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The Great Conditions of Life “As the Father knows me and I also know the Father and I lay my soul for the sheep.” (John 10:15) „As the Father knows me and I know the Father“ – one of the important verses in form, content and meaning. This verse should be placed away from the ordinary human consciousness in order to be understood. Only he can understand the inner meaning of the verse, who knows the language of the sun, the light and the warmth, the air and the water, the dew drop and the wind. The language of the sun is rich, beautiful and meaningful. Whoever knows this language can penetrate the inner meaning of life. Father and son are common words, known not only to humans but also to animals. And the mammal knows his father; And the father knows his son and daughter. Observe the animals and you will become convinced of that. If the horse sees his daughter in a herd of horses, he pushes her out. Indeed, animals do not have the understanding and culture of modern humans, but they also have an inner sense of the Divine Order and obey it. Passing birds know exactly the time of their passage.The spider for example carries the art of spinning. He puts out such a thin and durable thread that the most modern spinners cannot achieve. It will be argued that man is created in the image and likeness of God. This vesre is related to the first man and not the one who has sinned. The man after the fall is said to be in a slavish image. And Christ humbled when he saw himself in this image. It follows that until a man humbles and knows his Father, he cannot think he is bearing the image of God. Why do people suffer? – In order to humble. Why do animals suffer?- For the same reason. When the bull directs his horns towards his master, the latter onе goads him several times and humbles him. Similarly, God directs his goad to the man who wants to punch, kick and bite. Whoever punches and kicks a lot passes as a big philosopher and critic, with particular views about life, who however often comes across the goad. What is the cause for the suffering of the people of today?– The illusions which they live with. Everyone thinks what is not, everyone imagines things as they are not. The mother imagines she is an ideal mother and if she is not recognised as such, she suffers. The Father, sister, brother also think they are better than they actually are and when they are not recognised as such , they suffer. Which are the qualities of the mother and father? Which woman do we call a mother? Which man is a father? The woman is a mather while the man a father not only in shape. The concepts of ‚mother’ and ‚father’ are comprised of great content and meaning in themselves. The mother says the child has come out of her, i.e she has given birth to him and hence she is a mother. What would you then say for the pipe from which the water runs out? Therefore, not everything that comes from or follows from man is born by him. Modern people have lost the inner meaning of language which is why they have confused the concepts about life. However, Christ says: „As the Father knows me and I know the Father“; and I lay my soul for the sheep.“ It is said in the Scripture: Father loves his Son.“ This means- God has put his life in Christ and self-sacrificed through Him. Christ is a reflection of God, and therefore, God knows Him. God is love which manifests through the Son. The Father knows the love that he has embedded in his son. This is why Christ says: “As the Father knows me, I also know Him.“ It is impossible for the son to not know the love that his father has invested in him. It is said in the Scripture: „God has loved the truth in man“. Whoever realises this, he is a beaerer of the truth, he never fails, never lies. The one who loves the truth lives in light. The one who denies the truth lives in shadow, darkness. This is the reason for the mistakes, which we constantly come across. It is impossible for a man to search for things in the darkness and find them. It is impossible to move in the darkness and not to make mistakes. Everything is in its place in the Divine world. In the human world things are mixed up. This is the reason for which people have lost the meaning of their lives. Whoever wants to make sense of their life, needs to put his thoughts and feelings in their designated places. Put your thoughts and feelings in a strictly defined mathematical ratio and your life will be meaningful. Search for the meaning of all phenomena in nature and life in order to make sense of your life. Each phenomena has two sides: a positive or good side and a negative or bad one. The wind for example brings dust but simultaneously it purifies the air and revives the human thought. The wind moves the clouds at places and brings rain, while at other- draught. Water and wind cultivate the soil, but they can not age the sowed seeds themselves. The light and warmth should come in their aid in order that the life sowed in the earth gets ressurected or revived. Light brings striving while the warmth – movement, the light defines the direction and aim ,while the warmth gives power for the realisation of the aim; light directs life upward where it descends from while the heat impulses and expands it. The Word, i.e. the seed in life is Christ, because he says ’I know the One who gives me life and shows me the path. I see the light that shows me the goal, I feel the warmth that expands and moves me to the aim of my life. As I know the light, warmth and life, i also know my Father’. Christ also says: ‚I also lay my soul for the sheep“. So, whatever the attitude of the Christ soul to the human beings is, such is the the attitude of the air, water, light and warmth to the plants. Christ has to water the soil of our life, to fill it with light and warmth in order for the Divine to be revived. Just as Love ressurrected Christ, it will also resurrect the human soul.This is why, knowledge of the Father and Son is necessary. Knowing means understanding and applying the great law of love, which saves and resurrects. Salvation will neither come from the water nor from the air or earth. Salvation comes from the Sun of Life, who is bearer of the light and warmth. Water symbolises hope, while air- the faith. If you have water in yourself, you will also have faith. Hope and faith exist in the world but people have not accepted and applied them. Faith develops the mind, while hope - the heart. Rejoyce in that water flows while air moves and forms winds for they urge people to think and feel. Why do tests and suffering come? – In order to increase the faith, hope and love of people. Whatever the relationship between water, air and light is, such is the relationship between faith, hope and love. Whoever wants to strengthen their faith, hope and love has to consciously work on themselves. Which fighter has acquired strength withought doing excercises and developing his mussels? The hero is a strong person but he has worked on his mussels for years. The philospher is characterised with strong mind and deep thought because he constantly works with his brain. The virtuous man has a good heart because he is constantly excercising it. Water also gets purfied after it passes through a series of processes: precipitation, percolation and evaporation. Nothing is achieved suddenly and completely. To many, efforts are seen as meaningless and stupid but it must be known that the wise and clever things lie in the seemingly stupid, while the stupid - in the seemingly wise and smart ones. When a man thinks he is very smart, he stops working and looses everything he has acquired. When the rich man thinks only about his fortune and relies on it, he gradually becomes impoverished. Such people go in and come out of their home without working and in the end do not acquire anything. They resemble the drones that buzz , come in and out of the hive without bringing a drop of honey. Today, in the Divine Hive, there are a lot of drones, which the bees themselves kill and throw out. Those drones that survive, go around the hive and buzz, they expect better conditions in order to go inside and eat from the ready made honey. Christ says: „As the Father knows me , so do I also know the Father and I lay my soul for the sheep.“ Let everyone says: ‚As the Father knows me so do I also know Him“. The one that knows his Father, takes the plough and hoe and goes to plough and dig. As the child moves in order to find her mother and suckle, so does the man have to lift up and put the hoe in the earth- his suckling mother who feeds him. When the child grows teeth, she begins to chew. The mother is glad that the child chews bread, fruit and crushes them with her teeth withought thinking of the sacrifice which they make for her. After all this, people ask themselves why suffering and unhappiness come. The answer is simple. – People suffer in order to learn the law of the sacrifice. Plants, fruit and animals sacrifice themselves for people, while poeple should sacrifice themselves for the beings that are higher than them. „As the Father knows me “. Knowledge has something to do with the sacrifice. You can only sacrifice yourself for this one who you know. That is why, Christ says: As the Father sacrifices for me from love, so do I manifest His love“. The sacrifice is a Divine law, which has to penetrate into the minds and hearts of people, to make them strong. The sacrifice is related to love. Only the one who loves can sacrifice himself. Where love is absent, life looses its meaning and man relies on the people and not on God. He searches for light, warmth and strength from outside and not from the Divine self within himself. The Divine is recognised according to the sacrifice and love. The power of man lies in love not in words. Whoever talks only about love rather than manifests it is like an empty barrel that makes noise and does not give anything. Words devoid of content and meaning are like commercial adverts that aim at advertising the goods and increase their price. You will say that you love the wheat, fruit and vegetables. Who doesn’t love things they benefit from? You love the apple and pear but you will chew them with your teeth. You like the wheat but you will put it under the millstone. It will be argued that fruit and wheat sacrifice themselves for man. They sacrifice, but forcibly, not voluntarily. The true sacrifice is a voluntary, free act. The ripe fruit falls alone from the tree and sacrifices itself but if you pick it green you apply force on it. Therefore, the sacrifice takes place on time and voluntarily. „As Father knows me“. By speaking of knowing the Father, people want to hear His voice, to speak to them. God can speak to men, but they must know His languge and understand Him. If they do not understand Him, they will always argue whether the Lord has spoken to man or not. The Lord has spoken and is speaking, but not to all people. If the king enters one of his stalls and caresses his best horse, it shows that he has spoken to him. This horse may say he has spoken to the king, but the others either have to believe his words or deny the truth that the king can talk to the horses. So God has spoken in the past, speaks in the present, and will speak in the future, but only to those who have love. Where there is no love, the word of God is not heard. If anyone says that God has spoken to him, I will ask him: Are you ready to sacrifice yourself for God, for mankind, for your people? – ‚I'm not ready yet. " If you're not ready for a sacrifice, and God can not talk to you. It is impossible for God to speak to a man, and the man not to be ready for a sacrifice. It is impossible for the stone to sit all day in the sun and not to warm up. If they are exposed in the sun, both the stone and the tree become warm. God speaks to a man only under certain conditions, in certain relationships when He wishes, not when the man requires it. God alone sets the moment when He has to speak to one soul. Millions of wheat grains are in the barn, but they will not all be sown. Part of them will be thrown into the field, while the rest will become bread. Only the advanced souls will hear the voice of God and will recognise Him. - Who is advanced? – The one who is strong in mind, in heart and in soul; that is who carries within himself the faith, hope, and love. He who perceives and absorbs things, as the absorbent paper swallows water does not have a strong mind. Then it will come out that the photographic plate is strong too. It is enough to bring it to light in order to print the images that fall into its path. In fact, it is due to the light, not to it. Good comes out of light, and man combines the conditions in such way that allows the light to manifest itself. Man looks like his portrait, but the portrait is not a live photograph. The artist has painted your image well, has put the respective colours on the face, and has made you beautiful, but that is not real beauty. Do not be deluded by external things. Many live in delusions which is why they have wrong perceptions about life. One looks at herself complacently in the mirror and says to herself: I am rounded, healthy, beautiful and also rich. – Don’t be misled, these are photgrpahes in your mind that can be replaced with new ones at any moment. Any philosopher or scientist can break your happiness. It is enough to read a pessimistic book to say that life does not make sense and lose your happiness. If love has deeply penetrated the human soul, no force in the world can take away the peace that God has put into it; No power in the world is able to take away the light of the human mind and the warmth of his heart. That is, living in reality. When he comes out of this reality, man loses his peace and seeks help from outside. Faith is necessary to man: faith in God, in neighbor, and in himself. „As Father knows me, so I know Father“. This verse implies son’s attitude. The son does this which the Father does; the father also does this which the son does. In other words said: as Father has put life into me, so can I put life into others. You will say that only Christ talks like this but not a man. If you are a photographic plate it is so, but if the light is within and outside you, you will do that which Christ does. Why should not everyone say like Christ that as Christ knows his Father so does he know Him and lays is soul for His sheep. Don’t think it is brave to compare with Christ. Christ came to the earth to show the man the path on which he has to go through. Due to Christ’s self-sacrifice, there are 500 million christians today whom Christ knows. Why should the Christians then not know their Savier? Which father does not know his son today and which son – his father? Which maid when she falls in love with a man does not love his father. The girl says to her beloved: ‚I am prepared to lay my life for you and follow your path.’ As soon as the ones in love understand and recognise eachother, they also know God. This happens every day in the ordinary life but as soon as a word about the spiritual is mentioned, everyone gets scared of it. There is something scary in life - these are the teeth of death. However, love is a powerful force that brings joy, happiness and activty to man. Love is necessary to the people of today so that when they are filled with it to say: We know Christ as he knows us and we lay our lives for His sheep. This is the new tecahing that makes life meaningful and releases it from hardship and unnecessary suffering. Why do people of today suffer? – Because they live in illsuions and delusions which are destroyed every day. There is no man in the world who is free from illsuions and delusions but this doesn’t mean that he needs to deal with them all day. The little girl plays with her doll, while the little boy- with his horse but this doesn’t mean that they have to give up eating because the doll and horse cannot eat with them. A man should eat, work and develop and the delusions will one by one abondon him. It will be objected that God should take the delusions, hardships and suffering away. If suffering is taken away, every activity and initiative of the human being will be stopped. This is impossible. You will live, make mistakes, suffer and will rectify your mistakes on your own. Concsiously or subconsciously, you can break the leg of your brother, but God will teach you the art of curing broken legs. You will get your brother’s eye out but God will teach you to cure eyes, to put new eyes in the place of the ones that have been pulled out. You will kill someone but you will become a mother in another life, you will collect the requisite material in order to build a new house for the murdered one. He will become your child in order to understand how much a man’s life is worth. This is how you will learn the law of addition and subtraction. – Giving birth is a scary thing. – It is scary but you need to learn to build. The more difficult a woman gives birth the more bills she has to pay. When a woman is giving birth, she needs to turn to God with a request to be taught to fulfill His will. – Why does man suffer?– In order to learn something new, to understand the Divine will and realise it. What do people of today do? – When they are joyous, they are satisfied; when they suffer, they grumble and search for the reason outside of them. There is someone at fault for people’s suffering but who is to blame? This is a task with three unknowns: The fault may be in God, your neighbour or yourselves. The most important is to understand who is the main culprit. In reality, the fault is in teh man who wants his doll or horse to eat with him. The son has made a series of crimes and the mother wants the Divine blessing to come upon him. I tell the mother: Do not expect this which your son cannot benefit from. Call the doctor to lay him in bed and massage him - his leg is dislocated and has to be adjusted before the Divine blessing comes upon him. The hearts of some people are dislocated while others – have dislocated minds. They have to be adjusted. What a bigger blessing one can expect than the adjustment of the dislocated body part in the human organism? This is a necessary phisiological process, which the whole humankind is going through. If your stomach is upset and cannot digest the food, it will be better if you spend a few days in deprivation than burdening it with unncessary material or the food to rot in it and new complications to appear. When will people get better?– When everyone says: „As Christ knows me, so do I know Him and lay my soul for His sheep.’ Many ask themselves how this verse is related to their life. Why is it necssary to know God and Christ? This verse is related to the human life, for every human being is a sheep in God’s flock. God has sacrificed His life because of him. It is enough for you to understand this thought in order to experience the Divine blessing on yourselves. As the sun energy does not reach you directly but passes through the etheral space first, so does the Divine Love reach to people through Christ Who is a mediator. A man is not what he externally manifests. From the outside, he is nothing else but a small poor little house. A day will come when he will leave his small house and will start working consciously on himslef in order to prepare a new, hygenetic one. A day will come when the human being will make a new, healthy body which he will become the master of. However, only this one can become a master, who has been a slave. Christ has been a master in the Heavens, a Divine Son but with his descending to the Earth, He put on the image and accepted the status of a slave. So he showed to people how to serve. Even today, people still serve one another, torture eachother, grumble and do not know how to get rid of this situation. One thing is needed from the people of today: humility and knowledge of God and Christ. When you leave for the other world, the first question you will be asked is: Did you sacrifice your life for Christ’s sheep? Therefore, humility, knowledge and self-sacrifice are the first qualities that the man of today needs. Only in this way, he will make his life better and will head towards the greatest purpose of his existence - the immortality. Why do people fail in their lives? Because they do not aim at pleasing God; they want to please eachother This is impossible. You can be polite, kind and helpful to people but you can never satisfy them. If you meet a hungry person feed him. If you meet a thursty one, give him water. In both cases, however, do not expect from them to be satisfied and grateful to you - there will always be something about which they will be unhappy with you. Even now God is trying to please and satisfy people but He has not achieved any result. It is a great science to satisfy the man. First, God will apply this science and then people. Even to this day, no person has be found who can satisfy people in order that they can be grateful to him. A mother thinks that she has satisfied her child. Let her leave her child hungry for a few hours to see how much she has satisfied him. And the man is happy with his wife when he is fed. As soon as he gets hungry, he becomes unhappy. Only the light remains loyal to people. It cannot change, or manifest as both light and darkness. The Light always remains light. It reveals things as they are. Nothing remains hidden before it. Light is related to the Truth. As the light reveals all hidden things so does the truth touch everyone regardless of where it passes by. The truth reveals man in all his nakedness. You will say that the truth is scary. – Why is it scary?- because it undresses the man. What’s wrong with nudity? Thinking that nudity is a bad thing, shows the tarnished and perverted human thought. The animal essence of the human can be neither cultivated nor ennobled. Regardless of how much he is being cultivated, he will ultimately manifest his nature. An Englishman found a small tiger somewhere in India and took it with him in order to tame it. One day, caught up in his thoughts, he dozed off. His already tamed and grown up tiger who had constantly been leeking his hand out of gratitude was sitting near his feet. However, the skin of his hand got rubbed sore from the sharp tongue of the animal and started to bleed. The smell of the blood awoke the wild instinct of the animal, which was preparing to throw itself over its master. If he does not consciously work on himself, a man always comes across unwanted manifestations of his nature, which destroy the good and beautiful in him. Often when in good spirit, a negative thought that starts to strungle and torture him, appears in man’s mind. If a negative state of mind takes hold of you, turn to Christ in your thought, without talking to Him, and he will transform your state. The Light visits you without you talking to it. It suffice that you open for it in order that it enlightens and shines upon you. It is said in the Scripture that many words lead to a sin. Some religious people think that they can put their affairs to right only through prayers. It is not the case. If you want to put your affairs to right and be healthy, lie down on the heated earth and direct your look upwards where the light comes from. When the earth is cold, turn your back to the sun while you look to the earth. Many men of the world are rich, scientists and healthy because they expose their backs to the sun in order to benefit from its light and warmth. The religious people who think that they are connected with Christ do not expose themselves to the sun and therefore they gradullay become poor. It is a law: if you want to be rich, a scientist and healthy expose your back to the sun. In this way, you will know God and Christ. If you are angry or hate someone expose your back to the sun, direct your sight to the earth and it will take the poison that has penetrated your blood. The sun and earth are people’s best healers and teachers. Someone wants God to talk to him. Before talking to people, He has talked to the earth - their mother. Your mother is beautiful and good but when you don’t know her you find her black and rough. The earth is black and rough because it works for its children. It looks after the small grass, all plants and trees and all living creatures that crawl on it. Doesn’t the mother do the same? She works the whole day for her children in order to feed and bring them up. Her hands are black and rough but she lifts and puts the hoe down while her daughter is sitting in the shade at home with a white face and soft hands, but in the end, the soul of the mother becomes beautiful and noble while the one of the daughter remains rough and crude. Often you meet cultural people, christians with smooth faces and hands, and a noble look but outwardly only, in form. Their deeds are not pious. In cotrast to them, you meet a rough peasant, with a burnt face but a noble soul. He has drunk a little bit more than he has to do, he could hardly walk, but when he sees an honest person, he becomes immediately sobre and says: ‚Apologies brother but I got drunk as a donkey.’ With this he wants to say that he has done something that is not in accordance with the Divine laws. In fact, he hasn’t got drunk as a donkey because the donkey does not drink anything else but pure water . The words ’ got drunk as a donkey’ mean one of the qualities of the donkey - its genuineness. A man becomes genuine and willing to speak the truth only when he gets drunk. When he is sobre, he thinks, beats about the bush, filtrates his words so that he first could swim above the water like butter. „As my Lord knows me, so do I know the Lord, and I lay my soul for the sheep’. A day will come when all people will know their Father, will be ready to speak the truth and sacrifice their lives for His sheep. This means an attitude of a son towards his father and one of the father towards his son. God is great because he has first sacrificed His life for His children; He has looked after them and is constantly doing so without asking for anything in return. One is people’s duty towards their Father - to fulfill His will. If they don’t fulfill it, He does not judge them but searches for the reason about that and helps them. He sees the people’s helplessness and does not judge it but He teaches and helps them. What differentiates the human manifestations from the Divine ones? The former are devoid of truth and love, while the latter are penetrated with truth and love. The Divine manifests light and joy. As soon as this light goes into the man, it manifests as intelligence. Everything in the world moves around the light. It is the end goal of the Genesis. The meaning of life is when a man merges with the light that comes from God. A few acquire such light. Christ carried the Divine light within Himself and manifested it as wisdom and knowledge. He came among people in ordert o show them how to live in order to achieve the idea of their souls. He went through such suffering that to this day noone has ever known of. People have gone through and are still passing through different suffering, big and small but have not yet come to the Christ suffering. That is why, Christ sits above all people. Many times, man will come back to the Earth until he acquires the light which will take him to God. When a man is being born and reincarnated, as well as works consciously on himself, he sculptures his face until he presents himself to God as a completed and perfect picture. A human face is full of many shortcomings and uncultivated features, but the human must work and move forward. Everyone must say to himself: I know God as He knows me; I love Him as He loves me; I will sacrifice myself for him as he sacrifices Himself for me. Tell this to yourselves, begin to work quietly and calmly without discouraging yourselves. Whoever rushes and wants to achieve something soon, he only discourages himself. The rushed things do not lead to good results. A young man has visited a famous German professor in philosphy in order for the latter to recommend a short course to him - to study philosphy in short amount of time. The professor thought for a shortwhile and responded to him: When God wants to create a pumpkin, He uses only six months; when He wants to create an Oak tree, He needs tens of years. Therefore, if you want to lead a Christian life with the requirements of the pumpkin, you will spend little time on working on yourselves. If you live with the requirements of the oak tree, you will work consciously on yourselves for decades; if you want to perfect and purify yourselves like the diamond you will work even more. Lots of work is required from a man in order to harmonise his mind, heart and will. A man’s look and movements need to be harmonious. In this way, he influences his close ones and elevates them. As the harmonious movements affect people and elevate them so do the dishramonious movements affect them and lower their mood. Be careful with yourselves and your close ones. As the sun light comes through the windows of the houses so does the Divine light have to come through a man’s eyes to light up his way. It is enough that one candle illuminates one’s path in order for one to understand where he is going. The Light is a live serman that everyone needs. – Why people should be preached to?– This is a necessity for the one who preaches and for that one who is preached to. – Why the mother has to give birth? – this is a necessity for herself and her close ones. This is so necessary as is necessary for the man to eat, drink, breathe, think, feel and act. To preach to people it means to give an opportunity to God to manifest as light and warmth and in order to light up people’s paths and warm them.– Is it possible without preaching? - No it is not. People are preached in many ways: through talking and silence, through the light, warmth and air. Often nature is silent, quite, but one perceives its vibrations without any contradiction or confusion. A man needs a bright mind in order to perceive love without hate, the truth without lie, the wisdom without stupidity. This is what it means the man to know his Father and say as Christ: ‚As my Father knows me and so do I know Him and I am ready to sacrifice myself for His sheep.“ What are the sheep which Christ is talking about? They are Divine souls who go through a process of development. They are compared with the sheep and not the goats because the first ones are meak and unevil, ready to sacrifice voluntarily. All animals, plants, insects and butterflies are a symbol of something Divine. For example, the butterfly with its beautiful colours and patterns manifests something Divine. God talks throught it too. Nature is alive. God talks through it and preaches to people. Look how and what the butterfly eats. It sucks the sweet nectar of the flowers and shows a way of eating to people that is more pure than the one they follow nowadays. Whoever wants to protect themselves from mistakes and crimes should study the life of butterflies. Study the colours, patterns which they are filled with in order to understand the great philosophy that is hiden in them. The book of life is great and so is its language. Every little grass and insect are a letter of this language. Combine the letters of nature in syllables, and the syllables in words, the words- in whole sentences in order to compose the great thoughts of life. Put love and truth as foundation of the eternal life while the wisdom as decoration! Only in this way will you know your Father and sacrifice your life for His sheep. Only in this way will you understand and apply the Christ teaching which echo is carried away in the whole nature and enlivens it and makes it spiritual. I wish you to know God and Christ and to rejoyce in the light future which is expecting you. Sunday Lectures 12.01.1919 Sunday, Sofia Превод от Пролетина Жонес

God Is Spirit “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth.”[1] “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth.” Christ has pronounced this thought as far back as two thousand years ago. The fact that this thought was said at a gathering reveals that those who assisted at this gathering were not so particularly people of culture. They were discussing the question of how should they worship God – so Christ gave them an answer. There are many ways in which people can serve God, but Christ indicates one of the proper ways: to serve God in Spirit and Truth. Here the word worship is taken in the meaning of serve. “God is Spirit.” The word God is vague, uncomprehended – mainly to those who examine questions from the philosophical point of view. However, the Existence, or the Essence of things, cannot be grasped through the mind, e.g. in a philosophical manner. Why? Because, according to the laws of the thought, there are things determined and finite; and there are also things undetermined and infinite. One of the undetermined notions is that of God. God is a Being Who has neither beginning nor end, and Whose limits within He moves are unknown. He is a basis, a Principle upon which we ought to build our relations. “Those who serve God must serve Him in Spirit and Truth.” What does the word Spirit mean? People say about someone that this one has “yielded up his (or her) Spirit to Father” – that is, this person has died. So the Spirit is that intelligent force within humans which brings life. If we would like to define what the Truth is, we refer to the Gospel in which it is said, “The Head of Your Word is the Truth.”[2] So the word through which we express ourselves represents the body of the Truth. Everyone knows what the head is for the body. The most valuable, the most precious part of human beings is invested in their brain, in their head. Therefore, namely, humans are being determined by the quality of their own brain. “To serve God in Spirit and Truth.” What is God, in His Essence? Many consider God as a great, abstract Principle about Which they cannot have any notion at all. Very little is demanded from people in order that they get to know God. It is enough for them just to make an attempt, make an effort to serve Him in Spirit and Truth so that they may have contact with Him, so that they may find the common points of contact between God and their own Soul. How would you know that you have already established this contact? By the consequences, namely: if you have been dead, you shall be resurrected to life; if you have been sick, you shall be healed; if you have been ignorant, you shall be enlightened; if you have lost the meaning of life, then Love shall visit you, impart Light into your mind, and give meaning and purpose to your life. The moment you lose your bond with God, you will lose everything. Everyone has experienced that, thanks to which the question of serving is not abstract but vital. Those who have managed to find a solution to this question have made their way to the inner sense of their individual life and have built their own philosophy of life. Many philosophers have written on the topic of serving; whoever is interested in that may read what the different philosophers have said. There are works written in various languages on that topic. Outside literature, the question of serving has its inner side of experience. Which one of the two sides of the question is the true, the real one? According to Me, the reality of matters is dual: external, or objective, that has form; and internal, or subjective, that is without form. As a matter of fact, real things are those that have no form. You might object that it is impossible for the real things to have no form. What would you say, then, about the feelings and sensations you experience? They are real – and in spite of that, they have no form. What form do the sensations of pleasantness and unpleasantness, the feelings of joy and sorrow have? What form would you give to the notion of Truth? Therefore, real things are not always dressed in form. In the present stage of development of humans, there are real things that do not need any forms. Scientists call these things subjective, or internal. “Those who serve Him must serve in Spirit and Truth.” It means: To serve God with that profound, inner understanding of life which people carry within themselves; to serve God with that understanding of the inner sense of life. Everyone seeks the Truth, discerns the Truth, and, when someone else is talking to them, they want to know whether this one is speaking the Truth to them or not. The Truth determines the relations between souls. Taken alone, the Truth is something specific, concrete. To be a bearer of the Truth within yourself means to have Light in your mind and Warmth in your heart, to be free in your own beliefs and convictions. The Truth imparts inner freedom and strength into humans. Once having lost the Truth, one begins to hesitate and have doubts. Whatever such people undertake, they feel fear and confusion. The Truth is a living quantity, and therefore, wherever it enters, it gives inner sense and Spirit to things. To speak about the Truth as a mere notion, this is equivalent to saying the names of people without the very people, without the living notion of them. The name Ivan is lifeless; once we link it to the very person, this name comes alive. People often talk about the Truth as about something void of life; however, when it is said that “The Truth is the Head of the Word” or that “God is Truth”, this Truth is immediately filled with Spirit and life. Therefore, those who carry the Truth within themselves are healthy, intelligent, happy, beautiful, and strong. If you wish to be beautiful, to be loved by other people, then apply the Truth in your life. Some keep complaining that their skin has turned yellow and do not know what to do in order to obtain a vital complexion. The answer is very simple: They have to apply the Truth. The Truth shall give them whatever colour they like. The Truth is the Philosopher’s stone of the alchemists – the stone that transmutes matters. Those who are bearers of the Truth within themselves are immortal; they are masters of the situation, the whole Nature knows them, and, wherever they pass through, every living creature greets them: flowers, animals, and humans. Even the rivers, the wellsprings, the rocks and the mountains salute them. Those who are not bearers of the Truth within themselves constantly encounter contradictions and hardships. Each time you meet people who are constantly attacked by everyone else, you ought to know that those people either do not carry the Truth within themselves or the society they move in keeps away from the Truth. Christ says, “We ought to worship Him, to bow down before Him.” The verb bow down refers to human will-power. When working, people have to bow down. What does the one digging the vineyard do – or another one, who is reaping the harvest in the field? They bow and bow down all day long. They raise up and put down the hoe or the reaping-hook, and keep bowing down. Those who eat or drink water also bow down. You meet someone you know in the street, man or woman – you bow down again. This shows that people bow down before God wherever they see Him: in a human, in an animal, in a plant, in the food and water they constantly need. Then the verse pronounced by Christ about the worshipping takes on a broader sense and already means, “Those who bow down before God, wherever they see Him, bow down in Spirit and Truth.” Whatever home you walk in, see whether the man and the woman in there bow down before God in Spirit and Truth. If the woman is not pleased with her husband and her children, and if she wants to get rid of them, then she does not worship God in Spirit and Truth. And if the man, too, is discontent with his relatives and constantly hurls abuses at them, then he also does not bow down in Spirit and Truth. Many people would like to know why Christianity, being such a great Teaching, does not bring the expected results. This is quite natural: very few do understand it. And even among those who understand it, most people do not apply it. They consider that, if they apply the Teaching of Christ, their interests will be affected. This is an incorrect comprehension of things. “Spirit and Truth.” These are two elements that can be compared to man and woman. The Spirit is the woman; the Truth is the man. Therefore, all men and women who serve God have to unite in Spirit and Truth. Worshipping, bowing down, as a process, represents the coming of the child into the world. Therefore, when the man, the woman and the child unite in Spirit and Truth, they shall worship God in the proper way. This is what we call veritable worship. Where the Spirit, the Truth and the serving are, there God is. The fruits of the Spirit are Love, joy, kind-heartedness, gentleness, self-control. A woman ought to give birth to such fruits, namely. Each woman is capable of giving birth – however, the important thing is what she gives birth to. As women, may you wish that from now on you give birth to the fruits of the Spirit: Love, joy, long-patience, peace, gentleness, self-control, kind-heartedness. In giving birth to these fruits, true serving of God lies. Which fruit trees do people love? The ones which give birth to sweet, delicious fruit. Is there any fruit sweeter than Love? Therefore, women, who represent the Spirit, can be loved only when Love is born. A woman is a symbol of Love. A child born by Love is loved by all. A mother rejoices that her child is in the good graces of the love of people. However, people say about the mother, “Blessed is the one who has given birth to the child of Love.” Unfailing and eternal Love is – yet its fruits are eternal, too. Give place to the Spirit within yourself so that you may give birth to Love. “Those who serve Him in Spirit and Truth.” Why is this necessary? In order for them to link themselves to the Reality of life so that they do not feel naked when they take off their flesh and go to the Other World. God is the Centre of the Universe, the Spirit is the Wellspring of Life, and the Truth is the Head of the Word, of Wisely Intelligent Life. The Spirit and the Truth have to unite in one and thus return to God, become one with Him. Christ says, “I and My Father are one.”