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The Third Lesson: The Expansion of the Self.533
a change from the absorbing of the idea of the Oneness of Life, and the
Expansion of the Self. The Candidate is urged not to be in too much of a
hurry. Development must not be forced. Read what we have written, and
practice the Mental Drills we have given, even if they may appear trifling
and childish to some of you—we know what they will do for you, and you
will agree with us in time. Make haste slowly. You will find that the mind will
work out the matter, even though you be engaged in your ordinary work,
and have forgotten the subject for the time. The greater portion of mental
work is done in this way, while you are busy with something else, or even
asleep, for the sub-conscious portion of the mind works along the lines
pointed out for it, and performs its task.
As we have said, the purpose of this lesson is to bring you in the way of
the unfoldment of consciousness, rather than to teach you the details of the
scientific side of the Yogi teachings. Development is the keynote of Raja
Yoga. And the reason that we wish to develop this sense of the Reality of
the “I,” and the Expansion of the Self, at this place is that thereby you may
assert your Mastery over Matter, Energy and Mind. Before you may mount
your throne as King, you must fully realize in consciousness that you are the
Reality in this world of appearances. You must realize that you—the real
You—are not only existent, and real, but that you are in touch with all else
that is real, and that the roots of your being are grounded in the Absolute
itself. You must realize that instead of being a separate atom of Reality,
isolated and fixed in a narrow space, you are a Centre of Consciousness in
the Whole of Reality, and that the Universe of Universes is your home—that
your Centre of Consciousness might be moved on to a point trillions of
miles from the Earth (which distance would be as nothing in Space) and still
you—the awakened soul—would be just as much at home there as here—
that even while you are here, your influence extends far out into space. Your
real state, which will be revealed to you, gradually, throughout the ages, is so
great and grand, that your mind in its present state of development cannot
grasp even the faint reflection of that glory.