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1923_05_30 RELATION OF THE NATURAL FORCES TO THE HUMAN SOUL


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RELATION OF THE NATURAL FORCES TO THE HUMAN SOUL

 

 

 

Twenty-ninth lecture by The Master, held before the Youth Occult Class on May 30th, 1923, Sofia

 

 

 

- Only the bright path of Wisdom leads to the Truth.

 

- It constantly cheers us.

 

Reflection

 

A summary of the ninetieth lecture from year one is being read.

 

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  Figure 1

 

 

 

As disciples, you have to study the forces of Nature, because they have a relation to the human soul. Just as you are now studying Nature, on one hand, you are looking upon it as a reflection of your inner world, and on the other hand, you are looking upon the physical world outside of you, and are saying, “This is Nature.” No, the outer world, Nature, has to be studied in a special way. Imagine now, that in front of your eye C there is an object AB (Figure 1). You are watching from the outside and do not know what the object AB is. Let us assume that the light, to which your eye reacts, goes through it and casts a shadow. Because the rays go through the lens C of the eye and reflect on the other side, we receive an image, opposite of AB, and bigger than it – A1B1. The object AB is real; A1B1 is its reflection like in a mirror. After that you project the reflection A1B1 outwards anew, this reflection reacts upon the centre of your brain; this happens in several phases, which I will not explain now. After that you acquire a certain idea of the object, and start describing it. The object AB could be inanimate, or it could also be a man, about 165 cm tall – a normal measure of the average height of man. The height of this subject determines his aspiration for going upwards. The taller a man is, the more favourable the circumstances of his development. In the vegetable kingdom the height of plants, and trees, is also dependent on the conditions. When you enter a forest in which the trees are close to each other, you will notice, that every tree has an aspiration for growing aloft. There, a race between the trees is noticeable; each one of them wants to grow higher than the neighbouring ones. That aspiration is very natural; every tree wants to rise above the others, so that they do not shadow it, and do not deprive it from sunlight.

 

What is the difference between the tall and the short man? When we are speaking of a short or tall man, we need to have in mind in what way that man is short or tall. There are several types of heights: physical, moral, and intellectual. It is easy for man to measure his physical height, but how would he measure his moral and mental height? As I am looking upon this matter, it is notional. Why? - Because you do not see the inner links of Life. In this respect every science is only as real, as far as it has an application in Life. For everything you have to have a clear notion, not to be misled, not to waste your time in vain. And then you will know that the real actual Life is the spiritual one, because the quantities, with which it deals, are constant, unalterable. Do you think that the reflection, which has been obtained in your brain, will give you a real notion of the object? For instance, you meet a man who looks intelligent to you, noble, polite – this is the first impression of that man. A year later you already have a totally different opinion of him – you say, that this man is not as noble and intelligent as you thought. What proof did you have initially, on what was it based when you said that this man was noble and intelligent? If you asked a mathematician about the insignia or signs of something, he would immediately point them out, after which, based on them, he could solve any problem in the field of mathematics. Since he is able to solve any mathematical problem[1] he is a first-class mathematician.

 

Therefore, a first-class mathematician is the one who can solve not only the existing problems in the Cosmos, but also those that are yet to be solved. He solves all problems a hundred percent; the second-class mathematician solves seventy-five percent of the problems he is given, and the third – only twenty-five percent of all the problems. The last mathematician would be least useful to you – if he could illuminate you and advise you in twenty-five cases, in seventy-five cases he would mislead you. Such stages, such categories we see also in the moral life of men: a first-class moralist is the one who solves his problems a hundred percent; a second-class one is he who solves his problems seventy-five percent; and a third-class one – the one who solves his problems twenty-five percent. How many problems would you solve if you had a third-class teacher? Barely twenty-five percent. Do you think that this teacher would get you on the way with a hale spine[A1] ?stout back? You would meet the first-class teacher in the physical world, the second-class teacher – in the Spiritual world, and the third-class one – in the Divine world. As a standard for everything I take the measure seventy-five percent. If you want to know how strong you are, take a hundred-kilogramme sack and try to lift it; if you cannot, you will know that you are not a first-class champion; you would take twenty-five kilograms out of the sack, and try to lift it. If you can lift it, you are a champion of the second rank. He who can lift a sack weighing twenty-five kilograms is a champion of the third the rank.

