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1Who then, can for a moment question Fate, or asking fate, who can say why this evil, why this good, seeing, that in either case, the moment of its existence is past and gone, before an answer could r'rirknlp Original from " v " : • V U \.V L UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 188 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT be given; and new actions have taken their place. So it is with earthly life, it is one moment only, a single breath in the scale of being, a half conscious dream of the senses from which we shall awake, thankful in any case to find that after all; it was but a dream, and that the crown of life, the Sacred Jewel of the Lotus, lies beyond— Beyond the distant blue. Beyond the vaults of heaven, where the starland shimmers bright. Beyond the blazing morning suns. Beyond the orbs of night. Beyond all things that man has thought, Beyond what Saint has seen, There lies the Crown, ETERNAL LIFE, SELF WROUGHT BY SELF MADE BEING. These things I KNOW, and in view thereof, can I not ask like the in¬ spired apostle, “O death where is thy sting, O Grave where is thy victory?”
2The physical body cannot always be controlled or made to ex¬ press the real state of the spiritual ideal. In fact, very rarely can this be done; because it is not possible under present earthly conditions, race conditions, for one person to completely subdue his environment. Rare, very rare organisms are capable of doing this, but then such rara-avis, are as infrequent as the giants of genius. The ideal life may be lived, however, by all who can grasp the idea of I AM; as long as they can hold on to the central know; so to say, hold on to a chain whose link is the Illuminated I, the EGO. We all can make the body more expressive of the spirit, than it is; but most of all depends on prenatal conditions, over which we have very little control. It is little better than nonsense to say that selfishness manifests itself as constipation, and vanity as dispepsia, etc. pure nonsense. That is going crazy after correspondences and like the blind man of Bunyan’s jury saying, I see, when he had no sight. That mental states and characteristics have their reflex action there can be no doubt, because the one implies the other, but selfish¬ ness in one man may cause anything from indigestion to syphilis, while in another it might only hurt his liver, his lungs or his spleen; in other words, the same mental trait will afflict differently, different organisms; all depending on race, heredity, and astral influx, and this last is the most potent of all others.
3QUOTATIONS FROM LETTERS 189 The great altruistic thoughts and ideas people give birth to, will live; yea, and mature; bringing forth as the scriptures say, “some forty, some sixty, some an hundred fold.” It is right here that re-incamation is a Divine truth; for thoughts and ideas are re-incarnated, but not man. Also right here, that we explain the paradox of what Plato said, “Ideas rule the world,” and in the next breath, “Spiritual ideas are impotent against purely material forces.” But, let those spir¬ itual ideas become incarnated in material forms, then they are po¬ tent; they rule the world; then they become the power of mind behind the human throne. You and I, and, to a greater or less extent, every embodied soul, are the centers of ideas incarnated in us, and controlled by the monad; like the Sun sways his satellites. Certain groups of ideas will external¬ ize as things, being in a certain stage of gestation, so to say; and from the knowledge and power of seeing this clearly, an event can be es¬ timated with the same precision as the birth of a child can be fore¬ told by a trained physician; consequently, those who are psychic, may not know WHEN the birth of an event will occur, but they Feel that it will, hence prophecy.
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.
1Who then, can for a moment question Fate, or asking fate, who can say why this evil, why this good, seeing, that in either case, the moment of its existence is past and gone, before an answer could r'rirknlp Original from " v " : • V U \.V L UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 188 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT be given; and new actions have taken their place. So it is with earthly life, it is one moment only, a single breath in the scale of being, a half conscious dream of the senses from which we shall awake, thankful in any case to find that after all; it was but a dream, and that the crown of life, the Sacred Jewel of the Lotus, lies beyond— Beyond the distant blue. Beyond the vaults of heaven, where the starland shimmers bright. Beyond the blazing morning suns. Beyond the orbs of night. Beyond all things that man has thought, Beyond what Saint has seen, There lies the Crown, ETERNAL LIFE, SELF WROUGHT BY SELF MADE BEING. These things I KNOW, and in view thereof, can I not ask like the in¬ spired apostle, “O death where is thy sting, O Grave where is thy victory?”
2The physical body cannot always be controlled or made to ex¬ press the real state of the spiritual ideal. In fact, very rarely can this be done; because it is not possible under present earthly conditions, race conditions, for one person to completely subdue his environment. Rare, very rare organisms are capable of doing this, but then such rara-avis, are as infrequent as the giants of genius. The ideal life may be lived, however, by all who can grasp the idea of I AM; as long as they can hold on to the central know; so to say, hold on to a chain whose link is the Illuminated I, the EGO. We all can make the body more expressive of the spirit, than it is; but most of all depends on prenatal conditions, over which we have very little control. It is little better than nonsense to say that selfishness manifests itself as constipation, and vanity as dispepsia, etc. pure nonsense. That is going crazy after correspondences and like the blind man of Bunyan’s jury saying, I see, when he had no sight. That mental states and characteristics have their reflex action there can be no doubt, because the one implies the other, but selfish¬ ness in one man may cause anything from indigestion to syphilis, while in another it might only hurt his liver, his lungs or his spleen; in other words, the same mental trait will afflict differently, different organisms; all depending on race, heredity, and astral influx, and this last is the most potent of all others.
3QUOTATIONS FROM LETTERS 189 The great altruistic thoughts and ideas people give birth to, will live; yea, and mature; bringing forth as the scriptures say, “some forty, some sixty, some an hundred fold.” It is right here that re-incamation is a Divine truth; for thoughts and ideas are re-incarnated, but not man. Also right here, that we explain the paradox of what Plato said, “Ideas rule the world,” and in the next breath, “Spiritual ideas are impotent against purely material forces.” But, let those spir¬ itual ideas become incarnated in material forms, then they are po¬ tent; they rule the world; then they become the power of mind behind the human throne. You and I, and, to a greater or less extent, every embodied soul, are the centers of ideas incarnated in us, and controlled by the monad; like the Sun sways his satellites. Certain groups of ideas will external¬ ize as things, being in a certain stage of gestation, so to say; and from the knowledge and power of seeing this clearly, an event can be es¬ timated with the same precision as the birth of a child can be fore¬ told by a trained physician; consequently, those who are psychic, may not know WHEN the birth of an event will occur, but they Feel that it will, hence prophecy.
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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