What You Deserve! (Or, You Tell Them Baby!) By Ophiel There is a general, wide-spread idea among people that if a man/woman does a good deed, a good deed will be done to them in return, and so on, or he will be rewarded in some way suitable to match the “good” he had done. This idea is embodied in the very, very old cliché – Cast your bread upon the waters and it will return to you many fold? (Or, as the wags say it: Return to you as cake!!) In all the 72 years of my life that I have watched this putout and return, I have never found the return action to be automatic. On the contrary, I have found that many people have put out much and when the time came that they needed in turn, nothing was forthcoming, especially from God. Knowing now what you know about the nature of the Astral Light and its action and reaction, as have stated in these Vignettes and in the books up to now, you should not expect a good reaction should follow a good action automatically. Years ago, before I knew anything about metaphysics, I had not found this automatic reaction to be true, in spite of the anguished screams from half-baked Christians who told me they experienced good returns when they ‘did’ a ‘good’ deed. Generally it will be found that IF a good deed is ‘returned/experienced,’ it is because the EXPECTED a g ood deed return AND their EXPECTATION prodded (produced) this RETURN! The Astral Light/Demiurgeous is ‘PRODDED’ into action. But again I repeat: The good return is not automatic. (Dictionary definition: An incitement to act; to incite to action; TO POKE OR STIR AS IF WITH A “PROD” (a) TO THRUST A POINTED INSTRUMENT “INTO.” Please note these definitions, as they will be referred to later.) I do not wish to raise-up, too many different ideas in this little Vignette. I want to stick to the idea of the non-automatic return, so you won’t expect it and be disillusioned, and then how to make a positive return work. Before continuing on, though, please think first about any acts of charity you do for others. There is something screwy about this whole give-away business. For example; No Parents in their right minds will do their children’s schoolwork for them! The object of the work is for the children to LEARN, not have the school work done for them. And it is the same for God and Man and Life, (in spite of what the Gospels seem to say.) This physical Life is, ‘A Problem,’ and not, ‘A Picnic,’ and I say, in my opinion, that each man and woman must work out a personal understanding of his relationship to God, the Physical Plane, and to just about everything else there is, and to do this in spite of all appearances, and all the bellowing of organised religion. (In which I don’t think he will ever find God. Still, don’t leave your religion until you are ready, good and ready, and don’t talk about it.) I have found that the Physical Plane and the Bible and all religions have blinds and traps and deadends in them. You must THINK! your way OUT! of those blinds, traps, and dead-ends, and no one else can do it FOR you! So now, let us return to the subject of our Vignette. In other places, we have dealt with the philosophical nature of the Demiurgeous and its physical manifestation, the Astral
Light. In the course of normal physical events you will ‘run-across/contact’ those who – what shall we term it? – are in distress? Now, there are very few people in this physical sphere whose troubles are not of their own making, and the absolute correction thereof beyond the powers of any ordinary mortal. Par example: I saw an old TV drama return lately, and in the story some slightly upper-middle class people were arranging for the entrance of their daughter into a very good private school. The silly little ‘twerp’ began to talk and scream tearfully that all her friends were going to a junior college and there is where she wanted to go, too!!! And ended up with that line about wanting to make her own judgements (mistakes.)(The day will come when she will shed bitter tears over her ‘judgement’ and will blame everyone and everything except herself.) Nothing can be ‘done’ about things like that except to let them work out their own mistakes, notwithstanding the Gospel injunctions about such matters. (Another rich family girl went nuts worrying about other people’s pro blems instead of her own, and, while her parents were away began to make nitro-glycerine in the home basement to blow up banks, and blew up the house and all and sundry, and they found a few pieces of her splattered around too!!!) I do not like this non-automatic return-reward myself, at all. I think God should live up to his Bible promises and take care of His people, followers, worshipers, or whatever you are going to call them. The object of this Vignette is to tell you, dear students, that in this business of ‘doing good to others’ when you do the good number, you must lay down the/a rule to the Astral Light that you EXPECT a definite RETURN/EXCHANGE/CREDIT for the ‘good deed’ you do, and/or at the very least, no backlash or dis-credit or dis-advantage for it. If you do not do this, you could get what in physical life is called, ‘a reaction,’ and in the Occult is called, ‘a reversal.’ The non-understanding f how incidents operate between this plane and the next I s the cause of much (all) trouble in THIS world (plane.) (See other writing of Ophiel.) SO, -You Tell Them Baby! – And, make sure you, TELL ‘IT’ what is what and what you did and what you expect BACK! (Additional random note, - I trust helpful, - on Inner Plane structure/construction as to how to TELL ‘IT!!’ if you are reading and using Ophiel’s writing, you should know that the Astral Light ‘appears’ to projected inner sight as an, ‘amorphous golden cloud’ – its nearest physical plane manifestation.) When and if, you want to influence the Demiurgeous, here is one, Read again, what I said about the, ‘Prod’ or the ‘Probe.’ You have the power to visualise or to manipulate, OTHER PARTS OF THE ASTRAL LIGHT MATTER. IT IS EVERYWHERE!!! Visualise and ‘Assemble’ an inner plane ‘object,’ – call it a ‘prod’ or a ‘probe’ – even visualise it in the ‘shape’ of what your are working with, if you want. AND THEN ‘THRUST!!’ THE ‘PROBE’ DEEP INTO THE ASTRAL LIGHT CLOUD MASS, and TRY to have the ‘Amorphous Cloud/Mass’ ASSUME THE ‘FORM!’ of your, ‘PROBE/PROD!’ To the, ‘point’ you do succeed in having the, amorphous mass assume the FORM of the Desire Picture Probe, rests the success of Your Magic Work!
