FORMULA FOR DISSIPATING INDIVIDUAL GLAMOURS
Choose the glamour to dissipate. After you have practiced the process, you can choose other glamours to dissipate, from observing glamours in your life.
Once you have chosen the glamour to work with, think about how this glamour affects your daily life and relationships. Think of different situations where this glamour has affected you and your relationships. In a group each member adds to the discussion of how the chosen glamour has affected him or her. Each one’s insight may stimulate another insight for the other members of a group. The more you sense its effect in your life, the more focused will be the light as you use the process to dissipate it. Take about 10 minutes to reflect on this glamour.
The Technique of Light
First, we will align the personality—body, emotions, and mind in preparation for the work to be done.
Quiet the outer form and the etheric mechanism through slow rhythmic breathing and adopting the attitude of the observer.
Quiet the emotional nature, sensing the possibility of the solar fire pouring through it.
Stabilize and focus the mind, seeing it as a vessel of light that can reflect the illumination of the soul.
1. Building the Dual Light of Light of Mind and Matter:
All atoms have light in them, and you are going to blend the light of matter of your brain with the light of your mind to form a dual light, centered in your head. Use your imagination to create this blending. Whatever images you have are fine; there are no right or wrong images. It is fine if you simply imagine this light, or sense or feel it rather than see this light. As you combine the light of mind with the light of matter, imagine these two lights forming a pinpoint of intense light in the middle of your head. This dual light can reveal glamour that you are trapped in, but it does not yet have the power to dissipate it or to keep it from affecting you.
2. Building the Triple Light of the Light of Matter, Mind, and Soul:
a. Ask your soul to join you.
You are now ready to bring in the power of your soul to illumine your mind. With this illumination, you will have the ability to dissipate the glamour. You are not going to become your soul; your soul is going to add its light to your dual light, illuminating your mind so you have the mental illumination necessary to dissipate glamour. Ask your soul if it will join you in working to release glamours. Dedicate your personality to your soul, and see (affirm) your soul accepting this dedication.
b. Your soul agrees to join you.
Your soul adds its light to your dual light as it breathes out a silent OM into your attentive, waiting mind. Your dual light is becoming a triple light - the blended light of matter, mind, and soul. You might sense this as a growing light around or inside your head, not yet active, moving, or doing anything. Sense the added light and beauty in your dual light as it is infused with your soul’s light. With this triple light you are creating an illumined mind that holds the light and power of your soul and that can dissipate glamour.
c.The three lights become brilliant.
Sense the triple light you have created as you blended the light of matter, mind, and soul. Visualize this triple light as a sphere of vivid, brilliant light that does not yet project outward. Make this light even more brilliant, beautiful, and intense. This light is dynamic, yet quiescent and unmoving; it is not yet magnetic or radiatory. It is gathering energy and waiting your direction.
3. Creating a Group Light:
If you are working with a group, imagine that all of you are combining your triple lights into one enormous, powerful light.
a. Name the Glamour to be Dissipated
Think about the glamour you are going to dissipate and say its name silently or aloud.
b. Direct the Searchlight on the Glamour
Using the will of your personality blended with the will of your soul, create a searchlight. Do so by putting the full force of the will of your personality/soul into the creation of this light. With this will, send out a broad, vivid beam of light. Direct this searchlight to the astral plane. Picture a broad, brilliant beam of light shining down on the astral plane, scanning for and locating the glamour to be dissipated. Imagine this searchlight penetrating the astral fog where this glamour is concentrated.
The glamours you sense will be the glamours you have given life to in your life. Do not focus on a glamour as around your body, rather see it as energy out there on the astral plane. There are many ways to experience this glamour. Some will imagine it being there, others will sense it, some will hear its sound, and some may see its qualities, shapes, or other energy characteristics. There is no right or wrong way to sense the glamour. Many times you see or sense nothing unusual, and notice the lift in energy and clarity later.
