LIGHT ON THE PATH - 160 : But to learn is impossible until the first great battle has been won. The mind may recognize truth, but the spirit cannot receive it. - 2

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 160 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

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

🌻 But to learn is impossible until the first great battle has been won. The mind may recognize truth, but the spirit cannot receive it. - 2 🌻

574. Then the Master goes on to speak about the knowledge which is attained by this intuition. I have already explained that at each Initiation the candidate receives a key of knowledge which puts a different complexion upon life for him, shows him a deeper depth, a fuller unfolding, as it were, of the meaning of the occult teaching.

Each time, as he receives it, it seems to the man to be final. He says: “Now I have all knowledge; this is so satisfying, so complete, it is impossible that there could be more.” There is an infinity yet to be learnt; he is only on the road of learning. As he goes on, more and more will be unfolded before him. The Master knows precisely at what stage it is most useful to give certain information.

People often think they ought to have it all at once. That is just as foolish as it would be to expect a teacher to explain the differential calculus to a child who was only just learning the multiplication table. He must go through many intervening stages before he can know even remotely what it means.

575. It is exactly so with us. We are a little apt often – again comes that intellectual conceit – to think that we know at least enough to be trusted with all possible knowledge. I can only say that They know better than we what is best for us, and whatever is best for each one is also that which is best for the whole.

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17 Jun 2021