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DAILY
MEDITATIONS

Extracts from
Letters of the Masters of the Wisdom

Compiled by
KATHERINE A. BEECHEY
The Theosophical Publishing House

Introduction

ALL who have studied the published letters of the Masters of the Wisdom must have realized that the hints and instructions given in them have much more general application than to the specific persons and pupils to whom they were addressed. in making the following selection of extracts from the Letters I sought first of all to use them for purposes of my own meditation. Then came the desire to share them with a friend. And I am glad now to have the opportunity of widening my circle of friendship that I may share them with all who are seeking to tread the Path of Holiness along the line of devotion to the Masters of the Wisdom

The extracts are taken from the following sources:

The Maha Chohan. An unsigned letter, in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series. (See also The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett, Chronological Edition.)

‘The Old Gentleman', the Master called by H.P.B. 'Narayan'. known in india as the Rishi Agastya, in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series.

'S.', the Master Serapis, in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom. Second Series, and Old Diary Leaves, Vol. I.

'M.', the Master M., in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom. First Series (5th Edition) and Second Series, The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett, and a fragment of a letter to Dr F. Hartmann.

'K.H.', the Master K.H., in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series (5th Edition) and Second Series, The Occult World by A.P. Sinnett, The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett, and a letter to W.Q. Judge, quoted by Miss Clara Codd in The American Theosophist, June, 1948

'H.', the Master Hilarion, in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series.

A Message to the Members of the T.S. from an Elder Brother, Jubilee Convention, T.S. Adyar, 1925.

Lucifer, January 1888, 'Some Words on Daily Life' (Written by a Master of Wisdom).

'Eminent Occultist—K.H.'s notes to a treatise by Eliphas Levi.

KATHERINE A. BEECHEY
June 1949

Abbreviations

Em. Oc.

'Eminent Occultist', notes on treatise by Eliphas Levi

Hartman

Fragment of letter from Master M.

Judge

Letters to W.Q. Judge quoted by Miss Clara Codd.

Jubilee

A message to the Members of the T.S. from an Elder Brother, Jubilee Convention, T.S., Adyar, 1925.

Lucifer

'Some Words on Daily Life' (Written by a Master of the Wisdom), Lucifer, Jan. 1888.

M.L.

The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett. (Third and Revised Edition).

O. World

The Occult World, 2^nd Ed., by Mr. A.P. Sinnett.

O.D.L.

Old Diary Leaves, by Col. H.S. Olcott.

Series I

Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series (5^th Ed.) by C. Jinarajadasa.

Series II

Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series by C. Jinarajadasa

(Figures refer to page numbers of above books.)

January

Unselfishness

Why be selfish? If there are things to learn, things to see, things good to know for the future of man, why not give a chance equally with yourself to another?

M.

Series II 72

UNSELFISHNESS

Strive, towards the Light, all of you brave warriors for the Truth, but do let selfishness penetrate into your ranks, for it is [un]selfishness alone that throws open all the doors and windows of the inner Tabernacle and leaves them unshut.

K.H.

Series I 52

Nor are we especially anxious to have anyone work for us except with entire spontaneity. We want true and unselfish hearts; fearless and confiding souls.

K.H.

ML 212

Around you are acquaintances, friends and associates—ln and outside the T.S. . . point them to the Light, lead them to the Path, teach them, be a missionary of love and charity, thus in helping others win your own salvation

K.H.

Series I 53

in our view the highest aspirations for the welfare of humanity become tainted with selfishness if, in the mind of the philanthropist, there lurks the shadow of desire for self-benefit or a tendency to do injustice, even when these exist unconsciously to himself.

K.H.

ML 8

None of us live for ourselves, we all live for humanity.

S.

ODL I 294

Now are in the midst of a conflicting people, of an obstinate, ignorant people, seeking to know the truth but yet not able to find it, for each seeks it only for his own private benefit and gratification, without giving one thought to others.

M.

ML 249

Help your needy brother and you shall be helped yourself. in virtue of the never failing and ever active Law of Compensation.

S.

ODL I 237

All of us have to get rid of our own Ego, the illusory apparent self, to recognize our true self in a transcendental divine life. But If we would not be selfish, we must strive to make other people see that truth, to recognize the reality of that transcendental self, the Buddha. the Christ or God of every preacher

The Maha Chohan

Series I 5

H.S.O. and H.P.B. . . have that in them (pardon the eternal repetition but it is being as constantly overlooked) which we have but too rarely found elsewhere—UNSELFISHNESS, and an eager readiness for self-sacrifice for the good of others; what a 'multitude of sins' does not this cover!

K.H.

ML 364

Forget SELF in working for others—and the task will become an easy and a light one for you.

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Lucifer

We seek to bring men to sacrifice their personality—a passing flash—for the welfare of the whole humanity. hence for their own immortal Egos, a part of the latter, as humanity is a fraction of the integral whole, that it will one day become.

K.H.

ML 228

Selfishness and the want of self-sacrifice are the greatest impediments on the path of adeptship.

K.H.

Series I 32

The first object of the T.S. is philanthropy. The true Theosophist Is a philantropist—'not for himself but for the world he lives'.

K.H.

Series I 76

You have worked unselfishly and with great profit, to both your country and the good cause. And we thank you.

M.

Series II 100

As for human nature in general, it is the same now as it was a million of years ago: prejudice based upon selfishness; a general unwillingness to give up an established order of things for new modes of life and thought—and occult study requires all that and much more; pride and stubborn resistance to Truth if it but upsets their previous notion of things—such are the characteristics of your age, and especially of the middle and lower classes.

K.H.

ML 3

When the ancient founders of your philosophical schools came East, to acquire the lore of our predecessors, they filed no claims, except the single one of a sincere and unselfish hunger for the truth.

K.H.

ML 336

The world has clouded the light of true knowledge, and selfishness will not allow its resurrection, for it excludes and will not recognize the whole fellowship of all those who were bom under the same immutable natural law.

M.

ML 249

A band of students of the Esot. Doctrines, who would reap any profits spiritually, must be in perfect harmony and unity of thought. Each one individually and collectively has to be utterly unselfish, kind and full of goodwill towards each other at least—leaving humanity out of the question; there must be no party spirit among the band, no backbiting, no ill-will, or envy or jealousy, contempt or anger. What hurts one ought to hurt the other—that which rejoices A must fill with pleasure B. . . such state which is required absolutely by our Rules and Laws.

M.

Series I 13

Friend, beware of Pride and Egoism, two of the worst snares for the feet of him who aspires to climb the high paths of Knowledge and Spirituality.

K.H.

ML 363

Human nature made vile by selfishness. Think well over these few words; work out every cause of evil you can think of and trace it to its origin, and you will have solved one-third of the problem of evil.

K.H.

ML 57

Occultism is not the acquirement of powers or the pursuit of happiness, because its first step is Sacrifice, and its second, Renunciation.

K.H.

Judge

It is not the individual and determined purpose of attaining oneself Nirvana (the culmination of all knowledge and absolute wisdom), which is after all only an exalted and glorious selfishness—but the self-sacrificing pursuit of the best means to lead on the right path our neighbour, to cause as many of our fellow-creatures as we possibly can to benefit by it, which constitutes the true theosophist.

The Maha Chohan

Series I 3

Men who join the Society with the one selfish object of reaching power, making occult science their only or even chief aim, may as well not join it—they are doomed to disappointment.

M.

ML 248

But these are persons, who, without ever showing any external sign of selfishness, are intensely selfish in their inner spiritual aspirations. These will follow the path once chosen by them with eyes closed to the interest of all but themselves, and see nothing outside the narrow pathway filled with their own personality. They are so intensely absorbed in the contemplation of their own supposed 'righteousness' that nothing can ever appear right to them outside the focus of their own vision, distorted by their self-complacent contemplation, and their judgment of the right and wrong.

K.H.

ML 354

He has been working unselfishly for his fellowmen thro' the Theosophical Society, and he Is having his reward, tho' he may not always notice it.

K.H.

Series I 27

The aim of the philanthropist should be the spiritual enlightenment of his fellowmen, and whoever works unselfishly to that goal necessarily puts himself in magnetic communication with our chelas and ourselves.

K.H.

Series I 75

Her clairvoyance is a fact, her selection and chelaship another. However well fitted psychically and psychologically to answer such selection, unless possessed of spiritual, as well as physical unselfishness, a chela, whether selected or not, must perish as a chela in the long run.

K.H.

ML 353

Sublimely unselfish, he sinks his personality in his cause, and takes no heed of discomforts or personal obloquy unjustly fastened upon him

K.H.

ML 364

You perceived hitherto but the light of a new day—you may, if you try, see with K.H.'s help the sun of full noon day when reaches its meridian. But you have to work for it, work for the shedding of light upon other minds through yours.

M.

ML 253

Will you, or rather they, never see the true meaning and explanation of that great wreck of desolation which has come to our land and threatens all lands—yours first of all? It is selfishness and exclusiveness that killed ours, and it is selfishness and exclusiveness that Will kill yours.

M.

ML 249

You must live for other men and with them, not for or with yourself.

K.H.

Judge

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February

Compassion

The duty of the philanthropist is to work with the tide, and assist the onward impulse.

K.H.

Series I 74

COMPASSION

For it is 'humanity' which is the great Orphan, the only disinherited one upon this earth, my friend. And it is the duty of every man who is capable of an unselfish impulse to do something, however little, for its welfare.

K.H.

ML 32

Poor, poor humanity! it reminds me of the old fable of the war between the body and its members; here too each limb of this huge 'orphan'—fatherless and motherless—selfishly cares but for itself. The body uncared for suffers eternally, whether the limbs are at war or at rest.

K.H.

ML 32

Its suffering and never cease. . . And who can blame it—as your materialistic philosophers do—if, in this everlasting isolation and neglect, it has evolved gods, unto whom 'it ever cries for help but is not heard!...'

