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For many hundreds of years the true Adepts and Initiates shrouded themselves in an impenetrable veil of mystery. It enabled these schools and their disciples to escape the persecutions of religious bigotry and intolerance that have always been felt when man sought to discover God without benefit of clergy.

It was these Serpent Kings who founded the Mystery Schools which later appeared as the Egyptian and Brahman Mysteries and other forms of ancient occultism. The serpent was their symbol, for they taught man the use of the creative energy which courses through Nature and his own body as a serpentine line of force.

During the Atlantean periods the work of gathering and arranging the Ancient Wisdom went on apace, for the people of Atlantis were the greatest exponents of concrete thought the world has ever known.

During the Atlantean periods the work of gathering and arranging the Ancient Wisdom went on apace, for the people of Atlantis were the greatest exponents of concrete thought the world has ever known.

Thus his consecration often results in years of sorrow for the student; but everything has its price in Nature, and a cleansed soul is the price of wisdom, for it is only a balanced and honest nature that can honestly think or honestly analyze.

The Maker of the great plan which we call life, the being from which we have been differentiated, has given man certain potentialities; these when awakened to dynamic powers will give to each the faculties whereby he may know The Plan.

Pythagoras never instructed his disciples in any of his philosophical concepts until after they had passed through five years of the strictest discipline, among other things one provision being that during the entire time they were not to speak a word, in order that afterwards they might know how to hold their tongues.

The true occultist wants nothing but wisdom.

The Apostles who died for their faith, the Christians who sang in the arena while the lions were turned loose upon them, or who hung coated with tar as living torches in Nero’s gardens-these furnished vivid demonstrations of sincerity, humility, honesty and devotion. The Master himself was led up into the mountain by the demons and tempted by a vision of the cities stretched out in the plains below.

Once men died for Truth, but now Truth dies at the hands of men.

If an individual wishes to take a course in business efficiency at the expense of others; if he wishes to attend night school class in order to learn how to become a moral pickpocket, he is privileged to do so as long as he is willing to accept the Karmic consequences.

Our race is money mad. It is insane on the subject of personal gain. It will give nothing to serve others, but will give everything to gain the knowledge which will make it possible for the mediocre to become a commercial power overnight.