The golden Path

Die goldene Mitte oder das Aufheben der Gegensätze. Die Rückkehr zur Einheit. Es tat gut wieder in die höheren Welten aufzusteigen. Habe diesen Zustand vermisst. Es ist jedes mal wie nach Hause kommen. Unter Menschen ist das noch nicht möglich. Sie haben ja schon Mühe, wenn sie mich im "Normalzustand" erleben. Mich gebe wie ich wirklich bin. Mein wahres Wesen durchscheinen lasse. Fordert sie heraus. Aber nur das bringt sie weiter und so muss man sie Stück für Stück in die höheren Welten mitnehmen. Immer mal wieder etwas Brot vorbei bringen und sie dann wieder eine Zeit alleine darüber nachdenken lassen. Die schönen Pflänzchen giessen und wachsen lassen. Alles braucht seine Zeit. Sie haben sich leider selber noch nicht erkannt. Wie wunderschön sie in Wirklichkeit sind und es verdient haben aufzuwachen und frei zu sein. Den süssen Nektar des Himmels zu kosten. Darum hat mich Gott geschickt. Als das vollkommene und befreite Individuum. Dem Ausdruck einer ureigenen göttlichen Essenz verbunden mit seinem höheren Selbst. Ein Überwinder der Dualität. Lebe ich die Gegensätze nicht nur in meinem Charakter und meiner geistigen Arbeit kontrolliert und kombiniert aus sondern stelle dies auch nach aussen dar. Das androgyne Wesen. Ein weiblicher Körper mit ausgeglichenen Proportionen und einem Herz so gross wie der Kosmos. Das alle Wesen liebt wie eine Mutter und eine grosse Schwester. Ein männlicher Geist voller unabhängiger Stärke und Willenskraft. Bereit zu kämpfen und zu erobern. Andere zu führen und zu beschützen. Die Seele eines Kindes, das sich auf dem Spielplatz Erde in alle Richtungen kreativ austobt. Durch seine Naivität und Reinheit wahre Macht besitzt. Sich an den Wundern des Lebens erfreut und selbst eins ist. Das alles wiederspiegelt sich auch im Gesicht. In den leuchtenden Augen. Ein Original in jeder Hinsicht. Mit allen Merkmalen eines göttlichen Wesens. Mit Zugang zu allen Welten. Ein Bote des höchsten Reiches. Der gekommen ist um euch den Weg nach Hause zu zeigen. Zur Einheit mit Gott durch eure ganz eigene Individualität. So wie ihr von Ihm geschaffen wurdet, seid ihr perfekt. Vollkommen. Ein Einheit in sich. Ein kleines und einmaliges Universum. Nur traut sich heute fast keiner mehr sich selbst zu sein und zu zeigen. Erst wenn ihr euch selbst wieder gefunden und verstanden habt wer ihr in Wahrheit seid, könnt ihr anfangen es zu leben. Die verschiedenen Ebenen eures Wesens nutzen und ausdrücken. Die selbst geschaffenen Grenzen überwinden. Ein ewig befreiter Gefährte Gottes werden.

Weil diese Wesensart sehr selten ist und man sie auf der Erde im Grossen bisher noch nie erkannt oder verstanden wurde, wird es noch eine ganze Weile dauern bis dieses Wissen angenommen werden kann. Ich mein Wesen vollständig entfalten und offenbaren kann. Das ist auch der Grund warum mich viele nicht wirklich einschätzen können. Nicht verstehen was ich hier genau mache und darstelle. Denn es geht über das Genie, den Propheten und den Sohn Gottes hinaus. Die vielen spirituellen Wege, die verschiedene Ideale darstellen. Bevor man diese Formen nicht als Teil einer Wahrheit und eines Zieles erfasst und gemeistert hat, erhält man keinen Zugang zur Welt des göttlichen Individuums. Das erklärt auch, weshalb ich so plötzlich erwacht bin und ohne äussere Hilfe oder Rituale so schnelle Fortschritte in meiner Entwicklung mache. Nichts Vergleichbares auffindbar ist. Es zeigt die nächste Ebene. Der individuelle und unabhängige Weg in die kosmische Freiheit. Das Super-Individuum.

