Julia Seton

“ Nations may come and go, wax strong and perish into nothingness but, still higher than the changing law of time and ignorance, there will always be the voice of the Eternal Truth speaking its message into the minds of Illumined men. Amid the world throng there will always be those, who, pushed by the power of a glorified conviction, will lift their life to the level of the universal life, so that, from the shores of infinite wisdom, great waves of truth, illumination and revelation will beat in upon them. ”

“ The true growth of the human soul is painless, and, knowing this, he turns his transcendental consciousness upon his flesh and heals it. Purified by his long fast, the cell consciousness of his body accepts the new invitation to peace and freedom. Every cell intelligence awakens to the new call, and night and day, works out triumphantly, the plus body. ”

“ Through fasting, breathing, thinking, feeling, being, we become individualized gods on this planet and can enter the eternal Orders of Health, Wealth, Love and Service, then, like a mighty magnet, draw others into these Orders. Those who pay the price of purification, discipline–which the Short Cut demands, will find as their ultimate possession and reward a new consciousness which embodies in super-human powers. ”

“ In the everyday life, we must all pass between the world of sense and the world of revelation. The Novitiate and the Initiate are side by side, and each takes his place in, and works with, the power of his own kingdom, and through this reaches complete Illumination.
Whenever or wherever the soul awakens to a great thirst for higher wisdom, it overcomes the limitations of the finite laws and counts as naught the self culture which these higher possessions demand of it. ”

“ The final gift to the one who faints not is Divine Revelation. With this SHORT CUT one becomes a Revelator and he has the light of higher wisdom over his path. The master said “He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness; he shall have the light of life” and those who develop this consciousness within, escape the dark miasma-laden swamps of human ignorance and walk in a light that is not only over all but in all. ”

“ Then, standing in the midst of the world of intelligence, himself a creator, a receiver, a distributor and an unfolder, he builds his own material world and says–“let there be light over his new universe.” He is universal intelligence, substance and force. He knows that he must manifest his own form, and that, in order to manifest it, he must command the Divine Intelligence around him. ”

“ It is filled with eternal possessions and any life, no matter where it may be in the lesser pathways or the broad, white ways of human ignorance, can find this straight and narrow path and build itself a way from the lowlands of human reality, into a new world of peace. ”

“ The plus man does not separate himself from his kind; he is only more closely identified with everything. His exiled human heart has only lost its life on a lower plane to find it on new levels of living. ”

“ What do I get to recompense me for the many human indulgences I am obliged to pass up in my search for the Higher Good?”
There is pleasure in self-indulgence, that one cannot deny, and there is hard discipline in this ceaseless round of self-denial and self-education. ”

“ Nothing in the common walks of life can interfere with the progress of these Illuminati; limitation is unknown to them. They simply absorb or dissolve the puny human laws which bind and hold the ordinary race man by meeting them with a perception which finds the higher laws. ”

“ Before we start to fast, we ask why we should fast, and after we have fulfilled all the laws for the Short Cut we have a right to demand that we shall have, as a permanent possession, some things that are worth while.
We have followed for an ultimate good and we demand that the end shall justify the means. The Human Mind is so constituted that no effort, sacrifice or endurance is too great if it brings the desired end and aim ”