The Son of God was reported in Mathew 5:27 & 28 to have said
during the Sermon on the Mount: “You have heard… ‘You shall not commit
adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has
already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
This means that it is not only the external action that can bring
about guilt. Thoughts too, as invisible
as they are, counts as action! How can this be? The Grail Message explains
to us how thoughts operate in a way that clears all doubt and in a way that
brings to remembrance the words of Christ in this regard to the effect that a
lustful thought is equal to a lustful deed with attendant consequences!
In the lecture of the Grail Message titled Morality, we see
pictorially the danger posed even if just one person out of 30 pure minded
people in a swimming pool for both sexes harbours impure thoughts. If this 30th person stimulated by
what he sees begins to nurture impure thoughts towards the object of his
glances, then such thoughts will take on invisible forms, moves towards and
attach themselves to the affected person and defiles the person even if nothing
has been said or done by both parties! The person thus contaminated will carry
this dirt away with the danger that this dirt can attract similar straying
thought forms which are capable of poisoning and confusing the victim. Is this
not scary? Of course, there is protection against the dangers posed by such
thought forms, but that protection is for one who constantly strives for purity
of thought and is inwardly anchored
firmly to the centres of light-streams!
The visible deed, words and thoughts belong to the Realm of Gross Matter
in this Creation! Thoughts operate in the World of Fine Gross Matter,
words in the World of Medium Gross Matter, and visible actions take form
in the World of densest Gross Matter. These three kinds of our activity
are gross material!
Therefore, the forms of all three are closely connected with each other
and their effects are interwoven. This means that a thought, automatically working
according to its nature in Fine Gross Matter, can strengthen words of a similar
type in the World of Medium Matter, thereby producing more powerful
forms. Going further, the thought gains more strength, continues to work on and
eventually arises in a visible active form in the coarsest World of
Matter, without the originator of the thought appearing to be directly linked
to the visible action which may be carried out by someone else at another part
of the planet!
No wonder then the Grail Message gave us a strong warning to the effect
that not one single evil thought will remain unexpiated, even when it has not developed
into a physical deed!
The next essay will discuss: What to avoid.
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