a spark or spirit?  I have, and so have quite a few people I know.



   I was talking with a friend a while ago about an encounter with such an individual, whom we both knew years ago.  There wasn't much to say, since he chimed in to say that he, too, had had a similar encounter and was taken also taken aback at how "grey and hollow" the person appeared.  Not ill--grey and hollowed out. 



   A little later, I remembered reading a teaching in New Era Community, written by Helena Roerich, amanuensis for the Ascended Master El Morya, published by the Agni Yoga Society, that addressed such encounters, and then remembered a teaching that Elizabeth Clare Prophet gave expounding upon it, in Community, a Journey to the Heart of Spiritual Community, published by The Summit Lighthouse Library.  In her excerpt below, she discusses the difference between an undeveloped consciousness and an extinguished one--a very good thing to know these days.



Excerpt from New Era Community, 97.

On the path do not rest under a rotting tree. In life have no dealings with people with extinguished consciousness. An undeveloped consciousness is not as infectious as an extinguished one. The extinguished consciousness is an actual vampire. It is impossible to fill from without the abyss of the ignorant consciousness. Precisely these people absorb one's energy uselessly. As a result of being with them, enormous fatigue is felt . They must be avoided like a stench in order to bar the way to the fluids of decomposition. It is difficult to distinguish the boundary line between lack of development and extinction. But one quality will be unquestionably indicative Lack of development will or may be accompanied by the palpitation of devotion, but an extinct crater is full of cinders and brimstone. The Teaching does not ref use to expend energy on the undeveloped, but there is a degree of extinction at which the abyss is not to be flooded with a new substance. Only a cataclysm, with its terror of unexpectedness, can melt a congealed lava.

 Remember the treasure of the consciousness. Tremor of the substance of the Cosmos manifests the pulsation of the awakened consciousness. Indeed , the rainbow of knowledge flows out of the tremor of the consciousness—a visible stream from an invisible source.

Through all experiences of the past and all attainments of the future, remember about the consciousness.

 Mrs. Prophet explains what an "extinguished consciousness" is in Chapter 6:  The Extinguished Consciousness and the Undeveloped Soul: 

    The extinguished consciousness is one that has gone through its contact with the light.  It has gained developement by the light and has actually increased its awareness by the light.  Then it has come to the point where it says, "I am the light, and therefore I need no longer bend the knee and bow before the light."  That was the proclamation of Lucifer.

   Then, by the very denial of the Source, the consciousness is extinguished.  At this point, it is highly infectious, because it spreads its philosophy, its disease, to those who surround it....

   People who have an extinguished consciousness are in a state of decomposition, which I call the degeneration spiral.  When you interchange energy with them, you give them light and they give you their infection.  They then become a vampire who lives off your light  They cause you to feel fatigued, and you can never fill them with light from without because the only way they can truly get light is to go back to the point of their rebellion against the light and call upon the Lord for forgiveness and be filled with light to heal this disease.

 


Attribution.


Reposted from 2/19/2016.