Ascended Master Teaching

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"Glamour is not dispelled by paying close attention to it. It disappears by the power of

clear and steadfast meditation, and the freeing of one's self from self attention" Djwhal

Khul, As hanneled !y Alice A. !ailey

In my traels through life as a spiritual teacher, spiritual psychologist, and disciple on the

path, I hae become aware of many of the pitfalls and traps of the spiritual path. Iconsider myself somewhat of an e#pert on this subject for I hae fallen into most of them.

I highly recommend you meditate and concentrate ery deeply on the following list.Although ery short on words, they are profound in insight. $y purpose in sharing these

with you is to sae you suffering, %arma, and delay in your path of ascension that comes

from not learning these lessons. &he spiritual path is ery easy on one leel, andincredibly complicated on another.

&here are glamours, snares, and traps that the negatie ego and dar% forces proide eery

step of the way. $a%ing mista%es and falling into these is o%ay. $y concern is helping

you to not stay stuc% in them for e#tensie periods of time. and in some cases for manylifetimes. ith this brief introduction I will begin.

&raps, (nares, and )itfalls of the (piritual )ath

*. Giing your personal power away. +&his applies to giing it to other people, your

subconscious mind, to your negatie ego, fie senses, physical body, emotional body,mental body, inner child, to a guru, to the Ascended $asters, to God. )onder on this for

there is much wisdom in this short little sentence.

-. &rap number two, loing others, but not loing yourself.

. &rap three is not recogni/ing your "negatie ego" as the source of all your problems.

0. &rap four. 1ocusing on God, but not properly integrating and parenting your inner child.

2. &rap fie. 3ot eating right and getting enough physical e#ercise which results in

physical illness, which then limits all other leels.

4. &rap si# is people who are deeply into the spiritual life, but don't recogni/e the

psychological leel that needs to be understood and mastered also.

5. &rap seen, "$aterial desire".

6. &he trap and glamour of power. &his glamour is a trap of power that is held oer others

once one becomes successful.



7. &rap nine is becoming too ungrounded which then has a deleterious affect on one's

physical body.

*8. &rying to escape earth, instead of creating heaen on earth.

**. (eeing appearances instead of seeing the true reality behind all appearance.

*-. &rying to become God, instead of reali/ing you already are the 9ternal (elf, as is

eeryone else.

*. 3ot reali/ing that you cause eerything.

*0. (ering others in total before you hae become self actuali/ed within yourself.

*2. &hin%ing that there is such a thing as "righteous anger". Anger is a big trap for people*4. !ecoming an e#tremist, and not being moderate in all things.

*5. &hin%ing you hae to be ascetic to be spiritual.

*6. !ecoming too serious and not haing enough joy, happiness and fun in your life.

*7. 3ot being disciplined and unceasingly continuing your spiritual practices.

-8. (topping your spiritual practices and studies when you get inoled in a relationship.

-*. )utting a relationship before self and God : a major trap.

--. ;etting your inner child run your life.

-. !eing too critical and hard on yourself.

-0. Getting caught up in the glamour and illusion of the psychic powers.

-2. &he trap of owning your power but not learning to surrender to God simultaneously<

or surrendering to God, but not learning to own your power simultaneously.

-4. &he trap of losing your personal power when you get physically tired and e#hausted.

-5. &he trap of e#pecting God and the Ascended $asters to sole all your problems.

-6. &he trap of allowing yourself to go into "automatic pilot" and losing your igilance.

-7. &he trap of giing your power to channeled entities.

8. &he trap of reading too much and not meditating enough.



*. &he trap of letting your se#uality run you instead of mastering it.

-. &he trap of oer identifying with your mental or emotional body, and not achieing

balance.

. &he trap of thin%ing you need to be a oice channel or see or e#perience all %inds of psychic phenomena to be spiritual or to ascend.

0. &he trap of forcing the raising of the %undalini.

2. &he trap of forcing the opening of the cha%ras.

4. &he great trap of thin%ing the spiritual path which you hae found is the "best".

