The Gaelic Manuscripts
by Betty White
with Stewart Edward White

Chapter 21
The Technique of communication

1. Malicious entities

There is another type of ‘interference’. Everyone who has the smallest experience in these matters is sure to come across it sooner or later. Unlike the ‘coloring’ injected by the station's own personality, this appears to emanate from mischievous or malicious outside entities. They seem to try to mask themselves by pretending to be what they are not; either friendly or beneficent people, or as actually the usual communicators. I am assuming, of course, the whole phenomenon is to be taken at its face value. Margaret Cameron, in The Seven Purposes, describes vividly a dramatic example of one of these raids.

The object seems to be deceit, confusion. Too often it is successful; especially with beginners, who are confused enough at best. After a time one learns how to recognize the subtle identifying symptoms to develop a technique of defense.

Do these originate actually in deterrent or destructive outside entities?

If so, why are they permitted to operate? Why is not the station protected by his customary ‘controls’?

2. A bit of advice

Before hearing what Gaelic has to say on this, I want to interpolate two bits of advice out of my own experience with other stations.

Whenever there is great haste demanded or advised, be wary. Hurry! Hurry! There is just time! The stock-is-going-up-at-nine-o'clock type of exhortation is just as indicative in this matter as it is in business life.

Whenever you are solemnly informed that you have been ‘specially chosen’; or that a ‘great revelation’ is in the offing which you have to give to the world, then also you may be pretty certain that you are on the sucker list, so to speak; and that ultimately you are going to get so tangled in discrepancies and falsities that you are likely to chuck the whole investigation overboard, in disgust.

3. The point of attack

Up to a certain point, Gaelic pointed out, a certain process has to be carried out whoever or whatever is to use it. The initial ‘purposing’ of the current of vitality must take place; its differentiation from the universal current into a force for especial use and an especial person. The necessary relaxation of the physical body, and the necessary amount of abeyance of the focused, mind must be imposed. The current of vitality, automatically lowered by this, must be reaccelerated to a proper degree for efficiency. "Within certain limits," said Gaelic, "these must be standard if any result, by anybody, is to be obtained".

"The interference can be applied at several points of all this rather complicated process", said Gaelic. "And that applies", he pointed out, "to any interference, whether from an outside intelligence; or the station himself; or from the carnate people in the room". However, it is with the outside intelligence we deal for the moment."

Since communication is carried on by means of an impression made upon the station's unfocused mind, the control of that unfocused mind is the obvious field of contest, assuming that two intelligences, or sets of intellgences, desire to communicate at once. "The one with processess most controlled will thrust aside the other, or will sufficiently drown out the other’s attempts to imprint the main purport of its own intention. Sometimes it does not succeed wholly and a confusion exists which is a reflection of the conflict. That is so simple as to be hardly worth stating.

"What interests us more is to examine why it should not be always possible for strong organization to guard aside and fend off completely such chance or isolated and unorganized raids. That is because at times the interfering intelligence is able to ally itself with summat; either in the consciousness of the station -, or in what corresponds to general meteorological conditions in your atmosphere, the effect of which alliance is temporarily to place that intelligence in either the current of some dominant personal trait, or in the natural sweep of some cosmic current. I will explain this.

"In the personal consciousness of each individual there exist certain experiences, traits, faculties, emotions, desires, and memories, which each finds better its counterpart in one individual rather than another of those outside himself. It is the old concept of points of affinity. In a search for that magnetic contact with consciousness which permits us to make any impression at all, we seek for that memory, or desire, or faculty, or traits or whatever in the station’s equipment most nearly and most powerfully in correspondence or affinity with the same thing in ourselves. And through that, and the expansion of it, so to speak, to cover the field of consciousness ... I speak in parables, almost; illustrative merely – we permit the intentioned current to flow through us in one blending sweep.

"Now your interfering intelligence tries to do exactly the, same thing. His correspondences may be of a very low order, or perhaps merely of an undesirable order; but if, helped by mood- or outward circumstance, he may seize upon that affinity and with it usurp a sufficient field of consciousness, he is able to make his impression, and until that expansion is again contracted. to such a point that we may take command, he will himself retain command, wholly or in part.

"Now it is very difficult to illustrate or symbolize this. But let us suppose the staton’s consciousness as a circle one foot across. Our interfering intelligence has seized upon a point of affinity and expanded it to occupy a diameter of seven inches. This leaves only five inches as the field in which any other intelligence can expand the affinity. Now it may well be that this first intelligence is weak and alone, and that it would be impossible for him to accomplish more than seven inches; and it may well be that the second intelligence, while possessing sufficient power to expand tot he whole limit of this consciousness, had he the chance, nevertheless possesses only five inches in which to work – and seven inches is stronger than five inches. Until something happens, the interfering weak intelligence will hold the field against all the heavenly hosts, because only from the station’s initiative – intellectually conscious or intellectually unconscious initiative – can a change in the status quo ante be brought about.

