Guidelines for Admission to the Schools ( LOM p320)

The rules of admission into the preparatory school will be somewhat as follows, but I only indicate probabilities and not ascertained and fixed facts:-

1. The pupil must be free from obligatory karma and able to take the course without neglecting his other duties and family ties.

2. There will be no fees or money charged, and no money transaction.  The pupil must be somewhat self-supporting and able to earn the means of livelihood whilst in the school.  The schools in both their divisions will be supported through the voluntary contributions of people, and through a knowledge of the laws of supply and demand occultly interpreted.

3. The pupil must be able to measure up to the average educational standards of his day and generation and must show aptitude for some line of thought.

4. He must be seen clairvoyantly to have a certain amount of co-ordination and alignment and the causal body must be of a certain grade or quality before he is admitted.  Teachers of occultism waste not time on those not ready.  Only when the inner light shines forth, only when the causal body is of a certain capacity can the pupil profit by the curriculum.  Therefore, with the Head of the school will the final verdict lie as to whether a pupil may enter or not.  That word will be final, and will be passed after due inspection of the pupil by the Head of the school through clairvoyant and causal vision, and after reference to the man's own Master.

5. He must have demonstrated, by a previous period of service, his ability to work in group formation and to think in terms of others.

6. His past incarnations must he somewhat looked up, and the indications given through their study will guide the Head in his final decision.

7. The pupil must he over twenty-one and under forty-two years of age.

8. His etheric body must be in good condition and be a good transmitter of prana, and there must be no physical disease or handicapping physical deformity.

These are the fundamental rules which it is at present possible to give.  There will be others and the problem of selection may pass through some vicissitudes in solving.

The rules for admission into the advanced school are far more esoteric and fewer in number.  The pupils will be chosen from out of the preparatory school, after having passed through the graded courses.  But selection will depend not on the mental development and the assimilation of concrete knowledge, but upon the inner comprehension and the occult understanding of the student, upon the quality of the tone of his life as it sounds forth in the inner world, upon the brilliance of the indwelling light, and upon his power in service.