A specific description of the light and sound discovered through meditation is found here. The rest is mostly more of what we have already encountered as may now be expected. It is easy to understand copies of well formed teachings been used here.
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Good material though but not particularly historical.
All good.
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Some Fragments from a Much Damaged Section Most
of Which Has Been Destroyed
Fragment 1
O enfolded, sleeping soul, unaware of the life
fountain within from which you may drink, unfeeling of the throbbing life all
about us, now is your hour. Prepare yourself for the great awakening. The
bright light of wisdom awaits to encircle you, as you stand before the awful
door within the Sacred Temple of Mystery.
That the light of Truth may be a sure guide
amidst the dark gloom of earthly life, a certain aid enabling you to find the
way of your eternal spirit, you are not unknowing of your inner wisdom. It is
the key to everlasting life in the glorious place beyond the Western veil.
0 live my soul, awaken, hear me. Let not my love
and my sacrifice be in vain, let not all my hopes turn to dust within the tomb.
Can love become soil and hope become sand? Never, for the grave is not the
destination of the sublime attributes which eimoble the nature of man.
Man is as a flame burning in water, as it is
written on the pillars without. His soul is as the rosebud awaiting the kiss of
the sun to awaken it to bloom. His nature is as the day which is ever
accompanied by the night.
Fragment 2
1 will praise The Nameless God who is The True
God and The Knower of Every Name. Hail Great Overseer of Earth!
The high Heavens will hear the sound of my voice
and its loudness shall ring across the widespread land. It shall resound throughout
the Red Land. My song shall ride on the wings of the wind and my gladness shall
whisper into the ear of the air. Hail Great Overseer of Earth!
I shall seek diligently for enlightenment and
knowledge, that I may proclaim the ways of The True God among people, for they
are mysterious ways not easily understood. Man wallows in a quicksand of
ignorance, and only by extreme effort can he extricate himself Great Overseer,
grant me the ability to understand. Hail Great Overseer of Earth!
I say to the people, "Declare The Great One
to your children, to the high bom and to the lowly ones who dwell together
under the same sun, to the generations as yet unborn. Sing songs that will echo
down the corridors of time". Hail Great Overseer of Earth!
"Sing His praises with the birds of the
air, tell of Him to the fishes in the waters, to the creatures which hide in
the ground and to the things which walk and crawl above it". Hail Great
Overseer of Earth!
"Declare Him unto all, for He is The God of
All, He is The Great Compassionate One whose wrath declines with the setting
sun and in the morning departs with the dawnlight mists". Hail Great
Overseer of Earth!
Sometimes, in the lonely nightwatches, I wonder,
have You turned Your face from me? What have I done that You are unresponsive?
Have I ever lived otherwise than in accordance with Your word? O Great Overseer
of Earth, what is Your will for me?
Fragment 3
O Great One, everlastingly considerate of our
needs. Overseer and Taskmaster of mankind, look down upon us with compassion
and lay not too great a burden upon us, your dutiful servants. Labour we must,
for thus we prepare for a higher state of being, but bear with us, for
sometimes we grow weary and falter at the task.
Here we have fallen victims of our own wiles, we
have hopelessly snarled up the threads of our existence, so we know not how to
loosen the knots we ourselves have tied and so free ourselves. We are entangled
in a net of our own weaving. Let us, Your servants, look to You, The Great One,
for aid. Our destinies are held in the hollow of your hands, while the future
is visible to you as is writing upon an open scroll.
The Glorious Ones worship You with service and
serve through following the words of guidance. Thus, the earthbound spirits
worship You, the shades of the departed worship You and the whole of creation
worships You.
We, Your servants, offer our continual and
everlasting devotion to Your service. We are not as others, O Great One, for we
know well that worship and devotion mean service and expended effort, not mere
words and ritual.
Your spirit governs the breezes that comfort
mankind. You send the fertilising rains, Your Spirit quickens the seed within
the womb of Earth. The songs of the birds are inspired by the knowledge of You
and the wild beasts rejoice in the sustenance provided.
You are The Universal Being, The Raincloud
Overshadowing the Earth, The One Dwelling in the Cave of the Heart within all
breathing creatures. You are The Weaver of the Warp and Woof of Life.
