“Through the sounding of the Word and through reflection upon its meaning, the Way is found.”

— Patañjali

The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect : a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary by Alice A. Bailey, (1927)

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