The Mighty Potency of the Progressive Mind

A Master of Wisdom · The Masters Speak Series · 13 pages

Thirteen pages in *three numbered parts*, opened by an abstract and train of thoughts which gives each claim with its page number.

The first part contains the doctrine the file is named for. Two axiomatic truths are laid down — that cosmic energy is eternal and matter indestructible — and nature is described as working slowly but incessantly towards the evolution of conscious life out of inert material. On that basis the central claim is made: every thought passes into the inner world and, coalescing with an elemental, becomes an active intelligence, so that a good thought is perpetuated as an active beneficent power and an evil one as a maleficent demon. The same thing is then named in three vocabularies — the Buddhist calls this impulse-seed his Skandha, the Hindu his Karma — with the difference that the adept evolves these shapes consciously while other men throw them off unawares. The second part turns that into an obligation. Every form of life is sustained by countless other lives, and whoever offers nothing in return is likened to a thief; the building ant, the busy bee and the nest-building bird are said to accumulate as much cosmic energy in potential form, each in its humble way, as a Haydn, a Plato or a ploughman turning his furrow — and those who do not are held accountable in the degree of their intelligence. From this comes the file's judgement on science, which is severe but specific rather than general: exact experimental science has nothing to do with morality, virtue or philanthropy, and its cold classification of facts outside man can only benefit the careers of its professors. The measure proposed instead is stated at the outset — that neither physical nor metaphysical science interests the true philanthropist except in the degree of its potentiality for moral results and its usefulness to mankind. The third part concerns the adept as the efflorescence of his age, of whom few appear in a single century.

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