Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00257)

". . . 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. . . . " 

Quoted from "Letters from the Masters of Wisdom," 
First Series, Letter 20. 
See: http://www.questbooks.net/title.cfm?bookid=194

Submitted by Daniel H. Caldwell
http://hpb.cc