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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued |Do Adepts Exist?|11-172}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued |Do Adepts Exist?|11-172}} | ||
... | {{Style P-No indent|beings all those blessings he had himself received “in solitude, retirement and with God,”}} | ||
He had no “fear of mixing with bad magnetism,” but on the contrary sought out, and by preference associated with crowds of immoral and diseased human beings, and while quasi and self-satisfied adepts would seem to cry out if you so much as accidentally tread on one of the smallest of their toes, Jesus, on the contrary, as He hung on the cross, said of his murderers, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” | |||
I observe, sir, that you repeatedly appear to amuse yourself and your readers by announcing your correspondent, J. K., as an adept; but, so far as I know, J. K. has never himself claimed this title either in your pages or elsewhere. | |||
This gentleman evinces, by his writings, a subtle knowledge of spiritual things, and his life is evidently one of purity and great desires; but inasmuch as he is not a clairvoyant, nor one who can project his double, nor one of strong magnetic and healing powers, he cannot rightly be christened by yourself, “An Adept.” | |||
He seems to be one of those who, because he abstains from flesh meat, says: “I thank God I am not as other men,” but were he greater than he is, he would “smite upon his breast and cry, God be merciful to me a sinner.” | |||
A great one has said in effect “that man, although perchance he may eat flesh, if he love his brother is greater than he whose food is fruits, if he despise a loving human soul.” | |||
Another has said “not in self-exaltation and in contempt of others consists greatness—but in that calm silence which is strength stands the true adept, as his fragrance fills the house.” | |||
One may live on cereals and fruit, and yet mistake hysteria for greatness, but of the true adept it is far otherwise, for in his presence— | |||
{{Style P-Poem|poem=“The stern are sad when he is by, | |||
The flippant put themselves to school, | |||
The noisy and the bragging fool | |||
Are silent and they know not why.”}} | |||
There are many Britons patiently, and slowly and laboriously, desiring to become adepts, but as yet none have reached further than the threshold, and adeptship on the Indian model cannot, I conceive, be achieved in London, nor is it desirable that it should. | |||
But as those who desire good Spiritual powers must live pure lives, the ordeal must so far be for good, and if any man or woman whose nature is Spiritual, will endeavour to live as prescribed in the Sermon on ''the Mount, ''the rule for the highest adeptship, and will persevere therein for seven years, that individual must receive spiritual gifts which will not only confer an unspeakable blessing on himself, or herself, but on all who come within u the sphere of his or her magnetism.” | |||
{{Style S-Small capitals| Theosophist}} | |||
{{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note |D'g Wyld|}} | {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note |D'g Wyld|}} | ||