Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00256)

". . . The Path is never closed; but in proportion to one's 
previous errors so is it harder to find and to tread. In the eyes of 
the 'Masters' no one is ever 'utterly condemned'. As the lost jewel 
may be recovered from the very depths of the tank's mud, so can
the most abandoned snatch himself from the mire of sin, if only the 
precious Gem of Gems, the sparkling germ of the Atma, is developed. 
Each of us must do that for himself, each can if he but will and 
persevere. Good resolutions are mind-painted pictures of good deeds: 
fancies, day-dreams, whisperings of the Buddhi to the Manas. If we 
encourage them they will not fade away like a dissolving mirage in 
the Shamo desert, but grow stronger and stronger until one's
whole life becomes the expression and outward proof of the divine 
motive within. Your acts . . . cannot be obliterated, for they are 
indelibly stamped upon the record of Karma, and neither tears nor 
repentance can blot the page. But you have the power to more than 
redeem and balance them by future acts. . . . There are innumerable 
pages of your life-record still to be written up; fair and blank they 
are as yet. . . . Seize the diamond pen and inscribe them with the 
history of noble deeds, days well spent, years of holy striving. So 
will you win your way ever upward to the higher planes of spiritual 
consciousness. Fear not, faint not, be faithful to the ideal you can 
now dimly see. . . . " Letters from the Masters of Wisdom, First 
Series, Letter 20.

Daniel
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