For within you is the light of the world -- the only light that can be shed upon the Path. If you are unable to perceive it within you, it is useless to look for it elsewhere. It is beyond you, because when you reach

it, you have lost yourself. It is unattainable because it forever recedes.

You will enter the light, but you will never touch the flame.

Steadily, as you watch and worship, its light will grow stronger. Then you may know that you have found the beginning of the way. And when you have found the end, its light will suddenly become the infinite light.

 

Truth has to be wrought out in the texture of daily living before new truths can be safely imparted.

Divinity must be lived, expressed and manifested to be understood. God must be loved, known and revealed within the human heart and brain in order to be intellectually grasped.

 

All receive in order to give and to pass on to that which is lesser and not so evolved.

Such lesser beings begin to unfold to a spiritual impulse that one's particular organism can respond to, transmute and utilize. One ceases to obstruct and begins to transfer, and the doors are opened wide for spiritual energy.

 

All units in manifestation on a plane have to discard the vehicle through which they function, before they can pass on to the subtler levels.

All sheaths in their progress from inertia to rhythm via mobility pass through all the stages, whether they are logoic, causal or human physical sheath, or a cell.

 

The man must learn to separate himself from the vehicles in which he desires, thinks and acts -- to know them as part of the not-Self.

The whole idea or object of the senses is to reveal the not-Self and to enable the Self therefore to differentiate between the real and the unreal.

How can one who is subject to the illusions of the senses, as are all human creatures, conceive of a state of consciousness? Yet it is this very illusion which renders unto man eventually the secret password into the kingdom of God and brings about his release.

The fires of mind and spirit burn up matter and thereby bring about liberation from the confining vehicle.

 

Man has to consciously bring about his own liberation; when the intensity of the united fires results in complete burning away of all barriers and the liberation of the spirit by conscious directed efforts from out of its three-fold sheaths, the partnership is dissolved.

 

Until the path of knowledge has been added to the path of love, one can never take a major initiation.

The head and the heart become united in their endeavour. Mind and pure reason are blended with love and devotion in an entire readjustment of the personality to a new realm of awareness. Now states of consciousness are registered.

 

Learn the laws of spiritual psychology. Make clear the nature of the soul of man. Demonstrate the relation between the Self and the sheaths which that Self may use. Clarify the problem of the supernormal powers and their safe and useful development.

 

Power is grown and developed in silence, and only one who can find a centre of peace within his head, where the paths of the bodily forces and the spiritual inflowing tides meet, can rightly practise true discrimination.

Increase of power always involves a critical test of the vehicle.

 

Increased psychic sensitiveness is both an indication of growth and at the same time a test. Those who have passed through the great liberation have no need to employ the powers inherent in the sheaths. They can use the infallible knowledge of intuition and the illumination of the principle of light.

 

Assimilation and elimination are the laws of the soul life as well as of the physical life, and when this simple law is disregarded serious consequences will follow as inevitably as in the physical body.

 

Even though the disciple waver, the voice of the silence remains within him, and though he leave the path utterly, yet one day it will resound and rend him asunder and separate his possessions and passions from his divine possibilities. Then, with pain and desperate cries from the deserted lower self he will return.

 

That an enforced celibacy is an indication of a deep spirituality and a necessary part of all esoteric and spiritual training is equally useless, abnormal and undesirable. There is no better school for a disciple, than a family life, with its enforced relations, its scope of adjustments, its demanded sacrifices and service, and its opportunities for the full expression of every part of a man's nature. There is no greater service to be rendered to the race than the proffering of bodies to incoming souls.

 

You are permitted to refuse matrimony in order that you may live incessantly adhering to God. If, however, as one knowing the battle you are willing to fight, take a wife and beget children.

The procreation is the union of man and woman and is a divine thing, for conception and generation are an immortal principle in mortal creation.

 

In the completed personality comes the expression of the indwelling self, hidden by the personality, through its creative activity of a non-physical character.

Man, who through the method of reincarnation unfolds his consciousness until it flowers forth as the perfected soul whose nature is light and whose realization is that of a self-conscious entity.

 

Man dwells simultaneously on many levels of being and each such level has its own appropriate breath.

Supreme Lord, explain to me the inner meaning known to Thee; there are two breathings which arise from the vital centres, why is one breathing hot and the other cold.

