heart) must be full of the feeling of its non-separateness from the rest
of beings as from all in Nature; otherwise no success can follow.

8. A _Lanoo_ (disciple) has to dread external living influence alone
(magnetic emanations from living creatures). For this reason while at
one with all, in his _inner nature_, he must take care to separate his
outer (external) body from every foreign influence: none must drink out
of, or eat in his cup but himself. He must avoid bodily contact (i.e.,
being touched or touch) with human, as with animal being.

[No pet animals are permitted, and it is forbidden even to touch
certain trees and plants. A disciple has to live, so to say, in his
own atmosphere in order to individualize it for occult purposes.]

9. The mind must remain blunt to all but the universal truths in
nature, lest the "Doctrine of the Heart" should become only the
"Doctrine of the Eye," (i.e., empty exoteric ritualism).

10. No animal food of whatever kind, nothing that has life in it should
be taken by the disciple. No wine, no spirits, or opium should be used;
for these are like the _Lhama-yin_ (evil spirits), who fasten upon the
unwary, they devour the understanding.

[Wine and spirits are supposed to contain and preserve the bad
magnetism of all the men who helped in their fabrication; the meat
of each animal, to preserve the psychic characteristics of its
kind.]

11. Meditation, abstinence in all, the observation of moral duties,
gentle thoughts, good deeds and kind words, as good will to all and