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TRANSFORMATION OF COLOURS

5th lecture given by the Master to the Youth Occult Class

11th November, 1923, Sofia

 

- Only the light way leads to Truth

- It constantly gives us Mirth and Joy

 

Reflection

 

A summary on the topics “The Characteristic Features of the Bees” was read.

Works on the topic “The Importance of White and Red Corpuscles” were read.

For next time – Topic Nr5: “The Characteristic features of Mildness and Temperance

 

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*Fig.1

 

Exercise: You will practise breathing in and out while thinking about the colour white. Imagine the colour pouring over you like a shower. The intake of air should be done rhythmically and with a movement of the arm – with the help of your right thumb count to four. Raise your right arm and start the exercise. Take in air while you first count to four, and then drop your arm from A down to B. Breathe out while you count to four a second time and move your arm to the left – from B to C. Third, count to four while breathing in and out and moving your arm to the right – from C to D. The fourth time you should breathe out and move your arm up – from D to A. All these movements form a human leg. While moving your legs you should follow the same instructions. When the body is in good health, you breathe in when stepping forward and you breathe out when you draw the leg to step back. Why are so many people neurotic? – They breathe out when they step forward and they breathe in when bending the leg. That is why, they get tired easily. It shouldn’t be so, however. The laws of nature are very definite. You do not follow these rules; that’s why, when walking or hiking, you get tired. You should never make abrupt movements. Your movements should be graceful and at ease.

 

So, each time you breathe in and out, you should think both of the colour white and of purity. It would be better to do these exercises in the open if you have a garden. Every morning you should do some rhythmic walking for five minutes. All these exercises will help you redress the balance in your nervous system and get rid of the disharmony you feel. You might ask yourselves,” How can movement restore the harmony in my body?” All movements in Nature, both positive and negative are explicitly definite. They are based on certain laws; consequently, they make sense. For example, a modern physiologist, studying the red and white corpuscles, can dismiss them as major blood factors; hence their importance to the human body is also ignored. Modern scientists have not yet studied the importance of corpuscles profoundly enough.

I would like to ask you what the importance of the colour red is. Those dealing with the occult say that it is related to feelings, or Love, in particular. It always bears Life. On what does its intensity depend? It depends on its shade and hue, just as the musical tones do. Let’s take line AB, which represents the scale of the seven basic colours of light. The wavy line stands for the first red colour of light in the first scale. The other red colours come next until you get to the seventh red colour, the purple one (g) The first scale of seven colours ends with this colour, and then another, higher scale starts again with the colour red. And here we have the same colours – A, B, C… to G (purple). The red colour is present again, but on a higher scale. The small forms of the red colour show the outer side of Love, i.e. decrease in Love.

 

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Fig.2

 

What is the physiological state of a person, when the red corpuscles are prevalent? Great activity can be observed. What will the state be if the white corpuscles are reduced to a minimum, let’s say, just one white corpuscle to ten thousand red ones? How many white and red corpuscles does the human body contain? (- one cubic millimetre contains approximately five million red and ten thousand white corpuscles, so the ratio is 1: 200). Which corpuscles take a superior position in the body, and which ones are more cultivated – the red or the white ones? ( - We know that the function of the red ones is to carry oxygen to the cells and the white ones protect the body from harmful foreign elements.) It means that the white corpuscles are capable of fighting. They are aware that they are entrusted with a living organism that they have to defend. You can imagine both the red and white corpuscles as little souls at their embryonic stage, which are going to develop further. Therefore, they undergo a certain stage of their growth. At this stage they are learning diligence and self-denial.