 

Man is also intended to be radioactive, the incense and perfume of his life must ascend and this attracts the attention of the initiating factors which wait to lead him to liberation.

 

You cannot hang awareness in the void; awareness implies something which it is aware of -- a duality at best. Awareness is essentially an awareness of one's limitations and then of others.

 

Awareness has one great weakness -- it has no continuity, whilst consciousness has no break. This is the vital difference. Consciousness is of the Divine Fragments, so they are immortal. Awareness is an energy produced within the body, whether physical, astral or mental. This generation of energy is profuse in the beginning of life and slowly dries up, whilst Consciousness is part of, a fragment of, the Unique Original Force Field, Divine Wholeness, and its most minute fragment or unit is immortal, Self-generating endlessly.

 

In matter far subtler than the physical -- such as mind-stuff the created power of consciousness is more readily seen than in the dense physical plane.

 

Through the friction of the pairs of opposites, light flashes forth.

The goal of evolution is found to be a gradual series of light demonstrations veiled and hidden by every form his light.

 

The internal fires of the planet will affect a human being as radiation in exactly the same way as the pranic emanations of his etheric body effects another physical body as radiation.

 

Higher electronic matter can illuminate the interior of solid objects.

A body of such matter would thus be its own illuminant and its perceptions could include both the largest and smallest object. In this way it would illuminate and be aware of each object from all sides simultaneously.

Its lowest function would be infrared or heat, its middle function ultraviolet or x-ray; thus its functions would be to impart warmth, colour, light, growth, health and its highest frequencies could sustain and penetrate all inward parts. It would be in fact be life-giving!

 

What can happen to a man whose whole being is made up of desires if he has no cellular body and does not exist in a cellular world?

A consciousness which had the same powers in relation to the cellular could actually perceive molecular matter like air or emotion, could actually penetrate into the interior of dense bodies or objects like ountains or the human body, and would enjoy such speeds of movements that far and near would be completely transformed.

If the consciousness could be raised to a degree of penetration where it could function equally fully in relation to the molecular world, many of the kinds of invisibility would no longer exist for it.

Above all, a consciousness at liberty in the molecular world, i.e. in the next state beyond ours, would no longer be aware only of objects, but also in relations between objects, because in most cases the field of force representing the relation between objects is composed of matter in molecular form.

The molecular body would thus have an enormously increased power of understanding the nature of existence.

 

Such fine states of matter with all their miraculous properties and ossibilities of knowing, penetrating and understanding, are too strong for unprepared man.

 

Only if we can develop something analogous to scent in a flower, i.e. an essence of life or consciousness, a principle of consciousness or Soul, can we begin to move in that world while yet be alive in this. This can be done by long accumulation of the finest energy; but ordinary man cannot help spending this energy as fast or nearly as fast as it is produced.

Sex energy is the finest and subtlest produced within the human organism. It is most volatile, most difficult to store or keep under control. It can express itself on any level. Sex dreaming uses up this fine matter of true sex even faster than actual indulgence.

The struggle to keep sex in its place without expression is like an attempt to keep scent in a corner of a room. It is quite impossible. So that the man who prides himself on being most self-controlled often spends more time, thought, energy and ingenuity on sex than anyone/anything else.

 

The rare energy is dissipated that can go into self-remembering which nourishes the growth of essence.

In man's ordinary state, i.e. acting as a machine (automatic energy), when his inner processes proceed quite independently of his will or desire, this fine matter follows the law governing all free matter in molecular state: it diffuses from him in all directions which catch his attention.

As soon as manufactured, or with very brief delay, this fine matter passes out of him in one form or another. This diffusing of man's finest energy takes many forms: it may pass from him in healthy sex, explode from him unhealthily as rancour, irritation or anger, or leak from him as self-pity or envy.

 

He who would soar to heaven must have heaven's wings.

Mastery of great pain gives consciousness the intensity and flight necessary to continue apart from the physical body.

To acquire the power of changing one's vehicle or form for that molecular world at will, it is necessary to both possess and control a body belonging to the world above, a body of the next finer state of matter.

 

Somewhere in the cosmos, in another world, the fundamental chord of a man's life has sounded, and here in this world the physical constituents of his organism have assumed the responding pattern and becomes tangible to us.

