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Light on the Path

1885

Mabel Collins

1851–1927

YogeBooks

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Light on the Path

A Treatise Writen for the Personal Use of hose Who

Writen Down By M. C.

Are Ignorant of the Eastern Wisdom, and Who Desire to

Enter Within Its Inluence.

Introduction

classic among occultists, and is the best guide known for

those who have taken the irst step on the Path of Atainment.

Its writer has veiled the meaning of the rules in the way always

customary to mystics, so that to the one who has no grasp

on the Truth these pages will probably appear to be a mass

of contradictions and pratically devoid of sense. But to the

one to whom a glimpse of the inner life has been given, these

pages will be a treasury of the rarest jewels, and each time he

opens it he will see new gems. To many this litle book will

be the irst revelation of that which they have been all their

lives blindly seeking. To many it will be the irst bit of spiritual

bread given to satisfy the hunger of the soul. To many it will be

the irst cup of water from the spring of life, given to quench

the thirst which has consumed them. hose for whom this

book is intended will recognize its message, and ater reading

it they will never be the same as before it came to them. As

the poet has said: “Where I pass all my children know me,”

and so will the Children of the Light recognize this book as

for them. As for the others, we can only say that they will in

time be ready for this great message. he book is intended to

symbolize the successive steps of the neophyte in occultism

as he progresses in the lodge work. he rules are pratically

those which were given to the neophytes in the great lodge of

the Brotherhood in ancient Egypt, and which for generations

have been taught by guru to chela in India. he peculiarity of

the rules herein laid down, is that their inner meaning unfolds

as the student progresses on the Path. Some will be able to

understand a number of these rules, while the others will see

but dimly even the irst steps. he student, however, will ind

that when he has irmly planted his foot on one of these steps,

he will ind the one just ahead becoming dimly illuminated, so

as to give him conidence to take the next step. Let none be

T he following treatise, “Light on the Path,” is a