 

Now, if we regard the human soul as a big, important monad A and all the rest little souls as small monads, each representing monad B, then, according to Leibnitz’ theory, will the big monad need all the small ones? The answer is yes. I’ll put it differently. Does the right hand need the left one? Yes, it does. The left hand, too, needs the right one, although a person can live with just one hand. Two hands are better, of course. A person can live with one finger, but it is better to have five. Are all the five fingers equally strong? Certainly not. The strength of the thumb is equal to the strength of all the rest four fingers taken together. It has a plus. The thumb is +5, while all the rest can be –5. If a man loses his thumb, he loses his strength and feels that he has lost something really important, whereas when he loses any of the other four, the loss is not that severe. Therefore, monad A needs monad B. Monad B is a form through which monad A can be expressed. Which monad is higher – A or B? (Monads differ only in degree.) – Monad A is higher. The law is as follows: What is higher can be expressed through what is lower, or the inferior always serves the superior.

 

When you hear me say that monad A is higher than monad B, you might deduce, “It’s only natural. A is higher than B, as A comes first in the alphabet.” Do not think that the letter A is the first letter. You can’t simply know which the first letter is. The fact that Bulgarian, just like all other languages, starts with A does not mean anything. In our language the letter B comes third, while in English and in French it comes second in the place of the Cyrillic Б. Besides, in English the letter A is pronounced in seven different ways.

The colour red is a manifestation of a superior world. It is the emblem of Love. It is so pure and delicate that if you touch it, it will give rise to high vibrations and higher life. Yet the more it descends, the denser it gets, thus becoming the cause of aggressiveness among the people in the material world. The red colour does not make man nobler; on the contrary, it annoys and incites him to fight. When someone blushes, it is indicative of a willingness to show something. When the red flag is raised, bloodshed might follow. When the red colour finds its outer manifestation, it is not dangerous. Danger is imminent if the red colour reveals inside. If you have lighted upon the red colour a1 from the first scale, you should go to the red colour a3 in the third scale, which corresponds to The Reasonable World. This will tone you up.

 

Now, let’s discuss how colours can turn from a lower state into a higher state. How can we transform the red colour? You know that the words Life and Love are coloured in red. If you feel slightly indisposed or annoyed, your passions take over. So, what can you do to change that state of mind? You utter the word Love a couple of times, but in vain. Nothing changes. The first letter L is a wedge, which can only split, but cannot transform. Then you should take Love at its third degree, the state of Mildness, and utter it several times. The letter M (Б) consumes your surplus energy, as it is the law of growth. This word will change your state of mind. So, if you pronounce the word Love, and it cannot help you, then take the word Mildness, utter it several times, and see how it will affect you. Try words out to see what impact they can have on your mind.

 

I will write for you the following sentence: Love and Mildness are two forces. Now I would like to ask you whether it is true that Love makes man stronger. Just the opposite, Love makes a strong person weak. You might witness how one has raised a hand to kill, but when possessed by Love, he drops his hand and starts crying like a child. Therefore, in this respect, Love cannot be a force. Then if I say that Love and Mildness are two human attributes, will it be correct? Can Love be an attribute? It contains attributes, but cannot be an attribute itself. So, it would be more correct if we said that Love and Mildness are two forces. If you repeat this utterance a few times, you develop your heart and mind, which start acting in harmony with your inner self. As a result, you get the strength you need. These two words serve man to awaken his strength. When a man thirsts for glory or wealth, and if Love comes, it can act against these forces and manage to restrain them.

 

So, it is a common misconception to want Love in order to become strong. Anyone seeking Love should be strong enough, in the first place. Love has nothing to do with those who are weak. That is a controversy, isn’t it? Mind that children are very strong. It’s widely believed that children are weak, which is wrong. A child orders everybody in the house and everybody fears him. How come a weak person starts crying and everybody rushes to help? Such a child cannot be weak. Such a child is strong. People from the whole neighbourhood rush to offer help if they hear a child crying. The child says, “You must help me!” Such a child can make anybody obey. People say, “What a frail, weak kid!” The child is feeble in terms of his inability to move his body, but he has a lot of inner strength to act on impulse. The child has powerful aspirations. Yet later, when the child starts growing up, he loses his strength little by little. At first, the father does not beat the child, but when the child grows up to the age of five or six, the father gives him some spanking from time to time. While you are a child, everybody loves you: therefore, you are strong because Love affects you.

