A sinsible way of Life

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A SINSIBLE WAY OF LIFE

 

 

 

THE GRAIN OF WHEAT

 

AN OCCULT MAGAZINE

 

 Year IV Sofia May 1928 Book 4

 

A sensible way of life has its own inner sense, its own physical inner sense, its own spiritual inner
sense and its own divine inner sense. It is only thus that we realise that in life as a whole, just as in nature as a whole, there runs a thread of sensibility. The thread could be referred to as ‘awareness’ or ‘consciousness’. The human mind has the direct task of protecting this thread, of ensuring that it is not broken. That is why it requires an alert consciousness. If this thread survives unbroken, every person will be in contact with the Primary Reason, with the eternal beginning of life. While man worships and respects this Primary Reason above all else, he will have a radiant and beautiful future. Should he cease to worship it, should be choose another cult in his life, he will lose the sense of life. Only the Primary Reason which inspires all men, poets, artists, musicians and scholars, is perfect in all its manifestations. Anyone who wishes to understand the Primary Reason in all its manifestations must possess pure consciousness, pure awareness.

 

Today all mankind is in need of continuity of awareness and of purity of consciousness. While this continuity and purity of consciousness exist, among people, a true, positive science will exist. While your eyes are closed to the outside world, how will you be able to study it? While your ears do not hear, how will you be able to study music? While your judgement is limited, how will you be able to establish a connection between the reasons for and the consequences of things?

 

When we speak of the relationship with the Primary Reason, with God, many people ask: where does God manifest himself in man? The first manifestation of God is in the human personality, the most basic manifestation; the second manifestation is in man’s individual life; the third manifestation is in his soul and the fourth manifestation in his spirit. If God manifests himself simultaneously in all these lives of a man, then he will fully understand the situation and he will be a sensible man in the full sense of the word. One judges the sensibility or reasonableness of a person according to his life. If a house is built and then collapses, we condemn the man who built it. If the house cannot withstand the slightest storm, we say that the man who built it lacked sense because he failed to foresee all of life’s conditions. If a house is comfortable, hygienic, economical and withstands all of life’s difficulties and storms, we say that the person who built it was sensible. Someone says: ‘Economy is necessary in life.’ By ‘economy in man’s life’ we mean that human energy should not be wasted. A sensible life requires that a man should not allow foreign bodies, foreign elements that could sever the link with the Primary Reason, to enter his mind and body

 

Christ says: ‘He who strays from me strays from Him who has led me.’ to-day all people stray. What do they stray from? From the truth. Any man who strays from the truth, be he educated or simple, rich or poor, has seen no good in this world. Such a person cannot become great. All great people who are respected and recognised as such by the whole of mankind have loved the truth, have loved God.

 

As long as you love God, you will also love your neighbours: so long as you love your neighbours, you will love everything that is around you. It is only in this way that one can create a favourable environment for work. Everything that God has created in this world is alive. To-day people pay huge sums of money for the statue of some great sculptor. How much more, then, will a man have to pay for his own, immortal statue given to him by God? For how many years has nature been creating this great statue! In this respect, every person to-day must be a great artist, the sculptor of his own statue, must model and perfect his own statue that the Primary Reason has given him as a priceless and irreplaceable gift in life. And, after all that, must a man deny it, must he sever this link and create for himself a new cult? Each person, each home, each society, each nation must arrive at an inner unity with all living things. Small nations must understand this law because it is thus that they shall be elevated. If the Primary Reason is on a nation’s side, it will elevate that nation, it will create a healthy brain, healthy lungs, a healthy stomach, a healthy body. A healthy brain means a healthy mind; healthy lungs mean correct sensitivity; a healthy body and a healthy stomach mean the healthful activity of human life. If your mind tells you to think only of yourself, then it is not a healthy mind, and it has already signed your death warrant. If your heart tells you that it should beat only for you, it is not healthy and it has already signed your death warrant. If your body and your stomach tell you that they should function only because of you, to carry out your work, they have signed your death warrant. Nobody in the world has come here only in order to carry out his own work. Each of us must contribute something towards life’s joint capital. Science should be in the service of the Primary Reason. Religion should be in the service of the Primary Reason. Art, painting, music, management, should all be in the service of the Primary Reason. Only thus will the general harmony of life be restored.

 

Thus, the words ofJesus Christ can be rendered the other way round: ‘He who does not stray from me will not reject Him who led me.’ It is then that a man will remain true to his own inner convictions and will know that everything God has created in the world has its own inner intention. To-day the world is in need of a new, positive science, of a new creed which will bear the relationships of the Eternal Love, it needs a new structure, new norms and rules for the life of the personality, of the individual, the soul and the spirit. The life of the personality, of the individual, of the soul and of the spirit must be assigned to their correct places. And then, let us all, as Christians, apply Christ’s teaching, Christ’s love, according to our own personalities, our own individuality, our own soul, our own spirit. Thus, Christ’s words will be fulfilled when he says: 1 shall be with you until the end of the century.’ Now all people are living at the end of the century. By this we mean the end of the old world, the end of old ways of seeing things, the end of violence. This will be followed by a new era of light, of love among people, among all living things — a new era of truth and justice, of immortality and freedom.

 

The expression of happiness on earth is health!