The Wheel turns and unless we are alert an opportunity is snatched or taken, for us or against us. In a place, which you shall see, the Nine have preserved for centuries a truth—knowledge of...

And forget not this: that outward semblance of authority is nota necessary symptom of its essence. There are men in high placewho have no authority at all beyond what indolence confers becausethe indolence of many...

I am a lama,” said the man in yellow. “It is lamas who identifyincarnate Buddhas. If I say the Lord Chenresi is among us, somewill listen. Some of high rank will confirm my word. It...

Of every ten who tread the Middle Way to Knowledge there are ninewho turn aside through avarice, though not all avarice is born ofbelly-hunger or the greed for gold. Some seek preeminence, sucheminence as they...

You may be sure of this, my son: that no decision you may take,nor any course, will meet with universal favor. Though you turnto the right or to the left, or go ahead, or turn...

They’re hypnotists. They’re incredibly expert psychologists. Andthey’re just as keen on getting control of the whole world as, forinstance, the Bolshevists are. They believe in their black scienceas enthusiastically as the Bolshevists believe in communism–muchmore...

I, myself, searched for Sham-bha-la for eleven years.I am perhaps a little wiser than I was, but it may be I am onlylazy and afraid. At any rate, it seems to me a waste of...

Teach a child arithmetic,” he said at last, “and he can use it tocheat with, can’t he? Teach a man the laws and forces of theuniverse, and he can turn them against his teacher, can’t...

There be many gurus, and some good ones whom it is no great taskto differentiate, seeing that those who make the loudest claimare least entitled to respect. They who are the true guides intoKnowledge know...

Oh, would thatI had died the way the Sikh did! I can not go forward. I shallnot submit to being made to see more clearly than I do. Yet, ifI turn back I am self-confessed...

Since dugpas wished to get you out of here, where you were safe, howelse should they expel you than by causing you to expel yourselves byviolence? When fools make war they expend their resources squanderingmoney...

Consider this, my son: this earth-life is a little time, of whicha third is spent asleep. What went before it, and what cometh after,are a long time–verily a time too long for measurement. Shall webe...