172 OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH & HEALING
Protective Influence
There are methods of protecting oneself from
inimical influences and it is better to be enlightened
concerning things that threaten so that we may take
whatever precautions are necessary to meet the
emergency.
When we live lives of purity, when our days are
filled with service to God and to our fellow men, and
with thoughts and actions of the highest nobility, then
we create for ourselves theGolden Wedding Garment,
which is a radiant force for good. No evil is able to
penetrate this armor, for the evil acts as a boomerang
and recoils on the one who sent it, bringing to him the
evil he wished others.
It is a fact that an auric atmosphere surrounds
every human being. We know that often we feel the
presence of a person whom we do not see, and we feel
it because there is this atmosphere outside of our dense
bodies. This is gradually changing; gradually it is
becoming more and more golden in the West. The
farther we go with the Sun, the more this golden color
increases—the color of the Christ and of the Christ-
like, the saints whom painters have depicted with a
halo. Gradually we are becoming more like Him, and
thissoma psuchicon or soul body is taking shape, is
being made ready as our “Wedding Garment”.
But, alas, none of us are altogether good. We know
only too well the war between the flesh and the Spirit.
We cannot hide from ourselves the fact that like Paul,
“the good that we would do, we do not, and the evil
that we would shun, that we do.” Far too often our