Light on the Path and Through the Gates of Gold

Produced by Rose Koven, Juliet Sutherland, Edna Badalian and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team
The present edition of LIGHT ON THE PATH is a verbatim reprint of the 1888 edition (George Redway, London) in which later edition the NOTES by the Author first appear. The COMMENTS, which are not in the 1888 edition, are here taken directly from Lucifer , Volume I, 1887-8, where they were first published.
Also in this volume we reprint verbatim the original edition (1887) of THROUGH THE GATES OF GOLD by the same Author, together with a commentary by William Q. Judge taken from his magazine, The Path , March, 1887.
Light on the Path
A Treatise
Written down by M.C.
with Notes by the Author
These rules are written for all disciples: Attend you to them.
Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear, it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice can speak in the presence of the Masters it must have lost the power to wound. Before the soul can stand in the presence of the Masters its feet must be washed in the blood of the heart.
1. Kill out ambition.
2. Kill out desire of life.