The ease with which a few men in high political office often are able to warp the judgment of a whole people well illustrates this (sending out astral waves that reach the astral brains of a whole nation). No matter how pernicious or illogical the idea is, if it is launched strongly enough and gains momentum, it will dominate the majority. History abounds with the follies of whole nations temporarily so dominated. They are so under the power of suggestion that they fail to see the matter in any light but that under which it has been presented to them. They lose the power to reason about this particular thing, just as a hypnotized subject must accept what the operator suggests without question, and may imagine he is quite logical and rational. From: Brotherhood of Light