Choose Now Your Path

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He who lives the life shall know the doctrine.

"Those who follow the path of faith or the heart, use water, and are known as the Sons of Seth while those who follow the path of mind and action are the Children of Cain, who was the son of Samael, the Spirit of Fire."

"There are those who have for ages labored with man to help him to kindle within himself this spark, which is his divine birthright. It is these who by their lives of self-sacrifice and service have awakened and tended this fire, and who through ages of study have learned the mystery it contained, that we now call the "Initiates of the Flame."

"They have shown us the way, they have led man to the gateway of the unknown, and there in their robes of glory passed be- hind the Veil. Their lives were the key to their wisdom, as it must always be. They have gone, but in history they stand, milestones on the road of human progress. Let us watch these mighty ones as they pass silently by.

First, Orpheus, playing upon the seven stringed lyre of his own being, the music of the spheres.

Then Hermes, the thrice greatest, with his emerald tablet of divine revelation. Through the shades of the past we dimly see Krishna, the illuminated, who on the battle- field of life taught man the mysteries of his own soul.

Then we see the sublime Buddha, his yellow robe not half so glorious as the heart it covered, and our own dear Master, the man Jesus, his head surrounded with a halo of Golden Flame, and his brow serene with the calm of mastery.

Then Mohammed, Zoroaster, Confu- cius, Odin, and Moses, and others no less worthy pass by before the eyes of the student.

They were the Sons of Flame. From the Flame they came, and to the Flame they have returned. To us they beckon, and bid us join them, and in our robes of self -earned glory to serve the Flame they love.

They were without creed or clan ; they served but the one great ideal. From the same place they all came, and to the same place they have returned. There was no superiority there. Hand in hand they labor for humanity. Each loves the other, for the power that has made them masters has shown them the Brother- hood of all life."

http://archive.org/stream/initiatesofflame00hall - The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall