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Discipleship in the New Age I - Personal Instructions to Disciples - L.F.U.
March 1939 MY BROTHER: Your glamors are not many or potent, for you are more [234] subject to illusions than to glamors, being so predominantly a mental type of disciple. The question in my mind which I bring to you today for answering is whether the mental emphasis which you impose upon all your daily living, both inner and outer, may not within itself constitute a hindering glamor, thus handicapping the full awakening of the heart center. Much have you done in the past five years anent the increased sensitivity of the heart. Yet the rationalizing intellect can still impede the receptivity of the heart to life and circumstance and, above all, to the dominant appealing note of humanity itself and as a whole. Are you strong enough to participate, with no barriers up, in the present world sorrow, world distress and world awakening? The heart of humanity is now coming to life and that in itself constitutes a problem. The combination of a trained mind and an awakened heart is the objective of the disciple who at your stage of development is in preparation for initiation, and the relation between the two is oft forgotten. It is one of an unrecognized glamor, owing to the fact that the achievement of intellectual balance can temporarily upset the truer balance of the whole man. As I told you some years ago, the heart afire with love (not with sentiment or with emotion) is your life goal and this must be achieved not by stifling the intellect but by an intellectual perception of the significance of the loving heart, plus an active understanding of the significance of human suffering, leading eventually to participation in it. It is this relation of the trained mind and the awakened heart that constitutes the true burning ground and a study of the human situation at the present time would indicate the correctness of my proposition.
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