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Glamor - A World Problem - The Nature of Glamor
7. Through wrong Application of Ideas.

How often does this form of illusion descend upon a disciple! He contacts an idea intuitively and also intelligently (note the distinction here expressed) and misapplies it. This is perhaps an aspect of the synthetic illusion or the illusion of the whole of [65] the mental plane, as modern man contacts it. Illusion varies from age to age, according to what the Hierarchy is attempting to do, or according to the general trend of men's thoughts. The disciple can therefore be swept into a wrong activity and a wrong application of ideas because the general illusion (growing out of the six types of illusion to which I have referred above) is over-dominant in his mind.

I could continue enlarging on the ways whereby illusion traps the unwary disciple but this will suffice to awaken in you that constructive analysis which leads from knowledge to wisdom. We have noted that the seven major ways of illusion are as follows:

  1. The way of wrong perception.
  2. The way of wrong interpretation.
  3. The way of wrong appropriation.
  4. The way of wrong direction.
  5. The way of wrong integration.
  6. The way of wrong embodiment.
  7. The way of wrong application.

These are the third steps towards expression. The form of the expression is also qualified. Thus the seven ways of illusion are produced.
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