Umso weiter ich auf dem Weg voran komme desto intensiver wird mein Empfinden und muss darum auch die Selbstbeherrschung laufend stärken. Aber das erlaubt mir auch Dinge zu tun, die normalerweise auf dem spirituellen Weg "verboten" sind. Zum Beispiel ist es möglich auch mal Sex zu haben solange es nicht der eigenen Befriedigung dient und man sich mit dem anderen Wesen im Herzen sehr verbunden fühlt. Weiss, dass es seinem Fortschritt dienen wird. Das ist auch die einzige Situation, die einem noch dazu veranlasst. An oberflächlicher Vereinigung hat man kein Interesse mehr. Es gibt gewisse Menschen, die man nur so erreichen kann. Auf Grund vieler Enttäuschungen den Geist und das Herz fest verschlossen haben. Obwohl in der Tiefe eine grosse und starke Seele wohnt, die nur darauf wartet erweckt und befreit zu werden. Das sind auch die einzigen Wesen mit denen eine Partnerschaft an diesem Punkt noch möglich wäre. Wenn sie nicht mehr von äusseren Umständen abhängig sind. Man allein von der Liebe und den gemeinsamen Idealen lebt. Sich auf dem Weg zum höchsten Ziel gegenseitig antreibt und mitnimmt. Durch die individuelle Beschaffenheit berreichert. Dann ist Liebe möglich. Ich glaube sogar, dass eine solche Liebe den Weg für beide verkürzen könnte. Denn ich habe schon einmal erlebt, wie mich die selbst- und bedingungslose Liebe zu einem Menschen bis ganz weit nach Oben katapultiert hat. Mit dem göttlichen Licht und Seiner Liebe in Verbindung brachte. Leider war das von mir geliebte Wesen noch nicht soweit um die gleiche Erfahrung zu machen. Diese besondere Liebe auszuleben und den Weg mit mir zu gehen. Aber durch unsere Begegnung wurde der Prozess in Gang gesetzt und es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit bis auch es erwachen wird. Denn Zufälle gibt es keine und jeder, den man trifft, trägt etwas zum Weg bei. Und wer weiss vielleicht begegne ich doch noch einem Wesen, dass stark und mutig genug ist sich auf dieses besondere Liebesabenteuer mit mir einzulassen. Alles darf nichts muss. So ist es am besten. Seit dem "Tod" meines Egos, hat sich mein Verhältnis zu anderen allgemein stark verändert. Ich sehe sie nicht mehr vom äusseren Standpunkt her. Nur noch das göttliche Wesen in ihnen. So kann ich viel offener und liebevoller auf alle zugehen. Urteilslos sein. Sie alle als meine Geschwister sehen und lieben. Auch wenn die Verbindung nicht mehr besteht, verändert sich nichts an der Liebe zu ihnen. Oder werde durch ihr Verhalten verletzt. Ganz selten kommt dann halt ein etwas stärkerer Impuls von Liebe durch und dem folge ich dann ebenso. Egal was am anderen Ende auf mich wartet. Auf mein Herz kann ich mich verlassen. Es weiss genau was es tut. Auch wenn mir bewusst ist, dass nur wenige mit ihrem Herzen so gut zusammenarbeiten wie ich. Darauf hören was es ihnen sagt. Geschweige denn fähig sind mit diesem intensiven Strom von ehrlicher Liebe umzugehen, der in so einem seltenen Fall von mir ausgeht. Aber es ist genau diese Kraft, die alles verändern und überwinden kann. Gepaart mit dem Willen unbesiegbar macht. Darum werde ich immer dazu stehen und sie nie unterdrücken. Nur weil andere keinen Zugang mehr zu ihren eigenen Gefühlen haben. Sich vor der Welt verstecken. Dann erst recht. Denn Liebe ist genau das, was jetzt alle am meisten brauchen um weiter zu kommen. So viel wie möglich. Genauso wie Wahrheit. Beides ist in der Erdgeschichte viel zu lange viel zu kurz gekommen. Öffnet darum eure Herzen und euren Geist. Strahlt Liebe und Wahrheit durch eure individuelle Göttlichkeit in die Welt hinaus. Mit allen Mitteln, die euch zur Verfügung stehen. Damit wir endlich alle wieder vereint sind.

