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    Hints to Young Students of Occultism
    Hints to Young Students of Occultism
    Hints to Young Students of Occultism
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    Hints to Young Students of Occultism

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndura Publishing
    Release dateSep 19, 2020
    ISBN9788835897255

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      Hints to Young Students of Occultism - L. W. Rogers

      Hints to Young Students of Occultism

      L.W. Rogers

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE

      INTRODUCTORY

      SELF EXAMINATION

      THE IMPORTANCE OF ATTENTION

      ORIGINAL THINKING

      PERSISTENT AND REGULAR EFFORT

      ENTHUSIASM

      THOUGHT ASSIMILATION IS ESSENTIAL TO SOUL GROWTH

      SAFE AND DANGEROUS MENTAL CONDITIONS SELF-RELIANCE

      THE FATAL DELUSION OF DELAY

      THE ONE PROTECTION AGAINST DANGER

      CULTIVATING SYMPATHY

      THE CONDITIONS OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESS

      SPREADING THE LIGHT

      CONQUERING DELUSIONS

      FAULTS TO BE GUARDED AGAINST

      THE WRONG ROAD AND THE RIGHT ONE

      TOLERANCE

      PURITY

      TRUTHFULNESS

      FEARLESSNESS

      PREFACE

      The growing interest in the higher life,and the general search for information that is helpful in attaining it, is sufficient reason for the publication of this little book. The purpose has not been to write of the subject in hand either exhaustively or systematically but to put forward helpful suggestions for taking some easy steps in self-development.

      Many who earnestly desire to escape from the bondage of the lower nature, and rise to spiritual illumination, are at a loss how to proceed, or even how to practically apply to daily life the occult information they may have gained by general reading. This little volume is an effort to assist them – hints on how to utilize time and energy – a few guide-boards in the evolutionary wilderness at doubtful turns in the road, indicating the advantageous way to go and displaying warning signs across some attractive byways that lead to perilous places.

      CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTORY

      The young student of occultism – he who is just beginning to learn that there is a deeper meaning in life than he had suspected – who has but recently come into contact with Theosophy’s explanation of the purpose of life and the method of human evolution – often has the idea that there is some particular bit of information which, if he can but secure it, will enable him to quickly develop clairvoyance and rise into the possession of great spiritual power. He has an impression that there are certain formulas which the teachers can hand over to him, if they will, that can be used as a key to unlock the storehouse of occult knowledge. If the beginner would make rapid progress in evolving, the divine powers within him he should put aside such notions and realize at once that all any teacher can do for him is to point out the way in which he can help himself and that knowledge of the path to be followed will come to him in exact proportion to the earnestness of his desire to find it. He should remember, too, that there are precepts to practice as well as knowledge to gain. It is extremely important for him to study the literature of occultism, to read and to learn all he possibly can from those who have information to impart, but something more is necessary. As he acquires these spiritual truths he must strive to live them, to shape his daily life by them. Fortunate indeed is he who can make his inner spiritual development keep pace with his intellectual acquirement of the facts. To discover a spiritual truth and then make no use of it in the evolution of one’s character is quite as bad, if not worse, than to remain in ignorance of it; for responsibility is measured by opportunity.

      The idea that anybody can put the beginner quickly into possession of spiritual power is as erroneous as it would be to suppose that by handing him a diploma a university president can give a young person an education. This notion that Theosophy has occult wealth to be handed over in a lump sum – to be conferred instead of earned – is usually accompanied with the desire to be conspicuously helpful, to quickly undertake some work, the benevolence of which is at least equalled by its dramatic method; to become one of the invisible helpers who has the power to work in his astral body during the hours when the physical body is asleep. That is a most laudable ambition and a worthy thing to attain. But the point that should be understood about it is that the way to it is through actual spiritual development and not by the immediate opening of astral sight. The first step toward being an invisible helper is to become a visible helper, to cultivate the desire to help by exercising our benevolent impulses on the human beings about us. When we have actually become of service on the physical plane, when we have utilized the opportunity of our daily life to assist others, and have thus proven that the thing we really desire is to be helpful and not merely to possess occult power, we shall have taken the first necessary step in the realization of our ambition.

      If the beginner is anxious to know how rapidly he is getting on in spiritual development he has only to watch his daily life. His first work is to get control of his physical body and make it obey his will. Therefore if he can see that he is growing less irritable, that trifling things are losing their power to annoy him, that he is not so easily thrown off his balance as he used to be, he knows that his will is becoming established in its power to direct the physical and astral mechanism through which it functions. It is always to the little things, rather than to great events, that he should look as tests of the new powers he is developing. His fitness to pass the portal, later in his evolution, toward which he is now directing his first uncertain steps, is not determined by one supreme occasion, like an examination for entering some university, so much as it is being determined by the thoughts and desires of his daily life; and it is the little things, the small problems of the daily life that are hourly testing his judgment, his sincerity, his courage and his patience. Unless he begins to be successful in meeting these he cannot hope to become even a candidate for greater tests of his powers.

      There are many ways in which the young student of occultism can begin the cultivation of the character qualities he must possess before he can go far in his efforts at conscious evolution, – scores of things he can do in the line of character building that will lay an enduring foundation for the spiritual power he would attain; and let it be well understood that all such work done in the beginning will save him much trouble, and give him great satisfaction,later on. The reward for his pains will be rich indeed. He who erects a fine building upon a weak and illy-constructed foundation is no more foolish than he who does careless work in the foundation he lays for his temple not built with hands. Every flaw in the foundation is a menace for the future; and is not that precisely why the

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