LIGHT ON THE PATH - 1

🌹   LIGHT ON THE PATH - 1   🌹

🍀 TALKS ON THE PATH OF OCCULTISM 🍀

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 INTRODUCTION - 1 🌻

1. A.B. – Light on the Path is one of a number of different occult treatises which are in the care of the great Teachers and are used in the instruction of disciples.

It is a part of The Book of the Golden Precepts, which contains many treatises which were written in different ages of the world, but have one characteristic in common, that they contain occult truth, and have therefore to be studied in a different way from ordinary books.

The understanding of these treatises depends upon the capacity of the reader, and when any one of them is published to the world only distorted views of its teaching will be acquired, if it is taken literally.

2. Definitely intended for the quickening of the evolution of those who are on the Path, this book puts forward ideals which people of the world are rarely prepared to accept. Only as far as a man is able and willing to live the teaching, will he be able to understand it.

If he does not practise it, it will remain a sealed book to him. Any effort to live it will throw light upon it; but if the reader makes no effort, he will not only gain very little, but he will turn against the book and say that it is useless.

3. This treatise falls naturally into certain divisions. It was given to the Western world by the Master Hilarion, one of the great Teachers belonging to the White Lodge – a Master who played a great part in the Gnostic and Neoplatonic movements, one of the great persons who made attempts to keep Christianity alive. His incarnations have run very much in Greece and Rome, and He takes special interest in guiding the evolution of the Western world.

He obtained the book as we have it, without the notes, from the Venetian Master, one of the greater Teachers whom H.P.B. spoke of as Chohans.

4. Fifteen of the short rules that you find in the first part of this book, and fifteen in the second part, are exceedingly old, and were written in the most ancient Sanskrit.

To these short sentences which are used as a basis for the instruction of the disciple, the Chohan added other sentences, which now form part of the book, and are always to be read along with them, to supply complementary ideas without which the reader might be led astray. All the rules in both parts of the book, except the thirty short aphorisms, were written by the Chohan who gave it to the Master Hilarion.

The following table shows the fifteen short rules in Part I as they existed in the exceedingly ancient manuscript; the number at the beginning of each is the original one, but the number at the end is that which appears in the modern book.

1. Kill out ambition.

2. Kill out desire of life.

3. Kill out desire of comfort.

4. Kill out all sense of separateness.

5. Kill out desire of sensation.

6. Kill out the hunger for growth.

7. Desire only that which is within you.

8. Desire only that which is beyond you.

9. Desire only that which is unattainable.

10. Desire power ardently.

11. Desire peace fervently.

12. Desire possessions above all.

13. Seek out the way.

14. Seek the way by retreating within.

15. Seek the way by advancing boldly without.

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