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divine being longs for, that very body (or form) the divine
being becomes.’’* Inevitably, our consciousness will flow
into the vessel of thought or emotion for which we have the
greatest aªnity. To modify and expand our present norms,
we must modify and expand the existing vessels or break out
of them. This takes courage and will. As we open ourselves
to the light within, the light streams through us. As everyone
in his or her own way is a light-bearer, so everyone who
has the flame of brotherhood burning in his heart is bringing
hope and courage into this world.
When we reach above the brain-mind to the heart of
those with whom we have di¤erences, a give-and-take of
feeling and attitude by both parties occurs, and in no long
time even the most intractable situation becomes possible to
resolve. So it is in our ordinary dealings with our family or
at work: when we spontaneously appeal to the greatness of
the other person from the greatness in ourselves, we are
naturally clairvoyant and recognize each other’s inward
need. There is beauty and magic in this, for we are aided by
nature herself. As Katherine Tingley reminds us:
Our strength lies in keeping positive; in holding a steady joy
in our hearts; in a momentary meditation on all floating
great ideas till we have seized them and made them ours; in a
meditation with the imagination on the life of humanity in
the future, and its grandeur; in dwelling on the conception
of brotherhood.
— Theosophy: The Path of the Mystic, p. 21
Those floating great ideas that continuously circulate in and
*G. de Purucker, The Esoteric Tradition 2:701.