'Since there is hope for
man only in man
I would not let one cry
whom I could save!'

K.H.

ML 32

A man who places not the good of mankind above his own good is not worthy of becoming our chela,—he is not worthy of becoming higher in knowledge than his neighbour.

M.

ML 248

It is . . . 'the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion' for the whole mankind as all living beings, instead of concentrating and limiting our affections to one predilected race—yet few of us . . . can so far enfranchise ourselves from the influence of our earthly connection as to be insusceptible in various degrees to the higher pleasures, emotions, and interests of the common run of humanity.

K.H.

ML 32

You pride yourself upon not being a 'patriot'—I do not; for, in learning to love one's own country one but learns to love humanity the more.

K.H.

ML 210

Send forth Atma's most divine emanations, proceedings of that God-like sentiment—the love of mortal man for its fellow creature in its higher spiritual expression, and concentrating them . . . find . . . the means of benefiting humanity by the practical application of the Sephiroths of Love, Mercy, Justice, Divine Charity and boundless Self-abnegation.

S.

Series II 40

For, though no one ought to be expecting thanks, for doing his duty by humanity and the cause of truth—since, after all, he who labours for others, labours but for himself—nevertheless, my Brother, I feel deeply grateful to you for what you have done.

K.H.

ML 236

Until final emancipation reabsorbs the Ego, it must be conscious of the purest sympathies called out by the aesthetic effects of high art, its tenderest chords to respond to the call of the holier and nobler human attachments.

K.H.

ML 32

Of course, the greater the progress towards deliverance, the less this will be the case, until, to crown all, human and purely individual personal feelings all will give way, to become blended into one universal feeling, the only true and holy, the only unselfish and eternal one—Love, an Immense Love for humanity—as a Whole!

K.H.

ML 32

My reference to 'philanthropy' was meant in its broadest sense, and to draw attention to the absolute need of the 'doctrine of the heart' as opposed to that which is merely 'of the eye'

K.H.

Series I 76

There was a time, when from sea to sea, from the mountains and deserts of the north to the grand woods and downs of Ceylon, there was but one faith, one rallying cry—to save humanity from the miseries of ignorance in the name of Him who taught first the solidarity of all men. How is it now? Where is the grandeur of our people and of the one Truth?

M.

ML 248

To all, whether Chohan or Chela, who are obligated workers among us, the first and last consideration is whether we can do good to our neighbour, no matter how humble he may be; and we do not permit ourselves to even think of the danger or any contumely, abuse or injustice, visited upon ourselves. We are ready, to be 'spat upon and crucified' daily—not once—if real good to another can come of it.

K.H.

ML 248

For, to work for mankind is grand, its recompense stretches beyond this brief dream of life into other births.

M.

Series II 98

He who is desirous to learn how to benefit humanity, and believes himself able to read the character of other people, must begin first of all, to learn to know himself, to appreciate his own character at its true value.

M.

ML 219

Woman's mission is to become the mother of future occultists—of those who will be born without sin. On the elevation of woman the world's redemption and salvation hinge. And not till woman bursts the bonds of her sexual slavery to which she has ever been subjected will the world obtain an inkling of what she really is and of her proper place in the economy of nature.

K.H.

Em. Oc.

If he [H.S.O.] is 'ignorant' of many things, so are his accusers, and because he remains still uninitiated the reason . . . is very plain: to this day, he has preferred the good of the many to his own personal benefit. Having given up the advantages derived from steady, serious chelaship by those who devote themselves to it, for his work for other people—these are those who now turn against him.

M.

Series II 63

The greatest consolation in and the foremost duty of life, child, is not to give pain, and avoid causing suffering to man or beast

K.H.

Series I 153

Our Society is not a mere intellectual school for occultism, and those greater than we have said that he who thinks the task of working for others too hard had better not undertake it. The moral and spiritual sufferings of the world are more important, and need help and cure more than science needs aid from us in any field of discovery.

K.H.

Series I 77

Are you ready to do your part in the great work of philanthropy? You have offered yourself for the Red Cross; but, Sister, there are sicknesses and wounds of the Soul that no Surgeon's art can cure. Shall you help us teach mankind that soul-sick must heal themselves?

M.

Series II 129

. . . the necessity of the practical application of these sublime words of our Lord and Master: 'O ye Bhikkhus and Arhats—be friendly to the race of men—our brothers! Know ye all, that he who sacrifices not his one life to save the life of his fellow being; and he who hesitates to give up more than life—his fair name and honour to the fair name and honour of the many, is unworthy of the sin-destroying, immortal, transcendent Nirvana.'

H.

ML 381

Cease to judge a movement, a cause, an opinion, by the extent to which it appeals to you, satisfies you, or perhaps antagonizes you. Examine rather the measure of its power to be of service to others in their need.

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Jubilee

You cannot truly be students of the Divine Wisdom, save as you are active in the service of the Divine Life. Where trouble is, where suffering is, where ignorance is, where quarrel is, where injustice is, where tyranny is, where oppression is, where cruelty is—there must we find the earnest members of Our Society.

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Jubilee

M. spoke well and truthfully when saying that a love of collective humanity is his increasing inspiration; and if any one individual should wish to divert he regards to himself, he must over-power the diffusive tendency by a stronger force.

K.H.

ML 262

The Chiefs want a 'Brotherhood of Humanity', a real Universal Fraternity started; an institution which would make itself known throughout the world, and arrest the attention of the highest minds.

K.H.

ML 24

The term 'Universal Brotherhood' is no idle phrase. Humanity in the mass has a paramount claim upon us . . . It is the only secure foundation for universal morality. If it be a dream, it is at least a noble one for mankind: and it is the aspiration of the true adept.

K.H.

ML 17

Fight for the persecuted and the wronged, those who thro' self-sacrifice have made themselves helpless whether in Europe or China.

K.H.

Series I 158

That we, the devoted followers of that spirit incarnate of absolute self-sacrifice, of philanthropy, divine kindness, as of all the highest virtues attainable on this earth of sorrow, the man of men, Gautama Buddha, should ever allow the T.S. to represent the embodiment of selfishness, the refuge of the few with no thought in them of the many, is a strange idea, my brothers.

The Maha Chohan

Series I 8

Let every Theosophist only do his duty, that which he can and ought to do, and very soon the sum of misery, within and around the areas of every Branch of your Society, will found visibly diminished.

'Lucifer'

Lucifer

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March

Truth

The mission of the planetary Spirit is but to strike the Key-Note of Truth. Once he has directed the vibration of the latter to run its course uninterruptedly along the catenation of that race and to the end of the cycle—the denizen of the highest inhabited sphere disappears from the surface of our planet—till the following 'resurrection of flesh'. The vibrations of the Primitive Truth are what your philosophers name 'innate ideas'.

K.H.

ML 41

TRUTH

The only object to be striven for is the amelioration of the condition of man, by the spread of truth suited to the various stages of his development and that of the country he inhabits and belongs to.

K.H.

ML 393

Truth has no ear-mark and does not suffer from the name under which it is promulgated—if the said object Is attained.

K.H.

ML 393

It is esoteric philosophy alone, the spiritual and psychic blending of man with with Nature, that, by revealing fundamental truths, can bring that much desired mediate state between the two extremes of human Egotism and divine Altruism. and finally lead to the alleviation of human suffering

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Series II 157

You are the Free-workers on the Domain of Truth, and as such, must leave no obstructions on the paths leading to it.

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Series II 159

As yet you have not acquired the exact method of detecting the false from the true, since you have not yet comprehended the doctrine of shells.

K.H.

Series I 148

The Lodge is well acquainted with our Brother's qualities, and it is those higher faculties of analytical reasoning and our Brother's powerful gift of extracting spiritual truths from the dead letter of seeming contradictions. that compels us to trust his spiritual intuitions for the accomplishment of this delicate mission.

S.

Series II 39

Poor, poor Humanity, when shalt thou have the whole and unadulterated Truth! Behold each of the 'Privileged' ones 'I alone am right!'. . . But why such stubborn oblivion of the important fact that there are other and innumerable pages before and after that one solitary page that each of the 'Seers' has far hardly learnt to decipher? Why is it that every one of those 'Seers' believes himself the Alpha and the Omega of Truth?

K.H.

ML 271

Remember the sum of human misery will never be diminished unto that day when the better portion of humanity destroys in the name of Truth, morality and universal charity, the altars of their false gods.

K.H.

ML 58

Truth never comes, burglar-like, thro' barred windows and iron-sheathed doors.

K.H.

Series I 40

The misuse of knowledge by the pupil always reacts upon the initiator; nor do I believe you know yet, that in sharing his secrets with another, the Adept by immutable Law, is delaying his own progress to the Eternal Rest. . . it must strike you as altruism that a Price must be paid for everything and every truth by somebody and in this case—we pay it.

K.H.

ML 280

We work and toil and allow our chelas to be temporarily deceived, to afford them means never to be deceived hereafter, and to see the whole evil of falsity and untruth, not alone in this but in many of their after-lives.

K.H.

ML 228

It is we who were the divers and the pioneers, and the men of science have but to reap where we have sown. It is our mission to plunge and bring the pearls of Truth to the surface; theirs—to clean and set them into scientific jewels.

K.H.

ML 51

If your efforts will teach the world but one single letter from the alphabet of Truth—that Truth which once pervaded the whole world—your reward will not miss you.

K.H.

ML 239

Try to remove such misconceptions as you will find by kind persuasion and an appeal to the feelings of loyalty to the Cause of truth if not to us. Make all these men feel that we have no favourites, nor affections for persons, but only for their good acts and humanity as a whole.

K.H.

Series I 45

Degrade not truth by forcing it upon unwilling minds.

K.H.