5. &he trap of judging people because of what initiation leel they may be at.

6. &he trap of sharing your "adanced" initiation leel with other people.

7. &he trap of telling people about the "good spiritual wor% you are doing", instead of just haing humility.

08. &he trap and illusion of thin%ing that negatie emotions are something you hae to

hae.

0*. &he trap of isolating yourself from people and thin%ing that this is spiritual.

0-. &he trap of thin%ing the earth is a terrible place.

0. Giing your power to astrology and the influence of the stars.

00. !eing too attached to things.

02. !eing too non:attached to life. 3ot striing for inoled detachment.

04. !eing too preoccupied with self and not being concerned enough about being of

serice to others.

05. Getting stuc% in the numerous faulty theories of traditional psychology, which is only

a slier of the whole pu//le.

06. !eing too much the mystic or too much the occultist and not striing to integrate the

two sides.

07. Giing up amidst great adersity is one of the biggest traps of all. 3eer gie up= 3eer gie up= 3eer gie up=



28. !elieing that the suffering you are going through on whateer leel will not pass.

2*. 1ocusing too much on what initiation leel you are at or when you are going to

ascend instead of focusing more on the wor% that needs to be done.

2-. Getting caught up in spiritual powers and the achieement of siddhas, instead of recogni/ing that loe is the most important spiritual power of all.

2. !ad mouthing other spiritual or metaphysical groups, and not unifying and

networ%ing with other groups een though they may be not in total alignment with all of

your beliefs.

20. Getting caught up in the dogma of traditional religion.

22. &hin%ing you need a priest to be an intermediary between you and God.

24. >sing your spiritual beliefs to create separatism or elitism or undo specialness.

25. !ecoming too fanatical in your beliefs.

26. !elieing you can achiee enlightenment through drugs, or some %ind of pill is the

highest sense of illusion.

27. !elieing that other people don't hae to wor% at their spiritual path as you do.

48. )utting your relationship to your %ids before your self and God.

4*. Getting caught up in all the attractions of this most fascinating material world inwhich we lie.

4-. !ecoming too caught up in loing one person, instead of spreading your loe out toencompass many people, and all people in an unconditional sense.

4. A major trap is getting caught up in duality, instead of achieing eenmindedness,

inner peace, and e?uanimity at all times. hen you haen't transcended duality you are

li%e an emotional roller coaster flipping bac% and forth between the ups and downs of life. &he soul and spirit thin% with a transcendent consciousness that is detached from the

merry:go:round.

40. &he trap of being a father or a son, or a mother or daughter in your relationships

instead of being an adult.

42. &he trap of thin%ing you need to suffer in life.

44. &he trap of being a martyr on your spiritual path.



45. &he trap of needing to control others.

46. &he trap of spiritual ambition.

47. &he trap of needing to be li%ed, loed or approed of.

58. &he trap of needing to be the teacher.

5*. &he trap of hypersensitiity or, on the other side of the coin, being too shielded. 5-.&he &rap of ta%ing responsibility for other people.

5. &he trap of being the saior.

50. &he trap of sering for selfish reasons, and thin%ing you are being spiritual.

52. &he trap of thin%ing you are more adanced spiritually than you really are, and on the

other side of the coin, thin%ing you are less adanced than you really are.

54. &he trap of fame.

55. &he trap of putting undo importance on finding your twin flame and soul mate and

not reali/ing your soul and $onad are, in truth, who you are really loo%ing for most of

all.

56. &he trap of thin%ing you need a romantic relationship to be happy.

57. &he trap of needing to be center stage or on the other side of the coin, always

choosing to be a wall flower.

68. &he trap of wor%ing too hard and becoming drien and running yourself down

physically. &he other side of the coin is to play too much and not get your wor% done and be about the 1ather's business.

6*. &he trap of going to psychics and channels for guidance and not trusting one's own

intuition.

6-. &he trap of wor%ing with teachers on this plane or on the inner plane who are not

Ascended $asters, and are limited in the understanding and conception of reality.

6. &he trap of ma%ing the spiritual path an interest rather than an "all consuming fire".

