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1. "Each disciple should be strictly vegetarian. The lower nature becomes clogged and heavy and the inner blaze cannot shine forth when meat is included in the diet. This is a drastic rule for applicants (to The Path of Initiation) and may not be violated. Aspirants (on The Path of Probation) can choose to eat meat or not as they prefer, but at a certain stage upon The Path (of Discipleship) it is essential that all meat-eating of every kind be stopped, and the strictest attention must be paid to diet. A disciple must confine himself to vegetables, grains, fruits, and nuts. Only thus can he build the type of physical body which can stand the entry of The Real Man (The Higher Self) Who has stood in his subtler bodies before The Initiator (The Hierophant at The Initiations)."
"It must, of course, be recognized 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. For those who can stand it, eggs and cheese are sometimes better eliminated from the diet, but this is not in any way compulsory. It is advisable always that those who are in process of developing psychic faculties of any kind should not permit themselves to eat eggs and very little cheese. Milk and butter come under a different category, and most Initiates and applicants find it necessary to retain them in diet."
"There is a need that all applicants must have common sense. Unbalanced fanatics are not desirable members of The Hierarchy. Equilibrium, a just sense of proportion, a due regard for environing conditions, and a sane common sense are the marks of the true occultist. When a real sense of humor exists likewise, many dangers will be avoided. Also, there should be a recognition of time and an ability to move slowly when effecting changes in the diet and in the habits of a lifetime. Everything in Nature progresses slowly, and applicants must learn the occult truth of the words, 'Make haste slowly'. A process of gradual elimination is usually the path of wisdom."
2. "As the disciple lives a regulated life, avoids meat, nicotine, and alcohol and practices continence (sexual), the pineal gland becomes no longer atrophied but resumes its earlier activity."
3. "A hindrance (on the occult path) is found in the physical body which has been built up by the aid of meat and fermented foods and drinks and nurtured in an environment in which fresh air and sunlight are not paramount factors. When fresh fruit and vegetables, clear water, nuts and grains, cooked and uncooked, form the sole diet of the evolving sons of men, then will be built bodies fitted to be vehicles for highly evolved Egos (Higher Selves or Souls)."
4. "Those who seek to read The Akashic Records or who endeavor to work upon The Astral Plane with impunity and there to study the reflection of events in The Astral Light correctly have perforce and without exception to be strict vegetarians. Only those who have been for 10 years strict vegetarians can work thus in what might be called the 'record aspect of The Astral Light'. When they add to their purified astral and physical bodies the light of reason and illumination of the focused mind (which is very rarely found), then they become accurate interpreters of astral phenomena."
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