The Circle of Eternity
Close your eyes and let the mind expand.Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course.Allow the mind to merge with Mind.Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness.Let it soar on the wings of the great…
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Humility
It is my humility that gives God his divinity and the proof of it is this, God’s peculiar property is giving. But God cannot give if he has nothing to receive his gifts. Now I make myself receptive to his…
Self-Mastery
In such a great work as this Movement no one should expect to find his associates all congenial, intuitive, prudent and courageous. One of the first proofs of self-mastery is when one shows that he can be kind and forbearing…
The Golden Rule
Hindu: This is the sum of duty; do naught unto others which if done to thee would cause thee pain. Zoroastrian: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself. Taoist: Regard…
The Self-Evolving Circle
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him…
Fiery Martyrdom
There was a Being whom my spirit oft Met on its visioned wanderings, far aloft, In the clear golden prime of my youth’s dawn, Upon the fairy isles of sunny lawn, Amid the enchanted mountains, and the caves Of divine…
The Divine Resonance
Meditation on tone, as expressed in this Sanskrit word OM, will lead us to a knowledge of the secret Doctrine. We find expressed in the merely mortal music the seven divisions of the divine essence, for as the microcosm is…
Food, Rain and Sacrifice
“Beings are nourished by food, food is produced by rain, rain comes from sacrifice, and sacrifice is performed by action. Know that action comes from the Supreme Spirit who is one; wherefore the all-pervading Spirit is at all times present…
The Omnipresent Proteus
All original thinkers and investigators of the hidden side of nature whether materialists—those who find in matter “the promise and potency of all terrestrial life,” or spiritualists—that is, those who discover in spirit the source of all energy and of…
True Love
True Love in this differs from gold and clay,That to divide is not to take away.Love is like understanding that grows brightGazing on many truths; ‘t is like thy light,Imagination! which from earth and sky,And from the depths of human…
Gandhi’s Talisman
I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test: Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen and…
The Priceless Prize
Thou canst not buy true goodness in the market: Nor canst thou win it unto thee by distant pilgrimage: It dwelleth not in rich men’s storehouses, Nor yet with hermits in the forest depths: No gold can purchase it: It…