60. asting too much time watching &@, reading trashy noels, seeing iolent moies.

62. asting enormous amounts of time and energy because of lac% of organi/ation and

proper time management.



64. &he trap of thin%ing that arguing with others is sering you or that person.

65. &he trap of trying to win or being "right" instead of striing for loe.

66. &he trap of putting too much emphasis on intuition, intellect, feeling, and instinct,

instead of reali/ing that they all need to be balanced and integrated in their proper proportion. &he trap here is getting oerly identified with one of them.

67. &he trap of deotion to a guru, that ma%es you smaller instead of to the 9ternal (elf

which you are.

78. &he trap of trying to be open all the time, instead of %nowing how to open and closeyour field as the need arises.

7*. &he trap of not %nowing how to say "no" to other people, your inner child, or the

negatie ego when the need arises.

7-. &he trap of thin%ing iolence or attac%ing others in any form will get you what you

want or is sering God in any capacity.

7. &he trap of blaming God, or being angry at God, or the Ascended $asters for your

problems.

70. &he trap of thin%ing that if your prayers aren't answered that God and the Ascended

$asters aren't answering your prayers.

72. &he trap of comparing yourself with other people instead of comparing yourself with

yourself.

74. &he trap of thin%ing that being poor is being spiritual.

75. &he trap of comparing and competing with others oer one's initiation leel and

ascension.

76. ne of the biggest traps of all is allowing yourself to be a ictim of other people andof your own physical body, emotional body, mental body, desires, fie senses, negatie

ego or lower self.

77. &he trap of studying too much and not demonstrating in the real world enough.

*88. &hin%ing your moodiness is a true reality of God.

*8*. &he trap of thin%ing your worth comes from doing and achieing things.

*8-. &hin%ing you don't need to protect yourself spiritually, psychologically, and

physically.



*8. &he trap of thin%ing that glamour, maya, illusion, negatie ego, fear, and separation

is real.

*80. &he trap of sugar, artificial stimulants, coffee and soft drin%s for physical energy.

*82. &he trap of trying to do eerything yourself and not calling on God for help. &heother side of the coin is calling on God for help and not helping yourself.

*84. &he trap of loing people a little less because they are treating you badly, or setting a

negatie ego e#ample. 3ot differentiating the person from the behaior.

*85. ;osing faith in the liing reality of your soul, your $onad, God and the Ascended$asters, and &heir ability to help you if you will perseere and do your part.

*86. &hin%ing that other people can achiee ascension but you can't, or at least not in this

lifetime.

*87. &he trap of trying to achiee ascension to escape one's problems.

**8. &he trap of thin%ing that earth is a prison instead of recogni/ing it as one of God'sseen heaens.

(ummation

I thin% this is a pretty complete list that should gie a lot of food for thought. &he lower

self, the powers of glamour, maya, and illusion, and the negatie ego are incredibly tric%y

and elusie in nature.

As $aster Boda said, in the (tar ars moies, "Don't underestimate the power of the

dar% side of the force." nce you get caught up in it, it is often ery difficult to see your way out of it. &he common e#pression of how you can't see the forest for the trees applies

here. It is easier to see other people's "stuff" than your own.

(taying clear ta%es enormous igilance, self discipline, commitment, self:introspection,

and deastating honesty. If the ego can't ma%e you feel li%e an underdog it will ma%e youfeel li%e a top dog which is een more seductie. &he !ible says, "after pride cometh the

fall." ;et this be a warning to us all.

$y sincere hope is that by studying and meditating upon these insights, and instructions,

that you may aoid some of the suffering and %arma I hae had to go through, and that Ihae seen many of my clients, students, and friends go through.

9erything in God's unierse is goerned by laws. &here are physical laws, emotional

laws, mental laws, and spiritual laws. !y learning to understand these laws and become

obedient to them we fulfill the law, which is the path of Ascension. &his boo% and this



chapter has been an attempt to elucidate some of these uniersal laws, so you, my friends,

may learn by "grace" instead of by "%arma" +suffering===

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