LIGHT ON THE PATH - 173 : Regard the three truths. They are equal. - 10

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

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

🌻 Regard the three truths. They are equal. - 10 🌻

The child soul must behave as such, and every religion must be prepared to meet and to feed the child soul, but that is no reason why it should have no stronger food for those who are more advanced. The souls who have passed through the earlier stages of growth long ago in other lives now wish to understand the great Plan – to know something about the world in which they live and the scheme by which it was made and is kept going.

Many of our brothers have found, with great relief and a certain amount of surprise, that Theosophy was capable of supplying them with that knowledge, without destroying their religion in any way. There is nothing in the original teaching which in any way contradicts any science, although there has been an anti-scientific tendency coupled with ecclesiastical teaching ever since the Middle Ages. It is only because it happens to have been especially unfortunate in the loss of the higher teaching that it distinctly needs supplementing at the present day.

607. The Chohan then concludes Part I with the words:

608. These written above are the first of the rules which are written on the walls of the Hall of Learning. Those that ask shall have. Those that desire to read shall read. Those who desire to learn shall learn.

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13 Jul 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 172 : Regard the three truths. They are equal. - 9

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 172 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

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

🌻 Regard the three truths. They are equal. - 9 🌻

604. Our examination of the history of these saints shows that among them were included individuals of many different types. Some of them were unquestionably great, learned and capable men.

Others were not that at all, but were quite ordinary and ignorant, their great virtue being that they were good. Only when we come to study it deeply do we realize that the religion is intended not only to feed the fire of devotion, but also to assist its people at all levels and along all lines.

605. When we examine other great religions, such as Buddhism or Hinduism, we find them also prepared to meet their people everywhere. Each of these religions has certain precepts for the uneducated, by virtue of which they will be helped, if they follow them truly, to lead a good life. It has also much metaphysical and philosophical teaching for those who need it.

606. Every true religion must be capable of adapting itself to people at all levels, of meeting the wise and learned, as well as the ignorant devotee. It certainly must not exalt the ignorant but devoted man above the wiser, who wants to understand. Unfortunately there has been a distinct tendency on the part of religion to condemn the people who have wanted to know, to disparage their wisdom as merely the wisdom of this world, and to regard those who take the attitude of a little child as likely to make more rapid progress.

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11 Jul 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 171 : Regard the three truths. They are equal. - 8

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 171 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

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

🌻 Regard the three truths. They are equal. - 8 🌻

602. In Hinduism, for example, the great idea of duty was specially emphasized. It is obvious that when the thought of duty fills a man’s mind it must lead to a good and carefully ordered life. The Greek religion was one which laid stress on beauty. The great cardinal fact that was impressed upon the Greek all through his life was that beauty was an expression of God, and that in so far as a man could make himself and his surroundings beautiful he brought them nearer to what the Deity wished them to be, and thus allowed the divine power to manifest itself more fully through him.

So even the smallest object in every-day life was always beautiful – not necessarily expensive, not difficult to get, but beautiful in shape and colour. That was the fact which Greece impressed upon the world – the power of beauty.

603. The central idea of any religion is devotion. It has for centuries set before itself the idea of producing saints, holy men, good people, and it felicitates itself and rests its claim to attention upon the saints already produced. It celebrates their days, and in every way places them on the highest possible pinnacle.


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09 Jul 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 170 : Regard the three truths. They are equal. - 7

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 170 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

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

🌻 Regard the three truths. They are equal. - 7 🌻

600. Remember the sayings of the Masters, which is often not well understood, about casting pearls before swine. This is often taken quite wrongly as a comparison of the people to swine. That was surely not in the mind of the great Master. He simply meant that to give the inner truths to people who have not yet the knowledge to enable them to appreciate them would be as foolish as to cast pearls before swine.

They would probably rush forward expecting to receive something to eat, and finding that the pearls were not edible, they would trample them in the mire, and then turn and rend the giver of the pearls because they had been disappointed in their expectation of food. The pearls would be of no use to them, however valuable they might be to us.

That is generally the attitude of ordinary people, when we put before them truths which are not comprehensible to them. They do not see their value; they cast them aside, and are usually angry with us for giving them something which they regard as useless.

