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DISCIPLE'S PATH


 


In the broad sense of the word, each man is a disciple, because of which what is said by the Master for the disciple concerns everyone. In a private conversation with one brother the Master said:


 


Man is studied by the dark spirit psychologically, and when it finds a weak point, it will tempt him there. There are intrusive things, which torture man. It is very hard for somebody to cope with them, as well as to catch a dark spirit, it gets out. The lower spirits go to conquer people and they consider this as a significant acquisition. They always promise big things. Once they promised Adam and his wife to be like God, but it is all the same practice today. Adam lost everything. They are profuse of promises. The powers of evil are free to submit somebody and lead him astray. The fall of man first happens in the Mind world, when man disconnects from the Divine.


 


The evil has dreadful hate towards man. Sometimes when the sin comes with those disgusting thoughts, everything in you demolishes and you say: "It is over", but God's Love comes then and you are glad again. When you want to write, something impedes you, it tells you: "It is not for you, you cannot do that!" and you stop, you do not write. But, write no matter what, because it is better to write no matter what than nothing.


 


Each hardship is a material lesson. What they call temptation is a material lesson. If you do not overcome it, you will be marked "Poor", "Failure", and if you overcome it, you will be marked "Excellent". One, who has already suffered at the hands of the dark spirits, does not make mistakes. When somebody knows the laws, he can harness one lower spirit to work. One thief wanted to rob a known professor, who had two golden electrodes at his laboratory. The professor turned to the thief calmly and said: 'You want me to give you these things. OK, take them." The thief grasped the electrodes, and the professor turned the wheel and paralyzed him. After that he took him round the rooms and when he let him go, he told him: "Do not dare to come and rob men of science anymore." When one passes through certain hardships and temptations, when they come again from the powers of darkness, they will be of another kind, they will be of such sort, which he had not expected. That is why, he shall be always watchful. For some hardships, he is already experienced and ready, but the temptation will be of totally different character and that is why if he always has a watchful consciousness, he will be able to withstand.


 


One tests his will with three things: money, power and women. He shall not be tempted by power, women, and money; if he rests on them, he has failed in the examination. Today lots of people talk about ideas and idealism; they mention that they work for the general welfare, but if their consciousness is analysed, it will be found out that they think of their personal interests and finally it will be revealed. All that is inside man will be tested and revealed. God needs completely selfless workers, who will work by Love toward God, without thinking of themselves. Man shall make difference between Believe and credulity. Many friends are credulous and when somebody talks them about some projects, they believe, but they do not know that something mercenary is hidden and some time or other it will show up, because what is inside man cannot remain unrevealed.


 


Job lost everything - wealth, children, etc., and afterwards he got everything back. Job was pious and became a disciple through the examination. The wind that swings the trees is of benefit, because it increases the flow of the saps and the tree produces better fruits. And man, by passing an examination, benefits. One, who passes through a hardship, is blessed. God walks at your right side, and from your left side, the fallen, dark spirit is on the watch for you. The dark spirit tempts you during your entire life - he will follow you even till the door of the Kingdom of God, give you praises, wealth, illnesses, power and various humiliations in order to hinder and tempt you. The dark spirit makes you think: "Look at that man what a sack of gold he has. You also want such a sack, don't you?" Then you stop thinking of God, but of those things, which you have loaded on your back.


 


When a man enters in the mystical world, the dark spirits will show up to test him; the accuser will come. Man shall solve many things through experience. When they brought the dissolute woman to Jesus, He said: "Everything is erased and do not commit any sin."


 


You never solve the question what evil is for; only know that it can be avoided. These creatures of evil will come and they are interested in putting bad thoughts in your mind. But these bad thoughts, this is not you, this is their state. You have something and they want to rob you and in order to rob you, they have to unsettle your mind. And the Shining creatures will come and introduce into you the finest thoughts and they are not yours. Where is the man? You are the man, who simultaneously experiences the good and the evil and will learn a lesson. If a man does not learn how to think properly, he can cope with the hardships in life with difficulty. So many thousands of years man tries to liberate himself from that internal atavism. The Occult School has lots of examinations, which can be taken by the disciples. For example, one disciple is talking with one of his fellow and is holding a very profound and inspired conversation, and somebody says him: "May you bring me some water?" He has to go, in order not to disturb the harmony and then continue the conversation, without the least dissatisfaction. Everything in life is an examination. Somebody suffers and does not know why he suffers, and for the disciple, it is a material lesson.


