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THE LEAST COMMANDMENT “Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”1 There are great and small commandments, great and small laws. Christ says, “Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments or laws, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but he that shall fulfill the law, shall be called the greatest.” Take into consideration the fact that the laws Christ speaks about are not created, but exist eternally and every culture and cosmic manifestation is due to them. Our morals also depend on the way we comprehend these laws. Philosophers of today say that people’s conceptions are relative, in accord with their outlook. This is partially true, but if our conceptions are vague that does not prove that there are no absolute laws in the world which regulate human relations. What is right is right for all ages; the good is good for all ages; love is love for all ages and so on. We may have different concepts of good, right, love, etc. but this is so far as we are concerned and not in relation to the great universe which contains everything within itself. Evil starts from the point where the small laws begin. We may think that all sufferings come as a result of the breaking of the small and great laws, however, I am not going to explain in detail the causes and effects of breaking a single law. This is a complex question about which many dissertations have been written. I shall talk only about two conditions of the great and the small requirements of the great law. In one of His talks Christ says that those who are not faithful in the least are not faithful in the great, while they that are faithful I the least, are faithful also in much. Someone says, “This is a small law, why should I fulfill it? I shall fulfill the great laws.” But a person who is not ready to fulfill the small laws, will not be in a state to fulfill the great laws as well. The fulfillment of a law may often be effected in a purely material, physical way. The state has its laws by which all citizens are obliged to fulfill their duties. The Bulgarians are characterized by great bravery and often oppose the fulfillment of the laws, but when they see the rod, they give in at once. There is an anecdote about the Bulgarians during the Turkish yoke. They used to get together in the village round a dunghill and talk quietly in a friendly way. While talking some would whittle at a stick in large cuttings since they are brave and heroic. Someone would say, “Do you know, brothers, that the tax-gatherer has arrived in our village to collect the taxes?” “So what!” another one puts in still whittling at the stick in large cuttings, “We shall not pay him.” “Yes, but those who opposed him were beaten and tortured by him.” “Then we shall take care to collect the money some way or another and pay our tax,” and they start whittling at the stick in small cuts. This is how we act also, while we are strong and healthy, we speak and whittle at the stick in large cuts; but as soon as we fall ill, we start whittling at the stick in small cuts. This is the mechanical fulfillment of this law: we must fear the rod in order to fulfill it. Such is the fulfillment of laws today everywhere: in our private, social, political or spiritual life. Thus the laws are fulfilled today not by our wish, not out of consciousness of our duty, but by force. That is why anyone who breaks the laws is punished by being deprived of their inheritance, or by being ostracized from society or some kind of association. Everywhere compulsory measures are applied for the fulfillment of this law. You will say, “Doesn’t every nation have its own ideas and conceptions?” Yes, every individual, every family or society may have its own conceptions, but they do not change that divine law on which our growth depends. As long as we are in accord with this law of which Christ speaks, there will be an upsurge in our thoughts and feelings and an expansion in our will, then we shall easily come to a mutual understanding. And this state will last as long as we are in accord with the small and great laws. However, the moment we violate consciously or unconsciously one of these laws, small or great, our balance will be shaken. We cannot understand the cause of our disturbance, things seem to go wrong, we are discontented and seek the cause of all this in other people. Material things may also be a cause of our unbalanced state. For instance, you are a spiritual or a cultured person but while passing by a shepherd tending to his grazing sheep, you think, “What a nice meal one can make of these lambs!” You take a lamb and kill it. After a short while an unexplainable sadness comes upon you. Or a rich person notices a child and thinks, “Something may come out of this poor child,” and sees the child through school. I take the lamb as an emblem of all our wrong actions, so I am not speaking of meat eating. We consider ourselves very cultured people, but in spite of that the whole world is suffering and the Jews have no end of suffering. Today all are asking what the causes of suffering are. Some think the rich people are to blame; others think the rulers are to blame and so on, but in reality the cause of our sufferings are the small lambs we have eaten up. If you eat one of these lambs, all in your family will have troubles all your life. You have violated one of the least commandments and you will be the least in the Kingdom of God. You will ask me, “What are we to do having eaten so many lambs?” “You will be the least in the Kingdom of God.” “Isn’t there one exception at least?” There is not. But those who have fulfilled the least commandments, who have not coveted one lamb, will be greatest in the Kingdom of God. I take the word covet in a bad sense. All sufferings in the world are the results of bad desires, because they evoke bad thoughts which have an ill effect on our brain and heart and are harmful to our organism in general. In such cases the doctors say that our blood is poisoned and so on. This is right, but it is the food we absorb that determines the quality of all our actions. Someone may object “Could a person live without desires?” I am not saying that one should not have any desires, but in their desires they must learn the great law by which they should act. They should know if what they desire is good for them, for their close ones, for their nation and for the whole humanity and then give vent to their desire. The living organism should not be created for a short term, which is of no importance. You give life to a child, but hardly a year or two have passed, and the Lord takes this child from you. You weep and wonder why your child died. The cause of this are your desires, the violation of the least laws which has made you the least in the Kingdom of God. By the word “least” is meant a weak person who yields to all kinds of temptations and influences. A weak person has no definite or stable moral that is why s/he says, “We shall pass this life one way or another.” Can the existence of a swine be called life—a swine in a pigsty fed by her master three or four times a day. The swine thinks there is no better life than hers and no better master than hers. I am asking you, “What is our present life in relation to our future one?” In order to become great in the Kingdom of God, a great desire must be born in us to raise ourselves as thinking beings and to fulfill the great Divine law in all its fullness. All writers today state that in order to become great, one must have a strong will and fulfill the least law completely without violating it. We often assume the stance of that American whose duty was to open and close a draw-bridge when trains would cross it. He lived in a tower on the bridge, but once he did not close it so many trains were amassed waiting for a free passage. He said, “Today I am the master in complete control here and when I say that the trains should pass, that is the time for them to start.” How was that man treated? They sent people to dismiss him and placed another one there who would close the bridge. This is how we act—we open the bridge and do not close it saying we are in complete control and all depends on us. After some time, however, the Lord will send His delegation who will remove you from your place. Then you are the least in the Kingdom of God. Who is the least? Who does not fulfill the will of God in their heart, in their mind, in their soul or in their spirit. Have you ever heard how a young couple in love converse when they are out in nature before marrying? They promise each other very fine things and say sweet words. I have a well developed sense of hearing and have often heard their whole conversation. If these young people fulfill everything they promise one another, the Kingdom of God will be restored in their life in all its fullness. But what happens as soon as they marry? They start with a new slate, forget all the promises given, begin to violate the least commandments, misfortunes follow them and their life is spoiled. Which is the cause of these misfortunes? You have not fulfilled what you promised in the garden. You better find the notebook where you have written your promises. The woman who has married says, “I was duped, I never thought he would turn out such a devil!” The man on his part says, “Oh, how good she was once—a real seraphim, but today she looks worse than the most evil spirit in hell. How am I to fulfill my promises?” I ask you how it is possible for marriage to turn people from angels into devils? If this is so, better no one marry. Such a marriage was not contracted out of love such as God wants of us. I am speaking on principle and am not concerned with your personal life. This law concerns to the same degree me, you and all the angels—it is the same for everybody. I uphold the idea that people are good only at the moment they act well; they are right at the moment they act rightly; loving only at the moment they manifest love and so on. If they stop doing this, they are neither good, nor righteous, not truth-loving. So long as you are considerate of these laws, your thoughts will flow smoothly with exquisite plasticity. In such a case if you are an artist, a writer, or a housekeeper, all your affairs will take a right course and you will carry things off with vigor. But the moment you betray your thoughts, you will descend from a higher to a lower plane. I envisage these planes in a limitless circle where the lower we descend, the narrower grows the circle assuming the form of a cone. Some say these planes are seven, but I find they are seven million by seven million. You go lower and lower in this cone, saying, “Let us go down and see what is sown there.” You will come to the lowest plane of this cone, to its center, there you will stop and turning into a microscopic being, you will say, “Lord, why did I become so small?” Because you are one of the great philosophers and have come here to learn how to fulfill the least law of life. The process of development is the reverse, i.e. in order to rise from the plane into which you have fallen, you will not pass any more along the same path. You will start now by passing through the narrow door of the cone into another one touching with its point the point of the former one and you will begin your evolution. This way you will pass from one plane to another until you come to the new world. You have hardly entered this new world, a philosopher will meet you and say, “Why don’t we people live as we wish to? Why don’t we act by our will independent of all laws?” You will ask him, “Have you ever gone down the cone of life?” “No, I have not.” “Go down and see how one lives there. I went down once, but I would not go down a second time for the world!” Many of you will go down this cone and when you are passing through the narrow door, you will remember my words. Everyone who has passed once through the narrow door of the cone, becomes great in the Kingdom of God; but they who have stopped in the first cone will be called least in the Kingdom of God. Those who have stopped in the first cone are in the state of an ant who has fallen into the cone on an ant-eater. The ant-eater gradually gets hold of one of its legs, then of another until all is finished with the ant. Therefore, “Whosoever shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of heaven, but whosoever shall do and teach them the same, shall be called great in the Kingdom of heaven.” I am speaking to you on this verse because every soul has its own aspirations. I call you neither good nor bad because thousands of times a day you act both well and badly; thousands of times a day your wishes change. When you get up in the morning, you say, “Today I shall live well.’ But when you return home in the evening and give yourself an account of everything, you say, “Things did not turn out as I thought, because today life is such, people around me are such that one cannot live honestly.” The merchant says that today one cannot live without lying. The farmer says that cultivating the land it is impossible not to destroy the life of many worms. The politician says that under such conditions of life one cannot deal honestly in politics. The clergy say the same thing. Everybody says it is not a time to lead a good and pure life. But when will this time come? When the new culture comes, then life might be better. If you live in your thoughts, you are in your past. Therefore, if we live with our past life and want this or that to happen, we live in the first cone where the bad life is. The good life is in the second cone. I shall compare the first cone to a small child who has been an old man before, but now has become small. In the past this child has been a philosopher, some Brahman, priest, patriarch, or scientist, but today he needs your help. Now he is screaming, he wants you to pass him through the narrow point of the cone. You ask, Why has this child come to this home?” The Lord has sent him that you may show him the door. The mother is the door. She holds him and says, “My child is very intelligent.” Do you know the state of mothers today? It is only when their children become grownups that they understand what kind of people they are, for then they manifest themselves. To explain my thought, I shall tell you the following example. A hermit once lived for 20 years in a forest a pure and pious life. The devil thought out different ways of tempting him, but did not succeed. Finally, he decided to enter his water jar and stay there until the hermit drank him. However, the hermit shut him there, crossed the jar and left him in it. After ten years he said, “Let me wash the jar and use it.” He went to the spring, poured out the old water and filled his jar with fresh water. After pouring the water the hermit noticed in the spring a beautiful small child. He took it and lovingly brought it up. The child grew up amazing people with its bright mind and knowledge. One day the child said to its guardian, “I shall give you a large kingdom to rule and stop living in the forest. The world needs you, I shall teach you how to live and make you a king’s son-in-law.” The father agreed and his son took him to another kingdom. The hermit got engaged to the king’s daughter there. A short time had passed when the son stole all the precious jewels of the king and told the latter his son-in-law did that. The king issued an order for his son-in-law to be arrested as a thief and punished by hanging. The son went to the hermit and warned him to protect himself as there were grave personal charges against him. The hermit did not manage to escape and had to be hanged. When the rope was round his neck, his son approached him and said quietly to him, “Look away in the distance and see what will appear there. Do you see anything?” “Yes, I see three donkeys.” “Don’t you see anything else?” “I see they are loaded.” Then the son answered him, “Those are the sandals I wore out until I brought you to the scaffold.” This is also true of you—a thought which seems perfect comes to you and you start working for its realization. But the moment you realize it, you go to the scaffold. That is why we must fulfil the divine laws which build our welfare as well as the welfare of those around us. Life is created so that every good deed, every thought or action on our part is concretely tied with all people, plants, with the whole organic world, the invisible world with its hierarchies and with God. Every thought and desire on our part is sometimes bound with the branches of this great tree of life and sometimes with its roots. I shall not explain the meaning of the roots, branches and blossoms of the tree. A Bulgarian proverb says, “The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.” If you do a good deed, you will receive God’s blessing. Moses says, “The Lord revenges the crimes of the fathers upon their children to the fourth generation, but His blessing goes to thousands of generations.” Therefore, a long period of years is required for the good things to be realized. The same applies to the realization of a bad thought. However, when the bad thoughts are stimulated the evil comes very quickly. This shows how strong we are in evil. Many saints and idealists, knowing that their good thoughts and wishes will be realized some day in the distant future, say “We are ready to die ad sacrifice our lives for our country although it may take thousands of years for our ideals to be realized.” If an atheist, an unbeliever sacrifices him/herself for the good of humanity, s/he stands very high in the sight of God, because s/he has done good without any knowledge of Him. There are many people who believe in God, read the creed of faith and understand the truths of Christ, but when a good thought comes to them, they are not in a state to fulfill it. That is why I shall reverse Christ’s teaching this way, “In the future the atheists and the unbelievers will inherit the Kingdom of God, but present-day believers will be cast out of the Kingdom of God.” Christians of today may be likened to that servant whom the master ordered to go and plough the field. The servant said, “Master, wait a while for I will show you an easier way of ploughing.” A week passed, a second week elapsed, but the field was still unploughed. The Christians think that by their prayers and faith in God they will pass life more easily, despite their meager diligence in work. People today are comical in their requirements of life. They loiter round the coffee-houses, buy lottery tickets and wait for the results to see it they have gained something. They read the papers to see if their number is full, but when it is not, they do not despair and try the next time hoping to gain. That is not right. The Lord has sent those servants to earth to earn their living by work, but they want to earn in another way—without labor. They try to give advice to God. Such servants say, “I shall multiply the talent god has given me by depositing it in the lottery.” You will multiply it, but one day you will receive a red list for bankruptcy. You will say, “Such is the situation that is why they lost.” This happened because in their past and present life, they have not entertained good thoughts and wishes. There is a special committee in heaven who inspect the accounts and the deeds of people. They who wish to be instructed better may occupy themselves with the occult sciences. You may pray four or five times a day, but if you have not thought good thoughts and done good acts in your past life and if you do not work now and water your garden, help people and animals, when you go to the other world nobody will pay any attention to you. Whoever sees you will say, “Let me see if you have deposited something in me so that I can help you.” “I have given you nothing. Give me of your surplus.” Yes, but there is no surplus in nature. Such a person will find themselves in the state of the king’s son engaged to a very beautiful maiden. He got a disease and was going to die of it, so in his despair he prayed to God to lengthen his life by at least one hour so that he could see his beloved for the last time. Then the Lord sent an angel to despaired people, who had wanted to commit suicide, to ask them if they would sacrifice one hour of their life so that the king’s son’s life might be lengthened by that hour. The angel remembered an old woman who used to pray to God to take her soul as soon as possible because she was tired of life’s misfortunes. The angel went to her and asked if she would give an hour of her life to the young man. She answered him, “Yes, in the past I wanted to die, but now have changed my mind.” The angel then remembered another case. A rich man after having tasted everything in life had found no sense in living any longer and had prayed to God to take him up. The angel went to him and told him what he had said to the old woman. The rich man also refused to give an hour of his life. After his failure to obtain an hour’s life, the angel went to the young man and said to him, “Of all the thousands of people on earth, I could not find a single one who would give an hour of their life for you to see your beloved.” Today people often talk about hell and heaven. The evil lies in the fact that we have brought both hell and heaven here on earth and taste them as we please. The verse I read to you are words which Christ addressed to those listeners who had a developed consciousness. He did not speak to those who could not understand. Christ said to them, “You, who have suffered for thousands of years, must know that your sufferings are due to the breaking of one of the least commandments.” Some ask, “Why is the Lord so generous and lenient to me?” Because you have fulfilled the least law. Some say that I speak nice things: it is of no importance what I say, but of the utmost significance for you to apply this law, because your joy is in the application of this teaching, and your meaning in life—in your uplifting. When you are happy or sad, those around you have the same disposition. When you have a wound, the cells nearest it suffer most, while those farther away participate only by reflex action. When you suffer on earth, those organically bound to you will suffer also. Therefore, those beings who are beyond our spheres, being farther away, will just be sorry that we have violated a law and are suffering. Yet, they will show us ways by which we can avoid these sufferings in the future. Society should apply these two great laws in politics as well as in life. All believers should apply them because these small laws are common to all and the salvation of the whole of humanity depends on their application. They who can fulfill the small law can fulfill the great law as well. This is a rule. If you cannot express love to a small insect or a small fly, you cannot manifest your love to person either. If someone tells you s/he loves you, but a minute before that s/he has plucked out the head of a small fly or cut the head of a lamb, s/he is not speaking rightly. The little fly which has been injured by you, or by anyone else, knows how much you can love. A woman or a man who tear off the heads of flies or cut off the heads of lambs cannot love or do not have good will. I do not believe in the unbelief of people or in their foolishness or lawlessness. To believe in the unbelief of people is to believe in a law which does not exist. Human unbelief is a contrivance of ours created by our own mind. Everybody is seeking the Kingdom of God, everybody wants to restore it, that is why anyone who wants to become a member of this Kingdom must serve it. A young man and a young woman want to restore the Kingdom of God and coo to each other like turtle-doves but only until they marry. After that their life takes the old course and they are not happy. With the pigeons it is different: I have observed them how well they begin and end. The female pigeon lays her eggs, then hatches them and there are not any disputes among the two mates. With people things start well and end badly. They have children and enjoy them, but when these grow up, the parents weep. The old human pigeons weep and say, “The young pigeons made us weep. Look what has come out of our children of whom we expected so much and whom we enjoyed!” The young birds never make their parents cry as the children do to people. The same thing happens in the schools. I have seen how well the relations between teachers and students begin. At first they chat sweetly, but after a short time they begin to complain of each other. The students say, “Our teachers are unjust.” The teachers say, “Students have no respect today for their teachers and parents.” Thus all people complain and say God does not exist and truth, goodness and love are relative, as all things in life are relative. Children say that everything in school is relative and the teacher is something relative. The teachers weep, protest and despair, but I say that their tears are also something relative, because we think that the small and the great law amount to nothing. Yet, they are great truths. They are absolute and always, at all times, they will produce one and the same result. I have often listened for hours how the nightingales and the turtle-doves sing. I have enjoyed their singing, thinking at the same time, “You sing very well and if people could understand your language and would be able to adopt your culture, there would not be so much suffering today.” The nightingales and the turtle-doves answer me, “Yes, we were people, too, at a time in the past, but when human culture did not satisfy us, we left it and today we prefer the culture of the birds.” If I were a preacher, I would beat about the bush and avoid telling you the truth in your face so as not to offend you. Well, the sun shines, but people have sick eyes so they get a smarting effect from it. Is the sun to blame for that? Is the sun to blame for illuminating the earth the axis of which had turned prematurely? Then what am I to blame that this light I am giving you is so strong that you cannot bear it? Tell the earth to stop turning, then the light will be fainter; but since the wheel is turning, you will see by all means all the phases of good and evil. I shall not stop to explain now why in this turning there is a constant struggle between light and darkness, between good and evil, between the reality and shadows of life. Many of you will ask me, “Can we fulfill the law of Christ?” Yes, you can fulfill it. If someone should burn up or sell my house which costs 200,000 leva, this evil will evoke a great struggle in me, but if I conquer myself and do not revenge that person, I shall be called great in the Kingdom of God. If I am a renowned statesman and they deprive me of my high position, although unjustly, and I do not take revenge on anyone for that, I shall be a good person in the future. In general anyone who does not take revenge even for the greatest evil done to them is a good person. On the earth we can make a person anything we want. For instance, we can make a person a minister, another a statesman, a third one a preacher and so on. In this respect we are like a Bulgarian woman who gave her husband a small metal pot and a bunch of sweet basil to go round and sprinkle people with holy water ordaining him a priest of her own wish. The posts we have here on earth are nothing but promotions of a similar kind by a higher world above us. All who have fulfilled the small law have become great in the world. If an artist fulfils the small law, s/he will begin to paint great pictures. We all can become great artists. You will ask me, “But how is this possible?” If some day we show the world our face perfected as a result of our achievements, would not that be the greatest picture of an artist? Do not forget that you have worked on your face for ages. Today in the world there are exhibits of the pictures of our faces, but not a single one has been accepted by God yet. Since the world began only two pictures in the Old Testament have been accepted: that of Enoch and of Elijah, that is why they were taken up to heaven alive. Up till now how many people’s pictures have been accepted above? We paint and paint a whole life to hear finally once again that this picture cannot be accepted now. The priest comes to perform the burial service and the picture is buried. The funeral service means that the picture has not been made according to all the rules of art. The committee which examines the pictures sees that this picture is not made according to the divine law: the eyes, the ears, the mouth, the nose, the teeth are not in their proper place; on the other hand, the mind, the heart, the thoughts and feelings are not in the proper place either. You who are listening to me, do you think your thoughts and feelings are in their place? I see thousands of people whose thoughts and feelings are out of position. I do not blame you for that since you are not to blame, but I want to draw your attention to this so that you may start working with this great law. You must make a point to fulfil daily even the least good deed that comes to you as a wish with no mistake or yielding to temptation. If I were offered the post of a minister in Bulgaria, I would rather give up the position and go to lend a hand to a poor widow who needs my help. You may be dressing up for a ball, a concert or a jour-fixe but at that time a poor person comes to you and you send them away saying you have no time for them. On the contrary, you must give up the ball and observe this great law created by God. If we would learn how to be loving, at peace with ourselves and to understand that we can live alone with ourselves, the world would be set right. Even if people do not love us, we can live without them. Now we are in the state of those harmful microbes which, on entering our organism, find material to live on and so they settle there. As soon as the material is exhausted, their life ends as well. That is why Christ says, “Whosoever shall do the least commandment shall be greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.” What does this least commandment consist in? The work Providence has allotted to you should not be put off. There is a definite time for every thought and desire and once you miss it, there is no returning for it. Your youth cannot come back. The life you live now will never be repeated. Both the evil and the good you have experienced have left their mark on your life. A second time you will pass through an entirely different place, an entirely different life in which there will be only a reflection of the previous one. Some say, “But the earth follows the same path, revolving around the sun, therefore there is repetition in life.” Yes, but the earth never passes through one and the same space; the path it followed the year before was different. The place the earth has passed through once is irrevocably lost. The life you have lived once is irrevocably lost. You will ask, “Can we not correct our mistakes?” Nobody can correct what is lost. The psalmist says, “Only One is able to erase our sins and lawless acts.” Only the Lord has the prerogative to descend those depths where you have committed your crimes and to erase them with His brush. Until the Lord descends to these places to erase your sins, you will have to weep and shed tears long. The Lord needs your tears to full a little bottle He keeps. When this bottle is full, the Lord will take it and come down to the place of sins and crimes to correct your life and water His mouth from time to time with your tears. Only this way can your life change. This is an allegory, but if you comprehend it deeply, you will see that it conveys a great truth about the character of God. You say, “Why does the Lord keep silent and does not answer our sufferings?” The Lord keeps silent because your bottle is not full yet; when it is filled to the top, He will come and set your life right, He will ask which year the crime was committed, what time and so on. After He has washed your sins away, He will say, “Now you are free, but do not sin a second time.” Christ also wept until a bottle was full. He took it upon Himself to rectify the world by bearing people’s sins, but when He saw that His task was very heavy, He wept that God might come and help Him and that is why He succeeded. When His bottle was filled up, He said, “It is done, the bottle is full, the salvation of the world is at hand.” Irrespective of your low or high position in the world, you will all have to pass through the tears to wash away your sins and those of your neighbor. You will say, “Why do you trouble us with these thoughts of yours, why don’t you tell us some words of comfort?” I am doing exactly this. If people have pains in their legs, should they not have a massage in spite of their pains? In certain cases they may not feel any pains, but if they should be attacked and chased by an enemy what would their state be? They will not be able to save themselves as they would not run and their pains will be more acute than ever. If I should be concerned about such people and begin to rub their legs so that they should get well, would they regret the pain I cause them by the rubbing? On the contrary, they will say, “Thank you God I got well so that I can run with all the others in case of danger.” This is a true philosophy. The life of society is like the life of is individuals. There is a certain correlation between a nation and its members but each being has their own individual feelings, thoughts and desires. The nation does not live as an individual. By saying “the Bulgarian nation” I mean the Bulgarians. Their future life—their political, spiritual, cultural and mental relation will be determined by their collective thoughts and feelings. Their present is determined by their past thoughts, buy their present thoughts and desires will determine their future. These two Divine laws in person are placed as follows: the first, the great law is situated in the mind, but the small is in the heart. Therefore, when you want to do the small things in the world, you must fulfill them with your heart. In other words, you cannot fulfill the small things without love for this law. I pass by a pond and see an ant drowning there, but since I am engaged in some philosophical thought, I pass by it and pay no attention to it. But I should stop and help it. We should stop before the smallest creatures and help them. After helping them we should not require them to recompense us all their life because in that case we had only served them as Providence. If we wish to help the small, it will create conditions for us to help the greater ones also. If we do not help that small ant in the future that will be a condition for a bad life. You will say, “But how many ants drown!” It is true that many ants drown, but the one I saw and had the desire to help, I must save. It is a special ant. If I do not help it in a hundred years it can cause me the greatest misfortune. God will determine my future life according to my act at this moment when my consciousness germinated in me. This ant implies the idea of a lamb, a pigeon, a child, a girl, a boy, some poor widow, a sick person or any other type of person. The ant is a mathematical formula. If such a formula is ever presented to you, stop and think how to solve it. Someone who wants to commit suicide comes to you in despair. You must try to think how you can help them. If you say you cannot help them, in your future life this act of yours will bring you bad karmic consequences. The law is one and the same: you should stop in this small law and help. If you do not help one at such a moment, you will determine your bad fate. When you make a mistake of this kind try to find another better way of correcting your mistake. If all Bulgarians considered well their actions, would they be eating rationed bread today, sugar on coupons, would they fight? The Bulgarian statesmen do not care about the drowning ant, but about the large boundaries of Bulgaria; yet they do not know that the destiny of Bulgaria is determined by the fate of this ant. The Bulgarian statesmen are interested in Bulgaria in so far as their pockets are concerned. They are not patriots but rather traitors who play the role of Judas consciously or unconsciously, for or for no money. I am speaking to you about these two great laws, because if they are applied and fulfilled exactly, they will save and rectify humanity. Now the Bulgarians open different schools, but they do not think of bettering the ants’ life. They think of gain and say, “If we had money now, we would find good teachers and good workers. Show me a society which has worked for money and has made much progress. I do not want to say that all associations must stop their activity, but they should rather change their ways. I prefer to work a whole lifetime for a person who grasps what I say than to work for thousands who do not perceive and accept anything. When a person starts doing something, s/he must put his/her heart into it and not make people call ten times at his/her home to ask him/her to do one thing or another. A person who preaches a teaching must understand its laws and apply them. You say, “We must educate our young people.” But how will you educate them? How will you control their actions? I do not believe in any training or taming but I believe that all people have conditions to become good if they want to. I believe that all people determine their life by the moment in which they act for after that moment other conditions come. This is education. After that moment you will receive food, knowledge which will be in accord with the plane on which you move. The farmer studies the conditions for his sowing and harvesting, everyone studies the conditions for their work. When I say I do not believe in any training, do not take it in the wrong sense. I do not believe in that wrong superficial education parents give their children, but I believe in the genuine education that the great laws in the world give. I do not believe in contemporary science either, but I believe in the great divine science; I do not believe in the foolish love of today or the foolish wisdom and seeming truth here on earth, i.e. in deceit which people have clad in the form of truth. I say: all this is a lie, the truth is within you. The great law is in your mind but the small law is in your heart. Every noble desire born in you, no matter how microscopic it may be, will determine your happiness in the future. This desire will turn on the tap of your life and from that day on both earth and heaven will work for you. When the wheel of life turns one or another direction, it produces a corresponding effect. If you are ready to be true to those small desires deposited within you for thousands of years, if you are ready to hold out a straw to a drowning ant, you will start a motion from left to right, otherwise it will be from right to left, i.e. downward in the cone. Then if you are a Christian and descend these 7 by 7 million planes, and I should ask you where you are at present, you will answer that you are in the lower planes of the astral world. If you are an occultist, you will say, “I reached the bottom of this cone at last!” But what do you intend to do now? “My philosophy states that when I reach the bottom, I shall begin to advance upward.” You have a wrong conception of this philosophy. “What shall I do then?” You will pass through the narrow opening of the other cone and from there you will begin an upward advance, since the energies in that cone have a contrary direction of the previous one. Now you will move along the energies of the second cone. After passing through the second cone, through all the seven million by seven million planes, you will study them and say, “I have a philosophy now and understand things deeply, seeing that these are not only seven planes”. You will say great things about the spiritual world: worlds upon worlds, beings with no limit or number. The whole space in which we live and move is full of beings of different categories and cultures. The solar light moves 180,000 miles a second and to cross only the diameter of our universe 31,000 years are necessary. The whole space is full of worlds. When our earth moves in the space of this universe, we fall under the influence of those beings with whom we come in touch. And all this enormous space with all the beings in it find response in our hearts, minds and souls. Sometimes a thought comes to you and burdens you, but that thought is not yours. Since you are sensitive, you feel the sorrow of some small being somewhere in New York which at a certain moment has not fulfilled its duty, has not done the will of God—this great divine law. At another time you feel joy. Why? Because at another place in the world, in some Buddhist temple in China a small being has fulfilled its duty as it should. So I rejoice when I see how your thoughts change every day for I observe what is going on in the world and from all I observe, I conclude two things: some people fulfil the law of God and some do not. Then I return to life seeing what takes place there and turning to the past I see when these things which are realized today had their origin. Thousands of years pass in a minute and I see when these events were thought out and when they have taken this bad direction. I see that 2,000 years ago a Bulgarian high priest turned the tap of life in a wrong direction and these consequences today are due to him. That is why all preachers, priests and rulers in Bulgaria think like that priest and act like him. You will ask, “Who is that priest that we might hang him?” Do not look for him to hang him, but rather turn the tap the direction opposite to the one acting today. If you do not do it, you will not only miss becoming great, but will also lose much. This is why I am in Bulgaria—to turn the wheel of life in the opposite direction and I shall turn it according to all the rules of the Divine law so that you may taste all the benefits of life. When I turn the wheel in the opposite direction, the Bulgarians will understand that they can fulfill this small law, an excellent superior culture will be restored among them and they will become a great nation which will make its contribution in the world. Do not be proud, however. The wheel has not been turned yet. Great efforts are required that it may be turned. All of you will take part in the turning of the great wheel, you will take hold of the small wheels and start turning, but not as you are doing now— from right to left, but from left to right. This is the teaching of Christ: to turn the wheel of the small law. You will ask me, “What will you leave us for keepsake?” I shall turn your wheel from left to right then all angels, all good people will start working and you will be uplifted. Now put in your mind the thought, “We can fulfill the least divine law.” And after 2,000 years you will test if what I tell you is true or not—you will test the results. After 2,000 years the inner conditions of life will be ten times better than the present ones. It is descending and ascending in life. Blessed are those of you who will wait till that time with faith. These 2,000 years are two divine days—days of a great blessing. The more advanced of you may test this in two years, but some will take ten years to do that. However, this requires a pure, sublime and noble life—the only heritage of person on earth. Sermon held on June 22, 1919. _______________ 1 Matthew 5:19

Master and Lord "Ye call me Master and Lord: and you say well; for so I am."1 The words Master and Lord2 apparently contain nothing new, they are so ordinary. But in the world these two words - master and lord are two opposites. In Bulgarian the words gospodar, gospodin, gospodja or gospodjitza3 refer to people who are masters of their situation, to ruling people of high rank. However, in the original language these two words denoted two great principles which built human life. The situation of the master and the lord must be defined, the latter being used here in the sense of Lord. The word Gospod (Lord) was employed in a plural sense in the protolanguage in the meaning of lords. The first principle, Master, has relation to the human mind and will, while the second principle Gospod (Lord) has relation to the human heart and soul. Bear in mind that every word has a special sense in what I am going to speak about. When I use a word, I try to find what its vibrations are, for words are determined the same way the sunrays are. You cannot produce a certain color if you do not produce the corresponding vibrations. Therefore, if you speak about virtue, for instance, you should produce vibrations corresponding to virtue and then you will understand the corresponding sense of this word. Only this way can you have an objective, real truth expressed in life. There are unexpressed truths in the world as well. The earth is full of wealth hidden in its core, but that wealth does not interest you since it is concealed - you are interested in the riches the safes or the wealthy, the gold in the crowns of the kings and so on. There is knowledge hidden in the sun, but of what interest is it to you, since it is not revealed, but is only a supposition? The wealth in the written books satisfies you. I am speaking to you of knowledge revealed in the Master. When I speak about the Master, I mean a being who attunes the universe, i.e. He attunes His disciples, for the universe is a sum of thinking beings who are the atoms of this great rational word. When you ask what the spiritual beings are, you should know they are thinking beings. Some consider the spiritual man as an opposition to the worldly one. You will say that the worldly man is known by his fine clothes, cylinder, special ties, collars and gloves and his furniture is of a special kind. Is there anything bad in the worldly people? There are evils in the spiritual world as well. Where disharmony reigns, there are evils. Then I ask myself the question: if the spiritual world was free of sin, and if we come from God pure, how is it possible for us to commit sins? This question would remain unexplainable. So in the spiritual world there are also possibilities of making mistakes. A possibility for mistakes and such for sin are two different things. I shall explain this thought. Let us take two circles with different centers. The compass will draw one circle at a time, so that each circle will pass though the center of the other. If these two circles represent two rational worlds, or to put it in more scientific words, if one represents a positive and the other a negative electric current, when these two currents begin to function so that the power of the negative current passes from the periphery towards the center, and of the positive - from the center towards the periphery, at a certain stage the two circles will cross each other at two points and what will happen is exactly what is happening today on the earth. What is happening today is nothing other than the circle of the spiritual world passing through the center of the physical world and the opposite. You will say, "This is a great contradiction." Yes, this is a contradiction for those narrow minds who understand neither the past, the present, not the future. From the standpoint of a higher spirit, there are no contradictions in the world. People want a world without suffering. They are strange - this is no philosophy of life. There are always sufferings in contradictions, but in harmony there is a germ of suffering as well. Your happiness in the world rests on the sufferings of those small beings who serve you. You, who pass for very noble beings, ask what those little beings think of your nobility. All the sheep, oxen, lambs, hens, ducks, all small birds in relation with you have their own special opinion of people. All smaller beings say in one voice that person is a terribly cruel being. If you ask the trees, they also say, "How awful and merciless a person is!" Then you ask, "Why did God create such a world?" God created a very good world but we, as well as the people before us, spoiled it. This spoiled external world is reflected in us as well. The world is made in such a way that when the master suffers, the servants also suffer and the other way around. Christ says, "Ye call me Master and Lord: and so I am." In order to explain my idea - Master and Lord - I shall tell you the following example. Long time ago there lived a young king at the age of 33 - an age only of the wise and prudent people. He wrote a famous book about how life must be lived. Two royal daughters fell in love with him. You will say, "How happy he must have been!" When I see two young people in love, I say they are pleasantly amusing themselves. None other amusement is more pleasant than love. So when I see people loving each other, I say, "They are amusing themselves." You will object by saying love is something very serious. Do you think that when a great violin player performs a musical piece, he is doing something very serious? I consider serious situations such as when you own a debt to your creditor, or when a surgeon lays you on the table to operate on you. You often say, we must be serious. I call serious people those who have debts. You cannot understand the Word of God in its deep sense until you are freed of your debts. When you go to church and your creditor comes and reminds you of your debt to them, will your seriousness be of any help? The first royal daughter who fell in love with the king’s son expressed her love by carrying his picture everywhere, kissing it all day long, making a chapel for it so that people might light candles and censers to him and so on. The other royal daughter took "the book of life" written by the king’s son and started studying it and applying all its principles out of love for him. She started visiting the poor and the suffering thus testing all that was written in the book. By doing that she became more and more fond of the king’s son for she could see the good results of his teaching. These two royal daughters formed two different cults. You can see the cult of the first daughter displayed in all the temples of the world: all Buddhists, Brahmans, priests, the Turkish hodjas and all the Christian clergy. The other teaching is deep in the hearths of some people who only apply it, unconscious of serving any cult. The former are the-so-called orthodox people who think Christ will come in flesh and expect that image. What do you think: who of the two royal daughters has understood the royal son and has given him a better expression of her love of him? I call the first culture a culture of egotism when a person wishes only to possess and dominate someone. Today a young man and a young woman who are in love want only to possess and dominate one another. While they are young, they say such nice things to each other, but after marrying five years have hardly passed and all their love has evaporated, nothing remains of it. When I speak to you, I do not wish to be understood the first way: I would wish you to understand properly the second principle and to apply it to life. Therefore, the Master has a relation to the human mind and will. He bears in his soul those vibrations which can give an impulse to your mind and will. You send your daughter to school to study music with a teacher, but she falls in love with him and this prevents her from receiving the impulse the teacher can give to her mind and will. Music and poetry are dangerous engagements for some young men and women, especially if they have a weak character. When students fall in love with their teacher, they start taking flowers to the teacher and do not learn their lessons. This way your daughter will never graduate in music. If her teacher is not married and can marry her, that would be good. But if he is already married, what then? Polygamy will take place which can be seen everywhere in the world. By polygamy I mean a split in life. Splitting is always harmful to unity. A disciple who goes to his/her teacher must learn the essential principles, understand the qualities of the laws and powers, their mind, stomach, lungs. The stomach, the lungs and the brain have their own requirements. When you have stomach ache, you send for the doctor to inject you as soon as possible. But what does your rational stomach want to tell you by its disorder? It is a rational being. Sometimes you feel a tightening in your chest, or stomach, and you get worried. There is nothing dangerous in these tightenings, they are nothing but a change in energies. There are two opposite currents of energy in the world which produce two different results. One energy contracts the forms, the other expands them. Thereby life is manifested. This can be observed in nature too. Without dwelling on present day theories, I shall make an explanation: in order that rain may be produced, two opposite currents are necessary - warm and cold. For dew drops to be formed, the negative energy should raise them, heat expand them and render them gaseous. The positive energy keeps the water drops on the earth. Therefore, the negative energy of the earth and the positive energy of the sun are mutually attracted and where these two energies, these two circles, come in contact, a contrary process begins as a result of which rain is produced falling again on the earth. This is a philosophical consideration of the question. The evaporations which take place in nature are performed at the same time within us. In accord with nature your brain takes the place of the sun, your stomach that of the earth and your lungs are the connecting link between the earth and the sun. The two currents - arterial and venous - pass through the lungs. In nature there is also a venous current which ascends and an arterial one which descends. The venous current of an upward movement is directed toward the brain, i.e. toward the sun. First the venous blood must pass through the heart and lungs to be purified and then move upward. This is a necessity taking place in us, as well as in nature. The blood must be ozonized and its vibrations thus raised. All impurities in the venous blood must be purged away and thus the vibrations in the world will be raised. All illnesses in the world spring from a misunderstanding of this great Master who teaches us. At times you feel a pressure in your head. Your mind tells you, "You have impure blood, send it up to be purified." Sometimes your stomach aches. It says, "You have impure blood, send it up to be purified." But since you do not know this, you take some pills or medicine to stimulate your stomach and to stop the ache. The same thing happens in family life. When a man and a woman start life together, one must be a teacher and the other a disciple. But you start struggling for priority. If your husband has the necessary vibration for raising your mind, give him the place of teacher. The wife will say in such a case, "I do not like to submit." Do you know what the word submission means? To submit is to receive and cultivate the energy you need. That is culture. This is what it means to cultivate something. A violinist or an artist prepares his/her composition for hours that s/he may cultivate their theme in their mind. By the same law, I think that every teaching limits you or submits you. That is why you should not conceive the word religion in a limited, but in a broad sense so that you would have results in your personal life. Whoever carries a religion or a teaching as a portrait in themselves and only looks at it from time to time, will never benefit by it. I am not saying you should throw this portrait out of your mind and memory, but rather that you should look at it once a year or a month and apply more. Why does the Lord keep us at a distance? He has chosen such a high place, because He knows we are going to disturb Him. The Lord says, "I want you to do My will and live in the world the way I have ordered it so that you may be happy." Some ask, "When shall we go to heaven?" When you learn to live according to the book of this sage - the king’s son; when you come to the second culture and learn the laws. Thus, the word Lord implies the mother. The Master is the father. The Master, i.e. the father, is an interpretation of a great idea. God turns into a father and has a relation to us. The master is a number raised to the third degree, it is the cube of life. The master is a rational entity who regards things three-dimensionally: along a straight line, a plane and a height. You will say, "Of what importance is in what direction or line one moves in life?" This is of great importance. If you pass through the world only in straight line what would you understand of it? If you should take an excursion through the whole solar system by an express and move with the speed of light, you will need 31,000 years to pass along this straight line. After having moved at such a speed and return to earth, what knowledge will you have? None. You will say, "It is wonderful, magnificent," but you will give only general impressions. You have passed by the sun with lightning velocity and think you have crossed the whole universe and know many things, but in fact nothing has remained in you. I say to such a philosopher that he knows very little, because hey moves with great speed. In order to investigate this world, you need a number with ten zeros at the end - these are the necessary years for that work. You will say it is easy to put zeros to a number. Yes, but for me these zeros are of great importance. If we, for instance, would write one, two, three zeros after the number one, there will be a great difference between these numbers. I make a difference between the first, second and the third zero. The second zero shows that the number ten is in square; the third zero shows the cube of number ten. If there is a fourth zero, it shows the fourth degree on number ten; the fifth zero shows number 10 to the fifth degree and so on. I shall not go to the fifteenth degree for that is not for the human mind. The human mind can discover the secrets of nature only up to the fourth degree. Geometry may solve problems only as far as the tesseract is concerned. The tesseract is a small figure of which we study only the separate parts. The cube is a small segment of the tesseract. These lines, plains and cubes have a relation to our life. If we examine our face, we shall see that it is composed of many straight lines, plains and cubes. In geometry the definition of a straight line is that it is the shortest distance between two points. I define the straight line as the smallest segment of a circle. This is not a contradiction. You will say, "The diameter of a circle is also a straight line." Yes, but it is a small segment of another larger circle. The same way our present life is a small segment of a larger circle of our past. Therefore, your future life will also be a small segment of your present life. There is descending and ascending in your lives. By the law of descending you learn to decrease, but by the law of ascending, you learn to increase. Therefore, we should know simultaneously how to decrease and increase. People today suffer because they do not know how to increase and decrease. A merchant who cannot balance correctly suffers losses in his accounts. For instance, he has only 1,000 effective money in gold, but writes 100,000 and makes his business transactions on that effective money. Everyone must put down only the quantity of money they have in their safe. Nature does not tolerate false accounts. If you do not check what effective money you have at a given moment, you fall under the criticism of people. Knowing you have written more than you really have, you start thinking that others have done the same and you do not believe in them. We people today are like that, we recommend ourselves as having more effective money when in reality we have less. When you cross out a few zeros, you will come to the plain truth. Christ says, "Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am." He spoke very important things not registered in the New Testament. Christ came to teach you how to live. Some say, "What Christ spoke is sufficient for you." Yes, but it is sufficient for your salvation^ but not for the way you should live. And John says that Christ spoke so much that if everything were written down, all the books in the world could not contain it. I know that a very small fraction of what Christ said is written. I draw my principles from a very large book of which every pebble, leaf, branch, blossom form the alphabet. I constantly interpret this great book. When I take a leaf of a tree, I begin to examine it and read upon it under what conditions that leaf was formed; where that tree was growing; why it grew old; what kind of people had lived during its lifetime; what were their conditions of life; what the condition of the solar system was and so on. I read all this by the marks on every leaf and branch. But you stop by the trees, look at them and think they have no experience of their own, that they do not speak or see. How beautifully the flowers and the trees speak and see! Every leaf has its eyelet and reads all your thoughts when you sit under a tree to meditate, every one of your thoughts leaves its marks on the tree and the separate leaves. In the future you will be able to read your life and that of your predecessors on the trees. How many times, stopping under a tree, I have been told the story of different philosophers, priests and other people who had sat under that tree! We should know that everything is open before God, there is nothing hidden in this world. You say that trees are speechless beings in nature and only person speaks. I am against this idea for there are no speechless beings in nature, only their manner of speaking is different. Everything speaks to me. When I say "to me" I do not mean that son of the king whose picture is in the hands of the king’s daughter, but the other one who bears the divine truths for this world. Christ says, "Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am." But Christ is not a master like Moses who preached "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." Today you serve Christ, but you serve many other masters including Moses. You say, "I am a Christian, an Eastern Orthodox believer," but if anyone should offend you, or hurt your feelings a little, you immediately sue them. This is the old teaching we apply in life, while we are speaking of the New teaching. When we speak of materialism I understand we are serving this world, we fall in love with the picture of the king’s son and say that only what we see is the real in life, but what is really actual, the truth in life, we cast away. All relations which are much more real and contain the sense of life can be tested. Speaking of meaningfulness, I do not mean what you can perceive. I can always test how you perceive things and often amuse myself by calculating what percent of you will understand me, how many will listen to me and how much you will apply. I have in view where you come from. You listen to me and say, "Now we understood you!" And I take down in my book, "I, too, understood you quite well." When people understand, I understand, too; but when they do not understand, neither do I understand. When you visit my restaurant and I nourish and receive you well and you pay and thank me, then you understand and I understand you. If you go out and do not pay me, I remain without money and do not understand you. Misunderstanding is an empty purse and an empty stomach. Every purse, every bag and your stomach are relations in the world which do not exist. You are exposed to suffering, torment and persecution, but why? Because your purse is empty. If no one receives you in their house, if all people forsake you, I draw a bad conclusion about you. This means you have not behaved according to the law of love and have set the whole world against you. It shows you have not heeded your Master and the Lord has left you to study by your own experiences. You will object to this, saying, "I have studied so much mathematics, know so many things, so many formulae and theorems." I ask you, "If you have learned so many formulae and theorems, can you apply them by building your body according to them, or according to the theorem of Pythagoras? You will say that there is no connection whatever between you and these things. There is a great correlation in all this because your life is a circle which can be calculated since it flows from two quantities - a larger and a smaller one. The larger quantity is that of the spirit which functions outside your life and cannot be calculated. We may say that this power is a fraction proceeding to infinity. But a day will come when you will be able to calculate it. Such is the law by which this power functions. Under the present conditions it is beyond your life and you can not calculate it. However, this does not prove that a day will not come when this fraction will be calculated. Christ says, "You call me Master but I am not a Master like Moses, for I teach you the law of expansion while Moses taught you the law of shrinking." When you unite these two laws into one, you will find a way for freedom. Christ says, "When they hit you on one side, turn the other also; if they take your outer garment, give the undergarment too." What did Christ mean by undergarment and outer garment? This applies to the physical and spiritual world. This means that if your outer garment is heavy in summer, you should throw it off and leave it somewhere. If your fur coat was necessary to you in the winter, throw it away in the summer. You will say, "But what shall we do in the winter without a fur coat, if we throw it away in the summer?" Are you sure you will still be alive next winter? Throw the fur coat away under these conditions. By casting away your outer garment Christ wants to say that you should not be in touch with people who want to become rich. Besides, there is no winter in the spiritual world. Someone wants to have two or three houses; another wants to study; still another wants to become beautiful and so on. Do not make contact and do not obstruct such people; who want to get rich - give them what you have, help them to build their house, to study, let them become beautiful, leave them do what they want to, encourage people in goodness. Originally all our aspirations had been good, but later they became perverted and became bad. For instance, you are in a forest and start reciting, singing and dancing freely. If you do the same thing in the city, people will consider you crazy. Here is an example of how your original impulse in the forest, expressed in the city becomes warped. If you sing and dance in the forest among the trees, they will not criticize you, but when you go among the cultured, talking people, they will not allow you to raise your voice. When you are in society, to speak you must raise your hand so as to form a curved line. Then people ask, "Is there any sense in this life?" Many times when I come to speak to you, I think: if I start speaking in a loud voice and wave my hands, people will come to me immediately and say, "What are you doing! Don’t you know that it is not proper to speak like this and wave your hands in society?" Then I start calculating how to speak and how to hold my hands so as not to offend anyone. Do you know how difficult it is for a person to determine the direction of their movements? These calculations are difficult to make until we come to a sensible speech. Many who are listening say, "If I should make a speech, it would be better." Then we are in the same state as the old and the young horse. An old horse was pulling a cart full of earthenware. Since he was walking on a downward slope, he walked very carefully. A young horse watching him said to himself, "If they gave me this load to pull, I would go down at once, but that old horse is barely moving." In a short time the young horse was harnessed to drive the cart of the earthenware. He had to pass the same way. However, he did not walk carefully like the old horse whom he considered silly, but ran swiftly down the slope breaking to pieces all the earthenware. Some say to me, "Tell us something more serious." Do you want me to act like the young horse? If I am going down a slope, I shall be serious and move slowly; if I am going up, I shall groan and walk with difficulty; if I am on a plain, I shall philosophize. Knowing this, try to calculate these two states in life - when you must move upward and when a chance is offered you to go down. I shall resume my previous thought. I said that there is much energy stored in your brain. The wife gets angry and says, "How long shall I be a slave to my husband? I want freedom. Did I marry only to cook for him?" The husband is also discontented and says, "You do not understand me." The servants are dissatisfied with their master and want to get rid of them. These are cases of the two positive energies in the world which repel one another and cause all the misunderstandings and fights in life. People warn such a couple not to act contrary to the evangelical rules. There is no need of such a warning, but you should rather turn one energy into negative and the other should stay positive. You will ask, "What will come out of that?" Rain will be formed. When a woman weeps, she should be thankful for her tears, for the moment is most favorable for her to turn her energy into negative. Let her say to her husband, "I see, dear, that you are right." But in life usually both are wrong. If one is right, the other will be wrong. That is why you should look for people whose energy is opposite to yours. That is how things stand in the world: half the world is right, good or positive, but the other half is wrong, bad of negative. The bad people are a blessing, they have a store of conserved energy and bear the conditions for the future culture. The good people will come in the future; they will become negative and start cultivating the energy they have. A good poet coming into the world will create new poetry out of the bad life of people; a scientist will create new science; a musician - new melodies. Thus, the foundations of the new culture will be laid. When you see a suffering person, if you are a poet, you could create such lovely poetry, which will inspire people’s minds and hearts for noble and sublime deeds. Christ says, "I came into the world to teach you to recognize the good in evil and the evil in good." The good has its bad side just as the evil has its good side. Until recently the sun was considered completely pure, but it is known today that there are black spots on it. The sun, too, is spotted. Do you know what alarm is raised at times on the sun? The alarm on the sun is always reflected on the earth. When it is quiet on the sun, it is quiet on the earth too. Therefore, half of our earth is turned to God, it is nearer God and the sun lightens it, but the other half is dark. That half facing God is collecting its energy. Each one of you can come to such a state. When you say you cannot do anything, you are in the positive energy of the earth. When your earth turns to the sun, you are in the negative energy of the earth and then culture comes. You may ask, "How is it that one and the same solar energy is sometimes good and sometimes bad?" In the morning the solar energy represents mother love, but in the afternoon, after crossing the meridian, the energy is perverted and becomes bad. In the evening this energy affects us still worse that is why murder and quarrels, etc. take place then. Why do these things happen with people? Because only positive energies get together. In order that such things may be avoided, the wife must require as a law of her husband to return home two hours before sunset. If he returns after sunset, he will have trouble by all means. The same thing happens in us as well. When we make up our mind to do something nice and noble, we are in the negative energy, in the light side of the earth, however, if we intend to do something bad, we are in the positive side of earth, in the positive energy. The Lord is positive. But when you turn to God, your energy is negative, conscious. If you start fighting with a stronger being, you will be smashed. The Lord opposes proud people. When you say you will oppose Him, the Lord will give orders that you should be tied up and taken to a hospital; you will say you went to fight for your country. You have not fought for the liberty of any country. Your country is to be liberated by other means. Pull out your sword, i.e. your will, and see if it is tempered well so that it could set people free. When you are offered two bags of gold, you are tempted and start saying there is no sense in fighting, it is not human and so on. Why? Because the bag of gold is behind your back. This is no ideal, however. The rich say, "There is no sense in fighting, we must live in peace." Why do they talk like that? Because they are rich and lack nothing. Many poor people say, "We want to fight," because they are in need. Christ says, "I came to solve the problem which troubles humanity. I am the Master and will show you how to recognize your master and your lord within yourself." If you listen to your Lord deep within you, you will be able to do something, but if you do not listen to your Master, you will be in contradiction. People must know both their Master and their Lord. There is a Lord in every person. You often interpret my words wrongly. You want to manifest yourselves by which you make many big mistakes. I am giving you a positive teaching which you can apply and I can make an experiment with anyone of you under the condition that you are sincere. This is the advantage of my philosophy - it can be applied to life. My greatest wish is that everywhere in all homes there should be relations like those among the teachers and the masters, that the children should be both good students and good servants. The students should listen to their teacher and the servants to their master. If you teach this to your children, if you imbed this idea in them, the daughter will listen to her mother and the son will listen to his father. The daughter cannot listen to her father and the son cannot listen to his mother. In order that the son might listen to his mother, he should become a woman in the next generation. The same thing applies to the daughter. In nature the energy must be converted. I may be positive in relation to your energies and negative in relation to other energies. This is a law. Energy is a great power which penetrates us and builds life. For 2,000 years it has been preached that Christ is a great Master who came to save us from sin so that we may repent and become good members of the church. In fact, you have members now - sons and daughters who becoming 21 years old tell their parents the latter have become foolish. What kind of students are your sons and daughters? You think that you know much. Often the Lord gives you headache saying, "Give this problem to humanity to solve. Why do they have a headache?" You answer, "We have overeaten." No, that is not the real reason - your head aches from knowing too much. Sometimes you have stomachache. It shows that the Lord gives you this problem to solve. They who do hot know what headaches and stomachaches are due to, as well as all other illnesses, do not know anything. A stomachache shows that the energy in your stomach which is positive must be turned from positive to negative. A headache shows that the energy in your head which is positive must be turned into negative in relation to the other energies. Your mind must be engaged with sublime thoughts. When you have a headache, go to a poor woman to help her. Whenever your head or stomach aches, begin to work. Thus says the lord. You say, "When my head aches, I cannot work." Your head aches exactly for the reason that you do not work. Therefore, a headache is a stimulus forcing you to think and to work. If the doctors hear this, they will say, "This is a dangerous theory - to work when you have headache." The doctors explain only the effects of illnesses, but they do not know what precedes illnesses. Doctors of more modern times say that uric acid is the cause of headaches when it settles in the organism, in the brain. The blood thickens, the organism begins to act with greater effort and so on. But the doctors cannot explain what caused this uric acid. They cannot explain a number of causes which preceded the appearance of the uric acid. Therefore, the cause of each illness must be explored very far back. If we lived the divine way, a day would come when our body would be cleansed immediately of any sediments which cause illnesses. Some physicists say that if the human organism is placed under 10-20 or 100,000 volts of electricity, it would be rejuvenated in a very short period of time and acquire its childlike state of youthfulness. Then we would say, "Thank you, God, the kingdom of God has come to earth." The Lord sends death and says, "Call this aged child and put it on the disc of death in order to be rejuvenated and start a different new life." Then the wheel of life rotates at 100,000 volts and in less than 50 or 100 years the same person returns rejuvenated already with new energy and a new name. This is the law o£ reincarnation - a change of energies. The soul can assume thousands of forms. You have not studied the human soul. If I would say all I know about it, that would be the ninth wonder in the world - there are so many things to be said about it. Christ says, "Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am." As you read the chapter further, you will see why He calls Himself that. I want the two words Lord and Master to remain in you. The master is a positive energy. Every disorder or disharmony in thoughts and desires is a positive energy which must be transformed into negative, since only the negative energies in the world can create. This is true of electricity as well. If you are a clairvoyant you will see that light appears only on the negative pole. If people consider someone attractive, it shows s/he has negative energy in him/herself - that is magnetism. Such a person can both give to people and take from them. One should not only be nice to people, but every word they say must be full of meaning. Never utter empty words. Some ask, "Why don’t you tell us you love us?" Since I have invited you to my table to nourish you, it means I love you. If I tell you many words but I do not nourish you, do I love you then? If I invite you to beer and sweets that is not love. We should live only on bread, wheat and all kinds of fruit. And Christ says, "Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am." When this Master comes there will be harmony, music, poetry in your home, everyone will be in his/her proper place, there will be no discord between the man and woman, between the servants and the masters, between the daughters and sons, between the teachers and students. Christ is not in the world now. Some will say that Christ has come. No, He does not come, because He already has an experience with people. If He comes today among humanity, He will be crucified again. He who has hung on a cross knows what those nails, which nailed Him there, mean. Christ is asking His followers now, "Are there any more nails?" "Yes, there are." "Then the time has not come for me to visit you." The priests preach "brotherhood and love." Christ is not fooled by these words and asks again, "Are there any nails on the earth?" "Yes, there are." "It is not time for me yet." Some say, "Manifest yourself to us, Master, we shall recognize and prize you!" Yes, you have prepared your nails and want the Master to come in order to nail him. This is what I see every day. You take everything you can from people: I see two young people talking in the garden and a few lambs are near them who say to themselves, "These people are cultured, but nothing will stop them from stripping off our skin at any moment." They know very well the intentions of their masters. Now you will say I am speaking very well. Yes, I speak well and you listen well. But I wish there would be teachers in Bulgaria to teach kindness and patience. I have not met patient people in Bulgaria yet. I have met people who bear their hardships, but I have not met patient people. Patience implies will power and a good mind or knowing the causes and effects of things. But impatience gives rise to suspicion of everything and everybody. I have not met people whom I could convince that there is nothing suspicious in our cause. The Bulgarians have no patience that is why suspicion never leaves them. The second thing to do is to get rid of prejudice. Everyday we struggle with unclean thoughts which attack us like wasps. Consciously or unconsciously, everywhere I see an atmosphere of suspicion and, after all that, people want to be considered cultured. We must fence off these thoughts - they are a harmful remnant from the past and we must get rid of them. Suspicion has penetrated your mind, heart and soul and you must dispense with it and purify yourselves. What is there to suspect? Someone comes to me and tries to deceive me somewhat, but I say to him/her, "My friend, if you did not try to deceive me, I would have done more for you, but now I shall do less. Yet, I ought to do something for you at any rate." By this I do not want to say that I am good, but that I am obliged to do something for everybody. Why should you represent things as they are not? That is why sometimes I do not receive visitors. "Why don’t you receive visitors today?" "Because I have not arrived at anything and can give you nothing." The same law applies to you: If you are not in good disposition today, do not receive visitors. Say, "I have to solve a problem the Master has given me." Now keep two things in mind: patience and doing away with your suspicion. I see suspicion inscribed on the eyebrows of the Bulgarians and some have it at such a great extent that a whole lifetime is necessary for them to get rid of it. This sign is in its place - the Lord has put it there. Suspicion is the absence of selfless love and gives rise to all illnesses. When you meet people, you say, "This person is bad, that person is bad," there are no good people for you. Think that all people are good, but they have only positive energy, which you cannot use, that is why you should stay away from them and let others use it. Two men who have positive energy repel each other. Today there are magnetizers who can transform the energies. I visit a home where the husband and wife are fighting and raise my hands then drop them again and the man becomes positive, but the woman negative. After a while they begin to excuse themselves to me for having made a mistake. They have not been conscious of the law by which one becomes positive and the other negative. And actually after their energies have changed properly into positive and negative, they stop quarrelling. I say, "Friends, one must be up, but the other down." When a magnetizer starts healing someone, they pass their hands from the head down which means: the woman must be down and the man up, or in other words: the man should break the stones and the woman should build them. This is what Christ also taught people. Christ says, "Ye call me Master and Lord." The Master is up in the mountain, while the lord is down and he is building there. Therefore, if you want to build, you must come down. If you understand this rightly, there will be no contradictions for you. While listening to me, you think I want you to deny the world. I am not teaching you to deny the world, but rather to turn your energy into negative and to start building. When you are troubled, raise your hands up them put them down. Then tell your stomach, "Listen, my friend, let the brain be up, but you be down sending it material to work with." In general, where there is headache, the stomach suffers too and conversely. This shows that always - this law is right - there is a close connection between the stomach and the head. You can test this. Those of you who have a strong will can heal yourselves the following way: turn to the Lord and pray to Him as a Master and Lord to teach you how to control your head and your stomach. You will say, "I do not need a stomach and head, I want to have the body of an angel with a guitar in hand and to play and sing in heaven." This is a wrong conception of Christ’s teaching. You must understand it right. This is a form, but you must have a certain result. I do not want to create antagonism between those who understand rightly the teaching of Christ and those who have no right understanding of it. And I shall not say that the former are on the right and the latter on the wrong side, but I say that those who do not think right are of positive energy. So long as suspicion takes hold in you, nobody can set the world right. Before we depart we must fulfil the will of God. The Bulgarians have a future as a nation, that is why they must become patient and do away with suspicion. The Bulgarians are not so good, but they have in themselves the conditions for a good life and where there is a condition for life, God is there. Something will come out of the Bulgarians, but not of Bulgaria which is the retort in which experiments are made and as such it will fulfil its role. The content of the retort - the Bulgarian nation - is the creative power as well. When the Bulgarians go to live among Americans or other nations, they are polite and pleasant, but as soon as they return to Bulgaria, they become rude and discontented with everything. This discontentment is due to the small land they possess. The Bulgarians have a creative spirit that is why they feel confined here. Give the Bulgarians wide opportunities, much work and they will work. One day as I was walking by the seminary, I met a colonel riding a horse. All of a sudden his horse stopped and refused to go on. When the colonel got off the horse, it started to walk. By this the horse wanted to say, "I shall walk without a colonel, but if he is on my back, I shall stop." Every Bulgarian has this feature. Christ says, "I came to teach people how to give wide space to every soul and to encourage every good impulse in every single thing." If everyone should give freedom to their neighbor as they have need of the same, there will be wide scope to all actions and thoughts. If you would apply the laws hidden in my words, you would understand many things. I take everything in nature and interpret it. All the laws of nature I have tested are 75% true and only some 25% remain for me to test. Deposit this faith in yourselves and know that everybody bears something great. Someone wants to become an angel, but even as an angel s/he would see only the beginning, not the end of things. You will see only your head, but you will not see your tail; you become an atom whirling only around a circle, in order to acquire balance. But circling round a center shows that a person has lost his/her balance. Since we have become free from the periphery, we should study these two worlds - between the Master who is up and the mother who is down. What is true of the Sun and the Earth, is true of the brain and the stomach, of the spirit and the soul. Apply patience, i.e. develop the mind and the will, get rid of suspicion and substitute it by creative love. Be so strong that no matter what insult may be cast upon you, it should not touch you and you will become free of it in a short time. There is no greater art than the ability to rise above all insults and to substitute them by good thoughts. All of you can do a great deal of work and perform great deeds of goodness. What the teacher is playing at a given moment can be learned by the student too. Those who want to be something more than the others, must unite with the living Lord - with that great bond of harmony and study the law of silence. All the occultists say we should be listeners to the Great Master who is speaking. There is nothing better than silence. I would wish to be in your place - you should speak and I would listen, for I shall understand everything you say. Now when people hear something, they not only refuse to pay, but also criticize what they hear by saying it is not good. Christ says, "I am the restaurant keeper and came to feed people." Christ’s teaching shows us that we have conditions to become saints, angels and geniuses. But what are we now? We are the beloved children of God Who loves us not because we are so good, but because He is merciful to us. And this is the greatest thing in the world we can be christened by. We must justify this love, become worthy of it and never pull each other’s hair before His face. As soon as we hear that the Master, the Father, the Lord is coming we should immediately stand still. By today’s sermon I want all who have positive energy to turn it into negative and all who are up the mountain to come down and start building, while those who are masters should become servants. There is no need of masters. The Lord says, "I am tired of masters, I want servants who should put order in the world." Christ says, "Now the world will be set right by the students, the sons and daughters, not by the mothers and the masters. The students, the sons and daughters are the future of this world." The mother is engaged in fashionable clothes, the father drinks, but the sons and daughters see that their parents do not follow the right path that is why they set about serious work. Now take the position of sons and daughters, of students and servants, but do not say you are teachers, priests, mothers, fathers, kings, princes and the like. May the Lord keep you from such sins! May the Lord keep me from this sin, too! And may He make us students and servants of this Great Master and servants of this Great Lord in the world. For He is a Living Lord! Sermon held on June 15, 1919. ____________________________ 1 John 13:13 2 Lord - "Gospod" in Bulgarian (transl. note) 3 Gospodar - Bulg. Master; Gospodin - Bulg. Mister; Gospodja - Bulg. Missis, Gospodjitza - Miss (transl. note)