[3] With this, He would like to say that He carries within Himself both elements – Spirit and Truth. Christ has gone through great sufferings but gave birth to the fruits of the Spirit and showed to people how they ought to live and serve God. For a human, to give birth means to take the position of a woman who gives birth to children and raises them up. To be a woman means to be a bearer of the fruits of the Spirit within yourself: Love, peace, joy, long-patience, kind-heartedness, gentleness, and self-control. Whether you are women or men, all of you are required to serve in Spirit and Truth, not only by the letter or the form. A Christian lady in America happened to listen to the speeches of a prominent public speaker who spoke against Christianity. Embittered inside her soul by his preaching, she decided to visit his home and have a talk with him there, to prove to him the power of Christ’s Teaching and turn him towards Christ. The speaker welcomed her politely, let her express herself freely, and invited her to lunch. After the lunch, he told her, “You see, I do not serve God according to your understanding, neither do I bow before Him, and nevertheless, I live in plenty in my home, I have everything I need at my disposal. You’d better visit the home of my neighbour who prays to God three times a day but he still lives in privation and poverty. Go to him, console him, and feed him: he needs your support, not me.” Religious people often wish to turn people into Christianity by external ways, by the form. Christianity does not need external worshippers, by the mere form. External serving does not bring salvation to humans. True salvation implies right though, right feelings, and right actions. Whoever do not think, feel and act in the right way come upon contradictions all the time. They are said to be believers but actually are not such. In general, it is hard to define who is a believer and who is a non-believer. Some people visit churches regularly but are not religious; others do not go to church at all but are religious. There exists a certain science by means of which you can precisely determine who is religious or spiritual and who is not: this is written on the head, the face, and the hand of people. It is enough to take a look at those parts so that you may convince yourself in the presence or absence of religious feeling in a human. Two young people walked into a café and started to discuss the question of relations between humans. One of the two claimed one thing, and the other – another thing; so, after they could not come to one joint solution to this question, they began to argue. Meanwhile, outside, along the sidewalk, a poor old man was passing by, bent under the heavy load he was carrying on his back. They saw this but continued their fight. In the meantime, a gentleman from the table next to them who did not take part in the argument walked outside immediately and lifted up the burden of the poor man. Having settled the load firmly on his own back, this gentleman returned into the café and saw that the two young people were still going on with their dispute. Even to this day, some religious persons go to church, debate on the question who are believers and who are non-believers, whereas, outside, in the streets, poor old people pass by, burdened with their chests, panting and moaning, tortured by their heavy weight, no one coming along to help them. Stop the argument, leave your seats, and walk outside to help those who are panting under the weight of their load. They are heavily burdened, suffering, and full of contradictions and hardships. Help them, whether with your good examples or with your good advice and philosophy. Christ says to His disciples, “Do not criticize people, do not attack them, and do not speak of what they hardly understand.” You might say, “The words you speak – are they right or wrong?” They are right to Me; as for you, I do not know. I have one thing in mind: What is tasty to a wolf is not tasty to a sheep; and what is tasty to a sheep is not tasty to a wolf. So the religion of a wolf is of one kind, and that of a sheep – of another kind. Which one of the two religions is more right? Both are right: each professes their own religion. Therefore, let each one profess their own religion freely: let flowers grow, let trees blossom, let fruits ripen, and let humans do God’s Will. In other words: A wellspring has to gush forth, to give away from its pure, crystalline water. A river has to be long: wherever it passes, to water all grasses and plants, even those whom people do not love. By flowing, the river waters and floods everything it meets along its way: it does not make any difference between flowers and trees, it does not divide them into pretty and ugly, useful and harmful – it waters all of them. Therefore, if you are a wellspring, then give from your abundance to all who visit you; if you are a river, then water all flowers and trees you meet along your way; if you are a flower, then grow and develop properly; if you are a tree, then blossom; if you are a fruit, then ripen; if you are human, then do God’s Will! When studying the processes in life, a human has to know the Law of transmutation. If you hear someone saying that he or she wants to grow, then you ought to give this one the necessary conditions: humidity, warmth, and light; if people want to blossom, they need warmth and light, they do not need humidity. When they grow ripe, they also need light and warmth. It is an art for humans to know what they need in each given moment, and to provide themselves with what they need. It means knowing and applying the Law of transmutation of energies. It is said the Spirit transforms matters. Since the woman represents the Spirit, she has to transform, to transmute matters. Therefore, it is not enough for a woman to say that she has a man but she also has to transform him. He is a fruit on the tree, and this fruit has to grow ripe. With that end in view, the woman has to shine upon the man so that he may ripen and attain the necessary sweetness. In general, a woman has to know the man’s nature, and, if he is a flower, she has to water him so that he may grow; if he is a tree that blossoms, she has to dig around him and cultivate him; if he is a fruit on a tree, she has to shine upon him; if he is a human doing God’s Will, she has to assist him so that he may serve in Spirit and Truth. The same is true for the man. He, too, has to know the woman’s nature and help her. And, if she is a growing flower, he has to water her; if she is a blooming tree, he has to dig around her, but the wind and the rain have to cease: all arguments and misunderstandings have to stop; if she is a fruit growing ripe, he has to shine upon her – that is, he ought to embrace her with Love. And, finally, if she is a human doing God’s Will, he has to assist her in serving God in Spirit and Truth. Then both will get along well together, living in Love and agreement. Those who do not understand the processes of life expose themselves to hardships and sufferings. Someone is still blooming, and you want fruit from him or her. Let those people shed its blossoms in peace, let them set fruit, and after that expect fruit from them. Others have just set their fruit, and you want them to have sweet fruits. Let them grow ripe freely. At first, the fruit will be bitter, sour; but later on, it will grow sweet, delicious. People nowadays suffer, torture themselves because they do not understand the languages in which they talk to each other. In whatever language people may talk, it is important that everywhere and in everything they may see the manifestations of God. It is an art for humans to know, to discern what is wise from what is unwise. Given that, whoever might be speaking to them, whatever language they might be listening to, people should grasp where God is and where He is not. Where wise intelligence is, there is no hesitation and no doubt. How should you resolve your questions? If you wish to find a solution to a question which is very important to you, pick a moment when you are peaceful and quiet within. If you are angry, indisposed, discontent, or if you have doubts about something, then do not make any decision on that question. Let it all calm down, and then direct your thought upward, towards your mind or your Soul, and wait for an answer. Fifteen of twenty minutes later, you shall receive an answer. If you are in a hurry, you will make some mistake. Many people ask something from God and hurry up to quickly fulfill their desire. Things do not work well by hurrying up. Once a gospeller was in need of 3,000 levs and, without thinking much in which way he should provide them to himself, he went to an American missionary and told him, “God sent me to you so that you give me 3,000 levs.” “I do not have money at my disposal” – the missionary replied calmly. “Since I have no money in my safe, I come to the conclusion that it is not God who sent you. If He had sent you, I would by all means have money to do you this favour with.” So when someone connects with God, there will be, by all means, an outer and inner coordination between things. Given that, people whom you address to do you a favour of some kind will accept God’s commandments and will come to help you. Someone might say that he or she serves God in Spirit and Truth. If this one actually serves in Spirit and Truth, his or her friends – men and women – will come to help. Why? Because God understands your needs, knows your wishes, and, in order to do these favours to you, will give orders to your friends in whom He lives to do His Will. Does not a father do the same? Even before his child has cried and wept for bread, the father has already brought the bread. Through him, God satisfies the needs of the whole family. Contemporary people live in strenuous, hard times, and say, “What will happen to us?” Nothing bad will happen. There have been no better times than the present ones. Why? Because today God cures people. When a certain illness is being treated, the condition of the ill person is much better than his or her condition before the treatment. Earlier, the illness has existed inside the person as a germ, waiting only for the time to manifest itself, and the person considered himself (or herself) to be healthy. It is better for humans that their eyes be opened for a specific delusion than stay with eyes shut before this delusion. Present sufferings reveal that relations between people begin to gradually improve. Christ says, “In Spirit and Truth.” This means: If people serve God in Spirit and Truth, the relations between them shall improve. If they do not serve in Spirit and Truth, even the improved matters will get mixed up. Therefore, even when the world gets into good order, we still have to serve God in Spirit and Truth. Give up your old views and acts, and apply the new ones, the ones which Love brings along. If some people insult you, do not be cross with them, do not take revenge on them. Revenge is an old method that does not contribute any good. Christ says, “Make friends out of injustice.” In other words: Forgive those who owe you or who have caused you some damage. Once a Bulgarian man stayed in jail three years long. After he went out of jail, he decided to apply what he had learned in there, reading the Gospel. He summoned his debtors and settled his accounts with them in the Christian way. What did he do? He summoned his debtors, one by one, and questioned each separately: “How much do you owe me?” “That and that much.” “Can you pay me the whole of your debt?” “I can’t.” “Half of it?” “No, I cannot.” “A quarter of it?” “Yes, I can.” “So pay as much as you can, and be free.” In the person of his debtors, he won friends instead of adversaries. Three brothers in a family entered into partnership of working together. One of them was a gospeller, and the other two were orthodox. One day a misunderstanding appeared between them, and so they decided to part. Each wanted an equal share but the eldest insisted to have a bigger share because he had worked more. The situation reached the court. The eldest brother won the case, and, in order not to be disturbed by his brothers anymore, transferred the whole property to his wife. However, one day she chased him out of the house and he was left alone on the street. The other two decided to find their eldest brother and reach an agreement with him somehow so that he gives them whatever he finds appropriate. They found him but he was in a deplorable condition. He told them, “It is too late: I have lost everything, too.” So this is how all people act nowadays – all societies and all nations. Why? Because they do not serve God in Spirit and Truth. If they go on living in the old ways, not serving God in Spirit and Truth, they shall lose everything. Today women complain of their husbands; men complain of their wives. A woman does not want to live with her husband anymore because he told her an offensive word. What did he say to her? He called her “budala”[4]. She has to be reasonable, to transmute matters. The man, too, has to act in the same way. What is there, hidden inside the word “budala” (“будала”[5])? The letter “б” means growing, “у” means blooming, „д” means knowing the laws of Love, “а” means reasonableness, “л” means Love towards people and towards God. Is it wrong for one to be a “budala”? What else could people want? It is not bad that a man calls his wife “budala”; the bad thing is if she cannot extract the juice from this word and boil it, cook from it something delicious to eat. When she tastes the sweet juice of this word, she has to tell her husband, “Thank you for the nice gift!” This is what serving God in Spirit and Truth means. It means to have mastered the art of transmuting the bitter juice into sweet. It is to be achieved through strong, reasonable will. Those who have managed to apply their own reasonable will-power in their life shall never hear the word “budala”. Whoever meets them will tell them, “You are a beautiful flower; you are a blooming tree; you are a fruit growing ripe; you are a reasonable human applying one’s will-power in order to transmute the bitter juices into sweet ones. The task of each human is to learn the Law of transmutation of energies. Women have to transmute the offensive words of their husbands into pleasant ones, whereas men have to seek harmony in the offensive words of their wives. Whatever offensive or bad word they tell you, decompose it the way a chemist decomposes the compounds; take the bitter and toxic elements out of it and leave only those elements which are necessary for your development. This is what “serving God in Spirit and Truth” means. Serving is a great science. Be alchemists in life, turning the bad and offensive words into good ones. In the words people use, something valuable is hidden, even if they are offensive externally. Do not be fixed on the external forms of human language but seek in these forms those elements which heal and elevate people. In the old times, Bulgarians used to hide their gold in ragged bags, in smelly pots, so that they do not arouse any suspicion that here or there might be some hidden treasure. Good spirits act the same way. When they give someone a certain treasure, they conceal it into some offensive, bad words, so that evil entities do not find it and do not obsess it. Knowing this, do not get embittered by the offensive word said by your fellow but begin to analyze it so that you can extract the good elements concealed in it. Do not think that those who offend others do not suffer. They feel sorry about the word they have said, they blame themselves and have a hard time. Some people offend others, thinking that, by doing this, they speak the Truth. Such people should know that the Truth is distinguished for one quality: the Truth brings freedom to the human soul. When the Truth becomes the Head of the Word, people are set free and become happy. Today I wish that the Spirit may come and become the Head of the woman, and that the Truth may become the Head of the man. Then Christ will also come onto the Earth and will make His abode with them. When will this time come? When the woman accepts the Spirit as a Head, and when the man accepts the Truth as a Head. Only thus the world will be settled into good order, and a lovely, beautiful life will begin. Each one has to accept the Spirit and the Truth within themselves and not expect to be preached about them from outside, imposing the Spirit and the Truth to them. The salvation of the world is concealed in the verse pronounced by Christ, “True worshippers must serve God in Spirit and Truth.” All who serve God in this way shall bring peace into the world. Therefore, may each and every human put into their minds the thought that they are able to bring around peace. Peace comes from inside, not from outside. Therefore I say also to Bulgarians and to all nations: Do not lose faith in yourselves, reckon on God Who lives within you and Who has arranged everything in the world. Reckon on your Spirit and on the Truth within yourself. Everything happening now in the world is not something random: it is a matter of course. Out of the spilled blood, colourful and beautiful flowers will grow, and lovely trees giving sweet, delicious fruit. In order for these times to come, all must serve God in Spirit and Truth. The salvation of the world depends on each and every human individually. Does not a grain of wheat do the same? It is tiny, but, once put into favourable conditions, in the course of 12 years it may feed the whole world. Therefore, when saying that Christ has saved the world, we have in mind that mighty Soul which has penetrated all people and manifests itself everywhere. In this way, namely, it gives an impulse to the whole humankind to keep walking forward. Many of people nowadays do not succeed in their deeds because they consider everyone from the negative point of view. Whomever they see, each time they would tell something about this one. If all people are bad, where will salvation possibly come from? Every human ought to think that God has invested into their fellows potentials to be wisely reasonable, good and strong, and also favourable conditions to manifest themselves. Each human has the potential to be wise. Wisdom is a book, written inside each and every one. It is enough for people to read this book so that they may work their way to those Truths that will set them free from limitations and make them happy. Let everyone open the book of their own life and read what is written in there. You might say that this is hard to do. Hard deeds are Divine deeds. A young man once went to a German professor, with the desire that this professor gives him some advice to choose such a branch of science that will take him very little time. The professor looked at him and told him, “When God wishes to create a pumpkin, He determines a term of six months to this pumpkin; when He wants to create an oak tree, He determines a term of a hundred years to this tree.” So, if you want to grow ripe in six months, then pumpkin you shall be; if you wish to ripen in the course of a hundred years, then an oak tree you shall be. “In Spirit and Truth.” Keep working upon this thought, extracting the juices it contains. Thus you will come to inner knowing of yourself and of your fellow. If you cannot extract the sweet juices of this thought, you will constantly doubt in yourself and resemble that Bulgarian man named Stoyan who once stopped under a tree to rest and tied up his donkey to the tree. Meanwhile, he felt sleepy, lay down in the shadow of the tree, and fell asleep. Some children came up to the tree, untied the donkey, and walked away silently. Once Stoyan woke up, he looked to see the donkey, and, not seeing him, said, “If I am Stoyan, then I have lost my donkey; if I am not Stoyan, then I have gained a halter.” He had doubts about himself and asked himself, “Am I Stoyan, or am I not?” In order not to lose his donkey, he should not have fallen asleep. Therefore, whenever God comes to you, He must find you awake, just like the young man waiting for his beloved. It is not God Who must seek people – people have to seek and wait for God. Therefore, it is said in the Scripture, “Those that seek Me shall find Me.”[6] To find God means to have made your way to the great Divine philosophy of life. And everyone will apply this philosophy the way he or she is capable of applying, the way he or she understands. Once we come to the views of people, we see the big difference existing between their thoughts and feelings in terms of quality, scope, and value. The differences in the views, the feelings and the thoughts of people create the proper and improper relations between them. For example, most people love each other because of the good, the wealth, the knowledge, the strength, etc. A master loves his servant as long as the latter is able to work for him, as long as the servant has not infringed his interests somehow. Once the servant happens to be disloyal to him in some respect, his master does not love him anymore and dismisses him. A man loves his woman as long as she is healthy and beautiful. Once she gets sick and loses her beauty, he stops loving her. The same is true about women. It is an act of heroism to love a sinful and ugly person. Strong ones are capable of loving all people and give them an impulse towards everything good and beautiful in the world. Rely on the Divine in you as well as in your fellow. However feeble or thin it is, it will take you to the safety shore. Even if all devils perch on the Divine thread, they will not break it nevertheless. The Divine shall lead all people into the Right Way. The Divine shall settle right even the devils. I believe in the power of Good, in the power of the Divine. I believe that all people will become good. “In Spirit and Truth.” Apply in your home the Divine Teaching in Spirit and Truth, so that all weeping and suffering stop. Apply the Divine Teaching among men and women, so that relations of peace and agreement be settled between them. May women say to themselves, “I am the Spirit.” May men say to themselves, “I am the Truth.” Apply these spiritual formulas in your life, and then experience what results they will bring. A talk by the Master, held on 3rd June, 1917, Sofia Translated by Kalina Stoycheva [1] John 4:24 – ed. [2] Psalm 119:160 – ed. [3] John 10:30 – ed. [4] “Budala”: a Turkish word meaning “chump”, “easy game” – ed. [5] Written in Cyrillic letters – ed. [6] Proverbs 8:17 – ed.

Except Ye Eat “The Lord’s Prayer.” Song "In the Beginning Was the Word." I will read only 5 verses from the Gospel of John – chapter 5, verses 5-10*. “5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” 7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath. 10 The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.” *1 Song "God Is Love". “Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.” John 6:53, NKJV. Coming to this verse inside the Gospels, you will see that it represents a negative sentence with a positive content. What is important for a human being? Eating is a process directly related to one’s health. All healthy organisms *2 eat properly. Those who are ill, eat in a wrong fashion, and those who die, do not eat at all. When a person does not eat in an adequate way, their ribs can be counted, neck becomes thinner, the eyes sink in, cheeks lose their beauty, and finally the body becomes quite emaciated. Then Jesus said to them: “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.” This verse has a dual interpretation. If taken literally, it almost does not make any sense, but the essential things that you eat, are not represented by the flesh itself. The essential is what is contained within the flesh. This is the Life itself, which is hidden in the flesh. This is what people knew in the very old days - the life elixir, or the conditions of life, which penetrate the flesh through the intake of food. I am hereby saying: “There are two different types of life interpretations based on this verse.” Now, I shall not be talking about things that you already know, because I do not want to burden you. This implies that I am not going to offer you shabby, old clothes *3 , because you already have enough of them. Instead, I need to “sell” you new clothes, which you can either try to “resell” to others or you can “wear” them instead. Either way, you would benefit yourselves. In order for a human being to eat properly within the physical realm, their brain and sympathetic nervous system must be well-designed, or scientifically speaking, they must be in a state of musical harmony. Only in this state, can a person eat properly. In a spiritual sense, eating is a process of inner alignment and harmonization. People should enjoy the food they eat in order to benefit from it. If there is no appreciation for a particular type of food, then we cannot benefit from it. Such type of food caries the most virulent poisons. All people know this, but have not applied it in their everyday lives yet. In future, this knowledge will become common sense, since nowadays people’s minds are too scientifically-bound. The modern world is filled with famous scientific theories, which remain unimplemented. Therefore, everything, which is not tried and applied, represents just a mere theory. On the other side, everything that is tried and applied, is a matter of fact already, and the foundations of life are being laid on such facts. There is an ongoing debate between the secular and religious people about society’s correct eating habits. Secular people argue that one should eat four times a day to maintain a healthy body. The Englishmen, for example, do eat four, five times a day, and sometimes three times a day. Religious people, on the other hand, maintain that in 24 hours, a person should eat only once, as the body should not be overfed. Now, let’s leave aside what people believe in - all of them are right in their assumptions. I could provide you with a lot of evidence, but every time a new evidence is shared, and the very same moment one says something innovative, a different theory would be undermined. Consider the statement that whilst building a new house, the old one should be inevitably destroyed. Those, who are innovation supporters, shall be happy with such an assumption, while those, who keep their old belief systems, would say: “Listen, this house should not be torn down”. What should you do in this case? The great art of not knocking down what is already old is only mastered by the Nature *4 itself. Nature not only does not tear the Old down, but it also simultaneously builds the New. It builds the New upon the Old. To achieve something of this type of magnitude, some great skill is required. When people start building, they destroy the Old first and only then build the New, since they know no other way of achieving their goals. Now, I will attempt to build the New without tearing down the Old. Whether this will work out or not, remains unknown. If a lot of dust comes up around us, then you’d know that there is something knocked down; if no dust is raised up in the air, then we would have abided by the laws of Nature. As a result, as we now discuss things in the context of the individual life that we nowadays lead, there will inevitably be some religious, societal, family, or who knows what other belief systems, which may potentially become discredited. When a person speaks, he or she needs to be away from other people by a sufficient distance in order not to offend them. Where are the foundations of the human dignity? One of the main foundations, the human dignity is based on, is the human thought. Another characteristic of the human dignity is honesty, and a third trait is one’s kindness. These are the three qualities necessary for the human dignity to exist - kindness, honesty and upright thinking. This is what makes a man stand out. There are other qualities as well, but these three attributes stand out the most. Therefore, every person, who destroys your well-being, cannot be good for you; anyone, who destroys your integrity, cannot be good for you, and anyone, who destroys your right set of mind, cannot be good for you. This is a rule, by which you can tell, who is on the right path of life, as well as who is a good person and who isn’t. There is no common set of moral values regarding one’s righteousness. There is no common moral code in the world the way people interpret it nowadays - no, there is absolutely none. But do not get me wrong, there is one universal moral code of conduct, which is needed by each and every creature, and that specific moral code of conduct should be applied. If a certain type of morality regenerates the human body, if this type of morality regenerates the human thoughts, and if this type of morality regenerates the human feelings, then it is the right one to assume. If any particular code of conduct or any particular thought do not help in the rebuilding of the human thoughts and feelings, then generally speaking, they are inappropriate. Now, I will not dwell on the issue of regenerating the human being in the broad sense of the word, but I would state that every thought has three different foundational levels – it should acquire the correct form, or be given a correct form, it should also have appropriate content, and finally, it should entail a future application purpose. Those three qualities represent what can be accomplished by a particular thought. In addition to that, every single thought that interests us, is definitely relevant to our lives. Avoid the misbelief that your life is separate from the life of the Whole. Your life is a sea drop in the life of the Whole, and this drop will soon or late return to its Source. Do not assume that once this drop returns to the Oneness, it will lose its essence. Not only will it not lose its essence, but you will also gain something additional to your life, you will add something to your own life essence. Now, if the above statement is unclear, do not try to clarify it. Why? - Because so far, I have not seen a single philosopher, who has made it clear. For example, you love a good-looking human being and you say: “I love this person, they are so attractive, and I just cannot cast my glance away from them.” - Where is their beauty hidden? – In the ears, in the eyes … a fetching person that is indeed... Without consciously deciphering the scientific meaning of a particular manifestation of the attractiveness itself, the person who is in love has nevertheless some understanding of this particular splendor on display, or otherwise such a person would not be going after the object of their desires all day long. Because of such gorgeousness, a man leaves both his wife and children behind, and goes all day long after a woman in order to marvel at her. If you, for example, see a striking picture, it is very difficult to say where its beauty lies - beauty is not something physical, it is a spiritual thing. Today you see it in one place; tomorrow you will not see it in the same place because a certain change has occurred. You could have a glimpse at it only for a moment, and the very next moment, the beauty would have already departed elsewhere. To you and to all the educated people, it is strange that beauty cannot be defined - you meet one person in one place, but the next moment, he or she is no longer at the same place - they have moved one meter away, therefore they are no longer at the same place. Moreover, the other people in that person’s immediate surroundings are no longer at their old places either – they have also changed places. Furthermore, the people themselves have changed as well - they are no longer the same, they have become completely different. For example, you meet a man half an hour before their meal, then you meet this person half an hour after lunch, and their weight would already be quite different. Along the gained weight comes also the influence of the chef who has cooked the meat. If lamb was eaten, then there is the influence of the lamb, and if apples or pears were eaten, then this person would have acquired their respective qualities. Therefore, the respective person has gained the disposition of the lamb, the disposition of the pear, the disposition of the apple and so on. On the other hand, we assume that pears and apples cannot think. No, pears and apples in fact think better than we do. In fact, they think so well, that they are ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the human beings. Apples and pears do not consciously apply the doctrine of Christ, but they still say: “If you do not eat my flesh, you have no life in you.” The lambs also say the same and lambs are sometimes full of grief, but nevertheless utter: “Lord, because of you, we shall make this sacrifice. We are sad, but because of you, we shall give our lives away.” The apples and the pears do not say so. When an apple spots you, it smiles back a little and says: “If you eat me, you’ll be well, if you do not eat me, you’ll be unwell.” In my opinion, people have to start off by adopting the morality of the fruit trees, to be kind like them, to be like the pears, apples, plums, cherries and so on… If people had those qualities, which are already possessed by the fruits, no other human beings could have ever been superior to them. If I had to write a moral code of conduct, I would say that you should have the morality of the cherries - to be reddish like them, to be sweet as they are and, also, you should have the morals of the plums – figuratively speaking, you should be white or blue in order to resemble them … You should be like the apples - reddish and smooth - just like them… Nowadays, we are looking for appropriate morality outside of the Nature itself and say: “This is not right, that is not right.” Those are relative things. All people talk about righteousness, but nevertheless, the world still lives in depravity. Our world displays an ostensible order, but ultimately it lives in complete disorder. I can prove this to you, but if I chose to prove it, I would offend the half of humanity, so I refuse to lay down any such proofs. I would prefer to leave some things unproven, rather than to insult you. Nonetheless, you need to reason for yourselves. For example, someone says: “But you do not believe in God? How strange! What is your creed?” Where is the difference with regards to our faith in God? - There must be something substantial, which makes us different. This difference cannot be found only in the realm of benign verbal expressions. You are saying: “One should be kind.” Kindness is a positive character trait, but it can also be dangerous. For example, although the earthly soil in general is fine for walking purposes, and you can walk around safely on solid ground, if you afterwards run into soft ground, then you may find yourself bogged down. Additionally, a certain philosophy exists, whereby people prefer to remain constantly kind to others regardless of their own current situation and without understanding the danger of such a behavior, given their particular personal circumstances. Others, on the other side, maintain that we should be tough and strong. What if everyone is as tough and as rough as a “stone” - what will happen then? The answer is that the stones ought to be as hard as the soil, and that the soil should not be as soft as the mud. While I am here reasoning in such a metaphorical fashion, it turns out that this is a brand new idea for me as well - We should be neither as hard as the stones, nor as soft as the mud. The mud is something exceptional. The mud appears only occasionally in nature, and within the intelligent Nature itself, there is no “mud” *5 whatsoever. The mud is a human invention, and the only new thing created by the humans in this world is indeed the mud itself. When the human beings created the mud, and the Lord descended from Heaven, He took part of that mud and made the first Man *6 out of it. That is why the successors of Man have something Divine in themselves, while the remaining part of them is mud. After descending onto Earth, God saw that the stone cannot be transformed, so He turned it into soil, and He then transformed the soil into mud and made Man out of it. But please, understand me precisely. The mud is not a bad thing. Men have also done something in a masterful way – the modelling of the mud. For millions of years, they barely managed to make a combination of the soil and the water, and when God saw their invention, He said: “Men are scholars”. The first Man then said: “Hold on, let me craft a doll to have something to keep myself busy with”. After seeing what God has made, men started attempting to recreate the same things. And to this day and age, all people try to recreate what the Lord has already created. On the surface, it may seem that people have come closer to God with respect to the structure of the outer shapes they craft, but the inner living content, which God has placed inside the human beings, cannot be achieved or recreated by them. There are many good bookbinders in the world, who can perfectly bind books, and one has to pay them 1,000-2,000 leva *7 per book for their work. They are great masters of the outer shell, masters of the shape, but they cannot read the content of Life’s philosophical book – they do not understand it. Now, let me tell you a short story. A father has a son, but could not read his character traits well. The father looks at the son, and looks at him again, telling his own self: “My child is very intelligent”. One day this father met me and said: “Let me take you home as you tend to conduct various scientific researches. I want you to state your conclusions, to witness how much of a genius my child is.” And the father started describing the child - his eyes were such and such, his eyebrows were such and such, his ears were such and such … I got interested and said: “Let me go and see this miracle child who was born in Bulgaria.” What was my surprise, when I arrived and saw a child, who was no different to any other child. I'm not saying that the father did not speak the truth, but in the mind of the father there is something, which pictures things not exactly the way they are - You already understand what I mean. So from my standpoint, the father was right, as I am not saying that the child is not gifted – it is gifted and talented, but it cannot pass for a genius. According to me at least, the child did not possess the traits of a genius. I told the father: “Your child is very gifted and a candidate for a genius. – “Well, what kind of genius? A top genius or a genius of lower caliber?” – “In future, the child will be a genius” is what I said in order not to offend him. When I say that that the child is very talented, I understand one thing, but the father interprets it in a completely different way, thinking that he has a brilliant child. So, he thought that not only is his child a genius, but a very gifted genius as well. I did not dwell on the details, but I thought: “The father is right. If I were in his shoes, I would probably see things the very same way.” This state of matters represents a clear contradiction, and after some time has elapsed, the father may realize the fallacies in his own perception. The father would see that he deluded himself in his own expectations, and eventually, everything would turn out for the better. Now, let’s investigate a different scenario. Sometimes, we see an exceedingly good-looking person and say: “How attractive this person is!” – It is strange that initially this person is good-looking, and then their beauty somehow disappears. Nonetheless, I say: “Beauty in the physical world is an expression of the upright human thought, honesty and kindness. These are, broadly speaking, the underlying causes of the beauty’s manifestation. While humans have just thoughts, they remain good-looking. One could not help but notice something diligent in the muscles of such beautiful faces. The muscles in such faces are placed geometrically in accordance with the rules of the organic *8 geometry. Nowadays, doctors describe the different diseases by means of enumerating man’s various pathological states. In my opinion, pathology is not a science. What science is it to be listing the pathological conditions of the eye, for example? If you ask me, medicine is not a science, and phrenology is not a science, and litigation is not a science either. In my understanding, many arts are no real arts at all. Acting, for example, is no art whatsoever. Which one of you is not an actor at home? When someone starts expressing their thoughts, they already assume the role of an actor. Nowadays, everyone tends to assume a major role in the theater of human life, everybody wants to take on a prominent role and to occupy a prominent position in society, but to be just playing an important role is nothing so special. In fact, in order for a human being to be able to play a successful role in society, above all, one has to assume the role of a person, who possesses an upright thought. Moreover, one needs to be able to perceive and recognize in any one moment whether their thought is upright or not. Now, I am not highlighting the issue from a single point of view. One can take part in a role play, but should only act in a direction, which is specifically desired by their soul. Whatever the direction of manifestation may be, it is important that one’s thought is upright. On one hand, possessing such an upright thought would definitely be a positive sum game, while on the other hand, it is important to emphasize that all pathological states represent deviations from the upright way of thinking. For example, there are pathological states in the science of geology as well. The bending of the earth layers is a pathological condition; it is not a science. First and foremost, it is important to restore the initial position of the earth layers, and only afterwards to draw inferences, as to why Earth’s harmony had been violated. One needs to know the reasons for such earth layer fragmentations. It was not nature that created these fissures; there are other reasons for this phenomenon. Originally, the Earth was built in a completely different manner. Now, I would raise this question to which you may not have an answer, and a dispute may arise as a result, because most likely you would not believe in my theory. Nevertheless, there has been a time when there were no broken layers inside the Earth’s physical structure, and mountains did not exist back then. Formerly, the Earth had been as smooth as a ball. This had been the time when the most intelligent beings populated the Earth. So far, evolution has been going very well, and if we are willing to place ourselves in a world of absolute perfection, as the earth once was millions of years ago, that would be the greatest possible misfortune for us. Would you like to know why would this be a misfortune for us given the current state of our existence? The answer is quite simple. Let me tell you that I could make each of you unhappy in this very same moment. How? This can be achieved by means of joining together in marriage an ugly man and a beautiful woman. This beautiful woman would be always attracting anything between 100 to 200 men around herself, and her unattractive man would be very unhappy as a result of such a possible status quo. Indeed, the poor man would be unable to live in his skin. Different men would write letters to this beautiful wife, and he will not be able to get rid of all those other men, who may ultimately even try to murder him. The poor husband would be unable to protect his lady from the attention of all her admirers, but eventually the man should assume the role of a true and loyal servant to his beautiful wife, as opposed to the role of a mere husband, and if then those other men attempt to harm him, his good-looking lady would step in to defend him. I gave this example for illustration purposes, but such an event is very unlikely and almost impossible to materialize in reality. Now, I will present to you a different point of view. I ask you: “What is it that makes those intelligent beings leave their planets and come to Earth? Where did they come from?” These creatures were once happy on Earth, but then things changed. Why? The sole reason is that once upon a time a certain being came to Earth and it made a small furrow inside the earthly stratum, and from this point on, seeing this furrow, all these other intelligent creatures have left the Earth. Next came other beings who made even bigger furrows inside the Earth, until finally, humans got here as well and bent the ground even further. What would you think of those creatures who can bend the earth? They are not very simplistic in their nature in fact. On the contrary – they are very scientifically-minded. But after all, those are all abstract concepts. Nevertheless, those topics may be acceptable for presentation purposes, as they purport a scientific thesis, which can be further discussed and analyzed. There is still some of the above-described earth-bending behavior, which persists inside the nature of the human beings. Here is how I can prove it. The young child, for example, represents the original state of the Earth. The child’s face is nice and round as the moon’s image. On this very same smooth surface once lived the original inhabitants of the Earth. Next, after some time has gone by, a wrinkle appeared on the child’s forehead, and in order to make the grown up child feel better, somebody may say that the wrinkle is a sign of maturing and personal development. When the wrinkles’ count goes up to four, someone may further say that this grown-up child has now become very intelligent, while various scientists and phrenologists may potentially interpret those wrinkles as a sign of advanced affiliation towards society. Next, the same wrinkles would appear on top of the chin, and those scientists may affirm that the individual’s will is now being cultivated. After all, those are all scientific assumptions. The original human being did not look like its contemporaries. The people of today only resemble their distant forefathers. The original Man has been a sentient and a very adaptable being, since he was irrevocably able to shift his shape each and every time anyone would meet him. That is why the original Man is very interesting to observe and study, while the cotemporary man always retains one and only shape. Initially, the original Man has invariably kept on changing his nature, or figuratively speaking – he was living in the world of “Paris Couture”. Bear in mind that those analogies are given for explanation purposes only. Moving to the next point in this lecture, I would say that expressing oneself in a lengthy way makes sense only when it achieves a certain noble goal. For example, let’s assume that I am conducting a surgery. Let’s also assume that somebody wants to speak to me, while I am performing my surgeon duties, and consequently, I refuse their company, since I am already occupied with a different task. That person would ask me as to why I am not accepting their company, and I would explain that I am a prominent professor, that I am conducting a surgery, and I would also say that the work I am occupied with does not allow me to join that person’s company. The person on the other side may wonder how come, but in fact, there is a patient out there in the surgery room and I am already busy helping them. Which one of those two needs to wait? – The one inside the surgery room, or the one outside? I have been visited by some very interesting people, who have told me they have an important matter to discuss with me, and they need to be attended to as soon as possible. I tell them that I am busy, but they nevertheless insist on seeing me, as their affairs require immediate attention. Ultimately, I acquiesce and initiate a conversation with them to only find out that they want to start up a business and wish to know, if they would be successful or not. To their surprise, I reply that their endeavor would be unsuccessful, since the small amount of money they have would be wasted in this particularly intended trade. The next question I am asked is what to do instead, and I suggest to downscale and participate in a smaller business, but they insist on receiving a very exact explanation. Then I tell them that my reply is scientific enough and nothing more scientific could be expected. First and foremost, those people do not have a commercial aptitude to know and recognize the other parties they would be dealing with and also no skill in recognizing the environment they would be operating in. Such necessary abilities remain undeveloped, and those people’s minds are full of such phantasies that the small investment sums they have, would be lost without a doubt and their entire family may become destitute. These people ask me: “But what can I do when the amount of money I have is so small?” I tell them that if they persevere with their business ideas, the small amount of money they have would become even smaller. They thank me for the advice, and I ask them how much they are inclined to pay for the favor I have just done to them. I act as a typical English gentleman – I let them choose how much they can spare, but then follow up to say that my advice is all free of charge for the time being, and if they find a suitable trade, which works out well for them at the end, only then could they potentially share half of the proceeds with me. In reply to this statement of mine, they only smile a little bit and then leave, while in the same time I wish them well. I offer such people the good advice of buying a piano or a violin and of playing those instruments, as their family has a traditional flair for music. I mention that they would have better fortunes dealing with music rather than dealing with commerce, as within 10 years in the music trade, they would earn much more as a musician rather than as a merchant. I tell them not to waste their time, and that when they earn well from their first job as musicians, then they could pay me back by sharing half of their earnings, but for the time being, I am unwilling to charge them anything for my valuable advice… So, what is the moral of the entire story? – First, one should work with and utilize their best talents and strong sides only. " Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood …” This phrase means namely that if you do not nourish your strongest and most powerful characteristics within yourself, and as those character traits act as the backbone for your mind, you shall not have life in you. Moreover, do not incorporate any negative belief-systems within yourselves. One way or the other, you would be confronted by negative thoughts, but there is no need to submit yourselves to them. Now, I am not talking about all the stray thoughts that surround us and would inevitably occur to your mind. All these stray thoughts I am not even mentioning. I only say not to let these thoughts build a nest