 

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  Figure 2

 

 

 

And so, every idea which goes through your mind has to be definite. Once your ideas are clear and strictly defined, you will progress more and more, until you come to a gradual increase in the percentage. If you could once solve seventy-five percent of your problems, then you would solve seventy-six, seventy-seven percent, until one day you reach one hundred percent, when you would enter the category of first-class disciples. Those disciples live in the Divine world, where everything is alive and intelligent. In the Divine world all creatures think, and the legs of those creatures think as good as their heads – they solve problems with their legs the same way they solve them with their heads. The creatures of the Divine world have the shape of a circle and live in the centre of that circle. From the centre of that circle (Figure 2) radiuses reach out to every point of the circle. These radiuses are a projection of the thoughts, which[2] show that every fragment, every cell of those Creatures is alive, intelligent, and is able to think. They project their consciousness everywhere; Life in that circle is distinguished by its superior and intensive action. In the Divine world everything is in completeness – a hundred percent; in the Angelic world the action diminishes, it becomes seventy-five percent; when you come down to the physical world, the action grows even smaller – you have twenty-five percent conscious action, and seventy-five percent – unconscious. In other words, in the physical world twenty-five percent of the creatures are awake, and seventy-five percent are asleep; in the Angelic world seventy-five percent are awake, and twenty-five percent are asleep; in the Divine world a hundred percent of the Creatures are awake. Everybody can check that in himself: sometimes your mind is awake, bright, you think well; sometimes though some mental obscurity occurs, you cannot think correctly. Sometimes you think you have settled all matters in your life; other times you think you have not settled anything. Which category do you pertain to when you think you have settled something? (- To the third.) – In my opinion you are in a lower category – fourth, fifth, etc. If you were in the third category, you would have had a standard – twenty-five percent. You are lower than the category of twenty-five percent, where the illusions of life are born. That is the reason why quick and sudden changes happen to you – today you think of one thing, tomorrow – of another; today you believe in your friend, tomorrow you start doubting in him and become suspicious of him.

 

Now, have you taken into account what the sudden changes, which happen to man, are due to? Every change which creates declining conditions in man is due to an interruption of the connection between the Divine and the human world, or to an interruption of the connection between the Mental and Cordial world. Such interruptions also occur also in the moral world. To preserve his condition, so that no sudden changes happen in him, man must restore his connection with the Divine world, and restore the connection between his mind and his heart. For man to restore his connection with the Divine world, means to restore the connection between his mind, his heart, and his will. When he breaks that connection, man lapses into great obscurity, into darkness of consciousness, he walks here and there, wanders about; he cannot find shelter anywhere. What is the reason for this condition? The reason for it is his friends, with which he has been connected. He has connected with his friends the moment they have been in dusk, i.e. when they have been in respite. Everyone has experienced such a condition – you go from door to door, you knock here, you knock there – nobody answers. When you feel lonely, and abandoned, you say, “It is not worth living, friendship does not exist in the world.” Who is to blame for that? You are to blame, the mistake is in you yourselves – you have chosen the most disadvantageous moment for a visit. When you want to visit a friend of yours – go to him during the day, when the Sun shines, when he is awake, not when he is sleeping.

 

How can man free himself from the dark states of his spirit, from the obscure states of his consciousness? In order to free himself from these states, man has to channel his thought towards the Divine consciousness, which penetrates the whole Cosmos, and to connect with it without any criticism, with no doubt or hesitation. If he manages to do that, he will experience a pleasant mood, which will transform into a comely, warm feeling and the feeling will transform into a bright, elated thought. And then man will not even notice how his dark mood will disappear, will lift from his consciousness, as clouds disperse from the sombre, darkened sky.