Series I 34

Nor is it a matter of the slightest consequence whether the gifted President of the 'London Lodge' Theos. Soc. entertains feelings of reverence or disrespect toward the humble and unknown individuals at the head of the Tibetan Good Law. . .but rather a question whether the lady is fitted for the purpose we have all at heart, namely the dissemination of TRUTH through Esoteric doctrines, conveyed by whatever religious channel, and the effacement of crass materialism and blind prejudice and skepticism.

H.

ML 392

Doubt not, my friend: it is but from the very top of those 'adamantine rocks' of ours, not at their foot, that one ever enabled to perceive the whole Truth, by embracing the whole limitless horizon.

K.H.

ML 270

I have laboured for more than a quarter of a century night and day. to keep my place within the ranks of that invisible but ever busy army which labours and prepares for a task which can bring no reward but the consciousness we are doing our duty to humanity; and meeting you on my way I have tried to—do not fear—not to enroll you, for that would be impossible, but to simply draw your attention, excite your curiosity if not your better feelings to the one and only truth.

K.H.

ML 238

Only those who have proved faithful to themselves and to Truth through everything will be allowed further intercourse with us.

K.H.

ML 260

Even the faintest shadow of difference arms seekers after The same truth, otherwise earnest and sincere, with the scorpion-whip of hatred against their brothers, equally sincere and earnest. Deluded victims of distorted truth, they forget, or never knew, that discord is the harmony of the Universe.

K.H.

ML 395

Happy is he whose spiritual perceptions ever whisper truth to him! Judge those directly concerned with us by that perception, not according to your worldly notion of things.

K.H.

Series I 32

The best corrective of error is an honest and open-minded examination of all facts. subjective and objective.

H.

Series I 100

It [the Secret Doctrine] is a more valuable work than its predecessor, an epitome of occult truths that will make it a source of information and instruction for the earnest student for long years to come.

K.H.

Series I 47

The doctrine we promulgate being the only true one, must, supported by such evidence as we are preparing to give, become ultimately triumphant as every other truth. Yet It is absolutely necessary to inculcate it gradually, enforcing its theories, unimpeachable facts for those who know, with direct inferences deduced from and corroborated by the evidence furnished by modem exact science.

The Maha Chohan

Series I 2

There are—even among English men of Science—those who are already prepared to find our teachings in harmony with the results and progress of their own researches, and who are not indifferent to their application to the spiritual needs of humanity at large. Amongst these it may be your task to throw the seeds of Truth and point out the path.

K.H.

ML 241

It imposes upon you the sacred duty to instruct the public, and prepare them for future possibilities, by gradually opening their eyes to the truth.

K.H.

ML 5

You have to prove to your evil wishers and enemies that your cause being strong, and having taken its stand upon the rock of truth, indeed can never be impeded in its progress by any opposition, however powerful, if you be all united and act in concert.

K.H.

Series I 10

Between superstition and still more degrading brutal materialism. the white dove of truth has hardly room where to rest her weary unwelcome foot.

The Maha Chohan

Series I 4

That the world is in such a bad condition morally is a conclusive evidence that none of its religions and philosophies, those of the civilized races less than any other, have ever possessed the truth . . . there must be somewhere a consistent solution, and if our doctrines prove their competence to offer it, then the world will be quick to confess that must be the true philosophy, the true religion, the true light, which gives truth and nothing but the truth.

The Maha Chohan

Series I 9

No messenger of truth, no prophet, has ever achieved during his lifetime a complete triumph, not even Buddha.

The Maha Chohan

Series I 4

The adept sees and feels and lives in the very source of all fundamental truths—the Universal Spiritual Essence of Nature, SHIVA, the Creator, the Destroyer, and the Regenerator.

H.

ML 238

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April

Devotion

Relative to the population of the world you may be few in numbers, but spiritual strength and power depend not upon numbers. Rather do they depend upon burning sincerity.

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Jubilee

DEVOTION

The least we can do for a person who has devoted her whole life to serve us and the cause we have at heart, is to preserve her body and health for her whenever she may need it again . . . for such is the wish of all of us. Perish the Theosophical Society rather than be ungrateful to H.P.B.

M.

Series II74

Maha Sahib orders me to tell you that according to your faith—you will be helped.

K.H.

Series II 85

Believe me, faithful friend, that nothing short of full confidence in us, in our good motive if not in our wisdom, in our foresight, if not omniscience—which is not to be found on this earth—can help one to cross over from one's land of dream and fiction to our Truth land, the region of stem reality and fact.

K.H.

ML 352

For your devotion and unselfish labour, you are receiving help, silent though it be.

K.H.

Series I 62

The cant about 'Masters' must be silently but firmly put down. Let the devotion and service be to that Supreme Spirit alone of which each one is a part.

K.H.

Series I 100

You have still to learn that so long as there are three men worthy of our Lord's blessing in the Theosophical Society, it can never be destroyed.

M.

Series I 92

Distrust and prejudice are contagious.

K.H.

ML 421

He who damns himself in his own estimation and agreeably to the recognized and current code of honour, to save a worthy cause, may some day find out that he has reached thereby his loftiest aspirations.

K.H.

Series I 32

Him [H.S.O.] we can trust under all circumstances, and his faithful service is pledged to us come well, come ill. My dear Brother, my voice is the echo of impartial justice. Where can we find an equal devotion? He is one who never questions, but obeys; who may make innumerable mistakes out of excessive zeal but never is unwilling to repair his fault even at the cost of the greatest self-humiliation; who esteems the sacrifice of comfort and even life to be something to be cheerfully risked whenever necessary; who will eat any food, or even go without; sleep on any bed, work any place, fraternize with any outcaste, endure any privation for the cause.

K.H.

ML 14

Ever bear in mind that whenever and whatever is possible will be always done for you unurged; hence never to either ask for, or suggest it, yourself.

K.H.

ML 332

True, you have been labouring for the cause without intermission for many months and in many directions; but you must not think that because we have never shown any knowledge of what you have been doing . . . that we are either ungrateful for, or ignore purposely or otherwise what you have done, for it is really not so.

K.H.

ML 236

My Brother is wise in not allowing the bright flame of his Faith to flicker like the uncouth fire of a taper candle; his faith will save him and crown his best hopes.

S.

Series II 29

Eager faith in the truth can move mountains of ignorance and prejudice

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Jubilee

Be true, sincere and faithful. Work for the cause and our blessings will ever be upon you. Doubt and forget your sacred promises and—in the darkness of guilt and sorrow will ye repent.

K.H.

Series II 115

Let him come by all means, as the pupil to the master, and without conditions; or let him wait, as so many others have, and be satisfied with such crumbs of knowledge as fall in his way.

K.H.

ML 9

In short, he is found wanting in the first element of success in a candidate—unshaken faith, once that his conviction rests upon, and has taken root in knowledge, not simple belief in certain facts.

K.H.

ML 305

If you would go on with your occult studies and literary work—then learn to be loyal to the Idea, rather than to my poor self.

K.H.

ML 319

More than ever I trust but in the few staunch workers of the luckless and hapless T. S.

K.H.

ML 331

Have faith, Brother mine, and when the least expected your eyes may open to such a glorious Sight as would dazzle any ordinary mortal.

S.

Series II 28

Have faith in your soul power, and you will have success.

M.

Series II 98

D. has undoubtedly many faults and weaknesses as others have. But he is unselfishly devoted to us and to the cause.

K.H.

Series I 63

We are not permitted—come what may to offer it [our Knowledge and Science] as a remedy against, or to cure people from suspicion. They have to earn it for themselves, and he who will not find our truths in his soul and within himself—has poor chances of success in Occultism.

K.H.

ML 349

It is men not ceremony-masters, we seek, devotion, not mere observances.

K.H.

ML 11

But if you remain true to and stand faithfully by the Theosophical Society you may count upon our aid, and so may all others to the full extent that they shall deserve it.

K.H.

ML 318

My chelas must never doubt, nor suspect, nor injure our agents by foul thoughts. Our modes of action are strange and unusual, and but too often liable to create suspicion. The latter is a snare and a temptation.

K.H.

Series I 32

When shall you trust implicitly, in my heart if not in my wisdom, for which I claim no recognition on your part? It is extremely painful to see you wandering about in a dark labyrinth created by your own doubts, every issue of which, moreover, you close with your own hands.

K.H.

ML 343

Not one of those who have only tried to help on, the work of the Society, however imperfect and faulty their ways and means. will have done so in vain.

K.H.

ML 241

But we employ agents—the best available. Of these for the past thirty years the chief has been the personality known as H.P.B. to the world (but otherwise to us) . . . Her fidelity to our work being constant, and her sufferings having come upon her thro' it, neither I nor either of my Brother associates will desert or supplant her. As I once before remarked, ingratitude is not among our vices.

K.H.

Series I 45

To all those whom this may concern—to the honourable and doubting company. Foolish are the hearts who doubt of our existence! or of the powers our community is in possession of for ages and ages. Would that you would open your hearts to the reception of the blessed truth, and obtain the fruits of the Arhatship if not in this then in another and better rebirth. Who is for us—answer!

M.

Series II 147

The work is made the more difficult by my being a lonely labourer in the field, and that, as long as I fail to prove to my superiors that you, at least—mean business; that you are in right good earnest.

K.H.

ML 39

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May

Purity

Occultism is not to be trifled with. It demands all or nothing.

K.H.

ML 453

PURITY

The process of self-purification is not the work of a moment, nor of a few months, but of years, nay extending over a series of lives.

K.H.

Series I 31

You have much to unlearn. The narrow prejudices of your people bind you more than you suspect. They make you intolerant . . . of the petty offences of others against your artificial standards of propriety, and disposed to lose sight of essentials. You are not yet able to appreciate the difference between inner purity and 'outer culture'

K.H.

