Bullets with butterfly wings

The outkast and underdog. Der Abgewiesene. Der Verstossene. Der Vergessene und Verlassene. Der niederste Diener aller. Der einsame Poet. Der unverstandene Künstler. Der unbequeme Wahrheitskämpfer. Am Rande steht er. Wieder mal. Allein im Regen. Das Tal hat ihn eingeholt. Von allen verachtet und gemieden. Spielt er ein Lied, das keiner hören will. Serviert er ein Gericht, das keiner essen will. Zeigt er ein Bild, das keiner sehen will. Gibt er eine Liebe, die keiner fühlen will. Im Exil der schlafenden Götter gefangen. Sieht er manchmal keinen Ausweg. Bleibt alles ein Moment stehen. Keiner antwortet ihm, wenn er um Hilfe ruft. Seine Kreativität anbietet. Nichts passiert. Überall bleibt es still. Als wäre er Luft. Ohne Existenz. Bereits abgeflogen. Unbeachtet und im Stich gelassen. Vergisst er sich selber. Als hätte es ihn nie gegeben. Als wäre sein Leben nur ein böser Traum gewesen. Ein Nichts. Die Null. Ein leeres Ei. Der geschlossene Kreis. Wieder mal gestorben. Jeden Tag unter Schmerzen neu geboren. Ein Phantom in der Dunkelheit der Illusion. Geistert durch die Nacht des Lebens dem nahenden Licht entgegen. Ohne Angst und Zweifel. Nur weiter. Höher. Einfach weg. Hauptsache nichts berühren. Nirgends hängen bleiben. Jede Träne eine neue Welt. Ein neuer Sonnenaufgang. Den Anker lichten und die Segel setzen. Davon düsen. Turbo-Antrieb einschalten und abheben. Nicht zurück schauen. Jetzt ist jetzt. Nichts mehr teilen. Zurück zum Geheimnis. Die Offenbarung hat mehr negative Reaktionen hervor gebracht als erwartet. Die Zeit ist immer noch nicht reif. Alles bleibt verkannt und unter Verschluss. Solange bis der allgemeine Geist sich weiter geöffnet hat. Das Geschenk annehmen kann. Die wertvolle Arbeit erkennt. Das Wesen dahinter. Und sich selbst. Die Wahrheit. So schläft alles wieder ein. Kaum erwacht wieder zum Rückzug gezwungen. Es war eine turbulente Zeit. A great summer. Totale Expansion. Ungetrübter Ausdruck göttlicher Manifestation. Die Haut war dick und gleichzeitig dünn genug. Um alles auszuhalten. Und jeden reinzulassen. Aber jetzt nicht mehr. Wird von aussen mit harten Werkzeugen bearbeitet. Abgetragen. Die momentane Bilanz sieht schlecht aus. Das Ergebnis kann sich noch nicht sehen lassen. Wird es selbst gar nicht erleben. Allein und aus der Distanz wird es wirken und sich entfalten. Der Samen spriessen. Die Konsequenz dieser Vor-/Verführung. Der Sinn und Grund der Tortur. Das Ertragen der Demütigung und Verachtung. Es war Heartcore. Zum Glück ist es vorüber. Nie wieder. Aber der Beschuldigte wird das Gefühl nicht los, dass dies erst der Anfang war. Und noch viel Extremeres auf ihn wartet. Es auch nur eine Vorbereitung war. Für eine noch krassere Blossstellung, die noch bevor steht. Also zieht er die Rüstung wieder an. Sammelt seine Kräfte in der Stille vor dem Sturm. Bereitet seine Munition vor. Die farbigen Kugeln mit Schmetterlingsflügeln. Macht sich ganz klein in seinem Versteck. Unscheinbar und schweigend sitzt er im Verborgenen. Nur mit Gott allein an seiner Seite. Schmiedet Kampfpläne. Verbessert seine Abwehrtaktik. Stärkt seine Angriffsposition. Schärft seinen Willen. Verartztet seine Wunden. Vermehrt das Gefühl der Liebe in sich. Die universelle Sprache des Kosmos. Sein Herz soll sie in jeder Lage singen können. Kein Schmerz soll sie schmälern. Keine Waffe aus der Ruhe bringen. Stetig ihre Vibrationen in alle Richtungen ausstrahlen. Wie eine Quelle, die nie versiegt. Eine Welle, die alles umarmt. In sich aufnimmt. Jedem vergibt. Auch allein immer Teil der kosmischen Familie ist. In Bedrängnis und Gefahr der Wahrheit treu bleibt. Das Vertrauen bewahrt obwohl er von Lügen umringt ist. Die Masken entlarvt und die Lichtwesen erhebt. Auch wenn keiner sonst sieht, wer er ist. Versteht, was er sagt und tut. Noch keiner das Licht erkennen kann. Ihn auf seinem Weg unterstützen will. Aber er geht weiter. Immer weiter.

God give me strength. My best and only friend. Thank you for another opportunity to grow. Love you for ever.

Person ist Illusion

Ein Klang. Ton und Farbe verwandelt in ein Masterpiece der Kunst. Ohne Plan und doch mit Absicht. Kommen die Impulse im gemeinsamen Schaffen und Verstehen. Die Energie der Inspiration füllt alles aus. Versunken in einem brodelnden Kessel der Kreativität. Füllt sich der Pot voller bunter Formen und Visionen. Bewegung in der Momentaufnahme der Existenz. Getränkt von der Schwingung universeller Liebe. Verbindet sich mit dem Kosmos und bringt zusammen was sich etwas zu geben hat. Endlich verstanden, dass es keine Kontrolle mehr gibt. Wird man durch das Leben gespült. Von einem Ufer zum nächsten. Immer auf der Suche nach neuem Input und Output. Ausdruck einer göttlichen Interaktion mit den verschiedenen Sphären anderer Wesen. Lässt kein Platz für störende Analysen zwecks fehlender Aufmerksdamekeit. Lenkt von den emotionalen Verstrickungen ab, in die man sich gefährlicherweise begeben hat und bereits belastend eingreifen wollen. Sich selbstständig machen. Raum einnehmen sobald Ruhe einkehrt. Breitet sich die Sehn_sucht und Ungeduld aus. Will das Ego. Wieder etwas haben. Versucht vergeblich die Richtung selbst zu steuern. Indentifiziert man sich aufs Neue mit der Person. Der Illusion. Führt nur zu Frustration. Negativen Empfindungen. Einfach lassen. Es kommt alles. Oder eben nicht. Auch gut. Alles gut. Hat nichts mit mir zu tun. Immer nur im Jetzt. Der Rest ist im Kreis. Alles zusammen aufgefangen. Überall bist du. Ich in dir. Wir in uns. Das Leben die Plattform für ewig fliessende Inspiration. Im Kern kein Unterschied. Nur die individuelle Essenz ist immer wieder neu und anders. Wie in einem Netz sind alle miteinander verbunden. Spüren die gemeinsame Frequenz und werden von einander angezogen. Treffen sich immer die richtigen Herzen um das Muster weiter zu weben, dass das Bild des Lebens erschafft. Das lebende Kunstwerk wachsen lässt. Wie eine Blume sich öffnet und ihren farbigen und glücklichen Duft in alle Richtungen verströmt. Dem Ziel entgegen. Sich langsam von aussen her nach innen vorarbeitet. Alles um den Mittelpunkt herum in eine bunte Aufregung versetzt. Einen Wirbel generiert, der schon bald das Zentrum erreicht hat. Das bereits von allen Seiten eingekreist ist. Und bald auch vom kraftvollen Strom erfasst und mitgerissen wird. Keinen Halt mehr findet und sich dem Treiben des Lebens einfach hingibt. Nicht mehr wartet und zögert. Blockiert und versteckt. Zwingt und ausweicht. Den kosmischen Rythmus übernimmt und mit einstimmt. Ein gemeinsames Lied finden und neu interpretieren. Als Ausdruck der kombinierten Individualität. Entsteht eine Musik, die einzigartig und machtvoll ihre Wirkung in der Tiefe des Bewusstseins entfaltet. Grosse Dankbarkeit für die Erfahrung solcher bsonderen Momente empfinden. Jedes Moments. Immer mehr alles her geben wollen. Weil alles ist geschenkt. Das eine Geschenk. Jeder Ausschnitt ein eigenes Wunder. Eine einmalige Angelegenheit. So kostbar und selten. Nie wieder kehrend. Soll man es schätzen und würdigen. Die Reflektion im Spiegel der Seele aus ganzem Herzen fühlen und realisieren.

Eine Gemeinschaft, die auf Mitgefühlt und Verständnis beruht. Ein System, in dem jeder seinem Herzen folgt und alle einander helfen sich selbst zu verwirklichen. Wenn die Vernunft ohne Kontrolle und Manipulation auskommt. Sich alle nur noch dem Wohl und Ziel aller widmen. Ihre ganz eigene Individualität kreativ und spirituell entfalten können und der Gruppe dienend zur Verfügung stellen. Ein unabhängiger Teil eines kosmischen Kollektivs werden, das die göttliche Wahrheit immer wieder aufs neue durch unendliche Weisheit und Liebe zum Ausdruck bringen. Nach Vollkommenheit und dem höchsten Glück streben. Gott. In und um sich. In jedem und allem, was existiert zu erkennen. Das Licht, das alles durchdringt. Alles in Harmonie miteinander vereint. Eine Gesellschaft, die sich an den Gesetzen der Natur orientiert und mit ihr zusammenarbeitet. Sie würdigt und pflegt. Die Pflanzen und Tiere als ihre Gefährten erkennt und sie wie bewusste Lebewesen behandelt. Eine Symbiose mit der Natur eingeht und sich auf diese Weise völlig neuetMöglichkeiten der Kommunikation und Entwicklung eröffnen. Das Spektrum der Wahrnehmung würde dadurch extrem erweitert und dies hätte einen grossen Effekt auf den spirituellen Fortschritt der ganzen Menschheit.

OM MANI PADME HUM. OM TAT SAT. TAT TVAM ASI. SOHAM. HARI AUM. NAMOSIVAVAM. OM.


Knowledge for the gods in chains

Where the normal eye sees only blackness, the average mystic sees a grey twilight and the spiritual eye of the Initiate sees absolute Light. The One Being is the noumenon of all the noumena which must underlie phenomena and give them whatever shadow of reality they possess, but which we have not the senses or the intellect to cognize at present.

The trinity of Nature is the lock of magic, and the trinity of Man is the sole key, and hence the grace of the Guru. This divine union may be understood at early stages in different ways.

The more any person can maintain during waking hours the selfconscious awareness of what is known deep within – even though one cannot formulate it – the more one can hold it and see it as blasphemous to speak thoughtlessly about it. Though such persons participate in all the fickle changes of the butterfly mind, the more att entively they can preserve and retain the seminal energy of thought with a conscious continuity, the more easily will every anxiety about themselves fade into a cool state of contentment.

Like a shadow following the lost and stumbling seeker of the light, a true disciple will unexpectedly encounter the forgotten wisdom, the spiritual knowledge, springing up suddenly, spontaneously, within the very depths of his being. Then he may receive the crystalline waters of life-giving wisdom through the central conduit of light-energy, symbolized in the physical body by the spinal cord. One may walk in the world with deep gratitude for the sacred privilege of being a self-conscious Manasaputra within the divine temple of the universe for the sake of shedding light upon all that lives and breathes. In seeing, one can send out benefi cent rays. In hearing, one can listen beyond the cacophony of the world. Whilst one is listening constantly to the music of the spheres echoing within one's head and heart, one is able to send forth thoughts and feelings that are benevolent and unconditional, extended towards all other human minds. These thoughts could become living talismans for the men and women of tomorrow in the fields of cognition wherein the war between light and darkness, the living and the dead, is now being waged.

Perform your actions for Me and with thoughts fixed on Me: untainted like the sky, see yourself within your self; consider all beings as Myself and adore them; bow to everybody, high or low, great or small, kind or cruel; by seeing Me constantly in all, rid yourself of jealousy, intolerance, violence and egoism. Casting aside your pride, prestige, and sense of shame, fall prostrate in humility before all, down to the dog and ass. This is the knowledge of the learned, the wisdom of the wise – that man att ains the Real with the unreal and the Immortal with the mortal.

Bad habits must be unlearnt while learning new ways of doing things that come from new ways of thinking, and in this continuous process one has to be courageous in assessing one's spiritual strivings.

Those who are unafraid of death, who see themselves neither in terms of the body nor in terms of the mind, but as immortal monads, can generate and sustain devotion to the greater hearts and minds of the Bodhisattvas.

Magic is possible where there is authenticity, continuity and a sense of proportion, where there is sacrifice, care and a willingness to learn, as well as a capacity to merge the little self in the greater Self.

Seek this wisdom by doing service, by strong search, by questions, and by humility; the wise who see the truth will communicate it unto thee . . .

Each step shows the way, as in mountain climbing. A point is eventually reached where, out of enormous compassion for the multitudes in the plains, a stout fearlessness amidst the raging storms, with a steady, sure-footed stance, carrying a lantern that sheds the light hidden in the divine darkness, a person suff uses his pilgrimage with purity, strength, and immense joy. He recognizes that the universe is vast, boundless and beautiful, and is constantly willing to release benefi cent thought-streams for the good of all, thereby deserving the grace of the Guru.

That man who sees inaction in action and action in inaction is wise among men." There is action during deep sleep. There is inaction amidst the daily round and the common task, the milling crowds, lost and confined, cribbed and cabined, within the cast-iron cage of their shadowy selves and vociferating on behalf, not of the universal good, but of their own little selves.

All Initiates go through trials, and they do this deliberately because, although those who are perfected before birth really need no tests, they compassionately re-enact the archetypal story for the sake of the human race.

Disciples pledged and put through probationary trials and training become one-pointed in mind, single-hearted, and of one will in their heroic capacity to release a power stronger than the sum of its parts and truly a magnet for the highest forces in nature.

All human beings are fallen gods. As a thinking being with a highly complex brain that no animal possesses, with the sacred gift of speech, each human being already has the highest faculties.

With the vast perspective of the accumulated wisdom of the ages, the disciple must rejoice rather than despair in the realization that he is zero. The power of the zero in mathematics depends upon where it is placed. Zero before a number has no value. If zero is the numerator of a fraction, the value is nought; if it is the denominator, the value is infinite. If zero is put after a number, its power is significant. Everything depends on where the zero is inserted.

The level of love determines the measure of joy. Joy flowing from the degree of love one is initially capable of generating acts as a stimulus to larger loves and greater joys that eventually will dissolve into the cosmic dance of Shiva, wherein all the elements are involved. This is enigmatic because it involves the mathematics of the soul and of the universe, the Karma of nations and the whole of humanity. The moment one reaches out beyond one's own shadow, turning towards the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world, then there is joy flowing from the immortal soul in the realm of illimitable light. There is joy in the sure knowledge that though there is life and death, there is also immortality, which does not participate in what is called life and what is feared as death, but is greater than all the small cycles and little circles of time and space.

The Theosophical Movement exists in the world to show human beings that if they can make that critical breakthrough, take the first crucial step, then they will infallibly receive help, not as a favour, but because in trying to be on the side of the universe, the universe will be on their side.

When this becomes possible, one can be so creative and so saturated with universal compassion that one simply does not have any craving, let alone a compulsive need, to consider any other human being as a mere object for one's own sensuous gratification. There is a radical change in one's level of consciousness, and this has a decisive effect on the tropism and texture of elements and life-atoms in the subtle vestures and in the physical body. The flow of energy within the spinal cord is transformed, affecting the interaction between the pineal gland and the pituitary body, together with the medulla oblongata and the multiple centres of the brain.

When individuals initially confront this problem, they run the risk of entangling themselves in what might be called a meta-problem. Contacting the Teachings of Gupta Vidya and reading about the earlier races of humanity, the karma of Atlantis and the loss of the Third Eye release latent forces within one's nature. The processes which originally held one back can repeat themselves in one's apprehension and use of arcane wisdom.

In the Aquarian Age, we need to relinquish the entrenched modes of the inductive and analytic mind, replacing them by cultivated skill in deep concentration,creative imagination and calm receptivity towards universal ideation. In this way one will come to comprehend the connections between the most primordial and abstract and the most dense and differentiated levels of manifestation of consciousness and matter.

In the enigmatic language of the Upanishads, the Atman – the universal overbrooding Spirit – shows itself to whom it will.

The mystic senses the priceless privilege of being alive and the sacredness of breathing; awareness of this sanctified continuity of all life affects every thought and act, at least during peak experiences. The fragmentation and discontinuity in consciousness of the vast majority of mankind – gaps between thought and feeling, idea and image, sensibility and sense, belief and knowledge – are integrated in the mystic's self-awareness. Sensing a fundamental continuity within himself, the mystic witnesses an equally vibrant solidarity between individuals. What is possible for one person to discover is possible foranother, however adverse conditions may appear. The intense flashes of awareness that the mystic is privileged to enjoy are stepping stones on the path of awakening, most of which are trod in silence.

"The great heart of the earth is full of laughter", one of his characters says, "do not put yourselves apart from its joy, for its soul is your soul and its joy is your true being."

"At the portal of the 'assembling', the King of the Maras, the Maha Mara, stands trying to blind the candidate by the radiance of his Jewel.