on top of your heads, nor let them stay within you indefinitely. In any case, never leave any parasitic thoughts inside your mind – do take them out of your mind! Leave nothing negative in your mind. All those thoughts that bring you nothing, take them all out. Many of you complain, there are things they cannot overcome. Now, I am going to give you an example, for which I am not sure how true it is, but a certain author has given it before. A young man married the daughter of a rich merchant. Her father contributed to their wedding with a very significant dowry. The father bought a beautiful bridal dress, nice shoes, an expensive hat and also some high-priced necklaces, rings and everything his daughter needed. The young man, however, was very fond of drinking, but unfortunately for him, his wife kept money in the bank in her name only. Since he could not gain access to her money, one day he stole the rings, sold them and spent it all. The next day he did the same with his wife’s necklace, and day after day, he stole everything from his wife’s dowry, sold it and wasted all the cash to quench his thirst for drinking. One day, as both husband and wife were speaking to each other, the wife pointed out that her entire dowry is gone missing and wondered who may have done this. What happened afterwards? The husband’s consciousness was awakened while he listened how his wife wondered as to who may have stolen all her valuables, and he experienced a significant inner struggle on whether he should admit to what he had done or whether he should keep all quiet about it. Now, all of you keep on asking yourselves, if this really happened or not. I say: “If you sell one of your virtues and drink away all you have earned from it, or if you sell one of your just feelings, or if you sell one of your Divine feelings, isn’t that wasting the dowry that was given to you?” You say: “In the past I used to pray, I had faith, I loved God, but here we go, I “sold” everything and wasted it. In the past, I was righteous, but I wasted even this feeling, now there is nothing left in me.” So you realize that the relationship you once had with God is no longer present in the current moment. Therefore, you have lost something. Now, aren’t you in exactly the same situation as the young bride who had lost all her wedding gifts? With regards to the above story, somebody may be in a dilemma, whether they should say the truth or whether they should keep quiet. The young husband sat and listened to what his wife was saying and sighed from time to time, whilst paying attention to her saying: "If I know who the thief is, I'll find them. They cannot escape from me.” As a result of the inner perturbations, the young man began to work and first redeemed his wife's rings. He then redeemed his wife's necklace. He continued working until he finally redeemed the dress, the shoes, and the hat of his wife, and gave everything back to her. Those were the deeds of an honest man. Having returned everything stolen back to his wife, the husband then said to her: “Thank God, I found this thief and took everything from his hands, but please be considerate enough not to ask who the thief was. If you are very interested in knowing who the thief was, I can tell you, but it will cause you unnecessary suffering. Therefore, it's better for you not to know any more details.” I say: “Everyone should go through this second process of repentance. By saying that you know the one who committed all the crimes, you need be ready to find all the lost valuables of your beloved ones and to bring “the jewels” back to them. Anything that someone has done can be fixed. The power of man sits in rectifying all that he has ever done. This is possible. I can interpret this story in its negative sense, but I am emphasizing on its positive side, so that you can take advantage of it. The author of the story has presented the events in a very vague way. For example, Dante described hell, while Milton described the lost paradise. Dante is strong in his description of hell. In general, they are all strong when they describe hell, but when it comes to heaven, they cannot describe it well. – Why is this? Because we live in hell – that is why we can easily describe it. But since we do not live in heaven, we can hardly describe the way paradise looks like. In the very same way, we can also hardly describe heavenly life. "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood…” So, an inner relationship needs to form during the “eating” process. There cannot be a normal interaction between two beings, if these beings do not communicate effectively with each other. This is also true from a mental point of view. If you cannot perceive the thoughts and feelings of the person you love and you cannot assimilate them in yourself, and if your beloved one cannot also perceive your thoughts and feelings within themselves and also assimilate them, then both of you cannot connect to each other. Christ said:” Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.” With this verse, Christ has spoken half of the Truth. He then said, "As my Father loves me…” - which means – “As you feed on my Love, I also cherish being food for you, so that you may enter into my being. And then whoever finds abode in me, lives also in my Father.” When it comes to God, in the very same way, we need to be “food” for the others. I shared this notion with you so that I can show you the law, which states that no intimate and perfect understanding between any two people is possible, if the thoughts of the one you love, is not food for them, and if their feelings are not food for you. If that is the case, then such a person does not love you. And when Christ says: "If you do not eat my flesh," His Love becomes known through the process of eating. This means: “From the Word I give you, you will perceive this Word and recognize My Love.” If over the last two thousand years you had adopted Christ's doctrine in its simplicity, it would have had tremendous results in your lives. Nowadays unfortunately, we want to apply the doctrine of Christ by adjusting it to the surrounding environment in order to ensure that people do not consider us as being aberrant from the common societal norms. What is the real norm in life? The only norm, which is acting as a measure for things in real life, is Love. The only norm, with which knowledge is measured, is Love. The only norm, with which righteousness is measured, is Love. Everywhere, and at the heart of all aspirations in the whole of Nature, you will always find Love. You fight for your country because you love it. In this case, the sacrifice you want to accomplish is again down to Love. Whether you understand Love correctly or not is another question. You advocate religion - that is Love. You uphold science – that is Love again. And in order for me to bring in a clarification, it is important to mention that in any particular case, Love always requires a driving force. I'm not talking about love, as people in this day and age understand it. The way life is designed at present, it is better not to deal with its corresponding type of love. We have evidenced the consequences of this type of love already. The way the individual, family and public life now exist is due to the old understanding of love. What we currently see is the end result of our interpretation of love so far, but if we insist on prolonging the life of our contemporary understanding of love, we would have exactly the same results as before, as we would continue to hold onto our old belief-systems. Therefore, when I talk about Love, I reveal a completely new point of view that will yield new outcomes and new forms. And Christ says: "If your righteousness, if your Love do not surpass that of ordinary people, you will not enter the Kingdom of God, you have no life in you. *9 " And if you are not ready to do everything for the sake of the Divine Love, you have no life in yourself. So that you can achieve everything, which is necessary, you need to get rid of the inner fear, to get rid of its corresponding inner feeling. For example, you have noble desires, but fear thwarts them. You may choose to do something good, but suddenly you say to yourself: “What could possibly happen to me as a result of my actions?” The worst thing that could happen to you is that you will eventually lose your temporary earthly life, or you may suffer, get ill, and one way or the other you will pass away soon or late. For example, you adhere to some religious beliefs, but you do not want to sacrifice yourself for them. Many martyrs have abandoned Christ. When suffering and torture come their way, then they say: “”We do not believe in Christ.” What have they gained by renouncing themselves from Christ? Have they kept their lives? – No, they haven’t. They still remain dead. When you begin to speak the truth, nobody forces you to tell who you love and who you don’t love. Every person needs to be fair to themselves, every person should feel Christ’s Love. Whatever people may be saying, one should know that they love God - nothing more. For the Love of God one should be ready to do all he or she is ready to do for their own selves. All people should have this moral. This moral stance does not apply to a few exceptionally developed individuals only; it applies to all of you. This is the Divine primordial principle in us, and if we keep on thinking the way we typically reason nowadays, God will never appear, God shall not work within us. Many are searching for God in the outside world. No, God is manifesting Himself inside the inner world of both believers and agnostics. He manifests himself in all people. Somebody may not believe in God, but when God whispers to their heart to go help a suffering person, the agnostic goes out there and renders the necessary assistance. Sometimes God whispers to the heart of a believer to go and help someone in need, but the believer says: "I have no time now, I'm going to pray.” Very often, the so-called non-believers obey God and help those who suffer much better than the so-called believers, who prefer to deal with themselves only. What is more important? To do God’s Will or to go to God and to tell Him that you love Him very much? What is more crucial? To say to the Lord that you love Him very much and believe in Him or to fulfill His Will? Serving God is more important than having faith and Love, but when those three virtues join forces together, then the reality of Love manifests itself. If faith enters into love, and if love enters into serving those in need, an inner curve is formed. Then all the conditions contributing to a healthy and fulfilling way of life are being created. If one wants to be successful in all their endeavors, they must necessarily have faith, must necessarily have love, and must surely act as a loyal and truthful servant. Therefore, such person has to be a man of faith, a man of love and a man of true service. " Unless you eat… ". This means that if the Word is not perceived accordingly, you do not have life in yourselves. Many think that the modern worldly problems can be resolved easily. According to my calculations, in order for the present state of affairs to advance by a tiny bit only, it would take at least 1,000 years for a single microscopic improvement to occur. For two such minor improvements to occur, it would consequently take approximately 2,000 years, and to achieve three such small improvements, it would roughly take 3,000 years. 2,000 years are required for obtaining the Truth, and finally a total of 3,000 years are required to acquire Truth and Love and to learn how to serve God. That pertains to the whole of mankind. Now, I am hereby reducing this timeframe by removing the two zeros at the end and saying: “Ten years for obtaining faith, ten years for acquiring Love and ten years for learning how to serve truly.” Therefore, after 30 years have elapsed, it would be possible for you to justifiably desire what you already wish to accomplish right now. For the whole of mankind, it would take 3,000 years, and for each person individually it may take 30 years only, and ultimately you could be able to have what you want. You may be interested in finding out how I arrived at those calculations. Well… that's the reason why my hair has grown grey. One day when I cease to think about these matters, my hair will be the same color as it originally was. While I was searching for those answers, my hair grew grey. I was doing those calculations for the sake of myself and for the sake of serving God. In my opinion, it is not easy to resolve the challenges we face in the areas of religion, public order, friendship, family, faith and love the way people believe that is possible. For all these matters, I have a completely different approach. Those questions regarding conflict can be conceived both ways – One way is the way of your pre-conceived notions and the other way is the way, which deviates from your notions. Because you do not understand things correctly, your hair is grey and because my understanding of things differs from yours, my hair, as a result, has grown grey as well. If you look at the color and the greyness of both my hair and yours, you will see that those two types of greyness are very different. Concentrating on the hair’s greyness is unimportant, as for me personally, there is no trouble that my hair is grey. How can this bother me? Someone says that he has grown old and their hair, as a result, has become grey. This statement means nothing, since in a similar fashion, it would not mean that one can become young only by just dying their hair. The black hair shows that it is “springtime” and the seeds should be sown. My grey hair shows that it is “wintertime”, and everyone has to study and read as there's nothing better to be done outside on the field. In “wintertime”, everybody should master their own art in their own privacy – one needs to work inside their own church, but instead, nowadays I see that the elderly people prefer to rest and do not want to work within themselves. Here's my understanding - The old man, being a violin player, has to play the violin all day long, but instead of that, the old man says that their hands are too frail to persevere with playing the violin. That is, however, their own weakness in perception. The young man should help the old man in the outside world, while the old man should play the violin from within oneself in order to help the young man out. If I would recreate the world from scratch, this is what I would do - The youngsters would do the hard physical work, and the old ones would be dispatched to accompany them. The old ones would amuse the youngsters, and the young ones would act as a solid support to the elderly. And then the young ones would do the hard labor, while the elderly would entertain them, and so both old and young shall work together simultaneously. I would scientifically describe this state in the following words: “The old ones will do their work inside the mind, and the youngsters will concentrate on the physical accomplishments, so that both the human mind and the body shall develop at the same time.” In nature, young people perform one type of duties, while the elderly execute a different type of duties. The young people are the builders of the human body. Without their work, humans would be crippled. On the other hand, if the old men disappear, people's minds would be distorted. In this sense, both young and old people are needed. The body is larger than the head. However, the old people, on the other hand, maintain the most important part of the human apparatus, which is the human mind. Why are young people necessary? - To maintain the human body. Why are the old people also necessary? – To take care of the human mind. Combining mind and body together and uniting them for the sake of Love, would allow you to accomplish everything. When the so-called “young” and “old” join forces together, they can achieve anything they like. Old people subconsciously love the young. The old man should not believe that he was born to grow old. When looking at their bodies, the old people should know that their bodies are young, but their minds are mature. The man of the New Age believes that only one’s mind is mature, but not one’s body or face. What kind of suffering has to be endured by the face, so that it grows old? First of all, the face is incapable of thinking; therefore it cannot grow old. Only those who think so, do become old eventually, but those who do not think so, tend not to age. If you place a young person in a magnetic state of sleep, they will never grow old. Even if you keep them 100 years in this state of magnetic sleep, they will still not change. What makes human beings grow old is the disharmonic influence of various thoughts and feelings. Consequently, one can effectively harmonize their thoughts and feelings in such a way, as to remain young for 120 years. Any person could remove the wrinkles from their face anytime they want and become as young as they once were. “Unless you eat …". Now, I want you to comprehend my thoughts correctly. I am unwilling to stand up against your beliefs. Do not think that I'm belittling your worthiness. Not at all. I am glad that you have your own current knowledge because if you did not already have this knowledge, you could not have possibly listened to and understood my talks, since if a schoolchild had not completed its fourth grade, it cannot enter lower secondary school, and if it had not graduated from lower secondary school, it cannot attend high school, and then, if it had not finished high school, it cannot go to university, and only after graduating from university, can this person then enter public life and work. It is important to note the consistency and coherence in Mother Nature. God’s Word is necessary in order for a person to ascend to a higher level of consciousness. Do not assume that you do not need to adopt new ideas. Learning is essential for the existence of the human being. The whole Universe is a great school, not just the Earth, but the entire solar system too, as well as all other systems, which provide access to important educational areas. These are numerous cultures, and each and every one of them is quite splendid in its essence. If a contemporary genius writer were to describe the whole Universe in a novel, if one could present such a story in an understandable manner, such a person would then establish themselves as one of the most famous musicians, artists or poets. However, it is very hard to write about those topics. It is difficult to write about the sun, the moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the inhabitants of the sun etc., as above all, a contradiction would arise. For example, you may ask if these beings can physically live on the sun? You tend to imagine that they are similar to us humans. They can live on the sun, but that does not imply that these beings will be in the same type of living environment as we are on Earth. Also, they do not have a physiology, which is similar to our one. To make an analogy, under the current conditions on Earth, for example, there is a certain number of germs that can withstand a temperature of about 2,000 degrees Celsius. How would you comment on this? Take for example the primordial, ephemeral matter the human essence is made out of - the matter of our protogenic life, which cannot be destroyed by a temperature of 45 million degrees. Only the outer shell enveloping the human life itself can indeed melt. However, there is an inner life shell that cannot be affected by these heat waves in any way. Heat simply fails to penetrate this inner shell. We have a vague notion of heat. Even the warmth that exists on Earth, however large it may be, is still only a part of the total available heat. Once you soar into outer space, no such heat is immediately felt because it is hidden. There is a different type of energy in outer space, and if you are a genius and enter the cosmos, you would find enough energy that can be utilized. However, if you would go into open space with your type of understanding and current knowledge, you will find yourself at a temperature of minus 273 degrees Celsius. This is a naturally occurring phenomenon. No matter how important these types of physical phenomena are, we would not pay that much attention to them, since we are not interested in the amount of cold inside the open space. We are interested in both heat and cold, as far as both of them offer certain benefits. Decay is not present inside cold areas, while on the other hand, heat causes rotting and decomposition, but is also a major contributing factor to life creation. Inside cold environments, life develops very slowly, but there is almost no putrefaction. Often, much of the suffering and perturbations in people's lives are caused by excessive amounts of heat they possess within themselves – the amount of the that type of heat needs to be reduced, and one would then reassume a peaceful state of mind. Sometimes, for example, individuals are told not to be so hot-tempered. Therefore, these people have too much heat within themselves. Following from that, they need to regulate the quality and quantity of their inner heat. What is the normal temperature of the human body? According to some, it is 37 degrees Celsius, and according to others it is 36 degrees Celsius, while I would set it anywhere between both those values. Once the temperature rises above 37 degrees, painful conditions occur, and if the temperature rises to 38, 39, 40 or 41 degrees, people can no longer withstand the heat and may even die. In that case, if we reduce the temperature of the sick by two or three degrees, we could bring them back to life. Therefore, high body temperature can cause death. Those dying due to high temperature can be saved by means of only dropping their temperature by two or three degrees. As a rule of thumb, doctors give different medications to lower bodily temperature, but ultimately, and in order to obtain stable results, it is necessary to overhaul the psychological state of man. Modern people are dying for the sole reason that all their thoughts, feelings and faculties do not function consistently and in the right way. If, according to the newly available data, a person succeeds in awakening all their thoughts, feelings and faculties in order for all three of them to function properly, such a person could possibly live up to the age of 120 years. If at some point you can awaken within a sick person certain appropriate thoughts and feelings, that person would be able to recuperate. Previously, I have given you the example of the American wife who was seriously ill and the doctors, who were monitoring her state, told her husband that she would inevitably pass away. When the husband told his wife to prepare for her departure from this world, she asked him to promise her something. And what was the promise she requested from him? She wanted her husband not to ever get married again. The husband could not, however, take on such an oath, and as a result, his wife chose to live and to be worthy of her husband. And indeed, every woman who passes away prematurely is not worthy of her husband, and every man who dies prematurely is not worthy of his wife either. Now, please do not draw faulty conclusions. I interpret the word “dying” in a sense that if you die and people forget you, then this is real death; but if you pass away and people still remember you, then that type of dying is what life is all about. Hence, you see that I use such words in a positive way. Christ says: " Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you." That is to say that if you do not perceive His Love, if you do not perceive His sacrifice, you do not have life in yourselves. I preach to you a doctrine that you should try, and when you try it, you have to either accept or deny it, but if you do not accept it, you shall not have life in yourselves. Now, all of you have misconceptions about life itself, but all of you have to redeem yourselves. Currently, we are only at the beginning stages of our ultimately intended way of existence, as for the time being, we only represent a temporary and mediocre form of human life. Mankind, as a whole, has so far barely covered a short evolutionary distance, which is only halfway down the road. By saying the whole of mankind, I understand the entire civilized world. So far, humanity has been descending to the very bottom of hell, but from now on, it has started ascending and has come to a new starting point for its evolution. This is the new energy that comes; this is the new evolutionary curve that is being shaped. This is the new era and the new progress, which are now being reached by the humankind. It is the return of humanity to a new state, to a new life, to the best life that is now coming. Until now, existence had been full of suffering and misfortunes. Whatever evil may happen to you, consider it a form of the past. In future, new creations, positive developments and better conditions will appear, so keep your courage. If you are disheartened, just sing a song, and in this way, gradually you will leave this zone of discomfort and lack of faith. The lack of faith always stems from losing something. Faith always comes alongside newly arriving gains. Similarly, lack of Love comes as a result of losing something, but Love reappears again, when something is gained. Therefore, if you lose your Love, it shows that you have endured a loss. If Love comes back into your heart, it only shows that you have gained something one way or the other. If losing something is represented by a downward movement, then realizing a gain can be pictured as an upward movement - this is how I reason in this case. Therefore, when you lose something, you delve downwards and when you win something, you then change direction and move upwards. Now I say that you are all in the age of ascension and progress. Do not live for the sake of your past and for the sake of the archaic descent. If you choose to descend, you will always complain about your fate and will ask yourself what your destiny might be. All of you are now attending a school, all of you have the very same syllabus and your teachers are telling you that you have to learn well - that's what they require from you. You have the best conditions to learn and you shall pull yourselves together in order to learn. – “We will see”, you may say. – “There's nothing for you to see”, I would answer. You shall simply pull yourselves together and learn. Do not assume you are old. You shall all know that your mind is mature and that your body is young and capable. After this type of understanding appears, just have faith, love truly and do the God’s Will! These are the first steps of the new culture, of the new humankind, of the new understanding, of the new union of nations. Every nation needs to have trust in the other nations. Every nation should love the other nations and every nation should serve the other nations. If the small nations think well of the great nations and believe in them, if all nations love each other and serve one another, then that would be to the advantage of all people and their brethren. Song "Blessed Be the Lord Our God". “The Lord’s Prayer”. 28th Sunday talk by the Master Beinsa Douno (Peter Deunoff) from the book "This is the living bread" (1934-1935), held on 21 April 1935 / on the day of the Bulgarian ”Vrabnitsa” celebration /. Bulgaria, Sofia, district of “Izgrev”. Translated by Pavel Iordanov Edited by Maria Braikova Unless-You-Eat-Selfrevision-2.docx

Списъка ми е изпратен от Тони Крушевска BOX 1 The original translations of Vessela Nestorova of the already published “The Way of the Disciple” – red manila folders. Born anew (again); Sermon March 3, 1924, transl Erna Staleva The Father Loves Me, Semon Sunday March 22, 1936, Sofia, translator unknown (Livca Slavianska?) In those Days, Sermon, October, 25. 1931, Sofia. Jesus Looked at him, Lecture December, 6, 1925, Sofia, translated Erna Staleva plus a booklet of the lecture in BULGARIAN, Russe 1926 Sons of the Resurrection, Lecture Sofia, January 29, 1928, tranlsted Erna Staleva A Voice from the City, Lecture May 6, 1928 plus a booklet of the lecture in BULGARIAN, Sofia, 1928 Him Who Comes to Me, Sermon March, 16, 1924, translated Erna Staleva Your Brother has Come back, Sermon March 23, 1924, Sofia, translated Erna Staleva Only Say the Word, Sermon April, 6, 1924, translated (Livca Slavianska?) + corr. Erna Staleva (from the volume He who Comes to Me) The Great Law, Sermon Russe, October 11, 1925, translated Erna Staleva For He Knew, Sermon November, 29, 1925, translated Erna Staleva All Things have been Delivered to me by my Father, Sermon February, 18, 1917, Sofia, translated Erna Staleva The Brothere of the Smallest ones, Sermon January, 1, 1917, Sofia, translated Erna Staleva, already published in a booklet by the Bortherhood. The Spirit and the Flesh II series 1914-15, translated by Vessela |Nestorova and consisting of the following lectures: - High and Low Tides in Life - The Pure Spiritual Milk - The New Foundation - Old and new Wineskins Easter, Sermon March, 22, 1915 Marchaevo – reminiscences and translation of Vessela Nestorova (while visiting Erna in USA) – part of her book “Put kum Svetlinata” Sila I Jivor, 1993 The Knot, Sermon, September 7, 1941 Commentare -Translation of Ertna Staleva of the end of the old song book 1938, from p.185-199 The Two Kingdoms, from the volume The Divine and Human World 1940, translated Erna Staleva (not complete) BOX 2 Universal Love, gathering 1919, August 19.1919, translated by Erna Staleva (to be published in Behold the Man) The Future Creed of Humanity, 15th council meeting, September, 1, 1933, transletad Vessela Nestorova 3. The Blooming of the Human Soul, First Youth Council, July, 2, 1023, translated by Erna Staleva (to be published in Behold the Man) Paneurhyhtmy, translated Erna Satleva, published The 6 exercises The 21 exercises Uchiteljat za sebe si – Xerox, Bulgarian Kratka biografia na Uchitelja po sluchaj 120 godini or rojdenieto mu, izgotvena ot Lalka Najdenova, Bulgarian The Royal Path of the Soul, translation by Vessela Nestorova – v nedobro sustojanie The Royal Path of the Soul after Erna’s corrections The Testament of the Color Rays of Light – translated by Vessela Nestorova and separately by Erna Staleva Zaveta na Zvetnite luchi – Xerox, Bulgarian, Zaveta na Zvetnite luchi – Xerox, Bulgarian Katalog izdaden 1980, Bulgarian. Xerox, Prayers – translations by Erna Staleva Snimki – s Uchitelja i uchenitsi. BOX 3 Distinctive Qualities of Life, Youth class, October. 25. 1922 4th lecture from Vol. Touching Ponts in Nature. The Little Blade of Grass, talk, July.13.1925, translated Erna Staleva (to be published) Universal love, August, 19.1919, translated Erna Staleva (to be published) The Grain of Wheat, March 23.1914, translated Erna Staleva (to be published) The Pharisee and the tax Collector, October, 05.1914, translated Erna Staleva (to be published) From the Divine and the Human World, 1940, translated by Erna Staleva - The Parts of the Parts and the Whole, July, 24.1940 - The Laws of Breathing, September. 04.1940 Easter Present, Turnovo, April.24.1927, translated by Erna Staleva The Great Brother, New year 1939, translated Erna Staleva Obedience, Morning Sermon, September, 30.1934, translated by Erna Staleva The Safe Path, Morning Sermon, December, 05.1943, translated by Erna Staleva The Two Paths, February, 24.1922, translated Erna Staleva (to be published) Praktichno Prilojenie na Muzikata , Bulagrian, malka knijka, staro izdanie Fear and fearlessness, Youth Class, March, 01.1922, translated Erna Staleva Qualities and Manifestations of the Will, Youth Class, March, 15. 1922, translated Erna Staleva The Power of the Will, Youth Class, March, 08, 1922, translated Erna Staleva Old and New Life, Youth Class, March, 29-1922, translated Erna Staleva The Spirit and Flesh, II serried, 1914-15, translated Erna Staleva - High and Low Tides in Life - Methods for Self-control Za Uchiteljat, translated Erna Staleva - The Spiritual Image of the Master - The Master Beinsa Douno and the New Life Prateno na Erna, Bulgarian - Bratstvoto.v Bulgaria –seme za shestata zivilizazija, Skazka durzhana na 4 juni 1954g v New Yourk - Lichni Vpechatlenija The State of Contemporary Humanity, lecture 1926, translated Erna Staleva Music and the Human Body, translated Erna Staleva Translation into English of some songs of the Master The Gate of Love, from The Language of Love, p. 96, Rila 1939 Cosmic Love, translated Erna Staleva (to be published) Bulgarian, Vjara Jiva – spomeni Vlad Pashov – korespondenzija s Erna and “Instead of Introduction” by Anita Verchinski Uchiteljat I Negovot Slovo, Bulgarian A Voice from the City, Lecture may 6, 1928, translated Erna Staleva Lichna korespondebzija s Elena [Andreeva], Lalka [Krasteva}, Anina [berrtoli Paris], Galiley [Velichkov], Vlad [Pashov], Yarmila [Metzlova], Zdravka, Moncho, Minka, Dragomir, Gena/Gela, Pasha, Katerina, Dina [paros], Tsveta, Misho, Mitko [Kostov], Toshko, Pelagia, Nadka, Katerina, Emiliya, Aleksandar Chakalov, Stoyancho, Nevena, Nana, Fancheto, Teofana, Vera, Gradi, , Sam Vasilev, Olga Smolarska, , Radka, Nikki, T. M., Kakto I pisma ot chuzhbina: USA, IZrael, Chehia, Germany I drugi. Erna and Fransis, Dina, lalka, Zdravka, Cornelia, Elena I druigi A Little Longer, April, 13, 1924, from the vol. “He who comes to me”, not complete, tranlslated Erna Staleva Misli za vseki den 1972, Bulgarian Erna’s correspondence – USA Narajdi, poslanija po razlichni povodi na Bratstvotot v Bulgaria – 1968 do 1973g, Bulgarian Knijka :Zaveta na Zvetniti Luchi, knojka - Bulgarian – suvremenen Bulgarian Diseases and Cures, exerpts collected by lalka Najdenova, tranlsted by Erna Staleva Gospodnjata Molitva, Bulgarian by Emet Fox Translation by Francis Holesovska of parts of the reminescenses of Milka Periklieva into Czech The New Age, exerpts, translated by Dmitri Kostov In the Image and Likeness, excerpts from lecture, Sep. 26, 1937 Laws of Love Thoughts of Every Day, 1971 Besedi na Uchitelja – spisuk 1948 Korespondenzija na Erna i Elena Andreeva Poezija Teofana Korespondenzija Erna s Misho I Galite The Three Lives, translated Erna Staleva BOX 4 The Future Creed of Humanity, 1933, translated by Vessela Nestorova - The Future of Humanity, September 3, 1933 - The Great Formula, September, 3, 1933 - One Link, September, 3,1933 - The Future Creed of Humanity - The Last Blow, September 2, 1933 Nature, Man and God, traslation of Erna Staleva of excerpts - Nature - Man - God - The Knot Assignment #1, August, 26.1919Instructions, assignment #1, 1919/1920 Assignment #2, September 21,1919 Lecture in relation to the Assignment, August, 26.1919 Triangle, August, 24, 1919 The Way the truth and the Life, August, 19.1920, translated by Erna Staleva The New Humanity, August, 19, 1920, translated by Erna Staleva (to be published) Awakening of the Collective Consciousness, August, 19, 1921 Correct application of the intellect, Heart and Will in Life, Conference, August, 22, 1921 Methods for Strengthening of the Inner Relations amoung People, Conference V. Turnovo, August, 19. 1919 Comprehension and Application, Conference, August, 20, 1919 The Right Way, Conference, August, 20.1919 Eternal Life, Conference, August, 22.1919 Continuations, Conference, August, 22.1919 Correct Understanding at the Spiritual Social and Individual Life, Conference Methods for Curing and Answers to some Questions in Relation to that, Conference, August. 22.1919 Methods for Application, Conference, August.23.1919 Methods for Self-control, Conference, August, 26.1919 A Call to my People, Varna, October 1898, translated Erna Staleva Prayers The Language of the Prayer, translated by Erna Staleva, unknown from where Explanations about the Arrangements in the Hall in V. Turnovo, August, 19, 1919, translated Erna Staleva The Purpose of Music, General Occult Class, April, 20.1933, translated Erna Staleva Negative and Positive Characteristic of the Disciple, Gen. Class, April, 4.1922 The Occult Music, General Class, October, 22.1922, translated Erna Staleva Absolute Purity, Gen. Class, August, 21.1929, translated Erna Staleva (to be published) Guidance, Gen. Class, July, 8, 1923, translated Erna Staleva The High Ideal, Gen. Class, September, 11.1923, Translated Erna Staleva (to be published) The Human Spirit, Gen. Class, November, 3.1926, translated Erna Staleva Natural Methods,, Gen. Class, April, 13, 1922 Die Zwei Ofnungen (The two Openings, GERMAN< January, 27, 1932, translated by Erna Staleva Faces of Reality, Gen. Class, February, 3, 1932, translated Erna Staleva The Four Rules, Gen. Class, March, 9. 1922, translated Erna Staleva The First Obligation of the Disciples, Gen. Class, March, 15.1925, translated Erna Staleva The Orders (Categories of Disciples), Gen. Class, March, 30, 1922, translated Erna Staleva The Three Lives, Gen. Class, February, 24.1922, translated Erna Staleva The Three Methods of Nature, Gen Class, March, 2.1922, translated Erna Staleva The Law of Movement (unfinished), Youth Class, April, 12.1922, translated Erna Staleva The Precious Stones, Youth Class, June, 21.1922, translated Erna Staleva Points of Contact in Nature, Youth Class, October, 4. 1922, translated Erna Staleva

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Беседата на български Translated by Victoria Koleva TEN WORDS Year 5, Lecture 8 of the Youth Occult Class (Special Class) Given by the Master Beinsa Douno On January 3, 1926 – Sunday, 19.30h Sofia – Izgrev Always be faithful, true, pure and kind! Reflection. A summary was read on the topic “The Evolution of Elements”. An essay was read on the topic “The Smartest Beetle”. I would like now ten people to come to the blackboard and write one word each, but naturally, as they usually write. The following words were written: beginning, truth, daylight, fairness, penetration, inspiration, mother, beauty, spirit, infinity. As you look at these words you can see that they have all been written in completely different ways because different people wrote them. In the word ‘beginning’ (‘начало’ in Bulgarian) the letter ‘H’ has been separated from the remaining letters. Is this accidental or not? In the word ‘truth’ which has been written by someone else, all words are connected. In the word ‘penetration’ (‘проникване’ in Bulgarian) the prefix ‘про-­’ has been separated from the rest of the word. Why did the first person who came up and wrote a word choose to write exactly the word ‘beginning’? Think naturally and objectively on the topic. If you go to a farmer who produces wheat, he will give you wheat; if you go to a farmer who produces corn, he will give you corn. In general, every person can give you only that which he has produced himself, which is his own creation. Therefore, when a person writes or speaks, whatever is written or said is his creation. Can you then guess what the motivation was for the first person who came to the blackboard to write the word ‘beginning’? The second person who came to the blackboard wrote the word ‘truth’. What do you know about the Truth? – The truth makes a person free. It unties his hands and gives him conditions, space, workers who can build and lay the foundations of the work he has contrived. Freedom gives a person the opportunity to endeavor a certain beginning which he has planned for. However, in order to endeavor to build something noble in himself, he needs Daylight – the third word. Wherever there are workers, Fairness needs to be applied – the workers need to be paid on time. What connection can there be between the words ‘penetration’ and ‘building’? There is a certain connection between ‘building’ and ‘sowing’. Consequently, when a person sows, he expects the seeds to spring up, to sprout. When he speaks he also expects to see what has been built, to see it spring up from the ground. What kind of building can there be when there is no springing up of that which is being built? When workers build they have to do everything with inspiration. Inspiration requires selflessness, just like a mother brings up her child. Only those who work selflessly, with inspiration, have the conditions to enjoy the fruit of their labor. Whoever works selflessly and with inspiration has the Spirit and the power to win against all odds, to manage the difficulties of life. Work which has been completed in this way is the deed of Eternity. Now, as you could see, the ten words which were chosen seemingly by accident, created an opportunity to develop a lecture. They represent ten necessary elements for the development of a lecture. Therefore every work needs to have a beginning. The beginning is represented by the human head. Wherever there is a head, there is also a beginning of things. Truth, on the other hand, is represented by the human face, mainly by the eyes. In ordinary life the Truth finds expression in the freedom we can give both to ourselves and to others. Next think about where in the human body you can place Daylight, Fairness, etc. Think also about why everyone’s handwriting isn’t the same. For example, why do some people write the letter ‘д’ upwards and others – downwards? Aren’t the rules by which teachers instruct their pupils how to write the same? In first grade all pupils write the letters the same way, but with time each child starts to alter the way they write them and within two or three years each child develops its own distinct style of handwriting. Why? Because something individual enters one’s handwriting. Generally speaking a person’s handwriting style expresses his or her character. The letters which contemporary people use have been borrowed from the Egyptian symbols, the hieroglyphs. The letter ‘H’ in the word ‘начало’ (Bulgarian for ‘beginning’) represents a current or movement between two parallel lines. The horizontal line is the current. The parallel lines on the other hand represent a relationship between two conscious beings. Every relationship between two conscious beings creates conditions for thought. The closer to perfect their relationship is, the closer to perfect is their thought. The letter ‘H’ also represents a river over which a bridge has been cast. A current can flow only between two shores. The letter ‘A’ represents a seed, which has the conditions to spring up and sprout. After you place it in the ground, the seed cracks and grows roots downwards and a stem upwards. I am saying: there can be a beginning only wherever there are conditions for this beginning to express itself. The beginning represents a set of laws with which organic life starts. This is the meaning of the letter ‘Ч’. It means that organic life expresses itself through growth. The letter ‘Л’ represents a sharp angle, approximately equal to 30 degrees. At the same time the letter ‘Л’ represents a law of contradiction. The word ‘любов’ (Bulgarian for ‘love’) starts namely with the letter ‘Л’. Therefore love is a law that counteracts the lower manifestations of human nature. To love means to control your negative impulses. Until one manages to limit his actions of lower nature, one cannot love. In other words, Love requires sacrifice. The one who loves has to sacrifice something of himself by all means. The one who sacrifices sensibly is a true human being – a man of Love. The number five represents simultaneously the man of virtues and the five stages of development which humans have gone through in the organic world: plants, fish, birds, mammals and now, the fifth stage – the stage of the human being. And so as you study people’s handwriting you will come to understand their character. Round letters speak of a person who is in good spirits. Sharp letters with angles talk about a nervous person with a quick temper. When letters come off the writing lines this shows great conceit and self-confidence. When the style of one’s letters is not fixed but differs and adjusts according to the existing conditions, this speaks of great practicality. Such a person prefers to have one rabbit in the cage rather than two in the forest. When the letters are fine, delicate, this speaks of a person who possesses a softness which he has inherited from his mother. This person follows a female line of evolution. Broad, large letters speak of a person with a strong imagination and an appreciation of beauty. He wants to pay attention to people. When the letters have been written freely, without any rules, this speaks of a person full of vigor in life. S/he is a generous, free person. Small, concise handwriting shows frugality. A person with such handwriting would say that one should not dispose of too much in life. When somebody starts writing well, correctly, but towards the end starts skipping letters or doesn’t complete his words, this shows that he starts his affairs well but does not bring them to completion. He always leaves something unfinished. When the letters are large and uniform, well connected to each other, this speaks of a mindful person who is not wasteful and who knows how to manage his organism’s energies. Now that you know that handwriting is connected to human character, you can practice this knowledge and educate yourselves. With regular exercise in handwriting you can free yourselves from some of your shortcomings and develop certain virtues. Whoever is impatient should write for a minimum of half an hour each day. He will take the pen and write beautifully, calmly, with no hurry. In this way he will develop his patience and his appreciation of beauty. When you study the handwriting of people of different nationalities you will notice that they are completely different in character. It is remarkable that Bulgarians have nothing in common between them when it comes to their handwriting: neither in the shape of the letters nor in the direction of writing. Each Bulgarian writes in his own peculiar way and differs in his handwriting from all other Bulgarians. When the letters ‘a’ and ‘o’ are open on top, this shows great frankness. It is good to be frank but one should know what to say where and to what extent he should open up. Some people are more frank than they should be. In contrast, others are more closed than they should be. These are extremes of character which need to be modulated. Generally speaking it has been noticed that a person’s character impacts not only his handwriting style but also the organs of his body – his fingers, his facial features etc. I would like each of you to try and write a sentence that contains all ten words. The words should be used in the same order in which they were written. Always be faithful, true, pure and kind!

