LIGHT ON THE PATH - 152 : When the disciple is ready to learn, then he is accepted, acknowledged, recognized. It must be so, for he has lit his lamp, and it cannot be hidden. - 3

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 152 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 When the disciple is ready to learn, then he is accepted, acknowledged, recognized. It must be so, for he has lit his lamp, and it cannot be hidden. - 3 🌻

563. In exactly the same way, if people think themselves better in various ways than others who are selected by the Masters as pupils, they should remember that the Master makes His selections with unerring judgment.

There are no doubt many things on higher planes which even a Master does not yet know, but quite certainly with regard to all these lower planes with which we have anything to do, His knowledge may be accepted as infallible. There are higher Adepts who stand above the Masters, such as the Manu and the Bodhisattva, the Buddha and the great Lord of the World, who must know certain things which even our Masters do not know: that is clear.

The Logos of the solar system must know still more, and beyond that there must be higher Logoi who have yet wider knowledge. But we may be quite sure of the Master’s judgment and accuracy with regard to these planes which He has fully and finally mastered. Therefore, if He chooses a man He is not making a mistake.

564. Even in the rare case when a man afterwards falls away and acts unworthily it does not follow that the Master made a mistake in selecting such a man. The man must have had the right to that splendid opportunity, and because he had earned that right the opportunity had to be given him.

A vast amount of trouble may have been taken in the training of such a pupil, and it looks as though it were wasted; but that is not so. It will all count somewhere, somehow, in the course of his evolution; that is certain.

The Master sometimes offers an opportunity to a man because he has earned it, although there may be in that man along with certain good qualities others less desirable, which would make him unsuitable if they happened to get the upper hand. Nevertheless the offer is made because it is just that it should be made.


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30 May 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 151 : When the disciple is ready to learn, then he is accepted, acknowledged, recognized. It must be so, for he has lit his lamp, and it cannot be hidden. - 2

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 151 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 When the disciple is ready to learn, then he is accepted, acknowledged, recognized. It must be so, for he has lit his lamp, and it cannot be hidden. - 2 🌻


562. People who make remarks like those forget the general principle which lies at the back of all occult progress. Their objection is exactly the same in nature as that which is so often brought against the law of karma.

People say they cannot see the justice of certain things that have happened to them, and therefore there is no law of justice. “Justice is not to be had – it is a delusion.” That is precisely what it would be to say, “I have made a machine to go by hydraulic power, and it does not work; therefore there is no such thing as hydraulic pressure.”

No sane man would say that; he would begin to look for the fault in his machine, knowing that the laws of nature are invariable, and mistakes are not made along that line. No one would take that attitude with regard to a law of physical science, yet people will do it in connection with the law of karma.

If they would begin with the hypothesis that the law of karma exists, and that it invariably works, then, when they cannot see how it operates in a particular case, they would attribute the fault to themselves and their limited vision, and not make so foolish a mistake as to say that there is no such thing as the law of karma.

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28 May 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 150 : When the disciple is ready to learn, then he is accepted, acknowledged, recognized. It must be so, for he has lit his lamp, and it cannot be hidden. - 1

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 150 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 When the disciple is ready to learn, then he is accepted, acknowledged, recognized. It must be so, for he has lit his lamp, and it cannot be hidden. - 1 🌻

558. Only if with intense exaltation and bliss there comes at the same time a sense of uttermost calm and peace is one touching higher levels; when there is excitement and disturbance, and a loss of self-control, one is certainly down on a lower level.

560. This is a comforting saying. Disciples are always watched, though many people find difficulty in realizing this. The Great Ones Themselves have explained that when They look over the world the man who has lit his lamp shows out like a great flame in the general darkness.

They could not miss seeing it. Carefully They are watching wherever the light is beginning to glow and are trying to help each little glow to kindle into flame, so that these also may become bearers of light, to the world.

561. People are apt sometimes to criticize unwisely in this matter. Perhaps it is natural; but it would be better for them if they did not. I have myself known cases in which members – generally keenly intellectual people, who were very sharp in discriminating faults and failings in others – have said:

“So-and-so is a pupil of the Master; I do not see that he is in any way more fit for such a position than I am myself. I have been so many years in the Society; I have done such-and-such work, and if such-and-such a man with certain obvious failings may be accepted, why should not I?”