Mir ist bewusst, dass ich hier mittlerweile sehr viel preisgebe. Über mich und das höchste Wissen. Dies zwar auch schon in einigen der älteren Posts tat aber nun ein grösseres Publikum habe, das mich zum Teil persönlich kennt und auch noch nicht soweit ist diese Inhalte zu erfassen. Es für viele noch zu schwer ist zu verstehen. Und wenn sie es doch verstehen, dann werden sie mich mit anderen Augen betrachten und nicht wissen wie mit mir umgehen. Aber die Wahrheit lässt sich nicht mehr verstecken. Die Box der Pandora ist geöffnet. Und keiner kann sie mehr schliessen. Auch kaum einer besitzt die Intelligenz und Ausdauer sich so intensiv mit diesem Wissen zu beschäftigen. Ist so fest entschlossen das letzte Geheimnis zu lüften. In jeder Sekunde darauf bedacht Gott zu erfreuen. Mit jeder Tat, jedem Wort, jedem Gedanken den neuen Weg - die Kunst ewig zu leben - auf die Leinwand Erde zu malen. Voller Vorfreude auf alles was noch kommen möge. Weil ich weiss, dass der Weg noch weiter geht. Viel weiter als alle bisherigen. Und weil die meisten nicht so viel lesen wie ich und sich auch nicht im Zustand befinden all diese Informationen aufzunehmen, veröffentliche ich hier immer die wichtigsten Auszüge aus den Schriften, die ich studiere, damit ihr es etwas leichter habt. Euch die Wahrheit in kompakter Form vielleicht eher erreicht. Meine Aussagen bestätigt. Mein Erscheinen. Den goldenen Pfad zur ewigen Freiheit aufzeigt.


Love is power!






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Everything that exists upon the Earth has its ethereal counterpart above the Earth, and there is nothing, however insignificant it may appear in the world, which is not depending on something higher; so that if the lower parts acts, its presideing higher part reacts upon it.

The art Magic is the exercise of spiritual power, to be obtained by practising self-control, and this power cannot be acquired in any other way; nor is it possible to teach anyone how to exercise a power which he does not possess, because he has not developed it; we can only indicate the way in which the psychic powers latent in every human constitution may be developed. The constitutions of all men are fundamentally the same, and in each human being are contained magical powers germinally or in a latent condition; but they cannot be said to exist before they become active and manifest themselves, first interiorly, and afterwards in an outward direction.

The truth can only be one. The truth never changes; but we ourselves change, and as we change so changes our aspect of the truth. The various religious systems of the world cannot be unnatural products. They are all the natural outgrowth of man's spiritual evolution upon this globe, and they differ only in so far as the conditions under which they came into existence differed at the time when they began to exist; while his science has been artificially built by facts collected from external observation. Each intellectual human being, except one blinded by prejudice, recognises the fact that each of the great religious systems of the world contains certain truths, which we intuitively know to be true; and as there can be only one fundamental truth, so all these religions are branches of the same tree, even if the forms in which the truth manifests itself are not alike. The sunshine is everywhere the same, only its intensity differs in different localities. In one place it induces the growth of palms, in another of mushrooms; but there is only one Sun in our system. The processes going on, on the physical plane have their analogies in the spiritual realm, for there is only one Nature, one Law.

THE highest desire any reasonable man can cherish and the highest right he may possibly claim, is to become perfect. To know everything, to love all and be known and beloved by all, to possess and command everything that exists, such is a condition of being that, to a certain extent, may be felt intuitively, but whose possibility cannot be grasped by the intellect of mortal man. A foretaste of such a blissful condition may be experienced by a person who – even for a short period of time – is perfectly happy. He who is not oppressed by sorrow, not excited by selfish desires, and who is conscious of his own strength and liberty, may feel as if he were the master of worlds and the king of creation; and, in fact, during such moments he is their ruler, as far as he himself is concerned, although his subjects may not seem to be aware of his existence.

To perceive the truth, purity of heart and self control should go hand in hand, and it is therefore taught that men must become as unsophisticated as children and strong as lions before they can enter the sphere of truth.

But the true Word still lives. The light of truth still shines deep into the interior world of man, and sends its divine influence down into the valleys, and wherever the doors and windows are open to receive it, there will it dispel the darkness, rendering men and women conscious of their own godlike attributes and guiding them on the road to perfection, until, when all their struggles have ceased and the law has been restored, they will find permanent happiness in the realisation of the highest universal ideal, their own divine self.

It is the Supreme cause, from which everything comes into existence; it must be absolute
consciousness, wisdom and power, love, intelligence, and life, because these attributes exist in its manifestations and could not have come into existence without it.

