which we sow; and how much better is it to meet them as brave men and women and conquer them now that we know what they are, than to delay the work for another life! Life is as though we were placed in a long corridor, impregnable walls on either side, (composed by the limits of our capacity) forcing circumstances behind us which are the needs and conditions of life. The inevitable destiny for which we were made lies at the far end of the corridor; circumstances, like an army of spears, force us on slowly, but with everpresent persistency. Now we can choose in this state whether we will move forward only as we are forced by the point of the spear, rush blindly against the walls and injure ourselves, or place our eye on the inevitable end, and make all haste in reaching it. These instructions are intended to show you the end of these environments and how to make haste in reaching it. When you do reach it, then you come out into the unlimited expanse of God's great Nature. Such teaching is made a necessity of this age because so many are now near the end of this corridor; and as God, by his law, provides all things that are needful to us, these thoughts are given to the world now. Enough has been given in this course of sixteen papers for you to work on for several years and to place you under the immediate guidance of the Divine Master from whom all knowledge can be obtained. All that is requisite is an orderly mind, a decision of purpose and a persistency that will go straight forward, regardless of light or darkness, sorrow or rejoicing; one central and well-defined object closely and persistently followed and you will obtain the goal. So that if the Master should call me away and these papers should cease for a time, other aids will appear in their place therefore the work will move on. Peace be unto you. H. E. B. THE universe existed in darkness, imperceptible, undefinable, undiscoverable, and undiscovered; as if immersed in sleep. Then the self-existing power, undiscovered himself, but making the world discernible, with the five elements and other principles, appeared in undiminished glory, dispelling the gloom. He whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even He, the soul of all things, shone forth in person. He having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed. Hindu Law, or Ordinances of Menu. IN the beginning there arose the Source of golden light. He was the only born Lord of all that is. He established the earth, and this sky. Then there was no entity nor non-entity; no world, no sky, nor aught above it; nothing anywhere, involving or involved; nor water deep and dangerous. Death was not, and therefore no immortality, nor distinction of day or night. But THAT ONE breathed calmly alone with Nature, her who is sustained within him. Other than Him, nothing existed (which) since (has been). Darkness there was; (for) this universe was enveloped with darkness, and was indistinguishable waters; but that mass, that was covered by the husk, was (at length) produced by the power of contemplation. First desire was formed in his mind; and that became the original productive seed; which the wise, recognizing it by the intellect in their hearts, distinguished as the bond of non-entity with eternity. Rig Veda. TO THE "AWAKENED." A CALL TO THE OCCIDENT FROM THE UNSEEN AND AND NEWER AND A HIGHER LIFE: - A PRICELESS JEWEL, a FROM G. N. K. R. No. 501. It is known to those who have attained the right to know that there exists somewhere upon the face of this old "grey" earth an Association and a gradually growing ORDER of men one of whose purposes it is to supply the knowledges, methods, and means for the practical, material, and executive embodiment of the various converging movements in science and religion. These movements are tending towards unification and centralization of the practical and theoretical verities contained in each of the widely divergent two lines of thought and practice exhibited by the two classes of people which have characterized the evolution of the last Great Cycle of 25,868 years. It is known to those who have attained the right to know that a representative from this Secret Scientific Association, acting under the guid ance of that which is higher than human reason, has sought through THE ESOTERIC a channel of communication with the PEOPLE of the Occident for the following specific purposes, viz: First. To aid the Esoteric Movement in the ultimation of its religious work among the people; (A) by the dissemination of useful knowledge bearing directly upon the religious sentiments, aspirations, and intuitions; (B) by adding to the journal a scientific department containing a series of articles upon the special phases of the higher religious movements of the time, and (C) a review of the more important contributions to the thought and progress of the world, with a view towards giving a picture of the world's monthly progress in Religion, Science, Industry, and Art. Second. To give to those who have attained the higher life, and who have developed the ability and the determination to use a higher knowledge, the practical Means, Methods, and Secrets, necessary for the ultimation of their highest ideal upon a practical and material basis. To such people there will be given, through channels to be hereafter pointed out, the opportunity of acquiring from the "Secret Order" whatever knowledge may be necessary for their further growth and higher development. Third. To select from those who have cast out the demons of Anger, Revenge, Malice, Hatred, Jealousy, Envy, Passion, Ambition, and Selfishness; and who have developed in themselves the "RIGHT DESIRES"; and who under the "GUIDANCE" have devoted their lives to the good of the world, a small body of people to whom can be taught and revealed the "Mystic Doctrine" and the "Secret Knowledge" of the G. N. K. R., and by the aid of whom these great secrets and this New Order of Science can, without danger to society, be experimentally and practically applied to the needs of the human race, and to the development and maintenance of the conditions essential to the higher order of living among those who have accepted the " MISSION and the "JEWEL". For those who desire to enter upon the course leading to the "SECRET" and the " REVELATION a preliminary culture will be given by the "INNER CIRCLE' of the Society Esoteric, and of those who have otherwise attained the culture a preliminary examination will be made by one who has charge of the Esoteric Movement, the last examination by him who shall be known as Djwapi. Those who have reached a certain point in the scale of human evolution; and who have attained to a complete mastery of the self; and who have covenanted complete obedience to the "GUIDANCE", will at the proper time and place be given an opportunity of knowing absolutely that there is a knowledge in the possession of "someone" in comparison with which the science of the Nineteenth Century dwindles into insignificance. It will for the present be sufficient to state that to those who are ready to receive and utilize there will be given the proof of the statements herein made. The G. N. K. R. have in their possession a Revelation explaining all the phenomena of the cognizable universe; unifying, completing, and systemizing the entire body of the inductive and deductive sciences; and unifying and rationalizing the intuitions and the a priori and axiomatic