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26 May 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 149 : To read, in the occult sense, is to read with the eyes of the spirit. To ask is to feel the hunger within – the yearning of spiritual aspiration. - 4

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 149 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 To read, in the occult sense, is to read with the eyes of the spirit. To ask is to feel the hunger within – the yearning of spiritual aspiration. - 4 🌻

557. A clairvoyant watching a revivalist meeting will generally see that non-human entities are gathered round it in order to take advantage of the vast waves of uncontrolled emotion. Emotion is a tremendous force and these waves are, if we consider actual measurement, things of enormous size and power.

They dash and rush about through the astral world in the neighbourhood, and produce all the effect there that a great tempest would show on the physical plane. There are many astral creatures who revel in that. They plunge in and feel the greatest delight and excitement because of it.

They neither know nor care whether the emotion is religious feeling or hatred or love; they want only the tremendous vibration, the swirl and sway of the storm. These beings take the greatest delight in sweeping round in its vortices, and being carried away by it, very much in the same way that surf-bathers do in the sea.

For that purpose these entities will stir up emotion among human beings as much as they can; they simply know that here is something which they enjoy tremendously, so they go to work to intensify it as much as possible. Very largely they are responsible for the great outbursts of force on such occasions, and these creatures make it greater just as a school of whales rushing about in rough water would make it rougher.

They have just about the same amount of intelligence as those animals, so there is nothing very spiritual about it. It is not, as many people think, a divine afflatus, nor is it exactly dignified to allow oneself to be the sport of creatures at that level.

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24 May 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 148 : To read, in the occult sense, is to read with the eyes of the spirit. To ask is to feel the hunger within – the yearning of spiritual aspiration. - 3

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 148 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 To read, in the occult sense, is to read with the eyes of the spirit. To ask is to feel the hunger within – the yearning of spiritual aspiration. - 3🌻

555. Such emotionalism is not permissible, however, to students of occultism, because they are beyond the stage at which such excitement could advance their progress. There must be no confusion between emotion of that sort and the exaltation of the higher planes. People at such revivals often pass into an ecstatic condition in which they certainly lose control for the time.

I have myself seen cases in which people stamped about, shouted loudly, and were so carried out of themselves that they did not know what they were doing. They say it is all joy; I suppose that they certainly do feel that, but it is an uncontrolled emotion, and therefore is to be avoided by the student of occultism.

556. The man who experiences buddhic consciousness is also carried out of himself, with a bliss so intense that words altogether fail to express it: but he never loses the knowledge that he is himself. He is on a higher level: he is more himself than he ever was before; he does not lose his self-control.

The ecstasy which he feels may indeed produce by reflection a certain emotion in the personality – a feeling of most intense joy on all levels, but never an uncontrolled emotion. It would never lead him into rash or ill-considered actions, to forget himself or lose his dignity. With the intense exaltation, with the indescribable bliss of the higher experience, there comes an utter peace which seems to fill the earth, whereas the lower emotions disturb the equilibrium to a most extraordinary extent.

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22 May 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 147 : To read, in the occult sense, is to read with the eyes of the spirit. To ask is to feel the hunger within – the yearning of spiritual aspiration. - 2

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 147 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 To read, in the occult sense, is to read with the eyes of the spirit. To ask is to feel the hunger within – the yearning of spiritual aspiration. - 2 🌻

553. Undoubtedly there are people in whom the higher aspiration can be evoked by working from below, but they are very few and they would be little likely to be found among the less cultured classes.

This is not a narrow or illiberal view to take, because conditions of birth result from karma; if a person is born in a class of life in which he is uncultured and uneducated, it is because he has deserved that birth, and therefore the strong probabilities are that he is a younger soul than one who is born with greater advantages.

That is not invariably so, because there are many exceptions and special cases, but broadly speaking it is true. So when evangelists of the Moody and Sankey type address themselves chiefly to the less educated people it is on the whole to be expected that they will arouse their emotions only, and it is uncertain whether the results will or will not be permanent. If the impression made is strong enough, the memory of it will survive even when the emotion dies down, and the person who has been what they call “saved” may remain in his new and more exalted frame of mind.

