A man may have a long way to go along his supposed straight line (arc) before he discovers that it is a curve; he may have much further to go along his curve before he discovers that it is not a circle; and much further still to go before he finds out whether it is an ellipse, a spiral, a parabola, or none of these.
Thus are previous laws and calculations subject to constant amendment or repairs.
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Our concepts and generalisations like paper-money, which for the time and under certain conditions may and do represent value but no more.
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Just as in the body, the establishment of an insubordinate centre – a boil, a tumour, the introduction and spread of a germ with innumerable progeny throughout the system, the enlargement out of all reason of an existing organ – means disease; so in the mind, disease begins when a passion asserts itself as an independent centre of thought and action. In the body disease commences when an organ begins to preside over the whole. Health is perfect poise of all emotions, desires, and feelings.
All desires and objects of attractive beauty are like demons that possess mankind. Casting out devils means ridding a person of this terrible possession. Thus True Wisdom is the highest Exorcism.
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Man must rule or disappear. It is impossible to imagine a man presided over by stomach or sexual organs. A walking stomach, using hands, feet, and all other members merely to carry it from place to place and serve its assimilative mania. – He is a hog.
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Life is no more than a continual exercise of energy or conquest, by which external forces and organisms are brought into subjection and compelled into service or thrown off as harmful. Plants and animals in good health throw off the attacks of the parasites which incline to infest them.
The mind of an ordinary person is like a child, always leaning on this crutchet of an object or that, never walking erect, never standing by itself. How long should the mind be allowed to remain in this state of infancy? Let the mind be free, and when alone, never go to this person or that. Let it stand on its own feet, Centre of Gravity in itself.
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The reading of books and learning all knowledge is one thing; and to acquire the Truth is another,
You may read all the sacred Scriptures and yet not know the Truth.
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The frail and delicate female is supposed to cling round the sturdy husband’s form, like ivy round the oak. It is really a death-struggle that is going on, in which either the oak must perish suffocated in the embraces of its partner, or in order to free the former into anything like healthy development the ivy must be sacrificed.
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The method of Science as of all mundane knowledge, is that of limitation or actual ignorance. We practically beg the question we are in search of. The views of Science are like the views of a mountain; each is only possible as long as you limit yourself to a certain stand-point. Move your position and the view is changed. In Science you select certain details and isolate them from the rest. But in supposing such isolation you suppose what is false, and therefore vitiate the conclusion. A man seeing a very small arc of a very vast circle, easily mistakes it for a straight line.
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Form no ties. Let nobody enter your heart. Let no person come close to the inner Self. If you wish the inner Self to shine by itself, bring no object close to this grand crystal, otherwise it will get adulterated. Form your own rules and laws. Never be led by the saws and sayings of others.