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PREFACE
^g^ HE
privilege
is
given to
^2
word
of introduction to this
younger book, the first written by a but Brother, young in body verily,
not in Soul.
The teachings conhim by tained in it were given to for him his Master in preparing down Initiation, and were written
by him from
laboriously,
English last
year waa far less fluent than it is now. The greater part is a reproduction of the Master's
own words;
production
is
Two
yond
this, it is entirely
first gift
Alcyone's
own, his
to the world.
May
it
teachings helped
him
such
it.
is
the
But
as he has lived
it,
since If
fell
from
the precept, then for the reader, as for the writer, shall the great Portal
set
on the Path.
Annie Besant.
TO
THOSE WHO KNOCK
From
me
to the Real.
me
to Light.
lead
me
to Immortality.
FOKEWOED
HESE
are not
tlie
my
words;
f^^
Master
out
they are
words of the
With-
Him
my
upon the Path. You also deto enter the same Path, so the
will
you
will
obey
themi.
man who
what
is said.
To
say that
it is
good
hand and
eat.
is
So
to hear the
Master's words
must do what He
word
is
missed,
it
is lost
forever; for
He
Discrimination
Desirelessness
Good conduct
Love
to the Master has said try to on each of these I shall
What
me
tell
you.
W!^^ HE
first
is
of these Qualifica;
[^^^%| tions
Discrimination and
men
to enter the
Path.
;
much
more and
to be practised, not
it
every day
You
5
Men who
at
most
these
things
lasting;
these,
more.
In
all
those
is
who
thing
and
this
knowledge
the
which matters.
What
6
religion
man
holds, to
plan,
evolution.
When
man has
it,
knows
for
it,
it
because
is
so
glorious,
so
beautiful.
he
is
on God's
standing for
good and resisting evil, working selfishfor evolution and not for
ness.
7
of us,
least
and
it
whether he
himself a
Muhammadan, whether he
or a Eussian.
is
an
man
do,
and they
all
the others do
do,
not yet
and
ODfe,
They
have
God's
not
side,
ranged
themselves/ on
this discrimina-
and so
is
made,
of the
remember that
varieties;
still
be
made between
9
and the
and the
false, the
and the
and the
unselfish.
it
choose, for
who wish
to follow the
Master
the
man
will is not
wishes.
When
it.
God within into yourself to find the and listen to His voice, which
yon,
is
your voice.
for
Do
bodies
yourselfneither
Each one
of
them
will
order to pretend to be the Self, in you must gain what it wants. But
know them
all,
as their master.
work that must be wants to done, the physical body and go out walking, to eat
When
there
is
rest, to
man who
11
does not
to
know says
to himself:
"I want
them."
says:
not
I,
and
help
it
Often
when
an opportunity to
the
it
some
one,
body
do
feels:
will be for
it."
some one
else
But
^^You
man
me
in doing
good
work."
The body
fore you
is
your animal
the
There-
must treat
it
;
it
well,
and take
good care of
work
keep
it,
it
properly
even
dirt.
ceaseless
strain.
But
it
you.
The
astral
body has
;
its
desires
dozens of them
it
wants you to be
money, to
All
these things
it
wants, and'
it
wishes
many to harm
it
and
likes to
change them
of
constantly.
these
things,
must
discriminate
to think
much of itself and little of others. Even when you have turned it away
from worldly
things,
14
it still
tries to
of your
own
progress, instead of
When you
of the
it
many
You
again discrimination
necessary.
or
unceasingly,
At
whatever apparent
which
is
right yon
must
do, that
do,
which
is
no matter
say.
Yon mnst
life
according to
always
reason
and
eommon-sense.
You must
Firm
discriminate between
same
Try
to see
what
is
worth doing:
and remember that you must not judge by the size of the thing. A
small thing which
in the Master's
is
directly useful
is
work
far better
worth doing than a large thing which the world would call good.
You must
useful from the useless, but the more useful from the less useful. To feed the poor is a good and noble
to feed their
souls is nobler
Any
rich
man
you
the soul.