554. These great emotional upheavals are sometimes beneficial, but in many instances they are harmful. Against the cases of people who have thereby permanently abandoned their evil life we have to set those ethers in which serious harm is done, in which people, for example, are altogether driven off their mental balance, and become weak-minded or even violently insane.

Cases in which lasting benefit results are not very common; the great majority are affected only temporarily: the excitement passes and no very definite good remains. Nevertheless it is a good thing in those cases in which people are raised even temporarily to a higher level.

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19 May 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 146 : To read, in the occult sense, is to read with the eyes of the spirit. To ask is to feel the hunger within – the yearning of spiritual aspiration. - 1

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 146 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 To read, in the occult sense, is to read with the eyes of the spirit. To ask is to feel the hunger within – the yearning of spiritual aspiration. - 1 🌻

550. To read, in the occult sense, is to read with the eyes of the spirit. To ask is to feel the hunger within – the yearning of spiritual aspiration. To be able to read means having obtained the power in a small degree of gratifying that hunger.

551. The yearning of spiritual aspiration is not the mere desire to know and understand, which we might have in connection with the causal body. It belongs rather to the higher manifestation of the buddhic level, and it is only there that it can be fully satisfied. As I have explained, what happens in the buddhic vehicle, if brought down to the personality, is reflected in the astral body. People consequently often mistake an emotional outrush which belongs to the astral plane for real spiritual aspiration.

552. Those who have studied occultism ought not to make that mistake, but beginners frequently do so. We very often see examples of that during religious revivalist meetings, when quite uneducated and undeveloped people are worked up into a high condition of ecstasy for the time by the preaching of some person who is full of strong emotion himself, and therefore is able to awaken it in his hearers. Some of the great emotional preachers of the past had that power very strongly indeed. I do not for a moment say that they did not accomplish a great deal of good; no doubt they did, but most of their work was confessedly what we should call astral – it was aimed at the feelings of the people.

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17 May 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 145 : 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 12

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 145 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 12 🌻

548. The great characteristic of the buddhic plane is that its work is done from the inside. If we want to sympathize with a man, to understand him fully in order to help him, and are working in the causal body, we, metaphorically speaking, turn the limelight upon his causal body, and study all his peculiarities; they are quite well marked and plainly to be seen, but they are always seen from without.

If we want the same knowledge, possessing the faculty of the buddhic plane, we raise our consciousness to the buddhic plane, and there we find the consciousness of this other man as part of ourselves. We find a point of consciousness there which represents him – we might call it a hole rather than a point.

We can pour ourselves down that hole and enter into his consciousness at any lower level that we wish, and therefore we can see everything precisely as he sees it – from inside him, as it were, instead of looking at him from outside. It will be easily understood how much more that lends itself to perfect understanding and sympathy.

549. When we have the wider view which such knowledge gives, and, having become one with all these different entities and all their different problems, we are studying them from within instead of from without, we can see the direction in which we ought to bring our force to bear.

That is another and very great advantage – that we know how to approach problems down here. I do not mean that a man who has had a glimpse of that unity would not make mistakes on a lower plane; but he would not make such mistakes if he were able to raise his consciousness to that plane, look at the thing from that point of view, and then bring the remembrance clearly down into his physical brain and act upon it.

He might not always have time to go through that proceeding, or he might not think of doing it at the moment; therefore, at times he would make errors like other men, but certainly he would have very great advantage in the possession of that power, not only because of the greater knowledge it gave him at the moment, but also because of the wider view which would enable him to see in what direction his forces could best be used to produce the desired results.

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14 May 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 144 : 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 11

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 144 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 11 🌻

546. Both the astral impulses and the intuitions from above enter the etheric part of the physical brain from the astral plane, but the intuition would come originally either from the causal or from the buddhic body, as the case may be. Since both descend from above it is often difficult to distinguish between them.

We shall be able to distinguish infallibly at a later stage, because then we shall have our consciousness opened above the astral level and will know certainly whether these promptings arise in the astral body or come from a higher plane. At present most people have not that advantage, and consequently they have to exercise their best judgment with such mind as they have succeeded in developing.

547. When the twenty-one rules are passed and the disciple at Initiation receives a touch of buddhic consciousness, the knowledge of unity appears to him as a great spiritual fact. After that experience there is a difference between him and the ordinary man who asks with his mind. It has often been said that unity is the characteristic of the buddhic plane. That, perhaps, requires a little more explanation.

