LIGHT ON THE PATH - 156 : 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. - 7

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 156 🌹

🍀 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. - 7 🌻

568. So I would say to those who grumble at what they consider faults in disciples, and say they ought not to be chosen: “You must be taking a partial view; you are using your intellect in a line where it is not useful.

If you know of the existence of the Masters, and understand anything of Their powers, you may be very sure that They know exactly what They are doing; and if you do not see what it is, after all it is not essential that you should. They know; that is the important thing.” The recognition is not always made known at once to the disciple.

The ordinary course is that a man who has shown himself worthy of the high honour of discipleship is brought somehow into close touch with one who is already a disciple of his future Master, and the Master through that disciple usually gives some instructions to him. Probably the Master will say to the older disciple: “Bring so-and-so to me astrally one night.”

The man is brought, and then the Master says to him: I have been watching your work, and I think that you can perhaps make a further advancement. I offer you the position of a probationary pupil if you will undertake to devote all your energies, or as much as you can, to the service of humanity, in a direction which I shall indicate.”

That is the most usual procedure, but sometimes such a recognition as that comes only after a very long period. And even then there may be reasons why the man should know nothing of it in his waking consciousness.


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07 Jun 2021