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SI However, the main point is to acquire some sort of in- hibitory power over the thoughts. Fortunately there is an unfailing method of acquiring this power. It is given in Liber III. If Sections I and 2 are practised (if necessary with the assistance of another person to aid your vigilance) you will soon be able to master the final section. In some people this inhibitory power may flower suddenly in very much the same way as occurred with Asana. Quite without any relaxa- tion of vigilance, the mind will suddenly he stilled. There will be a marve…
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… improving slowly at first, afterwards more quickly. It starts from at or near zero, and should reach absolute control at D. EF shows the Power of Observation of the contents of the mind, improving quickly at first, afterwards more slowly, up to perfection at F. It starts well above zero in the case of most educated men. The height of the perpendiculars HI indicates the dissatisfaction of the student with his power of control. Increasing at first, it ultimately diminishes to zero.
1912 · PDF PAGE 83
…y is full of stories of officers who have walked unarmed up to a mutinous regiment, and disarmed them by the mere force of confidence. The power of the orator over the mob is well known. It is, probably, for this reason while that the prophet has been able to constrain mankind to obey his law. It never occurs to him that any one can do otherwise. In practical life one can walk past any guardian, such as a sentry or ticket-collector, if one can really act so that the man is somehow persuaded that you have a right to pass unchallenged. This power, …
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…n !——Refers to Buddha and Harpocrates; but also to the symbolism of the Rosy Cross. 4. Gives the cycle of creation. Peace manifesting as Power, Power dissolving in Peace. 5. God. It adds to 66, the sum of the first II numbers. 6. He is God, and there is no other God than He. 7. 0! let us strictly meditate on the adorable light of that divine Savitri (the interior Sun, etc.) May she enlighten our minds ! 8, Say: He is God alone! God the Eternal! He begets not and is not begotten! Nor is there like unto Him any one! g. Unity uttermost showed! I ad…
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…every way less capable than when he left. . But each claims, though in different language, to have gained in his absence some superhuman power. . Do you believe this? It becomes us ill to reject the assertions of those who are admit» 90
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…ons. St. Paul had not been intriguing with an ambitious general. Each came back poor; each came back alone. What was the nature of their power? What happened to them in their absence? History will not help us to solve the problem, for history is silent. We have only the accounts given by the men themselves. It would be very remarkable should we find that these accounts agree. Of the great teachers we have mentioned Christ is silent; the other four tell us something; some more, some less. Buddha goes into details too elaborate to enter upon in th…
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…edly heard in his boyhood, and said “Gabriel appeared to me.” But in spite of his ignorance, his total mis- conception of the truth, the power of the vision was such that he was C
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…from any state possible to an individual. It is by freeing the mind from external influences,whether casual or emotional, that it obtains power to see somewhat of the truth of things. Let us, however, continue our practice. Let us determine to be masters of our minds. We shall then soon find what conditions are favourable. There will be no need to persuade ourselves at great length that all
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…e attempt to repress has the effect of exciting. When the unsuspecting pupil first approaches his holy but Wily Guru, and demands magical powers, that Wise One replies that he will confer them, points outwith much caution and secrecy some particular spot on the pupil’s body which has never previously attracted his attention, and says: “ In order to obtain this magical power which you seek, all that is necessary is to wash seven times in the Ganges during Seven days, being particularly careful to avoid thinking of that one spot.” Of
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8r magical powers; or so he says. These need not be debated here. Any one who wants magic powers can get them in dozens of different ways.- Power grows faster than desire. The boy who wants money to buy lead soldiers sets to work to obtain it, and by the time he has got it wants Something else instead—in all probability something just beyond his means. Such is the splendid history of all spiritual advance! One never stops to take the reward. We shall therefore not trouble at all about what any Samadhi may or may not bring as far as its results …
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…ion. St. Paul had much original talent; but he is the least of the five. Nor do they seem to have possessed any of the usual materials of power, such as rank, fortune, or influence. Moses was rather a big man in Egypt when he left; he came back as a mere stranger.
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9 they accused Christ of “sedition.” When the Pope had all power it was necessary to prove an enemy a “ heretic.” Advancing to-day towards a medical oligarchy, we try to prove that our opponents are “insane,” and (in a Puritan country) to attack their “morals.” We should then avoid all rhetoric, and try to investigate with perfect freedom from bias the phenomena which occurred to these great leaders of mankind. There is no difficulty in our assuming that these men themselves did not understand clearly what happened to them. The only one who expl…
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… more than ten minutes at a time, so as to avoid risk of overtiring the brain. In fact you will probably find that the Whole of your will-power is not equal to keeping to a sub- ject at all for so long as three minutes, or even apparently con— centrating on it for so long as three seconds, or three-fifths of one second. By “keeping to it at all” is meant the mere attempt to keep to it. The mind becomes so fatigued, and the object so incredibly loathsome, that it is useless to continue for the time being. In Frater R’s record we find that after dai…