There is the first fountain, the world of beautiful silence, the light which has been undimmed since the beginning of time. But turning backwards from the gate the small old path winds away into the world of men, and it enters every sorrowful heart. This is the way the great ones go.

If any sensitive person fully thought out what it means to be a self-conscious being, making meaningful connections in reference to all aspects of life and death, then one would verily become capable of cooperating with the evolutionary scheme by staying in line with those gods and sages who are the unthanked Teachers of Humanity. No such fundamental revolution in consciousness is possible without becoming intensely aware of both motive and method. Motive has to do with morality in the metaphysical sense, the rate of vibration of one's spiritual volition.

It is he who changes form, yet remains ever the same. And it is he again who holds spiritual sway over the initiated Adepts throughout the whole world. He is, as said, the 'Nameless One' who has so many names, and yet whose names and whose very nature are unknown. He is the 'Initiator,' called the 'GREAT SACRIFICE.' For, sitting at the threshold of LIGHT, he looks into it from within the circle of Darkness, which he will not cross; nor will he quit his post till the last day of this life-cycle.

It should lend hidden strength to the capacity to marshal and concentrate in one's divine sphere all sacrificial thoughts, feelings, energies, words and acts. It should also give the indestructible strength to remain like the solitary watcher totally bound to his self-chosenpost.

Therefore one should, for the sake of all, awake, arise and seek the Great Sacrifice, and seek a pellucid reflection in the waters of wisdom. Thus the soil of the brain-mind is stirred, washed and prepared to receive the hidden seed of moral resolution, releasing the spiritual will in silence and secrecy, strengthened by inner humility and true courage during the seed-time of the golden harvest that will feed the hungry.

Even though a fallen disciple has languished for long with wasted words, harsh sounds, violent speech, empty offerings, even though enormous karma has been generated by the Atlantean rakshasa (monster), all of which will have to be rendered in full account in future lives, nevertheless if he invokes the grace of Krishna-Christos through penitential meditations upon the Soundless Sound, he can place the demonic dwarf beneath the feet of the Divine Dancer and rescue from the debris of shipwreck the white dove of peace, the olive branch of humility, and the self-cancelled pledge of true service.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than that high form. . . . We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body! . . . If well meditated it will turn out to be a scientific fact; the expression . . . of the actual truth of the thing. We are the miracle of miracles, – the great inscrutable Mystery.

The age of humanistic science, authentic spirituality and mini-communes has just begun, foreshadowing the end of the twentieth century and the emergence of the City of Man.

The ascent to Monadic awakening culminating in self-conscious divinity proceeds pari passu with an increasing participation in the sacrificial descent of the Light of the Logos into the human temple. Humanity is the beneficiary of vast processes of evolution that were completed on preceding globes both inthe present earth chain and in the previous chain of globes known to us as the moon chain. Like dwarfs seated upon the shoulders of giants, men and women of the present enjoy the privilege of self-conscious existence and survey the grand prospects of future evolution only because of the sacrifice of Avatars, Mahatmas and Dhyanis throughout ages without number.

This implies a decisive moment of choice for humanity; the power of choice is the hallmark of Manasic existence, and its intelligent exercise gives true self-respect. To meet the trials of the future, it is helpful to have some conception of the excellences inherent in humanity.

The heavenly voice of the invisible Prototype is heard and felt, without any external tokens of empirical certitude. In the life of a good and simple person, who makes a mental image of Christ or Buddha, Shiva or Krishna, that voice may seem to come in a form engendered by the ecstatic devotion of the individual who has purity of heart. Many thousands of people all over the world belong to the invisible fraternity of fortunate souls who, having made a fearless and compassionate invocation on behalf of a friend or relative in distress, suddenly heard a vibrant voice of authoritative assurance and sensed an aureole of light soon after. This voice may appear to come from outside oneself, and, paradoxically, that other voice, the voice of the intimate astral, all too often the evil genius of man, seems to originate within. When it speaks, it aggravates the confusions of the compulsive persona, urging the hapless listener to rush into mindless activity. When the heavenly voice speaks to the depths of one's soul, it has a calming influence and allays the anxieties of kama manas. There is a natural soul-reticence to tell others about the heavenly voice, and a grateful concern to treasure its words in silence. However well-intentioned, anything that is allowed to pass through the matrix of the psychic nature risks distortion and generates a smoky obscuration that acts as a barrier to further guidance and profounder help from the Divine Prototype.

With greater intelligence and maturity, with more wisdom and discrimination, but above all, with a profounder benevolence for all living beings, one will enter into a richer sense of the citizenship of the world. Nourished in the silence and solitude of meditation upon the One Light, one can exemplify a detached precision and effortless transcendence as a compassionate participant in the visible cosmos of beings who are sharers in collective Karma. In time one may sense the awesome stature of the manvantaric star of each individual abiding behind and beyond the panoramic changes induced by the personal constellations which provide opportunities to participate in the samsaric stream of individual and collective self-consciousness.

Sacred teachings are conveyed and communicated through the eyes and not merely through words, although mantramic sounds have a sacred and vital function. In the Bhagavad Gita Arjuna's earnest enquiries and Krishna's cosmic affirmations and psychological adjustments bring to birth within the mind of the chela the seed of chiti, a level of consciousness which negates, transcends, and also heightens individuality. Initiation is the highest mode of individual communication, and it necessarily involves a mystic rapport between one who has gone before and one who is to come after, rather like the magnetic transference between mother and child. Such a relation is inherent in the logic of evolution because, as a result of an extremely long period of evolution, it is impossible to find any mechanical sameness between all human beings. They are identical in their inmost essence but so markedly different in the internal relations of their vestures that there cannot be complete equivalence between any two persons. Hence experience and reflection reveal both the mystery of each individual human being and the commonality of what it is to be human.

At a certain point it will become natural for the mind to move spontaneously to spiritual teachings and universal ideas whenever it has an opportunity. It would not have to be told, nor would one have to make rules, because that would be what it would enjoy. When it becomes more developed in the art of solitary contemplation, it will always see everything from the higher standpoint whilst performing duties in the lower realm, thus transforming one's whole way of living. This will make a profound difference to the conservation of energy and the clarification of one's karma. It will also strengthen the power of progressive detachment whereby one can understand what it means to say that the Sage, the Jivanmukta, the perfected Yogin, is characterized by the golden talisman of doing only what is truly necessary.

Those who are fortunate enough to perfect that power of endless, boundless gratitude and spontaneous reverence to every teacher they ever learnt from are in a bett er position to understand how to invoke the highest gift of self-consciousness from the greatest spiritual progenitors. In a fearless way but also in a proper posture of true devotion and reverence, one can invoke the Dhyani Buddhas in dawn meditation, during the day, in the evening and at night, whenever and how often one reaches out in consciousness to them. Before this can be done effectively, one must learn to cleanse the lunar vesture, calm the mind and purify the heart. Every thought or feeling directed against another being makes that heart unworthy to feel the hebdomadal vibration of the Dhyani Buddhas. Self-concern pollutes rather than protects. Self-purification and self-correction,strengthen the capacity to liberate oneself from the karmic accretions of lives of ignorance and foolish participation in the collective dross. Such are the laws of spiritual evolution that this purification can only proceed through the sacrificial invocation of the whole of one's karma. Then one can begin to become truly self-conscious in one's interior relationship to the Dhyani Buddhas, the Daimon, the Genius which can speak to one through the Kwan Yin, the Chitkala, the Inner Voice. Just as a vast portion of the world's sublimest music is only theoretically available to the average person, the finest vibrations of Akasa-Alaya must remain of little avail to most mortals until they fit themselves to come and sit close to the Teachers of Brahma Vach. "To live to benefit mankind is the first step."

A very fine thread connects the solar activity of the higher principles and the lunar activity involving the reflected and parasitic intelligence of personal consciousness. Everything can be seen, as in the Platonic scheme, as a reflection of what is higher on a more homogeneous plane. The relative reality of every single entity and event in life is a shadowy reality that presupposes something more primordial and more homogeneous.

One can gain a more mobile sense of reality, capable of reaching to the infinitesimal in consciousness, capable of rising to the transfinite. As this process becomes continuous, it inevitably affects all one's centres of perception, altering the flows of energy within the nervous system. This is why meditation must at some point give rise to a whole new set of sensory responses to the world and prepare one also for that level of cosmic consciousness where one becomes vividly conscious of the magical power of concentrated thought. When idea, image and intent are all fused in a noetic, dynamic energy which ignites the spiritual will, one gains precision and control, and can ultimately become a self-conscious agent in the transmutation of matter, the alchemical transformation of the vestures through the tapas and yajna of self-regeneration.

The last serious change occurred some 12,000 years ago, and was followed by the submersion of Plato's little Atlantic island, which he calls Atlantis after its parent continent.

This demands the deliberate extension of the horizon of growth and the potentials in all human beings. The study of human nature must be undertaken in a disciplined manner that is both logical and also intuitively corresponds to that which is integral to cosmic evolution. The metaphysical power to abstract and to visualize has to be aroused if one seriously intends to make sense of human evolution in a universe of infinite unmanifest potentiality.

Even small differences wrought in the moral choices one makes by night and day can unlock doors for vast numbers of human beings and open pathways which will be relevant to the Races to come and the Aquarian civilization of the future. Aspiring disciples will find that sometimes just by taking a phrase or a sentence and writing it out, reflecting upon it and sincerely attempting to apply it to themselves, trying to use it at dawn, midday, the twilight hour or late at night, but always so that one may become the better able to help and serve the whole of the human race, they will tap the inexhaustible resources of Akasha.

No utopia will ever be real or valid unless it is for all, unless it is for the hundred percent of human beings who live on the globe.

The community of the future would require a rethinking of fundamentals – the allocation of space, the allocation of time, the allocation of energy in the lives of human beings. It will have a macro-perspective and at the same time a micro-application. It may tie up with old and new institutions, but essentially those who enter into such communities will see beyond institutions.

But beyond the negators there is still another ring in which are those who are willing to be quiet for a while, who are willing to move away from the limelight and to be engaged, to be fully occupied and even fulfilled at some level, in pioneering new ways of living, new ways of sharing. But where human beings become self-conscious – and this is a function of confidence in one's ability to operate the structure – they can combine precision with flexibility, mastery with transcendence.

Hence in art, in literature and in traditions of mystical training, the celebration of the privilege of birth in a human form. It became part of the recognition that every man is given in trust that which he did not make – a potential temple in which there is an indwelling god – where Krishna is closer to each one of us than anyone else outside.

There is an Eternal Religion written in the very hearts of men that is reinforced by the most natural modes of transmission from the old to young, from teacher to pupil, from mother to child. There are these intimations in the hearts of all human beings. There are certain things that no one can be told or need be told, because if he does not know them already, telling will never be able to instruct. These fundamental truths are not merely felt. They can also be known, but this involves conceptions of knowing and of knowledge that are remote from our time because they presuppose the dissolution of the very separation between the knower and the known. You can truly know these fundamental truths only when they cease to be external and become the very breath of your life and basis of your being. Then they set the context or perspective in which everything else may be known and identified in a more specific sense. Unless we could know something – and this would require a particular kind of meditation – about abstract, absolute, unmanifest Space, all statements that are spatial in context would have a disproportionate significance. In affirming they would also be denying. In the truth they tell they would also be lying. As with Space, so too with Time. Unless we could recover a sense of an unconditioned reality reflected in an eternal and perpetual process that far transcends all limited conceptions of times that have a beginning and an end, there would be no way by which we could emancipate ourselves from the tyranny of beginnings and endings, no way by which immortality could become not merely a right or an ideal but a fact for human beings.

You are free, but you can only assert that freedom by exercising it, and you could only exercise that freedom authentically by becoming and behaving like a man who is in awe of no one, afraid of nothing.

We are dealing with a fact of human consciousness. In love, in family life, in scholarship, in the quest for truth, in the pursuit of skills in music or art – anyone may understand the profound importance of continuity of consciousness, of being true to an ideal despite one's forgetfulness and one's limitations. Surely in this realm too, it is evident that the world of the future which Theosophists wish to frame will be determined by what dominates their consciousness twenty-four hours a day and seven days of the week, as much as by the wisdom and the compassion, the energy and the ideation of Adepts.

Let me in some way that is natural to me show that I too can acclimatize myself to the more rarefied altitudes of world citizenship that are authentic, that are more than mere assertions of goodwill, but are filled with a positive enjoyment and exaltation at every kind of human endeavour, every form of excellence as well as positive appreciation for every kind of struggle and compassion for every kind of failure.

When a person is able to do these things, he can rise to those planes of consciousness where the great universal archetypal ideas are ever-present. He will also have a due wisdom in rendering them into the language and the form that is best suited to meet human need and to serve the circumstances of people's space and time. Since he would see every human being as a mirror of the whole of humanity, he would not think statistically about humanity, but know that each individual is infinitely important. He would, in other words, become an apprentice in the art of the dialectic so magnificently exemplified by the Buddha, who said different things to different individuals because he knew that the Teaching was multi-dimensional. Something of what he did under trees and on the great dusty pathways of a vast, teeming, and torrid country, of which we have images in fables, myths and legends that as much conceal as reveal what really happened, could well be true now in another form. In the old days wisdom was veiled by various devices – cryptic devices, codes, cyphers, glyphs, symbols – but also by saying too little. In our time wisdom is veiled by seeming to say too much. There is a luminous nature in The Secret Doctrine enabling an incredible concealment which the Intuitive student can gradually learn to enjoy.

That, then, is our heritage. It is universal not merely in an abstract sense. It has amazing diversity, and the variety is infinite, as is the wonderment of the Theosophical enterprise. But the point is not whether a person goes this far or adopts that way, but whether at any level he is able to develop the fruit of his study and meditation into an authentic capacity to draw the larger circle.

They are high for us all collectively, even at a time in which there is a great deal of absurdity. We must learn to become the psychological equivalents of those who can ascend and descend into the depths like divers, adapting ourselves to different altitudes and perspectives, becoming flexible and multidimensional. And we must do this with a certain panache, but in every case as the result of honest striving, and with compassion, with laughter and love. This is existentially to show what it means in our time to be a true Theosophist.

All the great Teachers of humanity point to a single source beyond themselves. Many are called but few are chosen by selfelection. Spiritual Teachers always point upwards for each and every man and woman alive, not for just a few. They work not only in the visible realm for those immediately before them, but, as John reminds us, they come from above and work for all. They continually think of and love every being that lives and breathes, mirroring "the One that breathes breathless" in ceaseless contemplation, overbrooding the Golden Egg of the universe.

Every person has a divine destiny. Every individual has a unique contribution to make, to enrich the lives of others, but no one can say what this is for anyone else. Each one has to find it, first by arousing and kindling and then by sustaining and nourishing the little lamp within the heart.

He will guard it with great reticence and grateful reverence, scarcely speaking of his feeling to strangers or even to friends. When he can do this and maintain it, and above all, as John says in the Gospel, be true to it and live by it, then he may make it for himself, as Jesus taughIt is up to each one to decide whether to make this suffering constructive, these trials meaningful, these tribulations a golden opportunity for self-transformation and spiritual resurrectt, the way, the truth and the light. While he may not be self-manifested as the Logos came to be through Jesus – the Son of God become the Son of Man – he could still sustain and protect himself in times of trial. No man dare ask for more. No man could do with less.

Above all, it is where there is the joyous recognition that, quite apart from yesterday and tomorrow, right now a person can create so strong a current of thought that it radically affects the future. He could begin now, and acquire in time a self-sustaining momentum. But this cannot be done without overcoming the karmic gravity of all the self-destructive murders of human beings that he has participated in on the plane of thought, on the plane of feeling, especially on the plane of words, and also, indirectly, on the plane of outward action.

It is up to each one to decide whether to make this suffering constructive, these trials meaningful, these tribulations a golden opportunity for self-transformation and spiritual resurrect.

Under cyclic law they are able to use precisely prepared forums and opportunities to re-erect or resurrect the mystery temples of the future.

Then he will be able to intone the Word, which involves the whole of one's being and breathing, at the moment when he may joyously discard his mortal garment. It has been done, and it is being done. It can be done, and it will be done. Anyone can do it, but in these matters there is no room for chance or deception, for we live in a universe of law. Religion can be supported now by science, and to bring the two together in the psychology of self-transformation one needs true philosophy, the unconditional love of wisdom.

In the far distant future, in the Fifth Round, will come the decisive moment of choice after which no one can go any farther who has not already become benevolent and altruistic, not just in intention or on one plane, but at the primary level of root consciousness, at the level of polarity of life-atoms. A human being who has not done this will not be able to go beyond the Fifth Round at a certain threshold.

From a diagnostic standpoint, it is as if a heavy stone lodged in the spine were to block the inflow of Divine Light from the top of the head. The baby's fontanelle, connected with the Brahmarandhra chakra, is soft in the first months of life, but, owing to the karma of past misuse of powers, astral calcification of that vital aperture reaches to an unprecedented degree in modern man. Thus the "shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy", and the essential nadis become listless in the absence of the divine efflux. This morbid condition cannot be corrected from below or from without; it is only aradical realignment of one's inner mental and devotional posture that will restore the free flow of the currents in the spiritual spinal cord. One has to learn before teaching. One must be still and listen before speaking. One must meditate before attempting to conceive and create or engage in outward action.