Dreaming and talking of some ideal is to no purpose, we must let it nourish itself by our life. Wisdom and Power, Love and Truth, Justice and Knowledge, are no objects for dreaming or for scientific research; they must become our life and nourish us by our living in harmony with these universal principles, otherwise we cannot rise above the limitation of form, which is the cause of the delusion of separation and personality.

To listen to the music of the spheres” is a poetical, expression, but it expresses a great truth; because the Universe is filled with harmony, and a soul who is in full harmony with the soul of the universe may listen to that music and understand it. The world as well as man resemble musical instruments, in which every string should be in perfect order, so that no discordant notes may be sounded. We may look upon matter on the physical plane as a state of low vibration and upon spirit as the highest vibration of life, and between the two poles are the intermediary states constituting the grand octave called Man.

Man is attracted to woman and woman to man, because if they realise in each other the presence of the elements of their own ideal, they will love each other and be fully contented. Man and woman can only truly love each other if they are both attracted by the same ideal. This ideal may be high or low, but the higher it is the more permanent will it be, and the greater will be their mutual happiness.

If you wish to progress on the road to perfection, take lessons in love. Learn to love the highest, and you will be attracted by it. Love in every man not the person, but his humanity.

A great variety of different kinds of food produces impurities of the blood; a struggle ensues between the different auras, and excitement, fever, and disease is the result. The same law explains the origin of venereal and cutaneous diseases, and in the astral plane, a great variety of emotions, called into existence within a short space of time, may render a person insane.

One of the kings of illusions is Money, the king of the world. Money represents the principle of equity, and it should be employed to enable everyone to obtain the just equivalent for his labour. If we desire more money than we can rightfully claim, we wish for something that does not belong to us but to another. If we obtain labour without paying for it its proper equivalent, we deprive others of justice, and therefore deprive ourselves of the truth, which is a more serious loss to ourselves than the loss of money to the defrauded.

The term "heaven” means a state of spiritual consciousness and enjoyment of spiritual truths; but how can he who has evolved no spiritual consciousness and no spiritual power of perception enjoy the perception of spiritual things which he has not the spiritual power to perceive? A man without spiritual power entering a heaven would be like a man blind and deaf and without the power to feel. Man can only enjoy that which he is able to realise, that which he cannot realise does not exist for him.

Consciousness is existence, and there are as many states of consciousness as there are states of existence. Every living being has a consciousness of its own, and the state of its consciousness changes every moment of time, as fast as the impressions which it receives change; because its consciousness is the perception of the relation it bears to things, and as this relation changes, consciousness changes its character.

Few may be able to reach such a state, and few will be able to comprehend its possibility; but there have been men who, on the threshold of Nirwana, and while their physical bodies continued to live on this planet, could consciously roam through the interplanetary spaces and see the wonders of the material and spiritual worlds. This is the highest form of Adeptship attainable on Earth, and to him who accomplishes it the mysteries of the
Universe will be like an open book.

The object of man's life is to become conscious that He is – not an illusive personal form – but an impersonal, immortal reality, to render the unconscious spirit conscious and enable the immortal soul to realise its own immortality; the object of death is to release that which is conscious from that which is unconscious, and to free the immortal from the bonds of matter.

The Mind in which Wisdom can bring an universe into existence must be an Universal Mind, embracing in its totality all the individual minds that ever existed, and containing the germs of everything that will ever come into existence. Ideas are states of mind, and the thoughts of the Universal Mind stored up in the Astral Light, after their representative forms have dissolved, grow again into visible forms, by being clothed with matter.

Art and magic are closely related together; both give objective form to subjective ideas. The artist exercises this power when he mentally projects the picture formed in his mind upon the canvas and chains it there by the use of his pencil or brush; the sculptor shapes the picture of a form on his mind and embodies it in the marble.

Love is one, but it manifests itself in various ways. Love unites all. Love is a state of the Will. Thought is directed by will, but the will to be powerful must be pure.

Before one can become a magician he must learn to control his own mind; for mind is the substance with which the magician acts, and the power to control it is the beginning of magic. No one can control the mind of another as long as he cannot control his own. The will acts outwardly from within the centre of the heart, and no one can make it act beyond the periphery of his body as long as he has not become strong enough to guide it within the body. The neophyte must learn first to control his own emotions before he can control the emotions of others, he must know how to master his thoughts before he can make them objective. But the mind cannot control its own self, it cannot rise above its own nature. To control the action of the mind a Master is required; this Master is the spirit of man. But spirit without substance is without power – without an organism through which to act, it is merely a spirit. That which controls the mind is the spiritually awakened inner man – the divine nature in man, which is superior to his terrestrial mind.

