The Aboriginal Self
The magnetism which all original action exerts is explained when we inquire the reason of self-trust. Who is the Trustee? What is the aboriginal Self on which a universal reliance may be grounded? What is the nature and power of…
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Secret of Health
To know you do not know is insight; To think you know when you do not is sickness. Only when we are sick of our sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is never sick, being sick of…
Raja Yoga
Raj Yoga encourages no sham, requires no physical postures. It has to deal with the inner man whose sphere lies in the world of thought. To have the highest ideal placed before oneself and strive incessantly to rise up to it,…
Aquarian Axioms
1. Life is built up by the sacrifice of the individual to the whole. Each cell in the living body must sacrifice itself to the perfection of the whole; when it is otherwise, disease and death enforce the lesson.2. Harmony is the…
The Law of Cycles
The Eternity of the Universe in tōtō [in total] as a boundless plane; periodically “the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing,” called “the manifesting stars,” and the “sparks of Eternity.” “The Eternity of the Pilgrim” is like a wink of the Eye of…
Self-Induced Efforts
The fundamental identity of all Souls with the Universal Over-Soul, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul—a spark of the former—through the Cycle of Incarnation (or “Necessity”) in accordance with…
Who Loves, Lives
He who loves lives; He who loves himself lives in hell; He who loves another lives on earth; He who loves others lives in Heaven; but he who silently adores the Self of all creatures lives in that Self; and…
The Names of THAT
(1) Transcendental (parã) – The illumining principle behind is the pure Self, the Consciousness, which is one without a second upon which the universe of names and forms is an illusory projection. Hence Brahman is indicated in the philosophy of Vedãnta as…
The Causeless Cause
. . . The ever unknowable and incognizable Karana alone, the Causeless Cause of all causes, should have it shrine and altar on the holy and ever untrodden ground of our heart–invisible, intangible, unmentioned, save through “the still small voice” of our spiritual consciousness. …
Spirit of Wisdom to Wield
CHORUS OF SPIRITS Our spoil is won, Our task is done, We are free to dive, or soar, or run; Beyond and around, Or within the bound Which clips the world with darkness round. We’ll pass the eyes Of the…
Axioms in the Pursuit of Knowledge
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Ignorance is the root of all evil. True knowledge begins in knowing that you know nothing. The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest quest. To…
Where Wisdom Grows
I am because we are, This truth, I carry near and far. In the warmth of every hand I clasp, I feel the pulse of life’s vast grasp. In ancient lands, where wisdom grows, I’ve walked with those who truly…