• Altruism is the mark of a superior being. • All is within yourself. Know your most inward self and look for what corresponds with it in nature. • The seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously sending roots into the ground. • The seed includes all the possibilities of the tree. ... The seed will develop these possibilities, however, only if it receives corresponding energies from the sky. • Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for new growth to begin. • Man, know thyself ... and thou shalt know Amen.
Readiness or preparedness for admitance 1. Control of thought 2. Control of action, or Justice (i.e., the unswerving righteousness of thought and action). 3. Steadfastness of purpose, or Fortitude. 4. Identity with spiritual life, or higher ideals (i.e., Temperance which is an attribute attained when the individual had gained conquest over the passionate nature). 5. Evidence of having a mission in life, 6. Evidence of a call to spiritual Orders of the Priesthood in the teachings; the combination of which was equivalent to Prudence or a deep insight and graveness that befitted the faculty of seership. 7. Freedom from resentment, when under the experience of persecution and wrong. This was known as courage. • Confidence in the power of the master as teacher, • Confidence in one's own ability to learn; both attributes being known as fidelity.