They have what is called genius, and instead of being mere imitators, they possess originality. They benefit themselves by benefiting the world. Intellectual researches that benefit no one are unproductive; they resemble physical exercise with dumb-bells, by which muscular strength may be gained, but no labour accomplished. An intellectual pursuit may be followed for merely selfish purposes; but unless there is a love for the object of that study, little progress will be made, and instead of a sage, a bookworm will be the result. True genius is a magician who creates a world for himself and for others, and his power expands as he grows in perfection.

Wisdom is the self-recognition of the truth; it resides in the spiritual soul of man, and sends its light down into his fifth principle, shining through the clouds of matter like the sunlight penetrating a fog.

Hence an aspirant for occult knowledge should begin to concentrate all his desires on the highest ideal, that of absolute self-sacrifice, philanthropy, divine kindness, as of all the highest virtues obtainable on this Earth, and work up to it incessantly. The more strenuous his efforts to rise up to that ideal, the oftener is his will-power exercised, and the stronger it becomes.

When our energy as a collective whole is thus expended, in working up to the highest ideal, it becomes potent, and the grandest results are produced on the spiritual plane. As this is the most important work in which every occultist should be engaged, an aspirant for higher knowledge should spare no efforts to bring about this end. With the progressive tide of evolution of the body as a whole, the mental and the spiritual faculties of humanity expand. To help this tide on, a knowledge of philosophical truths should be spread.

To be good is to be wise; the fool expects rewards; the wise expects nothing. The wise knows that by benefiting the world he benefits himself, and that by injuring others he becomes his own executioner.

But if man strives for spiritual power, to sacrifice personal possessions will be his gain, because the less he is attracted by personal possessions the more will his soul become free. To give with the view of expecting some benefit in return is useless for such a purpose, because a person having such an object in view simply gives up one personal possession for another.

The same remark holds good for woman. If only she were allowed to represent the scenes of human life, she would distribute the parts in reverse order. She it was who first took man to the Tree of Knowledge, and made him know Good and Evil; and, if she had been let alone and allowed to do what she wished, she would have led him to the Tree of Life and thus rendered him immortal.

Such to the Portals are the golden keys:

1. DANA, the key of charity and love immortal.
2. SHILA, the key of Harmony in word and act, the key that counterbalances the cause and the effect, and leaves no further room for Karmic action.
3. KSHANTI, patience sweet, that nought can ruffle.
4. VIRAGA, indifference to pleasure and to pain, illusion conquered, truth alone perceived.
5. VIRYA, the dauntless energy that fights its way to the supernatural TRUTH, out of the mire of lies terrestrial.
6. DHYANA, whose golden gate once opened leads the Narjol toward the realm of Sat eternal and its ceaseless contemplation.
7. PRAJNA, the key to which makes of a man a god, creating him a Bodhisattva, son of the Dhynanis.

For such a man, action and inaction are the same; for he does everything while doing nothing, he does nothing while doing everything.

Then each thought, each word, each action in daily life will be done as a sacrifice – not for its fruit, not even as duty, but as the way in which, at the moment, his Lord can be served.

The lives of a disciple are generally lives of storm and stress, in order that the qualities which are normally evolved in a long succession of lives in the three worlds may in him be forced into swift growth and quickly brought to perfection. As he alternates rapidly from joy to sorrow, from peace to storm, from rest to toil, he learns to see in the changes the unreal forms, and to feel through all a steady unchanging life. He grows indifferent to the presence or the absence or the absence of things that thus come and go, and more and more he fixes his gaze on the changeless reality that is ever present.

The Spirit of the New Era stirs within every one of us. It links us heart to heart if not necessarily brain to brain. With clarion call, a very trumpet of God, it cries to every one of us at this supreme hour to give and give, all that we have, all that we are, that the future may be built secure and fair. In the terrible sincerity of the times no man can live to himself alone, to his family, his private interests alone. He must learn to think in terms of human need, do someone service outside the ranks of his personal circle.

True leadership is the greatest need of man, and one of the most pathetic things in the world is the way this heart-hunger of men for guidance and inspiration, leads them, in default of real heroes, to exalt the sham, and to give whole heart allegiance to unreality.

The privilege is given to me, as an elder, to pen a word of introduction to this little book, the first written by a younger Brother; young in body verily, but not in Soul.

