Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, worship, psychic control or philosophy — by one, or more, or all of these — and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, dogmas, rituals, books, temples, and forms, are but secondary details. -- Swami Vivikenanda
Saturday, July 20, 2013
On The Key To Peace
"Brotherhood is the Law, the only law on whose operation we can rely upon in Perfect Trust.
"Our task as [Lightbearers] is intensely ethical; not ours the goal to develop occult powers, nor gather more knowledge merely for the sake of knowledge, nor even to worship divinity because that gives us supreme personal happiness. Ours the task to discover the solutions, not of our ills, but of the ills of mankind as a collectivity and to reveal:
"'the true philosophy, the true religion, the true light, which gives truth and nothing but the truth.'"
-- Excerpted from The Maha Chohan's Letter (1881),
with commentary by C. Jinarajadasa (Theosophical Press 1948)
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