The American Rosicrucian Order - ARO  

The Loge de Parfaits  - Established in Louisiana in 1764

<< Previous    1...   57  58  [59]  60  61  ...75    Next >>

WHETHER YOU CHANGE YOUR VOCATION OR NOT, your actions for the present must be those pertaining to the business in which you are now engaged. You can get into the business you want by making constructive use of the business you are already established in — by doing your daily work in the certain way. And insofar as your business consists in dealing with other people, whether personally or by letter, the key thought of all your efforts must be to convey to their minds the impression of increase. Increase is what all men and all women are seeking; it is the urge of the formless intelligence within them seeking fuller expression. The desire for increase is inherent in all nature; it is the fundamental impulse of the universe. All human activities are based on the desire for increase.  

People are seeking more food, more clothes, better shelter, more luxury, more beauty, more knowledge, more pleasure — increase in something, more life. Every living thing is under this necessity for continuous advancement; where increase of life ceases, dissolution and death set in at once. Man instinctively knows this, and therefore he is forever seeking more. Jesus sets this law of perpetual increase forth in the parable of the talents: Only those who gain more retain any; from him who has not shall be taken away even that which he has.  

<< Previous    1...   57  58  [59]  60  61  ...75    Next >>