Series I 53

Why must you be so faint-hearted in the performance of your duty? Friendship, personal feelings, and gratitude are no doubt noble feelings, but duty alone leads to the development you so crave for.

K.H.

Series I 151

Occult Science is a jealous mistress and allows not a shadow of self-indulgence.

K.H.

ML 118

No one comes in contact with us, no one shows a desire to know more of us, but has to submit to being tested and put by us on probation

K.H.

ML 305

Be warned, my friend, that is not the last of your probations. It is not I who create them, but yourself—by your struggle for light and truth against the world's dark influences.

K.H.

ML 390

Be true, be loyal to your pledges, to your sacred duty, to your country, to your own conscience.

K.H.

Series I 10

Law is law with us, and no power can make us abate one jot or tittle of our duty.

M.

ML 223

Realize, my friend, that the social affections have little, if any, control over any true adept in the performance of his duty. In proportion as he rises towards perfect adeptship the fancies and antipathies of his former self are weakened: . . . he takes all mankind into his heart and regards them in the mass.

M.

ML 255

The poor woman is naturally good and moral; but that very purity is of so narrow a kind, of so presbyterian a character, if I may use the word, as to be unable to see itself reflected in any other but her own Self. She alone is good and pure. All others must and shall be suspected.

K.H.

Series I 160

Chelaship unveils the inner man and draws forth the dormant vices as well as the dormant virtue. Latent vice begets active sins and is often followed by insanity . . . Be pure, virtuous, and lead a holy life and you will be protected. But remember, he who is not as pure as a young child better leave chelaship alone.

K.H.

Series I 31

I am as I was; and as I was and am, so am I likely always to be—the slave of my duty to the Lodge and mankind; not only taught, but desirous to-subordinate every preference for individuals to a love for the human race.

M.

ML 222

Put without delay your good intentions into practice, never leaving a single one to remain only an intention—expecting meanwhile, neither reward nor even acknowledgment for the good you may have done. Reward and acknowledgement are in yourself and inseparable from you, as it is your inner Self alone which can appreciate them at their true degree and value.

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Lucifer

The fundamental principle of occultism is that every idle word is recorded as well as one full of earnest meaning.

K.H.

Series I 150

Absolute justice makes no difference between the many and the few.

H.

ML 395

Purity of earthly love purifies and prepares for the realization of the Divine Love.

S.

Series II 41

To unlock the gates of the mystery you must not only lead a life of the strictest probity, but learn to discriminate truth from falsehood.

K.H.

Series II 7

We wanted and will always have the inner man, whenever offering himself for the tasks.

M.

Series II 79

Man's Atma may remain pure and as highly spiritual while it is united with its material body; why should not two souls in two bodies remain as pure and uncontaminated notwithstanding the earthly passing union of the latter two…

S.

Series II 42

But my first duty is to my Master. And duty, let me tell you, is for us, stronger than any friendship or even love; as without this abiding principle, which is the indestructible cement that has held together for so many millenniums, the scattered custodians of nature's grand secrets—our Brotherhood, nay our doctrine itself—would have crumbled long ago into unrecognizable atoms.

K.H.

ML 345

You have to make once for ever your choice—either your duty to the Lodge or your own personal ideas.

'The Old Gentleman'

Series II 51

The time is come when you must lay the foundation of that strict conduct—in the individual as well as in the collective body—which, ever wakeful, guards against conscious as well as unconscious deception.

K.H.

Series II 7

We leave it to our menials—the dugpas at our service, by giving them carte blanche for the time being, and with the sole object of drawing out the whole inner nature of the chela, most of the nooks and corners of which would remain dark and concealed for ever, were not an opportunity afforded to test each of these corners in turn.

K.H.

ML 229

But look to the future; see to it that the continual performance of duty, under the guidance of a well-developed intuition, shall keep the balance well poised.

K.H.

Series I 51

Does it seem to you a small thing that the past year has been only in your 'family duties'? Nay, but what better cause for reward, what better discipline, than the daily and hourly performance of duty?

K.H.

ML 366

The Theosophist's duty is like that of the husbandman's; to turn his furrows and sow his grains as best he can: the issue is with nature, and she, the slave of law.

K.H.

ML 334

One who would have higher instruction given to him has to a true theosophist, in heart and soul, not merely in appearance.

K.H.

ML 364

Neither of us ought to imperil a cause whose promotion is a duty paramount to considerations of Self.

K.H.

ML 322

Believe me, my 'pupil' the man or woman who is placed by Karma in the midst of small plain duties and sacrifices and loving-kindness, will through these faithfully fulfilled, rise to the larger measure of Duty, Sacrifice, and Charity to all Humanity.

K.H.

ML 366

You are right—it is more meritorious to do one's duty without any forethought of reward than to be bargaining for pay for one's deeds.

M.

Series II 100

The adept b the rare efflorescence of a generation of enquirers; and to become one, he must obey the inward impulse of his soul irrespective of the prudential considerations of worldly science ot sagacity.

K.H.

ML 6

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June

Sympathy

I must say, that the 'Old Lady's' telegrams do strike one like stones from a catapult. What could I do but come? Argument through space with one who was in cold despair, and in a state of moral chaos was useless. So I determined to emerge from the seclusion of many years end spend some time to comfort her as well as I could.

K.H.

ML 12

SYMPATHY

Be assured that my personal good wishes will attend you. Should you actually need now and again the help of a happy thought as your work progresses, it may, very likely, be osmosed into your head.

K.H.

ML 36

I hope that at least you will understand that we (or most of us) are far from being the heartless, morally dried up mummies some would fancy us to be.

K.H.

ML 32

Unity always gives strength: and since Occultism in our days resembles a 'Forlorn Hope', union and co-operation are indispensable. Union does indeed imply a concentration of vital andmagnetic force against the hostile currents of prejudice and fanaticism.

K.H.

ML 36

God's blessing be upon you, and in your hours of black despondency think of me, mine Brother, and I will be with you.

S.

Series II 32

I followed you, Brother mine, all the day of yesterday. My sympathy was with you.

S.

Series II 27

Even the simple presence amidst you of a well-intentioned and sympathizing individual may help you magnetically.

K.H.

Series II 159

Do those you love communicate with you during their sleep objectively? Your spirits, in hours of danger, or intense sympathy, vibrating on the same current of thought—which in such cases creates a kind of telegraphic spiritual wires between your two bodies—may meet and mutually impress your memories.

K.H.

ML 129

Strong will creates and sympathy attracts even adepts, whose laws are antagonistic to their mixing with the uninitiated.

K.H.

ML 20

An association of 'affinities' of strong magnetic, yet dissimilar forces and polarities centred around one dominant idea, is necessary for successful achievements in occult sciences. What one will fail to do—the combined many will achieve.

K.H.

ML 20

Broaden instead of narrowing your sympathies; try to identify yourself with your fellows, rather than to contract your circle of affinity.

K.H.

ML 361

The peculiar physical, moral, and intellectual conditions of neophytes and Adepts alike vary much, as anyone will easily understand; thus, in case, the instructor has to adapt his conditions to those of the pupil, and the strain is terrible, for to achieve success we have to bring ourselves into a full rapport with the subject under training.

K.H.

ML 279

And as the greater the powers of the Adept the less he is in sympathy with the nature of the profane, who often come to him saturated with the emanations of the outside world, those animal emanations of the selfish, brutal crowd that we so dread—the longer he was separated from that world and the purer he has himself become, the more difficult the self-imposed task.

K.H.

ML 279

I cannot work except with those who will work with us.

K.H.

ML 386

Great elder brothers shall you be, if you will, protecting all younger than yourselves, blessing them with your tender, wise and strong compassion, giving ever more as those to whom your compassion is due are more and more behind you on the pathway of Life. Be very tender to little children, yet more tender still to all who err—knowing little of the wisdom; and tenderer still to animals, that they may pass to their next pathway through the door of love rather than through that of hatred. Cherish, too, the flowers and trees. You be all of one blood, one source, one goal. Know this truth and live it.

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Jubilee

It is a familiar saying that a well matched couple 'grow together', so as to come to a close resemblance in features as well as in mind. But do you know that between adept and chela—master and pupil—there gradually forms a closer tie; for the psychic interchange is regulated scientifically, whereas between husband and wife unaided nature is left to herself.

K.H.

Series I 68

As the water in a full tank runs into an empty one which it is connected with; and as the common level will be sooner or later reached according to the capacity of the feed-pipe, so does the knowledge of the adept flow to the chela; and the chela attains the adept level according to his receptive capacities. At the same time chela being an individual, a separate evolution, unconsciously imparts to the master the quality of his accumulated mentality. The master absorbs his knowledge.

K.H.

Series I 68

I shall neither order, nor mesmerize, nor sway you. But unseen and when you perhaps come—like so many others—to disbelieve in my existence, I shall watch your career, and sympathize in your struggles.

K.H.

Series I 59

Whatever trouble may seem to brood over you, remember I am with you.

M.

Series II 100

Nature has linked all parts of her Empire together by subtle threads of magnetic sympathy, and there is a mutual correlation even between a star and a man; thought runs swifter than the electric fluid, and your thought will find me if projected by a pure impulse, as mine will find, has found, and often impressed your mind.

K.H.

ML 263

I deeply regret it, but have no right to bind myself so securely to any person or persons by ties of personal sympathy and esteem that my movements shall be crippled, and I, unable to lead the rest to something grander and nobler than their present faith

K.H.

ML 323

None of you can be so blind as to suppose that this is your first dealing with Theosophy? You surely must realize that this would be the same as to say that effects came without causes. Know then that it depends now upon each of you whether you shall henceforth struggle alone after spiritual wisdom thro' this and the next incarnate life. or in company of your present associates and greatly helped by the mutual sympathy and aspiration. Blessings to all—deserving them.