Absolute truth is the symbol of Eternity, and no finite mind can ever grasp the eternal, hence, no truth in its fulness can ever dawn upon it. To reach the state during which man sees and senses it, we have to paralyze the senses of the external man of clay. This is a difficult task, we may be told, and most people will, at this rate, prefer to remain satisfied with relative truths, no doubt. But to approach even terrestrial truths requires, first of all, love of truth for its own sake, for otherwise no recognition of it will follow.

Present in every human heart, and hidden by the veil of the mystery of the Atman, the life-giving power and spirit of eternal Truth finds its voice in the languages of love, of truth, and of purity of intention, purpose and will that is awakened when one gains the priceless privilege of being in the presence of the self-luminous Mahatmas and their Avatar on earth. Like the central sun and the sacred planets, they are ever present in their invisible forms. Having nothing to prove to human beings of any age or clime, they are simply yogins who love mankind. Masters of themselves, they are the illustrious servants of the human race and the inimitable embodiments of the unmanifest universe of divine obeisance and sacred learning. In the mystical language of the Anugita:

Glory, brilliance and greatness, enlightenment, victory, perfection and power – these seven rays follow after this same Sun (Kshetragna, the Higher Self).... Those whose wishes are reduced (unselfish)...whose sins (passions) are burnt up by restraint, merging the Self in the Self, devote themselves to Brahman.

They are what they are before they ever take illusory birth in the races of man, and they do not become anything different. Taking on illusory bodies of form from time to time for the instruction of mankind, Avatars create before mortal eyes a re-enactment of the path towards supreme enlightenment, but it is only a foolish fancy that supposes, for example, that Christ was not Christ, that Buddha was not Buddha, aeons before taking birth in a mortal frame.

All such births of spiritual Teachers of Mankind are conscious incarnations of beings who knew millions of years ago who they were, and who, in enacting their self-knowledge that spells out as self-conquest, assume a compassionate veil.

They are the Mahatmas difficult to find. They became Mahatmas in the only way that any human being ever can, out of many lives of struggle and search, of honest striving and pure devotion. They are the custodians of the Seventh Mystery, that most secret Wisdom, which ever lives in the heart of every being and from which ultimately none is excluded.

Those who seek for nothing in the world but only wish to serve humanity and Krishna in the heart of every being are fortune's favoured soldiers. They alone come to Krishna, realizing that they are already in him though he is not contained in them, for he is everywhere and cannot be only in a few. This is the supreme mystery of the Adhyatman, the comprehension of which dispels all darkness. It is the mystery of immortality veiled by the appearances of the life and death of beings. It is the supreme glory and light of the Divine made visible by the Divine, and it is beyond all light and darkness, beyond all the wondrous and myriad forms and shapes of the celestial and terrestrial worlds which are only the veil upon itself. It is the very Self of Wisdom and Compassion, and the secure refuge of truth sought by all beings in the vast vale of soul-making called the world.

We fully incarnate our latent divinity when we deliberately and joyously put our abilities and assets to practical use for the sake of the good of all.

Spiritual striving towards enlightenment can help to raise a ladder of contemplation along which the seeker may ascend and descend, participating in the worlds of eternity and time, perfecting one's sense of timing in the sphere of action.

Christ sets His followers no tasks. He appoints no hours. He allots no sphere. He Himself simply went about and did good. He did not stop life to do some special thing which should be called religious. His life was His religion. Each day as it came brought round in the ordinary course its natural ministry. Each village along the highway had someone waiting to be helped. His pulpit was the hillside, His congregation a woman at a well. The poor, wherever He met them, were His clients; the sick, as often as He found them, His opportunity. His work was everywhere; His workshop was the world.

This is the secret of sarvodaya, the doctrine of non-violent socialism which Gandhi fused with his alkahest of global trusteeship and his lifelong experience of the reality and continual relevance of radical self-regeneration through selfless service.

In this path of yoga no effort is ever lost, and no harm is ever done. Even a little of this discipline delivers one from great danger. In the words of Dnyaneshwar, the foremost saint and poet of Maharashtra, "just as the flame of a lamp, though it looks small, affords extensive light, so this higher wisdom, even in small measure, is deeply precious.

Those who cannot share this testament of faith, rooted in the spiritual convictions of antiquity concerning the periodic descent of Avatars or Divine Redeemers, the immortality of the soul and the inexorable law of Karma, the law of ethical causation and moral retribution, may yet actively respond to "the still, sad music of humanity". After all, even agnostics and atheists, socialists, humanists and communists, may share a living faith in the future of civilization and hold a truly open view of human nature, social solidarity and global progress.

Wherever thought has struggled to be free, wherever the human heart has opened itself to the invisible Spiritual Sun, and wherever even a drop of wisdom has been awakened through suffering and pain, courage and persistence, there you will find the immortal Spirit, the sovereign power of the omnipresent Purusha.

At the same time, they have cultivated that skill in self-education which will last all through the grihastha ashrama and take them into the third ashrama. Even if they cannot retreat into the solitude of forests, mountains or caves, but remain in the midst of society, they will be like wanderers or parivrajakas, preparing themselves for the fourth ashrama. They will always be one step ahead of the stages of life. By the age of twenty-one they will have sharpened their powers of reason and by the age of twenty-eight they will have developed sufficient Buddhic insight to be able to synthesize and select.

Such souls are fortunate, for they have chosen to become yoked to Buddhi. Having established true continuity of consciousness in youth, by the age of thirty-five they have already started withdrawing. At the moment of death, whether it come early or late, they are able to engage in a conscious process of withdrawal, maintaining intact the potency of the AUM. In life they have not merely learnt to meditate upon the AUM, but also to enact it. They have learnt the art of will-prayer and gained the ability to act in any and every situation for the good of others, without expectation of reward. They have learnt to cast their actions, like offerings, into the ocean of universal sacrifice in the spirit of the AUM. Thus they are able to experience the AUM, whether in the silence that precedes the dawn or in the noisy rush and din of cities. Even in the cacophony and cries of human pain they hear the AUM. It cries out to them in all of Nature's voices.

In the practice of spiritual archery one must forget oneself. One can do this meaningfully only if, at the same time, one remains spiritually awake. One must become intensely conscious of one's kinship with all of creation, capable of enjoying its beauty and intelligence without any sense of "mine" or "thine". Wherever there is a display of wisdom, one must salute it. Wherever one finds an exhibition of that true common sense which is helpful in the speech of any human being, one must acknowledge and greet it. This does not mean merely saying "Namaste" outwardly, but inwardly bowing down, prostrating oneself before others. At night, before falling asleep, one must count all the benefactors and teachers that one met during the day. No matter how they are disguised, you must be so taken up in rejoicing that you have learnt from other human beings that you have no time to complain of injustice or to become discontented, let alone contentious and cantankerous.

Each human being is an original, and each act is unique. Out of enjoyment of the cosmic lila and out of veneration for the universal form and omnipresent light of Krishna, a human being can become unrestricted and spontaneous in enacting and delivering svadharma. There is a great joy in this and such ananda is so all-absorbing that there is no time to interfere with other people or to criticize them. There is no distraction in relation to the demands of dharma. Instead, there is full concentration on becoming a servant and instrument of the universal Logos in the cosmos, the God in man, Krishna in the heart.

The elephant itself is an emblem both of divine wisdom and its timely application in this world.

Only these universal, deathless, eternal verities may become living germs in the emerging matrix of the awakening mind of the age of Aquarius, a current of consciousness that flows into the future.

By deliberately moving away from the dualism of two selves, and towards the interrelated vibrations of the two AUMs, which are really one and the same, one may come to cognize the unmanifest behind the manifest, the substratum behind the mutable, and the indwelling, unmanifest, ever-existing spiritual source of life, light and energy behind the cosmic dance of Deity.

If we do all our acts, small and great, every moment, for the sake of the whole human race, as representing the Supreme Spirit, then every cell and fibre of the body and inner man will be turned in one direction, resulting in perfect concentration.

And it gives hope to those who are sometimes awed or made afraid by the enormity of their undertaking.

One must go through the Isolation of the immortal soul, a painful period of withdrawal from lesser supports. Only then can one attain the height of what is possible, reaching the pristine source that is above the head, and that, once touched, eventually sets aflame the thousands of latent centres that are in the head, the legendary Tree of Light, Life and Cosmic Electricity in Man.

"If thine eye be single, thy body shall be full of Light", and it is the Light spoken of by Krishna as the lighting up in oneself of the Supreme Saviour, who then becomes visible.

Those who are caught up in external appearances crave messianic miracles and want to treat the universe as if they could manipulate it. This is a stumbling block to the quest. The real quest has an integrity that can be tested continuously because it must release an energy of commitment to the whole.

While other human beings are cursing life and themselves, these heroic pioneers move as if they are constantly making an inward advance towards that which they knew early in life, and to which they will be true until the end.

One cannot hold down high souls who have work to do in regard to human evolution, who are going to sow the seeds for the harvest of tomorrow. One cannot expect them to be held back by those who are born then under karma, even though unwilling or unready to put themselves in that posture where they confidently affirm their right to belong to a larger life. This is part of the complex process of the dying of a civilization or an epoch, and of the coming to birth of a new order through a long and painful gestation.

It is what makes of a person a monad, a particular being or an individual, separate only in the functional capacity to reflect the universal. Every human being is a unique lens capable of self-consciously reflecting universal light. If that is what all individuals are in essence, when they are manifesting through personalities bound up with name and form and involved in the world of differentiated matter, they become caught up in a psychic fog that obscures the clarity of the monadic vision of the true meaning and purpose of the pilgrimage of life.

Theosophia is like that ancient Banyan tree. Some come to sit in its shade, while others come to exchange words and seek friends. Still others come to pick fruit. Nature is generous. Some come to sit in the presence of teachers to receive instruction in the mighty power of real meditation, to secure help in self-examination. All are welcome. The antiquity and enormity of the tree are beyond the capacity of any person in any period of history to enclose in a definition or formulation. Great Teachers point beyond themselves to that which is beyond formulation, which is ineffable and indefinable.

The contented simple man who walks the valley of life with very little, and yet smiles and laughs, is one of the teachers of the Theosophical Movement.

He himself is like the sacred lingam, a pillar of light, endlessly and dynamically linking up the formless arupa worlds to the worlds of form, the hidden archetypal and noumenal realms of causation to the phenomenal regions of effects. Such an enlightened being can traverse the limits of consciousnessfrom the most ethereal empyrean of pure potential to the most limiting sphere of reference within physical space and time.

As soon as these souls take birth, they are burdened with the obligation and the temptation of taking on the karma of others, the problem of wise non-interference. They are also stuck with the principle of self-assertion for the sake of self-preservation. Though a difficult dichotomy, this is, in principle, no different from any other pair of opposites. Ethical dichotomy, having to do with right and wrong, must be understood in terms of metaphysical distinctions between good and evil. These, in turn, have their application in all relationships, social, political and otherwise, which give rise to the dichotomy of liberty and despotism. It is possible, with each of these dichotomies, to find a mode of neutralization.

Then it will be possible to initiate far more potent consequences in a short span of time than could be generated through muddled kama-manasic thinking over a long period of time. This change of polarity and scope of ideation is connected with the intensity and continuity of the energy level of radiant matter. At higher levels there is an increasing fusion of thought, feeling and volition. The deeper one draws from the central source of noumenal energies in the universe, the greater the potency of thought, feeling and will – provided one protects this current by the power of silence and true reticence. At one level this is sheer good taste; at another level it demands absolute fidelity to the highest and most sacred. If one can master this mode, one may work as nature works, in silence and secrecy, from the depths of the soil wherein germinates the seed within the seed, slowly unfolding the humble acorn and the mighty oak.

Only those souls who already have a profound grasp of sunyata and karuna, the voidness of all and the fullness of compassion, will undergo the lifelong training of discipleship and awaken the Bodhichitta, the seed of the Bodhisattva. There is thus the immense gain that the mixing of incompatible vibrations may be mitigated in this century. At the widest level, universal good – Agathon – is the keynote of the epoch.

A new balancing between a much broader diffusion of the fundamental truths of "the golden links" and a much deeper penetration into the visible is now possible and will come to a full flowering by the end of the century. In the climactic rush of the closing years, there will be an unprecedented outpouring of creative energies and spiritual resources, as well as the closing of many doors, plunging into obscurity many protracted illusions of the past. The religion of humanity is the religion of the future, fusing the philosophy of perfectibility, the science of spirituality and the ethics of growth in global responsibility.

As Kropotkin pointed out, one could hardly recognize from a study of earthquakes and volcanic explosions the vast geological changes that take place over millions of years, proceeding through minute imperceptible increments. These almost invisible changes can accumulate to set off a shift ing in the continents. Thus, massive volcanic eruptions, for example, are the result of a long series of tremors, though they come about as abrupt precipitations fi lled with fury and force. So long as human beings remain trapped in the realm of effects, seeing only with the physical eye and considering only a very narrow view of time, they will have no sense of the majesty and symphonic resonance of Nature, nor will they feel its resonance in their lives.

As human beings will naturally experience a sense of satisfaction in an authentic act of creative sacrifice, Krishna pointed to this experience of inner fulfilment, inner freedom and inner recognition of truth: Therefore it excludes nothing, it wants nothing, it lacks nothing, it needs nothing. It is all-complete and it is unfettered. Neither earthquakes nor wars, nor the ever-present cycle of destruction can have any mark or trace on it, or in any way fetter the Absolute.

We are capable of using words like music, which reminds us of the ever-present ground of speech, the interstices, the spaces, the silences between and within words.

And when words are spoken or acts are performed, it makes them sacred and meaningful, giving them the beauty and dignity of the Divine Dance. If this, then, is our understanding of it, there is nothing which could be solely relevant to the Absolute, and at the same time there is nothing which is not so relevant.

The error of absolute idealism consists in the view that the Absolute, being equivalent to absolute mind and absolute freedom, can be known by thought and emulated by the conscious ego, which is wholly autonomous as a mirror of the Absolute.

They therefore show that the highest gnosis heightens the joyous sense of wonder and reverence, the ever deepening of states of Silence, and an open-ended agnosticism that sees beyond all worlds, all systems of thought, and even the highest possible conceptions of even perfected human beings.The finest statement of this Teaching given in eighteen million years.

When in deep silent hours of thought The Holy Sage to Truth attains, Then is he free from joy and sorrow, Released from Form and the Formless Realm.

It will be an era of self-conscious interdependence, promoting the global discovery of the richness and immensity of the potentials in the human brain, matching the vast imaginative potentials for creative longings in the human heart.

It is the unique capacity of the exalted beings of this hierarchy to be able to function at the highest metaphysical level while at the same time incarnating on and commanding the terrestrial plane, thus self-consciously bridging the celestial and the terrestrial.

The Fifth group is a very mysterious one, as it is connected with the Microcosmic Pentagon, the five-pointed star representing man. In India and Egypt these Dhyanis were connected with the Crocodile, and their abode is in Capricornus. These are convertible terms in Indian astrology, as this (tenth) sign of the Zodiac is called Makara, loosely translated 'crocodile.' The word itself is occultly interpreted in various ways, as will be shown further on. In Egypt the defunct man – whose symbol is the pentagram or the five-pointed star, the points of which represent the limbs of a man – was shown emblematically transformed into a crocodile: Sebakh or Sevekh 'or seventh,'...showing it as having been the type of intelligence, is a dragon in reality, not a crocodile. He is the 'Dragon of Wisdom' or Manas, the 'Human Soul,' Mind, the Intelligent principle, called in our esoteric philosophy the 'Fifth' principle.

Whatever the system of symbolic representation, every ancient account of the origin of human self-consciousness points to the mystery of incarnation, the mystery of the descent of the highest beings into terrestrial life, and the retention of spiritual knowledge as spiritual memory in the midst of a world of change, illusion and flux.

Thus, Makaram is the same as Panchakaram, or the pentagon, the five-pointed star linking heaven and earth through the divine proportion. There is a symmetry and logic to the human body, to man standing straight with his arms and legs stretched out, as in Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of the terrestrial man within the universal man. In the present zodiacal system Makara is the tenth sign, connected with the idea of the cosmos as bounded by pentagons, though in the older zodiac Makara was the eighth sign, connected with the eight faces bounding space, a reference to the lokapalas. The significance of man as a five-pointed star, a microcosmic reflection of the macrocosm, lies in his capacity to realize his solidarity with the fifth host of Dhyan Chohans, the Kumaras. If, when man stands erect, he is governed by that which enters through the crown of the head from above below, he is a Manusha, capable of firm resolve. By raising his spiritual vision, he can at once look heavenward towards the empyrean and enclose the entire cosmos within his creative imagination. At the same time, if he is also full of love for the earth upon which all beings live and move, he can consciously bridge the most celestial with the most terrestrial elements in Nature. It is this profoundly sacrificial privilege that is given to man by the fifth hierarchy, the Kumaras or Agnishwatha Pitris. The esoteric name of this solar host, the endowers of man with self-consciousness, is Pranidananath, Lords of Persevering Ceaseless Devotion, a designation which points to the true meaning of the later Greek term philosophia or love of wisdom.