 

In some cases worldly people are able to deal with these conditions easier than occult disciples, since they develop their practical mind, and employ only one philosophy. They do not jump from one philosophy to another; they do not look for and do not fix on the views of various philosophers, like some occult disciples often do. For instance, they do not fix on the views of some philosophers of the objective or outer world and the subjective or inner world, and then they say that the subjective world, i.e. that which man experiences within himself, is more real than that which surrounds him on the outside. Actually the subjective world has its own reflection on the objective world, and contrariwise - the objective world has its own reflection on the subjective world. In other words, every outer object reflects upon man, upon his subjective world, and every subjective experience of man has its own outer expression. As long as the outer world reflects on the inner world of man, he is not yet in the reality of Life; and as long as his inner world reflects on his outer world, he is not yet in the reality of Life. The Divine world is Absolute reality, without any reflection. When you climb up a ripe pear tree and taste its fruit, do you have to show interest in the shadow of that pear tree? Therefore, as long as he is interested in objective and subjective things, man lives with the shadows of things, he is still far from the Truth. For instance, somebody comes to you and says that someone has been saying bad things on your behalf; you immediately become prejudiced and are ready to break any relations with that man. Why do you rush to become prejudiced against that man? Above all this is a subjective opinion of those words of the man who said them, on your behalf. Whence do you know what the words you call insulting contain? Maybe that man had something completely different in mind when saying those words, and by some odd coincidence of conditions they sounded incorrectly in the ears of the one who delivered them. People in general succumb to certain coincidence of things, get influenced by them, and as a result they form distorted opinions. This is seen in the common relations among people, this is also seen in science. Such a coincidence exists between matter and the Spirit, because people take matter as something real, and the Spirit – as something unreal. The coincidence lies in the fact that because the human mind perceives the outer impressions through matter, it takes it as something real. Whether he would touch something, whether he would taste it, whether he would smell it, whether he would see or hear it, man would always make use of one of the five physical senses – that is why he says that everything in the world is matter. Man does not stop to think that when he touches with his hands they are nothing more than pincers which the Spirit uses. Matter represents the pincers of that intelligent factor – the Spirit, who truly examines and studies things. If the Spirit did not function in the hand, the tongue, the nose, the eye or ear of man, he would not know the outer world, or his inner world.

 

So matter represents outer tools which the Spirit uses. Matter represents a cumulation of living, but sleeping creatures, which the Spirit uses as subsidiary tools to reveal himself in the physical world. Without matter the Spirit cannot be revealed. Matter is a congregation of sleeping creatures; the Spirit is a congregation of awakened creatures, which at every moment are ready for activity, for creativity. When man is asleep, all images to him are scattered; when he is awake, all images to him are in a state of a consecutive, unbreakable connection. That is why when a man is said to be a materialist, it shows that he is in a sleeping state, a sleeping spirit; when someone is said to be a spiritual man or an idealist, it shows that he is already awake, he is up from a deep sleep; when someone is said to be a Divine man, it shows that he has already begun working, creating. And so, the materialist sleeps, the spiritual man awakens, and the Divine man works. These are states through which man goes not only once, but several times in his life – they reiterate.

 

Contemporary people, and particularly occult disciples, when they do not know these things, when they do not know the secrets of Nature, think they can achieve anything in a magical way – when they swing the magic wand everything sets according to their desire. However, they see that is not the way it happens. Somebody thinks of something – it looks like a piece of cake to him, when he takes it up he sees that nothing is coming of it. Another thinks of writing something grand, but when he sits to write it, he sees that it is not as easy as he had imagined. Every Divine idea or every Divine feeling that penetrates into the mind and heart of man is strictly defined – they do not accept any deficiency, or the slightest surplus. If you could express them as accurately as you have perceived them, you have used the magic wand. Thus carried out, the ideas or feelings bring in complete satisfaction, complete gratification to the human soul. If they are not carried out in this manner, in the soul of man a certain void remains, which he wants to satisfy in some way. And if he does not stumble upon some Divine idea or some Divine feeling, he will fill the void inside himself with something human, which will bring him a number of difficulties and hardships.