The Humpbacked Woman "And he laid his hands upon her and immediately she was made straight and glorified God."1 The primary requirement in life is that the truth should be presented in its real form. There are real and abstract, or positive and negative truths. If you observe a Centigrade thermometer tube from the bottom upwards as the temperature rises, you will have a positive truth, but if you observe it from the top downwards, you will have a negative truth. In the first case, the heat will increase, but in the second - it will decrease. You will say, "What does it matter if the heat increases or decreases?" This is of great significance. In nature only warmth causes the growth of all plants and fruit trees. This law refers to the human mind and heart as well. I interpret the word warmth as noble feelings. The most noble thoughts, feelings and acts are produced by warmth. You will ask me, "What has this to do with Christ’s laying His hands upon this woman?" Woman is the foundation of the world. The world cannot exist without women. If this were possible, God would not have created them. Some may object to this saying that God created Adam first. Yes, but which Adam? God created the male and female sex together. The male and female sex constitute a contrast in the world, but this contrariety is a great science as well. Christ wished to raise that woman to her high position. She was humpbacked. What does that hump mean? The woman was humpbacked in thoughts, feelings and acts. Christ laid His hands on that woman. The hands signify the sublime and the great in the world. Present day people suffer from lack of will, but a person lacking will is not a person. You will probably all say you have will. I would give you a small task so that you can test your will. I may give you a kilogram to lift from the earth. You will say, "Now, can we not lift a kilogram!" Yes, you can lift it, but not under any conditions. How could you lift this kilogram, if it were heated up to 1,000 degrees? Not only you, but no other person could lift it, you would even stay ten meters away from it. Therefore, there is a great difference between a kilogram that even children can lift and a kilogram the whole world cannot lift. If anyone could lift you, it shows you have no will, no power. We read that Christ laid his hands on that humpbacked woman and she was made straight. I ask you: can you lay your hands on your humpbacked mind, your humpbacked heart and make them straight? You will answer me that your hearts and minds are straight. No, your hearts and minds are not straight. The hearts and minds of all clergy, ministers and teachers as well as those of many other people are humpbacked. You will say, "Why do you offend us?" I do not offend you, but I am speaking the positive truth so as the illusions that we are something which we are not, should be avoided. In this verse, however, there is another psychological moment. Christ laid His hands on that woman in order that she might be made straight and glorify God. Tell me how many times a mother must lay her hands on her small child when she bathes him/her so that s/he might be made straight and start walking? If the mothers did not do that, would their children ever start walking? Your children are humpbacked women which is why you should lay your hands on them daily and bathe them. Do you know what bathing means? What a simple truth bathing is, but no one of the present day people of learning can give it an interpretation. Contemporary people are like that Greek philosopher who wanted to study the world by looking only upward. While walking along the street he fell in a hole. Getting out of it, the philosopher got angry and started scolding people for putting such an obstacle on his path. After restoring his calm state he continued on his way, but to his great surprise he fell into another hole. He became furious and started chiding people even more fiercely for placing obstacles on his way so that he could not discover the truth. No, sir, when you are seeking the truth you must look forward, not upward. All dandies, all ladies today look upward. Go out to the fields and notice which way the empty wheat-ears look. All empty wheat-ears look up. If a farmer should see all the wheat-ears looking up, he would be driven to despair. But if he should see all wheat-ears with bent heads, he would say, "Thank God! I wish all of you were bent!" Christ saw the humpbacked woman and by the same law laid His hands upon her and she was made straight and glorified God. Some may ask, "Why should we glorify God?" I am mot asking you to glorify that Lord in whose name all dissentions take place today and whom the churches have served for 2,000 years; I am not speaking to you about the Lord whom the governments serve - the god of war. I do not deny they are gods, but they are gods for themselves not for humanity. I am speaking to you about a Lord you can find anywhere, Who is within you, in whom you live and move and have your being, or feel. This Lord does not belong to states and parties. Him I call the God of suffering, of the humpbacked people in the world. Those of you who have studied the theorem of Pythagoras know what it states: the square constructed on the hypotenuse of a triangle equals the sum of the squares constructed on the two legs of the same triangle, i.e. the space comprising the square constructed on the hypotenuse equals the space comprising the other two squares. Thus the woman upon whom Christ laid His hands, represents the hypotenuse upon which the square was constructed, i.e. the neutral zone which divides the square into two triangles. Considering geometry and mathematics this way, a correlation can be found between them and life itself. If a person’s mind, heart and will would be healed, there must be at least three conditions. A person whose lungs, brain and stomach are spoilt cannot be healed. You may ask, "But how did Christ heal so many people of different illnesses?" Christ healed only those people whose lungs, stomachs and brains were in their right place. I take the stomach as an emblem of the physical life, the lungs as an emblem of the mental life and the brain - of the spiritual life of person. Therefore, if you are not connected with the forces of these three worlds, your hump cannot be made straight. In order that the child on whom the mother lays her hands may stand up, s/he must wish that him/herself, or have a certain thought about it. This analogy applies to the separate nations. Every nation is similar to a child. Some nations are considered young, others - old. If a nation is young, its mother must bathe it in the tub for a long time and lay her hands on it until it Starts walking. Moreover, it is known that a child who is just starting to walk passes through many phases - many falls and risings, but that does not mean anything. You will ask me, "What relation does this verse have to life today?" The sun directs its rays daily to us - they are the divine hands. What do they contain? Christ lays His hands daily on us by means of these rays. If your brain, stomach and lungs are healthy, your hump will be made straight by all means. You will say that this idea is not in accord with the present day church. Which church? The one formed by people, or the one created by God? If it is the church of God, it is nature itself. I believe in its symbol. But those who wish to take exams for priests and bishops must pass them in such a way that when they lay their hands on the humpbacked woman, her hump should be made straight. How many priests and bishops of this kind are there is Bulgaria? Two thousand years have already passed after Christ in the course of which all kinds of learned bishops and preachers came into the world, but the hump of the whole humanity as well as of the Bulgarian people, still exists. Why? Because no one believes in what Christ taught. I have talked with many worldly people and have noticed that they are more open to the great truths than some spiritual people. By saying this I neither judge nor blame anyone. If a teacher gives you a problem to solve that you cannot solve correctly, the teacher says that the problem has not been solved. "But, teacher, I struggled much until I solved it. Besides that, my father and grandpa are rich and good people, is it possible for me not to solve it?" All that may be so, but the problem is not solved. When students do not succeed in that, they start taking flowers, money, etc. to the teacher, but the problem still remains unsolved. You should know that the schools, grammar schools and universities have been founded for knowledge and not for bribery. I see all people today take candles to the church, light them but the problem still remains unsolved. You may be a king, but your soul, heart and will remain humped. I say to such a person: you will not achieve anything in the world and will always be a slave to the conditions in which you live. People today justify themselves by the difficult, unfavorable conditions. If I put a person in a nice building and give them all the favorable conditions for work, but should they bring in all their garbage from outside, what will become of the favorable conditions they were given? Such a person will complain of the bad conditions of life, but who created them? They themselves. What must they do? They must change them, but not tear down the house, only clean it up. If you do not maintain the good conditions given to you, you will be like those baby crows which, after dirtying their nest, begged their mother to be removed to another nest, since the one they were in was dirty. The mother asked them, "Will you also go to the new nest?" "Of course, we will." "Then you will dirty the new nest as well." I shall give you a similar example about a wolf. A wolf once went to complain to a fox of people who were so bad that they always persecuted him. "I shall go to some other good and noble people," he said. The fox asked him, "But will you take your teeth along?" "Yes, indeed." "Then these other people will persecute you as well." One must understand the basic law according to which everything should be put in its own place. If you have teeth, you must know how to use them. By healing the woman, Christ wanted to point out the fact that all people who believe in Him should have the will to correct their life. Jena2 coming from the Sanskrit word zeo means life in Bulgarian. The life of this woman had become humpbacked, but in order that it should be made straight, the divine will should direct it so that it would manifest itself sensibly. How would the Divine life manifest itself? It is a great mistake to think that you now much. I have nothing against your knowledge but I ask you, since you have studied algebra and geometry, what use have you made of these formulae? When I look through algebra and geometry textbooks, I see what great truths are hidden in these formulae, but their deep meaning remains concealed for the teachers and students. These seeds have not been sown in science yet. There is apathy in us to the deep truth. There is only a mechanical belief, we expect God to come and set all things right, teach us everything without our sitting down to work and investigating all things ourselves. This way we shall be like a rich man’s son who inherited great wealth from his father. He started going to balls and concerts, visiting one city after another and all famous places in the world and after returning home said, "There is no meaning in life." Such a person who visits cities like a tourist or gathers knowledge at school without applying it, I consider as a beggar going with their bag from house to house to hoard in one place what people give them. At some places s/he is welcomed, while at others upbraided until s/he loses all sense of self-esteem. Such a person degenerates. In fact all people who lead parasitic lives degenerate. It says in the Scripture, "Believe, hope and love," which means - have will. To manifest your will means to stand against the whole world if it is against the convictions you have tested and wish to apply. People may tell you it is senseless to withstand this, but if you have will power you will never give up. You will say, "I believe and that is all." You will say it is silly for one to believe. Perhaps it is so, but I have not met a person who does not have faith, only some think they do not believe, i.e. have only a reflection of faith in themselves, moving downwards and losing their warmth. Some believe that they will lose their life, or that that their life is bad, or that nothing will come out of them and so on. This is no knowledge, but only beliefs. If you say you have knowledge, I will ask you, "Why do I speak to you about this verse?" You will answer, "We suppose, we believe." You will be like those peasants whom a priest once preaching asked, "Brothers, do you know what I am going to speak about?" "No, we don’t." "Well, then, if you do not know, there is no need of my speaking to you." "Yes, we know, we know!" "Well, if you know there is no need of my speaking about it." I do not put the question this way, but classify the Christians into such as have a common center and such as have not, or Christians who move in regular circles and such who move in curved, hyperbolic lines. A comet sometimes appears in space, approaches the sun and then disappears. Why has this comet appeared in the world? If a person wishes to greet you from a distance, cast a long-range missile at you, they have a purpose for doing that. I think that comets leave their places in order to greet the sun, pass by the world, sometimes burst and then they pass away into space again. Every comet has a definite mission and its appearance can be examined from a physical, astronomical or spiritual standpoint. First its movements must be examined, why it has come and so on. In the same way many of you are comets who in the course of thousands of years will be lost in space. You appear and do not move in a circle, but in a hyperbola; you move in a circle, but in a hyperbola; you move out of space changing your place until another planet comes to change your center and put you in a circle. Christ came to change this hyperbola into a circle and place you in the center - thus changing your course. In this way Christ changed the orbit of this woman. When she stood straight, she found herself in a wise world and started glorifying God, i.e. started to study and understand her life. Her state can be compared to that of a person taken out of prison and placed among beautiful nature to enjoy the pure springs and taste its fine fruit - drinking in all its inexpressible beauties. In order to correct our life we need a positive, divine science. Many of you while listening to me get inspired and say, "We can do everything in order to correct our life." However, by the end of the week this inspiration is over and you say to yourselves, "No we cannot do this. But you have hardly considered this question deeply enough." There is no question that I have not considered from a spiritual standpoint. I understand it in form, in substance and in meaning as well as in its functioning under the impulse of the Divine Will or the divine Spirit. I comprehend in will and spirit that Divine body which does not change in the world, i.e. those ideas which are changeless and exist eternally and those acts which build the world. By spirit I mean the Divine human soul. What we call life flows from this divine soul. The spirit bears love because love is the fruit of this spirit. In Bulgarian the word douh3 comes from the word blowing of the wind, so it has almost lost all sense. The spirit is that Supreme Intelligent Principle by coming-into contact with which you will by all means understand the sense of life and start living according to all its rules. Contemporary science explains the causes of all anomalies in ordinary life. The first cause is due to the unnatural food you eat. God has made person to feed on fruit, but you eat meat. Meat has filled your organisms with such poisons that it is now a sum of uncleanliness. Science proves this. If your sense of smell were normal, you would avoid being close to one another - such an awful odor is emitted by those who eat meat. When someone complains of illness, the first condition for them is to change their diet. You will ask, "But what should we eat?" Fruit. "They are expensive." In the first place you must change the conditions of your life. Do you accept the idea that there is one God who has created everything in the world and are you ready to sacrifice everything for Him? This Great Doctor within you of whom all doctors today are simply assistants says, "Live naturally!" I consider this question in a very broad sense. A fruit diet and a meat diet contain different elements owing to which two different states are produced in our organism. By the same law every thought and every feeling can produce two different states which in the distant future of our life will produce two different results. Notice that Christ placed both His hands upon this woman which means that He placed His ten fingers upon her. Do you know what it means to place both your hands on a person? There is no greater blessing than placing your hands over someone’s head. It says in the Scripture, "Christ raised His hands, blessed His disciples and breathed at them." Today you suffer from the fact that you do not raise your hands. That is praying. But you say, "I do not pray." To pray is to raise your hands and where there is proper movement it is a movement of the spirit. Prayer is movement in all directions. As the legs move the right way, the heart, the will and everything must move on its way. What would you feel in such a case? At such a moment you will feel that you are master of your world, that you have everything and have no need of anyone. They may put you in prison and still you will feel happy, but you may be in a king’s palace and still be unhappy as the humpbacked woman. A Bulgarian learned man told me he wanted money, which means that he wanted to be like the humpbacked woman. I do not deny money, because it is admitted by God, but we must not regard it of God, because we have everything. I regret the fact that all Bulgarians want to be humpbacked women since they all want houses and money. We must make sensible use of everything we have. I am not asking you to abandon this life, or leave your husbands, because you are not heroes. What do I mean by telling you to leave your husbands? I compare woman to the director of a prison who is always spying on her husband to know where he goes, what he does, how he applies her teaching and for every small mistake she beats him. When I say, "Woman, leave your husband" I mean that you should leave him free and give him freedom to cure his wounds. Today all people stick to one another like ticks and only some force can separate them. Present day religion has turned into parasitism. If I befriend a person to sponge on them for my sustenance, that is fraud. A bishop has not taken this post only to earn his living by it and look after fields and houses. When I speak about the priests, it is not that I wish you should despise them, but that you should cast out of the church everything that is impure. The idea is the essential thing. I call such priests and bishops humpbacked. When Christ comes He should place His hands on all the priests so that their humps should be straightened. The priests preach the word of God, but when they leave the church, they say, "We preach and speak this way, because this is our profession, however, we think differently. Things will go like this now, but we shall get straight in the next life." If I had spoken like this 500 years ago, I would have been burned on the stake. But I am not one of those who can be burned. You, too, who do not want to die, come to the place where I live, become its citizens; it is so spacious, there is much light there and I shall give you the best houses and the best food. Do not think that when you enter this world I am speaking to you about, you will be childless. How strange people are when they think that on entering the other life and becoming saintly, they will not bear children any more! They will bear children but they will be righteous sons and daughters, not sinful as they have been till now. To be saintly and pure means not to be humpbacked. According to this law anyone entering this kingdom and marrying, will have only two children - a boy and a girl. And when these children grow up and marry, they also will have only two children, not a Jacob, who had twelve. Christ laid his hands on the head of the humpbacked woman and said, "May the blessing of your son and daughter rest upon you, they saved you." If I tell you the past of this humpbacked woman you will see that it makes great history. All the prophets have spoken of this humpbacked woman. Read the Old Testament and you will find everywhere a description of all her forms. The Revelation also speaks about her. In her first phase she is described as a woman sitting on seven hills and in the second phase she is a pregnant woman who is bearing a child. Her child is taken and carried up to heaven, while she flees to the wilderness. That means that when the humpbacked woman is freed of her hump, she will bear a man-child, that is - your mind will awake and start thinking and your heart will start feeling. Then you will say, "From now on, I shall live for my son, i.e. for the mind and sacrifice everything for him." I take the mind as a divine essence, not as an organ. I do not take the human mind in its degenerate form, for today it has become a laughing stock. Since you say you know much, tell me what will become of you in a year’s time; will you be on the physical plane or somewhere else; will there be peace in a year and what will be the situation of Bulgaria - will it be paying taxes or not? All these things have certain correlation; they are interrelated in a certain way. If we are paying a tax today, it is what we have been owing for thousands of years. It is strange when people are afraid of the indemnity Bulgaria is to pay. But do you know what great contributions people have been paying up till now without even giving it a thought? How many lives have been ruined and why and to whom have they been paying these contributions? Because of them nothing has come out of your life yet. There is something in you, indeed, but your way is crooked. And when Christ comes to lay His hands on you, you will begin to glorify God and realize you are moving in a center. Then all that is happening to you will have another meaning. In order to raise the Bulgarian nation, God has sent His children to this small land as to a boarding-house. All nations are boarding-houses where the good divine children live. The reputation of every boarding-house rests on its food, good conditions, hygiene and order. Also in every nation there will be born people of talent, of genius, writers and poets, after them saints will be born and finally the Son of God will come who will return in order to bless this nation. The greatest reward of a boarding-house will be the fact that such and such royal son has lived in it. You will say, "Christ performed so many miracles among the Jews who did not get wiser for that, how could saints and great men bring them to sense then!" But the Bulgarians are no more sensible than the Jews. If Christ should come today among the French, the English, the German or the Bulgarian people, they would act the same way with Him as the Jews. The present wars show what the Christian nations are like. Christ must lay His hands on these humpbacked peoples so that they could become straight. I do not consider anyone cultured today, all are humpbacked. We need another, higher culture. The conditions of the present culture must change in order to prepare the appearance of the Divine culture for which we all have been called. Our future will be, determined by our thoughts, not by our external appearance. Could your thought, perceiving something from the invisible world at a given moment, avoid perverting it? Which rays of light come straight from the sun and which are refracted? Only the light and the heat coming directly from the sun can make us healthy. And when Christ laid His hands on the humpbacked woman, she was made straight and glorified God. In the ten fingers of the hand lies all the power. The number 10 means that you live with God and do His will. The number one is God - the condition under which person can develop. You must have these conditions in your descending and ascending to God and carry your blessings to suffering humanity - and to all who have gone astray from the right path. We should know the meaning of all the fingers of the hands, if we are to know what Christ meant by laying His hands on the humpbacked woman. By that he wanted to say, "Woman, you need will power." The thumb means that you must abide by the divine world and not despite the will and mind of God. The forefinger tells, be pure and keep the right which God has given you. The middle finger - decide everything according to the divine measure so that you may be always just and merciful to everybody in all your actions, do as you would be done by. The ring finger - love the divine science, the truth, the beautiful in nature, do not deceive people in trading. The little finger is related to commerce and wants to say, "Spin well your yearn and weave well." Such is the meaning of the fingers of the one hand, but I shall talk to you about the meaning of the fingers of the other some other time. And after Christ laid His hands on the humpbacked woman, she immediately stood up and said to Christ, "I understand the meaning of all You said to me which is deeply hidden in my soul." Can you also, by looking at your fingers, say that you will fulfill all that is deeply concealed in them in meaning and content? A priest blesses with two fingers and says, "In the name of the divine world, in the name of your religion and justice, on the basis of science and material life, I bless you - now give your money." You act the same way - after you do the smallest good deed, you say, "Give me your money now!" Christ did not ask the humpbacked woman to follow Him, but He said to her, "Woman, go and bring up your children according to all the rules of the divine science." And all who glorify God today descend from the humpbacked woman. They are the sons and daughters of that humpbacked woman on whom Christ laid His hands. Thousands of mothers have laid their hands on their sons who turned out to be vagabonds and scoundrels, because their mothers had not known which moment to lay their hands on them. If a farmer would stretch his hands and sow his seed on the field at an inappropriate time, there would not be any result of his sowing. This shows that there is a definite time for everything in the world at which the hands should be laid. Mothers usually bathe their babies in the morning or in the evening and that way they massage and rub them, thus laying their hands on them, but they have something in mind by doing that. It is the greatest divine art for a mother to know how to massage her baby. If she knew how to do it, the child would turn out to be a genius or a saint. It is necessary that there should be schools for the young women to learn how to bathe and massage their children. The mothers today do this in a haphazard way, in order to have more free time. I shall give you a method how to bathe your children in the future. I connect this verse with many other verses, this is how I interpret it and sign my name below it, for by signing it, its words have power. You may ask me what signing means. When you sow a field, reap the wheat and put it in the barn - this is signing. When someone writes something and puts his name below, it means they must stand by their words. But today we easily sign our name and fulfill little. Christ laid His hands only once on the humpbacked woman and she was made straight. Christ is coming now and He will lay His hands on the whole white race, then you shall have a straight woman, a new life in Europe - a re-generation will take place. The unrest and changes taking place in the world today can be compared to the process taking place in the human body. I can tell you exactly what inner process each part produces on the organism of different people. Therefore in the organism of every different nation in which the divine spirit lives, certain thoughts have been stored up for ages which we must fight against. When a people acquires good qualities, it is a blessing for that nation, but if it were to acquire bad qualities, it is a horror and terror for the good people. The good qualities are like a river carrying only good blessings, but the bad qualities are like a river which tears down and destroys everything on its way. I am speaking to you not as Bulgarians, but as thinking human beings who possess a germ of the Divine spirit, soul and will so that these elements should be joined in you and render you free citizens in the world. You will say, "If I had power, I would do this and that." No, do not desire power for you have enough of it to do anything you wish. The mother who has bathed well her child has already applied her power. If all mothers would lay their hands wisely on their children, as Christ did, this war would not have taken place today. You will ask, "But what will happen in the future?" Christ, this rational principle, stretches His hands from the sun and if you accept His thoughts, wishes and will, if all this produces a change in you so that you would realize that you are all brothers and that the happiness of one person is the happiness of another as well, your life would immediately change into a straight line moving around a center. All people today - rich, learned and so on, have different centers and they wish to form a society with such a variety of centers. This is no science, it is mere disharmony. I have come to this conclusion too. Ten or fifteen years ago I was travelling round Bulgaria investigating the heads of this people. I have measured them with different circular instruments and compasses making calculations and have arrived at certain conclusions. Many people have asked me on observing my calculations, "What are you doing?" "I am learning how to make calculations."4 I already know what problems are of interest to the Bulgarians. On my trips people ask me, "Where do you come from and where are you going to, what is the purpose of your trip and so on?" Once I said, "I come from the sun to make observations in Bulgaria." "Would you impart some of your investigations’ results to us?" "This I cannot do." "What else are you doing?" "I give lectures." "Do they pay you for that?" "No, I do it free of charge." "How is that? Are you not married and how many children do you have; are your father and brothers still living; are you Bulgarian?" "I am Bulgarian for the time being." Then I hear them say, "He is paid by someone that is why he is a learned man. I, too, would become learned if I were paid." You too should measure your heads daily with your compasses. I have measured and observed many eyes, ears, eyebrows, noses and have come to a conclusion as to what a long nose means, a broad nose, thick eyebrows, a high or a low forehead and so on. With these conclusions I have come to the theorem of Pythagoras and see people whose hypotenuse is turned upward, but such people are not promising, you cannot expect anything of them. You will say, "What shall we do with such people?" turn the hypotenuse downward, not upward, i.e. the apex of the triangle should point up which means that the brain of person should be constructed on a square, not on a hypotenuse. Otherwise the front part of the head - the part of the mental abilities - will be very poorly developed and egoism, the animalistic nature, will prevail. Such a person will be capable of any criminal act unconscious of what the future would hold for them. Sometimes a young couple comes to me asking me if they should marry, whether they are suitable for each other and will get along well. I say, "The hypotenuse of your beloved is turned upward, you should not marry or if you do, you will be beaten, since you will be taking a half that is not yours." And when Christ laid His hands on the woman, her hypotenuse was turned downwards. The stretched hands should be horizontal. All distances from the top of the forehead to the ear should be equal. Place a person whose distances are not equal in any kind of society and they would not profit by the benefits of life, but if the relations change, all the manifestations of a person will change also. You can test this by any animal. Place a cruel wild animal under the most favorable conditions and it will not change. Many people have human form, but their head must be built according to the rules of the rational numbers in mathematics and geometry, not on the irrational ones. Have you studied rational equations? There are rational roots in the world. They are the divine foundations deeply inserted in our genesis. As you begin to understand these mathematical relations, when you see a regular geometrical figure, you will grasp at once the divine conditions within it. When you see a flower with five, six, seven or more petals, do you know whether these numbers are rational or irrational? Do you know what problems are hidden in these numbers of the flowers? I am trying to find a suitable language to explain this mathematics to the Bulgarians which can express the relation of these numbers in the petals and blossoms of the flowers. These lines and forms must become alive in you. Mathematics must become alive and a teacher must know on what numbers each head is built. You must have a deep understanding of these things so that when you see a person, you can immediately tell what kind of a person they are by observing their eyebrows, eyes, nose, ears, hair - whether it is thick or fine and so on. Nothing is by chance in the world. If the hairs of a woman are thick, she spins a thick yarn, but you may expect much of a woman with fine hairs. You will ask me, "Can all this be possible concealed in the humpbacked woman?" Yes, everything is concealed in her. If you learn all this you will understand the whole individual and the whole contemporary social, political and spiritual life. We shall come to know one another by external features, just as a doctor can tell what a person’s illness is by its external symptoms. The doctor comes, looks at your tongue and knows there is some kind of poisoning in your organism; then he examines your eyes and if they look yellow, s/he knows that the liver is not functioning normally. Doctors usually prescribe to sick people highly nutritious rich food, but the condition of the patient becomes worse by such food. I recommend to the sick hunger for two or three days after which they can eat prune compote (stewed prunes) and two or three hours later - the same compote with a little bread. After the patient recuperates a little, I shall give them a nice apple which they should chew well without peeling it so that they should absorb all its juice and after all that I will offer them the ordinary food they eat. When a poor person falls ill and has no means to call for a doctor, they either get well by themselves or visit the other world. This shows that the person’s hour for leaving this world has come and therefore, they should prepare themselves for that. Once I wrote to a friend of mine who was getting ready to depart, the following thing, "Your house is already in a dilapidated state, it is composed of many irrational numbers so you must abandon it and go to prepare good materials for your new house." The humpbacked woman on whom Christ laid His hands immediately sloughed off her old body as a snake sloughs off it skin or a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. You must pass through the same law. If a fundamental transformation, which can change you, does not take place, you cannot profit by the food nature gives you. During the greatest misfortunes there is a most abundant food. Do you know how much food is stored in the Vitosha mountain? If it could be utilized today, all Bulgarians would be nourished. But you are sinful and you will misuse it. But in the future people will be trained not to misuse the benefits of nature. The program for the future culture is provided for and the work for men, women and children is determined. In the future people will know each other from a distance, they will walk without hats and work only for two hours daily. The socialists want in their program eight working hours a day physical work. You may object, "But if people get a sun stroke? Besides, Apostle Paul said that women should not walk with uncovered heads." What does being bare-headed mean? It is to receive a blessing, but Apostle Paul has said that they should cover their heads only when they are with their husbands, while outside they should take their cover off, in order to hear bare-headed what Christ will say. When you are out under the open sky, you should take everything off your head so that you would be able to receive the Divine grace and hear what Christ says. But today people are wearing such big hats under which there is such a loud buzzing that they can hear nothing of what Christ is speaking. People are wearing such big hats that they become ministers, millionaires and what not - how can they understand the will of God then? We are all so rich that there is nothing more we could wish for, but we should give freedom to all our brothers to develop their wealth and not to put any obstacles on their way. I make a special recommendation to the Bulgarians not to spoil things. I have been observing them since more than twenty years and I see that they spoil what another has built and then they say, "Why do things go wrong with us!" Do not destroy, but build on what another has already built. That is what is happening to me too. I have been working for so many years on one and the same thing, but the priests are trying to tear down what I am teaching you. If what I am speaking to you is my own, I would tear it down too, but since it is divine and no one will speak the same way after me, the Bulgarians should build their life upon this teaching. I do not wish to destroy the churches or to change the social order, but I am telling you to throw out of the church and different parties only that which is unfit. After that let all preachers, teachers, guerillas join hands and begin to build together, help one another and continue the work of living nature. As to destruction, I can be a master of this too. Do not think that a good person cannot destroy as well. Eve said a single word to the snake and humanity has been suffering for as much as 8,000 years because of that word. Eve said to the snake, "After I eat the fruit you are offering me, if I actually become like God, I promise that all my sons and daughters shall serve you." That is why the woman Christ saved was humpbacked. Christ laid His hands on her and said to her, "Woman, be careful not to make such promises a second time. Now go and give birth." Outside of God there is no life, outside the divine science there is no science. Now, thanks to the humpbacked woman who began to glorify God, today we have a new culture. Shall I also lay my hands on you, or still keep them folded together? I shall not lay my hands on a person whose mind, heart and stomach are disturbed. Now I am speaking if the name of God. When I turn on the divine tap, all the blessings will come upon you, but if I do not turn it on, you will dig wells. When I turn on this tap, you will have such an abundance of water that you will not need to pay for it. That is why Christ said, "If you knew who is speaking to you, you would want and He would give you living water." And that humpbacked woman understood Him. I wish the Bulgarians would not be humpbacked. I shall wait for a few more years and see if the clergy and the teachers will get awake. If they do not come to consciousness, we shall put in a bag all their irrational numbers and make them calculate these. This is God’s decision: knowledge will be given only to those who will not misuse it. Today we see how in Russia the most sacred and religious ideas of humanity are misused. In the future such things will not be tolerated. When Christ laid His hands on the woman, He said to her, "Woman, understand and keep God’s law. When you turn to God, your hands must be always clean." When you turn to God, He will see the construction of your fingers, whether they are rational or irrational numbers, and say if you should be accepted or sent back. This is one great science which, once learnt, will transform all parties and separate individuals who will begin to glorify God. Then all parties will be based on the rational numbers. The number 10 is rational, but 5 is irrational. Man is number 5, that is why all does not go well with him. He must be joined to woman so that together they should become the number 10, which is a rational number. Hence, the law has it that two irrational numbers added give a rational one. The combination of the living numbers will affect the future life. What I am speaking is not clear to you, but that does not matter. Thank God for what you do not understand as well as for what you understand. What you understand will throw light on what you have not understood. Now, when you go back home, examine both sides of your hands and a bright idea may come to you. When you rise in the morning hold your hand for five minutes against the sun as you warm it by a stove. If you are well disposed, you will learn many more things than you would understand in a whole senseless life. If you understood well these things, you would see that all the energy and will are hidden in the hands and it is through them that we become ill or healthy. When a person starts hiding their thumb among the other fingers, that is a bad sign - they will not have luck. When one holds their hand in a fist, it means - you will be beaten." Some people keep together the four fingers of the hand, but the little finger stays open. That means: "My interests differ from those of other people." People must learn how to hold their hands. Many orators do not know how to hold their hands, they are embarrassed. This shows that their heart, mind and will are not in accord. Drop your hands calmly down and say, "God will help me," then raise them up and an idea will be born in you. Someone says they are honest people, but they shut their eyes and look down. Open your eyes and say you are an honest person. Today we say things opposite to the good life. A child says they will obey, but they look down. A child who picks his/her nose or ears, is not a good child. When someone asks you for help, but scratches behind their ear, it shows they have no definite idea. When Christ laid His ten fingers, He expressed the science the results of which are mathematically calculated. Prayer is a science and you must study a long time how to hold your hands correctly and how to move your tongue. Someone has a frightening look. Why? Because the world in such a person is unorganized. Another person has a cruel look or glances askew. Why? Because the angle of the theorem of Pythagoras is crooked. You must always have a soft look in your eyes which should be open in a restful state, always ready to receive a Divine Truth. This is what Christ spoke to the humpbacked woman, this is what I also tell you, so that your humps may be made straight. Everything in you - your eyes, ears, nose, foreheads, fingers must be rational numbers that your humps may be made straight. Then you will understand whether there is Truth, Wisdom and Love in the world. I say: there are virtues, there is absolute righteousness, wisdom, love and truth. You are living in a Divine world which you must accept within you. And when will the new children of the new generation come? Many beings have prepared this world for you, set the table and are waiting for you. But you may find some reason to refuse and answer, "I have bought a field I am going to see; I have bought five pairs of oxen, I am going to examine them; I have married and wish to have a good time with my wife, so I cannot come." This is how the learned men answered in the time of Christ, but you should not give such an answer. You may work in your field, you may test your five pairs of oxen, or get married and yet serve God. Now I wish all of your humps to get straight. My words concern those who have humps. If anyone’s hump is straight, let them excuse me. If someone has no hump but becomes offended, it shows that they do have a hump. When you go back home, read and meditate on this verse and on what has been said that you may create your own philosophy which will be the basis for a better understanding of Christ’s teaching. Sermon held on June 8, 1919. ___________________________ 1 Luke 13:13 2 Bulg. For "woman" (transl. note) 3 douh- Bulg. For spirit (trans, note); douham- Bulg. Blow (for wind) (ed. note) 4 The Master is referring to the phrenological research he made between 1901-1913 when he travelled around the country delivering lectures. (ed. note)