K.H.

Series I 20

Think you the truth has been shown to you for your sole advantage? That we have broken the silence of centuries for the profit of a handful of dreamers only? The converging lines of your Karma have drawn each and all of you into this Society as to a common focus, that you may each help to work out the results of your interrupted beginnings in the last birth.

K.H.

Series I 20

Only the progress one makes in the study of Arcane knowledge from its rudimental elements, brings him gradually to understand our meaning. Only thus, and not otherwise, does it, strengthening and refining those mysterious links of sympathy between intelligent men—the temporarily isolated fragments of the universal Soul and the cosmic Soul itself—bring them into full rapport.

K.H.

ML 29

Once this established, then only will these awakened sympathies serve, indeed, to connect MAN with . . . that energetic chain which binds together the Material and Immaterial Kosmos—Past, Present and Future—and quicken his perceptions so as to clearly grasp, not merely all things of matter, but of Spirit also

K.H.

ML 29

Oh, my poor, disappointed friend, that you were already so far advanced on THAT PATH, that this simple transmission of ideas should not be encumbered by the conditions of matter, the union of your mind with ours—prevented by its induced incapabilities! Such is unfortunately the inherited and self-acquired grossness of the Western mind . . . that it is now next to impossible either for them to comprehend or for us to express in their own languages anything of that delicate seemingly ideal machinery of the Occult Kosmos. To some extent that faculty can be acquired by the Europeans through study and meditation but—that's all.

K.H.

ML 29

As an Ellorian she must win her right. . . . The final results of the dreaded ordeal depend on her and on her alone, and on the amount of sympathy for her from her two brothers . . , on the strength and power of their wiII sent out by both to her wherever she may be. Know, O Brother, that such will power, strengthened by sincere affection, will surround her with an impenetrable shield, a strong protecting shield, formed of the combined pure good wishes of two immortal souls—and powerful in proportion to the intensity of their desires to see her triumphant.

S.

Series II 36

Have confidence in yourselves, as We have in every one of you, for there is not one single member of the society without a link with Us, or whose help We do not need. Have We not chosen each one of you because We need you? You need each other, and We need you all.

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Jubilee

You should, even as a simple member, much more as an officer, learn that you may teach, acquire spiritual knowledge and strength that the work may lean upon you, and the sorrowing victims of ignorance learn from you the cause and remedy of their pain.

K.H.

Series I 16

Beware, then of an uncharitable spirit. for it will rise up like a hungry wolf in your path and devour the better qualities of your nature which have been springing into life.

K.H.

ML 361

But man, after all, is the victim of his surroundings while he lives in the atmosphere of society. We may be anxious to befriend such as we have an interest in, and yet be as helpless to do so, as is one who sees a friend engulfed in a stormy sea when no boat is near to be launched and his personal strength is paralyzed by a stronger hand that keeps him back.

K.H.

ML 261

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July

Courage

Be brave for Truth and Brotherhood, and We shall be with you throughout the ages.

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Jubilee

COURAGE

What I meant by the 'Forlorn Hope' was that when one regards the magnitude of the task to be undertaken by our theosophical volunteers, and especially the multitudinous agencies arrayed, and to be arrayed, in opposition, we may well compare it to one of those desperate efforts against overwhelming odds that the true soldier glories to attempt.

K.H.

ML 35

We never whine over the inevitable but try to make the best of the worst.

K.H.

ML 16

The victor's crown is only for him who proves himself worthy to wear it; for him who attacks Mara single handed and conquers the demon of lust and earthly passions; and not we but he himself puts it on his brow.

K.H.

ML 311

It was not a meaningless phrase of the Tathagata that 'he who masters Self is greater than he who conquers thousands in battle': there is no such other difficult struggle. If it were not so, adeptship would be but a cheap acquirement.

K.H.

ML 311

In travelling your thorny path I say again courage and hope.

K.H.

ML 241

Like the 'true man' of Carlyle who is not to be seduced by ease, 'difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act', during the hours of trial, on the heart of a true chela.

K.H.

Series I 29

Doubt not, for this complexion of doubt unnerves and pushes back one's Progress.

K.H.

ML 264

It is a true manhood when one boldly accepts one's share of the collective Karma of the group one works with, and does not permit oneself to be embittered, and to see others in blacker colours than reality. or to throw all blame upon some one 'black sheep', a victim, specially selected.

K.H.

ML 364

Indulge not in apprehensions of what evil might happen if things should not go as your worldly wisdom thinks they ought.

K.H.

ML 264

An accepted chela does not become free from temptations, probations and trials.

M.

Series II 101

B. is an honest man and of a sincere heart, besides being one of tremendous moral courage and a martyr to boot Such our K.H. loves.

M.

ML 257

To have cheerful confidence and hope is quite another thing from giving way to the fool's blind optimism; the wise man never fights misfortune in advance.

K.H.

ML 264

May the faith and courage which have supported you hitherto endure to the end.

K.H.

Series I 48

Happy Is he who crosses the great gulf between himself and us— unscarred with doubt and free from the pollution of suspicion.

M.

Series II 101

So now, you my chela, choose and grasp your own destiny.

M.

Series II 98

Since every one of us is the creator and producer of the causes that lead to such or some other results, we have to reap but what we have sown. Our chelas are helped but when they are innocent of the causes that lead them into trouble: when such causes are generated by foreign, outside influences. Life and the struggle for adeptship would be too easy, had we all scavengers behind us to sweep away the effects we have generated through our own rashness and presumption.

K.H.

ML 305

Courage and fidelity, truthfulness and sincerity, always win our regard.

K.H.

Series I 158

Courage, then, you all, who would be warriors of the one divine Verity; keep on boldly and confidently; husband your moral strength, not wasting it upon trifles but keeping it against great occasions.

K.H.

ML 318

'To dare, to will, to act and remain silent' is our motto as that of every Kabalist and Occultist.

K.H.

Series II 118

You offer your services; well. You are willing to devote time, incur expense, run risks for OUR cause. Well, it is the cause of humanity, of true religion, of education, of enlightenment and spiritual elevation, of course. It needs missionaries, devotees, agents, even martyrs perhaps. But it cannot demand of any man to make himself either. If he so chooses—well; well for the world and for himself.

M.

Series II 97

The fact is, that to the last and supreme initiation every chela—and even some adepts—is left to his own device and counsel. We have to fight our own battles, and the familiar adage—'the adept becomes, he is not made' is true to the letter.

K.H.

ML 305

'The Kingdom of Heaven is obtained by force say the Christian mystics. It is but with armed hand, and ready to either conquer or perish that the modern mystic can hope to achieve his object.

K.H.

ML 6

Those who have watched mankind through the centuries of this cycle, have constantly seen the details of this death-struggle between Truth and Error repeating themselves. Some of you Theosophists are now only wounded in your 'honour' or your purses, but those who held the lamp in preceding generations paid the penalty of their lives for their knowledge.

K.H.

ML 317

He who cares for the opinion of the multitude will never soar above the crowd.

S.

Series II 46

But you have to remember that you are at a hard school, and dealing now with a world entirely distinct from your own. Especially have you to bear in mind that the slightest cause produced however unconsciously, and with whatever motive, cannot be unmade, or its effects crossed in their progress—by millions of gods, demons, and men combined.

K.H.

ML 204

Silence, discretion, and courage. Have my blessings upon your head. my good and faithful son and chela.

M.

Series II 96

You were told, however, that the path to Occult Sciences has to be trodden laboriously and crossed at the danger of life; that every new step in it leading to the final goal, is surrounded by pit-falls and cruel thorns; that the pilgrim who ventures upon it is made first to confront and conquer the thousand and one furies who keep watch over its adamantine gates and entrance—furies called Doubt, Skepticism, Scorn, Ridicule, Envy and finally Temptation—especially the latter; and that he who would see beyond had to first destroy this living wall; that he must be possessed of a heart and soul clad in steel and of an iron, never failing determination and yet be meek and gentle, humble and have shut out from his heart every human passion, that leads to evil. Are you all this?

K.H.

ML 346

Do not feel despondent. Courage, my good friend and remember you are working off by helping her your own law of retribution, for more than one cruel fling she receives is due to K.H.'s friendship for you, for his using her as the means of communication. But—Courage.

M.

ML 253

Young friend, study and prepare and especially master your nervousness. One who becomes a slave to any physical weakness never becomes the master of even the Iower powers of nature.

K.H.

Series I 57

If you are unfit to pass your first probation and assert your rights of a future Adept by forcing circumstances to bow before you—you are as totally unfit for any further trials.

M.

Series II 69

Brother mine, it is a hard task to you; but your devotion and unselfish zeal for the Cause of Truth should support and strengthen you. . . Keep courageous and patient, Brother, and—forward!

S.

Series II 17

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August

Intuition

Use your will power, and may the benediction of Truth and the Divine Presence of Him the Inscrutable be upon thee and help thee to open thy intuition.

S.

Series II 29

INTUITION

It was never the intention of the Occultists really to conceal what they had been writing from the earnest determined students, but rather to lock up their information for safety's sake, in a secure safe box, the key to which is intuition.

K.H.

ML 275

Let your Atma work out your intuitions.

S.

Series II 27

The Ideal of the Spiritual can penetrate only through the imagination, which is the leading path and first gate to the conceptions and impressions of the earthly Atma.

S.

Series II 41

Let your exact science, so proud of her achievements and discoveries, remember that the grandest hypotheses—I mean those that have now become facts and undeniable truths—have all been guessed, were the results of spontaneous inspiration (or intuition)—never those of scientific induction.

K.H.

Em. Oc.

Keep your own counsel, and believe in your better intuitions.

K.H.

Series I 82

Learn, child, to catch a hint through whatever agency it may be given. 'Sermons may be preached even through stones'.

K.H.

