from Hints to Young Students of Occultism, by L. W. Rogers. Theosophical Book Co., Ridgewood, NJ, 1911:
from Hints to Young Students of Occultism, by L. W. Rogers.
Theosophical Book Co., Ridgewood, NJ, 1911:
"The idea that anybody can put the beginner quickly into
possession of spiritual power is as erroneous as it would be to
suppose that by handing him a diploma a university president can
give a young man an education. This notion that Theosophy has
occult wealth to be handed over in a lump sum -- to be conferred
instead of learned -- is usually accompanied with the desire to
be conspicuously helpful, to quickly undertake some work, the
benevolence of which is at least equaled by its dramatic method;
to become one of the invisible helpers who has the power to work
in his astral body during the hours when the physical body is
asleep. That is a most laudable ambition and a worthy thing to
attain. But the point that should be understood about it is that
theway to it is through actual spiritual development and not by
the immediate opening of astral sight.
The first step toward becoming an invisible helper is to become
a visible helper, to cultivate the desire to help by exercising
our benevolent impulses on the human beings around us. When we
have actually become of service on the physical plane, when we
have utilized the opportunities of our daily life to assist others,
and have thus proven that the thing we really desire is to be
helpful and not merely to posses occult power, we shall have taken
the first necessary step in the realization of our ambition."
p. 7
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