LIGHT ON THE PATH - 8 : BEFORE THE EYES CAN SEE THEY MUST BE IN CAPABLE OF TEARS - 8

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🍀 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 - 8 🌻


47. “You do not actually know that,” they reply, “yet we admit that that appears to be what will happen. But we tell you frankly that we do not care.


We are well satisfied with our present position; we are able to maintain our individuality against any effort to draw us into the Logos for a very long time, even till the end of the manvantara. Whether we can hold it after that we do not know, and we do not care. Whether we can or not, we shall have had our day.”


48. That is an arguable position, and the man who adopts it may be not exactly a good man, but he need not be a bad man, in the ordinary sense of the word.


He certainly has a great deal of satanic pride in his composition, but he is not necessarily spiteful nor evil-minded with regard to other people.


Still he is absolutely unscrupulous. Anyone who happened to get in his way he would brush aside with far less consideration than we should give to a mosquito.


But to a man who did not stand in his way he might be quite a good friend, and there is not necessarily any active evil in his composition. He is not at all a monster of evil, but he is a man who has struck out a line for himself, and is following it at the cost of all that to us means progress.


That is all we have a right to say against him. We are confident that he will end in great disaster; he is not so sure of that, and in any case he is willing to face it.


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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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LIGHT ON THE PATH - 6

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*🍀 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 - 6 🌻* 

43. C.W.L. – Our President has explained with regard to the first four statements in this book, beginning “Before the eyes can see they must be incapable of tears,” that they may be taken in quite a wrong way, and are then as acceptable to the black magician as to ourselves. 

He would understand them to mean that he must kill out all feeling, build himself into a shell and shut the sorrows and the troubles of the world outside it.

That is exactly the opposite of the teaching given to the pupil on the white path, who is taught to increase his power of feeling until he attains perfect sympathy with the sufferings of his fellow-men.

44. We hear a good deal about the black magicians, but I fancy that few people know much about them. 

I have met many specimens of the genus, and can therefore claim to know something of their nature and methods. Some of them are very interesting people, but by no means desirable acquaintances. There are many different types who are classed under the general title of black magician. 

For instance, the negroes in South Africa and in the West Indies, and probably the aborigines of Australia, practise a good deal of petty black magic. It is a very poor thing; even they themselves admit that it does not work on white people. 

One has heard of certain cases in which they have succeeded in making white people exceedingly uncomfortable, but one must add that it was made possible by the kind of life those people led. 

Such magic depends for its success largely upon the fear of the people upon whom the incantations are laid, yet it is a real enough thing in its feeble way. These primitive people have certain drugs, they know how to hypnotize, and they have power over some low-class earth-spirits and similar entities. 

They contrive to cause sickness to a man, or in his family, or among his flocks and herds, or to blast his gardens and fields so that they will not bear crops; though in the latter case they are not above aiding their magic sometimes by saltpetre as well.

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