The chela on a string.

The three halls of subjectivity, are stages of progress in human development.
1) The man who lives ignorantly in the world, attracted and repelled by the
things around him. Impelled to action by his own uncontrolled passions
and desires.
2 ) The man who is learning that Nature has definite laws, and is realizing
that by working with them he can gain more power than he had in the days
of his ignorance. That is the hall of learning.
3) The man who has realized, that there are spiritual laws, and is learning
to obey them. He knows about reincarnation, and karma, the ethical and
the moral laws that govern the progress of his own soul, and those of others.
He is aware that the outer things exist only for the purpose of the evolving
soul. He lives according to this knowledge. He is in the hall of wisdom.

1) If thou would cross the first hall safely, let not the mind mistake the fires
of lust that burn therein for the sunlight of life.
2) If thou would cross the second safely, stop not to smell or inhale the blossom.
If freed thou would like to be, from karmic chains, seek not the teacher
in those mayavic regions.

The wise ones tarry not in pleasure grounds of the senses. the wise ones
pay no attention to the sweet tongued voices of illution.

Seek for Him, who is to give thee birth in the Hall of Wisdom. The hall
which lies beyond, where all shadows are unknown, and where the
light of truth shines with unfading glory.

Do not believe that lust can ever be killed out if gratified or satisfied,.
It is by feeding vice that it expands and waxes strong, like to the
worm that fattens on the blossoms heart.

The rose must re-become the bud, born of its parent stem, before the
parasite has eaten through its heart, and drank its life sap.
The golden tree, puts forth its jewel buds before its trunk is withered
by the storm. The pupil must regain the child state he has lost before
the first sound can fall upon his ear. Keep the eye fixed to the goal,
and go straight ahead.

Till then a task far harder still awaits thee. Thou has to feel thyself all
thought, and yet exile all thought from out thy soul.
Thou has to reach that fixity of mind in which no breeze however
strong, can waft an earthly thought within.
Thus purified, the shrine must be all action, sound or earthly light
be void, just as the butterfly is overtaken by the frost, it falls lifeless
at the threshold. So must all earthly thoughts fall dead.
Behold it is written:
" Ere the gold flame can burn with steady light the lamp must stand well
guarded in a spot, free from all wind " Exposed to shifting breeze,the
jet will flicker, and the quivering flame cast shades, deceptive, dark,
and ever changing, on the Souls white light.