 

Now, as youths, the future stands before you, for which you have to work. Some of you study mathematics, others – philosophy, third – music, fourth – art, and so on. Is all of that an aim in your life? No, study of the various sciences cannot be an aim in the life of the disciple – it is only a means of achieving something. Why? Because if you entered the Divine world, you would see that sciences there have a completely different distribution than those on Earth. On Earth science serves only to connect the mind, heart, and will of man into one, i.e. to restore the connection between them. Once the connection between the mind, heart, and will of man is restored, simultaneously with that his connection with the Divine world, with the Lord, is restored. Without this connection man cannot think correctly, he cannot grow and develop correctly. During your current development, seventy-five percent inside you is hesitation, doubt, and only twenty-five percent is the positive. Since it is that way, keep the positive as a basis of your life, and build on it. Leave doubts aside, do not occupy yourself with them – they are an alien, dangerous area, which you must not enter. As disciples you have to increase your will, without being capricious; you have to develop moral feelings inside you, without affecting yourself; you have to give priority to ideas inside your mind, without stopping for transitional thoughts. Only in this way can you develop inside yourself something constant and positive, on which you can always rely.

 

For next time I will give you the topic, “The most definite thought of the human consciousness.” This topic refers to your current development, not to that which some writers, and generally some scientists and philosophers understand.

 

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    Figure 3

 

 

 

Now I would like to partially answer the question of from whence the contradictions in Life evolve. Imagine that point A of Figure 3 is a thinking creature which projects its thought in the direction of point B – a living object. In general the human thought always projects towards some living object. Someone would say he thinks about chalk. No, man cannot think about chalk, about black boards, or about any other inanimate object. Man is able to think about inanimate objects only as far as they are connected with a particular person, with some conscious creature. Man is able to think only about the living, the conscious, the noble, and the elated in the world; out of this, thought does not exist. If at the same time the creature D (Figure 3) projects its thought towards B, then A and D share a point of contact in their thought; that is the first meeting of these creatures in the physical world. If the creature D has a bigger ambition and wishes to infuse itself into A, the latter creature would feel the desire to run. Why? Because it cannot withstand that tension, that powerful energy; in it an explosion might happen, as a result of which it has the desire to run. The creature A is already in a certain contradiction. So the great love of people is sometimes the reason for contradictions in Life. In order to save themselves from contradictions, to the aid of the creatures A and D comes another creature C – with a higher consciousness, with bigger intelligence than theirs – and starts drawing them to itself. They immediately project their thought towards this new object C, direct their energies towards it, and in this way they find a purpose in their Life. In this case the purpose of the creatures A and D becomes more elated – they start moving not only in the physical, but also in the Spiritual world, thus creating the triangle ACD.

 

Therefore, in order to create an aim or some high ideal in the life of man, he has to, by all means, connect his thought with some other creature, and after that both of them together need to direct the energies of their thought to a third high, elated centre C. That centre, that object could be God. Only in this situation will man free himself from the contradictions. Because, when two people love each other, they have to direct their energies to a third centre C, common to both of them. That centre has to be some high ideal or some Elated creature, which is in a position to regulate the energies of the creatures A and D. Otherwise, should the energies be left to infuse into each other, they will collide, they will get lost in space. In order to prevent this from happening, the disciples of all schools are told: the disciple must have one credo, one ideal, one purpose! Whether you are musicians, poets, philosophers, or scientists, Love to God is preached to all. Let God be the centre C,; let Him be the object into which every soul aspires to infuse its energies. Only in this situation will man have a purpose which will make his life worthwhile. Therefore I say it to you too: determine yourselves! This means: create an ideal for yourselves, such a purpose, such an idea, such an object towards which you can safely direct your energies. That object can only be God. Two by two, all people must turn their steps towards this object. When, in the relations between two people, the slightest disharmony occurs, the slightest contradiction, this shows that they have betrayed their credo, they have lost their ideal, they have lost their purpose, towards which they have initially aspired.

