{"1": {"fulltext": "iiln\\nm L\\nII\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Mil;", "height": "3983", "width": "2769", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Esoteric Lessons\\nIBY\\nSARAH STANLEY GRIMKE, Ph. B.\\nSEQUEL TO\\nFIRST LESSONS IN REALITY\\nPUBLISHED BY\\nThe i^Wo-pjilogophical publishing Co.\\nDENVER, COLO., I9OO", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "2912S\\n.t\u00c2\u00bb\\nLib Of Concir^^|\\nTwo Copies Reu u*o J\\nAUG 3 1900\\nCopyright entry\\nSECOND COPY.\\nDelivered to\\nORDER DIVISION,\\nAUG 7 1900\\nCOPYRIGHT, I90O\\nBy HENRY WAGNER, M. D.\\n67151", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables\\nAN ARGUMENT\\nAGAINST PHYSICAL CAUSATION\\nIlhtstrated by the Magic Lantern\\nincluding\\nFirst Lessons In Reality, Personified\\nUnthinkables and A Tour Through\\nthe Zodiac, a sequel to First\\nLessons In Reality.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PUBLISHER S PREFACE.\\nIt is the desire of the Authoress to preserve\\nher First Lessons in Reality and Personi-\\nfied Unthinkables/ together with A Tour\\nThrough the Zodiac/ in one volume. There-\\nfore she has requested me to carry out her\\nwishes, and also to copyright the whole of her\\nwritings in my own name, believing they will\\nserve the use for which they were written in\\nthe future, niore than to-day.\\nHenry Wagner, M. D.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThe object of the following Argument is to\\nestablish what is commonly regarded as purely\\nphysical health upon a purely psychical basis to\\nshow that Health is knowledge, wisdom, in-\\nsight; that men suffer from so-called purely\\ncorporeal diseases only because they form er-\\nroneous judgments; also, to show that the fun-\\ndamental erroneous judgment is, that there is\\nany such thing in the Universe as Physical\\nCausation, a belief in which leads both directly\\nand indirectly to disease. Often directly in the\\ncase of the individual, but more commonly in-\\ndirectly as a race-belief held throughout the\\nknown history of mankind.\\nThe practical outcome of such a doctrine of\\nHealth would be its teachableness. Health", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "IV PREFACE.\\nwould then be something universally human,\\nsomething every one could acquire through in-\\nstruction and practice.\\nThis was the Socratic doctrine of Virtue:\\nSocrates taught Men act wrongly only be-\\ncause they form erroneous judgments. He\\nthus Laid the foundation stone for a scientific\\ntreatment of Ethics, a treatment which must be\\ndated from him.\\nIn attempting to establish this doctrine of\\nHealth, our aim has been to show that it is a\\ndirect implication and strict logical deduction\\nof Theistic or Spiritual Philosophy.\\n*Schwegler s History of Philosophy, page 76.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAGE\\nINTRODUCTION. i\\nFreedom as a postulate of Morals, Intellect\\nand Health, p. I. Health explained as\\na result of Mechanism leads to Material-\\nism, p. 2. Evil and Disease both results\\nof erroneous judgment, and erroneous\\njudgment implies Freedom, p. 3. Defi-\\nnition of Freedom, p. 3. Results of the\\npossibility of affirming and believing a\\nlie illustrated, p. 4. Disease a result of\\nthis possibility, consequently Health is\\nKnowledge and Wisdom, p. 5. Physi-\\ncal Causation the erroneous judgment\\nwhich results in Disease, and which The-\\nistic philosophy cannot affirm without", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "VI CONTENTS.\\nviolating the law of Contradictories,\\nP- 5-\\nPART I.\\nREALITY.\\nAN OUTLINE STATEMENT OF HOW ALL RE-\\nALITY IS TO BE REGARDED 7\\nInfinite Mind, p. 7. Infinite Thoughts, p.-\\n8. Ideals, p. 8. Ideals realized in Act,\\np. 11. Line of Reality, p. 13.\\nPART II.\\nPOLAR OPPOSITES. 14\\nDefinition, p. 14 Thought and Symbol, p.\\n14 Unity and Multiplicity, p. 15\\nIdentity and Diversity, p. 15 Being\\nand Attributes, p. 16 Abstraction, p.\\n17 Personification, p. 18.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS. Vll\\nPART III.\\nCONTRADICTORIES.\\nLAW OF CONTRADICTORIES. 20\\nResults of the Violation of this Law, upon\\nIntellectual Life, p. 21. Morals, p. 23.\\nHealth, p. 25. True Definition of\\nCause, p. 28. Exposition of how the\\nerroneous judgment of Physical Causa-\\ntion manifests itself upon the Body, p.\\n31. Eternal Life and Heaven, p. 33.\\nCONCLUSION 34\\nThe use of Contradictories in our Mental\\nActivities, p. 34. The Touchstone for\\nTruth, p. 35. The Principle according\\nto which all Ideas must be worked out.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "PERSONIFIED UNTHINKABLES.\\nINTRODUCTION.\\nIt is certainly a self-evident proposition that\\nactions can have moral quality only on a sup-\\nposition of freedom.\\nIt is also equally certain (though perhaps\\nnot so self-evident) that freedom is an abso-\\nlutely necessary postulate of intelligence; for\\nwithout the power of choosing an end or law\\nand governing one s self accordingly, there\\ncould be no intellectual life.\\nBut that health so called physical health\\nis possible only through the fact of freedom,\\nwill probably, appear to most minds as a self-\\nevident absurdity.\\nThe connection between Body, Intellect and^\\n*Bowne s Metaphysics, pages 168 and 169.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "X INTRODUCTION.\\nMorals, no one denies. But it has been gener-\\nly accepted on the authority of materialistic sci-\\nence.\\nPhysiology measures out our intellectual life\\nfor us, and even goes so far as to decide the ex-\\ntent of moral responsibility from the structure\\nof the brain. While the thorough-going Mater-\\nialist affirms that the Mechanism is sufficient to\\nexplain all the phenomena of Will, even\\ngoing so far as to calmly suggest as a recent\\n^writer does, that desire for suicide, for immor-\\ntality, annihilation, etc., are severally the neces-\\nsary result of the state of the body in which the\\nindividual had no choosing.\\nThis pushes the whole subject to an issue on\\nthe question of free will.\\nThe moralist and intellectualist can no lon-\\nger assert Freedom, while they leave Health to\\nbe explained by the mechanism; for they are\\n^laudsley s Body and Willy page 82.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Introduction. xi\\nthus still at the mercy of the materialist.\\nPhilosophy, both Ethical and Theistic, in\\ndefending itself against materialism, has quite\\noverlooked this fact.\\nHealth has been recognized only as an im-\\nportant conditioning physical fact. But a spir-\\nitual philosophy, (whether it be Idealism or\\nPhenomenalism), which regards physical man-\\nifestations as entirely, or in any degree a product\\nor effect of Mind, must no longer theoretically\\nor practically exempt Body.\\nBody in all its varying manifestations must\\nbe effect or result of Thought.\\nThe basis of Health must be wholly mental,\\nand it follows directly from this that the basis\\nof Disease must likewise be wholly mental.\\nDisease and Evil must both be the direct\\ndid indirect results of an erroneous judgement.\\nHere the materialist would stoutly affirm that\\nche erroneous judgement was the necessary re-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "Xll INTRODUCTION.\\nsuit of the state of the body, in which the indi-\\nvidual had no choosing.\\nAnd here the spiritual philosopher must as\\nstoutly affirm th$t all so-called diseases of\\nBody are simply effects of a mental cause, the\\nnecessary result of an error of reason, and that\\nmind does have the power of correcting its own\\nmistakes of judgment.\\nBut the possibility of forming an erroneous\\njudgment, and the power of correcting it, both\\nimply Freedom.\\nThe fact of Freedom does not by any manner\\nof means make an ignorant man learned by the\\nsimple choosing.\\nIt does not make an evil man virtuous, with-\\nout some effort on his part; nor does it lift the\\nsick man from his bed, to simply choose to be\\nwell.\\nBut when reason tells me that two plus two\\nequals four, if I choose to turn round and say", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. Xlll\\nperhaps after all two plus two equals five, I ex-\\nercise my freedom in the matter. I do not alter\\nthe Truth, but as far as the moral or physical\\neffects upon myself are concerned I can change\\nresults. I can realize the Truth, or I can realize\\nthe effects of a denial of the Truth.\\nBy Freedom, either for the individual or the\\nrace, is simply meant a power to choose some\\nTruth or its Contradictory some Reality or its\\nopposite Nothingness, and to regulate one s self\\naccordingly.\\nIf any one should affirm that effects could\\nexist without any cause whatsoever, he would\\nbut illustrate the possibility of saying a thing\\nwas so, when it was not so.\\nFurther, if any one should accept this state-\\nment as so, which was not so, and should regu-\\nlate his actions accordingly he would certainly\\nrealize results in accordance with his erroneous\\njudgment.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "XIV INTRODUCTION.\\nNow the Reality of a feeling consists in being\\nfelt. Yet the foundation of the feeling may be\\nperfectly false. The feeling may be wholly the\\nresult of the possibility of saying a thing is so\\nwhen it is not so.\\nThus persons have been known to lose the\\npower of speech and motion, to fall fainting and\\nlifeless even, upon a false alarm of fire in a\\nbuilding.\\nNo fire at all still the feeling of fear and its\\nresults upon the body were real enough while\\nthey lasted.\\nAll these results were from a belief in a lie.\\nBut if mind is endowed with trustworthy\\nfaculties for ascertaining the truth or falsity of\\na report, and mind does not choose to exercise\\nthem, is not that mind in a measure responsible\\nfor its own sufferings?\\nA different state of mind would certainly\\nchange results completely.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. XV\\nThe same person who falls imbecile or life-\\nless, upon a false alarm of fire, if inspired by per-\\nfect fearlessness, or a touch of heroism, could\\npass unharmed through raging flames.\\nNow if a person chooses to believe a false\\nalarm of fire, that does not make a fire, when\\nthere is none. It does not make a Reality out\\nof Nothing. Such persons only change results\\nas far as they themselves are concerned.\\nIf then all the Reality, commonly called\\npurely corporeal diseases, possess, can be shown\\nto be the result of the possibility of saying, or\\nbelieving a thing is so when it is not so, that\\nwould establish Disease to be the result of an\\nerroneous judgment; and since the possibility\\nof forming an erroneous judgment implies.*\\n(i) Freedom; (2) that there is absolute truth\\nof Reason, that would also at the same time\\nestablish health to be wisdom, knowledge,\\n*Bowne s Metaphysics, page 168.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "XVI INTRODUCTION.\\ninsight. Thus would our new Doctrine of\\nHealth be demonstrated. For Health would\\nbe Wisdom if Disease was lack of Wisdom.\\nNow if Physical Causation is as false as a\\nfalse alarm of fire, any one who affirms Physical\\nCausation but illustrates the possibility of say-\\ning a thing is so when it is not so.\\nIf the individual or the race accept Physical\\nCausation as true and regulate themselves ac-\\ncordingly, they are certain to realize Results\\nin accordance with the erroneous judgment of\\nPhysical Causation.\\nIn Logic the Law of Contradictories is called\\na fundamental Lazv of thought. According to\\nthis Law, One of two contradictories must be\\naffirmed. It would, for example, be a viola-\\ntion of this Law to affirm, that all right angles\\nare equal, and at the same time assert that some\\nright angles were larger than others.\\nOur aim is to deduce this doctrine of Health", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. XV11\\nfrom Theistic or Spiritual Philosophy; and to\\npoint out that Theistic Philosophy cannot af-\\nfirm Physical Causation, even in the case of so-\\ncalled purely corporeal diseases, without a self-\\nevident violation of the Law of Contradictories.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "PART I.\\nREALITY.\\nAN OUTLINE STATEMENT OF HOW ALL REALITY\\nIS TO BE REGARDED.\\nThe Absolute; the Unknowable; the Infinite\\nEssence First Cause, etc., are some of the fash-\\nionable terms employed to denote our concept\\nof the Supreme Reality of the Universe.\\nThey have the praiseworthy quality of being\\nquite unpicturable but their unpicturability re-\\nsults rather more from their lack of meaning\\nthan anything else.\\nThe terms Being, Reality, Infinite, etc., are\\nlogical abstractions in themselves, and have no\\nreal meaning apart from some active agent.\\nBut in that connection they do have meaning.\\nOur highest conception of an active agent is\\nthe conscious ego, or Mind.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 Esoteric Lessons.\\nNow there is certainly nothing in the Uni-\\nverse so utterly unpicturable as Mind. What\\npossible picture can one form of the part of him\\nwhich reasons, reflects, gives judgments, forms\\ndecisions, etc.\\nBesides being unpicturable, the term Mind\\nstands for the most definite, vivid and self-evi-\\ndent fact of consciousness.\\nTherefore Mind, our highest, most real, defi-\\nnite and knowable term for a Unitary Active\\nAgent, we adopt for the present purpose, as the\\nSource of all Reality in the Universe. In-\\nfinite Mind!\\nIt is impossible to conceive of a mind without\\nthoughts.\\nOn the other hand, thoughts have no inde-\\npendent existence by themselves. They are not\\na community loafing around waiting for some\\nMind to think them. Neither are thoughts,\\nmind, nor mind, thoughts. There is an ulti-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Personified Un think able s. 21\\nmate dualism between the two. They can never\\nlose their identity and change, the one to the\\nother.\\nYet mind implies thoughts. They cannot\\nexist apart. They are therefore what may be\\ncalled Real or Polar Opposites. They mu-\\ntually imply each other.\\nThought, or product of mind, regarded by it-\\nself is quite as unpicturable as mind. However,\\nin connection with thought, occurs a phenome-\\nnon, the importance and significance of which,\\nin all its bearings, perhaps, has not been suffi-\\nciently regarded by philosophy and psychology,\\nviz\\nFor every thought there is an accompanying\\nmental picture of some kind. If the thing itself\\ncannot be pictured, there will still be an accom-\\npanying mental picture of some manifestation\\nor appearance of the thing.\\nIf the idea triangle is called to mind, one can-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 Esoteric Lessons.\\nnot think of it without seeing in his mind s\\neye a figure with three sides. One cannot re-\\nflect upon so-called general ideas without a\\nmental picture. Take e. g. the general term\\nAnimal. We find at once an accompanying\\nmental picture of some individual included un-\\nder the class, animal e. g\\\\, a dog or lion, etc.\\nNeither can one consider ideas regarded ab-\\nstractly, such as, Life, Love or Virtue, without\\nsome object possessing Life, Love or Virtue,\\npicturing itself to the mind.\\nFurthermore these mental pictures either,\\n(i) correspond to. previous sensations derived\\nfrom phenomena or visible universe, or (2)\\nthey are original constructions made up out of\\nprevious sensations by means of association,\\ncomparison, etc.\\nMental pictures are therefore, 1 the mind s\\nsymbols for objective phenomena, and (2) they\\nare representations of the activities the work-\\ning over processes of intellect.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 23\\nThe first class, the finite ego, refers to some\\nother agent than itself as cause, but the second\\nit claims as its own construction.\\nIts images, or ideals, the finite mind is in-\\nstinctively impelled to put in some* form recog-\\nnizable to the senses.\\nTo the Artist, the Poet, the Author, we ac-\\ncord our highest praise and admiration in pro-\\nportion as they succeed in creating the most\\nperfect form or expression for their ideals.\\nMental images are then the mediation be-\\ntween unpicturable thought, and a representa-\\ntion to the senses, of thought.\\nThey are the purely mental expression for\\nthe thoughts which the Artist puts on canvas,\\nthe Poet and the Author into form for eye and\\near.\\nThe creative faculty we regard as the high-\\nest mark of genius in finite mind.\\nBut in the real, the ontological sense of the", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24 Esoteric Lessons.\\nword Infinite Mind, is the only Creator.\\nIt is also, in the true sense of the word, the\\nOnly Mind in the Universe.\\nThe finite mind stands in the relation of\\nThought to this One Great Mind.\\ni Thoughts can never be the mind which\\nthinks them. (2.) Again the sum of all the\\nthoughts of Infinite Mind can never equal\\nthe One Mind. (3.) Again thought has no\\nindependent existence apart from mind.\\nTherefore 1.) Man can never be God. (2.)\\nAll mankind together can never equal God.\\n(3.) Man is an utter unthinkability apart from\\nGod.\\nFor every thought of Infinite Mind, there\\nexists, so to speak, an accompanying mental pic-\\nture, type or ideal. These types or ideals, the\\nIdealist regards as the reality of Phenomena,\\nor visible Universe.\\nHere the Idealists divide into two classes.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 25\\nNeither class denies that there is objective\\nreality.\\nBerkley affirmed an objective and\\nspiritual ground of our sensations as an abso-\\nlute necessity of thought. He questioned only\\nthe external existence of the object in percep-\\ntion, and reduced it to an effect in us.\\nThe other class regards the mental ideal or\\ntype as the reality of phenomena but also hold\\nas Leibnitz did, that visible universe is a cre-\\native act. It is the ideal of thought realized in\\nact.\\nSince whichever class may have the truth of\\nthe matter does not to any extent affect the\\npresent argument, visible universe is regarded\\nas a Creation for the realization of a purpose;\\nalso as an expression of an ideal, just as an\\nartist seeks to represent his ideals of thought.\\n^Bowne s Metaphysics, page 451.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26 Esoteric Lessons.\\nBut for all that, phenomenon is only an ap-\\npearance. It has no more substance in it than\\nthe vivid reflections thrown upon a screen or\\nwall by the magic lantern, which presents to\\nthe eye a perfect, beautiful and certainly a most\\nreal appearance.\\nJust as every minutest detail of the brilliant\\npicture on the wall corresponds to a small\\ntransparency within the lantern, just so phe-\\nnomenon is the reflection of an ideal of Infinite\\nMind.\\nThe reflection of a thought has no substance,\\n(the words substance and matter ought to be\\nannihilated) but it has reality.\\nJust as all the reality the reflection on the\\nscreen possesses is derived from the magic lan-\\ntern, just so all the Reality of visible universe\\nis derived from Infinite Mind consists in its\\npurely mental quality.\\nTherefore as an act of Infinite Mind the re-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 27\\nflection of a thought is real. For all the Divine\\ndoing is Real.\\nAnd all the Divine doing is perfect, beauti-\\nful, harmonious perfect in Order, Health and\\nHappiness. Whatever other appearance man\\nmay imagine he sees there is an entirely gratui-\\ntous contribution on his part. An example of\\nthe exercise of his freedom to form erroneous\\njudgments, whereby he does not alter Truth\\nor Reality; but merely as far as he himself is\\nconcerned, changes results.\\nAll the Reality, then, in the Universe, is to\\nbe regarded as in a direct line from One Source.\\nAlso in a regular grade of order which can-\\nnot be reversed or worked backwards any more\\nthan, in the case of the magic lantern, the re-\\nflection can be the cause of the transparencies,\\nor lenses or again the transparencies or lenses\\ncan be the cause of the light in the lantern.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "28 Esoteric Lessons.\\nLINE OF REALITY,\\ni. Infifite Mind.\\n2. Infinite Thoughts.\\n3. Infinite Ideals of InfiniteThoughts.\\n4. Infinite Expressions, or Ideals Re-\\nalized in Act Visible Universe.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "PART II.\\nPOLAR OPPOSITES.\\nREAL OR POLAR OPPOSITES.\\nInfinite Mind.\\nInfinite Thoughts.\\nThought Symbols.\\nUnity \u00e2\u0080\u0094Multiplicity\\nIdentity Diversity.\\nj Being.\\nI Attributes.\\nReal or Polar Opposites are necessarily\\nreciprocal. They do not exclude, but mutually\\nimply each other. *They are utterly meaning-\\nless apart. One cannot exist without the other.\\n*Cocker s Handbook of Philosophy, Divis-\\nion i, p. 177.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "30 Esoteric Lessons.\\ni Thought and symbol are Polar Opposites\\njust as much as Mind and Thoughts. They\\nhave no existence apart. Mind cannot think a\\nthought without sign or symbol of some kind.\\nThe Thought for which mind has no mental\\nconception, is perfectly meaningless. Mind\\nhas not thought it. If the senses have never\\ngiven the symbol which mind has translated\\ninto the idea Triangle, or if Mind has never\\nconstructed it out of its previous sensation of\\nlines and angles, that mind has never thought\\nthe idea Triangle.\\n(2.) The same thought may be expressed in\\na multiplicity of ways, as e. g. the idea Castle\\nmay be expressed by a zvord spoken or written,\\nby the architect on paper, by the mechanic\\nin brick or stone, or by the artist on canvas,\\netc.\\nThe Thought never loses its Unify, no matter\\nhow numerous the forms which represent it.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 31\\n(3.) Again, the idea Cube never changes to\\nthe idea Cylinder nor the idea Cylinder to the\\nidea Sphere. Yet the form which expresses\\nthe idea cube assumes the exact appearance of\\nthe form cylinder by simply revolving the cube\\n(suspended at the center of one of its sides),\\nand a perfect sphere is produced as far as the\\nsense of sight can inform us by rotating the\\ncylinder (suspended at the center by its round\\nside.*)\\nThroughout the phenomenal universe, the\\nidea remains forever the same. The idea solid\\ndoes not change to the idea liquid nor the idea\\nliquid into the the idea vapor. Yet the appear-\\nance, or expression for the idea may change\\nfrom one to the other right before our eyes, as\\nin the case of water.\\n*Froebel s Kindergarten System. The Sec-\\nond Gift.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "32 Esoteric Lessons.\\nWe cannot therefore affirm identity of phe-\\nnomena. When we change ice into steam and\\nthen back into ice again, we cannot affirm that\\nw r e have the same piece of ice with which we\\nstarted. But thought can never lose its identity\\nnor its unity, nor cease to exist as long as mind\\nexists to think it. Therefore this Thought of\\nInfinite Mind which you and I represent can-\\nnot cease to exist, nor lose its unity nor its\\nidentity any more than Infinite Mind can cease\\nto exist, since Mind and Thoughts imply each\\nother. Further, since Thought and Symbol are\\nlikewise polar opposites which imply each other,\\nwe shall always have expression or body of\\nsome kind or other.\\nPhenomenal universe of some kind must al-\\nways exist, as long as Infinite Mind exists.\\nWe cannot blot out one and leave the other any\\nmore than by rubbing the vivid reflections\\nthrown upon the wall by the magic lantern, we", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 33\\ncan erase the picture while the lantern con-\\ntinues to burn. Or any more than we can put\\nthe lantern out and still have our picture left\\non the wall.\\n(4.) Pure or Absolute Being apart from At-\\ntributes is quite as unthinkable as Mind with-\\nout Thoughts. Life, Truth, Virtue, in the ab-\\nstract, are quite as meaningless and absurd as\\nit. would be to talk about a smile or a grin in\\nthe abstract, floating round in the air, or which\\nno one had ever smiled or grinned.\\nAbstraction, however, is the first act or\\ncondition in knowledge. It is the withdrawal\\nof attention to a part.\\nWe have seen that all Reality was to be re-\\ngarded as in a direct line and order from the\\nsame Source. But the whole process of knowl-\\n*Cocker s Handbook of Philosophy, Divis-\\nion 1, p. 169.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34 Esoteric Lessons.\\nedge, however, follows along the reversed line;\\nand thus (as we shall see) with Abstraction,\\nor the first step in knowledge, has occurred\\nPersonification, or the fundamental error.\\nAttention (abstraction) is first directed to\\nPhenomena. Sensations are mental transla-\\ntions of Phenomena. Sensations, again, are\\nnot entities. They are only Sensations as they\\nare thought by mind; only as they are an act\\nof the conscious ego. There are two ways,\\nhowever, of regarding this one act. At the\\nsame time the ego recognizes its sensations as\\nits own, it also recognizes that the sensations\\nstand for something not its own; and thus ar-\\nrives at phenomena. Here it observes most\\nwonderful manifestations of power, law, truth,\\nlife, etc., etc., and is impressed with overwhelm-\\ning Reality. Thus it is led to personify Nature,\\nor endow Phenomena with independent Real-\\nity not realizing the fact that Visible Universe", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 35\\nis purely a mental expression of Thought, that\\nif Infinite Mind could cease to exist, all the\\nappearances which seem so vast and everlast-\\ning, would vanish like a bubble without leav-\\ning the shadow of a dream behind.\\nThe ego having personified Nature, when it\\narrives at some knowledge of Infinite Mind\\nhas two opposing Realities in the universe\\nMind and Matter or if it has personified the\\nvarious Laws, Forces, etc., which it abstracted\\non its way, it already has a host of Divinities.\\nPersonification, then, is the fundamental lie,\\nwhich has attended abstraction, the first step\\nin knowledge.\\nPersonification is from persona, the Latin\\nword for a mask and obtained its present sig-\\nnificance from the fact that Actors were in the\\nhabit of wearing masks in the plays. That is,\\nby means of masks they assumed to be per-\\nsonages they were not.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "36 Esoteric Lessons.\\nSo the ego in turning its attention to phe-\\nnomena, endowed the manifestations of Real-\\nity, with an independent existence and Reality\\nwhich they do not possess. And thus counted\\nthe mask, (the appearance), for One, as well\\nas the Actor, One, quite overlooking the fact\\nthat the Actor, and the character he personates,\\ncannot count as Two distinct individuals.\\nWhen the ego comes to explain Body and\\nSoul as the union of mind and matter, it has\\ntwo irreconcilable forces. In proportion as\\nmatter is allowed dominion, Intellect and\\nMorals are Slaves, until in a final struggle for\\nconsistency, Matter is declared Omnipotent!\\nMind is but reflection, expression of Matter.\\nMechanism is fully competent to explain all\\nappearance or phenomena of mind.\\nSensations are all.\\nJohn Stuart Mill asserts that, In the lan-\\nLogic, ch. III. 3.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 37\\nguage of philosophy, feelings and states of con-\\nsciousness are synonymous; everything is a\\nfeeling of which the mind is conscious.\\nAlthough Mr. Mill establishes a scale of\\nrank in feelings, yet such statements reduced\\nto their lowest terms degrade Philosophy to\\nsome such gibberish as the following: Algo\\nten kephaten; ergo sum. I suffer a headache;\\ntherefore I exist. The Greek and Latin give\\nan appearance of learing, but looking behind\\nthe Mask, at the content of the sentence, every\\nhealthy mind is instinctively impelled in the\\nname of Phiosophy to sledge-hammer it as a\\nlie, and then start out once more with that lofty\\nassertion of Des Cartes, I think, therefore I\\nexist/ And I exist, because Infinite Mind\\nThinks. And I have no existence apart from\\nInfinite Mind. In that sense, I and the Father\\nare One.\\nThe Law of Polar Opposites is the most", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "38 Esoteric Lessons.\\nfundamental law in the universe and Personi-\\nfication is a direct and stupid violation of that\\nlaw. Personification is Idolatry.**\\n*Book of Exodus, Chap. XX, verses 3 to 7.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "PART III.\\nCONTRADICTORIES.\\nTruth.\\nFalsity.\\nVirtue.\\nEvil.\\nHealth.\\nDisease.\\nLife.\\nDeath.\\nThe Law of Contradictories is a funda-\\nmental Law of Thought. According to this\\nlaw, One of two contradictories must be af-\\nfirmed.\\nAll Contradictories of universal, necessary\\nand absolute Truth are impossible;* and Un-\\nthinkable.\\n*Cocker s Handbook of Philosophy, Divis-\\nion i, p. i.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40 Esoteric Lessons.\\nOn the opposite side of the great principles\\nof Truth, Virtue, Health, Life, etc., the ego\\nbeholds another set of appearances which it\\nalso at once proceeds to personify, to establish\\nas realities, viz. Falsity, Evil, Disease and\\nDeath, until, however, gradually coming to\\ncomprehend there can be no such thing as at-\\ntributes apart from Being, that Truth, Virtue,\\nHealth and Life, etc., are meaningless abstrac-\\ntions by themselves, it is confronted by the\\nmonstrous paralogism of affirming that if\\nFalsity, Disease, Evil and Death are also At-\\ntributes of Being, are Realities, just as much\\nas Truth, Virtue, Health and Life are Reali-\\nties, then Falsity, Evil, Disease and Death, and\\nBeing are necessarily reciprocal. They do not\\nexclude, but mutually imply each other.\\nInfinite Mind, and Falsity, Evil, Disease,\\nand Death are utterly meaningless apart one\\ncannot exist without the other And thus to", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 41\\navoid the revolting necessity of making the In-\\nfinite the Father of Lies, another (Personage)\\nmask is introduced into the Universe to father\\nthis new set of Realities. A necessity which\\nmight have been wholly obviated by the cor-\\nrection of the very simple blunder in the prem-\\nises, viz. that Falsity, Evil, Disease, and\\nDeath are not polar opposites of Being at all,\\nthey are the purely Verbal Opposites, or Con-\\ntradictories of the Attributes of Being.\\nWhat rational ground is there, then, for af-\\nfirming them to be Realities, or the Attributes\\nof Being? Is it not, on the other hand, a direct\\nviolation of the law of Contradictories to do\\nso?\\nIf we affirm the proposition; some right\\nangles are larger than others, to be equally true\\nwith the proposition, all right angles are equal,\\nwe at once introduce confusion and chaos not\\nonly into mathematics, but also into Astron-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42 Esoteric Lessons.\\nomy, Physics, or, in short all the Arts and\\nSciences depending on mathematics. So long\\nas we maintain that single Falsity to be a Real-\\nity, just so long would we remain in the densest\\nignorance on all these subjects. We would not\\nalter the Truth, but only as far as we our-\\nselves are concerned, we would change results.\\nWhether we will or no, we cannot possibly\\naffirm both of two Contradictories. It we hold\\nfast to one, we lose the other. And we must\\naffirm Truth and deny its verbal opposite as\\nan absolute Unthinkable, in order to make\\nthe slightest advance in knowledge.\\nNow since all the Contradictories of uni-\\nversal, necessary and absolute Truth are im-\\npossible, are Unthinkables, we must either af-\\nfirm Truth, Virtue, Health (from Anglo-\\nSaxon hal, Whole), Life, Love, etc., to be\\nuniversal, necessary and absolute Truths, and\\ntheir contradictories unthinkables, or else we", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 43\\nmust affirm Falsity, Evil, Disease, Death, Hate,\\netc., to be universal, necessary and absolute\\ntruths and their contradictories unthinkables.\\nA conclusion which the consistent Materialist\\naccepts either openly or else practically. But a\\nconclusion the Spiritual Philosopher cannot ac-\\ncept without a most flagrant violation of the\\nLaw of Contradictories.\\nBut here the ego immediately inquires\\nHow, then, come these appearances which seem\\nso real; take, e. g., the manifestations of Evil,\\nthe contradictory of Virtue\\nHere, however, a moment s reflection con-\\nvinces us, this class of manifestations we uni-\\nversally regard as results. Moral quality is\\nnever affirmed of results, but of the thought\\nwhich actuated the results. To remove the re-\\nsults in no way affects the guilt of the Thought.\\nBut again the ego questions Why is not\\nthe erroneous judgment back of the results of", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44 Esoteric Lessons.\\nEvil, as evidently unthinkable as the statement,\\nsome right angles are larger than others\\nThe answer is plain enough. It is purely a\\nmatter of insight, of education.\\nThe race has been so accustomed to accept\\ntruth from authority instead of reason, that\\nwith most minds a college degree will outweigh\\nany logical demonstration.\\nIt is an erroneous judgment that self inter-\\nest or happiness ever in any way conflict with\\nVirtue.\\nOn the contrary, the welfare and happiness\\nof the individual, and of the race depend un-\\nconditionally upon Virtue.\\nIt is just as untrue that a man is the slave of\\nhis senses, as that some right angles are larger\\nthan others. But, just as surely as a man comes\\nto the conclusion that his senses rule him, or\\nwere given for personal gratification, just so\\nsurely the physical, or phenomenal results of", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 45\\nsuch a decision begin to manifest themselves.