Meditation Has Been Defined As

The Secret Doctrine Is The Common Property Of The Countless Millions Of Men Born Under Various Climates, In Times With Which History Refuses To Deal, And To Which Esoteric Teachings Assign Dates Incompatible With The Theories Of Geology And Anthropology.

The Appearance And Disappearance Of The Universe Are Pictured As An Outbreathing And Inbreathing Of The" Great Breath," Which Is Eternal, And Which, Being Motion, Is One Of The Three Aspects Of The Absolute - Abstract Space And Duration Being The Other Two.

Everything Lives And Perishes Through Magnetism; One Thing Affects Another One, Even At Great Distances, And Its "congenitals" May Be Influenced To Health And Disease By The Power Of This Sympathy, At Any Time, And Notwithstanding The Intervening Space.

Help Nature And Work On With Her; And Nature Will Regard Thee As One Of Her Creators . . . She Will Lay Bare Before Thy Gaze The Treasures Hidden In The Depths Of Her Pure Virgin Bosom.

Never Allow Any Unnecessary Or Vain Thought To Occupy Your Mind. This Is More Easily Said Than Done. You Cannot Make Your Mind A Blank All At Once. So In The Beginning Try To Prevent Evil Or Idle Thoughts By Occupying Your Mind With The Analysis Of Your Own Faults, Or The Contemplation Of The Perfect Ones.