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The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett) “Self-seeking for the brute,—for Man the Sacrifice of Self; the world’s thrones for the weak and foolish,—Self-empire for the Strong and Wise; Hatred grown into Love, and all the darkness of Ignorance illumined by the Light of Lights, which is the Law of Uttermost Compassion:—thus shall [...]

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett) “that which is to-day but an ideal and an aspiration, will, if the Conservation of Energy hold good in the noetic world, as we believe it does, to-morrow have blossomed in a life wherein these things are hopes and dreams no longer; but part of the [...]

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett) “‘evil’ for the Buddhist is that which brings suffering in its train; and how the world we live in, and the destiny we bear,—its meed of pleasure and of pain,—is made in the greater part of the mental Doing we inherit; just as the world a [...]

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett) “as might be expecteced in a Religion where Theology and Pneumatology play no part, Ethics takes in it the foremost place” [via]

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett) “It is the darkest hour in all the evolution of a man, this realisation that the Self that he has striven to perfect and work for is no more than a delusion;—but it is also the darkest hour which goes before the dawn;—for soon that darkness [...]

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett) “When we have learned that Noble Truth of Sorrow, learned in deep meditation on the world about us how all must come to death and are doomed to Woe, Hatred is surely vanquished, giving place to Love:—for who should hate, once he has understood and known?” [...]

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett) “How many of our hopes, our aspirations or our proud ideals remain as we had hoped and dreamed but yesterday; or which of all our great desires or high ambitions shall endure even for the little span of our poor human lives?” [via]

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett) “he is the Builder of a future which no illusion of himself can inherit, and the one Law of all his being is uttermost Compassion, his life lived only for love’s sake, lived only to alleviate the sorrows of the world” [via]

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett) “wherever that ill delusion of the Higher Selfishness exists in man, there is his altruism tainted” [via]

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett) “there is here no Self, or yet no other than Self” [via]