Беседата на български Translated by - Nelly Pehlivanova Edited by Maria Braikova and Yasmin Alan ACTION AND COUNTERACTION Year 5, Lecture 9 of the Youth Occult Class (Special Class) Given by the Master Beinsa Douno On January 10, 1926 – Sunday, 19.30h Sofia – Izgrev Always be faithful, true, pure and kind! Reflection A summary on the topic "The smartest beatle" was read. The disciples' essays on the topic "What do birds think about?" were read. Next time please write on the following topic "The most useful plant". Suppose that two beings are standing at the opposite banks of a big, swift-flowing river, 1 km* wide. How can these two beings meet? They will use the bridge on the river. If the river was very narrow, no bridge would be needed as they could easily jump over it. But because this river is quite wide, the bridge is necessary. Therefore, small difficulties can be easily overcome, while for great difficulties a bridge is required. Coming to a small creek on the road, a person jumps over it right away without looking around for a bridge. But when coming to a large river, that person will look for a bridge. Small and big rivers are like the small and big difficulties in life. People easily handle the small issues but when it comes to the big ones, they begin to seek a bridge. No, no bridge is needed. Encountering a difficult situation, one can assess the whole matter and then go back to explore another way for passing through it. When two people are at the opposite banks of a wide and deep river, it is better for them not to meet. Modern people are masters of committing crimes. To prevent them from turning to crimes too often, Providence has placed them away from one another, so that they cannot meet and cause harm. However, when good people are distanced from one another, they will always find a natural way to meet. They will not look for a bridge to overcome the obstacles, but will climb a mountain peak and will go down from there. When does evil arise in the human being? It is when a person cannot fulfill their desires. When someone cannot achieve their wishes, they become disappointed and this can give birth to bad thoughts and feelings. The eyes of such people begin to sink in and dark circles like valleys appear under their eyes. Bad thoughts and wishes paralyze brain cells and as a result the brain energies of such people do not go up, but only flow down. Brain energies in general, function in three main head areas. The first area is behind the ears, where the lower energies operate. This area can be compared to a hell in the human being. The second area covers the energies functioning in the forehead - this area presents the human life. The third area includes those energies that are flowing in the upper part of the brain where higher moral feelings reside. This area can be compared to a paradise in the human being. Therefore, when a person opposes their own moral feelings, the energy originating from this area [the upper brain] goes down to the area behind the ears or to the hell! In order to avoid this, one should not suppress but give expression to one's good wishes. Keep the following rule: never resist your good thoughts and wishes. Take action against your bad thoughts and wishes, against your bad tendencies. What do evil and Good represent? – These are energies that operate everywhere in nature. While you are working with the Good, you will inevitably come to know evil, too. Modern people are now placed in the polarity of Good in order to apply it. The only human aspiration should be for Good. As far as one does Good, we will always have favorable conditions to grow properly and gradually receive ideas of the new culture and new life. Without manifesting good things one cannot develop properly. The consequence is the mutilation of one‘s mind, heart and willpower. As a result, the energy of such person is stored mainly in the area behind the ears. If you want to meet such types of people, you will find them either as wrestlers at the gambling dens or in the pubs. The beauty of human life lies in the human thought. There is no more beautiful thing in human life than one's thought. There is no more beautiful thing in a bird's life than its sense of music and color. That is why some birds sing beautifully and some have variegated feathers speckled with gorgeous hues. Now, may someone of you say three words with which to make a sentence. The first word begins with the letter* „Д“, the second one - with „О“, and the third one - with „Ч“. The sentence formed is: Духът обича чистотата (Spirit Loves Clarity). Clarity here implies purity of thought. This sentence can be reformed like this: Дух обичен и чист (Spirit beloved and pure). You can then put this into a musical form: Expressed in this way, the melody indicates that Spirit is somewhere far away and can only be idealized. So, you can accompany the above song with the word Spirit only. By this musical approach, Spirit will come closer to the human being. As students, you should apply music for energy transformation. When you notice some sort of stagnancy in your energetic system, begin to sing in order to clear your energetic centres. Let your energy flow freely through them. For example, when someone complains of not having a musical ear, they are actually repressing their potential by speaking thus. When someone has no manifestations in the field of music, it does not mean that this person has no sense of music. The musical capacity of this person is in a potential state, while in some others it may be in a kinetic state. Whether music is in a potential or kinetic state, one should nurture one’s aspiration for it. With the aspiration for music, one can also help those who are actively immersed in music. Many singers and musicians owe their talent to people who bring music within themselves, though they have not become musicians - breaking off with them may lead to losing their talent. This may happen not only to musicians but also to poets and writers. Accordingly, there should always be someone or something to inspire creative people: Nature for example, is a source of inspiration for them, with her mountains, forests, rivers, seas, and flowers. There should be some external urge to motivate the human being. Certainly, there is some distant Reality behind all that is. What stands behind the human being, behind the human spirit – that is God. When a poet gets disappointed with the life on Earth, that poet begins flying to the sky. From there the poet goes down to the human life again in a new search for beautiful forms as they are vessels for beautiful ideas. If a beautiful form is destroyed, any subjective and objective thought related to it seems to be gone. But in fact, nothing in the world disappears, nothing can be destroyed or created, but only changed and transformed. Exercise: all standing in a circle take a string. One of the students holds it at the beginning and it is passed from one to another. The ball of string is winding off while being passed among all students. Every student gets the string with both hands and places it in front of their chest. The right hand raises diagonally forward and the left hand goes down as much as the string allows. Begin rhythmic squatting, in which the right hand goes down.The speed of squatting accelerates gradually. Both hands raise up. Continue with fast rhythmic squatting, in which both hands go down to the ground. Now the right hand goes forward, then both hands go up. Finish with fast rhythmic squatting, in which both hands go down to the ground. Always be faithful, true, pure and kind! · 1 km = 0.6214 miles · Д, О, Ч – Cyrillic letters transliterated as [d], [o], [ch]

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http://en-petardanov.com/index.php?/files/file/55-%7B?%7D/ THE TEACHINGS OF BEINSA DOUNO 100 RULES AND LAWS OF THE NEW LIFE A SPECIAL SELECTION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION TAKEN FROM HIS PHILOSOPHY BETWEEN 1939 and 1944 ( 1 ) The Divine Life demands a turning from all selfishness ; this will enable us to experience the complete development of the Human heart and mind. This is the path to Wholeness . ( 2 ) What is the will of God ? :That our every action should spring from the experience of the ' given ' moment, and be intended for the benefit of all Creation. ( 3 ) During this Epoch it will be possible for the Human Race to solve all those problems which act as obstacles in our path ; all contradictions must be reconciled in preparation for something better. ( 4 ) The desire for harmony with The Living Laws of Nature must awaken within us, and this will produce concord with God. ( 5 ) We have to discover the place and time of the birth of The New Teaching ; an expansion of Consciousness will occur, with the transformation or metamorphosis ( as it were ) of a chrysalis into a butterfly. ( 6 ) Our present stagnation is due to retarded souls who have strayed from the path of Human evolution and, thereby, are unable to properly utilise the forces of Nature ; these souls could be described as beggars, cunning and expert at taking advantage of every Human weakness. ( 7 ) Only the calm and quiet mind is capable of attaining to the Divine Consciousness which sustains us and equips us for mighty observations. ( 8 ) The Human world is populated by proselytes, believers and disciples. Proselytes are materialists who seek grand possessions ; believers search for Holy Egotism ; disciples are those who are steeped in Divine teaching. ( 9 ) One who has entered into the. Divine Life has reached a level so high that it is, in effect, free from disturbance. ( 10 ) For us there can be no greater experience than the attainment of Unity with God ; thereby we feel the presence of God within us, linking us with every exalted being. ( 11 ) Sift your thoughts until only those most essential thoughts are left. These are the thoughts upon which we can rely. ( 12 ) The New Culture will be established by those who search for God ; when we encounter God all will be well with us. ( 13 ) We must consider even the smallest impulse, for the Divine is concealed within the most barely perceptible impulse ; at the moment we are unable to respond to such an impulse. We should nurture our sensitivity towards the miniature, bearing in mind that it is the small things which possess the greatest strength. A grain of wheat has the capacity to cover the Earth in a decade. ( 14 ) We are expected to apply the dynamic laws of Divine love in order to become rejuvenated ; constantly bear in mind the ideal of Eternal Rejuvenation, the ideal of becoming a beautiful person. We are pre-destined to possess Eternal Youth ; whoever looks forward to Old Age has failed to understand that ' those who wait upon the Lord will find themselves rejuvenated. ( 15 ) Have no time for Evil ! This ensures a high level of vibration which cannot be lowered by extraneous forces. Always avoid the ugly and seek the beautiful in Nature. ( 16 ) Learn to read the pages of the invisible New World accurately. Nature is unveiling Itself, revealing the. Reason behind everything, unleashing a light which can be seen all over the Earth ; permit this light to penetrate and you will receive an Inner Illumination on the nature of Reality, and of the sense in everything. ( 17 ) Nature is the Divine World rendered objective ; when we are at last able to understand Nature it will form our subjective world, which we will manifest objectively. The Human Race is the representation of the Mind and Reason of the Natural World ; during our existence we will interpret Natural Law and, in turn, manifest it in a higher octave. ( 18 ) Each morning endeavour to open yourself to a new impulse ; we must turn from the trivial, and from everything of the Old Life with its attendant misfortunes. ( 19 ) Because we are created in the image of God, our future is a Great One. Be God-like then ! We have golden mouths so that no evil words may slip through ; our eyes are like diamonds for receiving and transmitting the light ; our hands are for more than working with mud, for we did not come here to be brick-makers and nothing else. ( 20 ) Rise early and greet the Sun as it rises. In seeking for God you will enjoy all the blessings of Life and, if you start in your youth, great progress is assured. ( 21 ) Life is a constant process of getting acquainted. Each day brings us fresh information, each year presents fresh perceptions and new horizons. This is the process of getting to know God. ( 22 ) Only when our minds are functioning properly will our world be put right. ( 23 ) Learn to apply those Divine Laws which are as precise as the rules of the Science of Music ; knowing them will not fail to achieve results. First of all, improve the state of your mind. Secondly, improve the condition of your heart for it is only when £he mind and heart are focussed correctly that there will be improvements in the material life. ( 24 ) We now need to develop strength and courage. In the Divine World only the Brotherhood prevails, and in realising this you will sense the closeness of all Humanity to your own heart. ( 25 ) Youth and Age are interchangeable ; the soul does not alter, it simply develops. Nothing new is ever introduced into the mind of Humanity, because the Human Spirit comes from God. The New consists of laying down fresh conditions which make possible the development of the Divine spark, which is the Spirit. You cannot enter The New Age if you are still seeking to pay karmic debts and live according to the Law of Moses ; our physical life is a great illusion which, of itself, accomplishes nothing. The essence of Life is Love and to be loved ; we should love each other selflessly ; this is the love-quality which we will take with us to Heaven. ( 27 ) Eating is just a condition ; it is not a necessity and should not be a focal point in Life. The time is approaching when we shall be able to eat without having to labour. Our present physical needs compel us to work. If we retrace our steps to God, and perform the will of God, we will find ourselves, as before, in Paradise. The Human soul is capable of reverting to its Original State ; our struggle began when we left Paradise, and even now we hanker after so many different things. ( 28 ) The New Age asks great intelligence of us. Firstly, we have to absorb and adopt the Divine measure of everything ; thereafter we will discover that we can achieve whatsoever we seek to achieve, but if we fail to adhere to the Divine yardstick, then all our problems will remain unsolved. ( 29 ) All talk and pre-occupations about the past only lead us up a blind alley ; and we are also deluded if we imagine that we know each other, for we certainly do not know each other. Knowledge of a person demands unconditional love, so much so that we should be prepared to sacrifice everything for others. ( 30 ) The hands of musicians have become so intelligent that they can play in the dark ; musical feet are now being formed by means of the application of the rhythmical Solar exercises which you are now receiving, such as the Sunbeams . ( 31 ) We require to have positive faith in The Word of God, and to live in tune with the cycle of the Sun ; we must perpetually absorb the light of the Sun and never permit it to set within us. ( 32 ) In the third dimension everything is static ; movement, growth and time belong to the fourth dimension. Pay attention to the manner or attitude a person adopts towards you, and not to what such a person may be able to give you. ( 33 ) From now on we shall all serve Love, Wisdom and Truth. The salvation of the world depends upon this ; nothing is of greater importance than these three principles of Love, Wisdom and Truth, for the Divine Spirit of the Living God is manifested through these principles . Love demonstrates the Laws whereby the Human Race can live a free and rational existence which contains all the possibilities for Immortality. Wisdom sustains the Divine Light which creates the most favourable conditions for the correct development of the Human mind. Truth sets a person free and equips for a life of Divine sacrifice. Truth contains freedom and progress, and provides us with a 'sense of purpose for our lives. ( 34 ) God created the world as the means for us to discover happiness, which only truly happens when we begin our studies. ( 35 ) Evil thoughts and deeds create obstacles in Life ; when you conquer the Devil he has to pay the bill, but if he overcomes you then it is you who has to pay the bill. ( 36 ) We have to learn to control our thoughts and feelings, also acquainting ourselves with our character and Fate ; furthermore we must now learn to be at one with the Laws of Nature. ( 37 ) Let us, therefore, learn to look and listen; we should perceive God everywhere, in everything, in every moment we make. If we are to love God and our neighbour properly this means making room for them inside ourselves ; make room for God in your heart, and room for your neighbour in your mind. As for ourselves we should live in our will. ( 39 ) Do whatever you do for the sake of God who has provided us with everything in life. ( 40 ) The presence of Christ at the marriage in Galilee is a symbol for the New Life. The marriage represents the start of the New Life ; Christ represents the principle of love in the heart ; the disciples represent the principle of your neighbours held in your mind. We all represent the servants at ' the marriage, whose task it is to look after the Christ and the disciples ( which is the heart and the mind ). Before you are able to love your neighbours it is necessary to think of them first. Keep a special place in your mind for all your neighbours. The mind is like the bridegroom and the heart is the bride ; the Christ principle is necessary to unite the two. ( 41 ) At the marriage there are three kinds of guest ; there are onlookers, invited guests and close friends and relatives of either the bride or the groom. The simple onlookers at the church are the ' proselytes ' and the invited guests are the ' believers '. The closest friends and relatives of the couple are the ' disciples '. We should arrange our thoughts in a similar way. Three kinds of thoughts arise in everyday life ; there are Divine thoughts which come from God ; there are thoughts which we receive from the minds of our neighbours ; and there are thoughts which we experience arising within ourselves. There are, therefore, thoughts which are sent to us by the Divine world, from the world of angels and from the world of Humanity. We must learn to discriminate between these different levels of thought and avoid falling into mistaken actions ; when you have learned the source of certain thoughts it is possible to either fight against it or develop its inner potential. ( 42 ) A wedding is the time for work as well as for happiness. We should begin each new task as though celebrating a Divine marriage or setting up a new life ; here there is the means of salvation for the Human soul. A New Culture and a New Life can also be brought about by the application of the power behind the same law. ( 43 ) Do not think that your thoughts and desires rest in the imagination alone, for every thought has its own unique image and content, as well as its own independent life. In the future your brain, lungs and other organs will be woven out of your current thoughts and desires ; by the practice of correct thinking we are designing a fresh wardrobe for our future spiritual body. The Teaching of Christ is not one of outward forms, as we would associate with a church, for example, for it is a teaching about personal initiative. It is impossible for others to think or feel or act in your place, for that is directly our own responsibility. ( 44 ) If we think, feel and act correctly then we shall have the blessing of God. When Christianity preaches that we should ’ turn to God ', this means that we should return to Paradise, which is the original way of life which creates conditions for calm and rational living. Such conditions preclude the need for the historical succession of Ages. It is possible to become good in an instant ; it is also possible to become bad in an instant. As for ourselves we are born neither good nor bad, but the moment we stop doing evil, we become good, and vice versa. ( 45 ) A woman has the ability to raise a man up or cause him to sink to a low ebb ; rightheartedness gives right direction to the mind, but a wicked heart can set the mind in a false direction. ( 46 ) We suffer and sigh because it is as though the soul is in prison ; it is the soul which is suffering and sighing. ( 47 ) Allow every heart to be just as the Lord created it. Every heart is intrinsically good but becomes what it becomes because of the direction supplied by the mind. The teaching of Christ is that we have freedom and that we are able to give freedom. We should give and receive freedom, both civil and domestic ; let us permit freedom to flow everywhere. We want to experience freedom for ourselves, and we should be willing to give freedom to others. We all want love and justice for ourselves, and we should also want these for others too. There is a saying that ' wherever the Spirit of the Lord is found, freedom will flourish there '. ( 48 ) If you pick ten flowers someone will die as a result of your actions ; if you utter several evil words someone's house will burn down. If you plant ten flowers a good man will incarnate upon. the Earth. If you cut down a living fruit tree in your garden, someone in the house will die. If the branches of a tree in your garden begin to wither it is because of the evil thoughts of the inhabitants of the house ; the daily life of such people will become disordered. If someone cuts down a tree which you love then you, also, will die. The person with the strongest will is he or she who has control of the tongue ! Do not project your grief into the world ; transform it into joy ! ( 50 ) Good and evil exist only at the moment of their manifestation ; the instant the action is discontinued they cease to exist. Here is an example ; place yourself ten metres from a hot stove and you will enjoy the heat, but draw right up against it and you will burn your hands, and jump away in a hurry. Conditions for good and evil in our lives operate in the same way ; a Divine thought can appear within our Consciousness from many different directions. This thought will be good or bad according to the state of mind in which it is received. It is for this reason that we require knowledge, so that when the express train passes through our station you are not left standing high and dry ! If you are still engaged with the preoccupations of old age, gossiping, illnesses, doubts or a lack of faith, you are standing at the wrong platform ! ( 51 ) We need shelters as protection from different kinds of thought-form which may attack us from the outside world, just as we build houses to protect us from the unfavourable conditions in the world of Nature. If you lead a pure and dedicated life you will create around yourself an aura capable of providing protection from any evil attack and bad influence. ( 52 ) Those who, at present, are unwilling to work for spiritual perfection will be left behind. We must now seek to transform our desires and thoughts, thus heightening the vibratory level of the mind. ( 53 ) Try to discern the cause behind every bad impulse ; try to preserve the energy behind every good impulse. The disciple, upon setting out to study requires a will of iron, because the Kingdom of God is built neither in the mind nor the heart but expressly by the power of the will. ( 54 ) In general when we approach Old Age we stop listening to God ; we become discontented, impatient, and we imagine that there is nothing else for us. Yet we shall take action when the Lord moves. We should think and feel with the thoughts and feelings of God ; this is the life of selfless harmony. ( 55 ) Within the heart we must nurture the quality of love which gives birth to causes and events and brings them to fruition. When something is achieved it becomes a Truth, a Reality when perceived through the eye of Wisdom. Firstly the artist paints a landscape on the canvas ; later on the artist comes to know the real place that has been depicted. ( 56 ) Those things which are hidden from ordinary mortals are revealed to the inner eye of the disciple. Facts, laws and principles sustain all life ; facts are accumulated through direct experience, and this encourages us to study the Laws of Life. The disciple must, nonetheless, rise above these laws which still impose limitations on the disciple ; the reason for this is to live out the principle of Love, Wisdom and Truth which transcends those laws and which draw the disciple towards the sphere of freedom. ( 57 ) We should never forget t:hat what is possible for God is also possible for us. Illnesses result from sins and mistakes, and they hasten the advent of Old Age ; the good and the beautiful, on the other hand, induce rejuvenation. The New Culture is none other than Divine Love coursing correctly through our organisms. ( 58 ) Any action devoid of Divine love has no sense behind it ; Love must be the impulse behind every one of our thoughts, feelings and actions. ( 59 ) The love of Truth is a sacred and beautiful impulse within Humanity ; our future is determined by our love of Truth, for the blessing of God is behind it. The only one fit to love and to be loved is the lover of Truth. ( 60 ) Let your mind become the reservoir for one central and sacred idea ; in turn this becomes your duty and this idea will permit you to serve throughout your life. Put up with everything else for the sake of this idea ; by means of it every desire can be transformed into spiritual energy. ( 61 ) Should we wish to bring to fruition any idea or thought, then our thinking must become very concentrated, as this will attract the other minds contemplating the same thing. The great ideas of a genius are born in this manner ; every great idea is a collective act. ( 62 ) Until Human Consciousness is kindled we lack the illumination and expansiveness of life. We walk around as if enclosed in an eggshell, all muffled up with our limitations. Forty-eight years of intensive daily work is needed for " the hatching of the egg ", which is also the Human soul : two minutes for the mind, two minutes for the heart, and two minutes for an action to be carried out. ( 63 ) Concentration depends on how you breathe ; patience is acquired through deep breathing. ( 64 ) The disciple is permitted only one discont-ment in life, that which arises when there has been a failure to apply virtue to life. When the demands of our convictions have been fulfilled then we can break free and experience liberty. The Light shed by the New Teaching has no limits because it rests on the rational laws of Nature. It is in complete harmony with Divine law, and the whole Earth is illumined by this Light. ( 65 ) We require to know what are the planetary influences on us for us to obtain a positive knowledge of Life. The planets aid the evolution of Humanity. Saturn makes you cautious ; Mercury makes you penetrating ; Venus develops gentleness and the Sun fastens our attentions upon Beauty, joy, happiness, music and science. ( 66 ) Encourage those desires within you which do not display weakness, but which survive every tempest and trial in life, for doubt can destroy a person ; spiritual ' flabbiness ' is derived from unrealised desires. We must learn how to transform these desires into spiritual power. ( 67 ) For thousands of years you have been testing out the lessons and suggestions of the " dark beings ". Now it is time to test out the teachings of the Spirits of Light who issue forth from God and are your teachers today. The Father of Lights has begun to reveal Himself. The will of the Father is emanating today because this Epoch is destined for the glorification of God, with the love of God dispersed all over the planet. ( 68 ) The Master has revealed the content and sense of all forms on Earth. ( 69 ) During the involutionary process Humanity has arrived at this present material form, but we have also broken our contract with the Creator. When the Christ came He said, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life , meaning that through Christ we are able to tread our evolutionary path back to the Creator. The coming Sixth Race will furnish Humanity with an Angelic culture, and this will further accelerate the pace of Human evolution. Today the Christ is presenting the world with methods suited for the evolutionary pattern of the Human Race, and the formula given by the Master is this ; ' The disciple must have a heart as pure as a crystal, a mind as bright as the Sun, a soul as wide as the Universe, and a spirit as powerful as God and at one with God. ' ( 70 ) Bread provides sustenance for the body ; the soul subsists on the Word of God. ( 71 ) Evil is bound and gagged today ; if you seek to serve evil you, too, will find that you have been bound and gagged. Close up the gates of your mind and heart to every evil suggestion. ( 72 ) Our feelings will only find their true expression when they have been poured into the mould of Right Thinking. ( 73 ) Purity is attained by the elimination of all disturbing elements within our nature. ( 74 ) We should not attempt to correct the external circumstances ; none of us are able to alter the state of the world. If we avoid making just one mistake we shall have gained a point in our favour ; if we have made a mistake and then have it corrected, we have gained two points in our favour. ( 76 ) If we are unable to correct the wrongs committed by our ancestors, we may find ourselves in the position of depriving ourselves of the benefits they intended for us. ( 77 ) When we decide to work for our own spiritual progress, everyone else benefits from our actions ; by raising our own vibration we affect everyone else around us. One single match can give rise to a huge conflagration. ( 78 ) The Invisible Universal White Brotherhood, whose head is the Christ, requires absolute purity of all its disciples ; it asks for unconditional honesty, absolute goodness and intelligence. If we have failed to develop these qualities, how can we expect to go to God ? ( 79 ) The time has come to apply this teaching to our daily lives ; if, as a Race, we are unable at this juncture to accept and apply the tenets of love and wisdom, then we have no future. Carry the Divine within yourself each day. Only someone who is insane can deny the existence of God. ( 81 ) Faith is the energy which can better your mind, body and heart ; Science is the method of applying faith to Life. ( 82 ) Every positive thought contains Goodness, Justice and Reason ; a positive action contains the same qualities. When a person is good, such a person is strong and stands on a solid foundation ; when a person is just such a person is so well constructed that nothing is. able to shake the person ; when such a person is rational everything falls within the reach of that person. ( 83 ) When we decide to serve God everything we need will come our way ; sacrifice means the use of your body, heart and mind in the service of others. The teachings of the Christ unveil for us the ideal of perfection in our social life ; we are living rays of the Godhead, with the Godhead revealing Itself through us. Since we are rays of God we should think, see and feel as does the Godhead, which is in a manner characterised by love. ( 84 ) In Heaven the souls who love each other go to work in ' the fields ' ; those who have no love for one another are actually held back. In Heaven these people are referred to as ' murmurers '. ( 85 ) Humanity is, as yet, an unfinished canvas, an incomplete image ; as such we have no right to air our opinions in connection with what we imagine to be the nature of Humanity. ( 86 ) Nowadays we are actually approaching the land of Canaan yet, still, there is a lot of ' murmuring ' ; here again we should recognise that ' murmuring ' is a means of defining all our past mistakes. It is unfortunate that we are still focussing our attention on these mistakes. ( 87 ) Many of us in the modern world require to take a rest ; a new power of genuine love is presently flooding the Cosmos which, in the short space of forty-five years will be able to rejuvenate and resurrect people. ( 88 ) Still we have not learned to love in the way which will permit our love to follow us throughout Eternity ; whatever we do should be such that it cannot be severed from us for all Eternity. ( 89 ) This world has been described as the world of ' the flesh ' ; we need to pass on from here to the Divine world of Purity. God created the Universe by the power of Thought ; and it is by the power of Thought that the Human Race has to organise Its own life here on Earth. ( 91 ) Thinking is the highest and most pleasurable form of work. Every . inharmonious day is the Product of unsolved problems. Rather than becoming obsessed by problems we should try to resolve them at once. Should there be a problem which is heavy on the heart we should lift it up to God, the Lord of our Mind, then put it on the grindstone. By this means the Divine seed within the problem will have a chance to sprout, and you will be able to transform it into something good. If, in life, we are not constantly solving problems our life must be dead, dormant and void of achievement. It is Thought which stimulates growth and expansion. ( 92 ) Illnesses are often the means of correcting mistakes ; impurities are often burnt up when a person is ill. ( 93 ) The less said the better ; with silence many things are accomplished. The trees are silent damsels ; look at the sweet fruit they produce ! ( 94 ) Every quality, every virtue and every principle possesses a fundamental tone ; Truth is Divine Music, and we must learn to recognise its basic tone. The same can be said about love, wisdom, compassion, patience and humility. DOH is the basic tone of the scale from which all other tones proceed. ( 95 ) The Supreme instrument of the New Teaching is the Love-Light, which is a Solar teaching, capable of melting ice and snow and bringing life in its wake. It is as vital for us as light and sunshine. People are dying for the lack of it, just as they are dying for the lack of light and water. ( 96 ) In the Divine World there are circumstances and situations which are totally outside our experience, such as ’ eyes never saw and ears never heard . It is a world of complete harmony. God is harmony, and all living beings constitute a tone in this Universal Symphony. ( 97 ) We have come to Earth in Human form, but there are still millions of forms through which we have to pass. It is only when we have become thoroughly acquainted with this present form that we can pass over into anothe form. Every form has its own specific possibilities ; these have to be analysed and utilised. A stag has just as many lines of development as a Human being. ( 98 ) The stars are smaller than we are ! A Human being is greater than the whole Universe ! The Human soul is greater than the Sun, indeed greater than a hundred million Suns ! The coming Sixth Race will live within their souls and their spirits. The soul and spirit of Humanity has already been manifested ; within the soul of Humanity there is an element which is material. Men and women need to become perfect, and perfect in relation to God. ( 99 ) The Human being must dwell within the causal body, which contains the world of the soul, which is without contradiction. In the physical world everything is liable to end up as a contradiction ; we have to listen to the voice of the soul. ( 100 ) Our main task is to purify ourselves so that we may become pure channels for Spirit. The Spirit gives forth Music ; we are the chords which form the integral part of it. This is the Music which will put the world in a state of harmony. The New Life will not commence flowing within us until we actually reach conscious harmony and unity between the Mind and the Heart, or between the Body and the Spirit ; then Humanity will begin to manifest the Divine on Earth, by becoming a pure Spring of Soul and Will in its own right. THESE THOUGHTS HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM TALKS, CONVERSATIONS, LECTURES AND ADVICE, AND ARE A SPECIAL SELECTION PERTAINING TO HIS PHILOSOPHY WHICH COMES FROM THE PERIOD 1939 to 1944.