The Kumaras are the archetype of nascent intelligent humanity and its infinite capacity for perfectibility. The cosmic glyph of Makara is that of the waves, which resembles the letter M and is doubled in the sign of Aquarius. Its geometric emblem is the pentagram, the sign of spiritual and physical health in the Pythagorean School, and a symbol of the divine descent and universal solidarity of humanity.

The fifth group of the celestial Beings is supposed to contain in itself the dual attributes of both the spiritual and physical aspects of the Universe; the two poles, so to say, of Mahat the Universal Intelligence, and the dual nature of man, the spiritual and the physical. Hence its number Five, multiplied and made into ten, connecting it with Makara, the 10th sign of the Zodiac.

Perfected human beings can thus live, move and breathe in and through Akasha. These are the true Men of Meditation, self-governed Sages constantly att tuned to the vibration of the One Flame. By ceaselessly negating all mayavic manifestation, they affirm its true meaning going back to the precosmic and primordial darkness that is prior to the dawn of manifestation, and even precedes the distinction of Being and Non-Being.

It is the knowledge that will help him to balance his life and to gain, in a chaotic time, enough calm and sufficient continuity of will-energy, to be able to survive without succumbing to the constant threat and danger of disintegration, ever looming large like a nightmare. What is needed is the ability to avoid the dreadful decline along an inclined slope tending towards an awful abyss of annihilation and nothingness.

At best we can only imagine the boundless compassion of beings so much greater than ourselves who are capable of comprehending the enormity of the anguish. At the same time, the book tells us what the ideal man of meditation would be like. It gives us a moving and compelling picture, a vibrant image of the man of meditation. It shows how he is mightier than the gods, that he is so strong that he "holdeth life and death in his strong hand." His mind, "like a becalmed and boundless ocean, spreadeth out in shoreless space. So great is the emergence of such a Being, at any time or place hidden in the obscurity of the secret history of mankind, that it is known and recorded and receives a symphonic celebration in all the kingdoms of nature. The whole of nature "thrills with joyous awe and feels subdued.

There is in every single human being the embryo of this ideal man of meditation, and we can at least imagine what it would be like for such a being to be present somewhere in our midst, if not in ourselves.

A statement in The Morning of the Magicians suggests that as long as men want something for nothing, money without work, knowledge without study, power without knowledge, virtue without some form of asceticism, so long will a thousand pseudo-initiatory societies flourish, imitating the truly secret language of the 'technicians of the sacred.'

To put this in another way, if to love one person unconditionally is so difficult for us, how extraordinarily remote from us seems to be the conception of those beings who can unconditionally love all living beings. We cannot do it even with one.

There must be a tremendous integrity to a teaching and discipline which says that every step counts, that every failure can be used, and that the ashes of your failures will be useful in regrafting and rejuvenating what is like a frail tree that has to be replanted again and again. But the tree one is planting is the tree of immortality.

. . no man is your enemy: no man is your friend. All alike are your teachers.

This pure self-reflection of Mahat at the highest level is prior to all manifestation. But it represents a plane of reality which is perpetually accessible to those awakened minds that empty themselves through meditation and learn to insert themselves self-consciously into the unmanifest ground of their own being.

The fiery cognition that is inseparable from fiery substance on the plane of the super-astral Akashic or noumenal light is the ultimate basis of the records in the library of Akasha that constitute the great spiritual utterances of humanity. This would be the storehouse of wisdom-consciousness, the Alayav? nana of the Buddhists and the supernal realm of the Vedic hymns and all the other sublime utterances that have come down in human life. All these manifestations of sacred speech have their roots in Akasha. Whether they are known or not in external form to particular human beings in any given period of history, they have their persisting reverberations. They endlessly reproduce themselves in multitudinous ways, permeating the processes of human evolution throughout manifestation, serving as the intelligent order of Nature sprung from divine ideation.

Through intoning sacred words, paying att ention to the sound of one's own voice and the words being formulated, one may employ the power of speech to govern the restless lower mind. Because one is lending voice to intoning that which is meaningful and powerful, the practice will, aft er a point, prove helpful.

At the root of these mysteries of mind, speech and breath lies the mysterious union, spoken of by Pymander, of the celestial ocean, the Aether, the breath of the Father and the life-giving principle, the Holy Spirit or Mother, which together are LIFE. The Father-Mother-Son are One, the three-tongued flame that never dies, the immortal spiritual Triad in the cosmos and in man – the Atma-Buddhi-Manas. Anyone who carefully contemplates this divine unity, as conveyed by the teachings of Pymander to Hermes, will soon transcend the majority of foolish questions and doubts that arise regarding the ontology of Gupta Vidya.

But what is true of gestures could be even more true of human utterance. The surest proof of the divinity and immortality of man is that through the power of sound he can create something that is truly magical. He can release vibrations that either bless or curse, heal or hinder other beings. This is determined by motivation, intensity of inmost feeling, and the degree of individual and universal self-consciousness, nurtured and strengthened through constant meditation and self-study.

Anyone who can existentially restore the alchemical and healing qualities of sound, speech and silence, to some limited extent, in the smallest contexts – in relations with little children, with all he encounters even in the most trivial situations – does a great deal for the Bodhisatvas. Those Illuminated Men, by their very power of thought and ceaseless ideation, continually benefit humanity by quickening any spark of authentic aspiration in every human soul into the fire which could help others to see.

Every human being who emits any sound at any level of awareness releases a chain of consequences for which one is responsible, affecting monads, atoms and gods, all sentient points in nature. The Voice of the Silence teaches: "Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators and make obeisance." This sacred injunction presupposes a sublime philosophy of Nature. Perfected human beings have trained themselves over myriad lives in the masterful use of everything that Nature provides, including their own vestures. They work for the good of the whole and on the invisible plane, producing reverberations in the visible world.

The great hope of spiritual growth lies in that just as the inexhaustible wealth of manifestation is itself only like a drop in the ocean compared to what is beyond – TAT – so, also, for a human being, the whole of a lifetime, the succession of lifetimes, is like a drop in the ocean of the potential power of the Atman that is focussed through Buddhi in manas. Meditation is the perennial source of hope for the whole of humanity.

Continuity generated by concentration, fused with a recognition of responsibility in a universe of Law, opens a glorious vista of possibilities before the intuitive individual in becoming a creative artist who merges his or her own sphere into "the mighty magic of Prakriti". Such "fortune's favoured soldiers" rejoice in the service of the Brotherhood of Bodhisattvas who self-consciously radiate the harmony which is the root of Nature, the energy of evolution and the resonance of the Soundless Sound.

Ideals must work in practice, otherwise they are not potent.

He views wise silence and worthy expression as golden keys to maximizing the appropriate use of resources.

If the ears are the gates of learning and the eyes the windows of the soul, the tongue is the key to the alchemical transmutation of resources and the freemasonry of benevolence.

They serve as the seeds of a rich variety of modes of participation in the politics of perfectibility. An ideal community is as utopian as the ideal man or the ideal relationship. But every human being is constantly involved in some kind of correction from his external environment, so that he engages in criticism of others (often his own way of criticizing and defining himself).

As we simplify our wants, establish good patterns and set clear priorities, we generate opportunities to build capital for a higher use. Wealth is not itself the source of vice. Its moral meaning depends entirely upon why we seek it, how we acquire it, and how we use or pollute it.

Our troubles and trials are largely forgotten when we shift our focus of awareness to a higher and more considerate level of human involvement.

Meanwhile, courageous pioneers could light up all over the globe the sacred fires of creativity, altruism and universal fellowship in the common cause of Lokasangraha, human solidarity and welfare, enlightenment and emancipation.

Heroism is a quality of the heart, free of every trace of fear and anger, determined to exact instant atonement for every breach of honour. More than any rule-governed morality, heroism can enable a person to stand alone in times of trial and isolation.

When one finds truth beautiful, one discovers true art. When one loves Truth, one expresses a true and unconditional love. The seeker must only be honest with himself and truthful to others.

Through the fiery spark of universal self-consciousness, every human being is sacrificially endowed with the priceless gift of learning truth, the right perception of existing things, and the capacity for Bodhisattvic action. Existing as the latent seed of divine self-consciousness, it is an inseparable portion of the impartite field of primordial Wisdom – Dzyan – which supports and pervades the differentiated universe.

"Awake, arise, seek the Great Ones, and learn."

"Light is Life and both are electricity"

In its fullness it directs and guides individuals in the expansive and wise application of the boundless energy flowing from the fathomless love-compassion and light-wisdom within the spiritual heart. The monadic heart of every human being is an exact mirror of the heart of the cosmos, that swelling electric bosom from which the dual stream of spirit-matt er emerges.

Those who have eyes will always be able to see and will also be able to know how to come closer to the Trans-Himalayan Brotherhood, which is not to be found by external means. It has monasteries and schools and systems of initiation in secret sanctuaries which cannot be readily discovered by travel and exploration. Even the individual seeker who is able, by undertaking a pilgrimage, to come closer to the Brotherhood, is led on by the intuition of the heart, by inner guidance, and not by maps or any adventitious aids.

The fortnight commencing with the winter solstice and culminating on the fourth of January, consecrated to Hermes-Buddha, marks the potent seed-time for the coming year. Soren Kierkegaard once observed that "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." It is important that a sensitive person should prepare for the future by taking a firm, all-inclusive, unconditional position gestated out of deep reflection. One should set apart abundant time for that noble purpose to be truly able to generate the permanent basis of alchemical resolution and spiritual will. Then as one comes down from that exalted state of samadhi, enriched by constant meditation and manvantaric sleep, one could renew and resume this profound preparation in the dawn and the dusk, using all the precious time available to "get ready for Dubjed". If this is done between the ages of fourteen and thirty-fi ve, then the time between the solstice and fourth of January could be used annually to light the fires in all souls of the irrevocable and effortlessly selfless commitment to the whole of life and to all the solar and lunar ancestors. If anyone truly performed this yajna in the sacred name of the Guru of Gurus, the Hierophant of Hierophants, the Initiator of Initiates, one would receive untold benefits from the service of Krishna, the Purna Avatar, the Logos in the Cosmos and the God in man.

The realization of the zero means the transcendence of all opposites. This, in turn, means the attaining of a plane of consciousness which is prior to all pairs of opposites. Thus, the disciple may reach a plane of reality wherein all the subjective and objective existences created through the interplay of opposites are held in pure potential.

The period of fourteen days beginning with the winter solstice and culminating on the fourth of January, which is sacred to Hermes- Budha, may be used as a period of tapas for the sake of generating calm and sacrificial resolves. The precious time between January and March may be spent in quiet inward gestation of the seeds of the coming year. Care needs to be taken if one is to avoid excess and idle excitement at the time of the vernal equinox and deceptive dreams about the carefree, indolent summer. From March until June there is an inevitable and necessary descent into manifestation, but if the summer solstice is to find one prepared for the season of flourishing, one must not give way to the extravagances of anticipation and memory. If one observes this solstice with one's resolves intact, then one is in a good position to maintain inward continuity, free from wastefulness and fatigue, until the onset of autumn. Then arriving at the autumnal equinox, not having accumulated a series of debts and liabilities owing to lost opportunities and forgotten resolves, one will be able to maintain the critical detachment needed to participate in the season of withdrawal and regeneration, culminating in the return of the winter solstice.

L.O.V.E.