 

And so, as long as man directs his thoughts and feelings towards a centre C with a higher consciousness than his own, he will always benefit from the Light of that consciousness, which will gradually increase. Should the consciousness of man bifurcate, he is already in front of another centre C1, as a result of which his Light diminishes. In this case contradictions are inevitable. Why? It is impossible for a seed to be sown and to grow in two places simultaneously. It is impossible for a walnut to be sown in two different places, however, in time, after that walnut grows and yields ten walnuts, there is a possibility for these ten walnuts to be sown in ten different places. In this case also the ten walnuts will have a common centre C, towards which they will aspire – that common centre is the Sun. Therefore, when two people love each other, their energies have to be directed towards the common centre C, in order to form the triangle ACD. Two other people again will form a triangle between each other, and so on; however, among all triangles there will be a certain correlation. All triangles have a common centre C. Only in this situation can souls develop correctly.

 

As long as this law is observed, the harmony between souls will not be disturbed; should this law be violated, all harmony disappears. When the disciples in the class do not have harmonic relations, the reason for this is due to a disobedience of the law. Many of the disciples are in the phase of infusion of the energies. In the physical world they are in that point where explosions happen – in this place particularly, bombs are created. If a certain desire is directed towards an object, which is an explosive substance, and this desire manages to pour out in a certain form, then the slightest quake is enough, the smallest lighter, for a big explosion to happen. Every suppressed desire in man is in a position to create an explosion. For instance, the son of some rich man desires to learn, to study abroad, however, the father opposes that desire. The son ostensibly acquiesces, but inwardly, during his whole life, he keeps in secrecy disaffection and ill-disposition towards his father, which will one day inevitably explode. In order not to fall into such situations, the disciple needs to differentiate his desires – those that are human, and those that are Divine; and then to give effect to the Divine ones, and to restrict and stop the human ones. Every Divine desire, every Divine impulse has to be realized – even if it costs your life, the Divine must be realized. One, who has, even for once, stopped and restricted the Divine within himself, has always regretted it. There is nothing more terrible for man than to stop the pace of the Divine beginning within himself. When such a soul goes in the hereafter and realizes what it has done, it starts to bitterly regret it, and wishes to return to Earth to correct its mistake. Every unrealized Divine desire leaves a void inside of man – this state could lead him to a certain mental derangement. Indeed, every man who has doubted in God or who has tried to oppose the Divine beginning within himself, has ended upeventually gone insane. This has been tried by many, take advantage of the experience of these people. Each doubt is a loss of basis, soil in Life, loss of a supporting point. Be careful of doubts, so that you do not lose the right direction in your Life. Always think straight – direct your thought upwards, towards the centre C, and do not worry about anything. – “Yes, but that guy insulted me. It is his fault I deviate from the right way.” No, no man on Earth can be a hundred percent guilty – always look for fifty percent of the guilt inside yourself, and fifty percent – in your neighbour. Should you impute all of the guilt to him, the matter will remain unsettled. Matters can be settled on condition that every man, in every case, considers himself fifty percent guilty, and; the remaining fifty percent should be distributed among his neighbours. Therefore, do not restrict the Divine within yourself, neither should you destroy it – it adds worth to man.