201 Fasting The disciple can begin his fast when his Spirit is in an ascending state. Then he can rise more easily above the material. 202 Doubts The disciple must pass through doubts. It is a region which he must traverse to the very limit. There he will find himself in a long, North-Pole night. But he must know the law that he has to pass through it in order to come out again into the bright day. He should stand firm through everything. After that dark period is past, there will come insight — the bright day of his Initiation! 203 Doubt Doubt is a problem for the disciple which he must solve correctly. 204 Doubt The first test which the disciple imposes upon himself is doubt. For this reason he must pass alone through the night of doubt and conquer it. 205 The world of Love When you live in Love, you believe, and all is bright for you. By this you will know that you are in the world of Love. There is no doubt there. As soon as you begin to doubt, it shows that Love is absent. 206 Hardship As soon as the disciple definitely starts on the Path, great hardships will appear which may cause him to stumble. He must not be troubled by them for they are unimportant for him. He must always be going forwards! 207 Reconciliation To be reconciled to God is to accept His Love. 208 Methods of God To love God is to employ all methods which He employs. 209 God To understand God means to make use of Divine Light. 210 Knowing God You can know God only when you love Him. You can know God only when you become conscious of His Love. 211 Divine To live according to God means to Righteousness apply Divine righteousness, and this righteousness concerns everyone to the same degree. 212 The standard The Master will give to each one as much as Divine righteousness has meted out for him. No one is given less. But the Master is free to give more to some. 213 The soul The disciple must love the souls of men, so he must not hate anyone. The kindred soul of the one you love, and that of the one you do not love, are equally loved above. But you, according to the flesh, have discriminated between them. That is a sin. 214 Account The disciple is not obliged to give men an account of his acts. Before he acts one way or another, he should take into consideration the Divine laws and rules. 215 Morality The disciple is concerned first of all with how his work stands before God, not before people and public opinion. This is the true morality in his life. 216 Morality Morality — this is the Love of the disciple for God. There exists no other morality. 217 With Love The disciple must do everything with Love, then he will also do all things easily. If Love is absent, he will meet many contradictions on his way, and first of all — doubt. 218 The world of Love The World of Love is a world of great achievement. Anything done with out love is fruitless. Anything done without love is a crime. 219 The Kingdom of Peace Find the place and the inner meaning of everything which happens in life. Thus you will keep your balance through all the storms of life. This is necessary, if you would enter the Kingdom of Peace. 220 Blessing When some Divine blessing cannot be poured out upon the disciple, the cause is not in God, but in the disciple. God has prepared a blessing for everyone. 221 Weeping The disciple should weep when no one is watching him. Then weeping is a blessing. He can weep before others about human affairs, but when he is weeping about something Divine, he should weep by himself. 222 Heaven The disciple lives on the earth but thinks about heaven. He works for the realization of the Divine laws on earth. 223 Patience Endure all for the sake of Love until you attain Love. When it comes, you will receive patience. 224 Love Only Love teaches one obedience. The new obedience is obedience out of Love! "He who loves Me will keep my commandments." This is possible only with Love, and then comes the gift: "And I shall abide with you, even unto the end of the world." 225 Obedience and learning When the disciple receives the Love of his Master, he is obedient, so that Love may be planted in him. But he learns in order that Love may grow in him. 226 The hands The hands were created for work! When the disciple looks on them, they say: "We were created for work!" The disciple must not be indolent. 227 The finger nails The disciple should not have white spots on his fingernails. They are the result of a powerful disturbance and annoyance. He must always be calm. There should exist no surprises for him. 228 Good The disciple goes to the Good with his feet. He does Good with his hands, and speaks Good with his lips. Three worlds should participate in Good: the physical, the angelic, and the Divine. 229 The Head The head of the disciple should always be erect, not bowed. When it is bowed, it is apt to receive some negative thoughts and moods, but when it is erect, the disciple comes in contact with the solar energies and the positive in life. 230 The look The look of the eyes should be soft and pure, concentrated, and always in contact with some Divine thought. 231 The look The look of the disciple is such that it never disturbs the harmony in the others. 232 Greeting The best greeting is that of the eyes. It is the purest, and God accepts it. Love is something spiritual and Divine. It finds expression in the physical world through the eyes. 233 Movements All the movements of the disciple must be voluntary and conscious. The disciple must not make even one movement unconsciously because such movements are under the influence of laggard spirits. 234 Erect posture The disciple must always have an erect posture, it keeps his consciousness awake and predisposes his Spirit to work. 235 a rule After having been with his Master the disciple goes directly to his home without stopping anywhere on the way. 236 Food Fruit is the most ideal food. The disciple should eat mainly fruit. It cleanses his body and also his feelings and thoughts. 237 Food When the disciple is eating, he should be filled with gratitude and Love. 238 Sleep It is good for the disciple to stay awake until ten o'clock in the evening and then to go to sleep. 239 Sleeping Upon going to bed, the disciple settles all the contradictions of the day in his mind, restores his calmness and, like a newborn child, falls asleep in the shortest time. 240 Illness The disciple should not be ill. He should regard illness as an educative effect whereby nature balances the forces of the organism. Love excludes all illness. Love is the bearer of abundant Life. The ill person, merged in Divine Love, can be healed in a moment. 241 Occult medicine The disciple must have a knowledge of nature-medicine. Food, water, air, and light are healing factors. The solar rays, absorbed with Love, are most beneficial to the body. They act soothingly upon the soul and refreshingly upon the Spirit. The disciple can heal himself also by raising his thoughts and feelings to the Spirit. He is healed also through prayer and, in some cases, by prayer and fasting. 242 Pure blood The disciple must have pure blood. Pure thoughts and desires maintain the purity of the blood. 243 Clothes The disciple is careful of his clothes because they are impregnated with his own aura. If they should fall into inappropriate hands, he will suffer without knowing where his suffering comes from. 244 Clothes The clothes of the disciple must be loose and comfortable. Not the clothes, but the face should stand out, and not the face, but the soul. 245 Warmth The hands of the disciple must always be of a moderate temperature. They must be warm. Cold hands indicate an oppressed mind. More sunshine is necessary. Warmth brings well-being of Spirit. 246 Money Disciples should keep the following rule in their relations: service/or service, but not for money. Money can spoil a man. It bears another image, while service bears the image of Love. Through service the disciple receives and delivers the image of Love. Friendship will be the future coin of exchange! Love will be the future coin of exchange! 247 Money The disciple must not render services for money, that is contrary to every rule in the occult school. He must serve only out of Love. 248 Two rules I. (concerning myself) The disciple should never ask for money in case of need. He should do something to earn the money needed. II. (concerning others) The disciple must never give money as help. He should find some work for the man in need, and then instead of giving him one dollar, he should pay him four dollars. In this way the person in need will be free, because he has helped himself through labour. 249 The street When the disciple is walking in the street, he must be in concentration and prayer in order to avoid unnecessary trouble. 250 Intuition The disciple must listen to his intui­tion and keep the first thought which comes to him. It will lead him in a way free of thieves. 251 Intuition The disciple must know the nature of people. His first impressions of them are the truest ones, and he must obey them. The second and third impressions are commentaries. 252 Friendship The disciple should associate with good people and good spirits. In general, he must have dealings with Good. Evil Spirits are those who tempt the disciple. He must have nothing to do with them. When the disciple has inner light, the evil spirits cannot come near him. Thought of God is his protection. 253 Companionship The disciple should associate with people more advanced than himself in order to learn from them. He should also associate with those of his level who would encourage him and make him more zealous in his work. He must also descend to those of a lower level in order to help them. If he gives his support to people lower than he is, beings of a higher order will support him. 254 Transformation The disciple must think only of the Good! Every evil thought is a psychic thorn which he must find and pull out. Thus he will transform the energy of the evil thought and use it/or Good. 255 The new way He who puts on new clothes has no desire to return to his old ones. The disciple, once having started on the Divine Path, must forsake the ways of the world. 256 The environment of the disciple Live and move always in Love! 257 With God Every organ is of significance so long as it is bound to the organism. You live well only when you are in contact with God. 258 Spiritual protection One cannot succeed in any work if one does not have the cooperation of the invisible world. The disciple will have difficulty living on the earth if he does not have spiritual protection. Therefore he must be in contact with God. 259 Suffering The disciple must face suffering with joy, for he will learn something good from it. If he understands suffering thus, he will grow young. Humanity passes through the region of suffering during only one phase of its development. Suffering prepares the nervous system to endure the new Light which will come. 260 Independence The disciple must not be tied down to anything material. The harder it is for him to part with things material, the greater will be the sufferings he will have to go through. He only studies on the earth, living rather in another world. 261 Blessedness He who lives only for himself is always limited. The moment the idea of serving God illumines his mind, all limitations vanish and he is free. It is blessed to become free of the limitations of the world. 262 The power of the soul The soul can manifest its power when it is not bound to matter. It is powerful when it penetrates through matter without being bound to it. The disciple should only look through matter — not live in it. 263 Intelligent powers All that happens is permitted by Heaven. All that happens to you will be turned into Good by the Intelligent Powers which direct all development. This idea fills the disciple with joy, even when he finds himself in the greatest conflicts in life. 264 The Plan of God Do not forget that in the great Plan of God, all conflicts will eventually be reconciled. 265 Power The power of the disciple comes from above. Concentration on Divine Truth accumulates power. Man becomes an accumulator. The more the disciple concentrates, the more powerful he becomes spiritually. 266 True help The disciple must be able to put himself in the position of each soul if he would like to understand and help it. When you understand a soul, you love it. 267 The blue sky The colour blue acts upon the soul and engenders sublime feelings in the disciple. When he feels discouraged let him look at the blue sky, and he will be calmed. A deep peace, joy, and lightness will take possession of his soul, and he will be refreshed and resume his work again. 268 The starry sky When the disciple feels that life is empty and purposeless, let him look at the starry sky in the night and he will be inspired by its greatness. 269 The small insect When the disciple feels very discouraged and unnecessary on earth, let him look at the little insects under his feet which remain alive even after someone has trodden upon them. Let him observe through his microscope how they move, fly, and at times stop, and perhaps think! He will see how they manifest the rationality and necessity even of their existence in Creation. Before those small insects he will be ashamed of his lack of will and he will be overwhelmed by a strong desire to justify his existence also. He, likewise, should manifest the Sublime in Creation! 270 Application The Divine must always be put to the test and applied. When someone saves a person from drowning, both of them go through an intense experience. But the one feels one thing, while the other, another thing. Both must thank God! 271 Thankfulness The disciple must thank God from morning till evening for all that he sees around him. Then streams of Love will flow through his soul. 272 Prayer The disciple must pray in order to be strong and to escape temptation. "And lead us not into temptation." 273 Interpretation "And lead us not into temptation." This means: Lord, give us knowledge and Wisdom that we may not fall into temptation through our ignorance. 274 Bright thoughts When the disciple liberates his mind from the coarse thoughts about material life, his mind becomes filled with bright thoughts about the Great and Sublime in life. Then he can work. 275 The other world The disciple must prepare himself for a conscious departure from this world. The other world is the school where he will continue his studies. This world and the other are one world. 276 The White Light When the disciple thinks about the Good, a soft white light — a living Being — appears in his mind. He can converse with that Being and learn many things. 277 The Master The Master has a special way of speaking to every disciple. The spring gives water to each one specially. Thus the Master is one for all, as the spring is one, out of which many may drink, without obstructing one another. When many drink out of a jug, then disputes, conflicts, and troubles arise. 278 The Fire of the Spirit Always keep burning within you the Fire of the Spirit. The disciple must always bear the stamp of the Good upon his face. 279 The face When the disciple lives according to God's Will, his face assumes another expression. 280 Tenderness When you think about the qualities of God, they flow into you. In order to become tender and merciful, think of how condescending and kind God is! 281 Forgiveness Always forgive for the sake of God! Forgiveness does not arise from man. It comes from God! You can struggle within yourself, as to whether to forgive or not, but you should always be victorious in conflict. The first step by which the disciple enters into spiritual life is forgiveness. Forgive for the sake of God! 282 The essentials of life Service and study! The disciple must free himself from all accessories which only divert his attention without being of any benefit to him. He is occupied only with the essentials of life. For a long way of learning and work awaits him. 283 Application The disciple must apply to life what he knows! You know only what you have applied and tested. And this knowledge only will abide with you, always. 284 Inner impetus The disciple must have an inner impetus to work for God. He lives mostly inwardly. He participates in outward, constructive life, but his impetus comes from within. 285 Responsibility The disciple cannot justify himself if he does not do what he knows. The law says: Without Love you will sin. With Love you will redress your wrongs. 286 The written laws. The laws and rules of the disciple are written within him. He has no written laws outside himself. 287 Suffering The disciple must become inured through suffering in order to attain a character which endures to death. Mentally experience the sufferings of Christ, and you will become strong through them. During times of suffering, the disciple lives in joy deep within himself, because he loves, and knows that there is One Who loves him. No one can endure suffering without Love! 288 Character To be innocent and to be considered guilty by the world, even to the end of your days, without attempting to justify yourself — that is character. The disciple must not justify himself, but leave that to his Master to do, if he deems it is/or the best. 289 The suffering of the disciple The most severe judge is within man himself. The greatest suffering which the disciple can experience is when he realizes that he has not done what God has told him. 290 Sufferings Only when you endure suffering to the end in the right way, will you rise to a higher level, so that you can continue on in the Eternal Way. 291 The Divine Fire The disciple cannot take one step in the Divine School if he is covetous. All souls will pass through the Divine Fire, to be purified from all covetousness and avarice! Then they will become radiant! 292 To God By prayer and faith the disciple must entrust his whole life to God. This does not exclude activity and initiative from his life. 293 The Love of God All exists through the Love of God! 294 Silence and speech There are three kinds of silence and three kinds of speech: When the hungry man eats, he is silent. When the disciple does not know his lesson, he is silent. The Master who knows much is silent. When a man is very hungry, he speaks much. The disciple who knows much, speaks much. The Master who knows little, speaks much. The disciple must know when it is best to be silent and when to speak. 295 Readiness The disciple must review in his mind the worst situations in order to see if he can endure them. Such situations might never occur, but he should be prepared for anything. There must be no surprises for him. 296 Love Your Love will be subjected to many trials in order to be tested. The Love of the disciple must be so great that it survives all situations which will come to him. Only Love can endure the most conflicting situations in life. 297 Peace Peace comes from God! The greatest thing in the soul of the disciple is his peace. Peace is blessed by God! "My Peace I leave with you." 298 Purity and Light Purity must emanate from the disciple like Light. 299 Initiation Initiation begins with suffering. The disciple should not escape suffering, but endure it. 300 Water and fire The disciple must pass through fire and water! Through water to be purified and through fire to become radiant! 301 The mind Be wise! Before every action consider the conditions and consequences. 302 Before a test Be calm and quiet. All will pass well! 303 Three states There are three states in the life of man: A physical state where all is restless; A spiritual state in which there is an aspiration towards an ideal; And a Divine state where absolute Peace reigns! The disciple must have passed through the first state. 304 Disciple There is nothing more beautiful for man than to be a disciple! 305 Help The Master can help his disciple only when he notices in him an overwhelming desire for the Spiritual. 306 Faith Exercise faith. The mind wavers without faith. You should deposit a mighty faith within you! The roots of faith are in the past age- long experience of man. 307 A motto I can do all through God, Who dwells in me. Help does not come from without, but from within. 308 The storm When the sky becomes cloudy and stormy, the little flowers are happy, for they need moisture. But men are afraid, because they do not have the faith of the flowers. The disciple must not be afraid of the storm, because it is a necessity, but he should rather see that he makes good use of it. 309 Light Sorrow comes at night, but joy in the morning. When the disciple grieves, it is night within him, but when he rejoices, it is morning. The influences of darkness cause sorrow, while those of the Light — joy. When it is night within him, let him think of God, for in God it is always day. 310 The Divine The disciple must first of all find the Divine within himself. Then he will be able to recognize and understand the Divine in all others 311 Oneself The disciple can make a study of social life within himself. If you know yourself, you know society also! 312 Baptism Baptism is an act of the Spirit It is an inner reality. 313 With God There is no fear in Love. The disciple must not fear people for he lives with God. 314 The church The church of the disciple must be within " Ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you " 315 Power and light After the disciple has passed through the alchemical laboratory of nature, he will become strong But after he has passed trough its furnaces, he will begin to radiate Light He will become Light 316 The soul The disciple regards himself as something separate from the body, in order not to be tempted by the forms. 317 Learning The disciple has two ways of learning either he is taught by others, or he instructs himself Either he creates the conditions for being taught, or others create conditions for his self-instruction. The process of learning is difficult, but pleasant. 318 The beginning It is better for the disciple to begin with difficulties than with benefits. Thus he will become strong from the very beginning. 319 Acquisition In every life the disciple must acquire something. He must listen to his Spirit. There is nothing better than the experience which the Spirit of Wisdom can give to man. 320 Foundation The disciple must try to lay a firm foundation in his soul in order to understand life aright. The disciple must have self-confidence in life in order to have a foundation upon which to build. Only he who has been touched by the wave of Love has self-confidence. 321 For God The first thing for the disciple to know is that God is eternal harmony. When you feel harmony within, God has visited you. These are epochal moments in your life! 322 Aspiration To aspire towards God and Truth is the Great task of the disciple. 323 Soul and mind Let your soul be azure and your mind, shining with light. 324 Correction When the disciple wants to do something for somebody, let him first put himself in the place of that person. If he finds it is good, then let him do it. Thus he corrects himself. 325 The whole Heaven If the disciple guides his life completely according to the Divine principles, the entire Heaven will cooperate with him. When a man works for God, for others, Heaven is with him. 326 A motto All things work together for good to him who walks according to the Law of God. 327 Prayer Only prayer will show you the right way to pay all your karmic debts more easily. You must experience a Divine state during prayer. Prayer is likewise the way by which the disciple learns what the will of God is. 328 Nature The disciple must be consciously aware that he should not break any of the laws of nature. They are an expression of Supreme Wisdom! 329 Consciousness In the disciple there should be the consciousness of always fulfilling the Divine! He ought always to make way for the Divine in him. 330 Energies The disciple should always direct his energies upwards in sublime thought and activity. Then they develop his higher centres. When the energies remain at a low level, they become stagnant, destructive, and cause explosions. 331 Thoughts Always raise your thoughts upwards towards the Divine. Thus your spiritual body becomes organized. 332 The Divine The Divine must be made manifest in the life of the disciple. Therein is fullness of life. 333 Truths about work The greatest good which God has given to man is life. But the deepest gratitude of man for his life is work. Delicacy is a fruit of one's appreciation of the work of others. He who is respectful, thinks. The more one is considerate of the work of others, the more the invisible world is considerate of his work. Only he works who works out of Love. He who works, Loves. And he who respects the work of others works himself. He who understands, lives. Laughter sometimes shows that you have no understanding. It is a temporary diversion. He who understands, thinks! He who understands, works. "My Father works, and I work." 334 Recompense When the disciple definitely aspires towards God the Master does not regret anything he has done for and given to the disciple. 335 Proximity There exist physical, mental, spiritual, and Divine ties. Real proximity of souls is built upon their Divine bonds. They are the only lasting, unchanging bonds, ever growing in strength. 336 Ambushes The disciple must be very penetrating, clear-sighted, and vigilant. There are inferior spirits which contrive "unexpected ambushes" and the disciple can get in trouble. For instance, you cross a bridge, see a fence along its side, and take hold of it. But it proves to be rotten wood, and you fall into the river with it. 337 Toward the spiritual The disciple must always spiritualize matter. If he stops on the material plane, he will experience great conflicts in his life. From the physical towards the spiritual! 338 God We can find God most easily within ourselves. After the disciple has found Him within himself, he is able to find Him everywhere outside himself. 339 The material Everything is transitory on the earth. The disciple must not desire anything earthly. He uses the primer and slate while he is in the first grade, but later he progresses, leaving them behind for others to use. There is no need to take the primer and slate into university. 340 Sacred words Do you know me? Fear not! 341 God Our life is complete, significant and joyful, so long as we find God in ourselves. Outside of God there are only misfortunes and sufferings. 342 God Our life is only in God! 343 Development See that your development moves naturally. Thought must grow, but it must not get over-ripe. Your thoughts must develop and grow without changing. 344 Action The Master cannot speak in all cases. There are times when he must act immediately. When the disciple is holding and observing a bomb, which will explode in two minutes, the Master has no time to explain to him that there is danger, but he takes the bomb and throws it far away into space! The disciple will understand after hearing the sound of the explosion. And he will thank his Master for not having said anything to him at that dangerous moment. 345 Mystic solitude There is a mystic solitude in man when he unites with God. That is for him, who understands! There is a sacred region in the soul, which is inviolable. No one can have admittance there. It is a sacred region, predestinated only for God. 346 Alone Disciples can live alone in their inner life, only if they live in purity. 347 The bee The bee sucks honey out of the flower; man picks the flower, smells it, and then throws it away; while the ox treads upon it. The disciple must apply the method of the bee. 348 The Light The disciple must love the Light! The master will give him the very Greatest through the Light! 349 Purification Every evening the disciple must purify himself, psychically by directing his mind towards the Great Love, and passing everything he has done during the day through that Love. 350 Light The disciple must strive to attain to that light in which he will be able to distinguish real Love. Love reveals itself in time of greatest misery. 351 Good deeds God does His good deeds in such a way that they seem to come naturally into life! But the disciple must know that it is the act of God, of that Wise Power in the universe which helps all but always remains concealed, and he must thank God ceaselessly in his soul. The Master does the same. 352 A motto May the God of Love be blessed in our souls! 353 A question Which is better: to be given a thing as a gift, or to be given a thing deservedly? The wealth given you as a gift, or that which is earned? 354 Purity-nux The disciple should be so pure that he should have the odor of nux — an odor of the angels. And this fragrance should not change, but should through all Eternity become stronger and stronger, as a flower in the garden of God. 355 Suffering You should not be passive toward suffering. When it comes accept it calmly and quietly. In this way your situation will be clarified and you will benefit by your suffering. At the same time you should actively try to deal wisely with it. While it lasts, do not lose your balance and inner peace. Have a sensible attitude towards it and understand its inner meaning and purpose. Thus you will transform your suffering into harmony. 356 Love When the disciple loves God, he bears suffering lightly. 357 Stability As everything is temporary and transient on the earth, the disciple must hold on to something constant. He is strong when he has a basic idea which is unchanging throughout all life's conditions. 358 Practical application The one thing which the disciple should know is the Divine purpose of his life. He must know what means to choose and how to employ them. When the soul came out of God, He wrote something in it; and when the soul reads this, it will find out the purpose of its life. 359 The Love The disciple must discriminate regarding Love. Love may be physical — mechanical, spiritual, or Divine. Energies, in their transformation, pass through these three stages. The disciple must live in spiritual and Divine Love. Physical love undergoes great changes; in spiritual love, there are not any essential changes, while the Divine Love never changes but grows forever! 360 Love All distraction must be avoided in Love. The attention must never waver. The mind is necessary in Love. 361 Love Love is something Divine! The disciple must manifest Love freely. There are two extremes in Love: bashfulness and shamelessness. Both of them flow out of a wrong understanding of Love. But bashfulness is preferable of the two. 362 Love Every form must vanish in Love; only the essence of things must remain. If the disciple looks for the form in Love, he will fall. Every form must vanish in Love! 363 According to God The disciple must pray for the support of the Divine world, and try to solve all things according to God. Everything is solved completely in the Divine world; things are halfway solved in the spiritual world, and not solved at all in the physical world. In order to come to the Divine solution of his problems, the disciple must be absolutely pure, which means that he should not have any karmic ties but rather be completely free. 364 Initiation In order to test the Love of the disciple, he will be submitted to a number of trials, temptations, doubts, and disappointments. If he endures everything, without yielding to temptation in Love, he will be initiated. 365 Love Love is a great, inner world, which gives meaning to life. It gives man, deep in his soul, an impetus towards God. This is for those who understand! Then man can live alone, with Love, and where He is, all things are. 366 Two places The disciple cannot be in two places — in the world and at school. He can go into the world to be examined, but he is always at school. He works in the world and does not break his ties with it, but everywhere he is a disciple. 367 Meeting the Master When the disciple wants to meet his Master, he must prepare himself In his consciousness he must not have any ties with the transitory in life and should be in a prayerful condition. He prays that God may help him to receive and understand the thoughts of his Master correctly, in order to be helped by them and to apply them to life in the best way. 368 The colour blue The disciple must use the colour blue so that his vibrations may become more spiritual, faster, and finer He must have more delicate vibrations. 369 Supreme Love The disciple should experience the verse God is Love, in order that he might be, partly, a recipient of that Love. Then he will be ready to endure all suffering. 370 Before God The disciple must do everything as if in the presence of God In this is his Love! 371 For the sake of God Everything the disciple does is done for the sake of God. 372 The new Teaching The new teaching is only for people with an awakened consciousness It is not for those who live with their old ideas. 373 The Master The Master does not serve that which is temporary. He serves Love! For he serves God! 374 Recognition of God The disciple can recognize God only when he lives in the law of Love. 375 God To know God, we must love Him! 376 Conviction The disciple must do everything out of conviction His conviction is Love towards God! His conviction is that God reigns in the world! His conviction is that Love sustains the world! 377 The hue of Love The hue of Love is pink. The hue of sublime Love is light blue. The hue of Divine Love is White Light! 378 Excursion The earthly life of the disciple must represent a beautiful excursion. He will pass through many places, will examine everything he meets on his way, and will pass on. 379 The program The disciple must know definitely the program of his life and fulfil it in the right way. Only his superconsciousness can re­veal this to him. Each day he listens to the voice within him to hear what God will tell him to do. This is his program for the day. 380 Giving Be a loving soul! 381 To the disciples: May the Peace of God abide in you! 382 The feelings All the feelings of the disciple must be on an ascending scale. 383 The heart You must keep your heart pure. "Only the pure in heart shall see God." 384 Prayer The disciple must always be in contact with the God of Love. Let him think of the One Who alone is ever changeless and kind! 385 The new morality The disciple must act according to the New morality: to love God and to speak the Truth. 386 Consideration The most noble quality of the disciple is his consideration of others. Be considerate of others, as God is considerate of you. Be considerate as is Wise Nature, which gives ear even to the faintest call of insects and flowers for moisture, and provides for all. Be considerate to what the Divine Spirit wants you to do. Consideration is to know how to render good service to God within yourself and others. 387 Consideration Love teaches you consideration. Love puts itself in the position of everyone. 388 Penetration The disciple must be very penetrating and clear-sighted in order to be able to harmonize opposing elements and to become polarized at once. 389 Penetration The soul of the disciple must be penetrating. This speaks of an awakened consciousness. 390 Contradictions As soon as contradictions come into your life, say, "God is Love!" Go to God. 391 Heroism The disciple must be stronger than his misfortune, and must know that it comes and goes. He must endure it. This is heroism. Be brave and go forward! Fearlessness and resoluteness are qualities of the disciple. He cannot endure anything without them. 392 Oneself When the disciple understands himself, he understands everybody. 393 A lesson When the Master gives a lesson to the disciple, the latter must pray to God to be given light to understand the lesson well. 394 The hand of providence The disciple sees in everything happening around him the loving hand of God! 395 Spiritual life The disciple must pass his life as God designed it. For this he needs knowledge and a spiritual life. 396 Knowing the Great Develop your heart, that it may provide material for the mind. "The ox knows its master". And now the time has come for man to know God. 397 Understanding One can do without suffering if one has understanding. One can always have understanding when one has Love. 398 To the Disciple May my peace abide in you! 399 Obedience It is better for the disciple to be obedient than to ask for things. For in being obedient, one obeys the will of the Master, while in the asking for things, one obeys one's own will. 400 Recompense The Master stands in his might in the soul of the disciple after the latter has heard the most sacred words from his Master about God. What can the disciple do to recompense his Master for all that he has done for him? — Nothing, but to serve God with his whole being! Only then and thus can he recompense his Master. 401 The heart The heart of the disciple must always burn with the Sacred fire of Love, but it should never burn out. 402 Severe looks The face of the Master should not disturb the disciple. When the Master is penetrating space, then he looks severe. The disciple must perceive and understand this. 403 The tongue The tongue of the disciple must not break bones, but heal wounds. 404 Beauty The beauty of the disciple should consist of this — to speak the Truth! Beauty is the garment of Truth. 405 Pretense The disciple is known by his natural way of life. He is not given to pretenses. 406 Growth The disciple must grow! When he is beaten, he should grow! When he is en­deared, he should grow! The disciple must grow! 407 Will, heart, and mind The task of the disciple is threefold: To develop and fortify his will; To ennoble and purify his heart; To enlighten and stabilize his mind. 408 Love and Purity By loving, the disciple attains purity. Love is a power which can develop only in purity. 409 For the disciple The disciple who has received much, but does not use his knowledge, will be beaten much. 410 Love, Wisdom, Truth Love, Wisdom, and Truth — these must always abide in the soul of the disciple who loves his Master. These unite Master and disciple. 411 The science of Love Great is the science of Love! One must study Love as one studies nature. Nature cannot be known by one flower alone. Love has innumerable forms which together form one whole. 412 The future The life of the disciple must project into the future. The world lives in the present. The future always implies elevation of consciousness. The past is a descent of consciousness, while the present is passing. The great future must permeate the present life of the disciple. 413 Good disciples The best disciples are those who develop naturally, in whose life there is no retarding, or leaping. They neither wait, nor run, everything moves with a natural speed. The cosmic rhythm is reflected in their life. 414 The essence The disciple must not desire anything prematurely. He must not want to smell the strong essence for he would not be able to bear it. The essence might be so strong that it would dull his senses. The Master knows what the disciple needs. The disciple knows that everything will come to him at the proper time. 415 Gratitude The disciple must be grateful for that which the Master gives him and move forwards. The Master never allows the disciple to stop on his way. The disciple feels the support coming/row his Master, the support of the whole Heaven. This fills him at all times with gratitude and adoration. 416 Naturalness First of all, the disciple must attain harmonious naturalness in his character. 417 Learning What is the most important thing for the man who is hungry? The most important thing for the disciple is to have an insatiable desire to study. Learning surpasses all for the disciple. All other things are of secondary importance to him. The disciple begins with the seed, while the world seeks an orchard of fruit. Therein lies the difference. But such gardens are nowhere to be found. The disciple studies in order to fulfil the Will of God! 418 Polarization The disciple must know how to become polarized and how to avoid being demagnetized. He always pays attention to the positive in life, and works with that. 419 Basic traits The disciple may change in character, but his basic traits, deposited in him by God, must not change. That which God has deposited in him is his real self. 420 Particular way of development The disciple should not pay any attention to the affairs of those around him. Everyone has their own course of development. If you are a river, you must flow. If you are a tree, you must grow. If you are fruit, you must ripen. Everything needs development! 421 Ascendant Love When the disciple is ill, he must unfold Love within himself. When Love becomes ascendant, he will be well. 422 Goodness The essence of man is Goodness! The disciple must cultivate the Good within himself. That is why he is sent to the Earth. 423 Will for Good To do Good requires Will! In order to progress in life, you must have a will. You can rise only in and through the Good. Will is not necessary in the doing of evil. You only need step into its current and it pulls you downwards. Will is necessary for the Good! 424 Evolution Evolution for the disciple means rising to the condition where his soul will grow and develop normally. This is a continuous process of awakening and liberation. He who works consciously in that direction is a disciple. He participates in the collective course of evolution. 425 Objective and subjective mind The objective mind of the disciple should be so developed that it receives clear and definite impressions of the objects in the external world, nothing more. The subjective mind of the disciple should be so developed that one experiences things inwardly in the right way. The objective mind deals with facts, while the subjective mind with laws. But neither of them is yet the mind of principles. 426 Passivity Only in relation to God should the mind of the disciple be passive, receptive. Humility puts the soul in a receptive state. 427 Blue and white The disciple must absorb blue and white light. They help him towards his spiritual elevation. The disciple must use the vitalizing influence of the different kinds of rays, towards his elevation. 428 Two objects It is a natural thing for the disciple to concentrate. When two or more objects of the material and spiritual worlds enter into his consciousness, and are interwoven, his mind becomes scattered. He must not permit this to happen. This disciple must concentrate only in that direction which promotes the spiritual progress of a// souls, including his own — beyond all personal and selfish ambitions. 429 The big bowl There are disciples who work with small hoes, but who later demand the big bowl. That is why the Master will at times take the disciple to the hoes, that he may choose one for himself, and then according to the size of the hoe, will be the size of the bowl. 430 Yes and no The disciple must be strong in order to be able to say Yes and No by principle. When something must not, as a matter of principle, be applied, to say No! And when something must be applied, to say Yes! 431 Love and meaning The disciple must know that life is impossible without Love. Everything becomes meaningful in Love. 432 Love and the mind It is Love which softens things, while the mind gives them value. Tenderness is the outward expression of Love. 433 Artificial desires The disciple must guard against artificial desires, for they are destructive. The natural desires of the soul are healthy for the disciple and uplift him. Only a desire in accord with the Will of God, and coming from God, is a natural desire! A natural desire is that which leads to abundant life. 434 Doubt When the disciple doubts, he becomes demagnetized, losing the natural attraction previously possessed. 435 Intuition and mind Each disciple must follow his own nature. Some disciples are better listening to their intuition, while others are better heeding their reasoning. 436 The Plan of Creation The disciple must study, not think about how to grow up. This question is not within his plan, but within the Divine Plan of Creation. 437 Victory When the disciple is victorious he is happy and thereby also makes his Master happy. The disciple conquers when he calls the powers of heaven to his aid. 438 The purity of the disciple The purity of the disciple must never be stained by anything. When he is pure and keeps his purity he makes his Master happy. 439 Good The disciple who knows and applies his knowledge to life is good. Goodness is an outward expression of Love. 440 Sacrifice and Wisdom The disciple who sacrifices is good. The disciple who is wise is good. 441 The Truth The disciple who loves the Truth is good. The Master calls him good. 442 Good The disciple must know that the Master always desires the best for his disciples. The Master desires that the disciple should endure all suffering and overcome all temptations. 443 Youth He who lives in Love is always young. Old age does not exist for the disciple — he lives in Love, that is why he is a disciple. The world does not understand Love. He who lives in Love is always young. 444 Endurance After the disciple has been with his Master he will be submitted to trials in order to test his Love. If the disciple loves, he endures everything to the end. Love endures all! 445 Love and Peace The disciple, if he has Peace, will know that he has Love. If Love cannot give Peace, it is not Love. 446 Truth and Love The disciple must always act out of Truth and Love. Love always sets things right. It is the most sublime and noble thing in life. But Truth sets man free. It is the power which directs man on the eternal Way! 447 Truth Whenever the disciple might lie, let him remember the words of the Master: Truth is ours, but lies — no! And if he is a real disciple, he will not lie! 448 Test The disciple must know that he will never pass through the same test twice. He must therefore take care to pass it well. If he does not pass, but fails the test, another one will be given to him, but the same is never repeated! 449 The Truth Speaking the Truth is like having an operation without taking an anaesthetic. The disciple must be able to bear the Truth! Then he is strong. He knows that in its inner essence Truth is always kind! 450 Response There are questions which the disciple must answer directly and sincerely. If he beats about the bush, he is not speaking the Truth. The Master knows the Truth. The disciple is only being tested. 451 Power and Nobility Only when he does no evil is the disciple strong. And therein rests his Nobility. 452 Knowledge The disciple must strive to attain and Love knowledge with Love. Knowledge attained without Love makes one rude, while that attained with Love ennobles man. That is real knowledge. 453 Peace The disciple must always be calm. Not only externally, but deep within his soul he must have Peace. The man of Peace has an unearthly radiance which brings harmony to all around him. 454 Peace Peace speaks of the presence of the Spirit! 