Fragment 4
I praise The One Who Eats Evil, The Disposer of
Earthly Residue. He who sustains the devoted followers of The Deathless One in
whom all merge on leaving the body. For the day comes when we discard all that
is of Earth, when we recognise and realise that all remaining is the pure and
sacred spirit, boundless and free as the winds.
I praise The One Who Eats Evil, The Disposer of
Earthly Residue. He who sustains the devoted followers of The Deathless One;
who is with us everywhere and in all things; in whom is all, though not Himself
the all; who sees and hears all, who knows and understands all, but whom none
tied to Earth can know; who projects His word of power, so that it is within
all and holds all things together in stability.
I praise The One Who Eats Evil, The Disposer of
Earthly Residue. He who sustains the devoted followers of The Deathless One;
who created all things and thus became His Own Greater Self; who clothed
Himself in the universe as with a garment.
Fragment 5
0 Great Spirit, I would see the vast face of the
Earth as You behold it. I would know how the seed is quickened, so that it
grows into the plant, and how the fowl comes forth from the egg. What is added
to the egg to give it the power to reproduce life?
1 would touch Your Great Body bom of the breath
from The Eternal Source and watch Your thoughts creating and moulding all
things to shape step by step.
I would see the links of Heaven and Earth and
rest one hand in each. I would see the thread that binds yesterday, today and
tomorrow, so all are one and parts of the whole.
I would see the appointed place of every living
man and understand why. I would see the purpose of every beast and every plant,
every tree and every thing that flies and crawls.
I would know gladness with the children, as they
play and go singing on the way to their places of instruction. I would watch
birth and death and solve their mysteries. I would know the depths of hatred
and the heights of love.
I would journey the adventurous path of love
hand in hand with another. I would know its secret, its delights and their
shadows, and the secrets of its silences.
I would know the beginning and the end, and
understand what links them. I would see the chain of the years and the necklace
of the days. I would know the purpose of it all. Then, knowing all these, I
would know You at last, O Great Spirit!
Fragment 6
O True God, by whom the worthy are guided in all
they undertake; who rises as a beacon in the darkness for the lowly. Grant us.
Your servants who put their trust in You, strength to overcome all the doubts
and uncertainties which rise in our hearts, as frightening shadows arise in the
night. Let us sip the waters from the inexhaustible well of wisdom, that we may
not move along false paths to encompass our own destruction.
For we cannot see the way in the enveloping
darkness, and confusing voices shout this way or that way. We are bewildered,
for we know not which one is right. Can there be so many ways?
We are not men of great learning or high
position. We do not sit among princes, being among the lowhest in the land. Yet
it is we who carry the burdens of the people, we feed the hungry and provide
for the widow and orphan. Ours are the aching backs and weary feet, ours the
naked body and empty bowl.
Those who are concerned with higher things sit
at tables of plenty, those seemingly unworthy rejoice amid prosperity and
plenty. Those who take are given more, while those who give are mocked.
We see these things and doubt enters our
thoughts, we ask one another, "Why is this the order of things? Is it the
will of our God? Then we seek for an answer in all sincerity and with
productive effort, and The Great God Above All does not remain mute.
Fragment 7
O God, hear my prayer, for I have gone into the
great recess within me and await a response from out of the enveloping silence
and tranquillity. The restlessness and discontent of life I have left at the
portal. I have closed the door to the outer things of life.
Give ear, O my soul, to the whispers from the
silence. Close out the clamour of Earth and harken to the soft voice which
echoes from the far reaches of eternity. Hear without ears the wordless voice
of Truth. Close the eyes of the flesh, that the greater eye may see in the
iimer darkness.
Enter into the inner temple and await the
revelation of heavenly secrets. Shut out the clamouring senses that demand
expression in sensual pleasures. Then, when all outer doors are closed and all
inmer doors open, speak to me and I will hear your voice. Tell me the secrets
of the ages, and my spirit will dwell in contentment for ever.
This alone 1 ask and no more, it is sufficient
for one lifetime.
Fragment 8
O Great One on High, have pity on us, for we are
hopelessly ensnared by our complete lack of things needed to sustain the body.