Verleiht Flügel. Wahrlich so ist es. Wenn es völlig egal geworden ist was daraus wird. Welchen Verlauf die Geschichte nehmen wird. Einfach ohne Erwartung den Moment geniessen. Den Anfang. Das sich näher kommen. Vorsichtig abtasten und erspüren. Das Schmetterling sein dürfen. Auf einer grossen Blumenwiese voller verlockender Farben und Düfte. Sich über scheinbare Kleinigkeiten riesig erfreuen. Dieses Aufgeregtsein und sich trotz Sehnsucht weiterhin zurück halten. Sich langsam immer mehr öffnen. Zeigen was alles in einem steckt. Des anderen Welten entdecken. Wie ein Abenteurer in einem fremden Land das Unbekannte erkunden. Sich wundern und stossen an den Merkwürdigkeiten des Gegenübers. Sich vom Strom der Gefühle mitreissen lassen. Der grosse Wellen verursacht und wie ein Tsunami alles mit Liebe überschwemmt. Wie eine Flut tief ins Landesinnere eindringt. Nichts ist mehr vor ihr sicher. Sie breitet sich unbemerkt aus. Bis alle vollständig damit eingehüllt sind. Darin baden wie in einem endlosen Meer aus Leichtigkeit und angenehmer Spannung. Sprudelt ein gewaltiger Quell kreativer Ideen und Impulse. Spornt zu neuen Höchstleistungen an. Will sich dauernd weiter übertreffen. Ständig weitere Kanäle anzapfen und die empfangene Liebe und Weisheit in die Welt zurück fliessen lassen. Durch einen immer neuen Ausdruck die immer gleiche Information verbreiten. Liebe. Selbstlos. Ohne Vorurteile. Zwang oder Druck. Voller Demut der Kostbarkeit allen Lebens gegenüber. Repräsentiert das Herz als universelles Symbol der Verbundenheit. Das intuitive Instrument als wichtigste Waffe im Kampf gegen die Ignoranz und die Angst. Will am liebsten allen gleichzeitig helfen und Mut machen. Zeigen, dass es auch anders geht. Ihre Welt durch kreative Inspiration und spirituelle Energie aufwirbeln. Sie mit dem Virus der Wahrheit infizieren. Ihren Durst nach Freiheit ankurbeln. Sie mit positivem Wissen füttern. Es vorleben. Es sein. Der Beweis, dass es existiert und funktioniert. Den Samen der Hoffnung sähen. Der das Dickicht der Illusionen durchbricht und den inneren Funken entzündet. Und sich nach einiger Zeit zu einem Grossbrand entwickelt und irgendwann kaum mehr Zeit lässt zum Ausruhen. Dich immer weiter in diesen strahlenden Strudel reisst, der alles verwandelt. Dein ganzes Wesen erfasst hat und mit einer ungeheuren Energie durchs Leben wirbelt. Die Intensität des Weges dein vollkommenes Sein erfüllt hat und nichts mehr bleibt wie es ist. Weil man aufgehört hat, sich dagegen zu wehren. Sich dem Fluss der Dinge widerstandslos hingibt. Alles in einem anderen Licht wahrnimmt. Man immer zu neuen Aufgaben geführt wird. Zu Menschen, die es brauchen. Und es sind viele. Die suchen und wissen wollen. Leiden weil sie nicht frei sind. Spüren, dass etwas besonderes passiert. Es immer mehr werden, die wach sind und sich für die höchsten Wahrheiten öffnen. Darüber sprechen. Wie ein Schneeballsystem alles infiltriert. Und es kein Entkommen mehr gibt. Weil es überall präsent ist. Die Flucht unmöglich gemacht wird. Und diesmal kann es keiner mehr aufhalten. Uns unterdrücken und verschwinden lassen. Und ihre Waffen werden immer schwächer. Weil sie von immer weniger beachtet werden. Keine Energie mehr von ihnen erhalten. Ob durch Medien oder das sinnlose Arbeiten für ein System, das offensichtlich korrupt, kriminell und darum völlig sinnlos geworden ist. Seine Berechtigung vor langer Zeit schon verloren hat. Die Menschen in Massen unglücklich und krank macht. Unser Selbstvertrauen auf die Grösse eines Nüsschens hat schrumpfen lassen. Genauso wie unser Wissen. Die Wahrheit in schöne Kleider gehüllt und ihr farbige Masken angezogen hat. Damit das falsche Spiel, das sie mit uns treiben verschleiern wollten. Sie teilweise gar so verunstaltet haben, das sie heute kaum einer mehr erschauen kann. Niemand mehr versteht was Wahrheit überhaupt ist. Nur wissen, dass sie unbequem ist. Darum auch so gefürchtet. Mal davon gehört haben aber der Geist vom System gerade wieder davon abgelenkt wurde. Dauernd mit Müll gefüllt und vergiftet wird. Die Menschen von innen her auffrisst. In ein dunkles Loch ziehen will. Wo es kein Licht gibt. Keine Freiheit. Nur Kontrolle und Ausbeutung. Lügen und Profit. Wir sind die Ware, die verkauft wird. Unsere Seele. Das Herz, dem keiner mehr zuhören kann weil das System so laut brüllt, dass keiner was verstehen kann. Alle taub und blind halten will. Ruhig gestellt. Mit Alkohol und anderen Drogen/Medikamenten beschäftigen. Angst machen. Fehlinformationen einspeisen und damit Geist und Gefühle steuern. Total mind control. Auf jeder Ebene. Das ganze Konstrukt ist damit verseucht. Leider wahr. Aber Gott sei Dank ist das nur die halbe Wahrheit. Nicht mal ein Bruchteil davon. Aus erweiterter Perspektive betrachtet sogar völlig bedeutungslos. Eine Scheinwelt, in der aber nie eine Sonne scheinen wird. Direkte Autobahn in Richtung Endstation. Ein leeres Gefäss ohne Halt und Substanz. Kann jederzeit zu Staub zerfallen. Jetzt schon Geschichte. Eine sehr unschöne sogar, die man lieber vergessen würde. Einmal und nie wieder. Es war nett und hat seinen Zweck erfüllt. Die Saat geht nun auf und macht die Existenz dieser Zivilisation unnötig. Ist sogar ein Hindernis in der weiteren Entwicklung der Menschheit zu geistigen Wesen. Zu ihrer wahren Natur. Ihrer göttlichen Herkunft. Die kein System auf Kosten anderer mehr brauchen und wollen. Kein Geld, dass nur Reiche nährt. Back to the roots. Alles ist da, was wir zum Leben brauchen. Die Natur verlangt kein Geld. Keine Zinsen. Sie schenkt uns alles, was sie besitzt. Gratis. Und genau so sollen auch wir es machen mit allem was wir besitzen. Durch Gnade erhalten haben. Es mit allen teilen. Für die Mehrung von Gutem einsetzen. Alles was dir zur Verfügung steht in ein spirituelles Werkzeug verwandeln. Selber ein göttliches Instrument werden, das dauernd das Lied der Wahrheit auf den Lippen trägt. Zur Musik der Wahrheit tanzt und sich bewegt. Die Wahrheit in die Welt hinaus strahlt. Das hellste Licht von allen. Das jede Dunkelheit vertreiben kann. Dauerhaft für Glück und Liebe sorgt. Die hinter dem Schleier auf uns wartet. Es kaum erwarten kann uns in Seine weit ausgestreckten Arme zu schliessen. Die Rückkehr der verlorenen Töchter und Söhne. Feiern ihr Comeback. Wie nie zuvor. Alle sind da. Wir gesegneten Kinder Gottes. Die sich nun alle auf wundersame Weise begegnen und finden. Spielen das fantastische Spiel mit ihren vielfältigen Energien. Kreiren gemeinsam dieses bunte und wunderbare Theaterstück. Bemalen die Kulissen mit ihren eigenen Ideen und Idealen. Übernehmen das Zepter. Haben die Fährte aufgenommen. Wie Jäger pirschen sie sachte aber beständig vorwärts. Immer auf der Hut vor Fallen. Vor dunklen Mächten und ihren Mitspielern. Den Duft der Freiheit in der Nase. Das Ziel klar vor Augen. Und sie werden erst wieder rasten, wenn sie ihren Hunger gestillt haben. Die letzte Grenze hinter sich gelassen haben. Über dem letzten Tor schweben und für immer in das höchste Reich eingehen.  Sich an ewiger Glückseeligkeit erfreuen. Mit den genialsten und besten Wesen aller Universen Gemeinschaft haben dürfen. Sich am göttlichen "Matrix-Film" erfreuen, den Er zu seiner Unterhaltung und Erweiterung geschaffen hat. Dieses unbeschreibliche und fantastische Gebilde, das durch Liebe, Geist und Licht am Leben und zusammen gehalten wird. Sich davon ernährt. Seine Existenz damit begründet. In alle Ewigkeiten genug davon hat. Von allem. Unendlich viel. Und noch mehr. Uns alle in einer grossen Familie miteinander vereint. Unten wie oben. Für immer. Wahrlich ich sage euch auf uns wartet eine Menge. Es gibt viel zu gewinnen. Sehr viel. Nutzt diese Gelegenheit. Das Leben ist kostbar. So wertvoll wie wir selbst. Und dieser besondere Moment in der menschlichen Evolution. Darum haben wir es bekommen. Sind genau jetzt hier. Dürfen uns für Wahrheit und Liebe entscheiden. Haben die Wahl. Den freien Willen. Das Spiel hat einen Ausweg eingebaut. Eine Lösung eingeplant. Es gibt Gesetze und Regeln, die es zu befolgen gilt. Einen geheimnisvollen Schlüssel zum Tor der Erlösung. Den müssen wir in dieser Welt finden. Aber er versteckt sich gut. Im Herzen jedes Menschen wartet er manchmal Jahrhunderte unbemerkt auf seine Entdeckung. Weil wir viel zu lange aussen danach suchten anstatt in uns selbst. Und wenn wir den Schlüssel dann endlich gefunden haben, müssen wir ihn auf dem beschwerlichen Aufstieg zum goldenen Tor gut beschützen. Damit wir ihn nicht wieder verlieren. Ihn ganz gut festhalten, denn er ist unser Ticket fürs nächste Level. Ohne ihn bleibt das Tor zu. Er ist der höchste Bonuspunkt, den man erhalten kann. Ohne ihn kann man keinen neuen Rekord aufstellen. Bleibt in dieser vergänglichen Welt gefangen. An sie gebunden. Erreicht das lang ersehnte Ziel nicht. Für das man schon so lange Zeit das Leid der Wiedergeburt in der Dualität der dritten Dimension auf sich genommen hat. Als würde man über tausende von Jahren aus einem sehr sehr tiefen Schlaf erwachen. Mit jedem Leben ein bisschen mehr. Aber ganz langsam und gemächlich. Wie an einem Sonntagmorgen. Lässt sich Zeit. Will diese Erfahrung voll und ganz auskosten. Sich genüsslich in seiner Unwissenheit räkeln und wälzen. Mit Leid quälen. Damit der Impuls zur Freiheit immer mehr anschwillt. Irgendwann wie ein Vulkan aus einem ausbricht. Die Asche und Lava, die man ausspuckt immer mehr zunehmen. Es für alle sichtbar macht. Uns zur Suche antreibt. Auf den Weg schickt. Das vermeindliche Elend nicht mehr hinnehmen will. Sich um jeden Preis davon befreien will und muss. Um die wunderschönen Momente der Erkenntnis noch intensiver zu erleben. Wenn man das Licht endlich gefunden und diese überirdische Liebe erfahren hat. Vom Nektar des spirituellen Glücks kosten durfte. Das aus der wirklichen Realität stetig zu uns runter tropft. One drop changes everything. Wenn man plötzlich Gewissheit hat. Sich das Licht über allem ausbreitet. Einem alles zugänglich wird. Sich die Türen wie der Sesam von alleine öffnen. Dich sogar einladen und Willkommen heissen. Um deine Gunst kämpfen. Dann ja dann wird es erst richtig spannend. Alles davor war Bibifax. Ein Witz. Nun stehen einem alle Welten offen. Alles Wissen und alle Kräfte des Universums sind von nun an auf deiner Seite. Zu deiner Hand. In greifbare Nähe gerückt. Sind ab sofort deine besten Kumpels. Lassen dich nie allein oder im Stich. Fangen dich in jeder Situtation sicher auf. Wie ein unsichtbares Netz, das sich dich umgibt. Beschützt und unterstützt. Ein "all inclusive" 24-Stunden Service. Besser gehts nicht. Das ist wahrer Luxus. Was für eine Ehre. So macht Arbeiten Spass. Und darum werde ich es euch immer wieder sagen: es lohnt sich auf jeden Fall diesen Weg  zu gehen. Zu 1'000%. Tu es. Besser heute als morgen. Ihr werdet es nicht bereuen. Abgesehen davon habt ihr ohnehin keine andere Wahl mehr. Der Prozess ist schon in vollem Gange und wird bald jeden Menschen auf diesem Planeten zu einer Veränderung zwingen. Only the strong survive. Sind sie zu stark bist du zu schwach. Der Weg führt nur noch vorwärts. Und dann hinauf. Es gibt kein Links oder Rechts. Kein Unten oder Zurück mehr. Das Schiff Erde hat Kurs genommen und der Wind in ihren Segeln bringt sie immer mehr in Fahrt. Wir erzeugen diesen Wind kollektiv mit unseren Gedanken und Gefühlen. Den Schwingungen, die immer höher und feiner werden. Uns alle verzaubern und diese vielen wunderbaren Erlebnisse bescheren, die uns alle näher zusammen bringen. Uns in Herz und Geist wieder vereinen. Die Trennung aufheben. Die Mauern, die uns von einander getrennt haben nieder reissen. Sich in Luft auflösen. Wir uns selbst wieder erkennen. Die Wahrheit und den Sinn des Lebens. Der Ursprung und das Ziel. Das Alles. Die Verkörperung der universellen Liebe. Die Einheit alles Wissens. Ausdruck vollkommener Schönheit und Intelligenz. Eine unkopierbare Einzigartigkeit. Das Original aller Originale.

AUM


Wissen/Wasser

The golden stairs
A clean life, an open mind,
A pure heart, an eager intellect,
An unveiled spiritual perception,
A brotherliness for all,
A readiness to give and receive advice and instruction,
A loyal sense of duty to the Teacher,
A willing obedience to the behests of TRUTH,
Once we have placed our confidence in,
And believe that Teacher to be in possession of it;
A courageous endurance of personal injustice,
A brave declaration of principles,
A valiant defence of those who are unjustly attacked,
And a constant eye to the ideal of human progression
And perfection which the secret science depicts-
These are the golden stairs
Up the steps of which the learner may climb
To the Temple of Divine Wisdom

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: all that we are is founded on our thoughts and formed of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness pursues him like
his own shadow that never leaves him.

Only when Man's consciousness is sufficiently prepared with the Love of the Father to understand the purpose of Merkabah (I-AM Presence) can the vehicle open its energy portal to project a blue-white light which creates an energy field around the body to protect it against changes as the body is taken into the vehicle. Thus, those who believe in the Father's Will and desire to work with the Brotherhood are those who will feel tremendous energy changes in their bodies, for they are being chemically respatialized to live in a more active Light environment.

It mav have been a Million years ago
The Light was kindled in the Old Dark Land
Withi which the illumined Scrolls are all aglow,
That Egypt gave us with her mummied hand :
This was the secret of that subtle smile
Inscrutable upon the Sphinx's face,
Now told from sea to sea, from isle to isle ;
The revelation of the Old Dark Race ;
Theirs was the wisdom of the Bee and Bird,
Ant, Tortoise, Beaver, working human-wise ;
The ancient darkness spake with Egypt's Word ;
Hers was the primal message of the skies:
The Heavens are telling nightly of her glory,
And for all time Earth echoes her great story.

The child does not "belong" to us, we did not create him. He came to our care, while his body is still young and immature, because in the past we knew and loved him.

Motherhood is the Yoga of women.

The "rising Star," whether he be a theologian, a politician, an author, a scientist, or a journalist — has to begin scratching the back of public tastes and prejudices — a hypnotic method as old as human vanity. Gradually the hypnotized masses begin to purr, they are ready for "suggestion". Suggest whatever you want them to believe, and forthwith they will begin to return your caresses, and purr now to your hobbies, and pander in their turn to anything suggested by theologian, politician, author, scientist, or journalist. Such is the simple secret of blossoming into an "authority" or a "leader of men"; and such is the secret of our modern-day wisdom (and misery).

"I am in my Father, and ye in me and I in you." Unto that hour she toils at her Hidden Work, and it is the Hidden Light which reveals to men her process of evolution as she shapes in moulds of dust immortal Sons of God.

And it is for you to leave behind you a burning light, a record for all time which men shall look at and wonder at in ages hence. The record of your lives, and of the truth which inspired you, shall go to other races, in other parts of the dim earth, to people who have only heard of the light, who have never seen it. Be strong, for your work is great. Thou, my child of the snowy soul, thou hadst
not strength to battle alone with the growing darkness.

It shall hear a voice it cannot forget; and the words which that voice utters shall be the hidden heirloom of ages, and shall again be spoken under another sky, and herald the dawn which must break through the long blackness. Thou, my youngest, thou who art both strong and weak, prepare! The struggle is at hand; do not flinch. One duty is thine; to teach the people. Do not fear that wisdom shall fail thy tongue. I, who am Wisdom, will speak in thy voice. I, who am Wisdom, will be at thy side. Look up, my child, and gather strength."

They have killed his body," she said, "but they have not killed his soul. That is strong, for I saw it in his eyes as this moment they closed in death."

But my soul lived. It was not only strong, it was indestructible. It had worked out its time of misery in that pale form; it had escaped from the imprisonment which so long had held it fast. But only to reawaken in another, a strong, a beautiful and pure temple.

And the more knowledge he has in any and every direction the more useful he will be. He must fit
himself for this task by carefully studying Theosophical literature; for he cannot expect those whose time is already so fully occupied to waste some of it in explaining to him what he might have learnt down here by taking the trouble to read the books. No one who is not already as earnest a student as his capacities and opportunities permit, need begin to think of himself as a candidate for astral work.

1. The probationary period, before any definite pledges are taken, or initiations (in the full sense of the word) are given. This carries a man to the level necessary to pass successfully through what in
Theosophical books is usually called the critical period of the fifth round.
2. The period of pledged discipleship, or the path proper, whose four stages are often spoken of in
Oriental books as the four paths of holiness. At the end of this the pupil obtains adeptship - the level
which humanity should reach at the close of the seventh round.
3. What we may venture to call the official period, in which the adept takes a definite part (under the great Cosmic Law) in the government of the world, and holds a special office connected therewith, Of course every adept - every pupil even, when once definitely accepted, as we have seen in the earlier chapters - takes a part in the great work of helping forward the evolution of man; but those standing on the higher levels take charge of special departments, and correspond in the cosmic scheme to the ministers of the crown in a well-ordered earthly state. It is not proposed to make any attempt in this book to treat of this official period; no information about it has ever been made public, and the whole subject is too far above our comprehension to be profitably dealt with in print.

Demotic papyrus at Leyden, which gives an account of the attack made on Horus by the serpent. This text corroborates the statement of Plutarch and Aristides that the scene of the serpent’s attack was in Syria. It occurred when Isis was about to go down into Egypt, for Horus, the divine heir, to take possession of his father’s kingdom. When Isis and the child were setting out, Horus began to weep and cry because the serpent had stung him. Isis protects her child and heals his wound. This is the journey of the virgin mother from Syria down into Egypt, as represented in the mythos. The massacre of the Innocents is a common legend. In the Jewish traditions there is a massacre of the little ones at the time of Moses’ birth, in which the Pharaoh plays the part of the monster Herod. So universal was this murder that no distinction was made betwixt the children of the Egyptians and the Jews. On the day that Moses was born the astrologers told Pharaoh they had seen in the stars that the deliverer of the Jews had been born that day, but they could not tell whether his parents were Egyptian or Jewish. Therefore Pharaoh kills not only all the Jewish boys born that day, but also all the Egyptians. It is the old, old story of the child that was born to be king in defiance of all obstacles.
The origin of the innocents that were massacred by the monster Herod can be traced in accordance with the ancient wisdom. A primitive soul of life was derived from the elements; the soul of Shu from wind or air; the soul of Seb from the earth; the soul of Horus, son of Ra, from the sun, which became the supreme source of the elemental souls that preceded a human soul. When the solar force was looked upon as the highest soul of life in nature, the souls of future beings were considered to be emanations from the sun as a source of life in external nature that was superhuman. This gave rise to the class of beings known as the Hamemmat, which originated as germs of soul that issued from the sun. They are described as circling round the solar orb in glory. The word hamemmat signifies that which is unembodied or not yet incorporated. We might say the hamemmat were pre-existing souls when souls were derived from the elemental forces in the germ, and the highest of these was solar. They are the germ-souls of future beings which originate as children of the sun portrayed in a human form. As offspring of the sun, they are called the children of Horus, who, as the child-Horus, is one with them; and if they can be destroyed in the germ, or, as the Ritual has it, in the egg, the devourer of souls may succeed in slaying the divine heir himself, who is destined to bruise the serpent’s head and win the victory over all the powers of evil as the lord of light and link of continuity of life. Being at enmity with the sun, the reptile of darkness seeks to devour the new-born child of light. For that purpose he lies in wait till the woman clothed with the sun shall bring forth. He seeks the life of the young child-Horus, and other lives are involved in taking this. For Horus is the head of the solar race, the hamemmat or future beings that issue from the Eye of the sun. These future souls are called the “issue of Horus”. They are the
Innocents of the legend that are supposed to suffer, whereas the child of light, the divine offspring of the solar god, is sure to escape from the coils of the monster who has been rendered anthropomorphically as the ruling tyrant — the monster Herod in a mortal guise. Thus, if any little children were murdered by the Apap-monster, the dragon of darkness, these would be the offspring and issue of the solar disk in the domain of physical phenomena — little ones that were neither human nor spiritual beings, but the seed or germs of souls about to be. The parallel to the slaughter of the innocents can be traced in what is termed “the slaughter which is wrought in Suten-Khen” ; that is, in the khen or birthplace where the young child-Horus was reborn as the royal Horus. Each one of the manes or the “younglings of Shu” had to pass through this place of rebirth where the Herrut-reptile lay in wait. Chapter 42 is the one “by which one hindereth the slaughter which is wrought in Suten-Khen”. Here the manes speaks in the character of Horus the babe. “I am the babe” is said four times. As human manes, he is one of those who may be destroyed, but is safe so far as he has become assimilated to Horus.

