st of immortality--kind words and deeds;
principle maintained; a wrong forgiven; a service cheerfully extended; a
tolerance and generosity for the mistakes of others as well as for your
own. These seem small things to the personal self--the ambitious, the
gloating, the sense-desiring self of the personality; we scarcely take them
into account, but to the Self that is seeking immortality, these are the
grains of wheat from the load of chaff; the diamond in the carbon; the
wings upon which the spirit soars to realms of bliss.

_Meditate upon this sutra._

"By perfectly concentrated meditation upon the heart, the interior being,
comes the knowledge of consciousness."

The heart is the guide of the inner nature, as the head is of the outer.
Love, the Most High God, is not born in the head, but in the heart. The
heart travails in pain through sorrow and loss and compassion and pity and
loneliness and aspiration and sensitiveness; and lo! there is born from
this pain, the spiritual Self, which embraces the lesser consciousness,
enfolding all your consciousness in the softness and bliss of pure,
Seraphic Love--the heritage of your immortality.

_Meditate long and wisely upon this sutra._

"Through perfectly concentrated meditation on the light in the head, come
the visions of the Masters who have attained; or through the divining power
of intuition he knows all things."

There is a point in the head, anatomically named "the pineal gland"; this
is frequently alluded to as the seat of the soul, but the soul is not
confined within the body, therefore, it is in the nature of a key between
the sense-conscious self and the spiritually conscious Self; it is like a
central receiving station, and may be "called up," and aroused to
consciousness by meditation. Realizing and focusing the light of the
spiritual nature upon this part of the head, opens up those unexplored
areas of consciousness in which the masters dwell, and the student knows by
intuition, which is a higher aspect of reason, many things which were
heretofore incomprehensible to the merely sense-conscious man.

The spiritual Self is not a being unlike and wholly foreign to our concept
of the perfect mortal-man; all the powers of discernment which we find in
mortal consciousness are accentuated, intensified, refined; all grossness,
all imperfections and embarrassments removed; pleasure sensitized to
ecstasy; love glorified to worship. "Shapeliness, beauty, force, the