| 11.) From Lord's Agni Yoga Teaching: (i) “When the emanations of the human body can be projected on a screen, you will then discern with special clarity the hideousness of a dual existence, when the face shows benevolence but thought grinds its knife.” ( Signs of Agni Yoga (1929, 4th Edition), 341.) (ii) “… Evil is connected with hypocrisy and the personal ego.” ( Signs of Agni Yoga (1929, 6th Edition), 483. ) (iii) “People will come and assert that even the highest Teaching does not satisfy them. They still desire something else. … “Their dissatisfactions springs too often from a desire for personal gain. Infinity itself has no lure for such hypocrites. They are interested only in an ardent quest of physical delights. They will not linger long near the Teaching; they will depart as soon as they sense the spiritual, not the physical. “It is precisely such people who, failing to find pieces of silver, become the most dreadful traitors. Thus, neither the power of Grace nor Aum will affect or illumine them—the coal black heart remains black and is reduced to ashes.” ( Agni Yoga, Aum (1936), 26. ) |
| (iv) “The Thinker also said to His disciples, "Betrayal is born in the house of hypocrisy, and history records betrayal as the basest crime. I do not need to tell you this, since you know enough about the supposed nobility of people, and also about their criminality. …” ( Agni Yoga, Supermundane I (1939), 189. ) (v) “Heartless thinking is the plague of humanity. Ancient philosophers did not include heartless people in their concepts of government. Plato in his Republic and Aristotle in his Politics had in mind organized societies of intelligent co-workers, and did not tolerate tyrants, hypocrites, or swindlers. It is impossible to imagine a strong state consisting of hypocrites and swindlers. “Hypocrisy is incompatible with the highest beliefs and knowledge, and a false foundation will serve only a false structure. We do not approve of the slightest manifestation of hypocrisy, and believe that this vice begets all other corrupt feelings.” ( Agni Yoga, Supermundane I (1939), 244. ) (vi) “… And there is inscribed upon the Shield of Light[:] Honesty, Devotion and Self-Abnegation. “But fearful are the records of darkness. Let the hand of the disciple refrain from inscribing upon these permanent scrolls[:] Lie, Hypocrisy, Betrayal, Selfhood.” ( Agni Yoga, Fiery World III (1935), 7. ) |