601. It has always been recognized that only simple truths can be given to the great mass of men, who are as yet not highly evolved. All great religions have had some special truth which they strongly inculcated, and if any of these truths be taken in its entirety it will be found that it covers most of the ground.

It is very necessary that certain ideas should be implanted in the minds of the evolving human egos, so they pass through religion after religion, race after race, learning something from each.


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07 Jul 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 169 : Regard the three truths. They are equal. - 6

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 169 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

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

🌻 Regard the three truths. They are equal. - 6 🌻

598. It is a very difficult thing to know what one may teach people outside. It is good, therefore, to have this authoritative statement from a Master, of certain things which may be taught generally. We often have to speak about Theosophy to people who do not in the least take our point of view. In lecturing to the public one feels at times that it would help to make things clear if one revealed something of their inner meaning, and yet one hesitates lest one should do harm.

599. It is quite obvious that if we attempted to teach them all we know about Theosophy, many people who heard would not understand a great deal of it. There are people to whom one feels at once that one could not speak of the Masters, because the idea would be quite foreign to them.

They would be likely to make some flippant or jeering remark with regard to it, and that would pain us and would bring exceedingly bad karma to them. The man who speaks evil of the Great Ones takes upon himself a very serious responsibility, and the fact that he does not believe in Them has simply nothing to do with the result. We may not believe that a certain piece of metal is hot, but if we take hold of it we shall be burnt.

People who speak evil of Those who are devoting all Their lives and strength to the helping of the world, are guilty of the great sin of ingratitude, as well as of that of making a mock of holy things, which is blasphemy; and the fact that they do not know that the things are holy does not come into the question at all. So we have to balance rather carefully what we say, because the only object in speaking at all is to do good to the person addressed. We may do him harm instead of good if we put before him something at which he will jeer or mock.

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05 Jul 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 168 : Regard the three truths. They are equal. - 5

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 168 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

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

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597. There is no harm in the fact that we do not know perfectly. It must be so; it is in the nature of things. It is when we suppose our knowledge to be complete, when it is pitifully incomplete, when we think that we know everything and condemn other men who think differently, not realizing that they may be seeing another side of a many-sided truth, that we go wrong.

Let us by all means cling to our imperfect knowledge, but, while trying to increase it whenever we get an opportunity, let us never forget that it is imperfect, lest we should be led into the mistake of condemning someone who perhaps knows more than we do. Truth is deep; truth is often mysterious. It cannot be grasped in its entirety by any one man nor by any one body or sect of men. We must gradually learn to appreciate truth, before we can know it in any of its aspects.

The truth about anything is the way in which that thing presents itself to the Logos, to the Maker, of the whole system. He who made it alone understands all, knows all things as they are. His view is the only perfect view.

For us truth is relative. We cannot see the whole as He sees it; but although our knowledge must be imperfect at least it need not be wrong as far as it goes. We may have so much of the truth about a certain thing chat when we come to know all about it, when we reach Adeptship, we shall not have to correct what we have previously known, but only to add to it.


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03 Jul 2021

LIGHT ON THE PATH - 167 : Regard the three truths. They are equal. - 4

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 167 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

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

🌻 Regard the three truths. They are equal. - 4 🌻

595. When a man is speaking of these facts, it is always evident whether he is speaking of that which he himself knows or only of that which he has heard. It makes a difference in the magnetic effect. Therefore, for the sake of others it is of importance that we should know something for ourselves as soon as possible.

It may be but a very small part of the great truth, but if we know it by our own experience that at once makes it more than probable that all the rest is also true, and gives us additional confidence. Those who have the perfect confidence born of knowledge can give help to others which cannot be given until one knows. It is that which makes our fragments of personal experience so useful.

596. There are many people who have at one time or other in vision, in sleep, or in meditation seen the Master. That is, perhaps, something which could not be proved to anyone else. People might say to a man who has had this experience: “Perhaps it was only an hallucination, or imagination”; but he knows perfectly well that it was not anything of the kind.

He knows that he did see, and that he also felt something which made him certain that this was one of our Great Masters. That is a piece of experience, small, yet far-reaching in its effects. Those who have been so fortunate as to have had such an experience as that may be deeply thankful. They know that much at least, and to know one fact belonging to the higher world at once makes all the rest of the teaching more luminous, and clearer to follow. So such experiences are not at all to be despised.


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01 Jul 2021