Pekka Ervast's Esoteric Teachings – A Few Important Occult Skills
Pekka Ervast
Translated and edited by Antti Savinainen – Finland
Brothers,
I want to advise you on a few old occult skills suitable for every person who takes life seriously. When one becomes an esotericist, that is, when one has been a seeker after truth and then has made up one’s mind to walk in life towards the ideal which one has seen as a seeker after truth, almost without exception, one discovers that the so-called esoteric work which one has started to practice and perform becomes so important and wonderful a task that one almost feels the desire to neglect some of those other duties which belong to one as a human being. This is a very interesting observation to make about most aspiring occultists. It is quite a natural phenomenon and forgivable. No Master would condemn or criticize an aspirant who so completely, so wholeheartedly devotes themselves to the esoteric life that they forget and give less importance to everyday duties. No Master will judge them spiritually. But the Master who looks at them with gentleness knows that the great enthusiasm and zeal of the aspirant will sooner or later be reciprocated. The old occult rule says: “The one who wants to become an occultist in the practical and real sense of the word will first have to free oneself from the old karma.”