 


When man is amongst the biggest contradictions, sufferings, he shall be thankful to God, to have joy and harmony in himself. This is an examination. God says: "I can tell you many things, but initially I want to know if you can carry the load, which I will give you." Each person is put to temptation. Temptations will come sometimes. It can be without sufferings, if you do not commit sins; and it can be with joy, if you lead a pure and holly life. But you all have to pass through fire; gold cannot be purified until it passes through fire, can it? When man becomes callous, they put him to fire. When the fire goes away, man says: "Now I began to grow wiser." How much time will pass till consciousness to live well comes to people! - This is a long process. There are many microbes, which live in us and you shall watch yourselves. Lower creatures make noise in you. You have one lower desire, which leads you. Who are you? - The one, who is tied to this desire. At first, one very small desire evokes in you, the origin of which you have to know, because if you make a contact with it, you will suffer.


 


Some states, which you experience, are not yours; they have come from outside. This is not you. Now you carry one life, which is not yours; it is from the lower creatures. A friend of mine told me that he had saw a man in New York, who walked along the streets in a king's robe and only advertisements hanged on his back. We wear king's robes with somebody else's advertisements. We shall liberate from them.


 


One man shared with me that he was looking for a house facing south-east, but one broker had taken him to a house, which was not at all fine and convinced him so skilfully that finally he had agreed to take it. But today he was wondering what to do - that house was very dark and cold, exposed to north-west. The dark spirit is also such a broker, who convinces you, praises in front of you what he wants to sell and afterwards you wonder what to do.


 


When the dark spirits of hell enter the Divine light, they see nothing, and when they enter the hell, darkness is their light. As long as you keep the idea of God, you are in the Divine light. The dark spirits are blind there, they see nothing and you are saved. This is the way for getting rid of them. One analogy: the owl sees nothing during the day, and he sees very well in the night, doesn't it?


 


The sin in man is disobedience to the rational and Divine, and obedience to a lower life. The thieves of belongings are nothing compared to the thieves in the Spiritual world. You have just set off along the Path and they worm themselves into your favour and begin to swell you, saying: "You are much more than the others. You are this, you are that." And after that they shower you with all epithets and say: "No God speaks to you."


 


All hardships, which we confront inside and outside, are our wealth. These are tasks, which we have to solve.


 


One sister asked: "It is written in the Lord's Prayer: "Don't lead us to temptation", and somewhere else it is written: "God tempts nobody." How shall this be understood?"


 


These words from the Lord's Prayer are understood in this way: God not to let us enter into temptations, to keep us from entering into them. God examines man, but does not tempt him. Temptation is completely another thing. During an examination, the teacher examines in order to see how much the student knows, and with the temptation, he is tempted to commit a sin and they want to bribe him. During an examination, they put 100 kg on his back to see how big his will is. He can fail an examination. To fail an examination, it means not to be able to lift his load. And there is moral fall at the temptation. After an unsuccessful examination, everyone has the right to sit for it again, and after fall into a temptation he loses everything. At the last examination, man will remain alone, left by everybody, without any external support and will find support only with God.


 


One sister asked: "Will the final examination will be soon?"


 


It has even started! Many people sit for it. Some people have failed, and some have passed.


 


"Is it allowed to take the final examination again?"


 


It is allowed. It is bad when somebody is not allowed to take the final examination. It is a privilege, when someone is allowed to take the final examination.


 


"Are we allowed to?"


