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like, would be “wrong” for it would be a going back to stages long since
past, and would be contrary to the knowledge and intuition of that man.
In climbing the steps of the temple of Dharma one man may be on the
third step, and a second man on the fifth. Now if the man on the fifth step
descends to the fourth one it is a going back for him, which is “wrong;” while
if the man on the third step advances to the fourth one it is a going ahead for
him, which, consequently is “right” and desirable for him, for he is advancing.
The law of evolution and unfoldment leads upward. Whatever falls in with
that law is desirable and right—whatever goes contrary is undesirable and
wrong. If a teacher has a dull or wilful scholar, and after working hard with
him she finds that he is doing “just a little better,” she praises him for the
improvement and is greatly pleased. But that same teacher would be greatly
distressed if one of her brightest and best behaved pupils would do just the
same thing for which she had just praised the poor scholar! And yet both
acts would be the same, when seen from one point of view, and yet how
different from the broader outlook. Do you see what we mean?
Go on, dear friends and scholars, living up to your best. Read what we
have written in Lesson i, of this series and learn to “seek in the heart the
source of evil and expunge it.” Be a tamer of the wild beasts within you.
Learn to cast out these relics of the past. Learn to keep in leash the lower
animal parts of your nature—drive the beast to his corner of the cage, in
spite of his teeth and claws. Learn to grow and develop and unfold until you
are able to reach that step of the ladder of Attainment when you may look
upon the past and realize that Dharma has become a part of the past with
you, for then you will have entered into that consciousness of the Real Self,
and will be able to see things as they are. Then will you receive the light of
the Spirit without the dimness caused by the sheaths. Remember the words
of “Light on the Path.” “Make the profound obeisance of the soul to the dim
star that burns within—steadily as you watch and worship, its light will grow
stronger. Then you may know that you have found the beginning of the