09-25-2010, 12:00 AM
"Seek in the heart the source of evil and expunge it. It lives
fruitfully in the heart of the devoted disciple as well as in the heart
of the man of desire. Only the strong can kill it out. The weak must
wait for its growth, its fruition, its death. And it is a plant that
lives and increases throughout the ages. It flowers when the man has
accumulated unto himself innumerable existences. He who will enter upon
the path of power must tear this thing out of his heart. And then the
heart will bleed, and the whole life of the man seem to be utterly
dissolved. This ordeal must be endured; it may come at the first step of
the perilous ladder which leads to the path of life: it may not come
until the last. But, O disciple, remember that it has to be endured: and
fasten the energies of your soul upon the task. Live neither in the
present nor the future, but in the eternal. This giant weed cannot
flower there: this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very
atmosphere of eternal thought".
fruitfully in the heart of the devoted disciple as well as in the heart
of the man of desire. Only the strong can kill it out. The weak must
wait for its growth, its fruition, its death. And it is a plant that
lives and increases throughout the ages. It flowers when the man has
accumulated unto himself innumerable existences. He who will enter upon
the path of power must tear this thing out of his heart. And then the
heart will bleed, and the whole life of the man seem to be utterly
dissolved. This ordeal must be endured; it may come at the first step of
the perilous ladder which leads to the path of life: it may not come
until the last. But, O disciple, remember that it has to be endured: and
fasten the energies of your soul upon the task. Live neither in the
present nor the future, but in the eternal. This giant weed cannot
flower there: this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very
atmosphere of eternal thought".