Theos-Talk Archives (July 1997 Message tt00034)

Doss:

> The Occult Science is NOT one in which secrets can be
> communicated of a sudden, by written or even verbal
> communication.  If so, all the 'Brothers' would have to do, would
> be to publish a HAND-BOOK of the art which might be taught in
> schools as grammar is.  ...  The truth is that till the neophyte
> attains to the condition necessary to that degree of
> illumination, to which and for which, he is entitled and fitted,
> most IF NOT ALL of the secrets are INCOMMUNICABLE.  The
> illumination MUST COME FROM WITHIN.  ...  all we can do is to
> direct such means as have been empirically found by the
> experience of ages to conducee to the required object.  ...
> Fasting, meditation, chastity of thought, word and deed; silence
> for certain periods of time to allow nature herself to speak to
> him who comes to her for information; government of the animal
> passions and impulses; utter unselfishness of intention; the use
> of certain incense and fumigations for physiological purposes,
> have been published since the days of Plato and Iamblicus in the
> West and since the far earlier times of our Indian RISHIS.
>
> -- ML-49 / MLC-20

-- dslusser ed-HCT