\\nAnd since Intellect and the Senses meet\\nthrough the imagining faculty, Intellect hav-\\ning accepted the unthinkable, the impossible\\nfor Truth, for Reality, Imagination proceeds\\nto portray these Unthinkables to the senses.\\nAnd all the acts of that man thereafter are re-\\nsults of that one mental error.\\nBut, right here must be noticed an important\\nand undeniable fact, viz. The whole physical\\norganization also responds to the mental error.\\nA momentary thought of sensuality, avarice,\\nor revenge, distorts the face, impairs respira-\\ntion, retards or quickens the circulation, ^and\\ngoes tingling through every nerve and fibre of\\nthe body. But if long enough continued it re-\\nsults in either Disease of some form, or perma-\\nnent deformity of the features, if not of the\\nwhole body, or both.\\nVery many forms of Disease are well known", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "46 Esoteric Lessons.\\nto be the results of immorality, and conse-\\nquently purely mental origin. Yet it never\\nseems to strike one as at all absurd to physic\\na man for Avarice, or Revenge. On the con-\\ntrary it is taken for granted as the proper thing\\nto do. Still the person who should undertake\\nto remove an ugly image reflected on a wall\\nby a magic lantern, with a coat of whitewash,\\nwould in all probability be regarded, either as\\nnon compos mentis, or, as a very great ig-\\nnoramus. No matter how much one may try\\nto ignore the fact, or cheat the senses, by hang-\\ning a dark curtain over the ugly picture, yet\\nReason will insist that the reflection is still\\nthere as long as the lantern remains intact;\\nand that you have only to lift the dark curtain\\nto be again confronted by the unseemly reflec-\\ntion. There is but one way to remove it from\\nthe wall, and that must be done by a change in-\\nside the Lantern.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 47\\nIn like manner as long as the mental image\\nfor an unthinkable is held in the mind, just so\\nlong- will the immoral results continue to mani-\\nfest themselves.\\nBut, just as surely as the erroneous judgment\\nis corrected, all the results of the personified\\nunthinkable will be replaced by manifestations\\nof Truth, Pure living, and High thinking.\\nThe complete reformation of an immoral\\nman would not then be the miracle it now is, if\\nphysical causation were seen to be as utterly\\nunthinkable, as for the Reflections of the magic\\nlantern to be the Cause of the image they re-\\nflect.\\nBut such results are impossible on a basis of\\nphysical necessity, and, moreover, as long as\\nphysical causation is allowed in the slightest\\ndegree, Morals are at the mercy of Chance.\\nFor a man may be free one moment but neces-\\nsitated the next. Or again one man might be", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "48 Esoteric Lessons.\\nentirely free under circumstances which would\\nrender another wholly necessitated.\\nThe fundamental lie, then, which opens the\\ndoor to evil and which continues to hold it open\\nis physical causation, or allowing the senses\\ndictatorship. The office of the Senses is solely\\nto report phenomena. Reason translates it into\\nKnowledge. The Senses should give us neither\\npleasure nor pain. Either pleasure or pain de-\\nnotes perversion of their use. In their office\\nthey should be as sensationless and unconscious\\nas perfect digestion. The pleasure derived from\\nthe harmony of color or sound, or proportion\\nshould be wholly intellectual. Pain should be\\nthe revolt of the intellect against an untruth.\\nFor discord and inharmony are but expressions\\nfor a lie\\nPleasure and Pain are both results of the\\nerroneous judgment of Physical Causation, for\\nPhysical Causation is as absolutely unthink-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 49\\nable as it would be for the reflections of the\\nmagic lantern to be the Cause of the Reality\\nthey reflect; or, for Thoughts to be the Cause\\nof the Ego or Mind which thinks them.\\nThis conclusion, however, being thoroughly\\ncontrary to established belief will not be readily\\naccepted in the case of so-called purely physical\\nDisease. For although mental and moral cau-\\nsation is generally conceded for a large class\\nof bodily maladies, yet physical causation is in-\\nsisted upon for a large proportion.\\nFeuchtersleben says The operations of body\\nand mind meet in the fancy (or imagination)\\nas in a punctum saliens; it is only through the\\nimagination that they act and re-act together.\\nThought without an image cannot become dis-\\neased; nor can sensations without imagination\\nbecome psychically diseased. Below imagina-\\ntion we find affections of the sensor and motor\\nnerves which remain purely corporeal diseases", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "50 Esoteric Lessons.\\nso long as they do not encroach upon her do-\\nmain.\\nBut how can they become diseased and not\\nencroach upon her domain For all our knowl-\\nedge and experience of sensor and motor nerves\\nis derived wholly from their diseased condition.\\nXo one would ever have known of nerves from\\ntheir healthy condition. They never report\\nthemselves. But having become disordered\\nthey do report themselves and the report must\\nof necessity be made through the imagining\\nfaculty. There is no other way. The only\\npoint which remains then, to consider, is\\nwhether sensor and motor nerves get out of\\norder themselves, or by some misuse on the\\npart of the ego. If then, diseased conditions\\nof sensor or motor nerves can be shown to be\\nresults of erroneous judgment, there certainly\\nMedical Psychology, pp. 241-242.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 51\\nneed no longer be any reason for the Spiritual-\\nistic Philosopher to violate the Law of Contra-\\ndictories, even to the extent of affirming Physi-\\ncal Causation in the solitary case of sensor and\\nmotor nerves.\\nThe true definition of Cause is Whatso-\\never Will, does or Did Do. Throughout\\nthe phenomenal Universe we observe only an\\norderly succession of events, never Cause.\\nOur only experience of cause is when phenom-\\nena is modified through human agency or de-\\nsign. Thus man can combine Hydrogen and\\nOxygen in the proportion of two volumes of\\nH to one of O and produce the result H2O,\\nor Water, through his own design and agency.\\nBut at the same time he is conscious that he is\\nnot the author of the immutable principle nec-\\nessary to the combination, and instinctively\\n*Chas. De Medici, Commensuration, p. 12.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "52 Esoteric Lessons.\\nconcludes to a Supreme Cause or Will, as an\\nultimate ground of all the orderly succession of\\nevents observable in the Universe. The finite\\nego is the immediate or efficient cause of change\\nor modification of phenomena observable about\\nus in human life. While the Infinite is the ulti-\\nmate Cause of the immutable principles back of\\nVisible Universe. Reason can never be satis-\\nfied with any causation apart from Will. Es-\\npecially since it must necessarily result so dis-\\nastrously to Intellect and Morals.\\nSimply because the senses report certain ap-\\npearances followed by suffering and disorder of\\nthe Organism, which interfere with the func-\\ntions of body and mind is not sufficient, reason\\nfor affirming Physical Causation in the case of\\npurely corporeal Diseases. For, why should\\nReason allow the Senses to be competent to\\nfurnish the truth in this one case, while in every\\nother the Senses but furnish the data which", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 53\\nReason alone is competent to work over into\\nknowledge? The Senses would at this very\\nmoment, (if they were consulted), insist that\\nthe Earth is stationary; and deny point blank\\nthe fact that the earth is whirling through\\nSpace, in its Orbit, at the rate of 68,288 miles\\nan hour.\\nIf then a perfectly satisfactory explanation\\nof all so-called purely corporeal diseases can\\nbe given by assuming physical causation to be\\nthe erroneous judgment which results, either\\ndirectly or indirectly in corporeal diseases,\\nReason is bound to accept it, since it would thus\\nforever dispose of both Physical Causation and\\nCorporeal Disease by effectully knocking their\\nheads together.\\n(1.) A belief in physical causation produces\\nFear, and Fear acts both directly and indirectly\\nupon the body. Often immediately upon the\\nsensor and motor nerves in like manner as was", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "54 Esoteric Lessons.\\nseen in the illustration of the immediate results\\nof Avarice and Revenge upon sensor and motor\\nnerves; or in the case of the results observed\\nupon a belief in a false alarm of fire. It would\\nbe impossible to dismay that mind which was\\nin conscious possession of its perfect ability to\\nsubdue the fire, or else to escape from the flames\\nuninjured. Especially if the consciousness of\\nperfect ability was based upon the knowledge\\nthat the only conceivable danger would result\\nfrom Fear. Just so perfect fearlessness has\\ncarried many untouched through the most vio-\\nlent contagions of cholera, small-pox, yellow\\nfever, etc.\\n(2.) Fear is also the remote, or (latent)\\ncause of disease, as a race belief held through-\\nout the whole history of mankind. It is the\\nopen door through which the Enemy can at\\nany moment rush in and bind the strong man.\\nIt is co-existent with the first Personified Ab-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 55\\nstraction, or the lie of an independent Reality\\napart from and hostile to Mind. Observe the\\nFossil history to be seen in the formation of\\nthe two words Health and Disease. Dis-ease\\nis the lack of ease immediately resulting from\\nthe erroneous conceptions of an independent\\nHealth (anglo-saxon Hal. Whole!) Whole-\\nness apart from Infinite Mind.\\nThis one lie lurks behind a million different\\nMasks, which pass for so many different en-\\ntities and Realities. Every scientifically la-\\nbelled Disease with its various attending symp-\\ntoms minutely and vividly pictured out to the\\nsenses is a Mask. The Lie and its masks are\\nPersonae of a Stupendous Masquerade under\\nPersonified Unthinkables. The Dramatis\\nthe auspices of Materialism, and the stage man-\\nagement of Physical Causation. An High\\nCarnival which might be sufficiently entertain-\\ning but for the fact that its swift and inevitable", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "56 Esoteric Lessons.\\ntermination in that woeful Tragedy of Er-\\nrors the Errors of Falsity, Evil, Disease and\\nDeath, touches a chord which vibrates in every\\nHere the ego insists upon an answer to the\\nhuman heart.\\nquestion Hozv is it possible for a lie or an un-\\nthinkable to be expressed upon the body? But\\none answer is possible. It is manifested on the\\nsame principle as all Thought in the Universe;\\nthat grand principle according to which all\\nReality is manifested the immutable princi-\\nple of which the finite is not the author and\\nwhich it cannot alter, although it may deny.\\nBut if it denies, it reaps the results of the de-\\nnial worked out on the very principle which it\\ndenies.\\nOne can write out on a black-board the state-\\nment for the unthinkable two plus two equals\\nfive; he, there, has a manifestation of a lie. If\\nhe affirm the lie to be true and on the strength", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 57\\nof the affirmation gets $5 out of his neighbor\\ninstead of $4 there are immediately, immoral\\nresults from the lie.\\nNow, Rheumatism or Pneumonia, etc., are\\nVerbal expressions for unthinkables just as\\ntwo plus two equals five is a verbal expression\\nfor a lie. By means of the picturing faculty,\\nboth of the individual and of those about him,\\nthe outward manifestation of the unthinkable\\nwill express itself upon the body just as surely\\nas the magic lantern will reflect the picture in-\\nserted between the light and the lenses when the\\nproper conditions are met.\\nThis explanation reduces all physical phe-\\nnomena in the Universe to the manifestation\\nof Thought and removes the contradictory\\nfrom the philosophy which affirms man to be\\nthe union of mind and matter, and the erro-\\nneous judgment that Soul and body interact.\\nWill is the only Cause in the Universe of", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "58 Esoteric Lessons.\\nwhich we have any knowledge or experience.\\nThat Will modifies, changes and controls the\\nphysical is our hourly and daily experience.\\nBut how matter, even in the form of sensor and\\nmotor nerves can change itself into sensations\\ntranscends all experience. On the other hand,\\nmind can locate sensations in any part of the\\nbody at will. Thus cases are common (quite\\ntoo common) where from the simple trimming\\nof the finger nails some persons actuallv suffer\\nmore than others would from cutting into the\\nskin. Again others pride themselves upon\\nsuch an acute sense of digestion that they can\\ntell the exact ingredients of their food even\\nwhen the palate is deceived.\\nSoul and body cannot interact any more\\nthan the Reflection and the Magic Lanter inter-\\nact.\\nQuinine or Physic never made a sick man\\nwell, any more than a dead man could double", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthitikables. 59\\nup his fist and strike a blow. Faith in the\\nknowledge and skill of the doctor who pre-\\nscribed the medicine; hopefulness in those\\nabout the sick man changes the mental image\\nuntil the appearance of disease, like Dissolving\\nView, fades into the glorious Reality of\\nHealth.\\nThe problem of Health, then, would be how\\nto cultivate and keep clean and healthy pictures\\nin the mind. Health would then be an essential\\npart of the ego. Man would be a strict unity\\nnot a trinity of Intellect, Body and Morals.\\nAnd the absolutely necessary postulates of\\nthis Unity would be Infinite Mind, Freedom\\nand Eternal Life.\\nOne more Contradictory remains to be con-\\nsidered, viz. The Contradictory of Life. If\\nwe affirm life to be a universal, necessary and\\nabsolute Truth, then Death is impossible and\\nunthinkable.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "60 Esoteric Lessons.\\nThe appearance called death is therefore\\nonly the last stage of the Lie of Physical Causa-\\ntion in which the lie and its mask are swallowed\\nup in the victor 7 of Truth, in which the Per-\\nsonified Unthinkable is erased from off the\\nboards of Reality.\\nHeaven is not a Place where there is no\\nmore sinning, suffering and dying. It is a state\\nof Intellectual development. And when the\\nfinite reaches that stage of Insight by which the\\ncontradictories of all attributes of Infinite Mind\\nare seen to be self-evident Unthinkables then\\nthere will be no more death, no matter whether\\nthat degree of Wisdom is attained upon this\\nEarth or in some other Sidereal System.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "CONCLUSION.\\nA few more words remain to be said in re-\\ngard to the use of the Verbal Opposite, or Con-\\ntradictories. Since there is such a thing as\\nVerbal Opposite, what is its office in our mental\\nactivities? Reason insists that nothing is use-\\nless or meaningless in the Universe. Why,\\nthen, is it possible to say or to believe a thing\\nis so when it is not so\\nConsider, then, for a moment, the propo-\\nsition that two straight lines cannot enclose\\nspace. Nothing can make the truth of the\\nproposition so manifest, as the attempt to think\\nits contradictory, (two straight lines can in-\\nclose space.) In fact, Truth cannot be estab-\\nlished or proved in any other way. A truth is\\nonly accepted nominally or on trial, as it were,\\nuntil its contradictory is seen to be a self-evi-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "62 Esoteric Lessons.\\ndent Unthinkable. This principle of Con-\\ntradictories is, then, our Touchstone for truth.\\nAnd this is the part Attributes and their\\nContradictories play in our knowledge of Re-\\nality. Attributes are the lights, and Contra-\\ndictories the shades, which together work out\\nsome magnificent truth of Being; just as an\\nartist represents the idea, Tree, on paper, by\\nmeans of- black dots, and lines, and light\\nspaces. The idea, tree, is made manifest by\\nmeans of the Law of Contradictories, and\\ncannot be done in any other way. Why? Be-\\ncause the artist is imitating Nature, and in\\nnature, the idea is worked out on the principle\\nof Contradictories; for phenomena are but\\nmental pictures for the ideas of Infinite Mind.\\nIn like manner all the great truths of Health,\\nVirtue and Life are worked out of this same\\nprinciple of Contradictories; But mankind, at\\npresent, as it were, accept them only nominally,", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 63\\nor on trial. There is but one way to establish\\nthem as grand Realities. When the appear-\\nances called Evil, Disease and Death, are seen\\nto be results of personifying self-evident un-\\nthinkables; then Health, Virtue and Eternal\\nLife will be as absolutely certain as the fact\\nthat all right-angles are equal.\\nIf a man in looking at the drawing of the\\ntree on paper, should see only a meaningless\\ncollection of black lines and dots, and should\\ndevote himself to a minute analysis and enu-\\nmeration of dots, angles, and straggling and\\ncrooked lines, he might display a very profound\\nerudition on the whole subject of lines and\\ndots but he would forever miss the idea Tree\\nin the artist s mind.\\nIf on the other hand, another man should de-\\nvote himself to the study of the phenomena of\\nlight spaces, he might work out some very\\nmarvelous theories involving laws of Optics", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64 Esoteric Lessons.\\nand Mathematics; but he would also forever\\nmiss the idea, tree, in the artist s mind.\\nBut if, finally, some one should, in looking\\nat the sketch, arrive instantaneously and un-\\nconsciously at the idea, tree, lights and shades\\nwould be quite meaningless, in themselves, and\\nnever interest him beyond the fact that they\\nrepresent the principle by means of which the\\nidea was expressed.\\nLike Socrates of old, he would claim no wis-\\ndom for himself, simply because he had recog-\\nnized the design of the artist, but would feel\\nmore than ever impelled to affirm that he knew\\nnothing, in view of the fact that he was neither\\nthe Author of the idea, nor the sketch, nor the\\nprinciple by which it was executed. If the\\nOracle pronounced him the wisest of men, he\\nwould maintain that it was simply because he\\nknew nothing, while the Erudites of the Dark\\nLines and Light Spaces did not even know\\nthey knew nothing.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Personified Unthinkables. 65\\nSo if the ego could, with the humility of a\\nlittle child, or with the Wisdom of Socrates,\\nstarting out once more from the Threshold of\\nKnowledge, arrive instantaneously and un-\\nconsciously at the sublime ideas of Life and\\nLove, contradictories would be quite meaning-\\nless in themselves and never more be of inter-\\nest, save as they had together manifested the\\nideas of Life and Love and furnished the Prin-\\nciple whereby other ideas of Infinite Mind\\ncould be comprehended by the Finite.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "FIRST LESSONS IN REALITY\\nOR\\nTHE PSYCHICAL BASIS\\nOF\\nPHYSICAL HEALTH", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThe following lessons are now given to the\\npublic without the slightest alteration, just as\\nthey were prepared, and taught by correspond-\\nence to a few friends and fellow seekers after\\nTruth.\\nAlthough it would seem desirable, because\\nof their somewhat mystical nature, to attempt\\nto fortify them against misconception, yet ex-\\nperience has taught that the attempt would,\\nafter all, but court the very danger to be\\navoided.\\nTo interpret them too literally will be to lose\\ntheir essence. On the other hand, not to dis-\\ncern the vital relations between the ideas herein\\nexpressed, and the symbols embodying them,\\nwill be equally fatal to their true apprehension\\nfor the terms employed are not as one might", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "jo Esoteric Lessons.\\nsuppose merely fanciful, figurative, poetic, etc.,\\nbut are used because they express the dual unity\\nof Thought and Symbol.\\nTo have a knowledge of facts is one thing,\\nbut to grasp the relation of these facts to each\\nother, is quite another thing. One mind can\\nhelp another in the former case, but in the lat-\\nter each soul must discern relations for itself.\\nThis discerning must be inborn, it cannot be im-\\nparted. One cannot discern a relation for an-\\nother any more than a joke can be appreciated\\nvicariously. So in these lessons Thought and\\nSymbol have been placed in juxtaposition, the\\ninsight into their relation must be left to the\\nSoul in travail with Truth.\\nLos Angeles, California, July, 1886,", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "SYNOPSIS\\nIntroduction The Staff.\\ni. REFLECTION.\\nVisible. Hunger.\\nRay-ment Audible. Food j Eating.\\nTangible. Assimilating.\\n2. REFRACTION.\\nProportion. Ray.\\nHouse Door. Hearth-fire Images.\\nHearth. Law.\\nConclusion The Wall,", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "FIRSf LE380N8 IN REALITY\\nINTRODUCTION.\\nTHE STAFF.\\nOne end of a staff implies another end. 1\\ncannot (as tradition relates of a certain Hi-\\nbernian philosopher) cut off one end from my\\nstaff, and then have only one end left. I maj f\\nthus reduce the size of my staff, but while it\\nholds out it continues to have two ends. Neither\\ndo the two ends remain after the staff has gone.\\nThe staff and its ends are real, or polar oppo-\\nsites, which mutually imply each other, which\\nare utterly meaningless and unthinkable apart.\\nHowever, although I cannot detach the staff\\nfrom its ends, nor the ends from the staff, yet I\\ncan distinguish between them. One end is not\\nthe other end. The head is not the foot of the\\nstaff, neither is the foot the head. There must,", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "74 Esoteric Lessons.\\ntherefore, be some invisible point of union be-\\ntween the two. A point which is neither the\\none end nor the other, but where the two are\\none. This invisible centre I take to be the point\\nof equilibrium. I, therefore, balance my staff\\nuntil I find this point. Now but one thing re-\\nmains to make my staff living, to turn the rod\\ninto a serpent, and that is motion. The motion\\nof my staff about its invisible centre is circu-\\nlar, a form of spiral. Spiral is from the Latin\\nspira, meaning breath, coil, spire, etc. Spirit\\nis from the same word. Motion is, according-\\nly, the breath of life.\\nThe staff as a whole expresses Unity; as\\ncomposed of polar opposites it is a Duality; as\\npolar opposites and point of equilibrium, a\\nTrinity; as living it manifests a Quartemi,\\nthe sacred Quarterni of Pythagoras.\\nThe two ends of the staff, as visible, sym-\\nbolize the phenomenal, or terrestrial portions of", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 75\\nthis Quarterni. Point of equilibrium, and\\nmotion, as invisible, symbolize the more real\\nand celestial elements.\\nHaving learned this much of the nature of\\nthe rod, I wish to know what use I am to make\\nof it in the study of Reality. Finding that the\\nwords real, ray, thing and thought are all de-\\nrived from the word meaning Rod, I conclude\\nthat Reality is Rod-ality, and that to spare the\\nrod, in this study of Reality, would be to spoil\\nthe child.\\nAccordingly, my staff, whether I take it as a\\nrod of light, or as a type of all vegetation, from\\nthe blade of grass to the tallest tree, symbolizes\\nto me an invisible and more real rod of thing\\nand Ray of Thought.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "LESSON II.\\nRAY-MENT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 VISIBLE.\\nIf, when standing beside a body of water, I\\nchance to see the form of a cloud mirrored in\\ngolden and rosy tints upon its surface, I am not\\ndeceived by the picture. Beautiful as it is, I\\nknow that it is but a reflection of a cloud in the\\nsky, far above my. head, which I do not see as\\nlong as my attention is directed to the cloud\\nupon the water. I know that, although I thus\\ndistinguish between the cloud upon the water\\nand the cloud in the sky, I cannot separate the\\none from the other. I cannot detach the cloud\\nupon the water from the one in the sky, and\\nstill have my picture upon the water after the\\npicture in the sky has drifted away beyond the\\nhorizon.\\nStill further, I know that as my cloud upon", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. yy\\nthe water depends upon the cloud in the sky, so\\nthey both depend upon the light from the sun,\\nand that while my picture upon the water is\\nsimply a reflection produced by the action of\\nrays of light and the reaction of the surface of\\nthe water, so the picture in the sky is a refraction\\nproduced by the action of rays of light and a\\nreaction of vapor in the atmosphere. My cloud\\ncelestial, and my cloud terrestrial, are each a\\nRay-men t (rod-ment) resulting from an action\\nand a reaction.\\nBut if I cannot separate the refracted picture\\nfrom the reflected picture, then there must be\\nsome invisible point of union between the two,\\na centre of equilibrium between the action im-\\nplied in the term refraction, and the reaction\\nimplied in the term reflection, a point which is\\nneither celestial or terrestrial, but where the\\ntwo are One.\\nLooking again upon the water I behold my", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "y8 Esoteric Lessons.\\nface reflected upon its surface, and then call to\\nmind the fact that my own face I have never\\nseen its reflected image is all that I ever have\\nseen, or can see. Now the reflected face upon\\nthe water is certainly only a ray-ment produced\\nby the action of rays of light and the reaction\\nof the surface of the water, and if, what I have\\nhitherto considered my real face is only a ray-\\nment produced by an action and a reaction, the\\nfact that it has never occurred to me proves\\nnothing against its truth, especially when I\\nremember that since real and ray are the same\\nin derivation, from the meaning of the w T ords,\\nmy real face is my ray face.\\nTurning my attention to my body, I conclude\\nthat if my face is ray-ment my whole body is\\nray-ment, produced by an invisible action and\\nreaction. If, then, this terrestrial body or ray-\\nment is like my cloud terrestrial, simply an in-\\nverted reflect of my celestial ray-ment, the fact", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 79\\nthat I have never consciously recognized my\\ncelestial ray-ment proves nothing against its\\nexistence, for while my attention was directed\\nexclusively to my cloud floating upon the water,\\nI became for the time being entirely oblivious\\nof the cloud above my head which I could not\\nsee.\\nBut if this terrestrial ray-ment is only an\\ninverted reflect of a true and celestial ray-ment,\\nthen I am possessor of an heritage hitherto un-\\nknown; for, like the two clouds, they canot be\\nseparated, they are real ray) or polar opposites\\nwhich mutually imply each other, which are\\nutterly meaningless and impossible apart. Xow\\nif my consciousness has been located, hitherto,\\nsolelv within the reflected imasre of my true\\nself, then I am a slave bound clown, by my own\\nignorance, to chains of sense and suffering.\\nBut with this recognition of my serfdom I also\\nsee clearly the way of escape. There must be", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "80 Esoteric Lessons.\\nan invisible point of union between the Iwo,\\nand I must locate my consciousness at that in-\\nvisible centre of equilibrium between my re-\\nfracted and my reflected self, the point which\\nis neither celestial nor terrestrial, but where the\\ntwo are One.\\nThe question of how to emancipate my con-\\nsciousness from its inverted reflection and to\\nlocate it at its true and invisible centre, is the.\\nmost momentous in the universe. It involves\\nthe meaning and object of existence. It is the\\nproblem of all times, that of the perfectibility\\nand immortality of the soul. Of the soul, for\\nthis earthly consciousness is but the inverted\\nreflection of my true consciousness, which is\\nthe same thing as soul. These first lessons in\\nReality, then, are first steps in the path of\\nRodality, a straight and narrow ray of light\\nTurning, therefore, to my staff, I state the\\nproblem in terms of rod. The two visible", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 81\\nends are terrestrial ray-ments; the head of the\\nstaff is the body; the foot of the staff is the\\npurely finite or earthly mind the point of equi-\\nlibrium, or the invisible centre, where body\\nand sensations are one, is consciousness; mo-\\ntion, the breath of life, completes this Quar-\\nterni.\\nConsciousness and motion symbolize the re-\\nfracted or celestial elements of the Quarterni.\\nBody and finite mind, the terrestrial portions.\\nBody is the strictly visible member of this\\nQuarterni. And body, again, as a whole, is\\nfour-fold, corresponding in structure to the\\nfour elements. The solids of the body (bones,\\ntissues, etc.) correspond to earth. Heat, the\\nagent of the functions especially connected\\nwith solids and betw r een solids and liquids,\\ncorrespond to the second element, or fire. Se-\\ncretions of the body correspond to the third ele-\\nment, or water, while breath is the fourth ele-\\nment, or air.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82 Esoteric Lessons.\\nThe action of respiration and the reaction of\\nsecretions form an upper dualism, and to de-\\nstroy, e. g., the balance between the action of\\nthe lungs and the reaction of the blood, would\\ninstantly produce violent and even fatal results,\\nfrom which the visible body would soon pass\\nto the realm of the invisible.\\nThe action of heat and the secretion of tis-\\nsues form a lower dualism, and to destroy\\nthe balance between heat and tissues would like-\\nwise produce a wasting away of the visible\\nbody.\\nNow the harmonious equilibrium between\\nthese upper and lower dualisms is what is ordi-\\nnarily termed physical health, and if, as I have\\nalready decided, equilibrium of body is simply\\na reflect of a celestial or soul equilibrium, then\\nthe basis of physical health, is purely psychical.\\nBut as long as my consciousness is located\\nwithin my body, body rules soul, whereas body", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 83\\nshould be simply raiment (ray-ment) for my\\ntrue consciousness.\\nAgain, this raiment for my soul must be like\\nall rays, or, like my staff. It must have two\\nends and a central point. I, therefore, regard\\nthe Visible as the head of my staff, the Audible\\nas the foot, and the Tangible as the point which\\nis neither visible nor audible, but where the\\ntwo are one.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "LESSON III.\\nRAY-MENT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 AUDIBLE.\\nOnce, by means of an aperture in a shutter,\\nand a prism, I tried to detach a ray of sunlight\\nfrom the sun, and shut it up within a dark\\nroom. It arranged itself in beautiful colors\\nupon the wall, but when the sun went, the\\nray went too. So with each step in this study\\nof Ray-ality I am confronted with the impos-\\nsibility and unthinkability of any such thing\\nas separateness. Thus, by means of refraction\\nand reflection, combined according to definite\\nnumeral conditions, light becomes visible also,\\nby means of refraction and reflection combined\\naccording to definite numeral conditions, breath\\nbecomes audible; yet breath and light cannot\\nbe separated, for light without breath or motion\\nwould not be light, would not exist at all.\\nStill, although I cannot separate visible rays", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 85\\nfrom audible rays, yet I must distinguish be-\\ntween them in order to reach an understanding\\nof them. As a first step in distinguishing be-\\ntween visible and audible rays, I turn my at-\\ntention to the numeral conditions according to\\nwhich all external manifestation takes place.\\nAnd in order to study numbers, I regard them\\nas visible numerals and as invisible numerals.\\nThe visible numerals are three, viz., the\\npoint, and the two forms of the line, or, the\\nstraight line and the crooked line. When I\\ndraw a picture on a piece of paper, I use the\\nthree visible numerals. But in order to com-\\nplete the manifestation, to make my picture liv-\\ning, there must be the light spaces of the paper\\nto bring it out. A moment s reflection con-\\nvinces me that the whole visible universe is pic-\\ntured out to my vision solely by means of the\\nthree visible numerals in space. All the infiinite\\nvariety is but gradation and combination of", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "86 Esoteric Lessons.