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Page 1 of 11903 · PDF PAGE 19
… Buddhist recluse is roughly as follows; He must plunge every particle of his being into one idea: right views, aspirations, word, deed, life, will- power, meditation, rapture, such are the stages of his liberation, which resolves itself into a struggle against the law of causality. He cannot prevent past causes taking effect, but he can prevent present causes from haying any future results. The exoteric Christian and Hindu rather rely on another person to do this for them, and are further blinded by the thirst for life and individual existence…
1903 · PDF PAGE 7
…ere is any place, not only for morals and religion, which we can very well do without, but for the most essential and continuous acts of life? Why should an. infinite Ego fill a non-existent body with imaginary food cooked in thought only over an illusionary fire by a cook who is not there? Why should infinite power use such finite means, and very often fail even then?” * Encyclopedia Britannica. Art. Metaphysics. + The Principles of Mevaphysics, Macmillan.
1903 · PDF PAGE 10
…was limited in all sorts of ways. At the Fall, for instance, Tetragrammaton Elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the Tree of Life, lest ke should be proved a liar. For had it occurred to Adam to eat of that Tree before their trans- gression was discovered, or had the Serpent been aware * An expression they carefully avoid using.
1903 · PDF PAGE 20
18 by superior power—a task from which almightiness might well recoil baffled !—I much fear that eternal life, and con- sequently eternal suffering, joy, and change of all kinds, will be their melancholy fate! Such persons are in truth their own real enemies. Many of them, however, believing erroneously that they are being “unselfish,” do fill their hearts with devotion for the beloved Saviour, and this process is, in its ultimation, so similar to the earlier stages of the Great Work itself, that some confusion has, stupidly enough, arisen; but…