Category: Making Of The Universe

“First he must gain control over his thoughts, the progeny of the restless, unruly mind, hard to curb as the wind. Steadily, daily practice in meditation, in concentration, had begun to reduce this mental rebel to order before he entered on the Probationary Path, and the disciple now works with concentrated energy to complete the [...]

“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 [...]

“There are four definite “qualifications” that the probationary chela must set himself to acquire, that are by the wisdom of the great Brotherhood laid down as the conditions of full discipleship. They are not asked for in perfection, but they must be striven for and partially possessed before Initiation is permitted. The first of these [...]

“If an individual is to receive special help he must show special receptivity. For the Masters are the distributors of the spiritual energies that help on human evolution, and the use of these for the swifter growth of a single soul is only permitted when that soul shows a capacity for rapid progress and can [...]

“The work which has to be accomplished by the man who enters on the Probationary Path is entirely mental and moral; he has to bring himself up to the point at which he will be fit to “meet his Master face to face”; but the very words “his Master” needs explanation. There are certain great [...]

“The first cry of the soul for liberation is the result of the realization that, were this earth all that poets have dreamed it, were evil swept away, every sorrow put an end to, every joy intensified, every beauty enhanced, were everything raised to its point of perfection, he would still be aweary of it, [...]

“As a man’s intellectual, moral, and spiritual nature develops, he becomes more and more conscious of the purpose of human life, and more and more eager to accomplish that purpose in his own person. Repeated longings for earthly joys, followed by full possession and by subsequent weariness, have gradually taught him the transient and unsatisfactory [...]

“We have traced man’s ascent from the appearance of the embryonic soul to the state of the spiritually advanced, through the stages of evolving consciousness from the life of sensation to the life of thought. We have seen him re-tread the cycle of birth and death in the three worlds, each world yielding him its [...]

“So stupendous is the ascent up which some men have climbed, and some are climbing, that when we scan it by an effort of the imagination we are apt to recoil, wearied in thought by the mere idea of that long journey. From the embryonic soul of the lowest savage to the liberated and triumphant [...]

“Every human life offers countless opportunities for this practice of the law of sacrifice, and every human life becomes a power as these opportunities are seized and utilized. Without any expansion of his waking consciousness. a man may thus become a worker on the spiritual planes, liberating energy there which pours down into the lower [...]