The Warrior

[QUOTING]

1. Stand aside in the coming battle, and though thou fightest, be not thou the warrior.

2. Look for the Warrior and let him fight in thee.

3. Take his orders for battle and obey them.

4. Obey him, not as though he were a general, but as though he were yourself, and his spoken words were the utterance of your secret desire; for he is yourself, yet infinitely wiser and stronger than yourself. Look for him, else in the fever and hurry of the fight you may pass him, and he will not know you unless you know him. If your cry reaches his listening ear, then he will fight in you and fill the dull void within. And if this is so, then you can go through the fight cool and unwearied, standing aside and letting him battle for you. Then it will be impossible for you to strike one blow amiss.

But if you do not look for him, if you pass him by, then there is no safeguard for you. Your brain will reel, your heart grow uncertain, and in the dust of the battlefield your sight and senses will fail, and you will not know your friends from your enemies.

He is yourself, yet you are but finite and liable to error. He is Eternal and sure. He is Eternal Truth. When once he has entered you and become your Warrior, he will never utterly desert you, and at the Day of Great Peace, he will become One with you.

From Light On The Path - Part Two - Mabel Collins

[END QUOTING]

Who is the Warrior? The Warrior is the Other One, the True Inner Man that is rising to wakefulness with the opening of the Rose of the Heart.

As we walk the Path, we will encounter obstacles with every step. If we try to fight these obstacles with our "I", we will most likely fail. Remember, the "I" cannot kill the "I". Therefore, whatever battles are to be fought , whatever obstacles have to be overcome, the "I" must  stand aside and allow the Other One within to wield the sword.

This is the epitome of self-surrender. The road we are walking, we do not walk alone. The trials we must face, we do not face alone. Whatever the challenge may be, always remember that it is not you who must battle the forces of the aeons of this nature, but the power of the Gnosis, the Other One within. There is your Warrior.

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