To Netnews Homepage Previous Next Index Table of Contents
Discipleship in the New Age I - Personal Instructions to Disciples - L.T.S-K.
March 1941 MY BROTHER: I think you know without any emphasis upon my part that the relation between us remains unbroken, though I have not been able for some time to contact you subjectively. This inability on my part is because the stimulation, which such a contact would inevitably bring, might (as it always has in the past) feed the glamors to which you so easily succumb. The danger is now, I believe, greatly lessened and you can be trusted today with a closer contact with me and with the group on the inner subjective plane. The inner group remains and is closely linked with me. You have struggled for years to overcome the glamors and illusions which overwhelm you with such frequency. Your major gain has been to recognize more consciously the danger and a more swift reaction to it when it appears. Late last summer [617] and early in the autumn, you very nearly succumbed to an old rhythm. Suspicion of yourself, an uneasy conscience and much outer plane work tended to safeguard you. See to it most carefully that this contact with me and with your brothers in the inner group does not reawaken into activity well-trained tendencies, old forms of wishful thinking, and old desires for power. For you, the remainder of this life must be given to the steady adherence to the duty of the day and to an intense inner life of meditation. Be consciously the sannyasin. Also, my brother, cooperate in all that proves itself (to your intuition) to be group activity and to which you can contribute power (gained in meditation) and understanding help. All else must be ruled out for this life; meditation and group service must, and will, provide adequate expression for all the powers of your personality and your soul. Find time for that service and be not entirely overwhelmed with the business of the physical plane. Your daily business, your daily service in your environment, your sensitivity to my impression (which can increasingly be developed) and your relation with the inner group on the mental plane will give you scope for loving, fruitful living and prepare you for the freer service of the next life. You have had a grueling and a testing time, my brother. Your improvement has been slow but real. You can be trusted more definitely now than in the past and it is for this reason that I again offer you a more conscious contact with myself. I here tell you my name - a fact that you already intuitively know. I am, by doing so, telling you of your status upon the Path - that of an Accepted Disciple. This carries with it, its encouragement, its responsibilities and its risks. As you are now on the Path of Discipleship and under the direct influence of myself, the Master... your major duty is to train yourself in the needed sensitivity of response to my voice and to the impression which I may be seeking to make upon your aspiring consciousness. This you will do by a constant attitude of directed attention, a controlled personality life and the elimination of all feverish effort along any line of endeavor. A clear, focused mind, a loving heart, and a cultivated simplicity of understanding of yourself, of life and of [618] others is your great need just now. It will do much to bring your devious and involved mental attitudes and aspirations into right order. Make life very simple, brother of mine.
To Netnews Homepage Previous Next Index Table of Contents
Last updated Monday, May 11, 1998 © 1998 Netnews Association. All rights reserved.