LIGHT ON THE PATH - 7 : BEFORE THE EYES CAN SEE THEY MUST BE IN CAPABLE OF TEARS - 7

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 7 🌹

🍀 For those WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN - For DISCIPLES 🍀

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 1. BEFORE THE EYES CAN SEE THEY MUST BE IN CAPABLE OF TEARS - 7 🌻

45. There is another set of people, somewhat more dignified, who are pursuing occult power for their own ends. 

They have learnt a certain amount of occultism – sometimes quite a good deal – but they are using their power selfishly. 

They often contrive to gain money and position by such means, and to maintain themselves in that position until they die. 

After their death they sometimes make an attempt to carry on the same general line, but it meets with indifferent success, and their plans break down; every thing sooner or later fails them and they fall back into a condition of considerable misery.1 (1 Ante., p. 501.) A life such as that means quite a definite step back for the ego.

46. Yet another and more advanced type of black magician does not desire anything for himself. He does not seek to obtain money or power or influence or anything of that sort, and that at once makes him very much more powerful. 

He leads a pure and self-controlled life, just as some of our own people might do, but he has set before himself the goal of separateness. He wants to keep himself alive on higher planes, free from absorption into the Logos; he looks with horror upon that which for us is the greatest felicity. 

He wishes to maintain his own position exactly as it is, and furthermore he claims that he can do it, that the human will is strong enough to withstand the cosmic will up to a certain point. 

I have met men like that, and our President, who is always trying to save even the most unlikely souls, has set herself once or twice to convert people who have got themselves into that condition, so as to bring them round to our way of thinking – though not with very much success, I am afraid. She sometimes says to them: 

“You know what the end will be. You know quite enough of the laws of nature, and you are sufficiently intelligent to see whither your path is leading you. It is quite certain that in the end you must collapse. 

When this manvantara ends, when this planetary chain is over you will be absorbed, whether you will or not, into the Logos at higher levels, and what will be your condition then?”

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