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Letters on Occult Meditation - Letter V - Dangers to be avoided in Meditation
Dangers to the Sex Organs

The danger of the over-stimulation of these organs is well recognized theoretically, and I do not purpose to enlarge on it greatly today. I but seek to point out that this danger is very real. The reason is that in the overstimulation of these centers the inner fire is but following the line of least resistance, owing to the polarization of the race as a whole. The work, therefore, that the student has to do is twofold:

  1. He has to withdraw his consciousness from those centers; this is no easy task for it means working against the results of age-long development.
  2. He has to direct the attention of the creative impulse to the mental plane. In so doing, if successful, he will turn the activity of the divine fire to the throat center and its corresponding head center, instead of to the lower organs of generation. Therefore, it will be apparent to you why - unless a man is very advanced - it is not wise to spend much time in meditation during the earlier years. There was wisdom in the old Brahmanical rule that a man must give his early years to household endeavor, and only when he had fulfilled his function as a man could he go on to the life of the devotee. This was the rule for the average. With advanced egos, pupils and disciples, it is not so, and each must then work out his own individual problem.
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