The Ministry of Christ
Christ sets His followers no tasks. He appoints no hours. He allots no sphere. He Himself simply went about and did good. He did not stop life to do some special things should be called religious. His life was His…
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Great Magnet
GREAT MAGNET! Thy hidden power Draws us ever onward to spaces anew. Secret in the earth They life-forces waken Stirrings and whispers that the ear cannot hear; Later will come birth in the fullness of They splendour — Now is…
Hermetic Wisdom
Hermes brings our intellectual endowments to light, fills everything with divine reason, moves our souls towards Nous, awakens us as it were from our heavy slumber, through our searching turns us back upon ourselves, through our birth pangs perfects us,…
The Great Purpose
True knowledge has to be gained through an increasing perception of the universality of all law and the universal line of progress for every being of whatever grade. We have to think and practice altruism before the higher and more…
Fiery Brooding
The meditation they urged on us has been explained as the ‘inexpressible yearnings of the inner man to go out into the infinite.’ But that Infinite we would enter is living. It is the ultimate being of us. Meditation is…
Right Proportion
Let man consider who he is and what he should and must become… Man needs more than common intelligence to know who he is; only he who studies him properly and knows whence he comes and who he is will…
City of the Soul
Holy men dance and wheel on the spiritual battlefield. They dance in their own blood. When they are freed from the dominion of self, they clap a hand; When they transcend their own imperfections, they make a dance. From within…
The Workshop of Souls
A song of the rolling earth, and the words according. Were you thinking that those were the words, those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots? No, those are not the words, the substantial words are in the ground and sea.…
Becoming Awake
Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep. Why is it that men give so poor an account of their day if they have not been slumbering? They are not such poor calculators. If they had not been overcome…
Tranquility
One who was suffering tumult in his soul Yet failed to seek the sure relief of prayer, Went forth—his course surrendering to the care Of fierce wind, while mid-day lightnings prowl Insiduously, untimely thunders growl; While trees, dim-seen, in frenzied…
The Christ Soul
And now my grief I see Was but the ancient shadow part of me, Not yet attuned to good, Still blind and senseless in its warring mood, I turn from it and climb To heroic spirit of the prime, The…
Dana-Tapas-Yajna
Each aspirant has to perform daily actions in the natural course of his life, using his own free will and knowledge. He has to eat to build his body as a shrine of his soul; again he has to sacrifice…