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... | At various periods of his development the Rational Ascetic will have to encounter the brunt of the opposition of what the ancients called “the world, the flesh, and the devil.” Whatever shape this opposition may assume, it should be utterly disallowed to influence a man’s fixed thoughts, and should never divert him from his path. Soon the mask of friendship and attachment will fall; those behind it will appear in their true form, and once known they can be avoided. Even for such fallen creatures a perfect man has pity; he hopes for their eventual regeneration. | ||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-298}} | Great care and perseverance are necessary to constantly maintain a mental equilibrium, a placid tranquillity, a purity of thought, which nothing should ever be able to disturb; neither desires, grief, cares, nor excitements of any kind should ever ruffle the thoughts of a man striving for the Absolute. All things are transient but the Eternal. Man can live in eternity here even as much as he ever can beyond, for the beyond is not in the death through decay, but in the state of the soul. | ||
Strive to know the intuitional part of your consciousness; watch it; keep it pure; let it guide you; keep the thoughts untarnished, and when the germ of the divine soul becomes known to you let it expand, and do not retard or disturb its growth. Never expose the innermost sanctuary of your soul to vulgar gaze, nor speak of the progress you make; if you have a seed-corn of faith, and one spot in your soul pure, regeneration is within your volitional power. But mistake not the means towards the end, for the end itself; many are there who have erred and thought inflation to be illumination. Leave all passion and earthly and vain desires; fix the soul in a pure life, and behold the soul is the life and the God who knew you, but whom you knew not. | |||
Man to become perfect must overcome the vortex of vague thoughts and accept rightful pleasures at will only; he must make himself free of the forces which create by fatality life and death, and he must identify his self-will with the divine will by adhering to the supreme reason. For by following the lower, blind, animal inclinations of the natural man, he be-{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-298}} | |||
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