Theosophy and Life's Deeper Problems: Being the Four Convention Lectures Delivered in Bombay at the Fortieth Anniversary of the Theosophical Society, December, 1915 — John Shaqi
Theosophy and Life's Deeper Problems: Being the Four Convention Lectures Delivered in Bombay at the Fortieth Anniversary of the Theosophical Society, December, 1915Besant, Annie
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Theosophy and Life's Deeper Problems: Being the Four Convention Lectures Delivered in Bombay at the Fortieth Anniversary of the Theosophical Society, December, 1915
Besant, Annie
Theosophy
The only other point that you have to remember is that all this is done
under inviolable Law. "As you sow, so shall you reap." There is a great
verse in a Christian Scripture too often forgotten by Christians: "Be
not deceived; God is not mocked; whatsoever a man soweth, that shall
he also reap." No use for substitution; no putting on of an imputed
righteousness; no safety by a Saviour; you must reap your own harvest,
you must work out, earn, your own salvation for yourself. But this
remember: that your only limitation in taking up the strength of God
lies in you, and not in Him. That is where the doctrine of so-called
Divine Grace comes in. As the Sun shines all around you, as the Sun
shines upon your house, you may close all the shutters, and say: "I
don't want light; I shut my windows and my doors against the incoming
rays of the Sun." So may you say to the Supreme Sun, the Light and
the Life of the Universe: "I shut against you the doors of my heart;
I don't want you to penetrate within me. I close my doors; I close my
windows; your light shall not illuminate my Soul." And the answer of
the Divine is: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man open,
I will come in." There lies what men call Divine Grace. The grace is
ever there, shining upon your closed shutters. You may shut your door;
there is no change in the effulgence of the Sun. And so there is the
Divine Light ever around you. You turn your backs upon it, and you say
that it is dark; you have refused to see the Light, and you dwell in
the shadow that you yourselves have made. Well, stay there, as long
as you will. Play with the toys, as long as it pleases you. But know,
that the day will come when the breaking of the toys will leave you
desolate, and then you will open your hearts to the Supreme Love, and
say: "Light, come in, and fill my heart with Thyself, for Thou and I
are one, we were never separate; and I, the child of Man, recognise my
birthright, and I claim, in the Self-realisation of my Divinity, the
fruition of my life as Man."
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