Series I 150

It is upon the serene and placid surface of the unruffled mind that the visions gathered from the invisible find a representation in the visible world. Otherwise you would vainly seek those visions, those flashes of sudden light which have already helped to solve so many of the minor problems and which alone can bring the truth before the eye of the soul. It is with jealous care that we have to guard our mind-plane from all the adverse influences which daily arise in our passage through earth-life.

K.H.

ML 64

You ought to have learned by this time our ways. We advise—and never order. But we do influence individuals.

M.

ML 267

Unfortunately, however great your purely human intellect, your spiritual intuitions are dim and hazy, having been never developed

K.H.

ML 345

Good resolutions are mind-painted pictures of good deeds: fancies, daydreams, whisperings of the Buddhi to the Manas. If we encourage them they will not fade away like a dissolving mirage in the Shamo desert, but grow stronger and stronger until one's whole life becomes the expression and outward proof of the divine motive within.

K.H.

Series I 52

Our ways are not your ways. We rarely show any outward signs by which to be recognized or sensed.

K.H.

Series I 149

The supreme energy resides in the Buddhi; latent—when wedded to Atman alone, active and irresistible when galvanized by the essence of 'Manas' and when none of the dross of the latter commingles with that pure essence to weigh it down by its finite nature. Manas, pure and simple, is of a lower degree, and of the earth earthly.

K.H.

ML 336

If you have any intuition you will work out cause and effect and perhaps realize whence the failure.

K.H.

ML 247

Choose according to your best light.

M.

ML 223

The degree of diligence and zeal with which the hidden meaning is sought by the student, is generally the test—how far he is entitled to the possession of the so buried treasure.

K.H.

ML 275

Learn first our laws and educate your perceptions, dear Brother. Control your involuntary powers and develop in the right direction your will and you will become a teacher instead of a learner.

K.H.

ML 141

The Real Knowledge…is not a mental but a spiritual state, implying full union between the Knower and the Known.

K.H.

ML 367

If throwing aside every preconceived idea, you could try and impress yourself with this profound truth that intellect is not all powerful by itself; that to become 'a mover of mountains' it has first to receive life and light from its higher principle—Spirit, and then would fix your eyes upon everything occult spiritually, trying to develop the faculty according to the rules, then you would soon read the mystery aright.

K.H.

ML 350

Tell ——from Mahatma Morya that spiritual faculties demand instruction and regulation even more than our mental gifts, for intellect imbibes wrong far more easily than good.

K.H.

Series I 150

Intuitive as you naturally are, chelaship is yet almost a complete puzzle for you

K.H.

ML 365

The truth is that till the neophyte attains to the condition necessary for that degree of Illumination to which, and for which, he is entitled and fitted, most if not all of the Secrets are incommunicable …..The illumination must come from within.

K.H.

ML 278

Our greatest trouble is to teach pupils not to be befooled by appearances.

M.

ML 257

The mind can be made to work with electric swiftness in a high excitement; but the Buddhi—never. To its clear region, calm must ever reign.

K.H.

Series I 148

Make the best of the present favourable opportunity to improve yourself intellectually while developing your intuitions.

K.H.

Series I 62

You have not the faith required to allow your will to arouse itself in defiance and contempt against your purely worldly intellect, and give you a better understanding of things hidden and laws unknown.

K.H.

ML 346

How can you know the real from the unreal, the true from the false? Only by self-development. How get that? By first carefully guarding yourself against the causes of self-deception. And this you can do by spending a certain fixed hour or hours each day all alone in self-contemplation, writing, reading, the purification of your motives, the study and correction of your faults, the planning of your work in the external life…Little by little your sight will clear, and you will find the mists pass away, your interior faculties strengthen, your attraction toward us gain force, and certainty replace doubts.

K.H.

Series I 149

It would appear well worth the trouble of testing the intuitions of your London members—of some of them, at any rate—by half expounding through you one or two mysteries and leaving them to complete the chain themselves.

K.H.

ML 337

Try to understand, not with the prejudiced Western mind, but the spirit of intuition and truth.

K.H.

ML 58

The iron rule Is that what powers he gets he must himself acquire…There are the powers of all nature before you; take what you can.

K.H.

ML 65

We…accustomed to rather follow the thought of our interlocutor or correspondent than the words he clothes it in—concern ourselves generally but little with the accuracy of his expressions.

M.

ML 218

Do not judge on appearances—for you may thereby do a geat wrong, and lose your own personal chances to learn more. Only be vigilant and—watch.

K.H.

ML 301

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September

Tolerance

In such a great work as this movement no one should expect to find his associates all congenial, intuitive, prudent or courageous. One of the first proofs of self-mastery is when one shows that he can be kind and forbearing and genial with companions of the most dissimilar characters and temperaments. One of the strongest signs of retrogression is when one shows that he expects others to like what he likes and act as he acts.

M.

Hartmann

TOLERANCE

No one has a right to claim authority over a pupil or his conscience. Ask him not what he believes. . . . The crest wave of intellectual advancement must be taken hold of and guided into Spirituality. It cannot be forced into beliefs and emotional worship.

H.

Series I 99

Be tolerant to others, respect the religious views of others if you would have your own respected.

K.H.

Series I 10

Once unfettered and delivered from their deadweight of dogmatic interpretations, personal names, anthropomorphic conceptions and salaried priests, the fundamental doctrines of all religions will be proved identical in their esoteric meaning. Osiris, Chrishna, Buddha, Christ, will be shown as different names for one and the same royal highway to final bliss, Nirvana.

The Maha Chohan

Series I 5

Take care not to seek to impose your standards of life, your convictions, upon others. Help them to gain their own standards, to reach their own convictions, be these what they may, provided they stimulate to nobler living.

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Jubilee

We refuse no one. 'Spheres of usefulness' can be found everywhere.

K.H.

Series II 125

Do not be too severe on the merits or demerits of one who seeks admission among your ranks, as the truth about the actual state of the inner man can only be known to and dealt with justly by KARMA alone.

--

Series II 159

Make Theosophy a living force in your lives and through your example those class and caste distinctions, which for so long have bred hatred and misery, shall at no distant time come to be but distinctions of functions in the common service of the nation-family and of the World-Brotherhood.

--

Lucifer

Show not the disparity between claim and action fn another man but, whether he be brother or neighbour, rather help him in his arduous walk in life.

--

Series II 158

Theosophy, therefore, expects and demands from the Fellows of the Society a great mutual toleration and charity for each other's shortcomings, ungrudging mutual help in the search for truths in every department of nature—moral and physical. And this ethical standard must be unflinchingly applied to daily life.

--

Lucifer

Those who try in their walk of life, to follow their inner light, will never be found judging far less condemning those weaker than themselves.

--

Lucifer

Within the Society itself let the Brotherhood for which it stands be real. We have had enough of divisions which separate. Let there remain only distinctions which enrich. Respect all who differ from you. Let your Brotherhood be without, that is, above, distinctions of opinion, as it is already so finely above distinctions of race, creed, caste, sex and colour.

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Jubilee

Europe is a large place but the world is bigger yet. The sun of Theosophy must shine for all, not for a part. There is more of this movement than you have yet had an inkling of, and the work of the T.S. is linked in with similar work that is secretly going on in all parts of the world.

M.

ML 267

Support all work and movements in the outer world which stand for brotherhood. Consider less what they achieve, and more the ideals which they embody.

--

Jubilee

We do not ask members of the Society as a whole to hold aught in common save the first great object upon which We receive them into this outer court of Our Temple.

--

Jubilee

Ever turn away your gaze from the imperfections of your neighbour and centre rather your attention upon your own shortcomings in order to correct them and become wiser.

--

Series II 158

Theosophy has to fight intolerance, prejudice, ignorance and selfishness, hidden under the mantle of hypocrisy. It has to throw all the light it can from the torch of Truth, with which its servants are entrusted. It must do this without fear or hesitation, dreading neither reproof nor condemnation.

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Lucifer

Know my friend that in our world, though we may differ in methods we can never be opposed in principles of action, and the broadest and most practical application of the idea of the Brotherhood of Humanity is not incompatible with your dream of establishing a nucleus of honest scientific enquirers of good repute, who would give weight to the T.S. organization in the eyes of the multitude, and serve as a shield against the ferocious and Idiotic attack of skeptics and materialists.

K.H.

ML 241

Do not indulge in unbrotherly comparisons. between the task accomplished by yourself and the work left undone by your neighbour or brother, in the field of Theosophy, as none is held to weed out a larger plot of ground than his strength and capacity will permit him.

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Series II 159

As it was our wish then, to signify to you that one could be both an active and useful member of the Society without inscribing himself our follower or co-religionist, so is it now.

K.H.

ML 401

The T.S. was meant to be the corner-stone of the future religions of humanity. To accomplish this object those who lead must leave aside their weak predilections for the forms and ceremonies of any particular creed, and show themselves to be true Theosophists both in inner thought and outward observance.

K.H.

Series I 100

Are you not man of the world enough to bear the small defects of young disciples? In their way they also help—and greatly.

M.

ML 426

Then you will, of course, aim to show that this Theosophy is no new candidate for the world's attention, but only the restatement of principles which have been recognized from the very infancy of mankind.

K.H.

ML 34

The Theosophical Society was chosen as the comer-stone, the foundation of the future religions of humanity. To achieve the proposed object, a greater, wiser, and especially a more benevolent intermingling of the high and the low, of the Alpha and the Omega of Society, was determined upon. The white race must be the first to stretch out the hand of fellowship to the dark nations, to call the poor despised 'nigger' brother. This prospect may not smile to all, but he is no Theosophist who objects to the principle

The Maha Chohan

Series I 4

As said before—no Theosophist should blame a brother whether within or outside of the association, throw slur upon his actions or denounce him, lest he should himself lose the right of being considered a Theosophist.

