36/55 SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.
SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.
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I would here add that this Law is more fully described in ” Through the Mists.”
When I was reading this work I was especially struck not only with the beauty of the idea but with its simple effectiveness. Realizing that there can be no ” law breakers ” on any of the spiritual-planes, it at once becomes evident that the simple plan of adopting a distinctive colour, denoting the condition of the wearer, must prove completely effectual.
This term “condition” means, however, much more on the spiritual than on the earth-plane. With us it would simply denote a man’s place in society, the nature and extent of his worldly possessions, his trade or profession; his social, financial and political influence, and perhaps to what extent he might be exploited by professional donation and subscription hunters in aid of the particular institution in which they might, for the time being, be interested.
Society, being willing to accept such a standard of measurement, naturally concerns itself not at all about a man’s ethics, his spiritual state, or his thought-condition. In other words, a man on the earth-plane may clothe himself in the garb of the ” sporting gent ” and yet cover the golden heart of the Cheeryble Brothers,’ or be clad in respectable black broadcloth and hide a Pecksniff,’ a ‘ Stiggins,’ or a murderer. Here the garb, while partly covering the physical body, hides the real man, the spiritual—Ego.
On the spiritual-plane it is clear, from much evidential testimony, that such an irresponsible, orderless state would be impossible, because it would be opposed to that ever present law of rythmic harmony which is an essential principle of God’s mighty universe. The garb there hides not the man, but rather reveals his Ego; the thinking principle of the spirit entity stands declared by the robe’s colour, and the concealment of secret thoughts thus becomes impossible.
Such a condition must automatically render the operation of the law that ” Like attracts Like ” a certainty, and must, moreover, make its application universal. Since nothing can remain concealed under such a law, it is obvious that the impure could not mate with the pure; nor the elemental with the transcendental, and thus God,
out of His abundant wisdom, provides a simple yet perfect system of protection for each one of His myriad spirit-entities which inhabits those boundless realms of the Everlasting Beyond. ” Like attracts Like ” is the unchangeable law, and throughout that measureless infinitude, soul is drawn to soul by the simple affinity of—Colour.