Without sustenance our spirits are restless, our hearts cannot find peace. We
do not desire fooUsh things, or pleasurable or vain things, but just the things
without which we carmot live.
Though we lack all things we do not turn our
faces from You, for we know well that in Your bounty all men are provided for
and the Earth is full of richness. It is not You who take away the things
needed to sustain our lives, but those made in our own likeness, our own
brother men.
They deny meat to the hungry and drink to the
thirsty, though they themselves are gorged to fullness and bloated with good
things. Be merciful to them, instruct and enlighten them with Your chastising
afflictions. Thus they may come to know that man needs man and each man is
brother to all others.
Others have reaped where we have sown and others
sleep where we have built, because of the statutes of men.
Therefore, mete out nought but justice, that we
may be fed and clothed and have a place to rest our heads.
Fragment 9
O God, who teaches us in so many strange ways in
this great place of instruction called Earth; who set us tasks to an end which
we caimot foresee, and who tests us to measure our abilities and to try our
courage and fidelity.
Instruct us, so we may better understand the
bitter lessons which purge from our natures all which is unwholesome to the
spirit. Strengthen us, so we may bear all things without complaint and conduct
ourselves manfully under the strict discipline of this unique place of
instruction. Open the-eyes of understanding within us, that we may benefit by
every experience and not waste time bewailing our lot.
Tell us, so we may know. Instruct us in our
duties in the battleline, so that when we are called upon to take our appointed
place we shall not shirk the clash. Toughen us on the training ground of
adversity, so that we may be stronger for the fray. When the day of battle
comes upon us and cowards flee before the strength of our adversary, when the valiant
ones kiss the dust at the portals of glory, let our place be where the battle
rages most
fiercely and the blows fall the thickest.
If we faint, may we still remain faithful. If we
are exhausted, may we remain dauntless. If our hour come and we fall before the
onslaught, may it be with weapons in hand and face to the foe. We fight the
fight where the victor can be the vanquished and the vanquished the victor, for
here the fight is the end and not the victory. He who serves the end well
justly claims the fruits of victory.
We cannot ask to win, but we can ask to* be made
strong if we struggle for strength. We caimot ask to remain unhurt, but we do
ask for courage. We caimot ask to be supported in weakness, but we can ask for
the fortitude to endure. We stand firm-footed, grim- faced to the foe. The
ranks of wickedness encompass us about, but we will surge forward with closed
ranks, carrying all before us until we come to rest in the presence of victory.
O God, Supreme Among Spirits, watch over us in
the struggle, for we are Your children.
Fragment 10
This is my prayer, O Great Spirit, accept my
prayer. O Dweller in the Pure Region of Truth, hear me. O Great Fountain of
Wisdom, hear me.
O Comforter and Companion of the Soul Silences,
hear me. I, Your son, come into your presence with faith and humility.
Grant that my spirit be admitted into the
Glorious Audience Chamber between the two regions.
I, Your son, come into Your presence with faith
and humility. O Supreme Source of the form-holding rays, grant me a hearing. O
Great One seated on The Celestial Throne behind The Great Solar Disk, hear me.
All homage to you Great God, Master of the bodies of men. I, Your son, come
into Your presence with faith and humility. My every thought and deed are
dedicated to Your service. These things are written clearly in my heart and are
not mere puffs of wind from my mouth.
Fragment 11
Lord of my heart, hear me now as I stand in
communicating silence before the listening shrine. You are The Great One who
existed before the upheaval of the mountains; who tore apart the land and
waters in the infant years of man.
For in Your sight a thousand great years are as
an hour in the heat of the day, or as a watch in the coolness of the night. You
are The Timekeeper in Eternity and Warden of the Ages.
You reap men as com is reaped at the harvest and
sweep them away as floodwaters cleanse the land. For man is like unto the grass
of the field, in the morning it grows full of vigour, gaily bedecked with the
gems of morning dew; in the eventide it is cut down, to wither in the night.
The day is not important if men live by the
hour, fulfilling in each its appointed task.
Fragment 12
When the Dread Messenger calls for you, let him
not find you ill-equipped and unprepared. In the final hour, which must surely
come, there will be no opportunity for fine speech and nought can delay his
imperious command. Then all the possessions you have cherished and stored will
be as nought, and all you will be able to take with you will be that which you
have fashioned within.