The Rejected Stone "The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner."1 Is there anything of interest in a rejected stone? You will ask me, "What content or philosophy is there in a rejected stone?" There are millions of such neglected stones in Bulgaria. In the building of a house many stones remain unused. The trouble of it is that they turn into obstacles in life. After reading the whole chapter of Mark you will see the relation of this verse to the other verses and understand why these words were spoken. If there were no builders, this stone would not be mentioned, therefore, the builders are to blame. When a house is being built, the builders pile up stones and break them, that is why many stones are left over. Therefore by the word "stone" the process of building is implied. People who pursue the positive sciences say that all things must be visible, tangible and real. However, not all tangible things are true or real. Thousands of things in the world are not proved, yet they are true. There are thousands of philosophers in the world we know nothing of, but what they have said is right. There are many eminent philosophers as well, but their philosophy is not right. When I read a book of philosophy, I renounce 50% of its truthfulness, then I subtract 25% more and consider only the last 25%. The number 25 is meaningful to me - it is a law by which I measure all things. You may object, saying that days and nights are measured by a 24 hour cycle, but the earth does not turn around its axis in 24 hours exactly, but rather in a period of about 25 hours. The number 25 has a relation to the human life as well as to the earth. Number 25 is composed of two numbers 2 and 5 which added give the number of 7. You will say that you have known the meaning of the number 22 since your schooldays. All students weep when they get a 2 at a subject, in fact the whole world is weeping because all suffering, all sins, the destruction and creation of worlds begin with the number 2. You may have a noble son, pure as virgin, for whose education and upbringing you have not spared any money. One day a young woman sets her eyes on him and wants to marry him because the number 2 without 1 is only a reflection of the number 1. Every number has its reflection. When you study astronomy, you will see that there are certain reflections also. In physics, too, there are reflections. For instance the light on the earth is a reflection. It is the shadow of light which consists of billions of vibrations. Now you are studying only things in which there are vibrations, e.g. you are studying only the shadows of the reflections. Where there is motion, there is the place of shadows. I do not say that shadows are not real things, but they are transitory. A shadow may serve us temporarily, but you cannot make it a foundation of your life. But why is it that the numbers 2 and 5 have an equal relation to us? The number 5 is the sum of 2 by 2 plus 1. Therefore, the human mind is nothing but 2 women married to the same man. The human mind converses with two women, agreeing with the one and disagreeing with the other. This state is similar to a country of two parties - a conservative and a democratic one. The occultists call one the higher mind, or higher manas, and the other - the inferior mind, or manas inferior. But I call such mind a mind of two women and according to the present laws of the church such a mind is subject, to excommunication. For this reason it must learn to live with a single woman. What will remain then? When we subtract 2 from 5 3 remains - the number with which we can start our life. A man and a woman may quarrel, but when two women start quarrelling the house gets all "smoke and dust". To verify this, read the story of Jacob who married the younger and older daughters of Laban. See what their relations were. Jacob had 12 sons the eleventh of whom was Joseph. Why did his brothers sell Joseph, who was the eleventh, and not some other? You will say this is a "chance coincidence". Coincidence is a karmic law, it is a measured law of action. I shall not stop to explain why Joseph had to be sold. The stone among Jacob’s sons was the one which should have made the corner stone but the builders rejected it. Joseph was sold by his brothers, but later he became the head of the corner. During the great famine, as an eminent man in Egypt, Joseph saved from hunger many people, including his brothers. This story does not refer only to the Jews, but to all people as well. The misfortunes of every home are due to the rejection of this stone. It is the number 11. Which of the two women remains in the home? The most intelligent and practical one, but in my opinion, not the best. A good woman is always ready to give her place to others. Contemporary society and contemporary homes suffer an inner division, because two women are competing for the same man - who should possess him. You know how Jacob’s two wives bribed him. One day one of Jacob’s sons was sent by his mother to bring her some mushrooms. Then his mother said to Jacob, "I bought you tonight with mushrooms, that is why you will come to me." You will say, "Can a person be bribed this way?" All people can be bribed. Tell me whether during this war there remained a single unbribed person!" All of you, men and women listening to me, can you honestly say you have not been bribed? I do not judge you by saying this, but I am stating a truth. In one of his poems Slaveikov3 says with irony, "Coin, coin, almighty queen, with one’s in paradise; without you, he’s nowhere." All the spiritual people today talk about the Lord all the time and recite, "Lord, Lord, You are our coin and when we worship You, we are in paradise, but if we forsake You, we are nowhere." Money is a woman corrupting contemporary society - it is a house of debauchery. And actually all crimes today are committed only for the sake of money. A woman marries a man for his money and because his hands are strong and can earn a living. When someone says they love ideally, they deceive themselves. The cat catches the mouse in the same ideal way and the wolf seizes the sheep similarly. In the past when God created the wolf, He sent him to guard the sheep as their shepherd. At first the wolf started making use of their wool, then he tasted their milk and finally - their flesh. God chased the wolf away into the forest for his last act and put in his place the dog, which faithfully fulfills its mission to this very day. Basically, what is this stone which the builders rejected and which became the head of the corner? How can this be geometrically understood - the head of the corner? Why should it not be the head of the line? You, who have studied geometry, what can you say about the direction this head must be turned to: must it point upward, downward or sideways? If we turn this angle downward, we have one direction of movement, if we turn it upward, there is another direction of movement. Your body without the arms represents this stone, while your two arms form the angle. I want you to study the living geometry. A person is built upon geometric principles. You may ask me, "Can there be an angle without lines?" No, that cannot be, it is a law. The angle shows two opposite forces acting in the same direction and having the same center. Since these forces are heterogeneous, there will always be certain space between them forming a plane called an angle in geometry. If the forces are homogeneous, they will move along a straight line. You will say you know these things. No, you do not understand them yet. "The stone that the builders rejected became the head of the corner." Where did they reject it from? There is a legend about the great Egyptian pyramid in Ghizah which tells the story of the top stone of the pyramid. When they started building it, the top stone was the first to be cut out, but since the pyramid was built for ages, the stone being laid aside remained unused since no one knew what it was for. When the pyramid was completed, the chief master came and placed the rejected stone on the top as the head of the pyramid. Thus that stone became the head of the corner. The pyramid shows human evolution. The stone which must be placed on the top so that the evolution of man should be completed, lies kicked around. Today all philosophers kick that stone around. Do you know the size of this pyramid? There were about 6 million tons of stone in it. Archeologists say that for the transportation of the material of this pyramid, 60,000 machines each containing 100 tons are needed. You can imagine what human efforts this pyramid had cost! You will say, "What is the meaning of this pyramid?" It has great meaning for it is the emblem of the present person and its dimensions and measurements contain encoded all the events which took place in the past and will take place in the future. It also contains all the astronomical lore in all detail. One might read the past and the present history of humanity on this pyramid, though few can really do it for the language is very difficult to understand. Some scientists today read a few books and think they know much. Do not deceive yourselves thinking that way. In my opinion only the person who can lay hold on death and control it has real knowledge. Therefore, you may be a philosopher, a theologist, a mystic, or anything else, but if death crushes you, your science is not positive and your stone is rejected. The Scriptures say that the rejected stone became the head of the corner. Of which corner? Of love and wisdom in the invisible world. A great secret is concealed in the creation of the world and of the whole cosmos. You think that only present-day people are fighting and experiencing such enmities. What is happening today is the reflection of the past. All this hatred and wrong-headedness among people is not a product of the present, but of the past. I can prove this by a number of facts. For instance, a person falls ill in some part of their body, but this illness has its cause 100, 200 or 1,000 years ago. The doctors say this illness has appeared about 20 years ago at the most. The illnesses are caused by a large quantity of sediments in the body causing an anarchy and a reaction in the organism as a result of which the temperature rises up to 39°, 40° or 41° C4 and we are horrified of the coming end of life. But there is nothing horrible about this temperature. A person may remain alive not only at 41°, but at 100°, 200°, 2,000° degrees Celsius. "Can a person survive at such high temperature in his present physical state?" People today are a laughing stock of humanity in their present physical state. If you had a chance of studying a person under a special microscope, you would see how beautiful s/he is. We may mix up two ideas in our mind - that of the spiritual and of the material. We live with spiritual ideas in our mind, but when we have had a good meal, we say, "Today we are well." But when we get hungry on the next day, we begin to worry again and think of the material. After a woman has eaten, she says, "Thank you, God, I am pleased today, there is no deficit." I ask you: what science is there in a life full only of deficits? Today men, women and children enter the kitchen and say, "How good it smells!" This is the way bishops and teachers act and then they say, "We are cultured people, ideal people." Yes, you are cultured people of the frying pan and the butter. Some ask why I do not teach you something more philosophical. Give me some of your philosophy so that I can see what it is like. I draw a circle and ask you what it means. It signifies a great idea which has given rise to genesis. This circle shows the way the world began. Originally the world began with a circle without a center which later was formed of itself, or this Original Cause moved circularly and then stopped. After that from the surface of this first movement, the original condition was lost and an inactive state, or as the Hindus say "darkness", was formed - the period of Kaliyoga. In time a small point appeared in the center of this circle as you place a compass on a piece of paper and clraw a circle. Thus, this power after defining the limits within which it would work, entered the center and worked out its circle, in order to form the universe. I call this a state of pregnancy of the cosmos with a great idea. This small point is the important thing. You say, "How can this small point be important!" Yes, these small points do everything in the world. For instance, a sickness attacks you, but at the same time a small pimple forms puss somewhere on your body and attracts your attention. So, all your worries concentrate on the small pimple. When a certain harmony is to be attained within you, a small point must appear - you see your ideals in the center and say that now life makes sense. But I say - now your life is pregnant with an idea. You ask, "Do people live only with ideas?" Yes, people vegetate with food, but live with ideas. You should not mistake vegetating with living - these are two different states. You ask, "Shall we exist?" Has there been a time when you have not existed? Can a part say it has not existed in the whole? Every part has existed in the whole. When a part is individualized within the whole, it starts its individual existence. Existing5 means manifesting, coming from the Sanskrit word sat meaning to manifest. When you begin to think, to move and to do good and evil, you exist. In this respect good and evil are the two acting forces in the world. Evil lies in the fact that the builders rejected this stone. When a person rejects a great idea in his/her mind or a good desire in his/her heart, and when a nation rejects its ideals and is bribed for money, they lose. If the statesmen paid heed to the ideals of the people, they would not make mistakes. When the statesperson and the spiritual person become individualized, they begin to think that their prosperity lies outside this stone. You can build a whole human body, it has no value whatever. You may be a millionaire, but without this stone you will be a person without a head, or a positive soul, or a positive spirit. The mind, the soul and the spirit are three different ideas. What is positive? What undergoes alterations, but does not change. The positive is master of its fate and does not try to dominate the world. In the positive there is always an aspiration to be in accord with the great harmony which has existed since times immemorial. There must be harmony everywhere among men, women and children, there must be harmony in all homes. Some say, "I can get along well with my husband even if there is no harmony between us." No, you cannot live that way. How many men have I seen running away from such a life! Do you know what these men can be compared to? One day Nastradin Hodja6 was leading home ten donkeys quite loaded with wood, but when they got tired, they did not want to walk anymore. Nastradin Hodja wondered what to do to make them walk. A traveller passed by and said there was a cure against the stubbornness of the donkeys. He gave a hot pepper and told Nastradin Hodja to rub their bottoms below the tail. This being done, the donkey quickly got home. Do not take this example in a bad sense, however. The same thing applies to you as well. When you have a sore throat, they give you some hot medicine. In order to be cured, you are given something bitter or hot. A husband, after his wife has rubbed him with her thoughts, either takes to the tavern or runs away to some foreign country. This refers to women as well. I do not want to blame you by telling you all this. I take the number two as a form. This number exists within you as a state of contradiction. We shall get rid of the contradictions in life when we place this stone as the head of the corner. It alone can unite love and wisdom so that they can work in the great harmony; it alone can make the body, lungs and all organs function properly so that the whole person can be manifested. I hear people talking today that the Lord will set the world right. I also believe that the Lord will set the world right, but the question is whether we shall be able to set our inner world right. When spring comes the flowers begin to bloom, the healthy people welcome it by joy and smile, but the sick people meet the sun and spring quite differently. Spring is pleasant to the healthy people, but it means cleansing up of the organism of the sick, so that the months of April and May are months of crisis for them. The Bulgarians say that the months of March, April and May put paid to the accounts of the sick and give energy and impulse to the healthy. We are linked with all forces of nature, since they function in our body as well. We are the builders rejecting this stone - this conscious understanding - and saying, "General bettering of the world is necessary." This bettering, however, is like spring. What is important is whether I shall be in a state to profit by it. You say, "Humanity must be bettered first." Humanity has been set right since the distant past, but its individual members, regardless of sex and title, have not been set right. I say that everyone lacks something. So long as we die, we have no head; so long as we suffer, we have no knowledge. Thus, when the center of the circle came into being, the universe became pregnant, then the point moved and divided the circle in two. By that the universe determined itself and first bore the woman who divided the world originally. That is why half of the world is light and half of it dark. Man became angry with the woman who divided the world that is why today he illuminates only half of the world - the half he likes. These two women chase one another, but he always gives light to the one he likes. The woman who rejoices is called day, but the angry one is called night. Or in other words, the rejoicing woman is manas superior, or the day, while the angry woman is manas inferior or night. These two angles are the two women. Why does a person have two hands, two legs, the brain and the lungs double, the heart double too and so on? Everything is divided because there are two women. You will say, "Then let us do away with the number two." We need not do away with it, but rather understand its essence. In my opinion, matter is a reflection of the spirit. Matter is also a woman. This woman does not bear children all the time. We have fallen into the arms of the dark mother who is constantly kneading us saying, "Will you still hold on to that father who was disloyal to me? Leave him and come to me for I shall give you happiness." Those people who believe in the reality of the world, we call materialists. Tomorrow when your eyes, arms, stomach, brain and so on decay, all reality is lost. The nerves decay too. Where is reality? Where is the positive in the world? You will say, "We are believers, we believe in one God." I am glad for that, but have you been with your light mother, have you seen the light side of the earth? In order to come to know the earth, you must go 10,000 kilometers in space and see from that height what it is like. From the point of view of the cultural people living higher than you, you are like fish living on the bottom of the ocean. The cultured people living above you say, "Shall we leave this person here, or shall we send him/her to reincarnate?" And death is nothing but bait on a fishing rod for catching the fish. The Lord says, "This divine net will be cast to the end of the world; some will be taken out of the sea on the shore, while others will be cast again into the sea." In all manifestations of nature we must see positive unchangeable things. What does the unchangeable consist in? In our desire to be in brotherly relations with all people and understand that all people suffer the same way in this world, regardless of the fact whether we are rich or poor, educated or simple, parents or children. When we realize the fact that we have the same suffering and the same fate, that the salvation of one is a salvation of another as well, we shall come to a right philosophy of life. But not to an understanding as the world and the church have today. Why? Because if the solution of a small problem is right for a student, it does not mean that the whole of mathematics is exhausted. In geometry, too, there are many geometrical formulae which are not proved. The theorem that the sum of the three angles in a triangle is equal to two right angles does not contain the whole of geometry. Therefore, we should take a more serious attitude to all problems and consider what kind of people we should be at the present moment. If we say we are bad now, but shall be good in the future, this is not a right solution to the problem. Your present bad experiences are your past, but your present good deeds are your future. Our goodness can be tested. It can be tested the same way as the change occurring in a hungry person can be tested after s/he has eaten. Such a person becomes more cheerful and gay. To think idealistically is to haye for the present time such essential food which can give strength and an impulse to our mind. We can take this strength and food from anywhere. In my opinion, all writers of all calibers are flowers so that as the bees you can take honey from whichever flower you wish. Do not ask why so many kinds of flowers were created: they all have a definite purpose. Everything good or bad, every thought, every angel or demon also have their role in the cosmos. What are the angels and demons? They represent motion in two opposite directions. The former are full pails going upward and the latter are empty pails coming down. We want only full pails - well, but when they are emptied from where and how will they be filled? Therefore, when righteous people go above, they become sinners, but the sinners will become righteous. This way the wheel along which runs the progress of humanity is in motion. People must be conscious of the fact that they can be sinners and righteous people, but they must do the will of God. A person who builds will soil him/herself. Do not think that you will not be disturbed by the laws of the state. We must have in ourselves other laws which determine our existence, for when Bulgaria and all countries vanish, the earth and the solar system are transformed, we shall still exist. The earth will change, it will not be what it is today, that is why Bulgaria does not determine your existence, but you determine the existence of Bulgaria. Thus I say, on the earth the whole depends on its parts whereas in the spiritual world the parts depend on their whole. I shall explain this thought to you. Twenty million people on the earth can become united by a common idea and common feelings and form a nation. However, one day their ideas and feelings may change just as a caterpillar changes when it is transformed into a butterfly. A nation is placed in a given form only for 40 days during which time it must fulfill all its duties toward itself and after that it must start living with other ideas and feelings. Then we can exchange the words Bulgarian, French, German for quite different notions. When we say hand, leg, brain, lungs, we have a certain idea. Thus everything makes sense in its organism. What does the word Bulgarian mean in the general organism? I place the Bulgarians in the liver, but you must know that the particles in the liver, like all beings, constantly undergo and evolution and change. The same way after a time the Bulgarians will pass into another form of development. You will look for the Bulgarian then higher in the organism. It is great wisdom to understand the meaning of the rejected stone. A stone represents what is changeless, constant and permanent. We belong to a certain church but we reject the principles of nature. We should know that our philosophers will vanish, but the principles of nature will remain invariable. What \ mother-nature has created survives. Think now why you were born men or women; why in a family a girl is born first or the opposite - a boy comes first; why a certain philosophic system appeals to you; why you have become Christians and so on. You will answer me, "Because Christianity saves people." I agree 50% with you. Then I say, "You were ill but have already left the hospital." In such case what has a hospital have to do with you since you have become healthy and have started to plow and sow? Or will you start returning to the hospital every day to thank the doctor for having healed you? One day the doctor will say to you, "Enough with your thanks for I have other ill patients." You will say, "We must pray to God." Of course we must pray, but not as ill people, rather as healthy persons. As ill people you should drink your medicines, lie on your back, turn over in your bed, kneel out of pain, while as healthy people you will take your plough and go straight to your field or vineyard and make bows there. Every sick person is a Christian. But you will say, "I belong to another party." No matter what party you are from, or what creed you uphold - a Buddhist, a Mohammedan, a theosophist, an occultist, if you are sick, you are "Christian"7. Some people ask me, "Why has not Christianity set the world right?" I answer thus, "Christianity is a doctrine for sick people who it has helped so far as it had been able to, but in the world there is no doctrine for the healthy people yet." Someone says, "I want to deal with great ideas." I ask you, "Are you through with all medicines, with all sick people, did you bid goodbye to all the nurses and did you leave the hospital?" If you have done with all this, you may enter the world to learn the law of Christianity and then you can find your light mother. You, present-day people, are Christians, but you are not sons of God yet. Woe now to them who call themselves sons of God for they will be hanged, called heretics or crazy fellows. The Son of God is a person sound physically, morally, mentally who does not die. This is how I define him. We must understand Christ’s teaching well. Christ says, "I have come not to do my own will, but the will of Him Who has sent me." Who is He? You do not know Him yet. Everyone is groping about looking for Him, lighting candles for Him, burning incense for Him; people look up, eat and drink and read, yet no one knows Him yet. This is the bitter truth. "This is life eternal to know the only true God." What does God mean? God means a movement in the right direction of your life. God is what stimulates your right movement. I translate or interpret the word movement by the word Love, because only Love causes movement. When two young people fall in love, they move towards each other. When people begin to love a teaching, they begin to love everybody. Thus, the sick people whom I call "Christians" have rejected this corner stone, because they do not need it. Like sick people, we lie on our backs and expect to be served. A doctor comes to the sick person, the latter groans, "Oh, Doctor!" but when they are served meat balls, they eat. They eat but they groan as well. Your cuisines are for sick people. A man comes home from work and starts shouting, "Why have you not cooked anything, don’t you know I am a sick man, a Christian?" You call the name Christian a noble name. Yes, as long as you are in the hospital, but once you leave it you are no more a Christian. Do not understand me wrong, I am reasoning ideally. There are no contradictions in the world for me, everything is clear. If you could understand the problems the way I do, the world would be set right in a single day. I consider people today tied to one another to be more sure in life. But I say: stop tying yourselves for tying shows a sickly consciousness, since only sick people become insured. Old people say, "We must be insured." That means: we must humble ourselves and become Christians living for God in our old age. These are all people who reject the living stone. Every person who does not fulfill the will of God grows old. I shall tell you a story by Shakespeare taken from the Danish life. A very wise king wanted to make an experiment with a famous man in his land called for his sanctity and purity "Anthony the righteous". The king called Anthony one day and said to him, "I want you to rule instead of me for sometime, but my people must now know about my absence." At first Anthony the Righteous did not agree to the proposal, but later accepted it. He sat in the king’s throne and since there was much debauchery in the land at that time, he issued a severe decree: "Anyone caught in debauchery should be executed." The son of an eminent Danish courtier was convicted of this crime. Anthony the Righteous called him and said to him, "You have committed a crime and according to the decree you should be executed." The youth was frightened and decided to send his sister, who was a great beauty preparing herself to enter a convent, to plead for his life. When Anthony saw the beautiful woman, he said to her, "I shall forgive your brother only under the condition that you become my lover without anyone knowing about it." Anthony the Righteous was married and divorced and had become righteous later in life. The sister was disgusted by that condition and told her brother he had to suffer his penalty. The brother asked her, "Is there anything wrong in this, if you agree, you will at least make a sacrifice for me." The wise king learned secretly this fact and sent for Anthony’s divorced wife, telling her to disguise herself as the beautiful young maiden and visit Anthony on the set day. After satisfying his desire, Anthony issued a verdict for the execution of the young man, thus showing his cunning. The wise king heard about this and ordered the director of the prison not to kill the young man. After that he called Anthony for an explanation. Anthony the Righteous made his confession saying, "I was able to overcome everything in the world, but could not resist the beauty of the young woman and fell. The fall of all people today is like this. People who join a society or a brotherhood without faith in it, commit the same debauchery. People who pass from one brotherhood to another, who marry twice or three times are like Anthony the Righteous in my eyes and they will not acquire any wisdom. Wisdom is within nature itself, within us that is why we must heed its inner impulse and go in the direction of that stone which will show us whom or what we must join. If a person acquires wisdom and intends to misuse it, they commit debauchery. Those who acquire love and misuse it also commit adultery. Every noble thought or feeling which becomes perverted is adultery. Therefore, the whole world is ill. All sick people today are "Christians". The greatest disgrace for Christ to bear in the world today is the "Christianity" with which people deck themselves. If you place this disgrace on your back only for 24 hours, you will feel the greatest repulsion in the world when you see how everything today is done in the name of Christ. All the worst things today are done in the name of religion, civilization and sacred feelings. And how degraded are the incentives for all this! That is why we must all endeavor to become sons of God. Now I shall interpret the word Christianity in a reverse sense. Christ is the man who is always in sound health and has put order in His thoughts and desires, has conquered His passions and deserves to be called the Son of God. Only when we learn the Divine wisdom shall we be able to understand the truth and become masters of the conditions of our life. Only then can we change the world and be called sons of God. But today the sick people rule the world that is why it is full of knives, medicines, hospital beds, needles for injections and so on. This present science will be only for the sick people, but they will be only tormented by it. Today we meet people of different classes who cannot come to terms with each other. A person today is a cross without a circle, i.e. a person in the hospital who says to others, "We must bear our cross." An Englishman once told me "to put Christ on" and I answered him "to put Christ in," i.e. he told me "to be clothed in Christ" and I answered him "to receive Christ within ourselves." Some songs have the words, "Let us be clothed in Christ." But I say: we should not be clothed in Christ because dressing is a temporary process, it is a transition, but we should accept Christ inwardly, become sons of God and restore our health. If contemporary society thinks this way, it will learn this law correctly. People will learn what is good by suffering. A new element has entered the earth which will set the world right - the pure air. Take a sick person up the mountain in the pure air and s/he will get well in spite of his/her will. A moment is coming when we shall be healed without being aware of it. Sufferings are stimuli which take us up a high place. When someone commits a sin, s/he gets ill and says, "I shall not do this anymore." That is, they put paid to their account. When we put paid to our sins, we must receive love, the wisdom of health and immortality; then we shall be near the door of the great temple in which we shall learn the great truth of life. We are aspiring for a kind of life which you can have only after you have left these hospitals. From today on stop saying that Christ saves you, but say, "We shall live for Christ and help the sick to leave the hospitals; then we shall lead them out of the city life, because it is unsanitary." We must go out in the fields and start digging and ploughing there. The Bulgarian who ploughs says that Bulgaria is in order, but they who do not plough worry which lands will be given to Bulgaria, which parts of Macedonia, which part of Dobrudja8, etc. This is not fit for a Bulgarian, such a person does not live even in the liver of the general organism but lower than that. Take your plough and goad, plough and sow without weeds and say, "We are healthy people of the new culture, thank God we got rid of the hospitals!" One more example: there were two paralyzed men in a hospital who were considered hopeless cases, so they were isolated. Fortunately for them one day the hospital took fire and in the hurry all the sick were carried out of the hospital but the two paralyzed men. Lying in their beds they felt the heat and the approaching fire. At this crucial moment of their life, they forgot their illness and ran out of the hospital. Finding themselves healthy again they thanked God the hospital burned so they should get free from this great slavery. You say now, "Let the hospital be set on fire so that we paralytics may go out and say, "Thank God we can think now as God wishes, not as people want us to think." Sermon held on June 1, 1919 Sofia. ___________________________ 1 Mark 12:10 2 On the 5/6 scale grading system 2 is the failing grade. (ed. note) 3 A Bulgarian poet of the 19th century. 4 0°C= 32°F 39°C= 102,2°F, 41°C= 105.8°F (ed. note) 5 In Bulgarian- sashtestvuvane (ed. note) 6 A Turkish trickster man in Bulgarian folklore. (ed. note) 7 The Master makes distinction between Christianity as a religious institution and Christianity as a spiritual teaching. Used metaphorically, it implies all religions. (ed. note) 8 Reference to the anxieties surrounding the end of WWI. (ed. note)

The Table of the New Testament "And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meal in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples."1 Here is an ordinary verse without substance or sense similar to an ordinary little stone keeping its wealth inside, not outside itself. I shall use the word "publican" in the sense of simple people. The poor person and the sinner are two brothers. The poor person is dispirited of money and gold, therefore they lack means, but the rich person always uses the poor person for work. The sinner is a person deprived of wisdom and knowledge that is why s/he sins. I call the simple people "bankers". But I call the present day bankers "tax collectors". They collect the taxes or take 5% or 10% interest, as much as they can. The tax collectors today also collect their percentage. And those publicans and sinners came and sat at the table with Christ. You may ask, "How is it possible for such a Master to admit such people to sit at the table with Him?" By the word table I understand school not the old school, the Old Testament of Moses, but the new school of Christ. Christ’s disciples are the first disciples of the new school, of the New Testament. The publicans and sinners represent the old culture, the old school - the Law of Moses. Are all children who enter school learned? Most of them are simple and ignorant. How many children at school have patched clothes, but they are much more diligent in their studies than the sons of the rich? Therefore, those publicans and sinners are disciples who have come to study the new teaching. Contemporary Christians, not comprehending the deep sense of this teaching, have divided the church into sinners and righteous people, or to actual members of the church and listeners. There are listeners in all churches who are tested for a number of years before becoming actual members of the church. After spending 10 or 15 years in a church as a listener such a person is asked what they have learnt about Christianity, and they answer, "When Christ comes, He will explain it all." I wish Christians today would pass a test to find out if they are leaving a class or if it is time for them to graduate from school. Then we shall find ourselves in a contradiction which we can see in the following story: A great wise king in ancient times wanted to test the tendencies of his most enlightened subjects and that is why he put them to a test. He placed ten fine objects in a very beautiful building and called ten of his subjects each of who was a representative of the then existing social classes. Such classes exist here as well. These classes bore very different names given to them by their founders, just as every newborn child is christened with a name. The name is sanctified by a person and it is not the name that makes the person: it is not the firm that makes a merchant honest, but the honest merchant makes his firm honest; it is not the censer that makes the priest saintly, but the priest himself makes his censor give light; it is not the book that makes a person intelligent, but the person makes the book of good content. So that wise king called to this exhibit ten men to choose one of the ten objects he had exposed. The ten objects were: a precious crown which cost millions; an ancient large jar full of gold; a golden sword, a golden pen, a telescope, a bottle full of the nectar of life which, according to the alchemists of old, rejuvenated people; a pair of compasses; a grain of wheat; a book by a great wise man and an egg. Then he called the representatives of the nation, i.e. these classes, to choose whichever object they liked. The first one chose the golden crown and put it on his head; the second one took the jar of gold; the third one took the golden sword and at once girded himself with it; the fourth took the golden pen; the fifth - the telescope; the sixth the bottle with the elixir of life; the seventh the compasses; the eighth the grain of wheat; the ninth the book of the wise man and the last the egg. Which of them won? You are intelligent, how would you solve this riddle? The first one, who took the crown, became a king; the second - a banker; the third - the most eminent general of the country; the fourth - a judge, the greatest jurist and a writer, because he was engaged with the divine right of the world (the present law is human); the fifth, who took the telescope, became an astronomer to study the stars (astronomy was founded then); the sixth, who took the life elixir, became a doctor; the seventh, who took the pair of compasses, became an engineer; the eighth, who took the grain of wheat, became a farmer; the ninth, who took the book of the wise man, became a teacher and the last one, who took the egg, did not gain anything. All these people gained something, but the one who took the egg did not gain as the others, because the nine persons acquired a profession. So he wondered what to do with the egg and tried to sell it, but no one would buy it. Apparently the egg had no value. So he decided to put it under a brood-hen and see if it could be hatched. And really the most beautiful cock came out of it, but it was very greedy so that hens and cocks shunned its company. The man started feeding him, but he had to sacrifice much for him and started to beg. The master of the cock was forced to visit the other nine people, who had gained something by their objects, and ask them for help for his cock. And, actually, today all are talking about this cock. Charity societies are founded whose purpose is to better the condition of this cock, i.e. the condition of the nation they had got together to work for. A new party is organized which says, "The bettering of the condition of our nation is in our program." Today we all have good aspirations and good intentions, but which is the most essential? Have the nine objects taken by the nine people fulfilled their real purpose? Every object in the hand of a good or bad person can fulfill one or another purpose. For instance, a sword or knife can be used to make an operation and better the condition of someone, but someone’s head can be cut off with it at the battlefield. One can write a nice book with the pen, but also such a poisonous book that its poison may be felt for ages, but a death sentence may be signed as well. By the telescope you can discover something new which would help people, but you can also discover a slave who has run away from his master and tell the authorities on him - become a traitor. You can save and prolong the life of people with the lite elixir, but you can also become rich by it. Very often when a rich person falls ill, all famous European doctors are called to help, because they will be well rewarded. But no such care is taken of poor people, as they leave them in the hands of God. When the Russian king Alexander III was dying all European doctors went to Russia. I shall explain the aspiration of humanity today. When Christ was on the earth many publicans and sinners sat with Him. Those are two categories of people from the Old Testament. These Old Testament people still hold a foremost place in contemporary society although they bear different names now. A nation in which people are killed and hanged, in which there are prisons is an Old Testament state. In the kingdom of God there are no scaffolds, prisons and executions. This is Christ’s teaching. But you will say, "What shall we do with the sinners and criminals so many on earth?" Allow each one to take what they need. If you give them a sword, a pen, a telescope, or a pair of compasses and so on, any of the ten objects, you will give work to their mind that will satisfy them. These are incentives, do not judge the person, let him/her try. I do not judge the man who took the crown and put it on their head so as to rule. Let them experience these aspirations also. If God has permitted the existence of wolves, bears and all kinds of harmful bugs, why should we not allow every person to express him/herself in life as their incentives urge them to? If God sends to the harmful animals His Light and food, what could we have against that? That is why we must be patient and tolerant with all and not be repulsed by anyone. The wolves and the foxes are not out in nature, but among people. You have all these kinds of creatures: wolves, foxes, bears, bugs and so on. You aim a bullet at a wolf for having devoured a sheep, but in society there are people - wolves - who eat up ten persons and more. You do not say anything to them. Where is your justice then? A poor person steals a loaf of bread to feed his poor, sick family and is sentenced to a few months imprisonment. But some rich man steals thousands and thousands of leva and people say he has earned that money as a commission. A magpie eats the egg of one of your hens and you kill it - I estimate the life of a magpie to 1,000 eggs, so that you have the right to kill it only when it has eaten 1,000 eggs. The same law applies to a wolf. You can kill him after it has devoured 1,000 sheep. Such is the Divine rule in the world. The publicans and sinners who sat at the table with Christ were there to hear the new teaching He preached. Many say, "How nice it would have been, if we also had sat at the table of Christ!" But table was very simple not like a royal table: there was no roasted lamb, hens, stuffed tomatoes or meatballs, roast sausages and so on. Since these delicious foods were lacking what was that table worth? I would not go to a table lacking all these dishes. It is said, "These publicans and sinners sat down with Christ and His disciples." The new teaching is a great process, it is a great table with most exquisite dishes. But first you must learn to be present at the ordinary table of the stomach. Contemporary humanity is passing the state of sitting at this table. I shall not describe the table of the stomach, since you are specialists in that. The second table at which a person should be present is the table of the respiratory system and after passing the state of purification, s/he will be present at a wonderful banquet - such as the world does not know yet. There are 10,000,000 present at the table of the stomach. Each of the guests raises their glass and fork and says, "What a pleasant work this is!" we also participate in the joy of these 10,000,000 persons, or cells; this is not allegory but fact. In your stomach there are 10,000,000 cells which eat, drink and work. In the lungs there are still more guests, a greater number of cells doing their specific work. When we climb a mountain peak and breathe the pure air, the cells of the lungs raise their glasses and say, "Long live our master! How pleasant it is that our master has taken us to this high place!" When you go up to the brain, where the publicans and sinners were invited, the table is still more imposing. There are three billion and 600 million cells there - such a number of guests are invited to be present with Christ and His disciples. That is why if you send a great thought by you mind, such an enormous banquet takes place in you - in your mind - as cannot be experienced either by the stomach, or by the lungs. Therefore, the mental experiences are the highest. This is not an illusion. Is what you experience with the stomach and the lungs an illusion? But you say, "We have houses, fields and so on." This is an illusion. What can be lost is illusion, but illusion is no other than a law of movement. These things are real, but they are transitory. It means that one time they pass through us and another time we pass through them. In the one case our thoughts and desires will pass like a film before us, but in another case we shall pass before them as travellers and look at these photographs. Therefore, in society today both processes alternate, only those travellers that go around the world are very few. There is a story characterizing the English, the Germans, the French and the Russians. Four of these nationalities were somewhere in Europe at a resort where they ate and drank together. One time they all noticed that high above them two big birds were circling. The Englishman who first noticed them turned his attention to the direction from which they came and seeing they came from the east, took his bag and went away on the first ship to investigate them. The Frenchman took his hat and went to find out what the evening papers would write about them. The German went to the library to check up the scientific data if there was anything written about these birds. But the Russian man lay on his back and, looking up, said, "So, those are eagles." And that was all. Here is how easily the Slavs solve all questions. When a Bulgarian drinks half a kilo of wine, he, too, says, "Those are eagles, what is there to think about, I need not much philosophy, they are eagles and that’s all!" It is a question of acquiring knowledge. When you acquire knowledge you say, "I know this question, so I need no papers or libraries, I see those are eagles." I do not give the preference to anyone of those four, because everyone acts according to their own temperament. All people express their character according to their temperament. When I study the life of the nations, I study it objectively, gauge it by a positive science and know what it contains. In the light of this science nothing remains secret. Then we say about a person that s/he is honest and respectable. Who then is not honest and respectable? Is not the wolf who devours the lambs of people’s flocks honest? Or a tigress playing with her cubs - is she not honest? That the wolf acts dishonestly is another’s opinion. The wolf says, "I do not care about the opinion of people." You say that the lamb and sheep are noble animals, but ask what the grass thinks of them - when they tread on it, it is crushed and all eaten up, so it cannot grow. We say the sheep are the emblem of nobility. Which sheep? You are wrong thinking these sheep are noble. There are other sheep in the world: the ones that our shepherds graze are the shadows of the real sheep. Christ says, "I have other which are not of this house. And must gather them." What does Christ signify by the word "lamb"? You will say, "We know what a lamb is - it is born of a sheep, it is a pretty, playful thing; when its head is cut, it makes a tasteful meal." The lamb signifies the fire that purifies life. And when they call Christ a lamb, it means He is the divine fire that purifies humanity. Every person who can find this divine fire will have found the elixir of life right here on earth. Now the question of the sheep remains for you so that you can think about this word. I shall speak to you about the sheep some other time. I speak with them daily, you only meet them, and I find them the most underprivileged in the world, but the most noble and the happiest. A wolf cannot eat them, worms do not enter their stomach, they do not die of illness or hunger, neither are they afraid of the shepherd’s knife; they do not cast their wool on the earth, do not give their milk, neither can you churn it for cheese and butter. But you must know that the beauty of their wool brings life and blessing to the whole world. They speak little, for they are not very eloquent as orators and speak only during the pause when the orator raises the toast. During that time they manage to say just one word. And everything is due to these sheep. All great statements in the most distant past that have not lost their sense yet were spoken by them. The authors of these great statements are not yet known, but thanks to them the world exists and the present authors become eminent. When someone writes a book today, s/he says, "I have written this book and no one has the right of reprinting it without my permission." When you listen to me talk like this, you think I have a special purpose in mind, but I simply wish to converse a while with you and give you a treat. I do not busy myself with philosophic matters, neither do I deprive those authors who can busy themselves with philosophy of their right to do so. I do not want to touch king’s crowns, neither do I take the jar of gold, the telescope, the compasses, the pen nor the grain of wheat. I do not touch the egg, either. I have chosen the number 11: it is the unfortunate number in the world. There was no more unfortunate number for the Jews than the number 11. The number 13 is unfortunate today for the cultured Europeans, you can hardly make anyone engage a hotel room N13. Why is the number 11 unfortunate? This number has no father and mother, it is a number of contradictions in life. Why do contradictions exist in life? There is a definite cause for their existence. The number 4 is a law of contradictions for the cause of righteousness. There are causes in the world for every activity, you should not look for beautiful flowers in winter because winter is the number 4, but you should look for them during a definite time and season of the year, you should look at them in the numbers 1 and 2. If you want to find different kinds of fruit, you will find them during a definite time of the year, in the number 3. There is a definite time for all manifestations in life. The Bulgarians are right when they say there are unlucky days. It is not a superstition. For instance, you start on a trip to the North Pole, but you start on a hot summer day. If you do not take into consideration that you will need warm clothes for that place, you will be sure to get a cold. Therefore, the cold winter days are unlucky days in life. I have heard some Bulgarians say, "I do not start any work on Tuesday and Friday, or go out." They are right for there are really unlucky days in life. I would like to see someone who is not superstitious start on a journey on an unlucky day and see how far s/he will get. If the person is educated, s/he will say, "I could not reach my destination at the definite time and place because it was foggy, there was a big storm and so on." If the person is simple, they will attribute their failure to the fact that they have started on Tuesday or Friday, as these are unlucky days. The educated person says that thunder is due to the joining of two opposite forces, while the simple say that saint Elijah is driving a two-horse carriage in heaven. The simple person knows electricity is the cause of cloud formation, but they admit there is another higher power too. The legend has it that saint Elijah rides a two-horse carriage in heaven so that besides the positive and negative electricity, there are also two horses and a man, i.e. an intelligent force directing these two forces. As educated people then try to explain how the following is done. I am at a distance of 50 kilometers. When the shell from my cannon reaches you, you will hear the shot but you will experience the result of the shot as well. I ask you: which is the reason that made the shell reach you? You will say that the cause of this is the effect the explosive causes. This is true, but it explains only one third of the truth, because there is also another cause which makes these explosives cohere and as a result of these several causes, the explosion takes place. This way you will come to the very mind of the inventor. For every phenomenon in life there are simultaneously three causes. That is why we cannot say we are very educated, because we do not know all the three causes of certain acts. We say that we know how a certain political event has taken place and that the persons who took part were bribed and so on. However, the reason why these people were bribed is much farther than we see it. It is not an explanation of that psychological moment. How is it possible for a person who loves his/her country to sell him/herself for money, be it millions? The cause may be quite different. They say that Judas betrayed Christ for 33 silver pounds, but this is not all. The important thing is to know what reason made him betray Him. The reason of this betrayal is much deeper. When we know the real reason, we must not judge anyone - thank this Judas who fulfilled the undesirable role of betrayal. If Christ had not been crucified, salvation would not have come for humanity. You will say, "Here is a man who does not talk logically." I shall explain to you why I think so. If I sow a grain of wheat in the earth, would I not be a Judas for it? I am a betrayer for that grain of wheat temporarily, but at the same time I am its savior. How would a grain develop and multiply if it is not sown? Therefore, things must be considered wisely and seriously and there should be no judging. In the papers today there are only attacks and criticisms. This is no science. The real motives of things and events should be studied before we pronounce the verdict. And when we want to correct humanity, we should understand the laws governing the human soul. Some ask me, "Do you think that by speaking so much, you can set the world right?" I tell them I have no such purpose, but only give a banquet to my guests. If anyone of you is hungry or thirsty, they will come to me, I shall give them a banquet and when they are satiated, they will go wherever they wish to. When they leave nay house, I shall not write down their names for I do not wish them to remember they are indebted to me. Moreover, if they have dust on their clothes and shoes, I shall give them a brush to brush it and leave their dust in my home so that they may go out clean. How will you reconcile these two contradictions in life? Christ says, "If you enter a city and they do not receive you, when you depart that city shake off the dust of your feet." Where? In the street. But I say, "When you depart from my home after I have nourished you shake off the dust of your feet not in the street, but in my yard." If you understand this great law, when a visitor comes to you they will better shake off the dust in your house so that you can become rich. This is a law you can test. But what do you usually do? When some guest comes, you make them shake off their dust in the street and enter your house clean. You cast out your blessing and psychologically the law of destruction takes form in you. In the Divine world destruction is not admitted. Everything in the world must create. For evil and sin are only puzzles for people. Someone is called a great sinner. This shows that the person is a master of the great sins that is why I would wish to have some of their puzzles. Such people are very inventive. Some people take a stand against the devil, but people today do not know how much they owe him. You must thank the devil. If he would disappear for a single day in the world, a great confusion would set in: money would lose its value; the priest would have no one to preach to; the mothers would not bear children; there would be no food; the stomach, lungs and brain would refuse to work; all would be free and so on. But today all people are talking about the devil - how bad he is. When you have a truck to carry your garbage out, you all say, "Pooh, how awfully this garbage smells!" But you should thank the truck carrying away your garbage, or you would get ill, if it remained in your house. That is- why today you must thank the great spirit bearing the sins of all people. Whoever sins today - the priest, the bishop, the king, or the mother and father - the devil is to blame. But I say to you that this devil is an excellent teacher. Sometimes I meet him and, greeting him, ask, "Where have you been?" "I live among these cultured people who only fight and kill each other. I teach them one thing, but they do the opposite and then complain to their Father that I am to blame for their mistakes." Christ said, "I saw Satan falling headlong down as lightning." I shall say that I saw how the rays of the sun fell from above downwards. What does falling mean? If the sunbeams did not fall, what would become of the earth? Contemporary Christian world is full of contradictions and delusions, but there are no teachers to explain things rightly as they are in nature. For instance, some say that you should be very wise and intelligent in order to become a king, but others say that to be able to rule, you must be very rich, or that you must be a general, if you would govern your nation. But the meaning of life is not in all these things. I know two kinds of kings, bankers and generals. I know generals who wage war without killing people and our society today has a greater need of them. Some say that we do not need generals - on the contrary, we do, but we need such as fulfill their duty rightly. But those who are jealous of the rich and want to take their place, are not solving the problem. Two or three persons cannot, in my opinion, carry one sword, so that he who was born for a general will fulfill his service. In the occult science it is said that several beings can sit in a chair without disturbing each other. You will ask, "How is this possible?" I shall explain it to you. Let us suppose we have a tin container with a volume of ten kilograms. First we put in large bullets until it is full. We say the container is full, but in the inter-spaces we can put several kilograms of small pellets. Again we say that the container is full, but we can put in well-ground sand until the small inter-spaces are filled. Finally we can pour in a kilogram of water and 100 grams of the best spirits. So that these contradictory elements find room in this container which at first seemed filled only with the large bullets. Therefore, the idea that many persons cannot sit on my chair is incorrect. The ten persons who took an object from the king can sit on my chair and I, the eleventh, can sit in the very same chair. Therefore, there will be no contradiction. I have chosen the number 11 because it makes people think. But this is done after one has passes through the greatest sufferings. All great nations of character have passed through the greatest trials, through fire and water. People should imitate the heroes of the world and not feel sorry for them. Such people choose their destiny themselves and they carry their burdens lightly. The heroes do not need to be saved for they save themselves. Now there are heroes among you, Bulgarians, as well. There is a story of a very clever thief in England. At one time the English police caught him and imprisoned him after tying his hands and feet with a rope so that he could not run away. The policeman who took food to him forgot a lit candle in his cell one evening. The thief at once thought he could save himself by this candle and burned the rope of his hands and feet. Once freed from the rope, he jumped out of the window and escaped from prison. He found his way to freedom. When you find yourselves locked up like this thief, you begin to wail and complain that your fate is heavy, unfortunate. Know that when the devil catches you and ties you up, he always leaves a lighted candle by which you can be saved and he says, "Let us see now if you are a hero!" But you sit reasoning, "How can this be! I prefer to sit tied up than burn myself." Be a hero! Burn the rope and go out! You all have such a candle - it is the human mind. Even if the devil did some evil to you, God would order him to leave you a candle by which you can be saved. Then the devil says, "We shall see now if you are a hero, i.e. a person for heaven, or will remain my slave. Are you worthy of untying yourself and starting on your upward way, on the narrow path, or you will remain here to plow for me?" Why do Bulgarians plow today? They have not been able to free themselves on time and the devil has yoked them to plow for him, saying, "Come on, come on!" This is an allegory for you to think about. Many say today, "This is what Pythagoras said one time, this is what Trismegistos2 has written on his golden slab; this is what Kant has said" and so on. My respect to these thinkers, but do you know where these learned men have taken their teaching from? Everybody admires their teachings and interprets them. Their interpretations are like those some theologians today make on the messages of the Apostle Paul, etc about the definite and indefinite article, saying, "The Apostle Paul has not put this article or that on its place." Their criticism and interpretation consists in this. When you write anything, do not think where to put this or that article, but see that your thought should be right and have good substance. Apostle Paul could have expressed the same thought without articles and commas. When you cut out a dress one part of it will be the front and another - the back. Thinking of the definite article shows that a certain person is a definite member3 of a church, but speaking of the indefinite article shows that they are only candidate members. There is no philosophy in this. The deep philosophy lies in what nature has created. There is a much deeper content in a flower than in the scientific thesis of Pythagoras, or Critique of Pure Reason of Kant, or the ten rules of Trismegistos written on the golden slab. You walk across a meadow and tread on a flower, which is of more value than the books of these people, and go on philosophizing, "This is what Kant has said." Yes, my friend, you trampled the flower before reading what was written in it, in its book. You say, "I believe in God." No, my friend, you are most ignorant, you are a person of the Old Testament, a publican and a sinner; you have raised a whole scandal about the Sabbath and so on. The world was not created for any Sabbaths and there is no definite Sabbath for rest. In the world there is only one Sabbath - it is the Sabbath of love and the baptism by fire. They who are heroes of their virtues have the law of love. Those who are baptized by the divine love and wisdom, will be Sons of God. Therefore, love without wisdom does not mean anything, neither does wisdom without love. These two great powers - love and wisdom - must penetrate deeply in you and you must understand them in all their breadth and depth, i.e. as they are manifesting in this wide divine world. Only this way the present teaching will acquire meaning. If I begin to talk to you about the present day algebra and geometry, they will become alive; if drawing and poetry are studied rightly, the result will be quite different. Poetry today emphasizes rhymes. The world is full of trite poetry - verses only rhyming without making sense. But one can find some sense even in such rhymes. Wise and unwise are relative things. From the story I told you about choosing one of the ten objects, the one who chose the egg made the best choice, as a cock came out of the egg. What is the Cock? It is the law of self-sacrifice, i.e. of constant giving on your part and taking on the part of the others. Thanks to this great law of self-sacrifice the world is moving on and all these ten objects - the crown, the pen, the telescope and so on - owe their progress to the cock. There is something much higher than the cock and it is to find the meaning of life even in all your failures. You put the crown on your head, but this condition does not satisfy you, the cock crows, "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" This means not crowing on time - you took the crown but you did not find the meaning of life. You are a merchant who comes home discouraged and displeased, the cock crows, "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" You have read some book of wisdom, but have not comprehended anything in it, the cock crows, "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" You have sown wheat and other grain, but the year was not fruitful and you are disappointed in your hopes, the cock crows, "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" The cock today tells people many things about their affairs, "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" This crowing means much. I shall leave you thinking about the word "Cock-a-doodle-doo" until the next sermon. Sermon held on May 25, 1919. _________________________________ 1 Matthew 9:10 2 Hermes Trismegistos (Emerald Tablet-about the Is1 century AD), the author of various alchemical occultic, and theological works much respected by Arabs, (see encyclopaedia Britannica, Arabic alchemy) (ed. note) 3 This is a pun— in Bulgarian "article" is the same word for "member". (transl. note)

The Beam "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye."1 In my last sermon I spoke to you about the words, "If your Eye be single, your whole body shall be full of Light." In this eye there is a beam which obstructs its purity. Christ says, "Cast out the beam out of your own eye that you may see clearly and cast out the mote out of your brother’s eye." How can this beam be cast out? By the words "beam" and "mote" Christ signifies two opposing principles - principles of negation in human life. A person whose eye is concentrated on the physical world, completely involved in matter, has a beam in their eye. The beam is a Law of Contradictions. By the word "mote" is meant a Law of Constant Changes. Christ uses two images - a beam and a mote. The beam is cut out of wood. Do you know which trees make good beams? The best beams are cut of oak trees that are used for the construction of houses as well. If you study the oak, you will find it grows in the lowest places of the earth. It is the oldest material, that is why its thick bark is chapped. There is a certain relation between the buffalo and the oak. When the buffalo gets hot in the sun, it wallows in the muddy puddles to cool off and keep the flies off. What is heat? It is the symbol of love. Therefore, people who are disposed to love, enter the puddles to get muddy so that the flies will not sting them. They are alert people. When a hornet approaches an ox, the ox raises its tail and runs away. The buffalo does not do that. When a hornet whistles by its ear, the buffalo leaves the field and runs to a pond where it hides. You may say to me, "We know what you will tell us about this beam." But you do not know what I may tell you. I have turned over the pages of many books treating questions of the New Testament, but very little has been written on this very important question; when whole volumes have been written on the least important questions. Everything in the world today is like that. Nothing is written about essential things and whole volumes are devoted to inessential problems. These unimportant questions on which so much has been written comprise shadows as regards the important questions. The shadows are necessary only when the important thing is definite, then they make sense. When a great artist paints a portrait, they use shade on it so as to make it stand out well. It is not the same thing, however, on which side the shadow is placed - on the right or on the left (unclear). If the dark side on the face is the left, it shows that painting the portrait, the artist was facing the west, i.e. the sun was setting. By this I shall judge that the life of that artist had been setting; or in other words, they was coming down to the material world. If the shadow was on the right side, it shows that the artist painted their picture when the sun had just risen. Therefore, it is of no meaning for the dull people on which side the shadow is cast; but for the wise, it is not so. It is important on which side the shadow is cast on your face. Why does Christ say that the beam must be taken out of your eye? Because this beam casts its shadow inwardly, whereas the person who wants to study life should have their shadow outwardly. You may ask me, "Why should this be so?" If the shadow is inside your life, you will not understand its meaning. And this is very natural. For instance, if your house is dark, but the streets are well-lighted, you will know what is going on in the streets - who is passing, how are they clad and so on - but you will not know what is going on in your room. Therefore, if this beam is in your eye, it follows that the meaning of your inner life will remain unknown. You may become a reformer or a moralist and moralize people to reform their houses and cities; but you will not be able to change their inner life. Christ says, "Take this beam out!" How was it formed? It was formed by the habit of the human mind acquired for many ages. And each one of you can verify for yourself whether your shadow is cast inwardly or outwardly. Christ says, "Cast out." He does not say "Add." Adding and subtracting are two initial processes. The first process is addition and the second subtraction. Till now you have been adding, forming this beam which is the result of the past. Therefore a+b = c where c is the beam. In order to free ourselves from this general result, Christ tells us to subtract a and b from c and our eye will be pure. How shall we subtract them? You cannot get rid of c, if you do not subtract first a and b. You cannot get rid of the nits if you do not take the male and female louse out of your head first. a and b = c which is the beam. In this case a is your mind, b is your heart; not on ascending scale in their actions, but on the descending scale of their manifestations. That is why Christ says, "You must stop these two processes." You will ask me how to stop them. In order that peoples’ minds start working, they should be placed under conditions to labor at a total deadlock. You must think of being in the shoes of one of Napoleon’s engineers who was forced by his commander to build a bridge in 25 minutes, or be shot. The engineer used all his abilities and succeeded in building the bridge. Notice how a cat tries to pass a dangerous place without trouble, if it is clever. If it finds itself on a wall five or six meters high and has no way out, it will be forced to jump down the wall; although earlier that had looked like an impossibility. This same way you say you cannot do this or that. Christ says, "Cast out the beam from your eye and place it in another place: not in your eye, but in your house." The eye has no need of beams. The teacher, who first advised people to place the beam in the eye and not in the house, had not known the Divine Laws. There may be a beam in the body, but by no means in the eye. By the word "mote",2 I understand those people who live in the sensual world. The straw is taken from the wheat. These people have acquired mistakes by their constant pleasures in the world. The beam is the acquirement of an avaricious, self-seeking life. You cannot rely on such people. Since this beam is very heavy, the eye of the person who has it is always tired and constantly looking downwards. I can make everyone of you look downwards. How? By placing a load of 100 kg on your back, I shall make you start reasoning and looking downwards. Some people would say that such a person is a great philosopher. Yes, there are philosophers who look down, but there are also such who look up. When the beam is in your eye, your mind and heart will always be heavy and you will be ill disposed. Some people with a beam in the eye manage to conceal this fact, but when you offend such a person they will begin to look down. A woman angry with her husband looks down. Why? Because, the beam has started to exert its influence. This is the feature of a general law. By the same law the young men and women have beams. So do the married people. Marriage, however, is a temporary thing. In the world there are no married but harnessed people. That is why I am not talking about the married, but about the harnessed people. I believe you are not harnessed. But you who think you are of the married people are of the blessed people. Christ says, "Cast the beam out of your eye that it may be pure so that you can cast the mote out of your brother’s eye." I make a general examination of the spiritual principles upon which our life rests. For instance, if my house is built upon the Divine Law, this is not only my own achievement, but also an achievement of the engineer I have called to make its plan and build it. Also, all the discomforts of the house cannot be attributed only to me. That is why if a person who has technical knowledge comes and tells me the sink or something else is not in its place, I must listen to them. If an intelligent person tells me to reconstruct my house because its walls are too thin, I must obey them and agree with their opinion, because a catastrophe might surprise me. When Christ talks about the beam, He conceals His great idea in this single word. The Bulgarians often hide their money under a heavy beam. In the past people had to hide things; that is why they needed beams. We often shade our windows with heavy curtains so that light may not enter in. In the same way we are unhappy today because of this beam which prevents the light from entering and reviving the matter of our body. We today have one and the same idea of light and of certain periods when light is not the same. If you warm yourselves on heat produced by wood, or on heat produced by coal, the effect on you in the two cases will be different. If you are sensitive when you burn coal you will pass through all the stages it has passed; when you burn wood, you will experience the stages the oaks have passed through and feel them like Living Beings. The black color of the coal will produce quite a different effect on you from that which burning wood will. Contemporary culture must rid itself of the use of coal. That is why the future scientists must harness solar energy. We must provide for ourselves heat from the sun. When we reach the stage of utilizing solar heat and energy, we shall be the cultured people humanity is expecting. At the present stage we cannot be called cultured people. Christ says, "Cast these beams out, there is no need of them any more." In the past this beam was necessary, it served some purpose; but today it is of no use. The buffalo entering the mud puddle to hide from the hornet has its economic considerations. He reasons thus: "Instead of running away 4 or so miles from a hornet, I shall cover myself with mud so that no hornets should trouble me." People today say the same thing, "We must ensure ourselves materially so no one should disturb us, so that the hornets should not trouble us." When you want to ensure your wife and children, those are the hornets troubling you every day and hour. The Christians are like the oxen - they run away. The worldly people, on the other hand, are like the buffaloes who wallow in a puddle so they would not be caught. Years ago in Russia they tried to put through a law against Jews which was discussed for some time. One of the members of the ministerial council was very much against the Jews and insisted on the passing of this law. The Jews tried to oppose this act in different ways, but did not succeed. One of the Jews decided to visit himself the minister who opposed them and went to his house. At the gate he asked the policeman to allow him in for he wished to tell the minister a word or two. The policemen let him in. He went straight to the minister and offered him a bag of gold saying, "Take this and keep silent." The council gathered under the chairmanship of the king to discuss the Jewish problem. All ministers opposed the law and expected the opinion of the great opponent of the Jews who kept silent. The king was surprised and asked him why he did not speak. The minister raised the bag of gold and said, "As long as I have this bag of gold, I cannot speak." This bag of gold is the beam. A day will come when the Lord will ask you, "Why do you keep silent?" You were passing some law for which you were obliged to keep silent. Today all rich and famous people keep silent. Those who keep silent are diplomats. In diplomacy silence is recommended. Christ says, "Cast the beam out of your eye so you can speak." "Cast the beam out of your eye so you can see." There is a relation between seeing and speaking. You cannot speak before you have seen. The straw in some people’s eyes is of quite a different material from that of the beam - it is out of wheat. We know that wheat wishes only to multiply and cover wide areas. It says, "Give me only 7 or 8 months to multiply, I shall finish my work and leave my place after that." It is not the same with the beam for the oak wants ten, one hundred, five hundred, a thousand years to grow and develop. It affirms ownership. The teaching of the beam is a teaching of possession. If your son is unworthy, cast the beam out of your eye and deprive him of all possessions so that your property should not be handed down the generations and be the cause of crime. But you will say, "Nerde, Sham, Nerde Bagdat."3 If anything hinders your life, it is the teaching of private ownership. We come to earth and become engaged in houses, fields; quarrel with our father, mother, sisters or brothers and go to court until one day they lift us from this place. The son says, "My father passed away and could not solve this question, but I shall solve it and see how the inheritance should be distributed." For eight thousand years humanity has been solving the question of property and this question has not been solved yet. Christ says, "Cast this property out of your eye so the world can be set right." Then the small obstacles, the small motes will disappear. Now in society there are moral, charity organizations. The priests preach in church; the teachers instruct at school; the judges administer justice in court, but all have beams in their eye. The Lord I know and whom I am speaking to you about, is not a Lord of beams and property and is not for people who argue about property. Property has no Lord whatever. And people who are split into Catholics, Protestants, Mohammedans and so on, have no Lord whatever. Your Lord is a Lord of beams, but my Lord has no beams. Christ says, "Thou hypocrite, cast the beam out your eye!" If you ask me when things will be set right, I shall answer, "When this beam is cast out of your eye." "But when will this beam be cast out?" When Love comes to reign in the world. Then the beam can be cast out very easily. All women, who are the bearers of culture can cast their own beam out, as well as that of their daughters and sons while they are still in the womb. If I preached the Law of Moses, first I would have punished women who deserve the greatest punishment. But since I am not preaching the Law of Moses, but that of Christ, I say to the women, "Since you are the doctors, you have served long enough your old lovers in paradise. Give them up and serve the Lord." For 8,000 years women have been serving this handsome scamp from the Garden of Eden and have not done anything laudable; that is why they have to give him up. You will object, "Do not blame us, we are pure." Yes, there was a time when you were pure, but today you are not such as I knew you. This beam - property - entered your eye, you started to live with the law of property; your friend came to you in the Garden of Eden, and said to you, "Come out of this garden of Eden, you need not stay here any longer as gardeners; possess the earth, it is for you. Why are you so foolish to stay in this garden, you will become equal to God?" And the woman left the paradise. Moses has described in a long and interesting legend the exit of women from paradise. When you read the whole Old Testament you will see how the Lord constantly addresses the virgin of Israel calling her different names, constantly admonishing her to return to the right path, to her Father. You have been to so many places after leaving paradise. You have been to Egypt - the material world; in Babylon - the old world, the old culture: culture of property. Now you are in Europe, which is in the same chaos as the Egyptians and Babylonians. Christ is saying to contemporary people who represent the chosen nation, "Cast this beam out of your eye," i.e. do away with this property in your land, because it is the cause for all disputes and wars. The only property a person has is their body. If a person could daily alter the parts of their body, control their desires, and the functions of their organs, as well as those of the brain with all its centers, they would be an excellent person. Say to yourself, "Now I do not need any houses or fields; this is for the future culture." The future culture, as a projection of the past, is for the sinners, the present is for the righteous. When someone says that they will correct their life in the future, I understand that this person is a sinner. When someone says that they will correct their life now, I understand that this person is a righteous one who has cast the beam out of their eye. Thus, the future in this sense is for the sinners who do not change their desires; it is their property. The present, however, is for the righteous, because it takes no space whatever. It is their property, it is a mathematical line. Every righteous person will pass through this straight line. I say, everyone who controls the present will enter the Kingdom of God. The future belongs to sinners. The past - i.e. everything which has happened - is in the hands of God, while the present is ours. Therefore, we have exchanged our roles. God is engaged in correcting our sins. We are dealing with the justice of God which will come in the future, while the people of the present say: "We shall work for God to realize His desires." From today on I want all of you to cast all your beams out and I am ready to help you. However, if you leave this for tomorrow, you will not find me. I have the say for the present; the Lord for the past. My word is founded on a very thin thread called the Thread of Love. Christ addresses those who have studied this teaching and who are awakened. This is why I do not have to teach you either - you must apply the Divine Principles which you have already studied. For the application of a Divine Principle there are certain methods. A person who wants to make use of a teaching must first of all pay all their debts. In my opinion the Law of Self-sacrifice is nothing but a payment of ones debts. But the debts have been incurred because of property. You will say, "Well, then it is possible." What is possible? It is possible for instance to become rich, learned and so on. No, by that you cannot do anything. Many people have applied this teaching. Many have wanted to be learned, rich, healthy, but they have not preserved this state a long time. The teaching can have a result only when one applies the Law of Self-sacrifice for the whole humanity. Only then will you sacrifice yourself for the good of humanity; only then will you be sacrificed for your self. If you sacrifice yourself for the good of humanity and raise it only one centimeter in its state, the next time you come to earth you will have favorable life conditions for which, you yourself, have been the cause. All suicides in the world are the result of the Law of Property. A wife wants to dominate her husband and if she does not succeed in that, she despairs and commits suicide. The wife instructs her husband how to look or not to look at all the other women and so on. Now people make these mistakes because they are born by women. Women are responsible for the mistakes of men for they taught men this law. You will say I judge you. No, I am not judging you; I am not judging anybody, but I am telling you the truth. Christ says, "Cast the beam out of your eye." Jealousy, suspicion, hatred, evil, avarice, envy and so on are the beam in your eye. The beam, the beam must be cast out! It is everywhere: in all societies, churches, religions. I see it everywhere. People today are like those two Germans in America who were good friends and promised one another to give each other a kiss. However, their stomachs were so big that they could not get close together and kiss. These two friends could not get close together and parted with deep grief. Today all people have such big stomachs that they cannot get close together. Why? The beam is the whole cause. While such big beams exist, there can be no kiss for the Soul. A young girl meets a young man and wants to kiss him, but she cannot do it so she groans. A young man wants to kiss a girl, but he also cannot do it, so he groans. All people are groaning - they cannot kiss each other. We shall be far from one another until the beam is cast out of our eye. Today, morals are perverted - a consequence of which, people do not understand one another. A stranger looks at someone else’s wife and the husband gets angry at once, thinking, "I shall wait and see what you are going to do. I shall watch you." Men and women are jealous of each other everywhere and yet they want to learn some new philosophy, some new teaching. The most difficult thing for a person is to merit the name human/e, to know nature so that nature will serve them. So do you know this Mother called Nature? Have you talked with Her? She is Virgin. Do you know Her habits, looks, receptions, laws and society? When I speak to people that they must enter into harmony with nature, the present servants of religion call this idolatry. The present existing order is idolatry, but this order will be swept away and only the ex-person will remain. Only the empty head will remain of the contemporary person and will be presented in the museums as a remnant of a past culture. When the future people visit the museums, they will look at the heads of the present eminent bishops, patriarchs, and high clergy, see their beams with which they had lived so many years and say, "Illustrious and pious people, such piety that only the head remains of it!" In the future all teachers, priests, ministers and judges must be without beams. I would render good service to Bulgaria if I should point out the person who should be employed as a teacher, who is to be a priest, who is to be a judge and so on. If this were observed, Bulgaria’s affairs would get on well. But what is happening now? Someone prepares to be priest, but their character is that of an actor. When such a person becomes a priest, it would be better to call them a servant of the church, not of God. I wish all priests and teachers to learn the Language of Nature and to see what She is writing. I study all stones, streams, and flowers and by them I can conclude what nature had been 2,000 years ago. So nature changes its garment every day and you should study what it is like today. The present is for the righteous. Christ said to the Jews, "Cast the beam out of your eyes, or you will not become a nation." But the clergy of that time who were Occultists and Cabalists said, "Is that so! Instead of casting our beams out, we prefer to put you on these beams." These beams of yours crucified Christ. He was crucified on two beams - one was a male, the other was a female beam. You say, "How pleasant it is to pass under these beams!" Christ says, "If you do away with private property among brothers and sisters, your mind and spirit will be free so that you can become good people." If all women of the contemporary race would become imbued with this idea, in 100 years they would push humanity four or five thousand years forward. But mind is necessary for this, for when there is no mind, this consciousness is lacking in people so they hang each other and cut off each others’ heads. Now they are cutting the heads of the priests as well. I want you to understand of what I am speaking. I am speaking in principal, not for the sake of this or that person, treating the question in broad terms. The world can no longer be set right by killing. I am not of those who can kill and hang. All must know this. From now on I shall not be crucified. You will crucify one another until you are enlightened. Christ says, "You hypocrite, cast the beam out of your eye." From all I have said, do not consider anything offensive: this is a Law for Heaven. When we pass the bounds of the spiritual life, we shall leave the beam here on earth. They say of someone, "They departed for the other world." No, they have not yet departed; they are still here on earth and that is why we should give them a little wheat now and then.4 The prison is the astral world. They went there with their beam. But the motes in our eyes are all our small defects. Some are criticized for talking too much, for not dressing properly, for not getting up early, or for not working sufficiently and so on. These are all very small defects, insignificant flaws - motes - in the eyes of people. Are present day people really working? This is not work but torment and labor. Work is always performed out of love. Labor serves duty; but torment exists where there is violence. The cause of all this is property ownership. Woman who has introduced this habit in the world is to blame for this evil. All women teach their children, saying, "See that you become richer by a greater income; ask everything of your husbands, all you need; do not tell them everything, be reserved and so on." That is why a wife wants things of her husband regardless of his position and income and he wonders how to satisfy her needs. What happens then? A Greek in Bourgas5 married a very rich Greek woman who brought him 4,000 pounds. When they were married, she started asking him to buy her this and that, spending money indiscriminately. In less than two years all the money she brought was spent. Her husband kept an account of everything and when the account reached 4,000 pounds, he said to her, "The money you brought is gone so you go and ask your father for more and if he gives you any money, buy what you need." When a man leaves his wife, he has spent everything she brought from her father and since he has no more, he wants a divorce. Why can they not live together? Because the wife has a big beam in her eye, wants to dominate him quoting verses from the Bible which are in her favor so that he should not think of any other woman. She says, "The first condition, says the Scripture, is that a man should leave his father and mother and stick to his wife." Yes, but which father and mother? Christ says, "A man who marries should leave the father, mother, brothers and sisters who have sinned in paradise and thus hold on to his wife." Woe to him who, when marrying, does not give up his mother and father who have sinned in paradise! Therefore, as Christians, you must give up private property. Private property is an evil for every person who wants to develop, as well as for every occultist; mystic especially, if they would study the secrets of nature. Private property is a great evil. I do not imply the state regime, but they who understand human life must give up private property. This does not mean we must be indolent, but we must learn how to work. A wife should not rely on her father, or husband, but should stand on her own feet. Man has not married to support a household. This is not marriage. Real marriage is the getting together of two young people to work together for an idea. If a woman had such a concept of marriage, she would try to ease her husband. But what is happening today? The wife does not fulfill her duties and when her husband returns from work, disputes and disagreements begin. The Law of Private Property is for those who marry today. You say, "These young people love each other very much." Why? Because the young man is rich and has a nice position so he will supply all that is necessary to his wife; or she is rich and so her husband will be able to advance. If the man is poor, the woman does not love him. Because of these wrong conceptions of life all misfortunes in life spring up. The Divine Law will assimilate all old materials and reorganize them. The piece of coal can become a diamond by reorganizing its particles in such a way as to condense them through crystallization and assume a new form. Therefore our life must pass through fire and be reorganized - crystallize again and pass into a new form. Then we shall have better houses as well. A day will come when, after living for ten years in a house, we shall tear it down and build a new one. The old house where we have lived for ten years is full of bad thoughts. When men and women quarrel they must burn their house down and make a new one; when teachers and students quarrel in a school, it must be burnt down and built anew. The same thing applies to the churches. The teaching of Christ is a new school, a new church. To cast the beam out - that is the new teaching. This is why the Lord writes, "If you want to better your life, you should tear down everything and build upon new rules without keeping the beam in your eye." Then your ideas of nature will be better, your homes and social life will be better. When you go back home say, "From today on I shall be casting the beam out of my eye." But the beam cannot be cast out by a single attempt; it requires a multiple process, a chain process of casting out. When you learn this Law of Subtraction, you will come to the process of multiplication. Then you will understand the law: "Live and multiply." The first process of addition came into the world by Adam, but the second - of subtraction - came in to the world by Eve, that is why God created woman by taking out one of Adam’s ribs. Which woman? - the woman in paradise who enjoyed her relation with "that one"6. Therefore, men will learn to take out their wives, while women will learn to take out their sons and daughters. That is why they bear children. Birth is the law of taking out and subtraction. By this Law of Taking Out, the Lord teaches women, asking them, "Do you still wish to have property?" When you listen to me, you will think, "Here is a man who violates the Law of Property Ownership, a teaching which has existed for 8,000 years." No, this law came later, but it has no basis in nature whatever. The earth is ours and we can dispose of it. If we love our brothers and sisters, we can dispose also of what they have. If we do not love them, the Law of Private Property comes into play. Private property has come into existence when love stopped functioning. In times of quarrel the woman says, "I shall divorce him, but make him pay me." People who do not require anything special of life can live with this idea of private property, but for those who want to discover the secrets of nature, study their existence and sense of life. Private property is a great obstacle, a great evil. You must stop ensuring yourself, but should rather work. One can think up some work, which can satisfy them. But you will object, "God helps them who help themselves."7 This proverb was thought out after the fall of Eve. Private property is the sheep-fold. Eve has hidden this proverb. It implies that if you want to have private property, you must lead your sheep into the sheepfold yourself. The Lord always gives wealth, but He does not believe in private property. Today people admire this proverb. I find it a human contrivance. Christ says, "Cast this beam out of your eye, you do not need any sheepfolds." Christ is taking you out of the sheepfold and will lead you to the pasture. This shows that He does not believe in private property. All Christians who believe in private property have churches, sects, etc. As far as religion is concerned they think they must be separated into Buddhists, Brahmans and so on which shows they believe in private property. I believe only in one great Divine Principle and in no forms whatever. The Lord has created the Principles, but we must create the forms. I make my own pot, but do not believe in any pots. Today people pray to their pots. When they built a house, they begin to become bold and to believe, saying, "I believe in God already and can cross myself." Or they cross themselves with the idea that God should protect their house so that another person should not take it. Such a person does not believe in God, but in their house. I do not cross myself in this way but say to the Lord, "Lord, you need not protect my private property for I refuse to acknowledge it and do not believe in it. Forgive me for having crossed myself so many times and have compelled you. I want to go along with You at liberty to those clear, rushing streams, to the green, dewy pastures, to the leafy thick forests, to think things over and be a free citizen of the whole earth." Only this way can you understand Christ and be near Him. When I look at you, I do not like your eyes. All of you must cast the beam out of them! And as soon as you cast the beam out of your eyes, Christ, Who is your shepherd, will come to lead you out of your private property. More favorable conditions for life will be given you. New bodies, new brothers and sisters, new societies and nations will be created for you so that you could live and work among them. You have served your old master long enough. Some lose their house, or their child dies and they despair and commit suicide. Why do they act like that? Because, they believe in private property. The Lord has taken your son or daughter, because He sees they cannot live in this house. When your son or daughter falls ill, do not be afraid for them; know that illness is a great blessing for a person under the present conditions of life. You cannot be heroes with these beams. From now on you must become heroes, but for this reason you must give up your beams. When you go back, make a long list of all the things you must give up in the future. Write down everything you give up this way: "I give up compelling my husband to bring me anything, leaving him free to do what his love prompts him to do; I give up compelling my husband to borrow money, to build me a house, to buy costly clothes for me for Easter and to satisfy my whims as before; I give up asking him to take me abroad to summer resorts, baths, balls, theaters and so on; I give up compelling my husband to love me, leaving him free to follow the dictates of his soul." You will say, "This teaching is very dangerous!" On the contrary, it has been dangerous up till now. How many tears have been shed that some woman’s husband, her private property, has not loved her! Do you know to what extent your husband is your property? There are many tenants in a house so that your husband is one of those tenants over whom you have no right. The Turks say, "Ahmet burada, akil dişarda," i.e. Ahmed is here but his mind is outside. Your husband - that is his shadow - but his soul, his thought is outside. Then how can you require him to love you when you too are not in your house - your house is full of tenants. Today we have set out in private property to conquer the world thereby losing the highest in life. That is why Christ says, "They who find private property will lose themselves, their life; but they who lose private property will find their life." Those who abandon the teaching of private property, draw away from God. Now you must bravely start on this way and solve this question as heroes. When the Lord sees that you are opening the book in which you will note down all the items you will give up, He will say, " With my servants, I shall help this Bulgarian woman who sets about casting the beam out of her eye." Let us see who will be the first Bulgarian woman who will set about this work. I know many who believe in the new teaching and are ready to give up their private property, but at the same time they are insured in many banks. We must be loyal to a principle not only in form, but also in substance and meaning as well. But what do people do today? Argue if there is a God or not, if there is a future life or not and so on. Yes, there is both future and past life, moreover, there is a present one. The Present Life is the Divine Life whereas the future and the past are the human life. To live like a person with all your heart, mind and soul, this is the Divine inside you - this is the Present. This is what Christ meant by saying you should cast out the beam from your eye, because only this way you can understand life. Only in this way shall we take the right path of human evolution - the path of Love. And then we shall be able to come to a mutual understanding. Sermon held on May 18, 1919. __________________________ 1 Matthew 7:5 2 the Bulgarian version is "straw" (transl. note) 3 Turkish proverb, meaning "Where is Damascus, where is Baghdad." (ed. note) 4 The custom in Bulgaria is to commemorate the dead with offerings of boiled wheat. (ed. note) 5 A Bulgarian city on the Black Sea coast. (ed. note) 6 The devil in the guise of serpent. (ed. note) 7 The Bulgarian version of this proverb is, "God gives, but does not put in the sheepfold." (trans. note)

