The Washington herald., 1914-11-22
Occultisn1 and Christianity
THE MYSTIC PATH OF HUMAN PROGRESS
SEEKING THE MASTER (CoNTINUED).

I as have just said, your one instru-
ment when you would recreate yourself.
For this meditation to be safely prac-
tised. It Is necessary to adopt the Dis
cipline : above mentioned. Meditation
means that you viii for time withdraw
from the world, not for long at first, for
Il Is q strain upon the brain; fve or ten
minutes In the morning As enough to
| begin with. and IL you have done IL well
you viii find IL enough. for you will
! be tired before the ten minutes are over.
For that time you withdraw from the
outer world. You go within yourself.
into the Holy Of Holes within you. and
there you SIT in the silence within that
| wall, 10 listen for the voice OF the Self.
to await the coming Of the higher man
into ms kingdom. Turn your mind.
which Is ever wandering about and dis
| turbing you, and hx IL on some single
idea Take IL you will, the first OF the
| Qualifications in many ways the most
dlfneult- lt-discrimination You begin stead
lily to think of what that means to think.
say. Of yourself; you realize that there
is much in you that is changing; your
/ emotions are changing: your thoughts
are changing. Those then belong to the
unreal and not to the real. and in your
thought you put those aside, sometimes
one by one. sometimes with the body;
you put aside a single sense like that
OF sight. and try to realize the world as
II would be without the sense of sight.
or any other sense that you please for
| the time. 10 force yourself into realizing
that II is not yourself. You feel an emo
tion and put 1t aside. shut II out, refuse
TO vibrate in answer to II, and you see
those changing emotions are not your
self.
Then those wandering thoughts that
change with every breath: you put them
aside, and see that changing phantasma-
goria Of thought is not yourself. And so
you shut out part after part, until per-
chance nothing seems left, for you find
that all Is changing. and you seek the
real and the changeless. But in that
emptiness that you have made, in that
void whence the unreal has disappeared
from which the changing has vanished
and where for a moment you feel disap-
pointed, in that void there arises upon
you the higher consciousness, the death
less. the unchanging. the eternal: the
VIII, Of which your changing wishes are
the reflection in the lower world; the
Wisdom, OF which your varying thoughts
are the images in the lower world: the
Activity. Of which your changing actions
are the reflection in the lower world You
feel yourself to be Will, Wisdom, Activ-
ity. apart from all those changing images.
Just as the sun in the heaven In un-
changed, but is mirrored as a thousand
suns in ponds. lakes, rivers and oceans,
so do you know the Sun of the Spirit
within you from the broken reflections
that you find in the lower self You gain
by meditation the knowledge that you are
eternal. aud that all the changing things
are only the broken images of your real
Self.
Out of the quiet meditation. out of
that great realization. you go into your
outer world OF broken images. and you
try to live in the Eternal while you are
busy in the outer world. You know you
are dealing only with reflections, but re-
Elections Of vital import for the building
OF character and for the helping OF men.
You know there is something beyond
them, and that in yourself, but willingly
you go out into the world of men to bring
them what you have found in the silence
Of the chamber OF life.
And so II Is written: "Yoga Is skill in
action" for only the man who knows the
higher can control the lower: only the
man who is without desires can see how
to work best for the helping OF his
brethren; only the man who has the viii
that never changes can be unmoved by
the passing wishes that fit through the
lower nature
From meditation to work, from the
gaining of light to the bearing OF IL into
the using it among men, from the reaIiza-
tiOn Of right activity to the guiding
Alright your acts. And as the man thus
searches, desiring to find the Master, as
he offers to Him the service he is able
to render and works with the longing to
find Him that SO he may serve Him bet
ter. then after long seeking and resoIute
searching he sees awakening in his
partial darkness the Light that is real:
he comes to the point where the Master
will find him. where truly his feet shall
be set on that probationary Path, for
which he has been preparing himself
during his search.
And so We leave him knocking at the
door, seeking for the Master, knowing
that the door will soon be turned upon
its hinges. and that on its threshold the
Master shall be found.
CNext Sunday the article will be Finding
the Mastery