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pages 1-13 'The Path' and pages 14-19
'Meaning of the Symbol'
Voice
of Isis - by the Order of Christian Mystics -
1926
Voice of ISIS: CHAPTER XXII.
THE PATH P.
296
- study and meditation, find themselves apparently
no further advanced than whep they set out. Hence,
many become discouraged and turn back, saying
it is a hopeless task, or that only after many
lives-some say at least seven more-they may begin
to attain. But the truth is that unless you begin
to attain today, this present moment, you have
not entered the Path; for this Path is made up
of regular steps, each one a definite attainment.
These attainments are not mystical dreams of a
far-away perfection to be attained in the dim
future, but something that belongs to your every-day
life.
The first step in Mastery must be taken now, in
a definite practical way;
for until this is done the greater steps will
forever remain untaken.
The Path is the Path of Renunciation, yet it is
also a Path of glorious achievement. Upon it you
will find many things to comfort you during the
long nights of darkness and the days of combat,
many resting-places, many joys. The renunciation
does not mean the renunciation of all human sympathy,
all natural human traits; for you must be "all
things unto all men," and this you cannot
be if you become what the world calls a "crank."
The renunciation must be the renunciation of the
dominion of the lower self and the disciplining
and training of its desires and appetites; the
self you have built up out of false conceptions
of the events through which you have gained the
experience which entitles you to enter upon this
definite step. Those who have chosen this step
are like soldiers who have donned their armor
and are waiting to go forth to victory. The goal
is reached through definite attainments, spoken
of as Gates opening into new stages of the ....
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