The spiritual life

The Use of Evil. 209 isnotpleasant,butit isnotanevil; itisdesir- ableandnotundesirable,foritisaconditionof gaining perfection, a ...

210 The SpiritualLife. eliminated? Only by discovering that the pleasure theyyield is verytransitory, that if it isfollov/ed too ...

TheUseofEvil. 21 1 willhave begun,forthe process isalong one. And thatisthe onlywaydesirecan befinally extirpated. You can only ...

212 TheSpiritual Life. warning from the Soul,then it is madness to disregard it and gratify desire in its despite. Full gratific ...

The Use ofEvil. 213 real answer is suggested in that law which I have been shewing to you. The bonds are broken by these inevita ...

214 TheSpiritual Life. the man of action who performs every action becauseitishisduty,andremainsindifferentto thefruitsthereof,t ...

The Use ofEvil. 215 sacrifice; heoffersallhisactions assacrificesto God andremains indifferenttothefruitsofthe sacrifice,forthey ...

216 TheSpiritual Life. which In alowerorganisationwould not at all be evil; how as man proceeds onward and onward,hecan useevilf ...

The Useof Evil.^217 Bliss,buthow? Bliss,becausethereisunity; bliss, because there is an absence of desire; bliss,becausethereisk ...

218 The Spiritual Life. decorate its base, and thus render it more beautifulthanitwas before. Soisitwith the Soulwhich identifie ...

Man's Quest for God. JlnJJrlicle in the "TJheosophicalT^evieTV" in "December, 1897. MAN has forages fashionedtheoriesabout God, ...

220 TheSpiritual Life. insolence of disbelief. They elected to starve the heartratherthanto stifle the intellect,and consoled th ...

Man's Quest for God. 221 thought added dignity and grandeur to their ideaofGod,and theirpost-Babylonianwritings showanoblerviewo ...

222 TheSpiritualLife. and somewhat terrifying,while the object pre- sented for adoration, on which all love was lavished,wastheS ...

Man's Questfor God. 22} Ifalltheharshertraitswereexpungedfromthe GodofMuhammed,andthefiercewrathwere replaced with an immeasurab ...

(^224) TheSpiritual Life. truth to the mind,as justiceto the conscience, aslovetotheheart." {Ihid,p.9.) As intellect developed a ...

Man's Quest forGod. 225 ableaudacity,Hingingoutintotheseemingvoid its ineradicable belief in the Life whence it sprang, to find ...

226 The SpirifualLife. being, existing apart from the universe; but Himselfin Hisownreality,Heisexpressedin the universe, w^hich ...

Man'sQuest for God. 227 strongly m the poet who voiced so oftenthe restlessmentahtyof hisage:- Thesun,themoon, the stars,theseas ...

228 The SpiritualLife. as fruit no mightybeings,far abovehispigmy growth as he above the mote inthe sun-ray, must not all univer ...