Do not be numbered among the foolish who say,
'Time enough, for I am yet young". Death claims the breast- child as well
as the aged, and on this you should ponder. Consider well your future estate.
Here you are the architect of your future abode,
the plans prepared here are carried out in another place. Earth is the place of
sowing. Heaven is the place of reaping.
Here you are the sculptor who chisels the
statue, the potter who fashions the pot, the woodworker who carves the pillar.
What is there on Earth more deserving of your care and attention than your own
future form and appearance?
Do you recklessly hew or wilfully cut? Do you
heedlessly pound the pUable clay and carelessly fashion the unfired pot? Do you
mix the colours with proper thought?
What manner of thing are you fashioning in this
great workshop? A beauteous being arrayed in radiant splendour, or a hideously
foul fiend which can do nought but squirm in the slime of its fitting abode?
Whom will you praise for your prudence or curse
for your lack of foresight? Who can force you to deal tenderly and responsibly
with the slumbering child of your own self? Or prevent you fi-om carelessly and
wilfully shattering all hopes for its future wellbeing?
Fragment 13
Rejoice all cities beside the waters, be joyful
all people in the land, for great things have come to pass. Behold, the foe is
scattered in confusion, they are no more, they are eaten up, victory is with
us.
All praise to our Commanding Lord. Hail The
Great Leader, hail The Source of Power in the land, live for ever in glory. O
Mighty Fighter, let us rest in the shade of Your greatness, let us dwell under
Your shadow, under the protection of Your right arm.
You have given us that which we never thought to
know again. Men sit in peace, speaking freely one with another. They walk
abroad with light steps and their heads are held high. Men look their fellowmen
in the eye and there is none to josde them. They are delivered from the shadow
of fear, and confidence is renewed in them.
The fortresses are no longer overflowing with
fighting men and all throughout the land no well is forbidden to the thirsty,
all may drink freely where there is water. Men come and go across the
wilderness, carrying the burdens of trade and none falls upon them to plunder.
Men journey peacefully along the lonely roads and none waylays them to rob.
Traders cross the barren places and are unmolested, none rises against them.
The bearers of messages no longer hasten about,
pale of face and fi-ightened, they no longer carry doleful tidings, they no
longer bear words of fear. Their coming no longer causes the knees to tremble
and the stomachs to fall. Now the messengers loiter in shady places, remaining
there until the nightwatch calls, for there is no urgency in the words they
carry. The fighting men rest, their hazardous days have gone; the bow, the
sword, the spear and the shield have been laid away in the weapon stores. Women
walk freely, they talk gaily, for they are not overshadowed with fear, neither
do they tremble for fear of molestation. The faces of the border guardians are
no longer haggard with sleeplessness, nor are their eyes tired and strained
with watchfulness.
Throughout the whole land there is content and
tranquillity.
The herds are large and sleek, they are no
longer tense and restless. The flocks graze contentedly in their green
pastures. The fowls are no longer alert and noisy but squabble playfully,
chasing one another through the dust.
The voices of men are no longer hoarsened with
war cries, instead they can be heard singing as each goes about his appointed
task. The doleful wailing of women who mourn their dead is no longer heard and
widows no longer proclaim themselves. The husbandman sows contentedly, knowing
that where he sows he shall also reap.
He no longer doubts that he will enjoy his own
harvest.
The face of God is once more inclined favourably
towards us, even the lesser gods look again upon the land with favour. The
reign of Saku is over, he no longer overshadows the lives of men, all is well
in the two lands.
Fragment 14
We praise our own God with joyous and grateful
hearts. He has shown Himself among us. He will come again in His season, all is
well with us. His desire brings forth the green growing things and the land is
clothed in its gay mantle. His hand guides the stars. His mind contains all
things that fly above the Earth and all things that walk and crawl upon its
face.
We praise You, Great Eternal One whose forms are
so many. We kiss the ground before You. All the sacred beings and sacred things
men worship are but manifestations of their groping through the clouds of
ignorance to understand You. Have pity on them, for they were bom into darkness
and mysteries, but their hearts are good.
