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Page 78 - Gurudeva, I see countless undetached sparks shining in it," " Thou sayest well. And now look around and into thyself. That light which burns inside thee, dost thou feel it different in anywise from the light that shines in thy Brother-men ? " " It is in no way different, though the prisoner is held in bondage by Karma, and though its outer garments delude the ignorant into saying,
Page 63 - The mysterious power of thought which enables it to produce external, perceptible, phenomenal results by its own inherent energy. The ancients held that any idea will manifest itself externally if one's attention is deeply concentrated upon it. Similarly an intense volition will be followed by the desired result.
Page 40 - That which makes one mortal a great man and of another a vulgar, silly person is, as said, the quality and make-up of the physical shell or casing, and the adequacy or inadequacy of brain and body to transmit and give expression to the light of the real, Inner man ; and this aptness or inaptness is, in its turn, the result of Karma. Or, to use another simile, physical man is the musical instrument, and the Ego, the performing artist. The potentiality of perfect melody of sound, is in the former —...
Page 36 - Have perseverance as one who doth for evermore endure. Thy shadows live and vanish; that which in thee shall live forever, that which in thee knows, for it is knowledge, is not of fleeting life: it is the Man that was, that is, and will be, for whom the hour shall never strike.
Page 34 - The Breath needed a form ; the Fathers gave it. The Breath needed a gross body ; the earth moulded it. The Breath needed the Spirit of life ; the Solar Lhas breathed it into its form. The Breath needed a mirror of its body ; 'We gave it our own,
Page 75 - We men must remember that because we do not perceive any signs — which we can recognize — of consciousness, say, in stones, we have no right to say that no consciousness exists there. There is no such thing as either " dead " or " blind " matter, as there is no " Blind " or " Unconscious
Page 29 - Fire alone is ONE, on the plane of the One Reality; on that of manifested, hence illusive being, its particles are fiery lives, which live and have their being at the expense of every other life that they consume. Therefore they are named the DEVOURERS.
Page 41 - It teaches, for instance, that the presence in man of various creative powers — called genius in their collectivity — is due to no blind chance, to no innate qualities through hereditary tendencies — though that which is known as atavism may often intensify these faculties — but to an accumulation of individual antecedent experiences of the Ego in its preceding life, and lives. For, though omniscient in its essence and nature, it still requires experience through its personalities of the...
Page 40 - Shakspere are of the same essence and substance as the EGOS of a yokel, an ignoramus, a fool, or even an idiot; and the self-assertion of their informing genii depends on the physiological and material construction of the physical man. No EGO differs from another EGO in its primordial, or original, essence and nature. That which makes one mortal a great man, and of another a vulgar silly person is, as said, the quality and make-up of the physical shell or casing, and the adequacy or inadequacy of...