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