\\nthese primary numbers. The horizon gives\\nme the perfect circle. The line from the zenith\\nto my feet is the straight line. The outlines\\nof the clouds present a loose combination of\\nthe straight and the crooked lines, while the\\nrocks, trees, etc., of the earth s surface, display\\na more minute and compact combination of the\\ntwo forms of line. Geometry, or the art of\\nmeasuring the earth, as well as the whole sci-\\nence of Astronomy, depend upon these visible\\nnumerals, and with this thought comes to me\\nthe meaning of these visible numerals. The\\npoint symbolizes the centre of the two forms of\\nline, or the point which is neither the straight\\nline nor the crooked line, but where the two\\nare one. Again, the straight line symbolizes\\nthe form of force which strikes out from the\\ncentre, termed in science the centrifugal while\\nthe crooked line symbolizes the form of force\\nwhich draws back to the centre, termed centri-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 87\\npetal. Thus is all visibfe but the type of an in-\\nvisible force a force which is dual in its action,\\nand its dual action being balanced at a central\\npoint which is neither centrifugal nor centri-\\npetal, but where the two are one. And if this\\nbalance were overcome by either form of force,\\nthe visible universe would vanish like a shadow.\\nJust as the art of measuring deals with the\\nvisible numerals, so the art of counting or num-\\nbering treats of the invisible numerals. All\\ncounting is based on the Ouarterni, 1, 2, 3, 4.\\nTheir sum is 10, ten tens are 100, and so on\\nto infinity. All the operations of arithmetic are\\nalso based on the first four, viz., addition, sub-\\ntraction, multiplication, division. But counting\\ncannot be separated from something to count.\\nThe elements which comprise the earth s sur-\\nface and atmosphere combine only according\\nto count. Take e. g. the two invisible gases,\\noxygen and hydrogen. They combine and", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "88 Esoteric Lessons.\\nform water only according to the number tzvo.\\nAnd, moreover, this combination is audible at\\nthe instant at which it becomes visible.\\nThis number two holds the balance of power.\\nIt represents the point which is neither oxygen\\nnor hydrogen, but where the two are one, and\\nI have only to overcome this polarity to cause\\nthe visible water to vanish into two invisible\\ngases. But what is true of water is true of all\\ncompounds comprising the earth s surface. De-\\nstroy the numeral condition and the visible van-\\nishes. Even the diamond, the hardest known\\nsubstance, heated in oxygen gas, burns to car-\\nbonic acid, and carbonic acid at the ordinary\\natmospheric temperature is a transparent,\\ncolorless gas.\\nIn order to determine the relation of measur-\\ning to counting, I turn to my imprisoned ray of\\nsunlight, pictured on the wall in seven different\\ncolors, viz.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 89\\nRed, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.\\n12 3 4 5 6 7\\nNow the odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, 7, are certain-\\nly different gradations of refraction from the\\nwhite back to the white, completing the circle.\\nBut 2, or orange, which is between red and yel-\\nlow, reflects both red and yellow, and is thus a\\nmixture or compound of the two. Again, 4,\\nor green, reflects both yellow and blue; 6, or\\nindigo, reflects both blue and violet. Thus I see\\nthat the odd numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, signify differ-\\nent gradations of the centrifugal force or\\nstraight line, while the even numbers, 2, 4, 6,\\nare gradations of the centripetal force, or\\ncrooked line. Counting expresses gradations\\nof measuring.\\nBut what is true of the seven colors is equal-\\nly true of the seven notes\\n12 3 4 5 6 7\\nRed, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.\\nCD E F G A B", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "90 Esoteric Lessons.\\nc,l, d, b, are different gradations of re-\\nfraction from the octave to the octave,\\nwhile d, f 1 are reflected tones, correspond-\\ning in quality to the colors they represent.\\nThe exquisite primary cord I, 3, 5, or C, E,\\nG, is Reel, Yellow and Blue manifested to my\\nconsciousness through my ear instead of my\\neye. So every conceivable cord and combina-\\nnation of tone and color can be written out in\\nfigures, until I am led to exclaim Sound is\\ncolor made audible and color is sound made\\nvisible My eye and my ear are avenues to my\\nconsciousness of the two halves of a unity. In\\norder to determine whether the sense of touch\\nis the avenue to my consciousness of the unity\\nof the two halves, I next give my attention to\\nthe Tangible.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "LESSON IV.\\nRAY-MENT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 TANGIBLE.\\nI might have been born blind, and yet been\\nable to determine the meaning, the harmony,\\nand to a certain degree, even the color of ob-\\njects about me, by means of touch. I might\\nhave been born deaf, and yet been able to deter-\\nmine the meaning of words, and the harmo-\\nnies of sound from touch and sight. I might\\nhave been born with only the sense of touch,\\nyet have attained to a higher and truer knowl-\\nedge of the world in which I live than many\\nabout me endowed with five senses.\\nBut without the sense of touch I could not\\nmaintain my terrestrial existence. When feel-\\ning goes, life of the visible body goes too.\\nTouch is, then, the vital sense of the terrestrial\\nbody.\\nWhen I push my hand against a stone, or", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "92 Esoteric Lessons.\\nthrust it into water, or pass it through the air,\\nI am conscious of different degrees of resist-\\nance. And I classify objects about me accord-\\ning to the different degrees of resistance which\\nthey offer to my touch. The air, when it offers\\nno resistance to my touch, is unperceived, so\\nwithout resistance there is no touch.\\nBut what is resistance? Resistance is sim-\\nply force, an invisible action and reaction,\\nwhich is expressed by, and can be determined\\nfrom, numbers, e. g., the resistance of water is\\nexpressed by the number 2. I have only to\\novercome the polarity or equilibrium expressed\\nby this numeral to render the water, which was\\ntangible, tangible no longer.\\nBut what can be done in the case of water\\nis also possible in the case of the most seem-\\ningly immovable solids of the earth. By means\\nof burning glasses the sun s rays can be col-\\nlected to a central point, or focus, and heat ob-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 93\\ntained sufficient to change solid rocks into\\nliquid flames. And thus I come to realize that\\nthe tangible is tangible only according to cer-\\ntain definite conditions which correspond ex-\\nactly with the conditions according to which\\nthe Visible is visible and the Audible is audible.\\nUpon comparing the three forms of ray-\\nment still further, I am convinced that the visi-\\nble, and the audible, likewise, are perceivable\\nby me, only by means of Resistance. The one\\nis resistance of light vibrations, or radiations,\\nand the other is resistance of breadth vibra-\\ntions, or radiations. So that sight and sound\\ncan be said to be forms of Touch. Touch thus\\nrepresents the point where sight and sound are\\none.\\nAll sensation may then be called touch, or\\nResistance expressed in different degrees. The\\nsense of touch (ordinarily so called) expresses\\nthe first degree, or most actual and living con-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "94 Esoteric Lessons.\\ntact sound, the second degree vision, the third\\ndegree, or most remote and external contact.\\nThus, to hear and see flames may affect me\\nvery agreeably, but the effect of touch would\\nbe quite the contrary. Yet the flames come in\\ncontact with my consciousness as truly in the\\none case as in the other.\\nThe fact of the unity of sensation is well il-\\nlustrated in the case of a child. It is never sat-\\nisfied with simply looking at an object. It must\\nsee with its fingers as well as its eyes. And\\nshakes or drops the object in order to see with\\nits ears also.\\nXow since T have decided that this terrestrial\\nray-merit is only an inverted reflect of a celestial\\nrav-ment, or thoughtment, I must strictly apply\\nthis fact in the case of sensation.\\nThis resistance, comprised under the three\\nforms of visible, audible and tangible sensa-\\ntion; this purely terrestrial touch this my", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 95\\nmeans of communication with the external\\nworld, or terrestrial minds about me, is simply\\nan inverted reflect of a higher sense of Touch,\\nof a Resistance to an interior or celestial world\\nof Thoughts and Minds (since thoughts imply\\nminds).\\nIf I have hitherto been entirely unconscious\\nof this interior three-fold sense, it is because\\nmy attention has been so taken up solely with\\nexternal resistance that the interior resistance\\nhas been unobserved.\\nBut when I do observe this interior resistance\\nI find that, in its development, my experience\\ncorresponds to that of the child in the case of\\nits exterior sensation. I see first with my\\nfingers. This is the interpretation of bodily\\nsuffering. Body first responds to this thought\\nresistance. But as I advance in knowledge and\\nacquire this thought resistance through the\\nother avenues of touch, thought vibrations, or", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "g6 Esoteric Lessons.\\nradiations, which, like the flames, now cause\\nme acute suffering, will become a source of\\nmost wonderful knowledge and understanding\\nas soon as I can hear them and see them instead\\nof simply feeling them. Then, what now pros-\\ntrates me with physical suffering will become\\nto me the greatest possible source of power and\\nwisdom.\\nBut before I can raise my interior and true\\nsense of touch to the celestial plane, I must first\\npass through a terrestrial plane of thought. I\\nam encompassed round about by a dense at-\\nmosphere of absorbing cares, in traffic, and in\\nsocial and political life. I must feel my way\\nthrough this earthly atmosphere before I can\\nreach a higher realm of Thought. First, I feel\\nmy way with touch in the first degree, which\\nmeans suffering; second, with touch in the\\nsecond degree, by means of which I begin to ob-\\nserve a harmony and meaning in the confused", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 97\\ndin and squabble about me; and finally, with\\ntouch in the third degree, whence my eyes are\\ngradually opened, and seeing for the first time\\nin my life, I come to know how to see less with\\nmy fingers and more with my ears and my eyes.\\nThus I come to discern the relation of terres-\\ntrial body and mind to celestial body and mind.\\nReflected body and its three-fold sense is\\nsimply raiment, or garment, or visible expres-\\nsion for the celestial body, or soul.\\nFinite, or earthly, or reflected mind is the\\nfood or nourishment for the soul, by means of\\nwhich the soul after hungering, eating and as-\\nsimilating the husks of finite thought, returns\\nto its Father s house, to be fed with the heaven-\\nly bread and staff of life, and to enter upon the\\ncelestial heritage.\\nThis great truth of my celestial heritage is\\nfirst refracted to my consciousness through the\\ntear-drops of suffering, then afterwards re-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "98 Esoteric Lessons.\\nfleeted, by means of numbers and harmony, to\\nmy vision.\\nTouch is the refractory medium through\\nwhich the Divine Ray is transmitted to my con-\\nsciousness, while the medium refracts outward-\\nly, the Ray is a rod of correction, but when it\\nrefracts back toward its celestial source, it is\\nthe staff which comforts.\\nThe Tangible is thus the point of equilibrium\\nbetween the Visible and the Audible, the vital\\npoint of radiation, while radiation itself, or mo-\\ntion, changes sensation from the plane of re-\\nflected body to the plane of reflected Intellect,\\nor to the second spire or coil of the Serpent.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "LESSON V.\\nFOOD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HUNGER.\\nThe polar opposite of touch is desire; and,\\nalthough touch and desire cannot be separated\\nthe one from the other, yet I at once observe a\\nvery important and signficant distinction.\\nTouch, I cannot disconnect from bodily sensa-\\ntion; Desire, I cannot disconnect from mind\\nthe purely finite or reflected mind.\\nBodily sensation brings me in contact with\\nthe infinite wonders of the phenomenal uni-\\nverse, and spontaneous with this contact occurs\\nthe desire to experience and to know the reality\\nback of this phenomenal its meaning, and its\\npurpose.\\nThe way by which I am to reach this experi-\\nence and knowledge is, obviously, very direct,", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "ioo Esoteric Lessons.\\nif I but follow the straight and narrow path al-\\nready marked out viz., as the phenomenal is an\\ninverted and left-sided copy of the real as ex-\\nternal sensation also bears this relation to in-\\nterior sensation, then must the desire connected\\nwith external sensation be also only an inverted\\nand left-sided copy of a Desire which is in-\\nterior, or esoteric. In other words, the interior\\nsense of touch implies the esoteric desire, just\\nas external touch implies external desire.\\nIn order to reach this coterie desire, I must,\\nindeed, start from the r.roteric desire the out-\\nward doth from the inward roll and the in-\\nward dwells in the inmost soul. I must possess\\nmyself of the knowledge which only can be\\nbought by experience, and which comes from\\ndirect contact with the phenomenal. But I must\\naccept the experience of sensation and desire\\nonly as a means of knowing reality the ex-\\noteric must always be my ladder to the coterie", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 101\\nThe Visible must simply reflect to me images\\nof objects which in themselves are entirely be-\\nyond my range of sight; from the Audible I\\nmust learn to detect the counts of the Still\\nVoice; while the rod of the Tangible, with its\\ntwo ends of pleasure and pain, must truly\\nFeed full my sense for a while;\\nuntil balancing the rod and finding the point of\\nequilibrium between pleasure and pain, I attain\\nto the interior vision,\\nThe sight that my soul yearns after.\\nTo refuse the experiences of bodily sensation\\nand desire is to refuse ray-ment and food to the\\nsoul and thus to deprive the soul of its only\\nmeans of development toward final perfection.\\nBut, to be deceived by these images to ac-\\ncept the mere reflections for the realities them-\\nselves is the fundamental error, or, in other\\nwords, the fatal sin of Idolatry. No matter\\nwhether I call it error, or whether I call it sin,", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "102 Esoteric Lessons.\\nthe thing in itself, independent of what I may\\ncall it, is Idolatry.\\nTherefore, although I must diligently till\\nthe soil of this terrestrial ray-ment and its sen-\\nsations, the fruit must not be consecrated to\\nthe idols themselves, but must be brought as an\\noffering and sacrificed to the true desire of soul.\\nNow, if I say the irrevocable penalty of Idol-\\natry is Disease and Death, I but state in other\\nwords the fact that Disease and Death are\\nlogical results of calling inverted shadows the\\nentities they are not and cannot be.\\nThe fact in itself acts quite independent of\\nwhatever I may choose to call it. Idolatry is\\nnot pacified with the term sin any more than\\nby the word error.\\nAs long as I am an Idolator, I am subject to\\ndisease and death in spite of the creed to which\\nI may subscribe, in spite of the benevolence and\\nmorality I may practice, or even in spite of the", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 103\\ndrugs I may swallow and the laws of hygiene\\nI may observe.\\nXor is this death penalty of Idolatry can-\\nceled with once meeting its decrees on the con-\\ntrary, it means innumerable deaths for me,\\nuntil, by my own insight, I renounce the Idola-\\ntry of shadow worship, and turn to the Living\\nRay-ality.\\nYet the requisite insight, together with the\\nnecessary power of choice, do not reside in the\\nfinite mind itself. They cannot be separated\\nfrom it, but their true seat is in the soul.\\nThat consciousness possessed by the finite\\nmind and its desires (hungers), together with\\nits seeming power of choice, are but illusory re-\\nflects of Soul (true consciousness), and true\\nFreedom. Soul is the true Ego, while the con-\\nsciousness possessed by finite mind and its de-\\nsires is reflected ego. So also in this power of\\nchoice which I possess, I must distinguish be-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "104 Esoteric Lessons.\\ntween a true and a reflected Freedom.\\nNow, this true ego is the central point of my\\nfour-fold system as a whole; body is raiment to\\nthis ego, and, just as I must needs have many\\ngarments in the course of my earth life, so must\\nthe true ego require innumerable robes in its\\nlong course of development toward perfection.\\nFinite mind is food to the true ego, and also,\\njust as my finite mind and its hungers is not\\nin itself developed by one meal of victuals, so\\nthe true ego requires for its nourishment dur-\\ning its long process of growth the food supplied\\nby innumerable finite existences.* In other\\nwords, the true ego is only developed by means\\nof innumerable incarnations. Herein is the\\nmystery of birth and death.\\nOf my staff of finite mind, desire is the head\\nand just as the staff must follow the course of\\n*In mineral, vegetable, animal and lastly\\nman,", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 105\\nthe head in its revolutions, so the coterie de-\\nsire leads the whole staff in downward spirals\\nto the very depths of the shadows but the es-\\noteric desire leads in upward spirals toward the\\ncelestial light.\\nAs the polar opposite of desire is action, ac-\\ntion must then be the foot of my staff of finite\\nmind.\\nBut esoteric desire of the finite mind is only\\nanother term for hunger of soul, and just as de-\\nsire implies action, so hunger implies eating.\\nEsoteric desire and action of the finite mind\\nare hunger and eating of the true Ego.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "LESSON VI.\\nFOOD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 EATING.\\nSince desire is either true desire or reflected\\ndesire, exoteric or esoteric, then must the action\\nimplied by desire be either exoteric action or\\nesoteric action.\\nAccordingly, studying action as dual, as true\\naction and reflected action, I first observe that\\nthe two forms must, of necessity, be exactly\\ncontradictory. This is implied in the relation\\nitself of a reflect to the object it reflects. Ac-\\ntion on the plane of finite thought moves in a\\ndiametrically opposite direction from action\\non the plane of the celestial. And as long as\\nthe finite acts unconscious of the higher plane,\\nwhich it simply contradicts (reflects), that\\npower of choice which I seem to possess is, in\\ntruth, the exact contradictory of choice. It is", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 107\\nonly the choice of the winds and the tides, the\\ntimes and the seasons, which obey the hidden\\nlaw instead of coming and going as they them-\\nselves may choose.\\nAs my eyes become opened to the relation of\\nexoteric action to esoteric action, as expressed\\nin the law of contradictories, the more evident\\nit becomes to me, that the very actions, in the\\nperformance of which I was most certain of\\nperfect power of choice, were the very ones in\\nwhich I had absolutely no choice.\\nOn this plane of the shadows I find that al-\\nthough I have eyes I see not, although I have\\nears yet I hear not, and although I act with\\nseeming freedom, yet all my acts are contra-\\ndictory what I do with my right hand, that my\\nleft undoes, and what I affirm with my lips,\\nthat mv heart denies; when I would walk in\\none direction my feet follow the opposite.\\nThus I come to realize that the quality of all", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "108 Esoteric Lessons.\\nmy action on the finite plan, though seemingly\\nactive, is in truth, passive. Accordingly I re-\\ngard all finite action (exoteric action) as in its\\nessence, Passion.\\nAgain, action is always put forth as a means\\nto obtain a given end. It is a reaching out to-\\nward, accordingly I must regard action as\\nOffering, or Oblation, as well as Passion.\\nFrom this it directly follows that all my ac-\\ntions which have in view terrestrial aims, pleas-\\nures and possessions are offerings, or sacrifices\\nmade to idols (shadows As long as in my\\ndesires I worship idols, all my acts must, of\\nnecessity, be oblations to my idols, for the de-\\nsire and the act mutually imply each other.\\nBut, on the other hand, it also directly follows\\nthat as soon as my desires becomes esoteric\\nall my actions will be offerings to the living\\nRay-ality instead of to shadow idols.\\nThe ancient myth of Saturn feeding upon", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 109\\nhis own helpless offspring, is, I find, an exact\\ntype of my true ego, which is sustained and de-\\nveloped to maturity (im-mortality) by devour-\\ning its own reflected (mortal) images.\\nHowever, as long as I am an idolater, and\\nmy desires purely exoteric, I find that I, in my\\nturn, act the part of Saturn to all beneath me\\nin the plane of shadow. I desire, and seek my\\nown comfort and welfare as paramount. If I\\nam humane it is because I am enlightened\\nenough to discern that thus I best secure my\\nown ends. And even on the plane of body,\\nwhile I continue to maintain my animal life at\\nthe expense of my animal kindred, I do so\\nwithout perceiving that I thus have the dis-\\ntinctive mark which classifies me with the beast\\nof prey tribe.\\nI deprive a helpless victim of the birthright\\nto life for the sake of a mess of savory pottage,\\nthus securing for myself both the birthright", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "no Esoteric Lessons.\\nand pottage. And as I analyze my line of con-\\nduct still further, I find that this one act is a\\nperfect type of every act of wordly wisdom and\\nprudence.\\nBut the instant my desire becomes esoteric,\\nthe whole line of conduct is reversed and be-\\ngins to move in the opposite direction. Action\\nis no longer sacrifice of the higher to the lower,\\nbut becomes a series of oblation after oblation\\nof the lower to the higher. Each act is the re-\\nnunciation of a shadow for a true ray. Each\\nstep upon the ladder by which I mount from the\\nexoteric to the esoteric is the crucifixion of a\\ncontradictory of truth.\\nYet any ascetic practice I may adopt which\\nmerely aims to restrain the external act, while\\nthe desire still exists in full force, is as futile\\na performance as it would be for me to set my-\\nself to work to cut off one end of my staff and\\nexpect to have only one end left. I must not", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 1 1 1\\nattempt the impossible, but must patiently set\\nmyself to work to balance my staff of desire\\nand action, and not being- discouraged with re-\\npeated failures, persist, sustained by the\\nknowledge that the staff can be balanced, that\\nthere is a point of equilibrium between desire\\nand act, and that upon this point I can step, in\\nperfect security, to the higher plane. But if\\nI try to step upon either end the staff will surely\\ntip. It is only the point of equilibrium which\\nwill sustain my weight.\\nThese steps are the true sacrifices by means\\nof which I attain to my maturity. They are\\nthe burnt offerings of consumed shadows upon\\nwhich the true ego feeds, until, accumulatine\\nthe necessary strength it will finally free itself\\nwholly from the shadows and enter upon its\\ncelestial heritage. They are the offspring of\\nSaturn, which will eventually possess them-\\nselves of their father s throne and power.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "H2 Esoteric Lessons.\\nBut how will they possess themselves of this\\npower? Hunger and eating are polar oppo-\\nsites now the equilibrium between hunger and\\neating, or the point where the two are one, is\\nassimilation. The strength of my phenomenal\\nbody seemingly comes from the assimilation\\nwhich follows eating. But this seeming fact\\nis only a reflection of the seeming fact that the\\nfinite mind obtains its finite wisdom from its\\npower of assimilating thought. While this\\nseeming fact, in its turn, is but reflection of the\\nTruth that the celestial Power of the true ego\\nis attained through its assimilation of its own\\nesoteric offspring, or its true Sacrifices.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "LESSON VII.\\nFOOD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ASSIMILATING.\\nOn the plane of body, assimilation occurs\\nthrough the secretions, or fluids. On the plane\\nof finite mind, the mental picture expresses the\\npoint of assimilation between mind and\\nthought.\\nNow, the relation of finite mind to body is\\nthat of cause to effect. Finite mind symbolizes\\naction body, re-action and since action and re-\\naction are only different terms for refraction\\nand reflection, it follows that all operations of\\nbody are reflected mental operations therefore,\\nit also follows that all forms and conditions of\\nsecretions are reflected mental pictures.\\nIn the case of finite mind, the mental picture\\nis expressed outwardly by means of words,", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "ii4 Esoteric Lessons.\\nspoken or written, or through some of the arts.\\nIn the case of body, the secretions (reflected\\nmental pictures) expressed outwardly are\\nbones, muscles, skin, etc.\\nJust so in the case of the globe I inhabit its\\nliquids (reflected mental pictures) expressed\\noutwardly are its geological formation, its\\nrocks, minerals, etc.\\nIn order to clearly and fully grasp this rela-\\ntion, I will first analyze it by means of my staff,\\nand then follow out its application in the case\\nof a word.\\n(i.) The word in itself as external (visible\\nor audible) is the head of my staff.\\n(2.) Its finite or reflected significance and\\nforce, is the foot of my staff.\\n(3.) My experience of the significance and\\nforce of the word is the point of balance be-\\ntween the external word and its internal force\\nand this experience is of different degrees, from", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 115\\na merely blind physical re-action up to the high-\\nest form of consciousness.\\n(4.) The true, celestial force and meaning\\nof a word is motion, which completes the Quar-\\nterni.\\nNow I will apply this analysis in the case of\\nthe word which is expressed outwardly, or phe-\\nnomenally, as arsenic.\\n(1.) Arsenic is a weapon of a cold, steel\\ngrey color, and of a glittering lustre. This\\nmetal is the visible expression of a reality\\nwhich on the plane of finite mind I term Cal-\\numny. Arsenic is the steel grey, glittering\\nweapon of the assassin Calumny, and the metal\\nin itself no more destroys than the weapon can\\nslay apart from the hand of the assassin.\\nArsenic destroys bodily tissues and functions\\nfor the very simple reason that it cannot be\\nseparated from the thought which it repre-\\nsents. It cannot come in contact with my sense", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "n6 Esoteric Lessons.\\nof touch without suggesting to my mind, and\\nthen to my body, the thought of which it is an\\ninverted reflect. It makes no difference\\nwhether my sense of touch comes in contact\\nwith the symbol through my stomach or\\nthrough my eyes, it is the thought which slays,\\nand not its reflected image.\\nNeither does it make the slightest difference\\nin the result that I did not know my mind was\\nacting, and my body re-acting, to the thought\\nCalumny; for I know next to nothing of the\\nmajority of the thoughts which pass and re-\\npass through my mind, either of their true\\nmeaning, or of their connection, or how they\\ncome and where they go.\\n(2.) But the visible effect of swallowing\\narsenic upon my body only expresses a more\\nreal effect, on the plane of finite mind, of the\\nassassin Calumny upon my whole terrestrial\\nusefulness and existence.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 117\\n(3. However, when I grasp the meaning of\\nthe law of contradictories, and begin to know\\nthe esoteric life, I gradually come to know\\nthat the more powerless I am rendered on the\\nlower plane, the more do I gain power on the\\ntrue plane, if I but know how to use it.\\n(4.) As my experience of the true force and\\nsignificance of the word is raised toward true\\nconsciousness, I also begin to discern the celes-\\ntial force of the word Calumny, and finally be-\\nhold, in the assassin, only a left-handed and\\ninverted redeemer.\\nBut what is true of this one word is true of\\nall words. The whole universe can be regarded\\nas words in different degrees of evolution, just\\nas it can be considered thought-rays in differ-\\nent degrees of manifestation. I must first learn\\nthe names of these words, then I must combine\\nwords into phrases, then into sentences. But,\\nafter I become a proficient in reading, it is a", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "n8 Esoteric Lessons.\\nlong time before I can grasp even the external\\n(reflected) significance of what I read. And\\nonly after most profound study and experience\\nof the external do I come, finally, to grasp the\\nlaw of contradictories, through which I gain\\nthe esoteric vision that enables me to discern\\nthe true and right-sided reality even while my\\nexoteric eye sees only its inverted reflection.\\nThis whole process expresses the various de-\\ngrees of reading, and esoteric reading is the\\nassimilation of the true ego.\\nFrom this analysis I observe a solemn import\\nin the use of words. No matter how ignorantly\\nI may use them, I must render an account of my\\nuse for the word cannot be disconnected from\\nits significance any more than the reflect can\\nbe separated from the object it mirrors, or re-\\naction can exist apart from action.\\nNo matter how I may regard words, just as\\nsurely as I call upon them with my lips, just so", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 1 19\\nsurely do I evoke their true significance and\\nforce, which will act in sublime indifference to\\nany conventional opinion I may chance to hold\\nof their meaning. Words w r ill follow the force\\nwhich impels them, and will rebound according\\nto count. But when I become an esoteric reader\\nand know the law of the action and the count\\nof the rebound, these words no longer rule me,\\nbut I rule words, until finally I realize the\\npower which follows assimilation.\\nThis power of assimilating contradictories\\nwhich enables me to see in death only an in-\\nverted and left-sided reflect of Life; and also to\\nsee that birth and death are opposite ends of the\\nsame staff, .is the light upon my path which\\nleads to my celestial heritage. It is also the\\nillumination by means of which this heritage\\nis made visible to my esoteric sense.\\nBut assimilation, in its highest degree, is the\\ngestation and travail of that new birth which is\\nneither birth nor death, but the life eternal.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "LESSON VIII.\\nHOUSE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 PROPORTION.\\nMy staff of Consciousness has two ends and\\na point of equilibrium, i. c, exoteric conscious-\\nness, esoteric consciousness and soul (true\\nego), the invisible centre where the two ends\\nare one. Consciousness, as a whole, is the tent,\\nthe covering, or House of the true ego; exo-\\nteric consciousness is the outer room; esoteric\\nconsciousness the inner room, while the soul\\nitself is symbolized by the Hearth situated in\\nthe centre of the house between the two rooms.\\nBefore proceeding upon this study of Con-\\nsciousness, I must bear in mind the fact that I\\nam now dealing with entities which are not\\npalpable to the senses Consciousness I cannot", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 121\\nsee, hear nor touch: it is a House not made by\\nhands, and to accept literally any of the terms\\nemployed in designating degrees and relations\\nof consciousness will be to fall into the gross-\\nest error. And yet, since this present study is\\ndevoted to the exposition of the psychical basis\\nof physical health, my study cannot go beyond\\nthe ground plan of this house its elevation plan\\nmust be reserved for future study in Reality.\\nIn my present study I can only consider my\\ncloud celestial with reference to my cloud ter-\\nrestrial, and not with reference to its relation\\nwith its celestial Sun and Source.\\nIn the study of my cloud terrestrial, I have\\nbeen dealing with Reflection and inverted Re-\\nflects now, however, I must study my celestial\\nheritage as Refraction, and true Refracts. And\\nI must constantly bear in mind that, owing to\\nthe blindness of my esoteric vision, these true\\nRefracts will at first seem to me upside down:", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "122 Esoteric Lessons.\\nbut as my eyes are opened, Refracts will seem\\nright side up, but Reflects will then, for the first\\ntime, seem in their true light as inverted.\\nThe House of Consciousness, as a whole,\\nmust, therefore, be a true refraction of which\\nmy Ray-ment of Body was the inverted reflec-\\ntion.\\nOf my staff of Ray-ment, the Visible was the\\nhead therefore, that which appeals to the eye\\nin the case of House, or Proportion, must be\\nthe true refract, of which the Visible is the in-\\nverted reflect. The Proportion which appeals,\\nthrough my exoteric vision, to my sense of\\nharmony, is the external symbol of that true\\nProportion discernible only through my eso-\\nteric vision.\\nProportion is commonly defined as an equal-\\nity or equilibrium of ratios. And since it must\\nconsist of four terms, Proportion is the scales,\\nor balance, of the Quarterni.