It is the authentic personal training equity of every individual being to be blessed to break forth all the miseries of vitality. Supreme is the natural state, as normal as the landscapes and the seasons. It is unwonted to suffer and it is only because of our blindness that we do suffer. Sunshine is the issue of undeceived powers and substantive training. To attain prevalent cognitive powers, to comprehend fully the intent of life, to realize prevalently the relevancy of human beings to each other, is to put an end to all suffering, to escape every ill and evil that afflicts us. Prevalent cognitive powers is unshadowed delight.

Why do we experience pain in life? Because in the design of nature we are being forced ahead in development and we lack the subconscious illumination that alone can light the form and enable us to move safely amid the obstacles that lie prior us. Typically we do not even see or presume the coexistence of trouble until it immediately leaps upon us like a concealed beast. One day our family ring is entire and joyful. Afterwards finality has come and gone and ecstasy is replaced with pang. Today we have a buddy. Shortly he will be an opponent and we do not see truly. A little while ago we had fortune and all material luxuries. There was a sudden modification and now we have only exigency and unhappiness and yet we search in vain for a key this should be. There was a time when we had health and strength and belief in personal training. Then they have vanished and no dash of a personal problem appears.

Aside from these greater tragedies of life innumerable things of lesser consequence continually bring to us little miseries and minor heartaches. We most earnestly desire to avoid them through personal training but we never see them until they strike us, until in the darkness of our ignorance we blunder upon them. The things we lack is the metaphysical illumination and personal training that will enable us to view far and broad, finding the hidden causes of personal suffering and revealing the method by which they may be avoided; and if we can but reach luminosity the evolutionary voyage can be made both comfortably and swiftly. In the darkness our personal growth would be slack and aching. But if we could press a button that would turn on the electric light we could then make the same journey quickly and with prevalent safety and comfort.

The old method of edification, personal training was to store the intellect with as many facts, or supposed facts, as could be accumulated and to give a sure exterior gloss to the personality. The theory was that when a man was born he was a prevalent human being and that all that could be done for him was to load him up with information that would be used with more or less skill, according to the native ability he happened to be born with.

The theosophical idea is that the physical man, and all that constitutes his life in the physical world, is but a very partial expression of the self; that in the ego of each there is practically unlimited power and cognitive powers; that these may be brought through into expression in the physical world as the physical body and its invisible counterparts, which together constitute the complex vehicle of the ego’s manifestation, are evolved and adapted to the purpose; and that in exact proportion that conscious personal training effort is given to such self-development will spiritual illumination be achieved and cognitive powers attained. The ray that leads to self worth is kindled from within and the evolutionary trip that all are making may be robbed of its suffering.

Why does death bring misery? Chiefly because it separates us from those we love. The alone other cause why death brings sorrow and fear is because we do not realize it and admit the part it plays in individual evolvement. But the moment our ignorance gives way to comprehension such fear vanishes and a serene happiness takes its place. Why do we have opponents from whose words or acts we ache? Because in our limited bodily consciousness, which is a result of scarcity of personal training, we do not perceive the totality of all life and realize that our wrong thinking and doing must recoil upon us through other persons a situation from which there is no chancy escape except through ceasing to think evil and then patiently awaiting the time when the causes we have yet generated are fully exhausted. When spiritual brightness comes, and we no longer trip in the night of unfamiliarity, the last opposition will disappear and we shall make no more forever.

Why do people suffer from poverty and disease? Only because of our blundering ignorance that makes their existence possible for us, and because we do not comprehend their meaning and their lessons, nor know the attitude to assume toward them. Had we but the cognitive powers to understand why they come to people, why they are necessary factors in their evolvement, they would trouble us no longer. When nature’s lesson is fully learned these mute teachers will vanish and we’ll have true personal training.

And so it is with all modes of suffering we experience. They are at rarely reactions from our puzzled blunderings and instructors that point out the propitious way. When we have comprehended personal training lessons they teach they are no longer necessary and disappear. It is not by the accidental acquirement of facts that men turn out clever and great. It is by developing the soul from inwards until it illuminates the intellect with that flood of light called genius.

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