Try!

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Try! is an injunction frequently used in occult theosophical literature.

[look for He who seeks us finds us--Try]

As in the primitive days of Socrates and other sages of antiquity, so now, those who are willing to learn the Great Truth will find the chance if they only “try” to meet someone to lead them to the door of one “who knows when and how.”

A Rosicrucian had to struggle ALONE, and toil long years to find some of the preliminary secrets—the A B C of the great Cabala—only on account of his ordeal, during which were to be tried all his mental and physical energies. After that, if found worthy, the word “Try” was repeated to him for the last time before the final ceremony of the ordeal. When the High Priests of the Temple of Osiris, of Serapis, and others, brought the neophyte before the dreaded Goddess Isis, the word “Try” was pronounced for the last time; and then, if the neophyte could withstand that final mystery, the most dreaded as well as the most trying of all horrors for him who knew not what was in store for him; if he bravely “lifted the veil of Isis,” he became an initiate, and had naught to fear more. He had passed the last ordeal, and no longer dreaded to meet face to face the inhabitants from “over the dark river.”

With each morning’s awakening try to live through the day in harmony with the Higher Self. “Try” is the battle-cry taught by the Teachers to each pupil. Naught else is expected of you. One who does his best does all that can be asked.

It is characteristic of the letters written to Colonel Olcott by the Master Serapis that often. He gives the exhortation “Try”. This seems to be a call to the aspirant's will power, as can be gathered from the following letter:

For he who hopes to solve in time the great problems of the Macrocosmal World and conquer face to face the Dweller, taking thus by violence the threshold on which lie buried nature’s most mysterious secrets, must Try, first, the energy of his Will power, the indomitable resolution to succeed, and bringing out to light all the hidden mental faculties of his Atma and highest intelligence, get at the problems of Man’s Nature and solve first the mysteries of his heart.

The closing of a letter from Mahatma K.H. to Laura Holloway was "Try, child, HOPE, and accept my blessings".

To Mohini he said: "go forward to your end thro’ all obstacles and overbearing all opposition. Try and you will succeed".

Master Hilarion transmitting a message from the Maha Sahib to ... wrote: "Try, try—try! He says."

be not discouraged, but try, ever keep trying;* twenty failures are not irremediable if followed by as many undaunted struggles upward

at all events Try. “Nothing was ever lost by trying.” . . . we have our own peculiar modes of expression and what lies behind the fence of words is even more important than what you read. But still — TRY.

“THINK; and thinking, TRY: the goal is indeed worth all the possible effort.”

To fervent and persevering candidates for the above science, I have to offer but one word of advice, “Try and become.”

We have one word for all aspirants: TRY.

To know, to will, to dare and to keep silent.