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home can be found, because change the law of this vibratory existence. Tha fact is the first one which must be learne by the disciple. It is useless to paus and weep for a scene in a kaleidoscop which has passed.
It is a very well known fact, one with which Bulwer Lytton dealt with grea power, that an intolerable sadness is the very Arst experience of the Neophyte Occultism. A sense of blankness fall upon him which makes the world a wasta and life a vain exertion. This follow his first serious contemplation of th abstract. In gazing, or even in attemp ing to gaze, on the ineffable mystery his own higher nature, he himself cause the initial trial to fall on him. The oscil lation between pleasure and pain cease for perhaps an instant of time; but tha is enough to have cut him loose from hi fast moorings in the world of sensation He has experienced, however briefly, the
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