LIGHT ON THE PATH - 92 : Desire peace fervently. The peace you shall desire is that sacred peace which nothing can disturb. - 2

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 92 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 7 - THE 14th RULE

🌻 14. Desire peace fervently. The peace you shall desire is that sacred peace which nothing can disturb. - 2 🌻


357. It is said here that the holy flower grows upon the still lagoons. It is only in still water that the lotus can unfold itself to its best; it cannot do so if it is buffeted about by wind and storm.

It is only in peace that the soul can unfold. Storms of passion and desire are just like storms that beat down the flowers on the physical plane. All developments of the higher kind are like very delicate flowers, and if they are subjected to violent storms of passion they become crushed out, and disappear.

People who are always in royal rages, who constantly brood over all kinds of foolish personal matters, who are always thinking about their own feelings and are filled with jealousy and envy of others, cannot develop all the fine and delicate fronds and tendrils that mean progress.


358. People in general have very little scientific idea of what occult progress, real evolution, means.

Their methods of education alone show that they do not understand it. There is a certain amount of the evolution through which we have gone – up to about the level of the savage and a little higher than that – which we may consider as fairly definitely estabished; that is to say, we could not very well fall back below that point under any circumstances. But the growth that comes beyond that – beyond the almost animal part, or at any rate the lower and emotional part, of man – is a question of exceedingly delicate development of many sorts.

The things which differentiate the highly cultured and artistic person from the quite coarse and undeveloped person are all of a very subtle nature – matters of long and slow and careful growth; they are tender shoots of great promise, which have hardly as yet blossomed forth, and have certainly not yet reached what they shall be in the future. The first blast of unfavourable conditions destroys that finer growth.

The rough and tumble of modern education, in which children are frightened and sometimes even ill-treated, has the effect of crushing out all the delicate bloom of culture and refinement which souls that have come into these child bodies may have been acquiring for a very long time past – perhaps for twenty or thirty lives.

In consequence the children become very much like primitive savages. They are often full of fear and hatred and a great sense of abiding injustice, and all the finer development which really marks the difference between a later and, an earlier sub-race is swept away.


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03 Feb 2021