Points to be considered for people on the path of Occult Meditation

The dangers of meditation are largely the dangers of our virtues, and therein lies much of the difficulty. They are largely the dangers of a fine mental concept that runs ahead of the capacity of the lower vehicles, especially of the dense physical...the absolute necessity is for the occult student to have a virile common sense for one of his basic qualities, coupled with a happy sense of proportion that leads to due caution and an approximation of the necessary method to the immediate need. To one therefore who undertakes wholeheartedly the process of occult meditation:

1. Know thyself.
2. Proceed slowly and with caution.
3. Study effects.
4. Cultivate the realisation that eternity is long and that that which is slowly built up endures forever.
5. Aim at regularity.
6. Realise always that the true spiritual effects are to be seen in the exoteric life of service.
7. Remember likewise that psychic phenomena are no indication of a successful following of meditation.

The world will see the effects and be a better judge than the student himself. Above all, the Master will know, for the results on causal levels will be apparent to Him long before the man himself is conscious of any progress.

-Holy Master D.K. through Alice Bailey , Letters on Occult Meditation