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 123\\nIn the case of body, this balance is the\\nequilibrium of the four elements, which results\\nin the consciousness of physical proportion\\ntermed Health.\\nIn the case of Unite mind, this balance is the\\nequilibrium of mind, thoughts, mental pictures\\nand outward expression (in speech, in art,\\netc.), which results in the consciousness of\\nmental proportion termed knowledge and\\npower.\\nBut on the true and larger plane it is the\\nequilibrium of my celestial and terrestrial re-\\nfraction and reflection, which results in the\\nconscious possession and realization, on the\\npart of the true ego, of its celestial heritage.\\nNow, the terrestrial reflection was dual i. e.,\\nit consisted of action (finite mind) and a re-\\naction (body). So the celestial refraction also\\nconsists of an action (a Ray, one with and in-\\nseparable from its Sun and Source), and a re-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "124 Esoteric Lessons.\\naction (true ego). Accordingly, in order to\\nclearly see and firmly grasp the relation of the\\ndual reflection to its dual refraction, I state\\nthem thus starting with the reflection, I rep-\\nresent body by a; finite mind by b true ego by\\nx; celestial Ray by y.\\nNow, since Proportion is an equilibrium of\\nratios, it directly follows from the nature itself\\nof reflection and refraction that a b x y,\\nor, body is to finite mind as the true eeo is to its\\ncelestial Ray.\\nBody (is to) finite mind (as) true ego (is\\nto) Ray.\\na b x y\\nReflected Reflected Refracted Refracted\\nre-action action re-action action.\\na and b (body and finite mind) are the known\\nterms of this proportion, x and y the unknown\\nterms and the problem stated thus, a b x\\ny, represents the true equilibrium between re-\\nflection and refraction, and at the same time", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 125\\nstates the reason that a b, as it is, because x y,\\nas it is. But when I wish to solve the problem\\nI transpose the unknown terms to the first mem-\\nber of the equation, and the known to the sec-\\nond member of the equation, or, turn the left\\nhand to the right, thus, x y a b, an in-\\nstinctive acknozvledgement of the fact that the\\nknozi n is the inverted and left-sided copy of the\\nunknown.\\nThe word ratio is from the Latin radius (ray\\nor rod), therefore in its derived significance a\\nratio is a rod, and proportion is accordingly an\\nequilibrium of rods, and thus is the true mean-\\ning expressed in the derivation, since propor-\\ntion is equilibrium between reflected rods\\n(rays) and refracted rods.\\nThis equilibrium of rods is always a problem\\ncapable of solution, although one requiring\\nskill and patience. The value, meaning, and\\nforce of x, or true ego, is always the point to\\nbe ascertained.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "126 Esoteric Lessons.\\nHere, again, I notice that the very symbol\\nitself (the x) which I have instinctively em-\\nployed to designate the true ego expresses, by\\nits form of cross, the equilibrium of two rods.\\nThus, not only is proportion itself a statement\\nof the problem of the soul, but also the term\\nitself, which stands for soul, states this mo-\\nmentous problem. Reflecting still further, I\\nfind that proportion, as the equilibrium of re-\\nflected rods and refracted rods, states and\\nsolves all the problems of light, heat, sound and\\nmotion, and thus I come to regard the whole\\nphenomenal universe as but a continuous state-\\nment and re-statement of this problem of the\\nsoul.\\nBut I have just found that each statement, in\\nitself, is dual that at the same time, or together\\nwith the statement, there is also a re-statement,\\nor reason why, implied in the statement itself,", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 127\\ni. e. the statement also implies the solution or,\\nto state is to solve, thus,\\n(as) (because)\\na b x y a b x y\\nStatement. Solution.\\nThe statement implies knowledge, while the\\nsolution (re-statement) expresses faith. But\\nthe equilibrium between this statement and its\\nre-statement is the anchor by means of which\\nthe true ego realizes its Ray-ment, or House of\\nconsciousness as the refracted reality, of which\\nits Ray-ment of bodily sensation was the in-\\nverted reflection.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "LESSON IX.\\nHOUSE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 DOOR.\\nBetween the outer and inner rooms of my\\nHouse of Consciousness there is a door, which\\nswings out or in. The name of this door is\\nDoubt. When it swings out, the counts of its\\nvibrations are audible to my external ear; but\\nwhen it swings in, the counts are audible only\\nto my esoteric ear.\\nThis double nature of my door is expressed\\nin its very name for doubt is derived from two\\nGreek words which signify to go two zvays, and\\nto doubt is, very literally, to be in the mental\\nand physical condition of trying to walk in two\\nopposite directions at the same time.\\nHowever, from doubt from this attempt to\\nwalk in two opposite directions at the same time", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 129\\nis produced all mental action, which ulti-\\nmately results in knowledge. Doubt is the only\\ndoor through which I can ever reach absolute\\ncertitude.\\nAs long as I do not doubt, but accept every-\\nthing as it appears on the outside, taking for\\ngranted the seeming for the real, the door be-\\ntween me and knowledge is closed and locked.\\nBut the moment I begin to doubt the door be-\\ngins to swing, and it swings out, creaking and\\ngrating, and forces me away from the very\\nknowledge I would seek; while I, deceived by\\nthe sound, think, because the door is opening,\\nand because I am listening to the counts, that\\nI am thus acquiring truth, while I am, really,\\nonly acquiring the contradictory of truth.\\nThus I who sincerely seek truth, partake only\\nof its inverted reflect, and, thereby, deceived\\nand bewildered, I become a victim of all man-\\nner of delusions, and fearful of shadows, until", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "130 Esoteric Lessons.\\nfinally the door swings clear back against the\\nwall, and can go no further. The door has\\nswung wide open, and to doubting was due the\\nwhole mental activity by which this result was\\naccomplished.\\nIn its course of outward movement the door\\nhas described a semicircle. There is but one\\nway to complete the circle, viz., the door must\\nswing back again, and then swing over the\\nthreshold into the inner, and hitherto unknown\\nroom of my house, until it reaches the wall\\nagain on the inner side; then the circle will be\\ncomplete.\\nDoubt has opened wide the door, and mani-\\nfested the whole process of the movement\\nwhich described the outer semicircle. Now,\\nthe determination to complete and to know the\\nother half of the circle is the exact contra-\\ndictory of doubt. Determination reverses the\\nmovement of the door. It begins to swing in.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 131\\nTo determine is, therefore, to reverse doubt,\\nnot to abandon it; for, manifestly, determina-\\ntion without previous line of doubt to follow\\nback upon must surely end in my finding my-\\nself just where I started, i. e. y before a closed\\nand locked door.\\nThe way to reverse doubt is to, at once and\\nunreservedly, doubt all that doubt has pre-\\nviously accepted as real, what doubt has hither-\\nto decided to be unreal. Thus will I possess\\nmyself of the key which will force the door to\\nswing over its latch without locking. But I\\nmust swing the door clear open, and describe\\nthe inner semicircle, before I can myself pass\\nin and consciously possess myself of the treas-\\nures of this esoteric consciousness.\\nIn geometry, the word term signifies the\\npoint and the line, and to dc-term-ine is to limit\\nby means of the point and the line. According-\\nly, to doubt and to determine is the process by", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "132 Esoteric Lessons.\\nmeans of which I arrive at the true meaning of\\nthe point and the line. Doubt is the form of\\nforce which causes the door to swing, or strike\\nout from the centre of equilibrium, or, the cen-\\ntrifugal force; while Determination is the form\\nof force which draws back to the centre, or,\\ncentripetal force. Now, when these two forms\\nof force are in perfect equilibrium, my door will\\ndescribe the perfect circle. But before that, in\\nmy actual experience while developing this\\ncircle, this larger line is in itself marked out by\\nan incessant pendulum-like swing, first back,\\nthen forth, of the door, and so on an infinitely\\nzigzag line, and a continuous tick-tack of count,\\nthe counts varying according to the longer or\\nshorter swing of the door. And these counts\\nexpress gradations of doubt and determination.\\nThis I also found to be the relation between the\\ntwo forms of numerals, or, counting and meas-\\nuring.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 133\\nDoubt has led to a mental activity which has\\nresulted in the accumulation of facts, or knowl-\\nedge of the external construction of my circle.\\nDetermination is the re-action against doubt,\\nwhich will ultimately force the door back and\\nwithin.\\nThe relations of doubts and determinations\\nis that of cogs and grooves, and without the two\\nthe wheel could not revolve; i. e., doubts and\\ndeterminations are polar opposites which mu-\\ntually imply each other. Just so my outer semi-\\ncircle, when completed, must be the polar op-\\nposite of the inner semicircle, and since the two\\nmutually imply each other, when I know the\\nexternal I also know what the inner must be.\\nThe name, Doubt, \u00c2\u00abwhich I have given my\\ndoor, since it signifies to go two ways, implies\\nboth doubt and determination in itself. How-\\never, as doubt is the first act which drives the\\ndoor away from the inner room, and determina-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "134 Esoteric Lessons.\\ntion impels it back into my esoteric conscious-\\nness, I now give my door two names to desig-\\nnate the direction in which it swings. Thus,\\nwhen swinging out I call it Doubt, when\\nswinging in I call it Determination, for it is de-\\ntermination which forces the door in tears\\nit open.\\nNow the first meaning of the word door, is to\\ntear or break open, the same word also meaning\\nto pray or to supplicate. Doubt is action, de-\\ntermination, re-action. Door, or true prayer\\nis the point of equilibrium between the two.\\nAs I carefully regard the nature of my con-\\nsciousness, I find that in the day time I am\\nactively absorbed with the external and phe-\\nnomenal. But that at night, in sleep I pass to\\nthe re-active, or appearantly unconsicous state.\\nYet, if I awaken suddenly I am often conscious\\nof having been interrupted in a train of\\nthought or of being recalled from distant lands", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 135\\nand scenes which I was visiting in dreams.\\nBy addition of motion to proportion (bal-\\nanced rods), the form thus described builds me\\na spiral house. Also the two rooms described\\nby the swinging of my door, marks out to my\\near a circular house.\\nProportion and Door express the same house\\nof two rooms, the one to my esoteric eye, the\\nother to my esoteric ear. Proportion and door\\nsymbolize the true refracts of which the visible\\nand audible are the inverted reflects. Further-\\nmore, Day and Night consciousness express the\\ntrue refracts of color and sound sensation.\\nDay is night made visible. Night is day made\\naudible.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "LESSON X.\\nHOUSE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HEARTH.\\nSince my house is spiral, the line between its\\ntwo rooms is a diameter, or two radii (rods,\\nrays). The door is one radius, the hearth is\\nthe other.\\nMy hearth is the warmth giving vital centre.\\nIt is the point from whence the Hearth-fire\\nradiates and permeates my whole house.\\nIn my physical system, this vital centre is the\\nheart, situated on the left side, while the lungs\\non the right, are the door which swinging in-\\ncessantly back and forth, fans the life flame\\nglowing on my hearth, or in my heart. Thus I\\nsee that on the reflected plane, my hearth is my\\nheart, and examining the two words I see the\\nheart (h) is heart with an aspirate a spira)\\nadded. And this addition of the breathing", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 137\\nwhich changes heart to hearth signifies the in-\\nseparable unity of Hearth and Door as well as\\nthe inseparable unity of heart and breathing.\\nHearth and door as a unity are a diameter,\\nas polar opposites, they are two radii. Now the\\npoint of equilibrium between the two radii is\\nthe point of radiation, the centre of reflected\\n(physical) life, the centre of refracted life\\nwhich is consciousness. And strangely enough\\nthe word H-ear-th expresses all this in its for-\\nmation. The two breathings are the polar op-\\nposites, the radii while the word ear means to\\nshoot, to dart, to ray.\\nAnd this point of radiation, is also the centre\\nof my whole house for, the revolution of these\\nradii about the centre describe the circle which\\nbounds my whole house. And since my door\\nand my hearth extend from the floor to the\\nceiling, they must in their revolution, describe\\na spiral or cylindrical form of house. My house", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "138 Esoteric Lessons.\\nis thus my tower. And since to shoot, to ear\\nis the centre, the ear of corn is, very truly, the\\nsymbol of my house, as my tower. But my\\nhouse is consciousness, therefore consciousness\\nis my tower, my strength and my defense.\\nJust as the ear of corn symbolizes the ex-\\nternal form of my house, so the listening car\\nexpresses the esoteric reality of consciousness.\\nNow ear implies voice, just as heart implies\\nbreathing, just as hearth implies door. Voice\\nis sound thrown out by breath, therefore ear:\\nvoice hearth door. And this proportion must\\nboth state, and solve all problems of conscious-\\nness involving the relation of hearth to door.\\nThe listening ear is the ear leaning, inclining,\\nstretching out toward, or, in other words, it is\\nthe resisting ear. It is the ear resisting, or re\\nacting against the vibrations thrown out by the\\nvoice of my door. List and lust are the same\\nin derivation, list is the resistance to the true", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 139\\nvibrations, lust is the resistance to the reflected\\nvibrations.\\nResistance, in itself, is dual, e. g. in the case\\nof external sensation; unless my consciousness\\nre-acts against the action offered by the polarity\\nof external objects, I experience no sense of\\ntouch.\\nNow as long as my consciousness is wholly\\noccupied in external and phenomenal resist-\\nance, it knows only the voice and language of\\nexoteric consciousness. But after I learn from\\nexperience of the visible, audible and tangible,\\nto comprehend the relation of reflection to re-\\nfraction, I come to see, from proportion\\nwhat must be the relation of the hearth to the\\ndoor of my house of consciousness, i. e., since,\\non the physical (reflected) plane, the relation\\nof eye to light vibrations, of ear to voice, of\\nheart to breathing, but express different de-\\ngrees of resistance, or forms of the sense of", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "140 Esoteric Lessons.\\ntouch, therefore, on the refracted plane, the re-\\nlation of esoteric hearth to esoteric door ex-\\npresses the true refract, of which the three- fold\\nsense of resistance is the inverted reflect.\\nAnd, accordingly, if I would know the eso-\\nteric voice of my door, and acquire the lan-\\nguage of its esoteric breathing, so as to discern\\nits relation to the esoteric raying (earing) of\\nmy hearth, then I must combine Knowledge\\nand Faith as shown in Proportion.\\nKnowledge is the insight into the equilibrium\\nof ratios Faith is the trust that the refraction\\nwhich I cannot see, is the cause of the reflection\\nwhich I do see; thus Faith is the discerning eye.\\nPrayer is the trust that the inaudible vibra-\\ntion is the cause of the audible vibration. And\\nthis inaudible vibration is the still voice which\\nthe listening ear doors (prays) open, hears.\\nRealizing (ray-izing) is the trust that this\\nvital spark of consciousness, impalpable to my", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 141\\nexoteric resistance, is the cause of the flame\\nsmouldering on my hearth of heart. And this\\nvital spark is tangible to the resisting hearth,\\nthe pure heart.\\nThe discerning eye sees the celestial Ray;\\nthe listening ear communes with It, the resist-\\ning heart consciously and vitally realizes It.\\nThis Ray is one with and inseparable from\\nits celestial Sun and Source; this Ray is a\\nThought of the Infinite Mind, and one with In-\\nfinite Mind. So that when I see the Ray, I also\\nsee the Sun, for the sun and its rays are one;\\nwhen I know the Thought I also know the\\nMind, for mind and thoughts cannot be sep-\\narated.\\nMind and Thought-rays become one, or, are\\nassimilated, through mental pictures. There-\\nfore, this pure hearth of heart, this vital centre\\nof consciousness, when it resists, or reacts\\nagainst the celestial Thought-ray, not only be-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "142 Esoteric Lessons,\\ncomes assimilated with the Thought-ray itself,\\nbut also brings to a vital focus, a mental picture\\nof Infinite Mind.\\nMy true ego, my soul is, therefore, a mental\\npicture of the Infinite Mind in process of ex-\\npression. And it takes many and hard lines to\\nbring this mental picture to a focus, and to\\nemancipate it from its own inverted reflections.\\nThe Divine Artist acts through the Thought-\\nray. And when my soul consciously re-acts, or\\nresponds, the work goes on swiftly. More-\\nover, since thought and mental picture mu-\\ntually imply each other, just as mind implies\\nthought, therefore, I am one with Infinite Mind\\nas soon as I consciously accept and realize the\\nfact of Inseparableness.\\nAn appeal to consciousness is always ulti-\\nmate. The sensations of my body, and the de-\\nsires of my terrestrial mind, are the undeniable\\nfacts of my consciousness, therefore to solve", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 143\\nany problem of soul implied in the statement\\na b x y is a very simple process of elimina-\\ntion; for I always have the two following- equa-\\ntions from which to compare and substitute the\\nvalue of x:\\nBody [a b sensation y]\\nFinite mind [a b desire y\\nBut I know that to realize this inestimable\\nvalue of x will be to cast out the errors of my\\ndesires, and to heal the diseases of my sensa-\\ntions; for the reflection must correspond to the\\nrefraction. And not only my own errors and\\ndiseases, but also those of other souls slumber-\\ning in their inner rooms of consciousness. For\\nwithin every inner room there glimmers a celes-\\ntial Thought-ray of Infinite Mind. And with-\\nin the unity of this Infinite Mind our true con-\\nsciousnesses all move and have their being.\\nTo enter within this inner room and to real-\\nize its inseparable unity with the celestial Man-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "144 Esoteric Lessons.\\nsions of all consciousness, is to reverse Night\\nand Day, and to awaken and find how soundly\\nI have been asleep amid the inverted shadows\\nof the true Aurora.\\nLESSON XI.\\nHEARTH-FIRE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 RAY.\\nDrawing near my Hearth I now regard the\\nfire growing upon its shrine, in order to learn\\nfrom thence, of the celestial ray which trans-\\nmutes the flame offered at the Altar of the heart\\ninto Soul.\\nThese dancing and gleaming flames upon my\\nHearth are, indeed, very literally transformed\\nsunlight, and it was as a perpetual reminder of\\nthis fact, that, in olden times, in case the hearth-\\nfire should, by mischance, go out it would be\\nrelighted from sunlight by collecting rays to a", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 145\\nfocus. So in studying these glowing embers,\\nI am but studying inverted sunlight, while sun-\\nlight in its turn is but reflected Thought-light.\\nWhat first attracts my attention is the fact\\nof motion without this motion, or radiation,\\nthe entire manifestation of light and heat dis-\\nappears.\\nMotion is an inseparable factor of this fire\\nwhich consists of polar opposites of fire and\\nrays, and a point which is neither fire nor rays,\\nbut where the two are one, the point where\\nthey constantly balance from one to the other\\nin an endless circle.\\nJust so motion cannot be separated from\\nmind and thoughts, any more than thoughts\\ncan exist apart from mind. In the case of mind\\nI term this motion reasoning (derived from\\nradius, rod), and thus reasoning is radiation\\nboth in meaning and derivation.\\nEven in the case of my staff which I desig-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "146 Esoteric Lessons.\\nnate as inanimate, were it not for a certain de-\\ngree of motion it would not exist at all, it\\nwould vanish entirely from my sight. Thus,\\nit is visible because it re-acts against light-vi-\\nbrations. It is tangible because of certain equi-\\nlibriums of action and re-action commonly\\ntermed attraction and repulsion.\\nThus I see that motion, radiation, reasoning\\nand existence, are all forms of Ray-ing, and\\nray-ing is the inseparable fourth element, or\\nQuarterni in every Unity. Every Unity is an\\ninseparable Duality, Trinity and Quarterni.\\nAlthough motion cannot be separated from\\nunity, duality and trinity, yet I must distinguish\\nbetween it and the other elements in order to\\ncomprehend the nature of Force, or Ray-ing,\\nbefore I can divine its meaning, and realize its\\npresence upon the altar of my Hearth.\\nThe ray-ing of these flames before which I\\nhold my hands, is of two kinds, viz. For", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 147\\nevery ray-ing out, there is a ray-ing back. Dif-\\nferent gradations of the ray-ing back but cor-\\nrespond to gradations of the ray-ing forth.\\nAction and re-action are equal, or, in other\\nwords, there is an equilibrium between the\\nforms of ray-ing.\\nAt this point of equilibrium between the\\ntwo, i. e., by the union of the two, are formed\\nall manner of figures, mathematical, fantastic\\nand beautiful. And as I closely watch them,\\nI even discern the colors; now a dart of red,\\nnow a dart of blue, flashes of purple, and of\\ngold.\\nBut since flames are only inverted sunlight,\\nevery ray of light, therefore, also carries its\\nprism with it, i. e., its re-active form of force\\nis its prism by means of which, through infi-\\nnite equilibriums of its infinite gradations, it\\nimages forth infinite colors and forms.\\nNow I have already seen that every equilibri-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "148 Esoteric Lessons.\\nurn, from the lowest gradation to the highest\\nis a statement and re-statement of the problem\\nof the Soul. Therefore each and every grada-\\ntion, must, in itself, be a statement and re-\\nstatement of some different degree and phase\\nof the general statement. And at once the\\nwhole visible universe looms up before me, no\\nlonger vague, chaotic and meaningless, but as a\\nsublime universal language, which appeals,\\nthrough sensation, to my whole nature.\\n1.) Each vibration, and shade of color, is a\\nreflected vibration and shade of Thought, of\\nwhich it is a polar opposite, and from which it\\ncannot be separated. So that when I once\\npossess the key which translates the symbol to\\nits thought, I am never at the mercy of a blind\\nchance, but read according to an unalterable\\nlaw. And each prismatic color, not only re-\\nflects a thought, but the seven together are\\nspokes of a wheel, which by their relation to", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 149\\neach other by their difficult gradations of refrac-\\ntions and reflections, reflect various thought re-\\nlations. And moreover this wheel when re-\\nvolved at a certain velocity blends the seven\\ncolors into the pure white light, and this also\\nexpresses a thought.\\n(2.) Each vibration of sound, but speaks to\\nmy listening ear in this same universal lan-\\nguage. It pronounces the words spelt out to\\nmy eyes.\\n(3.) Through the resistance of touch this\\nuniversal language becomes a vital, living real-\\nity to me. I not only see and hear, but I feel\\nit throughout every nerve and fibre of my body.\\nI sensibly realize myself as an inseparable menv\\nber of the written word, perhaps only as a punc-\\ntuation mark, yet in some way inseparably con-\\nnected with the sense of the whole.\\nTouch implies desire, and passing from sen-\\nsation to the second spire, or coil of my nature.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "150 Esoteric Lessons.\\nI see at once, from the very necessities of finite\\ndesire, action and the assimilation of the two,\\nthat this universal language is a drama in\\nwhich I am a blind puppet, obeying a hidden law\\nof entrances and exits (births and deaths), and\\nin which I but repeat a speech as pronounced\\nto me, trippingly on the tongue, with no more\\nconception of the plot of the play, and the real\\npurpose for which it is enacted, than had Ham-\\nlet s players of the deep and hidden purpose for\\nwhich he employed them.\\nBut at length my consciousness passes the\\ncurve of the third coil of my spiral nature, and\\ngrasps the equilibrium of ratios, and combines\\nthe knowledge and faith which mutually imply\\neach other, into a statement, a statement\\nwhich is also a solution of the esoteric sense\\nof this great drama.\\nAs I come to understand the external con-\\nstruction of this universal language, I see that", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 151\\nour modern printing press is but an adaptation\\non the finite plane, of the principle according to\\nwhich the Infinite Mind has published abroad\\nthroughout the universe, his divine thoughts\\nand purposes. Therefore, to know my part,\\nI must first learn the letters and words as they\\nseem, then learn to read them upside down, and\\nfrom right to left.\\nIn the second place I must learn the exoteric\\nmeaning and action of my part in the drama.\\nAnd here, as before, the Ray of Light is my clew\\nof thread, which alone reveals the path through\\nthe labyrinth of bewildering shadows, to the\\nabode of the Minotaur of finite desire and ac-\\ntion. For the fabulous beast Minotaur, which\\nwas fed by the sacrifice of the choicest Athenian\\nyouths, but personifies the finite, or earthly\\nmind, with its idol worship, with its sacrifices\\nand oblations of the higher nature to the lower.\\nAnd this Minotaur must be slain by the true", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "152 Esoteric Lessons.\\nTheseus, before I can start out to know and act\\nmy part in the esoteric drama.\\nThe Ray is, therefore, first, in itself, the en-\\ntire alphabet of the universal language. For,\\nby its two forms of force, and point of equi-\\nlibrium, it furnishes the point and lines accord-\\ning to which the whole visible universe is pic-\\ntured out to my senses.\\nThe Ray is, second, in itself, the fire (inverted\\nsunlight), the fuel, the father, the food of\\nsensation, in its search after the Minotaur.\\nFood and father are the same in derivation.\\nAnd the finite mind is indeed the father of the\\nbody, in that it provides and cares for all its\\ndemands. But the finite mind is also the father\\nor food of the Soul during the period of ap-\\nprenticeship to the Shadows.\\nIt is the reflected father of the Soul, and from\\nit the Soul must learn of its celestial Father.\\nEvery time one finite mind goes out in the ap-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 153\\npearance called death, then the Soul re-kindles\\nits finite food (fuel) from its celestial Father,\\nor Thought-ray, and goes on anew, to learn\\nits part in the drama, until I come to discern\\nthis celestial Ray in my heart, and realize this\\nvital spark of consciousness as re-acting (re-\\nsponding) to it as its celestial Father. Then is\\nthe Ray the force by which I solve the mean-\\ning of the words about me; and divine their\\nsignificance in the great drama. Then finally\\nwill consciousness be transmuted into Soul,\\nqualified to enact its part in the larger drama,\\nsince having become one with its own celestial\\nFather, it is also one with the Father of All\\nLights.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "LESSON XII.\\nHEARTH-FIRE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 IMAGES.\\nThese mysterious forms which are constantly\\nappearing and vanishing amid the flames glow-\\ning on my Hearth next claim my attention,\\nthese faces, beautiful or weird, which suddenly\\ngleam with an intelligence that I am rarely\\nquick enough to interpret, ere the glance has\\nmelted into another expression, and assumed\\nanother face.\\nI have already seen that these images occur\\nat the point of equilibrium between the two\\nforms of force, or, the point where polar oppo-\\nsites are one.\\nConsciousness is, therefore, the focus where\\nform, or images, is made clear, made mani-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 155\\nfest. The word manifest at once interests me.\\nThe primary sense of the word man, manna,\\nmanes, is image, form, shade; festu was a small\\nstaff used to point out letters to children when\\nlearning to read, therefore the first meaning of\\nman and festu joined together in the word\\nman-i-fest evidently is to point out, or make\\nclear the image, form, man, manna, manes. And\\nthis I take to be the object, or purpose of all\\nmanifestation, viz., to bring to a vital focus\\nthe divine image of Soul. Accordingly I re-\\ngard images as of four degrees, or classes, the\\nfirst two being reflected and terrestrial, the last\\ntwo being refracted and celestial.\\n(1) (2) (3) (4)\\nMan Manes Soul Manna.\\n1 Man, or body, is the external and visible\\nexpression of the image.\\n(2.) My present finite mind is a manes in\\nprocess of expression.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "156 Esoteric Lessons.\\n(3.) Soul is a mental picture (image) of\\nthe Infinite Mind in process of development.\\n(4.) The celestial Thought-ray of Infinite\\nMind is the Manna, True Food, or Father of the\\nSoul.\\nFor every thought of my finite mind there is\\nan accompanying mental picture, existing, so to\\nspeak, in my erwn mental light, and held at a\\nfocus by my consciousness. Now, obviously, if\\nthis mental picture is reflected to other minds\\nwithin the range of my mental light, this mental\\npicture will be mirrored on their screen, or tent\\nof consciousness, and since mental picture can-\\nnot be separated from thought, their minds will\\nalso think my thought. This illustrates the\\nway all thoughts come and go; for all minds\\nare factors of an inseparable Unity, and are,\\ntherefore, in a constant state of action and re-\\naction.\\nNow while my senses are wholly absorbed", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 157\\nin the external, I never consciously discern\\nmental pictures. They are an entirely unrecog-\\nnized factor in my mental machinery. And, in\\nthe present age, all inner vision is sternly re-\\nmanded to the realm of fantasy as the next door\\nto insanity, and proof positive of morbid con-\\nditions of body and mind. Therefore, if I\\nwould ever know the truth of the inner vision,\\nI must endure the infamy of being one who\\ndreams dreams, and sees visions. (However,\\na very little experience and reflection soon con-\\nvinces me that the mutual polarity of thought\\nand mental picture explains all phenomena of\\ndreams, clairvoyance, premonitions, appari-\\ntions, etc., etc.)\\nI have already found that all finite action is\\ndual, i. e., it is passion, and it is oblation. Now\\noblation is of various degrees.\\n(1.) Part of my daily actions are the sacri-\\nfices of the lower forms of life to maintain my", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "158 Esoteric Lessons.\\nown bodily existence. But in return for these\\nacts, certain sacrifices are required at my hands.\\nThe scales of Proportion measure out to me just\\nas I measure out to others, for every scrap and\\nmuscle of animal flesh which I take into my\\nsystem is a pictured scroll of suffering, fear of\\ndeath, and sense of deprivation of an heritage\\nto life. These words my sense of touch reports\\nfaithfully to my consciousness, and I myself,\\nin my turn, am a constant slave to these same\\nfears and sufferings. Yet, I must pass through\\na long period of apprenticeship in sacrificing to\\nthese images until I learn the esoteric meaningof\\nthe word sacrifice upon this plane of my nature.\\nThen I will be enabled to sustain my physical\\nlife upon the vegetables, grains and fruits of\\nthe Earth, which are more directly transformed\\nsunlight, and thus symbolic of the celestial\\nmanna.\\n(2.) The social or moral acts of my daily", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 1 59\\nlife are sacrifices to the manes. The Manes are\\nthe shades of the departed. They are the cast\\noff reflects of the soul, photographs of soul,\\nexisting in the magnetic light. And since they\\nare photographs of true consciousness, they\\nmust partake, in a degree, of the living Ray-\\nality they reflect. And must, therefore, possess\\na terrestrial and finite consciousness, capable of\\ncommunicating (through mental pictures)\\nwith other intelligences. These finite con-\\nsciousnesses with which I am surrounded con-\\nstantly reflect to me my own past thoughts and\\ndeeds, and thus impel me to perform again the\\nsame acts and deeds. If I strongly set myself\\nto do right, then my acts are sacrifices to the\\ngood manes, but if I am selfish and cruel, then\\nI sacrifice to the evil manes. But, more than\\nthis, just as I am in a most complex social\\nrelation with other minds about me, so are my\\nmanes, also, involved in this same complex re-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "160 Esoteric Lessons.