If you start to do practices and your spiritual awareness increases, the negativity has to work harder and the distractions will start to become stronger. The entities and shadows you had will also become stronger as the negative energy tries to match the positive energy.
At some stage of the Path you may find you have real trouble on your hands. The negativity will try to prevent you from attending retrieval for instance, by perhaps confronting you with an accident or a disruption in your life. But the key is to see this as a test. If you become preoccupied and fearful and forget the Beloved, then you will remain at that stage. Similarly, if you become entrenched in the distractions you will not progress either. But, if you seek Him from your Heart and you know that He is the one who affords total protection and He is the one who is above everything – and you persist with the practices and stick to them no matter what is happening – then you will find that you are shifting.
From this perspective you can see that the negative energy is actually an agent to assist you to progress. It is there to get you higher, not to hold you back and though it can influence you, it is not really ruling you. Even evil does not have the power to rule over you. Possession by evil does not exist, a person can only be possessed if they allow evil to possess them. You cannot be possessed against your free will. The Beloved gave you free will and even He respects that.
There are verses in the Holy Books in which Satan says, “When the time of Knowing comes, I will declare that I am just an agent to influence you. I cannot make you do anything. How can I, when He created you with free will? I merely assist you with what you want to do.”
It’s the same principle at work when you approach a teacher for spiritual expansion and he assists you in that way, your free will is the key. The more you utilise your free will toward knowing yourself and through that, knowing the Beloved, the more assistance you will receive.
Be wary of negative energy and entities, but never allow it to hold you back. If you let it hold you back, you’ve lost it and you can remain in a stalemate for a long time until you realise that this is your own vision, your own action. Even the Beloved does not force you to do anything and although His Will is important on earth, the Beloved always respects your free will.