In the same way, the disintegration of the earthly element of the old (dying) body appears to set up a vibration which can pass invisibly through time. This vibration would seem to be the bearer of the final psychological pattern (sanskaras or structure) of the dying man.

 

For death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead.

Judgment is the assignment to the disembodied self of a new body in accordance with its records.

Determination of future state is an exact mathematical resultant of the causes set up in the past life.

 

The purpose of a state like `hell' would be to restore faulty psychic products to their original state of sound raw material.

 

Birth is not the beginning. For at this point the physical vehicle, which determines what he will be, is already formed: its strong points and weak, its innate inclinations and potentialities are already established.

Genes and chromosomes represent the first entry of human life into our field of physical observation.

The seed of man appears to emerge from the molecular world. But the cellular body which grows from it is confined here, and if man is nothing but a physical body, he can have no communication with his invisible world of origin until death again reduces him to an essential form.

 

Since nothing can disappear out of the Universe except with the dissolution of the whole, if a soul ceases to be here it must mean that it is born or existing in some other part of the cosmos.

At the time of death the change in existence is from a cellular to a molecular body.

Any increase of speed beyond that ruling at conception cannot be contained within a cellular body. Therefore, if the carrier of a man continues to accelerate, it must do so in finer worlds than that of his cellular organism.

There is definitely a time interval between death and rebirth. But during this period, the self is not in a cellular state and its measurement of time is not on the same scale.

 

The being of men does not change with the state after death, and so those cravings which obsessed him in his physical life will still obsess him.

If we wish to learn in what condition one will be when one has quit the body, observe in what condition it is while one is joined with the body.

 

Past the insulation of death and conception, the consciousness of the ordinary man may not pass.

The shock which separates the end of one life from the beginning of the next, which severs the essence from the corpse and launches it back into the seed, is the most tremendous which a human being is called upon to face. In fact, it is too strong for ordinary man who has no choice but to forget and fall asleep.

Ordinary man has no unbroken consciousness (awareness), i.e. consciousness does not accompany him at the moment of so-called death; he cannot know what death is, nor the unification of death. Causes pass from one life to another unaccompanied by consciousness. If man has continuous consciousness, death would have a different meaning.

 

This preserving of memory through death, which implies unbroken consciousness, is always shown to be a prerequisite for escape from recurrence of earthly life.

 

The saint and the criminal are equal in appearance. It is only the disintegration of this deceptive body and the passage of what remains into other states of matter that reveals to us the vast gulf between the sleeping man and him who has created an indestructible principle of consciousness.

 

One should learn to die. There is a technique to dying, just as there is to living.

The act of dying should be a triumphant finale of life, a glorious prelude to a conscious exit. A new attitude to death is to be cultivated, a science of death to be inaugurated.

 

Death, too, is undertaken at the direction of the ego, no matter how unaware a human being may be of that direction.

The moment of death is the greatest test and opportunity that comes to man, for in this moment everything is possible. After immense preparation, such a man will choose the moment of his own death to make this supreme effort.

 

Highest man cannot wait. He must improve his own heredity, arrange his own birth.

 

Preparation for states after death and before birth exactly implies that we attempt to think and we do dimly being to understand that were

human individuality attached to molecular or electronic bodies, such bodies would enjoy all kinds of power, properties, and possibilities, which from the points of view of cellular bodies are inconceivable and miraculous.

  

Preparation of the immense task of remaining conscious through death must be to become intensely conscious of one's self in life. This acquisition of a permanent principle of consciousness is connected with the internal development of soul.

He who dies not before dying perishes when he dies.

Death and transformation are man's unchosen and unchangeable fate. All that he can choose and change is consciousness -- but to change this is to change all.

 

Death then is literally the withdrawal from the heart and from the head of these two streams of energy, producing, consequently, loss of consciousness and disintegration of the body.

Death is a matter essentially of consciousness. We are conscious one moment on the physical plane and a moment later we withdraw onto another plane and are actively conscious there (or are we not?). Death will not be understood as long as our consciousness is identified with the form aspect.

Just as soon as we know ourselves to be souls and find that we are capable of focusing our consciousness on any plane at will, we shall no longer know death.

 

Those who forget when they leave the physical bodies, and because they cannot as yet bring back into the physical brain consciousness the recollection of that passing out and of the subsequent interval of active living, they fail to relate death to sleep.

