128. Malice

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CXXVIII

Malice: A Caveat

Lecture based Questions:

1. What is malice?

Naturally programmed into our bodies, this emotion rises up quickly and automatically. While experienced, it is difficult to put into words, but you could later say that you felt glee for the unhappiness of another person. In young souls, malice can take the form of premeditated intention to do harm. In the average civilized human being, malice takes on the expression of wishing punishment upon someone.

2. What does it look like in the lower bodies?

At the physical level, a combination of testosterone and epinephrine (adrenaline) create the conditions for malice in the body. At the Astral level, the solar plexus chakra reaches out like a tongue, tastes the victim’s Astral Body, and sucks in a little bit of those unhappy feelings like a bitter delicacy. The heart chakra has an organ that resembles a large, black, jagged, switchblade knife, and this knife springs out during malice activity. The identity of the malicious one is thickened by the idea of someone else’s trouble. The Mental Body is using illusions of being more powerful than the victim, being superior to the victim, or being more in control than the victim.

3. Does malice affect health?

Oh yeah. Whenever we experience malice and do not clean it out, it moves to the liver area and seats itself there, resulting in several possible illnesses, such as hepatitis, cancer, hardening, jaundice, boils, or toxemia.

4. Why do we have malice?

Malice was designed as a biologically protective mechanism in which foreign elements to a tribe would not be allowed to mix into the genetic grouping, and in which also the strongest physical specimens might flourish in a harsh environment. In the challenge of the Game of Life, we learn to turn that natural inclination of otherness into a tool of empathy. Although there are many subtle ways in which we might fall into malice during the course of a day, we can use it as a barometer for spiritual development.

5. How do we use malice as a barometer for spiritual development?

The greater your empathy muscle is developed, the more your malice muscle atrophies. Eventually, empathy supplants malice altogether, so that by the time we reach the 5DI, we have no room for malice in our feelings, as we are full of empathy for others.

6. What are the karmic consequences of malice?

To feel malice is to demonstrate lack of empathy, which turns the wheel of the karmic teaching machine. It sets the venue for your future experience, which would be similar to that of the victim. To avoid this, catch yourself at the moment of malice, bless the victim and yourself, and pray for enlightenment without suffering.

7. Draw or describe one of your helpers. You may use a symbol or describe a fragrance, color, shape, or name to help ground the knowledge of your helper.

8. Meditation: The Path of the Stone

Placing a small stone in your hand, contemplate its feelings of softness, vulnerability, confusion of speed, fear of change, fear of the giant holding it.

Send it loving feelings and assure it that you will treat it gently.

Acknowledge and honor its place of importance in the universe as equal to your own. Tell it that you will be friends forever.

9. Meditation: The Path of the Empath

Picture a person in your mind that you have some problems with.

Phase your Astral Body in with this person’s Astral Body.

Observe his/her loneliness, alienated feelings, discomfort in her/his own skin, restlessness, body energy, unhappiness.

Say, “Thank you God, for enlightenment without suffering for both of us. May ________________ be blessed beyond his/her happiest dreams and feel contented, supported, secure, and fulfilled in Divine Ways.