 

Hence, we want to become children, because we want to be strong. This is the first stage in Life. If we are strong, Love can come, as it will have something to deal with. Love needs to have something to work on. It will take the strength we possess, will process it, and will put it on the right tack. The experiments I assign for you to carry out can sometimes be brought off, or can sometimes fail. As a result, some of you might get discouraged. These trials present a whole branch of human knowledge. You must show the same diligence and perseverance in them as in music. I can offer you some general situation, which you can modify many times till you get some positive results. If you feel ill at ease, say, “Love and Mildness are two forces.” Then, “Love and Mildness are two attributes.” If nothing changes, try with “Love and Mildness are two conditions”, etc. While you keep saying these, watch yourselves to see which utterance exactly is more beneficial at a certain point. The utterance that has the best impact is closest to Truth.

 

Try out the colours, namely, utter some words to see which colour corresponds to each word. Which colour corresponds to the word Plant? – The green colour. Sorrow? – Black. Knowledge? -Yellow. Yellow matches Wisdom. This colour does not exist in Nature. It is just a reflection. It has not manifested itself yet, so we do not know it, though it can manifest itself in the future. A colour that has not manifested yet is alive and conscious – it has strength. If you enter its aura, you can work wonders. Yellow and red are just masks for now. They are not real images. A reasonable force stands behind each colour in the universe. For instance, the hearts of all the Supreme Creatures of Love are related to the red colour, which they send to the Earth in the form of a stream. However, to attain the strength hidden behind this colour, you have to transform it several times, i.e. raise it seven scales higher. Let me explain what I mean. Imagine you have a picture painted in red. You feel a bit sad, and you get closer to the picture to touch it. Will this picture convey something to you, or will it impart some life in you? No, it won’t. You are still sad, so you pick up a pink rose, smell its fragrance to feel its effect on you, but still, it does not help any better. Finally, an affectionate friend of yours calls in and says, “Dear friend!” The moment you hear these words, your sadness changes. The word affection is pink in colour, so it introduces a new element in you. This word has passed through your friend’s soul and triggered high vibrations of the red colour. You perceive these vibrations, which affect you. You should say,” Love you.” and not “I love you.” The word “I” attaches a material streak to Love.

 

So, the effect of the colours depends on their vibrations. The higher the vibrations a colour has, the better the results are. Try these out to start feeling the vibrations. When you are angry, or when you have dark thoughts, focus on yourself and your aura, and you will see in the surrounding belt wide black streaks. Then you will say, ”How black I am!” One is capable of seeing the vibrations of various colours in one’s own aura. The high vibrations coming from the supreme worlds, penetrate your aura and create a pleasant sight, while those coming from the lower worlds create lower moods and make your aura dark in colour. When you feel indisposed, you should know the reasons for this, as well as in which colour you are. Very often you happen to be in disharmony with these higher, lively colours. If your heart fails to feel right, you are in a state of disharmony with the red colour. If you are in a state of disharmony with your thoughts, it is because the yellow colour cannot convey its high vibrations to you. If you have some problems with your liver, it is because you cannot perceive the vibrations of the green colour. Many students of the occult suffer mainly because they cannot establish any harmony with colours.

 

For the next time I would like you to think of a word that corresponds to any of the seven colours. I want you to think of words other than the two ones we have already used here: Love and Affection. It means you have to write seven words. Don’t worry if you can’t determine the colours of the words you decide on. You should be pretty much like the musician who is learning. Certain things can be acquired only through practice and training. This is the way music comes. One can understand music perfectly well in theory, and know nothing in practice. Only through constant listening and practice will you be able to distinguish one tone from another. The same applies to the theory of light. You might know a lot about the application of light in theory, while you can’t use light in practice. That’s why, what you know must be transformed and assimilated. It should become part of your flesh and blood, not literally, of course, but transformed into that living, conscious flesh that succumbs to the human Spirit. This is the knowledge you should utilise for the service of your soul.

 

Now listen to another sentence: ”Love and Mildness are two great virtues to elevate the human soul.” The strength of your soul lies in understanding and applying these two virtues.

