Quotes by C. W. Leadbeater

“It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.””

“others find themselves with increasing frequency seeing and hearing something to which those around them are blind and deaf; others again”

“I am not suggesting that every one in ancient Egypt was altruistic, any more than are all the people in modern England. But I do say that the country was permeated with joy and fearlessness so far as its religious ideas were concerned, and that every one who by any stretch of courtesy could be described as a religious man was occupied not with thoughts of his personal salvation, but with the desire to be a useful agent of the divine Power.””

“In Co-Masonry the term “lore” is employed as describing all these scriptures, since in the use of them we are in pursuit of wisdom. The term “law” is used in many other Lodges, but even then it is explained in the ritual that the object of the Volume of the Sacred Law is to illumine our minds.””

“for the only way to succeed is to decline to admit the possibility of failure.””