 


You are allowed to; it is another matter if you will pass it. One, who is allowed, he will pass it no matter how; it is true that he could fail, but he will sit for it again. The subjects are a lot. Each of the brothers and sisters has to sit for the examinations, when they come. When Job was overtaken by sufferings, he at first saw the ugly spirits near him, but when he stared into the distance, he saw the Shining spirits. Hence, what was near him was dark, and what was far from him was beautiful. Then he understood that all that was happening was for good and Peace and Joy settled in his soul. Earth is a place for the final examination. One, who passes it here, will be given a ticket for everywhere. The Advanced creatures from the Invisible world want to come here, in order to take the final examination. One, who does not pass the final examination and leaves, will not be given a ticket. The Writ says: "Blessed, who pass through hardships." Blessed written books. Blessed washed clothes. You will take one bottle, clean it, wash it in order it to be completely clean. When in the Invisible world, they want to give somebody new knowledge, they will clean and clean him, that his hair will stand on end and he will cry: "It has already gone, we lost, we became feeble-minded, and nothing remained."


 


The life on Earth is presented as very ideal before man. The experience that he will gain is the big wealth, and the way, in which he will gain it, is hidden from him and he is presented only the blessings-the experiences. Finally, he will obtain a big wealth, but while he obtains it!...This looks like the situation of that wealthy man from Gabrovo, of whom a statue was put in front of the theatre and he told himself: "Ivan, Ivan, how much time it had to pass before you were put there!" So, in the Invisible world, the result, which will be obtained in the physical world, is not hidden from man, but the hardships through which he will pass are hidden. At your going down to Earth, you will be told: "Go with that plan, you will have acquisitions, as well as some hardships." And when you are passing through unbearable hardships, they will rash to help. Various people take different examinations. There are no two people with the same examination. There is a certain difference. If they give you external joy, they will give you internal hardships; and if they give you internal joy, they will give you external hardships. This cannot be avoided - they will not give you hardships both externally and internally. Stupid people prefer joy and after that sufferings and the clever ones prefer sufferings at first and after that joy. Stupid people say: "Let's be joyful now no matter what happens after that", and clever people say: "No matter what happens now, at the end we will be joyful." Many people think like mice, don't they? One free mouse walked round the field, breathed clean air, but one day a mousetrap was put in front of its hole, which it began to investigate right away. "There is something in this trap - dried meat or something else!? " - It told itself and climbed on the trap, without knowing that the one, who had put it, was much cleverer than it. It snooped from here, it snooped from there, and finally it was trapped; it had not had to begin to snoop into this trap. There is also a trap in front of each of you. One friendly protective warning: keep away from the traps, which are put in front of your doors. Leave them behind; do not enter to investigate what is in there. Do not self-delude!


 


One brother asked about the internal examinations.


 


All that will come in a natural way - you will be given a task in life and this is an examination. Palpations and stomach-aches are ordinary examinations. If they give you one million leva and after that they take it - this is an examination. What do you have to do in the state, in which you are, how do you have to continue your way? Let's see how many of them have meditated and prayed and how exactly? You love somebody, but he tells you some words, which hurt you. You need Love in order to pass your examinations. By examining your Love, it begins to break down. Try to learn and enter the new wave, which will lift you upper to the new phase of Life; otherwise you will repeat the class. Man shall be hard and resist till the end. People cannot avoid the examinations. If you avoid one examination, given to you by God, another will come. When man has a noble aspiration, a noble ideal, for which he lives, then he has great powers of endurance to all hardships and temptations.


 


What you have inherited from the previous generations and from the Animal world is manure and one who is clever will find its place, and if he does not know and if he is not clever, he will wallow in that mess. When the animal nature prevails in man, his face begins to change. Philosophy is in that: want to be masters of yourselves! Man has to submit the lower and take energy out of there like the plant, which strikes roots into the soil and takes saps out of there. That woman wanted to tempt Joseph and if he was implicated, it would be all over with him. But he passed this examination - he paid for his karma through the prison and he was born again in this way.


 


The Creatures from the Invisible world, which are around you, are two categories: higher ones and lower ones. You will learn from the higher ones and you will harness into work the lower ones.


 


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