 

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Fig.3

 

As you know, these things are lines, but they are by-products. It is necessary for a feeling, a thought, or a desire to appear after it is polarized. The main point is: Let’s say you have a monad A, which wants to manifest itself. It does not go up, but strikes a root down, though not straight down to monad B. This monad B sends back the energy received from monad A through its upward projection, thus forming the first branch up in monad C. Monad A gets a second urge to manifest itself, so it strikes a second root down to form monad D. This monad D projects itself up and forms monad E. This is how monad A grows – by striking a root down, from there a branch up, one more root down, and another branch up, etc. All these are operative secondary monads, while, in effect, it is monad A that manifests itself.

 

All this is some food for thought. It is my wish to give you a new idea to think it over. You all need some kindling. By studying the dynamic properties of matter, you will learn how to handle it. For example, if you light some dynamite in the open using an ordinary lighter,[1] it burns fast and easily without explosion. If there is very little oxygen and you set some dynamite on fire using a chemical lighter, it will be very dangerous, as it will explode.

 

Therefore, each force has its own lighter that can make it act normally. Truth has its specific lighter. Wisdom has its lighter, and so does Love. Each force has its specific fire and its own lighter that can make it active. A different kind of fire can make the forces active, but the effect won’t be the same. A specific lighter is always required. The only lighter for the human thought is to think that God is Love. You can think of your mother, father, or your friends, but these are ordinary lighters. When you think that God is Love, such a lighter is strength. You should start with this lighter. There is no dynamic force in this world that can oppose this lighter.

 

So, you should perceive God as Love. You shouldn’t form any philosophical concepts about Him and you shouldn’t listen to philosophers’ definitions. Although they are philosophers, it doesn’t mean anything. They describe the indescribable, and they speak about the unspeakable. You can’t see God, nor can you define Him. However, when you come into contact with Him, you will feel Him, because no living creature has His vibrations. If your soul is well disposed, when you approach God, you will perceive the most tender and delicate vibrations. However, if you approach God totally unprepared, you will experience the greatest shock. Hence, when sinners approach God, they disappear into thin air, while righteous people rejoice. So, we should try first to adapt to God’s lighter. One should approach God with humility. One even has to be heart-broken. This is the way to survive. Yet if one approaches God with dignity and grandeur as if he were a king, nothing will come out of it. God does not want kings around Him. A king stands for sins. A king lives in fear of his life and crown and has an army to defend him. Can this be a true king? A king, yes, but one capable of taking any position in this world. While a humble man when approaching God, bears all his virtues with him.

 

So the first lighter, the most powerful one in your conscious, self-conscious, and super-conscious life, is to come in contact with God. When you approach God you should become very serious and all your inner conflicts should leave your soul. Your soul should stay open so that you will accept everything you need. This is the only way to feel God. If when approaching God, you doubt whether He will accept you, you put up a barrier yourself. So far the records of the occult do not keep data of a humble man expelled by God, while there are many cases of proud men rejected by Him. God keeps proud men at a distance not because he does not want to speak to them, but because they are unprepared for His vibrations. They cannot bear His vibrations and as a result, they experience great explosions, which bring on great damage. The Gospel says that God does not interfere with the death of a sinner. This is exactly where God’s gentility lies.

 

So, you will come now to the philosophical thought. What I call a philosophical thought is the thought of the heart. First, you will feel, and next, you will think. First, you will taste the apples, and next, you will describe them. Nowadays everyone speaks of Love, without having tried it. I don’t mean that you haven’t tried it at all. Still, what you’ve tried is human love. And what do poets say about human love? They say that it is mutable. Can love that changes be true love? Now I am speaking about Divine Love, which can exist in the human soul.

 

Reflection

 

- Only the light way leads to Truth

- It gives us constant Mirth and Joy.

 


[1] It might sound strange in English, but it sounds strange in Bulgarian, too. In Bulgarian the first association is with what you can light a cigarette, and not with what you can start a fire.

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