Lucifer7, December 2006
Contents
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Short Quotes
Shirking Duty is a Sign of the Inferior Man
Thought is a moving process
Announcement
Two Pots
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Short Quotes
H.P. Blavatsky, The Voice of The Silence, p. 12
Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they over-power
thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and
they take root
and grow, know well these thoughts will over-power and kill thee.
Beware, Disciple, suffer not, e'en though it be their shadow, to
approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then
this thing of darkness will absorb thy being before thou hast well
realized the black foul monster's presence.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
Bacon
There is nothing that makes a man suspect much, more than to know
little: and therefore men should remedy suspicion, by procuring
to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in another. What
would men have? Do they think those they employ and deal with are
saints? Do they not think they will have their own ends, and be
truer to themselves than to
them?
Paul Brunton, Essays on the Quest, Chapter II
No interior training can give you what you already possess, but a
suitable
training can help to give you the
consciousness of what you
possess.
...
There is no universal formula for the practice of meditation suited to
all
men at all times.
...
Real meditation is an intuitive process.
Ovid
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool
where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Shirking Duty is a Sign of the Inferior Man
Atlanto-Aryan Teaching, VIII. R.F.H.
Canadian Theosophist, Volume 23, #8 (1942)
He excuses himself with watching while waiting. He wants to see how
other people do, finds fault with it and wants to prevent what is
begun. A Superior Man does not watch, wait, criticize or prevent. He
quietly does his duty, helping others to fulfill their tasks.
The duty of everyone is simple: Fulfillment of all promises to
the utmost, finishing what is already begun, starting anything mutually
profitable in a general sense, being useful and inimical to none.
In this way an
inferior man evolves into a Superior Man, being firm and correct.
Evading work is a well known trait of inferior men. In evading they
ask, what is duty? Nothing is plainer. Keep promises. Finish what
you have started. And stop evading. The people of the Middle Kingdom
were peacefully undisturbed as long as quietly and faithfully doing
their own duty. Heaven co-operated with Earth, as Nature with the
seasons and Ruler with the ruled. When the Son of Heaven shirked his
duty, all classes did the same. So the Ruler was deposed and degraded
and the common people lost its freedom and more - all for shirking
duty. Heaven punishes Earth for disobedience.
Think always of work, not of shirking it. Pay debt to creditor in
due time;
give help where help is needed. Never do to others what you do
not
want others do to you. Do not exchange something worthless or inferior
for
higher value, thereby cheating. A Superior Man never cheats, the
inferior man does.
True technique for advancement is the performance of one's duties.
This is true ceremonial magic, real Raja Yoga, as Upasika also taught.
Observe closely results of Dharma, the Way to Enlightenment.
Thought is a moving process
Buddhist Meditation, Samdhong Rinpoche, p. 52
Thought is a moving process; it cannot remain focused on one object
for long. This is the reason why thoughts distort the picture and
therefore whatever your thoughts and mental images may be they are
always very different from what really is. Thought only represents your
own interpretation of an object, or of whatever it is you see. For
example, in thinking of a certain person, your thought never touches
him, for the real person is never in the thought process. At present,
we cannot do anything about this confusion as we are under the spell of
this kind of imaginative mental activity. If we were to shut out all
thought so that we did not think at all we would not sufficiently
perceive the world around us. Moreover, our whole personality would be
shattered and we should be unable to function properly. Without the
thinking process all our activities would come to a standstill because
our actions are influenced and guided by words and thoughts.
We give names to everything that comes to our knowledge or within
our view. This naming or describing of events and experiences is a
useful means of classifying and arranging whatever we register with our
senses, within the limited framework of our understanding. It is
because of this that naming becomes important to us. This means that we
actually cannot perceive anything as it is, for a mind which
functions within such a limitation is not an open one. Therefore there
is no real communication but only a relative connection between what
is
and the storehouse of memories, words and classifications within our
mind. Our whole personality is drowned in this activity of the mind and
so we float helplessly in a sea of imagination and illusion.
Announcement
Allen Pert writes the following:
Greetings,
I have just published a new biography of Anna Kingsford. It is called
"Red Cactus : the Life of Anna Kingsford."
On Sunday 3 Dec 3.45pm Sydney, Australia I will speak about it on The
Ark, ABC Radio National. This program will then be available on the web
at:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ark/
"Red Cactus: the Life of Anna Kingsford" contains much new information
about her.I have made many new discoveries about her, in particular
that
Edward Maitland turned against her and wrote many lies about her in his
biography.For example, he wrote that she killed two french vivisectors
by mindpower. Apart from this being an impossibility, it was against
her
philosophy to harm anyone.Maitland also wrote that Anna once had her
mind taken over by a black magician, and he saved her by mind power!!
Yet he also praised her for her indomitable will. After her wrote her
biography, he burnt her papers, diaries and letters to hide his
tracks.These and many other revelatins appear in my book.
The book is available at the Adyar Bookshop, Sydney, Australia:
www.adyar.com.au
Yours truly,
Alan Pert
Two Pots (has circulated online)
An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a
pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in
it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion
of water.
At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked
pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily,
with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of
course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor
cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection,and miserable that it
could only do half of what it had been made to do.
After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to
the woman one day by the stream:
"Old Woman, I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side
causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."
The woman smiled and replied, "Cracked Pot, did you notice that there
are flowers on your side of the path, but not on Perfect Pot's side? I
have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your
side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them."
"For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to
decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would
not be this beauty to grace the house."
Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we
each have that make our lives together so very interesting and
rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are and
look for the good in them.
Have a great day, and remember to pause and smell the flowers!
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