LIGHT ON THE PATH - 7

🌹   LIGHT ON THE PATH - 7   🌹

🍀   For those WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN - For DISCIPLES  🍀

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 INTRODUCTION - 7 🌻

24. It is easy for some of us who have undergone the training that enables us to remember our past lives.

I remember my own last incarnation in Greece, where I took part in the Eleusinian Mysteries, and another life much earlier in which the great Mysteries of Egypt, of which some remnants still exist in Freemasonry, figured largely, and that enables me to get more good out of such books as this than I could without such memory.

Even impressions from the past, giving a sense of atmosphere, are a great help. Egyptian or Indian, there is no more precious gem in our Theosophical literature – no book which will better repay the most careful and detailed study.

25. As already explained, Light on the Path was the first of three treatises which occupy an unique position in our Theosophical literature, as they give directions from Those who have trodden the Path to those who desire to tread it.

I remember that the late Swami T. Subba Row once told us that its precepts had several layers of meaning – that they could be taken over and over again as directions for different stages.

First, they are useful for the aspirants – those who are treading the probationary path. Then they begin all over again at a higher level for him who has entered upon the Path proper through the portal of the first of the great Initiations.

And yet again, when Adeptship has been attained, it is said that once more, in some still higher sense, these same precepts may be taken as directions for one who presses onwards to still higher achievements. In this way, for the man who can understand it in the whole of its mystic meaning, this manual carries us farther than any other.

These books which are definitely written for the quickening of the evolution of those who are on the Path put forward ideals which men in the world are usually not prepared to accept. Even among students there may be some who wonder at the form in which the teaching is given. The only way to understand it is to take it for granted and try to live it.

In At the Feet of the Master it is said that it is not enough to say that it is poetic and beautiful; a man who wishes to succeed must do exactly what the Master says, attending to every word and taking every hint. That is equally true of this book.

The man who does not try to live according to the teaching will constantly come up against points in it which will ruffle him – with which he will find himself quite out of agreement; but if he tries to live it, the sense in which it is to be taken will eventually dawn upon him.

Any honest effort really to live the teaching always throws light on it, and that is the only way in which this priceless pearl can be appreciated.

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07 Oct 2020