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42 LIOHT ON THE PATH illustrate and clucidate these aphorisms They are ceremonies in which only novice take part, for they are simply services of the threshold. But it will show how serious a thing it is to become a dis! ciple, when it is understood that these are all ceremonies of sacrifice. The firse one is this of which I have been speak ing. The keenest enjoyment, the bitter est pain, the anguish of loss and despair are brought to bear on the trembling soul, which has not yet found light in the darkness, which is helpless a3 a blin man is: and until these shocks can' endured without loss of equilibrium astral senses must reman sealed. 'Th is the merciful law. The "medium," W spiritualist," who rushes into the psych world without preparation, is a law-breake: a breaker of the laws of super.naturd Those who break Nature's laws lose their physical health ; those who break the law: of the inner life lose their psychic health