Your searchlight goes directly to the glamour whether you “see” it or not. It also distributes light to the area of the astral plane where the fog of the glamour that you are dissipating is concentrated. Know that the false light of the astral plane will disappear in this triple blended light. This powerful searchlight dissipates and gradually eliminates the dim light and fog of glamours.
4. Use the Affirmations of Power to Dissipate the Glamour
These are affirmations of power and purpose. Sense your searchlight beaming down on the glamour as you say these three statements silently or aloud. You are calling on the power of the light to dissipate this glamour. Pause for a few minutes after each statement to allow its potent and penetrating energy to have the full effect on this glamour. Sense the power of your light making these statements a reality.
The power of the light prevents the appearance of the glamour of ______________.
The power of the light negates the quality of the glamour of ________from affecting me
The power of the light destroys the life behind the glamour of ______________.
5. Sound an OM to produce the penetration needed and visualize the searchlight:
a. Making a further impact upon the glamour.
b. Penetrating the glamour and being absorbed by it even more.
c. Dissipating even more of the glamour. As time elapses the glamour will never again be so powerful and will eventually disappear altogether.
6. Consciously withdraw the beam of light and re-orient yourself on the mental plane.
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Note: Glamour is never immediately dissipated. It is of too ancient an origin. By persistently using this formula you will weaken the glamour and slowly it will vanish. You will then walk free from the fog it caused. Be willing to do this work regularly for months, and if necessary for years, until you have freed yourself. Do not seek to dissipate all your glamours at one session.
You will learn much more about glamours in the book Glamours: A World Problem, by Alice Bailey. You will also find the common glamours listed for each of the seven rays (or types) of personalities.
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From our group notes after two years of weekly glamour work:
We found that with focus and experience we could dissipate two glamours at each meeting. By deciding these in advance, the group was prepared to work with the glamours. Some of us saw nothing at all when the light was shining on the glamours. We simply focused the searchlight out there on the astral plane by using our imagination and hoped for the best. Others in the group had a distinct sense of the glamours, such as sticky clumps, or as a thick, dark mass, or like a multitude of little scurrying things that moved very fast when the light hit them in an effort to hide from it. At times a glamour felt like quicksand, pulling one in. At another time one member seemed to hear loud, grating noise from a particular glamour. Another member even noticed a musty, disagreeable odor from one of the glamours, along with a bitter taste.
In other words, experiences were varied, and at times when “nothing seemed to be happening” as we looked for the glamour before using the words of power, we simply used the creative imagination to affirm that following the formula with focused intention accomplished the results. We realized that results were what mattered, not whether we were entertained with sights or sounds while doing this work. What was observed was the lifting of each person’s glamours. This clearing became more and more pronounced in each life as the first year ended.
Now, after almost two years, the changes are dramatic in each person’s experience. Negative reactions (no matter how justified) can be dissipated with the formula. All glamours are more easily identified, such as pride, separatism, and other time and energy blocks. We realize how unnecessary most emotional suffering is and how it distracts everyone from the work to be done.
A renewed sense of humor is one of the first shifts that many notice. The ability to smile at one’s own tendencies-and at others' glamours-prevents the drama that glamours thrive on. It has become easier to see where each glamour is going to lead-and then decide not to go there! Being angry can seem inevitable when terrible things happen; feeling helpless and depressed can also seem inevitable. All of these appear to be "normal" because they are so common. Yet some people do not react in this way to a personal or national crisis for very long; they go into a super-alert state that gives them extraordinary thinking and ideas. If a sense of anger pops up, and certainly it may, take time to take the steps in the glamour formula. The intense light of the soul directed by your mind will always make a difference.
The natural understanding and compassion of your mind have been hidden by glamours. When the fog around someone's aura lifts, life is much smoother and happier.
Going through the glamour process without the illumination of the soul will not be effective. The soul light is the key to success. The personality has a dim light in comparison to the soul. Too much self-analysis (as much fun or misery as it might be) gets in the way.
World Glamour is one of the most urgent needs of humanity today, but first is the work of dissipating individual glamours. World Glamour work is done by those groups who have gained experience through individual glamour work, and who have formed a group light together that is stable, strong, and steady.