The Path

by Noel Ikan Astillero, TSP/Vidya Lodge

09 June 2012, Manila

I was taught that a Path exists,

But to travel it, one has to read;

Volumes upon volumes of Theosophic lit,

They fill my Mind -

But after all: "Where is the Path?"

The Path is found, not in books,

But in Life.

The books suggest -

A truth one never knows exist

Until at last, Life tests it on the ground;

Then a lesson is learned

As one treads the ground.

It is not the number of books,

They say;

Nor the number of seminars

Or conversations with Brothers Theosophists;

But deep within one's Inner Self,

A seed is sown,

That one day soon,

A lotus or an oak has grown.

It is thus about Theosophic truths:

Unless the lotus or the oak has grown,

Ne'r in the Path has thou trod

For floating in lessons

Thou art lost!