One may know something fairly completely in one’s causal body – know the essence of the thing, because the ego, working through the causal body, thinks abstract thoughts. He does not need to descend to examples, for his thoughts pierce through to the heart of the matter. But all that, however wonderful it is, is still done from the outside.


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12 May 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 143 : 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 10

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 143 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 10 🌻

543. So we must use our intellect in such a way that it will be an instrument of the ego, and will not be an obstacle in the path of his development. Therefore, when conscience seems to dictate to us something which is clearly against the great laws of mercy and truth and justice, we shall do well to think carefully whether the universal rule is not a greater thing than this particular application which seems to conflict with it.

544. Even before we have any definite consciousness on the intuitional plane we often receive reflections from it. Intuitions occasionally come through into our daily life, and although most of those impressions from the higher self which are genuine come rather from the causal world than from the buddhic, still now and then we receive a flash of the real knowledge of the spirit which cannot express itself on any level lower than the buddhic plane. These priceless flashes bring us a knowledge which we feel to be absolutely certain, though in many cases we cannot give any intellectual reason for it.

545. We are right in feeling confident about it, if the thing is a real intuition. The difficulty for most of us at the earlier stages is that we cannot always distinguish between intuition and impulse.

Dr. Besant has given one or two rules for that distinction. She says: “If you have time to wait and see, let the matter remain for a while – sleep on it, as people sometimes say. If it be merely an impulse, the probability is that it will die away; if it is a real intuition it will remain as strong as ever.

Then, again, the intuition is always connected with something unselfish. If there is any touch of selfishness shown in some impulse coming from a higher plane you may be sure that it is only an astral impulse and not a true buddhic intuition.”


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10 May 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 142 : 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 9

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 142 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 9 🌻

541. We are always told that we must follow our own conscience. The dictates of conscience come from above and represent usually the knowledge of the ego on the subject. But the ego himself is only partially developed as yet. His knowledge on any given subject may be quite small, or even inaccurate, and he can reason only from the information before him.

Because of this a man’s conscience often misleads him. It sometimes happens that an ego who is young and knows but little may nevertheless be able to impress his will upon the personality. As a general rule, the undeveloped ego is also undeveloped in his power of impressing himself upon his lower vehicles, and perhaps that is just as well.

Sometimes, however, an ego who lacks development in tolerance and wide knowledge may yet have a will sufficiently strong to impress upon his physical brain orders which would show that he was a very young ego and did not understand.1 1 Ante., Vol. I, Part IV, Ch. 6: Confidence.

542. We cannot but obey our conscience, yet surely we might try to check and verify it by certain broad facts which no one can dispute. It may be that the Inquisitors were acting under the dictates of their conscience sometimes, but if they had compared the great broad rules that they should love one another which their supposed leader had given them, with the conscience which dictated murders and tortures and burnings, they would have waited and said:

“Manifestly something is wrong. Let us at least take counsel before we follow our instincts in this particular matter.” They would have been quite right to take such counsel, to test that conscience, by the general rules coming from One whom they themselves acknowledged as infinitely greater than themselves. They did not think of it; so came much evil into the world. Very few people will pause and consider in a case of that sort, yet one can easily see that it is the only safe thing to do.

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08 May 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 141 : 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 8

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 141 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 8 🌻

🍁 537. Those that ask shall have. But though the ordinary man asks perpetually, his voice is not heard. For he asks with his mind only; and the voice of the mind is only heard on that plane on which the mind acts. Therefore, not until the first twenty-one rules are passed do I say that those that ask shall have. 🍁

538. People generally take this to mean that their prayers will be answered and that if they knock at the door of heaven it will be opened to them. They vaguely think that if they try to obtain salvation it will be vouchsafed to them. This passage takes a higher standpoint, and refers quite clearly to truth and occult development. It does not apply to the ordinary man, but to the pupil who, when the first twenty-one rules are passed, has reached the first Initiation.

539. The man who asks with his mind only is endeavouring to gain occult knowledge, trying to peer into the mysteries of life and nature, merely by his mental powers, and the Master says quite clearly that that is not enough.

