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Comments on “Light on the Path” II1647
more vital, more real, and responsible. To keep to the two instances already
mentioned, the occultist who has withdrawn into his own citadel has found
his strength; immediately he becomes aware of the demands of duty upon
him. He does not obtain his strength by his own right, but because he is a
part of the whole; and as soon as he is safe from the vibration of life and can
stand unshaken, the outer world cries out to him to come and labour in it.
So with the heart. When it no longer wishes to take, it is called upon to give
abundantly.
Light on the Path has been called a book of paradoxes, and very justly;
what else could it be, when it deals with the actual personal experience of
the disciple?
To have acquired the astral senses of sight and hearing; or in other words
to have attained perception and opened the doors of the soul, are gigantic
tasks and may take the sacrifice of many successive incarnations. And yet
when the will has reached its strength, the whole miracle may be worked in
a second of time. Then is the disciple the servant of Time no longer.
These two first steps are negative; that is to say they imply retreat from a
present condition of things rather than advance towards another. The two
next are active, implying the advance into another state of being.