\\nlation with the manes of other minds. More-\\nover, just as these photographs (manes) reflect\\ngood or evil thoughts to me, so they also reflect\\ndiseased, and otherwise marked physical, pe-\\nculiarities to me. So that if I would maintain\\nmy physical health, I must be able to discern\\nthese shades which hang unseemly pictures in\\nmy House of consciousness. I must tear down\\nthe evil manes, and hang up the good manes.\\n(3.) These sacrifices to the good manes are\\nabsolutely essential to my progress toward my\\nrealization of soul for the manes feed upon\\nmy finite mind and body, just as I feed upon\\nthe lower forms of life. These sacrifices are\\nthe third form of oblations, i. e., they are offer-\\nings to Soul; for, the soul, in its turn, also\\nfeeds upon the manes.\\n(4.) The fourth form of oblation is that of\\nthe soul to its celestial Manna. And, although,\\nwhile embodied I must practice all four forms", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 161\\nof sacrifices, yet I can never catch a gleam of\\nsoul and its implied eternity without hence-\\nforward directing my entire course of action\\n(oblation) so as to partake of the food which\\nis mercy and not sacrifice, which is love and\\nnot suffering, and finally to sustain myself\\nwholly upon the celestial Manna.\\nNow, the soul as a mental picture of Infinite\\nMind, is of divine origin, poor, sinless, and\\nperfect, in that it contains within itself, in the\\ngerm, all that is eventually evolved. And its\\nevolution is the result of its own inner force,\\nunited to that of its own Thought-ray. Time\\nis the period of its process of expression, but the\\nsoul has eternity back of it, and before it.\\nAnd at the end of its time, its great day of\\nMemory, when the soul, freed from birth and\\ndeath, is ready to collect together different\\nearth lives as so many events in one great whole,\\nand is waiting to put on its beautiful gar-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "1 62 Esoteric Lessons.\\nmerits, so as to go and dwell forever with its\\nFather, and enact its parts of the larger Drama,\\nwithin the celestial Mansions; then the stern\\nJudge Minos draws or pours, these robes, or\\nmanes, from out his Urn, and only such as are\\nworthy of eternity can be strung as beads on\\nmemory s silver cord.\\nThe soul can assume only such characters as\\nare fitted to be enacted in the presence of di-\\nvinity. And the manes which have in no way\\nreflected the true ego, but only its contradictory,\\nwill go out in the outer darkness of nothingness.\\nFor as they exist only as contradictories of the\\nsours light, among the inverted shadows, they\\nhave failed to lay hold of the true refraction,\\nwhich alone is entity, which is eternal life, and\\nwhen the soul s light is indrawn from the ter-\\nrestrial, to its celestial Source, these inverted\\nreflections will be utterly dispelled.\\nHowever, until the end of time, it is pos-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 163\\nsible, for even the contradictory manes to be\\nquickened. For, just as it is possible for me,\\nwhen the visible life of my friend goes out, to\\nhold his manes, spellbound, and in agony, by\\nmy grief, just so it is possible for me who have\\nHouse, Food and Ray-ment to shelter the home-\\nless, to feed the hungry, and to clothe the naked.\\nThus can I rescue this manes, and herein is the\\noblation which is Love and not suffering. But\\nthe grief of despair is, in truth, a refined form\\nof vivisection.\\nLESSON XIII.\\nHEARTH-FIRE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 LAW.\\nyea nay Yea Nay.\\nThe Law of Man-i-fest-ation, or of pointing\\nout Images, is the Law of Contradictories.\\nContradictory Opposites are inverted and\\nleft-sided reflections of Real or Polar Oppo-\\nsites. Polar Opposites mutually imply and in-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "164 Esoteric Lessons.\\nelude each other, while Contradictory Opposites\\nmutually deny and exclude each other.\\nAnd just as it is impossible for me to walk\\nin two opposite directions at the same time just\\nas it is impossible for me to affirm both of two\\nContradictions to be true and avoid mental\\nchaos and nothingness, just so it is impossible\\nfor me to affirm the identity of Real Opposites\\nand Contradictory Opposites, and avoid spiri-\\ntual chaos and nothingness.\\nTo grasp this distinction is to make the\\nchoice between the Real and the un-real, be-\\ntween Light and darkness, between Life and\\ndeath, between the Eternal and the temporal,\\nbetween Wholeness and chaos. And it is the\\nspiritual insight implied in this choice which is\\nso beautifully expressed in the myth of Ariad-\\nna s Clew of Thread. Ariadna s mystical clew\\nof thread symbolizes this intuitive discerning\\nof the relation of True Opposites to contra-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 165\\ndictory opposites which will lead the true The-\\nseus safely through the mazes of the Labyrinth\\nof inverted reflections, and enable him to de-\\nstroy the Minotaur of sense and seeming.\\nThe fact that Ariadna s twist of thread sym-\\nbolizes this inner, intuitive Ray, is evident from\\nthe derivation of the word twist, as well as from\\nthe formation itself of a twist. Thus the Greek\\nword skiza is a twist, a torch, a flame. Our\\nword scissors is also derived from this same\\nword.\\nAgain, in its formation, a twist expresses\\nthe mystery of this Law, thus the twist is com-\\nposed of two strands (each strand double),\\nwhich are first twisted in opposite directions,\\nthen by being doubled back upon each other,\\nthe two strands fly magically into one mani-\\nfestation.\\nIn the thread of light the Law is expressed\\nin the dual, and vet unitarv manifestation of re-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "1 66 Esoteric Lessons.\\nf racted ray and its inverted reflected ray.\\nThe scissors also expressed the Law in their\\nconstruction of two blades fastened at the cen-\\ntre, by a point, or pin. When opened they\\nimage a cross, while the movement itself, of\\ncutting, expresses the contradictories i. e. the\\ntwo blades come together and cut only as a re-\\nsult of the movement which forced them apart.\\nThis movement of the scissors is also the move-\\nment of the hand bellows, which impart breath\\nto the flame.\\nThe thread is the path in the Labyrinth the\\ntorch is the light on the path; the scissors cut\\nalong the narrow thread which twists in and\\nout amid the mazy shadows while the three\\nare all one. They are the Parcae.\\nIn order to still further study the Law of\\nContradictories, I take the word Health, and\\nits contradictory Disease. Following the Quar-\\ntern! of word as already given in the lesson or", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 167\\nassimilating, thus\\n(1.) The outer expression of disease upon\\nthe body in various forms, is the external sym-\\nbol of the word.\\n(2.) On the plane of finite mind, dis-ease\\nis lack of ease resulting from the erroneous\\njudgment of a finite Health apart from Infinite\\nWholeness.\\n(3.) My conscious experience of the word is\\nthe point of equilibrium between the finite and\\nInfinite meaning of the word.\\n(4.) The true and celestial force and signifi-\\ncance of the word completes the Quarterni, and\\nHealth would therefore be wholeness, com-\\npleteness and perfection.\\nOn the reflected, or finite plane, Health as\\nordinarily understood is, in truth, lack of\\nwholeness, inasmuch as it is taken for granted\\nto be purely physical, and something apart from\\nspiritual wholeness. It therefore signifies, not", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "i68 Esoteric Lessons.\\nthe balanced staff, but only the physical end up,\\nof the staff, and the location of consciousness\\nin the body which will surely lead the finite\\nego to seek bodily pleasures. This tendency of\\nconsciousness will inevitably lead to pain, and\\nthe finite ego thus will see-saw from one end of\\nthe staff to the other until it maintains its po-\\nsition at the centre.\\nAccordingly consciousness located in the\\nbody, and giving a sense of physical lustiness,\\nis, in reality, incompleteness and lack of Whole-\\nness. While pain, which in itself is only the\\nother end up, of the staff, is only a second woe,\\nand consciousness still out of its true position.\\nBut the equilibrium of these two woes, finally\\nenable consciousness to assume its equilibrium.\\nThey teach the way to true Health. Without\\nthe action of the woe of pleasure, and the re-\\naction of the woe of pain, consciousness could\\nnever realize its celestial heritage. Herein is", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 169\\nthe Worth of the two woes. Pleasure is as\\nmuch a dis-ease as is pain. Pleasure and pain\\nare head and foot of the staff of disease, and\\ndisease is the inverted reflection, or, contra-\\ndictory of Health.\\nWhen I can invert Disease and read it from\\nright to left, then I know the mystery of Health,\\nand not before. Pleasure and pain are a double\\nstrand twisted together into the reflected half\\nof a word. This reflected half is, either Dis-\\nease, or finite Health, but the other half, the\\ncontradictory of Disease, is the perfect ease of\\ntrue Health, while Wholeness is the equilibri-\\num between the refraction and reflection which\\ncuts or distinguishes between the inseparable;\\nfor true cutting is uniting. It mysteriously\\ncombines the double strands which were twisted\\nin opposite directions.\\nThus this process of healing is the process of\\nassimilating, and assimilating is Reading (rod-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "170 Esoteric Lessons.\\ning) exoteric and esoteric reading, therefore\\nhealing is reading. Exoteric healing with min-\\nerals and drugs is only exoteric reading and an\\nindispensable first step toward esoteric reading,\\nor healing. I must learn the symbols of words\\nbefore I can learn the words. But when I come\\nto know that healing, reading and assimilating\\ntake place through Images, then there is no\\nlonger need of communicating with external\\nwords. I can communicate directly through\\nthe Images. The Images communicate my\\nthought without my going out to hunt up a\\nclumsy drug or mineral to act as interpreter.\\nAgain, with our lips we all speak foreign\\ntongues to each other, but the Images speak\\nthe language of the heart there is no misunder-\\nstanding them.\\nThe Law of Contradictories is also the Law\\nof communication as well as the Law of mani-\\nfestation, for the object and purpose of man-i-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. lyi\\nfest-ation is communication. And if assimilat-\\ning, reading and healing are all different de-\\ngrees of communication, then must this Law\\nof Contradictories be the Law of The Most\\nHigh, mystically expressed as Yea, yea; Nay,\\nnay, but which translated in terms of staff or\\nproportion, reads\\nyea nay Yea Nay. yea and nay\\nare contradictory or reflected opposites of\\nYea and Nay the true and Polar Opposites.\\nThe force with which the terrestrial fibres\\nof pleasure and pain twist away from the ce-\\nlestial fibres they reflect (contradict), but ex-\\npress the force with which the two strands will\\nenfold each other when the finite will removes\\nthe pressure with which it clings to its idols and\\nturns toward the true ray, and toward its ce-\\nlestial Source.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "172 Esoteric Lessons.\\nHealing, making whole, is therefore, the\\nlast and greatest Word for me to learn. It is\\nthe process of combining the contradictory parts\\nof the drama into a magnificent Whole, and\\nentering into the spirit of the Divine Author;\\nIt is a recalling of the parts I have been learn-\\ning since the beginning of time. It is the as-\\nsuming of the robes and characters I have been\\nso long and painfully elaborating. And finally\\nit is a swinging out from time into eternity to\\nenact a part prepared for me from the begin-\\nning.\\nLooking out into this vast Universe I see\\nonly Mind in process of evolution. Each ray\\nis a Thought-ray in development by means of\\nrefraction and reflection. Equilibrium, or\\nCentral-point, whenever it occurs, is Conscious-\\nness in process of realization. Motion is\\nReasoning in process of radiation. The Reason-\\ning which is spiral and Spiritual.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "LESSON XIV.\\nCONCLUSION\u00e2\u0080\u0094 THE WALL.\\nWill implies Freedom. If I have no power\\nof choice, then I, evidently, have no will of my\\nown. Moreover, if I have no Freedom (im-\\nplied by Will), then I am the most abject of\\nslaves.\\nIn the ancient ceremony of manumission the\\nslave was touched with the rod, as a symbol of\\nthe fact that the ray frees from bonds of de-\\nlusion.\\nAgain in the rite of Knighthood, which ad-\\nmits to the privilege of bearing arms, the rod\\nbore an important part.\\nAccordingly before I can enter upon my\\nheritage, before I can seat myself upon my\\nThrone and assume my Scepter, I must, first,\\nbe freed from slavery, and, second, I must be", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "174 Esoteric Lessons.\\nendowed with the privilege of bearing arms.\\nBut before I can receive a scepter and rule I\\nmust know hozv to rule, before I can receive\\nthe honors of Knighthood I must know how to\\nbuild a Wall and defend my possessions.\\n(i.) To know how to rule I must be able\\nto balance the rod of Justice and Mercy, Now,\\nJustice and Mercy are. not Contradictories, as\\nthe world seems to have taken for granted, but\\nthey are Polar Opposites of the same rod. They\\nmutually imply each other, and are simply un-\\nthinkable apart; for Justice without Mercy is\\nnot just; for Mercy without Justice is blindly\\ncruel, and therefore not Mercy at all.\\nNow the perfect equilibrium between Justice\\nand Mercy is perfect power of choice, or perfect\\nFreedom. For, since when I am ruled I am\\nnot free, if I am ever ruled in the slightest de-\\ngree by my affections, then I am neither just\\nnor merciful, and if my sense of Justice pre-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 175\\nponderates over my affection, then I am neither\\njust nor merciful, and therefore am not free.\\nIt thus directly follows that I am not free, un-\\ntil I balance the rod of Justice and Mercy, and,\\nmoreover, since Freedom (power of choice)\\nimplies Will, it also directly follows that when\\nI am free, then I shall know the meaning of\\nWill, and not before.\\nNow, just as true Freedom is the exact con-\\ntradictory of freedom on the finite plane, so\\ntrue Will is the exact contradictory of will on\\nthe finite plane. And since will implies free-\\ndom, my true Will is my emancipation from\\nslavery, and it is also (as I have just seen) the\\npower which confers the right to rule. My true\\nWill, therefore, becomes my Wall of Strength,\\nwhich I next consider how to build.\\n(2.) Our word Wall is from the Latin, as\\nwell as from Saxon, Dutch, etc. In the Saxon\\nit is the same word as weal, strength, soundness,", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "176 Esoteric Lessons.\\netc. The Latin vallus is a stake or post, and\\ndoubtless the wall originally was a palisade of\\nposts. The primary sense of vallus is a shoot,\\nsuggesting at once ray, ear, etc. From this I\\nalso see at once hozv to build my wall. I must\\nconcentrate together rods as troops. All my\\nforces, or possessions, I must con-centre, as con-\\nverging lines or rays, so that they all meet at\\na common point.\\nAnd thus to build my wall of Will I must\\nacquire the Power of Concentration.\\nBut before I can do this, and in order to ac-\\nquire the Power of Concentration, I must make\\nthe last and the greatest oblation of all. Be-\\nfore I can know the true Will I must offer up\\nits contradictory. I must resign the finite will\\nwith all its finite desires, before I can know the\\nTrue. But, manifestly, it is utter folly to make\\nthis offering before it is mine to make i. e., be-\\nfore I am Free. And since to be free I must", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 177\\nknow how to balance the rod of Justice and\\nMercy, I turn once more to consider again this\\nrod.\\nFreedom is the point of equilibrium between\\nJustice and Mercy. Will is the power of Con-\\ncent-er-ing, or of Ray-ing about the Centre,\\naccordingly I discern the very Highest Mani-\\nfestation of the Quart erni.\\nHead. Foot. Centre. Motion.\\nJustice: Mercy: Freedom: Will.\\nThis proportion expresses the Quarterni of\\nRay evolved to its highest power. And when\\nmy soul realizes this perfect Harmony, then I\\nam forever free from the illusions of birth and\\ndeath. And Will is the Motive force which\\nwill propel, throughout Eternity, the perfectly\\nbalanced rod of Justice and Mercy.\\nTherefore this Power of Concentering is the\\nlast and greatest acquirement. Its attainment\\nis the great Weal its lack is the great Woe.\\nTo secure it is to realize Wholeness, to fail", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "178 Esoteric Lessons.\\nis Chaos and Nothingness. And in order to\\nattain this great Weal I must offer up the ob-\\nlation of a true High Priest. And in order to\\nsecure the Perfect Peace of Wholeness I must\\nfight the fight of the True Warrior. A War-\\nrior capable of bearing and hurling a lance. I,\\ntherefore, turn to the Staff with which I\\nstarted. This conclusion is, after all, only an-\\nother beginning. The Ray of Light is now\\nmy Lance armed with which I continue my\\nspiral and unending course in Reality.\\nAPPENDIX.\\nOUTLINE LESSON IN OPTICS.\\nI. Refraction.\\nRays of light in passing* obliquely from one\\nmedium to another are bent (refracted) from\\ntheir course, the degree of bending (refrac-\\n*Perpendicular rays pass directly through\\nwithout being bent,", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality.\\n1 79\\ntion) depending upon the density, or rarity of\\nthe medium.\\nThus in passing into a medium of greater\\ndensity (e. g., from air to water), rays will be\\nbent towards a perpendicular. But in passing\\nfrom a denser to a rarer medium (e. g., from\\nwater to air), they will be bent from a perpen-\\ndicular towards a horizontal.\\n(a.) Let A B\\nrepresent a sur-\\nface of water,\\nthen the perpen-\\ndicular ray D C\\nwill pass to D E.\\nB But the\\noblique ray F C,\\ninstead of passing\\ni to F I will be bent\\nat C and pass to F\\nG, or towards the\\nperpendicular.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "i8o\\nEsoteric Lessons.\\n(c.) The oblique ray G C in passing from\\nwater to air (from denser to rarer medium)\\nwill be bent at Q and instead of passing to G H\\nwill be bent to G F, or towards the horizontal\\nA. B.\\nII. Reflection.\\nRays of light falling obliquely upon a pol-\\nished surface are thrown off in a new direction,\\nand the angles of contact (incidence) and the\\nangles of departure (reflection) are always\\nequal.\\nLet A B repre-\\nsent a polished\\nsurface, then the\\nperpendicular ray\\nD C falling upon\\nthis surface will\\n-b be thrown directly\\nback from C to D.\\nBut the oblique ray E C will be thrown off", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 181\\nin the direction C F, and the angle G will eqvial\\nthe angle H.\\nThe more nearly perpendicular the ray E C,\\nthe more nearly perpendicular will be the ray\\nC F, or again, the more nearly horizontal the\\nray E C, the more nearly horizontal will be the\\nray C F. Yet the angles H and G will always\\nbe equal for the size of the angle H implies the\\nsize of the angle G, just as the direction of the\\nray E C implies the direction of the ray C F.\\nIII. Relation of Refraction to Reflec-\\ntion.\\nAll oblique rays of light, in passing into our\\natmosphere must be more or less bent before\\nthey reach reflecting surfaces, and must there-\\nfore, be Refracted, or Incident Rays before\\nthey can be Reflected Rays.\\nAnd since Reflected rays and angles depend\\nupon Incident rays and angles, it directly fol-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "1 82 Esoteric Lessons.\\nlows that the relation of Refraction to Reflec-\\ntion is that of cause to effect, of action to re-\\naction, or in other words, Refraction and Re-\\nflection are polar opposites which mutually im-\\nply each other.\\nEvery direct and true Refraction implies an\\ninverted Reflection, and the existence of the\\none proves the existence of the other.\\nSight, Heat, Sound, Motion and Thought\\nare all manifested through Refraction and Re-\\nflection.\\nQuestions.\\ni. How are rays of light bent?\\n2. How are rays of light bent in passing into\\na medium of greater density?\\n3. How are they bent on passing into a rarer\\nmedium\\n4. How are rays of light thrown off from a\\npolished surface?\\n5. What are angles of. Incidence and Reflec-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 183\\ntion?\\n6. How are they always equal\\n7. What is the relation of Refraction to Re-\\nflection Give the reason why.\\nLESSON L\u00e2\u0080\u0094 THE STAFF.\\nQuestions.\\n1. What is the Supreme Reality of the Uni-\\nverse; and how illustrated in its unity and\\nduality by mind and thoughts\\n2. How is the unity and duality of a lumi-\\nnous body (e. g., the sun) illustrated by sun\\nand rays?\\n3. Illustrate the unity and duality of the\\nstaff, or, rod of light\\n4. How is the trinity comprised in the rod?\\nHow in the sun How in the mind\\n5. What is the relation of motion to the staff,\\nto the luminous body, and to mind", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "184 Esoteric Lessons.\\n6. What is the Ouarterni of the staff\\n7. Of this Ouarterni which represents ter-\\nrestrial dualism, and which celestial dualism?\\n8. What is the Quarterni of a luminous\\nbody, e. g., the sun\\n9. Of this Ouarterni which represents ter-\\nrestrial, and which celestial dualism?\\n10. What is the Ouarterni of mind\\n11. Of this Quarterni which represents ter-\\nrestrial, and which celestial dualism?\\n12. What does the rod symbolize?\\nLESSON II\u00e2\u0080\u0094 RAY-MENT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 VISIBLE.\\nQuestions.\\n1. What is Refraction of light?\\n2. What is Reflection of light?\\n3. What is the relation of Refraction to Re-\\nflection?\\n4. How do Refraction, Reflection, and point\\nof equilibrium correspond to the staff?", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 185\\n5. What is the relation of a terrestrial to a\\ncelestial body\\n6. What is the four-fold formation of body\\n7. How do the four elements of body corre-\\nspond to the Quart erni as expressed in the\\nstaff?\\nLESSON III.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 RAY-MENT AUDIBLE.\\nQuestions.\\n1. What are the Visible Numerals?\\n2. How are they used in drawing, and in\\nmeasuring\\n3. What do they symbolize?\\n4. What are the Invisible Numerals\\n5. How are they used in counting?\\n6. What do the odd numbers symbolize, and\\nwhat do the even numbers symbolize?\\n7. What is the relation of counting to meas-\\nuring?", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "1 86 Esoteric Lessons.\\nLESSON IV.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 RAY-MENT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 TANGIBLE.\\nQuestions.\\ni. How are touch, sight and sound all forms\\nof Resistance?\\n2. How do numbers express Resistance, and\\nhow can Resistance be overcome\\n3. What is the relation of touch to the other\\nforms of Resistance?\\n4. What must be the nature of the Interior\\nthree-fold sense of Resistance?\\n5. What is the meaning and purpose of this\\nInterior sense?\\n6. How is it developed and realized\\n7. How is sensation elevated to Thought", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 187\\nLESSON V.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FOOD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HUNGER.\\nQuestions.\\n1. What is the relation of desire to body,\\nand to finite mind\\n2. What is the distinction between ex-oteric\\nand es-oteric desire\\n3. What is Idolatry?\\n4. What is the penalty of Idolatry\\n5. What is the distinction between reflected\\nand true ego\\n6. How is the true ego clothed and fed\\n7. How must the true ego obtain its final\\nemancipation from birth and death\\nLESSON VI.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FOOD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 EATING.\\nQuestions.\\n1. How must finite action, from its nature,\\nbe contradictory?", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "1 88 Esoteric Lessons.\\n2. Why is finite action, Passion?\\n3. How is finite action, Oblation?\\n4. What is the nature of exoteric Oblation?\\n5. What is the nature of esoteric Oblation?\\n6. What is the significance of the myth of\\nSaturn\\n7. How does the true ego and its offspring\\nbecome one\\nLESSON VIL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FOOD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ASSIMILATING.\\nQuestions.\\n1. How is physical food assimilated?\\n2. How is mental food assimilated\\n3. What is the relation of external word to\\nmental picture?\\n4. What is the Quarterni of word\\n5. What is the relation of refracted word to\\nreflected word\\n6. What is assimilation on the part of the\\ntrue ego", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 189\\n7. How does this assimilation give power to\\nrule words\\nLESSON VIII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HOUSE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 PROPOR-\\nTION.\\nQuestions.\\n1. What is the relation of House to Ray-*\\nment?\\n2. What is the relation of Proportion to the\\nVisible?\\n3. What is exoteric Proportion?\\n4. What is esoteric Proportion?\\n5. How is Proportion a statement of the\\nproblem of the Soul\\n6. How is Proportion a solution of the prob-\\nlem of the Soul\\n7. What is the relation of Knowledge to\\nFaith?", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "190 Esoteric Lessons.\\nLESSON IX.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HOUSE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 DOOR.\\nQuestions.\\n1. What is Doubt?\\n2. What is Determination\\n3. What is Door?\\n4. What is the relation of Doubt, Deter-\\nmination and Door to each other\\n5. What is the relation of Door to Propor-\\ntion?\\n6. Describe the two forms of Consciousness\\n7. What is their relation to color and sound\\nLESSON X.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HOUSE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HEARTH.\\nQuestions.\\n1. What does Hearth symbolize on the re-\\nflected plane?\\n2. What does it symbolize on the refracted\\nplane", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 191\\n3. What is symbolized in the relation be-\\ntween Hearth and Door\\n4. What are the two forms of Resistance\\n5. How is true Resistance, Prayer?\\n6. What is the relation of the true Ego to\\nthe Infinite Mind\\n7. What is the relation of Night conscious-\\nness to Day consciousness\\nLESSON XL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HEARTH-FIRE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 RAY.\\nQuestions.\\n1. How is Motion, Raying?\\n2. What are the two forms of Raying, and\\nwhat their relation to each other\\n3. How is the Ray also Prism, and what re-\\nsults from the equilibrium between Ray and\\nPrism?\\n4. How is the visible universe a universal\\nlanguage on the plane of sensation", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "192 Esoteric Lessons.\\n5. How is it a drama on the plane of finite\\nmind?\\n6. How is consciousness an actor learning its\\npart?\\n7. What must be the true refracted and ce-\\nlestial Drama, and how must Consciousness\\nlearn and act its part in this larger Drama?\\nLESSON XIL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HEARTH-FIRE\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nIMAGES.\\nQuestions.\\n1 What are Images\\n2. How are they manifested\\n3. Why are they manifested\\n4. How must we sacrifice to Images?\\n5. Why must we sacrifice to Images?\\n6. What is Memory\\n7. What is the relation of the Soul to Mem-\\nory, to Time, and to Eternity", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "First Lessons in Reality. 193\\nLESSON XIII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HEARTH-FIRE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 LAW.\\nQuestions.\\n1. What is the distinction between the two\\nforms of Opposites\\n2. How is this distinction an absolute Ne-\\ncessity to spiritual insight\\n3. How do the Tzvist, the Torch, and the\\nScissors illustrate the Law?\\n4. How is the Law of Contradictories the\\nLaw of Manifestation?\\n5. How is it the Law of Communication\\n6. How is it the Law of Healing?\\n7. How is Healing, in its turn, the Supreme\\nWord of the L T niverse?", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "194 Esoteric Lessons.\\nLESSON XIV.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 CONCLUSION\u00e2\u0080\u0094 THE\\nWALL.\\nQuestions.\\ni. How does Freedom imply Will?\\n2. How does the perfect equilibrium between\\nJustice and Mercy imply Freedom?\\n3. How is Will, Wall?\\n4. How is the Wall, Power of Concentra-\\ntion?\\n5. What is the Ouarterni of Scepter?\\n6. What is the Beginning and End of\\nReality?", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "A TOUR\\nTHROUGH THE ZODIAC\\nSEQUEL TO\\nFirst Lessons In Reality", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "LESSON I.\\nTHE WARRIOR.\\nAs a slave, in bondage to sense and seem-\\ning, with a simple staff in my hand, I started\\nout in my first studies in search for the\\nPole-Star of truth for truth implies free-\\ndom.\\nBut now I commence the second round of\\nmy spiral ladder as a warrior, armed with\\na lance, for I have learned that I must be\\nable to defend my possessions and acqui-\\nsitions in truth before I can obtain a scep-\\nter and rule.\\nNow a scepter has two ends; a head, or\\nmaster, who wields it, and a foot, or slave,\\nwho is u under therod\\\\ and, since these\\ntwo ends cannot be detached, the ruler", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "198 Esoteric Lessons.\\nand the serf are the two halves of a unit,\\nwhile at this point of unity is the true\\nKing.\\nSo, in my own individual case, at the\\nsame time that I am a slave I am also a\\nmaster. I comprise the two within my\\nsystem. If I have been a slave of some,\\nI must also have been a tyrant to others.\\nTherefore, since the King alone is free,\\nbefore I can realize freedom I must be able\\nto maintain the point of equilibrium be-\\ntween the tyrant and the slave, and it\\nwill, most assuredly, be an incessant war-\\nfare until this harmony is experienced.\\nThe true warrior must combine into a\\nunity the slave of sense, or sensualist, on\\nthe one hand, with the tyrant, who would\\nignore and destroy sense, on the other.\\nBut I wish, in entering upon so formid-\\nable an undertaking, for a fixed point", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 199\\nfrom whence to start. I must have a cen-\\nter in order to describe a circumference;\\nyet, since the point of equilibrium is just\\nthe thing for which I am about to engage\\nin warfare, I hesitate no longer, but at\\nonce rush forward into the melee of shad-\\nows, with my lance poised ready to hurl.\\nBut lo! my lance, poised in my hand, turns\\nmy ray-of-light my clew-of-thread, and\\nthe shadows are already breaking before\\nthe mystic point of this lance. Having\\nhurled it, I watch it revolve as it speeds on\\nits course, and at its mystic point, where\\nit strikes and refracts, I behold the bow\\nof promise the beautiful seven-point-\\nstar. This star is the point I seek, the\\nmystic point of radiation, of equilibrium,\\nof harmony. Its seven colors, blending\\nthrough infinite tints and shades into the\\npure white light, are the seven-fold mys-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "200 Esoteric Lessons.\\nteries of Unity in Infinity, the Unity-in-\\nInfinity which is the mystery of Godliness.\\nIn my First Studies of Reality this\\nseven-point-star at once divided itself\\n(the first and last, however, being in\\nreality one, or the mystic Thirteen) into\\npolar-opposites, or chromatics of fourteen\\nlessons, just as each of the seven colors\\nhas its complementary ray, which is invis-\\nible to exoteric vision, the esoteric quality\\nof which may be expressed by the eso-\\nteric terms written over each color. (See\\ndiagram of seven-point-star.)\\nStarting with red, the zenith of the\\nfigure, and the color least refracted from\\nthe celestial white, I observe that the\\nfigure outlined by the point in the circum-\\nference, the lines, staff and wall, the dot-\\nted lines, and the point at the center is a\\ndiamond, the hardest, or most fixed, sub-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 201\\nv s\\nstance known; and well does the diamond\\nsymbolize my throne and point-of-equilib-\\nrium. And, surely, only the highest wis-\\ndom can ever enable me to attain this\\nbalance, and all wisdom truly begins and\\nends with it. It is Alpha and Omega.\\nThe visible red is symbolic of blood,\\nsensuality, suffering and ignorance.