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<center>Of Precepts and Axioms</center>

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<center>Compiled by H.P.B.</center>

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Om mani padme hum, the Sunrise comes!

The Dewdrop slips into the shining Sea!

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It is hoped that our efforts will meet with approval from all lovers of the good and beautiful, and that they may not be without effect in the cause of TRUTH.

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Seek the great Teachers, and attend! The road

Is narrow as a knife-edge! hard to tread!”

Deeper than depth! Lo! Such an one is saved!

Death hath not power upon him!”

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An infant crying for the light:

And with no language but a cry.”––

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14. The soothsayer for evil never knows his own fate.

16. Often vinegar got for nothing, is sweeter to the poor man than honey bought.

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Its habitation as the worm spins silk

And dwells therein. . . .”

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His senses mastered, and his spirit still,

Sees in the quiet light of verity

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Unhurt amidst the war of elements,

The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

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To one as if ’twere all, seeking no Cause,

Deprived of light, narrow, and dull, and ‘dark.’”

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Is soul perceived—when the soul wills it so!

There shines no light save its own light to show

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The shield this arm did bear I lately saw

In Juno’s shrine, a trophy of that war.”

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And live obedient to the law, in trust

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.”

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1.To him who has subdued self by SELF, his self is a friend; but to him who has not subdued senses by mind, that self in an enemy.

3.Devotion and clear vision are not his who cats too much, nor his who eats not at all; not his who sleeps too much, nor his who is too awake.

5.Grief and wrath, avarice and desire, delusion and laziness, vindictiveness and vanity, envy and hatred, censoriousness and slander—are the twelve sins destructive of man’s bliss.

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In just and equal measure all is weighed,

One scale contains the sun of human weal,

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2. There is no death without sin, and no affliction without transgression.

4. The sun causes day and night, divine and human. Night is for the sleep of beings, day for the performance of their duty.

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And what shall be of him; — all thoughts and things

Lie folded in the ethereal vast of It!”

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Ring out the feud of rich and poor,

Ring in redness to all mankind.”

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