Each day You bring some new thing to the
attention of men and place before them problems to unravel. The nature of men
ever inclines them towards the path of ease and passiveness, therefore they
tend to shun the things which are truly profitable. Therefore, deal with men in
a manner best fitting for their progress towards Truth.
Fragment 15
Neither life nor love ends at the Grim Portal.
The strength of the invisible bond between two souls binds them even after
death. That which binds strongest of all is the love which is sincere, true and
constant. Such love endures through tribulations and trials.
If one you love has departed through the Western
Gates into the Great Halls of Eternity, then be comforted by the words of Truth.
This you will then know: that the Guardian at the Grim Portal is no fearsome
being but a compassionate attendant who tends you gently while asleep, until
the morning of a more glorious day. Then you will be awakened to journey
through a greater adventure with the companions of former times.
Fragment 16
In death you are greater than ever you were on
Earth, for now the companionable spirits lament for your sake.
They strike their bare flesh for you and smite
upon their forearms. They tear at their hair and cast dust on their
heads.
Yet if they be true to themselves, they are not
cast down, they are not distressed. There is a voice speaking out of
the silence, saying, "If he goes he shall
come, if he sleeps he shall awaken, and if he dies he shall live".
Can you be gone from us forever? No, you are not
dead or lost unto us, unless by our ovm deeds we depart to
dwell in different regions.
I am not cast down. You are now in the Great
Place beyond the everlasting stars. You have passed over the
horizon of immortality and now walk erect along
the path of glory. May we meet there in days yet to come.
Hail O Glorious One!
Fragment 17
my side when I come before the Assessors, that
when I hear the verdict I may not be alone. If my eyes cannot
see, then tell me of the balances, do they bear
down in my favour?
0 Guardian God, lighten the darkness for me and
deliver me from the meshes of the net woven by my own
deeds of wickedness and weakness. You are my
strength and support, to You have I given my offerings. You I
have honoured above all.
There I may be in distress and have none to
abide with me. I may have no comforter and may be alone, therefore
desert me not in my time of trial. Stand by my
side, O Guardian God. If I am numbered among the distressed
ones, look upon me with compassion and mercy,
and if I am deserted, then sustain me with water, bread and oil.
Fragment 18
1 sing words of glory unto my God who is the
Great God Above All Gods, and the words which issue from my
mouth shall be exalted above all things. With
them I will praise Him in the Sacred Place, in the silence of His
Hidden Sanctuary. They will glorify my God, so
that His Majesty is not dishonoured and He is not deserted,
until the day when He shall be declared before
all men.
With the ever loving thoughts of a devoted heart
I praise Him. Even as the sun rises joyfully into the daysky, so
does my heart rise towards He who gives me life
and renews it day by day.
He is Great, He is Mighty, He is Glorious. He made
the great river to flow, that all men in the two lands might
be fed. It never wearies, it never ceases its
onward flowing. It is everlastingly renewed.
Even as the great river flows steadily and
strongly through the barren wilderness and bestows verdant life on its
way, so let the river of my life flow through
the Earth and eat away the sands of wickedness.
Release me from my mortal fetters. Loosen the
heavy covering of flesh which imprisons me, which restrains
me. Let me rise free into the glory above, as
the falcon floats freely on the wing. Let not the melody of my song
be cut off while I sing, nor the story end
before its completion.
Keep me, O my God, from the ways of darkness and
let my spirit rejoice in the light of righteousness.
Glory to You, Great God, Lord of Truth, whose
eternal throne is concealed behind man's limitations; who issued
the command that brought things into being; who
made man so wonderfully that man himself cannot understand
his own nature; who hears with compassion the
cry of the distressed and the moan of the captive.
All hail the everlasting spirit within, the real
self, the seat of all thought inseparable from me. I am one who can
truly call bis soul everlasting, for I am one of
the Awakened Ones, one of the few who have at long last attained
the Splendid Vision. I have seen the bright
flash of Truth in the darkness of earthly existence, I am free, I am
illuminated.
I will sing, that you may be glorified in the
solitudes of Your Hidden Places, where the eyes of the profane can
never penetrate, where few men come as Chosen
Ones. There we will sing songs of yore. We will sing of Your
ways and of Your laws, which remain
everlastingly unchangeable.
