| 2.) Aspirants: a.) “Aspirants can choose to eat meat or not as they prefer, but at a certain stage upon the path it is essential that all meat eating of every kind be stopped, and the strictest attention must be paid to diet.”* 3.) Disciples: a.) “This sixth Rule is the polar opposite of the rule as it was given to applicants. There, if you will refer to my exegesis upon that rule in Initiation, Human and Solar, you will find that the objective of that rule was physical purification with the emphasis upon the need for a vegetarian diet at a certain stage of the preparatory process…The rule as given to applicants consequently concerns their ability to accept and adhere to a self-imposed discipline.”† |
| *** References from Master DK: about Food Diet & Spirituality 1.) Applicants: a.) “The lower nature becomes clogged and heavy, and the inner blaze [solar fire] cannot shine forth when meat is included in the diet. “This is a drastic rule for applicants, and may not be violated.”* b.) “It must, of course, here be recognised that no hard or fast rules can ever be laid down, except the initial one that for all applicants for initiation meat, fish, and fermented liquors of all kinds, as well as the use of tobacco, are absolutely forbidden.”* |
| * Master DK, through Alice Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar |
| † Master DK, through Alice Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations |