The great area between the intervals is the special province of school, although it draws on the whole of humanity for its purpose. It is described as a special machine brought into being to provide the shock of energy necessary for decision to be effective: and also to make available the-high energy required for the crystallisation of the subtle and causal bodies. Although a machine, mechanical work cannot be useful to it; only conscious work will do. And while it can take a man across the MI-FA interval, it cannot do the work that he must do for himself.

To search for the traces of school in the common life is a useful practice for those who are just beginning to pick up the scent of school and learning to distinguish between different types of influence. But that is the limit of its usefulness: many organisations know about the great precepts derived from the teaching, but only school can show what the precepts really mean and the practical business of how to carry them out. The practical business of a preparatory school is to produce a man to hold the strait gate.

Updated on November 2009

What checks the acceptance of the teaching so plainly true, and what makes the simple appear complex is cherished ideas which rise in resistance to the teaching. These, remarkably, come down to very few. They are:’ I know’,’ I do’, and’ I must be something’. There is such an enormous difference between ‘I know’ and ‘I am knowledge’. The first is always wrong; the second is always right. But this shift puts knowledge in a wholly different category. It is my Self. This is why Socrates would never allow ‘I know’. It varies between ‘I know’, ‘ I know better’ and ‘I don’t know’. They are all wide of the mark.

Updated on May 2009

When the feelings feel one thing and the mind thinks another, and the body does something else, that is no use at all. It has no effect, it is scattered and divided. But what the heart would move and reason would approve and that is done and nothing else, that is honesty. Anything else is deceit. And the man whose emotions move him in one way and reason in another is in a hopeless state.

Updated on February 2009

It is when we meditate for ourselves that we cut the tradition off.
Meditation is for everyone, and you do not know what it is doing...that is not your business.

Updated on November 2008

"Where the breath and the manas come together, is Pasyanti. It is a very poised situation, in which the individual can move to any direction, including going to the Absolute. It is quite deep, not easily seen; meditation takes some people there, and they need to know what to do after that. The mantra meditation takes some people there, where everything is reduced to this point in the heart, where everything seems to be possible. And among the things that are possible is the dive into pure consciousness. Meditation can lead there; it does other things as well. It varies from person to person what it does. To a man in pursuit of wisdom this is very important and that is why the man on that route seeks very deep meditation, because there he will discover the laws which he reads about. And that is why the way of knowledge and deep meditation go together, because there is how you find out."

Updated on August 2008

Updated on May 2008

"There is only one way to know the Absolute and that is to become the Absolute, because the Absolute is only known by itself and not by anything else. There are three stages: there is serving the Absolute, and that is where we are; there is being a friend of the Absolute, a special friend of God, that is hard work, but very worth while; and there is being God"

Updated on Apr. 2008

"Worship is of many kinds. And what makes it worship is the inner intent; it has to do with the motivation of the action, not its outward form. It is a very beautiful thing; I have avoided talking about this in the past because it was not much use.
Each worships according to his nature.
Real service is worship, real study is worship and always accompanied by great praise for the master being studied, not for himself but because from his work shines the light of God. And then there is the worship within, in the heart itself; and then there is the worship of God manifest"

Updated on Mar. 2008

"Love is in fact very cool, that is why it can last, and never change at all...
When reason enters, everything that happens to be present and untruth is destroyed in an instant and left in ruins."

Updated on Feb. 2008

“There is this awful period that goes on and on, when we hear the beautiful words of the teaching, we acknowledge them, they are obviously right, it is lovely to hear them and we even recite them to others on occasion.......but you know we do not really believe them. We have got another set of ideas, which we use for practical purposes.”

Updated on Dec. 2007

"The Trinity? Ah well, there is another threefold appearance: they are all the same. God the Father is God in his creative aspect, and God the Son is the Word, is Om, I mean, St.John tells us this very plainly, in round terms. God the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, which is the Atman. So there again you have got the Brahman, Om, Atman."

Updated on Nov. 2007