 

Having this in mind, you need to be attentive to every soul, to every man, because of the Divine within him. In the Divine world the soul represents a mathematical formula with a strictly defined quantity and value. Respect the soul because of the value, because of the worth which God has determined for it. Should you humiliate your soul or the soul of anybody else, you will inevitably come to grief. Do not say that you will never amount to anything. Acknowledge sincerely and deeply in yourself, that you have not utilized the circumstances which you have been given, and as a result, both now and in the future, a lot of work lies ahead of you. Every man has had both inward and outward favourable circumstances; everyone has had gifts that he has not utilized properly. Many, either because of submission, or because of some other reason, deny their gifts. No, everybody has certain gifts and abilities at his disposal, which he has to develop and apply in life. If he has no respect for his gifts, then every day man will put off his work for their development, or generally he will put off his work from today to tomorrow, until one day he finds himself in the condition of the servant who had buried in the ground the talent gifted by his master. Such is the case of the drunkard, who every day puts off his decision to stop drinking, and always keeps drinking. He gets up in the morning with a serious decision that from today on he will no longer drink; sometime later he goes out to the city, and when he sees some tavern, he drops by for a little while to have just a cup of wine. When he drinks one cup, he desires to have a second, third, fourth, and comes back home perfectly drunk. When he sobers up, he regrets that he has drunk, and again decides not to drink. Since he has made such a decision, he has to put a glass of clean water before himself, and say, “From this day on I stop drinking wine.” Then he has to raise the glass of cold water, and no longer look for any wine, no longer drop by at any tavern. Should he promise this to himself, he must absolutely carry it out. No postponement of promises!

 

As I disclose this example, I do not mean anybody in particular, but I am talking about the human behaviour in general. The human always displays in the same way, but in different forms. You meet two friends; at some time they start quarrelling between each other – one of them says an insulting word to the other, the other responds with several. The first one says, “I am sorry I said that insulting word to my friend. I want to reconcile with him, but before I reconcile, I will tell him one more thing, so that he understands me.” He then goes to his friends, tells him a couple of words, but his friend gets angry, tells him some heavy words, and instead of reconciling, they strain their relations even more. Why did that word have to be said? “To understand.” Let there be at least one uncomprehended word in the life of your friend. Often the Peace of man depends on one uncomprehended word. How can the Peace of man depend on the ignorance of one single word? Imagine that in your pocket you have a nice jewel; after you walk along, a couple of people, the honesty of whom you cannot depend on, do not know that in your pocket you have such a nice precious gem. You turn to them, take the gem out of your pocket, and say, “This gem is mine.” From that moment on, the calmness, the Peace of those people is disturbed. They start thinking about the way they can get the jewel. Simultaneously with that, your own calmness is disturbed – you sense the thought and desire of these people to rob you, and this starts to trouble you. The gem had to remain in your pocket and nobody had to know about it. In this way you would have freed both yourself and them from temptation.

 

Therefore, when your friend comes to you, do not tell him your last thought, do not tell him your last word. Let this thought, this word, remain unknown, uncomprehended to him. Every man must have a thought, a feeling, or at least a deed, unexpressed and uncomprehended by the others. Every man must have an x, i.e. something unknown to the others. If he has no x in himself, things will not go well for him. It has been seen that the last word, the last feeling that man could express or display outwardly, always ruin things – that is a law.

 

Another thing that you always need to keep in mind is the matter of mistakes. For instance, when you insult someone, do not excuse yourself with the reason that he has provoked you, but instead look for the guilt in yourself. The mistake you are making concerns you; the mistakes that others make concern them. Therefore, there is no reason to console yourself or decrease the guilt with the fact that others also make mistakes. The same thing holds true in respect of the thoughts and feelings of man; when the thoughts of man are straight, his thoughts and deeds will be in place – in general there is a full dependence between thoughts, feelings, and deeds. Man cannot have noble feelings and distorted thoughts and deeds. Some philosophers support the thought that man might not need to be learned, in order to be noble by heart. This is possible. Why? Because outward erudition or ignorance does not yet infer culture of the soul. When man is noble by heart, he has got inward, natural intelligence, without being learned outward. A clever man, in the positive meaning of the word, is the one who is both good and strong. The strength of the clever depends on his moral principles. Only the one who has at least one fundamental idea in his life to which he aspires can call himself a good man.

