LIGHT ON THE PATH - 137 : 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 2

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 137 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11

🌻 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 2 🌻

518. The whole world is crying out, as it were, for that certainty about the higher things. So eager are the people that any charlatan who professes to have direct knowledge is at once assured of a following. Any teacher who is in earnest always draws people round him, because the religions of the world have failed sadly to give any real satisfaction.

The weak point of most religious teaching in regard to all the subjects is that it does not explain; it simply lays down the law – perfectly good law – such as “Thou shalt not kill,” but it does not explain in detail why all these things are wrong.

519. The first step towards gaining direct certainty about spiritual or super physical truth is that which is in effect - the first step in all occult progress - the dominating of the personality. When we have achieved that, peace comes at once, and we then find we have been living in the midst of an atmosphere of peace and did not know it; because we ourselves made a little storm around us for us the peace was not, even though some of our neighbours may have been living in it all the time.

When this soul faculty, this certainty, is attained, nothing ever seems the same again, because then we can no longer have any sense of hopelessness. That which we merely believe may fail us at a critical time, because the basis of belief which satisfies a man at one time does not always satisfy him at another, when perhaps he is under tremendous strain. But this certainty always satisfies.

When once we have seen and known for ourselves, even though that sight and knowledge may fall away from us and we may no longer be able to cling to them, we can always say: “I have seen; I have known; just now I am not able to see or to know but I have seen, I have known,” and that certainty carries us through.

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20 Apr 2021