What is Mental Control or Controlling the Mind? Mental Control is choosing the topics you will entertain, contemplate, or think about, in any given moment. Controlling the Mind is choosing, akin to a mental in-breath, where you direct and maintain the focus of your tool – the mind. Gently but firmly holding it on the […]
“Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right thinking comes right practice. …It matters enormously what you think. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.” ~ Annie Besant 1847-1933, Theosophist, Writer, Orator and Philanthropist.
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Without an Awakened Heart and Living Embodiment of its qualities, the further one develops, the greater their risk of falling into the Dark Path. As one masters their incarnate vehicle; their body, emotions, and mind; their sensory appetites, feelings and desires, and thought life respectively; and, at the same time, they awaken their Heart –
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Initiation and the Three Methods What follows is an exploration of some of the lesser-known aspects of the path of self-mastery, called by some, the Path of Initiation. Before diving in, let us remember that there has developed through the ages three methods that assure the seeker of eventual success on the path: Service, Meditation,
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“[Initiation] is a gradual unfoldment of the spirituality within a being in a wholistic manner and becomes increasingly exponential in its momentum, allowing the inner person (or Deity) to expand and embrace the outer Universe, till eventually there is no distinction between the two. Initiation concerns the stages of being awakened to increasingly more expanded states
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Introducing the Seven Rays By way of introduction, I will include here two quotes from the writings of Alice A. Bailey, who was the one who brought forth to the modern world, the Teachings on the Seven Rays, as dictated by her Tibetan Teacher, the Master Djwhal Khul. “A ray is but a name for
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