Gems of Mysticism

Gems of Mysticism groups together treasured thoughts golden in their wisdom and luminous with love.

To think much about your shortcomings and limitations is to give them life and force, for thoughts are things and create after their kind.

Determine to think strength, love, and confidence, until you draw them to you and build them into your life.

If you stumble, do not waste a moment's thought over it; remember the lesson, and say—

I must be up and doing. That is past and gone and it will not hold me back.

Just go about your Father's business each day, accomplishing the tasks that are yours—

Each day, doing the little things; bright-eyed, clear-visioned and with a cheerful countenance, seeing the stones and ruts in your path, but able to see how to step over or around them because the Light within your heart has become the light of your world, combining Love and Wisdom.

Every positive stand you take builds character, increases your strength, lifts you out of your negative state, gives you the power to conquer your weaknesses, and tends to make promptness, courage, resolution and trust, habits, which will replace the negative habit of making excuses.

Truly, nothing can hold you back unless you hold to it.

There is no royal road to Divine Wisdom.

There is, however, a straight and narrow path to spiritual unfoldment. 

It is found only by wedding Knowledge to Understanding, and Love to Wisdom. 

It must be trodden step by step, often in weariness, and with bleeding feet.

If you control one selfish trait, which before held you captive, you may know that you have taken a real step upward.

And the first, and greatest of all magical powers to be attained by the pupil of Mysticism, is the magical power of controlling himself; of day after day mastering the little things, with no heroics, perhaps with no one to commend him or realise that he is making any effort, yet, still controlling his little tempers, his little impatiences, little acts of selfishness, his tendency to criticise, and all the little, trifling things he knows are wrong, but which seem too petty to be worth mentioning. 

The building of these little lessons into his life is the most practical formula that can be given to him.

Victory over discouragement is one of the greatest victories you can win.

A kind word spoken even to a stray dog will not return to you void.

Let each Soul take the little grains of experience in his or her nature, learn the lessons from them, and build around them, layer after layer of love and devotion until they become pearls of Wisdom.

He that is with you (your Higher Self) is greater than he (the personality or lower self) that is against you.

The first Gate to be passed is the attainment of Charity and Tolerance for all; a realisation of Divine Love, and an earnest desire to become one with The Christ-force, which is manifesting in your fellow man. 

This is the first Gate to be entered because intolerance is a bar to further progress.

Find yourself, do your own thinking, and live true to your own divine guidance.

You are often told to live close to Nature, yet very few understand the significance of that injunction—

In Nature, you will find an explanation of every experience through which you pass.

Truth is more than merely refraining from speaking falsely. 

It means being true in every phase of your thoughts, desires, and life; being true to your Divine Self. 

Let Truth search out every hidden fault and failing that you may recognise, and correct it. 

Have no false conceptions, no veils to hide your real character from you. 

Above all things be true.

Think true. Act true. Live true.