Little does the beginning alchemist realize the need for a spiritual alliance.
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The level of the spiritual culture of the world has waned with the increase of material
knowledge and the emphasis that has been placed upon worldly success. Let me make
clear that mankind need not cast aside prosperity and success in order to be spiritual….
High ethics and high standards always evoke a benevolent karma wherein all success can
be translated into God-success. -Alexander Gaylord: Pearls of Wisdom 13:26
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In past ages when the great riches taught men openly and the masters of wisdom sat
upon the thrones of the nations of the world they were the literal embodiment of God-ideals.
The communication of these ideals unto the least among their community was a responsibility
from which they did not shrink. -Nada: Pearls of Wisdom 13:36
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But with it all comes the gift of humility, the gift offense, the gift of consecration, the gift of
dedication, the gift of attention or the ability to focalize one’s energies upon an ideal. Without
these best gifts of the Spirit even victory would be hollow, but now at last the Spirit has
obtained from man the realization of higher principles, the consideration of the splendor of
other worlds. At times these worlds seem far-off. Man ponders his toys, his scientific devices
and his lack of personal achievement. He realizes his own inflexibility and he continues to
pursue the way of the Spirit, the way of flexibility, the way of freedom, the way of the
acceptance of the challenge.
Individuals need to wash, and they are told to purify themselves. Individuals need interior
cleansing, individuals need a cleansing of mind and spirit, for the fragmentary conceptions of
the world are callous, and man does despite unto himself All despite is done unto the self
even when it is done unto others. Therefore we urge upon mankind a hastening of the way,
the unravelling of the skeins of destiny, the fragmentation of the Teaching. And let man
assimilate what he can.
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