455 Sacred feelings The disciple must not trade with his sacred feelings. Covetousness is no quality of Love. All has value in Love. 456 Sin When sin takes possession of the disciple, he loses everything in a moment. The disciple is strong, not only when he gains wealth, but when he knows how to preserve it. 457 Love The disciple must not stain himself if he would live in Love. One moment spent by the spring of Love is of more value than a hundred royal crowns! 458 Fruit The disciple should be able to live only on fruit. For it gives him pure feelings and bright thoughts. Thus will his will also develop. Man's food will be different in a hundred years' time. Now women spend the greater part of their lives in the kitchen, while men work solely for food. 459 The mental plane When the disciple meditates and concentrates he must not be diverted by anything, so that his thoughts may be in harmony and he may find himself on the mental plane. 460 The Master Initiation is impossible without a Master! A Master is necessary for the disciple, for it is He who will give the latter the right direction in life, both here on earth, and above in the invisible world. Only he who has passed over the Path and knows its every detail, can reveal the Path to you. 461 Suffering Suffering is the greatest thing on earth for the disciple. For through it, he learns his best lessons. The disciple is elevated in suffering. The consciousness awakens in suffering. 462 The goal The Goal of the disciple is within him — it is God. That is why there are no obstacles on the way to its attainment. The disciple is always content, for everything is within him. People of the world seek their object outside themselves. That is why their life is full of discontent. 463 Suffering and Truth As soon as the disciple begins to understand suffering in the right way, he learns the Truth. 464 An excess The disciple must not desire in his life more suffering and joy than are necessary. That would be excessive. Suffering causes moisture, while joy — Light and heat. 465 Suffering No one shall ask the disciple how much suffering he has passed through, but rather what he has learned from it. 466 Recognition The disciple will recognize his Master when he raises his consciousness to the Divine world. 467 Patience Have patience, my disciple, you who are studying by me! Patience is one of the great qualities of God. Patience, my disciple, patience! 468 Purity The disciple must always be pure in his soul. In the New teaching, the disciple must guard his own purity and that of others above all things. 469 A motto "I thank Thee, God of Love, Thou Who madest me able to say: / can!" When the disciple is in trouble, let him say, "God is within me, and it is He Who enables me to act. In Divine Love, "I cannot" does not exist. "God is Love!" 470 Two extremes The disciple must guard against two extremes: when the heart grows cold, it turns into ice; when the mind becomes hot, it causes storms. The heart must be warm, and the mind must be light. 471 A rule The disciple keeps this rule sacredly: the Divine cannot be corrected. It is absolute! There is no second opinion beside the Divine. The disciple never breaks this rule. 472 At university When the disciple is with his Master, he is at university. Otherwise he is at school. 473 Love The Love of the disciple must be continually purified in order to blend with the Love of the Master. The small one can reach the Great One only through Love. Only Love makes small things great. Only Love sends the Great to the small! Only Love makes the small serve the Great! 474 Tenderness The disciple must be very tender, forming around himself waves of tenderness in preparation for coming to understand Great Sublime Love. It is Divine, the most sacred thing on earth. Only Divine Love is Love! 475 On excursion When the disciple is on an excursion in the mountains, it is good for him to say a prayer and do his exercises upon the highest peak. 476 Without fear When evil comes, it injects one with fear. The disciple must say, " Without Fear!" That is to say, God will overcome. 477 Out of Love The disciple must do everything out of Love! Anything done without Love is a crime. All with Love! 478 Virginity The disciple must possess virginity. Virginity is a quality of the soul, not anything external. 479 Harmony The disciple must be in harmony with the Absolute, and approach Him with absolute faith and fearlessness. Harmony is a precondition for exchange between the disciple and the Absolute. 480 Joy The disciple who progresses well is joyful. The joy of the disciple springs from within him as a fountain. Men of the world want to raise the curtain and see where his joy has its source, but they cannot do so. They look for it outside, but it is not there. The joy of the disciple springs from within. 481 Growth Let your Love grow! Every day the disciple must grow in Love! 482 Knowledge of God To know God is to receive and know His Love. 483 The right attitude When you love someone, you love all that he loves. The disciple who loves his Master also loves all his Master's orders. 484 The important thing It is important for the disciple to receive Divine Love. This Love should become essential to him. He should live in it, breathe it, so that his life is filled with meaning. 485 The Eastern School In the Eastern School, artificial means were created for testing the disciple, and he passed through them all. But today natural tests are given to him and he must pass his tests well. If someone offends you, be a hero, approach him, and tell him with Love, "Come again into my home!" 486 With God The disciple must be conscious of a living bond with God. He should not think much about consequences, but rather about principles. 487 Silence When the Master speaks, the disciple must be silent. When the Master is silent, the disciple is being examined. The best art, which the disciple can apply most easily, is to keep silent and to listen. 488 Good The disciple must strive towards the Good! Goodness is the fruit of Love, Love is the fruit of the Spirit, and the Spirit is the manifestation of God! 489 Philosophy Philosophy is required of the life of the disciple. He must be able to reconcile all contradictions. The big things are for the world, but the small things are for the disciple. 490 The Divine school In the Divine school all the actions of the disciple must be moderated. The most sacred things of the soul are not manifested to the world. 491 Not immediately The Master does not give the disciple what he desires immediately, but lets him live with that desire for a certain time. He allows the disciple to experience his desire deeply. If it is spiritual, it will hold out to the end, but if it is material, it will vanish. 492 Perseverance First of all the perseverance of the disciple must be tested, and then certain lessons will be entrusted to him. 493 Discipline and Freedom The disciple alone should impose discipline upon himself! Otherwise it will be violence. Nothing in his life can be imposed upon him by violence. The disciple does everything with inner freedom! 494 Small things The disciple is tested through small things. If he is careful in small things, greater things will be given to him. 495 Intensive experiences The intensive experiences of the disciple are inward, and should barely be noticeable on the outside. Only thus can they be valuable to him. 496 Depth The disciple must pass through great sufferings in order to acquire depth of character. Without that depth, he cannot have stability and endurance. It is necessary for his character, for it has a rejuvenating influence. Depth is the substance of things, while size relates to their exterior form. The feelings can be deep, but they can also be intensive. Intensity is the fourth dimension. 497 The good disciple The disciple must never criticize the actions of his Master, if he would be a good disciple. For the Master is wiser than the disciple. The latter must always rejoice in the orders of his Master and say, "This is for good. It is the desire of my Master. I shall fulfil it with joy and love!" 498 Love for God To love God means to strew the seeds of purity upon your path. As soon as the disciple loves God, he will enter into his right life, and will rise above all circumstances. 499 Kind Today Nature is more kind than severe. Both kindness and severity attract, but kindness has a greater power of attraction. Only God is kind. Mercy imparts calmness, while Love imparts life. 500 Love of the soul The Beloved One of the human soul — He is the August of the world, God Himself. The discovery of the Beloved is the moment of your awakening! What a change takes place within you! — You are already a Son of Light! You feel the fragrance of thousands of flowers about you. Light begins to embrace tenderly all that God created! The snow and ice begin to melt. You are already in the land where the brilliant Sun never ceases to shine. For there is no more night! All tears are wiped away from your eyes. You become able to hear the unearthly music, which fills everything. It seems to emanate from all rocks, mountain summits, springs, grasses, flowers, trees, and stars! They speak to you, and you understand their language! It is their hymn of prayer to the Divine. Crystal waters flow around you — bearers of immortality; beautiful trees blossom and bear fruit every month, and their leaves are for the healing of the nations. You love all for the sake of your Beloved, because you see the reflection of His Beauty in all! And their love towards you is the Love of your Beloved! You no more love, but you yourself are Love; you yourself are Purity, Innocence, and Light! You do all for the sake of your Beloved! You look around and see that everything is beautiful! And you say: "Now I understand that the plan of Creation is the plan of Love! All is Love! All is Truth!" This is the Love of the soul! A CALL TO WORK! The awakened soul says: The long night is past! The veil is lifted from my eyes, and now I understand that: All is Beauty! All is Joy! All is Purity! All is Love! I love all, because Beauty, Joy, Purity, and Love are in all. I shall go to the faithless ones and shall impart to them the Light in which I live. I shall go to those who weep, to share my joy with them. I shall go to the despairing ones, to comfort them. I shall go to the burdened souls, to give them of my Love! I shall go to all, to give my peace unto them. And therein is my Joy! For they are all in me, and I in them. I am going to serve.

http://en-petardanov.com/index.php?/files/file/53-%7B?%7D/ BEINSA DOUNO SACRED WORDS OF THE MASTER A CALL TO THE DISCIPLE Translated from the Bulgarian by Vessela Nestorova TO THE SOULS WHO ARE WAITING That which you long for is coming! That which you cherish in your souls is the reality of tomorrow! Come into the land of eternal spring! Come into the land of eternal rejuvenation! Come into the land of joy! Come into the land of Love! It is so close to you! There is no illness or death in that land. Come and receive the treasures which belong to you. Come into the land where you will find those who know you, and those whom you know. WHEN THE SUN SHINES When the sun shines, the earth is roused, the waters bubble out into springs and start flowing, the winds blow, the flowers bloom, the trees bear their fruit and man awakes and begins to think. This book is for the disciple! This book is for everyone! For every man has come to earth to study. Every man has come to earth to become a disciple. This book is for everybody! The animal has learned to feel. But man has come to earth to think. The universe is an object-lesson for him. He is called forth to study. "He has made him but a little lower than the angels." Man learns while angels serve. That which they have learned, they now apply by serving. Men are disciples, whereas angels are servants. In order to be able to serve, one must have been a disciple at some time. Service is higher than ordinary learning. The heavenly servant is higher than the earthly disciple. "The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve." The disciple studies, but the Master serves! 1 The way of the Master Love the perfect way of Truth and Life. Place the Good as the foundation of your home, Righteousness as the standard measure, Love as the adornment, Wisdom as the enclosing wall, and Truth as the Light. Only then will you know Me, and I shall manifest Myself to you. 2 God That which generates the eternal longing of the human soul, and that which she seeks in the thousands of forms, is Love - God. The greatest thing in the life of the disciple is his endeavor upwards - towards that eternal Good. 3 The Master The Master alone calls his disciples. And the disciples know His voice. 4 The disciple When the disciple finds his Master he is near to God. 5 Love towards God The disciple begins with Love. "If you love me, you will keep my Word". Love first of all Him, Who has always been true and unchanging in His Love towards you. Love Him, Who has given you your life and all conditions. 6 The three principles Truth excludes all pleasure. Wisdom excludes all frivolity. Love excludes all violence. 7 Light The disciple lives in the Light. This is the only real world. The shadow is not real. Search for the Light, which has no shadows. Avoid all thoughts and feelings which bring darkness into your consciousness. 8 Truth "The Head of Thy Word is Truth." Where the Truth shines, the fruit blossoms and ripens. The disciple understands the Truth only when he applies it. 9 Purity The disciple must be pure in his thoughts, desires and actions in order to be entrusted by the Master with the methods for work. 10 The Path of the disciple The Path of the disciple is a Way of dawning. It is a Path of eternal Light - a bearer of Love. 11 God The Only One Being whom man can approach most easily is God. 12 Love towards the Master The disciple has love for his Master. Thus he is enabled to receive that which his Master gives him. The disciple loves the Master. 13 The fire The disciple must pass through fire in order to be purified. 14 The joy of the Master When the joy of the disciple is in God, then the Master rejoices at the disciple. For the Master looks not after his own glory, but after the Glory of his Father. 15 The right way The disciple does not admit in his mind any doubt about Divine Providence. He knows that the Path in which he walks is right. It is a path leading to God. 16 Prudence The disciple must always consider well his acts, beforehand. Prudence precedes Peace. 17 The Good Know that the disciple always has the possibility of doing good. The Good is the goal of his life. 18 Conviction The disciple passes through temptation in order that his convictions may be tested. 19 The soul Consider yourself only as a soul! Consider yourself as a living soul striving toward God. 20 Endurance The disciple is placed under strong emotional strain at times, in order to learn to keep his consciousness awake, and to gain strength to endure everything that comes to him. A life without intensive experiences is the life of a dormant soul. 21 Endurance The disciple must endure everything that comes to him. Behind the things which happen in his life, he discerns the activity of the boundless Love which unites all things. 22 Mysticism Once having found his Master, and once the Master has spoken to him, the disciple sacredly guards his Purity. 23 Vigilance The consciousness of the disciple must always be wide-awake. For in the world there are many retarded souls upon their evolutionary path, which may contrive all kinds of traps in order to attract him and possibly lead him astray. 24 Work with the Master The disciple must experience every- thing as a soul, a living soul loving God. Then he can work with his Master. 25 Understanding The forms are the garments of things. They do not perplex or disturb the disciple. He looks for the eternal idea which works within them and gives them value. Thus he comes in contact with the region of the Spirit, with the inner life of creation. 26 The consciousness of the disciple The disciple is always in class. He knows and is conscious at every moment of the fact that he is a disciple. 27 Prayer The disciple prays alone. While he prays, he is concentrating and experiencing the words deeply. 28 Discipline The disciple is very exacting of himself in fulfilling the Divine Laws. 29 Silence Do not relate your experiences to anyone until you have achieved something within yourself upon which you can rely. 30 The Spirit Do everything under the vigilant eye of the Spirit! 31 With God Be always in contact with the God of Love. All sin is committed outside of God. 32 Contemplation The moments of contemplation are the sacred moments when sublime images take possession of the consciousness of the disciple. Contemplation is indispensable for the disciple, for during these moments he sets his inner life in order and gains control over himself. 33 Solitude It is necessary for the disciple to live apart from others for a certain period of time in order to gain stability. Thus his thought becomes organized and strong. 34 Guard your freedom Keep your soul always free! 35 Purity Purity is an environment in which the disciple always lives. There is nothing more beautiful for the disciple than purity! 36 Divine Love Divine Love is the morality of the disciple! 37 Growth The flowers bloom and the fruits ripen under the rays of the sun. The soul of the disciple grows only within Divine Love! 38 Character The disciple has a strong character when his Love does not change. If it changes, it is not Love. 39 Freedom The disciple always listens to the voice of God within his soul. Then all fear vanishes, and a deep peace pervades his soul. He is free. 40 A virgin soul The disciple must lead a pure, virgin life! Only then can he be conscious of himself as a living soul — a virgin soul. 41 The ideal The trials are not stronger than the ideal of the disciple. For that reason, one can know a disciple only in time of trial. The disciple is stronger than any conditions, because he is above them. He carries within himself the Divine. There are souls dominated by the conditions in life, but such souls cannot have any ideal. A soul with an unsurmountable will — that is the ideal. 42 Executiveness The disciple is strict towards himself! He keeps the words of his Master sacredly and executes all His orders completely. 43 The first step The first step of the disciple: You must consider yourself as a living soul, striving in three directions: to feel, to think, and to act according to God. The second step: to consider all other people as souls, who must love God. The disciples of the Universal Brotherhood are souls, not men and women. 44 Happiness The disciple does not expect his happiness to come from outside. He studies and works on himself and in the world, without falling under the spell of the world. The apparent happiness in the world is the guard in the prison who opens the door, lets his prisoners out, and then drives them in again. 45 The thought of the disciple The soul of the disciple must be filled with one noble thought — the Work of God! 46 Remember Remember only one thing: You are a living soul who loves God! 47 Master and disciple Once the Master has descended to the disciple, the disciple approaches Him. By obedience and Love, the disciple draws close to his Master. The Master imparts Love to the disciple while descending to him, but obedience is required of the disciple. 48 Ascending First the Master descends to bring Love down. The disciple awakes and begins to study and to ascend. 49 Natural living The disciple leads a natural life and avoids any eccentricities. 50 Silence - the quiet voice of God The disciple solves his most difficult problems in absolute quiet, when all are asleep, and only God is awake. The quiet voice of God can be heard only in silence. 51 A law One law unites Master and disciple: To live according to the Will of God! 52 The realm of the disciple Freedom is the vast Realm in which the disciple lives. He must guard his Freedom. 53 The real relations The soul lives in absolute Purity! When the disciple does not receive the Love of his Master, as a soul, he becomes perverted; when he does not receive knowledge, as a soul, he becomes deformed. 54 The Name The Master calls his disciples by name. Only the Master gives the Name to his disciples. And when the disciple has heard his Name from his Master for the first time, he experiences a joy which surpasses all happiness on earth. 55 Joy No tongue can ever express that which the soul can experience by loving God. The disciple is always joyful. 56 Opening In the morning the flowers open their petals in order to absorb the sunbeams. The soul of the disciple opens up before the Master, ready to absorb the Truths of God. 57 Light While the disciple is looking for external light, nothing can be spoken to him about God. When darkness and storms appear outside, an inner Light dawns in his consciousness, and in him comes to birth the Love for the Great! Let him keep this inner Light! The disciple awaits this sacred moment in his life. 58 The voice of the Master The disciple cannot have friendship with things temporal and with God at the same time. If he loves God, all that is temporal will appear dark to him, and gradually disappear. And then he will find himself in another world — a world of Light,Peace, and Joy. There he will hear the voice of his Master. 59 Prayer Prayer is a purifying process. The disciple must always pray. He must arm himself against worldly influences by prayer, pure thoughts, and ceaseless Love of God. 60 A law The disciple is happy when he can help the growth of a soul. In the spiritual world there is a law when one is raised, all are raised! 61 An inner way The disciple works upon his spiritual bodies. There are things which will be given to him from within. The external conditions are not always favorable. 62 Readiness When the disciple understands his Master in the right way, he is receptive, and many things will be imparted to him. 63 Correspondence When the soul receives everything with Love, everything is given to it out of Love. This is a Divine law. 64 Mutual help The first sacred law is: Love reigns only in the pure spheres of Freedom. Love can exist only where there is absolute inner freedom. The Master gives this freedom to his disciple. The disciple must in turn give freedom to his Master. This freedom is sacred. 65 The Master When you are burdened in the desert of life, the Master hears your call. Lift up your consciousness, and you will hear His Voice. Then you will be comforted. 66 Unity Only in God can there be real unity of complete Love and Joy. When you have that, God is within you. 67 The Divine Divine life requires of the disciple to live continually in Love and Joy. 68 Another Name Be pure! Great souls live in absolute Purity. In that sphere the Master gives them another Name. 69 Purity-Life When the consciousness of the disciple awakens to the real bond with his master, then he attains the purity which becomes Life for him. In this Life he studies, grows, and attains perfection. 70 Life for God The Master is always ready to tell the disciple the truths about God, as soon as he notices a readiness and a desire in him to live for that Great Love which embraces all. Out of that Love he draws his strength, and spreads the Light which comes from it. 71 Guidance of the Master The disciple who recognizes God within himself finds the Master. 72 The path The application of the Divine laws to life shows that the disciple is on the Path of Truth. 73 Intensive Life The life of the disciple is intensive! The disciple experiences joys and sorrows unknown to the world. His is the sorrow of all the planted seeds in the dark ground, and the joy of all the full-blown flowers come out into the light. 74 The Love of the disciple When the disciple loves his Master, he acts in his life exactly as his Master would act. 75 A sacred rule Open your heart daily before the Beloved One of your soul, so that He may see your most secret depths. Open up your soul daily before the Lord! 76 Faith Have complete faith in God! Thus all inner fear will disappear Believe that you can never lose the Value which God deposited in your soul before the creation of the world This faith releases you from every fear, distrust, and doubt It makes you free and strong. 77 Humility Humility is an expression of your Love towards the Great The inaccessible summits send their goodness down to the valley. 78 Naturalness The disciple is entirely natural in his life. That makes for beauty and sincerity in him. That naturalness offers conditions favorable for the expression of Love. 79 Understanding When anything disturbs your view, try to detect behind the veil of tempor­ary forms the indefatigable work of the Spirit for the elevation of the souls to­wards the Eternal. See the image of the Eternal through every form. 80 The World Trying to conform to the world is the most fatal thing for man For he always remains deceived Living in harmony with the still voice of the Boundless One fills his life with meaning. 81 Perception The Master speaks to the disciple clearly and openly The disciple perceives His words and understands them He guards them sacredly in his soul. 82 The Master The Master comes down in order to manifest Love. This is not an external process. Through him pass the pure streams of Love towards all living things. Thus he wants to draw souls close to the Light and the Joy in which He lives. 83 Correspondence When the tree gives abundant and good fruit, the gardener is glad to water it. The heavens also bestow abundant ram and sunshine upon it. When the disciple appreciates and guards that which the Master has given him, there arises a desire in the Master to give and reveal to him still greater things. 84 Sacred things Wise nature has placed all sacred things upon the high, inaccessible summits, so that only those souls who are ready to appreciate them may rejoice in their beauty. The disciple must not reveal his most sacred things to the world. 85 Will No one from outside can pervert you if you do not desire it. This is the great Freedom granted to man at the very Beginning. 86 Sin The disciple loves the flowers growing in his soul. They are his beautiful thoughts, feelings and deeds. He watches over them, and does not allow any frost to kill them. The frost is that sin which is foreign to him. The disciple loves the flowers growing in his soul! 87 Good The disciple deals only with Good. 88 The Spirits The disciple discriminates between the different spirits. The evil spirits approach him as man or woman, while the Spirits of Light approach him as souls. 89 The first ray Aspiration towards Purity is aspiration towards Love. It shows that one has forsaken ordinary life and is striving toward the extraordinary. When the disciple attains Purity, the First Ray of Love dawns upon him. Then before his gaze, is unveiled the illumined life of the great souls, a life predestined for the human soul. All this is done by God alone. "To them did God reveal all these things." 90 Guard Guard the Freedom which God has given you. It helps you develop and build your character. 91 A Motto It is great and glorious for man to serve God and to abide in His Love! 92 Your life The spring which comes from the mountain tops waters everything along its way. If you want to help humanity, correct your own life! In this way you apply the law of the spring! 93 Patience The disciple can be patient, because he knows how to wait. The disciple can be patient, because he understands. The disciple can be patient, because he knows that there is a time for everything. 94 Tolerance The disciple bears all rebukes and mockeries of the world with great tolerance. 95 The mind The light of the mind gives a clarity and awareness to the consciousness of the disciple, so that he can always be in contact with the Spirit. 96 Meekness Meekness is a great, pure spring in life. Always be meek and guard sacredly in your soul all that flows out of this spring! 97 Always Always guard your inner purity. 98 Master and Disciple Sincerity is a prerequisite for harmony between their souls. It is a condi­tion in which the Master can give, and the disciples can receive. Sincerity is a condition for correct exchange between the Master and the disciple. 99 Attitude When the disciple is sincere, the Master is kind towards him. When the disciple is insincere, the master is severe with him. 100 Experience There are experiences which form epochs in the life of the disciple. The experience which the disciple has is for him alone. It is the sacred region of his soul! It is his spiritual wealth! He can transmit it to someone else by the law of inner freedom, but that he can do only with a kindred soul whose heart burns with a self-sacrificial Love and readiness to serve God. If he transmits it to someone who is not ready to understand him and evaluate it, he will experience great sorrow within his soul. 101 The Spirit Everything in the life of the disciple must be done under the strong impetus of the Spirit, without taking into consideration any human motives. 102 Purity Be pure as a child. 103 Loyalty Be loyal as God is loyal. 104 The inner voice Always listen to the voice of your soul, and you will know how to act. 105 Work of the disciple Do all that is pleasing to God. This is the standard of the disciple. 106 Sound thought Think of God and of those who suffer when you are sorrowful or burdened. This thought will relieve and strengthen you. 107 The standard The attitude of the Master towards the disciple depends upon the disciple. The Master is well-disposed toward every disciple who studies well. The sunbeams enter a room when its windows are open. 108 The spiritual bodies The disciple must develop his spiritual bodies in order to be in constant contact with his Master. The bond between Master and disciple is spiritual. 109 Closeness The Master is a Master to all. But the disciple can evoke a greater Love in his Master toward himself by some sincere and sacred act in which God is made manifest. 110 Mystic communication — I am the Way! — And the Light, which leads me upon this Way! 111 Prayer Faith Always be in prayer, and leave all to God. When God wants to do a thing. He creates the necessary conditions for it. 112 The real The truly Great stands behind the material. The Real, The Great in Life, is invisible. For that reason the disciple gradually renounces all that is transitory and material. Then he enters a world where the Light reigns There he understands his Master well and then his life passes into a new, higher octave But all this could happen at once. It depends upon the disciple. 113 Prayer-Purity The more water comes out of a spring, the purer it is The disciple prays often This is necessary for his Purity. 114 A Rule The disciple must never be tempted by the words of the Master. They should always raise him higher and nourish him. 115 A law The disciple must know and always keep in mind this law: Everything in life works for the Good! 116 Life When a small branch sways to and fro on the tree, there is no danger for it. But when it falls off the tree, then there is danger. When the disciple Lives for God, he is like a branch on the tree. 117 Boldness The disciple must be bold and resolute. Thus he can walk in the narrow path The narrow path leads to God! 118 Happiness Always be happy! The bond with the ideal world makes the disciple happy. 119 Faith, Hope, Love Only who is ready for sacrifices can withstand all in Love. He who trusts and relies on God, withstands all in Faith. He who has joy, withstands in Hope. 120 Faith, Hope, Love If you are not happy, you will lose your Hope. If you can not trust, you will lose your Faith. If you are not ready for sacrifices, you cannot attain Love. 121 The three rules When you fail, manifest your Hope When God instructs you, manifest your Faith. When your neighbour falls, manifest your Love. 122 The three rules When the dawn is breaking within you, manifest your Hope. When the Sun rises within you, mani­fest your Faith. When the Sun comes to its zenith within you, manifest your Love. Hope is in the physical world. Faith is in the spiritual world. Love is in the Divine world. 123 Weeping There is a sacred weeping. Weeping comes into life by a special way. The disciple must give way to it. Tears are healing. They wash and purify the human consciousness. By weeping you are comforted, without it, you suffer. There is a weeping out of compassion. There is a weeping out of a self-sacrifice for humanity. It is the weeping of Christ. There is a sublime weeping, when a man comes before the Divine. 124 Joy Limit your earthly desires, and you will taste of the Joy of God! 125 Faith Faith realizes things. The disciple always has faith. Faith proceeds from the super-consciousness. 126 Vigilance The disciple is always vigilant, wide- awake, and happy in life. 127 The endeavour of the disciple The disciple of the Universal Brotherhood endeavours to see the realization in his life of: Divine Love, Divine Wisdom, Divine Truth. 128 Long life Purity prolongs life. If the disciple keeps his body pure, he lives long; if he stains it, he changes it earlier. 129 Love Love is a bearer of all the abundance in life. In the abundance all dissatisfaction vanishes. The disciple has understood Love aright, only when he has reconciled all contradictions in his life. Otherwise he has not understood Love. 130 Love-Purity He who loves, comes to love purity. The whole life of the disciple must be pure, in the name of Love. 131 Patience Patience is a great science! The roots of patience are in the Divine world. Patience is born of Love; patience comes out of Peace; patience is the fruit of Joy. Only he who loves is patient. Only the man of Peace is patient. Only the happy man is patient. Only the wise man is patient. 132 Seeing the good Every passing form is an incomplete picture upon which the Divine Spirit is working. The disciple sees everywhere and in everyone only the good. 133 The new birth Birth is a continuous process. Every day the disciple must be born to a new world. Every day he has a new knowledge of Love, a new knowledge of how to serve God. Every day he must have a new insight into the unexplored ways of God. Every day the Spirit visits the disciple and tells him a new word. It brings purity into his consciousness and transforms him completely. It elevates his thought. Wait for the visitation of God every day! 134 Freedom When the soul of the disciple is awakened to God it becomes free. He must not limit it by the vain desires of the body. In the law of Karma, man is within limits, but once he begins to live for God, he enters into a life of Grace and Love. There he is already free. 135 Staying and passing by Christ knocks at the door, and when it opens for Him, He enters in, but when it does not open. He passes it by and continues on. In the same way the Master speaks to his disciples. Those who hear Him and fulfil His words. He works with and helps them. But when they are offended by His words and do not understand Him, He passes them by and continues on. 136 A test The disciple must be wide-awake when he is in the world. There he will be led by beds of flowers. He must only pass them by, without stopping. If he stops, he will be intoxicated by their fragrance and fall asleep. Thus he will remain there. That is why his consciousness must always be sound and awake, concentrated on its purpose, and in contact with the Master. 137 Nature All forms in nature are symbols of an eternal, ideal world. They are the book in which the disciple reads what God has written. The disciple begins by studying nature: springs, grasses, flowers, mountains. There he seeks the correct methods of life and purity. 138 Heart, mind, soul The disciple has the heart of a child. He is an adult in his mind. He always nourishes the highest and the noblest in his soul. 139 The aura The disciple always surrounds himself mentally by an aura impenetrable to the influence of things temporal. By thinking of God the disciple encircles his aura with Divine Light. 140 Purity and Love The disciple must always be pure if he is to understand and receive Love. When he attains purity, he loves the whole world. Purity is his enclosure. 141 Love Love is sublime! It is that Great principle which always fills and invigorates the soul of the disciple. 142 Prayer The disciple must always be praying in order to keep in contact with the invisible world and protect himself from the snares of inferior spirits. 143 Light The disciple must always walk in the Light in order to keep from stumbling. 144 Study The disciple must think only of this — that he must study. And he must never consider himself greater than others. He knows that the knowledge which still lies ahead of him is limitless. He realizes that he is at the very beginning of the Great Path. Boundless are the peaks of learning which he must climb! For this reason he is humble. Humility leads him into the Temple of Wisdom. He who speaks of himself is not a disciple. 145 Calmness The disciple must always keep calm under all circumstances; he knows that everything is for his good. Fear is of the animal world. 146 The Spring The disciple must drink Water only at the Spring. He should prefer to go thirsty than to drink impure water. 147 He who thirsts Only the thirsty man will find the spring in the mountain. Only he who thirsts goes to the Spring. Only the disciple will find the Master in his life. Only the disciple will remain with the Master. 148 Good What you think, you absorb into yourself. Think often about the Truth, Love, Wisdom, Righteousness, and the Great Virtues. And they will abide in you. Water springing from the depth is pure. 149 The joy of expectation The disciple is always content with the moment. He must always have something Divine to look forward to. This is his joy and comfort. 150 Be intelligent The disciple must be 'very intelligent in order to understand all things well. It is good to walk on a path well illuminated by the Light. 151 Love When the disciple enters into the realm of Love he becomes subject to other laws. Love is something spiritual. In Love there is no separation. In Divine Love there is no interruption — it grows forever. 152 Towards Love, Light and Truth Keep your thoughts always above earthly things. Raise your thoughts up towards Love, Light, and Truth. 153 Surprise Nothing should surprise the disciple. He must always be calm. He knows that there is a Divine Plan which directs all things. Therefore nothing surprises him. 154 Prudence Prudence is required in the life of the disciple. The disciple avoids all disputes. Prudence is the daughter of Love and knowledge. 155 Sensitivity The waters of a lake ripple at the most gentle touch of the zephyr. The disciple must become more sensitive in order to respond to the most delicate waves which come from above. 156 The White Light When the disciple is merged in the White Light, he recognizes his Master. The Master speaks to him out of the sphere of White Light. 157 The Real Home The real home of the disciple is within his soul. He has no home outside of himself. 158 God It is great to serve God. Everything is always beautiful in the presence of God. 159 The Divine Love As we expose ourselves to the Sun, so must we live in the Divine Love. 160 Love When the disciple loves God, he purifies himself. But he can be purified also through suffering. Love is a living power, a stream constantly flowing from God, which must pass through our souls. 161 Love When the disciple lives in Love, he solves all his problems easily, and contradictions exist no longer for him. 162 Concentration The disciple must control his thoughts, and with his thoughts, serve the Truth. Therefore it is necessary for him to concentrate his mind. He can think about the life-giving light, about the beautiful seven-coloured garment which it wears, and about its musical speech. That is the great harmony in the world. He can think about the Life-giving Divine Sun, towards which all things move. In this way man's consciousness is tuned. 163 Sound consciousness When the disciple is concentrating he must not fall asleep, but he must be fully awake. If he falls asleep, he might be carried away by the negative currents of nature, out of which he can only extricate himself with great difficulty. 164 The Path The disciple must always be wide-awake on his Path. This is the Path about which the Lord says: "And few are they who walk there in" 165 Freedom The disciple is free when nothing can lead him away from his Path. There is nothing more powerful than his task. 166 Meditation The disciple must meditate and not fall into a reverie. When he is meditating, he is awake, for his mind is active; but when he is day dreaming, he falls asleep, because then the lower emotions come into play. 167 The Path The Path of the disciple is pleasant because it is a Path of ascent! 168 A moral backbone The disciple must be so elevated morally that his aspirations stand above all temptation. He cannot be tempted by evil. The disciple must have not only moral aspirations but also a moral backbone. 169 Experience The disciple must benefit not only from his own experience but also from those of others. Thus, he enters the path of unifying Love. 170 The essence Man is a collective being. He must realize that he bears the image of God. He must have a firm and established character, and recognize the essence of the Eternal Good. 171 The reality Do not fix your attention on anything outside you until you have come to know yourself. When the disciple comes to know the reality within himself, he begins to understand the reality which lies at the foundation of the whole Creation. 172 Birth of the Spirit The disciple must be born of the Spirit. Then he rises above the temporal, and contradictions exist no more on the earth for him. 173 The will of God We must live according to the Will of God! It includes the welfare of all living beings. 174 Desire Desire what is based on higher reason! Desire what is good for all! Desire what God desires! 175 Freedom, limitation The disciple is free. That is why he limits himself. He who does not limit himself is limited by nature. 176 Insight You cannot see anything clearly in a turbulent lake. The calm lake reflects the mountain tops, the sky, the sun, and the stars. The disciple must have a calm soul and a steady mind. Then comes the insight, and many contradictions become clear. 177 Knowledge Knowledge is accessible only to wise and Faith men. He who believes should study; while he who knows should apply. There is something beautiful in knowledge. Knowledge cannot grow without faith. 178 Naturalness Light enters the soul of the disciple like the coming of Dawn. The disciple must not expect anything by miraculous means. All things in life must happen naturally at their appointed time. 179 Faith Believe in him who instructs you! Believe in him whom you love! The disciple must have absolute faith in his Master. 180 Becoming strong The young tree is exposed to the storms in order to become strong and grow into a mighty oak. The disciple must pass through many tribulations in order to attain endurance and to rise above them. Thus he will come to the right understanding of life. 181 Learning The physical world is a place of learning for the disciple, not a place of distraction. Learning makes his life complete, beautiful, and happy. Only learning gives content to his life. Only service makes it significant. The disciple only passes through the physical world; he does not stop there. 182 The Sacred Book Everything about the One you love interests you. The disciple reads untiringly the Sacred Book of Nature in order to discover the thought of God. God is his Beloved! 183 The test Suppose you are holding in your of the disciple hands an ordinary cup of which you are most careful. But it breaks and you start to weep, thinking that all is lost. But Wise Nature — Love — has prepared for you another cup with precious contents. The disappointment prepares you for the new joy which awaits you. Thus you approach the new surprise gift of Love from the world of Reality. 184 Love Remain true to Love in spite of all trials! The disciple must endure all to the end in Love, without any doubt about it. The path of Love is a path of numerous trials and tests, which he will undergo in order to see how persistent he is in Love. 185 Sensitivity The disciple should not lose his sensitivity. He should never let his feelings become dull. Elevated thought refines the nervous system and makes it more sensitive. 186 Love and Wisdom The life of the disciple is not an ordinary life. Love and Wisdom abide in his every act. Love represents a crystal spring from which he drinks, while Wisdom represents a mountain peak towards which he climbs. 187 Tenderness Tenderness is a necessary quality for the disciple. He must be gentle! It paves the way for Love. Tenderness does not break a bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax. It brings to earth the radiance of the angelic world. 188 The world The disciple will be in the world, but the world must not be in him. 189 The Great A high ideal fills the consciousness of the disciple! How beautiful it is when the disciple carries something great in his soul! 190 Towards the Great How wonderful it is to realize that you are moving towards the Great, for there life becomes fully significant and valuable. 191 Purity The clear diamond reflects Light perfectly. Purity is a condition for all attainment. Only the pure can pass through the portals of Supreme Knowledge! The disciple must be pure. — Always pure! There is nothing greater in the world for him than Purity! 192 The promise The disciple must always fulfil his promises in order to develop constancy of character. 193 God — Fear not! God is unchanging! He gives to everything its due, generously. 194 The real The most real thing in the life of the disciple should be his aspiration towards the ideal. 195 Light You must have Light in your life! Light reveals the beauty of the world. It is necessary for growth. Light is food for the mind. 196 Harmony The first task of the disciple is to restore harmony within himself. Harmony is attunement of the thoughts, feelings and actions. It is inner music which fills the soul of the disciple. In spite of all contradictions and conflicting conditions, he should never lose his balance, his character, or his inner music. 197 Influence The disciple must avoid the influence of the temporal world until he feels strong. 198 Right understanding The disciple should understand all things in the right way. This will give him the right methods for work. He should not cause himself suffering through misunderstanding things. 199 A definite time When the Master is instructing the disciple, the latter should not demand anything from Him, but simply listen to Him and try to understand him correctly. There is a definite time when the Master will give something to the disciple. 200 Recompense The joy of the spring consists in this: when the plants which it waters give abundant fruit. The disciple who has received much from the Master can recompense Him only by his great Love for God.