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Series II 158

Mystikal Christianity, that is to say that Christianity which teaches self-redemption through our own seventh principle—this liberated Para-Atma (Augoeides) called by some Christ, by others Buddha, and equivalent to regeneration or rebirth in spirit—will be found just the same truth as the Nirvana of Buddhism.

The Maha Chohan

Series I 5

Remember that you are theosophists, and that Theosophy or Brahma Vidya is the mother of every old religion, forsaken and repudiated though she may now be by most of her ungrateful children. Remember this, act accordingly and the rest will follow in due course.

K.H.

Series I 11

If every fellow took for his motto the wise words of a young boy, but one who is a fervent Theosophist, and repeated with B.K. 'Iam a theosophist before I am an Englishman', no foe could ever upset your Society.

K.H.

Series I 18

You have done well to see the 'large purpose' in the-small beginnings of the T.S. Of course, if we had undertaken to found and direct it in propria persona very likely it would have accomplished more and made fewer mistakes but we could not do this, nor was it the plan: our two agents are given the task and left—as you now are—to do the best they could under the circumstances.

K.H.

ML 35

Every western Theosophist should learn and remember, especially those of them who would be our followers, that in our Brotherhood, all personalities sink into one idea—abstract right and absolute practical justice for all.

K.H.

ML 395

If you would learn and acquire Occult Knowledge, you have, my friend, to remember that such tuition opens in the stream of chelaship many an unforeseen channel, to whose current even a lay chela must perforce yield, or else strand upon the shoals; and knowing this to abstain for-ever judging on mere appearance.

K.H.

ML 355

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October

Self-Reliance

Force any one of the 'Masters' you may happen to choose; do good works in his name and for the love of mankind; be pure and resolute in the path of righteousness (as laid out in our rules); be honest and unselfish; forget your Self but to remember the good of other people—and you will have forced that master' to accept you.

K.H.

Series I 28

SELF-RELIANCE

The pathway through earth-life leads through many conflicts and trials, but he who does naught to conquer them can expect no triumph.

M.

ML 254

You must yourselves first, and when you do so other help will soon follow.

K.H.

Series II 152

Try. Seek and ye will find. Ask and it will be given ye.

S.

Series II 29

I can come nearer to you, but you must draw me by a purified heart and a gradually developing will. Like the needle the adept follows his attractions.

K.H.

ML 262

We do not 'require a passive mind', but on the contrary are seeking for those most active, which can put two and two together once that they are on the right scent.

K.H.

ML 273

We have one word for all aspirants:
TRY.

K.H.

ML 244

Sow healthy grains and choose your soil, and the future will reward you by unexpected harvests.

S.

Series II 28

Try, try—try! He [Maha Sahib] says.

H.

Series II 85

It is always wiser to work and force the current of events than to wait for time.

K.H.

Series I 75

There are innumerable pages of your life-record still to be written up; fair and blank they are as yet. Child of your race and of your age, seize the diamond-pen and inscribe them with the history of noble deeds, days well-spent, years of holy striving. So will you win your way ever upward to the higher planes of Spiritual consciousness.

K.H.

Series I 53

Be patient and of good cheer, untiring labourer of the sacred Brotherhood! Work on and toil too for yourself, for self-reliance is the most powerful factor of success.

S.

ODL 1 237

Blind are they who see and perceive not. Their karma is spun; but what Masters can or shall help those who refuse to help themselves.

M.

Series II 65

He who seeks us finds us. TRY.

S.

Series II 11

I can do nothing unless you help me by helping yourself. Try to realize that in occultism one can neither go back nor stop. An abyss opens behind every step taken forward.

K.H.

Series I 150

Let those who really desire to learn abandon all and come to us, instead of asking or expecting us to go to them.

K.H.

ML 279

Every made by one in our direction will force us to make one toward him.

K.H.

ML 360

For he hopes to solve in time the great problems of the Macrocosmal World and conquer face to face the Dweller, taking thus by violence the threshold on which lie buried nature's most mysterious secrets, must try, first, the energy of his Will power, the indomitable resolution to succeed, and bringing out to light all the hidden mental faculties of his Atma and highest intelligence, get at the problems of Man's Nature and solve first the mysteries of his heart.

S.

Series II 38

So cast the lot yourself into the lap of Justice, never fearing but that its response be absolutely true.

H.

Series I 29

A constant sense of abject dependence upon a Deity which he regards as the sole source of power makes a man lose all self-reliance and the spurs to activity and initiative. Having begun by creating a father and guide unto himself, he becomes like a boy and remains so to his old age, expecting to be led by the hand on the smallest as well as the greatest events of life.

M.

Series I 95

You have the making of your own future in your own hands . . . and every day you may be weaving its woof.

K.H.

Series I 29

We never guide our chelas (the most advanced even); nor do we forewarn them, leaving the effects produced by causes of their own creation to teach them better experience.

K.H.

ML 368

Use your intuition, your innate power; try, you will succeed

S.

Series II 31

To accept any man as a chela does not depend on my personal will. It can be only the result of one's personal merit and exertions in that direction.

H.

Series I 28

If I were to demand that you should do one thing or the other, instead of simply advising, I would be responsible for every effect that might flow from the step and you acquire but a secondary merit

K.H.

Series I 29

It is by doing noble actions and not by only determining that they shall be done that the fruits of the meritorious actions are reaped.

K.H.

Series I 29

We never try to subject to ourselves the will of another. At favourable times we let elevating influences which strike various persons in various ways. It is the collective aspect of many such thoughts that can give the correct note of action. We show no favours.

H.

Series I 99

Follow your soul's suggestions and you will enter the wished for port; the so desired object will be attained.

S.

Series II 27

We have no right to influence the free will of the members in this or any other matter. Such interference would be in flagrant contradiction to the basic law of esotericism that personal psychic growth accompanies parri passu the development of individual effort, and is the evidence of acquired personal merit.

K.H.

ML 401

Chelas, from a mistaken idea of our system, too often watch and wait for orders, wasting precious time which should be taken up with personal effort.

K.H.

Series II 97

You have done all you could, and that is much as we ever intend asking of anyone.

M.

ML 255

It is not enough that you should set the example of a pure virtuous life and a tolerant spirit; this is but negative goodness—and for chelaship will never do.

K.H.

Series I 16

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November

Equilibrium

If instead of doing today. something you have to do you put it off till the next day—does not even this—invisibly and imperceptibly at first, yet as forcibly—throw into confusion many a thing, and in some cases even shuffle the destinies of millions of persons, for good, for evil, or simply in connection with a change—may be unimportant in itself—still a Change?

K.H.

ML 173

EQUILIBRIUM

Remember, every feeling is relative. There neither good nor evil, happiness nor misery, per se.

K.H.

ML 185

Let meaner natures wrangle if they will: the wise compound their differences in a mutually forbearing spirit.

K.H.

ML 403

You labour under the strange impression that we can and even do care for anything that may be said or thought of us. Disabuse your minds, and remember that the first requisite in even a simple fakir, is that he should have trained himself to remain as indifferent to moral pain as to physical suffering. Nothing can give US personal pain or pleasure.

M.

ML 221

Bide your time, the record book is well kept.

M.

ML 268

It seems impossible for you to realize that a man may have no ill feelings against you, nay, even like and respect you for some things, and yet tell you to your face what he honestly and sincerely thinks of you.

K.H.

ML 229

You have repeatedly offered yourself as a chela, and the first duty of one is to hear without anger or malice anything the guru may say.

K.H.

ML 232

Truth will stand without inspiration from Gods or Spirits, and better still—will stand in spite of them all.

K.H.

ML 203

Remember: too anxious expectation is not only tedious, but dangerous too. Each warmer and quicker throb of the heart wears so much of life away. The passions, the affections, are not to be indulged in by him who seeks TO KNOW; for they 'wear out the earthly body with their own secret power and he, who would his gain his aim—must be cold'.

K.H.

ML 270

He must not even desire too earnestly or too passionately the object he would reach; else the very wish will prevent the fulfilment, at best—retard and throw it back .

K.H.

ML 270

Reach nearer to the centre of Life (which is the same in the Universe and in yourself) which makes you careless whether you are strong or weak, learned or unlearned.

K.H.

Judge

Nature is destitute of goodness or malice; she follows only immutable laws when she either gives life and joy, or sends suffering and death, and destroys what she has created. Nature has an antidote for every poison, and her laws a reward for every suffering.

K.H.

ML 56

Look around you, my friend; see the 'three poisons' raging within the heart of man—anger, greed, delusion; and the five obscurities—envy, passion, vacillation, sloth and unbelief—ever preventing them seeing truth.

K.H.

ML 261

There are more ways than one for acquiring occult knowledge. 'Many are the grains of incense destined for one and the same altar: one falls sooner into the fire, the other later—the difference of time is nothing', remarked a great man when he was refused admission and supreme initiation into the mysteries.

K.H.

ML 17

We cannot consent to overflood the world at the of drowning them, with a doctrine that has to be cautiously given out, and bit by bit like a too powerful tonic which can kill as well as cure.

K.H.

ML 242

We recognise but one law in the Universe, the law of harmony, of perfect EQUILIBRIUM.

K.H.

ML 137

Remain rather as indifferent to the abuse as to the praise of those who can never know you as you really are, and who ought, therefore, to find you unmoved by either, ever placing the approval or condemnation of your own inner Self higher than that of the multitudes.

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Lucifer

If our rule is to be chary of confidences, it is because we are taught from the first that each man is personally responsible to the Law of Compensation for every word of his voluntary production.

M.

ML 258

We cannot alter Karma my 'good friend' or we might lift the present cloud from your path. But we do all that is possible in such material matters. No darkness can for ever. Have hope and faith and we may disperse it.

M.