"This is a rough example of complete interference. Your conflict (to continue our figure) and your confusion comes about then the expansion wavers, so to speak, about the six inch mark.

"The second point I would discuss is more often of importance. It is the changing conditions in our element, which correspond to weather changes with you – not exactly correspond, but which are the reality often of weather changes vrith you, especially in elecytical conditions. These sometimes supply an atmosphere, so to speak, which renders easier the magnetic affinities of the lower strata of consciousness rather them the upper. A change in the weather will often reduce the power of the interfering intelligence below the six inch point; then we thrust him aside. This is highly figurative, you understand, intended to convey a glimpse. It is not a statement of mechanical process."

"Why don’t you reason with these interfering intelligences, man to man, and show them what damage they are doing?" enquired one of us.

"That is always a part of our work, to raise and expand consciousness wherever we find it", said Gaelic, "but you must remember that action is a gauge of development, and that an intelligence undeveloped is incapable of receiving certain concepts. A destructive intelligence is acting always from misapprehension, and that misapprehension must be outgrown. I discount what you call malignancy, which is a term that represents little in itself, but much in an inclusion of many negative qualities, such as selfishness and fear."

"I see what you mean", agreed the questioner. "Here, if we can close the mouth of an individual, we can stop his destructive activities.We cannot control his thoughts. You must, control his thoughts to make your policing effective."

"Exactly!" approved Gaelic. "Of course, in the case of stations such as this and others who have been well developed, we take care as far as we can to guard your every moment, and to prevent such an affinity being established at all, by the simple expedient of crowding him out if he attempts. A valuable station we literally try to guard every moment."

4. Why interference at all?

But why this interference? What is the point? What urges these ‘deterrent’ entities to the effort?

"Unfortunately," said Gaelic as to this, "a knowledge of, or a desire for cooperation for Progress, Unity – whatever you call it – is not a gift that comes with one’s passing to our spheres. You carry to us no more, and no less, than you have made. And while the stubbornness of material blindness is considerably lightened, nevertheless there are many who retain the disintergrating ideas they have brought with them from earth. Their own magnetic attraction is toward their kind; and when it becomes known to them thus that from whatever cause – mistake, accident, ignorance – a center, however small, of disintegration has been established, they there attempt to establish conditions for the working of the law – but according to their own mistaken ideals.

"The condition of doubt, the condition of fear, to name two things, offer strong footholds. And whether or no they prevail in their attempted usurpation of the field, depends entirely on the strength of the conditions so established.

"You will remember," continued Gaelic, "that whether at a given point in space the tree quality produces a tree, or the granite quality produces a boulder, depends on whether at that point the conditions are stronger in favor of tree quality or of granite quality. But as the stone spreads its ripples, so spreads the impulse from any given condition, anywhere established. So that the reality which that condition affects, wherever it may be in the cosmos, becomes aware that at that one point fertile ground is ready for itself. And from the farthest depths of imaginable space it surges toward that point,

"Make no mistake – the minutest point of disintegration, of whatever sort, is known to all forces of disintegration, wherever they may be. And, obeying the law of attraction, they are impelled to throw their forces in its direction.

"For this reason – to return more specifically to our first topic – the plague spot of ‘Interference’, self-induced by the station, is a dangerous thing. Unless checked and guarded it may spread to a putrefaction of the whole being,

"Fortunately, as you well know from your physical world, the Power of Healing has its source in mightier thing; and if the conditions are gathered for the manifestation of that law, nothing can withstand it.

"Such in vague outline is the struggle, the battle, on this side. But mark you this: it differs in no essential from the battle on your side. It is different in manifestation, as everything differs in manifestation according to the substance in which it is precipitated. That is all.

"So, to return, your ‘interference’ originates always – always, I say – with yourself. It is an automatic thing, and is of little consequence so long as you do not yourself offer conditions of dought, of fear, of discouragement to manifest disintegration, and so attract tremendous forces which might conceivably prove your undoing, and which certainly will bring about a great struggle.

"Much is done from this side in your aid. But, again, as though endlessly rings
within rings, that aid itself cannot be manifested until you have provided the conditions."

Somebody instanced an experience where apparently a regular battle had been fought by opposing intelligences for the possession of a station’s facilities.

"Was that an entity, or merely a personification of the station’s subconscious?" she asked.

"A breach was made in the walls", replied Gaelic. "The Intelligence you speak of was merely busy collecting the conditions favorable to his own purpose as your friends were busy in collecting the conditions favorable to their own. For the moment, aided by yourselves, his conditions grew strong enough to elbow the others aside."

"The Law is neutral. The Law acts. And it matters not whether it acts through the destruction of a great typhoon, or whether the same law blessed the fields of grain. Law is Law. Intelligence offers the conditions through which the Law must work. The Law works good or evil according as the intention of the Intelligence is evil or good.

"The Law is in itself a duality, based upon its inherent unity. It will work one way with positive conditions, and diametrically the opposite way with negative conditions so that ordinarily you say you have two laws – there is but one."