Fragment 19
Heaven and the many Heavens beyond Heaven, Earth
and the many Earths beyond Earth are held in the
thoughts and power of God. They are as a
monument to His everlasting glory. All things living that move and
breathe have their place in the abode of life.
Man finds the greatest joy in the Eternal Halls, therefore set not
your heart on earthly possessions.
Here a man may desire life for a hundred years
and may even attain it, but what benefit are the extended years to
him if they do not exalt the soul? There is a
horror-haunted region of darkness, and whosoever rejects the
godward life on Earth will surely dwell therein.
They will go down to partake of the nature of demons, down
into the darkness of delusion and doom.
The soul, without moving flies on wings swifter
than thought. It stands behind and beyond the senses. It is the
Knower working within the things mat are known.
The spirit of man is carried down the stream of action into
the ocean of life. The spirit is everlasting, it
is near and it is far, it is in all and it contains all.
He who sees his own self in all things and all
things in his own self is awakened. He is beyond delusion and
outside the reach of fiatile sorrow.
Fragment 20
I am Hahrew the Enlightened One, Hahrew the
Twice Bom. Having crossed the dark waters myself, I carry the
others across. Being free from fear, I free
others from fear. Being unrestricted, I ease the restriction of others.
Knowing the way, I show it to others. Having
trodden the road, I now guide others along it. I am an Illuminated
One, the open of ear, the keen of eye. I am one
who knows the Law, I am a keeper of ordinances.
I shall refresh all those whose bodies are bent
with toil or sorrow. I shall come to the aid of those whose souls
are withered and distorted, and give them
strengthening sustenance. I shall open the eyes of many who are
deluded in the heavy mists of threefold
existence.
Hear me, all who toil under the yoke of
ignorance, who labour under the clouds of despair. I am the
Forthcoming One, the Future One Turned Back. I
am the Spirit Within The Law.
I am the Voice of EnKghtenment, one who
proclaims the brotherhood of all men. I am to one as to another. I am
Hahrew.
Fragment 21
0 life-giving Sun, handwork of God, projection
of divine fire, heat of Heaven, light of the day, solitary glory of
the daytime, let me behold the hidden form
behind your brightness, for the spirit within you is even as my spirit.
Thus, I may come to understand the nature of my
God who commands you and to whom I pray. The fair face of
the daughter of Truth remains hidden behind its
mask of gold. O spirit of light, draw aside the veil even slightly,
that I may see.
Who among men is wise enough to know his own
wrongdoing, or to see clearly his own errors and follies? The
eyes of men are dim and the road narrow,
therefore it is not hard to wander fi-om the way. Therefore, O my God,
keep me from all hidden wrongdoing and errors,
and keep me from the power of temptations to which I so
readily succumb.
1 know the rebellions of my heart, and my wickedness
is ever before my eyes, yet how much more do I not see!
I have chafed against the restrictions of Your
decrees and the Law. I am a foolish one who does himself an
injury.
I am ashamed and blush for my folly. I am as a
man who, when his arm does wrong, cuts off a finger. Help to
make clean my heart and strengthen my spirit,
that it may resist my own inflictions upon it. I believe I do right
and do wrong, for I have not listened carefully
and diligently to Your words written on the sacred scrolls.
O my God, whom I have long worshipped with
devotion, incline from the great heights of Your splendour and
stretch a helping hand down towards Your weary
servant. Trusting in You I will depart from the pastures of
sweet grass and the calm waters of restful
repose, and go into the presence of the Everlasting Lords. I will pass
out of the dark tomb, I will arise refreshed
with the outpouring of Your Spirit. I will clasp Your mighty hand and
be guided along the path of Truth. Thus, I
catmot stray and the lonely places will not claim me.
In confidence and trust I will take my place
before the Court of Assessors. Guided by Your light I shall pass
safely by the Place of Darkness, and those who
lurk shall do me no harm. My trust is in You and I will come
safely past the lurking ones. I shall be freed
of all earthly weariness and my spirit shall shine forth in glory. I
will stand in the Place of Brightness, and the
Glorious Ones will come bringing refreshing waters. I will not lack
sweet sustenance, and delicacies shall be poured
forth for me in abundance.
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