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"The Discipline of the Path cannot be learnt from books, it is experience alone which brings realization. Let us therefore accept our karma as the first initiation. Let us strive for a mastery of ourselves and our circumstances which shall give us serenity under all conditions. What cannot be cured must be endured; this is the first lesson which karma teaches us. The Adept is a man of unruffled serenity, for he is a man of perfect self-control. Let us strive for mastery of the inner astral kingdom of the emotions; once we have acquired this, we have the key of the astral plane in our hand ready for the time when the Initiator shall bring us to the door..."