Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

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rising above them; for every sin whiuh is o\·ercome by goocl
3nd holy_ desires, 38pirations. and actions is a round in the
ladder of attainment. So that this teaching of Mme. Blavat­
Kky, instead of provini: what the writer of this letter desires to
prove, is a virtual exposition of this perverted doctrine.
The next quotation that om· correspondent brings forward
to prove the falsity of our position is ft·om the same source,
-H. P. Blavatsky: " &fore that path is entered, thou must
destroy thy lunat· body ( de11ire body), deanse thy mind, body,
and make thy heart clean." The RIUne thought i11 here con.
tinned. The idea of the dn~tructirm q( the lunar body needs
no comment from ns: and remember. all this must be accomplillhed
hefcwe the jnclividual even enters the path of attain·
ment, that is to say. while he is yet living in the animal, senRual
life, and. cousequently, by the met-hods that belong to that life.
The ueltt authority fr••m which he quott>s is Mabel Collins :
•• He who would escape from the bond11ge of Karma must raise
hi11 individnality out of the llh;tdow into the shine: runKt 80
elevate hi11 ex i~~t' t lu· .. acls do not come in c•ontact
with suiliug ~, ont>
~han~t>le11s fa11hiou of life in matter, su firmly that it is impossible
fm· th\i mind to conct>i ve that death is a snffident power to
frtlt! him. aucl ca!lt him upon thtt bruH.(l an ~ l glorious ocean,-a
tmfficient power to nudn fur him the inexm·able and heavy latch
of the Golden Gate. And ~;umetimes the man who has sinned
,.0 ,lt>t>pl~ · that. hi11 wholt> natm·e i11 !lcarretl and blackened hy
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