# Chain: Opposition To The Light Worker > *The Light a soul carries provokes opposition, and the response is never counter-attack* **The argument it traces:** A soul growing in Divine Love becomes visible, and what is visible is opposed → the opposition arrives from three directions: organized forces that conspire, energies drawn by the seeker's own reactivity, and human hostility from those not close to God → it scales with the Light rather than diminishing as the soul grows, so hostility is a sign of progress and not of error → and the response differs in each case, a fortress of prayer, discipline of thought, non-reaction in love, but is never counter-attack **3** messages · **6** supporting · complete --- ## Foundation ### 2016-06-04 - [[2016-06-04 Be Strong in the Light and Withstand the Challenges|Be Strong in the Light and Withstand the Challenges]] **(anchor)** Presumptive section anchor. The thread's original statement, opposition as organized and the daily fortress of prayer built against it, with the posture qualified so the practice is not fear: "there are many forces that conspire in many different ways, on many different levels to draw you out of the Light... not in a way of fear... but in a way that you reinforce the Light within yourselves." ## Elaboration ### 2016-09-14 - [[2016-09-14 Being in the Light Takes Conscious Effort|Being in the Light Takes Conscious Effort]] Relocates the cause inside the seeker. "When you allow inner reactivity, strong negative emotions to flow freely within you, you do indeed attract negative energies and forces to you, forces which are all too happy to reinforce these conditions. No, you are not immune, my beloveds." Where the Foundation has forces organized against the light-worker, here they are drawn by his own state, and the defence changes with the cause, from a fortress of prayer to discipline of thought plus prayer. The second of the thread's three directions. ### 2016-09-15 - [[2016-09-15 The Reaction to Your Light|The Reaction to Your Light]] Supplies what the thread most needed, a reason why opposition comes at all and a law governing it. The Light itself provokes, and both responses scale together: "the power of the Light within your souls causes a response and a reaction in the world, and as your Light grows so will the reaction intensify." The hostile half described: "a desire to snuff out your Light, a reaction of suspicion, of fear and anger from those who are not close to God... they look to see your flaws." The defence given as non-reaction: "Do not react in the way of anger to anger, judgement to judgement, fear to fear." --- ## Also touches on this *These messages restate or echo the idea rather than carry it forward, so they sit alongside the thread rather than in it.* - **2016-09-03** [[2016-09-03 Love Brings Resolution to Disturbances|Love Brings Resolution to Disturbances]] (witness) - Protection asked for a third party rather than mounted by the seeker, "ask for the cloak of protection to surround her and those who are close to her, that this disturbance may be quelled". Held at witness because the subject is exposed by her own delving, "she knows not the conditions that she is delving into and is very vulnerable to all influences", with nothing conspiring against her, so the message carries the defence without any account of what opposes. - **2016-09-11** [[2016-09-11 Many Are with You in Your Efforts|Many Are with You in Your Efforts]] (witness) - The same precedent offered the day before Jerome's, "Many turned away from me thinking me not right within my mind, but I persisted and I prayed intensely and I sought out God and did not pay much attention to the judgements of others". Opposition as the servant's ordinary condition, with the defence given as persistence and disregard. - **2016-09-12** [[2016-09-12 You Are Supported in Your Struggle|You Are Supported in Your Struggle]] (witness) - Jerome offers his own martyrdom as precedent to a man walking the streets with a message of truth, and converts it into a prediction, "it is very unlikely you will have my fate, still the arrows of criticism and scorn will come your way". Human undirected scorn, which the narrow `fortress-of-light` candidate excluded and the widened thread includes. - **2016-11-29** [[2016-11-29 Put Aside the Goals and Ambitions of Your Mind|Put Aside the Goals and Ambitions of Your Mind]] (sighting) - "If you are afraid someone will hurt you or offend you, ask God for His cloak of protection to protect you." Fear of being hurt by others, met by asking for protection; nothing is said about the Light provoking it. - **2017-01-16** [[2017-01-16 Accept Every Unique Soul - Their Differences Will Not Harm You Spiritually|Accept Every Unique Soul: Their Differences Will Not Harm You Spiritually]] (witness) - The cause located in the seeker's own thoughts, "Thoughts do indeed attract and bring like energies close. This is a Law and this Law comes into effect whether you are aware of it or not," with responsibility kept, "you are responsible for your own thoughts, my beloveds... this does not mean that you are a victim of these things." - **2018-09-01** [[2018-09-01 The Awakening of Your Souls Brings the Message of Truth to Humanity|The Awakening of Your Souls Brings the Message of Truth to Humanity]] (witness) - The same light draws opposition as well as interest, "Some are intrigued, while others respond with suspicion, some with anger because you challenge the world, beloveds."