| “Milk and butter come under a different category, and most initiates and applicants find it necessary to retain them in the diet. ..”* *6.) “A fourth hindrance is found in the physical body, which has been built up by the aid of meat and fermented foods and drinks, and nurtured in an environment in which fresh air and sunlight are not paramount factors. I am here generalising, and speaking for the masses of men, and not for the would-be earnest occult student. “For long centuries food that has been decomposing, and hence in a condition of fermentation, has been the basic food of the occidental races; and the result can be seen in bodies unfitted for any strain such as occultism imposes, and which form a barrier to the clear shining forth of the life within. ..”† |
| b.) Not fully-developed food sources; (i) onions, (ii) eggs, c.) Foods that hinder spiritual energy; (i) eggs, (ii) cheese, (iii) garlic*. [ * however, garlic is beneficial as medicine to kill germs. ] 5.) “.. For those who can stand it, eggs and cheese are sometimes better eliminated from the diet, but this is not in any way compulsory. It is advisable always that those who are in process of developing psychic faculties of any kind should not permit themselves to eat eggs and very little cheese. |
| * Master DK, through Alice Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar † Master DK, " ", A Treatise on White Magic |