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1938 · PDF PAGE 12

The Heart of the Master

… if muffled, a murmur of the wind behind impenetrable veils. 000. Nothing only exists, and is all things. After a pause of deeply-rooted Silence: 00. There is no limit. Silence again, as if the very bowels of Nature were thrilled with stillness: 0. The Sum of All is Boundless Light. Now there is suddenly a gathering together of the essence of Silence; it is as if focussed at a Point: 1. Thou art that which thou choosest to think thyself, immune to all, for it is nothing but a Point of View. Now there bursts forth a Wave of Light and there falls…

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1938 · PDF PAGE 26

The Heart of the Master

…ace, strange and remote. And of that which befell me there may I not now speak. For there is a Beauty which hath no fitter ornament than Silence.

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1938 · PDF PAGE 11

The Heart of the Master

…at Peace; and in the Stillness I lift up my Soul like an offering and cry in mine Heart: Let me dwell at the feet of the Master! But the Silence swallows up those vain words; and they are smitten through with the fire of His blood, that transforms them to these: “At His feet is only the Earth, and that He breaks up into flowers; but all things that live are assumed to the Heart of the Master.” With that I cease to be myself at all: I am absorbed into His adorable essence, and my life is equally shed throughout the endless Aeons of Creation. Ay!…

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1938 · PDF PAGE 17

The Heart of the Master

… Midnight to the Morning! XIX. Give forth thy light to all without doubt: the clouds and shadows are no matter for thee. Make Speech and Silence, Energy and Stillness, twin forms of thy play! XX. Be every Act an Act of Love and Worship! Be every Act the Fiat of a God! Be every Act a Source of radiant Glory! XXI. Treat time and all conditions of Event as Servants of thy Will, appointed to present the Universe to thee in the form of thy Plan.

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1938 · PDF PAGE 19

The Heart of the Master

…s to Fate. By Reason reckons He His governance, The Wonder of His Chance. By Purity absolves He all His Will From every image of Ill. In Silence He resumes each perfect part To rapture of His Heart, His, in whose Truth of Nature all things are, The Still and Shining Star.

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1938 · PDF PAGE 15

The Heart of the Master

…n thine own Soul! hear thou it! Heed not the Siren-Voice of Sense, or the Phantom-Voice of Reason: rest in Simplicity, and listen to the Silence! VII. The issue of the Vulture, Two-in-One, conveyed; this is the chariot of Power. T R I N C : The last oracle! VIII. Balance against each thought its exact opposite! For the Marriage of these is the Annihilation of Illusion.

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1938 · PDF PAGE 16

The Heart of the Master

…alone; bearing the Light and thy Staff! And be the Light so bright that no man seeth thee! Be not moved by aught without or within: keep Silence in all ways! X. Follow thy Fortune, careless where it lead thee! The axle moveth not: attain thou that! XI. Mitigate Energy with Love; but let Love devour all things. Worship the name _______*, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, and the name of His House 418. (*This Name to be communicated to those worthy of that Initiation.) XII. Let not the waters whereon thou journeyest wet thee! And, being come to shor…

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1938 · PDF PAGE 14

The Heart of the Master

…e of the Master, and offer my blood to His Heart. 0. Know Naught! All ways are lawful to Innocence. Pure folly is the Key to Initiation. Silence breaks into Rapture. Be neither man nor woman, but both in one. Be silent, Babe in the Egg of Blue, that thou mayest grow to bear the Lance and Graal! Wander alone, and sing! In the King's Palace his daughter awaits thee. I. The True Self is the meaning of the True Will: know Thyself through Thy Way! Calculate well the Formula of Thy Way! Create freely; absorb joyously; divide intently; consolidate com…

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1938 · PDF PAGE 10

The Heart of the Master

… all things are begotten of the Breath of the Master, and born of the Infinite Space wherein doth He give them their Form—and abideth in Silence.

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1938 · PDF PAGE 13

The Heart of the Master

…e of a pure Maiden's voice, and she sings: 10. The Perfection of the Universe is the Realization of the Ideal of thy Passion. Lo, in the Silence following is my spirit so enlightened at its apprehension of these Secret Joys of the Master, that I was once more lost to myself and lived again for a little while in Him. The Two and Twenty Secret Instructions of the Master. Now that I am come to myself, I yearn in ageless sorrow for that which I am so little able to attain. I bleed inwardly, so that my passion

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1938 · PDF PAGE 18

The Heart of the Master

…oods each thought with love, and marries it in turn to every other thought; and of each bridal night the fruits are twin, the Rapture of Silence, and some new World unguessed of Phantasy; of these behold one grim and one grotesque, this lyric and that lordly, the grievous and the gracious equal in His sight, for they know neither limit nor let in the infinite variety of their Beauty, making new Harmonies with every hour, beyond belief for Joy.

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1938 · PDF PAGE 6

The Heart of the Master

Vox. The captain cries: “Behold, the Star in the West!” Instant on that comes silence. But among us the sudden stirring warns me that not all were sleeping; that there were watchers like myself, men more intent than I. I hear a murmur on my left. I catch three words: “The Zero Hour.” They call me back to myself: I know now that I am one of a great army—an army baffled and broken, but yet in being. Sharp comes a whisper of swift absolute authority: Zero is Two. Somehow I am aware—like a man stricken of lightning, in the same moment slain and ini…

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