The activating principle which withdraws mysteriously at death, partially withdraws in the hour of sleep. This energy has direct relation with the brain, heart and breathing apparatus.

 

We should learn as we go to sleep to withdraw the consciousness to the head. This should be practised as a definite exercise as one falls to sleep. One should not permit oneself to drift off to sleep, one should endeavour to preserve consciousness intact until there is a conscious passing out into the astral plane.

It involves the ability to withdraw the consciousness into the etheric (astral) body and yet at the same time to preserve in full consciousness (awareness) a point of contact in the head and from that point to direct the automation, the physical body. It presupposes, if successful, certain etheric conditions in the body.

 

The ideal is to achieve such a condition of conscious control at will that man may be focussed in his soul consciousness or focussed in his form aspect, each act of focussed attention being brought about through a specific objective necessitating such a focussing.

 

Once he can live in the Soul consciousness and attain that high attitude at will, the fluctuations of the form life will not touch him; then he sees the path that leads from the plane of physical life to the Soul realm.

Once the magic of the Soul is grasped by the personality, the Soul steadily dominates and can be trusted to carry forward the training of the man to fruition.

 

 In the earlier stage the soul assumes control via the mind and so the brain becomes responsive to the soul. Man is awakened to a knowledge of himself as he really is and to the three worlds of his normal evolution.

Later the soul is brought under the dominance of the spirit.

The Soul consciousness is indeed high, however it is limited in its expression by the nature and quality of the form. Some forms are highly responsive owing to the their density and the quality of the atoms of which they are composed.

 

The man who develops non-attachment even in his aspiration after illumination and isolated unity becomes aware eventually through practised discrimination of the over-shadowing cloud of spiritual knowledge.

 

The objective of the evolutionary process is to enhance and deepen the control of the Soul over its instruments. When this is complete we have a divine incarnation.

When desire has burnt itself out, planetary life comes to and end; in relation to the human physical unit, the secret of liberation lies in the balancing of the pairs of the opposites.

When the causal body fades out or disintegrates, the personality too fades out.

 

Then with the whole consciousness saturated with reality, from that living ground something spontaneous and seemingly unconnected with any human stress or strain, swells through the being like swift fire.

 

The objective is an emanation of the subjective. The logos renders objective a concealed thought (idea). The thinker ever remains. Form imprisons (covers) spirit. All forms are destroyed periodically.

 

Thus man can to himself be the living witness to the divine miracle, through the steadfast, persistent efforts even through a thousand failures.

 

In the higher interlude, abstract or divine thought impresses the Soul and is transmitted to the waiting mind in the aether, and an attempt to embody divine thought in form impresses the brain and produces action

through the medium of the physical body.

 

The permanent atoms are enclosed within the periphery of the causal body, yet that relatively permanent body is built and enlarged and expanded and wrought into a central receiving and transmitting station by

the direct action of the centres -- the same force is in man that built the solar system and that builds the causal body.

It is only through change in permanent atoms that the changes in consciousness on the higher planes bring about changes in the waking consciousness.

 

Infinite energy is governed by law, and that man can get to know how to release interior life energy and meet every human need. To engage and operate this life power for practical results there are certain laws to

which the individual life must conform, failing which there are factors present which inhibit development.

 

When the negative and positive forces of the body are equilibrized, the forces can ascend and descend by the central channel to and from the brain, passing through the centres up the spine without hindrance: the

positive energy of spirit, the negative energy of matter and the equilibrised energy of the Soul.

 

The transmuting process, when effective, is superficially the result of outside factors. Basically it is the result of the inner positive nucleus of the force of life reaching such a terrific rate of vibrations that it eventually scatters the electrons. They then seek elsewhere.

 

The energy flowing through the third eye can have a disintegrating and destroying effect.

 

The force of selfish desires ... is the nursery of infant souls. The force of fear is the product of ignorance; on its own plane, the souls of all men stand free from delusion. The force of sex attraction manifests as

the attractive force between spirit and matter.

 

The white magician works with his eyes open, the voice proclaiming and the hands conferring.

 

The occult law -- to know, to will, to dare and to be silent.

 

Stand in spiritual being, and having done all -- stand!

 

One of the things which the disciple has to learn is to achieve that wisdom which is based on a knowledge of when to work and when to refrain on an understanding of these periods or interludes which are characterized by speech and silence.