 

As disciples of an occult School, you are required to maintain full harmony among yourselves. In order for this harmony to be achieved, you have to create a new thought for yourselves, not just to repeat the given formulae and rules in the School. Each formula, each rule, has a meaning only as long as it can suggest something to the disciple. The disciple has to think in an absolutely new way. It is not a matter of repeating similar thoughts – repetition does not lead to knowledge. Whatever the circumstances are, under which you live, they cannot be even the slightest obstacle to perceiving the new. One who waits for favourable circumstances to come (to him), and thenin order to perceive the new thought, is on the wrong track. If you trace the history of human development, you will see that the greatest and most ingenious people, along with the Greatest Masters[3] in the world, have undergone unfavourable circumstances. Their grandeur and genius are concluded from the fact that they have been able to surmount the unfavourable circumstances. Every man who has undergone favourable circumstances of life eventually falls. Every man who has come to Earth has begun from the elementary things; he does not know anything, but starts learning, and gradually acquires knowledge. That is why even the most elementary things look difficult to him. When tasks are given to children, they initially find themselves in perplexity, but gradually start to solve them, and then the tasks start to look easy to them. You would say that the genius is born that way and he does not need to study. Indeed the genius is born a genius, but in order to develop his genius he has to work, to study.

 

What does the disciple need in order to study? Light. Without Light nobody is able to study, nobody is able to develop himself. Imagine that you enter a well lit room; you sit at the table and begin studying. Meanwhile, somebody enters the room and puts off the switch from where the Light is coming, and you stop studying. Since you cannot study, you also cannot think. Who could take the light away from you? The one who gives it to you. Therefore you depend on the One who gives the Light. He holds the key to the Light – it depends on Him whether you would study or not. Light does not bring forth knowledge, but it is a condition for acquiring knowledge – wherever there is the Light, there is Knowledge.

 

Many want to know which teachings are correct. This can be proven very easily – not with words, but with experience. Let us assume that two people (one of them – a follower of the new teachings, and the other - of the old teachings) plant corn, for example, and observe its growth. The corn of the one who follows and applies the new ideas will have a big, robust cob, with large, fine kernels; the cob of the other one will be weak, puny, and with tiny kernels. The former kernels will be of better quality than the latter. What bigger proof than this could you want? Every teaching which illuminates the mind, dignifies the heart, and increases the will, is a Divine teaching – if it is Divine, it is a right teaching; every teaching which affects the mind, coarsens the heart, and weakens the will, is human. Therefore, as long as you are coarse, you are on a wrong way; if you are dignified, you are on the right way.

 

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 Figure 4

 

 

 

And so, you all have to observe the law of the triangles, because it solves the contradictions in Life. Let us assume that we have two rational beings A and B (Figure 4) which are moving facing one another. On the path of their movement they would stumble upon a number of misconceptions, which would finish with an explosion. In order to avoid the explosions between them, they have to direct their energies upwards, toward the elated world C, and meet there. The creatures A1 and B1 have to do the same thing – they have to direct their energies towards the centre C1. If another two creatures A2 and B2 have relations, they also have to direct their energies towards the centre C2. In this manner all people would meet at the centres C, C1, C2 of the triangles ABC, A1B1C1, A2B2C2, and would move on a straight line. The right way of movement in the relations among people is through the centres C, C1, C2. In other words, all things are achievable only in the Divine world. For the Divine, everything is possible. All Divine ideas can be realized completely, while the human – partially.

 

These are sketched out thoughts over which you have to speculate, and take into account how far have you reached in mental, cordial, and moral terms. When you know what you have at your disposal, you can take your stand on a solid basis. And then, whatever knowledge and whatever experience you achieve through your mind, heart, and will, you will use for good. When you study yourselves, when you study your neighbours, you will see a slight disharmony, but it should not trouble you. As long as you live in the physical world, disharmony is a necessary condition for your growth – it represents a slight opposition, placed in the way of every man, so that there is something to overcome. As he gets over the obstacles and difficulties of his life, man gradually grows. That is because the disharmony, the contradictions in the life of man are necessary for his growth and development. Whatever happens to you, do not be afraid, use everything for good. Nature works for the good of those who understand her[4], those who think, feel, and act correctly – those are the judicious people of the world.

