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Who is a master?

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He [Master] is a man in whom Divinity is unfolded, who has gradually and slowly opened out, and made manifest the God withing. He has trodden the ordinary path of man, and then climbed the steeper Path, which rises to what, in modern days, has been called the Superman, the superhuman state, where human perfection is accomplished

The Masters and the Way to them, 1912

Was born on: 01.10.1847
About Author: Prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule

Concentration

In concentration, the consciousness is held to a single image; the whole attention of the Knower is fixed on a single point, without wavering or swerving

Thought Power: Its Control and Culture, 1903

Splendid privilege of man

Yet that is the most splendid privilege of man, that the true birthright of the human Spirit, to know his own Divinity, and then to realise it, to know his own Divinity and then to manifest it.

The Masters and the Way to them, 1912

Stronger thinker

A thinker who is stronger than we are can materially aid us, for he sends out vibrations of a higer order than we are able to create. A piece of iron lying on the ground cannot start heat vibrations on its own account; but if it happens to be placed near a fire, it can answer the to the heat vibrations of the fire, and thus become hot.

Thought Power: Its Control and Culture, 1903

Control of the tongue

Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

The Masters and the Way to them, 1912

Flesh of a slaughtered animal

no one can eat the flesh of a slaughtered animal without having used the hand of a man as slaughterer. Suppose that we had to kill for ourselves the creatures whose bodies we would fain have upon our table, is there one woman in a hundred who would go to the slaughterhouse to slay the bullock, the calf, the sheep or the pig?

Speech at Manchester, UK, October 18, 1897

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