ML 426

So long as one has not developed a perfect sense of justice, he should prefer to err rather on the side of mercy than commit the slightest act of injustice.

K.H.

Series II 131

Try to fill each day's measure with pure thoughts, wise words, kindly deeds.

K.H.

Series I 59

You have proudly claimed the privilege of exercising your own, uncontrolled judgment in occult matters you could know nothing about—and the occult laws you believe you can defy and play with, with impunity—have turned round upon you and have badly hurt you.

K.H.

ML 350

One who prepares for solving the infinite must solve the finite first.

S.

Series II 41

Now, the lake in the mountain heights of your being is one day a tossing waste of waters, as the gust of caprice or temper sweeps through your soul; the next a mirror as they subside and peace reigns in the 'house of life'. One day you win a step forward; the next you fall back two. Chelaship admits none of these transitions; its prime and constant qualification is a calm, even, contemplative state of mind (not the mediumistic passivity) fitted to receive psychic impressions from without, and to transmit one's own from within.

K.H.

Series I 147

And you are unable yet to realize, why we did this and that? Believe me that you will learn some day when you know better—that it was all brought on BY YOURSELF

K.H.

ML 347

Though . . .you shed oceans of tears and grovel in the dust, this will not move a hair's breadth the balance of Justice. If you would recover the lost ground do two things: make the amplest, most complete reparation, . . . and to the good of mankind devote your energies.

K.H.

Series I 59

Those who pause and hesitate and are the most cautious before entering into the spirit of an entirely new scheme are to be generally far more relied upon than who rush into every new enterprise like many flies into a bowl of boiling milk.

M.

Series II 73

We must take you, and you must see yourself as you are, not as the ideal human image which our emotional fancy always projects for us upon the glass.

K.H.

ML 25

'Self reverence, self knowledge, self control.
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.'
But to remember at the same time the extreme danger of the self-will when it is not regulated by the three above-mentioned qualities, especially in a question of spiritual development.

K.H.

Series I 151

The law of compensation can reward but those who have resisted the cruel stings of earth-born desires. Where there is no temptation, the merit of withstanding its feeble voice is null and cannot claim its reward.

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Series II 42

However much we may be able to do, yet we can promise only to give you the full measure of your deserts. Deserve much, and we will prove honest debtors; little, and you may expect only a compensating return.

K.H.

O. World 126

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December

Perseverance

While he perseveres he will find me ready to help.

M.

ML 215

PERSEVERANCE

The germs will grow, Brother mine, and you will be astonished. Patience, Faith, Perseverance.

S.

Series II 32

Remember that no effort is ever lost, and that for an occultist there is no past, present or future, but ever an Eternal Now.

K.H.

Series I 62

Persevere and whether 'on the right track' or not—if sincere you will succeed, for I will help you.

K.H.

Series I 58

Thus, step by step, and after a series of punishments, is the chela taught by bitter experience to suppress and guide his impulses; he loses his rashness, his self-sufficiency and never falls into the same errors.

K.H.

ML 305

So far I am satisfied with your efforts. Persevere and teach.

K.H.

Series II 112

Knowledge for the mind, like food for the body, is intended to feed and help to growth, but it requires to be well digested, and the more thoroughly and slowly the process is caried out the better both for body and mind.

M.

ML 258

Bear with the world and those who surround you. Be patient, and true to yourself. . . . Whatever happens know I am watching you.

K.H.

Series II 150

You want to too much knowledge at once, my dear friend; you cannot attain at a bound all the mysteries.

K.H.

ML 115

It is a life long task you have chosen, and somehow instead of generalizing you manage always to rest upon those details that prove the most difficult to a beginner.

M.

ML 258

Thus, little by little, the now incomprehensible will become the self-evident; and many a sentence of mystic meaning, will shine yet out before your Soul-eye, like a transparency, illuminating the darkness of your mind. Such is the course of gradual progress.

K.H.

ML 273

Only whatever you do let me advise you not to stop midway: it may prove disastrous to you.

K.H.

ML 350

You know our motto and that its practical application has erased the word 'impossible' from the occultist's vocabulary. If he wearies not of trying, he may discover that most noble of all facts, his true Self.

K.H.

ML 336

That great man is he who is strongest in the exercise of patience.

K.H.

ML 261

Let then the anticipation of a fuller introduction into our mysteries under more congenial circumstances, the creation of which depends entirely upon yourself, inspire you with patience to wait for, perseverance to press on to, and full preparation to receive the blissful consummation of all your desires.

M.

ML 254

If you had come to me as a boy of 17, before the world had put its heavy hand upon you, your task would have been twentyfold easier.

K.H.

ML 25

What better paths towards the enlightenment you are striving after than the daily conquest of Self, the perseverance in spite or want of visible psychic progress, the bearing of ill-fortune with that serene fortitude which turns it to spiritual advantage.

K.H.

ML 366

Do not forget the words I once wrote to you. . . 'of those who engage themselves in the occult sciences', he who does it must either reach the goal or perish.

K.H.

ML 31

No effort is ever lost, every cause must produce its effects. The result may vary according to the circumstances which form a part of the cause.

K.H.

Series I 75

He [the chela] is free to, and will not be held to account for using the most abusive words and expressions regarding his guru's action and orders, provided he comes out victorious from the fiery ordeal; provided he resists all and every temptation; rejects every allurement, and proves that nothing, not even the promise of that which he holds dearer than life, of that most precious boon, his future adeptship—is unable to make him deviate from the path of truth and honesty, or force him to become a deceiver.

K.H.

ML 228

Fear not, faint not, be faithful to the ideal you can now dimly see.

H.

Series I 53

Once fairly started on the way to the great Knowledge, to doubt is to risk insanity; to come to a dead stop is to fall; to recede is to tumble backward, headlong into an abyss. Fear not, if you are sincere, and that you are—now.

K.H.

ML 31

Ardently seek Truth and Light; and learn to follow them at all costs as you find them.

K.H.

Jubilee

However little you may seem to achieve—psychically—in this birth, remember that your interior growth proceeds every instant, and that toward the end of your life, as in your next birth, your accumulated merit shall bring all you aspire to.

K.H.

ML 391

Let her do her duty by the Society, be true to her principles, and all the rest will come in good time.

K.H.

ML 397

My brother understands that once the germs are sown they must be left to themselves and Nature; any too impatient hand that will interfere with them daily, trying to help to their growth by pulling them upwards, and will not leave them quiet, is more than likely to bring them to wither, dry up and die for ever.

S.

Series II 30

How few of the many pilgrims who have to Start without chart or compass on that shoreless Ocean of Occultism reach the wished for land.

K.H.

ML 352

Remember: it is because we are playing a risky game and the stakes are human souls, I ask you to possess yours in patience. Bearing in mind that I have to look after your 'Soul' and mine too, I propose to do so at whatever cost, even at the risk of being misunderstood by you.

K.H.

ML 39

DO not be too eager for 'instructions'. You will always get what you need as you shall deserve them, but no more than you deserve or are able to assimilate

K.H.

Series I 150

Then —knowledge, can only be communicated gradually; and some of the highest secrets—if actually formulated even in your well prepared ear—might sound to you as insane gibberish. . . . This is the real cause of our reticence

K.H.

ML 279

In the eyes of the 'Masters' no one is ever 'utterly condemned'. As the lost jewel may be recovered from the very depths of the tank's mud, so can the most abandoned snatch himself from the mire of sin, if only the precious Gem of Gems, the sparkling germ of the Atma, is developed. Each of us must do that for himself, each can if he but will and persevere.

K.H.

Series I 52

Your spiritual progress is far greater than you know or can realize, and you do well to believe that such development is in itself more important than its realization by your physical plane consciousness.

K.H.

ML 366

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DAILY MEDITATIONS

Extracts from Letters of the Masters of the Wisdom

Compiled by KATHERINE A. BEECHEY The Theosophical Publishing House

Contents

Introduction

Abbreviations

January — Unselfishness

February — Compassion

March — Truth

April — Devotion

May — Purity

June — Sympathy

July — Courage

August — Intuition

September — Tolerance

October — Self-Reliance

November — Equilibrium

December — Perseverance

Introduction

Abbreviations

Em. Oc.

'Eminent Occultist', notes on treatise by Eliphas Levi

Hartman

Fragment of letter from Master M.

Judge

Letters to W.Q. Judge quoted by Miss Clara Codd.

Jubilee

A message to the Members of the T.S. from an Elder Brother, Jubilee Convention, T.S., Adyar, 1925.

Lucifer

'Some Words on Daily Life' (Written by a Master of the Wisdom), Lucifer, Jan. 1888.

M.L.

The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett. (Third and Revised Edition).

O. World

The Occult World, 2nd Ed., by Mr. A.P. Sinnett.

O.D.L.

Old Diary Leaves, by Col. H.S. Olcott.

Series I

Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series (5th Ed.) by C. Jinarajadasa.

Series II

Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series by C. Jinarajadasa

January

Unselfishness

Why be selfish? If there are things to learn, things to see, things good to know for the future of man, why not give a chance equally with yourself to another?

M.

UNSELFISHNESS

K.H.

K.H.

K.H.

K.H.

S.

M.

S.

The Maha Chohan

K.H.

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K.H.

K.H.

K.H.

M.

K.H.

K.H.

M.

M.

K.H.

K.H.

K.H.

The Maha Chohan

M.

K.H.

K.H.

K.H.

K.H.

K.H.

M.

M.

K.H.

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February

Compassion

The duty of the philanthropist is to work with the tide, and assist the onward impulse.

DAILY
MEDITATIONS

Extracts from
Letters of the Masters of the Wisdom

Compiled by
KATHERINE A. BEECHEY
The Theosophical Publishing House

The Occult World, 2^nd Ed., by Mr. A.P. Sinnett.

Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series (5^th Ed.) by C. Jinarajadasa.