Only one thing is asked of you: learn to discern, to know which ideas are truly your own and which do not belong to you.

Every discouraging thought is foreign to your true nature; it has nothing in common with who you are. There are pessimistic ideas in life, but they do not arise from Life itself. Whatever suffering or contradictions you may experience, they do not originate from Life.

Life brings only blessings; everything else comes from another source. Therefore, filter Life, separating its impurities from its essence.

Distinguish what is essential from what is not.

everyone may be certain that Initiation will find him under all circumstances, if he gives proof of an earnest and worthy endeavour to attain this knowledge. It is a natural law among all Initiates to withhold from no man the knowledge that is due to him; but there is an equally natural law which lays down that no word of esoteric knowledge shall be imparted to anyone not qualified to receive it. And the more strictly he observes these laws, the more perfect is an Initiate. The bond of union embracing all Initiates is spiritual and not external, but the two laws here mentioned, form, as it were, strong clasps, by which the component parts of this bond are held together. You may live in intimate friendship with an Initiate, and yet a gap severs you from his essential self, so long as you have not become an Initiate yourself. You may enjoy in the fullest sense, the heart, the love of an Initiate, yet he will only confide his knowledge to you, when you are ripe for it. You may flatter him; you may torture him; nothing can induce him to betray anything to you, inasmuch as you, at the present stage of your evolution, are not competent to receive it into your soul in the right way.

Whenever the Initiate leaves his enclosed spiritual circuit and steps forth before the world, he must immediately take a third law into account. It is this: adapt each one of your actions, and frame each one of your words in such a way that you infringe upon no man’s free-will. The recognition that all true teachers of the spiritual life are permeated through and through with this principle, will convince all who follow the practical rules proffered to them, that they need sacrifice none of their independence.

One of the first of these rules can be expressed somewhat in the following words of our language: ‘PROVIDE FOR YOURSELF MOMENTS OF INNER TRANQUILLITY, AND LEARN, IN THESE MOMENTS, TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE ESSENTIAL AND THE NON-ESSENTIAL.’

It is said advisedly: ‘Expressed in the words of our language.’ Originally all rules and teachings of Spiritual Science were expressed in a symbolical sign-language, some understanding for which must be acquired before its whole meaning and scope can be realized. This understanding is dependent on the first steps towards higher knowledge, and these steps result from the exact observation of such rules as are here given. For all who earnestly will, the path stands open to tread.

Simple, in truth, is the above rule concerning moments of inner tranquillity; equally simple is its observation. But it only achieves its purpose when it is observed in as earnest and strict a manner, as it is, in itself, simple. How this rule is to be observed, will be explained, therefore, without digression. The student must set aside a small part of his daily life, in which to concern himself with something quite different from the objects of his daily occupation.

The way, also, in which he occupies himself at such a time, must differ entirely from the way in which he performs the rest of his daily duties. But this does not mean that what he does in the time thus set apart, has no connection with his daily work. On the contrary, he will soon find that just these secluded moments, when sought in the right way, give him full power to perform his daily task.

Nor must it be supposed that the observance of this rule will really encroach upon the time needed for the performance of his duties. Should anyone really have no more time at his disposal, five minutes a day will suffice. It all depends on the manner in which these five minutes are spent.

At these periods, the student should wrest himself entirely free from his work-a-day life. His thoughts and feelings should take on a different colouring. His joys and sorrows, his cares, experiences and actions must pass in review before his soul; and he must adopt such a position that he may regard all his sundry experiences from a higher point of view.

We need only bear in mind how, in ordinary life, we regard the experiences and actions of others quite differently from our own. This cannot be otherwise, for we are interwoven with our own actions and experiences, whereas those of others we only contemplate. Our aim in these moments of seclusion, must be so to contemplate and judge our own actions and experiences, as though they applied not to ourselves but to some other person.

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