Julia Seton

“ After all, we cannot face anything but our own desires; why should we fear in the now the things which our souls loved in the forgotten past? The brave soul longs for freedom, balance, more than for anything else; and he will stand with uncovered head, or kneel in silent consecration, commanding from out of the Infinite the precipitate of all that is less than freedom for his evolving soul. There is nothing that can have any power over a soul victorious; all the elemental consciousness of many millions of years will sink into oblivion before the calm determination of an illumined life. ”

“ The life that would build sublime and lasting things to stand the test of time, must drop its consciousness into the Absolute, and sink the string of thought into the fathomless!
Lights and shadows are strangely blended all along the human pathway; so from the very center of the deeps of life the incense of our illumined selves must still send up a faint sweet breath outward and onward,--then the breadth as touched by the golden reed is equal.
Again, the height of the perfect self is also measured. No house so low but it must have a window opening to the sky. ”

“ Every one carries with him, in his aura, the finer etheric vibrations of his life; and these, translated into smell, reveal his place in the scheme of all things. The drunkard, the prostitute, the thief, the liar, the glutton, the murderer, at heart, all have the odor of their own vibration, and no matter how beautiful they may appear externally, no matter how much they deceive the uninitiated, the Illuminatus can stand before them, or across the room, or even with a wall between, and by the almost imperceptible perception of his higher sense of smell can gain the truth of their soul position. ”

“ Life may be easy and the first place to make it so is in the mind and emotions. You may have to fast more than once to arrange your whole universe, but just for the fast time as if it really existed and take all the emotional rapture you can out of it.
What if you do live in a fool’s paradise? Just live in it long enough and it will be true. The “Land of Make Believe” is the only real world anyway, and whenever we are supra-human enough in the face of apparently overwhelming conditions to idealize the real, we must come by the very law of ideality itself to realize the ideal. ”

“ There are so many who live, move and have being in a world of realization and never get farther than that in their unfoldment.
It is not enough to possess anything in thought that does not fulfill. We want to "kiss the lips of our desires". There are many who feel rich in their being, yet are ever counting pennies; many who feel strong as a gaint inside, yet falter when needed to lift a pound, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak; there are many who have a constant well-spring of love and usefulness in consciousness but who never find an outlet to their deep wells. ”

“ In this moment of glorified illumination we feel and know that every moment behind us has been that this hour may be; we feel then that every moment is a special moment; every life a special life, protected by the all life, and that everything on our human pathway, high or low, has led us on to this supreme moment of conscious union with our God.
When the Christ Consciousness is risen within us, we feel the universality of life written everywhere on everything; there is but one starting point for all thought--God. There is but one ending place for all human faith--God. ”

“ The higher Law of Understanding is always a lamp to his feet, the wonderful senses of our physical body are linked with the wisdom of the universe; and through these, the higher consciousness leads, directs and inspires the human heart.
Sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell,–these together form the life line for the whole human race. Blest indeed is he who, turning inward for his light, finds that intensified union of all these senses which can lead him fearlessly along the sharpest precipices of life. ”

“ This is the unswerving emotional attitude for the initiate and when we fast, magnetizing ourself again and again with the rapture of being alive, the emotional body swings free into the divine law of finer functioning and body, mind and emotion receive the great magnetic, electric, radiant currents flowing through our centers. We are a new mold around which the higher intelligence of a higher world swings into order. We can say “Peace be still” and at our command the wild emotions or the unexpressed sea of our urging soul–beats its waves into repose. ”

“ Above all the seeming limitations of our human consciousness and our limited understanding, revelation and prophesy will sweep into the soul when we have fulfilled the law, and uplift our mind to a great endeavor.
The voice of the Infinite is calling us today, just as it has called to men of all races throughout all time, and as soon as the human mind looks up and seeks and asks, it finds. The answer is already written; waiting for that supreme crest in race consciousness when, like a mountain peak, the rising intelligence unites with its source. ”

“ After a while a new thought form body is built and we have created the habit of right breathing, speaking and thinking; our mind is as clear as a crystal, and our blood current runs bounding through our veins, fresh, pure, carrying to every tissue in our body, the right amount of vital blood. Our flesh is renewed through the renewing of our mind; we find that the things we sought are seeking us and that, through fasting, we have made ourself a higher magnet to attract to us from out the universal the things we so desired. ”

“ If we want to heal ourselves we stand with our whole life open to the positive creative Cosmic currents and let them beat through us and around us; we will then and there to pass our whole being into union with every creative universal force, and to feel the power of its energy sweeping through us; we hold our life to this higher understanding until the great flood tide of the universe comes sweeping along our veins and through our being, washing away in its resistless force all the lesser moorings which hold us to the thoughts of disease or decay ”