Keightley J - Stray Thoughts

He who loves the Whole, attracts all the units. He who hates one unit, repels the Whole, for in every unit the Whole is contained. One creature unloved has power to exclude me from the "Kingdom of Heaven," where I can only enter by being one with the Whole.

"Love" is not desire of possession, but a type of that universal interchange which gives and takes, takes and gives, in continual evolution and perpetuation of Harmony. It is the divine essence seeking perfect equilibrium in the human soul.

"In his place I might do worse." To say this with my whole heart is truly to love my neighbor.

334 Resistance is better than indifference. Our opponent is nearer our centre than the friend who listens courteously and forgets. Opposition is a sign of life. Do not revile it: pass it by. A mightier than we shall conquer it: his name is Death.

A "wicked" man is one whom the Law puts to more severe tests than myself. When I see one who commits great wrongs, I hear in my heart that medieval cry: "Make way for the Justice of God!" To be unjust is in itself the greatest punishment. When the Law passes judgment upon man, its justice is injustice avenging itself upon its creator.

As in politics the neutrals are the enemies of all, so those who are inactive in soul reject both "good" and evil, and fall into the gulf of oblivion.

Why do we pride ourselves upon our virtues? They are sterile, or they would have generated somewhat higher than virtue. A virtue which cannot become the mother of all virtues, is an abortive Truth.

Pain is the effort of nature to restore its lost harmonies; therefore pain is joy. Joy is the effort of nature to disturb the proportions of harmony by the exclusive appropriation of a selected note; therefore joy is pain. These together are the second lesson of life. The first is sex, itself a permitted discord whereby true harmony is better conceived.

The devout mind may sink a plummet into the soul. It cannot sound those depths. But it can awaken and arouse them, and they will go through some heavenly motions which mind may understand and record.

True Will is an instinctive motion of soul towards spirit.

No Karma is "bad" Karma. What we call evil fortune is simply nature's effort at re-adjustment.

Falsehood has ever a larger following than Truth. But the followers of Falsehood represent numbers only, while those of Truth stand for unknown quantities.

High places are points of culmination. Princes can only be judged by the general applications of laws. The subtle alchemy of royalty transmutes the heart's essences from volatile to deadly.

If you wish to destroy Karmic effects, destroy the fixed consciousness of "yourself." Live in the universal life and you will only inherit the universal Karma. This is "good," for the Karma of the manifestation is to return to the manifestor.

When we conceive the highest ideal of the Deity, we consciously enter its Being. When we have realized this ideal, the Deity consciously enters our Being. The ultimate of Being is one.

Jasper Niemand, F. T. S.

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