Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LESSON III. Spiritual Consciousness. The Twenty-first precept of the first part of Light on the Path?the precept that refers directly to the thing that has been led up to by the preceding precepts?tells us to: 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that fol lows the storm; not till then. It shall...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LESSON III. Spiritual Consciousness. The Twenty-first precept of the first part of Light on the Path?the precept that refers directly to the thing that has been led up to by the preceding precepts?tells us to: 21. Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that fol lows the storm; not till then. It shall grow, it will shoot up, it will make branches and leaves and form buds, while the storm continues, while the battle lasts. But not till the whole personality of the mivu is dissolved and melted?not until it is held by the divine fragment which has created it, as a mere subject for grave experiment and experience?not until the whole nature has yielded, and become subject unto its higher self, can the bloom open. Then will come a calm such as comes in a tropical country after the heavy rain, when nature works so swiftly that one may gee her action. Such a calm will come to the harassed spirit. And, in the deep silence, the mysterious event will occur which will prove that the way has been found. Call it by what name you will. It is a voice that speaks where there is none to speak, it is a messenger that comes?a messenger without form or substance?or it is the flower of the soul that has opened. It cannot be described by any metaphor. But it can be felt after, looked for, and desired, even amid the rag- Ing of the storm. The silence may last a moment of time, or it may last a thousand years. But it will end. Yet you will carry its strength with you. Again and again the battle must be fought and won. It is only for an interval that nature can be still. The flower that blooms in the silence that follows the storm (and only then and there) is the flower of Spiritual Consciousness, for the production of which the Plant of Life has been striving?that which caused the spr...