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| description = The first installment of the "Zadok" question-and-answer department announced the previous month: on celibacy and spiritual attainment, vegetarianism, whether one can be an occultist without consciously experiencing the Astral, and the two paths of out-of-body travel. | | description = The first installment of the "Zadok" question-and-answer department announced the previous month: on celibacy and spiritual attainment, vegetarianism, whether one can be an occultist without consciously experiencing the Astral, and the two paths of out-of-body travel. | ||
| work type = articles | | work type = articles | ||
| publication date = November, December 1887 | | publication date = November, December 1887, January 1888 | ||
| publication date sortable = 1887-11 | | publication date sortable = 1887-11 | ||
| publication place = ''The Path'' | | publication place = ''The Path'' | ||
| read links = [[Path/Vol2/Text|Electronic journal edition in Teopedia]] | | read links = [[Path/Vol2/Text|Electronic journal edition in Teopedia]] | ||
| publications = [[Path/Vol2/Text|''The Path'', vol. II, no. 8]], November 1887, pp. 249-251; no. 9, December 1887, pp. 278-281 | | publications = [[Path/Vol2/Text|''The Path'', vol. II, no. 8]], November 1887, pp. 249-251; no. 9, December 1887, pp. 278-281; no. 10, January 1888, pp. 309-310 | ||
| ctd rus = Джадж У.К. - Ответы спрашивающим | | ctd rus = Джадж У.К. - Ответы спрашивающим | ||
| note = Signed "Zadok," the pseudonym established the previous month in [[Judge W.Q. - Notice to Inquirers|"Notice to Inquirers"]] (October 1887). The December installment's final answer is signed "Julius," a pseudonym of [[Keightley, Julia|Julia Keightley]]; the rest are signed "Zadok." | | note = Signed "Zadok," the pseudonym established the previous month in [[Judge W.Q. - Notice to Inquirers|"Notice to Inquirers"]] (October 1887). The December installment's final answer is signed "Julius," a pseudonym of [[Keightley, Julia|Julia Keightley]]; the rest are signed "Zadok." | ||
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{{Style P-Signature|Julius.}} | {{Style P-Signature|Julius.}} | ||
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{{Page aside in Path|v=2|n=10|p=309}} | |||
{{Style P-Subtitle|From Walter B.}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|1st.—Is it well to cultivate the intellect at the expense of the heart? Do we not pay too much attention to intellectual progress, and in so doing allow the Heart-Mind to wander where it may?}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|''Answer''.—It is not wise to cultivate either at the expense of the other. Each alone will end at the same place—The Threshold. Both are excellent means for the manifestation of that which is higher than either, when cultivated to their highest in unison. Both are useless after a certain point, except as tools for truth. Metaphysics, logic and emotion all end at a dead wall.}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|2d.—Do not the words and teachings of Jesus, taken in their esoteric sense, point one the way to the Theosophic Path?}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|''Answer''.—Taken in the sense he intended the people to take them, they lead to the wall. Taken in the sense in which he desired his Disciples to receive them, they are teachings upon the way. Taken in their esoteric sense—as he knew them—they are the way. Were the wisdom of Egypt and India to-day blotted out from both the seen and unseen worlds—the true seeker would find in his teachings, when rightly studied, all the teachings of Isis and Buddha. As he received his instruction from Egypt, heired from India, it is more than probable that esoterically his teachings are identical with both.}} | |||
{{Style P-Signature|Zadok.}} | |||
{{Style P-Subtitle|From F. F.}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|Will the Devachanic period form an interruption to work for humanity in the case of one devoted to this during earth life? Is Devachan then a rejuvenating, strengthening period necessary for us while in the bonds of flesh, and is the Elixir of Life the only escape from this egoistic period? May an answer be given to this?}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|''Answer''.—As the Devachanic period is a result of work for humanity—the true and pure devachanic state being only thus obtained—it should form no interruption to such work. It only does become such when the soul is selfish enough to prefer Devachan to a continuance of work for other men, and even then to a certain extent the soul continues its work. There is rest in Devachan, but not idleness. As this state is frequently entered and passed through while yet in the body, it should be an aid, not a hindrance, to true work. In truth it is a state of reward, but in that state no rewards are received. There is no state up to Nirvana that can be an obstacle to work for humanity for those who are devoted to that work. The Elixir of Life is the only means by which we can pass beyond both Devachan and the thoughts of it; the Magnum Opus is the only thing that entitles us to it.}} | |||
{{Page aside in Path|v=2|n=10|p=310}} | |||
{{Style P-Subtitle|From M. E. S.}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|1st.—Are the Astral and the lowest plane of mental life synonymous terms?}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|''Answer''.—They are not. The impulses for all mental life originate beyond the Astral. The outer man with his mind interprets these as he conceives they should be. The lowest as well as the highest mental life may receive knowledge from the Astral, but it is not the Astral. All that all forms of mental life produce is indelibly impressed upon the Astral.}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|2d.—Is the "rising above the Astral" in effect rising above the stings and approbation of public opinion?}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|''Answer''.—For us, there is no public opinion. We know neither sting nor approbation. Rising above public opinion is merely rising above the material. Until men forget the material, they can not rise above self. Until they forget self, they can not rise above the Astral: All things that please as well as those that distress men are in and through the Astral. Rise above both.}} | |||
{{Style P-Signature|Zadok.}} | |||
{{Style P-Subtitle|From M. J. G.}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|Whence come the visions seen just before dropping to sleep? They are uncontrollable—sometimes unpleasant, and have increased since childhood, and since beginning the study of Occultism?}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|''Answer''.—When we enter that condition called sleep, we open wide the doors and windows of the body or this house we live in, and the soul goes forth as a bird freed from its cage. In partial unconsciousness or falling into sleep, the body has, to a great extent, ceased to act, but the brain is still sensitive or receptive to the pictures or impressions of the Astral. Of the lower principles the Astral is the last to cease action either in sleep or death. The brain is its instrument. In the partial somnolent condition, the pictures of the Astral are conveyed to the brain; through that the outer man realizes and beholds the visions. If he were fully asleep these visions would be dreams. Precisely, as dreams, they may be either pleasant or the reverse. Like dreams they are uncontrollable by the ordinary every day mortal. The Occultist being master of himself beholds only that which he desires, either in vision, or dream, or neither. As one makes himself more sensitive to impressions from the Astral when and after he begins the study of Occultism, visions and dreams will increase in frequency for a time.}} | |||
{{Style P-Signature|Zadok.}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|Mr. J. & Adelphi:—The questions will be answered in February Path.}} | |||