The soul grows steadily, and when it is highly developed it often begins to exhibit signs of its advancement in intelligence, emotion and occult power, even while the physical body is still young. Alcyone certainly showed this to be so in his case by the extreme rapidity of his progress. He responded to the teaching so fully that he was able to attain in a few months what would usually take many years, because for most it would mean a fundamental change in character.
Cases of this kind will be increasingly numerous in these days, because of the near approach of the World Teacher. His principal disciples must be people in the prime of life and strength, most of them probably not much older than Himself in the physical body, and since He is to come soon those who are to be in that position then must be young now. It is exceedingly probable that some of those who are children now among us may in the future be prominent in the work, for it is likely that many of those who are destined for such good fortune will be born where they can have the teaching that will fit them for it, that is, in Theosophical families.

From the unreal lead me to the Real.
From darkness lead me to Light.
From death lead me to Immortality.

Waiting the word of the Master,
Watching the Hidden Light;
Listening to catch His orders
In the very midst of the fight;
Seeing His slightest signal
Across the heads of the throng;
Hearing His faintest whisper
Above earth’s loudest song.

Of course there are many thousands who hear and read the teaching, and yet do not receive any impulse from it. That is a question of the man's experience in other lives. Only if he has already come into contact with the truth, and has convinced himself of its beauty and reality in a previous life, does he instantly feel it to be true when it comes before him in this life.

The first of these Qualifications is Discrimination; and this is usually taken as the discrimination between the real and the unreal which leads men to enter the Path. It is this, but it is also much more; and it is to be practised, not only at the beginning of the Path, but at every step of it every day until the end.

In all the world there are only two kinds of people — those who know, and those who do
not know; and this knowledge is the thing which matters. What religion a man holds, to
what race he belongs — these things are not important.

The really important thing is this knowledge – the knowledge of God's plan for men. For
God has a plan, and that plan is evolution. When once a man has seen that and really
knows it, he cannot help working for it and making himself one with it, because it is so
glorious, so beautiful.

You must discriminate between the important and the unimportant. Firm as a rock where right and wrong are concerned, yield always to others in things which do not matter. For you must be always gentle and kindly, reasonable and accommodating, leaving to others the same full liberty which you need for yourself.

To feed the poor is a good and noble and useful work; yet to feed their souls is nobler and more useful than to feed their bodies. Any rich man can feed the body, but only those who know can feed the soul.

If you know, it is your duty to help others to know. However wise you may be already, on this Path you have much to learn; so much that here also there must be discrimination, and you must think carefully what is worth learning. All knowledge is useful, and one day you will have all knowledge; but while you have only part, take care that it is the most useful part. God is Wisdom as well as Love; and the more wisdom you have the more you can manifest of Him. Study then, but study first that which will most help you to help others.

Work patiently at your studies, not that men may think you wise, not even that you may have the happiness of being wise, but because only the wise man can be wisely helpful. However much you wish to help, if you are ignorant you may do more harm than good.

Therefore you must not hold a thought just because many other people hold it, nor because it has been believed for centuries. Nor because it is written in some book which men think sacred; you must think of the matter for yourself, and judge for yourself whether it is reasonable.

Truth in action is a very difficult thing to carry out. It means never to do a thing before people in order to impress them with a high opinion of you, and never to do when you are alone anything of which you would be ashamed in the company of others; but to be perfectly honest always. Let people see you just as you are, and do not pretend to be anything else. Most of us have a kind of ideal of what we should like other people to think us to be; consequently there are all sorts of small things which we do when we are alone, but would not do if others were present, because they are not quite the things that we feel they would expect of us.

The genuine occultist is never sanctimonious, though he is determined to live far above the standard of what is usually called the “natural” man.

People often fail to recognize a Master because they have a rigid idea of what a Master must be, and the real, living Master may not be like that at all. He does not adapt Himself to our prejudices and ideas; He is that which He is on His own plane, and if we are hidebound by our own prejudices we may not know Him when He appears. Some have already made up their minds as to what the World Teacher will do and say, and how He will carry Himself. Do not risk shutting yourself off from Him by preconceptions. We know that He will teach the doctrine of love, but the manner and detail of it will be settled entirely by Him. Let us recognize Him to the full, and be ready to follow wheresoever He will lead.

Be full of thought for others, and then, as the Master says, there will be no room, no time, for thinking about yourself. Then, too, you will be happy.

