Paul Brunton: Emotions and Etics/The Intellect

The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

Volume Five

Larson, 1987

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The question is whether…to accept the baser weaknesses as human or…to struggle against them as unworthy of a human being.

Unsound theoretical principles can never lead to sound practical deeds.

A small mentality can only mangle a large truth.

– P. B.

In A Search in Secret Egypt, P.B. wrote briefly of “the street that grows red flowers” – one of seven steps awaiting all who would enter the secret chamber of the heart’s mysteries. Emotions and Ethics, Part 1 of this fifth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton, is a detailed guide to this pivotal stage of spiritual development. It shows clearly how to claim one’s full humanity through controlling, purifying, and transmuting the flowers of passion inherited from our animal nature.

Part 2, The Intellect, evaluates the thinking faculty. It demonstrates the transformative potential, and the limitations, of intellectual understanding in spiritual practice.