Magnetic
centre
(See black magnetic centre)
In life, every is subjected
to some sort of competitive test. If he discerns the existence of the B influences; he acquires a taste fro gathering and
absorbing them; if he continually aspires to assimilate them better; his mixed
inner nature will slowly undergo a certain kind of evolution. And if the
efforts which he makes to absorb the B influences are constant and sufficient
in force, a magnetic centre can be
formed within him.
If this centre once born in
him is carefully developed, it takes form, and in its turn will exercise an
influence over the results of the A arrows which are always active,
deflecting them. Such a deflection may be violent. In general it transgresses
the laws of exterior life and provokes many conflicts in and around man. If he
loses the battle, he emerges with the conviction that the B influences are
nothing but illusion: that the only reality is represented by the A influences. Slowly the magnetic centre which has
been formed within him is reabsorbed and vanishes. Then from the esoteric point
of view, his situation is worse than the one he had started with, when he was just
beginning to discern the B influences.
But if emerges a winner in
this first struggle, his magnetic centre, consolidated and reinforced, will
draw him to a man having a C influence stronger than his own, and possessing
a stronger magnetic centre. And so on in succession, the last man being in
connection with another having an influence D who will be his link with the
Esoteric Centre E.
The purity of the magnetic
centre must be scrupulously maintained from the start and all through his
evolution.
Boris Mouravieff,
Gnosis, Vol.I, 1961/1989 Praxis Press.
The new centre of
consciousness which, as it gradually grows, takes the three lower centres under
its control, and establishes an absolute authority over them -- in their
ensemble, on each one taken separately and on all the possible functional
combinations which they can form between their various sectors. That clearly
demands time, work, a great deal of patience and perseverance. He who takes up esoteric work, says the Tradition, will
greatly ease his task if capable thinking about it non-stop, like lover who thinks of his loved one.
Boris
Mouravieff, Gnosis, Vol.I, 1961/1989 Praxis Press.