The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
OccultiSnl and Christianity
THE MYSTIC PATH OF HUMAN PROGRESS.
FINDING THE MASTER.

he will show strength and where show
weakness, to test how far the strength
admits Of the rapid working out of the
evil kaTma that may still exist lie
comes back to the world a descipIe on
probation. feeling a new strength behind
him, new power encirCling him; know
ing, even though he may not remem-
Der the event. that some great thing has
happened to him on the inner planes OF
being: for the strength OF the Master IL
with him; the blessing Of the Master is
upon him.
Quickly or slowly. according as that
probation is lived nObIy or poorly an
other summons comes To him. when the
Master sees that he has gained to a con-
siderable extent the Qualifications which
are necessary, and needs a further full
are necessary, and needs a further full
er teaching in order that he may ap-
Again he is called: again he sees his
Master. And when the Master accepts
him as disciple. no longer on probation,
hut accepted and approved; now his con-
sCiOusness is TO begin to blend with the
consciousness of his Master, and he is
TO feel His presence more clearly, His
thought more effectively.
II is very often at that stage that
special and illuminating teachings are
given to the young disciple. in order to
~ - nun lllblt SNllAlN OH MS way. Sutu
you may read, if you like. in the little
book called AT the Feet Of the Master"
in which 4 young disciple. taught by his
Master on his return to the body wrote
down, day after day as best he could
that which his Master had told him Of
the way Of applying the Qualifications
10 life. and of understanding thoroughly
what those Qualifications meant.
am basing what ] say on this direct
teaching of one Uf the Masters of Wis
dem and Compassion. Naturally. / can
not give You all that is written here.
but the outline il taken from this sp,.-
,ial teaching. which | may remind You
may be found. although not in this de-
tailed application. in the Hindu and
Buddhist books that have traced for Us
the preparatory Path as well as the
Path itself
The first of tho Qualifications, as |
told you last week is called Discrim-
ination. discrimination between the real
and the unreal Among the Buddhists
they call it the Opening of the doors
OF the mind very graphic and sig
nificant expression. Last week. also, |
told you how you might mediate in or
der to find the higher consciousness
which is yourself. How shall We apply
what We have learned in meditation ~
practice? To mediate on a quality and
then to live it, that is the way of definite
progress. -
The Master makes one great division
of the whole human race, sweeping and
clear He says there are only two classes
OF men in the wOrld-thOse who know
and those who know not. The second
class naturally embraces at present the
vast majority of human kind, for, as
another Teacher said, few there are
who are treading the narrow Path"
knowledge as He defines it, is the knowl-
edge OF the Divine Will in evolution, and
the attempt to cooperate with that Will
so as to help effectively forward the day
when that Will shall be done oh earth
as 1t is already done in the higher worlds
OF being. To know then that the world is
being guided toward a higher and nobIcr
evolution; to know that every child of
man, young or old. lagEard or rapid in
his progress, is walking by that divine
Plan. and may he helped or hindered
i'm the walking: to recognize the Plan and
try to live in it; to make ones own will
part of the Will divine. the only true
killing there is: that is the characters
tic of those who know.
Turning to apply that knowledge to
practice. We are told how discrimination
should be worked out in life, not only be- |
tween the real and the unreal. but be- |
tween all those many things in which ,
there is more or less Of the real. in which I
the essential mark Of the real may be |
seen. And, first Of all. we have to recog- !
nize that the form is unreal. while the |
life Is real. II does not matter TO the DC
cultist. TO take an illustration. 4" what
form OF religion "A man may belong. H."
may be a Hindu or Buddhist; he may |
be a Christian or Il Hebrew: he may be |
. Zoroastrian or a Mussulman. That is !