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. . .
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"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.
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