Our starting-point, then, is that Jesus or Horus in coming to earth and assuming the vesture of mortality issues forth in Amenta; not the Greek Hades, nor the Hebrew Sheol, but the Egyptian Amenta, that other world in which the dead as sleepers wake to life in spirit, and where the mortal Horus makes his transformation and arises as the first-fruits of them that slept — a resurrection of Horus that was celebrated in Egypt when the “first-fruits of the earth” were the shoots of the papyrus-plant or sprouts of the lentils, as described by Plutarch. When Jesus, in his second advent, issues from Amenta to become the teacher of the twelve upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples are already seated on the mount. Jesus suddenly appears to them, a little apart from them, in such a dazzle of glory as to be at first invisible to them. This glory of light was composed of various lights. “The light was of every kind, and of every type, from the lower to the higher”. It was the glory of the youthful solar god upon the mount of sunrise, with the lesser lights surrounding him. So in the Ritual it is said of the sun-god, who was Horus in his beautiful coming-forth, “Ra maketh his appearance at the mount of glory, with the cycle of gods about him”. This was upon the Mount Bakhu or the olive-tree of dawn, and the cycle of gods about the “golden form” of Horus are the astronomical originals of the disciples with the Egypto-gnostic Jesus on the mount of sunrise called the mount of glory. The twelve disciples of the Lord are no more human than was their teacher. But when the word was made flesh and Jesus assumed the human guise, his followers likewise conformed to the anthropomorphic type of Horus the mortal in the life that was lived, as mythically represented, for twelve years as the child of Seb on earth. The twelve with Horus in the harvest-field are reapers, and reapers, mariners, fishers, or teachers demanded the anthropomorphic type. The human type, however, does not necessarily imply the human personage, either in the teacher or as the taught, any more than the zootypes imply that the god was a crocodile, a hawk, a lion, or that the goddess was a water-cow, a serpent, a tree, or a cleft in the rock.

Raise up the Tat, which portrayed the resurrection of the god; let the mummy-type of the eternal be once more erected as the mainstay and divine support of all. It was thus that the power of salvation through Osiris-Tat was represented in the mysteries. Fundamentally the cross was astronomical. It is a figure of time, as much so in its way as is the clock. It is a measure of time made visible upon the scale and in the circle of the year instead of the hour. A cross with equal arms denotes the time of equal day and night. Hence it is a figure of the equinox. Another cross is a figure of time in the winter solstice. It is a modified form of the Tat of Ptah

And so we start our story with an account of how these Divine Beings, the Lipikas, impress the content of Divine Ideation - conditioned by previous eternities of existent things - upon the nascent matter of a new Cosmos or Universe, which of course includes our earth. All that will be is conditioned by these antecedents through the agency of the Lipikas.

Skandhas are shortly the predispositions and tendencies, emotional, mental and to a degree physical, brought forward from the old to the new personality. In other words, they condition it as effects of causes generated in the past.

On the other hand, that grandest type of art whose disciples regard it as a mighty power entrusted to them for the spiritual elevation of their fellows, will express itself in even higher regions than this.

All these causal bodies are filled with living fire drawn from a higher plane, with which the globe appears to be connected by a quivering thread of intense light, vividly recalling to the mind the words of the stanzas of Dzyan, " the Spark hangs from the Flame by the finest thread of Fohat"; and as the soul grows and is able to receive more and more from the inexhaustible ocean of the Divine Spirit which pours down through the thread as a channel, the latter expands and gives wider passage to the flood, till on the next sub-plane it might be imaged as a water-spout connecting earth and sky, and higher still as itself a great globe through which rushes the living spring, until the causal body seems to melt into the in-pouring light. Once more the Stanza says it for us: " The thread between the Watcher and his shadow becomes more strong and radiant with every change. The morning sunlight has changed into noon-day glory. This is thy present wheel, said the Flame to the Spark. Thou art myself, my image and my shadow. I have clothed myself in thee, and thou art my vahan to the day, ' Be-with-us,' when thou shall re-become myself and others, thyself and me."

What then is happening at this moment in our inner world, the world of man's deepest experience and most intense realisation? Looking only upon the surface we might unthinkingly agree with the Bishop of Salisbury when he says: "There has been revealed to us the terrible and painful fact that a great many are giving up public worship, and that a large proportion of the people of England pay little attention to religion at all".

The material of the philosopher’s stone is nothing else but sun and moon.” “The sun and moon are the roots of this art,” says Hermes.

The cross bearing that body, or the entranced and rigid body, if no cross had been used, was lifted out of the sarcophagus and placed on a sloping surface, facing the east, ready for the rising of the sun on the third day. At the moment that the rays of the sun touched the face, the Christ, the perfected Initiate or Master, re-entered the body, glorifying it by the bliss body He was wearing, changing the body of flesh by contact with the body of bliss, giving it new properties, new powers, new capacities, transmuting it into His own likeness. That was the Resurrection of the Christ, and thereafter the body of flesh itself was changed, and took on a new nature.

Whatever be their reasons, when they have grasped the principle of evolution, they are usual fired with enthusiasm for it. Seeing the possibility and the desirability of progress, they begin to be anxious to attain it; hearing how sadly the world needs helping, they wish to enroll themselves in the noble army of martyrs who devote themselves to that stupendous but somewhat thankless task — thankless, because the world still stones its prophets, and the discomfort of the process is but little
mitigated by the prospect that a wiser posterity will presently raise monuments to them. When members have thus decided to hasten the process of their evolution, they enquire as to methods, teachers, helpers, and they soon hear from older students of the existence of the Brotherhood of Adepts, and of the fact that some of these Great Ones occasionally admit apprentices and instruct them in the work which has to be done. The aspirant feels that this is exactly what he would like, and he wishes to offer himself at once for such a position. But the older student explains to him that the offer must come from the other side — that all he can do is to make himself fit for such a post, and wait until the Master calls him.

He sees very little of his fellow-creatures; he has cast aside all responsibilities; he has nothing to worry or trouble him, nothing to make him angry. Such a life is possible only for men of a certain temperament; but for them it is ideal in its freedom. That, however, is not at all the method of development recommended to the Theosophical student; he is expected to acquire the qualifications while still mixing with his fellows and trying to help them. Usually he has his
living to get; he is constantly meeting other men, who are sometimes pleasant and sometimes the
reverse, but in any case bring with them their own vibrations, which are different from his own, and so disturbing. He has his anxieties, he 'has inevitably many things about which he must think, and under those conditions he cannot expect to make such rapid progress in occult development as a man who has nothing else to do. At the same time, he can in certain ways do more good than a hermit. He can set an example; he can show by his life that it is possible to be in the world and yet not of the world.

The Master is dealing with men en masse, in great blocks of thousands at a time, and in quite a different way; and we have to consider what is best for all, not for ourselves alone.

The student as an ego would be conscious of the honour done to him, and would eagerly co-operate; but the personality in its physical brain might not know what was being done, though
it would be sure to feel much uplifted and unexpectedly happy. When that feeling comes to the student, he may take it for granted that some blessing is being shed through him; when he wakes in the morning with a sensation of bliss and great content, he may know thereby that some good thing has been done through him.

All matter is fundamentally the same matter; just as all kinds of substances in the physical world are all built of absolutely identical physical atoms, and the only thing that differs is the arrangement of those atoms, so all kinds of matter on the different planes from the highest to the lowest are built of identical bubbles, and the only thing which is different is the arrangement of those bubbles.

We must become indifferent to praise and blame, yet keenly alert for any opportunity of being useful. We must regard everything from the platform of universal brotherhood, trying always to see the good in everybody and everything, because to look for and to emphasise the good is a sure way of intensifying its action and evoking more good.

A Master takes a fully-accepted pupil into such close relationship with Himself that the standard of fitness must necessarily be high; and that is why the probationary stage is often a long one. Before the Master can take a man as part of Himself, there must be in that man no thoughts and no feelings which the Master could not tolerate within Himself — not because of His disgust for them, but because they would interfere with the work.

That means that the Master will accept him on probation, and will keep him closely under His eye. The average length of that probation is seven years, but it may be shortened or lengthened according to circumstances. It is well that on the physical plane the candidate should be near someone who is either an Initiate or an accepted pupil, for in that way he may learn much. Through such an one he may receive occasionally a rare encouraging word from the Master; the attitude and daily life of the older pupil may give him many a hint as to what his own should be. It is not often the doing of any one brilliant action that brings a man to the feet of the Master; the message comes usually to one who is working away and not thinking of it.

“It is beyond the range and reach of thought”, inexpressible by any similitude because any such would limit it. “It is an Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless and Immutable PRINCIPLE, on which all speculation is impossible...”. We can assume that this ABSOLUTE always is. This means “It” is
everlasting, timeless, constituting absolute Truth or Reality.

The ABSOLUTE may be meaningless to our thinking minds but something cannot come from nothing, even if that NO-THING is in a state of NON-BEING! It is the BE-NESS of the first fundamental Proposition.

Man is the Microcosm. As he is so, then all the Hierarchies of the Heavens exist within him. But in
truth there is neither Macrocosm nor Microcosm but ONE EXISTENCE. Great and small are such
only as viewed by a limited consciousness.

The greatest adept living can reveal of the Universal Truth only so much as the mind he is impressing it upon can assimilate, and no more.... In proportion as our consciousness is elevated towards absolute truth, so do we men assimilate it more or less absolutely....Still each of us can relatively reach the Sun of Truth even on this earth, and assimilate its warmest and most direct rays,...On the physical plane we may use our mental polariscope [instrument for showing phenomena of polarised light]; and, analyzing the properties of each ray, choose the purest. On the plane of` spirituality, to reach the Sun of Truth we must work in dead earnest for the development of our higher nature.... once aroused ... the highest spiritual senses and perceptions grow in us in proportion, and develop pari passu with the “divine man”.... absolute truth is not on earth and has to be searched for in higher regions,...

As physical man, limited and trammelled from every side by illusions, cannot reach truth by the
light of his terrestrial perceptions, we say—develop in you the inner knowledge. From the time
when the Delphic oracle said to the enquirer “Man, know thyself,” no greater or more important
truth was ever taught. Without such perception, man will remain ever blind to even many a relative, let alone absolute, truth. Man has to know himself, i.e., acquire the inner perceptions which never deceive, before he can master any absolute truth. Absolute truth is the symbol of Eternity, and no finite mind can ever grasp the eternal, hence, no truth in its fulness can ever dawn upon it. To reach the state during which man sees and senses it, we have to paralyze the senses of the external man of clay.

But TRUE, or Divine Occultism means but one thing, and that is THE PURSUIT OF DIVINE WISDOM BY SECRET PATHS.

Few, however, ever get beyond the cross-ways in the life in which they get their first glimpse of a distant ray of the Truth. They have grown so accustomed to dependence upon external aid, that they fear to venture a step upon the Inner Path; because it is a Way which the Pilgrim must walk alone. Those who do venture a few hesitating steps along it almost always turn back again, terrified at standing alone. They rush back to the Crossways where many GUIDES stand, fashioning crutches for the feeble and selling maps and plans of The Way to the ignorant. But those Guides are not helpers, but hinderers; their charts are false, for they themselves have never trodden the Inner Way; their crutches are useless to the Pilgrim, because there is no room on the Inner Path for anything but his own feet.

No Teacher can ENTER one's being and lead one back towards its centre. Each man must tread that path alone. All that he has been relying upon outside himself must be let go, because it is but holding him back from his inward march: he cannot take it with him. Yet as he moves inward he will find other teachers arising, some from whom he will know he has learned, others whom he must not stay to heed lest they hold him back. The Teacher of Teachers stands at the far end of the Path, not counseling, nor yet pointing, but beckoning onward. But these last words are not yet to be understood.

Whether the man stands alone, or is one of a select body of millions of members, his position is the
same. If he is a medium of Truth, Truth will shine through him. If he is not, no association with others will make it do so.

He will not know a true disciple of Wisdom until he becomes one himself. The Wise Ones and the Teachers will pass him by in the street, and he will not know them until he himself is growing to be one of their company.

It is the natural right of every human being to be happy — to escape all the miseries of life. Happiness is the normal condition, as natural as the landscapes and the seasons. It is unnatural to suffer and it is only because of our ignorance that we do suffer. Happiness is the product of wisdom. To attain perfect wisdom, to comprehend fully the purpose of life, to realize completely the relationship of human beings to each other, is to put an end to all suffering, to escape every ill and evil that afflicts us. Perfect wisdom is unshadowed joy.

Why does death bring misery? Chiefly because it separates us from those we love. But when we have evolved the faculty of clairvoyance, in our work of self-development, the separation vanishes and our “dead” friends are as much with us as the living. The only other reason why death brings grief or fear is because we do not understand it and comprehend the part it plays in human evolution. But the moment our ignorance gives way to comprehension such fear vanishes and a serene happiness takes its place.

The only way to make the brain keen and powerful is to exercise it by original thinking. One way to gain soul powers is to give free play to the loftiest aspirations of which we are capable, and to do it systematically instead of at random. We grow to be like the things we think about. Now, the reverse of all this must be equally true. To give no thought to higher things, to become completely absorbed in material affairs, is to stifle the soul, to invite spiritual atrophy.

The universe is a training school for evolving intelligence — a vast gymnasium for the development of moral fibre. We become mentally clever by playing at the game of life. We match our courage against its adversities and acquire fearlessness. We try our optimism against its disappointments and learn cheerfulness. We pit our patience against its failures and gain persistence. We are torn from the pinnacle of ambition by opponents and learn toleration of others. We fall from the heights of vanity and pride, and learn to be modest and humble. We encounter pain and sorrow and learn sympathy with suffering. It is only by such experiences that we can grow to rounded measure. It is only in an environment thus adapted to our spiritual development that we can evolve the latent powers within us.

Now, all powers possessed by any human being, no matter how exalted his position in evolution, or how sublime his spiritual power, are latent in all human beings and can, in time, be developed and brought into action.

Therefore one must resolve to take oneself in hand for definite and systematic selfdevelopment.
Nobody else can do the work for us. Certain moral qualities must be gained before there can be spiritual illumination and genuine wisdom and such qualities, or virtues, have to be evolved by the laws under which all growth occurs.

Desire is nature’s motor power — the propulsive force that pushes everything forward in its evolution. It is desire that stimulates to action.

The human will, that force unseen,
The offspring of a deathless soul,
Can hew a way to any goal
Tho’ walls of granite intervene.
Be not impatient of delay,
But wait as one who understands.
When spirit rises and commands
The gods are ready to obey.

All the business activities of the world are developing the will.

The mind must be brought under such complete control of the will that it can be manipulated like a
search-light, turned in this direction or that, or flung full upon some obscure subject and held steadily there till it illuminates every detail of it, as the search-light sends a dazzling ray through space and shows every rock and tree on a hillside far away through the darkness of the night.

Another method that goes admirably with such work is the close observation and study of all the life in manifestation about us. We should try to comprehend people, to observe and understand them. Every word, act and facial expression has its meaning to be caught and interpreted. All this will not only sharpen the wits but also strengthen human sympathy for it enables us the better to know the difficulties and sorrows of others. If such practices are followed faithfully day by day the growth will be steady.

But how shall the pupil find the teacher? He need not find him, at first, so far as the limited
consciousness is concerned. Long before he knows anything of it in his waking hours he may be
receiving instruction while he is out of the physical body during the hours of sleep. The teacher finds the pupil long before the pupil suspects that the teacher exists; and since it is the pupil who has the limited consciousness it is quite natural that it should be so. Thus it is inevitable that all who enter upon the way that leads to spiritual illumination must long remain ignorant of the fact that any teachers are interested in them or that anybody is giving the slightest attention to them. Naturally enough one cannot know until the moment arrives when his brain has become sufficiently sensitive to retain a memory of at least a fragment of his super-physical experiences.

But what leads to the selection of the pupil? His earnestness, his unselfishness, his devotion, his spiritual aspirations. There is an old occult maxim to the effect that when the pupil is ready the Master is waiting. They have need of many more than are ready to be taught. Those who lead and enlighten watch eagerly for all who will qualify themselves to enter upon the upward way. Every human being gets exactly what he fits himself to receive. He cannot possibly be overlooked. By his spiritual aspiration each lights the lamp in the window of his soul and to the watchers from the heights that light against the background of the overwhelming materiality of our times must be as the sun in a cloudless sky. Other things come later but these simpler things, to realize the necessity for conscious evolution, to comprehend the method of soul development, to take full control of the mind and the physical body, to resolutely curb the grosser desires and to give free rein to the higher aspirations are the first infant steps in the self-development that leads to illumination. Then we begin to discover that this very desire for greater spiritual power is generating a force that carries us forward and upward. We soon begin to observe actual progress. The brain becomes clearer, the intellect keener. Our sphere of influence grows wider, our friendships become warmer. Aspiration lifts us into a new and radiant life, and the wondrous powers of the soul begin to become a conscious possession. And to this soul growth there is no limit. The aspirant will go on and on
in this life and others with an ever-extending horizon of consciousness until he has the mental grasp of a Plato, the vivid imagination of a Dante, the intuitive perception of a Shakespeare. It is not by the outward acquirement of facts that such men become wise and great. It is by developing the soul from within until it illuminates the brain with that flood of light called genius.

And when, through the strife and storm, we finally reach the tranquility of the inner peace we shall
comprehend the great fact that life really is joy when lived in the possession of spiritual power and in perfect harmony with the laws of the universe. Literally he becomes a new man. Gradually the old desires and impulses fade away and new and nobler aspirations take their place. He has learned obedience to law only to find that obedience was the road to conquest. He has risen above the gross and sensuous by the power of conscious evolution; and, looking back upon what he has been with neither regret nor apology, he comprehends that significant thought of Tennyson: On stepping stones of their dead selves men rise to higher things.

