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unto us by establishing right relation (within the possible limits) with the
Universe, we shall fall into error when we develop our new instrument of
direct understanding. It is vital that the Adept should train his intellectual
faculties to tell him the truth, in the measure of their capacity. To despise
the mind on account of its limitations is the most disastrous blunder; it is
the common cause of the calamities which strew so many shores with the
wreckage of the Mystic Armada. Bigotry, Arrogance, Bewilderment, all
forms of mental and moral disorder, so often observed in people of great
spiritual attainment, have brought the Path itself into discredit; almost all
such catastrophes are due to trying to build the Temple of the Spirit
without proper attention to the mental laws of structure and the physical
necessities of foundation. The mind must be brought to its utmost pitch
of perfection, but according to its own internal properties; one cannot feed
a microscope on mutton chops. It must be regarded as a mechanical


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"akasha", the "Spirit", the Aethyr or physics, which is the
framework on which all forms are founded; it receives, records
and transmits all impulses without itself suffering mutation
thereby. The "Earth" is the sphere wherein the operation of
these "fundamental" and aethyric forces appears to perception.
"Under the Earth" is the world of those phenomena which inform
those perceived projections, and determine their particular
character. "Dry land" is the place of dead "material things",
dry (i.e. unknowable) because unable to act on our minds.
"Water" is the vehicle whereby we feel such things; "air" their
menstruum wherein these feelings are mentally apprehended. It is
called "whirling" because of the instability of thought, and the
fatuity of reason, on which we are yet dependent for what we call
"life". "Rushing Fire" is the world in which wandering thought
burns up to swift-darting Will. These four stages explain how
the non-Ego is transmuted into the

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instrument of knowledge, independent of the personality of its possessor.
One must treat it exactly as one treats one's electroscope or one's eyes; one
influence of one's wishes. A physician calls in a colleague to attend to his
own family, knowing that personal anxiety may derange his judgment. A
microscopist who trusts his eyes when his pet theory is at stake may falsify
the facts, and find too late that he has made a fool of himself.

In the case of initiations itself, history is scarred with the wounds
inflicted by this Dagger. It reminds us constantly of the danger of relying