If
know.
al-
much
much
is is
All knowledge
will
have
the
most useful
part.
;
God
is
Wisdom
as well as Love
dom
study
manifest of Him.
first
you
at
to help others.
Work
patiently
may
may have
man
However
you are
to help, if
may
do more harm
than good.
You must
distinguish
19
between
must learn
and that
is
not
many untrue
thoughts,
superstitions,
many
other
it
nor because
has
is
it
is
Eemember that though a thousand men agree upon a subject, if they know nothing about that
subject their opinion
is
of no value.
the Path
what you do not know. Do not suppose that they are always thinking
21
of you.
If a
man
does something
will
harm
you, or
Most
for
each
soul
its
has
its
own
turn
troubles
chiefly
and
around
thoughts
If
itself.
man
me."
He
is
is
the truth of your thought by laying it beside His. For the pupil is one
the
with his Master, and he needs only to put back his thought into the Master's thought to see at once whether it agrees. If it does not, it
is
ly,
it
instantis
per-
fect,
because
He knows
23
all.
Those
yet accepted by
Him
but they
may
What
circumstances?"
For you
You must be
to another
have
never
24
entered
your
mind.
If
it
may not
kinder
if it is, it is
Be
tence
to be other than
is
you
light of truth,
through
you
shines
You must
selfishness
discriminate between
For
has
many
25
forms, and
finally
one of them,
it
arises in
But
full
by degrees you
will
become so
You must
other way.
the
Learn
to
distinguish
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
26
him, and
how
how
to
appeal to that in him; so shall you save your brother from wrong.
27
W^^
f^^^jg]
HERE
is
are
many
for
whom
for
lessness
difficult
one,
^that if their
distinctive de-
and
dislikings,
are taken
will
there
be no
But these
holy Presence
all
desire to be like
Him.
23
Yet before
you
will.
Discrimi-
men
desire,
this is really
all
desire for
them
Thus far
simple
it
needs
earthly
aims
only in
fall.
alto-
gether,
kind of heaven
shall have.
Ee-
member
until
and
you are
work
of the Master.
When all desires for self are gone, there may still be a desire to see the
result of
your work.
If
you help
anybody, you want to see how much you have helped him perhaps even you want him to see it too, and to be
;
30
grateful.
But
and
also
want of
When you
pour out your strength to help, there must be a result, whether you
can see
it
or not;
this
if
it,
giving yourself to
Have
no
desire
31
for
psychic
powers; they
will
best for
you
To
force
Its
them too
train
much
is
and
in
any
it
work for
others.
They
will
come
they
you
if
He
will tell
how
then,
to unfold
them
safely.
Until
certain small desires which are common in daily life. Never wish to shine, or to appear clever;
you are better without them. You must guard, too, against
have no
speak
desire to speak.
little;
It is well to
better
still
to say nothing,
you are quite sure that what you wish to say is true, kind and
helpful.
unless
Before
speaking
think
carefully whether
ing to say has those three qualities; if it has not, do not say it.
It is well to get
used even
now
to
Initiation
lest
you
you
told.
So be accustomed
to listen
them.
One statement
and
of the Qualito
fications gives
them thus;
know,
to dare, to will,
to be silent;
and the
est of
them
is
the wish
What
man
does or says or
and
to let
him absolutely
free
He
has
full right to
any one
else.
You
yourself claim
the freedom to do
freedom
ercises
it
to him,
and when he
ex-
about him.
If
you think he
85
is
doing wrong,
and very
politely tell-
why you think so, it is possible that you may convince him but there are many cases in which even
ing him
;
On no
and gossip
to
an
ex-
child or
your duty
to interfere.
If
may
him
tell
Except
in such cases,
business,
and learn
37
in
HE
^^^
1.
2.
3.
Tolerance.
Cheerfulness.
4.
5.
6.
One-pointedness.
Confidence.
[I
know some
names
all
cases I
8elf-co7itrol as to the
Mind,
The
Qualification of Desirelessness
shows that the astral body must be controlled; this shows the same
thing as to the mental body.
