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1Human beings on the earth plane can concentrate their minds on some definite thing and the results are sometimes astounding. Most people think idly, vaguely; then someone’s strong mind can attract these wandering thought vibrations and, making his own brain the instrument for the display of the collected energy, launch his own idea on the sensitive camera of the astral light and produce a thought form that he can send with fearful potency to perform his will. This is to be a Black Magician; for the only form of power that the Adept should launch is his own ideal of himself, in higher and better states than he has attained to. He receives that ideal by reflection from his Soul Mate. At death, the soul enters its own soul images, and with relentless monotony, the panorama of all he has vitalized swings around him. He rests no more than a sleeping body in awful dreams; and these ■ v " :: : ■ V lOU X K UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 182 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT images continue for ages, aye, for thousands of years; until the soul can endure no more and falls asleep, to awaken; if it does awaken; only as a little child. It is to escape this that the Occultist toils and labors. Relax and concentrate your soul on your solar plexus, saying the Mantram, “My soul is one with the Universe and my spirit an emana¬ tion from God,” then ask yourself, who am I? what have I been? and what must I become?
2The monad is incarnated in the brain. It may be asleep while the over-soul of the brain (animal soul) is awake; or the monad (human soul) may be awake and the animal soul asleep; or both may be awake; then the King rides in his chariot. Truer than all, is the saying of Christ, “My Father and I are one.” Nowhere can a creator be found. We ourselves are the outcome of life and effort. Effort is our immortality; always striving for that which we are not. The next existence is like this in essence, but more vivid. The human heart is the onlv moral life there is. Life is neither moral ; * nor immoral; neither God nor Devil; and when the soul can penetrate and see and KNOW the Truth, the NAKED TRUTH, it says, “My Father and I are one.” The women are losing their feminity and thus are losing their conscious immortality. Effort is immortality. When the soul sees an ideal beyond his own performance, then, at that very moment, he ceases to be immortal.
3Again I would say, that, on man depends a woman's immortality, and on woman the mans, for no one can make an ideal of himself. He receives the image by reflection and then grows the power to become it through love; thus man, by his ideal, raises the woman of whom he is the expression, and woman, by her ideal, raises the man of whom she is the expression; thus they are the creators of each other. In soul matehood neither one nor the other can be greater than each one’s inherent ideal of the other, and, unless that ideal is rounded out, they fail of their united immortality. This is a great and awful truth. Ra is, and you reach him only by the deep conviction of his ex¬ istence and the profound pleadings of the heart. He is the creator of this Earth and therefore never lived on it. He belongs to a previous evolution; is, as it were, the incarnation of the oversoul of the great o QUOTATIONS FROM LETTERS 183 sun-sphere. To give the soul to Ra is to become one with those legions of the blest. The soul must never sleep or die without affirming its immortality. Every immortal soul is the seed of a Universe; but millions have no immortality. In life MEAN your sympathy with others; do not SUFFER it. Nothing in life is worth while but moral effort. There you have the key, if you know how to use it.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1Human beings on the earth plane can concentrate their minds on some definite thing and the results are sometimes astounding. Most people think idly, vaguely; then someone’s strong mind can attract these wandering thought vibrations and, making his own brain the instrument for the display of the collected energy, launch his own idea on the sensitive camera of the astral light and produce a thought form that he can send with fearful potency to perform his will. This is to be a Black Magician; for the only form of power that the Adept should launch is his own ideal of himself, in higher and better states than he has attained to. He receives that ideal by reflection from his Soul Mate. At death, the soul enters its own soul images, and with relentless monotony, the panorama of all he has vitalized swings around him. He rests no more than a sleeping body in awful dreams; and these ■ v " :: : ■ V lOU X K UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 182 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT images continue for ages, aye, for thousands of years; until the soul can endure no more and falls asleep, to awaken; if it does awaken; only as a little child. It is to escape this that the Occultist toils and labors. Relax and concentrate your soul on your solar plexus, saying the Mantram, “My soul is one with the Universe and my spirit an emana¬ tion from God,” then ask yourself, who am I? what have I been? and what must I become?
2The monad is incarnated in the brain. It may be asleep while the over-soul of the brain (animal soul) is awake; or the monad (human soul) may be awake and the animal soul asleep; or both may be awake; then the King rides in his chariot. Truer than all, is the saying of Christ, “My Father and I are one.” Nowhere can a creator be found. We ourselves are the outcome of life and effort. Effort is our immortality; always striving for that which we are not. The next existence is like this in essence, but more vivid. The human heart is the onlv moral life there is. Life is neither moral ; * nor immoral; neither God nor Devil; and when the soul can penetrate and see and KNOW the Truth, the NAKED TRUTH, it says, “My Father and I are one.” The women are losing their feminity and thus are losing their conscious immortality. Effort is immortality. When the soul sees an ideal beyond his own performance, then, at that very moment, he ceases to be immortal.
3Again I would say, that, on man depends a woman's immortality, and on woman the mans, for no one can make an ideal of himself. He receives the image by reflection and then grows the power to become it through love; thus man, by his ideal, raises the woman of whom he is the expression, and woman, by her ideal, raises the man of whom she is the expression; thus they are the creators of each other. In soul matehood neither one nor the other can be greater than each one’s inherent ideal of the other, and, unless that ideal is rounded out, they fail of their united immortality. This is a great and awful truth. Ra is, and you reach him only by the deep conviction of his ex¬ istence and the profound pleadings of the heart. He is the creator of this Earth and therefore never lived on it. He belongs to a previous evolution; is, as it were, the incarnation of the oversoul of the great o QUOTATIONS FROM LETTERS 183 sun-sphere. To give the soul to Ra is to become one with those legions of the blest. The soul must never sleep or die without affirming its immortality. Every immortal soul is the seed of a Universe; but millions have no immortality. In life MEAN your sympathy with others; do not SUFFER it. Nothing in life is worth while but moral effort. There you have the key, if you know how to use it.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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