http://en-petardanov.com/index.php?/files/file/52-%7B?%7D/ THE SPIRITUAL CALENDAR for 1971 * * * The Master sent to Promote Brotherhood SUNRISE PRESS & BOOKS 53211/2 La Mirada Ave. Los Angeles, Calif. 90029 and LE GRAIN DEBLE. B.P. 306-13, Paris 13, France Printed in the United States of America All Rights Reserved For permission to quote or translate, please address the publishers * * * MOTTO OF THE 1971 CALENDAR: “KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, THE LIVING LORD WITHIN US AND OUTSIDE OF US, TO HAVE A FEELING OF HIM WITHIN US, TO NOTICE HIM OUTSIDE OF US -AND TO LEARN TO LOVE HIM.” Our pure love draws us nearer to the Creator, to the source of all life, to His kindness and authority, and to His widsom and everlasting barmony. There are real and unreal things in life on earth. The sensible man who strives to uplift himself takes heed of the real things. For instance, real are the terms: Master - Pupil -Brotherhood. There is a connection between them, they express the intelligent conscious life. The pupil of the New Life studies these essential conceptions and when he succeds in penetrating into them, he develops properly and harmoniously. By “MASTER” we imply the Eternal Divine Spirit, who guides and teaches us. By “PUPIL” we imply the souls sent to earth, the Great School of Life. By the word “BROTHERHOOD” we imply the souls within whom conscious life has began. These have, as Christ says, built their house upon a rock. This is the inward path of the spiritual life. The epoch in which we live is very important for it is the New Cosmic Working Day of universal creativeness, involving our earthly humanity in cooperation with heaven and earth. Humanity is waking up; it needs knowledge, of the real life. The Master Beinsa Douno, by his teaching and his school, gives us this knowledge and the Calendar presents some of the laws and the methods of the New Life for us to learn and apply. THE BROTHERHOOD * * * THE SPIRITUAL CALENDAR OF THE YEAR 1971 The following is its method of use: Each Sunday, preferably in the morning when the mind is fresh and the thought free, read the thoughts given under the corresponding date - read slowly, in such a way that you well assimilate the idea they contain. Then each following day of the week, reread or meditate on that idea, either in the morning when you wake up or in the evening before you go to bed, or any time of the day suitable to you. Each of you, busy with your own perfection, might wish to take up an idea suitable to your problem at the moment. When the thought given for the current week does not correspond to your immediate search for Truth, you can easily find more suitable thoughts in this small collection, so conveniently carried about in your pocket or in your handbag. With the constant use of this Calendar, new ideas spring up in the consciousness of man and a real inner renewal is effected. Thus, an inner connection is also made both with the Higher World, and with all pupils throughout the earth who aspire to fathom the eternal laws of life and who unceasingly perfect themselves. We are already laying a foundation for the fulfillment of the divine law of love, wisdom, and truth, which is the great foundation of our future. A new heaven and a new earth will be built upon these three great principles. Let us say, “We shall fulfull without fear and without darkness the will of our God, the Father of love, of wisdom, and of truth. Then in us there will live and be manifested the spirit of Christ.” January 3rd The members of the new humanity will be bearers of light. The world needs new people, people of the resurrection, citizens of the Kingdom of God. Walk straight forward on the new path of light. This is the only way you can transform your lives. Man has come to earth to be a coworker of God and not to suffer or to be happy. Suffering and happiness are secondary. First and foremost is work. On coming to earth, man resolved to realize the divine ideas and principles, and to do the Will of God. Aspire towards the great ideal of true life, without regretting the past. Detach yourselves spiritually from those who still live the old life! The pupil of the New Life, in whatever surroundings he may be, must treat everyone with respect and confidence. Never forget that the eyes of the higher beings continuously observe from above the way in which you manifest divine love. January 17 th People of the New Age will be recognized by their morality and by the good they do in the name of God. Man must rise above circumstances, above time, above people, and must manifest the divine within himself. The application of morality begins with the human body and gradually expands to include other beings, first near then further away. This is why we say that the way man acts towards himself is also the way he will act toward others. January 24th Thoughts and feelings are sacred processes. Only through them can man come in touch with life. Each thought, good or bad, returns to its source bringing along with it the acquisitions of its journey. For this reason the great teachers point out to people the right way of thinking. They say that no one can escape the consequences of his thoughts, feelings, and deeds. If you want to test the quality of your thoughts and feelings, look at your deeds. Every right thought is the voice of God. January 31st Man’s strength is in his thought. Thought nourishes man as does bread. If a man’s thoughts are not healthy, no matter how well he feeds himself, he still will pine away. He who lives according to the laws of love, of faith, and of hope, though he eats only dry crusts of bread, will be healthy and happy. Every thought which passes through a man’s eyes nourishes the eyes themselves. The more elevated the thoughts that pass through a man’s head, the more refined is the nourishment they provide for him. The spiritual life is as natural as eating and breathing. If a man does not eat well, if he does not breathe and think rightly, he cannot live a spiritual life. Health is but the result of moral living. As health represents the outer side of physical life, so does moral conduct represent the outer side of spiritual life. It has been proven that a man with moral stability lives longer than does one without it. February 14th Man must be exacting of himself; he must possess a deep and steadfast moral outlook and not a superficial one. If he is not exacting of himself, if he fails in relation to his higher consciousness, he will lose his inner strength and equilibrium. If he cuts off his connection with the higher divine consciousness, man loses his inner peace, his inner strength, his credit. If you think that things work themselves out here on earth, you are mistaken. All matters are arranged somewhere far away, and here we see only their reflection. You are the reflection of what happens in the invisible world. Our faith and our love must be progressive. However, they will meet many obstacles on their way. This should not discourage you. Without hindrances and contradictions, no strength can manifest itself. Read about the lives of great men and you will see that when they were the most discouraged and dissatisfied with themselves, then their accomplishments were the best. February 28th When a man relies on Divine Providence, he can always free himself from the difficulties of life. If he gets stuck somewhere, if his affairs get confused, it is sufficient to call upon Divine Providence for help and he will free himself from the difficulties into which he has fallen. No other power can straighten the crooked paths of man and open his way to the bright thought of God that will help him to rid himself of the old and take the path toward the new. The love of young people is falling in love. Falling in love is more oriented towards physical nature, but we are speaking of love that lives in the soul and is accessible to all people. Physical love is a drain. Love only that which can add something to your life. Love that causes confusion, worries, and anxieties, love that casts a shadow over human consciousness, is not true love. March 14th When you rise in the morning from sleep, do not begin your work until you have met God within yourself, and given thanks for all the good that has been given to you. Rely on God within you and beyond yourself, so that your affairs may come to a good end. When you help the weak and the sick, you provide an opportunity for the divine in you to manifest itself, and to open the way to great possibilities and achievements. In order to avoid one-sided development, turn your attention to everything. It is good if you sing, or play an instrument, or if you paint, if you engage yourself in art or in poetry. As long as you live on earth, imagine that you are rich, strong, that you are a poet, a learned man, a philosopher. In this way you will model your forehead. Man must come to an inner understanding of life. He must free himself from all the prejudices of his time, he must free his mind from all unnecessary thoughts. March 22nd - Vernal Equinox We ought first to have love and then we may speak about brotherhood and equality. Occult powers are applicable only in divine love. It is the only power that can govern all other powers. Love brings everything into balance. Therefore, when love enters into us, there will be no difficulties that cannot be overcome. In truly divine love, there is no falling in love and falling out of love. In divine love there burns an eternal inextinguishable fire, kindled by the divine Spirit. This fire never stops burning. When love enters into a man, it transforms him, giving him talents he has never known, turning him from idleness and sloth to diligence. Love brings a great stimulus to man. Love gives meaning to life. Through love man easily copes with poverty, with hunger, and with dif-iculties. April 4th The only place where you can hear the still, small voice of God is the vale of sorrow and suffering. And not the external sufferings which all can see, but the inner sorrow one feels when he becomes conscious of his mistakes. This we call moral suffering. Suffer so that you may gain life. Rejoice so that you may gain strength for work. Work so that you may fulfill your destiny. The blessings of life come through suffering. If it were possible without suffering, Christ would have brought salvation to humanity without it. Suffering is not yours alone. Thousands of beings suffer together with you. In order to free yourself from suffering, elevate your mind above its ordinary consciousness. In a short time your suffering will cease. If you rejoice in your suffering, no one will be able to deprive you of your joy. April 18th Suffering is a blessing through whose agency the higher beings want to free you from delusions. Sorrow is the mother of the soul where everything grows. Joy is the womb of the spirit where everything matures. To transform sorrow into joy means to change the incomprehensible sorrow into a known and understood one. As long as man sings he always finds the way out of sorrow. When he stops singing, all the paths of his life become closed. Christ lived in the flesh in human form among human beings, but He will not come a second time in this way. His blood is free from the conditions of sickness and cannot flow in human veins. Christ’s blood is the living, divine Word, the living bread that comes from heaven. The body in which Christ’s blood flows is healthy, strong, and free from external influences and impurities. Evil kneels at the feet of Christ, the loving man and becomes His servant. May 2nd Rejuvenation is possible only through your intense thought. Rebirth and right growth are aspects of rejuvenation. It has to do with your connection with the higher beings who always hold you in their thoughts and help you. When you turn aside from the right path, the higher beings abandon you and you begin to suffer. In order to be rejuvenated in a natural way, hold positive thoughts in your mind and kind feelings in your heart. ASSIGNEMENT: during the whole week think about light. With a deep, sincere desire ask God to help you to transform yourself into light. Do not say that you are a sinner, but say to yourself, “Unknown are the ways . of God.” No one can soil the human soul. It has always been pure and will remain so forever. For God all things are possible. Seek God as a child seeks its father and thank Him that He has taken you, too, into consideration. May 16th Do not search for God here and there, but trust His presence within you. He is in your consciousness, in the sanctuary of your soul. He dwells in the immortal essence of man, and not in the mortal nature. Therefore, direct your thought towards God, towards your consciousness, and realize that you will receive a double portion for everything. If you behave badly, you will receive a double portion of the evil, whereas if you act rightly, you will receive a double portion of the good. The awakened consciousness is like a lighted candle that illumines man’s path. As long as he thinks and feels rightly, his consciousness is awake and he can see his way even in the darkest and stormiest night. The moment your candle goes out you enter the realm of delusions and conflicts. Every good disposition of your spirit indicates that you are under the influence of beings whose thoughts and comprehensions are higher than yours. May 30th To live wisely is to strive upwards. Wise living implies a harmony among the thoughts, the feelings, and the deeds of a man. Listen to the inner voice in yourself because thoughts and feelings are outer advisors that can easily mislead you. A virtue acquired in youth is more valuable than one acquired in old age. From his early years the youth must be a worker and lead a good life. AN ASSIGNEMENT: During the entire week think rightly, feel rightly, and act rightly. Say to yourself: “For the sake of God I shall think rightly, feel rightly, and act rightly.” Your success for thousands of years to come depends upon your correct thoughts, feelings, and deeds. Only God can teach us what things are suitable for us and how to accept them. When He enters into us He will teach us everything - to think, to feel, and to act rightly. June 13th The good life implies the participation of consciousness. This is not a mechanical process. However, without the good will of the spirit, consciousness cannot function in man. And without it nothing can be achieved. If you lose the good in yourself, you lose the conditions for eternal life. It is in the interest of your soul to be good. Through the good you protect yourself, you sustain your organism. For two individuals to live in harmony, it is important that they be ready to sacrifice for one another. If a man is not ready to sacrifice for what is sublime in the world, he is not able to free himself from the difficulties of life. If people had learned not to interfere in the love of their acquaintances, the world by now would be a better place. June 27th To love a person wisely means to unfold in him the qualities that uplift him. When we speak about Christ’s love, we mean pure, selfless love free from outer influences. Love that casts a shadow upon a man’s consciousness is not true love. A father must love the spirit and soul of his son - not his form. If he loves the form, the love will soon abandon him. In the world there is only one Teacher. He is the Teacher of Love. He is One alone. Do not think that there are many teachers. One only is the Great Teacher of Love, and all other teachers are a manifestation of His love. When we speak about the Teacher we mean the great and boundless Love that expresses itself in giving knowledge, wisdom, happiness, and blessedness to all beings on earth. July 4th Life is a combination of lessons. We shall live and learn so that we may free ourselves from the illusions of life. Do not ask what you can do; ask what the divine in you can do. If you get confused and do not know what to do, turn to God and He will give you the needed advice. God answers all who seek Him, who work, and who rely on Him. July 11th Prayer is a spiritual means of fulfilling human desires. Man must pray so that he may gain life. Man has come to earth with a task - to strive to attain love, knowledge, and freedom. To this end he must think about the higher world which bears immortality. Thoughts are born in the world of thought. , They arise there, and are realized in the physical world. Do not obstruct good thoughts and feelings. Let them flow freely, following the way to the infinite. July 18th The aim of the pupil is to free his consciousness from thoughts and desires that hinder his development. He must distinguish the uplifting ones from those that pull him downwards. There are desires that impose themselves upon the consciousness like unwelcome guests. If a young man permits a young woman to obsess him, she will deprive him of all his wealth. Where there is true love, temptations and seductions do not exist. Aim for what is great in life that disperses all the shadows from the consciousness, enlightens the mind, and warms the heart. People are connected vessels. Unconsciously one is receptive to the mistakes of others. If you pay attention to your neighbour’s mistakes, they will inevitably enter into you. “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” This means that you should not look for other people’s mistakes or you may become contaminated by them. Live properly; think and feel rightly. In this way you create the right conditions for a good future. Your future depends upon your good thoughts and feelings. August 1st A well-behaved person is one who receives a person well even when he feels indisposed. Whether or not you are well disposed, you must have control over yourself. Without selfmastery nothing can be achieved. He who does not have control over himself gathers impurities along the way and disperses them on all sides. Only the wise person can be patient. He who speaks well of other people uplifts himself. He who speaks ill of others lowers himself. Perform the following EXPERIMENT: For ten days do not permit a single negative thought to enter your mind, nor a single negative feeling to enter your heart. Be thankful for everything that happens to you during this time. Say, “God, I thank Thee for leading me along this path.’’ Many negative thoughts will come to your mind, but be wakeful so that you do not give them a chance to manifest themselves. Whatever happens to you, say to yourself, “Everything will work together for good.’’ August 15th The misfortune of a person is due to the fact that through his ill disposition he obstructs the blessings which come from the invisible world or from God. The reason for any sickness is likewise a man’s ill disposition. It produces in the organism residues, leftovers, and inert matter, and the person becomes sick. In reality, diseases come as a cure. Therefore, all illness is not a punishment but an incentive, a stimulus that causes man to dispose of all his impurities. One’s right development depends upon his good disposition. Such a disposition is like a passcard. Without it nothing can be achieved. When you are a visitor your disposition determines the way you are welcomed and the way you are bidden farewell. From the moment that you awaken from sleep, start thinking about something uplifting so that you may acquire a good disposition. Never pray without being well disposed. Do not work without being well disposed. Do not speak without being well disposed. Do not eat without being well disposed. August 29th When you rise in the morning say to yourself, “Today I am in a good mood.” Imagine that you are strong, healthy, and beautiful. A man’s strength is in his good disposition. By good disposition we mean such a mood as will not interfere with higher aims and deeds. Only he can be well disposed who has developed in himself something steady, something firm. If you are angry or sick, turn to God and say, “God lives in me and I live in God. In the name of His love I shall master my anger and my illness.” When you call upon Love, every difficulty and every suffering will disappear. These are given as conditions for concentration, for attaining a connection between the human soul and God. Rejoice when you are ill and when you are healthy. Rejoice when you suffer and when you do not suffer. Everything is for the glory of God. September 12th Prayer is a spiritual process. What breathing is for the physical world, prayer is for the divine world. It is spiritual breathing. It is the connection between the human soul and the higher rational world from which man draws strength for sustaining his life. When he inclines his heart to God, man breathes the elexir of God. Pray often and you will see how uplifted your soul will be. September 19th Turn to God, the God of abundant and full life, and ask all things of Him. There is no other being as approachable as God. Call upon Him and He will answer you. Keep in touch with God. He is a capital upon which you can always rely. The pupil of the New Teaching always says, “I can.” If you say, “I cannot,” you weaken the divine in yourself. When you say, “I can”, you give it power to manifest itself. September 22nd - Autumn Equinox Every pupil who has awakened to the divine comes into contact with his inner master, and follows his advice. This master will convey to him methods of work. He will inspire him; he will awaken all his power, talent, and capacity for work. He will show him what life is and what death is. He will explain to him the manifestations and phenomena of life and nature. And when he has adequately equipped him with knowledge, he will leave him alone to apply it. Every work must begin and end with a sacred thrill and with complete selflessness. Work with love. If you apply the slightest feeling of selfishness in your work, it will destroy the foundation of the work as the worm eats away the tender roots of a plant. He who desires to exploit others, disgraces himself. Every action must be based on purity and holiness. Only thus can people understand and help each other. October 3rd As pupils you must use all your talents and abilities. Do not take anything for granted. It is not enough to believe my words. You ought to believe and to work. When you have a difficulty or a problem to solve, turn to God. As a soul, you represent a part of the divine organism. If you keep this in mind, your affairs will work out a divine way. Your success depends upon your love for your work and for people. The better and the more diligently you work, the sooner will you get results. He who is diligent solves his problems at once, for he does not procrastinate. Anyone who calls himself a pupil but still waits for others to help him, is on the wrong path. Do not expect me to teach you without any effort on your part. The important thing is that you follow me step by step today and increase the capital of your life. October 17th All of you have been called to do the will of God. You have this possibility at least in small way, though it may lie hidden in your soul. Do not expect anyone to come and urge you. Each must use his own initiative. If you do not apply the new, the old will come, bringing suffering. The essence of the new is goodness. Goodness must be the ideal for man. It brings favorable conditions for the development of human thought and for the manifestation of the higher life. Treasure even what is small. All the people you meet are equally valuable and important. The new teaching requires that your enemies become your friends. In this way your conflicting thoughts, feelings, and deeds will become your friends and will take part in your life. All souls are united in one indivisible whole. Fealize this connection that exists among you as souls. October 31st The relation to God must be sustained without interruption. Maintain a sacred feeling for God and say to yourself, “Thousands of changes can occur in me and around me, but there can be no change in the relation of God to me. God does not change.” Everything - good or bad - directed to God multiplies and returns to the sender. Nourish the good in yourself so that it may multiply a hundredfold. If you are a pupil, you will be deaf to reproach as well as to praise. Love excludes both reproach and praise. He who is wise proceeds on his way and listens neither to the one who scolds him, nor to the one who praises him. He knows that both err. And if he stops to explain to them, he, too, will err. Never argue with an evil person. He only waits for you to provoke him. Nor should you speak to a person who praises you. Both of them harbor some selfish aim, intending to get something from you. November 14th Only love has the power to raise a man’s soul. It is a power that works from within outward. Man never raises himself through force. Love in which one cannot forget himself is not love. To forget yourself means to be connected with God, with all human beings, with all living beings. To forget yourself means to take the last place in life. Then the joys and sorrows of others are also your joys and sorrows. Man’s primary task is to free himself from inner fear. If someone complains that he has not become rich, strong, and good, it is because of his fear. If you fear for the future, you will always be in conflict with God, with wise nature. Rid yourself of fear so that you may be in harmony with living nature and enjoy God’s blessing. It has been said, “The fearful cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.” What is the Kingdom of God? The sum of the blessings assigned by God to all living beings on earth. November 28th Whoever wants to live a good life must manifest wisdom, goodness, and inner strength. Only thus can he attain his ideal, and purify his life from all the dregs of the past. A pure life is expected of everyone. Impurity is easy to remove. It is not a quality of the soul. He who thinks rightly can transform the energies of fear into energies of a higher level — into conscience. Conscience is related to the mind. You cannot be conscious if you do not think rightly. December 5th I speak about the inner, the pure, the divine life of man. I say, “Do not limit the powers of divine love and of the good that manifest through you.” These are currents that flow through man. Divine love is a positive power that can perform miracles. It transforms one’s character -- the evil becomes good; the weak, strong; the lazy, industrious. He who has passed through the fire of divine love can be distinguished by his moral steadfastness. December 12th At every moment you must be aware of the direction in which you are going. If your soul is at peace, if your thoughts, feelings, and deeds are correct, then you are on the right path. You cannot develop properly if you do not practise love in all the trials and tribulations of life. Only he who has awakened and is conscientious and humble can achieve something and be fruitful. If you do not awaken, you cannot work. If you do not humble yourself, your work will be fruitless. I want to help you to be healed, to free yourselves from the inner discontent which causes fermentation. Such fermentation is the cause of many diseases. You must turn your attention to wise nature, to life, and to all forms, in order to find the divine hidden in them. Only in this way will you come to find the spirit of things, to find true knowledge of God, and to have true communion with the First Cause. The power of a man is in the knowledge that he receives from the Spirit. December 26th “We are crucified!” - “Never mind, you are nearer to Me,” God replies, You will enter into the Kingdom of God only when you are crucified. Therefore, let us rejoice that we have something in excess in this world. Let all of us be followers of Christ and bear the name Christian with dignity. And let us never stumble on this great path but let us fight fearlessly and decisively. And let us encourage everyone who fights along with us. This is the power by which we shall overcome the present difficulties. * * * LOVE God loves the best that is in us. * * * The one who loves speaks of Love. The one who is afraid speaks of Fear. * * * Love is sublime! It is that Great principle which always fills and invigorates the soul of the disciple. * * * Beinsa Douno

http://en-petardanov.com/index.php?/files/file/27-%7B?%7D/ BEINSA DUNO P A N E U R H Y T H M Y Music, Ideas, Movements BYALO BRATSTVO PUBLISHERS Sofia, 2015 Paneurhythmy textbook, copyright 1996, Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA First published in English in 1999 by Byalo Bratstvo Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria Second edition in English in 2004 by Byalo Bratstvo Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria Compilation, translation, and presentation are by Ernestina Staleva and Antoaneta Krushevska. The pictures of Yarmila Mentzlova and Maria Todorova illustrating the exercises are provided by the family Arlette and Jean-Louis Gobeau. The pictures of Iglika Besson and Yavor Stoyanov demonstrating the movements, as well as other visual illustrations, are provided by Zhivko Stoilov. Cover design: Zhivko Stoilov Diagrams: Vsevolod Yatsevich Compilation of songs: Ivan Dzhedzhev and Ivo Bonev Instrumental arrangements: Todor Pappazov Interior book design: Zhivko Stoilov Consultants: Svetla Baltova, Lyudmila Chervenkova, Georgi Petkov, Alexandar Stoychev, and Todor Papazov Editor: Sananjaleen June Hughes Acknowledgments This work is a collective effort to keep the living spirit of Beinsa Duno accessible to everyone. We would like to thank all disciples for preserving the teachings of Beinsa Duno for future generations. Thanks to all other contributors for their help, support, and encouragement. Copyright © 2015 by Byalo Bratstvo Publishers All rights reserved. Printed in Sofia, Bulgaria ISBN 978-954-744-282-5 For more information about Beinsa Duno and available materials: http://www.beinsadouno.org http://www.everabooks.com CONTENTS THE MASTER BEINSA DUNO Introduction Forward BACKGROUND TO PANEURHYTHMY PRINCIPLES OF PANEURHYTHMY Excerpts from Talks of the Master on Paneurhythmy STEP BY STEP DESCRIPTION OF THE EXERCISES PART I. THE 28 EXERCISES The First Day Of Spring (The First 10 Exercises) 1. Awakening [Probuzhdane] 2. Reconciliation [Primirenie] 3. Giving [Davane] 4. Ascending [Vazlizane] 5. Elevating [Vdigane] 6. Opening [Otvaryane] 7. Liberation [Osvobozhdavane] 8. Clapping [Plyaskane] 9. Purifying [Chistene] 10. Flying [Letene] 11. Evera [Evera] 12. Jumping [Skachane] 13. Weaving [Takane] 14. Think [Misli] 15. Aum 16. The Sun Is Rising [Izgryava Slantseto] 17. Square [Kvadrat] 18. Beauty [Krasota] 19. Agility [Podvizhnost] 20. Overcoming [Pobezhdavane] 21.Joy of the Earth [Radostta na Zemyata] 22. Acquaintance [Zapoznavane] 23. Beautiful Day [Hubav den] 24. How Happy We Are [Kolko sme dovolni] 25. Step by Step [Stapka po stapka] 26. Early in the Morning [Na ranina] 27. Breathing [Dishane] 28. The Blessing [Promisal] PART II. THE SUN RAYS Principles of the Sun Rays Description of the Movements of the Sun Rays PART III. THE PENTAGRAM The Pentagram—Symbols and Meaning Instructions for the Performance of the Pentagram MUSIC AND LYRICS OF THE PANEURHYTHMY PANEURHYTHMY MUSIC SUPPLEMENT—INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://en-petardanov.com/index.php?/files/file/14-%7B?%7D/ http://en-petardanov.com/index.php?/files/file/49-%7B?%7D/ BEINSA DOUNO EXPLANATIONS AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE USE OF THE BOOK THE TESTAMENT OF THE COLOUR RAYS OF LIGHT The Master Peter Deunov personally invited 62 of his disciples to Veliko Tumovo for a special meeting held 15-21 August 1912. 15 A ugust 1912 Virgin Mary Day The meeting began at 10.30 a.m. The "GoodPrayer" was said and the song "We sing to You" was sung. The Master started his talk. The verses contained in this book (THE TESTAMENT OF THE COLOUR RAYS OF LIGHT) are the pure Word of God passed down, spoken and tested for thousands of years. These are verses from the Book of the Lord arranged in such an order that, when read attentively and reverently, they produce all the colours necessary for spiritual upliftmentand perfection in the Path of the Lord. I shall read everything the Spirit has prepared for you and this will be published in a special book which will be given to you for your use. In this book will be given in order, clearly and in detail, not only the verses, but also the colours corresponding with the various virtues which evoke and produce the vibrations of these verses. The Master started to read the verses about the red and orange colours. Two songs were sung and the Master continued. I want us to create a powerful current of the seven colours because Christ is near the physical plane and He is present this year at the Congress. All these verses and explanations are written under His guidance; that is why, any time you use them, the Lord will be helping. All these verses are His Words and when you begin to work with them you will obtain power, but first let us purify ourselves from sin. While I was taking the verses out of the Lords Book, the discamates caused me much trouble. They even tried to hamper my health, because the verses with their vibrations form the rays necessary for all of us. But the Lord God overcomes everything. You all know that Christ is with us this year and He says that He is coming to put everything in order. Everyone is free to test the karmic law in the world, but I would like you to live according to the law of Christ. Reconcile with each other and do not allow any hatred among you. Forgive each other in the Name of God because Christ is acting now and you will prove this. Very important changes will be performed in the world. You must not be afraid of this, because these changes are fundamental and Christ is coming to balance things, to lay the foundations of things and to set them right. After that, the work will proceed and develop in a normal way. Continue to be good fathers and mothers, teachers and priests, and then the new light will appear in your consciousness. Thus you will witness, ensure, and experience the miracle years which will come. The Master continued to read the verses about the colours and when he finished the verses for the green colour he said: Success depends on the green colour. Refreshment is included in that colour too. Poverty is born out of an insufficiency of this colour, but its surplus leads to covetousness and stinginess. Therefore when the green colour assumes large proportions, we must turn to the red colour which will tone it down. The inordinate desires in this world produce the green colour. Self-denial means getting rid of the desire for useless things. When we combine the verses with certain solar rays, we benefit. It is a fact that when we unite ourselves with the colour rays, we begin to create. The Earth is a school and we must study in it. Someone says he cannot love; this shows his lack of the red colour. He needs to find a person of the green colour. We must often use the green colour. For example, if you need money, turn to the green colour. The cause of our search for love is a surplus of the red colour. The organ of development and growth is in the green colour. When we want to grow, we need to experience this colour in all its degrees. All disputes are due to the lack of colours. For example, the lack of the red colour leads to hatred. Let us make use of light, for everything depends on light which is essential to life. We shall include all colours in this life and then the seven spirits will unite and humanity will return to its original source. Christ came down with the purpose of teaching mankind. Now Christ wants you to use these colours in a very simple manner. Suppose someone hates a person. He should read the verses connected with that colour which supplies him with love. However, we should know how to use these verses and colours. For many times, we have tried to attain humility, but have not had a law which could guide us. So Christ wants us to know how to combine things and benefit by this simple law. All good spirits issue out of light. The Divine spirits also come in the morning with the light and return to God the same way in the evening. We have to understand the Christ teachings in this way: Christ is blowing and this wind is transforming into light and the light is transforming into life. The dark red colour imparts activity. In the spiritual life, we must constantly sow something if we want to harvest later on. We should daily take advantage of all opportunities for the Divine attributes which can be realised now. Christ gave us in this epoch a simple method of applying the colour rays in order to help us. He came into the world to bring new light, to enlighten human minds. People owe all education and culture to Him. The number "seven" is dominant everywhere and it is always Divine. The Bible is a book which seems to us disorderly, but there is no order like it, for it contains all the colours. It contains three other colours besides the seven. Someone says "I cannot love," but when we give him the red colour, we notice that his condition changes. Thus by reading this book, our longings are satisfied in a wonderful way. When we understand these truths, harmony will be restored between us. It is not a secret that there are people radiating certain rays and we avoid them because they are intolerable. It is the same as when some people go away from Christ because He enlightens them and their dark spots appear. But we must not be afraid, for Christ is our friend. Another person says: "I am weak-minded" but his state shows a lack of the yellow colour and with it, he will grow wiser. We shall be able to work on our heart by means of these verses. For instance, "What is fear?" It is a surplus of the orange colour. These verses from the Bible are the rays of light which we shall utilise now. First we shall work with the mind and then with the body. This is the law of Christ and the Spirit will tell you and reveal to you the deeper things in life which are not mentioned now, but the Spirit will impart them directly to you; for the basic things in the Bible are hidden in nature and in our soul which is a Divine treasury. So I repeat that life in itself is simple and we can easily attain it. Let us all open the windows of our soul that the light may enter and illumine it. These are the very things Christ wants to regulate and this method (the verses with the colour rays) which is given you will make you free. Some of you are rich in the red colour, but others are lacking. So it is with all the colours. The red colour is the emblem of Love which has certain vibrations. All the colours are built on Love because on the one hand it acts positively, but on the other hand its influences are negative. We should not fear, since Christ is with us. If He does not become the basic tone of our life, other things will substitute for Him. All our actions must very often be tuned to the basic tone of the red colour which is Love. Yes, Love is a colour and those who have not seen it do not and cannot know what Love is. What is faith? It is a guide to those who sin. But when we are reconciled to God, we walk by sight, and then we know the pink colour in which Christ lives. I wish all of you to see the basic colour in which Christ lives. Christ is waiting to show us the principles comprising life which are of a most essential nature. It is most important for us to find the basic tone in which all Spirits live and then there will be no more divisions. Now this is the first lesson Christ is giving you and whoever decides to apply it, I shall give it to him - only he should take care that if he does not apply it, it may have a negative effect and turn into his damnation. When you are given the book with the verses containing the rays, I shall tell each one of you what to read according to your need. Try to apply by all means this simple method Christ is giving you. The Yogi, for instance, have very complex methods; but the one given by Christ is very simple and is not found anywhere else because Christ is the last gate. The Lord is among us listening to us. He is rejoicing and loving us, since the Lord is giving you this method, not I. You should think of His Love which I wish to see in the face of each of you. The Lord is testing you and you are listening to His voice. 