Alcohol
lcohol is an acquired taste. It is like a "dare" drug. The aura created around it, to make it something one should experience, within reason, is lost on me. The beverages with the least alcoholic content, like wine, may benefit the human body. However, consumers tend to imbibe a little too much to the extent it interferes with the body's processes. Wrinkled faces; poor postures, and malformed bodies, what we see, may indicate the harsh reality of the systems that we do not see. Sclerosis of the liver is a well-known disease and the addictive impact on the brain from alcohol is another. The question is, as with all habits, the medical and the pharmaceutical industries associate an organ or a body part with a disease. But the body works wholistically, together. It does not appear that alcohol will be studied to see the magnitude of its impact on the total human body. Rather than wait for the next drug to address the symptoms associated with alcohol, humans should take responsibility for their actions by reasonably using these products or leaving them completely alone.
Wine, in moderation, makes for an interesting experience. From the fruits, herbs, and other spices added to different varieties of grapes, the tasting experience of creative combinations has established a global following.
From The Hidden Side of Things - “By Our Habits – Intoxicating Liquors” by CW Leadbeater
Indeed, many of the pernicious habits of life of the ignorant would become
instantly impossible for them if they could see the hidden side of their selfish
indulgences. Even the undeveloped specimens of humanity who cluster round the bar of a public-house would surely shrink back with terror, if they could see the class of entities by which they are surrounded-- the lowest and most brutal types of a rudimentary evolution, a bloated, livid fungus growth of indescribable horror; and far worse even than they, because they are degraded from something that should be so much better, are the ghastly crowds of dead drunkards-- drink-sodden dregs of humanity, who have drowned the divine image in depths of direful debauchery and now cluster round their successors, urging them on to wilder carousals with hideous leers and mocking laughter, yet with a loathly lust awful to behold.
Deterioration from Alcohol
All this is entirely apart from the unquestionable deterioration which is brought about in both astral and mental bodies by the indulgence in intoxicating liquors. The man who is eagerly seeking for excuses for the gratification of ignoble cravings frequently asserts that food and drink, belonging as they do purely to the physical world, can have but little effect upon a man' s inner development. This statement is obviously not in accordance with common sense, for the physical matter in man is in exceedingly close touch with the astral and mental-- so much so, that each is to a great extent a counterpart of the other, and coarseness and grossness in the physical body imply a similar condition in the higher vehicles.
Beyond the Physical and Alcohol
There are many types and degrees of density of astral matter, so that it is possible for one man to have an astral body built of exceedingly coarse and gross particles, while another may have one which is much more delicate and refined. As the astral body is the vehicle of the emotions and passions, it follows that a man whose astral body is of the ruder type will be chiefly amenable to the lower and rougher varieties of passion and emotion; whereas a man who has a finer astral body will find that its particles most readily vibrate in response to higher and more refined emotions and aspirations. Thus a man who is building for himself a gross and impure physical body is building for himself at the same time coarse and unclean astral and mental bodies as well. This effect is visible at once to the eye of the trained clairvoyant, and he will readily distinguish between a man who feeds his physical vehicle with pure food and another who contaminates it by intoxicating drink or decaying flesh.
Alcohol and Spirit
There can be no question that it is the duty of every man to develop all his vehicles as far as possible in order to make them perfect instruments for the use of the soul, which in itself is being trained to be a fit instrument in the hands of the Solar Deity, and a perfect channel for the divine love. The first step towards this is that the man himself should learn thoroughly to control the lower bodies, so that there shall be in them no thought or feeling except those he approves.
All these vehicles, therefore, must be in the highest possible condition of
efficiency;
they must be pure and clean and free from taint; and it is obvious that
this can never be, so long as the man puts into the physical body
undesirable constituents. Even the physical vehicle and its sense
perceptions can never be at their best unless the food is pure, and the
same thing is true to a much greater extent with regard to the higher
bodies. Their senses also cannot be clear if impure or coarse matter is
drawn into them; anything of this nature clogs and dulls them, so that
it becomes far more difficult for the soul to use them. Indulgence in
alcohol or carnivorous diet is absolutely fatal to anything like real
development, and those who adopt these habits are putting serious and
utterly unnecessary difficulties in their own way.
Nor is the effect during physical life the only point which is to be borne in mind in connection with this matter. If, through introducing impure particles into his physical body, the man builds himself an unseemly and unclean astral body, we must not forget that it is in this degraded vehicle that he will have to spend the first part of his life after death. Just as, here in the physical world, his coarseness draws into association with him all sorts of undesirable entities who, like parasites, make his vehicles their home, and find a ready response within him to their lower passions, so also will he suffer acutely from similar companionship after death, and from the working out in astral life of the conditions which he has here set in motion.
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