 

If you look into the life of intelligent people, you will see that they make more mistakes than the foolish. You can make a calculation in order to see what the percentage of mistakes is in the deeds of the intelligent people and in what the percentage of mistakes is in the foolish people. If in the solution of a problem you make seventy-five percent mistakes, this shows that you are not one of the smarter people. One day, when you solve your problems, you will see that all difficulties, all obstacles, and contradictions that you have come across on your way have contributed something to the achievement of your main goal. That is because, whether you believe in God or not, you will all have great difficulties in your way, which you must by all means overcome. The easier you overcome them, the bigger the moral principles or the stronger the moral backbone you have. If the moral backbone of the disciple is strong, his neural system will be able to withstand even the biggest shocks. Occultism is a great laboratory in which various acids and bases are worked with. The slightest inattention on behalf of the disciple during the experiments with these acids and bases could cost him dearly.

 

Nature is alive, rational. She pays back dearly to those who would treat her condescendingly. Once he has come to Earth, man will inevitably get into the hands of Nature, which will put him through a number of difficulties and hardships. In order to endure all that, man needs to be pure. Once he gets into the hands of Nature, he will feel her laws and methods. She does not make exceptions for anyone. When he gets into the school, the disciple could weep a bit before his master, he could say he has not understood or learnt his lesson, and the master would excuse him. However, Nature does not excuse anyone, she says, “One who has come to my school, he will study, he will work, and he will apply. Here tears are not accepted, this is not a place for weeping or for discouragement; this is a place only for study and work.” – “But I got discouraged.” Discouragement does not solve the problems. – “I have fallen into despair now; I do not want to live anymore.” Since you have despaired, they will send you there where thousands of creatures would trouble you, they would prick you with their goad, until they coerce you to work, to carry out the Will of God. There is a goad for the occult disciples too. Nature loves only those who study. We take learning in its broadest sense. Nature has many schools at her disposal, in which many sciences, many arts are studied. A great future stands before you. All people have come to Earth to prepare for a great future.

 

Whatever difficulties and hardships come to you, do not lose heart. Consider them as given for your own good. Many people are dissatisfied with the life on Earth, they regret coming here to suffer. What would you say then for the creatures that live under the Earth? If they could come out to the surface of the Earth, they would consider that a privilege, a great bliss. For them, your life is a great ideal. You consider your life a torment. Why? Because you compare it with the life of the Creatures who are more advanced than you. If a millionaire fell to the position of a pauper of the first water, he would be happy if he occasionally received a small sum. He could lose a hundred million leva[5], but if he won back even a million back, he would consider himself a happy man.

 

Therefore, what is most important for man is that which he has at his disposal at a particular moment. Nature does not brook any surplus – she allots for every man only as much matter and energy as necessary for his growth.

 

And so, the deep, the strong which takes part in your feelings, thoughts, and deeds, is the Divine beginning in you. In the Divine there is always an ideological content, honesty, justice, sincerity – to oneself and to acquaintances alike. Everything that is best is hidden in the Divine – science, music, art. In order to study that which has been ingested in you, you need to know maths, as it is also included also in science, maths, andin music, in arts. For the solution of mathematical problems, high moral life is required – without that life you cannot achieve anything. Contemporary science is based on that high moral which Christianity places as soil, as a basis of Life.

 

Secret prayer

 

- Only the bright path of Wisdom leads to the Truth.

 

- It constantly cheers us.

 

 

 

 


[1] The word “problem” in the text almost everywhere refers to a mathematical problem.

[2] This “which” refers to the ‘thoughts’ in general.

[3] It is used in the meaning of ‘teachers’.

[4] Refers to Nature.

[5] The Bulgarian currency

 [A1]This saying is unknown in English. I understand it to mean, a pat on the back, for something done well.

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