The Light of the Body "The Light of the body is the Eye: if therefore thine Eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of Light."1 What did Christ mean by the words, "the Light of the body is the Eye"? According to present day conceptions the eye cannot be the light of the body. Christ expresses a deep idea by this thought. People who have not studied the structure of the eye have a vague idea of its nature. I also say that even l/1000th part of the structure of the eye has not been investigated. If I would try to describe the eye, I would come into conflict with all scientists. The first function of the eye is to absorb arid spread the rays of light. It absorbs them from the outside and spreads them inwards. When this process in life is reversed, disharmony takes place in the human mind. You have two eyes that is why you will ask me, "Which eye is Christ talking about: the right or the left one?" And in fact Christ does not say, if your eyes are pure, but he says, "If your Eye is pure." By this we can see that Christ speaks about one Eye which is inside the center of the brain. This Eye is called the pineal gland, but I call it "the Eye of the Soul." Christ takes the word "Eye" in a single sense as a collective principle which includes everything in it. When we speak of God, we think of a unit including everything in it. When we speak of this unit divided and multiplied by itself, we understand all its manifestations in the world. People give different interpretations to this division: the scientists call it laws, cause and effect, evolution, thoughts, feelings and so on. Christ says that the Inner Eye is, at the same time, the Sun of a person. When a person loses their Sun, they die. In other words: when a person becomes spiritually blind, they die, but when they begin to see spiritually, that they come to life. The truth of this thought can be seen in the words of Christ, "Those who hear the voice of the Son of Man shall rise." It may seem strange that it is not said that those who hear the voice of God shall rise. The Son of Man is the Voice of Wisdom. This resurrection is not what the church means by it; it is a resurrection by which knowledge is attained for the comprehension of the laws governing the world and developing life. The thought of contemporary humanity is single and collective. Life has begun with the formation of the Eye. When God made man, He first created the Eye and then the rest of him. Some may object to this, but I shall prove it to you. Before a mother gives birth to a baby, people set the house in order, warm the room if it is winter, and so on. Therefore, those who say that a person may live without an Eye maintain that there is no intelligence in nature. Christ says that the human heart corresponds to this Eye. There is a close bond between the Spiritual Eye and the human heart. This is not merely theory, but statements which can be verified every day experimentally. Those who are not on the right path lead a life of sufferings and misfortunes. If anyone wants to know why we suffer, I would answer that the sufferings are the result of our being in contradiction with the spiritual eye. Christ says, "If your Eye is pure, your whole body will be full of Light." And actually, if your Eye is pure, you shall see all objects. Often our eyes are spoiled by the food we eat: if the food is not sanitary, it pollutes the blood and the polluted blood spoils the eyes so that it is necessary to have operations. Why? Because our life is not in conformity with the divine laws. If in the physical eye there appear dispositions, according to the same law similar dispositions appear in the Spiritual Eye, causing misfortunes not only to the individual, but also to the family, society, the nation and all of humanity. Someone will say, "God will save us." All people speak of salvation. God need not save us for He has created us saved. It is the silliest thing to say - that God will save us. When we say we want to be saved, it shows we are running away from the divine salvation in which we find ourselves. What is salvation? It is the luminous life of order and decency, but as soon as we abandon it, we shall not be saved anymore by God, but by the people. Then we shall not be born of God; and when we continue to sin, we shall be forced to reincarnate in flesh and blood. You will then follow then some woman or man and beg them to save you - create a new body for you, but that will be only a preface to salvation. After living a few years on the earth, you will go again into space where you will stay for a certain period of time and come to earth again. The Son of Man will speak to you and say, "I created an Eye for you again, see that you do not corrupt it." I want you to make an analogy out of this for the present life and see what will remain of you when you cast off all your shells. Some say, "We shall die." You will die but then come to life again. When a walnut is on the tree it has many garments, but after it is sown, it casts off all its outer garments in order to be able to sprout again and live. The casting off of these garments does not mean death, but rather shows that you are closer to life. Then I define life in two ways: the physical life constantly undergoes modifications and changes, while the spiritual life undergoes modifications without changing. Everyone who undergoes modifications and changes is within the bounds of the flesh, of the transitory, however they who are only modified without changing, are in the bounds of the spirit. You will say, "How is it possible for a person to undergo modifications and not change?" Imagine that I am a nobleman who is supposed to meet different people several times a day. That will require from me to change my clothes several times a day in accordance with the kind of people I am supposed to meet. In the morning I put on a black suit, black hat and black gloves - official clothes. After coming home from that interview, I have to meet some ordinary person in the afternoon so I put on a white suit and hat and go out that way. Whoever meets me that day will ask, "Who is that gentleman with the many suits of clothes who is constantly altering his appearance, but not changing?" It is the ability of the human spirit to alter, but not to change. However, when we come to that inner state to change inwardly, we lose our individuality, we lose what we have gained. I call this a law of fall. Projected as certain energy and falling on the earth, the rays remain on it for many years until a day comes for them to return to their Father from Whom they came forth. Why do these rays come out of God? Because they, too, have sinned. If they were not sinful, you would not feel this heat and burning, but they would produce only a delicate light and pleasant warmth. Thus, fallen once on the earth, however bright they may be, the rays have their eye somewhat blurred. These rays are alive and you will wonder how it is possible for the light to be alive. I shall leave that question for you to resolve. People themselves are Divine Rays. Contemporary biology describes the phases people have passed through before attaining their present state. They have undergone many changes and their cells have been multiplied, divided and changed before this present form was reached. All this has been done under the incentive of this Living Light. If you would study human development closely, you would see how costly our structure is and the materials out of which our body is made and you would never sin or admit an evil thought or feeling to enter your mind and heart. There is no greater delusion than to think that when a person sins, they do not harm their salvation. What does sin consist of? Sin consists of our thinking that the things we have attained can give us greater happiness. However, thinking this way we limit ourselves and envy becomes our companion. All Christians of the different schools want freedom and money, but then live at the expense of others. At the beginning of the 19th century the French Revolution gave freedom to the nations, but what freedom do they have today? Can this be called freedom? We speak of freedom, of the upliftment of women intellectually and in society; however, what is this uplifting of humanity during these 2,000 years equal to? It is equal to 1/50 millionth part of the millimeter. Such is the result of the strenuous effort of all humanity. Knowing this, calculate what your active input in this general development is. Raise this number to the 10th power and thereby find the factor of your consciousness, of your culture and of development. This is the only way in which we can examine divine entities. This sun, i.e. the divine stomach of the solar logos (this is the theosophical term), shines and provides all our heat. By the same law, every person has their own Sun within them which rises and sets. It happens sometimes that it is winter outside, very cold, while inside your own Sun is in its spring time; sometimes it is warm in the physical world, but your Sun does not correspond to it and you feel a certain iciness. This can be explained in different ways. Sometimes you are in low spirits; then I say that your Sun is not in its place. At times there are spots in your Sun just like in the physical sun. How do you explain these spots? Scientists of today maintain that at one time in the past a dark belt was formed on the sun. It lost all its heat and the result was the beginning of the ice period on the earth. I do not support this; this is only a scientific theory. According to this theory a certain change took place in the sun: its crust cracked and the sun started its present activity, great floods were caused and the present world was formed. The flood was caused by the melting of the ice layers. In the future you will verify this. Christ says that the Light of the body is the Eye and if your Eye is pure, your whole body will be full of Light. When Christ says that your body will be full of Light according to the purity of your Eye, He is saying that Divine Life will surge forth in you, creating all the conditions for your development so that you will not be petty-minded. People today are like small bugs, thinking they are very learned and strong. When one’s purse is full, they solve important questions; but when they lose their money, they also lose their power. Some criticize, with their own small brain, everything God has created saying things are not well made; while at the same time considering as good, what their own small patch of earth (their head) has made. Do you know how long and wide is the patch of earth (the head) of a Bulgarian person? Its length is at the most 21 cm and its width is 16 centimeters. Now then, with this size of mind the Bulgarian person wants to reconstruct the whole social order and to speak of all great mysteries! This is true of all other people as well. Why do people die? They die of little mind, of scanty food, of scanty air and scanty blood. By the word blood I mean the divine life. To have blood is to have this pure and unspotted divine life which must be neither bitter, nor sweet. If a person is bitter in one incarnation, they will be sweet in the next one and if in this life they are sweet, in the next they will be bitter. In a spiritual sense I compare heat to affection, light to the truth and air to human thought. As air enters the lungs to purify and oxidize the blood; by the same law, thoughts enter the mind and purify human desires which correspond to the human blood. When we begin to understand this science, we shall be able to apply it correctly to the structure of society and by so doing, eliminate all evils in life. People say that everything has its causes and consequences. I ask you: "Which are the incentives for certain causes?" Some say, "So and so killed someone out of great hatred." Perhaps, but why did they hate him so much? Others say that it is caused by loving someone so much. Why do they love so much? If the cause of hating or loving someone is one and the same, then it comes from God. If it is not one and the same, it does not spring from God; but is the consequence of some other life. People speak about laws in nature and society and say that this is a world of laws. Among the laws there is a certain correlation, but they show that the beings ruled by laws do not live in peace. Not only we, but higher beings than us in the solar system, do not live in peace either. That is why God has put certain limitations, certain distances among them so that there should not be disputes. Between the system of Alpha Centoris and our system there is a distance of 25 billion miles. This space is so enormous that 3,000 more systems like ours can go into it. In this way they cannot quarrel. When God wants to make people good, He places them at such great distances. If anyone should ask me, "What should be the distance between a man and a woman?", I shall answer, 25 billion miles. The number 25 is composed of 2 and 5 whose sum is 7. The number 7 is perfect, implying the Law of Harmony; but people today, with their doctrines, have to a certain extent torn down all barriers which God has placed between the beings. Why? The woman wants to appropriate and dominate man; however, how would she be able to dominate him, if he were 25 billion miles away from her? Today people are trying to find ways of influencing one another. Yes, you can influence, but you can never dominate. Everyone who tries to do this can dominate only themselves. The desire for domination can be seen in some religious societies as well. A new movement strives to dominate and assimilate another movement. A nation wants to dominate another nation. People die because of this very greed - the desire to have much. Those who want much do not understand the Divine Laws. We must not want much, because we have more than we need. Although people have such a small brain - 16 cm wide and 21 cm long - they have not cultivated it sufficiently. A person’s patch of earth has not been cultivated. In the Bulgarians for instance, only a space of 6 to 7 cm in the front part of the brain is cultivated and they think they are bearers of a great culture. I ask you, what can you build on such a small space of 6 cm height and 12 cm width? Therefore, we all live in the Law of Illusions, thinking we know everything. You say, "We do not need any philosophy." That is not right, for there is one philosophy - the Philosophy of your Eye, of your Soul, and you must all remember this. What does the understanding of this Law imply? When a person projects a thought in a divine way, it already creates in them. Accept a divine thought without any self-seeking purpose; give ear to its instructions, and you will acquire all you wish. By saying you will acquire all you wish, I mean that which undergoes alterations, but does not change its nature. You will then live with in constant contact with Love. When I speak of Love, I do not mean your human love. Your love is like that between the cocks and hens. When some wheat or corn is given to them, they all get together to peck it, but when one or two grains remain, the cock chases the hens away at once and pecks the last grains himself. Their love lasted until the last grain - no more. All societies, be they religious or worldly, live like cocks and hens, in peace and love, but when it comes to the last grain, they say, "Now off with you!" The cock crows and says, "Hens, away from me! You must know how to sing like me!" What is singing? To sing is to be able to think. So long as we believe in the false promises of people, our condition will be to be driven away from the place where we had been formerly invited. This way young men and women deceive each other. A young man starts deceiving a girl that he will buy her this and that and that they will live well and so on. The girl believes him. In another place the girl deceives the young man. In contemporary society we do not speak a real language. When we return home we say, "That one must not be very sincere, and we should not believe them." You must be a person who lives as God taught you to live, not expecting any benefit from anybody; relying on God, on your Soul, then, finally on your neighbor. When Christ says that if you Eye is pure, your whole body will be full of Light, He means that if your Eye is pure, you will first see God, then your Soul and lastly - your neighbor. If your Eye is not pure, you will start the opposite way - first you will see your neighbor, then yourself and lastly God; and because of that you will turn the whole world upside down. I ask those of you who have gathered here, "Who gave you life? Your father or your mother? Have you inscribed their name with gold letters? Shall I find anything of them if I visit you, or will you have only some clothes and a portrait?" In this respect we are like the Jews of old. They tortured and killed their prophets, cut their heads with a saw, but after their death they raised monuments to them and glorified them. They did the same with Christ also, but today they build monuments to Him and sing songs to Him. In the churches also they are always singing songs about Christ, but outside the church nothing is heard of Him. We also sing about God, but when it comes to considering our neighbor, we at once prefer ourselves. when the master treats his servant badly he creates relations between bourgeois and proletarian who do not understand each other. God has not created any bourgeois or proletarians, but people. By speaking I do not wish to moralize you, for moralizing is not a good thing; it is simply a training of a person. I am talking to you about a Divine Law so that you should know how to bear your children. When you call them here on earth, you must tell them everything truthfully. Do you know how people were born before the fall? The man and the woman led a pure virgin life at that time. The man knew only one woman and the woman only one man; they did not marry several times as people today. Some will ask me, "If that is so, how many children must we give birth to?" Only one. Why? Because God has only one, unique Son. God says to people, "If you want to live well, your son must be ready to leave the world and to help his brothers and sisters just as Christ sacrificed Himself for humanity." As sons and daughters of your mothers, you are not ready to serve humanity. You will say, "You, who are preaching, are not ready either." You are right, I am preparing myself now. A work is not ready until it is thoroughly completed. For the work I am doing now, I need at least 10 million years to bring it to some end. I need that many years, but you need as many too so then the work will be completed. You will say, "What a long period of time is necessary!" It is a short period. This time is only a pleasant walk for the human spirit, because time and space are related only to this limited life. A saint who lived once in a monastery thought a long time about the other world and said to himself, "What will people do in heaven? They will spend a year or two pleasantly, but after that what?" One day a very beautiful bird flew to the monastery and the saint wished to catch it. He started chasing it, running after it, but then remembered his duties. When he returned to the monastery, he found great changes - the people had changed and no one recognized him. This saint lost four or five hundred years in chasing a bird, but how many years will be necessary for the accomplishment of some great thought? Therefore, when life has meaning, one never gets tired of it. When you are waiting for your loved one, time moves slowly, but when you are awaiting the set time for your hanging, it flows very quickly. We experience things according to our inner state. Christ says that if your Eye is pure, you will not notice how time passes. You will be happy. In what is your joy today? When you roast a pig, a hen or a turkey, set a jar of wine on the table, the merry clinking of table silver begins and toasts are drunk to your health and to the world’s well-being. Yes, but those hens and lambs are displeased with your happiness, they do not share it. Your joy is their sorrow. Some day the relationship will change. Out of your feasts, grass will grow which the sheep will graze upon peacefully. This will be their reward for their meat you have eaten for numbers of years. Such is the great Karmic Law. Christ says, "When we begin to understand life this way, misfortunes will vanish and life will be light." You do not know why sheep eat grass. This is a temporary method; for in the future, food will be absorbed by the pores of the whole body and not chewed. "What must we do?" Always keep open, bright and pure the Eye that God has put in your Soul so that you can always be warmed by His Heat and Light. Do you know why worldly love exists? When someone marries, the Bulgarians say that they were caught by the "Blind Sunday." Why do people speak that way about love and marriage? This shows that this love does not proceed from the Spiritual Eye, so it is blind. That is why I call worldly love "a love of blind people." Often a young girl and a young man walk arm-in-arm. What does that mean? This shows that one of them is without an Eye and that is why they need someone to lead them by the arm; but if both of them have this Eye, they are not permitted to walk arm-in-arm. If your wife is blind, you will lead her by the arm, but if she has an Eye, you will say to her, "Woman, there must be a distance of one meter between you and me," this is the safe moment in life. Therefore, if our Eye would shine well, we would never allow anyone to come close to us. If we should ever come close together, we would be turning our Eye coming close to darkness. Thus we shall have to form a nation. The nation, in my opinion, is a great condition for the Soul. we shall take advantage of the conditions in which we live and never criticize a whole nation, or a whole society. Society, the nation, humanity are conditions created by God, and we must take advantage of them. We can criticize separate individuals, but not a whole society. We must utilize all conditions which this Eye offers us, but it is in close contact with the human mind, heart and will. Christ says, "If your whole body is full of Light", which means if you use sensibly all your endowments, you will become Son of Man and be in complete harmony with the Son of God. There can be no culture, there can be no noble world until people today develop in themselves this Inner Eye. I can prove this to you using examples from nature. All plants owe their life to the sun. In the same way, for our thoughts and desires to grow and develop, this eye must send them its heat and light. This Eye is inside our brain. If we find this Eye, we shall find our Sun as well. Do not think the heart is an organ performing a definite function. The heart is a society of most intelligent cells that fulfill the highest function - they do the work of the Soul. I recommend to you to develop this Eye of Light so that you do not make mistakes in life. I compare sin to the nucleus of the egg hidden inside within its shell. The egg contains all the conditions out of which the future life can develop. In order that this life should develop, it is necessary to put the egg under the hen where after staying for 21 days the mother hen will begin to cluck, saying to the chick, "When the time comes for you to come out, crack the shell." The chick makes a hole from inside and the moment of its salvation arrives. This process is effected from inside out. We are waiting for others to save us. Do not allow others to crack a hole in your egg. By this Eye, Christ means the Eye in motion, i.e. the Soul of every person containing within itself all the prerequisites for regular development. If your Eye is pure, you will be able to solve correctly all problems thanks to the Light you have. Our life is connected with the past and the future. What I am telling you will not work to save you if you yourselves do not work. My sermon is only the clucking of a brood-hen. Therefore, I say: those who are close to being hatched should use their small beaks to pierce the egg-shell and should make the last efforts to put their heads out. When all the chicks are out, the brood-hen says, "Cluck, cluck," and starts leading them around and teaching them how to peck grains. This is the Divine Natural Law. We want the Lord to come with us, but He is only preaching. Every preacher is a brood-hen. There are brood-hens that preach, but nothing comes of that, because they have no eggs. If you are a brood-hen without eggs, pray God to set you somewhere. Every mother and father are brood-hens. Christ says, "If your Eye is not corrupted, it will fill your body with light, you will understand the sense of life and be in contact with the past, present and future as well as have an incessant bond with Love." But the love dominating the world today is something to beware of! The worldly love is like a muddy stream watering the peppers, the cabbage and other vegetables; however, in time this muddy stream becomes filtered and purified. Nothing unclean, however, should have a place in your egg. Make no compromises if you are to have a shining future. For at least one year, retain the following thought, "I want my Eye to be bright and pure, so that my whole body should be the same". In such a state you will profit much more than if you would listen to all preachers in the world. That sunbeam coming from above produces much better results than all the stoves in the world. Such is the Divine Law. Now direct your mind, your thought, your will and heart to this Eye and ask yourself, “in which day of the hatching am I at the moment?” If only ten days have passed, you will say, "Mother, the time has not come yet." When the 21 day comes, you will say, "Mother, it is time." Thus I say to you: “Cluck, Cluck,” but in this respect I am ignorant; not knowing in which day of the hatching each one of you are. You will know this by your impulses, desires and thoughts. If from today on, all preachers, priests, teachers and judges in Bulgaria and in all Europe should start thinking about this Eye, you would see what a good result there would be. If the Bulgarians first make this experiment, they will see that in a year’s time there would be betterment both intellectually and spiritually. Think of the Eye Christ spoke about, for it is in all of you and by thinking of It, you will obtain Divine Thought, Love and Goodness. When you find this Eye, you will all be immortal – as it brings you to life. This is what Christ was saying. Everyone who wants to be immortal should find this Eye. This is the thought Christ was revealing by this verse. Sermon held on May 11, 1919. _________________ 1 Mathew 6:22

The Rising Sun "I am come a Light into the world that whosoever believeth in Me should not abide in darkness."1 The word "I" in this verse stands for the present word "Spirit". When the ideas of the old and the young people differ in form, these ideas do not differ in substance; but when they differ in substance, they do not differ in meaning and finally when they differ in meaning, they do not differ in essence. This difference between the young and the old is natural. The young and the old watching the two phases - the rising and the setting of the sun - have two different perspectives in life. Light increases for the former and decreases for the latter, therefore they cannot have the same view of the world. When people tell me they differ, I make the following comparison: from sunrise till noon people have one kind of ideas, but in the afternoon till sunset, they have another kind of ideas. So when people tell me they differ, I ask them, "What ideas do you have, ideas of the rising or the setting sun, morning or evening conceptions?" There is yet another category of people whose ideas differ: as the night differs from sunset till midnight, and from midnight till the rising of the sun. There are four kinds of people differing in ideas. Two categories belong to the light and two to the darkness. Speaking of light and darkness I mean the movement of the earth in its relation to conscious life. Since there is movement, there will be light and darkness. It is clear that the earth is moving toward the center - the Sun. It is striving for it. Movement means Love. Love moves all beings. When certain matter has kinetic energy, i.e. such that produces movement, this means manifestation of Love in all its forms. Light is one of the forms of Love. Christ says, "I," i.e. the "Spirit," but not what you see, for you see the shadow of things, simply the reflection of light on the surface of all bodies. You say, "I saw a person in the street." What did you see? Nothing, but their shadow. The reflection of their body enters the optic nerve, causes vibration, makes an impression, projects a shadow outwardly and then you say you have met such and such a person. Actually their shadow has met you. I ask you, "When the sun rises, is it you who meet it, or it meets you? Who meets - the one who attracts or the one who is attracted?" this is a philosophy. When someone says they are moving, I want to know whether they are attracted, or whether they attract. When you move you may be attracted or you may attract at the same time. It is one thing to attract and another thing to be attracted - they are two different things. When you are attracted in your movement, you are limited; but when you attract, you are free. When you say you have come to Earth, it is because the Earth attracts you. You are attracted by it for it has pinned you down and is holding you. Is it you who walk or is it walking? I think the Earth is walking within you. These are only a few philosophic thoughts. The Earth is walking and moving. It is a Fine Lady. I have never seen such an elegant way of walking, so gracefully and nimbly. When it moves in space, it does not make any noise, or raise any dust, as ladies do today. The Earth is so polite that it does not want to awake anyone when it passes, that is why no one is conscious of it. It has turned its gaze to the Sun - its Lover. But ladies today do just the opposite. All who grumble in this world have not turned their eyes intently anywhere, or in other words - they are people lacking an idea. When I say they have no idea, I do not mean they do not have some ideas; but their gaze, their movement, their aspiration is not fixed in a definite direction as that of the Earth. When Christ says, "I came," He does not mean the coming of a man but of a great idea; and we are deceived by thinking that a person comes or has come. A preacher comes and we say that he will set the world right. Christ came 2,000 years ago and people said at that time that He would set the world right. Many others came after Him but again the world is not set right, in our opinion. Why? Because the world is not set right here but in another place (unclear). I shall ask you when an artist paints a great picture, where is their mind directed? To the canvas, of course, where they make their corrections. The idea in their mind is perfect, but when they project it on the canvas, it is not as perfect as it is in their mind. Therefore, the life which is within us is perfect. They say that the life of some people is worldly and of others, spiritual. Life in itself can be neither worldly nor spiritual; but when the animal principle lives in a person, they become worldly and when the human one is manifested in a person, they become spiritual. If you put some bitter or sweet element in perfectly clear water, it will acquire its taste, but does that mean the water itself is bitter or sweet? It is neither bitter nor sweet, this is a wrong conception; but you make it such. It is the same with people: some put in pure Divine Life some element that corrupts it and makes it worldly; while others apply the good to life and render it spiritual. For this reason some people are very spiritual. But today people have so defiled their life that I do not see any difference between the spiritual and the worldly people. When it comes to defending their ideas, both kinds hold on to their houses and collect the rents. The one kind pass for sweet, the other for bitter; but the bitter are such for other people, not for themselves. These are conceptions of the people. Therefore, light and darkness are two processes for the explanation and conception of all existing relations. Light is a clear conception, while darkness is a vague, confused conception of things. Now, many of you pass for worldly people. I would like to be a worldly man in certain respects and a spiritual man in other respects. If I want to rest and sit in the shade of a tree by a spring, I shall be spiritual. But if I am with a hoe in hand, I shall be a worldly man, because I shall cut the heads of many worms. That is why the spiritual people do not take a hoe and bear the name of sluggards, while the worldly are considered industrious. The worldly people solve their problems by the blade of their sword, while the people of an idea - by their pen. The worldly people are the manual workers - the proletariat, while the spiritual people are the bourgeoisie. It is not bad to be a bourgeois. After one has worked for a long time in the field as a proletarian, they will start resting and become bourgeoisie setting the world right from their point of view. To have order in the world, one should not rest longer than necessary; but they should not work more than their strength allows them either. Light and darkness are two phases in nature which alternate - we work in light and rest in darkness; when we work, light is outside, darkness inside; but when we rest, light is inside and darkness is outside. Only if the worldly and spiritual people think and understand life this way will they find the touching points of mutual agreement in clarifying the Law of Labor. Christ says, "I came," i.e. the Spirit has come. When the Spirit comes to you, He will give you a clear idea of life. Christ has come to you so that everyone who believes in Him should not walk in darkness. I do not consider faith in the ordinary sense that many people maintain. Only the pure, sinless person can have faith as they can believe in everything and doubt no one. This is faith, not "beliefs". Faith is a quality of the Angels. Some say, "I have faith." No, you have beliefs. Your faith is like a cobweb changing 100 times a day - you believe one minute and do not believe the next minute. One day I met a young student who had studied some occult sciences and who told me that he believed in God. But later, after studying socialism, he confessed that he trod on his idea of God and now he became a man. By the words "trod on his God" I understand that he has trod on his egoism. When someone says that they believe in God, they mean that they believe in themselves and consider themselves a divinity. All people today are "divinities" so that those who say that they believe show they are valorous to confess that they believe in themselves as divinities; while those who say they do not believe in God hide this fact. The world is full today of Christs, St Virgins, St Johns, St Nicolases and so on. The world is suffering from them. The real Lord in not here yet! Where is He? See where He is: when you come to love all people in your soul, this Lord has sent you a ray; when all contradictions vanish in your mind, when you realize your duty and are ready to sacrifice yourself, the real Lord has spoken in you and you and He are one and the same thing at the moment. Christ says: "I came with this Lord who lives in me, I came with Him and through Him I should give light to all that may believe". Who? Those small, pure souls. What a great thing that is for a person to be pure in the world! Upon purity rest all ideas, all happiness, all health and blessedness of humanity. If a person is pure, they will not walk in darkness, but will have a clear idea of life and order it as it should be ordered. I know two brothers in Varna, one of whom graduated from the military academy and became an officer gradually rising to higher positions until he attained the state of colonel. His brother did not attend any higher school and served his time as an ordinary soldier. One day the soldier met his brother in the street and did not salute him. The colonel stopped and asked him why he did not salute him. The soldier answered, "You are my brother and I need not salute you." "I am an officer in the first place and then your brother - that is why you should have saluted me," answered his colonel brother. "I arrest you for two days." And today the world is full of colonels outside and ordinary soldiers inside, of bourgeoisie and proletarians - an emblem of light and darkness. When did you become a bourgeoisie or a proletarian? You were not born a bourgeois or a proletarian, but a person who must think and understand the Law of Light and Darkness. Light implies wealth, while darkness - poverty, but there are different degrees of light. For instance, there is light at sunrise, there is a broad day noon light and light at sunset. That bourgeois whose sun has risen will look at things one way; but the person whose sun has set will look at things another way. Today Christ is solving a great social problem - the problem of the so called class struggle. This is not an ideological struggle. It is the same which has existed for 8,000 years, expressed in the same way: "You come down so that I can go up." So far the minorities have ruled, but in the future the majority will rule. The minorities have worked till now, but the bolsheviks will work in the future. This can happen. You will say, "How is it possible for a gentleman to work for the simple men, for the proletariat?" But I shall ask you: how is it possible for a mother and father who are bourgeois to work for their children - the proletarians of the world - to get up early in the morning to feed them and supply all their needs, to sacrifice so many sleepless nights for them and so on? The parents know that in this way they must fulfill their duties to their children, because some day this proletariat will take revenge themselves on their parents. The mother, who is love, works; so does the father - these bourgeois must put on their aprons and work for the proletarians, because these proletarians will cast them out of the house some day, take their money by force and make them work. This has been so and will be so. How long? Until this class struggle comes to an end for it is solely materialistic. This is a transitory state in the life of humanity. After thousands of years another epoch will come when people will live in a different way and this struggle will be substituted by a life of order and decency. Today we consider people in their relations to their kind according to the sentence: dog eat dog2. However, I say that a person is a brother to the others. If we consider Darwin’s theory of the origin of species and make a study of the origin and conditions under which the wolf lived, we shall see that originally it did not possess these same qualities in the character which were developed later because of the conditions under which it lived. The wolf is a representative of an ancient culture and today it manifests itself in human society and in life. Why? Because people do not understand the Great Laws, which govern life. I shall demonstrate to you figuratively the relations of people in contemporary life. Let us admit that the roots of a tree have a deep consciousness in themselves and all of a sudden a small root starts on its own away from the tree and meets great obstacles. This small root cannot find a way out and it returns to its father and crosses him. The father does not know that this is his son and begins to struggle with it. The same way all people are struggling with themselves, with their children, trying to cut them off and get rid of them. It is the same roots which have met obstacle in life, or otherwise there would not be any disharmony. Christ says, "I came to show the true way to all who believe and have the purity of the Angels." People are still reasoning whether they will live after their death or not and whether life has meaning or not. This is no life, but only sediments of the darkness in which they live. Life is unique and it can neither die or be born. If I pour out the water in my pitcher, does it die? The pitcher has neither been alive, nor can it die. Therefore, in their physical state people are pitchers into which life is poured. The pitcher is only a condition, but life is everything. When the pitcher is filled up, it comes to life, but when it is emptied, it dies. Life in the body is heterogeneous, but in death - homogeneous. Scientists today say that matter is homogeneous. This is 50% true. Diversity cannot be born from homogeneity. If there was no heterogeneity in colors, nothing could be born of their uniformity. What is heterogeneity? It is all the necessary forms through which creation, life, must be manifested. Life cannot be manifested only through a single form, but through a limitless number of forms. When these forms combine and give expression to a greater form, we say that life is uniform, i.e. all the forms have the same aspiration to give expression to a higher form. But this higher form is not alone; there are more similar forms which combine and form other worlds. When we study nature, we observe the existence of this Law of Uniformity and Diversity. This, however, should not hinder us. A person who is in the dark is resting and instructing the young. They may be writers, poets, princes who will sit in the shade; but if they are proletarians, they will work only when there is light. Therefore, God created the world for the proletarians, i.e. for the workers who progress and not for the bourgeoisie. We shall liken the rich people to wealth collected in the past; the poor - to wealth which is being collected now. Thus, the rich people are of the past and the poor people - of the future. If you are a rich person, you are of the past; if you are poor, you are of the future. In the Jewish language there are only two tenses: past and future. There is no present tense. They say that everything happening now is past and what is going to happen is future. The present is only a transitory moment; it is a point which takes no place whatever (unclear). Be people of the future then! Christ says, "I came to give Light to the people - to the poor, to the people of the future - that they may not walk in darkness, the way of the rich, i.e. of the past." All sins are sins of the past. We bear our sin as a shade and every person who wants to get rid of it must become a person of the future; otherwise they will bear their sin as the snake bears is skin. When someone says they want to live in the future, I understand they want to live without sin. Therefore, the poor are people of the Good and the Light, while the rich are people of sin and darkness. These words may seem bitter to you, but let someone come and prove this is not the truth. I do not consider a rich person only a person of money, but also the person of knowledge and power who does not employ their wealth for the good of their kind, but rather for their stumbling in evil. I call them bourgeois. People who do the will of God, I call proletarians, or people of the future. I also call the proletarians "bees", workers for the new culture. The word "proletarian" is a class word; it is not an exact expression and so we must say ‘Workers of the New Culture, of the New Science’. What is the New Science? That we all should live in the Light; that we all should be happy and spoil neither our happiness, nor that of others. Only by two words I can spoil your happiness so that for 100 years you will not find it. Imagine that I call you and place before you a bomb with a fuse. If the bomb explodes what will become of you? In the same way, in every thought of yours there is explosive matter which, when exploding, creates all those conditions we call evil. I explain evil as matter we cannot control, because it is not submitted to our will. The matter under our will, which we can control, I call good. The external world is controlled by another will, but the inner world is under our control. If God, Who controls matter outside, loses His contact, all existence would vanish. That is why we must hold the reigns of our horse, for once they get out of control, the horse runs away and overturns everything, so misfortunes come thereby. These are general ideas. Every day your horse - your mind - walks with his tail up, ears pricked, brave, undaunted; but someone passes by and tells him something and he is immediately startled. A rich Jew walks bravely on his way, but someone meets him and tells him he will live only two more days. The horse is startled - the mind of this Jew - and he immediately closes his shop and says, "From now on you will have a holiday." All people get startled this way. Ever since the war I have been hearing people wonder what will become of Bulgaria. Many are more fearful than necessary. Bulgaria is not the only entity, there are others as well. Tell me, were there Bulgarians, Serbs, French, Germans, Englishmen when God was creating the world? There were not. They came later of themselves. You may object, but I ask you: does a mother bear her children as professors, teachers, priests, judges and so on? She bears children who become learned people, generals, doctors, engineers and so on, later in life. Our positions in life are the different roles we play on the stage. While we are on the stage, we are clothed in different costumes like actors, but as soon as we come off the stage, we are already brothers. When we go to heaven, we shall laugh a little at this struggle when we remember the different events of our life on earth. I shall explain your position by an example. An Indian God, being satiated with the nice life in heaven, wished to be allowed to come down to earth to live for a while. He was given permission and so he chose the form of a swine and got incarnated in a small pig. He started to live like all pigs - poking his snout in dirt and mud, lying in the shades and growing fat. At one time he married and had about fifteen piglets. He lived peacefully and happily. They waited for him to return to heaven for a year, two, three, ten years, but he did not return. They called him from there, but he did not want to go back. He said, "I feel very well here." They decided to take away his piglets and force him to return, but in spite of this misfortune, he did not want to return. They took his wife away, but he started looking for another wife and they did not succeed in persuading him. Finally, they decided to send him a fatal illness, which caused him to return back to heaven. When he awoke in heaven, he started to laugh at the life he had spent on earth. Many people today have the experience of this bourgeois, digging and solving different problems on earth. Different misfortunes come to bring people to their senses, but when they leave the form of the swine, they will understand what their state had been. What does the form of a swine mean? It is the extreme materialism existing today. What does it consist of? Namely, that the people get together and start talking about this and that, about the other world, the good in life; but at the same time they keep their geese, hens and wine, living luxuriously. When the poor listen to their talk, they say to themselves: these people talk all the time about the other world and live for God, but they know how to live in this world. And so the life of the rich with their materialism appeals to the poor who make it an ideal they aspire to attain. This ideal becomes the aim in the life of the poor and thereby the teaching of materialism is given rise to. The poor say, "We want to live like you." Since the rich people became the cause of the deviation of the poor from the right course, God will place them in the position of the poor so that they may correct their mistakes. Such is the Law. That is why Christ says, "I came, a Light in the world to explain and make things clear." There are no contradictions in nature; only those we ourselves create them. How? We cannot control and direct part of the matter God has given us and that is why we create evil. All sins have their origin in matter. Every sin has a form. Show me a sin that has no form. Some person is considered an egoist. What does their egoism consist in? They want to have houses, money, to dominate their wife/husband and so on. People say about some that these are greedy, misanthropic, etc. All sins have their material motives. When we smooth out all bad forms, all sin will vanish away. Therefore, bad forms create evil and that is why people are advised to create beautiful forms. When two scientists get together, they offer different theories about the sun, its conditions and so on. Other scientists begin to argue whose opinion is more truthful and divide as followers of the one or the other. Today all scientists argue about which of the science authorities have more following. Two priests argue which of them has more parishioners and so on. Christ and Moses cannot agree or come to terms in the world. Christ and Mohammed can come to no agreement on the earth either. There is no such a Moses, such a Mohammed or such a Christ. That Christ, Moses or Mohammed who cause division among the people, are not Servants of God. When a person is sent to bring some great Divine Idea, they have no right to enslave people, or look for their own benefits. Christ says, "I, the Spirit, bring this Light to the people who believe, i.e. who have purity." For instance, do you believe in what I am telling you? You will say that you have not verified it yet. But do you believe in Christ? For two thousand years on end people have been verifying Christ. As much as you believe in me, you believe in Christ. Did the Jews believe in Moses? Up till now I have not yet met a person in the world who believes in their Master completely. Those who say they believe in Christ, or in whoever it maybe, do not speak the real Truth. To believe in Christ does not mean to stand reverently in a church. It means to have the disposition Christ had in His Soul. I am not talking to you about religion, we have had enough of religions. We must live in a Divine Love, in the Divine Affection, in the Divine Spirit. Let the present religions remain for the bourgeoisie, for the people of the past; the Divine Life is necessary for the people of the future. Some think we are trying to lead people into new kind of delusions. Such a thought is far from me, there is Love in me which is a movement from up high downwards. I understand what affection is - a movement of the human soul from below upwards. I understand what the Divine Spirit - a Power which keeps everything in harmony. So long as you keep your present religious conceptions, we shall never be able to come to an agreement. Can you say like Christ, "I came, a Light into the world"? Can you be Light to yourself and your brothers? This is required of all of you, because you can all become in this sense saviours of the world. If you expect a single person to save the world, it will never be set right and order restored in it. We must all set about righting and ordering it; which can be achieved only when we maintain the Divine Order of things and strive not to break it. When someone asks me if I believe in Christ, I find this the most banal question for it is the same as if someone should ask me if I believe in the Light, in Love. I walk in the Light; what is the use of believing in it? Everyday I speak with God, how should I not believe in Him? Asking me such questions means that they want to take me down from my position and make me a demon, an antichrist, a bourgeois. I do not want to be a bourgeois or a proletarian as people understand them today. I am not speaking to you about the historic Christ, but about this Living Christ Who is in you and among you. Drive this wedge out of your mind - this thought that Christ is outside you. This Christ is the Spirit; and when you understand Him, you will see Him in every person. So long as you seek Christ only in a single person, you will never find Him. I have already asked you: if someone wants to make a study of you, will they be able to understand you only by a single hair of yours? If someone loves a person and takes only a hair from his head, can we say that all their love lies in that fact? This would be a whole idyll! I see how the religious people take a hair from Christ and look and look at it; then put it back in its place, not understanding anything. People do not take only hair, but also pieces of His cross and still the world is not set right. Why? Because people are occupied only with the physical aspect of Christ. Christ has said, "Whoever does the Will of my Father will live in Light." By this I do not have in view the personal life of people, but I want to clean the streams. I have decided to clean up the muddy water not because I hate it, but to give way to the pure water and to water the gardens where pepper, cabbages, carrots and other vegetables are planted. Muddy water is necessary for the gardens, while pure water is needed by the Pilgrims of Life returning to God. What an idea this is! When God created the world - without any nationalities - the world was happy; but today, ever since the old Egyptians, Assyrians, Romans, Greeks, Philistians came, happiness vanished from the earth. I am interested in modern science and life and in spite of all the contradictions I come across, I can still find many useful things. I stand in greater admiration before a barefoot child than before a rich, well-dressed one. This poor child is excellent, because you can talk with them. They are modest, while the well-dressed children have external forms, and are insincere, by which they want to show that they are not simple. I meet a drunkard who has drunk much and who excuses himself saying, "Excuse me, sir, I am an ass, I have taken a drop too much." I say to him, "You are not an ass, because the ass doesn’t drink; but you are a frank person for which I respect you." At times when a person drinks, they can become a bourgeois, because an industrious person never gets drunk. All drunkards are bourgeois. Now let us return to God and live without the religion of hatred, envy and avarice. By this, I do not want to say that religion must be cast out. Let the class struggle exist, because it is just as useful as those worms which cultivate the soil. The farmer says, "I plowed the field." No, it is not you who have ploughed it, but those worms that live deep in the earth. Thus, in the class struggle the proletarians and the bourgeoisie are the worms that have been working for a number of years and have oxidized the soil. After that, the Angels will come with their ploughs to sow this soil and say, "You have worked enough; we thank you, because you will have to eat and drink for thousands of years and you will all be brothers." The Christians say that in those blessed times they will be in Paradise; the Turks say they will have whole mountains of pilaf3 without coupons! However, Christ says, "I came, a Light of the world," and Light is the meaning of life: it is food for the mind, the soul and the heart. That is to be content in yourselves, nourished in life and have energy and desire for work in life. Now when you go back home, you will begin to philosophize, "Can a person live without religion?" When God created the world there was no religion. Religion appeared in the world when the devil came. Before that people lived in Love and every teaching which was not directed by Love was not recognized as Divine. In my opinion, religion is a sanatorium - a hospital for sick people. When a maiden is disappointed in life and when a lad looses his loved one, they become religious. Therefore all religious people are bankrupt bourgeois, while those who serve God out of Love are people without religion. Those who are in the hospital should better not leave it prematurely. Yet, if they nevertheless want to leave it, they must consult a doctor whether it is time for that, if their organism is functioning rightly. If the doctor allows them that; let them enter the broad path of Light where one can live without religion. "You are free," he must say, and sign a certificate for their freedom. The church at present is a hospital and the priests and ministers are the nurses and doctors there. Now the time has come for some of you to leave the hospital and I am at its door. Although I am a minister acknowledged by no one, a prophet without portfolio, I shall ask you, "Was your life in the hospital pleasant and did you learn your lesson there?" You will say, "Oh, those injections ruined us!" The doctor says, "A person who does not live in God will test our needles and live in the hospital." I say, "I do not carry any packing such as needles or knives and do not have any pharmacy or bag on me. You should breathe pure air, look up, not walk in darkness and let the sun shine on you that you may not go back to the hospital again. If you enter it a second time, your condition is dangerous and more complex. The doctor will appear again, use all scientific means, watch how your temperature is rising constantly and soon the sick person will go bankrupt and be carried out of the hospital. There is no life at such a high temperature so they will take the person to the autopsy room, open up their brain, stomach, bowels and find out the reason for their dismissal. Christ says that people can live without thermometers. Do not be troubled by the idea what is useful and what is not useful in life. Everything is useful, but we should stop thinking that life exists only at the hospital. The hospital, the church, the concert hall, the school are transitory things, but life implies something much more serious in itself. In real life there should not be any confusion, but constant work. In only three words I shall make a definition of what Christ talks about: torment, labor and work. Some student says, "I was tormented much until I entered high-school and labored much until I graduated." After passing through torment and labor one comes to work. This is the Teaching I am preaching to you now. I say to those who have been tormented to stop that and begin to labor; and to those who have been tormented and have labored, I say, "You need not be tormented and labor anymore. Come to me and I shall teach you how to work." These are the words of Christ in the quoted verse, "I, My Spirit, will come and teach you what to do." Now is the moment for those who have graduated from school to stop and show their certificate or diploma, because they were ignorant before that. Today all over the world people want a diploma, if you do not have one, you cannot become a teacher, a minister, a judge and so on. The future life will not be the life of the past. Christ says, "In the future there will be no need of certificates," and the present life will serve as a basis of the future one. New forms will be worked out and we know what these forms will be: Brotherhood with Love. Now, those who have not entered school and do not know the Light will be tormented and labor. Few are those who work - they are only some poets, artists and musicians. The main thing in work is not to have any confusion in your mind. Christ says, "I bring you the Divine Love. Enter it; manifest your affection and then the Spirit will come and enter you and you will understand the Inner Meaning of life". Talk of the Master held on May 4, 1919. ______________________ 1 John 12:46 2 In Bulgarian the saying is: A person is wolf for the person. (ed. note) 3 23 pi.laf or pi.laff - n (Turk & Pers) a dish made of seasoned rice and often meat (ed. note)

