Try!

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

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.

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