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Snippet Studies
Volume I

1. CENTERS
Images are not the object but merely its imprint.

2. CENTERS
"96% of our civilization is concerned with the instinctive- moving center, the planetary body. 3% with real culture, the emotions. 1% with 'why,' the real mind. The instinctive- moving center, which should be the passive part, has in our civilization, become active, the positive. We are the inverted man, crucified upside-down.
Commentaries on All & Everything  Orage p.32

3. CENTERS
God did not impart a mind to all men... It was his will.. that mind should be placed in the midst as a prize that human souls may win.
Hermes, Book 4 vs. 3 & 4

4. WORK ATTITUDE
A requirement is placed on him: (anyone trying to perfect himself) he may claim no credit for his work, no matter that his efforts allowed it to be: it is not his. The knowledge he received was acted upon, but he was allowed to receive it. He was the passageway. If he claims credit, the passageway closes.
The Art in a Craft, page 29.

5. WORK ATTITUDE
The pot is more than the clay, it exists more, it contains more order.
H. Remde

6. WORK ATTITUDE
Die before you die lest thou die utterly.
Jesus

7. WORK ATTITUDE
We strive to become a victim of our own integrity and the sense of obligation to the absolute.
E. J. Gold

8. VISION
We cannot go where we are not already.
Gold

9. RATIONALIZATION
People used to pay the executioner money to cut off their heads well.
'S'

10. HIGHER CENTERS
Once the real divides, the false comes forth: the seeds of routine take command.. .habit energy grows day by day: true intent becomes adulterated with arbitrary feelings and spiritual essence adulterated with temperament.
Inner Teachings of Taoism    page 5

11. HIGHER CENTERS/FORMATORY MIND
Reason is concerned with whatever is in the process of becoming; the intellect is concerned with what has already become. Reason does not ask from where? The intellect does not ask for what. Reason likes development; the intellect would like to keep everything fixed in order to make use of it.
Goethe

12. SEX CENTER
Sex center is on a level with higher emotional center.

13. SELF-REMEMBERING
The individual acts of reflection and anticipation can lead to the state of self-remembering.

14. MEANING
A parable is a medium of connection between a lower and a higher level of meaning.
Parable - Language of Higher Centers
Nicol

15. CENTERS
To judge emotions rightly in relation to work, one must look for results. Cheap emotion produces no results.
'?'

16. HIGHER CENTERS
"The price of Absolute intimacy is to be alone."
E. J. Gold

17. HIGHER EMOTION
I have three treasures that support and protect

The first is compassion
The second is moderation
The third is daring not to be first in the world}
With compassion one becomes courageous
With moderation one becomes expansive
In daring not to be first in the world
One becomes the instrument of leadership
Lao Tzu

18. CENTERS
Pondering is thinking with the emotional center (its thinking sub-center)
'?'

19. HIGHER EMOTIONS
Peace has to be attained, but joy must be generated. Joy is the affirmation of reality.
'?'

20. REAL I
'Adoration is an emotional element in Real I'.
'?'

21. REAL I
Do not wait for death to reveal the great mystery. If you know not your Heavenly Father. While your feet tread dusty soil. There shall be naught but shadows for thee In the life to come.
Jesus Essein Manuscript

22. ADAM
The obvious is something which is never seen until it is said simply.
K. Ghian

23. ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY
"The veil is not in the mind, but in the heart. Only the heart will lift the veil."
E. J. Gold

24. REAL I
"If there is 'I' in one's presence, then God and the devil are of no account.
'G'

25. GROUP WORK
Here we can only direct and create conditions, but not help.
'G'

26. GROUP WORK
"Group is like playing 'musical chairs' - risk of loosing one s place, of being left standing and ultimately left out, or you are out of one chair and have not yet data for sitting in another chair."
'G'

27. EGYPTIANS WISDOMS 7 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

(1) Sense of presence and simplification
(2) Developed directed attention
(3) Serenity (loss of impatience, haste and instability)
     A. result of independence
     B. result of intentional passion
     C.  result of calm indifference
     D.  result of neutrality derived from transparency
(4) Appropriate gesture - right action/non-action
(5) Silence
(6) Gratitude
(7) Generosity 'freely ye have received, freely give'

28. HIGHER CENTERS
Evolved individuals lead other by:
Opening their minds
Reinforcing their centers
Relaxing their desires
Strengthening their character
Lao Tzu

29. REAL WILL
Patience is the mother of will. If you have no mother how can you be born.
'G'

30. PRAYER
... the heart is not made pure by prayer.. .but rather the prayer is made pure by the pure heart.
Echart

31. INDIVIDUALITY
The universe does not attract us until housed in an individual.
Emerson

32. HIGHER MIND
"Light is the cause of the eye."
Goethe

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