GLAMOUR

Glamour is the second aspect of illusion.
It rules the plane of the emotions.

Glamour veils and hides the truth behind the fogs

and mists of feeling and emotional reaction;
it is of unique and terrible potency,

owing to the strength of human nature

to identify itself with the emotional nature

and to the vital nature of conscious and sentient response itself.

Glamour can only be dissipated by the inflow of clear, directed light;
this is true of the life of the individual or of humanity as a whole.

Illumination is the directed light of truth

and the potent antidote to glamour.
It reveals first of all the existence of glamour;
it provides the distressing contrasts

with which all good men and women wrestle,
and floods the life gradually and to such an extent

that eventually glamour vanishes completely.
Men then begin to see things as they are –

a façade hiding the good, the true and the beautiful.
When illumination occurs in the life of an individual,

consciousness is superseded by a condition of realisation.

The masses are easily prone to the ill-effects of glamour,
until the light of illumination is projected from the mind

into the world of feelings,
just as light is projected into the darkness of the earth

by the rising of the light of the sun.