A Divided Kingdom "And knowing their thoughts He said unto them, ‘Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand."1 "Divide and dominate" is the slogan of the world today as well as of every home, every mother, every father, every daughter, every son, every chief, every king, every nation and every culture. If someone asks me about the reasons for the suffering of humanity, I shall answer that the slogan, "Divide and dominate" is the reason. Therefore, as long as you have this slogan, misfortune will follow you as the shadow follows its master. Christ says, "Every kingdom, every organized life, every organized nation divided cannot stand." I shall tell you why it cannot stand. Every house implies the conditions from which all benefits flow, since the kingdom is built upon the home. Christ says, "If a kingdom is divided, the house cannot stand either." Therefore, both the kingdom and the house will collapse together, or in the commercial language - they will go bankrupt. To go bankrupt is to become a slave, an ox yoked in the field with a person with a prick behind you saying, "Since you have studied how to divide and dominate, come on now - plough!" Today all Bulgarians in the fields preach this teaching all the time, "Go on, son, divide and dominate, divide one furrow from another." You say, "How nice these fields look!" But I ask you, "Cannot wheat grow in the earth without it being divided?" In the distant past, before the existence of human beings, how did all fruit and flowers grow? The way all plants are cultivated today is new. A man says, in order that my wife should cook better, she needs spanking." The mistress says, "If my maid-servant is to tend to her work better, she should not go out often and needs spanking now and then." Whenever the maid comes back from some place, her mistress immediately gets angry and demands to know where she had been loafing all that time. However, what is the result of the present order of life? Every person, rich or poor, hungry or fed, feels a nervousness, a discontentment, like something is lacking. What will happen if your heart, your stomach, your eyes, your hands and feet and some other part of your body separates from it? Today people act according to the Law of Division as sons and daughters are divided from their parents. If you enter a religious society, there you will also find division. The heart, the stomach, the brain and the lungs in all people are not at their places, they are divided. They say that worldly people quarrel about money, but what are religious people quarreling about? Therefore, money is not the cause of this hassle, it is only a condition for that. Why do men and women quarrel, why do brothers and sisters quarrel, what is the reason for that? It is a false idea that people think they will be happier this way. Only unorganized things can be divided, organized things are not divided. You cannot divide virtues, for if you divide them, evil is born. If the bottles in which you carry water crack and fall to pieces, where will your water be stored? If the inkpot of a student breaks and the ink is spilled, what will become of the white dress of the student? It will be stained. The inkpot will say, "Since the teaching is divide and dominate, I became divided and where the black spots are - that is my dominion." Christ says, "Every house divided against itself shall not stand," i.e. when division appears, no rational life can progress any longer. The home is the Emblem (Symbol) of Love; it cannot stand if instability arises or evil, hatred, oppositions are born for these are nothing but gaps. The first impression of gaps is awkwardness. If we step on marshy ground where there is no hard footing, we sink. Therefore, division causes gaps in life that are the places of evil. In present day life, in order to organize a society, it is necessary that all gaps should be filled up. You have strong teeth, but in time a small cavity appears in which the deposited food particles start decaying and the tooth begins to disintegrate and emit a bad smell. Why does it smell badly? Because there are cavities in the tooth. It is in a process of division and its particles are in conflict. Someone asks me, "Why do I have a headache?" Because there are cavities inside. "My stomach aches." Because you have cavities inside. If a particle wants to separate itself from an organ, quitting its job, and if there is no other cell to substitute it; an unhealthy condition in the given place arises, which is nothing other than an interruption of the existing divine bond. If you have failures in life, they are due to this great law. In such cases the doctors say that the cells in such a place have fallen ill. When there is division in us, we feel awkwardness. When does division take place? When avarice appears, i.e. the feeling of possessing and dominating which is called individualization. By the process of division nations have arisen, as well as the home and so on. This process is admissible in nature, but there is no life in it. In cosmogony it is called chaos. Billions of years ago there were great wars among the gods in the space in which they used enormous cannons. The worlds were created by the volleys of these cannons. Out of fatigue, these gods diminished and became the small people who are reasoning today about great questions - "We divided the world after creation" - not realizing they created it. I say, "You gave God the materials, you brought the stones out of which God created the world." The human body is formed the same way. At first there was struggle among the small cells and after they were exhausted, God brought them together and today they all form the human organism. We say, "How wonderfully people are made!" Christ says to His disciples, "No work can succeed, if there is division." You accept a thought and then you doubt, "Am I right?" I say, "You are divided and that is why you cannot have any success." You decide to build a house, or to take up some science, but you start wavering. You will not succeed if you are divided. If a girl and a young man doubt each other, they should not marry. Doing this, both men and women today begin to play with each other during their whole life, creating a fire in which they eventually burn up. In this way the whole family will disappear because division entered therein. Learned people say in such a case, "This family degenerated," but I say, "There is division in this family." Someone may ask me, "Shall I enter the Kingdom of God?" If there is division in you, you cannot enter It. "Shall we become learned, shall we be saved, shall we be good?" If you are divided, you will not become learned, you will not succeed or become good." You will ask me, "But can a person not be divided?" Yes, they can. The process of division is mechanical, not spiritual. In the world there must not be any spiritual division. What you call division, for instance the sprouting of a tree, is not division, but multiplication. Multiplication is an organic process. Division is the breaking of ties with the very source of life. People today frequently create bad thoughts themselves. We see a person aspiring to God but we doubt the purity of their intentions and say: "The reasons they are aspiring to God are not religious or noble, but some devil has obsessed them." We act as some Jew. Today all people accuse the Jews, but the word "Jew" is not bad, it has a deep meaning. Everyone bearing a cross and suffering is a Jew. Why do they suffer? Because they have not learned the deep meaning of this word. Some will ask me, "But what does the word "Bulgarian" mean?" Some philologists say that the word comes from the word boulg`our2, but that is not its origin. Then I would ask you, "But where has boulg`our come from?" In the original language every word had a definite meaning. All languages today are translations of an Ancient Divine Language, which is also the original one. Three languages originally sprang from it: Chinese, Hebrew and Sanskrit. The Chinese write vertically starting from the top down, that is the first translation. Hebrew is written from right to left, while in Sanskrit the writing is from left to right, i.e. from east to west. That is how we also write. The Chinese language is positive, but the other two are passive - from them sprang the rest of the languages. The Turkish word iş3 signifies the original being working. Hebrew has the yod4, while other languages, such as French, have the double u - w. The Turks say, işbu5, meaning that we must listen to that Being which is working within us. We know this root and say, "Shia,"6 i.e. I am doing something. He Who sent me originally to the earth taught me to work. Christ says, "Every Kingdom divided against itself shall not stand." Let us take the following example: if the child in the womb of its mother wished to be separate in the very first month or if the mother wants to part with it, she will abort it. This can happen from the first to the ninth month. When the ninth month is over, the child does not separate but it is born. This process has reached its final stage and the child is born. Everything that has started working finishes its cycle. Therefore, each kingdom which does not reach the end of its way shall not stand. I want you to observe this law, which has relevance in your life. Some ask me, "Why did these misfortunes come to us?" You have divided something within yourselves. What will happen if your heart and mind become divided? Some say, "Let me have a mind, I don’t need a heart." Others say, "Let me have a heart, I don’t need a mind." These are delusions. A young woman says, "I am looking for a young man with less brains and more money." Happiness does not rest on money. Often people say, "In order not to suffer, one must not love." Unhappiness springs from the fact that when a Divine Thought or Divine Feeling comes to us, we want to abort it. This gives rise to great suffering. Therefore such a house, such a society, such people of learning all degenerate and new people come in their place. In the verse I read to you, Christ makes two comparisons: every kingdom and every house. Christ says, "If I cast out evil spirits by God’s Spirit, the Kingdom of God has come to you." Christ does not say that He separates, but that He casts out the evil spirits. Casting out and dividing are two different concepts. For a man to cast out his wife and to separate from her are two different things. If you cast a person out, that means you are looking for another place where they can work; while if you separate that is to break the bond the person had which provided they with conditions to work. When someone tells you there is no God, they separate you. When a man assures his wife that she can live with another man just as well, he has separated her. She starts living with one man after another to her undoing. This is a general law. The Turks say that a rolling stone cannot make a foundation. Some say, "Let us change our ideas," but changing ideas and rolling from one place to another are two different things. To change ideas is one thing; but to roll ideas another thing. To change oxen is one thing, but to turn them into flat sausages or dried meat is quite a different thing. Now we wish to reform present-day society, but the first thing we must learn is to stop dividing. For that, you should learn the art of uniting. It is a very easy thing to divide, but it is a very difficult thing to unite. When the word "divide" comes to your mind, let its opposite, "unite", appear as well and you will learn in time to transform dividing into uniting. You can separate only the unseen things in your organism. Therefore, the hidden law in this verse is: The first and most important thing is not to divide what is good. The religious, the good people must not be divided. In America there are many outstanding ministers, but often people start gossiping and want to substitute one minister with another. If that is done, will the world be set right? In some countries, people are dissatisfied with their king, calling him a bad person and wishing to substitute him by another king. Such endless divisions appear also within us. The evil lies in the fact that we want to change one thing for another. Do you think that the second king, knowing there is a dethroning, a changing, will not take precautions to keep his throne by creating an army with a cavalry and setting up prisons and scaffolds for the criminals? And what is all this that he will perform? Nothing but division. By this he wants to say, "Instead of me losing my throne, you will lose your place." I ask you: what is wrong with the king keeping his place if he is not disturbing you? Would a cock disturb you if he perched on a hedge or a tree and crowed? I have seen children throwing stones at a cock when he crows, but he says: "Why should I not sing in this place?" You are a cock and can take one place; but in this world there is room for thousands of cocks. Then I say - in life the cocks must crow and the hens must cackle. The crowing of the cocks forecasts nice weather, while the cackling of the hens means that the divine work given them to perform is completed. If a hen tries to crow like a cock that is not a good sign. When a cock crows he says to the hen, "There are favorable conditions for you to lay your egg." Then he walks around the hen, asking her, "Did you finish your work?" "Yes." "Well, then, I am glad we accomplished a fine work for the Lord in this world," the cock answers. But more people ask, "Why does the cock crow, why does the hen cackle?" The hen says, "Give me more work." People say about someone that he sings like a cock or that she cackles like a hen. I respect all men who sing like a cock and all women who cackle like hens, but only after they have finished their work. Religious people often cackle before finishing their work, before the egg is laid. What is the meaning of the laying of an egg? These religious people have a project, for instance, to form a society and start talking about it - how they will form it, what they will do and so on, but they only talk and do not act. A young maiden draws up a plan for her life and starts dreaming how she will marry, how she will live with her husband, how she will bring up her children, but all this is cackling before the work is done. When you have a plan, begin to sing, this is the song of the cock; but when you finish your work, cackle. When one thinks, they must sing; but when one feels, one must cackle. When I say that a person must cackle when thinking (these are synonyms), I mean that there is a similarity between thinking and singing. Cackling and feeling are also synonyms. I am explaining a philosophy and it makes no difference whether you sing or cackle. It means that people are free to sing or cackle, i.e. whom the Lord has asked to sing, let them sing, and whom He has asked to cackle, let them cackle. But if the cock refuses to crow and the hen- to cackle, there is division. Many women ask, "Why has the Lord made me a woman?" That you may cackle, which is an excellent work. It means that you must announce to the world that the work is finished. When a cock starts crowing, it shows that the work is in the beginning stage; but when a hen cackles, it shows that the work is at its end. I say that the tail of the snake is much more important than its head. The snake catches its victim by its tail; the wolf catches its victim by its mouth; the horse kills its victim by its hooves; but most animals use their tails. The tail is woman, i.e. that member of the general organism who finishes the work. The head begins the work but the tail finishes it. I shall not go into detail about the tail. Some say, "We do not want to be tails." I ask you, "What is the head worth without the tail?" The whole body is the tail of the head. Therefore, we should get rid of our wrong notions about the tail and the head and know that at times we are the tail and at other times the head. When we perform some movement, we are tails; but when we find that Great Law of Organizing, then we are heads. Many women are tails now, but in the future they will be heads and many men who are heads now will become tails. But there are all kinds of heads: garlic, onion, ox ones, heads of flies and so on. It is very generally said - heads. What kind of a head do you want to be? If you had the head of a cock that crows or the tail of a hen that cackles - would you be doing lofty work then? Taking an egg a hen has laid, you can learn how the world was created for it contains the clue of the whole universe. All truths are hidden in that egg. The whole world is nothing but an enlarged egg. When a hen lays her egg she cackles, meaning to say: "I have laid this egg, the same way God has made the world." You take the egg, boil it and do not understand how the world was made. We act the same way with many fine thoughts which come into our mind. We must take the egg and taste it with our mind and not with our stomach. We sell the fine things in us. A beautiful thought comes to the mind of a girl which makes her features attractive - her nose, her mouth and eyes - but she begins to sell herself. They tell her that a young man owns 1,000 leva but she does not like him. Or another young man has 5,000 leva but she does not like him either. She is looking for a wealthy duke and sells her face. Some author gifted by God starts writing something, but they begin thinking how much money they will get for that. If they think of gain, they cannot express any Divine Idea their writing. Take for example the novelists of today writing a novel in which the heroine faints and dies. I do not understand why the hero or heroine must die. This means that this author understands that the heroine has gone astray from the source of the Divine. A man or a woman who faints have parted with God. When a person overeats, they faint which shows that they have eaten unnatural, impure food. People who eat natural food do not faint. When students read some novels today they like the idea of a hero who faints and try to imitate him. A young man speaks to a girl, she faint out of love and he tries to bring her to. "Every kingdom divided against itself shall not stand." If such man and woman get married, they will not live well together. Keep in mind that what I am talking to you about are relations within nature as well. I am talking to you about that Great Law in Nature, that Living Great Truth which you also may come in contact with, i.e. the new teaching in the world. The Law in this Great DivineTruth is the following: contemporary people of learning will bind and unbind you, yoke and unyoke you; that is why there will be a prick. This is no religion. In the Divine Teachings you will bind and unbind your self. When you come to me and say you want to follow my teaching, I shall ask you: "Are you ready to bind and unbind yourselves?" Now we want all people today to turn from an animal state into rational beings. I want you to put on your yoke by yourselves and to take it off. I ask your ox, "You who have will, do you know why you have a yoke around your neck and can you get rid of it?" You go to church, bow and cross yourselves, but I ask you, "Do you know why you make the sign of the cross, what have you learnt in this life by this act?" You should know that placing your hand on your forehead is a sign that this head must think, i.e. my cock must crow; when your hand is placed down, it means: does my hen cackle? Is there love in my heart? When you place your fingers on your right side you are asking, "Is my egg laid?" On the left side it means, "Is my egg being hatched?" All this means, doing a great work for God. You will say that I interpret these things my own way. You interpret them in a different way then. So when you cross yourself, put this idea into action. I want to say that every act, thought or feeling of ours must have a definite value within our soul. In this world you will have many hardships for the following reason: there are hens which do not lay eggs so they do not cackle and if they do lay eggs, they hatch them in other hens’ nests, or hatch the eggs of other hens. When you hatch the eggs of someone else, discontentment rises in you. Let me explain what this means. Every egg is an Emblem (Symbol) of a life. If you seek the Divine Life, you will find it in a Divine Egg; if you seek intellectual life, you will find it in an intellectual egg; if you are looking for love, you will find it in an egg of this kind. In this respect people are very practical and have common sense: when they want to have a nightingale hatched, they place the egg of a nightingale in a nest; when they want to have apples, they sow the seeds of apples. You cannot sow one kind of seed and get a different result. People in this world act the same way, namely those who divide. This dividing exists inside you and all misfortune comes from it for it is a destruction of human power. In our present culture this law of division exists. You have sons and daughters and wish them to succeed in life. If you can bring unity in your own souls you will be able to do the same for them and they will succeed. Make several experiments, not only one; for the first experiment may turn out successful, but it does not imply that all others will always turn out successful. An experiment is successful when in every case it turns out well. I have watched jugglers who skillfully stuck twelve daggers near the chest of a woman without hurting her. All their throws turned out successful. When you watch such a sight, you think the woman will be stabbed to death. You must be such master too. But what are you doing today? You stab the heart or the head of some person quite skillfully. Someone leads a spiritual life for five or six years and then gives it up. Why? Someone has stuck a knife in their head or in their heart. Division has taken place in them. In my view God is not a need but a necessity of the world. Life itself, thought or will are manifestations of God. All that is sublime or noble in us is divine manifestation. No Lord exists outside of this. Someone says, "I want to see God." You cannot see God if you first do not feel Him, as you cannot see the fruit of an apple, if you have not sown the seed of one. Many of you have not laid eggs, but you say, "I got this and that done." No. The work has not been finished if the cock has not crowed and the hen has not cackled. One must think while another must feel; one must begin the work and another must finish it. I want you to finish this work. You will answer me, "We are people incapable, uncultured." I do not want you to turn the earth, it is turning anyway; but I do want you to finish the work that you are appointed. You say, "I cannot set the world right." It is set right. "I cannot help the poor." Not only you, but the whole world is taking care of them. I ask you: “How do those small midges live which you do not take care of?” Therefore, in the philosophy of today and in our minds there are vacuities; a result of which disharmony appears and we pass through painful states. Christ told the Jews they were divided and every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation which means that "since you do not believe in me, your kingdom will not progress." The same applies to your religion. And actually their kingdom ended there. This law is true of all nations. Every nation that says that people cannot live rightly in this world cannot expect anything good. The Bulgarians, for instance, have no success in war. This shows that one cannot make progress on the principle "divide and dominate." A mind and a heart are necessary. You as a nation must learn to think well and to feel rightly. There is no nation which does not feel the oppression today. All nations which have oppressed other nations will be crossed out as an organization. All such nations have disappeared and only ones in which there is no division have survived. Paul says, "There is neither Jew, nor Greek; neither Scythian, nor barbarian." You say, "He is a Christian, but he is an Englishman; that one is a German and so on." There is no division in Christ. The Jews are people of the heart, but since they are very near the stomach, they are materialistic people who like money. They are close both to the spiritual and to the material that is why they pierced Christ in the region of the heart. They said, "We want to become a great nation," that is why they lost what was given to them and for 2,000 years they have been without a kingdom. Now they are being placed again in the old land. The Jewish kingdom will be small.7 God says to them, "Your land will be neither large nor small." So the heart is already defined. You will ask me, "But where are the Bulgarians?" The Bulgarians are in the liver, because they are very rancorous, they like the land very much and say, "We need wheat, wheat." The liver is necessary but when it is enlarged, misfortunes arrive. If it becomes small this is also bad. The liver must function in order to produce bile. Therefore, if the Bulgarian people vanish in the world there will be constipation and thence - great suffering. Today everybody is asking, "What will become of us at the Conference?"8 God is telling those at the Conference to be careful with the liver, because if its bile bursts, all cultures will go to the devil. You will find the places of the other nations. So do not groan and worry for God is taking care of the liver since it is a very necessary organ and the body cannot do without it. Therefore, there must be no division among you. There is a close connection between the heart and the liver. They are very sympathetic to each other.9 The heart is very sensitive, while the liver is more passive, so they like one another. And so I solve the problem of the Bulgarians - as the liver they are in their place and the bile will not burst. Be grateful you are Bulgarians and do not be troubled what will become of you. All of you must try to have unity in your thoughts without any division or fear. There may be fear, but in its place; there may be poverty, but meet it and send it off politely. When a poor person visits you, wash their feet, feed them and then see them off. Act the same way with wealth. Remember that in all our beliefs, every teaching is in its place: that is why Christ says that there must not be any division among us. Today there are many divisions, many parties competing for supremacy in ruling; but it would be better if all of them united and played all together as in an orchestra. At this moment unity is necessary, not division. Bulgarians cause themselves much harm by this division. I do not blame them for this, but rather turn their attention to this fact, because the cells of the liver are the most stupid and uncultured cells, but they contain the conditions of the future culture. Tthere is a great difference among the different kinds of livers. For instance, there is a difference between the liver of an ox and that of a person; between the liver of an angel and a seraph also - for the cells of the latter think like human beings. Do not think that if you are the liver, you are very cultured. This condition in which you find yourselves on the earth is very uncertain for there is much division among you. You Bulgarians do not know which Lord you are serving for you are Anglophiles, Russophiles, Germanophiles and all other kinds of names, but I say, "Turn to God and cross yourselves before Him. He will make you wise and good so that you can lay this egg and hatch it well, or it will become an addled egg." There is a close connection between politics and religion. Know that the present culture has inscription, "Join yourselves and unite." It says in the Scriptures, "If hands are joined there will be no success for thieves also join themselves." When Bulgarians make a horo10 they join hands, but that is a gain. Why do they dance in a circle? To be inspired by the motion of life and then the lad and the maiden get married. Marriage is a strange motion. Do not move in a circle, but walk in a straight line. I make the following analogy: the four wheels of a wagon roll while it is moving, but what do they learn? Nothing, they only raise the dust around. If I ask the axis what it has learned, it will say, "I did not turn like the wheels and I did not learn anything." If I ask the oxen who move forward what they have learned, they will say, "Nothing, we only raised the dust on the road." The driver will tell me the same thing. But culture does not consist of nothing. You will roll and you will not roll; you will move and you will not move; you will hold the reins and not hold them - culture consists of all this. When we return home we shall interpret this and say that the wheels rolled, the axis did not move, the oxen moved; there were reins. We are a Divine Wagon which is moving to transport the Divine Life from one place to another: to the mill, then to our homes to make bread when we return home. Where is our home? In the field, nearer the Lord. I would prefer to eat out in the open, in nature, by a clear spring than to be in the best restaurant in Sofia. The home is amid nature and then it is closer to God. By saying that every Kingdom divided against itself cannot stand, Christ meant that every kingdom and every home based on violence will be divided and vanish away. Therefore this criminal teaching must be discarded and in the future there should not be division among you. If there is division among you, you will only see the back side of life, because you and life will move in two opposite directions. If there is division among you, you will see only the back side of God, the back of the Kingdom, the shadow of things. Do not be divided, but let several sisters unite and attract people. I see you divided into parties now. When I look at you, I can tell who is a radoslavist, who is a democrat or a radical. How do I know you? By your heads, for every head has a special shape. Since you are a radical, do you know how to pull out roots? Do you know their laws? If you are a democrat, do you know the laws of democracy? Some call themselves priests, Christians or teachers, but you must know your subject both in theory and in practice. If you do not know this, you are nothing yet. Sometimes I see you in the position of professors, but where is your practical experience? You will answer, "That is how we have studied." Yes, but I told you to roll and not to roll. To roll means you are in the periphery; but not to roll means you are in the center. They who are self-possessed are in the center. If you give up this teaching of division, all winter days will be nice and you will not catch cold. I cannot catch cold even in the draft, because I do not divide, living under another law by a different stove. They who do not divide cannot catch cold. The Lord says, "If you obey Me and do not divide, your world will be clear and all blessings will be poured down on you." If you listen to the Lord and do not divide, but work for Him, He will manifest Himself to you. How? As a musician in a house. He enters the house and if he is in a good disposition, he takes the violin and starts playing, but if he is in a bad mood, he will not play. You want the Lord to play for you. But if the Lord finds your strings broken how will He play? You say, "We want wonders." Silly wonders do not exist. In the world exists only one great wisdom wherein everything must be in its place. Do not divide, but unite and send out good thoughts everywhere. You ask, "Can this be?" Yes, it can. In my vocabulary there is a single word "CAN". Some say, "Then we can divide." No, this cannot be because they who divide lose their power. You can become weak. To such a person I say, "You can become rich, in order to become poor." But to another I say, "You can become rich." So that the result of these two "can’s" is that one is wealth, the other is poverty. This is what Christ meant by His words to the Jews, "Cast out the evil spirits with the Spirit of God, I put order in life and do not divide; but you will be placed in a school to learn the Law of Uniting." Let the Bulgarians learn this lesson from the Jews and avoid being put in their position. The Jews will say, "It is unforgivable for the Bulgarians not to have learned this law in the course of these 2,000 years. What a sin will they commit, if they do not listen to you now." But today all people say, "What evil people the Jews are!" No, they are very good people, because in my opinion, "the worst people" in this world are the best people in the other world and "the best people" in this world are "the worst" in the other world. Do not divide your mind from your heart; let all men and women unite and let all nations unite in this future culture. Finally, let the human spirit be united with God. Only then can we have a higher culture bringing to the world the long expected peace and joy. Sermon held on December 8, 1918 _______________________________________ 1 Matthew 12:25 2 Bg., pounded wheat, (tr. note) 3 Turkish for 1/ work, 2/occupation, 3/ question (ed. note) 4 יּ- the Hebrew letter yod (ed. note) 5 Turkish, (dated) this very one, the present one. (ed. note) 6 Bg., verb: sew (tr. note) 7 Israel was established in 1948 some 40 years after this talk was delivered, (ed. note) 8 Bulgaria was punished for its part in World War I (through the Treaty of Neuilly) by loosing territories and being subjected to heavy reparations, (ed. note) 9 In 1943 Tsar Boris cancelled orders for the deportation of Bulgaria’s Jews in the face of protests led by prominent political figures and Metropolitan Stefan, head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. (ed. note) 10 Horo is a traditional Bulgarian dance in which the dancers join hands to form a chain. (ed. note)

The Two Masters "No servant can serve two masters. You cannot serve God and the mammon."1 Two rational principles are functioning in the world. By saying that you cannot serve these two principles at the same time, Christ means that you cannot be twice more active than you can endure, i.e. greater pressure cannot be produced in a caldron than it can stand. These two principles cannot be placed on a single caldron. In the occult science these principles are called first and second, but in science they are termed as positive and negative. The positive principle is always stronger, and the negative - weaker. The creative force always manifests itself in the weaker principle. What builds in the world is not the strong, but the weak. That is why destructive people are always stronger than the good, the mild people. You have these two principles in yourself at the same time. For instance, when you get angry and cry out, "Put order here at once!" all the servants, women and children get frightened and obey. But this principle is not creative, it does not create anything. Only when you turn your attention inside yourself and get calm, everything acquires its natural state. The first principle, in which evil, hatred and lying originate, is not evil in itself. You have peculiar notions of hatred and falsehood. In order to be able to lie, one must be clever for a foolish person cannot lie. This is a great philosophy, but in contemporary society it is called "superior diplomacy." Women possess this kind of diplomacy as well. When the man is stronger in the first principle, his wife caresses him, calls him "darling" and by her softness, she tames him so as to assimilate this high principle. When these two principles are balanced, they begin to work together: the first principle gives of its surplus to the second one. Christ says, "You cannot serve the first and the second principle at the same time; you cannot serve hatred and love at the same time." These two things are mutually incompatible; they are diametrically opposed, as they do not move in the same direction. Take two merchants, for example - they can work together, for they are moving in the same direction having the same interests, but a merchant and a doctor cannot work together. The word Lord means the highest principle, the noblest principle which creates. This principle is soft and plastic, but this does not limit it. It is immortal - death does not exist in this second principle. There is death in the first principle only because the strong destroy themselves by the power they possess. Only strong people can commit suicide. Take for instance the scorpion - when it is surrounded by fire and has no escape it commits suicide by the sting of its poisonous tail. It prefers suicide to being burned alive. The first principle has created the cosmos; the material world together with your bodies, energies and forces necessary for their upbuilding. When you want to give up the first principle, you must give back everything it has given you. But when you return everything to it, what will remain of you? You will return to the second - become one with God. There will be no John or Dragan, angels or devils and a general state of peace and calm will reign in the world. No questions will be raised as to which side will win in the war or what will happen after the war ends. All questions will be solved. All these things will merge in the first principle, which will withdraw into itself. When a person wants to become energetic, they must be salted; evil in the world is salting and a person should become bad in order to be salted. When a person looses their saltiness, God sends the first principle to produce salt. But people should not serve this principle. Christ takes it as it is manifested on the earth, not as it is manifested above among the angels. One cannot be rich and pious at the same time. I do not believe in such piety. When a person's purse is full of gold and silver and they pretend to be a saint, I doubt in their sanctity. All riches in the world belong to the Lord; and the moment you think the power and influence you have are your own, you are serving the first principle. This principle is individual and disunites all beings, because it is not a master of uniting, but just the opposite. It can create thousands of people; but it cannot create conditions under which they can live. This principle is possessed of anger which leads to the trashing and killing of people. I shall tell you an anecdote as an example of this idea. A peasant had no children and often prayed to God to bless him with progeny. One day he filled a big sack with grains of wheat and prayed that God turn these grains of wheat into children. God answered his prayer and turned all the grains into children. When the peasant got up in the morning, all the children began crying and asking for food. That angered him very much and he said, "These children will eat my head off" and started killing them. One of the children, who had hidden behind a door, started crying and begging him not to kill it. This is the first principle in you - evil, which is active and when it comes, it says, "I shall destroy." But when the second principle - which people call love, the mother, the power of all things - comes into the world, it immediately softens the first principle and the two, joined together, give birth to the greatest and the highest in the world. When you serve the Lord, it is only through Him that you can influence the first principle. Only God has the power to save you from death. If you do not serve God, you will be swallowed up by the first principle for such is the law. Water returns to its original source; so does money and power. Everything returns, for all things have sprung up from the first principle. However, in Love, there is a manifestation in the world of the absolute God whom no one knows - the unknown God of whom people have no idea. "The God you will not know but worship is the one I am preaching to you about," says Paul. He is the only One who holds in Himself these two great principles through which He is manifested. Since one principle destroys, while the other builds; you cannot destroy and build at the same time. When you hate you destroy; but when you love you build and create. Some people think that the first principle has apparently the desire to build in some people; nevertheless it devours at the same time. "I shall love you. I love you but I shall eat you up." This is the way a cat plays with a mouse until finally it presses it down and swallows it up. This is what people call love! Some think that the Hindu idea of "Nirvana" is merely blending with God, not building. This is partly true - there is both blending and building. One must be in accord with the second principle and live with it. There is an eternal aspiration in the second principle to unite all beings into a whole. It is the aspiration of Christ that God should be manifested individually by every Soul. God wishes to create in the world small abodes in which He can live. He who can understand this profound principle is a great Soul. Many contemporary philosophers are tangled up in these two principles. The first principle has taken upper hand in all pessimists, anarchists and that kind of people both in the religious and social aspects of life. I am observing society and have many statistics of this fact. A woman marries a man and, in the course of two or three years, she exhausts him, tires and destroys him and marries a second time. She exhausts her second husband also. She marries a third time and does the same thing to her third husband. Then people say, "This woman brings bad luck to men." The same thing applies to some men. A man who cannot live with a woman is one in whom the first principle has taken the upper hand and when he marries a woman, he destroys her. For such a woman and such a man the second principle must be so strong that it will create balance with the first. In religious societies such disputes often arise in which the first principle comes to the fore. For instance the question as to who should take the first place nearest the altar arises. On the physical plane it is not possible to put many chairs by the altar and if all should want to sit up there, the priest will not be visible. The same questions arise among teachers as to who should be the principal. How many principals can there be? Only one. The question of superiority can be found among preachers, military men and so on. This is a natural struggle, it is a great divine process which all angels have undergone. Many angels have passed the test, they have passed through the first principle and have entered the second one and now they are serving God, while others have not passed the test, they have fallen and now they serve the first principle - mammon - that is why they are called demons. Among people there are also some who serve the first and some who serve the second principle. After some time when humanity ends its evolution, takes its wreath, everyone will go to their place. This is why Christ says, "Without Me - meaning the second principle - you can do nothing." There is deep meaning in these words: if you remain alone to struggle in the world, you will become servants of the first principle and then all negative qualities as tiredness, jealousy, repulsion, discontentment, which destroy you, will become manifested in you. In this principle you cannot find any benefit for the world or any sense in life. That is why Christ says, "You cannot serve both God and mammon." If you serve mammon, you will be on the bottom of hell in constant discontentment and you will never understand even why you are a man or a woman. You may pass through all forms of creation, but you will always be discontented, because people by themselves are never content. The word "discontentment" means that you cannot be content with your outside appearance since human spirit is much greater, requiring a much larger activity than the one we actually perform. You have a small body, but the spirit wants a greater one. An eternal struggle begins. And in this struggle you say, "Might is right", which is the first principle, but when you say, "The weak has the right," that is the second principle. Someone commits a crime and by giving the judge two or three thousand leva2, the latter acquits them. Just as during the Middle Ages by buying indulgences, one's sins were forgiven. However, in the building of your life, Christ does not tolerate division. If you are divided in yourself, you must rise above that state and work within God. Only then will you understand the deep meaning of those forces working in the universe. Those who have started on the Way, the initiated, have a greater experience. Why? They are suffering more than the worldly people because in Christianity, along with the first principle, the second one is growing stronger. Where Love is manifested, the first principle also manifests itself; though it remains as a mere shadow - a shadow of creation. By "a shadow" I mean a principle which causes death. The first principle in itself is dark and brings darkness, but the second principle always brings light to the mind. When the first principle acts, you feel great sorrow and have no sense in life, but as soon as the second principle comes, you become high-spirited and rise. In the first principle you grope for an exit and if you do not find one, the thought of the scorpion obsesses you - to commit suicide in order to get rid of the unfavorable conditions of life, which you have created yourself. Thus the first principle is extremely avaricious and insatiable; in it there is no end to desires. What life can there be in the insatiable? What meaning can there be in a life moving forever in a straightforward line? Supposing you travel through the universe with the speed of light - what meaning can that motion have for you? It makes no sense to enter one, two or three houses which are empty. There is meaning in getting acquainted with those who live there; to have communion with their minds and hearts. Acquaintance and friendship in the world is to be in accord with this divine principle which, here on earth, is expressed in Christ. The first principle has created many illusions in the human mind. Since it bears all the shadows, it is strong; it has created many combinations by which it gives Divine Love a chance to manifest itself. Thus, Love finds expression in it and the first principle is like its soil. Nevertheless, it is striving to conquer the second principle - Love - but Love cannot be conquered. It is a Law which regulates all things in the world. The first principle is afraid of the second for when it faces the latter, it comes into the Light and, seeing its image, is obsessed by fear. Just as when you go to someone who loves you, your heart begins to throb. It says, "You have come to your Master, I have swallowed quite a number like you." Men, women, children - the hearts of all quiver. A man and a woman who have a hidden thought - the first principle - want to dominate; but when they realize that this principle does not yield, they say, "Here is my Master, here is the second principle, the Divine One, which gives expression to life and immortality." The Scripture says, "Love casts out fear," and in order to be happy, we must by all means be joined to Christ, otherwise our path is lost. If we do not serve God, we shall serve the mammon. If we serve God, we have torn down the mammon; but if we do not serve God, mammon will come and say, "You will serve me!" Every one of you must know this. Someone says, "I want to be free." You will be free if you serve Love, otherwise you will serve mammon and be a slave. You cannot serve God and mammon at the same time. It is impossible! People often say, "Let me beat them and they will have fear of me." You can beat them up or frighten them, but they will not love you. I would like to see someone among you who have gained a person's love through beating them. I have not yet met such a person. I am not the only person who says this: all great people and all saints have stated it. When the first principle gains the mastery over the human heart, the individual becomes dry, hard and begins to stiffen. Everything in them stiffens: their heart, their muscles, their hands, their legs, their arteries and so on. Then the doctors say that such a person is sick of arteriosclerosis. I say that this is due to the first principle, which has hardened the person and obsessed their heart. When God sees a person possessed of the first principle, He begins to bring in disunity, i.e. the second principle begins to act. When Love enters the first principle, it begins to organize it within itself. This is a struggle which acts mechanically in the world. It takes place in all social strata; in the minds of philosophers; in religious societies; everywhere. It acts until the second principle takes predominance and organizes our hearts, our bodies and we become immortal. Christ and the second principle wish to have predominance in our cells and in the monads in order to render them indestructible, immortal. Only then shall we pass from the transitory to the unchangeable and enter the region of Eternal Unity - the Eternal Divine Harmony. That is why the world was created, so that the human hearts and minds should pass from the first principle into the second. The process is from left to right. For instance, how do you work? You move to the left so the right hand may exert greater pressure. There are exceptions as some people are left handed, but generally when one works, one moves from left to right. This principle is the reason why the heart has moved a little to the left. Physiologists today say it is because of the way a child has lain in the womb of their mother but this is not the reason. In time, the heart must move to the middle between the two lungs; only then will there be harmony between Wisdom and Love. Now, speaking about your heart, I imply the idea of harmony between your thoughts and desires. Your desires always dominate your mind. You think well and say, "I shall do this, I shall do that," but you get angry and destroy everything. A man and a woman are in love, but one day the woman meets another man, handsomer than her own husband; one who has a fine moustache, black hair and eyes and she says, "I found him at last!" And the home, built for twenty years, is destroyed. This woman is unfortunate for she has found the first principle. The same thing applies to men and children. A child thinks their father is foolish and bad and says, "That other father is better than mine." Children often compare their mother with other mothers and say, "Those other children's mother is more beautiful and better than ours," and at once disharmony arises in their home. The first principle has sneaked in again. I am not speaking of the depth of this philosophy, but only to point out how weak you are. As I see you, you are still weak, you are like nails which must be pounded in by the hammer. When the hammer comes, it will ask you, "Do you know me?" "I know you." You will be pounded in so well that you will even come out on the other side. You will realize that you are nails and that the strength is not in you, but in the hammer. The hammer says, "Do you see where you go when I pound you?" The force, however, is not in the hammer, but in its handle. It is not there, either; but in the hand. The hand says, "The force is in the brain, not in the hand." If the brain does not give an order to the hand to be raised, what will become of it? It is the same with people. Two friends, two nails get together and start talking. One says, "I was pounded in twenty centimeters, do you know what weight they hang on me? No one can pull me out, I do the greatest work." This is the reasoning of nails. A Christian enters a church and says, "I did this for the Lord, I turned a person to Him!" You are like a thief who robs someone's purse and opens it: you have stolen the heart of this person and carried it away, leaving the person to complain all his life. Some mothers think they have given life to a child and then leave the child at a children’s ward. Why do you deceive the child that you have given it life! The second principle does not tolerate falsehood. Lying, violence, hatred, jealousy - all these things are compatible in a society of evil people. Those traits seem natural to them and when two bad men fight, they feel a satisfaction for a time. It is the same with a wolf and a lion after they tear up a sheep and eat it up. They feel; however, in a few hours' time, they feel the need of tearing up another victim. In the contemporary civilization we can find many similar examples. A similar thing took place in America in the city of New York where a court case was brought up. A doctor felt great satisfaction in killing people and in a short period of time, he actually killed twenty-five persons. He hired a woman secretary and killed her first by cutting her piece by piece, watching the effect of his action. He did the same to 24 other persons and burned them all up in a stove. That man was obsessed with animalistic hatred when he was slaughtering his victims. He was examined phrenologically in a New York prison and they found that his eyes and jaw were deformed. He had been under the influence of the first principle. Often such criminals have a desire to have long beards. The big beard is a sign of the presence of the first principle. I do not wish that you go to another extreme and understand me wrongly. The big beard provides more energies, but a criminal has a rude and hard hair. When your hair becomes hard, the first principle has dominance in you. In order to know how good you are test your hair and skin every morning. When your skin becomes dry and thickens, the first principle is in you. This principle will swallow you up as a snake swallows up a frog. It catches you by the foot and if you do not turn to God, you will go to the bottom of hell and find out about the other philosophy of life: what it means to serve mammon. No one can escape this eternal judgement of things. That is why Christ says, "Turn to Me." Life in our present state manifests itself in two directions: in contentment and discontentment, in ascending and descending. There are no other directions of thought. It is true that a rich person cannot be a saint; but a poor person cannot be a saint, either if they are discontented. By the word rich I mean a person dissatisfied with him/herself; and by the word poor - a person satisfied with him/herself. When a person gets rich, they become dissatisfied with their state; buys one house, then a second one, a third one, buys some furniture and tries to enlarge this circle. Discontentment shows a rich person; contentment shows a poor person. By saying content I do not mean that you should become indifferent like some fakirs in India who hypnotize themselves and fall asleep. There was one who, in the course of twenty years, concentrated his thoughts and lay so immobile that the birds took him for a tree and started building their nests on his head. I do not approve of such a state of contentment that birds should begin to inhabit your head. God has created trees for that purpose. In order to be content you must begin to work for God and serve Him. To be content means: if you earn three leva today, be happy and thank God. If on the next day you earn three, or four, or five leva, thank God again. Do not say, "How little have I earned!" "Enough for the day is the evil thereof." If you earn a copper penny, thank God for that; if you earn ten coppers, again give thanks to God. This is sufficient for you. The one makes a person happy. If two people love you, they cannot make you happy, you will be unhappy. Love can exist between two people; it does not exist among three persons. In order to give rise to a third element, the two must deposit an equal share and to them their child will be born. The father says, "They love me more." The mother says, "No, they love me more." Sometimes the father scowls at the child's love for the mother and vice versa. Why? Because this principle is not balanced in both parents. Your virtues, your forces will always correspond to your Inner State - neither more nor less. This is the whole truth. When people talk about me, I say, "I deserve it; that is my lot." I do not get angry at the person who speaks badly of me, they are working on me. They will do me good and I must thank them. That is why Christ says, "Love your enemies." You cannot overcome the enemy - the first principle - but by Love. Evil cannot be overcome by evil. To withdraw into yourself and look humble is not the means; you should love them with all your Soul. You will say, "This person has the right to hate me." Do not think that when a wolf catches a sheep, God says to him, "You did not do well." On the contrary, God says to him, "You are doing very well." When the sheep complains to God, He says to it, "It is good you are weeping, you are obliged to weep, but he is obliged to eat you up." The sheep goes out to the meadow and eats the grass. God says to it, "This is your work, you eat the grass, but one day a wolf will eat you up." This is the present evolution of life, but this is not life in the true deep sense of the word. To break stones for thousands of years to pave streets, or to carry water - this is no life. You may be a pack animal, such as a donkey, and carry ten tons of gold from one place to another during your life, but what of that? This is no life. You may have read much, gone to church to hear a sermon, but what of that, what do you know? You have carried 10,000 tons of gold on your back, but what is your knowledge? You may know how different elements combine, but what of that? If I know how may particles comprise the material world, of what use will that knowledge be to me? If I have much riches, but cannot use this wealth, of what use is it to me? If you have a wife who loves you, but your heart is hardened and when your children kiss you, you do not feel anything, of what benefit are your wife and children? The Philosophy in Love is to give and receive at the same time so that the exchange should be right. You say, "He does not love me," that is the first principle. You doubt - that is the first principle. There is no God - that is the first principle. When philosophers say that everything in the world moves, that is true, because the first principle is in eternal motion. Life manifests itself in the second principle, in the right construction of things. The second principle is active in you. Everyone must unite these two principles with Christ. Only in this way will you be useful everywhere - to society, the nation, to women and children and so on. This is what Christ told the Jews 2,000 years ago, but they accepted the first and rejected the second principle. That is why a great misfortune befell them. Today people test the first principle on their backs by this war; and it will go on until people get exhausted. When it finishes its work, Love will be manifested, i.e. God. People say, "He who hates much, loves much." This is half-true. God commits His energy to the second principle, and when it comes, His rational spirit begins to build. You cannot love and hate at the same time. Do not be deceived, this is a false philosophy, a false teaching. When the Divine Principle enters us only then can we love and say, "God is Love." Only then shall we understand the real meaning of the material world since Love is necessary for the development of our life. Just as the houses are necessary to people and as nests are to birds, this principle is vital to the world. Some ask, "Why did God make the world this way?" It is not your business - it could not be made in any other way. Others ask, "Why did not God create that?" Because He could not be untrue to His Nature. "Why did He not manifest Himself?" Because He could not be untrue to His Nature. "Why did He not make the world better and put us in the right way?" He has done that, but you do not understand Him since you think only of your own way, which is as different from His as the earth is from the sky. Two persons quarrel and say, "Why don't You come down, Lord, to reconcile us?" God is not in division. Someday when you grind one another to sand, God will look down from above (with His Eye) and see if anything can be made out of this sand. With a smile, God watches people today - those earthly philosophers and warring nations - and leaves these children to fight, hit one another and weep. Sometimes we want to sting God like a mosquito and bite Him so He would feel it. He, of course, is calm and does not care about all this. He only slightly flips us with his finger and we are carried off to the cemetery. Everyone who bites God goes to the cemetery - God sends them there. Regardless of who they may be - kings, princes, colonels, judges, priests, preachers and philosophers, God knocks them just the same. The same thing applies to you, if you philosophize much, you will fly off. You are like the mosquitoes, too, trying to sting someone. However, when you start on your way to God, you should not take your sting along - the sting of the mosquito - but rather stop, raise your eyes up and sigh. Do not think God is sleeping and does not see anything. God has been looking at you ever since you started from the earth. If you have started toward Him with Love, He will look at you, take pity and say, "You have understood the meaning of life - come to Me." Those who like to sting are pushed away by God until they learn their lesson. I am giving you these thoughts to make you think and start building your life; yet not as you have been building it until now. First of all give up biting. When a man complains that his wife bites, what will God do? He will knock her, she will die and he will be free from her. When a woman complains of her husband, what will God do? He will knock him and the man will die. A son using his sting will have the same fate. This is the way God acts. Some think that God acts like people act and does whatever comes to His mind. This is not true. He makes absolutely no mistakes: in this respect He is All Wise. His deep desire is to see us reconciled, living like brothers, using no violence, never stealing and so on. "What is the use of reconciliation? What have we eaten and drunk up in this world?" you ask. You meet someone who does not greet you and you get offended. Do they owe you anything? Both of you are small beetles moving on the earth. Another person says, "But you must be a gentleman, do not push me!" The force pushing you is a different one. If you take 100,000 small grains of sand and shake them in a bottle, they will ask one another, "Why are we pushing each other, why are we quarreling?" If you enter this first principle which shakes you up, you will ask, "Why are you tormenting us, Lord?" When the bottle breaks, you are spilled around - God liberates you. Thus, God has started to knock people today. He knocks them with the middle finger. The middle finger is the Law of Saturn - of Fate. In the Law of Divine Righteousness everyone must reap what they have sown. I want you to get rid of your old habits and the eyes of your mind must be open when God starts to knock. If your stinger is out, God will knock you. If He knocks you in the evening, you will not meet the day. When He pats you, you will rise from the dead. I wish for God to pat all people, i.e. all people might be touched by the second principle. This is the Christian philosophy which can explain all existing contradictions among people. The misunderstandings arise from the fact that we do not understand each other's language. You want me to give you facts. What facts can I give you? If I give you money, do not think I love you; I may be planning to steal your house. A man visits a poor man to help him. But the poor man's wife is beautiful. Do you know what hidden motives this benefactor has? How do you know he is sincere and would not carry the wife off? What are your arguments about this? There is only one argument: if from birth to death he does not do any harm to anyone, he is a sincere man, there is no deceit in him. There is no greater argument in a person's life than this one. This is how everyone should live. If I only philosophize and do not live as I should, this is deceit in my life. If I live in accord with this Great Law of Life, there is no deceit. You all know this. I notice some who look serious when they are outside, but when they come in, they put on a smile. This is an artificial act. Do you know how the Turkish men speak of a woman who smiles? They say, "She smiles in my face," thinking that she is already with them. Smiling is a bad sign for them, but we consider it a good sign. Yes, but if you get caught by the foot, you will be swallowed up like a frog. I am not alluding to your personal life, but simply state a fact which is taking place in me as well as in all of you. I feel cold and heat, light and darkness, but these things originate outside of us. They are not us, but things separate from us. Light and darkness do not represent our life, but when they are joined in a principle, life is manifested, i.e. the third principle. And this principle can manifest itself only on the equator of life. To sum it up, we cannot serve God and the mammon at the same time. If we serve God, we shall be happy, if we serve mammon, we shall be unhappy; if we serve God we shall be healthy, if we serve mammon, we shall be ill and poor; if we serve God, our stomach will be unimpaired, if we serve mammon it will be sick; if we serve God, we shall be respected in society, if we serve mammon, people will despise us; if a nation serves God, it will be noble, but if it serves mammon, it will become perverse and degenerate; if we serve God, our mind will develop normally, if we serve mammon, our mind will be perplexed and darkened. These are the two principles. When you get up in the morning with a disturbed mind, you should go to God. Turn your mind to Him and if He lays his Hand on you, He will create balance and change your disposition. That is why Christ says, "Come unto Me all you that suffer and are heavy laden, and I shall give you rest." In order to avoid the bad consequences of the first principle, which brings misfortune, walk daily with Christ. The first principle by its nature does not want to bear misfortunes, so it places them on the back of others. Today you learned how to protect yourself from the middle finger of God. When the priests pronounce Benediction, they join the thumb with the fourth finger and raise the other two fingers up; however, they have long ago lost the key. They have forgotten the meaning of the Science of God. In another sermon I shall speak to you about this. It is a whole philosophy which had existed 10,000 years before Christianity. But you will say, "The world was not created such a long time ago, what world was there before Adam?" Before Adam’s fall there was another Adam, another great culture. After Adam fell, people disintegrated and now we say, "We are the first Adam." Your first Adam is a wild vine - divine only at its tail-end and still evolving. Not having anything else, God took some soil and made Adam out of it, leaving him to live in a small paradise as a gardener. We say that our first father was naked. He was naked because a man who allows a woman to lead him by the nose is a silly man. A woman who leaves herself to be led by a snake is silly, too. The Adam you know is not the Son of God. Christ was before Adam and before Abraham. He is the one called the Son of the Living God. When Christ came He said, "I am the One who was before Adam and Abraham." He had lived in that great epoch, great culture when the angels had been singing in the Divine Dawn of Life, in the Golden Age of human life. When sin came into the world, then came the great father - the devil - who now lives within you. That is why you are children of the devil. If you do not realize that you are in sin, you will die, you will always serve mammon and you will never be happy. When I say "the second Adam," I mean Christ. He is second in relation to the Law of Love, but is the Primary of Origin in the manifestation of God. Now I believe that when you return home, you will begin to search for the third principle in yourselves. Those of you who have not studied mathematics much should start with the study of equations; and then as a result of an equation, you will find the third principle. You will place your mind in the first part of the equation, your heart in the second, your body will enter the third part and in these relations you will find what your life will be. Put it in your mind to become united with Christ. Life is in Unity and Harmony. Let every bitter word vanish from you! Let every discontentment and desire to sting your neighbor be done with. This is what serving God means. What serving it would be if I would expose your sins in a sermon and peck at you. This is a false teaching. Pecking is an easy thing, but if I hit you with a hammer, one day you will raise the same hammer over my head. "With whatever measure you mete, it will be meted unto you." Therefore, whatever you hear, do not think I am pecking you because I can keep silent too. I am revealing a Great Truth to you which, after many long years, you will learn yourselves. This is what I have learned during the long years I have spent in matter here on earth. You complain, "My husband is bad," but I shall say that the first principle works in him. The man says his wife is bad - the first principle works in her. The daughter is dissatisfied - the first principle works in her. "The Bulgarian nation is fighting," the first principle is in it. You must think about why people are fighting and why the world is bad. You must think of all this so that someday you will understand. "Let us be Good - that is the second principle. When everything is calmed down, when Peace sets in, then the third principle will come. Therefore, put in your mind the idea of serving God - therein is your salvation. May the blessing of the Love of the Living Lord be with you all. Sermon held on January 21, 1917 _______________ 1 Luke 16:13 2 The Bulgarian monetary unit. (ed. note)