products of the brain. They have in their possession the exact mathematical and physical formulæ of over Seventy New Forces, having properties and applications more numerous and important than those of the well known (but not understood) Forces. This revelation of the ENS, MOVENS, and OM completes man's knowledge of the methods by which the Infinite works in the great laboratory of Nature. The explanation relates to the seen, unseen, and spiritual order of things-to man's triune duality, and the consciousness of the INFINITE ALL. It places under the cognizance of exact science an order of things about which it has hitherto had no data from which to reason, or phenomena upon which to experiment. It places religion upon an inductive basis; explains the how (the modus operandi) of the action of the mind and the will; it unifies the intuitions, sentiments, and inspirations of the mind and places them upon a rational basis. By the aid of these Laws all the phenomena of Life, Mind, and Society-all the facts and phenomena of Soul and Spirit, Prayer and the Infinite Intelligence, can be deductively obtained; and on the other hand from the phenomena of Nature can be inductively derived the Great Laws. For the first time in the exoteric history of the world is it known what a force is, how it acts etc., and for the first time have all the forces been studied by man. The mystery of Evolution and Incarnation of the origin of Life and Soul, and Spirit of the action of mind upon matter, and the action of the psychic powers at a distance, have for the first time in the history of the world as far as we know - received an explanation. The physical conditions and laws of Soul and Spirit are capable of quantitative determinations and physical experimentation. They teach what YAHVEH is and how It works-they reveal the order and the cycles of evolution, and place in the hands of man a knowledge whereby he can accelerate his mental and spiritual growth. These Laws are not a myth, and the results they embody are not of a vague and shadowy character, they usher in the dawn of a new Age and make possible an order of life about which it would be rashness to speak to the unitiated. They make possible the formulation upon a physical and quantitative basis of the Great Ethical and Moral Laws of all organisms in all environments. This revelation contains secrets of a kind that it would be dangerous to place in the hands of a mixed society; or to entrust to those who are capable of mental, moral, or physical decline; or to those who are filled with ambition and the tendency to self-aggrandizement. The proper persons at +he proper time will understand what is meant by this assertion. Any person capable of using a power for other purposes except the good of the human race is not a fit person to receive a knowlege of the new revelation. The subtile forces connected with the operation of the mind and soul are capable of being used for purposes evil as well as good, and they must therefore be known only to those who are prepared to judiciously utilize them. In accordance with the progress a person has made in the scale of human attainment, in proportion as a person ascends the ladder of soul and Spirit culture, will successive portions of this Revelation be taught unto him or her. The close of the last great Evolutionary Cycle of 25,868 years has brought to a permanent embodiment the results of that long course of World-Culture; and those who are wiser than we, have provided means and minds for the perpetuation of the theoretical and practical verities contained in all the thought and experience of the Past. The last cycle, commencing after the fall of Atlantis and initiated by Kapila and Menes, has been characterized by two lines of thought and practice: one the scientif ic, and the other the religious. One class have depended upon their intuitions and upon inspiration for their standards of thought, and for their ideals and theories of ethical guidance: the other class upon observation and experiment. The religionists have depended upon their a priori and axiomatic ideas for their derivation and rectification of truth. Out of intellection has developed all there is of science, and out of the opposite mental process, provisionally called intuition or inspiration, has developed all there is of religion. Science has depended upon experiment and observation for its source and knowledge of truth. All that has enabled us to apply ideas to the needs of human life has been the result of a deductive and an inductive knowledge of Nature. Religion has ever been inclined to underrate the value of science, and to cause the people to neglect the experimental method of ascertaining and verifying truth. The religions of the last cycle-the various forms of occultism and mysticism have had for their purpose the creation of needs, and the development of capabilities to use knowledge, methods, means, and materials. Nature cannot defeat her own purposes by giving into the hands of the people she has created the means whereby they might destroy the results of evolution. Knowledge cannot be given until there has been developed the capability to efficiently and safely utilize. The refinement of human nature and the formation of high organic quality has been the result of the moral and the religious culture of the Past. This makes the people capable of receiving a higher order of truths in the present Cycle than would otherwise have been safe. These results must be embodied in an organized perpetuation of all that is valuable in the past religious culture, in the hands of the best people of the age; for only those who are prepared to receive and have developed the capacity to safely utilize for the Good of the world will be allowed to be the guardians of the higher possibili ties and vaster truths. Dur The latter half of the last cycle commenced with the formulation of a philosophy which has dominated the thought and devotion of nearly all the peoples that have been known since the dawn of exoteric history and which has been the source of nearly all the religions of the world. During that period the scientific method was less prominent than the religious during the next cycle the reverse will be the case. ing the past the people have depended mainly for their beliefs and guidance upon the theistic conception of the universe and the duality of man. They have believed in the authority of their intuitions, moral sentiments, a priori ideas—and have placed these anterior in authority to the results of observation and experiment, and have looked with discredit upon the scientific results of induction and deduction. They have been the dominant class - they have prepared the world for the reception of a newer and a higher truth. The fundamental verities contained in their experience will be systemized, completed and perpetuated. The class in the minority-the scientific-have discredited inspiration and intuition, have disbelieved in theistic conceptions and in the immortality of man, and have accepted no authority except that of the senses and the reasonings based upon the contents of the memory. They have developed the ability to give embodiment to principles and facts necessary in supplying human wants. The two classes have been distinct both in theory and in practice. Religion has developed the sentiments and the aspirations and the desires, and created needs, and produced a development of that faculty |
