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