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austerities, and do not encourage them. The true practice is that of the
attainment of wisdom, and the opening of the heart to the inflow of the
Divine Wisdom which comes in the form of Intuition. It needs but to perceive
the real nature of material things in order to lose desire for them; therefore
Knowledge is the great Liberator. It is true that great unselfish love (Bhakti
Yoga) will cause the scales to fall from the eyes of the soul; it is likewise true
that faithful works and duty performed without hope of reward (Karma
Yoga), will cause the eyes to see clearly; but the greatest of all Yoga is Gnani
Yoga, the Way of Wisdom.
To those who yearn for release, we recommend a careful study of the
Yogi Philosophy, or any of the other great forms of the Wisdom-Religion,
and the careful following of the Life of the Spirit which is common to all
religions, rightly understood.
We think that the best little guide on The Path in the English language,
is that little manual “Light on the Path,” which is founded on occult axioms
current even in ancient Atlantis. In this valuable little manual are to be found
“The Rules which are written on the Walls of the Hall of Learning,” by the
“Rulers of the Golden Gate.” As a writer has said: “What Parsifal is to lovers
of music, that ‘Light on the Path’ is to aspiring souls—a never-ending source
of inspiration and wonder.” The following axioms, taken from its pages, give
the keynote, when rightly understood—the balance of the manual is but an
explanation of the axioms:
I. Kill out ambition.
II. Kill out desire of life.
III. Kill out desire of comfort.
IV. Kill out all sense of separateness.
V. Kill out desire for sensation.
VI. Kill out the hunger for growth.
VII. Desire only that which is within you.
VIII. Desire only that which is beyond you.