That man will get his reply, but only at the level on which the mind acts. That is, he will acquire only an intellectual conception of certain matters. Still, that is a very fine thing to have, and is not at all to be despised. The man who in studying Theosophy obtains a firm intellectual grasp of its teaching has done exceedingly well. He then accepts it as true, because it satisfies the demands of his intellect.

That is already a valuable result, but it is not actual knowledge; it is not at all the same thing as the absolute certainty which comes from knowledge gained on the intuitional plane, and the occultist thinks only of that knowledge as marking a really important advance.

540. One cannot have too keen an intellect; we may take that quite definitely for granted. It is well that we should endeavour to add to our knowledge, to develop our intellects by doing something definite, because, as I have explained before, no great progress can be made before there is mental as well as astral development.

In some cases the man who gains an intellectual grasp of the Theosophical system may run a considerable risk of exalting his intellect unduly. He may be tempted to criticize, to feel that he could have planned the universe much better than it is at present arranged.

The man who does that is making an entirely wrong use of his intellect and will do himself harm. It would be much better for him if he were able to acquire some development along the line of feeling more deeply and keenly.

But if along with his intellectual development the man can retain humility, if, while he grasps as much as he can of the system, he can yet, within himself and without, refrain from sitting in judgment upon it, then only good will result from his development.


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06 May 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 140 : 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 7

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 140 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 7 🌻

534. Few people have developed the mental body to a point at which it can be used as a vehicle. Pupils of the Masters are in due course taught to travel in their mental bodies, and to form what is called the mayavi rupa when they wish to work on the astral plane.

One who has learnt to do this leaves his astral and physical bodies lying on the bed, and when he wishes to work on the astral plane he materializes a temporary astral body for that purpose and lets it dissolve again as soon as the necessity for it has passed. The Master first teaches the pupil how it is done, and after that he can do it for himself, as I have explained in The Masters and the Path?1 1 Op. cit., Ch. IX.

535. The assurance that the disciple will find his Master in the hall of learning seems to be a direct contradiction to the direction given in The Voice of the Silence – “Look not for thy Guru in those mayavic regions “2 (2 Ante, Vol. II, p. 102.) The two passages are perfectly reconcilable if one understands what each means.

The meaning here is that in the astral world the man will always find someone representing the Master. The Master Himself will deal with him probably only on special occasions, and he will work on the astral plane generally under the direction of one of the older pupils of the Master.

536. The statement in The Voice of the Silence is merely a warning to us not to accept any casual astral entity as a guide, without knowing exactly who he is, for there are numbers of astral beings of various kinds who are ready in the most praiseworthy way to appoint themselves as teachers, and they are not in the least deterred by the fact that they often know very much less than the people whom they propose to teach.


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03 May 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 139 : 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 6

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 139 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 11 - Master Hilarion’s note on Rule 21.

🌻 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then - 6 🌻

🍁 530. Therefore, in the Hall of Learning, when he is capable of entering there, the disciple will always find his Master. 🍁

531. There has been a great deal of misunderstanding about those words, “the Hall of Learning”. They are used also in The Voice of the Silence. The three halls mentioned there may be taken in more than one way, as I have already explained.

532. 533. Mabel Collins, who wrote down Light on the Path, took the hall of learning in a very literal sense as an actual building. She speaks of having astrally entered this building and seen some of these precepts written there in golden letters on the wall. She may be perfectly right in making this statement.

This experience may belong to the particular method by which she was taught, and those who taught her may have had such a temple. I do not know whether that is so; I can only say that I have never seen it. But it is quite obvious that much of what is said here about the hall of learning clearly refers to the astral plane, where the aspirant at first learns most of his lessons.

Few men have yet developed the astral body fully; most are still learning how to use it; therefore a great deal of work is being done at that level. Men are also gradually developing the mental body, but are not yet able to use that as a vehicle even after death.

Anyone who has developed the faculties of the mental body and can look at dead people, finds them each shut up in a shell of his own thought, with certain avenues open from that shell – but only a very few, and only to a very limited degree.

The dead man lives in that shell, and not in the mental world at all. That is why he is perfectly happy with his very limited ideas. Undoubtedly his capacity for bliss would be far greater if he had the whole mental plane at his disposal and had developed the faculties which would enable him to function fully on it. As it is, he is in the midst of it all, but because of his limitations he can touch only a small amount of what might otherwise be attained.


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01 May 2021