posted April 27, 2008 12:11 AM            

I saw this and thought of you.
http://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA005/English/index.php

I haven't read it yet but I plan to during the summer. Just thought I'd share it with you and anyone else interested.

posted May 19, 2008 12:10 AM            

When I forget the narrow will of self,
The cosmic warmth that heralds summer's glory
Fills all my soul and spirit;
To lose myself in light
Is the command of spirit vision
And intuition tells me strongly:
O lose yourself to find yourself.

posted June 01, 2008 09:12 PM            

In this the sun's high hour it rests
With you to understand these words of wisdom:
Surrender to the beauty of the world,
Be stirred with new-enlivened feeling;
The human I can lose itself
And find itself within the cosmic I.

posted June 01, 2008 10:05 PM            

It lies with us to hearken to these verse's words:
To find ourselves in an awesome state of deference to the beauty of the natural world,
to quicken our soul with ever-birthing, spirited feelings because,
ultimately,
the journey of the human ego comes full circle only when it loses itself.

It seems that this concept of the ego "losing itself" is often misunderstood. We wouldn't be where we are today without the ego, without the I AM of our human constitution. A higher manifestation of Love itself would be impossible without this aspect of our humanity, for there is no Love like that which is freely given by one I to another.

This idea of the ego "losing itself" is not a doctrine that endorses the eradication of what makes us who we are. Identify yourself with whatever means it is you have. Love your possessions, care for them, have passion for that with which you identify yourself. Whether it be music, art, your business, family, wristwatches, pets, clothes, bank accounts, or lack thereof. Know that there is a deeper side to you, to your true I, but know also that there lies the path of identification in front of you. Whatever it is you feel yourself to be, be that I. Even the so called path of "non-identification" is itself an identification. There is no escaping it. If that's what you wish to be, then so be You. I can accept that. I wish you strength and courage on your path, for it is a difficult one. They all are. The journey into the cosmic I, into cosmic wisdom, is infallible. All that is corrupted is a journey elsewhere.

posted June 09, 2008 12:02 AM            

The radiant beauty of the world
Compels my inmost soul to free
God-given powers of my nature
That they may soar into the cosmos,
To take wing from myself
And trustingly to seek myself
In cosmic light and cosmic warmth.

posted October 12, 2008 04:02 PM            

There flourish in the sunlight of my soul
The ripened fruits of thinking;
To conscious self-assurance
The flow of feeling is transformed.
I can perceive now joyfully
The autumn's spirit-waking:
The winter will arouse in me
The summer of the soul.

posted May 01, 2009 03:38 PM            

Thus to the World-All speaks,
In self-forgetfulness
And mindful of its primal state,
The growing human I:
In you, if I can free myself
From fetters of my selfhood,
I fathom my essential being.

posted May 01, 2009 04:09 PM            

How often is it that we ever find something that is heightened by its reduction?

When the self gives freely of itself in a state of love or compassion, it is heightened in the radiance of its action. When the self's thinking can begin to understand the perceptions of itself from higher beings, it is heightened in its sacrifice. When the self takes feeling to an expanse that is beyond itself, it is heightened in its empathy.

What a wonder it is to be a living member of the Mystery of Selfhood!

posted May 05, 2009 02:49 PM            

The man who can develop himself so far as to have knowledge of Imagination, of Inspiration and of Intuition sees not merely the head of a human being, but he sees objectively the thinking man which his head makes him. He looks, as it were, in the direction of the thoughts. So that we may say with those abilities which man normally requires between birth and death, the head appears in the shape and form in which we see it. Through developed knowledge of Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition the strength of thought, which is after all the basis of the head's organization, that which comes down from earlier incarnations, becomes visible — if we use the term metaphorically. How does it become visible? In such a way, dear friends, that we can only use the expression: it becomes as if it gave forth light.

Certainly, when people, who want to keep to the materialistic point of view, criticize these things, one sees at once how little the present generation is capable of understanding at all what they mean. I have in my Theosophy and in other writings, points out sufficiently clearly that it is not a question of thinking in terms of a new physical world, a new edition of it, as it were, if we contemplate thinking man in Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition; on the contrary, this experience is exactly the same as one has in regard to light in the physical external world. Put accurately it is like this: Man has a certain experience in connection with external light. He has the same experience, in imagination, in connection with the thought-element of the head. Thus the thought-element (See Diagram 1) viewed objectively, is seen as light, or better, experienced as light. Being thinking men, we live in light. We see the external light with physical senses; the light which becomes thought we do not see, because we live in it, because as thinking men, it is ourselves. You cannot see that which you yourselves are. If you emerge from this thought and enter upon Imagination and Inspiration, you put yourself opposite to it and can see the thought-element as light. So that in speaking of the whole world, we may say: We have the light in us; only it does not appear to us as light because we live within it, and because while we use the light, while we have it, it becomes thought within us. You control the light, as it were, you take up the light in yourself which otherwise appears outside you. You differentiate it in yourself. You work in it. This is precisely your thinking, it is a working in light. You are a light-being. You do not know it, because you live within the light. But your thinking which you unfold, is living in the light. And I you look at thought from the outside, you see, altogether, light.

Think now of the Universe (Circle.) You see it radiated with light — by day of course; but in reality you are looking at this Universe from the outside ... we now do the opposite. First we had the human head (Thought in the diagram), which contains thought in its development. Seen from outside, it has light. In the Universe we have light which is seen by the senses. If we come out of the Universe, and regard it from outside, what does it look like then? Like a web of thoughts. The Universe from within — light; from outside — thought. The head from within — thought, from outside — light.

This is a way of viewing the cosmos which can be extremely useful and suggestive to you, if you wish to make use of it, if you really penetrate into such things. Your thought and whole soul-life will become much more active than it otherwise is, if you learn to put this thought before you: if I were to come out of myself — as indeed a person who goes to sleep I continually do, and look back at my head, at myself therefore as a thinking man, I should see myself radiating forth light. If I were to leave the light-flooded world, and look at it from outside, I should see it as a picture of thought, as a thought-being. You observe, light and thought go together; they are identical, but seen from different sides.

posted January 13, 2011 11:00 AM            

The soul's creative might
Strives outward from the heart's own core
To kindle and inflame god-given powers
In human life to right activity;
The soul thus shapes itself
In human loving and in human working.

posted January 24, 2011 09:14 PM            

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~