LIGHT ON THE PATH - 1 : THE FOUR PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS - 1

🌹   LIGHT ON THE PATH - 1   🌹

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✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj


🌴 THE FOUR PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS - 1 🌴

🌻   1. BEFORE THE EYES CAN SEE THEY MUST BE IN CAPABLE OF TEARS .  🌻


29. A.B. – This is the first of four statements which describe the four qualifications preliminary to the Path proper. They describe true sight, true hearing, true speech and true standing in the presence of the Master, that is to say, true ability to serve mankind under His direction.

30. This and the following three statements are intended for two classes of disciples. In the first class are those who are on the probationary path, and are therefore being taught to get rid of all that we speak of as the personality; these preliminary instructions are intended to show them that they must begin by eliminating the lower self.

In the second class are those who are already initiated. Something more is demanded from them. They must get rid of their individuality, the reincarnating ego, so that at the end of the Path their life will be entirely under the direction of the Monad.

We shall see therefore that each of these four statements can be taken as affecting the personality or the individuality, and according to the position of the student who is trying to live out their teaching will be the point of view from which he will understand them.

31. It is worth while to notice and remember that these statements can be taken from two quite different points of view in another way also.

These teachings come from Masters of the White Lodge, but exactly the same statements are made by those who follow the black magic of the dark side of life, whom we sometimes speak of as the Brothers of the Shadow or of Darkness.

There are two ways in which the eyes may become incapable of tears, and according to his motive will be the path along which the aspirant will go.

One way is that of the man who aspires to become a disciple of the dark side; he will take this statement as teaching complete indifference to pleasure and pain by means of hardening the heart and avoiding all sympathy.

Anyone who tries to become incapable of tears by killing out all feeling will be going towards the dark path.

The man on the other way is becoming incapable of tears only as far as his own personal sorrows are concerned. His own lower nature does not move him, but he is fully awake to the feelings of others. Only at his peril can a man become indifferent to the sufferings of others.

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09 Oct 2020