AUTHOR'S NOTE
I am Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. That is my only name, it is now my legal name, and I answer to no other. Many letters come to me with a weird conglomeration of names attached; they go straight in the waste paper basket, for, as I say, my only name is Tuesday Lobsang Rampa.
All my books are true, all my claims are absolutely true. Years ago the newspapers of England and Germany started a campaign against me at a time when I was not able to defend myself because I was almost dying from coronary thrombosis. I was persecuted without mercy, insanely.
Actually a few people were jealous of me, and so they collected “evidence,” but it is significant that “the collector of evidence” at no time tried to see ME! It is unusual not to give “an accused person” a chance to state his own story. A person is innocent until proved guilty; I was NEVER “proved guilty,” and never permitted to prove myself GENUINE!
The newspapers of England and Germany would not give me any space in their columns, so I have been in the unfortunate position of knowing that I was innocent and truthful, but unable to tell anyone my side of the story. One great television chain of stations offered me an interview, but they INSISTED that I say what they thought I should say, in other words, a lot of lies. I wanted to tell the truth, so they would not let me appear. Let me again state that everything that I have written is true. All my claims are true. My specific reason for insisting that all this is true is that in the near future other people like me will appear, and I do not desire that they should have the suffering that I have had through spite and vicious hatred.
A large number of people have seen my absolutely authentic papers which prove that I have been a high Lalna of the Potala in Lhasa, Tibet, and that I am a qualified Doctor of Medicine trained in China. Although people have seen those papers they “forgot” when the press came prying around.
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Will you, then, read my books bearing in mind my positive assurance that the whole thing IS TRUE? I am what I claim to be.
What am I! Read my books and you will see!
T. Lobsang Rampa,
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FOREWORD
This is a very special Course of Instruction for those who are sincerely interested in knowing the things which have to be known.
At first it was intended that this should be in the form of a Correspondence Course, but then it was realized that with all the organization necessary each student would have to pay a fee of about thirty five pounds for the Course! So, with the cooperation of my Publishers, it was decided to produce it in book form.
You will appreciate that normally in a Correspondence Course there would be certain questions which a student would want to ask, but I cannot undertake to answer questions arising from this book because—
A poor wretched Author does not make much out of books, you know he makes very little indeed, and often an Author will receive letters from all parts of the world, and the writers “forget” to include return postage. The Author is then faced with the choice of paying himself or ignoring the letter.
In my case, very foolishly, I have borne the cost of the printed paper, having the stuff typed, paying the postage, etc. etc., but it makes all this too expensive, and so I am not at all prepared to answer any questions or letters whatever unless people bear that point in mind.
You may be interested as a Reader to hear this; I have had letters telling me that my books are too expensive and would I send free copies. I had one letter from a person who said that my books were too expensive, and he asked me to send him an autographed copy of each of my books, and as an afterthought he added two other books by two other Authors and he asked me to give him those also. Yes, I did reply to his letter!
I tell you emphatically that if you read this book you will derive much benefit from it; if you study this book you will derive much more benefit from it. To help you, you will find included the Instructions which would have gone out with the Correspondence Course.
Following this book there will be another book containing
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monographs on various subjects of occult and everyday interest, and also containing a very special form of Dictionary, an explanatory Dictionary, and having tried to get such a book from various countries throughout the world I decided to write one myself. I regard this second book as essential to the complete and most beneficial understanding of this, the first of the two.
T Lobsang Rampa.
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INSTRUCTIONS
We—you and us—agree going to have to work together so that your
psychic development may proceed apace. Some of these Lessons
will be longer and possibly more difficult than others, but these
Lessons are not padded; they contain, so far as we are able, real
“meat” without fancy trimmings.
Select a definite night each week on which to study this Lesson-
work. Get into the habit of studying at a certain time, at a certain
place, at a certain day. There is more to it than just reading words
because you have to absorb ideas which may be very strange to
you, and the mental discipline of regular habits will assist you
enormously.
Have some place—some room set aside—where you can be
comfortable. You will learn more easily if you are comfortable.
Lie down if you prefer, but in any case adopt an attitude where
there is no strain upon muscles, where you can relax so that the
whole of your attention may be given to the printed words and
the thoughts behind them. If you are tensed up much of your
awareness is devoted to sensing the feeling of tenseness! You want
to make sure that for an hour, or two hours, or however long it
takes you to read the Lesson-work, no one will intrude upon you
and break your trend of thoughts.
In your room—your study—shut the door. Lock it, for pre-
ference, and draw close the blinds so that the fluctuations of day-
light do not distract your attention. Have just one light on in the
room, and that should be a reading lamp placed slightly behind
you. This will provide adequate illumination while leaving the rest
of the room in suitable shade.
Lie down or adopt any position which is quite comfortable and
restful. Relax for a few moments, let yourself breathe deeply, that
is, take perhaps three really deep breaths one after the other. Hold
the breath for three or four seconds, then let it out over a period of
three or four seconds. Rest quiet for a few more seconds, and then
pick up the Lesson-work and read it. First read it easily—just
work through it as if you were reading a newspaper. When you
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have done that, pause for a few moments to let what you have so
lightly read sink into your subconscious. Then start all over again.