Birth "For there has been born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord."1 "Has been born" is the most promising word in the life on earth. What does this word contain? Birth contains the sublime, the dynamic and powerful impulse, urging all humanity to perfection. People often ask, "How can one enter the kingdom of God? How can we be freed from the limitations of the laws of nature, and can we master them?" I answer, "When you are born." I am speaking of the word birth, not of reincarnation. People have been reincarnated thousands and millions of times. They first started their life as microbes, enlarging and reforming until finally they were born as people in the full sense of the word. Reincarnation is a process, while birth is a completed cycle of this process. When it says in the Scriptures, "Today has been born," we should understand that he, who was conceived millions of years ago, was finally born. Who was born? Christ the Lord was born. The word birth contains a great idea, which God has deposited in the Spirit. And when each one of you realizes that you have been born, you will be saved and then comprehend the meaning of life. For many years you have not yet been born. You are in the process of reincarnation and in this process you must be born someday. Then, the angels will say about you, "In the city of David has been born." Christ must be born in every heart and in every soul. People say, "He was born in Jerusalem,"2 and make pilgrimages there to worship Him, yet they do not understand the sense of this birth and they do not aspire to live like Christ. He was born among the Jews who were the chosen nation, but they also did not understand the deep meaning of His birth and what He was bringing to all humanity - the Love of God. Every birth is accompanied by suffering; therefore, in order for Christ to be born in the human soul; by all means, this suffering should be experienced. It is the same with a mother giving birth to her child - she must experience certain sufferings and take all the necessary care of the child. According to the same law every nation or the whole humanity in which Christ must be born, must make provisions and prepare the conditions in which this child is to be born and grow up. This idea may, perhaps, be somewhat dim, but this should not worry you: it depends on how near or far and in what light you consider things. Every person understands things according to the degree of Light they have. When the Angels proclaim "this day a Savior has been born" they mean the Joy He brings to humanity - Peace, the highest manifestation of God. The Lord manifests Himself as Peace which is the Law of Harmony, of the Unity of the Mind, of the Sublime Character, of Love, of Wisdom, of Truth, of Goodness and Righteousness - that is what Peace means. Only those who brings Peace can be born. You can not be born until you understand these deep Truths, until you achieve Peace in yourselves. Now let me consider psychologically the word birth. This word has a relation to mysticism. A Christian who wants to become a mystic and studies the Divine Nature in order to deserve the name "human" must understand well the word birth. You have read in Genesis that "God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul." At that time, the process of breathing took place, while at the present time the process of birth is to take place. I would have explained the word breathed to you, but my explanation would have been incomprehensible, for in this word there is something unexplainable for people today. However, a day will come when you will understand it. Now I will consider the opposite which the Law of Birth requires, as it is a Law of Internal Development. By this Law, God is manifest fully in your Soul and the Spirit works positively through it. All your aspirations are under the Law of Birth and through it the Supreme Divine Consciousness in a person is manifested and perfected. The ordinary human consciousness is an obscure idea. There are different conceptions of birth. If you are asked what this word means, you would say, "Birth means the conception and birth of a child." We should not perceive birth in regard to the body, but to the human Soul - the conception of that Divine Germ and its birth. So that when we say, "a man has been born", we mean that process of knowledge and wisdom in addition to that of conception and growth. A person cannot say that they were born until they obtain knowledge. Animals, fish and microbes are reincarnated time after time in their effort to complete this cycle of reincarnation. In the Bulgarian language the word rebirth means ‘processing of things’. Chewing the cud or ruminating like the ox is not different from processing. That means that, here on earth, we are merely processing certain experiences acquired during millions of years. Some ask, "Where do we come from?" “From the Big Sea.” You may ask, "How many years have we been there and how has our exit taken place?" After the Sun of Life had been shining on you for thousands of years it raised you up, and by the Law of the Cooling of Bodies, you have come down. Therefore, the Spirit has raised you as the Sun raises the vapors of the sea and has sent you to the earth. Do not think it is a great misfortune for you to be here. On the contrary, this is of great benefit to you. I tell you there is no greater knowledge in the world than to know how to suffer. Suffering is the highest manifestation of Love. They who have not understood the sense of suffering are still animals, microbes that have to be reincarnated many more times. And the contrary is true: those who have understood the sense of suffering have been born and are human. Suffering is the lot of human beings only. Animals do not suffer the way people do - blows are only a massage for them. A dog yelps when being beaten, but as soon as the beating stops, its suffering passes away. The deep sense of life - the so called ‘Cosmic Grief’ - is hidden in suffering; the secret in life is concealed in suffering. If you want to acquire the Divine Wisdom and the Secrets of Nature, I tell you - there is no other way than that of suffering. When a person asks God to be sent to the earth, God asks them, "Do you want to pass through the Law of Suffering? If you do, I shall send you down." If they should answer, "I do not want to," He will say to them: "Stay by Me in the Great Sea because as soon as you leave here, you will be a worker who must labor and suffer on earth.” But what is the earth? It is the Great Woman - your Mother - who bears and raises up human beings. Once having accepted you, She will hold you for millions of years and cultivate you until finally you are ready and She will say, "Here is my child who can now speak to you of things with the Divine Language." I shall make a small digression. In birth lies a great power of motion, it is the most powerful impulse that a person can be given. If you could visit the Sun with the Eye of a clairvoyant, you wouldl understand the magnitude of the energy with which it sends out its rays. You say that a cannon is very powerful because it shoots out a shell at a distance of 120 km. But imagine the power and speed of the light waves emitted by the Sun every second and the distance they pass before stopping at a place! According to the physicians, light travels at 300,000 km/sec. Can you imagine this power? These rays gradually weaken and their brightness decreases since light depends on the rate of velocity. The greater the velocity, the more powerful the light until this wave reaches the final limit; stops and turns into darkness. Do you know what darkness is? It is the opposite process: the discharge of light is from below upwards; while that of darkness which reaches the final limit is movement from above downwards, i.e. from the periphery toward the center. It is the weakest movement. Thus light is down while darkness is above. But you will say, "We know that the dark place is hell." What is hell? Some think that hell is a special place of torture. What is a place of torture? A woman wishing to bear a child passes through torture. The same way the earth has conceived and millions and billions of creatures on it want to bear children. This is hell. Some do not want to be there, wishing to be in heaven and say, "I do not want such a hell." If you do not pass through hell, you cannot become a human being. That is why birth means such a hell. It is not so terrible, however. A person who is born and sins digresses from the law, so a terrible fall awaits them. They will be placed in the cannon of the Sun again, powerfully shot out and will travel through space for millions of years. Where they will stop will depend on the power they were thrown out with by God. If they are discharged with great force and travel for 100 million years, they will need that many years to return. The greater their velocity through space, the slower their movement back to God. But when they draw nearer Him, God will attract them to Himself with greater speed. Therefore, being born means that a person has reached the final limit of which their Soul was thrown in space. There they will stop and start their evolution anew. When they thus end their reincarnations, they will be born. Humanity lost hope by the sin of Adam and Eve. Two children were born to them, but death captured them. There was no one to comfort them and they complained like the rich who have no children: "We have no heirs so all our possessions will go into the hands of strangers." They are discouraged by this. Humanity also found itself in such a state, but God gave it an immortal child to save it - that is Christ. New thoughts are often born to your minds. Once I heard a renowned preacher say, "I have so many ideas that 10 or 20 years will not suffice for their expression." But after no more than 10 sermons he confessed that he had exhausted all his material. When you think you have many ideas, you are under the Law of Reincarnation. Were not the lower creatures created first - bugs, flies, etc.? Your numerous thoughts are of such a small value that if you cannot harness them in some useful work for you, they cannot help you in perfecting your life. However, when that basic Divine Thought comes, it will be alive and one with you, developing as a newborn child. What in Christianity is called the visitation of the Spirit is this Divine Thought which some call subconsciousness; others – consciousness; still others – superconsciousness; the theorists - the awakening of the higher self; the occultists - the emergence of the sublime and so on. When you achieve this state, you will feel peace and constant joy which does not change. Someone may say, "I have this joy," but half an hour has not passed before this "joy" has evaporated. That joy is transitory and inconsistent with the Law. How can a precious stone disappear? You deceive yourself. That is not a joy, but a short-lived fly which dies and you begin to cry. Someone says, "I have peace and I am calm," but on the morrow a trouble comes to them and they start wrinkling the muscles of their eyes. Where has their peace gone? It has not been real peace. Someone says, "I am a Christian and for ten years I have been reading such and such writers: Spencer, the Epistles of St Paul, etc." All these writers speak very well, but what do you say? For when you go to the Lord, He will not ask you what St Paul has said, or what Spencer has done, but what you have done. You will not take the Apostle Paul, nor Spencer to Him; they will go themselves. But whom will you go with? Therefore, this is the basic idea about which we should think today. I know that some of you have wrong conceptions about the Holy Spirit; thinking that the Holy Spirit and the evil spirit are one and the same thing. The good and the evil spirit are diametrically opposed. There is no such law where out of the same source should flow both sweet and bitter water. Bitter water is always bitter and sweet water is always sweet; so the good is always good and evil is always evil. What good and evil are is a profound question and if you think you can learn about them in five, ten or a hundred years, you are deceiving yourself. It is necessary for Christ to teach you at least 1,000 years until you acquire a somewhat right conception of the one and the other. I do not wish to discourage you, but I want to tell you what the Laws which direct our lives are and help you get rid of some of your illusions. Every day and every hour of life has its program. Our progress depends on our completing this basic work of the day. You should not worry, therefore, whether you will develop or not, for I tell you positively that you will develop. Some ask, "Shall we develop?" When you are cast onto the earth, by all means you will develop. "How long would it take?" “A thousand years.” "That is too long." But 1,000 is not a big number, it is a human number. 100 years is much more than 1,000, while 10 years is still more. In this process things are reversed: 1,000 years is the smallest number, 100 years is a greater number. You are perplexed. The number 1,000 has three zeroes showing the three conditions, the three stages though which you will pass. You must form three bodies in 1,000 years - in the last zero you will form your physical body; in the second - you will form your heart; and when you enter the third zero, you will form your mind. When you come to the number 1, you will be born, you will ascend and say to the Lord, "Here we stand before you, Father, now we can work for You." This is birth. A great epoch was marked by the birth of Christ - the appearance of the Son of God. That is why we all should triumph. The temporary sufferings you pass through are the greatest blessing for you. There is nothing better than suffering, for only through suffering will the Lord give you His Blessing. When someone complains to me about their sufferings, I say to them, "Give me of your sufferings, I will give you my Joy," and I add, "now I feel how pleasant life is." They say to themselves, "This man is very good," but I also say to myself, "I thank you because you gave me more than you received since sorrow is more precious to me." The Lord also preferred to leave His Greatness, His glory and descend on earth and suffer. There are reasons for this - the greatest Love which God manifested. When we begin to perceive and comprehend suffering inwardly, we shall come to the true process which Christians call salvation. We cannot be saved if we do not admit that sufferings are a Blessing. Stop and say, "Suffering, I need you that I may be born." If you suffer more, it shows you are nearer to God. When suffering reaches its extreme point, joy is born immediately. A mother feels the greatest suffering when giving birth. At that moment all run away from her, but when the child is born, all rejoice. In order that the child may be born, all must cry - both the woman and the man. Once I was told a story of an incident which had taken place in the village of Nicolaevka about 50 or 60 years ago. The wife of an eminent Turk had a toothache. There was a Bulgarian man in the village who pulled teeth out. The Turk took her to that person to have her tooth pulled out. The house had two stories and the Turkish woman went upstairs while her husband remained downstairs, on guard. At one moment the woman started yelling, and the man downstairs started yelling too. The dentist began to wonder saying, "I am pulling out the woman’s tooth here, why is the man downstairs yelling?" We are bound to one another the same way and when a person’s tooth is being pulled out, we should cry out as well. I am telling you all this, because you are living in an epoch of great sufferings. You should regard suffering as do Mystics and not as do ordinary observers, with indifference. Know that sufferings are the greatest Blessings the Lord is giving us. Some day you will test this. People are killed; there is famine and pestilence; fathers and mothers lose their children; sisters are dishonoured; families get disgraced. You should draw some benefit from all these sufferings and send joy to the sufferers by saying, "Give us of your sorrows." You sit and say. "How good that we are not on the battlefield or starving." But what experience do you have and what will you gain? On the contrary, try to put yourselves in the position of the suffering souls and go and help them; then you will get a blessing. "But how can we help them?" It is the easiest thing to do: if you cannot help people directly, you can help them spiritually. Every person is obliged to take at least half of their friend’s sorrows and to give them their Joy. You say, "Let God bless you." God blesses people through you. But you say, "Let Him find someone else, not me." The electric current passing through an iron rod magnetizes it. If the divine current does not pass through you, how do you expect to be raised? Now you all think your ideas have been destroyed. Many different flies, bugs, fish, birds and mammals have come to birth in you and when you clean yourselves of all of them, you will become wise. When you gradually build up your temple, the Lord will be born in it. You do not benefit in the least by the fact that 2,000 years ago Jesus Christ was born in Jerusalem. You may sing this song for 4,000 years more of no avail. You will be raised only when the Angels enter your Soul and say, "Today a Savior has been born in the house of David." And when Christ comes to birth, there will be Herod, Pilate and the high priest Caiaphas. Now you may say, "This child is dangerous, let us get rid of Him," and give Him to Pilate to have Him crucified - then the child will go to others. Just as Christ left the Jews and went to the gentiles, the same way your child will go to others - to those who will give Him shelter. And you will be a chosen, but forsaken people! And when you are asked why you suffer, you will answer, "Because we delivered our child to Herod and Pilate to be crucified." That is why I say you should stand by your Lord saying: "I shall live with the Lord. If He lives, I too shall live; and if He dies, I too shall die." And just as Christ rose after the sufferings, you will rise the same way and learn the Law of Immortality. There are people who are close to the Resurrection. The Apostles have risen and are working on the earth. You will say, "Why do we not see them?" The Risen can see the Risen, just as a musician can understand a musician; as a doctor can understand another doctor and so on. You must have the ability to understand that this is why you are staying on earth. Christ, therefore, has appeared. He lives and is among you, working within all of you. What people call "resurrection" is birth in reality. What Christians mean by resurrection is the coming out of the tomb. You are all tombs to me: some bigger, others - smaller. I see different inscriptions on your monuments: John lived so many years; Helen - so many years; and someone after dying was buried in the grave of another and so on. How many times this Helen has died bearing her monument with the inscriptions of all her relatives! You are asking, "When shall we rise?" You can rise today, but your tombstones are very heavy. An Angel must come down to remove them. If an Angel had to come down to remove the stone of Christ’s tomb, how much more necessary this is for you! In 33 years Christ underwent a great Transformation which, in the end is called "Resurrection". By the word "resurrection" I mean the struggle and the victory of a child over death. This is the significance of being born - to fight and overcome death. When you conquer death, the day of the resurrection will come. Some say, "When Christ was born and the Angels from above proclaimed peace on earth, why did not people correct their lives?" Because they have not learned the teaching of Christ as they should. Christ will preach in this world again. “You will see Him”, I state this positively. Some of you will not see Him. Why? Naturally, because you are blind. You will cry a long time like that blind man, "Son of David, have mercy on me, touch my eyes with your hand!" When He touches your eyes, He will ask you, "Do you see?" "Lord, I see people as trees." He will touch you again asking, "What do you see now?" "People are moving." What does this mean? It means that your thoughts and desires are static at first like the trees, but when you begin to see, things become alive like people. Then you will understand what Virtue is. Christ has come to show us that we must fight death, conquer it and rise. This is the meaning of birth. Sermon held on Christmas, 1915 _______________________ 1 Luke 2:11 2 As it is Bethlehem that is usually considered the birthplace of Christ, here ‘birth’ refers to His resurrection, (proofreader’s note)

The Light "You are the light of the world."1 My last sermon was about the salt - the first divine element in life, but today I shall speak about the second element - the Light. I shall try to put Christ’s words in contemporary language as it is spoken in the 20th century. What does Christ mean by the word "light"? Every word has its own sense. Only when it produces a certain effect on the mind or heart of a person can it be understood. For instance, if you hold a match, you can understand its effect only when you light it; otherwise it would make no sense. Therefore, the words in a spoken language are matches; however, each one must have a box on which it can be lit it at just the right time, in order for the word to produce its effect. We should not be like the little children who only take matches out of the box, light them and throw them away. This is no philosophy. There are many writers today who are constantly taking matches out, lighting them and throwing them away. I ask you what effect may their matches thus lit produce? You yourselves must decide what the effect of such lighting would be. In the future, the words should be salted in order to contain Light in themselves. You still have a vague idea about Light. The words "illumination" and "light" have the same root, but illumination is a reflection of light. Light is a compound of that divine element related to the human mind which allows for sound reasoning using logic, content and sense in our thought. In modern physics the scientists are disputing whether the illumination comes from the sun, or it is something different. There are scientists who object to the idea that illumination comes from the sun. They maintain that it is a special kind of energy that, in reaching the earth’s surface, clashes with it and gives the reflection of illumination. Light is an inner process. It is an element, which can always be tested. Light is the most real thing in the world. It is thousands of times more real than the world: it creates human thought and desires; it is a conductor of the spiritual world and exists in the form of ether; it is the wrapping of the human spirit and the human mind; without it no one can think or feel. Anyone who has studied at primary school and has graduated high school has had difficulties with the solution of certain problems. S/he knows that these problems cannot be solved immediately; however, after working on them for awhile, some illumination is thrown on them and they are solved. It is the Light that clarifies them. I shall give you some rules so that you can test everything, for I am not speaking only in theory but am giving you a positive science that can be tested. Light is the healthy state of the human mind, an atmosphere in which a person must live all the time. When writers lose this Light, they become fruitless; when teachers lose it, they lose their methods and cannot teach; when mothers lose it they lack the patience and love necessary to raise their children. If you do not have this Light, you cannot manifest Love and Truth. Christ says, "You are the Light." Who are "you"? The first element is the salt, the Law of Balance which maintains balance in all things. The second element is Light which raises things and makes them grow. All thoughts and desires grow and develop better in the Light. A person who lives in Light is like a fruit tree growing in fertile soil, producing ripe fruit. When your mind is teeming with philosophic thoughts, do not rejoice yet. This may be only a blossoming. To find out if you have Light, test whether your thoughts may set and acquire roots. When a person is not ready to die for a thought of theirs, it means that the thought is not yet born in them. Before I make a more detailed explanation on this question, I shall give you an example out of Bulgarian life. I have a purpose of putting life and sense to these examples. Many have heard this one but I shall give it in a new light. The story goes that a Turk during the Turkish yoke visited a Bulgarian chorbadji2. On entering the room, he saw three icons on the wall and an icon-lamp burning before them. The icons represented the Holy Virgin, St George on horseback and St Nicolas. "What are these three pictures for?" he asked the chorbadji. "They protect me from all evil and so far no evil have I suffered," answered the chorbadji. "How strange, I have so many well-paid servants, but they do not protect me so well," said the Turk. "How much do they cost?" he asked. Then he bought the three icons, took them home and lit an icon-lamp. He sent all the servants away from his house, saying to them, "I need no more servants for I have found loyal men to keep my house." However, one evening robbers broke into his house and robbed him. He went to the icon of the Holy Virgin and said to her, "I can not complain about you for, being a young woman, you have a child to care for." He turned to St George and said, "I cannot complain about you either for you are a young man riding your horse and getting pleasure out of this." Finally he turned to St Nicolas and said to him, "You are an old man having neither a child nor a horse to ride, that is why I shall punish you," and he turned the icon head down. After that St Nicolas somehow found the stolen riches and the punishment was lifted. The Turk said, "Now this is how you should act." What does the Holy Virgin represent? She represents the woman with her heart and the child is the heart she is breeding. A person has come into the world to breed, to regenerate his/her heart and bring it up as a child. You ask, "Why do women bear children?" By the law of childbirth, God is teaching you how to raise your child, i.e. your heart. If a mother gives her child pure milk, it will be healthy; but if the milk is polluted, the child will die. What does the icon of St George represent? St George represents the human mind and the horse - the physical body. A person must ride their horse, for if they do not ride it they will lose it. You must feed your horse well, but you must not overfeed it. What does the icon of St Nicolas represent? St Nicolas represents a man of good heart and good mind who has attained the highest position in life - that of the rational divine life. He must deal with the raising of all humanity; all people must be like children to him. He must sacrifice himself for others as a mother sacrifices herself for her children. As St George looks after his horse well, feeding him properly, so the sound-minded elderly people should look after the young people; stimulating their minds and hearts to live a sound life. That is why Christ says, "A city on a hill cannot be hidden." If you have Light you will be able to discover it. If a palmist looks at your hand, s/he will tell you if you have Light or not; similar to when you enter a European city, you know what kind of people inhabit it by the order of the city and its houses. When you enter a house you can guess what the housewife likes. If the red color predominates, she is a woman of desires, a changeable person. Those who wear red hats, a red girdle, have the idea that the world is a battlefield where they must fight. I do not deny fighting, but it must be based on a divine law; it must build, not destroy life. If it destroys life, it is anarchy. The purpose of fighting is the acquisition of freedom, while Light has this very purpose in view - to make us free. The word "freedom" implies the idea of divine harmony in our thoughts and desires, and of order in the world. Everyone should be in his/her place and make use of the abilities hidden in her/his brain and heart. Present day scientists are constantly weighing the brains of dead people for the purpose of different investigations. Human thought has its marks namely in the brain, which is a garden. What the soil of the human brain is, such will be person’s thoughts. The human brain contains the same zones as those of the earth. Thoughts grow in it the same way as flowers grow on the earth. Every thought has a form which may have the character of a sheep, a wolf, a bear, a fox, a snake, a spider, an ant; for all these forms are qualities forming the human character. This Light enters us the same way as the illumination comes from above and elevates everything in a person. It engenders growth to both the good and the evil animals, regardless of whether they are sheep or wolves. And when these animals complain that they are suffering, this Light says to them, "Fear not, next year I shall create you again, only work a little now." When we complain of sufferings in our life, Light says, "You be careful and I shall create in you all that is necessary." It does not, however, tolerate doubt, feebleness, lack of faith, which are negative qualities. Light is a life of divine harmony and only a person possessing this harmony can know the greatness of Light. It is a rational element. Physicists of today say that if two illuminations of two opposite poles, each with a different wave- length and vibration meet, they are neutralized and darkness is the result. The same is true of Light. Man is one pole of Light and woman the other pole. They get together to create divine harmony, but they can achieve that only if the length of their vibrations is the same; in which case a feeling of love wells up in them and they feel an expansion of mind and heart. However, both must create Light. As Christ says, "You are the Light," meaning all people. When He says, "I am the Light," He means "I and My Father." One person cannot set the world right by saying, "I shall set the world right." S/he does not understand the Law. There must always be two, four, six, eight and so on: couples are necessary. The number two, of which the students are afraid, is a law of contradiction. Two is in conflict with one. Add one unit to two and it becomes three, then four and so on. Suppose you are an intelligent person and you meet a friend of whom you become suspicious without knowing why. You should have facts in order to be suspicious of a person. Do not allow a doubt if you have no scientific grounds. When someone becomes suspicious, s/he says, "I do not know why, but I feel something - that is why I am suspicious." This feeling is not yet proof. For instance a drunkard says, "I have a weak stomach so I must drink a little wine." Then s/he reasons further, "Why should I not drink a little more? After drinking a little, I feel better." Yet this feeling is only temporary for on the next day he will feel badly. When you apply the rule that it is good to drink a little wine, you abuse it later and spoil the good effect of the wine. The human organism is so constructed that it does not tolerate anything superfluous. Chemistry teaches us that every element combines with another in an exact weight ratio; or an element combines with another with an exact number of atoms, but only as many as are necessary to produce a sound, constant compound. This is a Law. In the same way, human thoughts combine according to the Law of Light. This Light has special hues in the spiritual world. They can be passive or active. A hue which is a reflection is passive; however, when it comes directly from the Source itself, it is active. Every thought which causes division in your mind is not divine, as it is only a reflection of Light. For instance, you want to build a house, to become an engineer, a writer or to study medicine; however, the division in your mind shows that the subject you want to take up is not for you. Before the liberation of Bulgaria, when there were only a few professions, fathers advised their sons to become doctors or engineers because these professions were profitable; and not to take up professions which were not profitable. What kind of a doctor, or engineer or a priest would a person who has no inner attraction to their work be? They will be like that doctor in the Middle Ages who had a very easy method of curing: he cured his patients by phlebotomy after which he gave them hot water to drink which resulted in their death. He wondered if all the other doctors cured their patients successfully. It is the same with doctors today who give a medicine to a patient who then dies. Then they say the patient had a weak heart, or try to justify themselves by some other causes. But that is not the case. A doctor should understand the human organism and the temperament of each patient and then prescribe medicine in conformity with that. A sanguine and a choleric person cannot be cured the same way. Why? Because these two organisms contain different elements which have their own specific reactions. In my opinion, all existing illnesses are due to the disharmony that takes place in the divine Light. How many of you believe in the afterlife? You will say, "This is what some great men have written, or that the apostle Paul has said it." But what is your experience of this reality? You will say, "When we die and go to the other world then we shall understand if there is life after death." In order to comprehend this Light, you must have Spiritual Sight. All people who have developed this sense have certain marks in their eyes; they have certain spots around the iris which show the degree of the development of this sight. In western Europeans this sense has begun to appear as intuition, preconception and so on. Some day a great world will be revealed to you in which Light exists. This Light comes from within, not from without. Occultists today say that those who have this Light have magnetism. Such a person is soft and easy-going, they have love and readily forgive. What destroys and spoils people today are the following seven elements: pride, anger, voluptuousness, sloth; miserliness, jealousy and greed. Pride is not of God. God has created people to have self-respect, but they have estranged themselves from Him by their pride. Such a person bears the marks of their pride on their face, hands and nose. I shall not start explaining these now. You yourselves should study these things as many writers have written about them. When you feel pride in yourself, that you are something great in the world, look at yourself in the mirror and remember the features in your face, the expression in your eyes, as well as your whole disposition. When you are in a state of love and kindness, look at yourself again in the mirror. Christ says, "There is nothing hidden in man." Everything is hidden for the blind people. Some people say that I have been reading certain mysteries to you. For those who have eyes there are no mysteries. I have an apple seed in my purse - here it is - this is the mystery; sow it and in ten years’ time you will see its blossoms and fruit; then you will understand this mystery. You may say, "There may be something dangerous in all this." The fearful will not enter the Kingdom of God. How does a good person differ from a bad one? The person who lies speaks fast, but the person who tells the truth speaks quietly and calmly, asking people to test his/her words. I, too, want you to test all things. By this Light I can be in contact with the advanced Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and with your friends in the Other World - the world of divine harmony. If you love someone who has gone to the Other World, you can speak with him/her intelligently, reasonably. There are certain mediums who, not understanding the language of the spirits, begin to twist the truth and use lies. Do not lie, speak the truth, because a lie has short legs3. The truth moves with great speed and its legs are long, so it can help the unhappy spirits. When someone says, "My legs are long," I say, "You are lucky, but I wish the legs of your soul and heart to be long; too, so that you may bear this Light." If this Light develops in us, we shall be able to avoid 90% of the evils taking place today. Light is one of the fundamental elements in bringing up good sons and daughters. I recommend this rule to all women: not to allow their mind to think negative thoughts. And another: let those who have lost the sense of life greet the sunrise every morning. Watch the sunrise in the course of a month and see what you feel. In the spring, when the flowers bloom and the trees are blossoming, watch them and see the result - you will feel the sense of life. What do people do today? They sleep until 10 o’clock in the morning and in the afternoon about sunset they go out to enjoy its dying beams of light. They go out for walks in the autumn when the leaves are falling. Nature should be studied at its particular time. But what are people like today? Someone reads the New Testament and wonders what Christ meant by certain words. Christ could read very well the Book of Divine Nature. When I read a book, I ask myself whether its author has Light or not and what are the colors he lacks. After reading a book, I can describe its author - the kind of head s/he has, his/her face, hands, thoughts and so on. Some want to know who and what kind of a man I am. What I am speaking to you is what I am. If I rob you, I am such; if I heal you - I am such. You may ask, "Why should he heal us?" It makes no difference who will help you, I or someone else. According to me, I should give someone the surplus of my knowledge and of my life, because it is not mine. The Light coming from within me is to be spread out, "All of you are Light." For 2000 years the Christians have been reading this verse and cannot understand it. That is why you have to turn the icon of your St Nicolas head down, he ought to keep your house and your possessions for he is your reason. Say to him, "You must reason well, or I shall turn you upside down." You ask, "What is Light?" When it enters your soul, your face will be beautiful, your eyes will be shining; a pleasant warmth will be emitted from your hands and you will emit a pleasant odor. But how do people smell today? Very badly. The violets and some other flowers help you hide your natural smell. The violet you use says, "God is manifested in life in humility, not in pride. If you are a valley of good soil, God will sow the best seeds in you; but if you are a bare, proud peak, there will be nothing but eternal snow on you." This is the language of the violets and when people use their perfume, they should learn their language. However, I am not blaming anyone by saying this. I wish you all to have the fragrance and color of the violet. When you pronounce a word or write something, there must be a fine fragrance in it. According to the conception of this Light all people are colored flowers. What is a teacher, a preacher, a farmer, a father, a mother, a brother or a sister? They are great divine flowers. Have you seen the color of a mother? When you enter the life of the Light, you will understand what color a mother is. There are no more beautiful colors in the world than those of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters or close friends. Do you have these colors written within yourselves? Is there a person who has not sent Light out of him/herself at least ten times? Who has not spoiled the colors of his/her mother and father, of his/her friends inside him/herself? From now on we must build and create. If you want to raise the Bulgarian people, you must build. Bulgaria has need of Salt and Light which makes for growth. That is why all people of learning must consider and think about this. There can be no Bulgaria without Salt and Light. The Bulgarian nation has a root down in the earth and a branch in the divine world - this nation must bear fruit on its branch above. This is the only way a nation or a soul can be characterized. The souls are individual, but at the same time - collective. Collectivity is the Law of Harmony. We can feel Light by our soul, by our heart and by our will. One thing that destroys Light is anger. An angry person is without will. It says in the Scriptures, "Be angry, but sin not." Anger is a certain energy used in the wrong direction. Everyone has experienced a weakness after anger, which shows there is a state of demagnetization. Another element that obstructs light is voluptuousness. It is the grave of love. How many young men and women have gone to the grave prematurely because of it. Love is harmony whereas voluptuousness is poison. Yet another element that destroys light is sloth. If you go to America, you will see that besides school education children study certain handicrafts. Everyone works there making their own living and considers it humiliating to depend on others. There people respect those who work. I wish everyone in Bulgaria to aspire for work - this refers to the townsfolk, not the peasants - for they are endangered by indolence. The element of envy is also destructive to Light. Envy and pride are a brother and a sister. Whoever is envious, is proud as well. The person possessed of envy delights in the suffering of others. You remember Shakespeare’s tragedy "The Merchant of Venice," where the miserly Jew insisted on the pound of flesh to be cut off his debtor’s body even when the latter was in a state to pay back his debt. There are many other examples where envy manifests malicious joy. A man went to court with another man and after hearing them the court decided to impose a greater penalty on one of them and asked them what penalty they would prefer. The one who would have a lighter penalty proposed that both eyes be taken out of the other man. "But we should take one of your eyes too, then," said the judge. "I agree," said the man, "if both eyes are taken from the other one." A person of such cruelty cannot have Light. Envy obsesses politicians as well and there are quite a few of them in Bulgaria. Give way to the noble people! If a person possesses these vices mentioned above; obstruct his way, he is not in his place. When Christ says, "You are the Light," He means the people of the future. When God created the world with the stars, moon and sun, He said, "This is for the people of the future." Someone says to me, "Tell me about my past life" It is inscribed on you. You may have a disordered organism now, but that does not mean that you are ill. As soon as the conditions obstructing Light are taken away, this disorder will disappear. Another vice that impedes Light is greed - the desire for many possessions. I shall give you an example of greed. In Spain there lived a millionaire who enslaved whole regions. All people complained of him, so the Spanish king issued an order for his imprisonment. In the prison, whenever he wanted water or bread, they made him pay 1000 leva for a piece of bread or a glass of water. "This is the greatest cruelty imposed on me," said the prisoner. The king answered him, "This is your punishment, go away now and do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you." That is why God sends you all these evils. You say about someone that he/she was born feebleminded. It is not true that his/her mother and father have born him/her so, as everyone is his/her own father and mother. There are two theories about this: some say that the mothers pass their own qualities to their children, while others say that the child exists in the invisible world as a sensible being, choosing a suitable mother, a suitable environment, influencing the mother by suggesting good thoughts to her mind. A pregnant woman can determine the character of her son/daughter according to the kind of thoughts engaging her during pregnancy. We can oppose the divine world, but when its law becomes active, its power will do away with our unreasonable opposition. You, men and women who are here, are the Light. Evil does not exist for me. I understand that evil does not exist in divine harmony, but outside of this harmony there is evil. If you decide to live a noble and good life, you will have this Light, it will be with you. This Light is rational and all ancient mystics who had this Light saw a boundless world tinged with the most beautiful colors that filled their soul. When you are in high spirits, you have this Light, but you cannot keep it long. Sometimes you think that I am speaking well, but you say, "Who knows what purpose he has in view." My purpose is to fulfill the will of God. I am not one of those who deceive people; up till now I have neither said a lie, nor have been lied to. You can win my favor only by Goodness, Truth, Love and Wisdom. If you decide to serve God, only then will God come down from His greatness and make you good people and great spirits. I am preaching to you about the Living Lord", the Lord of the Twentieth Century Who tears down prisons; sets the prisoners free; and brings harmony, order, joy and gladness. He brings such blessings as people have not even thought of. He will turn this earth into a garden of paradise and you, Bulgarians, will live in it. You will all be living when I shall meet you again and I shall see whether what I am speaking to you is true or not. These are not illusions as some may think. Illusions can be known by the following quality: you may nourish someone with illusions telling him/her you have given them real food, but in forty or fifty days they will grow weak and die. A person faints and grows foolish with illusion. I wish all Bulgarian men and women to be great - great in virtue, great in love, great in righteousness, great in wisdom, great in that divine truth of Light of which I am speaking to you. Think about Light; it is with you. Test it, be self-reliant and enter as the bees into every blossom to gather honey. Do not remain to spend the night there - that is voluptuousness - but take your honey and go to the beehive. This is what Christ wanted to say by the words, "You are the Light," and "A city placed on a hill cannot be hidden." When you enter this city, you will understand the sense of your earthly life. You try to imagine what your future life will be like. Know it is within you and depends upon your present life. It is the same with every silkworm, which possesses all the necessary elements for its turning into a butterfly. It will not be long before you become like this butterfly. Now, you are walking on the earth in a straight line, asking yourselves if there is another life; and with your little wings - your mind and heart of Light - you will alight on the most beautiful divine tree, the Tree of Life; you will understand its sense and be joyful and happy. Sermon held on April 1, 1917 in Sofia _________________________ 1 Matt. 5:14 2 A wealthy owner of estates and money during the Turkish domination /1393-1878/ (ed. note) 3 Bulgarian saying (ed. note)

The Salt "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its savor, where with shall it be salted?"[1] Christ begins His sermon on the mount with nine blessings. The blessings He is speaking about have a relation to another world, they are not about the earthly life. Christ says about the earthly people, "You are the salt." I shall speak about the salt because life cannot exist on earth without salt. The physical world is a world of salt, not of light - which is the world of the angels. "You," which "you"? Do not take this word in a narrow sense. For those who believe, "you" implies all people in whom the Divine consciousness is awakened. All people in whom this consciousness is awakened are the salt of the earth. By the word "salt", all occultists, cabalists and mystics understand the power of balance - that element of power which keeps things in a balanced state. In order to walk in the street, you must have balance. When a ship is being built, they put a load of salt on its bottom to keep it balanced so that the waves will not turn it over. The word "salt" implies that power that thickens matter, keeps it from disintegration and creates conditions for the higher powers of the world to work. Salt is a necessary element on the earth for the healthy condition of the human body. When an organism loses its salt, it loses its base, and as a result of that all kinds of illnesses attack it. The people call someone a neurasthenic; but I say that they have lost their salt - their energy flows out. If we could see with the eye of a clairvoyant the nerves and the arteries of a neurasthenic person, we would notice in many places there are cracks from which the energy flows out. Such a person is weak. Why? Because they have lost the Divine Salt, which is a basic power for maintaining human life on earth. What are the causes for losing this salt? In the first place, the unrestrained human passions. After every expression of passion, regardless of what character, one feels a weakness. You have all experienced this. Passions are not necessary to people who have salt, but only to those who have none. Christ says to His disciples, "You are the salt and if the salt should lose its power, i. e. if it loses its saltiness, it is good for nothing but to be thrown out and trodden by men." But why should it be trodden upon? Treading is a reaction so that it may acquire its saltiness again. When you suffer, that is treading; the angels throw you out among the people and you become weak because you have lost your saltiness. If you had been rich, you become poor; if you had been wise, you become foolish. You lose your saltiness, but as soon as this happens, you lose the sense of life too and then all contradictory teachings spring up: whether people should get married or not, whether they should have children, whether they should love their wives, and so on. The Epicurean philosophy takes hold according to which a man should have many wives and experience everything. You may try everything, but then you will be thrown out and trodden upon by all sensible[2] people until you obtain your saltiness. Then the second process will come; the light will come, your mind will be illuminated and you will understand why you are suffering. You will understand that these things do not agree with life. Every thought, every desire which does not serve the building of the human soul and which is destructive, is not a necessary desire - it is losing your saltiness. When a husband treads upon his wife, let her say to herself, "Tread upon me that I may become salty." A husband trodden upon by his wife shows that he has no salt. Bulgarians call a bear-trainer to come into a village to make his bear tread on their sick people - or to salt them - and they get well. This power is hidden in all people. Scientists today have given it different names, while the occultists call it "magnetism," among the other names that they give it. When a person has this salt, they are magnetized. If you have this salt, you feel a certain pleasant warmth below your solar plexus and you get up in the morning well-disposed. However, if you do not have enough salt, you get up badly disposed, ready to be harsh and rude with people. Getting angry at the first person you meet means that person is asking you to tread upon them a little so that they may become salty. The person who comes to tread upon the angry one has this salt which will immediately restore the person’s balance. I want you to put my sermons to a test and to see their results. Only the person of deep convictions and experience is strong, for if you believe everybody, you have no salt. I believe that God speaks to people according to the salt they possess. If you have salt, He will say to you: "When you get up, go to dig your vineyard and to sow your field." If you are a judge you will study your cases, do other work, and you will understand Him. If you do not have salt, people will tread on you, rob you, steal your money, take away your wife, children, house. God says, "Treading is necessary on those people who cannot do their work on earth." People often ask, "Why is the world not going well?" There is no salt in the world. Give people salt! Much salt is not necessary - you need only a quarter of a kilogram of the salt I am speaking to you about. That will be enough for the salting of the whole Bulgarian nation, so that it can become an excellent nation for at least one hundred years. Do you know how long your factories must work for the production of this salt? A scientist calculated that the original substance of which the world was created was thousands of times lighter than hydrogen and that to obtain only a gram of this original substance, all the factories in the world would have to work for three thousand years. You are the salt and in order to acquire this salt you must devote your whole life to this. If you had only one gram of this salt, you would be the richest person in the world. Wherever you went, you would heal people. When you enter a house where the husband and wife are at odds, give some of this salt so that peace and agreement will be immediately restored. Children are quarrelling - give them some of this salt; nations are warring, give them of this salt and peace and concord will be immediately restored. You say, "What kind of an alchemical element is this salt, what great power it has!" Upon entering the church, a priest who has this salt will silence everyone and all will turn to him. People want salt and if you do not have it, you can not have success. I am not speaking in the sense of judging you; I am only stating a defect that is common to all people, not only to Bulgarians. Everyone on earth has defects. If we were perfect, we would be among the angels with God. But since we must become well-bred, God has sent us to the earth - the place of wisdom where these great lessons can be learned. Today I am preaching to you about the salt. Why? Because you all want to be happy. In fact, everybody can be happy but you must acquire the ability to retain this happiness, not just attain it. You get up in the morning well-disposed and say, "How happy I am." Five or ten minutes pass and you lose this happiness, this good disposition. Why? You have no salt in yourself. Salt implies the world with all its forms. Since you cannot retain only the essence without forms, that is why I say that the world is actually-real and actually-unreal. Actually-real is that world which has all the forms with their content, but actually-unreal is the world which has the forms without their content. There are people who are actually-unreal because they have a body, but have no salt. If you have no salt, you cannot understand what Divine Delight, Divine Goodness and Love are. Only by means of salt, by a balance between your mind and heart in a calm state, can you comprehend this Divine World. Christ says, "The salt which has lost its savor must be thrown out and trodden on." That is why I have said many times that sufferings are necessary for they are the way of acquiring saltiness. Saltiness is the way to Light; the Light is the way to Love and Love - the way to God. As soon as we begin seeking God, the world changes the aspect it has had until now. All of you who are listening to me this morning think that at times the world has some meaning and at other times it does not. That is very burdensome. You have friends who do not understand you; children who do not love you; you sit among believers, but they do not understand you either. The thing for you to do now is to understand whose fault it is. Is it they who have no salt or you? Where the salt is, there the right is; where there is no salt, there is no right. If you have no salt, you must say, "They must tread on me." All people are parts of God, of His great organism and since such is the case, it makes no difference who treads on you - do not forget that this is of God, in all cases divine hands or feet tread on you. This is a thousand times more pleasant than if a bear should tread on you, as the Bulgarian practice goes. An Englishman tells of an experience of this kind. He went to India in order to study the life of the Hindu people. As an amateur sportsman, one day he took his gun and went to hunt in a thick forest. As he was carrying his gun in his right hand, he felt a strong blow on his left arm and fell to the ground. A tigress had hit him and carried him to her den where her little ones were. The tigress said to her children, "Get hold of this Englishman, tread on him hard and give him a good lesson. If he tries to raise his head, you tread on it." The Englishman wanted to raise his head and see what was taking place around him, but the tigress said, "Do not look up; there is nothing there, I am teaching my children." The Englishman said afterwards, "I was not angry that my left arm was broken; but that they trod on my head, so I could not see anything." Everyone who has no salt will fall into the claws of a tiger. When two young people are getting married for love, they go to the church, the priest prays for them and everyone kisses them. In a month’s time they part. The tiger has taken the bride or the groom. These people have lost their savor and will be thrown out. If there is a divorce between them, they have lost their salt and such people should not live together. Whether you are a man or a woman - treading is necessary. Bulgarians heal themselves by treading on one another. It is a pleasant massage, a nice rubbing. This salt is necessary for your physical organism, for your feelings and thoughts as well. The Law is general: it refers to the Angelic and Divine Worlds as well as to the physical world. Modern philosophers give different names to the qualities of the spiritual world. For instance, they call a person who has salt a moral person and a person without salt - immoral. People say about someone: "This person is highly intelligent, sensible," which means that there is a law of balance in him, or salt. Intelligence[3] is salt, so by the word "intelligence" is meant that condition when all human abilities are active. Salt is the soil. There can be nothing in the world without salt for the earth itself would be a desert without salt and everything would decay. Salt is a fertilizer stored up for years. Next to it there are other forces which build our organism. In order not to lose your salt, you should refrain from unlawful desires. I shall tell you a parable now. In the distant past a girl was born in a palace; she was the most beautiful girl in the world. When she grew up, her father found a good young man whom he wanted his daughter to marry. This young couple was so well-loved in heaven that God sent down an angelic representative to attend their wedding on the earth. When the angel came to the earth, he fell in love with the young bride and did not wish to return to heaven. He began to think of ways of possessing this young woman. God waited for him to return for a day, two, three days, a month; but the angel did not return. When God understood how things stood, wishing to teach the angel the consequences of his bad desires, He turned him into a songbird who would hop from branch to branch among all the other birds. The angel began noticing that other birds avoided him as he hopped around in the trees and he could not figure out what was causing all his sufferings. One day he hopped on a tree and started to lament over his life. Just then four robbers came under that tree to divide their booty. They divided it into equal parts. Two of them decided to go to town and buy food and drink for a feast. On the way back these two robbers decided to put poison in the food so that when the other two ate it they would die. These two men would then take all of the riches. The two robbers who remained under the tree while waiting for their comrades to return decided to shoot them when they returned and take their riches. The angel knew of the evil decisions of both parties. When the two robbers approached the place, both were shot from a distance; the other two ate the food and were poisoned. Only then did the angel realize what the consequences of unlawful desires are and why he suffered. When God sends you to a wedding in which He participates, do not have the eye of this angel. If you are a man, keep yourself from saying, "she will be mine," or if you are a woman, "He will be mine," because you will sing up in the tree for a long time. I ask you: “Are you not such birds thrown out of heaven?” Some ask, "Tell us why we have come down from heaven." We have all come down to learn that unlawful desires have bad consequences and to understand that a man who has no salt is far from God. People want freedom. That is why God sends them to earth and says to them, "Live according to the Law of My Freedom." The wrong thing in people is that they want freedom only for themselves. According to God’s law, we must understand the relationships which exist among us. The Law of the Salt is, "Do not refuse to others what you desire for yourself." You should give others a chance to develop their own abilities too. If someone has a field or a vineyard, do not envy them, but rather be grateful that they have everything. If you see someone riding a horse, do not say, "I wish this horse were mine!" Be thankful that the person has a horse. They are worthy of it. If you see a nice, well-furnished house, do not desire it for yourself. If you have salt, you will have everything you need. Say to God, "I want salt from now on!" In order to convince some people today of this Great Truth, you must argue a long time with them; while with others you need only try to convince them. Few are those who will agree with you at once. People whose Spiritual Sight is not developed need argumentation, which is like groping in the spiritual world. By their feeling of sequence, step by step, they will form a clear idea of the things which they cannot grasp at once. In our reasonings about God, we use the same analogy in order to form an idea of Him. All philosophic schools, with their thick volumes of studying the questions of God, are all groping - some closer, others farther from the Truth. Some have touched the little finger of God and say, "What small fingers God has!" Someone has touched His hand and says, "What a big hand God has!" Someone has touched His shoulder or His head and has knowledge accordingly. But this is only the external side of God – His manifested nature. It will be strange if someone should get on top of the roof of my house and say. "Now I understand Mr. Deunov. He is hard, because I am touching hard tiles." If someone should touch something soft, he would say, "How soft Mr. Deunov is!" I can be hard and soft at the same time. What do you understand by "hard"? Hard as a stone or hard in one’s convictions? Therefore we cannot have true conceptions of things from an external touch, but only vague ideas. If you do not have a sufficient amount of salt, you will not be salty and you will say, "Life is nothing but eating and drinking." I am not against eating and drinking. I do not recommend hunger or unnatural fasting. I have a different idea of fasting - everyone should eat as much as is necessary for the renewal of their body. Every day we should use a certain quantity of bread, water and air for the building of the body. Some think that if they do not eat, they will become better. No, if you do not eat, you will become worse. If you want to make a person better, feed them if they are hungry; give them drink if they are thirsty; and after they are nourished give them some of your salt and they will become better. If you do not feed them, you will commit a crime. If you meet a person in despair who wants to commit suicide, do not give them advice that this is a wrong thing to do or tell them not to despair. Take them to your home; feed them according to your custom; give them drink, and in an hour or two, after their food has been digested, say to them, "Let us have a talk now." Give that person a chance to feel well-disposed and tell you why their life is so dark. Instruct them and show them the way they should go. That is why God has sent them to you on that day. We often pray, "Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done," however, if you do not fulfil His will as He prompts you, that day you will be without salt. You can do this experiment: if you are in low spirits, meet a friend who feels worse than you, call them to your home, feed them and you will notice how God has salted both of you. A woman who is dissatisfied with her husband meets another woman who is even more unhappy; and when the two of them get together and talk for awhile, God will salt both of them. This is a positive Christian philosophy. People often say, "You must not eat too many beans, too much meat as they leave sediments in your body." Ask yourselves why people eat so much - in order to obtain salt. When they have enough salt, they will not eat much. When you become normal then we can speak of a higher philosophy of life. You can do the following experiment, for you are all of the actual-real world: you may say to yourself, "Now it has come into Mr. Deunov’s mind to speak to us about salt; do we not know how necessary it is?" I am speaking to you about the salt so that you may make this simple experiment: stop and think for 5 to 10 minutes about the salt, about its influence on your organism, feelings, Soul, and mind and see if a change takes place in you and what you feel. Why is salt precisely such an active element? People often complain to me that they are in a bad mood – unhappy; but I say to them, "I know this, because I am also on the earth." "Yes, but your condition is quite different from what we are under." The difference lies only in the fact that I have more salt. I shall give to you of my salt, but you must make good use of it and distribute it well. When you have some leaven, keep part of it for future use. When you eat yogurt, put a spoonful aside as leaven and do not say the children have eaten it all up. I recommend to people today not to eat to complete satisfaction, because God will take such people from the earth. In such a case you will be like a Bulgarian man to whom money was lent and he started buying useless things with it. The man who lent him the money took it back to count it and did not return it, saying, "You are not a man who can use money properly, that is why you do not deserve it." When God sees that you do not use life rightly and abuse it, He takes it back. Many of you were healthy, happy and joyful, but now you are faint and weak. Why? Because you are not yet able to make a proper use of life. When you have salt in yourselves, you will be healthy people with a sound body and heart. Concentrate your mind on salt - the element of balance and uplifting - and try to comprehend it. The Hindus call this element "Prana," a power bearing life in itself. It can be found and drawn from the air, the food and the water. Now I shall tell you how to eat. We shall begin with eating in this life. When you begin to eat, the first condition required of you is to cast out all discontentment. You should try to love the small piece of bread you have, so that the energy that it has might penetrate your organism. This would create a pleasant feeling in you. But what do we find today? A wife cooks for four hours a tasty meal and when her husband comes home he is scowling and discontented, throwing cold water on his wife and all the salt is gone. The next day the wife is disgruntled and he eats without receiving any of this salt, because there is discontentment. Both the husband and wife are discontented. The husband says, "Is this a wife?" The children say, "What kind of a mother is this!" Another time the husband buys meat, butter, eggs and again all are discontented at home. In order to be content, prepare yourself in thinking that everything is excellent with you wife. When you chew your food you will see how tasty it is and what a feeling of pleasantness and happiness you will experience. Now you are complaining, "How can one live on ¼ kilogram of bread?" But in a quarter kilogram of bread there is enough salt for your subsistence. It is our discontentment which causes all the unpleasantness. You say to yourself, "When my stomach is empty, I do not understand anything about this eating." It is not your stomach that is empty – it is your mind and your heart that are empty. I have made different experiments with food, at times eating only two apples with some bread and I have been satisfied. It is not in the abundance of food; but in eating with a grateful heart that one is blessed. Do not be negligent of the little salt in the world; it is like the small grain of wheat out of which great things are born. The first thing we should do is to reform this feeling of discontentment which exists in us. When you have a small quantity of food, thank God for it and it will be multiplied. Because in living magnetism there is a power by which all particles which have a similar vibration to that of the central magnetism are attracted. If you are pleased with the food you eat, you will be able to attract from outside as many elements as are necessary to satisfy you. Some say, "We should not drink water, it is for the frogs; the wine is for us." You should drink water on an empty stomach from 100 to 150 milliliters in swallows. You should drink from half to one kilogram of water daily out of which you will take the necessary food for your arteries. You should breathe deeply through your nose, not through the mouth, so as not to swallow much dust. When people today learn to receive food, water and air this way, the other blessings will come of themselves. Do not think that things will be created in you and in your soul from now on. No, there are many dormant feelings in you. The human soul is rich, waiting for conditions to develop. The first thing you should develop is gratefulness for everything you have. Keep your eye from being like that of the angel I told you about. If you all apply this great "Law of Thankfulness", at least 50% of your affairs on earth will be set right. Then the angels watching us from above, seeing that we have started on the Path, will come to help us. Do not think that you are working alone in the world. Dig the earth and you will see how many small worms are helping the tiller; how many microbes are helping the farmer in preparing the soil; and how many elements form the grain of wheat. In spite of all this, we are children who are always discontented no matter what their father brings them. Every child must thank their father for everything he brings them. A child who does not kiss their father when he brings them something, has no salt. Some parents say, "My angel." It is an angel indeed, but without the wings. A daughter who does not thank her father and mother and does not kiss them is also an angel without wings. You who are listening to me will speak to others in the same way. Then we shall verify by experience the necessity of this salt for all. Today God is treading on people, salting the world: Englishmen, Germans, Russians, Frenchmen, and so on. From today on, the Good is coming. When you go home, obtain at least a gram of salt in order to be a useful member of your family, of society and the nation. Be thankful for everything, for only then can you obtain a Blessing. Then you will be wise, good, industrious and diligent. Sermon held on March 25, 1917 in Sofia [1] Matthew 5:13 [2] Here and later sensible is used in the meaning of having, containing, or indicative of good sense or reason, rational, reasonable, as in the collocations sensible people, made a sensible answer, (ed. note) [3] Intelligence as the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly (ed. note)

