Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment

spiritual training may be described as consisting of three stages: (1) Probation; this develops the spiritual senses. (2) Enlightenment; this kindles the spiritual light. (3) Initiation; this establishes intercourse with the higher spiritual beings.

When, by means of meditation, man rises to be united with the spirit, he brings to life the eternal in him, which is limited by neither birth nor death.

e will soon cease to feel that this thought-world is less real than the everyday things which surround him. He begins to deal with his thoughts as with things in space, and the moment approaches when he begins to feel that which reveals itself in the silent inward thought-world, to be much higher, much more real than the things in space. He discovers that something living expresses itself in this thought-world.

o outward forces can supply space to the inner man. It can only be supplied by the inner calm which man himself gives to his soul. Outward circumstances can only alter the course of his outward life; they can never awaken the inner spiritual man.

. It is necessary that he should seek enjoyment, for only through enjoyment can the outer world reach him. If he blunts himself to enjoyment, he becomes as a plant which cannot any longer draw nourishment from its environment. Yet if he stops short at the enjoyment, he shuts himself up within himself. He will only be something to himself and nothing to the world.

adapt each one of your actions, and frame each one of your words in such a way that you infringe upon no manfs free-will.

all knowledge pursued for growth to ripeness within the process of human ennoblement and cosmic development, brings you a step forward.

The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can hope to discover it in our environment