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Esoteric Orders and Their Work Quotes
Esoteric Orders and Their Work
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“When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.”
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
“No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more than mark out the little plot of infinity which he intends to cultivate, and thrust in the spade, trusting that the soil may eventually be fruitful and free from weeds so far as the bounds he has set himself extend....”
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
“Those without the gate frequently question the wisdom and right of the occultist to guard his knowledge by the imposition of oaths of secrecy. We are so accustomed to see the scientist give his beneficent discoveries freely to all mankind that we feel that humanity is wronged and defrauded if any knowledge be kept secret by its discoverers and not at once made available for all who desire to share in it.
The knowledge is reserved in order that humanity may be protected from its abuse at the hands of the unscrupulous.”
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
The knowledge is reserved in order that humanity may be protected from its abuse at the hands of the unscrupulous.”
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
“The critic of the Adepts would form a truer opinion of their attitude if he did not look upon them as guardians of a treasure, grudgingly doling it out to applicants whose rights it was impossible to ignore or defy, but rather as trainers of racehorses, patiently trying beast after beast in the hope that one may ultimately be found that will win the Grand National. The Adept who accepts an unsuitable pupil is guilty of cruelty just as much as the rider who sends a horse at a fence it cannot take.”
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
“...unless men work at occultism as they work for the prizes of their professions they will not achieve.”
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
“A school of esotericism usually arises in connection with some special realization of the Truth, which it sometimes stresses beyond its due proportion to life as a whole, but there will never be found any teaching which has the power to hold together a body of earnest seekers which has not a spark of the divine fire at its heart; therefore respect should be given to all how seek in sincerity, however far from the goal they may appear to be, and all who are engaged in the great Quest should rather try to see the vision which a brother has glimpsed than the special errors to which he has fallen victim.”
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
“The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that it stands him in good stead with his superiors if he is constantly sending up to them aspirants who 'make good.' He therefore never tries to hold back a promising pupil, because he has no need to fear that pupil, if allowed to penetrate into the Mysteries, would spy out the nakedness of the land; he will rather bring back a report of its exceeding richness, and thereby confirm the statements of his teacher and spur his fellow pupils to yet greater eagerness.”
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
“Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.”
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
“It has been well and truly said that in the exoteric church the ceremony is performed by one person for the benefit of the congregation; but in the Lodge the ceremony is performed by the congregation for the benefit of one person.”
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
“We may also conceive of the evolution of humanity as a vast army, toiling slowly along its line of march in a great column; and, scouting far ahead of the main body, solitary outriders, swift-mounted, light-armed and without baggage, exploring the way for the rest; spiritual guerrillas, whom Paul referred to as those born out of due season. From time to time we shall see some swift-footed soul draw ahead of the great army of mankind and push on alone into the wilderness. For a period his path is solitary, but presently he catches up with the far-flung line of the scouts, and if able to give the password that proves him to be of their body, is given his place in the ranks of that adventurous company, a boundary-rider of evolution, alone on patrol, yet not out of touch with his comrades, for there are signaling-points along the line, and at certain seasons all gather in to the council.”
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work
“The average man may be capable of benefiting by initiation, or he may not; it also depends upon his capacity; but each individual should have the opportunity of advancing to the highest development of which he is capable.”
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work
― Esoteric Orders and Their Work