\\nTherefore, following the Law of Contra-\\ndictories, the invisible red expresses the\\nblood turned to wine, sensuality to spirit-\\nuality, suffering to power, ignorance to the\\nmost unspeakable wisdom. But how mar-\\nvelously is this spiritual-ray hidden from\\nthe worldly-wise and prudent; for, just as\\nred is the color those afflicted with color-\\nblindness cannot discern, so the invisible\\nred is just the wisdom hidden from those\\nwho are spiritually color-blind.\\nThe form of motion by which the white", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "202 Esoteric Lessons.\\nray breaks out into the seven colors is the\\nfirst, from center to circumference, but\\nthe form which concenters, and to realize\\nwhich I am about to engage in warfare,\\nis the second the exact reverse of the\\nfirst. Therefore, as in the First Lessons\\nin Reality my studies outlined, or cir-\\ncumscribed, the seven-point-star, so now I\\npass from circumference to center, and\\naccordingly reverse my diagram; i. e.,\\nturn my seven-point-star outside in. First\\nI reverse the cardinal points, turning the\\nright hand to the left; east becomes west\\nand north becomes south. Red, the least\\nrefracted ray, is the beginning and end of\\nthe point at the center. Next orange,\\nrising in the east, the union of visible and\\naudible, forms its point at the center, or\\nthrone, and so on round the circle until\\nthe seven color-points blend into a unity", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 203\\nat the foot of my throne, from thence to\\nray forth on a higher plane and in larger\\nspirals.\\nAlthough this second round of my lad-\\nder, as a whole, follows the second form\\nof motion, yet each day s march of this\\nexpedition must follow the first line of\\nmotion, while each night my forces indraw\\nto the camp-fire at the center. Day is the\\nraying out of the seven points to the cir-\\ncumference; night the raying back to the\\none-point center.\\nOnly I must not here lose myself in\\nthese symbols. The Seven-fold Morning\\nStar is the Temple of the Body; the\\nreversed Evening Star is the Holy of\\nHolies, wherein the soul meets the Most\\nHigh. But Lucifer and Venus are one\\nstar, not two; as formerly supposed.\\nTherefore I am about to engage in war-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "204 Esoteric Lessons.\\nfare, to establish the true and only har-\\nmony between soul and body. This\\nphysical temple, neglected or in ruins,\\nmust be rebuilt and re-occupied before the\\nsoul can meet its God. This is the only way\\nunder the Sun whereby men can be saved.\\nThis is the Corner-Stone, so long rejected\\nby all our builders. Physical health and\\ntruth the truth which is above, beneath\\nand roundabout all religions, mutually\\nimply each other, and are absolutely un-\\nthinkable apart.\\nBody, this inverted and left-sided reflec-\\ntion of soul, is the only trysting-place\\nbetween the soul and its Divine source.\\nTherefore, as a warrior and worshiper I\\nseek the diamond-point of wisdom, where\\nthe red-ray blends into its spiritual coun-\\nterpart.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 205\\nQUESTIONS.\\ni Who is the Warrior?\\n2 What is the Warfare?\\n3 Why must there be War?\\nLESSON II.\\nTHE FIERY TRIPLICITY.\\nV, OR WATCHING.\\nOn my first round of this spiral ladder\\nI proceeded by quadrants, or the quar-\\nterni, as expressed in the terms ray-ment,\\nfood, house and hearth-fire. But, on\\nthis second round, my advance follows\\naccording to triplicities, or the four equi-\\nlateral triangles. (See diagram.)\\nTaken by twos, and placed side by side,\\nthey form two diamonds; on being in-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "206 Esoteric Lessons.\\nterlaced, they comprehend all the mys-\\nteries.\\nThe quadrant is a fourth part of the\\nZodiac, containing three consecutive signs.\\nA triplicity is a fourth part of the Zodiac,\\ncontaining three signs, each of which are\\nfour signs apart. Thus, the first triplicity,\\nstarting with (symbol -for head and face,\\nand exalted above all as containing eyes)\\nwill be the equilateral triangle, having its\\nvertices at the signs T \u00c2\u00a31 t, or the Les-\\nsons Visible, Eating and Hearth.\\nIn proceeding by quadrants, the four\\ngreat Kingdoms, Earth, Fire, Water and\\nAir (motion), were regarded separately,\\nyet I found the first three were only modes\\nof ray-ing, or motion, and that they all\\ninterpenetrate and balance from one to\\nthe other. Just so now, although fire\\nzeal, courage, etc., are the first requisites", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 207\\nin a good warrior, which he must have on\\nall occasions; yet this Fiery Triplicity\\nexpresses the more active forms of fire,\\nwhereas it is, as it were, only latent in the\\nother triplicities.\\nTurning to the diagram of the seven-\\npoint-star, or visible, is the red ray,\\nwhich, together with the yellow ray of\\naudible, b, unite to form orange. There-\\nfore the red ray is one side of my equilat-\\neral triangle; next ft, or eating, is the\\nyellow ray in the formation of green, so\\nyellow is another side of the triangle, while\\nthe third side is from y hearth, the blue\\nray in the formation of indigo. Accord-\\ningly, the Fiery Triplicity has for its three\\nsides the three primary colors, red, yellow\\nand blue. Thus the primary chord in\\ncolor, or in sound, also expresses the pri-\\nmary element of fire. And this is true of", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "208\\nEsoteric Lessons.\\nall the other triplicities as well as the\\nfiery. Thus:\\nAudible. Assimilating. Ray.\\nEarthy.. ttr VJ\\nYellow. Blue. Red.\\nHunger. Door. Law.\\nWatery 25 n\u00c2\u00a3 X\\nYellow. Blue. Red.\\nTangible. Proportion. Images.\\nAiry n zz\\nYellow. Blue. Red.\\nIt is the red ray in zz which is used both\\nin the formation of indigo and violet, its\\nchemical property; whereas the red, or\\nkey, note C of the scale is the Heat-ray.\\nThis is the mystery of the octave. The\\nkey note C is the red of heat, but, refracted\\nin its spiral course through the scale, it\\ncircles round and reaches its starting place\\none octave higher.\\nOn this higher plane, after having been", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 209\\nblent with the yellow of trial and tempta-\\ntion and the blue of knowledge, it ex-\\npresses the mystic, magnetic, electric\\nmelody of the seventh, whether in color,\\nsound or soul.\\nIn this formation of the triplicities\\nthrough the primary chords is expressed\\na most profound mystery, and upon my\\nability to grasp this mystery depends my\\nsuccess as a warrior.\\nIn entering upon the fiery ordeal I have\\nto learn three lessons, correspondencies,\\nor correlations of the three lessons: Vis-\\nible, Eating and Hearth.\\nThe first implies the Warrior Seeing, or\\nas a Sentinel, Watching.\\nThe second implies the Warrior Acting,\\nor Sacrificing.\\nThe third lesson is the Warrior judging\\nfrom the results of the sacrifices, or, to", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "210 Esoteric Lessons.\\nuse the mystic terms of the ancients, dis-\\ncerning the omens from inspecting the\\nentrails of the victims offered at sacrifice! 1\\nSo, now, as the warrior detailed to my\\nfirst duty, I climb my watch-tower to\\nwatch (as the ancients said) for the\\nflights of birds; i. e., I must see the eso-\\nteric reality in the exoteric shadow phan-\\ntoms.\\nMy eyes must be trained to detect these\\nbirds from afar, either singly, as dots,\\nor in companies of lines and curves. I\\nmust observe the direction of their flights\\nand, from the law of motion, see first in\\nmy mind s eye the esoteric meaning of\\neverything within the ken of my watch-\\ntower, even while my physical eyes see\\nonly the powers of darkness drawn up\\nagainst me. But before I can see with\\nthe eyes of soul, through the spirit-red-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 211\\nray, I must to some extent have so con-\\nformed my life to truth as to have actually\\nand consciously realized the Real from\\nthe Unreal. I must see that Body, Pleas-\\nure, Pain, Disease and Death are all illu-\\nsions; that finite personalities, with their\\nloves, hates, greeds and jealousies, are all\\nillusions. Still further, I must see that\\neach of these illusions, singly, is reflected\\nover and over again, in every direction, so\\nthat the army drawn up against me, appa-\\nrently so vast, is simply a reduplication of\\na few primary illusions.\\nI therefore give my attention to the\\nprimary illusions, for when they are dis-\\npelled the enemy is routed:\\n1 The illusion of Body.\\n2 The illusion of One s Self, refracted\\non the seven different planes.\\n3 The illusions of Finite Self.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "212 Esoteric Lessons.\\n4 The illusion that the Soul, or True\\nSelf, could ever be projected outside of\\nthe One Infinite Mind into Body, or Phe-\\nnomena.\\nBut when I can climb still higher in my\\ntower, and can know there is, no such\\nthing as illusion; that truth is all there is;\\nthat One Mind and Father has made all\\ntrehe is, and that illusion and self never\\ncould be projected into Nothing outside\\nof the All, then the sentinel has completed\\nthe watch.\\nYet, before I can climb to this height\\nall the illusive phantom-self of personal-\\nity must be burned or sacrificed (Leo) upon\\nthe altar of Heart i. e., I cannot\\nrightly or truly see until after the other\\nsides of my triplicity are filled in, for an\\nequilateral triangle is not an equilateral\\ntriangle until it has three equal sides.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 213\\nJust as from simply seeing flames with\\nthe physical eye I do not comprehend how\\nthey will affect my hand until I throw it\\ninto them, so, now, I cannot see until after\\nthe sacrifice unless I have first seen. So,\\nin order to balance these contradictories,\\nI now proceed to the sacrifice.\\nQUESTIONS.\\ni For what must the Sentinel Watch?\\n2 How must he Watch?\\n3 Why must he Watch?\\nLESSON III.\\nTHE FIERY TRIPLICITY.\\nSI, OR SACRIFICING.\\nFire is the great purifier. So action is\\nthat form of the Fiery Triplicity (yellow-\\nray side) which is the great purifier.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "214 Esoteric Lessons.\\nAccording to the former analysis, all\\naction is sacrifice, passion and oblation,\\nand it is through this trial by fire, and the\\nsacrifice and suffering implied in it, that\\nI gain my spiritual sight (insight) And\\nit is a delusion that my eyes can ever be\\nopened to the nature of fire, except by\\nexperiencing it; for how can I ever know\\nthat illusion is illusion unless I experi-\\nence its nothingness?\\nI may stand up before the enemy and\\nrepeat the words: There is only one\\nMind; there is no illusion of finite person-\\nality, but, as far as vain repetition goes, I\\nwould better take some other creed, for\\nherein is a great mystery. This awful\\nlaw of contradictories works (when actu-\\nally evoked) in spite of my unbelief, and\\neven when I, in my blindness, do not see\\nthe results. This is the true creed of the", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 215\\nKnowledge of Good and Evil and of the\\nTree of Life; and to partake of the fruit\\nof this tree, tempted by the serpent of the\\nlower nature, or self-mask, is to surely die.\\nIf the lower self stumbles upon this true\\ncreed, or is entrusted with it unpurified by\\nthe trial of fire and suffering, the lie of\\npersonality is only accentuated. The\\nmask thinks it has become as the Gods,\\nand its fall is inevitable. It has taken\\nexactly the opposite road for truth, and\\ninstead of realizing its oneness with the\\nDivine Spirit it will fall to the very depths\\nof the shadows of nothingness, even while\\nmumbling the true creed.\\nYet this seeming and so-called fall is but\\nthe first form of action, without which\\nthere could be no reaction, and inaction is\\nas fatal to insight as personality, accentu-\\nated to nothingness.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "2i6 Esoteric Lessons.\\nSince, in order to rise, there must be a\\nseeming fall, so, in order to realize there\\nis no such thing as illusion, I accept it as\\nan hypothesis to get rid of it, just as it is\\nnecessary to demonstrate certain proposi-\\ntions in geometry to be untrue by assum-\\ning them to be true, for thus only can their\\nuntruth become self-evident; and in order\\nto realize the Infinite One I am forced to\\npostulate the finite personalities. And yet\\nI also know that to even momentarily\\naccept illusion chains me to it (for the time\\nbeing) for I am where I locate myself, as\\nOne with the All, or as seemingly pro-\\njected outside the All, where, like a soap-\\nbubble, I shall speedily realize the lie of\\nself-mask; the harder I blow this bubble\\nthe quicker it bursts into nothingness.\\nLike a child, I can keep on blowing per-\\nsonality bubbles, only to see these finite", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 217\\nEgos burst, one after another; or I can\\nput away the childish things, resolving to\\nbe no longer dsceived by them, and blow\\nthem only to understand the law accord-\\ning to which they come and go. There-\\nfore I accept finite personalities solely to\\ndemonstrate their utter impossibility, and\\nwhen I know that time is also an illusion,\\nI rise to the plane where even the Sun\\nitself will stand silent upon Gibeon, and\\nthe Moon stay in the valley of Ajalon\\nuntil I avenge myself upon all my enemies.\\nHereafter let me act, or refrain from\\nacting, simply to know truth, and no longer\\nconform to finite and worldly codes of\\nmorality or mere social traditions and\\nusages.\\nJust as in a former lesson I accepted the\\nvisible Universe in its unity and in its\\ninfinity as a grand universal language, its", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "2i8 Esoteric Lessons.\\nsentences, letters and punctuation marks\\nall symbols for thought and traced with\\nthe finger of God, so now I accept all ter-\\nrestrial action as purely symbolic action,\\npossessing no moral quality in itself, but\\nsimply descriptive of spiritual acts, which\\nI cannot possibly comprehend until I have\\nfaithfully performed all the symbolic acts\\nTo refrain from these symbolic acts before\\nI grasp the real acts is to deliberately bar\\nand bolt the only door by which I can\\nenter the temple, expecting thus to gain\\nadmittance. To refrain from flesh eating,\\nfrom wine drinking and from social and\\nfamily life, simply for the sake of absti-\\nnence, is to play the part of a stupid tyrant\\nand not of the King. On the other hand,\\nto debauch myself in all these acts, simply\\nbecause they satisfy my senses, is to be-\\ncome the slave of suffering and death.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 2ig\\nThe mob must not rule, yet the tyrant who\\ndevastates his kingdom and puts all the\\ninhabitants to death by fire, torture, or\\nslow starvation, ends by having no king-\\ndom to rule. If I destroy the mob be-\\ncause I fear it, I do not overcome fear by\\nthe process nor obtain wisdom.\\nI therefore sacrifice to idols, or shadowy\\nimages, simply to eliminate melody out of\\ndiscord, to realize the Octave of Purifi-\\ncation, whereby the fire, which on the\\nlower plane is destructive to life, is raised\\nfrom the key-note C to the chemical, life-\\ngiving C of the scale.\\nFrom out this fiery furnace of trial this\\nright action, knowledge and wisdom are\\nborn. The Christ-Truth must be born of\\nthis Tribe of the Lion (si). It can only\\ncome from this Royal Action, and is itself\\nthe highest and supreme sacrifice, whereby", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "220 Esoteric Lessons.\\nthe Son of Man becomes the Son of God.\\nBut I can never comprehend this last\\nsacrifice until I have learned the meaning\\nof all the other sacrifices, and how to\\nmake them. I must learn the meaning of\\neating, whereby the plant life and animal\\nlife are sacrificed, before I can compre-\\nhend the awful mystery of the sacrifice of\\nhuman life, called death, even up to that\\nsublime death on the Cross.\\nBut sacrificing is not destroying, and to\\ncomprehend the meaning of eating, or\\nsacrificing, or action, is to realize the ab-\\nsolute unthinkability of the illusion called\\ndeath. Therefore, let me never take a\\nmorsel of food into my mouth without\\nreflecting that I am performing the cere-\\nmonials of sacrifice within the temple of\\nmy body, just as the rites of public temple\\nworship were formerly observed.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 221\\nAnd let me study the meanings of all\\nthe correspondencies of these temple rites.\\nAnd, also, let me engage in all the acts\\nof finite life; of trade, politics and social\\nlife, etc., until I learn the reality which\\nmakes the shadow, and thus burn every\\nidol upon the altar of truth.\\nQUESTIONS.\\ni What are the Victims to be sacri-\\nficed?\\n2 How must the Sacrifices be con-\\nducted?\\n3 Why must there be Burnt Offerings?\\nLESSON IV.\\nTHE FIERY TRIPLICITY.\\nV SI t\\nOR JUDGING.\\nAs the victims have been slaughtered", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "222 Esoteric Lessons.\\nand consumed by the flames, the warrior\\nmust carefully collect together the ashes,\\nor remnants, into the Sacred Urn of Pure-\\nHeart, and then, placing them before the\\nbar of conscience, await the responses.\\nThese responses are judgments, pro-\\nceeding from the Divinity within. If the\\nofferings have been good and acceptable,\\nand the rites properly observed, then the\\nreplies will surely be auspicious. But if\\nthe two former duties have not been prop-\\nerly performed, then am I guilty of the\\nmost awful sacrilege in approaching the\\nDivinity profanely.\\nAccording to my own actions am I\\njudged; my own conscience is the arbiter.\\nThis judge must give the decisions accord-\\ning to the manner in which the sentinel\\nand the sacrificial priest have performed\\ntheir tasks, for the judgment follows as", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 223\\ninevitably as when, having placed two\\nsides of an equilateral triangle together at\\nthe proper angle, the third side is the re-\\nsponse, depending upon the other two.\\nAgain, this response is the third note in\\nthe primary chord. If I have struck the\\nfirst two, there is only one other which\\npossibly can complete the chord.\\nAgain, this response is the conclusion,\\nor third term, in the perfect syllogism.\\nThe sentinel upon the watch-tower, hav-\\ning properly performed his duty, states\\nthe major premise; the sacrifice, with its\\nimplied suffering, gives out the minor note\\nor premise; the Oracle speaks out the con-\\nclusion. Although the conclusion of a\\nsyllogism is its third term, yet it expresses\\nthe mystery of the trinity, for it is a trin-\\nity, and at the same time an organic unity.\\nIt combines the major and minor prem-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "224 Esoteric Lessons.\\nises into a higher unity, which differs from\\neither of them, just as the molecule of\\nwater combines two dissimilar elements\\ninto a unity differing from its component\\nparts, and also as H and O combine with\\na lightning flash of soul which accompa-\\nnies the combining together of the two\\npremises of a syllogism into their higher\\nunity, and is an intuitive spark from the\\naltar of Divinity.\\nThis altar is my Hearth of Pure-\\nHeart. Unless this Urn is sufficiently\\npurified by properly accepting (not reject-\\ning) the experiences of life, it cannot\\nreceive the ashes of the sacrifice and\\nimpart to them the Divine Spark which\\nmakes them over into a living, organic\\nunity, on a higher plane than they were\\nbefore, nor raise in power and might the\\nashes of actions sown in weakness and", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 22$\\nwatered with tears of suffering. This\\nexpresses the mystery of the re-birth,\\nwhereby the physical body is raised to the\\nplane of spiritual body while yet in the\\npossession of the physical.\\nThis is that which constitutes the spir-\\nitual plane upon which one is born.\\nThere is a Divine correspondence, and\\nthe latent possibilities of the soul have\\nthe corresponding possibilities in the brain,\\nwhich can be brought forth to usefulness\\nwhile in the physical body. Bringing\\nabout the harmony between the two con-\\nstitutes re-birth.\\nThere is only one way of being re-born,\\njust as there is only one way to be born\\ninto the physical, and this one way is\\nrevealed through the fiery syllogism (tri-\\nplicity), the major premise of which is\\nTruth Realized from the Sentry s Watch-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "226 Esoteric Lessons.\\ntower, the minor premise of which is\\nLove Actualized by the Sacrifice of Burnt\\nOfferings, the conclusion of which is Life\\nImmortalized, or lifted from the plane of\\nTime to Eternity. This conclusion is the\\nImmaculate Conception of the re-birth,\\nwhich is conscious son-ship with the\\nFather.\\nTruth realized frees from every illusion\\nof sense and casts out every error and all\\ndiseases. Truth realized is liberty, for\\nfrom or by the power born of Knowledge\\nyou can be free.\\nLove actualized, or practiced, recog-\\nnizes the Divine origin of every soul, and\\nthat every form of life and condition is\\nnecessary to the unfoldment of the soul in\\nits evolutionary steps of progress, and,\\ncomprehending the law of contradictories,\\nknows only universal charity and com-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 227\\nmunion of saints, those who have passed\\nthrough the fires of purification and\\nlearned the lessons therein taught, with-\\nout prejudice, sentiment or pain. Love\\nactualized is Fraternity. Then are we\\nable to look upon all life as one Divine\\nWhole, recognizing all as one fraternity,\\neach filling the necessary notes in the\\nAnthem of Creative Life.\\nLife eternalized, making every moment\\neternity, lifts the soul to a plane above\\nillusion. Realizing the realities of life\\nleaves no room for illusions where, grasp-\\ning the equality of ratios, it knows only\\nOneness. But this true equality with God\\ndistinguishes between thoughts and think-\\ners. The recognition of God s variety of\\nlife, form, color, etc., are each equally\\nnecessary to the fulfillment of the Divine\\nplan. This is the only law of equality.\\nLife, thus eternalized, is equality.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "228 Esoteric Lessons.\\nLiberty, Fraternity and Equality must\\never be the war-cry of the true warrior.\\nBut if the offerings, or truths, seen from\\nthe watch-tower through the first side of\\nthe Fiery Triangle are not acceptable, nor\\nthe sacrifices of our past ideas and illu-\\nsions properly observed or parted with,\\nthen, instead of liberty, comes renewed\\nbondage to error and disease; instead of\\nfraternity, failures, strife and murder;\\ninstead of equality with Divinity, there is\\na descent to the lower sphere and union\\nwith demons and fiends.\\nOn the other hand, the Ascetic who\\nmutilates, denies, the truths realized in\\nthe major premise from the sentry s watch-\\ntower, and destroys the offerings, the\\nknowledge thus revealed, and who refuses\\nthe experiences of the sacrifices can never\\nhear the responses nor know the mystery", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 229\\nof re-birth. In either case, remorse and\\nrepentance, in themselves, are perfectly\\nstupid, and only delay realization.\\nThe suffering implied in remorse is not\\na true and acceptable sacrifice, for the\\nmajor premise is still wrong, for truth\\nnever brings remorse. Remorse implies\\na misconception of the nature of reality.\\nIf I have struck the wrong note in my\\nchord, and experienced inharmony, I only\\nmake the more haste to strike the right\\nnote. I waste no time in groaning over\\nthe dismal sound.\\nQUESTIONS,\\ni Upon what are judgments based?\\n2 How are Responses either Concep-\\ntions or Sacrifices?\\n3 Why are Remorse and Asceticism\\nequally unavailing?", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "LESSON V.\\nTHE EARTHY TRIPLICITY.\\ntf, OR LISTENING.\\nThe signs of the Earthy Triplicity ex-\\npress the crisis, or fixed point, wherein\\nthe shadows seem to come to a crust and\\nharden. They are illusions, reaching their\\nultimate. And this Earthy Triplicity fol-\\nlows the fiery, just as ashes follow fire, or,\\nas geology tells us. our Earth has result-\\ned from a ball of fire, and all the solids\\nnow visible from molten liquids. To the\\nwarrior, this Earthy Triplicity (triangle)\\nis the battlefield, a field of three equal\\nsides. Its first side he takes possession of\\nand holds as soon as he comprehends the\\nsounds proceeding from it. He must lis-\\nten for its strains of martial music, its dis-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 231\\ntant rumbling of artillery and the tramp,\\ntramp of marching troops, its shouts of\\nvictory and courage, its groans of anguish,\\ndefeat and retreat.\\nHaving learned to watch, he must now\\nlearn to listen. The ear must be trained\\nas well as the eye. In order to have both\\nsides of the contradictories we must know\\nthe results of things seen, hence must hear\\nthe effects through vibration, or motion.\\nThus listening is essential.\\nBut Taurus is the sign of the neck\\nand throat as well as the ear, and this is\\nso because of the subtle connection be-\\ntween the ear, neck and throat. In a\\nformer analysis I saw the relation of ear\\nto voice (of which the throat is but the\\ninstrument) and now, as I listen to the\\nsounds from the battlefield, I discern the\\nrelation of ear to neck.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "232 Esoteric Lessons.\\nAt the first sound of martial music the\\nsteed arches his neck, and none the less,\\nas its strains inspire the warrior, does his\\nneck respond to the sounds, drawing up\\nthe head and stiffening the entire verte-\\nbral column. He pants for prowess, re-\\nnown, praise, promotion and unending\\nfame and honors. But the true warrior,\\nwho from the sentry s watch-tower dis-\\ncerned the shadows to be delusions, now\\nlistens for the bugle-call, the clear note\\nwhich, cleaving the awful din and con-\\nfusion of the battlefield, gives out the\\nkey-note according to which the discord-\\nant sounds are evolved into a majestic\\nsymphony. As long as the warrior fights\\nfor fame of self and to hear all men speak\\nwell of him, instead of striking the key-\\nnote he only strikes its exact contradic-\\ntory.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 233\\nTherefore, if I am to be a true warrior\\nI must renounce praise and learn true\\nhumility 7 Not only must I renounce\\npraise, but must even rejoice when all men\\nspeak evil of me. If I am cast down\\nwhen I am reviled and persecuted, then I\\nhave not yet learned humility. To be cut\\nto the quick by censure is as far from hu-\\nmility as to be stiff-necked with praise;\\nfor so long as blame crushes me, just so\\nlong will praise elate me. Therefore, in\\norder to renounce praise I must also re-\\nnounce blame.\\nThe point of equilibrium between, or\\nindifference to, either praise or blame is\\nthe only point I can strike which will give\\nout the true vibration which enables me\\nto detect the key-note.\\nThis is a hard lesson, and one I can\\nnever learn until mine eyes have seen the", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "234 Esoteric Lessons.\\nunreality of the shadows, until I have sac-\\nrificed to the Divinity within and obtained\\nits responses; or, in other words, if I\\nhave not fully and comprehensively en-\\ncompassed the first syllogism, or triplicity,\\nI cannot intelligently and courageously\\nstep upon the next rung of the ladder in\\nmy watch-tower. But if I have realized\\nthe war-cry of Liberty, Fraternity and\\nEquality, then, in proportion as I realize\\nhumility, renouncing alike praise and\\nblame, in just that proportion I shall now\\nbe able to see that my war-cry is also my\\nkey-note. I now have my key, which is\\ntwo-sided, one from the first syllogism and\\nthe other from the second, Watching and\\nListening. This is a marvelous key, which\\nunlocks both ways. Turned one way it\\nreveals color symphonies; the other gives\\nout sound harmonies, and as I become", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 235\\nskillful in turning this key the visible will\\nbe the notes of a musical composition,\\nwhich my soul at once reads into sound\\nwhile the audible vibrations round out\\ninto forms and colors. But the visible and\\nthe audible united form the Orange Ray\\nof my Seven-Point-Star, and the spiritual\\nquality corresponding to orange is the\\nunderstanding, and when I am armed with\\nthis ray-ment of true understanding, then\\nthe bow of prismatic colors and the octave\\nof chromatic sounds will interpret to my\\nsoul that larger octave of the heavens\\ncalled the Zodiac, or Wheel of Life.\\nUpon the steps and half-steps of this Zo-\\ndiacal octave the Sun, Moon and planets\\ngo on, giving out now strong major chords,\\nnow plaintive minor vibrations, both of\\nwhich the rightly attuned soul translates\\ninto higher symphonies of the purposes", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "236 Esoteric Lessons.\\nand laws of the Infinite Mind, grand ora-\\ntorios of Creation and Messiah.\\nWhen this spirit of understanding is\\nmine, then these vibrations, struck by the\\nswiftly revolving orbs on the Zodiacal\\noctave, will as surely reach my external\\near as they now do my external eye, and\\nmy soul will as surely recognize a primary\\nchord from the larger octave as now from\\nthe smaller, for the intervals of one cor-\\nrespond exactly to the intervals of the\\nother. All these intervals are expressed\\nby numbers, but as long as numbers\\nrepresent only dollars and cents, or the\\nshadows exchangeable for money, the\\nresults or returns only looked for on the\\nmaterial plane, just so long will the music\\nof the spheres remain an unmeaning\\nmyth to my soul.\\nWe must ever remember that the effects", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 237\\nmust correspond to the plane of the cause.\\nEsoteric wisdom cannot be utilized in\\nexoteric gains (the law of contradictory\\nopposites would soon take the place of\\naffinity opposites) and rise in the scale of\\nprogress. Harmony is the law of prog-\\nressino. The contest of the ages is upon\\nus.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1 What is the first lesson from the\\nBattlefield?\\n2 How must I learn Humility?\\n3 Why will Humility reveal the Octave\\nof Life?", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "LESSON VI.\\nTHE EARTHY TRIPLICITY.\\nTT\u00c2\u00a3, OR RECONNOITERING.\\n(PATIENCE WAIT.)\\nThe green ray is formed by the union of\\nyellow and blue, so the spiritual quality\\ncorresponding to green is the blending of\\nthe yellow flame, from off the altar of\\ntrial and sacrifice, together with the blue\\nof knowledge. The spiritual green result-\\ning from this blending is that peculiar,\\nburning, zealous knowledge which makes\\nthe warrior powerful and strong, or, in\\nother words, mighty in battle.\\nBut the warrior can never be mighty in\\nbattle in the midst of wholly unknown", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 239\\ncountry. He must know the mountain\\npasses, the location of bogs and quick-\\nsands, rivers and springs. He must un-\\nderstand all the physical and natural ad-\\nvantages and disadvantages of the enemy s\\nposition and strongholds, or fortifications.\\nAnd all this can be accomplished only\\nby the union of skill (knowledge, blue)\\nwith daring (sacrifice, yellow) The union\\nof these two results in green of power, a\\nkind of knowing by which the whole vast\\nfield of warfare stands out, illuminated,\\nto the mind s eye of the warrior. Now\\nthe work of mixing together skill and\\ndaring, by means of which the country\\nbecomes known, is the work of recon-\\nnoitering.\\nReconnoitering is therefore the subject\\nof this lesson and the second side of my\\ntriangle. In planning for the work in", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "240 Esoteric Lessons.\\nhand I must first draw upon the knowl-\\nedge already obtained of this perilous\\nregion of shadows and illusions.\\nVirgo is the symbol for the process of\\nassimilation, which takes place in the\\nintestines, or bowels, and if this process\\nbe incomplete or inharmonious, loss of\\nstrength is the immediate result. I be-\\ncome weak-kneed, unable to walk or even\\nstand. Just so our Mother Earth (the\\nGreen Planet) has stored away for the\\nuse of her children, down in the caverns\\nand spacious recesses of her bowels, a\\nvast and complete laboratory, with all\\nmaterials and chemical appliances at hand\\nwhere daring reconnoiterers become the\\ndaring alchemists. Knowledge has been\\ngained, and power obtained through assim-\\nilation to put that knowledge into practical\\nuse.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 241\\nBut where are those who do not assimi-\\nlate the food provided by Mother Nature,\\nwho are indifferent to conditions, and fail\\nto see and hear, who lack that burning\\nzeal to reconnoiter so that they may make\\nthemselves acquainted with the various\\naspects of the country, hence fall into the\\nrefuse bogs and morasses and lose what\\nstrength they do have, become unable to\\nwalk, or even stand, and are finally cast\\nout into the outer darkness of nothing-\\nness? Our Mother Earth is a just planet,\\nand no goodie-goodie, stuffing obedient\\nand disobedient alike with confectionery.\\nEach attracts to himself the just com-\\npensation for the energy put forth,\\nwhether that be much or little, good or\\nevil.\\nIf I am deceived by the will-o -the-\\nwisps, or follow wandering doctrines, not", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "242 Esoteric Lessons.