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LIGHT ON THB PATH
75 to.do so. If he is interested in phenomena," or the mere circumstance and accident of astral life, then he enters no direct ray of thought or purpose; he merely exists and amuses himself in the astral life as he has existed and amused himself in the physical life. Certainly there are one or two simple lessons which the psychic-astral can teath him, just as there are simple lessons which material and intellectual life can teach him. And these lessons have to be learned; the man who proposes to enter upon the life of the disciple without having learned the early and simple lessons must always suffer from his ignorance. They are vital, and have to be studied in a vital manner; ex. perienced through and through, over and over again, so that each part of the nature has been penetrated by them. . To return. In claiming the power of speecil, as it is called, the Neophyte cries out to the Great One, Who stands fore.