It
may feel no
the
so that
mind
itself,
may always
and
(through
mind)
of
the
little
may
be as
irritable as possible.
39
This last
is
difficult,
so
that
its
nerves are
easily disturbed
by a sound or a
Path;
that
it
means
which
also steadiness, so
light
of the
troubles
come
into
every
one's
life,
worry over
things in which
40
many
time.
that
it
happens to a
man from
the outside
all
these
must be as nothing
to
the calmness
of his mind.
remembering that
all evil is is to
transitory,
serene.
They belong
41
you cannot
alter them, so
it is
useless to trouble
about them.
make
life,
for that
you can
alter.
to feel sad
is
Depression
wrong,
because
it
infects others
and makes
no right to do.
Therefore
it off
ever
it
comes
to you,
throw
at once.
In yet another
trol
it
conlet
wander.
do-
ing, fix
that
it
may
be perfectly done
idle,
do not
let
your mind be
ment
free.
Think
whom you
know
to be in sorrow, or suffering,
Hold back your mind from for pride comes only from
rance.
43
pride,
igno-
thinks that he
is
done
wise
man knows
alone.
that only
is
God
is
good work
done by
God
2.
Self-control in Action.
is
If your
thought
will
what
little
it
have
action.
Yet remember
must
re-
There must be no
laziness,
good work.
But
it
must be your
own duty
that you do
not another
Leave
in
man
to do his
own work
to
offer help
is
needed, but
never interfere.
mind
is
own
busi-
must
do.
ser-
must perfectly
fulfil
all clear
and
sake.
feel per-
Tolerance.
^Tou must
all,
and a hearty
much
as in
your own.
For
their religion is a
is,
And
stand
to help
all.
all,
But
be
are necessary; else you will think yourself somehow better than those who do not perform them. Yet you
still
Let them do as
they will; only they must not interfere with you who know the truth they must not try to force upon you
that
which
you have
47
outgrown.
Make
Now
your old
may seem
to
you
ab-
are
so.
whom
they are
still
impor-
They have
and evenly,
you learnt
and
more
freely
without
them.
There was a time when you needed them but now that time is past.
;
A
child,
great
I
Teacher
once
wrote:
''When
was a
child, I
spake as a
a child, I
I understood as
came a man
things."
his
I put
away
childish
sympathy
notihe
man who
So
but upon
all alike,
Buddhist or
49
Muhammadan.
4.
Cheerfulness.
may
be, taking it as
an honour that
it
Karma
it is
However
no
hard
it is,
be thankful that
worse.
Eemember
karma
is
but
little
your
evil
worked
out,
and
you are
to
free.
By
offering yourself
karma may be
and so now
one
or
two
lives
you
work
through what otherwise might have been spread over a hundred. But in
order to
make
it
it,
you
must bear
give
cheerfully, gladly.
You must
up
all
feeling of possession.
from you the things which you like best even the people whom you love most. Even then you must be cheerfulready to
take
Karma may
part with anything and everything. Often the Master needs to pour out
So
one
One-Pointedness.
The
What-
ever else
may come
in
your way to
for-
Yet nothing
can come in
work
is
must do
piece as
And you
it
must give
your very
also wrote
all
you do
best.
:
so that
may
do,
be
^ *
Whatsoever ye
52
it
and not
unto men.
do a piece of work
the Master
was coming
look at
way you must do all your work. Those who know most will most know all that that verse means. And there is another like it, much older: ^* Whatsoever
it
;
just in that
it
with thy
mighf
One-pointedness means, too, that
No
temptations,
it
must be
much part
it
it,
you follow
think of
without needing to
aside.
it
;
You, the
to
would be to
Confidence.
You
must
trust
If
you
will trust
Him to
lives
64
the uttermost,
If
through
many
and deaths.
try to realise
if
Him and
not,
trust
Him, because
you do
even
He
Unless there is perfect trust, there cannot be the perfect flow of love and power.