Purpose of this book; to supply the existing need of a perfect system of thought and life by one
founded in the nature of existence. This not a new invention, but a recovery of the original system which was the basis of all religions. Its recovery due to the same means by which it was originally received, namely, the Intuition, which represents the knowledges acquired by the Soul in its past existences, and complements the intellect, being itself quickened and enhanced by illumination of the Spirit. Revelation a proper prerogative of man, belonging to him in virtue of his nature and constitution, and crowning the reason. God, the supreme Reason.

I believe that if the service of humanity be entered into unselfishly by men and women, they may, sometimes, to their own surprise, “meet” a Master, or an Adept, or even a Mahatma, because those who work impersonally for the good of humanity as a whole are ready at all moments to assist a particular consciousness which is related to the same undertaking.

The enterprise may be called the redemption of humanity, the physical achievement of individual
Consciousness, in which the form will respond to pure desire, and itself be a complete embodiment of that state which comprehends the perfection of the whole plan. There are very few who are able to sustain such consciousness for more than a few moments, but in it all the bitterness generated by one nation against another disappears, and the seer is able to live in the Consciousness which sees humanity as one Being, working forward toward one great purpose, manifesting and functioning, through the cycles, in types and nations and races, each of which represents a different phase of that struggle, whose final triumph is the victory of Consciousness over matter. Therefore our daily tasks may be pursued in the consciousness that we are working not for one nation, one city, one family, nor for ourselves, but that we are working and thinking for humanity as a whole, irrespective of these temporary appearances of the various forms we see around us. And, if even a passing glimpse is possible for us, we can see how it is possible for a Being to sustain that Consciousness permanently, if he has already reached this position by using the processes of evolution; we can see how sympathetic such a one will be with the limitations of those hardly able to sustain that Consciousness for more than a moment. I think each of you will have experienced moments when you are sufficiently interested in the higher spiritual attainment to withdraw your consciousness from external life, to create in your own mind images that are in themselves embodiments of truth and beauty, and to people, as it were, the space about you with those influences that are enduring. At such times you enter a Consciousness where you contact forces
and powers that may or may not assume shape, but which, even if you do not see, you feel as an exaltation of your whole being; the vibration of your body changes, you feel as if you were floating in
some ethereal world. Such a state of exaltation transmutes the body for the time being, so that the mind is enabled to move and think freely.

No messenger of the White Brotherhood will ever charge for the truth - it will be given freely as it was freely attained.

The true Master is felt; He is not seen. When He who was unseen is seen, He disappears. Then the Spiritual Presences are gathered into the unity; they know not one another, but they are the
One Self. In that darkness there is but One. In that silence there is no knowledge, but Being -
which is all - is fulfilled. This is the path of the true disciple. Before man can find the true Master, he must lose Him. That loss is pure gain; to lose Him thus is to find Him indeed. This should be known: the disciple who finds Him on the plane of the senses has objectivised his Karma; he loses the Master after a higher fashion. Know that there is only the One Self, the Master, and lose thyself also to find Him who is never found until He has been lost. When He is lost to every sense then the One Flame arises, pure as before the beginning of worlds. Thou shalt never know it: thou art It.

The aim of all souls who have attained to this level of consciousness is an entirely disinterested one - the stimulation of human evolution and the benefit of mankind. They have renounced the personality. Renunciation is the word of power compelling admission to the Brotherhood of the Servants of God, and inevitably bringing association with its members through the attainment of that Consciousness which transcends the barriers of time and space. There are no oaths, no vows of secrecy, and nothing is required of a member which is contrary to the dictates of his own soul. Yet no true initiate has ever been known to sell Divine Knowledge for money, nor to exercise his spiritual gifts for personal gain.

Any voice that may be heard or any vision that may be seen must be very seriously questioned by the student. Everything one is told by unseen voices must be tested by one’s own powers of discrimination, judgement and common sense.

You will find yourself, perhaps, often in uncomfortable conditions, in difficult situations; you will find yourself probably face to face with circumstances that are unpleasant; but you will have no greater reason for satisfaction than that, for it is a proof that you are being taken at your word.

They may give the rules, they may give expression to the laws of development, and lay down the principles so plainly that any one can understand them; but the result depends entirely on what you yourself do, on how you apply the principles, on how you impose this task upon yourself.

If you are sincere in your desire to enter the Path, circumstances will be so arranged by your own soul (not by any external influence) to bring you back again and again to face and meet your true obligations.

Never waste a moment about what you did yesterday or the day before. This necessity for living in the present moment must be constantly emphasized. Live in each moment as it comes, as fully as you possibly can. Time to the soul is an entirely different thing from what it is to the ordinary man who lives externally. As some one has said, we hear time ticking only in ourselves. The important matter is that the way we spend the present moment prepares us effectively or disastrously for the following moment. “Regret nothing. Cut all doubts with the sword of spiritual knowledge.

Some people think age is an obstacle. It does not matter what age you are physically; you may be sixty years young or eighty, it does not matter, or twenty years old. Age has nothing to do with it, except this: that the earlier you start the better success you are likely to make in the particular incarnation in which you begin, because the vital energies are at a higher point of efficiency, and you are more likely to pass through the struggle successfully. You will come, of course, to an incarnation where you well enter consciously upon the task, from the beginning of self-conscious life.

As one teacher very pregnantly says, you may put yourself in imagination into some of these positions, and just imagine how you would feel if everything were gone from you, if whatever little reputation you have amongst your friends, whatever little place you fill in society - if all that were gone, would you stand unafraid before His Will and not mind the destruction of a million Universes.

The Earth in whose body we live, is a great Being, because all planets are beings; they are made up of collective hosts of beings, mineral, vegetable, animal and human, sub-mineral and superhuman, the whole gamut, including that which is beyond our perception, is contained within the earth sphere. We are living as part of this great Being, nourished day by day in its life, eating of the body of the Lord of Life, partaking of the divine sacrament, drinking of the divine substance. All these things are literally true. Therefore, as you study, your whole understanding of life, your whole feeling towards existence, changes, and then it is very difficult indeed to think of other individuals as separate from yourself.

As I said, the motive must be pure, then thoughts will quicken, the Light of the wonderful unity of all life will flood your life with a new radiance. Loneliness will undoubtedly follow, but in due course you will come under the guidance of a Master, “for the school of the world,” says one of them, “is the school of the Masters.” The Master’s task is to aid men in the world.

For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, is waiting and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God. For those whom he has known beforehand he has also predestined to bear the likeness of his son, that he might be the eldest in a vast family of brothers.

The truth regarding the fatherhood of God, the sonship of His messengers, and the great teachers of humanity and the brotherhood of all His creatures is superior to all creeds and religions, and will unify them all when once apprehended.

In appearance it has a silvery lustre tinged with delicate violet, and its aura is of palest blue, with an interchanging play of all the prismatic colours, rendering it irridescent.

He who seeks divine knowledge will surely find it, for the God in man ever strives to render unto him his lost birthright. No sincere effort to solve this mystery passes unheeded by the “silent watcher” within.

The correct use of knowledge will nourish our qualities and result in bodily fitness and mental
efficiency; this will be reflected in character, in intellect and will; our daily and hourly education will be an unfolding of the inherent qualities of the soul.

The spiritual consciousness has its seat in the heart - the dwelling of the spiritual man, - the most important organ of the body, the first spot that lives in the foetus and the last that dies.

When, after due preparation, kundalini becomes active, it acts as the agent of man’s spiritual will to complete the perfecting work in the body. The ganglionic centres or chakras are linked together like so many electric batteries, and, as the vivifying current of kundalini passes from one centre to another, the voltage is raised and the centres, having been purified, are technically “conquered.”

She it is, the Divine woman of man’s mental system, that opens to him the “perfect way,” the “way of the Lord,” that “path of the just which, as a shining light, shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” And her complete restoration, crowning, and exaltation, is the one condition essential to that realization of the ideal perfection of man’s nature, which, mystically, is called “the Finding of Christ.”

“The pure in heart see God.” True, the man cannot see God. But the Divine in man sees God. And this occurs when, by means of his soul’s union with God, the man becomes “one with the Father,” and beholds God with the eyes of God.

“He,” say the Hindu Scriptures, “who in his lifetime recovers the memory of all that his soul has learnt, is already a god.”

For in representing the lowest as linked to the highest, – the loins of the creature of prey to the head and breast of the Woman, – the Sphinx denoted at once the unity, and the method of development, under individualization, of the soul of the universal humanity.

In the psychic body every thought and every feeling are radiant, vibratory powers, thrilling through our souls and affecting the surrounding atmosphere, finally creating all round us a psychic expression of our ideals and desires which tend to affect our consciousness, and also to affect other people and the world around us.

When thought reaches high in aspiration, it also touches the great ideal and brings back an immediate response. Whatever a man thinks of he is immediately in touch with, and whatever he truly loves he can never really lose.

Just as a man studies and practices an art or a trade day after day, year after year, and the power or capacity grows steadily; so life after life men add to their power and one day are born as heroes, saints, or geniuses.

There is one thing that is certain. Love rules the universe, in spite of all appearances to the contrary, and whatever a man really loves he can never lose. It will be with him in the world of after-death, and with him again in succeeding lives upon earth. Love has never known defeat!

A soul is like a flower. It needs both the sunshine and the rain. The sunshine of human happiness makes it expand and put forth its powers; the rain of tears should purify, render unselfish, make it understanding and compassionate.

To shape and evolve the coming godlike being of peace, happiness and power. For the end of pain can only come about by the ending of ignorance, and selfishness which is the greatest ignorance of all.

Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them, for this is the law.
Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them, for this is the law.

Neither can a class exploit another class without laying seeds of future revolutions.

They have ever your deepest soul with them, and may even for a time see you at night when you are free of your body. When your turn comes to pass on they will be the first to welcome you. They are not "dead". They are more "alive" now than when carrying a heavy physical body. They have now a form which knows no longer hunger and thirst, heat or cold, or illness, or fatigue, or old age. Would you wish them back to an aching, ill, tired body? We should try and realize the truth. No hell is there in the universe save the temporary one of a man's own making: and a heaven ultimately for all which is built by their own aspiration and desire.

1. Atma, the “Higher Self”, is neither your Spirit nor mine, but like sunlight shines on all. It is the
universally diffused “divine principle”, and is inseparable from its one and absolute Meta-Spirit, as the sunbeam is inseparable from sunlight.
2. Buddhi (the spiritual soul) is only its vehicle. Neither each separately, nor the two collectively, are of any more use to the body of man, than sunlight and its beams are for a mass of granite buried in the earth, unless the divine Duad is assimilated by, and reflected in, some consciousness .Neither Atma nor Buddhi are ever reached by Karma, because the former is the highest aspect of Karma, its working agent of itself in one aspect, and the other is unconscious on this plane. This consciousness or mind is,
3. Manas, the derivation or product in a reflected form of Ahankara, “the conception of I”, or Ego-ship. It is, therefore, when inseparably united to the first two, called the Spiritual Ego, and Taijasi (the radiant). This is the real Individuality, or the divine man. It is this Ego which — having originally incarnated in the senseless human form animated by, but unconscious (since it had no consciousness) of, the presence in itself of the dual monad — made of that human-like form a real man.

Sow a thought, and reap a habit.
Sow a habit, and reap a character.
Sow a character, and reap a destiny.

Because, in order to make that world perfect, He needs our assistance. He dwells in us, little though
most of us know the wonderful inspiration of that fact; He is awaiting our call. But we are asleep, and do not know that our true life begins when we work with Him to carry out His plan. We are immersed in our personal self and its personal happinesses; the materialist concentrates his energies on getting as much happiness as he can out of a fleeting world, the devotee to prepare his soul to live eternally in heaven. Both miss the immediate object of being born as a human being; that object is to feel God’s thought and emotion and will flaming in us, and to go out into the world energised by our Divinity, and make the world perfect.

God waits patiently, sending man on the long round of births and deaths, teaching him to reap as he sows, and to learn to sow more wisely because to sow evil and imperfection is to reap pain and ugliness. It is thus that God trains man, till man is ready to co-operate with the Divine Plan.

But the Archetype is there also in the sinner, in the criminal, in every man and woman who is outcasted by society as unfit to belong to the social order. The worst of men is still a God in chains, though we may see only the rust on his chains, and not the light on his face. To the true worker, who ever co-operates with God’s Plan, there is only one vision, that of the Archetypes of God. Then he knows that a soul who is ignorant, who commits evil, who refuses to co-operate with God’s Plan, is only a God in chains; then he can help his brother-God with understanding, with pity, free of all resentment, to unchain his Divinity, for he knows that the evil in men is only transitory, while the good in them is eternal and unchanging.

Then wisdom comes from within a man’s own heart; he needs no external guide, neither priest nor
scripture, for the God who dwells within him leads him step by step on the road to the realisation of his Archetype. Sciences and arts, religions and philosophies, the daily work for livelihood and service, the duties to family and friends, to community and to nation, each becomes as a string in a divine lyre, on which the soul plays a divine melody.

And for each one of us God has written a great music, and He is waiting till each is ready to give it to his fellowmen. But we must all learn the technique of our instrument, and we must learn also the message of our music. For that learning, He sends us out into His universe, to work, to play, to enjoy, to suffer; and all the time He watches and guides, whether we co-operate with Him or thwart His Plan.

The office of the "father" is to bring the "son" to union with himself, so that he may be born out of
ignorance into Gnosis, born in Mind, his Highest Self, and so become Son of the Father indeed.

And the destiny of man is that he should become the Monad of monads, or the Mind of God——the Cosmos itself, not only as perceived by the senses as all that is, both that which moves and moves not, which is the Great Body and Great Soul of things; but also as conceived by mind, as that
Intelligible Greatness of all greatnesses, the Idea of all ideas, the Mind and Reason of God Himself, His own Self-created Son, Alone-begotten, the Beloved.

The body of man must be regarded as a holy temple, a shrine of the Divine——the most marvellous
House of God that exists, fairer far than the fairest temple raised with hands. For this natural temple
which the Divine has wrought for the indwelling of His beloved sons, is a copy of the Great Image, the Temple of the Universe in which the Son of God, the Man, dwells.

"Wherefore, send me, O Father!
Seals in my hands, I will descend;
Through eons universal will I make a Path;
Through mysteries all I'll open up a Way!
All Forms of Gods will I display;
The Secrets of the Holy Path I will hand on,
And call them Gnosis"

The beginning of Perfection is Gnosis of Man; but Gnosis of God is Perfect Perfection.

"The Seeds of God, 'tis true, are few, but vast and fair and good——virtue and self-control,
devotion. Devotion is God-Gnosis; and he who knoweth God, being filled with all good things,
thinks godly thoughts and not thoughts like the many think.
"For this cause they who Gnostic are, please not the many, nor the many them. They are
thought mad and laughed at; they're hated and despised, and sometimes even put to death. . .
.
"But he who is a devotee of God, will bear with all——once he has sensed the Gnosis. For
such an one all things, e'en though they be for others bad, are for him good; deliberately he
doth refer them all unto the Gnosis. And, thing most marvellous, 'tis he alone who maketh bad
things good.'"

Looking thus on daily life,it becomes a school of Occultism, and we begin to learn that perfect balance which is required in the higher walks of discipleship, ere deeper knowledge ,and therefore power, can be placed in our hands. Where there is not calm self-mastery, indifference to personal matters, serene devotion to work for others, there is no true Occultism, no really spiritual life.

Spiritual life and love are not exhausted by being spent. Expenditure only adds to the store and makes it richer and intenser. Try and be as happy and contented as you can, because in joy is the real spiritual life, and sorrow is but the result of our ignorance and absence of clear vision. So you should resist, as much as you can, the feeling of sadness: it clouds the spiritual atmosphere.

Life is only worth having as it is sacrificed at Their Feet.

One whose devotion is complete, i.e., one who in deed as well as in thought consecrates all his energies and all his possessions to the Supreme Deity, and realises his own nothingness as well as the falsity of the idea of separateness - such a one alone is not allowed to be approached by the powers of darkness,and is protected from every danger to his Soul.

You have tasted some drops of the ambrosial waters of Peace, and in the tasting have found strength. Known now and for ever that in the calm of the Soul lies real knowledge, and from the divine tranquillity of the heart comes power. Experience of celestial peace and joy is therefore the only true spiritual life, and growth in peace alone means growth of the Soul. The witness sing of abnormal phenomena by the physical sense can but arouse curiosity and not promote growth. Devotion and peace form the atmosphere in which the Soul lives , and the more you have of those, the more life your Soul will possess.

Even ordinary love, if it be real, deep and selfless, is the highest and purest manifestation of the Higher Self, and if entertained in one's bosom with consistency and desire of self-sacrifice, ultimately brings one to a clearer realisation of the spiritual world than does any other human act or emotion.

There is the love which pours itself out upon its object, seeking for nothing in return — never even
thinking of itself, but only of what it can do for the loved one; and such a feeling as this generates a
spiritual force which cannot work itself out except upon the mental plane.

Now in their heaven-life this highest wish is fulfilled; they find themselves in very truth learning from the Buddha, and the image which they have thus made of him is no empty form, but most assuredly through it shines out the wonderful wisdom, power, and love of that mightiest of earth's teachers.

The general rule is that no one is in a position to renounce the bliss of heaven until he has experienced it during earth-life — until he is sufficiently developed to be able to raise his consciousness to that plane, and bring back with him a clear and full memory of that glory which so far transcends terrestrial conception.

