| 4. Through wrong Direction of Ideas. This
is due to the fact that, as yet, the disciple does not see the picture as it is. His
horizon is limited, his vision myopic. A fraction or a fragment of some basic idea
impinges upon his consciousness and he interprets it as belonging to a range of activities
with which it may have absolutely no relation at all. He therefore starts to work with the
idea, distributing it in directions where it is entirely useless; he begins to clothe it
in form from an utterly wrong angle, embodying it in such a way that its usefulness is
negated. Thus, from the very first moment of contact, the disciple has been suffering from
illusion and as long as this is persisted in, the general illusion is strengthened. This
is one of the most ordinary forms of illusion, and is one of the first ways in which the
mental pride of the disciple can be broken. It is illusion through an initial
misapplication, leading to a wrong use or wrong direction of the idea.
- Its cause is a small and non-inclusive mind.
- Its cure is the training of the mind to be inclusive, well-stocked and well
developed from the angle of modern intelligence.
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