By Paul Brunton
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Behind the original lamp-glass the third, or you had a red made rather the original white light, would still be shining. Can you say THE INNER REALITY 48 there are three different lights ? No, for ultimately it is really one and the same light manifesting through all the three. And so with the consciousness of spirit. The consciousness by which you work and move and act throughout the day is essentially spiritual, only it is coming through some dim and rather remote window-panes, through the intellect, and through the body, and we do not recognize it as the inner light.
Thus they were in the world, but not of it. If the world had captured them, they would not have had the strength to go back they would have failed to pass the test. But those antique Mystery-schools and those spiritual training systems do not exist today they have disappeared. Life itself has become our Mystery-school. It is training us and teaching us. Life is our modern school. We find our sacred lessons and our divine initiations through daily living. We enter our battle-ground here. It is not only a battle-ground of material and economic forces, but also a battle-ground of the soul.
So the second condition which made them ready was humility. They were humble inwardly, which meant that they were teachable. The average man is not humble; he may outwardly so, but inwardly he sets up mental resistance and and builds walls of prejudice against truth. Humility barriers, consists in haying a perfectly open mind^ as though you were riewand being able to receive with complete faith not only the Jborn, words of those who know, but what is still more important, that which is behind the words, which is Spirit.