Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Does not someone fear that the existence of the Brotherhood may reveal his intentions?

387.  but now everything is permitted, and man is the slave of everything.  
409.  do not be ashamed to write down however briefly that which seems to you of special significance.  Do not weigh whether it is small or big but judge it by its unusualness.
441.  It may be noted that many apparently accidental factors helped along in the predestined direction.  As a matter of fact not accident but many profound causes contributed to such achievement.  In this can be seen the participation of the subtle realm.  When the spirit chooses a definite task it adapts itself to many assisting influences.  Often there remain in the subtle realm allies and co-workers who control contributory circumstances.  Thus one can observe many scarcely perceptible impulses that lead to definite aims.  One can only esteem such fireflies along with wayside guideposts!    -M:  Fiery World 1933
175.  Great service has called forth everywhere much misunderstanding.  To people it usually has the aspect of something unattainable.  They hope that responsibility for such service will pass them by.  But let us reflect upon certain great servitors.  Let us see if they were unapproachable supermen.  Pythagoras and Plato and Boehme and Paracelsus and Thomas Vaughan were men who bore their lamps amidst their fellowmen in life under a hail of non-understanding and abuse.  Anyone could approach them, but only a few were able to discern  superearthly radiance behind the earthly face.  It is possible to name great servitors of East and West, North and South.  It is possible to peruse their biographies; yet everywhere we feel that superearthly radiance appears rarely in the course of centuries.  One should learn from reality. 
567.  There are many reasons why people so greatly fear the concept of the most beautiful.  Does not someone fear that the existence of the Brotherhood may reveal his intentions?  Or that he may be compelled to think about the good of his fellowmen?  An entire arsenal of weapons of egoism is brought to bear against the peace-loving Brotherhood.  Simplest of all is to deny the very possibility of the existence of the Brotherhood.   -M: Brotherhood 1937
166.  Now We too are giving the idea of the Teaching simply, without dwelling on small details that might be interpreted in a mundane way.
202.  Every hero whose heart is pure is a dispeller of evil, and the biographies of such heroes should be studied in schools.  Students should also learn what was done to Pericles and how people have treated their heroes.  Thus should human history be written.
242.  People generally regard karma as punishment, but the great law should not be limited in that way.  The law acts in the name of equilibrium, and damage done by violation of balance cannot be judged by earthly measures.  Only from higher planes can it be seen how a crime expands in its effect, once committed.   -M:  Supermundane 1, 1938
353.  And now too labor should not keep one from self-examination.  The new life requires collaboration with the two realms.  -M:  Supermundane 2, 1938
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