CONTENTS THE SALT THE SALT - 17 THE LIGHT - 28 BIRTH - 39 THE TWO MASTERS - 48 A DIVIDED KINGDOM - 63 THE RISING SUN - 77 THE LIGHT OF THE BODY - 91 THE BEAM - 102 THE TABLE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT - 117 THE REJECTED STONE - 131 THE HUMPBACKED WOMAN - 146 MASTER AND LORD - 165 THE LEAST COMMANDMENT - 185 THE OLD SCRIBE - 203 THE TWO WITNESSES - 220 THE DAY OF GOOD - 242

http://en-petardanov.com/index.php?/files/file/60-%7B?%7D/ BEINSA DOUNO (THE MASTER PETER DOUNOV) THE SALT SUNDAY LECTURES , 1917-1919 POWER AND LIFE SERIES, VOL. III BIALO BRATSTVO PUBLISHERS SOFIA, 2003 ® IZDATELSTVO BIALO BRATSTVO For information, write: Izdatelstvo Bialo Bratstvo Sofia 1113, j.k. Izgrev, Gen. Shterio Atanasov Str. #6, BULGARIA tel 359+ 29634313; 2668955 e-mail: [email protected] www.beinsaduno.org First Edition. All rights reserved. Manufactured in Bulgaria. ® Translation: Vessela Nestorova ® Editing: Aneliya Dimitrova ® Cover design: Albena Deikova ® Cover Art: Yakim Deikov Proofreading: Brook Haley, David Lorimer, Yuliyana Gencheva Text design: Aneliya Dimitrova ISBN 954744036-5 Acknowledgements: We want to thanks Brook Haley and David Lorimer for their editorial help and suggestions. Let this book be worthy tribute to the memory of the remarkable Vessela Nestorova — may her soul have peace and light. Prayer is a Divine Ray, wich radiates from the soul of every person; It is the breathing of the soul * * * A BRIEF INTRODUCTION To the New Divine Teaching of the Master of the Great Universal White Brotherhood[1] Beinsa Douno (Peter Dounov) in Bulgaria By Vessela Nestorova The century we are living in, will be recorded in the spiritual his­tory of humanity as the highest peak we have reached for the last two thousand years. During this century Divine Wisdom was bestowed on the world — the wisdom promised by Christ to His disciples that at a point in the future God would send His Spirit of Truth Who would reveal the whole Truth of life to a grown up humanity ready to under­stand it (John 16: 12-14). At the beginning of this century God's Mes­senger—the Master of the Great White Brotherhood — Beinsa Douno started his work in Bulgaria. In the course of half a century He gave the science of the Divine Life which is starting on Earth. It begins with the process of cleansing and improving ourselves. All karmic debts- personal, family, social, national and international — due to the violation of moral laws in the past and in the present, have to be liquidated. "A person is given free will and can choose to do good or evil, but s/he will bear the consequences of his/her deeds," says the Master. In more than 7,000 sermons, lectures and talks, He revealed the principles, laws and meaning of life in a simple, comprehensive language for all. The Master came to prepare us for the entire new Culture of Love. He brought a spiritual spring for the human souls. Never in the past has humanity been given such abundant light. All fields of human life — science, religion, art, individual, family and social life, spirit and matter, the human and the transcendental — have been illuminated by the Divine rays of the Light brought by the Master. The many deeds and endeavors of the human spirit, as well as thousands of questions, find an answer in His teaching. He said, "The Divine teaching is preached to people today. It is Christ's teaching. It is for all people, for the entire humanity, for all conditions, times and epochs. Those who attain to the inner sense of this teaching will find in it strength to renew their life and solve their problems correctly." The whole teaching is based on the three universal principles - Love, Wisdom and Truth. Love bears Life; Wisdom bears knowledge and light; Truth bears freedom. Love is the greatest world which a person, as a disciple of the Divine life, must study, since it is the source of all creation. All the worlds through all eternity have come forth from the source of Love. Everything that we see, the entire cosmos in its completeness, is Love manifested and materialized. Outside of Love, we do not know God. There are four manifestations of Love in a person: Love as aspiration within the heart, Love as feeling within the soul, Love as power in the mind, Love as principle within the Spirit. The world will not be transformed until Love permeates it. The first aspiration of the human spirit is towards life. The second aspiration of the human spirit is towards knowledge. The third aspiration of the human spirit is towards freedom. Wisdom is the world of the eternal divine forms, which are woven out of Love. Love is the substance itself and Wisdom represents the forms of harmony expressing themselves in music and poetry. Only Divine Wisdom can satisfy the human spirit. But the path of Wisdom is the most difficult. Only the perfect person, only the Master can manifest Wisdom. Some say that Truth is abstract. No, truth is the reality that is at the foundation of our life. It is the world of indescribable beauty. Everything is in motion and Truth gives the common direction of those movements, the direction in which everything in the universe moves—from the finite to the infinite. Only the Truth sets a person free. The aspiration and longing of the human soul is to be free. The Master said: From now on we shall serve Love, Wisdom and Truth, therein is the salvation of the world. Only Love, Wisdom and Truth can save the world. There is nothing more important than these three principles. Through them the Living Lord, the Divine Spirit is manifested. Love gives the laws by which we can live a free rational life with all the possibilities of the great life of immortality. Wisdom is the bearer of the Divine light which creates the most favorable conditions for the development of the human mind. Truth sets a person free, ready for sacrifices and gives meaning to his/her life. In other words: Love bears life and immortality, Wisdom bears light and knowledge, Truth bears freedom and progress. These are three worlds containing all the possibilities of eternity. The epoch we are living in is especially important. The Living Lord, Who manifests as Love, Wisdom and Truth, is putting us to a test and watches to see how we shall pass it. I wonder at the mind of Christian nations which admit that Christ has come to save the world and consider His teaching as ideal, yet they say that His teaching is inapplicable. Now is the time for the application of Christ's teaching. It brings the new knowledge and it will teach people how to be freed from suffering. Everyone can apply it according to his/her degree of personal development. We need the great Divine Science by which we can transform suffering into joy, weakness into virtues, abolish all illnesses, destroy all prisons and turn life on earth into music and song. Is it possible? Yes, it is. When? When Christians decide to speak the truth and be ready to sacrifice everything for God. The Divine Teaching is coming into the world to awaken the consciousness of people, to show them that they must undergo an inner transformation and apply this Teaching in all realms of life and in all social strata. It is a living light for all people, for all societies, for all nations, for all worlds. It will lighten the whole earth. Boundless is the light of the new Teaching. It is as necessary as light, air, bread and water for us. God is giving the Third Testament to the world today. He descends to us by sending and activating His Spirit. Only the human soul has contact with the Spirit, serving as a transmitter of His Wisdom. The Master constantly taught us to see the beautiful and the good in life. "Give up all negative criticism, all negative thoughts and feelings which destroy your inner harmony," He said. We must realize the laws of musical harmony. The Master was a Divine musician creating a large number of songs. Singing is most essential to a spiritual life. All His lectures began with songs and prayers. He created the Paneurhythmy — morning exercises to be performed every morning to the accompaniment of a string orchestra, starting on March 22 to September 22. They contain the magic power of inspiring, uplifting and renewing us both physically and spiritually, connecting us with the living forces of nature and the higher worlds. Life in the mountains was another factor of our spiritual development. The Rila mountain where we camped by the second lake at the height of over two thousand meters, is a great spiritual center of our planet. It is the home of highly advanced souls who are helping human evolution. We are to attain a cosmic consciousness by developing our potential spiritual powers. We live in a multidimensional world and humanity is on the way to the fourth dimension—the dynamic spiritual world. For this reason a new type of life is required—a life of absolute outer and inner purity. Our vegetarian diet, drinking of hot water, deep breathing, right thinking, feeling and acting, all prepare us for coming in contact with the finer forces of nature. Our consciousness must gradually expand toward the cosmic consciousness. The human bond with God should be restored and only love of God can connect us with Him. God is the closest being to us and our constant Helper. The sixth race are coming to our earth who will be highly evolved beings — people of light and love. The Master said that He is preparing us for this race by His teaching. Humanity has passed through a dark era which is coming to an end. It was a culture based on "the flesh and contradictions". A new culture of Love is starting today when the nations will unite in a great world brotherhood and no boundaries will exist. The angels have prepared this culture which will come to earth. In the future no karmic souls will incarnate in our world, since "the meek will inherit the earth". A great future is ahead of humanity. The Master said that His Word has filled the earth and is imprinted on the etheric sphere of our planet. People will gradually receive it with their minds. In fact the Master said that the new era started in 1945 and the credit of evil is taken up already. The Good will reign. The living quarters of the Master and the disciples with whom He organized a brotherhood are located in the south-east district of Sofia called "Izgrev", meaning "Sunrise". The Master gave three lectures a week at five o'clock in the morning and a sermon for the general public on Sundays at ten o'clock in the morning. In 1922 He inaugurated two esoteric schools—one for adults and one for young people. All relations and work were based on complete freedom- work in the grounds as cooking, planting fruits and flowers, etc was voluntary. There was a daily lunch at noon prepared by sisters living in the Izgrev. The Master Beinsa Douno was born Peter Dounov on July 12, 1864 in the village of Nikolaevka, near the city of Varna on the Black Sea. His father was a teacher, a priest and a reviver during the time of the Bulgarian people's struggle for liberation from the 500 years of Turkish rule which ended in 1878. The Master received His higher education in the Drew University in Madison, New Jersey and Boston University, Massachusetts in the USA (Theology and Medicine). After Sept. 9, 1944 The Soviet Union took the grounds and built their embassy there. Now only the grave of the Master exists in the Izgrev. The Master left the physical plane Dec. 27, 1944. This is the last formula He gave us on Dec. 24, 1944: May God be glorified in the White Brotherhood And may the white brothers be glorified in the Love of God. * * * Dear reader, If you have read other books by Peter Dounov, you will not need another introduction. If you have not read anything by Peter Dounov, however, his language may sound simple or even quaint at first. Yet, beneath obviously paradoxical statements lurk many enriching challenges and the whole experience is extremely empowering, because you are talked to, not lectured, not told: you are part of forming the truth, which can be both frustrating and exhilarating. This is a talk in the literal sense of the word as the following lectures were delivered over a period of two years (1917-1919) — a relatively short part of the whole span of 50 years during which Peter Dounov expounded his ideas in lectures and talks. The core of his ideas are based on Christianity and the fine distinction between the teaching of Christ and the institutionalized religion of Christianity. To interpret Biblical verses from a number of facets, Dounov draws on other religious teachings for examples and wisdom and makes comprehensive references to a number of major aspects of science, folklore, literature, politics, ethics, everyday life, theosophy, etc. His words have an avid audience in Bulgaria and in some other countries like Russia, Germany, France, Britain, USA, Canada, Congo, Australia, etc. and his followers, grateful for the transforming power of his ideas, often refer to him as The Master. Peter Dounov is also widely known under his spiritual name Beinsa Douno. Unrestrained by written conventions, Beinsa Douno plays with the meaning and form of words to come to unexpected associations, to coin new words, to challenge common platitudes, to allow contradictions of meaning, to invite making experiments with his ideas to test their validity, etc. The lectures are translated by Vessela Nestorova, one of the disciples of Beinsa Douno. She had a degree from Elmira College, New York, USA. An amazingly versatile personality, outside of her career as a teacher, she wrote songs and oratories, published poetry, essays and translated a number of books. Although this book is the third volume of a series of lectures by a combination of circumstances it will be brought out before the second and the first one appear. Grand Forks, 2003 A. Dimitrova _______________________________________________________________ [1] White Brotherhood is also translated as Brotherhood of Light. Whiteness in the teaching of Beinsa Douno symbolizes the color of light which comprises all other colors within itself and is the color of clothes for Paneurhythmy. (Editor's note)

Immortality "Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter the Kingdom of God." Life begins with the Kingdom of God. We are out of heaven. We have no clear idea what heaven is. We have a life outside paradise. This life after being born, until you travel to the other world, it is a permanent job; a very little time is left for us to be happy. We are like those harnessed animals. Just given to eat, you look at them – they are harnesses again, they have loaded the wagon. Then again, just give them a little to eat and back again to be harnessed. We, modern people, say: "He has lifted." We have lifted up to the bag. He is an official; he is given 4-5 thousand levs - food into the bag. He is given a small field, he has sown it – it is still a bag. So, I say: we are not in that real life. All the people you have to imagine as a mirror. It should be pleasant to you when you look at it to see yourself. Who among us has not enjoyed the mirror as seeing himself? Thousands of mirrors are valuable because you see yourself. You are valuable to the others as they see in you themselves. We are valuable to one another, because we see ourselves. I see myself in you and you see yourself in me. You are precious to me as much as far as I can look at you. So much as far as I can manifest your life, I am valuable to you so, as I can be of service to your life, I am valuable to you. So far as far as you can lend me, you are precious to me. So sits the Divine law. It is a new understanding. Deeply discussed, considered mystically, it is the law of immortality. The world is already lit. There is nothing more to kindle. People burn it now. The world needs to be extinguished, not to be lit. Christ says: "I have come to light the fire." Indeed He lit that fire. All this wealth that is now coming into the world, it shows that people are already lit. And now one of the two remains: either people to believe in God, and in rational live nature or die, everything in them to burn - nothing more. This is the right solution to the problem. This is humanity. All people should go by the law of God. It is said in the religious sense. Or all people should go by the law of nature, said in a conceptual sense. Or all people should live for humanity, speaking in modern social language. Patriots do say: "You have to live for the people. This fire is in the people." I say: this fire that lives in the soul of man is for him; this fire that lives in the house is for him; that fire that lives in the people is for him; this fire that lives in mankind is for him. This fire we must support! Once this fire is for us, discouragement has no place. What is happening on the Earth is a transient thing, not a reality. You see beautiful girls, but if they pass certain age, their faces begin to wrinkle and eventually they become old grandmothers. I ask: where have those girls gone that you have previously so much admired? The same happens with the lads. Where have these well built young men gone? You still do not know yourself. When you learn the law of truth, it will give you power over matter, to understand its internal routines to improve your life. This is the law of motion - one has to constantly modify and to pass from the temporary to the eternal, to understand the essence of truth. You have to empty things - poisonous things in the world are those that are not organized. Good in the world is organized, good brings life in it. By the word "life" I mean organized life. By the word "love" I mean that death is excluded. In the good there are opportunities for the death to appear. Good and evil live together. If you act according to the laws of evil, the death comes; if you act according to the laws of good, though death still comes. Good and evil have been in the tree of life, it is the whole man. When man serves evil, the death enters and it has already tempted. It is unorganized love. Once you serve love, life enters. Once you serve the Divine Love, you are out of that tree. In you then will enter that life, which excludes death. Love excludes death. You should know that everything we have is God's, not ours. What does someone tell you that he has imported or he has exported money from the bank? Nobody no money has put into the bank - money and without him is there. Some people have made money; he goes for the owner of this money. Nobody owns the money. "How am I not the owner? I used so much work, so much effort until I win them." Labor, the effort belong to life, they are not yours. Therefore there are no owners in the world because there are no owners of life. If someone calls himself the master, the owner of life, he should be a man of immortality. But no one has yet come to immortality. Immortality will come when people get into the law of love. Now they learn the law of immortality. Once they learn this law, they will already know how to love. As people die, they still do not even live in the law of love. Christ says: "This is life eternal, to know you, the only one, the true God." Once you know God as a gift, he will give you eternal life - the life of immortality. The law is: when light penetrates the human eye, it will bring its blessing. When I talk about the new teaching, I do not intend to displace other doctrine. The world is moving forward, religion and science are also progressing. I am not that who displaces the old. Who has come to a development, he continues to move forward. If he stops somewhere, he will pay dearly. Everyone knows that the golden age of his life is discipleship. Takes the notebooks and the books and come on to school! Mother and father care for him, and he does not think of anything. And we must be students to learn the first word. It is lost, but it needs to be found. This will produce a radical change in man. This change implies that is born again, spoken of in the Gospel. This word will be the foundation of a new life, where there is no disease, no death. The meaning of life is not this to live well, the meaning of Christianity is not in salvation. The point of all in immortality is: to become immortal, to go in those conditions, where manifests the Divine life. Can you become like God? It is the desire of God. Such is the desire of every father. Which father wants the death of his children? God who is all-wise, all- good, can not ask for the death of his children. Therefore we want to be like God. "How can we? How to be like God? This is blasphemy! "Yes, you can be as gracious as God is, you can live like Him, your soul to be filled with Divine Love, Wisdom, Truth, Justice and Virtue. This is God - force is required for this. Yes, you will be strong. Only the virtuous man is strong. Speaking of being and nothingness it does not mean that existence is real and nothingness - unreal. Nothingness is a place of suffering, of hell. Terrible is the situation of man going into oblivion. He wants to see, but around him is darkness; he wants to eat, hunger torments him, but there is nothing to eat; he is thirsty, he wants to drink, but he cannot satisfy his thirst. From the standpoint of existence, of material life, nothingness is a life of imagination. Why? It is because there the things do not work. Nothingness is a life of hunger and thirst, always striving to satisfy something that under these conditions cannot be satisfied. Therefore, while on the Earth into being, man must study the law of good, to be able to satisfy in himself his hunger and thirst. Only the good as a great reasonable principle frees man from hunger and thirst. Good is the foundation of the great law of release. To be good means to get rid of slavery, ie of the world of limitations and death. By "death" we mean those conditions that deprive man of the goods of life. This is the reason that people are afraid of death. Who do not understand death, they think it will free them from the hardships of life. Not only they cannot be free, but it will introduce them to oblivion. The thought of nothingness represents acid, which attacks and destroys. If man thinks for a long time on nothingness, at the end, he will evaporate. Many philosophers have vanished for the sole reason that they have stuck in nothingness. No ordinary man, no mortal is permitted and cannot resolve the issue of nothingness. Who has dealt with this issue, nothing has accomplished. "Then why was I born?" You are born to be good. "How can I become good?" You can become good as you satisfy your hunger and your thirst with the good. That is a sensible diet. Thus the words of Christ, not by bread alone man can live, but by every wise word that comes from God, become understood. He who feeds with good, he does not die, he becomes master of the conditions, he enters the field of existence. So real is just the good. Real is just what does not change, neither disappears nor is destroyed. Because good does not change, it is not lost and does not disappear, it is real. Is water real? For us it is not real, because it changes. For other creatures, however, the water is real. Solid matter is real for us Now all preach mechanical processes, they say: "To become good." It is a temporary condition. Someone is good for 5-10 years; then he goes back again. This process is not a real process. In real processes there is eternal rejuvenation. Those who understand the law they can be rejuvenated. I want those, who rejuvenate, to leave the old body and to take a new one. They have to know how to make the new one. Just as you can take off the old clothes and to put on the new ones, so man who has understood the law of his mind, who has understood the law of his heart and body, he can change his body, he can change everything. It is a science. It is immortality of man. This knowledge must come. When man gets on an airplane, he is limited, but he understands the laws of that airplane - he cannot walk well like on the ground. When he gets on the airplane, he understands the laws, he climbs; he descends. Once down on the ground, he should know how to go out of his cabin. We, modern people, we have entered into this body, from which we cannot go outside. In the your guardians come and let you out of jail and then they put you back in - you wake up. Incarnation on the Earth is binding. Everyone who has incarnated in the body internally should be gradually untied through the process of human thought, through the process of human emotions, through the process of human actions. Inside us there is something Divine - the spirit that continually unties us. We will go into the new culture - a culture of loosing, to learn how to work. Now we understand just tethering. It is only as a symbol of that real untying. You cannot bind a strong man. Strong man is only he who understands the laws of love. One cannot be strong, if he has not studied the laws of love. One cannot apply this force that gives him love if he does not understand the laws of human thought, of the Divine Wisdom. One cannot achieve what he wants, if he does not understand the laws of truth. "Whatsoever you bind on the Earth shall be bound and in heaven. And whatsoever you loose on the Earth shall be loosed in heaven. "Whatsoever you shall loose with wisdom, it will come loose. And what you apply with truth, it will be applied. In nature there is a law: we cannot be happy if nature does not create for us a comfortable home. It is because the body is not a comfortable home. Man has not such a comfortable housing – therefore he dies. Man is dying of a lack. In the air, there is an element of immortality that the old alchemists have talked about. They have said that there is a liquid that if man takes one drop he becomes younger. This elixir comes from the Sun. People breathe and cannot take the elixir that goes and does not stay in them there. Hindus have different systems for breathing, but still none has able to aspire to that secret of nature. Why? Those who want to soliciting this potion, he must pass an exam on hope, to hold an exam on faith and take exams on love. Once he passes, they allow him to have this potion. Who has hope, he is just like this Bulgarian who holds 2,000 kg. It is a toy for him. At first he will be put the Earth on his shoulders; he will run around the Sun with it. The whole Earth he will carry and run. By rotating for 10 years he will take his exam. After that he will be given another test: to carry on his shoulders the Sun around for 20 years. As he turns around for 20 years, he will hold his second test. Finally he will be given to carry and 10 million suns of the universe in which he lives, and put them all on his back and will carry them for 120 years, and when he has passed this exam, he will have already obtained the right to immortality. This is not an easy job, so no one has yet achieved it. It is figuratively said. But man can taste life. There is a moment of happiness that man never forgets. In the future, if you want to build up your body, your home, peace must come to help you. That is the law. Then joy will come to live in this body. You say you are religious, but the whole brain does not work. In religious works only a sense of faith and he may become superstitious. In some people works and hope because it also belongs there. In some people the mind works for justice. When people become religious they judge the whole world: this is not living well, that does not live well. If you want someone to show you whether you are right or wrong - religious man knows even who will go to heaven and who will not go: one sends to hell, in prison, others leaves free. Christ says that the process is not like that. "Unless one is born anew," a process is - knowledge is required to be born of water and Spirit. So, if you do not understand the law of water and the law of the Spirit, if they do not deign you to be born, you can not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. You must enter in the womb of water and the Spirit. The Spirit must become your father and the water to become your mother, to bear you thousands of years, and then to be born. This process must be understood. The mistake of modern humans lies in the fact that they have entered into a static situation. This is due to the fact that they are not born from water and spirit. People today are born only in the flesh, but anyone who is born in the flesh, death expects him. And then all those ideals that he has had will disappear. Even people of today are addressing it. They say: "One day the Earth will be destroyed. What will happen to us then? What will remain of man? "But they do not understand the laws: The Earth is a school, it can not be destroyed. When he finishes school on the Earth, man will go to another higher school. There is another Earth to which man is preparing to go. It is the Promised Land. When they die, people will go to this Promised Land. Every man who has understood the laws of light, who thinks right, he is a saint. According to me, immortality is sitting in the light. Why? It is because light brings immortality in itself. With the rising of the Sun the strength of man increases. That is why it is said in Scripture: "Those who wait upon God, their power will be doubled." This means: love, wisdom and truth will come to those who wait on God. It is said 2,000 years ago. Now I say to you: it is not enough to wait for God, but to be perfectly prepared - healthy, clothed, clean, so when the door to the Kingdom of God opens, to enter immediately. Everyone will enter solemnly, freely, not waiting for someone to push him or to import him on a stretcher. Be ready because the door will soon open. As the light enters all alone, freely, without being invited and you must enter the kingdom of God. That is the law. Once the door is open, get in and do not ask, "Is it time? Will they take me in there?" If the door is not open, you will prepare and wait until it opens. While you wait, you have to work to gain the necessary freedom in your actions. Be like the light, if you want to enter freely into the Kingdom of God Be thankful every moment for what you have. It is a great good that God has given you. Be grateful for the life you have now, at this point, since all eternity, the whole future is yours. 60-70 years are opportunities. One day, as you are full of the Earth, you alone will go. You will come to your friends and you will tell them: "I want to go home!" You will give them a feast, you will shake hands with them and you will walk out. And again you will not be back. You will not be buried anywhere. You, if you know the laws, you will give away the light, the warmth and the strength to the people and all the stuff that you have, you will get rid of the baggage and you will go to heaven, free from the earthy light, heat and power. And you are free. There is nothing to connect you with the Earth! And will meet you in that world all the angels who love you, and they will give you a different light. Those, who love you, will meet you. And they will give you gifts. They will take you and they will bring you in the bosom of Abraham, if you have done that properly. If you have not done that, you will go to the other side, where your throat dries out.

Resurrection Today, people need new understandings, new perspective; new faith. And there are degrees in faith: gullibility, superstition, belief and faith. Faith passes finally into knowledge. Knowledge, however, does not provide accumulation. Accumulating knowledge, this implies more use. It is unnecessary ballast from which man must be released. True knowledge is that which has applications. For instance, they say of someone that he has died. They know that he has died, but they do not know what might happen next to him. This is not knowledge. Who knows what, he will find out if this person is sleeping or he is really dead, will he raise or not. All people cannot be alive, but everyone can arise. It is the law. Christ however has never died. Therefore, can be helped only this, who understands the law of the resurrection and believes in it. There is a great work in the world that needs to be done. All we live in a disorganized world in a primary matter, which does not obey the laws of God. And our body is created of this unorganized matter. At first God has mechanically formed the man, then he has put into him his life, and he has become a living soul. These are two orders of magnitude, at first organizing and then giving life to this matter. We must not only organize, but we should be excited, we should bring new life that people now call resurrection. It is a great task that everyone has individually. Life moves from one phase to another in the resurrection, where death is excluded. That is the law. Resurrection incorporates another law - passing of the soul into that real condition, in which it has existed before it has been embodied in the matter. Once embodied in the matter, the soul is vitiated. Also all people, without exception, are unclean. Therefore, we must make efforts on the Earth to provide with the strength of the spirit to cleanse our heart, our mind, our actions and desires of that muddy. The reason for this muddy is matter itself - so it is of such a nature that it is vitiated. Resurrection is the process of cleaning. It becomes only through the Divine Love. Without love there is no resurrection. The light of God is everything. It is the winner of that wisdom in the universe that He has created. We have to be accomplices in the universe that He has created. We may want to leave the Earth. How many good things there are on the Earth that you have not seen! Many people think that the Earth is hell. It is not true. On the Earth there is and hell, and there is a paradise. And in the human mind and in the man himself, there is a paradise and there is a hell. If you are living for God - heaven is inside. If you live as you should not – there is a hell inside. Psychologically, under the laws of the spirit, we feel that there is something that makes us suffer. Now you have come, and you all want to be happy. Modern history has not seen a better man than Christ. What has happened to him, tell me? The most horrible death has come to him. Has he given up? If Christ had waived his fate, what would humanity have been today? All hell it would be. If we, modern people, refuse to accept God in the spirit, if we refuse to accept God in the soul, if we refuse to accept God in the minds, if we refuse to accept God in the heart, what would happen to us? All hell will be formed. If we decide to perceive God and to live according to God, we will have the condition for which the Scripture says: "Here comes a new Heaven and a new Earth." New life of immortality - this is what is called the first resurrection. Those who accept God in this way, they will be in the first resurrection. When we talk about God - to come from God and to return to God - a free man can only do this. Anyone who is not free cannot return to God. Return or faith in God is the law of liberty. Man who does not believe, he is not free. Know that the biggest challenge - and in death you can find a new way on which to get free. Christ has verified this law and has showed to the people that in death there is life. He has been nailed to the cross, and then he has been put in the grave, but there Christ has not remained, and out of there he has found a way out and on the third day he has raised again. And when he has been dying, he has still believed that and after death he will live. Harrowing of the Spirit is a special state of the human soul, of the great, that can happen in life of man and in all its incarnations that he has had. He portrays with the sole purpose to gain this condition. I call it a law. While you are born by a mother sheep, you will be a sheep, nothing else you can be. While you are born by wolf, you will be a wolf, nothing else you can be. While you are born by a mother snake, snake you will be, nothing else you can be. Whatever you are given birth by, such you will be; until you come to this point, which is said to be born of God. And to be born of God, you have to accept the Spirit. Until you become sons of the resurrection, a long time must pass. Many people may think that they are sons of the resurrection, not being such. You can wear the name "Christian", not being a Christian. Good is the power. Put in your mind the good and in the most difficult minutes of your life assume that there is at least one in the world, who thinks of you. Not a spirit or an angel. I do not speak either of spirits nor angels. There is one who loves you. He is the one great law in the world, he is the one on which rests the whole universe; He is the one who supports all order and from which everything comes. There is one who is constantly thinking about you and who has never ceased to think. In all your falls and risings again, in all your trials He has always been here and he has said to you: "Get up and go! Do not be afraid, I am with you." You are sick, he says: "Get up!" You are dying, he says: "Nothing, you will resurrect". In hell you are going, he says: "There is nothing and out of there you will come!" Wherever you are, there is one who goes with you. This is the power of the man - to believe in this one. Someone says: "You must be secured in a bank." Later you should secure in banks, at first you provide in the one in the world and then be provided to other banks. They will come as a consequence. You provide one in the world. At first you believe in your mind, in your heart, in your soul, in your spirit, and then in the external body, as well as in the external conditions. Then you will have such a life, which you have not ever dreamed of. And for those of you, who understand me, sits a great future and when you reach it one day, you will say: "The suffering that we have passed through, can not be compared with what we know."

Sacrifice In love, there is a great law, it is the following: sometimes it reveals itself, but only to those who can accept it and enjoy it. In order love to reveal to you, you have to go through several laws: the law of sacrifice and the law of self- denial. Physical life is a condition of spiritual life, spiritual life is a condition of Divine life and Divine life is the life of love. Once the Devine comes to physical life, you yourself already sacrifice voluntarily and you enjoy this sacrifice. It is because love cannot manifest in the world without self-sacrifice. And you should not only sacrifice for one - for all you have to sacrifice. When Christ has come to the Earth, has he sacrificed only for one? A law determines this respect: He has sacrificed himself to confront the attitude of all the people to God, to fix the attitude of all the people who have gone astray of their path on the Earth, so that they can find their way and go home. The first situation that nature requires of man is: man for man has to sacrifice. Sacrifice - this is a law for the proper growth and development. This implies sacrifice, because only what grows, what develops, what blooms and bears fruit, it can borrow to the world; it is sacrificed. To the sacrifice applies the following law: whoever sacrifices he remains ever alive, he grows. Sacrifice implies deep knowledge of love. Love involves two things: sacrifice and rationality. You cannot give everything of yourselves, only your own you can give. Now you think that when you give, you lose things. No, an absolute good input, it gives the greatest revenue for the future. If you sacrifice your life for the good people, your life will be back, you will not lose it. In the world nothing is lost. When you sacrifice the things according to the Divine law, the benefits are real, they are not lost. The sacrifice is not done so, as it should be, we always have this order, as we now have. In self-sacrifice there must be a way up. The sacrifice in the world is which increases the light of your mind, the warmth of your life and the strength of man. Man acquires three things by every self-sacrifice: light, heat and strength. If by sacrifice these 3 qualities are acquired, it is not a sacrifice, it is something unintelligible. When we talk about self-sacrifice, we understand light, which is needed for the construction of your mind; heat, which is necessary for the construction of the spiritual world of man and the strength that is needed for the construction on the physical plane. This law of self-sacrifice you must have permanently in yourself. You will sacrifice. In the physical world you will sacrifice the best thing, and in the spiritual world, you will sacrifice the best and in the Divine world you will sacrifice the best. And so in the Scripture it is said: "God so much has loved the world that he has given his only begotten Son, so that not to perish everyone who believes in him, but to have everlasting life" It is the sacrifice! So God has sacrificed the best he has had – he has given his Son. And if you do not sacrifice as God, what will you achieve? And the power of God lies in the fact that he has sacrificed the best that has been in him. And that best of all has raised us. This Son, who has sacrificed himself, He lives, He is not dead. And the Son, through this sacrifice that the Father has done, as enters the human soul and comes into people he unites them. He has lived in them and with them he goes to his father. As they are sacrificed, he goes along with them in the Divine world. So at first the Divine world gives something to the physical world - the sacrifice, and the physical world has to give something to the Divine world. So we understand the internal deep sense of life that operates inside you. Christ makes a small note on what the rich have given to that widow, who has been the poorest. In these words of Christ lies the great law. She has put it all, just she had. And obstacles in life are due to the fact that we do not put everything we have. The law is such: if man goes to God he must do his utmost. When the grain is put in the ground, does it not invest everything in the ground? Many contradictions can appear. If a student simultaneously deals with trade, he either as a student would not be good, or as a merchant. He cannot become a doctor and diplomat, because then neither as a doctor he would be good nor as a diplomat. In one direction you must invest your energy. The example of that poor widow shows her courage, she does not think about tomorrow what will happen. Man must do his utmost, so that and God to help him. Can you give away all your treasure? You can. It is a law of nature. Someone who sows all the wheat and there is nothing left, he becomes poor. The sown gives fruit tenfold and then he becomes rich. Therefore who has not learned to impoverish, who has not learned to sow, he cannot know. You should at first sow and then reap. Thus should be understood the conditions "poor" and "rich." They are two conditions that people do not understand. If in poverty you do not sow anything, you cannot reap. The Scripture says that Christ, who has been rich has become poor. Quote this verse. So he has planted it all. Then Christ will come to reap. Enrichment will come. If we are not ready to sow, we cannot reap. It is said in the Scriptures: "Who is worthy enough of this life, they neither marry nor man become." In this way, you will not be already married to the transitional. This is the deeper meaning of these words. And this knowledge here, it is a theater, it is a show. Two people get married for 10-20 years and can no longer live together. You, when you are incarnated, you are married. And you will live as married until you get released. Released rom what? Christ says: to deny your mother, your father, etc., ie to deny the present, the provisional life. This life is not bad, but it is not that life that we seek. The deep knowledge sits in it, to know how to deal with this issue. Surely man should be familiar with that great truth. He must know God not in the usual sense, as churches preach. And find God within yourself and then have a state, which does not change. You will not have conditions to change. And you will have an eternal joy. Not that you will not have sufferings, you will have, but they will be balanced. Some of you say: "There is a doctrine according to which, when we die, we will be reborn." Do not be fooled by these deaths and these incarnations. It is another matter. You can reincarnate as many times as you want. The law is: any rebirth is a marriage. So from this point of view, man should marry 777 times cardinally, basically. You will have 777 cardinal marriages and 12 marriages will be momentous. When coupled souls come, they will live together. There is a law in the world, through which man can face his life. The question is not only man to face his life, but man to come to such a constant state that he ever be happy and he always to have a continuous endeavor. I call man the one who never worries. He must be so smart that people with nothing to be able to disturb him. You will give the example of Christ and you will say: "Well why Christ, who has been so smart, has been bothered by the people?" Christ has specifically come to the Earth to get to know what worrying is. He has not known what sin is and has come to the Earth, taking on the human sin. He has put on a dress like the human body and has loaded with the sins of the people and for so many years he has been dealing with - what sin is; what the reasons of its origin are. And finally Christ has learned it. He has stopped on two facts as the reasons for sin. He has said - the first reason is that man loves himself more than God and the second is - that man loves the world more than himself. And then Christ has said: "No one can enter the Kingdom of God, while he does not deny himself." This means that no one can enter the kingdom of God if he does not deny his love for himself. If the One, who has created you, does not sit above your mind, because of your love to yourself, you do not have normal relations. If you do not like nature, when you accept the air in the next moment it cannot lend you anymore. Now let me explain you the law: To be accepted your prayer by God, it is not enough only to admit your sins or to say as David, that in sin your mother has conceived you. No, who wants anything from God, he should promise something, he should sacrifice something of himself. Whatever he promises, he should fulfill it. Whatever sacrifice he thinks to make, he has to give it. No event in the world, that man has fulfilled his promise that he has given to God and not to have received an answer to his prayer. Someone promises something to God, but then apologizes that he could not fulfill his promise, because he has been young, he has been put to temptation or that he has been old, or married with obligations to his wife and to the children. Put aside your youth and your old age! How would you prove that you are young or old? How would you prove that you are married? That you are young or old, this is a dream, this is illusion; it is not reality. According to Darwin, only those individuals continue to exist, who can withstand the harsh conditions and to adjust to them. This law applies to animals, but not to humans. For men, there is another law - the law of sacrifice. Man can manifest himself in the sacrifice. In this particularly he is distinguished from animals. All religions - this is making good to the spirits. When we make good to a plant, what is it paying us off? It is paying us off with its fruits. When we make good to an animal what is it paying us off? It is paying us off with its wool, with its milk – but not with its meat. The following law excludes this. Suppose you say that God has created the world, that He has given the animals for human food. I ask you: how do you know that? Who has talked to God, to know if this is true? Then, if this is true that God has designed the animals to feed the people why Moses says: "Do not kill" The words "do not kill" they have a broad sense. And all those who assign one attribute - to kill, ie to take someone’s life, it is a right of injustice. All these people are accountable to nature, because it has an absolute law that says: you have no right to take away the right to life of every creature who voluntarily does not sacrifice. Some say: "I have the right to slaughter a sheep." The sheep will ask you: "You, who want to carry me to sacrifice, have you carried yourself a sacrifice?" You have committed a great crime. People who are not willing to sacrifice for God, what right do they have to sacrifice animals? You slay a sheep, 2, 10, but comes the Divine solution to the problem. You get married, come 3-4 children. It does not take long before, one of your children dies, another dies, your wife dies. I ask: have you eaten the sheep? I would like those who philosophize that animals must be slaughtered to show me a healthy person! If there is not, let them prove what the reasons are, that people are not healthy. We, cultured people, think that these beings are our slaves. If we are masters of the world, then we should command the diseases. To the diseases we cannot command, to poverty, to earthquakes - too. So, the first basic law for you is: man at first has to sacrifice his life for God. By the words "sacrifice" to "to sacrifice", you think your life will be lost. No! To sacrifice your lives for God, it means to do so, as God thinks. To reach the new man must learn the law of penetration. There are two ways of penetration: either man to get into God, or God to penetrate the man. In the first case, man is tempted, in the second - man becomes free from all delusions. Each man should offer a sacrifice to the altar of God. Even higher spirits descend to the Earth to offer their sacrifice tot the great altar of life. They accept God's blessing only after they incarnate on the Earth and offer your sacrifice. This law applies to the whole and to the parts. You may say that you have made this sacrifice. If you have made the sacrifice and you are suffering and you are unhappy with your life, you are lying to yourself - no sacrifice you have made. Who has sacrificed everything, he has received everything. He has received a new light, a new force, a new start in life. If the food, which you use, does not give good results, give it up. The same law applies to the feelings and to the thoughts of man. Therefore, if you constantly encounter the same feelings without having some effect, give them up. To give up a feeling, it means to sacrifice, and sacrifice inferior to higher. And if the sacrifice does not give a result, it is not reasonable. Reasonable sacrifice is the one that is accepted. If not accepted, it is not on place. The sacrifice is related to the higher beings. It represents their food. People are fruits of the Divine world. God expects. If we do not become the best fruits, what price do we have? If God has sacrificed for us, why should we not sacrifice for God? God being sacrificed, the least he has not lost, he has manifested his power. When we are being sacrificed in the world, we become strong. Now everybody says: "By sacrificing man, it becomes ill." By sacrificing man becomes stronger. As ice melts and becomes water, the water is stronger. Water as vapor is even stronger. Since vapor can still be converted to water. In pure Divine Love there is no sacrifice. There is no sacrifice. The sacrifice, this is just a result of the complex movements of love in the physical world. It is a temporary transition period. When it is said that you have to sacrifice man, it does not refer to God's Love. In true Divine Love there is no sacrifice. And therefore, to understand the Divine Love, you should get off the physical world, to study the law of the sacrifice. That is why people have come to the Earth to learn the law of the sacrifice. What thing is the Divine Love, they will learn by going through the law of the sacrifice. It is a law for the proper transformation of the Divine energies. Someone says: "I want to know what you think of me." I say: "You can know, but I have to eat you." That is why Christ has said, "If you do not eat my flesh and do not drink my blood you will have eternal life." So if you want to understand me, I need to eat you, that when you enter me, I will know and understand you, I will know how to help you. Therefore, you will sacrifice to enter God in you, you will make this sacrifice. Either you are eaten, or you eat, if you want to know someone. It is a symbol. If you want to find someone, he has to eat you. If you want him to know you, you have to eat him. Now, about this language you will say: "It is scary!" Well, all in the present life is it not just eating and drinking? Exclude eating and in what is eternal life sitting? Once you have eaten a good pear, then it probably will come a bright idea to write a poem. This pear represents and a flower, so Christ has said: "I am the living water and the living bread." The small concessions that you make, they are not sacrifice. The law of sacrifice reconciles all the contradictions in the world. Let us say, you are in great sorrow, in great difficulties, you apply the law of the sacrifice and immediately you can remove the sorrow, but sacrifice is required. You have to take 20,000 Lev; you have no money in your pockets. What would you do? Open your notebook and decide to sacrifice the money for your peace of mind - as you lighten the soul and peace will come. Goodness of man always depends on the sacrifice. The better you understand the law of the sacrifice and you apply it, the better you will become. Eating creates the biggest trouble, but brings the greatest benefits. So many lambs are sacrificed; so many hens and thanks to them we live. Which is better: they to suffer and we to live, or they to live and we die? Then the law is this: always inferior is sacrificed to higher, so that both their lives to progress. In itself this law is correct. Always inferior is sacrificed. If you do not do it, then you have to become a sacrifice. Either higher must be sacrificed, or inferior to be sacrificed. Sometimes the higher becomes the sacrifice, but this is another law. Christ has told His disciples that those who want to be disciples, they should eat His Word. Speech after being taken into the human soul from the outside; it becomes a sacrifice inside, the Word begins to live in us, then we become sacrifice for the new. You at first have to accept the Word; the higher will set you free; after you will sacrifice your life for the others. So, the sacrifice implies love. Love implies love again. If God's Love does not bear love in you, it is not love. So, when the Love of God enters in you, it must be manifested so, as God manifests it. As God is merciful so and you have to be merciful. As God is patient and you have to be patient. As God is generous, you have to be generous. Christian world now stands. These sufferings come to reformation. Christians have not complied with those laws that Christ has preached. They have not done the sacrifice that they have had to give. Now millions of people die. These victims have had to be given millions of years ago. Now they are given for non fulfillment of the law of love. For love you sacrifice, or by law - you can not get rid of the sacrifice. Either voluntarily or by force you will sacrifice. Do not wait for the strong to come and anything you owe to him to pay. Go alone and pay to the strong. When he comes he will pick them with the interest rates up. You go alone with the strong, nothing more. When a rock is coming, do not stand in itsr way not to run over you. Walk away and open its path. With a smile bear suffering. Too hard is to smile when you are sad. I ask: who creates the great difficulties in life? The devil creates them. He will leave you a plate of food to eat. Eating the devil leaves, represents a bag of gold - temptation. Do not touch the bag, because at this point the robbers come. Seeing the bag, they pounce on it and ask: "Is this your bag?" "It is not mine, it is for you." So answers the smart. If you are not smart, you will say that it is your bag. They will catch you; they will torture you to take more gold from you. The smart knows when to deny. The law of denial, in the Christian sense, implies the renunciation of some goods and acquisition of others. To deny life means to sacrifice. You will sacrifice one life to acquire another. You can not open a new path in front of you if you do not sacrifice the old one. The law of the sacrifice states: "Every man who keeps for himself what he has produced, he cannot find the meaning of life." Apply the law on voluntary self- sacrifice, not just once but many times. In this law lies the resolution of all the issues. It will clear all the spots in your life; it will erase all your mistakes and crimes. For the implementation of this law it is not required a great philosophy. You say: "When will the world be fixed?" All Christians today are able to fix the world. Christ has given them power and authority, and they may do so. But why so far have they not fixed the world? If the young man is not able to give all his wealth to the girl, who loves him and thus to secure her, and he to be handed over to the service of God, he has no love. Love, sacrifices everything. One of the great laws of Genesis states: that sacrifice without love does not exist. Today, many people fail in life because they are dealing with criticism only. What do you see in the schools, for example? Many students and not incapable, but medium success, correct, criticize their teachers that they do not teach well that treat them rudely, etc. I ask: what do they gain with this criticism? Leave the teacher alone to criticize and correct! When you criticize others, ask yourself: "Are there in us those qualities that we deny in the others?" It is easy to criticize, but difficult to apply. If the man and the young man who want to serve God may give up their wealth for the benefit of the others, in return they will get what no one else can give them. Love is magnetism, and hatred - electricity. The current hatred is a future love, present love is future hatred. It is a law of polarization. To avoid this law, man must deny himself. I you feel that hatred gets into your heart, renounce yourself. For this Christ says: "He, who does not deny himself, can not be my disciple." Apply self-denial to see what your life will be. Now whatever they are saying to you, things will remain misunderstood, if you do not try the same love with which Christ has sacrificed himself. But have you entered in the thoughts of Christ, what has his thought been when he has sacrificed? You pay attention to the external side of life, that he has been nailed to the cross, but can you imagine those eyes, with which he has seen the world? You say: "We can not imagine." If you have His love, you will imagine it and you can do what He has done. You say: "We have no strength to do that." Once you do not have strength, it means that you do not love. Love is needed! Where there is love, things can easily be performed. Even the smallest works without love are severe. As I speak now, I do not understand mechanically this process. You say: "How will this job be done?" That child who wants to walk, is he asking you how to do this? That egg you want to hatch, is it asking you how to be hatched? They do not ask. Start and do not ask! Do not stop on the word, but go, it is a matter of time. To be born in you a desire so, as in the egg is born the desire to be under the wings. As the psalmist says in Psalm 91: "He, who dwells under the wings of the Almighty..." You have to understand that. You are still an egg. You will look for the wings of the hen. And having spent so 21 days you will no longer be an egg, but you will be a chicken. And then you shall hear the voice of those wings and you will fulfill the law. You will come under the Divine wings, you will be free. Therefore, you should sit there. Then you will get the first shape. It is said there: "He, who dwells under the shelter of the Most High he will stay in the shadow of the Almighty." If you cannot bear the sufferings and the joys of love, if you cannot stand the light and warmth of wisdom and if you cannot endure the restrictions that freedom implies, you cannot be credited. Freedom compels people to sacrifice. Sacrifice is the law of truth. Who is not willing to sacrifice, he does not know the truth. Christ has sacrificed himself because he has known the truth. When he has sacrificed, he has become free of all the constraints of life. Therefore, while he has not sacrificed himself, man cannot be free from the constraints in which he is located. While holding fast to his body, man has not yet understood the inner meaning of life. However, no matter how man holds to his body, one day they he has to leave it. Will it be after 10-20 or 120 years? That is not so important. Where will man go, after he leaves his body? What people do you know and what do you not know? You know only those who have done you any good, or that have served you. Those who are not good or who have not occurred to you, you do not know. Anyone who has given something to you, he is your friend. Which nothing has given passes for a stranger. And Christ defines his relationship to the people according to the law of giving. He has said: "Only he will enter the Kingdom of God, who has fed me when I have been hungry, who has watered me when I have been thirsty, who has comforted me when I have been sick and who has visited me when I have been closed. I owe this man and I will take him with me He, who has nothing done for me, I will leave him for another era when I will come back to the Earth again to work for God."'I want to be in Heaven with Christ together!" That is possible, but you ask yourself alone: Have you ever sacrificed your life for Christ? If you have sacrificed it, you will be with Christ, if you have not sacrificed, it you will be out for the future era, for distant times. In which one of the two you believe, it is your job. It is important that there is no middle way. Right things are checked themselves. There an important role plays the experience. "How do we get into the Kingdom of God?" You will get into the Kingdom of God through hard work, done with love. Remember: in the body, in the brain are hiding forces to develop. "We want to reveal these forces." Everyone can reveal them. It is enough to spend an hour a day for reflection on the great spiritual questions, to see. In that day, when your eyes open, you will want to marry the King's son, ie to enter the world of the truth and to become wise.

Serving To develop properly, man must obey the internal law of existence - serving the First Cause. I ask: which is the way in which we can be pleasing to God? It is the path of service. Until you learn to serve God, you cannot find the right way. The law is: God loves all those who serve him. Which serves only to himself, he cannot be loved by God. To love oneself, this means being exposed to suffering; to serve God, this means to be happy. Service of God brings life. Suffering implies that you have more self-love than love to your neighbor. Often people argue over the question: who is on the right side. According to me, right is just the one, who loves God and serves Him. This is a law to which all, large and small, obey. Who does not love God and does not serve him, he is not on the right side. The world has been created, God works on us. He wants us to understand His laws and to apply them. The young apologizes, he is young, now he will live it, as he gets old, then he will apply. And the old apologizes that he is old and he cannot apply them. The married apologizes he has a wife and children, and when he raises the children; then he will start working for God. The scientist apologizes that he has a research and when he finishes his studies; then he will devote himself to the spiritual. This is the crooked path. The learned man with his science can serve God. He can show to his wife and his children how to live for God, as long as you want. Wolf should look like the wolf, the lamb must be like sheep; the small eagle must be like the eagle, the small bird – like its mother. Every living thing should be like the father and the mother. If you do not resemble your mother, then what will be your children? I tell you one way to look at. Outside, what are you? And outside what are the people I know and inside I know what they are. I know the people as well as myself. I know how kittle man is. He is so kittle that for no money a whole village burns, with all people. And if God has not been love and mercy as we challenge him, he would have cleansed the world till now. If God has been angry, as we are angry, he would have cleansed the world. And he would have done another world. It will not cost him much. If you worry about your life, you are of the poor, if you do not worry, you are of the rich. Who believes in God and loves Him, he is rich; and who does not love God, he is poor. But love is a blessing to be present in the poor and the rich. It gives meaning and to poverty and to wealth. Beware of poverty without love and a wealth of unloving. When love visits the poor, he becomes rich. I believe that you all have searched for Christ and you have found him. If someone has not found him, the reason is in his thoughts and desires. They stumble. Many mothers and fathers have said: "We want to go in the Divine path, but what to do with these kids? We should get them right. Once we meet our obligations to them, we will take the narrow road. It is not easy to serve God with children." Often you say: "Our thoughts and feelings stumble. We have to deal with them. As we get older, then we will serve the God." The law is: if at young age you do not serve, in old age you will also not serve - not at all. Recently to me a gentleman has come with a particular proposal. He has said: "All my property I will bequeath to the Brotherhood, with the condition to live with you." I try him: "what do you have?' "A house and 300 acres of land" "We can assume, but do you have any debts?" "Yes, 400 000 lev" His property costs 200,000 levs and he has to give 400 000. I have said: "I will leave you a guardian of your property. Keep it for yourself; do not give it yet to God." Many Christians today are like this man. They try to preach the doctrine of Christ and they say: "God, we want to serve you. We are ready to give you our property. "Yes, their property is worth 200,000 and they owe 400 000 lev." We are committed to God" According to me, your duty is to be 200,000 levs and the property - 400 000. In God's there is abundance. So, to dedicate to God what we have, not what we do not have. God does not require much from us. He does not want our soul. He says: "My son, give me your heart." The only thing God requires of us is to dedicate our heart to service. Just so he can help us. Any controversy arises from the human heart. In it lies evil. Therefore, the heart can be repaired only when it is devoted to the service of God. Without love, it can never be fixed. Love is an essential thing for the heart. It is very natural. How will you water your garden without water? How will the plants grow without water? In the human heart, nothing can grow without love. As water grows plants and God's Love bathes the human heart in order the put in it to grow and to bear its fruits. I wish you had in your heart one ray of God's Love for all the good things grow. This law is true, God requires that we put on the best clothes; God wants to see us with the best clothing. And he has given us this mind and heart to be able to dress. The world has been created for the nice, for the beautiful, for the good and for the smart. You need to put both physically and mentally, and spiritually, and Divine with the best clothes. To put on your mind the best thoughts, put on your heart the noblest feelings, put on the best and on your body. You will give your body the best food. As you take to serve yourself, you will learn many things. We should serve. Some resents his stomach that his stomach could not serve him. The stomach wants at first us to serve him. You will get the bread and chew it well, so more opportunities for the workers in the stomach to create work less. And when you perceive impressions, possibly perceive the best experiences, not to create abnormal work for your mind. Many of you are waiting for Christ to come to the Earth to put an order and to create a transformation and all to have nice houses, to live well. And it is nice, but they tell me, is there a better house than the human body? Can a modern house or a royal palace be compared with the human body, which is given today? The human body is indispensable. It is a real palace, such a dwelling, such a temple, such a universe for any man does not even suspect. In this situation, people want to have an external house in which Christ to come. This is a nice idea, but of course Christ means Love of God to come and to enter into the hearts of the people to bring a transformation in the hearts and in minds, to lighten on and then man should not think only of him. This is not any life. So and the animals think. What is the difference then between a man and an animal? Man is the one who wants to serve at first to the neighbors, or I take this idea in the right sense - to serve God. By the word "God" we mean to serve to the whole life of all living beings. This also means: his thought, his feelings, his goods are common to all beings. This law has and the opposite application. Service of God is a law of giving. It is not about giving of yourself, but as a fountain spout through to you constantly has to pass the benefit of the spring and you will share it to others. As he has come to the Earth, man must serve. How should he serve? He should serve with love. Love is the salary for the service of man. On the Earth serving lends money. Furthermore, the more they pay, the more they require. In the spiritual world, however, to the servant they pay with love. The more you love, the more you serve; the less you love, the less you serve; the more you are love, the more you serve; the less you are loved, the less you serve. The same law applies to the master: they love you a little, a little you master; they love you much, you master much; a little love, a little master; greater love, greater. The world will be fine when people perform properly their obligations as servants and masters not just to their neighbor, but also to themselves. To be a good servant, man must at first learn to serve God. Once he learns to serve God, he will be able to serve himself and his neighbor. There is no soul; no being that has consciously fulfilled God's law, not have received the blessing of God. Those who have checked this law have seen that it is so. Today, watching the lives of people everywhere I see disharmony. It makes me squirm and suffer. Today all people quarrel, sulk - men and women, students, teachers, priests and believers. In this respect all men are heroes - martyrs. Why are they martyrs? Because they have given the first place to their body desires, and have replaced God with it. Today, no one listens to the God. All people want to be happy, scholars, smart, rich. If you divide the wealth of the Earth equally, each person would only get 40 lev. Can you be happy with 40 lev? You may say that you need to take at least 4,000 lev per month. Where from will you take the money? You should harm the others to satisfy yourself. This is not a solution to the problem. This issue is addressed in work and employment. If you were working you would have everything, if you do not work, you would have nothing. This law is true not only in the physical world, but in all worlds. Make the following experiment: Put in your mind the thought to work exclusively for God with love, you will see that in a few years your material situation will improve. If your experience does not work, come to me, I will pay off all your debts. I will do anything just to prove the correctness of this law. If each nation decides to serve God, people would not go to war. Because they do not serve God, the present people destroy what they have created. One day they will see their mistakes. Now there is no reason to regret. They go by the law of necessity. It is important in the future to avoid these damages. With his heart man serves God and with his mind he learns. Learning is a light, pleasant work, and service is a serious work. As you learn and serve properly, you settle your work. Do not reprove, do not say you are bad, but serve and learn. It is not about whether you are good or bad, but you do not know how to serve, you have not learned properly. When I talk about service and staff, I mean two types of employees: of the good and of the evil. Both and of the good and of the evil employees are subject to God, but are you satisfied with the employees of the evil? And they both have studied, but they differ in the application of their knowledge. And the way they walk is different. Many occult students want to acquire knowledge, to become scientists, to occupy high social positions, but in this way they may not have great achievements. These are achievements of the fallen spirits. So who does not learn and learns a lot will inevitably fall, the one who does not work well too, he also falls. Who serves well, he does not fall. That is the law. You say: "Everything is given to us." It is given to you, but you make it known in two ways: if you serve yourself, you will fall; if you serve God, you will lift up. If you learn about yourself, you will fall if you learn about God will lift up. So, first you will serve God, then yourself; you will first learn about God, then yourself. That is the law. If you turn the law, the fall is inevitable. And in the fall a man learns, but it is expensive. The law is: in the service of God, man gets his freedom because he enters into harmony with the whole universe. And just free could love. This is the second law. Therefore service leads to love. Once you begin to serve God, all people will become loving, you will see that these are souls. Who wants to serve God out of love within him will surely awaken some talent or some minor talent that will gradually grow. Man can eliminate his karma only by serving God. According to a law everyone should know that he does not serve just himself. Everyone, every nation and all the mankind are parts of the Divine body. Everyone, every home, every nation and all the mankind, if they want to rise, they need to have a high ideal, to which to serve continually day and night. Just so they can be powerful. Strong can be only one who serves God. If modern people perceive the Divine Love, the Divine Wisdom and the Divine Truth, their character will be mitigated; they will gain a real positive knowledge that will exempt them from many sufferings and misfortunes in life. So, what is required of modern humans? To call all the prophets from around the world to hear directly from them what they should do. What is meant by the word "prophets"? These are all scientists, the great and the powerful people in the world. Let it stay in your mind the idea that while you are part of the Divine body, you are on the right place. Your hand is designed for your body. In such a case, it must meet the pre-appointment to his body, and then to others. Your mind, your heart and your will have been created at first serve your spirit, your soul, God. If you serve God at first, you will be able to serve other people. Who serves well himself, he will serve well and God. Once he serves well God, he will serve well and his neighbors. This is one of the great laws of existence. If you do not go in this path, you will have disappointments, until one day you will leave for the world and you will say: "I do not get out of life. Nothing I could do. "

The Will of God Fulfillment of God's Will is necessary for all without distinction as a sacred, an absolute law. This law is not considered. Why? It is because it includes all other laws. God reigns in Heaven! God reigns on the Earth! And all intelligence, all knowledge, all forces, all good, and every power, no matter whether of man or of society, whether the people or of all the mankind is due to the One, Who has created the world. This world has an outward expression. We are members of this world and we should fulfill God's will, whatever it may be. This is the great law of eternal life. This is the great law of students who want to make good and as it is written in God's book that has not yet been printed on the Earth. There is a great law that regulates relations between the people and the nations. In the Old Testament it is said that God allows wars and God forbids them. Therefore, without the Will of God nothing can be done. We will live for God, and God will live in us. This is the great law of being. We have come to the Earth to fulfill the will of God, to live better. This is a general law for all: for countries, for nations, for societies, for families, for individuals. Due to misunderstanding and disagreement among the people they do not live well. Some believe in one god, others - in another god, some believe in a country, others - in another one. There is no unity among the people. They do not know that they have come from one source, from one Father, from one God, who has created the whole universe. By "universe" we mean all the blessings that flow from God. These goods are distributed properly according to the reasonable, great laws. For Bulgaria and for all the other peoples of the Sun there is a budget - how much power to send, how much moisture to send. There is a budget and it is determined for all. If you live according to the laws of love, the budget, which is determined, will come. Once you make a crime the budget will be reduced. I say: follow the will of God in love, fulfill the will of God according to the law of wisdom, fulfill he will of God according to the law of truth, fulfill the will of God according to the law of life, fulfill the will of God according to the law and knowledge and the law of liberty, the law of food, the law of air, the law of light and God will be with you. Everyone should learn to fulfill the will of God. There is nothing for me to force you, it is a general law. You will fulfill the will of God without reasoning. God's will, it is a universal law, the implementation of which is a temporary measure. And when talking about the implementing God's Will, I understand all the points of the manifestation of this will in any case. Why? It is because this act at the time understands the benefit of all the beings, without exception. To fulfill God's will in a moment, it is understood to make a good, which refers to all the beings without exception: no to one person, not to a society, not to a people - to all the beings. This is the great law! Not only in time to fulfill God's will, in our daily lives must continually fulfill the will of God, because on God's will depends our happiness. God wants us to be happy. God does not want any man to be unhappy. But because we do not understand the God's will, we impose at first our will and then his. And the law is as follows: first you apply God's Will, and after you apply it, then apply and your will. There is a Divine law that meets all the needs of life. Each Divine need is satisfied on time. But at first in man must appear eagerness to fulfill God's Will. Today, man lives only for himself. And if his works do not become, as he wants, he gets discouraged. If you do the will of God, you give one, you win ten and if you do your will, you win one and you lose ten. This is a law that has no exception. A law states: that when man does not fulfill the Will of God, he gives place to the evil in himself ie he is vulnerable to the negative forces of the world. A law states: that when man does something pleasing to God, he feels joy, and when he makes a mistake, no matter how small it is, he feels sorrow. When you feel grief, you have made something wrong. When you feel joy, you have done a good thing. Once you begin to live well in your soul come peace and the light. And when you start doing evil in your soul darkness comes. If you do not fulfill the Will of God as it should be fulfilled, a lion shall meet you on the road and you will die. If a man is undisposed and serves God, his discomfort will disappear. If a man decides to fulfill God's will, his life is prolonged, if he does not fulfill the Will of God, his life is shortened. Everyone lives as long as he has decided to fulfill the Will of God. Life and his teachings are determined precisely by this law. It is the measure. Friendship itself is a reasonable connection. While there are reasonable relations there is friendship. Once the reasonable relations stop, friendship disappears. So, the son is a son until he has a reasonable relationship to his father. Once the reasonable relations vanish and sonship disappears. It is the law. And then according to the words "The Father loves the Son," we mean a wise son who does the will of his father in every way. Everyone who does the will of God, he could be his son. Man, who wants to be loved, to help him God, he must do God's Will. The Scripture says: "Anyone who does His Will is accepted by God." To be loved by the people, it is still the same law. The people can not love you if you are not ready to do their will. Then, where is the contradiction? If everyone would do the will of God, there should be no contradiction. Whatever God says fulfill His word immediately, without any delay, with no doubt and no philosophizing. When man decides to fulfill God's will, then the tempter comes and says: "It is not the time, you are poor; you are young" and so forth. And you do not listen to him, namely with hat will, with this faith, with those thoughts, with those feelings and knowledge that you have now, fulfill immediately and without doubt the will of God and know that now is the time. When you decide to do the will of God and without delay, and without hesitation you bring in performance that you desire, you are always strong, smart and if you hesitate or postpone fulfilling the will of God in all that time you are weak and stupid. Know that it is not the time strengthening and making people wiser, that is not the age, it is not the years that make people smarter and more powerful and that cleverness depends on the time you decide to fulfill God's will without doubt and without respite. Whoever transgresses God's Will, he is deprived of His blessing. Like man discards the impurities out of his body through sweating, so God will throw out of his body all the people and nations of modern culture, which do not fulfill His Will. This is a Divine reasonable law that regulates life.

