Letter No. 24 B
Bear in mind the following points about adeptship.
1) An adept--The highest as the lowest--is one only during the exercise of his occult powers.
2)Whenever these powers are needed, the sovereign will unlocks the door to the 'inner man' (the adept,) who can emerge and act freely but on condition that his jailor--the 'outer man'--will be either completely or partially paralyzed as the case may require; viz: either 9(a) mentally and physically; (b) mentally but not physically; (c) physically but not entirely mentally; (d) neither,-- but with an akashic film interposed between the inner and the outer man.
3) The smallest exercise of occult powers requires an effort. We may compare it to the inner muscular effort of an athlete preparing to use his physical strength As no athlete is likely to be amusing himself at swelling his veins in anticipation of having to lift a weight, so no adept can be supposed to keep his will in constant tension and the inner man in full function when there is no immediate necessity for it. When the inner man rests the adept becomes an ordinary man. Habit sharpens intuition of the inner man , yet is unable to make them supersensuous. The inner adept is ever ready, ever on the alert, and that suffices for our purposes. At moments of rest then, his faculties are at rest also.
Bear in mind the following points about adeptship.
1) An adept--The highest as the lowest--is one only during the exercise of his occult powers.
2)Whenever these powers are needed, the sovereign will unlocks the door to the 'inner man' (the adept,) who can emerge and act freely but on condition that his jailor--the 'outer man'--will be either completely or partially paralyzed as the case may require; viz: either 9(a) mentally and physically; (b) mentally but not physically; (c) physically but not entirely mentally; (d) neither,-- but with an akashic film interposed between the inner and the outer man.
3) The smallest exercise of occult powers requires an effort. We may compare it to the inner muscular effort of an athlete preparing to use his physical strength As no athlete is likely to be amusing himself at swelling his veins in anticipation of having to lift a weight, so no adept can be supposed to keep his will in constant tension and the inner man in full function when there is no immediate necessity for it. When the inner man rests the adept becomes an ordinary man. Habit sharpens intuition of the inner man , yet is unable to make them supersensuous. The inner adept is ever ready, ever on the alert, and that suffices for our purposes. At moments of rest then, his faculties are at rest also.
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