 

As growth takes plane, the periods of withdrawal from incarnation steadily lengthen, until the point is reached when the period out of physical manifestation greatly exceeds those spent in outer expression.

Then the interlude dominates.

 

The four higher planes of our system, the lower three, constituting the cosmic, dense physical plane, are in the nature of precipitation.

 

The danger of working with fire or with the prana of the Universe. The spiritual (physical) man is now veiled by a mental or by a fire sheath.

He is also clothed in watery mist and sees distortions and reflections. He sees that which must mislead.

 

Few people as yet are in so close touch with their higher self that they can build the matter of the mental plane into a form which can be truly said to be an expression of the thoughts, purposes, desires of their

higher self functioning through the physical brain.

 

When spirit and matter sound the same note, evolution will cease.

 

The higher forms of life and consciousness in the cosmos find it as difficult to throw their consciousness down into animal forms of humanity as we would find it hard to project ourselves into the consciousness of an

iron plate.

Cosmic avatars represent entities as far removed from the consciousness of man as man is from the consciousness of matter -- thousands of lives of Brahman have elapsed since they approximated the human body (stage).

 

Pralaya is the radioactivity carried to a conclusion.

 

All motion is the result of literally of the impacts or intercourse between atoms and there is no atom anywhere which escapes this force.

The entire vault of heaven is seen to be in motion.

 

No atom becomes radioactive until its own internal rhythm has been stimulated to a point where the positive central life is ready for the imposition of a higher vibratory activity.

Rearrangement of the genes has been obtained by x-rays or radium. One of the terrors of the atomic bomb is that its rays can play tricks with the very stability of the human form.

 

A symbol is itself an expression of an idea and that idea has behind it, in its turn, a purpose inconceivable as yet.

 

The extent of discipline to be undergone by a disciple is settled and known by his soul, therefore he even takes a body. It is determined by law.

 

Definite development of the human eye which will then see that which is now unseen. It will be a `change' within the eye and not a form of clairvoyance.

 

Each solar logos is the manifestation of the energy and life of a great cosmic existence, which for want of a better word we call solar logos.

This solar logos incarnates, comes into manifestation, through the medium of a solar system. The solar system is the body and form of the cosmic life; it is only a mere sheath. The solar logos is the sum total of all

the states of consciousness within the solar system, and more.

The etheric body of any form constitutes part of the etheric body of the solar system.

The solar system is a cosmic atom. Absolute intelligence informs each atom. The solar atom is not a separated life but a fragment of immensity of existence.

 

And who shall say whether in these great spheres of existence in which our Deity (the solar logos) plays His part, He is any more free from cosmic group influence than the human individual is free from impressions

by his environing influences.

It will be realized, that on cosmic levels, the solar logos is in intelligence as relatively low in order of cosmic consciousness as a man is in relation to solar consciousness.

 

Each planetary logos has a different pulsation, a varying periodic interlude and his own unique method of procedure.

Only the heavenly men and their superior embracing lives are consciously and intelligently working through and dominating the form, for only they as yet are perfected manas.

 

All heavenly men differ and so will the evolution that forms cells in their bodies differ likewise. In all schemes on some globes, human beings or self-conscious units are to be found. Conditions of life, form and environment may differ, but the human hierarchy works in all schemes. 

It means that on some globes in every scheme, human units will be found, either prior to physical incarnation (conditioning), between different rounds, cycles or manvantaras, or between various root-races or sub-races.

 

Our planetary logos is preparing for initiation and hence the terrific tests and trials incident to life on our planet during this cycle.

All that we see in the world today is what has been brought to the surface, and what seems appalling and uncontrollable is so to those who only see the surface. But underneath, the deep river of purity and truth is flowing strong.

The heart of humanity is sound and out of the present chaos, and perhaps largely because of it, there will emerge those competent to deal with the situation and adequate to the task of unification and synthesis.

The outcome of good is inevitable. Every man who liberates himself, who sees clearly, and who releases from the glamour of illusions aids in the great work.

Man will transcend all undesirable eventualities and make the goal.

Man, being a living cell of a vaster whole, which in its turn is incorporated into a still vaster vehicle, is the meeting ground of forces greater and more diversified than he is capable of recognizing. These expansions of consciousness we call initiation.

