Hilarion: This question first should be discussed from the the higher point of view because the approach in the spiritual sense will automatically answer the queries at the more earthly level.
The act of giving birth to the vehicle of another soul is among the greatest gifts one human being can offer to another. At the same time, the earth plane itself is arranged so that it can support only so many individuals of the human family at a time. Hence there must be some control over the numbers of incarnated souls on the planet at any given point. Prior to the present, the control always came about throughout he natural processes of disease and famine, and the total number of souls on the planet never before approached the "limit number" of five billion.
This figure represents the maximum for the human life form on the planet, and cannot be exceeded without dire consequences for the body of the earth itself. This limitation does not arise through exhaustion of food sources or oxygen, as might be thought. There is enough land area on earth to support a hundred times the limit number if all were vegetarians as man was meant to be. Instead, the limit comes about at the aetheric level: the mental "presence" of humanity en masse is very powerful, and this power tends to to be proportional to the population. If the earth population were to exceed 5 billion, the power of man's thought would exceed the power of the earth logos itself, and thus an imbalance would result. It is not possible for us to explain the difficulty more clearly, as the concepts required have no words in earth language.
We have digressed from the original question in order to explain a little of the background behind the question of population control. Turning to the spiritual implications of birth control, then, we can state that to decline to provide a channel for the entry of another soul is not an act which generates karma or any negative results of a similar kind. It is simply a decision made by each individual and is within the right of the individual to make.
However the only sure way to avoid becoming such a channel is to avoid intercourse entirely. The reason for this is as follows. The act of sexual intercourse is one which sets up considerable energies between the lovers-energies that seek to manifest in the form of pregnancy and birth. These energies have a great deal of power and it is very often necessary for the guides of an individual to intervene in order to prevent contraception when the life circumstances are not appropriate. This is true even where intercourse took place on a so called "safe" day. In reality there are no "safe" days. The ability of the energies we have described to keep sperm alive and viable for for several days, or to bring about the discharge of an ovum at a date off the normal schedule is remarkable. Many people who have studied spiritual matters and who understand the general functions of the guardians have the idea that is they who manipulate and arrange pregnancy, whereas in fact these guardians usually (as we have said) intervene to prevent it.
Now whenever an individual attempts to "block" the body's natural tendency to become a channel for birth, as prompted by the powerful energies we have described, various difficulties-of greater or lesser seriousness-arise. Where the prevention is strictly mechanical, for example placing a diaphragm or sheath in the normal path in the normal path of sperm seeking the ovum, the consequences are confined to the aetheric and higher levels. As we have explained in our book, Seasons of the Spirit, the act of sexual intercourse is intended to allow the partners to interchange root chakra energy. In order to balance up or complete the lack in each person of energies characteristic of the other.
Thus, the man receives female energies, while the woman receives male energies. When the act of intercourse is accompanied by a full sharing of the this kind, a sense of great relaxation and at- one-ment results. However the imposition of any mechanical barrier which prevents or substantially prevents the tissues from directly contacting each other will act to greatly reduce the the interchange of male- female energies. the result will be a residue of continuing sexual tension in one or both partners, and a feeling that the experience was not fully satisfying. This can build up over a period of time , and ultimately manifest in other areas of the relationship.
If the means of preventing pregnancy involves drugs or chemicals, there will arise a great conflict between the channeling energies which we described earlier and the strictly earth level forces released by the drugs. These latter are essentially material only, and thus represent "dead" processes without life in them. By contrast the energies seeking to become a channel for birth are very alive and powerful. The conflict which results almost always has deleterious effects on the body of the person taking the drugs (usually the woman). The effects are often to alter the nature of the blood to increase clotting tendencies, thus causing more pain in menstruating. Often, headaches and other general symptoms are also found to accompany the taking of the pill to avoid pregnancy.
As to the karmic implications of mechanical or chemical methods of birth control, such are confined to the simple cause and effect mechanisms we have already described. There is no karma carried over by the higher self to another life, because the effects of the method of birth control are always manifested in the same life in which it is practiced, and usually simultaneously with the method.
It is not necessary to comment at length on the I.U.D., since the same general principles apply. These mechanical devices implanted in the womb do a great deal of damage to the energy flow paths from the root chakra and as a result, lower abdominal complications almost always are met with, if not during the time that the device is in place, then somewhat later in the same life pattern.
Finally, there is the matter of surgically cutting either the fallopian tubes or the equivalent passages in the male. As we have pointed out in a previous answer, the severing of these important passageways disrupts the flow of root chakra energy to the lower abdomen, and near term or long term physical deterioration is almost always the ultimate result. Again, the karma is simply the very results we have described at the physical level.
"More Answers," Hilarion/ Maurice Cooke published in 1985
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