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...The true student is cutting out a finer character from the rough ashlar that has been given him...

 ...He is struggling to improve each day just a little, asking not for power or light but for strength 

to shape his destiny more truly to the standards of Wisdom...

...These are the labors of the student... 

...His worthiness to receive greater knowledge is tested by long years of ignorance, often by much 

suffering... 

...Through all he must be obedient, patient, and true, realizing that each sorrow is an opportunity, 

each misfortune a lesson in disguise... 

...These lessons he must learn; when this task has been done, they vanish to return no more...

- Manly Palmer Hall -

Excerpted from "What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples" 

©1982 by the Philosophical Research Society (originally published in 1925)