Geoffrey Hodson’s Teachings – Part 2

Druidism, it seems, is the most modern and most direct form of the preserved Mysteries, especially in the secret rites.

Be well advised to have the Adepts at least in the back of your mind.

The Solar Logos is not someone else!

The high Arhat and the Adept have, in fact, outworked all their adverse karma, paid at every level all their debts to life and living beings.

The most mysterious and the most powerful condition in the world is STILLNESS.

Every Initiate and every Adept must be a vegetarian. Such is one of the Great Laws.

There is always progress – especially every time a person sincerely meditates.

The brain cells, when used for contemplation of supra-mental and spiritual ideals, become increasingly responsive to abstract and intuitive thought.

The difficulties of the path produce stress and storms because the pressure from the Monad is ceaseless, causing increasing tension in the physical vehicles until it almost becomes insupportable. An assisting deva has special directions to minimize this difficulty as much as possible.

The cure to eliminate all excess of personal pride is to replace it with a growing indifference to the opinions of others.

Success will be difficult unless love for humanity is the motive.

The highest position one can occupy in the Brotherhood is to be known as a worker-to-be-counted-upon at all costs to oneself.

Resistance only complicates and delays the balancing of the scales under karmic law. Resign, retreat, withdraw, be still, inwardly at peace, caring naught: this is the ideal in the face of affronts and rudenesses, all of which are tests for the aspirant who is being weighed in the balance, in preparation for advance.

Every Initiate of the Mysteries lives a secret life. That is why Initiates permit themselves to appear before men even as fools.

There never was an Initiate who was not seriously constricted by karma and criticized and condemned by non-Initiates by the thousand. The Masters have all been through it.

Karma can greatly limit the aspirant until after the Fourth Initiation, when the final debts are paid, and, like the Christ, the Arhat walks lightly over the waters of life.

Sodbury Hill near Bath seems to have been one of the sacred mountains of long ago. It is still charged with very powerful occult and magnetic forces. A great golden Angel is established at the hill dating from very ancient times. He appears to be an angel representative of the Second Ray. A pilgrimage to the hill can be a very valuable experience even today, and if, later on, the force center is opened up, vast reservoirs of power could be liberated and employed

The name of a thing is the power of a thing; and the name of a man is the power of a man.

The work of the leader is to live ahead, think ahead, plan ahead of those whom he or she would lead. The work of the teacher is to show them the reason why and the means whereby they may serve.

Study consists of taking an idea and thinking it right through and not stopping until you have done so, however many lives it may take.

Become completely dispassionate concerning worldly repute. When recognition in any form comes, offer it at once to the Master, for it is His.

In the occult life you must not only be as a “horse”, but as a “race-horse”.

Tenderness to error is treason to truth.

For the personality to establish union with aloneness, it has to experience pain, suffering, and loneliness.

Loneliness stills the restless mind and, by its tears, melts the barriers around the heart.

A cool head, ice-cold reason – these are essential to a leader. To these must be added in the spiritual leader – complete dispassion. He desires nothing, asks for nothing, and expects nothing. At the heart of this quality of dispassion also resides unshakable determination and selfless will.

Serenity comes from knowledge of the divine design.

The two great powers of the true yogi are dispassion and will. Dispassion produces relaxation and will restore the Atmic fire. Together they ensure victory.

The great Saints reached their humility by great will.

Every time you meditate, you increase the number of fruitful molecules in the brain.

The loneliness of Arhatship is not all karma. It is an experience essential to self-emancipation from the illusion of separateness.

The real royalty on earth is not the kings, queens, and princes, but the Adept Hierarchy, its Initiates, disciples, and intelligent and selfless co-workers.

Every act of service to humanity and in Our Names erases or counterbalances karmic adversities.

The “Children of God” are called Arhats.

“Fishermen” are those human beings who were moved to become inspirers (catchers) of their fellow men, calling upon them to enter upon the way of the spiritual life and become disciples of a Master.

The Christ made two distinctions – between two sets of people, disciples and non-disciples, and two categories of language, natural and allegorical. Disciples could be taught direct, non-disciples in parables.

Those who dwell in the swamps (i.e. the ignorant) know it not.

Nevermore for self, only for all, must become the rule of life.

Human nature and human character undergo no change whatever immediately after death. Temperament, likes and dislikes, gifts, capacities, and for the post part memory at first remain unchanged.

One Order of Sephiras is the Auphanim or “Wheels”, so called in reference to the vortex, whirlwind or whirlpool producing action of the prime mobile (the beginning of whirling motions). From this Order are said to be drawn the Angels of the Planets, who are described in the First Chapter of Ezekial. The planetary correspondence is with the Zodiac.

When people combine in groups, their power to influence mentally the thought, character and conduct of others is multiplied. The service of such groups is of incalculable value. The existence of perfect harmony between the members of such groups is essential. There must also be wise direction and careful choice of both leaders and members.

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