Only when man submits himself to the discipline of his own spiritual will and controls the activity of the lives within his gross form nature and so orients himself to the goal, will he arrive at a true understanding of the plan.

 

When the last cycle of man-bearing has been completed by that last facumal earth and humanity has reached in a mass the stage of Buddhahood and passeth out of objective (world) existence into the mysteries of

Nirvana, then strikes the hour, the seen becomes the unseen, the concrete resumes the pre-cycle state of atomic distribution.

 

The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human.

The capacity to care is what gives life its deepest significance.

 

Too late, O Lord, too late have I loved Thee.

Why am I afraid to love? Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.

Love is not a sentiment; it is a great principle. All besides love is but words. Love never ends.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us -- and by those who refuse to love us.

 

Why am I afraid to tell you who I am?

If I tell you who I am, you may not like who I am -- and it is all I have got to tell.

If I expose my nakedness as a person to you, do not make me feel shame.

Whatever my secrets are, remember when I entrust them to you they are part of me.

Human hiding places -- methods of ego defense.

 

To reveal one's self openly and honestly takes the rarest kind of courage.

I can know only that much of myself which I have had the courage to confide in you.

He who would see himself clearly must open up to a confidence, freely chosen, to one worthy of such trust.

The greatest kindness I have to offer you is always -- the truth.

 

To refuse an invitation to inter-personal encounter is to be an isolated dot in the centre of a great circle, a small island in a vast ocean.

Never build a wall until you know what you are walling in -- and what you are walling out.

 

Sorry, but that is what I am' is a handy motto and delusion to have

around you if you don't want to grow up.

Most adults never grow up.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Most people tend to over-compensate.

 

What are you guilty of all your life? Will you turn aside all your life? Will you grab and chatter all your life? I perceive -- I have no time to lose.}

 

Rhythm is the secret of super-physical transfer.

Know the truth of man's relationship with his source and that truth shall make him free.

Man does not have to persuade God, but he has to persuade himself to enter into communion with the substance of life.

There is no intimation here that the Deity will perform the miracle.

The deity can do nothing with will-less persons. He needs a dedicated will to act from principle and not a machine to be driven.

Physical stillness alone will not open the doors to the super-mind.

Each age makes its contribution to the revelation of God to man.

Further extension of awareness is regarded as education.

While man is asking God to change his world, his human machinery must be adjusted and set to reproduce the mental fabric.

 

Interior rhythm precedes all manifestation, therefore breath and position are powerful aids.

Wash the body with a word -- `Om'. Inhale and exhale with it.

 

Our purpose is not merely to be sinless but to be gods.

 

Look upon pleasure and pain, victory and defeat, with an equal eye. The joys that spring from external association bring pain.

When a man attains to pure reason (knowledge) he renounces in this world the results of good and evil alike.

Renunciation of action and the path of right action both lead to the highest, but of the two right action is better.

 

Be thou the greatest of all sinners, yet thou shalt cross over all sin by the ferry-boat of wisdom.

The fire of wisdom reduces all actions to ashes.

Meditation is not for him who eats too much nor for him who eats not at all.

The wise man is superior to the ascetic and to the scholar and to the man of action.

Earth, water, fire, air, aether and personality -- this is the division of my manifold nature. But this is my inferior nature; distinct from this is my superior nature which sustains this Universe.

The ignorant think of me, who am the Unmanifest Spirit, as if I were really in human form.

The votaries of lesser powers go to them, but my devotees come unto me.

Desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, sympathy, vitality and the persistent changing life, these are in brief the constituents of changing matter.

I am the oblation, the sacrifice and the worship. I am the fuel and the chant. I am the butter offered to the fire. I am the fire itself and I am the act of offering.

Not by study of the scriptures, not by sacrifice or gift, not by ritual or rigorous austerity, is it possible for man on earth to see (Me).

Only by tireless devotion can I be seen and known.

 

When ends justify the means, all such qualified vows are no good.

Every experience leaves an impression.

It may be that the mind as it is today constituted is subject to limitations.

When the fire of mind burns too fiercely, it forms a current which counteracts the higher downward flow and forces the lower fire back into seclusion.

 

Never forget to give thanks. What is worth having is worthy of thanks.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in your joy and in your days of abundance.

The purpose of meditation and silence is to reopen the spiritual centre within each soul.

