Expanding
One’s Magnetic
Affinity
With The Sacred Side of Life
Carlos Cardoso
Aveline
* By controlling the desire for personal satisfaction,
one strengthens his will to act with efficiency. As we renounce to comfort, victory becomes
possible. The fulfilment of duty produces enduring happiness, and a clear
conscience is the greatest blessing.
* All that goes up, goes down. That which goes away,
comes back. The thought which we feed and send forth to others will get to them
in one way or another, and will come back to us. Remembering this fact enables
us to be friendly towards those whose mistakes we consider easy to see, and
which may be real or perhaps not.
* All of us make mistakes, and all can learn from
them.
* The ability to identify errors is important, but
personal criticism should be avoided as much as possible. Although we seldom
can correct other people’s mistakes, nothing can prevent us from correcting our
own.
* The mind of a pilgrim is like a compass. Its needle constantly
points to that with which the consciousness of the students has the strongest
karmic affinity.
* The needle of the pilgrim’s mental and emotional
compass invariably points to that which he considers “most meaningful”, regardless
of being luminous or not. Such a “needle” indicates those things that he
subconsciously or supraconsciously feels as “deserving attention”, and makes them
visible.
* Karmic proximity can be positive or negative, in its
magnetic substance and orientation. As a result, every affinity or proximity must
be carefully examined by the pilgrim, and the negative ones have to be eliminated.
* Pain tends to repeat itself. In order to avoid the
self-renewing process of suffering one needs to identify and eliminate its causes.
* As long as there is no distortion in the magnetism
of life, the mind of the pilgrim has its compass-needle oriented towards the
real North, which is his higher self, the spiritual soul. His monad is one with
the eternal wisdom and lives in unity with the law of absolute justice and
altruism.
* If an individual has a karmic proximity with things
and situations which he does not love nor admire, the compass needle of his
mind will have its magnetism distorted and will keep calling his attention to
negativities.
* When destructive and separative energy is
exaggerated, the magnetic balance of one’s life is reduced. One then has to
learn better and expand his affinity with the sacred side of life, so as to restore
equilibrium. The sooner he does that, the better. There is no need to lose time
and energy in unreasonable ways. Each pilgrim can be the disciple of his own
conscience and a loyal friend of his eternal soul.
* An Eastern teacher wrote: “[The student] ought to
bear always in mind these lines of Tennyson: ‘Self reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead
life to sovereign power’. But to remember at the same time the extreme
danger of the self-will when it is not regulated by the three above mentioned
qualities, especially in a question of spiritual development.” [1]
NOTE:
[1] From “Letters From the Masters of the Wisdom - First Series”, TPH, Letter IV to Laura Holloway, pp. 205-206. The
book is available at our associated websites.
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“Thoughts Along the Road - 44” was
published as an independent text on 24 April 2020. An initial version of it, with no indication as to the
name of the author, is included in “The Aquarian Theosophist”, November 2018
edition, pp. 6-7.
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