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