You sayyouknowyourself too well? If you feel so, you do not know yourself; you know only the weak outer
husk, which has fallen often into the mire. But youihe
real
You must
trust yourself.
youyou
fire,
own
is in
and
God,
who
is
Almighty,
you, and
is
nothing that
you cannot do
yourself:
if
you
will.
Say
to
man
God
can do.
in
am
man
and
like
I will.''
For your
steel, if
must be
tempered
the Path.
56
IV
\^
it
yJl^F
is
all
the
it is
forces
all
him
and
would
it
never
be
Often
is
translated as an intense desire for liberation from the round of births and deaths, and for union with
God.
But
to put it in that
way sounds
much
desire
selfish,
meaning.
not so
57
To
produce
fill
resolve
must
may
escape
suffering, but in
and as
Love, you,
with perfect
and love
life
also.
In
daily
first,
this
means two
shall be care-
things ;
that
you
ss
f ul to
no hurt.
Three
sins
than
all else in
cruelty,
and
God must
It begins
itself
watch ceaselessly.
See what gossip does.
a crime.
For
in everyone
is
and
in
everything there
good; in every-
59
is evil.
we can strengthen by
and
in this
way we can help or hinder evolution we can do the will of the Logos or we can
;
resist
Him.
in another,
You
are
filling
your neigh-
bourhood with
of with
evil
thought instead
If there is in that
man
you
it
;
the
which
you
it
think,
are
strengthening
and feeding
60
and
SO
worse instead of
it
You
fill
so
make
see,
who can
in-
all
this
harm
to himself
and to his
vic-
men partners in
tells
crime.
Eagerly he
his
with
him
in
thought
sufferer.
And this
is
man
but by thousee
is ?
how You
must avoid
speak
ill
it
altogether.
;
Never
to listen
of
ill
of an-
"
"Perhaps
if it is, it
and even
it,
Then as to cruelty. This is of two kinds, intentional and unintenis purposely to give pain to another living being; and that is the greatest
tional.
Intentional cruelty
of
all
sinsthe work of a devil rather than a man. You would say that no
man
men
have done
doing
it;
it
often,
now.
The
the
people did
religion.
in
Vivi-
sectors do
it;
many
their
schoolmasters
do
try
it
habitually.
to
excuse
by
saying that
it is
many commit
it.
;
Karma
and the
terri-
karma
ble of
of cruelty is the
all.
most
duty of harmlessness
all.
is
well-known to
cruel
The
fate of the
all
must
fall also
upon
who
go out intentionally to
creatures^
kill
God's
and
call it
' ^
sport '\
64
you
them.
will
speak
there
clearly
is
against
But
wound another
is
malicious one.
lessness.
man
is
so jBlled with
and
children.
of his
own
lust,
and cares
little
how
in
many
self
souls
satisfying
man
the
workmen on
So much suffering
by carelessness
caused just
^by
forgetting to
66
think
others.
how an
action
will
affect
forgets,
and
that
it
men
do,
less cruelty.
Superstition
evil,
is
cruelty.
is
a slave
to
it
despises others
who
are wiser,
tries to force
them
to do as he does.
mals should be
the
that
still
sacrificed,
and by
more
cruel
flesh
superstition
man
needs
for
food.
su-
meted out
in
to the de-
pressed
India,
classes
our
beloved
this evil
and see
in that
how
duty of brotherhood.
Many
crimes
God
of Love,
moved by
this
trace of
it
remains in you.
68
fatal to all
refrain
you must be
You must
be
watch to render
to all
around
you
^not to
man
animals
and
plants.
You must
render
it
may
be formed, so
portunity
when
the
69
great
thing
For
if
you
not
it is
own
sake;
it
is
that you
may
His love
may
is
fellow-men.
He who
may
the
serve them.
He
is
as a pen in
thought
itself
also a
living
plume of
fire,
raying out
his heart.
to
dom, the love which inspires the willthese are your qualifications.
Will,
are the
three aspects
you,
to
serve
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