The worlds are moved by the divine unselfish love that pours out in great open curves, and never returns and does not mean to return. It is poured out in other dimensions and other planes, to do the work of God in God's own way. This is the lesson to be learned – it is hard because it means the destruction of the lower nature, but it is the path to peace.

Learn to distinguish the God in everyone and everything, no matter how evil he or it may appear on the surface. You can help your brother through that which you have in common with him, and that is the Divine Life; learn how to arouse that in him, learn how to appeal to that in him; so shall you save your brother from wrong.

The love of the Self in one man for the Self in another is in its very nature everlasting; we could not change that even if we would, but when love for the Self is mixed with love for the form, it begins to bind, and thus even love itself may become a bondage.

There is no way to reach the condition that makes you free for the Master's work but by constant effort to break every bond that restricts you. If you find in your love anything which can cause you pain, there is selfishness in it, which must be eliminated. Get rid of it, and your love will remain, stronger, nobler, purer; and such love can never interfere with the Master's work.

If you are really working you have no time to notice results, no time to stop and look at a piece of work which is finished. As soon as one thing is done there is something else at hand to be done. You are wasting time if you are looking at the results.

It often takes the work of a number of people, following one another, to achieve some great result. When there is a great reform to be introduced in the world, it usually happens that one man, or one group of men, will see the need and begin to talk and write about it. He or they will be ridiculed, and it will seem that their work is without result, but they will convert a few people to their cause, and these will carry it on, until at last society accepts the reform. What was done by the later men would have been impossible without the apparently result-less work of the pioneers.

So you must do right for the sake of the right, not in the hope of reward; you must work for the sake of the work, not in the hope of seeing the result; you must give yourself to the service of the world because you love it, and cannot help giving yourself to it.

Love is indeed the greatest of all motives.

Meantime, it is wisdom to use to the full the powers one has, and to have no desire for psychic powers until the Master sees fit that we should develop them. To force them too soon often brings in its train much trouble; often their possessor is misled by deceitful nature-spirits, or becomes conceited and thinks he cannot make a mistake; and in any case the time and strength that it takes to gain them might be spent in work for others.

If you are placed in charge of another person in order to teach him, it may become your
duty gently to tell him of his faults.

The six points of Conduct which are specially required are given by the Master as :
1. Self-control as to the Mind.
2. Self-control in Action.
3. Tolerance.
4. Cheerfulness
5. One-pointedness.
6. Confidence.

Yet remember that, to be useful to mankind, thought must result in action. There must
be no laziness, but constant activity in good work.

Because you try to take up higher work, you must not forget your ordinary duties, for
until they are done you are not free, for other service. You should undertake no new
worldly duties; but those which you have already taken upon you, you must perfectly
fulfil — all clear and reasonable duties which you yourself recognize, that is — not
imaginary duties which others try to impose upon you. If you are to be His, you must do
ordinary work better than others, not worse; because you must do that also for His sake.

The one thing that you must set before you is to do the Masters work. Whatever else may come in your way to do, that at least you must never forget.

Yet nothing else can come in your way, for all helpful, unselfish work is the Master's
work, and you must do it for His sake. And you must give all your attention to each piece as you do it, so that it may be your very best.

Thus the ego (which is the name given to this fragment put down by the Monad) consists of atma, buddhi and manas, which we represent somewhat inadequately in English by the terms spiritual will, intuitional wisdom and active intelligence.

In daily life this means two things; first, that you shall be careful to do no hurt to any living thing; second, that you shall always be watching for an opportunity to help.

He is as a pen in the hand of God, through which His thought may flow, and find for itself an expression down here, which without a pen it could not have.

When the strong man has crossed the threshold he speaks no more to those on the other (this) side. And even the words he utters when he is outside are so full of mystery, so veiled and profound, that only those who follow in his steps can see the light within them.

But when one who has been to and through those Gates speaks ordinary words really veiling grand ideas, then all the invisible wires within immediately vibrate in unison. The inner monitor has struck them, and we feel that he has said what is true, and whether we understand him or not we feel the power of the vibration and the value of the words we have heard.

Because of the developed faculties and purified spiritual nature of these denizens of the highest levels of being, they may be regarded as gods. As they have developed them in themselves, so they can bequeath to man who can express them the most ennobling and compassionate impulses. These increase as the ladder of evolution is ascended.

The super-ego, however, - the theosophical spiritual Ego or Individuality - so rarely manifests that very little is known of its true nature, its real potentialities.