\\nonly must I ask to be forgiven for my\\ntrespasses, but I am also sure to suffer\\nsome punishment or reprimand for my\\nmistakes. Yet, if I am wise, I accept\\nthem thankfully and cheerfully, without\\nrepining, for thus are accomplished two\\nthings: First, the suffering is the healing\\nremedy, which repairs the mischief; sec-\\nond, just as the mother takes more closely\\nto her heart than ever before the truly pen-\\nitent child, just so Mother Earth reveals\\nher most precious secrets to her right-\\nminded offspring, those who are patient\\nunder suffering and affliction and learn the\\nlessons of remorse, suffering and humility,\\nknowing that Nature is only asking, or\\ndemanding, a just retribution for violation\\nof her laws. Ignorance excuses not.\\nNothing but knowledge can enable one to\\nescape the bogs and morasses of igno-\\nrance.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 243\\nAnd thus right here, I see, comes the\\napplication of my lesson on the discipline\\nof the ear. Reconnoitering puts to the\\ntest listening, or true humility. If the\\nfirst and the second sides of this Earthy\\ntriangle are rightly constructed, then the\\nsecond note of the chord will harmonize\\nwith the first, and I know that so far my\\nwork is well done.\\nBut if I find discord, then it is an absolute\\ncertainty that the third side of my triangle\\nwill not fit, and if I undertake to advance\\nupon the enemy s territory, swift and sure\\ndefeat is before me. Therefore in all\\nhumility I set diligently to work to con-\\nstruct a map of the country I am about to\\ninvade, and procure a compass, so that I\\nmay not lose my way amidst the false doc-\\ntrines which encompass me on every hand,\\nat every turn, and the dense forests of", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "244 Esoteric Lessons.\\nisms, which bewilder and perplex.\\nThis compass is but a simple Cross,\\nwhich always points to the Pole-Star of\\nTruth, arid indicates the four cardinal\\npoints of the Universe, and the fourfold\\ndivision of both Macrocosm and Micro-\\ncosm.\\nAries, the Fiery, rules the Eastern ter-\\nminus of this Rosy-Cross; Libra, the Airy,\\nthe Western; Capricorn, the Earthy (the\\nmost fixed and material), the Southern,\\nwhile Cancer, the Watery, pure desire,\\nforever aspires to the North of Truth and\\nFreedom.\\nThus the four points of the compass\\nalso express the four elements. Each ele-\\nment also expresses the fourfold constitu-\\ntion of man: Earth, Body; Fire, Finite\\nMind, or Fiery Body; Water, Soul; Air\\nSpirit.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 245\\nThere is nothing so penetrating as air,\\nand no element so essential to life. In\\nevery form of life air is the potent, ani-\\nmating principle, ,and without the air\\n(spirit) the other four elements would be\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2useless.\\nThe spirit is one and indivisible, but the\\nother three divisions of man are each\\ndual, and thus results the sevenfold divi-\\nsion of the Microcosm, or, going back to\\nthe four elements, I can regard each as\\ntriune, and from this division map out the\\nZodiac, this mazy wheel of life, and thus\\ncompleting the reconnoiter of my great\\nfield of battle I boldly advance, clinging\\nto my simple Solar Cross.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1 What is the nature and purpose of\\nthe second lesson in the Earthy Triplicity?", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "246 Esoteric Lessons.\\n2 How must the warrior construct his\\nMap and Compass?\\n3 Why must the work of Reconnoiter-\\ning be done?\\nLESSON VII.\\nTHE EARTHY TRIPLICITY.\\nVJ, OR ADVANCING.\\nWhen the Sun enters the sign of V?,\\nwhere lived the framers of the Zodiac,\\nthen the Goats advanced up the mountain\\nsides, for the time of grazing was at hand.\\nThe fruits of labor were beginning to\\nspring up and be realized by the laborer.\\nSo now advances the warrior into the region\\nof winter, toward the point where shadows\\nare congealed or hardened into the sub-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 247\\nstances called matter and solids; where the\\nindigo ray passes almost to black the ex-\\nact antipodes of soul and summer, the\\nwhite light. Here the black of negation\\nmixes with blue to form the indigo of\\nrighteousness.\\nBut with his faithful compass (Cross)\\nhe advances, undismayed. His knees do\\nnot knock together through the weakness\\nof fear; fear belongs to immature natures.\\nThe patient waiting acquired as a recon-\\nnoiterer has admitted him into the labora-\\ntory of Mother Earth, and he has there\\narmed himself with the force which solves\\nsolids and transmutes matter into its cor-\\nrelatives of spirit black to white, death\\nto life.\\nThe Rod and the Knee express the two\\nextremes of Power and Submission. The\\nmonarch who sways the rod enforces the\\nhomage of the bended knee from his sub-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "248 Esoteric Lessons.\\njects. Never was there such a despot as\\nfear, and the victim swayed by fear is the\\nmost craven and knock-kneed object in\\nexistence. The one who has not learned\\nto wait is still the slave of fear, and is\\nheld bound in the bowels of Earth, and\\nhas yet to break the bars of iron and steel\\nwhich hold him a prisoner of pomp, splen-\\ndor, honor and dignity, and this also\\nimplies its exact opposite. Yet, the one\\nwhom the world delights to honor is not\\nthe one who advances, a conqueror, into\\nthe realm of realities. Ah, no! He is\\nthe one most overcome by fear and that\\ngrim, monster-shadow called Death. But\\nthe true warrior, compass in hand, even\\ntho.ugh despised and rejected by men\\nadvances undismayed, knowing before-\\nhand the exact nature of that which he is\\nto explore. He knows the grim monster-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 249\\nshadow, death, to be but Nature s initia-\\ntion into the great mysteries of existence,\\nwhose realms he, like Virgil and Dante\\nand others before him, have invaded while\\nyet embodied.\\nHe will find it possible to go, and, return-\\ning, give a clever and entertaining account\\nof adventures, hairbreadth escapes, etc.,\\nto a gaping crowd. He may bring back a\\nlot of curios, to dispose of for money to\\nthe highest bidder, for curiosity mongers\\nto Oh! and Ah! over.\\nOr he may transform his knowledge into\\na comfortable Sale of Indulgences, pro-\\nclaim: There is no such thing as Death;\\nhe is only a scarecrow; all is life; there is no\\nsuch thing as Evil, all is good. Therefore\\ngormandize, cheat and steal to your\\nheart s content. You are one with God,\\nand your soul can never be lost! But he", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "250 Esoteric Lessons.\\nstrikes a note which grates on the purely\\ntrained ear, and he communicates a con-\\nclusion which does not accord with, nor\\nfollow, the premises. With the major\\npremise of Taurus (humility) and the\\nminor premise of Virgo (patience) sooner\\nor later will he trip in the meshes of his\\nfalse syllogism and be brought in abject\\nterror before the awful Voice of the\\nMighty One, whose Ineffable Name he,\\nhimself, has attempted to assume, instead\\nof, in true humility, saying Hallowed be\\nThy Name, and, as a penitent reconnoit-\\nerer, he must add, Forgive us our tres-\\npasses, and upon his knees confess, For\\nThine is the Kingdom.\\nBut not thus with the warrior who has\\nthe first two premises correctly formed.\\nHis conclusion is incontrovertible. At the\\nvery outset of his advance he learns his", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 251\\nimmortality, his heritage; also discerns\\nthe conditions upon which they are won.\\nHe realizes the dignity, grandeur and\\nmeaning of life, and knows that he is\\nsaved, crowned and Deified in spite of\\nhimself; whether he will or no. Neither\\nfor the simple wishing on his part, but\\nwith the knowledge obtained in Dame\\nNature s laboratory he has but to hold up\\nthe Mystic Cross, which combines in its\\nsignificance polar opposites and contra-\\ndictory opposites, and the most fixed\\nbecomes volatile. Baser metals are\\nchanged to gold, and gold transmuted to\\nSunlight, the Water of Soul to the Wine\\nof Spirit, the mask to reality, shadows to\\nsubstance, error to truth, hate to love,\\ndeath to life.\\nHe also knows that the direct ray is\\nTruth Absolute, while the oblique ray is", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "252 Esoteric Lessons.\\nTruth Relative, and will be refracted and\\nreflected indefinitely from one plane to\\nanother and soon bewilder him in a laby-\\nrinth of shadowy reflects unless he sternly\\nadheres to his knowledge and boldly clings\\nto his Cross.\\nAnd, while he knows that it is his duty\\nto realize and actualize all that he possibly\\ncan of truth absolute, he also knows it is\\nlikewise his duty to recognize the differ-\\nent planes of expression, and remember\\nthat truths on different planes are relative\\nto each other, but that each is absolute on\\nits own plane, and that, in order to ad-\\nvance from one plane to another, or higher,\\nlike water he cannot rise above his level\\nuntil he find the point of equilibrium of\\nthat plane upon which he is, by means of\\nwhich, like water vaporized, he rises to\\nthe plane above him.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 253\\nBut, until he does actually rise to the\\nplane above him, he is ruled by the laws\\nof that plane, and he is its subject until\\nhe, by rising to the plane above, becomes\\nruler of the plane below.\\nPoison, calumny and malice are abso-\\nlute monarchs on their own special plane,\\nbut to the warrior, armed with the force\\nwhich solves and transmutes, they become\\nrelative, and finally obedient.\\nNeither do I become ruler by simply\\nrepeating, parrot-like, There is no such\\nthing as malaria; malaria does not rule\\nme, I rule malaria, etc., but I must have\\nwithin me the force which, having divined\\nthe meanings of things, has made them a\\npart of me, having neutralized (nothing-\\nized) it by counterbalancing it with its\\npolar opposite.\\nThus, from yy of the Earthy Triplicity,", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "254 Esoteric Lessons.\\ndo I arrive at true Progress, Advancing.\\nThe Fiery trip showed the perfect syllo-\\ngism the righteous judgment of Sagitta-\\nrius, deducted from the major premise of\\nAries and the minor premise of Leo.\\nThe Earthy syllogism, analogous to the\\nFiery, is symbolized in terms of a chemi-\\ncal compound, in which the sharp and\\nstinging acids of censure and uncharita-\\nbleness, leading to humility (Taurus) fuse\\nand blend with the alkalies of patience\\n(Virgo) under afflictions, and from this\\nfusing and blending arising to a higher\\nplane, or Capricorn.\\nFrom this Earthy syllogism I have\\nlearned from Taurus: Hark! from\\nVirgo: Wait! from Capricorn: Be\\nStrong!\\nListening in true Humility for Thy hal-\\nlowed name, I have found that even sorrow", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 255\\nand failure, if accepted in patience, al-\\nthough they may seem like the reconnoit-\\nerer s path, too often go back instead of\\nforward, are, after all, accomplished prog-\\nress, and are but seeming bonds, from\\nwhich my soul, like a hind let loose/ all\\nthe more swiftly advances up the moun-\\ntain steeps when the time for grazing\\narrives. Then he has reached that point\\nwhere he can utilize the power and knowl-\\nedge gained while passing through the\\nfirst syllogism, Fire, and the second,\\nEarth. J\\nLESSON VIII.\\nTHE AIRY TRIPLICITY.\\n11 A r\\nII, OR CARRYING ARMS.\\nThe signs of the Airy Triplicity have\\nespecial reference to motion.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "256 Esoteric Lessons.\\nII, more especially, or directly, is con-\\ncerned with projecting, hurling, etc.;\\nwith balancing, maintaining equilibrium\\nbetween opposites; zz with floating and\\nundulating, as represented by the action\\nof air upon the surface of the water, pro-\\nducing waves.\\nII implies, first, a grasping of the hands,\\nor combining forces (Gemini), the effects\\nof knowledge gained so far on his jour-\\nney; second, an impulsive force from the\\nwill, directed to the muscles of the shoul-\\nders and arms, by means of which the\\nobject is hurled through the air. There-\\nfore I can be no warrior and hurl my\\nlance until I understand the meaning of\\nthese twins and how to train and use them\\neffectually.\\nFirst, I discern that these twins are not\\ntwo of the same kind, but they are oppo-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 257\\nsites, or counterparts, and fit together like\\ntwo hemispheres of one sphere. The one\\nis right, the other left; the one positive,\\nthe other negative.\\nAncient mythology allegorized one, the\\nright half, the positive, as Castor, a star\\nof the first magnitude, the Immortal, while\\nthe other, the left, the negative, was Pollux,\\nthe lesser star i n brilliancy, the Mortal and\\nthus they expressed the fact that it is the\\npositive, active force of the soul which,\\nreaching out, attains immortality; i. e.,\\nthere must be action before there could\\nbe reaction. But, again, as the action\\nitself must have its reaction in order to\\ncomplete its orbit, as the positive pole of\\nthe battery is nothing without its negative\\npole, just so the immortal Castor is repre-\\nsented in the myth as one-half of the time\\nforegoing his privilege among the Celes-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "258 Esoteric Lessons.\\ntials in order to pass the other half of\\nthe time with his brother, who was mor-\\ntal, yet whom he so dearly loved; or, in\\nother words, they were polar opposites,\\nwhich mutually implied each other, and\\nwere utterly meaningless and unthinkable\\napart.\\n(And one quite noticeable fact of twins\\nis that, even while of the same sex physi-\\ncally, in temperament and disposition one\\nis more positive, the other more nega-\\ntive. Usually this difference is very\\nmarked.)\\nIn regard to the hands, I observe that,\\nwhile the right is positive to the left, yet\\nthe different parts of each hand are rela-\\ntively positive and negative to each other,\\nThus the knuckles are positive in relation\\nto the palm, the nails positive in relation\\nto the balls of the fingers, etc. The", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 259\\nelbows are aggressive, while the muscles\\nof the inner arm are indrawing and ca-\\nressive.\\nThe hands are the great avenues of the\\nsense of touch. The hands are the means\\nby which we grasp at treasures, reach out\\nfor that which we wish to attain, manipu-\\nlate, formulate materials about us in order\\nto provide for the necessities, comforts\\nand luxuries of physical life.\\nAnd from these two, following the law\\nof correspondencies, I discern the esoteric\\nmeaning of the hands, and from thence\\nthe application of bearing arms. The\\nright hand has been educated almost to\\nthe exclusion of the left (or female) in\\nour present generation. Otherwise it\\nwould be self-evident to us that sensation\\nis not completely obtained only through\\nthe right, and when we examine anything", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "260 Esoteric Lessons.\\ncritically we instinctively use both hands.\\nOur right hand gives us more the external,\\nintellectual, positive qualities of an object,\\nthe left the interior, intuitional, negative\\nqualities; and thus the first great use of\\nthe hands is to teach polar opposites, the\\nTwins. All the infinite variety of weapons\\nor arms the warrior can ever have to deal\\nwith can be classed under these two words\\nPolar Opposites. Every force through-\\nout the boundless universe has its pole, or\\nDivine center, which embraces the positive\\nand negative attributes in one, and in\\norder to correspond to that pole all life is\\nevolved in pairs twins, male and female.\\nWhenever they appear to be separated it\\nis only in seeming, and because the ex-\\nternal eye is blinded to the shadow of\\nillusions.\\nAgain, just as we have neglected the", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 261\\neducation of the left hand, just so have we\\nlost, through this neglect, that inner con-\\nsciousness of the esoteric meaning of the\\nthousands of exoteric, or physical, uses\\nwith which we daily employ our hands.\\nOur treasures are accumulated only for\\nthis world, regardless of the swift-coming\\nsubjective state, upon whose borders we\\nmay this very instant be drifting.\\nThis, then, is the lesson for the warrior.\\nThe arms of warfare are polar opposites.\\nBearing arms is learning their esoteric\\nuses.\\nRight here, for the warrior, must come\\nhis great rununciation. He must come to\\ncare for the external only for the sake of\\nthe interior. He must renounce luxury\\nand be chaste. But chastity is by no\\nmeans celibacy nor asceticism. For the\\ntrue soul love is in very truth the purest\\nchastity.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "262 Esoteric Lessons.\\nThe word chaste is here, however, used\\nin its true and larger sense. Polar oppo-\\nsites is only another word for sex; hence\\nthe word chaste applies to every word and\\nthought.\\nLet the warrior, then, cleanse his hands\\nand remember that the blessings of the\\nLord are promised to one who hath clean\\nhands and a pure heart.\\nThe force which binds polar opposites\\ntogether, the point of equilibrium where\\nthe two are one, is love, and from love is\\nevolved life, while truth may be defined\\nas knowledge, or understanding, of the\\nrelation of polar opposites. The warrior\\nmust first comprehend truth, and truth\\nmust be in him and he in the truth before\\nhe can possibly know anything whatever\\nof life and of love. But he must ronounce\\nthe things of sense and seeming in order", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 263\\nto say: u Oh, Truth! Thy Kingdom\\nCome.\\nBut it directly follows the fact of the\\nuneducated left hand, and the consequent\\nnon-comprehension of polar opposites, that\\nmankind to-day can have no conception\\nwhatever of the Law of Unity, or the love\\nby which the two polar opposites are one.\\nAnd thus the world has utterly lost the\\nesoteric meaning of the love which exists\\nexoterically between man and woman.\\nMarriage is only a name and a form, a\\nlegal, conventional and mechanical union,\\nand the empty symbol no longer teaches\\nthe spiritual reality. With the Divine\\nelement of love lost to our sight, atheism\\nand materialism at once follow. The days\\nof true chivalry are the days of true relig-\\nious growth.\\nMan cannot know God without know", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "264 Esoteric Lessons.\\ning love, for God is love, and if the exo-\\nteric symbol of love does not lead to an\\ninsight to spiritual truth, to an actual\\nknowledge of truth (which is also God),\\nthen that exoteric symbol is the grossest\\nunchastity, and leads to perdition and\\ndamnation.\\nBut the warrior, having put aside, or\\nrenounced, all the showy and glittering\\nweapons of sense and seeming, arming\\nhimself only with truth, as symbolized in\\nhis lance, with its two ends, and, balanc-\\ning this trusty lance in his hands, he dis-\\ncerns the sublime truth of the Twins (n),\\nand knows that somewhere in the vast\\nuniverse there exists a missing half, from\\nwhom his soul, in reality, never has been\\nand never can be separated.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the* Zodiac, 265\\nLESSON IX.\\nTHE AIRY TRIPLICITY.\\nn =2=\\n\u00c2\u00a3V=, OR OBEYING ORDERS.\\nThe spirit of mortal, alas, is proud.\\nNot realizing itself as nothing but a shad-\\nowy reflect, it arrogates to itself, while yet\\na minor, its birthright of Divinity and\\nheritage of immortality, as if it had al-\\nready attained its majority and come into\\npossession of its estate.\\nObedience is a difficult attainment, per-\\nhaps the most difficult of all, and yet\\nall the boasted free will of a mortal ends\\nin his obedience, in spite of himself, for\\none grand command comprises all the\\nlesser orders. The others are but copies,\\nor reprints, of the original.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "266 Esoteric Lessons.\\nThis One Supreme is that Divine love\\nprinciple which binds polar opposites into\\none. And true is the command: What\\nGod hath joined together let no man put\\nasunder, for mortal cannot put it asun-\\nder. He cannot accomplish the impossi-\\nble and unthinkable, and there is but one\\npunishment for attempted disobedience.\\nHe does not alter the law, but, as far as\\nhe himself is concerned, he realizes the\\nresults in accordance with his disregard\\nof the law, whether intentional or not.\\nTo fulfill this great law of love is peace,\\nequilibrium, harmony and life; to ignore\\nor defy it is strife, confusion, discord and\\ndeath.\\nAnd thus the mortal obeys the law in\\nspite of himself, for death is not a change\\npreparatory to another state or condition\\nof life, in which the mortal, or reflect, is", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 267\\ngiven another chance to obey the order\\nwhich comprises all orders.\\nTHE EQUILIBRIUM OR EQUALITY OF RATIOS.\\nLove.\\nj\\\\\\nJustice.\\nIn walking, which is propelling the body\\nthrough the air, the process of locomotion\\nis threefold, or triune; i. e., there are three\\ngreat centers of locomotion. First, the\\narms and shoulders; second, the legs,\\nespecially the muscles of the calves, and\\nthe third is that portion of the body which\\nis the point of equilibrium between the\\ntwo, and this portion perfectly describes\\nan old-fashioned balance, or pair of scales,\\nIt includes the reins, or kidneys, and\\nextends to the loins, or hips. Now, in\\nwalking, as the weight of the body is\\nthrown on one leg the opposite hip, like", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "268 Esoteric Lessons.\\none end of the beam of the scales, comes\\nup and the other hip goes down, then\\nvice versa, and so on. This is so in true,\\nnatural walking; but alas! the fine, true,\\nharmonious, stately gait is very rare in\\nthis degenerate age. Yet if this perfect\\nequipoise of the body were maintained at\\nevery step, walking could be continued\\nindefinitely without fatigue.\\nBut to one who understands the esoteric\\nmeaning of symbols there can be no more\\nsignificant and saddening sight than to\\nwatch for a moment the hurrying, sway-\\ning, shuffling throng of a crowded street.\\nTruly is the world blind to the knowl-\\nedge of soul poise, and disobedient to\\nthe law which binds polar opposites into a\\nunity.\\nOn the reflected and phenomenal plane\\nthis law has special reference to the forms", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 269\\nof union called marriage and partnership.\\nThe same law which governs marriage\\ngoverns partnership, no matter whether the\\nparties are composed of nations or only\\ntwo individuals, and looking out into\\nthe world to-day, with its teeming mill-\\nions, a very serious state of affairs is\\npresented to the eyes of the warrior.\\nInharmony, discord, strife everywhere.\\nNo marriage, all lust; no partnership, all\\nmonopoly. And nowhere is this more\\napparent than among those who profess\\nto have found Truth to know the real\\nfrom the unreal.\\nHowever, as the warrior rises to a higher\\nplane, and regards the present condition\\nof humanity in a larger sense, he only\\nsees them with pitying and tender eyes, as\\ninfants learning to walk, tottering, and in\\nconstant danger of losing their balance;", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "270 Esoteric Lessons.\\nswayed first by one strong passion and\\nthen another, and then he knows just how\\nfar it is possible for one soul to help\\nanother only in so far as a child can be\\nhelped to walk. But the child must walk\\nfor itself no one can walk for it. I can,\\nby my understanding of truth, influence\\nanother person to do a virtuous deed.\\nThis deed would be the result of an\\naction on my part; so, unless there is also\\na reaction on the part of the person per-\\nforming the deed, there has been no equi-\\nlibrium established whereby any inner\\npurity has been evolved on his part, and\\nhe has not, consciously, taken a single\\nstep for himself toward truth. I have\\nonly lifted him up and carried him, and\\nperhaps delayed him in the process of\\nwalking. He will look for some one else\\nto come along and carry him instead of", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 271\\nwalking for himself. The soul cannot\\ngrow vicariously, anymore than the child\\ncan so walk.\\nNow this belief in the possibility of a\\nvicarious union of polar opposites, or At-\\none-ment, is the great delusion of the age.\\nTruly there is but one way under the Sun\\nwhereby men can be saved. It is by obe-\\ndience to the law of equilibrium. Not a\\nstupid, passive obedience, for, like every-\\nthing else under the Sun, obedience is\\ndual active and passive, positive and neg-\\native. Therefore, while I accept the fact\\nthat every soul must walk for itself, yet at\\nthe same time I remember that it must\\nhave its seeming props and helps, while\\nlearning to walk, until it attains its major-\\nity. So I must help all about me. Thus,\\nfor the time being, I seem to hinder, but\\nonly in order to help. This is that awful", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "2J2 Esoteric Lessons.\\nlaw of contradictories, so bewildering to\\nthe child soul, wherein we seemingly dis-\\nobey in order to obey. Herein consists\\nthe duality of obedience. In order to\\nrealize absolute good I must, for the time\\nbeing, accept relative, or seeming, evil;\\nbut it is only in accordance with the higher\\nlaw, which evolves the perfect harmony\\nout of seeming discord, whereby I gain\\nmy spiritual insight and read aright the\\nesoteric meaning from the exoteric sym-\\nbol. If I accept seeming evil for any\\nother purpose, I am at once bound in\\nchains of sense and seeming and sink\\ndeeper and deeper in the shadows, until\\nthat which should be a symbol for the very\\nhighest, following the law of contradicto-\\nries, becomes the very lowest and foulest,\\nas is now so generally the case with sym-\\nbolic marriages.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 273\\nIn the particular phase of soul unfold-\\nment through which humanity is at present\\npassing, the last and highest symbol for\\nmortal to comprehend is marriage the\\nunion of man and woman. The very fact\\nthat there is a symbol proves there is a\\nreality. The fact of a shadow proves\\nthere must be a substance. Just so the\\nexoteric form we know as marriage proves,\\nof necessity, a true soul marriage, and\\nfurther, for the warrior this is a most sig-\\nnificant fact and means another lesson,\\nwhich cannot be omitted. The reason\\nthis At-one-ment is seldom or never real-\\nized is, as we have just seen, humanity has\\nnot yet developed to the point of soul\\nequilibrium. It cannot yet walk; there-\\nfore this soul union can only take place in\\nthe next phase or condition of develop-\\nment. Man can no more ltaHie scul", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "274 Esoteric Lessons.\\nmarriage than our domestic animals could\\nlive our present family life.\\nBut right here, at this point, the warrior\\nwho has mastered the former lessons,\\nstands forth in the strength of his God-\\ngiven heritage, scorning the shadow sym-\\nbols, determined to know only the real;\\nhe foregoes all the sensuous and seeming\\nand becomes the true celibate. He sees\\nthat one of the factors in the attainment\\nof his celestial heritage is the union with\\nhis polar opposite. The immortality of\\nhis soul is an utter unthinkability without\\nthis At-one-ment. He can never coftie\\ninto possession of his Kingdom until he\\nplaces a Queen upon the Throne by his\\nside. He cannot be knighted until he has\\nfound and won his lady. Thus is he jus-\\ntified in putting aside earthly ties, only in\\norder to realize the celestial union whic", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac, 275\\nfollows obedience to the love which binds\\ntogether polar opposites.\\nlesson x.\\nTHE AIRY TRIPLICITY.\\nII ^1 zz\\nZZ, OR PROVIDING RATIONS.\\nThe three duties of Bearing Arms,\\nObeying Orders and Providing Rations,\\ncomprised under the Airy Triplicity, relate\\nmore to the special training and individ-\\nual discipline of the w T arrior, yet none the\\nless necessary and important to his suc-\\ncess, for the properly drilled and thor-\\noughly disciplined warrior, having com-\\npleted the three sides of the Airy Triplicity,\\nstands forth as the wonder-working magi-\\ncian, able to transform light into the bread\\nof Heaven, or the power to put into use\\nthe knowledge gained.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "276 Esoteric Lessons.\\nFirst, if he knows how to bear arms, i.\\ne., to properly formulate with his esoteric\\nhands; second, if he has thoroughly vital-\\nized his purposes from a strict obedience\\nto the laws of polar opposites and equilib-\\nrium; third, then he has only to strike the\\nthird note of the chord to realize his\\nundertakings completed and actualized,\\nand himself nourished and sustained as\\nare the angels of light themselves.\\nProperly formulated and vitalized, his\\nthoughts cannot return unto him void.\\nHerein is the awful, the divinely and un-\\nspeakably awful force of this law of equi-\\nlibrium or balance. They cannot return\\nvoid, and if they have been revengeful,\\nmalicious or covetous, and have worked\\nout results of sorrow and suffering to oth-\\ners, then, as he has measured so will it be\\nmeasured out to him. Sooner or later", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 2JJ\\nwill they complete their orbit and find him\\nout. Polar opposites, vitalized, are the\\nsame things as centrifugal and centripetal\\nforces set in motion. They will describe\\na circle. Mortal cannot annul Divine\\nlaw.\\nThe warrior has now reached a point\\nwhere he must become a breadmaker.\\nFirst, the loaves must be kneaded and\\nformulated with the hands (n) second,\\nthe loaves must be vitalized, fomented by\\nan understanding of the equipoise of\\nthe two opposite forms of force, in order\\nthat, third, he may realize himself nour-\\nished and sustained and finally thus self-\\nsustaining {zz)\\nHis bread must.be either life-giving or\\nlife-destroying, for, once formulated and\\nfomented (vitalized), his loaves cannot\\nreturn to him void.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "278 Esoteric Lessons.\\nIt is perfectly possible for him to formu-\\nlate expressions or images for what is\\nabsolutely impossible and unthinkable.\\nIt is also possible for him to seemingly\\nvitalize his phantoms, but the awful results\\nof this kind of breadmaking are sure to\\nfollow. His phantoms become vampires,\\nwhich feed upon him, and even upon all\\nwho ignorantly come within his mental\\natmosphere. Yet this possibility must not\\ndeter the warrior, for he must be a bread-\\nmaker. He must put into practical use\\nthat which he has made himself acquainted\\nwith; he must let his cup overflow, so as\\nto benefit those who walk with him. Inac-\\ntion is as fatal as to create vampires for\\nunthinkables and impossibilities. There-\\nfore, let the work rely upon the purity of\\nhis motive, which is soul unfoldment and\\nthe attainment of his celestial heritage", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 279\\nknowing that, sooner or later, the law will\\nbe revealed to him from within, how those\\nloaves which turn out failures and abor-\\ntions can be neutralized and nothingized.\\nIf he is free from covetousness, vain-\\nglory and sensuousness, then let him work\\nonly to know truth and realize justice, and\\nhe will find himself self-sustaining and able\\nto command in emergencies, and finally find\\nwithin himself an image of that creative\\nforce which, in its turn, images the Divine\\ncreative will, or center of the universe.\\nThis law of the creative, or bread-mak-\\ning* syllogism is universal in its applica-\\ntion, from the most seeming and external\\nlife up to the highest symbolic form of our\\npresent phase of Earth life, or child cre-\\nating, in which the human approaches the\\nnearest to the Divine parent.\\nTo a certain extent, the warrior must", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "280 Esoteric Lessons.\\nhave a varied and large experience\\nthroughout all the worlds of form-making.\\nHe must work unceasingly, sa does the\\nGreat Creator. Herein is the import of\\nthe command to be fruitful, increase and\\nmultiply; not that man and woman are\\nto devote their whole time, thought and\\nenergies to populating the globe, as the\\nselfish sensualist proclaims from the house-\\ntop in order to procure a license for his\\nown secret sins, but through that equilib-\\nrium gained by the harmonious blending\\nand fusing of polar opposites, or twin\\nsouls.\\nHis thoughts, truths, or bread, will be\\nhis children, who will guide and sustain\\nhim as well as those who partake of such\\nroyal dainties, born from the union of\\nformulation and vitalization. Thus the\\nbread-winner becomes the bread-distribu-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 281\\ntor, and the loaves of understanding will\\nnot be void.