There is a thought which is not cerebral at all as we know the brain or is not the mind as we know the mind.

 

As long as we continue to suppress one side of our nature, there can be no meditation for us. Feeling becomes hostile through subjugation and thwarts in a thousand lurking ambushes.

 

Meditation is unprofitable and dangerous to the man who enters upon it without the basis of a good character and of clean living. Meditation then becomes only a medium for the bringing in of energies which but serve to stimulate the undesirable aspects of his life. Meditation is dangerous when the desire to serve is lacking.

Only confined to our ordinary illusion of a one-way flowing time could man believe in personal salvation and paradise independent of others.

 

It is quite possible for a man to tune into the fears of other people whilst he has himself nothing to fear.

Enter thy brother's mind and read his thoughts, but only when thy own thoughts are pure.

Enter thy brother's heart and see his woe. Thine is the work to speak with understanding.

 

A true comprehension of a brother's need, divorced from sentiment, will lead to that silence of the tongue which grows out of non-reference to the separate self and the demonstration of a non-critical spirit.

 

The most potent force in the world is harmlessness. I speak not of non-resistance, but that positive attitude of mind which thinks no evil.

He who thinks no evil and has naught is a citizen of God's world.

Only the hands that have let slip all within the three worlds are free to carry the ultimate blessing to struggling humanity. In love of all that breathes comes the capacity to vibrate universally.

Aspirants must live harmlessly in thoughts, words and deeds. The freedom to walk in the light carries with it its own problems.

 

Harmlessness will result in control of speech; harmlessness in emotional reaction will result in being a channel for the love aspect of the Soul (Self); harmlessness in action will produce poise, skill in action, and the release of creative will.

Harmlessness is the expression of the life of a man who realizes himself to be everywhere; he lives consciously as a soul whose nature is love, whose method is inclusiveness, and to whom all forms are alike in that they veil and hide the light.

 

The armed hand is an empty hand and this protects it possessor from the accusations of his enemies. It is a hand freed from the taint of the four symbolic evils: gold, lust, dagger and enticement.

 

...Because criticism, being a faculty of the lower mind, can hurt and wound, and no man can proceed upon the way as long as wounds are made and pain is knowingly given. Learn never to criticize in thought and word.

...There is a great hindrance to the growth of the man in spiritual being through the critical attitude.

 

No person is educated until he can think for himself.

 

Intuition is the condition of internal clarity.

Intuition ever concerns itself with higher activity and not with petty personal affairs. The intuition reveals not the way ambition can be fed, nor the manner in which desire for selfish advancement can be gratified.

 

Let desire and word be so pure and so equally apportioned, and the created form so justly balanced that it cannot be attracted towards the destructive or left-hand path.

Purity is largely a question of motive. If the incentive to action of any kind in the three worlds is based upon personality desire and brought about by the applied use of the mind.

Motive is of prime importance. Mixed motive is universal. Pure motive is rare, and where it exists there is ever success.

Why do we choose? When we analyze the choice, we see that it is determined by motive.

 

If the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.

 

{  A vibration, an impulse, an emotion, a desire originate in the lower aspect of the form side. They differ from an emanation coming from the soul.

Distinguish between instinct and intuition, higher and lower mind, desire and spiritual impulse, selfish aspiration and divine incentive.

...Liberation from the thraldom of lower loves into the liberty of love itself and into the freedom of one who possesses all things and yet desires nothing for the separated self.}

 

The secret of all aspirants is to cultivate the attitude of the onlooker and of the silent watcher. By premature speech and too much talk, the child of his thought is still-born.

But as time goes, a man grows spiritually, his meditation will perforce give way to a steady spiritual orientation. He must assume and constantly hold the position of the observer, detached from the mechanism of observation.

The cultivation of a detached attitude personally, with the attached attitude spiritually, will cut away roots of a man's life, but it will render a thousand-fold for all that is cut away.

It is persistence in the attitude of right observation that brings about detachment from form and a subsequent power to use form at will.

 

An individual who has elevated the functioning of his consciousness from the fourth principle to the fifth principle, he approaches all subjects with a mind wholly free from prejudice or desire. He seeks merely to know the truth regardless of what the truth may be.

 

God is a God of knowledge.

Pray with intense desire for wisdom, knowing that God does not withhold it.

