To Light a Thousand Lamps - The Theosophical Society

The Daily Initiation / 181
through the thought consciousness of humanity are the
source of our innate wisdom. We need simply to recover
them, to recollect our inborn knowledge of them, and they
will be our inspiration.
Every human being has full right to his own way of
feeling and thinking, to his own idiosyncrasies. We need to
respect each other’s inner quality as much as we want ours
to be respected. Assuredly, the most lasting contribution we
can make toward bringing about a recognition of the dignity
of every human being is to begin quietly within our
own soul. Every person who really feels every other individual
to be not only his brother, but his very self, is adding his
quota of spiritual power to the moral force of the brotherhood
ideal. We are not separate — we are one life-wave, one
human family.
How and where do we begin? All of us have our home
and professional responsibilities. These come first: we owe
our family the fullness of our love, devotion, intelligence,
and support. We take each day and trust that we shall read
the karma of it with suªcient clarity to allow us to move
forward as we should. Everything starts as a seed. Yet the
miracle is that the tree is already patterned within the seed.
Every phase of growth is matrixed in the seed-essence, in the
invisible space (ākāśa) within the heart, that resides equally
in the core of a star as in the nucleus of an atom.* We need
to live to the full every moment and give each person and
every smallest circumstance the wholeness of our heart and
thought so that only the purest and truest quality of karma
*Cf. Chāndogya Upanishad, VIII, 1, 3.