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==Hostile Forces==
The hostile forces are those which try to pervert everything and are in revolt against the Divine and opposed to the yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/22/the-divine-and-the-hostile-powers-ii#p15</ref>
The hostile forces are anti-divine, not merely undivine; they make use of the lower nature, pervert it, fill it with distorted movements and by that means influence man and even try to enter and possess or at least entirely control him. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/24/opposition-of-the-hostile-forces-i#p8</ref>
The hostile forces have a certain self-chosen function: it is to test the condition of the individual, of the work, of the earth itself and their readiness for the spiritual descent and fulfilment. At every step of the journey, they are there attacking furiously, criticising, suggesting, imposing despondency or inciting to revolt, raising unbelief, amassing difficulties. This opposition has been permitted from of old not merely as a test or ordeal, but as a compulsion on us to seek a greater strength, a more perfect self-knowledge, an intenser purity and force of aspiration, a faith that nothing can crush, a more powerful descent of the Divine Grace.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/24/opposition-of-the-hostile-forces-i#p12</ref>
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