Category: Making Of The Universe

“Then – mightiest of all achievements – he casts off the last fetter of separateness, the “I-making” faculty, which realizes itself as apart from others, for he dwells ever on the plane of unity in his waking consciousness, on the buddhic plane where the Self of all is known and realized as one. (Ahamkara, generally [...]

“In this stage, the chela has to bring into full working order the inner faculties, those belonging to the subtle bodies, for he needs them for his service in the higher realms of being. If he have developed them previously, this stage may be a very brief one, but he may pass through the gateway [...]

“Doubt must be destroyed, but by knowledge, not by crushing out; he must know reincarnation and karma and the existence of the Masters as facts; not accepting them as intellectually necessary, but knowing them as facts in Nature that he has himself verified, so that no doubt on these heads can ever again rise in [...]

“Whether the incarnation be normal or abnormal, the progress of the soul, of the chela himself, continues, and the period already spoken of is reached when he is “ready for Initiation”; through that gateway of Initiation he enters, as a definitely accepted chela, on the Path. This Path consists of four distinct stages, and the [...]

“Occasionally, but rarely, a chela may reincarnate in a body that has passed through infancy and extreme youth as the tabernacle of a less progressed Ego; when an Ego comes to the earth for a very brief life-period, say for some fifteen or twenty years, he will be leaving his body at the time of [...]

“Either on the probationary Path or later, the chela is offered the privilege of performing one of those acts of renunciation which mark the swifter ascent of man. He is allowed “to renounce Devachan”, that is, to resign the glorious life in the heavenly places that awaits him on his liberation from the physical world, [...]

“At this stage he is “the man ready for Initiation”, ready to definitely “enter the stream” that cuts him off forever from the interests of earthly life except as he can serve his Master in them and help forward the evolution of the race. Henceforth his life is not to be the life of separateness; [...]

“The continuous efforts to lead the life of discipleship disentangle the soul from any remaining ties that may knit it to the world of sense, for the withdrawal of the soul’s attention from lower objects gradually exhausts the attractive power of those objects. They “turn away from an abstemious dweller in the body”, and soon [...]

“The drunkard, learning his alphabet of the suffering caused by the dominance of the lower nature, is doing as usefully in his own stage as is the saint in his, completing his last lesson in earth’s school, and no more can justly be demanded from either than he is able to perform. One is in [...]

“As already said , perfection in anything is not demanded at this stage, but the wise pupil strives towards perfection, knowing that at his best he is still far away from his ideal. Thirdly, the candidate for full discipleship seeks to build into himself the sublime and far-reaching virtue of tolerance – the quiet acceptance [...]