Knowledge we ask not, knowledge thou has sent; but Lord, thy will then lies our bitter need?

Know only one mind at work -- God. Let the action of God take place.

 

In the Universe, there is no form of knowledge which is not perceived through sound; knowledge is pierced through by sound, all this Universe is but the result of sound.

Study of sound and effects of sound will put into man's hands a tremendous instrument in the world of creation.

 

All fear, doubt and worry have to be eliminated. If this can be done, the development of the inner points of contact and the knowledge of how to tap the sources of inspiration will increase in a wonderful manner.

 

Rest not from your meditation work, keep the inner link, think the truth at all times.

Pray as though no work would help, and work as though no prayer would help.

All progress is in cycles, and there is a point of inspired waiting.

The inner life, slowly developed during the cyclic interlude, becomes the dominating factor.

Only when spirit by the power of thought controls the material vehicles does the subjective life assume its rightful place.

 

Visions, voices and mental pictures we must fly from. The less the soul thinketh that it seeth God, the nearer it is to perceive Divine Love.

Mental images proclaim the lower levels of consciousness.

 

Use the safer method, utilize the mental vehicle as an intermediary between Soul and brain -- oiuja boards, planchette pencil, automatic writing, direct voice, obsessed mediums are not utilized as a rule by the disciple. \Mediumship is dangerous.

 

In the understanding of the law of cycles we gain knowledge of the underlying laws of evolution and come to a realization of the rhythmic work of creation. We gain poise if we study our own life impulses. They also have an ebb and flow.

 

{  Pain is following the line of greatest resistance. Pain is the smashing of form and the reading of the inner fire. It leads the human soul out of the darkness into light, out of bondage into liberation, out of agony into peace.

To each temperament there is one road which seems the most desirable.   

Each man is to himself absolutely the way, the truth, and the life. But he is only so when he grasps his whole individuality firmly...}

 

Every disciple has to understand the astral plane.

The main task of the aspirant is the handling of energies.

 

Seek not to attain essence before the mind absorbs. Not thus is wisdom sought. Only one who has mind in least and seeth the world as in a mirror can be safely trusted with the inner sense.

Perception of greater worlds, greater forces, higher ideals, higher possibilities, taken in a certain way, will nourish and enrich the essence. If such perceptions constantly penetrate into a man and are digested by him, essence begins to unfold.

 

The premature unfoldment of centres involves much loss of time. Such stimulations produce insanity and the breaking down of the cellular structure of the brain.

Let a man apply himself to a life of high altruism, to a discipline that will refine and bring his lower vehicles into subjection, and to a strenuous endeavour to purify and control his sheaths. His centres will raise their vibrational tone.

 

Until the understanding of the web of life or the body of vitality which underlies every form and links every part of a form with every other part is recognized and known to be a fact in nature, the problem will remain unsolved.

Until the mental apparatus is sufficiently awakened and controlled, it would not be possible for man to interpret rightly and utilize correctly

the information which his body of sensitive response could convey to him.

 

Vice is an energy of the sheaths, individually and collectively, in the personality, and it controls the life activity and subordinates the Soul to the sheaths and to the impulses and tendencies of the lower self.

Man, being not yet master of the substance of his own sheaths, incurs risk when he concentrates his attention on the not-Self.

 

Pouring into brain consciousness (\land) of the knowledge of the astral planes. The aspirant becomes aware of but should not produce a tendency to psychism. This will produce death by drowning, for the aspirants' spiritual life can be swamped and entirely submerged in the interest of lower psychical experiences. It is here that many worthy aspirants go wrong.

 

The human being is entirely conditioned by his instruments of expression and can express no more than his nervous system, brain and glands permit.

The waking consciousness of a man is the consciousness working through the physical brain at a certain rate imposed by it, conditioned by all the conditions of the brain.

 

So long as certain physical development remains unaccomplished, self-consciousness may be evolved on the astral and mental planes but its workings do not express themselves through the brain. Super-consciousness includes the whole of the consciousness above and besides the waking consciousness.

 

The higher powers in man are not due to something added but to the absence of factors which inhibit their development; they are releases of power heretofore suppressed.

Supernormal powers are of themselves no evidence of divinity at all.

 

The astral stage is the vast cycle of time in which the great illusion holds sway -- it is not the stage of definitely divine manifestation, it is that period of time where the half-gods walk.