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swelling louder and louder, as many more are taking it up and adding their
voices or the sound of their instruments to the grand chorus.
May this great joy of Illumination be yours, dear students. And it will
be yours when the proper time comes. When it comes be not dismayed—
when it leaves you mourn not its loss, for it will come again. Live on, reaching
ever upward toward your Real Self and opening up yourself to its influence.
Be always willing to listen to the Voice of the Silence—willing always to
respond to the touch of the Unseen Hand. Do not fear, for you have within
you always the Real Self, which is a spark from the Divine Flame—it will be
as a lamp to your feet, to point out the way.
We would call the attention of the student to what the “Light on the Path”
says about the blossoming of the flower. It tells us that while the storm
continues—while the battle lasts—the plant will grow; shoot up; will make
branches and leaves; will form buds (note what we have said about the
budding stage which precedes the full bloom), but that the bloom cannot
open until the “whole personality of the man is dissolved and melted—not
until it is held by the divine fragment which has created it, as a mere subject
for grave experiment and experience—not until the whole nature has
yielded, and become subject unto its higher self.”
The “whole personality” referred to is the lower part of the soul—its
lower principles. Not until the lower nature is brought under the mastery of
the highest that has unfolded in one, can this longed for event occur. So long
as the lower part of one’s nature is allowed to rule and master him, he shuts
out the divine light. Only when he asserts the real “I” does he become ready
for further unfoldment. We have told you what the bloom or bud is—the “I
Am” consciousness. When you have fully grasped this, and realize what you
are, and have made that highest (as yet) consciousness the master of your
lower principles, then are you ready for the bloom to open.
Listen to these beautiful words, from the text: “Then will come a calm
such as comes in a tropical country after the heavy rain, when nature works
so swiftly that one may see her action. Such a calm will come to the harassed