Go through the Lesson—work meticulously, paragraph by para-
graph. If anything puzzles you make a note of it, write it down on a
conveniently placed note book. Do not try to memorize anything,
there is no point in being a slave to the printed word, the whole
purpose of Lesson-work such as this is to sink into your sub-
conscious. A conscious attempt to memorize often blinds one to
the full meaning of the words. You are not entering into an
examination where parrot-like repetition of certain phrases is all
that is required. You are, instead, storing up knowledge which can
set you free from the bonds of the flesh and enable you to see what
manner of thing this human body is, and determine the purpose
of Life on Earth.
When you have gone through the Lesson-work again, consult
your notes and ponder over the points which puzzle you, the
points which are not clear to you. It is too easy to just write in to
us and have a question answered; that will not cause it to sink into
your sub-conscious. It is kinder and better for you that you should
THINK of the answer yourself.
You must do your part. Anything that is worth having is worth
working for. Things which are given away, free, are usually so
given because they are not worth charging for! You must open
your mind; you must be willing to absorb new knowledge. You
must “imagine” that knowledge is flowing into you. Remember,
“As a man thinketh, so is he.”
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LESSON ONE
Before we attempt to understand the nature of the Overself or
deal with any “occult” matter we must be sure that first we
comprehend the nature of Man. In this Course we shall use the
term “Man” to indicate man and woman. Let us at the outset
state definitely that woman is at least the equal of man in all
matters relating to the occult and extra-sensory perceptions.
Woman, in fact, often has a brighter aura and a greater capacity
for appreciation of the various facets of metaphysics.
WHAT IS LIFE?
Actually, everything that exists is “life.” Even a creature which
we normally term “dead” is alive. The normal form of its life
may have ceased-as it would have done for us to term it dead—
but with the cessation of that “life” a fresh form of life took over.
The process of dissolution creates life of its own!
Everything that is vibrates. Everything consists of molecules in
constant motion. We will use “molecules” instead of atoms,
neutrons, protons, etc., because this is a Course on Metaphysics,
not a Course of Chemistry or Physics. We are trying to “paint a
general picture” rather than go into microscopic detail on
irrelevant matters.
Perhaps we should say a few words about molecules and atoms
first in order to appease the purists who otherwise would write in
and give us knowledge which we already possess! Molecules are
small, VERY small, but they can be seen by the use of the electron
microscope and by those who are trained in metaphysical arts.
According to the dictionary, a molecule is the smallest portion of
a substance capable of independent existence while retaining the
properties of that substance. Small though molecules are, they are
composed of even smaller particles known as “atoms.”
An atom is like a miniature solar system. The nucleus of the
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atom represents the Sun in our own solar system. Around this
“sun” rotate electrons in much the same way as our solar-system
planets revolve around our Sun. As in the Solar-system, the atom
unit is mostly empty space! Here, in Figure One, is how the
carbon atom-the “brick” of our own Universe-appears when
greatly magnified. Figure Two shows our Solar-system. Every
substance has a different number of electrons around its nucleus
“sun.” Uranium, for example, has ninety-two electrons. Carbon
has only six. Two close to the nucleus, and four orbiting at a
greater distance. But we are going to forget about atoms and refer
only to molecules. . . .
Man is a mass of rapidly rotating molecules. Man appears to be
solid; it is not easy to push a finger through flesh and bone. Yet
this solidity is an illusion forced upon us because we too are Man-
kind. Consider a creature of infinite smallness who can stand at a
distance from a human body and look at it. The creature would
see whirling suns, spiral nebulae, and streams akin to the Milky
Way. In the soft parts of the body-the flesh-the molecules
would be widely dispersed. In the hard substances, the bones, the
molecules would be dense, bunched together and giving the
appearance of a great cluster of stars.
Imagine yourself standing on the top of a mountain on some
clear night. You are alone, far from the lights of any city which,
reflecting into the night sky, causes refraction from suspended
moisture-drops and makes the heavens appear dim. (This is why
observatories are always built in remote districts.) You are on
your own mountain-top . . . above you the stars shine clear and
brilliant. You gaze at them as they wheel in endless array before
your wondering eyes. Great galaxies stretch before you. Clusters
of stars adorn the blackness of the night sky. Across the heavens
the band known as the Milky Way appears as a vast and smoky
trail. Stars, worlds, planets. Molecules. So would the microscopic
creature see YOU!
The stars in the heavens above appear as points of light with
incredible spaces between them. Billions, trillions of stars there
are, yet compared to the great empty space they seem few indeed.
Given a space ship one could move between stars without touch-
ing any. Supposing you could close up the spaces between the
stars, the molecules, WHAT WOULD YOU SEE? That micro-
scopic creature who is viewing you from afar, is he-it-wondering
that also? WE know that all those molecules which the creature
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sees is US. What, then, is the final shape of the star formations in
the heavens? Each Man is a Universe, a Universe in which planets
-molecules-spin a...
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