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Lesson II: More Light on the Path.257
of the journey, seems constantly to recede as one climbs. And yet there
is no disappointment, for every step of the way is now accompanied with
the keenest pleasure. It is ever so in soul-unfoldment. As step after step is
taken, greater heights appear to the view, emerging from the clouds which
have surrounded them. There are undreamt of heights. You may, and will,
gain the highest point now visible to you (be your attainment ever so great
at this moment) but when you get there you will find that there is as much
before you as you have left behind—far more in fact. But all this does not
disappoint you, when you once grasp its significance. As you enter the
great light you become conscious of gradually nearing the great center of
Light—but although you are fairly bathed in the glorious effulgence, you
have not touched the flame—and never will, as Man. But what of that—why
fret because you cannot see the end—if end there be. You are destined
to become something so much greater and grander than you are to-day,
that your wildest imaginings cannot give you the faintest idea of it. And, still
beyond that state, there are other states, and others, and others and others.
Rejoice in the light, but sigh not because you are told that you will never
touch the flame—you do not begin to realize what the bright light is—the
flame is beyond your comprehension.
13. Desire power ardently.
14. Desire peace fervently.
15. Desire possessions above all.
16. But those possessions must belong to the pure soul only, and be possessed
therefore by all pure souls equally, and thus be the especial property of the whole
only when united. Hunger for such possessions as can be held by the pure soul, that
you may accumulate wealth for that united spirit of life which is your only true self.
The peace you shall desire is that sacred peace which nothing can disturb, and in
which the soul grows as does the holy flower upon the still lagoons. And that power
which the disciple shall covet is that which shall make him appear as nothing in the
eyes of men.