| A
Treatise on White Magic |
Throughout the whole of this series of books runs a single thread
uniting various aspects of life and specialised activities within
the Plan for man. This is the thread of consciousness, evolving
in man through the efforts of the soul to contact and control its
personality equipment; and evolving within the planet as the centre
Hierarchy becomes increasingly able to impress the Plan on the miuds
of men.
This book, therefore, contains the Fifteen Rules for Magic,
and for soul control, based on these words in the Bhagavad-Gita:
"Though I am Unborn, the Soul that passes not away, though I am
the Lord of Being, yet as Lord over My nature I become manifest,
through the magical power of the Soul."
The soul unmanifest in its essential being, manifest through
the nature of its personality equipment, is always a source of
mystery. It evades the analytical concrete mind: it reveals its
true self to the illumined mind fused with the open heart, seeking
not to grasp and to hold for personal progress, but to wield the
magical power in service. The power of the soul is always available
to the one who seeks, as an aspirant to accepted discipleship,
to become of practical service in his own peculiar times, state
and environment.
The teaching in this book is based on four fundamental postulates
which will:
1. Teach the laws of spiritual psychology as distinguished
from mental and emotional psychology.
2. Make clear the nature of the soul of man and its systentic
and cosmic relationships. This will include its group relationship
as a preliminary step.
3. Demonstrate the relations between the self and the sheaths
which that self may use, and thus clarify thought as to the constitution
of man.
4. Elucidate the problem of supernormal powers and give the rules
for their safe and useful devaopment.
Through these underlying postulates runs the theme of energy,
of the one informing life as a centre of energy, pervading and
uniting all within the divine flow. Man is essentially and inherently
divine; and the soul, the centre of consciousness, the result
of the pervasive union of Spirit with matter, is the means whereby
man evolves a consciousness of divinity and unity, redeems the
gross matter of his vehicles and liberates the pure flame of life
energy from the limitation of form. The soul is the vital link,
therefore, between God and man.
The book closes with a rousing call to the soul in all aspirants:
"I close with an appeal to all who read these instructions, to
rally their forces, to renew their vows of dedication to the service
of humanity, to subordinate their own ideas and wishes to the
group good, to take their eyes off themselves and fix them anew
upon the vision, . . . Let all students make up their minds in
this day of emergency and of opportunity to sacrifice all they
have to the helping of humanity. . . . I call upon all of you
to join the strenuous efforts of the Great Ones."
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