Thought for the Day

'First, it the battered earth weary aspirant who has to struggle with desire, with glamour, with ambition, and with its sensitive emotional body. It thinks the battle is stupendous but from the wider angle it is relatively small - yet all that it can stand.

Later, it is the experienced probationary disciple who wrestles in the vale of illusion, and deals not alone with its own nature but with the forces of that vale also, recognising its dual nature. Then, the disciple comes forth to battle and faces with courage (and often with clear vision) the forces arrayed against it. They involve not only those in his own nature and in those aspects of the astral plane to which it naturally reacts ...'

Taken from 'A Treatise On White Magic' by Alice.A. Bailey
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