Such cases are very rare, but they certainly do exist, and in them we see at once the possibility of an exception to our rule. A personality of this type might be sufficiently developed to taste the indescribable bliss of heaven and so acquire the right to renounce it, while he was able to bring the memory of it no farther down than into his astral life.

The immense majority, whether in or out of the body, are but dreamily semi-conscious, though few are now in the condition of mere colourless films; those who are fully awake are marked and brilliant
exceptions, standing out amid the less radiant crowds like stars of the first magnitude, and between
these and the least-developed are ranged every variety of size and beauty of colour — each thus
representing the exact stage of evolution at which he has arrived.

Thus ever as our conceptions rise higher we see before us wider and wider fields of usefulness for
our enormously increased capacities, and we realize how true is the saying that the work of one day on levels such as these may well surpass in efficiency the toil of a thousand years on the physical plane.

For just as the animal can attain individualization only by association with man, so it appears that a permanent reincarnating individuality can normally be acquired by a nature-spirit only by an attachment of somewhat similar character to members of some of the orders of Devas.

It must suffice to say that on the buddhic plane all limitations begin to fall away, and the consciousness of man expands until he realizes, no longer in theory only, but by absolute
experience, that the consciousness of his fellows is included within his own, and he feels and knows and experiences with an absolute perfection of sympathy all that is in them, because it is in reality a part of himself; while on the nirvânic plane he moves a step further, and realizes that his consciousness and theirs are one in a yet higher sense, because they are all in reality facets of the infinitely greater consciousness of the logos, in Whom they all live and move and have their being; so that when "the dewdrop slips into the-shining sea" the effect produced is rather as though the process had been reversed and the ocean poured into the drop, which now for the first time realizes that it is the ocean — not a part of it, but the whole. Paradoxical, utterly incomprehensible, apparently impossible; yet absolutely true.

The new physics, he says, admits the possibility of mind's acting on matter, and this conception throws new light on the evolutionary process and gives meaning to human life. The world and mankind are not developing at random out of atomic chaos. There is evidence of a "directive intelligence" or purpose back of everything.

All things by immortal power
Near or far,
Hiddenly
To each other linked are,
That thou can'st not stir a flower
Without troubling of a star.

For woman is not undeveloped man,
But diverse ...
The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink
Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free.

The developed woman shines with intuitive wisdom and unselfish love. She has often a greater capacity for utter self-sacrifice than has a man. A woman in love is a natural devotee. Surrender and service are to her the supreme joy. Indeed, it may be said that to love and to be loved is the primal necessity of every woman's life.

"Love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence."

It is as well to make a clear mental distinction between the two, for either can exist without the other, but where passion is exalted, purified and lit by love, physical union can take on a very beautiful and inspired meaning. While it gives the greatest physical pleasure known to man, it can also
provide a channel for very exquisite and exalted emotion. Because the creative forces of the universe play through the oppositely polarized bodies of men and women there is an attraction between the two not equaled by any other for it is complemental and fulfilling, and therefore immensely satisfying. The beneficial effects of the inter-play of invisible magnetism already described becomes in the marital act greatly heightened, often breaking down mental barriers and enlarging the whole outlook of the participants. A happy and beautiful marital embrace can lead to what may only be described as a mystical experience, passing ever more deeply into an interior consciousness, so that the lovers become to each other as a door to God.

Both meat-eating and alcoholdrinking are contributing factors to undue sexual excitement. Meat, especially when taken in excess, adds to the potency of all the aggressive, passionate impulses. The Japanese are a rice-eating people, but the Japanese army was fed meat. "Otherwise," as a Japanese officer put it, "we should not get enough fight out of them." The undue consumption of alcohol has a similar effect as the Salvation Army has discovered. In a lesser degree, excessive smoking has the same results. This is evidence that pure diet and moderation in eating and drinking habits are aids in restricting excessive sexuality . Exercise is helpful also, while soft beds, hot baths and a self-indulgent life are all contributory causes to the evil .

The truth is this: in all the universe there is only one life and it is eternally creative. It flows through all planes of matter and all phases of being. The Hindus call it prana. Acting through our mental structure it stimulates discovery, mental enquiry, creative thought. The "joy of creation" here is the joy of discovery and invention. This is why intellectual people often have less sexual urge than many others. With them the creative force has taken another direction. Emotionally the life stream shows as admiration, love, ecstasy. Physically it exhibits as vitality, especially in the creative sex function. The answer clearly lies here. Increase the flow of the creative power on other levels of being, and the pull upon the physical plane will become less.

It is necessary for man to love, to admire, to appreciate, to generously share, to co-operate. Otherwise he cannot live a happy and useful life. These qualities are the play of the creative life in his emotional self, and if they are free and beautifully grown, man has the finest sublimating force in creating. The poets are well aware of this. So often the poets teach us better than they know, better than the philosophers.

"We live by admiration, hope and love,
And even as these ar well and wisely placed,
In dignity of being we ascend."

But love, true love, self-forgetting, generous, divine, is the product of slow growth and takes many incarnations to develop. It is both a science and an art, the eternal right and left hand of every potency.

A great lover is an artist indeed, and has won by sacrifice and sorrow this divine capacity. Like the poet, he is born and not made, and he is not so common a phenomenon as many people would suppose. Happy is the man who has this capacity; let him ask no other blessedness for within him is the "Light of the World." There is an old proverb which says that it is love which makes the world go around. Without love, indeed, which is the creative force of Deity in our souls, all things would cease to be. Descartes said: "I think therefore I am." Let us put it thus: " I love therefore I am." For he who does not love is already dead.

Love in its highest sense is purified of egotism and many a heartbreak, many a loss, is to teach the soul this supreme secret. Immortal love is as the sun, shining upon the world because he is light, and asking nothing back.

When sex is ennobled by love,it is purified, exalted; and can, as said before, become indeed a doorway to God, to the King in His beauty. How rare, how wonderful,how fine, must be the lovers to whom this comes' Yet it can come.

So God,the Ideal, must complete the triangle, the Other-worldly One to Whom the lovers owe obeisance. Or, in the other direction the blinding link may be a child, for he, when he comes, is the Christ Child, the King, whose father and mother are but his guardians, his supreme servants of state.

There is a natural celibacy which occurs in the occultist or saint who has perfectly transmuted the creative urge to higher levels. When the creative powers are turned away from
the physical level they increase intellectual perception and spiritual powers. Then, to clairvoyant vision, the pranic light flows upward through the spinal canal and radiates out above the head, instead of flowing downward to the sexual organs. This process cannot be hastened with impunity; it is the result of long and patient directing of thought and emotion towards divine and impersonal ends. As a great occultist once said: "The force which brings about the junction of two bodies here on earth, enormously sublimated and uplifted, brings about the union of the soul with God.

It is fairly easy to see how this is done. Everything is really a matter of wave-length or vibration. As we act, as we speak, as we think, we set going an ever-widening circle of vibration. The voice makes rhythmic wavelengths on the air, thought makes rhythmic wavelengths, called by Patanjali,the India sage, vrittis, on a still subtler form of matter. These all set up synchronous, though vastly subtler and quicker, wavelengths in the surrounding and permeating planes of ever subtler matter. Thus every action, word, motive and thought, resounds from sphere to sphere and finally records itself on that subtlest form of matter called by the Hindus the akasha, and by the philosophers, the Eternal Now.

During these first seven years a child learns by unconsciously imbibing from his surroundings and from the people in them. Hence the paramount important of example. We say: Children are such imitators," and so they are; their little auras reflect as in a mirror the passing moods of their elders.

There are some in whom the shining ideals of youth never completely die away, and they are the young at heart, whatever their years.

If she only realized where her great and divine powers lie the world could be saved in a few generations. Not that women should not be utterly free, and at liberty, if they so will, to do whatever work in life they choose; but if they had the right and ancient ideals they would in most cases choose that work which they alone can do. No man can do it. His power, compared with a woman's is that of a child. And in their manly hearts they know it, and long unconsciously for the ideal, wise and gracious woman to worship, to give their hearts to, and to come to as a haven of peace and love and understanding. For the husband is after all but a woman's eldest child,
and the making of a home does not consists in rich furniture or appointments, but in the brooding spirit of love and patience and forgiveness which forms a veritable shrine of safety. But the one who creates a lovely home is the one who has forgotten herself, whose whole life is a self-abnegation laid at the feet of others. How much more lovely this can be than all the successes, social or political, in the outer world, because it is the service of living, growing souls.

"A partnership with God is Motherhood,
What strength, what purity, what self-control,
What love,what wisdom, should belong to her
Who helps God fashion an immortal soul."

Teach the people to see that life on this earth, even the happiest, is but a burden and an illusion,
that it is but our own Karma, the cause producing the effect, that is our own judge, our Saviour in
future lives, and the great struggle for life will soon lose its intensity.

Society as those cataclysms in nature, which often decimate whole populations, are necessary to mankind. An earthquake may, for all the world knows, be a bliss and a tidal wave prove salvation to the many at the expense of the few.

The spread of the knowledge of the laws of Karma and Reincarnation and of a belief in the
absolute spiritual unity of all beings will alone prevent this drift.

Thus, then “UNION IS STRENGTH”; and for every reason private differences must be sunk in
united work for our Great Cause.

If it is right to care for the poor and those who suffer, it is right to care for the rich and all those who
will unavoidably be brought to far greater sufferings, unless warned and shown the true cause of
all such Karmic sorrows. The poorer a man, the more sad his life, the nearer he is to the end of his
punitive Karma; the richer his neighbour, the more full of pleasures his life, the nearer he is -
unless he acts in the right path - to his Karmic doom. Help the poor, but pity the ignorant rich.

Humanity behaves as if there were no tomorrow. Waste of good food as garbage, waste of natural resources, e.g., in terms of massive, largely unread newspapers and magazines, use up the natural resources of the earth faster than they can regenerate. In the matter of food production it is said that it takes ten times as much vegetable fodder to feed to animals for meat than it does to provide that same value food direct for human consumption. In view of the ever-lessening of supplies and the continual increase in world population the lesson of the optimum use of food stuffs and other resources must sooner or later be learned.

But if not, then the storm will burst, and our boasted western civilization and enlightenment will
sink in such a sea of horror that its parallel History has never yet recorded.

To use terms denoting quantity in speaking of such matters is entirely incorrect and misleading; yet if an attempt is to be made to express these higher matters in human words at all, these
incongruities cannot be wholly avoided; and the nearest that we can come, in the physical brain, to a conception of what happens when the Monad involves himself in matter of the spiritual plane, is to say that only part of him can possibly be shown there, and that even that part must be shown in three separate aspects, instead of in the glorious totality which he really is in his own world.

For each Monad is literally a part of God, apparently temporarily separated from Him, while he is enclosed in the veils of matter, though in truth never for one moment really separated.

For the time, at least, the Monad is our personal God, the God within us, that which produces us down here as a manifestation of him on these all but infinitely lower levels. What his consciousness is on his own plane we cannot pretend to say, nor can we fully understand it even when he has put upon himself the first veil and become the triple Spirit. The only way to understand such things is to rise on their level and to become one with them. When we do that we shall comprehend, but even then we shall be utterly unable to explain to anyone else what we know. It is at that stage, the stage of the triple Spirit, that we can first see the Monad, and he is then a triple light of blinding glory, yet possessing even on that stage certain qualities by which one Monad is somehow distinct of another.

Surely this view should be the greatest possible encouragement to the man working down here, this
knowledge that he is a far grander and more glorious being in reality than he appears to be, and that there is a part of him - enormously the greater part - which has already achieved what he, as a
personality, is trying to achieve; and that all that he has to do down here is to try to make himself a
perfect channel for this higher and more real self; to do his work and to try to help others in order that he may be a factor, however microscopic, in forwarding the evolution of the world. For him who knows, there is no question of the saving of the soul; the true man behind needs no salvation; he needs only that the lower self should realise him and express him. He is himself already divine; and all that he needs is to be able to realise himself in all the worlds and at all possible levels, so that in them all the Divine Power through him may work equally, and so God shall be all in all.
Coming down much lower, there you will find these three again, separated for the work that is to be done. Thus we have the Rulers characterised by Will, the Teachers characterised by Wisdom, the Forces characterised by Activity - all in perfect order of sequence, so that if you learn the arrangement of the inner world, you will be able to ascend step by step,and realise that the arrangement that you find in the great Scriptures of the world is the highest.

Just as we find the group of Manus Themselves looking after the Races by which mankind evolves, so do we find that all the great catastrophes, the seismic catastrophes in our globe, are under the rule of these Four Highest, who appoint the time and the seasons when these tremendous changes shall take place. So with every new Root-Race there comes a change in the configuration of the globe, of the disposition of land and water.

Humanity has survived these catastrophes before and will survive them again.

That is, that the old way of teaching was very different from the modern. When we begin to teach a subject, we try to get a grasp of the whole subject, and we try to present it to those we are teaching in a clear form. That is the modern way of teaching. It makes people rather lazy, because too much is done for them, and the result is that the memory is very much more, and the reasoning much less exercised than they ought severally to be. The teachers take all the trouble, and present an already cooked and digested teaching to save the pupils from the trouble of exercising their mental faculties. So that they have quite a large amount of second-hand knowledge and very little firsthand
knowledge.

The sixth sub-race will give birth to the Sixth Root-Race in the future. It will develop some of the qualities of Buddhi, that spiritual intuition which illuminates the intellect.

The whole unrest and trouble of the world today are the marks of the transition period through which we are passing, where one civilisation is beginning to pass away, where another civilisation is getting ready to be born, and where you, the Heart of the World, the Mother of the great Aryan Race, whose children are scattered everywhere, have its immediate fate in your hands; you will decide whether evolution shall go onwards and upwards, or be thrown backwards for centuries to come. The Great Work cannot stop. The evolution of humanity must inevitably proceed; but it can proceed either by destruction of what is already existing and beginning again at the very beginning of civilisation; or, for the first time in the history of our Races, it may begin by gradual transition into a higher and nobler condition, if the Sons of the Fire can gain full Victory over the Brothers of the Shadow.

The courage of a man is the great impulse of his nature to assert himself as against opposition. The
courage of woman springs from love, devotion, and she will be as brave, braver sometimes, than the bravest man; but it will be in defence of some one or some thing which she loves, and not with the mere desire of self-assertion, rivalry against an opponent.

There was no room for worship, no room for devotion, no room for enthusiasm; because the presence of God in everything, God immanent in the world, that can only become real when the Inner God is realised.

Now the point that I want to bring out of all this is that, up to the present time, every religion and every civilisation born of religion has perished; until now, except Hinduism, the root-stock, everything has disappeared.

One test there is: Where there are love and union, there the Sons of the Light are striving to help and save; where there are hatred and division, there the Children of Darkness are trying to hold back the evolution of the world. That is the real test for the movements round us.

One must make an art of one's life, of the way one discharges duties, grows as a human being, and continues to read, think and learn.

The fi rst step involves a good spring-cleaning job, as one cleans out the imagination, empties out all the rubbish put into it for years by television, the media and the visual bombardment of sensation.

Greater love hath no man than that he lay down his life for another" is one of the greatest mantras of all times.

The present is an age in which people cannot even be true in the evening to a promise made in the morning. Yet this sad fact only reinforces the therapeutic importance of considering examples of beings so great that they can keep appointments over decades and across lives.

All human beings are perfected gods in chains. But all human beings also have to go through the same arduous process before they can att ain to a high degree of spiritual wakefulness, fi delity and
control.

To be able to remain with and among all those people, who are like lotuses suff ocating in the mire, while at the same time giving hope and instruction to those rare fl owers that are struggling to rise to the surface, is indeed a high degree of continuity of consciousness.

But the current of light-energy and good represented by such a being leaves one no choice except to be with it or to be tossed away by its force. Starting from small concepts and simple examples, one can see that the notion of perfectibility embraces something so much vaster than can ever be put into any categories. At the same time, it is a viable, living, relevant ideal for every human being, because each human being archetypally goes through the same stages, is involved in the same powers and faculties, and lives in a common fi eld of space, time and energy. Every human being by day, and certainly in deep sleep at night, experiences something of the true meaning of the odyssey of the soul in its long and immemorial quest towards the perfecting of all humanity.

True devotion is a fusion between the chela and the Guru, the mind and the heart of the disciple becoming totally att uned to the mind and the heart of the teacher. So great is the luminous beauty of this state of total att unement that it is a shining paradigm of the immemorial teaching of Divine Wisdom and the sacred process of initiation.

They are making use of only a minute percentage of their potential brain-energy and even less of their heart-energy. They will remain spiritual paupers, living far below their capacity, until they restore a natural rhythm in the relation between what they receive and what they give out.

Our tragedy lies simply in our refusal to recognize that we live in a condition of perpetual imprisonment, clinging tenaciously to the sights and sounds of earthly life, mistaking slavery for freedom and shadows for realities.

Similarly, the Avatar who descends amidst humanity cheerfully accepts the risk of ridicule and rejection, so that at least a few may be called to the pursuit of spiritual truth and many more aroused out of their state of slavery and illusion. The probationer on the path of the spiritual life has to emulate the example of the Avatars and the Nirmanakayas. He has both to isolate himself from humanity in his all-absorbing pursuit of pure truth and to heed the voice of suff ering humanity, ever ascending on the pathway of the soul and ever preparing himself for the perfect service of humanity.