About: The effects of unseen forces

By expanding our perspective on life, we widen the lens through which we see the world and our place within it. This broader perspective reminds us that even when we pass through dark stretches of life, we are still held within a greater reality.

If we lose sight of this, we can lose our way in the brambles of the Lower Self.

One thing we can and should do is actively, consciously call upon spirits of truth and light to us. Even if we don’t do this, whenever we overcome a fault, or fight our Lower Self and align with our desire to fulfill the will of God, we emanate a substance that draws spirits of light toward us.

By the same token, if we give in to our Lower Self, violating divine law, we emanate a quality that draws the spirits of darkness nearer—like a magnet. Emanating anger draws spirits of anger; selfishness will draw a specialist who will encourage us further in this fault; and so on.

What comes out of us is what we draw toward us. Like attracts like.

How dark forces operate

There is a mutual activity that goes on here with the forces of separation. It goes like this: they fulfill a task in their world of darkness when they win out over a person, particularly with someone who loves and seeks God.

According to the Guide, beings aligned with separation have influence only where our own Lower Self gives them an opening.

They know they cannot accomplish anything by trying to inspire us to do something wicked that is foreign to us. But they can succeed with our seemingly harmless faults. Through these, they can draw us—slowly but surely—into the darkness of depression and self-despising moods.

This is how they “lead us into temptation”—into separation from God.

It is not so much the fault, in itself, that is damaging. Rather, it’s that we become disgusted with ourselves and might give up the fight altogether.

Stumbling over the same fault again is not failure. Provided, that is, we recognize it and learn from it. Our goal is to adopt the right and constructive attitude.

Bear in mind, no progress is possible without stumbling. But when the stumbling is viewed with an attitude of hopelessness and self-disgust, then the clouds of darkness grow bigger.

Eventually, a person becomes overly involved with the respective dark spirits, and with the world of darkness altogether.

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

– Confucius

How to protect ourselves

We do not have to commit a crime in order to live in the world of darkness. There are other vibrations that can accomplish this.

The Pathwork Guide offers a remarkable perspective, that if a person refuses to be an instrument for the powers of darkness—if we fight them—something important happens. The dark spirit will rise higher in its development—it will learn.

Not directly, and not immediately. Because it is still so much in darkness that at first it will only know defeat. And this defeat will cost it its position, so that it suffers.

But this suffering will bring it nearer to God. Because only then will it turn to God, as a last resort, in complete despair.

As long as it can claim victories in its world of darkness—as long as it has power there—it will never turn to God. So each victory, even the smallest one, of each human being, causes a tremendous chain reaction in the universe among beings of whom we are not even aware.

How do we go about fighting dark force? By getting to know our own faults—extremely well. For it is only through our faults that we can be tempted by dark spirits.

Why fight back

The Guide tells us that if we could know how much we accomplish by our victory—for ourselves and for so many other spirits as well—we would really try much harder.

Not only evil spirits are affected by our victories, but also erring spirits who do not belong anywhere. They are often around us and can learn from our victories in a much more direct way than those dark spirits.

So when we conquer our Lower Self—when we overcome our faults—we become active participants in the Plan of Salvation.

In the Guide’s words, we become “front-line soldiers.”

And a front-line soldier needs better weapons. We need more strength and better protection than one who does not fight back—who follows the path of least resistance.

The weapons and the strength come to us from the Spirit World of God in the form of guidance, enlightenment and recognition.

“Never forget that we are always there with you, no matter how close the dark spirits are allowed to come to you at certain times. We watch over you and see to it that they can never overstep their line.

The last word is always you!

Do you permit yourself to know where your thoughts and decisions come from? Do you wish to listen to these voices, or perhaps to turn to the voice that is at times more removed and harder to discern?

At such times you need to assert your will to remain with God and serve him even stronger. You need to question the easiest way that comes to you. When you do this, you will always triumph, as God must finally triumph over Satan.

The light of Christ is the strongest there is, and with it, you must be safe.”

– The Pathwork Guide in Q&A #247

On a bigger arc, our journey moves from experiencing ourselves as a child of our parents, to understanding the bigger holding—we are a child of God. To set the stage for this journey, the Guide’s earliest lectures were about creating a framework for understanding the Spirit World.

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Read more in Keys, Chapter 4: The Spirit World.

“Question: You say we should be in contact with the Spirit World of God, and that other spirits will harm us spiritually and even physically. But isn’t everything God’s world?

The Guide: It is like this: there is God’s great Creation with its wonderful laws, and it includes all the spirits he has also created and to whom he has given free will.

A great number of these spirits have voluntarily accepted God’s laws and his order and have thus remained happy. A great number of other spirits have broken that order, again voluntarily, and by that act they have created unhappiness and disharmony for themselves.

For happiness can lie only in the wisdom of God’s laws. All spirits who have at one time or another broken this law and have not yet found their way back to recognize this law as the only wisdom, the only right course, stand outside this order – voluntarily – just as they could voluntarily accept it.

And one day they will. But as long as this does not happen by their own volition and conviction, they will remain outside the world of God.

God does not force any creature; choice has to come from the free will of each individual. Ultimately, and such is the beauty and perfection of God’s laws, every single child of God will return – return to the enlightenment and wisdom, to the happiness and freedom that can be found only in divine law.

There are almost as many human beings as spirits who fall into one or the other of these two categories: those belonging to the divine order and those outside of it. The former are perhaps helping, working, cooperating in the great Plan of Salvation.

The entities in this group, among other things, find out in spiritual endeavor where they are still unconsciously deviating from the laws.

And then there are those, many of them, who do not accept God’s laws, who create chaos in their surroundings and in their own selves, by wanting to follow their own very incomplete laws.”
– Pathwork Lecture #11

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