16 August 1912 The "Good Prayer" was said and the song "We sing to You ” was sung. Then the Master said: "These are the basic colours with which the progress and the civilisation on the Earth is proceeding." The Master continued: Now people are not yet ready for the blue colour. They see it only when assailed by misfortune. The blue colour is that of the Spirit of Truth. Only the blue colour can give us an idea of the beautiful and those who possess this colour love beauty. By this colour alone can you apply the verse: "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report - think on these things." He whose faith is weak should evoke this colour within himself and his faith will be strengthened. Concerning the violet colour, we may say that the salvation of humanity is being performed by that colour. Power flows from the violet colour; kindness and reverence also belong to it. The Master read the corresponding verses for these colours. The amethyst colour is the Spirit of grace and has higher vibrations than the violet and is also the colour of humility. When God would like to purify someone, He passes this person through sufferings in order to prepare him; these sufferings we cannot avoid. Joy is the fruit of the amethyst colour. Sanctity also belongs to it; and when this colour prevails in you, it will reconcile the five senses which are now in apparent contradiction. I must tell you that it is very hard to work with these last violet and amethyst colours. That is why you should begin with the first five colours; for you see, we have five fingers. A higher organisation is necessary for us, if we are to work with the last colours. The Spirit always tries to use the lower life, in order to impregnate it with higher vibrations. I wish you all to go in the way I recommend for you because then you will be able to benefit from the exercises which are given to you in the book THE TESTAMENT OF THE COLOUR RAYS OF LIGHT. There are three laws in our society which bind us. The first law is:" To love God with all your heart, mind, will and soul." The second law is: "To love your neighbour as yourself." The third law is: "To be perfect as our Father is perfect." In order to have success in all your affairs, you must follow these directions. Each fear and doubt must disappear and they will disappear when we embrace boundless Love. 17 August 1912 The Master said: I will tell you something about prayer. There are special rules for praying. When someone turns to God in order to receive help, all colours must disappear from his consciousness. Then the situation will be changed and the Light will come and we must thank God for that. Each colour contains a great theme. That is why I would like you to understand the spirit of these things. The Master continued to read the verses about the colours. He explained: On the physical level, Heaven represents superconsciousness, the Earth - consciousness, and the sea - subconsciousness. When you come into harmony with all these verses, you will obtain a new power. Begin to apply them the best you can, because there are some verses for the colours for which some of our friends are not ready yet. Pray, always pray. 18 August 1912 The Master said: I shall tell you the colour corresponding to each day of the week so that you may know which colour to apply each day. Monday - green Tuesday - red Wednesday - yellow Thursday - blue Friday - pink Saturday - violet Sunday - amethyst By means of the colours you can also help others. If you wish to help someone who is having material difficulties, use all the verses of the green colour and the beings supporting the green colour will go to his aid. If you want to help someone in bad health, use the verses of the orange colour. In cases of disputes within a group, use the yellow colour, quoting all the verses about wisdom which can smooth dogmatic or other kinds of disputes. If, however, a religious way cannot be made clear, use also the verses of the blue colour and then the Spirit of Truth will throw light on their minds and they will stop arguing. The rainbow contains the best and most natural colours; that is why you should observe it, for there you will see the five basic colours. You can observe these colours through a glass prism also on a white background when there is sunshine. In this way you will study the colours and remember them. But before doing this exercise, if you are in a bad mood, use the pink colour and read the corresponding verses. First of all, you must restore your inner peace, for only then will you be able to act correctly. So we shall make the first experiment with the safest method at a low cost, for there are other more costly methods which, once performed, you will not wish to repeat. Since this is Christ's method, although simple, the results will be most gratifying. In this way we shall create harmony among us and be connected with the White Brotherhood, The Brotherhood of Light which has been helping you greatly, very greatly. 19 August 1912 The Master said: There is a symbolism portrayed in these words. The tree "ICON-LAMP" symbolises the manifestations of God and means the Holy Trinity. There are "CANDLESTICKS" under the tree "ICON-LAMP" which symbolise the seven rays - these are "THE SEVEN SPIRITS" which were sent to serve. Thus we come to the number 10. The chalices there are arranged to form the the first letter of the name of Christ. The chair on the right side symbolises the KINGDOM OF GOD. Christ would like to say that the Path is within the body, the soul and the spirit. That is why Christ would like to heal the body that it may be able to accept the Truth. The Light which we see is His Spirit. Pray that through this tree, things may be revealed to you. I see that you would like to be useful and to do a great work, but in order to be able to do that, you need to be one with Christ.You must have Christ within you in three elements: Justice, Truth and Life. Hold this thought within you and desire the Christ to embody within you. 10 August 1914 The Master Peter Deunov personally invited 81 of his disciples to Veliko Tumovo for a special meeting held 10-18 August 1914. The Master read pages 5, 6 and 7 from the book THE TESTAMENT OF THE COLOUR RAYS OF LIGHT and explained: "THE ETERNAL SPIRIT” (page 5 in THE TESTAMENT OF THE COLOUR RAYS OF LIGHT) means immortality, towards which we all aspire. ”BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT” (page 5 in THE TESTAMENT OF THE COLOUR RAYS OF LIGHT) means to be perfect as God is perfect in compassion, goodness and tolerance. The first talent with which we must begin is compassion. Christ is coming; His power will be seven times bigger than in ages before, and consequently the progress of humanity will also be magnified. ’THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK” (page 7 in THE TESTAMENT OF THE COLOUR RAYS OF LIGHT) means the Christ teachings for which people now are longing and which will be established. Now most people are sleeping, but "THE SEVEN SPIRITS” are acting. When the last trumpet sounds, you will see quickly how to understand everything. THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF THE COLOUR RAYS Georgi Radev, the disciple of the Master Beinsa Douno As the tones of a sound ascend in higher octaves, so do the rainbow colours radiate in higher and higher octaves - the octaves of the colour rays. Humans hear several octaves, but at present the eye can see only the colour octave vibrating in the rainbow. However, there are higher octaves of light which are manifested in realms of finer matter than that of the physical plane. In these worlds - astral and causal - the rainbow colours are still seven but differ in vibratory frequency, quality and effect. The higher the colour octave, the more beautiful and delicate the colours. In the causal world, the colours are finest and blend most harmoniously. They flow into one another most naturally and harmoniously, unnoticeably. The great mystics of all times speak of this living rational world of light vibrating in all possible colours, ever finer and more ethereal the higher the realm. They say that in this boundless world of light, the colours are living and they fill man's soul with great power. In fact, underlying every colour exists an intelligent universal power. Underlying the red colour is the great cosmic power of Love. Underlying the yellow colour is the cosmic power of Wisdom and underlying the blue colour is the cosmic power of Truth. From the heart of all sublime beings of Love, a red light issues forth and spreads over all the world as a powerful vital current. But if one wishes to contact the magic power of that red colour, one should transform the visible red colour on the earth seven times, or raise it seven octaves. For the red we see is only a reflection of the real red colour. In fact, all the rainbow colours are only reflections or passive masks of the real colours. The real colours are living and conscious, possessing great powers. When man enters their aura, he can do wonders. It is clear therefore that the effect of the colours depends on the vibratory frequency in the octave in which they are found. The finer and purer the medium they pass through, the clearer and brighter they are and the better their effect - both organically and psychically. That is why the manifestation of the colours is different in different media and why the interpretation of the symbolic language of the colour ray differs in the various octaves. Thus the red colour in itself is the expression of a superior world. It is the emblem of life issuing forth from Love in its original state. That is why the red colour is the bearer of vital power. In its pure state, it is so beautiful and delicate that on contacting it one can feel the intense vibrations of a higher life. The lower the red colour descends from octave to octave, the coarser it becomes until on the physical plane, although it transmits, it arouses combative and destructive instincts. That is why all beings who have stored up the red light in their organisms are extremely active and coarse. This is true of man as well. When a man becomes very excited and gives vent to his angry feelings, this colour always appears on his face. Such one has absorbed little light - only the coarse vibrations of the red light. He has not absorbed the whole gamut of colours which complement one another and are harmonised. And in reality wrath always appears when the natural manifestation of the whole Universe is blocked. In conclusion, we shall say the following about the red colour: The red colour in its higher and purer form imparts power and vitality and is enlivening. But if it is received in its coarse state, it arouses the coarse instincts within man. What we have said about the red colour applies to the other colours also. Their organic and psychic effects, depending on their purity, may be described briefly thus: The pure orange colour produces noble sentiments - individualisation, high spirits and self-expression. The impure colour nourishes vanity, self-satisfaction and egotism. The pure yellow colour imparts a balance of thoughts and feelings. It produces peace, calmness and contentment. In its impure form, it engenders painful physical and psychic states. The psychic balance is disrupted by heightened personal feelings, mostly pride. The pure green colour enhances both organic and psychic growth. It inspires confidence and hope. But if it is received in its impure state and gets the upper hand over the other colours, it has a negative effect. It arouses covetousness - greed for private possession and security .The inferior green colour is extremely materialistic. The materialism of this epoch is largely due to the fact that the whole earth is dipped in green colours. Some day, when humanity emerges from this colour, the earth will enter the blue colour. In its development humanity first passed through the red colour, then the orange, and now it is in the green colour. In the future, it will pass into the light blue colour and complete its development on earth in the golden - yellow colour. The bright blue colour with its high vibrations uplifts one spiritually and expands the feelings. It arouses the most sublime emotions and leads to idealism and faith. Received in small quantities in its impure state, it causes doubt, lackoffaith and faint-heartedness. The dark blue colour in its pure state imparts firmness, resoluteness and stability. In its impure form, it creates inconstancy. The pure violet colour strengthens the character, but in its impure form it causes weakness. How do the white and the black colours affect us? Both are passive but of an opposite character. The black colour absorbs almost all sunbeams so that it preserves more heat. The white colour, on the contrary, reflects the sunbeams, preserving less heat. The black colour in itself is not bad, for it shows a state of rest, but when it starts penetrating people’s minds it makes them ill. In such a case, they must change their life by harnessing all their energy. Anyone who wants to change their life and receive an impetus for the beautiful and sublime should absorb in their mind the white colour as of purity. The white colour is the colour of harmony. It unites all the colours, smoothing their deficiencies and harmonising them; for every separate colour, regardless of its valuable qualities, is incomplete and has certain shortcomings. In the white colour, the separate colours complement one another and blend in a unified harmony. Let us get acquainted now with the symbolic language of the colours. The different colours exemplify various thoughts, feelings and states - that is why they serve as symbols of the beautiful language of light; but in the lower octaves their interpretation is q uite different from that in the higher octaves. The beings inhabiting the densest media and receiving the coarsest vibrations of light interpret the colours thus: They say about the black colour: ’’This colour shows that man must live only for himself. One should take everything and give nothing." About the red colour they say: "This colour shows that life is a struggle. Take revenge on those who oppose you." About the orange colour they say: "This colour shows that man must differentiate himself and rise as an individual. If he is well, all the world is well." The yellow colour says to them: "Develop your intellect and rise above the crowd, but use your knowledge only for yourself." They interpret the blue colour thus: "Speak about religion and faith in God, about ideals and peace among people, but have faith only in yourself; do not rely on your neighbour, and prepare for war." Finally, they interpret the violet colour thus: "As a man you must be strong, but keep the strength only for yourself." The highly evolved beings who perceive the lower octaves of the colour rays give a different interpretation of them. According to them, the red colour symbolises life as a gift from God. Man must live for God and sacrifice his life for his neighbour. The orange colour signifies man's individuality which must be devoted to the service of God and the whole of humanity. The green colour means growth and development. Man must develop and work for his own uplifting and perfection and at the same time help his brothers and sisters. The yellow colour expresses human intelligence which must be placed in the service of mankind. The blue colour means service of the Truth. The violet colour determines the human's power, the power of his spirit which is to be used for the benefit of all. The high vibrations which come from the higher worlds enter the human aura and create beautiful multicoloured images. The vibrations coming from the lower worlds create low energies and darken one's aura. When you are indisposed, you must know where your indisposition comes from and which colour you are in at that moment. You are very often in disharmony with these high living colours. For instance, if your heart does not feel right, or suffers some disorder, you are not in harmony with the red colour. If your thoughts are inharmonious, the high vibrations of the yellow colour cannot penetrate your aura. If your liver is in disorder, you cannot perceive the vibrations of the green colour correctly. In general, it depends on the person which colours he will attract in his aura, the higher or the lower. When one has a high ideal in life and wants to live for God, he attracts the higher colours which are beneficial to his development. The red colour, for instance, has a most beneficial effect on such a man, for the Divine life begins to flow into him. But if one is an egotist and serves only oneself, the Divine life borne by the red colour cannot pass through. Egotism is the greatest barrier to the penetration of the Divine life into man. Here is the key to healing with the colour rays. If a man wants to heal himself by the help of the colours without preparing within himself the conditions for attracting the higher colours which alone are curative, he will not be the beneficiary of any essential results. First of all, one must reach a psychic attunement to the higher vibrations of the colour rays and become a good conductor of these rays. Is not the law of receiving and transmitting the solar energy in the organic world the same? Both the sheep and the wolf receive solar energy, either directly, or in a condensed form as food; but the sheep prepares milk and wool, while the wolf, sharp teeth and nails. It is clear therefore of what essential significance for the usage of the colour rays is the key given above. Turn this key wisely, because on this depends the opening of the door either to the lower worlds, or to the higher colour rays which bring the great benefits of light. BETNSA DOUNO EXPLANATIONS AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE USE OF THE BOOK THE TESTAMENT OF THE COLOUR RAYS OF LIGHT First published in English in Bulgaria 1995 by Vsemir Copyright © Vsemir, 1995 All rights reserved. ISBN 954 - 8447 - 04 - 5 Acknowledgements Thanks to Phyllis Thorpe who helped with the English edition.

From Peace be with you Divine Providence "But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore, you are better than many sparrows." (Luke 12:7) Contemporary people have to be convinced with many arguments, facts and logical conclusions that there is a Divine Providence, Which, through certain laws, guides the life of man. All thoughts, desires and actions are determined by certain laws. Occasionally we give a distorted interpretation to what occurs in life, to what is strange for us, and as a consequence we have formed, through the passage of time and amidst many generations, a peculiar philosophy, that everything in the world is arbitrary, i.e. that there is no order, no regulation, that the right belongs to whoever is strong, to whoever is clever, to whoever is sly etc. Is there a need for me to prove that this is a great delusion? When we observe the life of Christ, we can see that Christ always paid attention to the small things. He says directly to His disciples: "Fear not therefore: your life is provided for" and gives them an example that from the five sparrows not a single one falls to the ground without the will of the Father. Why did Christ not take one sparrow, but took the number five? Here there is a law, and everyone who finds themselves in this law of the number five does not fall down without the will of the Father. With the second comparison Christ tells us: "You are provided for, the hairs of your head are all numbered" - and He stops there. We may say to ourselves: "What importance is there, that the hairs of our head have all been numbered?" Just so, there is the thing of importance. For these hairs to be counted by the Lord, for Him to keep account of them, they must have some sort of meaning in themselves. And do you know how many of these hairs there are on the head? Many have counted them. Some people have 250 thousand, others 320 thousand hairs. And all these hairs are accounted for by the Lord, as a gardener keeps account of his fruit trees - he puts a number on each tree. We may uproot a hair from our head and throw it away, but this hair serves a certain purpose, it occupies a high post on our head. If I now set out to tell you about the significance [1] of the hairs, I will deviate from the issue [at hand], but I will come to the comparison with the sparrows, which implies that our spiritual life is under the protection of the Divine Providence; and the comparison with the hairs of the head also implies, in its turn, that our physical life, too, is under the protection of the same Divine Providence. It is necessary for faith in this Providence to be established [2] in us, because, only when we believe in It, are we able to develop correctly. Every doubt which penetrates into our minds and into our hearts, that in the world there is no Providence, distances us from the correct understanding of the order of things, and compels us to labor to create another order and other rules, according to our views. A man and a woman, when they become married, think that the Lord has given them power; the husband [3] says: "You have lived with your mother in this way, but now you are entering my house under a new law. I am a little quick-tempered, touchy, I take offence easily - watch out, because if you offend me, I will apply this harsh [4] law". The wife [3], however, tells her husband: "I am very sensitive, delicate, I am not used to work, do not make me do hard work: if you breach this law, things will change immediately". As you can see, all people prepare their own laws. But what happens in the end? Both of them fall into disagreement. Why? Because the position which they have taken is false in its very foundations. The true [actual] good marriage is not something which is made on Earth. There are three kinds of marriages: ones which are accomplished in Heaven, others - on the Earth and the third kind - in Hell; ones are carried out by God, others - by people and the third - by the devil. When you enter into a marriage established by God, it will bring love, peace and joy in your home; there will always be agreement between the man and the woman; a harsh word will not be heard; they will spend a blissful life. When people unite you, it will only be [so] in order for you to perfect yourselves: there will be friction between you in order to smooth yourselves, because two sharp stones cannot mill flour [5]. This marriage is not a creation of God, but a human one; [so, ] your work will be according to your mind. When the Lord performs a certain work, as omniscient, He puts everything in good order; when people arrange something, they will order it [only] insofar as there will always be friction, which is necessary for self-perfection, for the smoothing-out of the character. But when the devil marries you, then at home there will certainly be discord and lewdness - everything bad. In every home in which there is such a life, the marriage has been brought about by the devil. Therefore, give to everything its precise definition and do not mix God's actions with the human ones, nor with those of the devil. In order to be able to think correctly and logically, we must understand the source [, the origin] of things. If there is something prudent in the modern-day sciences, it is this, that they ascertain that there exist in the world certain laws which regulate the relations of things, of the elements, of the bodies; we have established laws of physics, of chemistry, of the human soul, laws which regulate the relations of things, and no one can transgress these laws without bearing the consequences in one sense or another. And thus, there are three types of people: one type, who comprehend things in a Divine way, another type - in a human way, and the third type - in a diabolical way; the first case is when we comprehend things as they are determined in the beginning by the Lord; the second [case ] is when one thinks that the Lord does not involve Himself in all things and that we should interfere to smooth-out these things; when the Lord accomplishes something, we say: "The Lord did not manage to finish it; let us correct it; the third case is when every one by themselves wishes to become the Lord. Thousands of years ago people comprehended things in a Divine way, but in their decline they lost this comprehension. So, when you are in a good disposition, in your soul you, too, believe in God; if your affairs are going well you say: "Thanks be to God, the Lord takes care of us"; but when a misfortune comes, you say: "The Lord has forgotten us". On what grounds do you claim that the Lord has forgotten you, that He is the cause of your sufferings? The Lord says: "Because you forget Me, I also will forget you". If you distance yourselves from Him, He also will distance Himself from you. Some think that God, Who is unchangeable, constant in His love, should still follow after them when they begin to distance themselves from Him, as a mother follows her child, while calling: "Wait, my son, do not distance yourself from me". No! The Lord stands in His place and when you say: "The Lord has distanced Himself from me", I understand that you have distanced yourselves from Him, not He from you. The path of motion of some people around the Lord is correct, with insignificant changes: they move away from Him a little, but then again draw near, like the path of the Earth around the Sun; the path of others, however, is like the path of some wandering comet: sometimes it draws too near to the Sun and then for centuries does not come close. So you, too, when you distance yourselves from the Lord, you say: "The Lord has forgotten us". I tell you, in 75 years, when you approach Him like Halley's Comet, the Lord will remember you again: it depends on the orbit in which you move around the Lord - when your path draws near to Him, He will remember you again. And now all of you move along a certain path, but you cannot [all] understand me equally - why? - because not all of you follow one and the same orbit. And I do not condemn you: I look at things very objectively, philosophically. But you will object: "Such is our way". It is questionable whether your way is such, or whether you have made it to be like this. I say to you that your path is not like this. Between Sofia and Varna there is a railroad which constantly breaks down and incurs great expenses; is this road made by the Lord? If the Lord had built it, it would have been built most cleverly; but people have built it, and this is why they have built it as cleverly as they have! If during the building of a railroad you act according to the laws of Divine Providence, no misfortunes will occur. Nevertheless the technicians have a better comprehension of the needs of a construction than the believing Christians do - of life; they [the technicians] say: "we have to mathematically calculate what turns and gradients [6] the railroad has to have along its way very well, so that the force of the movement may be regulated, because if this is not done, there will be an accident", whereas the Christians say to themselves: "The Lord is good; He provides for us; whatever gradient we make, it is all the same". But when the car tumbles over, they say: "Our affairs do not go well". Of course they will not go well, because you act foolishly; your train tumbles over because you have not taken into account the laws of Divine Providence when you established the turns of the rail lines. That is why you, the spiritual people, will have to gather experience from the secular people in some cases, [you have] to become their students. It is not shameful for a man to be a student. And when it comes to spiritual things, unknown to the secular people, there the latter have to be your students. You cannot be teachers everywhere - somewhere you will be teachers, somewhere you will be students. The Divine Providence has strictly determined all things and phenomena; nothing is by chance; all events, of whatever character they may be - physical, psychic or social - are governed and directed by a superior Being, who guards and watches over their course. In the same way as they place a locomotive-driver to watch over the engine of the train, because the life of the passengers depends on the locomotive-driver, so our Earth, which moves through space, has its own locomotive-driver, who sometimes applies more fire to the engine, sometime less. The path of the Earth also has certain curves, turns, the Earth sometimes draws nearer to some larger planet, which influences her. These are abstract things, which, in the future, you will study and understand. But now regarding Divine Providence, Which is necessary for you, I will give you an example - a story which you may take as a prehistoric legend, because the events described in it are inconceivable, allegorical. Some date this story to the time of Solomon, but the things mentioned in the story relate to a much earlier epoch. They say that once there was a very learned and clever king, who understood the language of all animals; when he summoned the animals every year for an assembly, he taught them, he instructed them, and in the end he [always] concluded his speech with the words: "What the Lord has created, no one can destroy". At one of the assemblies two large eagles were present, called "rocka" [7]; one of them said: "I can destroy what the Lord has created". The king said: "Very well, prove this factually" and dismissed the assembly. In the same year the daughter of another King set about to marry, again for a King's son. When they were being wedded and were returning from the temple, rejoicing in each other, one of the eagles swept down, lifted the bride, carried her to a remote island and laid her down on its nest in a big tree. The bridegroom, left alone without his beloved-friend, fell into despair and embarked upon a journey. He boarded a ship; after months at sea the ship wrecked and the waves cast ashore the despairing traveler on the same island where his beloved-friend was taken to. He began complaining to the Lord: "Is it not enough for me, O God, the misfortune of losing my wife, that now I am cast on this deserted island? It would have been better if I were not born!" His wife, who was in the nest on the same tree under which the bridegroom was lamenting his fate, heard that someone was crying, came down and when she saw that this was her same husband, she hid him in the nest. When the time approached for the next assembly of the animals, the two eagles came, lifted the nest with the bride and carried it to the assembly. The King began his lecture anew and in the end again concluded with the words: "What God has created, no one can destroy"; then the eagle called out again: "I destroyed a deed of the Lord". - "Prove this", said the King. When the eagle had narrated the story of the wedding, the King wished to see the bride. The eagle called to the bride to come out of the nest. But, when she came out, together with her also came out the bridegroom. The eagle, when he saw that he was not able to ruin what the Lord has created, burst from anger. By the eagle, the human mind is to be understood. We sometimes say that we can ruin what God has created, that we can change the form of things, but in the ultimate end things stay as God has ordered them, and we, like the proud eagle, in our anger break into pieces. The modern-day teachers say at every turn: "Prepare your mind well [8], the world cannot advance with foolishness [9]". I say: thank the foolish, since the Lord holds the world because [10] of them. In the world there are no spirits more clever than the devils. Have you ever entered their kingdom, to see how they live? You speak of human intelligence, but, if you descend to these fallen spirits, you will find conceptions about physics, about chemistry, about spiritual manifestations - a lot of knowledge [in order] to tell a lie, to deceive, to do anything. But their knowledge cannot introduce order and harmony into things, because it does not rest upon those elements which are able to cement life. Knowledge must be cemented through Divine Love. Therefore, whenever someone speaks of knowledge and of facts, I ask: do you have cement to bind these things? If you have this cement, then indeed you have Divine knowledge; but if you have bare facts, without cement, they cannot be of any use to you. I ask you: if you gather 200 thousand or a million sheep fleece hairs and you do not know how to join them, of what use will they be to you? Only when you spin and weave them in a certain way will you be able to fashion clothes and dress yourselves. According to the same law, when we are able to cement within ourselves our thoughts, our desires, through this Divine cement, the Divine Providence, we will be able to fashion a garment with which to dress our inner nakedness. Therefore, we need this Providence in order to be able to live and to develop. And this is why Christ says: "Fear not" and asks why the five sparrows do not fall. You have the number five elsewhere: five senses, five fingers; this is the emblem of man on Earth. The number five represents man - the prudent, wise man - and He [Christ] says that this wise man does not fall unless he errs. While you are prudent and fulfill the Will of God, you shall not fall; the day, however, when you err, the Lord will allow one of these sparrows to fall to the ground, and as soon as it falls, the hairs of you head will start to fall as well, which means: your life will start to crumble. And so, always bear in mind that the Divine Providence watches over you as long as you unswervingly follow Its laws; if you drift away from It, your life begins to fall apart. Turn again to the Sun of this Providence, so that the growth may start again. --==[][][]==-- _____________________________________________ Notes: [1] or meaning [2] literally: created [3] In Bulgarian, there is a single word for "husband", "male" and "man", and similarly for "wife", "female" and "woman" [4] or strict [5] This is a literal translation of a Bulgarian idiom. [6] i.e. slopes [7] A monstrous bird of Arabian mythology; also written as "rock", and "rukh". [8] This is a literal translation of a Bulgarian proverb which means: get ready, be prepared for something, be warned etc [9] literally: "foolish things" [10] Another reading is: "for their sake"

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