Now let me tell you this knowledge of and realization of the spirit is very important. The degree to which you know your Real Self is also the degree to which you are able to manifest POWER. The more you are like ordinary men (only aware of yourself as a body or as a mind in a body) or in the case of person's of very low consciousness who are more like animals (which can't even turn their thoughts inward at all) the less power there is behind your thoughts.
This low-power state is at once a blessing and a torment. As you gain experience through incarnation after incarnation, your desires are purified and turn towards higher things more and more, and you eventually become less satisfied with material things and you yearn for spiritual knowledge. Those who awaken to an awareness of the real self, the spirit, too fast and without the proper purification plunge into disaster. The reason for this is that as you resonate more and more with the plane of spirit, each thought you have becomes more and more powerful, the emotions behind each thought manifesting as actual conditions and life circumstances. The attractive power of your thought is stronger in ALL DIRECTIONS, a fear will manifest to a certain degree, just as will an ideal you direct thoughts of love to.
When you are operative on a higher plane of consciousness you must be much more pure. Here is where books like The Universal Master Key and Character Power come in and the importance of ethics and of character development becomes great. Faith as well becomes very important and is needed to help you break past various barriers that would otherwise limit you.
Some things that can go wrong are:
• You may become operative on multiple planes all at once and be unable to tell for yourself what belongs to what plane; be something physical or mental in its manifestation you may get these things confused and you then end up with quite a problem.
• You may while your awareness is active upon the mental planes attract to yourself things which will torment or upset you.
• Negative thoughts you have about your body or mind may fuck up both. This will create a lot of suffering for you as the instinctive mind, the body intelligence, etc. acts upon negative thoughts and suggestions from yourself or from others that you are receptive to screws up.
• You may hurt others and then come to regret it because of your ignorance and low-development.
The degree to which you resonate with the plane of spirit is the degree to which you have power over the things of the mental and physical planes which are below it. This is a prerequisite to being able to do any magick; nothing you do will work very well if you have barely yet to awaken into the consciousness of the I AM I