This at once imposes upon him a far higher code of social ethics than that which is known to the outer world, for he knows that he must control not only his acts and his words, but also his thoughts, since they may produce effects more serious and more far-reaching than their outward expression in the physical world.  He knows that even when a man is not in the least thinking of others, he yet inevitably affects them for good or for evil.  In addition to this unconscious action of his thought upon others he also employs it consciously for good.  He sets currents in motion to carry mental help and comfort to many a suffering friend, and in this way he finds a whole new world of usefulness opening before him.

He ranges himself ever on the side of the higher rather than the lower thought, the nobler rather than the baser.  He deliberately takes the optimistic rather than the pessimistic view of everything, the helpful, rather than the cynical, because he knows that to be fundamentally the true view.  By looking continually for the good in everything that he may endeavour to strengthen it, by striving always to help and never to hinder, he becomes ever of greater use to his fellow-men, and is thus in his small way a co-worker with the splendid scheme of evolution.  He forgets himself utterly and lives but for the sake of others, realizing himself as a part of that scheme; he also realizes the God within him, and learns to become ever a truer expression of Him, and thus in fulfilling God’s Will, he is not only blessed himself, but becomes a blessing to all.

INDEX

Adept, causal body of 45-8
  further evolution of 13
  is on summit of human evolution 13
  level of 13, 119-21
  work of 119-20

Adepts, as members of Hierarchy 13
  first of Earth 129
  from Venus 131-2
  Great Brotherhood of 12-4, 117-8, 132
  many degrees of 13
  men have become 13
  some are Masters 14
  some remain with mankind 22
  some take apprentices 100

Adeptship, older egos nearing 126

AEonian condemnation 119-20, 133

AEther, breath, blown into 19
  bubbles in 19-22, 23
  density of 19
  mean pressure of 19
  of space 18
  ultimate atoms formed in 19

Age or dispensation 13

Air, nature spirits of 84

Ancient Wisdom, The 1

Androgynous man 130

Angels, approach men through ceremonial 85
  guardian 54
  hosts of 11
  Kingdom of 84
  of the law of cause and effect 100

Animals, additional evolution of 131
  are our younger brothers 141
  distinction between man and 40
  domestic 38
  heads of types of 38
  individualization of 38-40
  man’s emotions act on 38
  man’s thoughts act on 38
  Moon-, came to Earth chain 128
  Moon-, individualize 126, 131
  seven types of 37, 38
  souls of 33