\\nThe consciousness of his dual self\\nevolved through his journey on the first\\nside of the Airy Triangle (n) and where\\nhe learns to formulate, and on the second\\nside where the creative principles\\nare balanced then, and not until then,\\ndoes he become capable of breadmaking,\\nor creating self-sustenance; and when he\\nis able and strong enough to walk alone\\nhe must support others, for we cannot\\nreceive unless we also give. Thencefor-\\nward the warrior can enjoy the promise of\\nhis Creator: For whosoever hath, to\\nhim shall be given, and he shall have\\nmore abundance; but whosoever hath not,\\nfrom him shall be taken away even that\\nhe hath, and cast forth upon the univer-\\nsurrents the life-sustaining rations of", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "282 Esoteric Lessons.\\nhis own winning, not in floods or great\\ndownpours, but as the gentle, soothing,\\nrippling waves of zz.\\nIn bearing arms the warrior is subject\\nto the higher commands of his being, and\\nis, in action, manipulated by the arms\\nnot the arm, but the arms, implying the\\nutter uselessness of one alone. The\\nbrave, positive Castor must be balanced\\nby his mate, Pollux; thus the training and\\nculture necessary for bearing arms cor-\\nrectly, as a skilled warrior, every move-\\nment known, and at what moment to\\nso execute the laws of his will that they\\nwill not conflict with Nature s laws and\\nbring failure and sorrow for his ignorant\\ndisobedience.\\nHerein self is forgotten, self is lost in\\nthe recognition of the two as one, equal-\\nized, blended as one.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 283\\nThis awful mystery of self, this life-\\ndestroying monster, when alone, stalking\\nabout as the imperious I. Selfishness of\\nthe past must be lost, for now he becomes\\nthe man; that selfishness that ruled and\\nregulated the life of the lower forms\\nthrough which the soul was gaining expe-\\nrience before the plane of reason and\\nintuition had been reached, and then only\\ncan perfect obedience and equilibrium be\\nattained.\\nBearing arms is wearisome, obeying or-\\nders difficult, and demands an indefatiga-\\nble exercise in Watching, Listening and\\npatient advancement that the balance is\\nnot tilted by misjudgements.\\nThen the warrior can traverse his king-\\ndom and scan the circumference of his\\nground in so far as he has reached in\\nhis watch-tower. More climbing is to be", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "284 Esoteric Lessons.\\ndone, hence sustenance is required; there-\\nfore he must utilize his balanced forces\\nand provide his own self-sustaining ra-\\ntions. Another s winnings or knowledge\\nwould not sustain and give him the free-\\ndom in exploring his universe in search\\nof the object of his journey Truth.\\nWhat constitute the Rations?\\nThe attributes evolved on each side of\\nthe four equilateral triangles of Fire, Air,\\nEarth and Water.\\nProviding Rations is externalizing the\\ntwelve manners of fruits, each division of\\nhis own kingdom providing the necessary\\nmaterial.\\nThe truths that spring from every side\\nof the triangles in the fourfold elements\\nare food and sustenance to his soul.\\nHis journey is not yet complete. He is\\nnow in the realm of Imagery. Knowledge", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 285\\nand experience are necessary in this cre-\\native realm.\\nHe must bear arms with caution. The\\nLance of Light and Truth must be borne\\naloft constantly, that impossible imageries\\nmay not be formulated and spring into\\nactive expression to impede his progress.\\nHis desires and loyal aspirations make\\nhim charitable to all life. Yet the true\\nwarrior must not hesitate at sacrifices.\\nHe must become master of his own king-\\ndom, hence must make the lives born from\\nhis own thoughts subject and useful to his\\nDivine will.\\nThe higher he ascends into the tower\\nthe brighter becomes his Ray of Light,\\nthe expanse of country broader, and new\\nthings appear to his vision, new conditions\\npresent themselves. A new stimulus to\\naction is received. Responsibility is in-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "286 Esoteric Lessons.\\ncreased and more knowledge is required,\\nand ever on and on.\\nLife is motion, as the Airy Triplicity\\nsymbolizes, and motion is eternal.\\nLESSON XI.\\nTHE WATERY TRIPLICITY.\\n25 n X\\n25, OR ASPIRING.\\nThe signs of the Watery Triplicity are\\npre-eminently fruitful signs, and, just as\\nall physical germination, growth, pros-\\nperity, maternity and fruition depend for\\ntheir existence on water, so must the germ\\nseeds of aspiration be moistened by the\\nwaters of spiritual life before they will\\ngerminate and bear us outward fruit; and\\nwe may go further, and say that the very\\nfirst primordial germ of organic life itself,", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 287\\nin the first faint blush of the dawn of\\nGod s creation, had its origin in the ele-\\nment known as water. So, on the higher\\nplanes of living there must be the Water\\nof Life, the springs and fountains of which\\nsustain soul fruition.\\nDesire is the first side of the fruitful\\ntriangle, that which the soul ardently longs\\nfor, that which the soul will fight for until\\nall obstacles are vanquished, but when\\nthere is no desire the soul seed will attract\\nno moisture to enable it to send forth its\\ntiny shoots up toward the Sunlight of\\nTruth.\\nYet, to the truly aspiring soul this Wa-\\nter of Life is not anything external to the\\nsoul itself. On the contrary, it is the very\\nelement which, self-generating, flows like\\nan ocean of Infinite love from the celes-\\ntial, Deific center of its birthplace onward", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "288 Esoteric Lessons.\\nand downward through myriads of solar\\ncenters and starry systems until it reaches\\nits perihelion point upon some earth, the\\nexternal battle ground of matter, whereon\\nit enters the good fight against the blind\\nforce of lower nature, to return at the ebb\\nof its own celestial tide, triumphant,\\nthrough countless spiritual states and\\nspheres of glorious, pulsating life.\\nAspiring is breathing, and true breath-\\ning creates an atmosphere about the soul\\ngerm which will in itself collect together\\nmoisture and generate the seed.\\nThe seed that is planted at the proper\\ncyclic period can, through desire and aspi-\\nration, be watered from time to time until\\nthe harvest is most bountiful.\\nBorn in water, nourished with water,\\ndissolved again in water, to be born upon\\nhigher planes of life t Existence is eter-", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 289\\nnal, but spheres and planes are eternally\\nchanging. Promotion is the law of God,\\nand the warrior can, by his own efforts,\\nshorten his warfare upon the battle\\nground of materiality by becoming famil-\\niar with his own country, and, through the\\nknowledge of its layout, the points of\\nvantage and disadvantage, he can soon\\nrise to the apex of the Watery Trian-\\ngle. Cancer represents on the Earth the\\noceans and their correspondences, the\\nbroad expanse of the spiritual Water of\\nLife on the spiritual plane. Here the\\nsoul is nearing the Divine center of its\\nbeing. True inspiration here takes place,\\nthat Divine respiration, where each inha-\\nlation and exhalation is in harmony with\\nthe ebb and flow of the tides of spiritual\\nlife. Hence inspiration naturally belongs\\nto the signs of the Watery Triplicity.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "290 Esoteric Lessons.\\nThe natural moisture that will bring\\nforth to external life the latent possibili-\\nties, or seeds of the soul, is desire, aspira-\\ntions and creations from material (knowl-\\nedge) accumulated while traversing the\\nbattle ground up to the present plane of\\nwarfare.\\nThrough the Water of Life knowledge\\nhas been born on the journey, so that his\\nbread is the knowledge of good and evil,\\nof polar opposites, and when his eyes take\\nthe observations of the flights of the birds\\nthe law of contradictories will direct his\\njudgments and his movements.\\nHe has learned the law governing the\\nblind forces of Nature, and now, instead\\nof obeying their orders, he, himself, has\\nbecome the triumphant master of these\\nforces, and the elements, as well, as the\\nelementals, of each realm are now his", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 29 1\\nservants and slaves, moving and obeying\\nhis kingly commands.\\nAnother step is taken in the watch-\\ntower, and so cautiously has he moved\\nover his ground, and so thoroughly mas-\\ntered every condition as he proceeded,\\nthat now he is monarch of all he surveys\\nfrom the point of observation that he has\\nreached, and rightly earned, in his fearless\\nmarch through the field of battle.\\nHe now knows the extent of his im-\\nmediate battle ground, the force of the\\nenemy, the obstacles to surmount, the for-\\ntifications to throw up; but, being armed\\nwith the Lance of Truth and Knowledge\\nand his path illuminated by his Ray-of-\\nLight, he prepares to descend from his\\ntower and take full possession of his coun-\\ntry, or his own individual universe, and,\\nwith his queen, reign supreme.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "292 Esoteric Lessons.\\nGive us this day our daily food is\\nherein signified, and it must be drawn by\\nthe Divine Center of our being from the\\ninfinite ocean of spiritual life.\\nMan can draw, through respiration, all\\nthe moisture he wishes to nourish the\\nseeds of immortal life.\\nThe breathing known by all true war-\\nriors, that breathing of soul to soul, of\\nGod to Man, of Man to Woman, of Infi-\\nnite to Finite, of Great to Small, is the\\nharmonious relationship of polar oppo-\\nsites, and soul affinities will bring the\\nrequisite harmony and union of the finite\\nto the infinite.\\nThe perfect response of the body to\\nmind, when the interior and exterior\\nbreathing is going on alternately, will set\\nthe soul free to soar aloft amidst its own\\nspecial sphere of life, to grow and gain", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 293\\nknowledge of its own in the realm of real-\\nities, that he may learn their laws, and\\nthus become the master of their reflec-\\ntions on the battlefield of matter.\\nThe wielding of the scepter of aspira-\\ntion calls forth inspiration, and sets in\\nmotion the creative power of thought.\\nHere, again, the warrior is cautioned,\\nin his work of creation, that he cre-\\nate not impossibilities and unthinkabili-\\nties, lest they become unconquerable foes\\non other planes, or rounds, of the esoteric\\nladder.\\nIs the warrior to create new forms of\\nlife, that will prove willing slaves or rebel-\\nlious tyrants in his kingdom?\\nThis is a portion of his breadmaking.\\nThis is a generous realm, where the\\nvibrations are set up by the soul s ardent\\ndesires and aspirations, and the creations\\nare limited only by the will.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "294 Esoteric Lessons.\\nIf he has not learned how to watch and\\nwait, listen, and obey the God within,\\nstumbling blocks will surely arise at an\\nunguarded moment, and be as fungi in his\\nkingdom when taking form on the second\\nside of the triangle of this triplicity.\\nIn no realm is the reconnoiterer to be\\nmore guarded in his movements, for cre-\\nation follows every action. The Lance is\\nhere needed to put to instant flight the\\nfalse imaginings of the soul before being\\nvitalized and taking on form.\\nLESSON XII.\\nTHE WATERY TRIPLICITY.\\n25 I X\\n1^L OR ATTACKING.\\nThe early morning of the great day has\\nat length arrived. The hour so long", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 295\\nawaited and so carefully prepared for has\\ncome, and the warrior now descends from\\nthe heights of his watch-tower, armed\\nwith the Ray-of-Light of Lance and\\nKnowledge to meet the enemies of the\\nbattle ground. The war-cry is sounded,\\nand echoed from center to circumfer-\\nence.\\nHe has descended into matter, into the\\nshadows of nothingness, but from this\\nplane they are real as long as the shadow\\nlasts.\\nHe steps forward, well armed, and the\\nfirst phantom to conquer and put to flight\\nis Self. Fear is the shadow of the real\\nman. He must be fearless, for he who\\nhesitates is lost. Caution guides his steps,\\nand his lamp, or Divine Ray, illumines his\\npath. Step by step he progresses; foes,\\nreal and unreal, are met with unyielding", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "296 Esoteric Lessons.\\nwill, and a determination to return home\\nthe Master, the King, the Lord and Ruler\\nof his own Kingdom. All must be\\nbrought to obedience and service of his\\nDivine will.\\nNot forgetting the possibility of slipping\\ntoo far on either side of the point of bal-\\nance and becoming a tyrant on the one\\nhand or a slave on the other, he keeps\\nkeenly alive to all conditions and wide-\\nawake to all temptations that might prove\\npitfalls or unconquerable obstacles, and\\nthus losing the freedom he seeks.\\nHe is now traversing and experiencing\\nanother angle of the Watery Triangle\\nthe realm of creative forms. On this side\\nof the triangle is the fierce struggle for\\nlife going on. Life is sweet to the lowest\\nforms of existence, and the battle to de-\\nfend and preserve it is a battle to the", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 297\\ndeath. This the warrior seeks to avoid\\nthe premature cutting off of life, for that\\nwould rob him of their service and his\\nrule.\\nUtilization is the secret of success, not\\nwaste nor abandon.\\nThe greatest wisdom must be displayed\\nin this realm of creation, where man imi-\\ntates or obeys the command of his God:\\nIncrease, multiply and replenish the\\nEarth not with false images, that will\\neventually take form and become the\\nshadows on the plane of matter, but\\ntruths, that will be solid stepping stones to\\nhigher rounds of being, and be of that\\nnature where he can set them up as mile-\\nstones to guide correctly the travelers who\\nmay follow him in adjoining countries.\\nThe life-giving force that is generated\\non this side of the triangle is threefold in", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "298 Esoteric Lessons.\\nits influence and power of utilization.\\nDoes the warrior want all his creations\\nin material forms? Does he want only\\nthe fruits of matter, that so soon perish?\\nDoes he want to be buried in nothingness,\\nfrom which eternal things cannot be born?\\nNo!\\nAllurements of the shadows are great,\\nand he must constantly pray: Lead us\\nnot into temptation. The Balance must\\nbe brought into constant use, the Magic\\nLance ever borne aloft, so that in an un-\\nguarded moment he may not lose his way\\nand be overcome by the snares ever lurk-\\ning on this side of the triangle.\\nHis first formulations, or conceptions,\\nare here to take form and become active,\\nliving realities upon or in his kingdom.\\nHere comes the test of his work in the\\nrealms visible. The mystical sign of this", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 299\\nTriplicity is revealed to the warrior as he\\nenlers its sphere. Unknown and un-\\ndreamed-of trials and temptations, real\\nand apparent obstacles will spring up at\\nevery step as he goes forth to attack,\\nsubdue, conquer and master.\\nTo master is the watchword of the true\\nwarrior, knowing that in the sacrifice of\\nforms new lives spring into existence,\\nmore formidable than those he sacrifices.\\nIt is man s duty to evolve, not destroy,\\nand his creations must have the wings of\\nthe eagle, to bear them aloft above the\\nillusions of matter.\\nHere the mind rises superior to the\\nlower self; the lower must and will become\\nthe servant of the higher. Terrible will\\nbe the attack; not a moment must he rest;\\nlooking back will be fatal. In no part of\\nthe warfare must one stand so resolute, so", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "3oo Esoteric Lessons.\\nsteadfast, so courageous. No other part\\nof the field is so boggy. The creations of\\nsense and seeming are his enemies. No\\npart of the journey is so full of rebellion,\\nwarring incessantly, until the whole cir-\\ncumference encircling his dominions is\\nencompassed.\\nThe vantage is not great in the realm\\nruled by Scorpio. The spark of light at\\nthe point of his lance will not pierce the\\ndarkness far, but each advancing step\\ndrives back to humble submission the\\nlurking forms of the shadows.\\nAt last what transpires? Instead of the\\ncreeping, slimy serpent, the aspirations\\nhave given it wings. The Scorpion has\\nbeen transformed. It is now the eagle,\\nable to soar in the water of the Infinite\\nWaters of Life instead of creeping upon\\nthe battle ground of matter.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 3O1\\nThe work is done. The innocent, igno-\\nrant warrior returns the conqueror. He\\nis bid to come up higher, and again he\\nascends to the top of his watch-tower and\\nawaits his heritage.\\nLESSON XIII.\\nTHE WATERY TRIPLICITY.\\n25 ^l X\\nX, OR VANQUISHING.\\nAs the mists and the shadows of the\\nbattlefield clear away the warrior pauses,\\nand from his height views the mighty field\\nof conflict and weighs and considers the\\nresults from the twelve mansions of his\\ndominion. Each has been penetrated and\\nthe fruits gathered and garnered and he\\nhas partaken thereof. The illusions and\\ndelusions of the battlefield have been per-", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "302 Esoteric Lessons.\\nceived and their nothingness realized, and\\nthe warrior has now to vanquish them by\\nthe laws he has learned in watching, lis-\\ntening, patient and cautious advancement\\nand reconnoitering, aspiring while attack-\\ning, and in his engagements in battle.\\nHe has plenty of time to reflect while\\nthe atmosphere is clearing. His journey\\nhas led him to the last rung of the exoteric\\nladder.\\nThe mists of seeming and sense begin\\nto pass away, all preconceptions have van-\\nished, he has climbed the exoteric ladder,\\nand now he is about to face the realms of\\nrealities and to place his foot upon the\\nfirst rung of the esoteric ladder.\\nHas he been released from all exoteric\\nburdens, his bundles of loves, of hates, of\\nrevenge, of false conceptions and conclu-\\nsions that were drawn from the realm of", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 303\\neffects and dropped by the wayside?\\nThese are the mists and shadows of the\\nbattlefield, that have clung so tenaciously\\nto the warrior s outward self.\\nWhat are the considerations of his\\nreflections?\\nKnowledge has been his lot and por-\\ntion, and he is now fitted to proclaim his\\nkingship, his queen by his side, the equi-\\nlibrium gained, the fight for freedom won.\\nHaving triumphantly conquered all\\nupon the field of warfare and conflict he\\nrests, to behold his victories trophies.\\nThe law of contradictories and corre-\\nspondencies guides him in judging of re-\\nsults, in drawing conclusions from being\\nable to see both ends of his simple staff\\nthat he started out with. Cause rests\\nupon one end and effects upon the other.\\nBoth lie within his grasp, and are obedient\\nto all commands.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "304 Esoteric Lessons.\\nThe last external life of the embodied\\nhuman soul has been experienced, the les-\\nsons learned, the fruits of good and evil\\npartaken of and fully accepted as the Di-\\nvine Fiat of God; Man, know thyself,\\nand thus know thy God.\\nAs the warrior steps from the last rung\\nof the exoteric onto the first rung of the\\nesoteric ladder his works do follow him,\\nand these will constitute the enemies and\\nfriends of the new battle ground in another\\nsphere. But when he consciously realizes\\nwhich are the illusions and delusions, that\\nwhich is mortal from the immortal, the\\nseeming from the real, then all foes are\\nput to Right and he henceforth dwells in\\nthe land of realities.\\nThe mists of the battlefield having\\npassed away, the country lies exposed to\\nthe scanning eye of its king. He looks", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 305\\nupon his works. It calls forth the reso-\\nlute courage of a well-trained, unfaltering\\nwill to behold and to hold in check the\\nemotions of awe, consternation, sadness\\nand joy that would fill his heart.\\nHis own creations stand at his feet.\\nThe children created, born and reared in\\nmatter appeal to his care.\\nCan his soul fly from its own creations,\\nwhether of good or evil No. And while\\nsome may be beautiful, encouraging and\\ndivinely inspiring, others will prove re-\\nbellious, and cling as a millstone about his\\nneck, impeding his progress in his spiral\\nMazy Wheel of Necessity.\\nVanquishing is the next step, The spi-\\nrals have become large and expansive,\\ntaking in a vast domain, for he has not\\nbeen a slothful warrior. His days of trav-\\neling have been filled with an unceasing", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "306 Esoteric Lessons.\\nactivity that grew and broadened as he\\njourneyed. He chose to know as he pro-\\nceeded, and knowledge gained expands\\nthe field of vision, investigations and cre-\\nations.\\nNow his domains have become a mighty\\nkingdom. His aspirations set his mark\\nhigh. The Pole-Star of Truth is his goal,\\nand that star stands in the center of his\\nempire, and when each spiral of the exo-\\nteric ladder has been traversed with but\\none motive, and that motive Truth, he can\\nview, from the outward circle, or spiral of\\nhis ladder, the center.\\nThis Pole-Star, which illumines the\\nwhole field of battle, exposes to the eso-\\nteric vision his possessions. Ls it as he\\nwould wish? If it were so, vanquishing\\nwould not be necessary.\\nWe have followed him thus far. The", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "A Tour Through the Zodiac. 307\\nveil is drawn to other eyes than his own.\\nWhat his visions are we cannot see;\\nbut, taking courage, we can begin to pre-\\npare to enter on an investigating tour of\\nour own country, and learn its circumfer-\\nence, the health of its soil and the products\\nthat may belong to it\\nThe Pole-Star of Love is in the center,\\nfilled with the radiance that can only be\\nseen by climbing, and thus obtain the\\nglory forever and ever. Amen.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "BOOK REVIEWS.\\nWITHIN THE TEMPLE OF ISIS.\\nBy Belle M. Wagner.\\nThis is an Occult Novel of rare value,\\nas it contains a vast deal of Occult lore\\non many subjects. Soul-Transfer and\\nSoul-Marriage are especially dealt with\\nin a scientific manner. Everybody should\\nread it. Zanoni.\\nIt is the most intensely soul-stirring\\nwork that it has ever been my privilege\\nto read. It certainly touched the keynote\\nthat connects my soul with Deity Him-\\nself. S. E. Morrison.\\nI am free to say, that the value of\\nWithin The Temple of Isis/ can not be\\ncomputed in dollars and cents. It is in-\\nvaluable, and I hope that all seekers for\\nthe true light will have it. D. C. Grunow.\\nCLOTH, PRICE 75 CENTS.\\nTHE ASTRO-PHILOSOPHICAL PUB. CO.\\n1609 Downing Ave., Denver, Colo.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "BOOK REVIEWS.\\nWITHIN THE TEMPLE OF ISIS.\\nWithin the Temple of Isis is a divine revelation of the God-\\nlike attributes of the human soul, given in the form of a simple,\\ntender story.\\nIts pages are replete with Occult truths. It portrays a phase\\nof love, the world knows little or nothing about, the pure love of\\nthe soul for its counterpart that love that lies at the foundation\\nof the perfecting of the human family. The magical feats herein\\nrelated, may seem strange, but are nevertheless true. The masses\\nto-day are amazed at the stupendous and marvelous achievements\\nof intellectual man, the result of the magical powers of mind.\\nThen who shall dare say that to men who have evolved their spirit-\\nual possibilities, equally with their intellectual gifts, and powers,\\nsuch magical and occult ceremonies as this book describes, were\\nimpossible.\\nThe potent powers of the planets and their influence upon the\\nsoul and physical body, are well-known facts to the students of\\nAstral Science.\\nWhen the man fully realizes that he is an immortal soul, not a\\nthing of dust as he has been taught for ages, that he is eternal\\nspirit, with infinite possibilities, there will be no mystery attached\\nto these Magical Rites. The Soul transferror the mutual good\\nof two bouls, should not be confounded with obsession, which is\\nentirely different.\\nTo the student of Nature s hidden forces, this Rite is quite\\nfeasible. The physical brain is the instrument only, spirit the ani-\\nmating principle, the real thinking power, and it is a logical con-\\nclusion that the development of the higher organs of the brain,\\nthrough spiritual unfoldment and occult training of the mental\\nqualities, must bear rich fruit, wholesome and pure.\\nTherefore we would commend this volume to the thoughtful\\nreader and student, believing it will rind a response in many souls\\nand awaken in others a new trend of thought.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Miss Minnie Higgin,\\nAstrologer, Denver, Colorado.\\nI have read W T ithin the Temple of Isis with much interest\\nand pleasure. It is the best representation of the process of The\\nTransmutation of Souls which I know of. Thomas M. Johnson,\\nOsceola, Mo.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "THE DUALITY OF TRUTH;\\nOR\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe Occult Forces of Nature.\\nReviewed from the Standpoint\\nof Hermetic Philosophy\\nBy Henry Wagner. M. D.\\nThis is a clear, practical statement of Nature s dual\\nforces, and will prove of great value to Occult students.\\nA rare treat is in store for you on The Sphinx and Pyr-\\namids of Egypt, Symbolism aud Correspondence alone\\nare worth many times the cost of this unique book.\\nZanoni.\\nCLOTH, PRICE $1.00.\\nTHE ASTRO -PHILOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING CO.,\\n1609 Downing Ave., Denver, Colo.\\nWITHIN THE TEMPLE OF ISIS.\\nBy BELLE M. WAGNER.\\nThis is an Occult Novel of rare value, as it contains\\na vast deal of Occult lore on many subjects. Soul-\\nTransfer and Soul- Marriage are especially dealt with in\\na scientific manner. Everybody should read it.\\nZanoni.\\nCLOTH, PRICE 75 CENTS,\\nTHE ASTRO -PHILOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING CO.,\\n1609 Downing Ave.. Denver, Colo.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "The liight of Egypt;\\nOR\\nThe Science of the Soul and the Stars.\\nFOURTH EDITION.\\nIn Two Parts. Price, Cloth, $2; Paper, $1.\\nBy an Initiate in Esoteric Masonry.\\nFINELY ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS.\\nIt is claimed that this book is not a mere compilation, but\\nthoroughly original.\\nIt is believed to contain information upon the most vital\\npoints of Occultism and Theosophy that cannot be obtained else-\\nwhere.\\nIt claims to fully reveal the most recondite mysteries of man\\nupon every plane of his existence, both here and hereafter, in such\\nplain, simple language that a child can almost understand it.\\nThe secrets and Occult mysteries of Astrology are revealed\\nand explained for the first time, it is affirmed, since the days of\\nEgyptian Hieroglyphics.\\nAn effort is made to show that the science of the Soul and the\\nscience of the Stars are the twin mysteries which comprise The\\nOne Grand Science of Life.\\nThe following are among the claims made for the work by its\\nfriends.\\nTo the spiritual investigator this book is indispensable.\\nTo the medium it reveals knowledge beyond all earthly price,\\nand will prove in real truth, a guide, philosopher and friend.\\nTo the Occultist it will supply the mystic key for which he\\nhas been so long earnestly seeking.\\nTo the Astrologer it will become a divine revelation of\\nScience.\\nOPINIONS OF PRESS AND PEOPLE.\\nA noble, philosophical and instructive work. Mrs. Emma\\nHardinge Britten.\\nA work of remarkable ability and interest. Dr J. R.\\nBuchanan.\\nA remarkably concise, clear and forcibly interesting work.\\nIt is more clear and intelligible than any other work on\\nlike subjects. Mr. J. J. Morse.\\nA careful reading of The Light of Egypt discovers the", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "beginning of a new sect in Occultism, which will oppose the graft-\\ning on Western Occultists the subtile delusive dogmas of Karma\\nand Re-incarnation. New York Times.\\n44 It is a volume likely to attract wide attention from that\\nclass of scholars interested in mystical science and occult forces.\\nBut it is written in such plain and simple style as to be within the\\neasy comprehension of any cultivated, scholarly reader.\\nThe Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean.\\nHowever recondite his book, the author certainly presents\\na theory of first causes which is well fitted to challenge the\\nthoughtful readers attention and to excite much reflection.\\nHartford Daily Times.\\n44 Considered as an exposition of Occultism, or the philosophy\\nof the Orient from a Western standpoint, this is a remarkable pro-\\nduction. The philosophy of the book is, perhaps, as pro-\\nfound as any yet attempted, and so far reaching in its scope as to\\ntake in about all that relates to the divine ego-man in its manifold\\nrelation to time and eternity\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the past, present and future. The\\nDaily Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah.\\n44 This work, the result of years of research and study, will\\nundoubtedly create a profound sensation throughout the philo-\\nsophic world. The Detroit Commercial Advertiser.\\n44 It is an Occult work but not a Theosophical one.\\nIt is a book entirely new in its scope, and must excite wide atten-\\ntion. The Kansas City Journal.\\n44 The book is highly interesting and very ably written, audit\\ncomes at an opportune time to eliminate from the Wisdom Re-\\nligion, re-incarnation and other unphilosophical superstitions of\\nthe otherwise beautiful structure of Theosophy. Kansas Herald.\\n44 What will particularly commend the book to many in this\\ncountry is that it is the first successful attempt to make the truths\\nof Theosophy plain and clear to any one not a special student, and\\nit lays bare the frauds of the Blavatsky school. San Francisco\\nChronicle.\\nBeautifully printed and illustrated on paper m anuf actured\\nfor this special purpose, with illuminated and extra heavy cloth\\nbinding. Cloth, $2.00 Paper, $1.00.\\nFor sale, wholesale and retail, by Astro-Philosophical Pub-\\nlishing Co., 1609 Downing Ave., Denver, Colo. Banner of Light\\nPublishing Co., No. 9 Bosworth St., Boston, Mass.; The Pro-\\ngressive Thinker, No. 40 Loomis St., Chicago, Ills. The Ban-\\ncroft Book Co., 1126-1128 16th St., Denver, Colo. Also, Religio-\\nPhilosophical Publishing House, 1429 Market St., San Fran-\\ncisco, Cal.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "CEliESTIflli DVf4fl]VIICS.\\nBEING\\nA NORMAL COURSE OF STUDY\\nIN\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTHE ASTRO-MAGNETIC FORCES OF NATURE.\\nBY THE AUTHOR OF\\nTHE LIGHT OF EGYPT, THE LANGUAGE OF\\nTHE STARS. ETC.\\nA magnificent and complete course of Astro- meta-\\nphysical study embodying Vital Principles of Life.\\nMental Force, Sickness and Disease. With the only\\ntrue and really Scientific method of treating the sick\\nsuccessfully.\\nMental Healers, Metaphysicians, and ail who prac-\\ntice the healing Art Divine, should give Celestial Dy-\\nnamics a thorough and impartial study and thus learn\\nthe real cause of their frequent failures.\\nNo Astro Student can afford to be without this\\nwork, if he would understand the Metaphysics of As-\\ntrology.\\nThe Price, One Dollar, is within the reach of all\\nwho seek for light. Orders accompanied by cash, will\\nbe filled immediately. Apply early, as the edition is\\nlimited. Address,\\nTHE ASTRO-PHILOSOPHICAL PUB. CO.\\n1609 Downing Ave., Denver, Colo.\\nN. B. This wotk has been specially prepared for pub-\\nlication to meet the demands of a large and very\\nearnest class of people who cannot afford to pay for\\na regular course of instruction under a qualified\\nteacher. And those who can afford this privilege\\nwill find the work an invaluable text book to their\\nstudies.", "height": "3890", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "THE LANGUAGE OF THE STARS,\\nA. New and Important Book (50 Cents),\\nfor Everybody.\\nBY THE AUTHOR OF\\nTHE LIGHT OP EGYPT, CELESTIAL.\\nDYNAMICS, ETC.\\nA Master of Esoteric Masonry.\\nA work that no Mental Healer, Christian Scientist\\nor Magnetic Physician can afford to be without, if they\\nwould become the real masters of their profession in the\\nstudy of man and the healing art divine.\\nA Primary Course of Lessons in Celestial Dynamics.\\nThis important primary work is the first practical\\nexposition of the Astro-Magnetic forces of Nature in\\ntheir relation to man that has yet been issued by the\\nAmerican Press. It contains fourteen special lessons,\\nembracing each department of human life, in such plain,\\nsimple language, that a child can understand the ele-\\nmentary principles laid down. And in addition to these\\nlessons there is an Appendix, containing a full explana-\\ntion of all technical and scientific terms in general use\\nupon the subject, thus forming a brief, yet practical\\nAstro Dictionary. This work is illustrated with special\\nplates.\\nPRICE, ONLY 50 CENTS, Post Eree.\\nFOR SALE BY-\\nAstro-Philosophical Pub. Co., 1609 Downing Ave., Denver, Colo.\\nBanner of Light Pub. Co., No. 9 Bosworth St., Boston, Mass.\\nThe Progressive Thinker, No. 40 Loomis St., Chicago, Ills.\\nThe Bancroft Book Co., 1126-1128 16th St., Denver. Colo.\\nALSO\\nRELlGiO-PHlLOSOPHlCAL PUBLISHING HOUSE,\\n1429 Market St., San Francisco, Cal.", "height": "3827", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "esotericlessons00grim_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "ESOTERIC LiESSOfiS\\nBy Sarah Stanley Grimke, Ph. 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