Prayer Prayer is a Divine Law that exists in all of being. And when eating and when working man should pray. If his work does not go well, let him sing. The song opens up the path to the bright and the sublime world. The law of prayer is the same as the law of eating. When deprived of food, man can feel some lack. When the soul is deprived of prayer it also feels some lack. Prayer is an inner need of the soul. Prayer is continuous process. Prayer, which is interrupted, it is not true. You will pray and when you sleep and when you are waking up, you will pray and when you work, and when you rest. Your whole life should be a prayer. It is the law of love. Prayer is a method. When you cannot resolve an issue, you should pray, you should pray but you should not just wait on it. Prayer is a statement of the case. If you meditate so, if you think that when praying you can do all, you are on the wrong path. Prayer is for convenience. Prayer is not to lose your life that you have in your body. Prayer is not to lose the sense that is in your heart, to lose the thought that you have in your mind. It is support. It will do an excellent job. Once the prayer has kept the life that is in the body, once the prayer is kept the feeling that is in the heart, once the prayer has kept the thought that in the mind; then it is the power of God. Then we can achieve what we want. Often you exaggerate your sufferings. You lose sometimes your disposition to pray. If you are not standing in yourself, you cannot pray. If you have the slightest ill will, the slightest bad thought, they would stop this current and you just cannot give your prayers to the invisible world. Then you have a condition that I can explain with the law of electricity: at the least mistake there is no contact and the light cannot leak. Taking away this malfunction from the installation the light immediately flows. Put away from your mind those thoughts, those feelings; those actions that hinder this relationship. There is a situation in life: when breaking a Divine law, you pray and you feel that God cannot hear you. Before you have made this sin, when you go to someone sick, you pray, and he is healed and he starts walking. But when you do this transgression, it may be very small, microscopic, the patient does not move. And you look at yourself what is the reason, you apologize. You say: "I am not very wrong," "I have had not a bad intention," "It is a small sin." But the fact is that you have no strength. As long as you are worried by your own thoughts, you are not a healthy man. As long as you are worried by your own feelings, you are not a healthy man. As long as you are worried by your own actions, you are not a healthy man. You say: "The conditions are such." You will bring to calm yourself, you will find this peace. You will turn to God, you will pray, you will pray, until the peace comes. Now to you this process seems to be difficult, because you think that great efforts are required. You say: "Very long should man be praying." Long time implies an inner intensity. Man wishes all this with all humility of his soul. Because pride in man comes when he thinks that he does not anyone. It is a delusion. He says: "I do not need anybody." He needs his father, his mother, his brothers and his sisters. His mother has born him after carrying him for nine months – he has had no need. His father has been feeding him – he has had no need. Everything in the world works for us. He says: "I do not need anybody." When saying so, I do not know what man thinks. He needs air, he needs light, and he says he does not need anything. Where is the philosophy? We are so addicted! He is sitting down, he has blown up, and he sys: "I do not need anybody." It is a stupid job. Yet one has to learn, to pray, to speak to his father so that each word has a light, in every word there should be heat and there should be and force inside. He should carry something noble, he should carry a fragrance. Just as you raise your eyes to God, from those eyes to go light as you open your mouth, to run out good as if honey is flowing out of your mouth. And as you drag your hand force to come out. The law is such: the weak, being a friend with a strong companion, he becomes strong. The stupid, when being a friend with a smart, becomes smart. The one whose heart is not warm, when being a friend with a man, whose heart is warm, and his heart becomes warm. With whatever man you become friends with, such you become. Some believe that man should not pray. Man should pray because through prayer he learns the Divine language. If you do not pray, you will remain ignorant in the Divine world, you will not be connected. You decide to pray, you scratch at the neck, you say: "I am not well disposed". Disposed or undisposed, you have to pray, nothing more! You can have 100 indispositions, you will wait the disposal to come but this disposal may come after 10 years. Then what are you waiting for? This is a misunderstanding. Another delusion, you say: "Because I am undisposed, my prayer will not be accepted." God does not need your prayer, it is not about him; it is for you. You open your mouth to eat meals not because of Petka, of Stoyan. It is a necessity, a law that you must fulfill. If you do not fulfill it, you will suffer. And in breathing is the same law. If you breathe properly, it is for you. When man prays, from the invisible world they will teach him the language of heaven. When he learns the language of Heaven, all the works will go. If you do not go, it is due to reason that you do not know the language of heaven. You go to England, you do not know how to say "bread" to the English and they do not understand you. Because the Englishman prices his time, he is a crisp. When you open your mouth and you start talking to him, it is a waste of time. They say: "Time is money." The soul is associated with higher beings; it is associated with the angels, while the human spirit is connected with God. You with your spirit are connected with God. And when you want to pray, you must climb to your spirit. Your soul should come and then you should pronounce the prayer and it will be heard. There is one law: when you pray in Bulgarian, your thought is transformed - with these oscillations that it has, it does not work. If it goes like that, there will be a storm. Speech is transformed slowly and it is amplified. When it goes to God, the speech should be amplified. But it is not with whooping speech. The waves become smaller and smaller, and the thought is refined and becomes much softer. And the Divine grasps what you think and then God sends a response. If you do not know how to pray, some misfortune will come to you. It is like when you throw an object from the bottom of the well up. For example, you are at the bottom of the well, and fro there you throw up an apple. It cannot get out of the well and it will fall down on you. Many people do not understand what love is. They imagine it sometimes as force, sometimes as a feeling, then as a state. Love is the most sublime feeling, which connects man with God. In this respect the prayer is relation with love. When man prays, love knocks on his door. He goes, opens it and starts talking to love. Love is God. You say: "Is it possible then me to speak to God?" Once you talk to love, you will speak with God. Today, many people are praying, kissing the icon of Christ, and when he knocks on their door, they do not open it. No, interrupt your prayer to open the door to Christ and follow Him! To follow Christ is the true prayer. The law is: when man calls God with all his heart, God will call him; he will call him from everywhere. "Whatever you beg in my name, I will do it." This is the great law of love, which Christ has preached. Who wants, he always gets. The law is. Someone says: "God knows what I need and he will give me the needed." Not, it is given only to this, who wants. In the occult school the law of transformation of energy is connected with the need of things. Ever, when you start trying the law, you will begin with the necessity in life. For instance, you are hungry. Put no other thought but concentrate your mind to acquire food to eat. Then you will concentrate your thoughts to sleep somewhere. Then according to this you will order all your needs - according to the degree of the need. If you observe this law, then you may get an answer to your prayers. But if you put all these desires in a masse, if you want everything all of a sudden, all these things will be delayed and all your plans will not be implemented, because you have not complied with this law for the sequence. You will pray for first necessary without which you can not do, then for a second, a third, a fourth, etc. So the Divine law works with mathematical precision. But if you change things, you should put first a minor thing, the law itself is amended. Not only what you can do. Sometimes you pray for some things and your praying is not heard. In the world there is one law: some things with a man do not work; then you will gather two people to fulfill the law. You can gather and three. It is said: "Where two or three people are gathered, I am there!" One in the world is only God. If you like as a man your prayer to be heard, it will not be heard. Since this is a prerogative of God alone. One is only God, and yet you are set. Therefore, to be true to the Earth, the many will summon two or three to show that you, the crowd, you are one with God. If you want to stay alone to pray, if you do not take others to help you, you cannot be heard. You are then in the law of unity. When you are in the law of unity you should not ask anything. God requires nothing. God requires something of us, by the law of the crowd, for our good. God has everything, but because many are involved in it and it is relevant to the unit. God regulates his relations. Some Christians boast that God has ever listened to them. Whatever they pray for at once they are given. When you say that everything you ask it is given, it is because God has given you all as you were born. And now when you pray everything comes by itself. Once promised God does not change his promises. If anyone thinks that he has received something because he prays, he is lying. Someone says: "I have prayed and I have been give." However, after 2- 3 days he prays again, but no voice, no listening to his prayer. Another says: "I have prayed for a sick and he has healed." Okay, so now ask for another sick. "I have prayed, but he has not cured. I do not know how to pray for him. "So it is still not time for that patient to be helped. With empty words works are not covered. Many say that whatever they thought of it has happened. There are scientists who say the same. They say: "Whatever a person thinks, everything becomes." This is a wrong interpretation of the law. This law must be expressed in the following formula: the good thing a person thinks of and wishes, to happen. This law is given in a positive sense. The law is: When you pray for others, your prayer yields a magical power, only if accompanied with love for them. If any man sins, pray for him and he will be fixed and will have a good disposition towards you. The law is: when a man prays earnestly with him pray together all the people with whom he is in harmony. You cannot get someone to pray for you, if it is not in harmony with you. Prayer is a Divine act. Prayer is the act of watering. It is used to attract all the good influences. When man prays, everything around him should grow and should develop. When man understands the great law of prayer he will become a real man, he will become one of the greatest adepts. Today scientists serve with telescopes to study the stars, but one day when people develop their eyesight, when they restore their original vision, they will serve with their eyes as if as with telescopes. So far, people do not need to develop more their eyes, because there is nothing good to be seen on the Earth, but one day when they develop spiritually, they will see not only the most distant objects on the Earth, but everything that happens on the Sun, the stars and other planets. One day they will come to a position to understand the language of the other planets. You say: "These are illusions." I agree with that. But whatever you have in the world it is illusions. You are a clerk, a professor, you are working till 60-70-80 years, but one day you lose everything, you bankrupt and you go to the other world, out there where you do not know anything. You leave calm that you are leaving the Earth to the heirs. Above all, you can never leave heirs, because what you have is not yours. If it is not yours, how will you leave it as heritage? The only thing we leave to our loved ones, it is our debt. I have not seen any father who would not have left to his successors the debts that Hindus call karma. Nobody has left to his successors “argent compte” (from French:”money in an account”). So everybody says, "I have to pay for my karma." Good deeds are much less than the evil. Therefore, the good that is coming into the world is neither from the father nor from grandfather. The good comes from God and you will remember. The only one who can give you the inheritance is God and Him you will remember. This is not a philosophical question. This is not a question that you can find in a book; this is a question that each person must examine in himself, in nature itself. There are ways through which man can examine these issues. There are people who have partly checked it. This law works everywhere. An Englishmen has written a book, has given over statistics. This statistic is as follows: he has described the responses of one and a half million prayers. He has lived 95 years and in that time God he has given to God one and a half million prayers that have been answered. With the money he has received as an answer to his prayers, he has raised more than 2,000 orphaned children in an orphanage without asking straight from people money. He has prayed without telling anyone that he needs money; that grows orphans. He has prayed and has expected. I adduce an exceptional case. Second such case there is not. Such a book a second time cannot be written. This is something unprecedented, since we cannot take out a general conclusion. This man has been confident in his prayer. He has drawn a law that is described in the book by an order of statistics. If you read this book, in it you will find no theories, no explanations. It is just the facts. He has written in his book how many times he has prayed and how many times they have responded. He has written: as a sincerer has his prayer been, the sooner he has received an answer. The more entangled in a philosophical theory he has become, the more his work has not been going. Prayer is a Divine ray that comes from the soul of every person. If so, this beam must necessarily pass through the souls of all people, from the smallest to the largest that dwell on the face of the Earth. Following this round, the beam returns back to the man from whom it has come. This time can last a minute, an hour, a day, or maybe months or years - it depends on the intensity with which the prayer is sent into space. By that time man has to constantly pray to maintain the strength of this beam, to make it its lap. Some people think that by asking for something once that is enough. No, once you catch the dance, and now even if you want to go away, you cannot. Why? The law is. Once you ask, your prayer has to go through the souls, minds and hearts of all people and then again to get back to you. Someone by praying once and if he gets immediately a reply, he says: "I will not pray anymore." However, once he has prayed, nature compels him to continue his prayer - he has already the consequences of his prayer. It has gone through space and travels. He sits quietly, he has forgotten that he has ever prayed and suddenly he has heard someone rattling his cell phone: "Please, I do not hear well, speak clearly; I must understand what your desire is." Following him on the phone rattles third, fourth, etc. He is obliged to explain to anyone who wants clarification or otherwise his prayer will be given wrong or he himself will stop transmitting it. For all the people launch his prayer, he cannot get rid of it while it still does not come back to him with some answers. He has to wait to be listed two billion people and then to be released. So if someone wants to have an answer soon, his prayer should be brief, clear, clean, bright and intensive. I ask: do you know when the thought that at some point goes through your mind has been born? You might say that this idea is born now, in this moment. No, you know what prayer is in its deep sense, you realize that every thought that passes at a time in the mind of man, has been born before him. As your thoughts pass through the minds of all people and their thoughts go through your mind. When someone's prayer is forwarded in space, it goes through the minds of all people and they are given the right to decide whether it should be given what he prays. Then a kind of referendum produces. All the people vote: one for you, or against you and on the majority of votes it depends what will be the answer to your prayers. If most have not voted in your favor, you will still work on yourself, you will pray again until one day you get a positive response. Then your prayer has been realized already. If you send a good thought to the whole world, as it should be, then the work you will do, can be equal to the work you do throughout your life. Prayer is the breath of the soul. You think it is misleading, but it is a necessity to pray. As long as you breathe on Earth, you have to live. As you stop breathing, you will leave the earth life. Do not believe that prayer is an obligation by law. It is something you should do without the law of love. You will breathe, you will pray not as an obligation but as a privilege - you should enjoy that you pray. Then when you pray, the prayer should be new. There is nothing to pray for sometimes. One day you will pray the plums grow, the second day you will pray the cherries grow, the third day you will pray the grapes happen, the fourth day you will pray corn happen, maize to grow, the rivers to flow, the flowers bloom, the birds to fly around, the clouds to come. Everything you will pray for! You pray uniform: "God, I pray you, let me be healthy." The next day again, "God, let me be healthy." This is not a prayer. Man is healthy, when the plums grow, man is healthy when cherries grow, man is healthy when rivers flow, man is healthy when the wind blows, man is healthy when the Sun is shining; man is healthy when the stars are rising. I say: everything in the world when it works and man works. When everything goes to sleep and man falls asleep. If one day the Sun ceases to rise and man will cease to live.

Harmony Life on the Earth is music. This life is going in three directions. To express in a musical language: sometimes it goes in major, because, as the military say, sometimes it goes in minor, even as grief is expressed, sometimes it goes in a chromatic scale, which includes the first two ranges. These are 3 great methods, 3 great laws that govern our lives. When we do not understand the deep, inner sense of life, we dwell on minor things and ask why life is so arranged, and not otherwise. From a purely musical standpoint, I think that there are closed intervals, they are negative spaces. There are open spaces or positive intervals. The law is such. By the words "negative interval” I understand: if you grieve, you are a closed interval. And joy is an open interval. The two joined together form the chromatic intervals. If you cannot grieve you can not be and happy. Why grief is a closed interval and joy is an open interval? When? When Christ has been born, those singers have come over and have sung like a heavenly choir. If in you something is born these singers will come over and will sing: "Glory to God", they will sing softly and then 300 billion cells in you will say: "Blessed is the Spirit that comes to organize us." Spirit is the bandmaster. These are the new visions. I give you these thoughts. You say: "How will I live?" You will sing! Some time I will deliver you a sermon with a song. You should sing! I would like you all to sing. Someone says: "What should I do?" Sing! You say: "To live well." To live well, it is a musical law. All of you have a misconception about the music. You have an instrument; you think that out of the violin music comes out. No music comes out of the violin or of the pipe organ or of the piano. Music is an internal process of life. It comes from man. There are laws. The instrument is only provision like the radio. You listen, the radio speaks to you, but speech in the radio is not formed. It is only one condition. What happens in the human brain is projected. Music is an expression of that eternal harmony. It is the only sign that you are healthy. If you do not want to sing, if you do not want to love – you are a sick person, it is the measure. If you are well disposed, you hum inside, you are healthy. The law of harmony is: to express the harmony you need 4 voices. If you sing a melody, just a voice can sing it. If you want to express harmony, you need 4 voices together to sing. So, I say: until now you have thought melodically. Now you must think harmonically. Once you have been singing in one voice. Now you should sing simultaneously in 4 voices. In nature, everything has rhythm. You talk about nature. In nature, the melody goes on a horizontal road and harmony follows the vertical path. The difference is huge. At first you have to know what melody is and to come to rhythm. Harmony is nothing but a combination of melodies. I say: love is the melody. Love, wisdom and truth at the same time, it is harmony. What do you understand under the words "harmony" and "melody"? You say: "to live harmoniously." Melody is to deal with yourself; harmony is to deal with people. Melody is to command yourself, harmony is to command the others, the whole band, 4 companies or 1 regiment. Four people or 4 companies go in the chord. Harmony is a law to harmonize with the surrounding environment; the melody is to harmonize with yourself. Who understands the laws of melody will handle all internal contradictions. If you have contradictions, harmony can not help you, the melody will help you. Once the contradictions are external, then the harmony will help you. I encourage you to apply both laws in music. Life itself is a melody, and the social life is harmonious. Therefore you need to understand private life as a melody that is relevant to the First Genesis, to sound in the world, to all living beings. You say: "I have no respect." Even under the worst conditions, the bee is relevant to you. You suffer from rheumatism, it gets angry, it pins you, he place swells. It treats you. It dies, for you to become healthy. You say: "a bee has stung me." Each bee that stings you, it heals you. You have to make it a monument somewhere because it has sacrificed. To how many bees there are monuments built? I say: when we have unity, it always shows the extent of our thought. If one feeling starts bothering us, we must be careful. If an evil thought amplifies, we are approaching the subject. Then we have to keep distance. From the evil we should get away. You can get close or far from evil. You can get close to a waterfall, and you can zoom out. If you get closer to a waterfall, you will fall into one big contradiction. So, I say: we should study the laws of thought. Any thought can be so strong as to cause general disorder in your brain. The feeling can be so strong that to disrupt your entire sympathetic nervous system. At first you have to learn the laws of the Divine harmony. This harmony can be studied. Prayer is a way of harmony. Man should pray to harmonize his mind, his heart and his body. He must think well, to harmonize. He has to feel good and he must act well. These are methods for acquiring harmony. Because you created according to the law of music, according to the music in nature you are created, if you are a singer or not, you have to think properly. It is music. You should feel right and you should do the right thing. It is still music. You cannot do the right thing, if you are not a musician, if you do not have this inner music. You will deal somehow, but this deed will not be a musical one. You can have flair but this flair will not be correct. You can think of, but your thought would not be correct. We will study the music that is within us. If you understand this music, you will understand and the external music. The external music would be like an urge for you to the inner music. And the music needs no external stimulus. Man must know that without music he cannot rejuvenate. And every work that he engages with without music, without harmony, it cannot succeed. And any thought, any feeling and any action without music cannot succeed. There is no success there, the measure is music. It is called "harmony", with it all you can do. I am talking about what God has established. Music is Divine. The world has been created according to the laws of music. And we all learn to think, to feel and to act well - this is the inner harmony. Music forms the best connection between the human brain, the human heart and the human body, between all the organs. They have been created according to the law of harmony. And when man sings, everything is well harmonized. Once you sing any tone, nature understands you. Nature understands this language. Our actions must be musical. If you do not know how to pronounce a word, this is not any force. Pronunciation is important. All the day I can say "force" and still there will be nothing. But there is one pronunciation, and if thus pronounce the word "force" the sky will tremble, it will not take 5-10 minutes, there will be a crashing thunder, a lightening, heavy pouring and all the people will hide. And then when I say "living force," everything becomes quiet and the sky becomes clear. Besides, there are situations in which even throughout the day all the time to say "living force", nothing will happen. You know the law of associations. You often forget about any subject, you say: "it has come out of my mind! I cannot remember it. "Something is wrong with the objects in that law that ideas go. They are grouped and run your memory. So it is and with the tones. And if you figure wrong one ton, there is a disassociation, things are lost. This is one great law that regulates memory. If you start with the one word that should start with, everything will run smoothly. But sometimes you catch a word and it does not go, it limps. So any object that you study, it has a basic tone. If you have the basic tones, all the other tones are running. All the abilities that man has have their own tones. Music has its own tone, mathematics has its own tone; all the other sciences have their own tones. Any knowledge and it has its own tone. If you can find the basic tone, the other is allowed easy. And all the effort of the educated people is to find the fundamental tone. Music should become your natural state of mind. The basic tone you can only have when you start thinking. That awakening of the human mind I call a basic tone. This day when your consciousness awakens and you begin to think, it is a basic tone. The other tones are arranged. They come in accordance with a basic law. You want things to happen mechanically, to sow the seed and it to grow. I would like to have such a world. It exists, but have you gone into the world of these opportunities? It exists in the world. For instance, one day you have a good mood, you are excited, you sing, you think that you are happy. Everything around is singing. A little reason comes and your whole world collapses, all this good disappears, it is gone; now you get discouraged; you do not want to live. Now I ask: where has your world gone? You are in the world of frozen. In the winter there are such flowers on the windows, right? In wintertime I have been passing through the forest. When it snows, the whole forest is adorned with snow flowers. But at noon the Sun comes out, this ornament that costs billions, all falls down, it is lost. Nature plays as an artist. It paints and it changes its paintings. You have to understand the law of matter. You have not studied yourself. You have not studied your brain, you have not studied your heart; you have not studied your body. You do not know the law of your heart. You do not understand the language of your heart, the language of your mind you do not understand. Yet you have to learn to understand the language of your heart. Now you know a word here and there. At first you should learn to take the basic tone. Which is the basic tone of life? Take the basic tone of life. The basic tone is under the worst conditions of life so that you do not lose your disposal. This is the "C". But it requires tries, tries and tries. Someone will say, "What will I gain as I sing?" At first you will begin to study the law of breathing. Breathing has its own tone. You can not breathe properly if you lower the tone of breathing. And eating has its own tone. You can not eat properly if you lower the tone of the eating. Also, the movement has its own tone. You, when you step out of your house, you will stop and you will take the tone of movement. There must be harmony in all your muscles and nerves. If you go so, you will gain strength. But if you do not take the tone correctly, you will say: "At this point I am not happy." Or you go to someone - you have to find the tone of this man. For example, if are you going to preach to someone, but you have not found the tone and he says: "I do not want to hear you!" When you find his tone, you will sing his tone and you will combine your tone with his tone, and then you will know how talk to him and you will know how to help him. If you do not know his tone, you will not understand each other. And you say: "We do not understand each other." This music is necessary. The only thing of yours is what comes out of you. And if you understand it, you will know what respect the other people have towards you. As you meet a man, you need at first to know if he has a general idea of things. I, as I am talking to you this morning, I have a basic idea. What is the idea? The idea is to lead you to a common denominator, to a general law, on which is based and my life and your life. To bring some notes in harmony, it means bringing them into a certain ratio and the notes to complement. And then is formed a whole song. If there is no correlation between the notes and if they do not complement in harmony, then they are not on place. There is a law that every one should know in order to live well: we are not constantly in the same place. Life is like in music. Any note you are you will get various points. If you represent a tone, you can be in the first octave, in the second, the third, in the sixth, etc. And then you can take the place of a whole note, half note, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64 note. All relationships that you take depend on the first tone, on the place from where you start. Can you take in a gamma the tone "C" instead of the tone of "D"? You cannot. So there is a great law that regulates all things. If a tone in a piece of music is increased, then all the other tones that are associated with it are modified. In order not to be changed and they need to be increased by as much as the first tone has been raised. The same law applies and to societies. When the people in a society, arranged in a certain range, when the basic tone of this range changes, change and all the other tones. This is the law of harmony. Someone says that he is not interested in the law. It is the same as the tone "C", for example, to say that it is not interested in the other tones. The tone "C" cannot disregard the others, because the slightest change in it violates the whole harmony. The difference that exists between people can give birth both to disharmony and to harmony - it depends on them. When the man and woman are petulant, they must give way to each other: when the one says something, the other should listen to him; when the one plays, the other should listen to him. This is the law in force in the physical world. If the one is silent, the other appreciates this sense of patience and will pay off in another way. However, if the woman does not take this behavior, the man will say: "There is no worse than my wife, she has a very long tongue. God should deliver us - or me from her or her from me! "Do not think that you will be released: if here, in this world, are have chased one another, and in the other world you will chase each other. What can change your life is the understanding of the Divine law and its application in life. You will make thousands of mistakes, for them God will not judge you; He will forgive you, provided you learn the Divine law and you work. However, if after 100 mistakes you do not learn any lesson, God will not forgive you. I call “sin” the lies. It goes from sin to suffering, from suffering to harmony, from harmony to love, from love to God. So lie, this is the world, where the Scripture says: "The Earth was without form," a disorganized world outside of harmony. Once the world is organized, everything is in its place, I mean a harmonious world. We need to understand the rules and the laws of love in which harmony is manifested in the world. There is a law that watches for the preservation of harmony in life. It monitors not only for the crimes of the people but also of the animals, which are also punished for the crimes. You can be friends with each other and live in harmony, but if you run the law of absolute love, absolute wisdom and absolute truth. They are common to all, no exception for anyone. The law there is absolute. Great law in existence is that in order to develop correctly the parts, they must be in harmony with the whole. To establish any harmony between you is needed intelligent life. According to one theory there are 3 classes. You are here in a class on the physical plane. There is another class, astral class on the astral plane, and yet another one of the thought - in the mental world. There are three classes at the same time. You go in one way in your understanding - you want immediately to fix everything. It is impossible. You cannot cope with the environment, if you do not understand the law of this environment. Because each thought is relation of consciousnesses, which are connected to one another. They form an environment. The consciousnesses of some creatures form the soil for other creatures. For instance: the child is not yet aware of, and if the mother does not care for the child, it cannot do anything. There are beings that care about you, they are angels. You sit and worry, and the child is worried, crying, while his mother and without crying takes care of it. The child must have this thought: "There is nobody to take care of me." And in your mind there must be the thought: "there is someone who thinks of me." It is because if he does not think of you, it is all over. He will arrange your life. That mother who thinks about the child she will arrange the child's life. If you think that no one thinks of us, we put a fake base for all our life – on sand and then all collapses. To God cannot go a thought, which is not a musical thought. It stays on the Earth. All thoughts and desires that are musical thoughts and desires go to the invisible world. All thoughts and feelings that are non-musical, from them sufferings come unintentionally. This is an inevitable law. The first law is that you have to keep in harmony with the Divine. In the world, in all nature there is a rationality with which we must be consistent, in all nature there is an inner kindness with which we must be consistent; in all nature there is a force that guides everything. With this force we must be in agreement. If we are in agreement with those 3 situations in nature, then our work can go. "What God has joined together, man should not put apart." To maintain this relationship, man must be ready to apply the teachings of Christ. It means to follow the law of harmony, known as the "law of sympathy." Two laws operate in the world: the law of sympathy and the law of antipathy, ie the law of harmony and the law of disharmony. When they love each other, people apply the law of sympathy or of harmony, they live together in brotherhood; when they do not love each other, they live by the law of antipathy or of disharmony. In this law exists repulsion, and in the first - attraction. Where there is harmony, there is God. That is why everyone needs to ask himself if he is related to God or not. When you wake up in the morning you will say the following: "I will not fight with myself, but it will be in harmony with me. I would not be in contradictions with nature, but I will be in harmony with nature. I will not be in conflict with God, but it will be in harmony with God." Say these words and you will see that your state will be changed immediately. Speak softly to yourself these words 2-3 times. Only thus man can create in himself a great character. Just so you will know how beautiful nature itself is. All coarse movements are spending of unnecessary energy. We have to cut our budget; we should have fine movements, with little power to do much work. If you will be rough with yourself, you will make thousands of people to treat badly the others. If I mistreat myself, I will urge thousands of people to treat badly themselves and to mistreat the others. That is why it is necessary spiritual people to have a sober thought, nothing in the world to be able to get them out of the rails. Whatever happens they should be calm. To know that in the world there is a law of eternal harmony, which cannot be broken. What God is up to do, no one is able to change. Maybe thousands of years will pass, God's paths can be changed, but what he has drawn, it will be, but will become with much jostling. The time has come not to be afraid what will happen. Better times than these there have not been. Everything in the past that has happened can not be compared with the present. The whole world I see is full of angels, saints come from above. They say: "What will become of us?" The mud will leak; the clear water is coming now. I see now the evil roped. I see that the bad people are tied, the devil is bound.

Achievement Without love nothing is achieved. This is a great, basic law. Love is organizing things. God is therefore without which one cannot do. Life that works in us, that life which pulsates, it is God in us. Life is therefore in the reasonable. This life that flows out, it is God in us, who works in every soul. If you go down this road, well - whatever you want it will happen. But if you do not go, nothing will happen. You obey this law of life, this impulse, this deed, this love, go after it. Then let all the great people be like a rear in the world, all to help you. Do not ask it right or not. As you do it you will see if it is right or not. Everything in the world that is born without love will cause harm. Every thought that is born without love will cause suffering. Every word, every deed; every action; whatever you do without love in the future will bring hell. Hell is not anything but a world without love. All the bad thoughts, all the bad feelings and all the bad deeds of all mankind have created hell. All good thoughts, all the good feelings and all the good deeds of all humanity have created paradise. This is my creed. You can believe or not believe that, you are free. I believe. I create heaven, hell I create for myself. I create my paradise and my hell. You create your hell and your paradise. You might say that God has created heaven. God has created his paradise. He has his own paradise. On three divine things man builds his life: on the light of his mind, on the warmth of his heart and the strength of his soul. A man has come to the Earth to proclaim the good that brings. If he is good, smart and strong, he will have friends; if he is not good, smart and strong, he will not have any friends. In friendship becomes a real exchange between souls. If you eat fruit that you love, between you and the fruit becomes proper metabolism. Love of a fetus is able to improve its quality. If you eat one fruit for a few years with love, you will see that the tree is improved. If a stupid man eats from the same fruit for several years without love, the condition of the tree is deteriorating. It is the law. Good and smart gardeners make good fruits. Greedy gardeners spoil the fruit trees in their gardens. In the trees appear different animals that eat the fruits. In the kiss you can acquire, but you have to know how. Law is in nature. All things are real. If you take a sand grain and sow it, it will be a kiss that nothing will help. But if you sow the seed corn or wheat grain or seed malic and if you know where to plant it, at what depth, after one or more years this planting, the kiss will come across. Suppose that a man, who suffers from consumption, is dying. You go and kiss him, and he is healed. A prince's daughter is dying and when you kiss her, her health returns, do you think that she will forget that kiss? I say: kisses in the world are bearers of God's blessings. By kissing the Divine manifests. Which one of you is not going to kiss the tap? Who of you is not kissing apples? Who of you is not kissing pears? Who of you does not kiss all the things that are nice? You say: "I have not kissed anybody." It is the first lie. Kiss, kiss and how you kiss! Thus purified, the kiss makes already sense. A hug, a kiss, it is the Divine actions that give impulse to evolve our soul. If the Sun has not wanted to kiss us, if the wind has not wanted to hug us, if the air would not come in, what would be our situation? This food that comes into us, sacrifices for us, starts kissing us, hugs us. Digestion is the love of the food. Scientists say: "food is well digested." Food hugs and kisses the stomach. This food that comes in it, loves it. That food that comes out does not love it. I say: do not eat food that does not love you. If it does not kiss you, it will bite you. Based on the law of similar, which states that like attracts the like, everyone will benefit from this life, who responds to him, that is which attracted by him. Man can attract to himself only the subject he loves. You cannot grow flowers, unless you love them. Flowers have their own language, which understand only those, who love them. Old Bulgarians have known this law and they have applied it. They have worked the fields with love, they have planted corn and they have raised it with love, so they have enjoyed fertility. Any nation in the world that does not serve love has no future. Whatever it is no distinction. Any man, who has been born and does not serve love, has no future. Any girl, who marries without love, has no future. A child, who is born without love, has no future. A servant, who serves without love, has no future. A scholar, who teaches without love, has no future. Anywhere in any direction, anything that does not love has no future. This law is inexorable, tried out since centuries. What the new is: you learn - learn with love, you play - play with love, you sing - sing with love, you cook - cook with love, you sleep - sleep with love, you dress - dress with love. Whatever you do, do it with love. Remember, the following law is true: in the future with you will stay only what you love and what loved you. All that has come to you without love it would go like a current of water. In you just this water can stay that you love and that loves you. And other water goes to help those it loves and who love it. They say that in that world all dead were lined, quiet, nothing to talk about. Sent from here is sitting in front of them, they just watch it. Before maybe 10-15 years in America have received a letter from the other world. Someone has written to his father: everything, he says, we have, but cannot be eaten. Whatever you think of it is there. He says that the tables are stacked with everything. "It is what we want. But if we say to get closer to the table and the table moves. Whatever we approach to, everything goes away. "Do you think that everything in this world can be eaten? You pass sometimes, eating is sitting out, but you have no money in your pocket. You watch it – you do not eat it. In that world you cannot eat if you have no money. And there need money. In that world, you cannot take something from the chef who has cooked it, if you do not love him. He gives nothing. Once you love him, the table does not move. If you do not love him, the mass is moving, running away from you. In this world, is not it so? A girl who does not love the young man is running away from him. As she loves him, she talks to him. Once the boy loves the girl, and she stands. If he does not love her, he runs. The law is the same. Man walking on the path of love, is delivered from all evils - a way of deliverance it is. You cross the border from one country to another. When you chase someone in one country and he passes to another, he is released. If you are out of love, the law catches you. In love, the law does not catch you. The law chases you to love. You walk in love, they say: "Leave him!" If you go out of love, the law holds you, it says: "pay". I say: it is a practical application. This idea should remain in your mind. This life you must leave, you must go out of this life. This life must become the law of small reasons. If you are going to learn with love, you will get the Divine knowledge. If you are going to learn without love, you will still get knowledge, but this knowledge will bring trouble - you will understand life and you will begin to suffer more. If you are going to learn music with love, you will learn a lot and will get a blessing. If you are going to learn without love, you can get music, but this music will cause you suffering. The law of love is associated with obedience. The same law, however, gives a true knowledge to man. Who has no love in himself, he cannot learn, he cannot acquire knowledge. Real knowledge can be acquired only through love. That all people should know. Who loses his love, he loses his knowledge. Once he loses and his knowledge, he will lose the meaning of life. Man does not have to stop on knowledge, to search it but should seek the First Cause in which all actions are continuous. You have all been students, right? You have been asked some hard tasks that you cannot solve all of a sudden. You sit, you decide, but you cannot come to any result. You work for an hour or two and at a time a light shines in your mind. Then immediately you solve the problem. Once you have light the issues are easily solved. This happens not only in mathematics but also in all subjects. You have tried this and in the natural sciences, and in languages. There is one law - the law of love. According to this law, if you love what you study, you will immediately have the result. Any presence, devoid of love, does not bring any benefit; every thought, devoid of love, has no force; every feeling, devoid of love, has no content; every act, devoid of love, can not be realized. Love is the greatest law in order to achieve what we have come to the Earth. The laws of the Divine world absolutely do not allow a woman to marry a man she does not love. The laws of the Divine world do not allow and a man to marry a woman he does not love. These laws do not allow the mother to give birth to a child that is not loved before conception. And the child is not allowed to be born, if he does not love his mother before his coming to the Earth. Note: children can be born with love and without love. Jews say: "We are born in fornication." A doctrine of Christ says: "Every child that is born out of love, it is illegitimate" - no exceptions! Every desire, every thought, every action that is not made by that Divine Love, there is no sanction in the Divine life. So sits the law. We can read the Word of God for thousands of years, for thousands of years we can discuss on things, but love is out of time and space. And the moral life is not in the physical, it is outside. In the physical world there is no morality. Morality can only exist between rational beings, it is just about attitude. This is morality in this wider sense. And life has a double meaning within itself. It is in matter, and outside matter. Life in the matter we call "material", and life outside the matter we call "spiritual." Therefore, if you are inside the matter, you cannot have morality. The greatest in the world is: man is happy with the little thoughts that help him. Sometimes you can say so: "Why I am not gifted?" You are gifted, but a teacher should come to inspire something. In a grain of wheat there are opportunities to create something, but it is necessary the Sun to come, the light; the heat, to give an impulse. So, all those brilliant people in the world, they have adopted a stimulus from the outside, that has developed their talents. The first stirrings give the mother and father. The strongest incentive for any gift is giving the mother and the father. Secondly comes the teacher, the third is the external society. These are the factors. So, let me now tell you who your mother is. Any person who has knowledge, who understands the law and can help you; he is the father of you. The father must pay a certain power in man, the mother to give direction to those energies. So you will understand your mother and father. You will find your father; you do not know your father. That may be your mother, who can develop your talents and make you happy in the world. A father is the one who can inspire you, who can raise you. Anyone, who limits you, is neither father nor mother. So I see the mother and father. Whether a teacher, I apply the same law. Is a master - the same law, if a servant – tit is still he same law. Everywhere acts this law. The servant, if he loves you, he will serve you. If his master loves his servant, he is a good master. If the teacher loves his students, he is a good teacher. And if a student loves his teacher, he learns and is a good student. Always there where there is love, there is already a base. Remember one thing: all the gifts and achievements in the world are running only according to one law - the law of love. Love is that brings all the gifts. If you have love, all the achievements you can have gradually. But if you do not have love, achievements you cannot have in any direction. An order of generations must go by the law of love, to have some achievements. You cannot acquire strength, if you do not have love. You cannot become musical, outside, if you do not have love. You cannot become beautiful, rich or to have achievements in any other way, if you do not have love. If you do not walk in the law of love, outer achievements you cannot have. If you have achievements, it means that an order of generations, your ancestors have walked this path. But if you break love and the gifts, as have come, in the same path will disappear. You say: "We need to pray to God." It is not about praying to God only. In the new concept we all have to take the road of love as a science. You will use a religious method, a spiritual method, a moral method you can use, thousands of methods. Thousands methods are allowed, but in all these methods you have to walk in the path of love, to have achievements. You are free when everything is subordinated to the Divine. Obedience without love, it is slavery. Obedience with love, this is freedom. This should be known. If the man, to whom you serve, does not love you, you are not free. If he loves you and you serve him, he releases you. If you serve him without love and he is not free. If he accepts your service, you are free. If you do someone a service without love, he is not free, you enslave him. To be free, I have to do things with love and you should take them with love. If you take them with love, I am free. If I make them with love, you are free. These maxims you should keep them. Out of these laws there are no other. If you do things with love, you free the others, if they do it for you with love, they release you. Simultaneously, we all must be free. Love must come in two ways. Anything you do with love. Love is twofold: the one love gives; the other takes. You have to study both laws to be perfect in perception and perfect in giving. Then will be formed this internal peace. The one, who loves you, and you will love him. This law has no exception. If someone does not love you, it shows that under these conditions you are not for each other. Do not push your works. If the one you love does not come, prefer to be alone than to force yourself. Another can come, but then you will have great difficulties and hardships and you will regret for your actions. This law you can apply in respect to any material object. Do not force the order of things. Some might say: "I do not want to love him." This is nonsense, these are your delusions. To love is God's work. You will obey God's law. You say: "I am free to love." Love brings freedom. Freedom comes out of love. When love comes, then freedom comes. Love brings and knowledge. You say: "I know this business." You without love can not know anything. If you would have love, you would not have been old; your heads would not have been white. And you would not have wrinkles, malaise, etc. If you have had love, you would not have the diseases. Remember: each fruit eaten without love, each hat worn without love, every shoe, every coat worn without love lead to misery. Conversely: every hat, every coat, worn with love lead to happiness; each apple eaten with love, every man accepted with love, bring happiness. It is the law. Trust only those things that are given with love. Only they have the power. Anything given without love, it has no power in itself. If it has no power, it cannot be trusted. This is a law that everyone can try. Give the man a quarter or half a loaf of bread with love or two bread without love and see in which case he will be better fed. In Egypt there are mummies, on which they are uttered incantations and everyone who has taken these mummies, misfortune has befallen him. On each fruit there can be spell. Do not eat what does not have God's blessing! I want to tell you the law: do not eat in what there is no love! Do not eat what does not have thought, do not eat what has no good! Why does the world suffer? Let us say that someone wants to share his thoughts with you. No man can share his thoughts with you, if you do not have love for him. You either should not share your thoughts with another man, who does not love you. He can humiliate you. He can say: "How stupid!" Everyone who entrusts you his thoughts and his feelings, you should appreciate him. He is like a gem. Someone will say: "These works are stupid." There is nothing foolish in the world. We need to know. To understand things we need to appreciate them. All things that in themselves have the Divine Love, the Divine Wisdom and that goodness, they bring a blessing. The impossible in one respect is possible in another. This is the law that I bring. Sometimes you say: "This thing is impossible." It is impossible under certain conditions, but it is possible under other conditions. It is impossible a man that you hate to give you money. Maybe when you hate him to give you money, but you need to go with a gun and say: "I will kill you!" He will bring, will give you, but if he is loose, you can never force him with hatred to give you money. If you like him, he will give you money; if you hate him, he does not give you money. Now what is the law of love? The law of love is the law that achieves all the desires of a rational being. We have thousands of desires in the world. Love is a correct way in which everything is achieved. Why should we love? To achieve what we want. Now is thought clear? Scientifically it is not proven, it is alleged; it is given. So if you hate, hatred stumbles your progress. You are making an attempt, second, third, fourth, fifth and a row of controversy is imported into your feelings, contradictions - in your mind, controversy - in your deeds. You say: "What should I do?" Replace hatred with love and your works will be settled. You do not understand even the great law that love bears and violence gives birth to violence. There is no other law, no other system, except love that can fix your life. You can apply it practically, but to properly apply it. Someone says: "To give away our possessions." No, brother, if you give away your possessions without love, do not give it away, because in my soul will appear the same principles, the same feeling as in your soul and I will become your biggest enemy. If you give your money with love and you forget that you have given that money, you win a good friend. That is the law. This is an issue that you can check. The task of man is to determine his relationship to love. Who has achieved that he knows what he can want from it and how grateful to be for everything it gives him. Here, exactly, the law is applied: whatever he wants, man can achieve it. Without love nothing is achieved, with love everything is achieved. The question is only the time. Man must strongly want something to achieve it. If he does not achieve it all at once, he will wait. Someone requires from nature to immediately realize his wishes and if he is not satisfied, he gets angry. Anger is the result of human pride. Can the child be angry with his mother? Nature is the mother of man. Seeing that he gets angry, it puts him to sleep. Once he wakes up, it feeds him; it caresses him and gets him to sleep again. Do not think that you will achieve something with anger. Not only that you will achieve nothing, but you will even harm yourself. Therefore, if it comes to nature, your mother, you should be sensible, you should know how to want and what to want. I say: we should wish to know God, that every moment is revealed. In us should be awaken awe to Him as our Father and to do everything for Him with joy and gladness. Whether we will work with money or without money, it is not important: if we serve with love, money does not denigrate. It is important to us to do everything with joy and gladness. Someone says: "How much to eat?" If you eat without love and a bit, and plenty to eat this meal is taken away of place, it is not blessed. That is the law. Then the law says so: you cannot fulfill God's Will without love. Once you fulfill the will of God without love, there is already violence. To fulfill God's Will without violence, you must have love in freedom. We put love as a free process for human thought, a free process for human feelings and a free process for human actions. It is love. What gives freedom to feelings, what gives freedom of actions, what gives freedom to think, this is love. It is a power that frees man of the contradictions appearing in life as a necessity. Now I will bring you to that Divine law: all the people should be perfect. Perfection man can acquire only in love. We live in love and we should take all that God has created, and we should not have two opinions about life. We now ignore God's Love because of someone. Take one daughter – she thinks that with her beloved one she will be happy to leave her father's house. She goes with a stranger, who tells her that he is her lover. He can be. How to know a man if he is loved or not? There are two ways you can know him: if he can simultaneously become a servant to you and become a master to you, he is your lover; and at the same time, if you can become his servant and if you can become his master, you are for each other. But if he can not become your servant and master, and if you can not be his servant and master, you are not for each other. Now tell me: "How to understand?" In the dark night, when it is 25 degrees cold outside, you are not going to dig in the field. When you have no money in the pocket, you are not going to eat in the inn. When you have money in your pocket, nice clothes you will not put on your back. When you have money in your pocket, in excellent apartments you are not going to live. So when the day is bright, go to work. When the day is warm, go to work. When you have all the favorable conditions, go to work. Or put in the new understanding: do any work with love, with love and with love of God and for God, from yourself and for yourself, from the neighbor and for the neighbor. To succeed you have to love the truth. If you do not love it, lies will inevitably come. If a woman does not love a man, she will commit a crime; if the man does not love a woman, and he will make a crime. It is the law. You should love somebody. The least thing it is, you should love. It may be a fly, a beetle, a flower, a bird, an animal or a man, but you have to love. If you can love everyone even the better. Start with the love of truth. By going from this love, you will create a measure that will measure everything. You have come to the Earth for a job. What you have promised above, do it! What you have come for, do it and what you must become, accomplish it! You need to become much more than what you want. You want very little. I wish that you are not satisfied with less. In nature, there is one law, one rule: all or nothing! You say: "small is preferable to the big." The small in which there is love, is preferable to the big, in which there is no love. Poverty in love is better than riches without love. But wealth with love is better than poverty, in which love is not present. It contains more wealth than all the biggest wealth that is in the world. It is not poverty. And what is the word "wealth"? It is these opportunities that the rich can use. If you have the opportunity to do something, you are a rich man. And finally, the whole world has been created for those, who walk in God's path. These are the future benefits that await us. You are not here to suffer, no! You have come to learn. Then one day they will put you on Venus, on he Sun or on any other place of service. One day, when they put to service, will know. Until then, it is dressage.

Manifestations of Love Love is a law that exists between the parts of the whole. Our task is not to understand love, but to try love. Love is something collective; it is not a single thing. There can be no love between the two - they can be channels of love. Love is a universal law of all those creatures that fill the entire universe. And in the physical and in the spiritual, and in all worlds it pulsates equally. It occurs everywhere, it is general in nature. And always, when humans are willing to restrict the love they create in themselves evil. Do not limit God's Love! Say: "This is God's work!" For this issue of love you cannot solve it. You should know that for people to love you, it depends on God. God is Love. And God gives to you all exactly what you have reached. Love is characterized mainly by two qualities: it always gives. It is a source from which continuously runs, flows, gives to all. Love gives us a lot, gets a little. The second quality of love is: wherever it enters, it expands. Who does not understand this quality of love, he begins to be scared and runs away from it. When love comes to man, he must correctly perceive it, he must understand and implement it in order not to be born in him a desire to take more than he can handle. Everyone should take love just as much as he needs at the time. If he takes more than he needs, he will lose everything. When someone else takes more than you, do not bring in yourself the thought that you are given less because you are incapacitated. Any live, any rational being is given so much love as can accept and process. If you doubt in this law, you will come across sufferings. If man starts complaining of his life, it shows that he has received more than he can handle. Do not think that the love you manifest is yours, no. Man is now only a channel of the Divine Love and the Divine Intelligence. Love under current conditions is intelligence of the invisible world; we are only carriers of this intelligence. This never implies that man is automatic. You should be aware that you are media to reach the soul to the consciousness that it has received something of the Divine world. Until we learn to love, we are in the world of addiction and happy people we cannot be. Love is the path to the happiness of man. But this is a musical law. You will not philosophize there; you will not ask what love is. You will not ask what the fruit is. It is the easiest. I will not tell you the way. I will give you a fruit. And you eat it without me telling you all the scientific problems that are related to the fetus. The fruit is associated with many problems. You are not yet sent at the time to try the mystery that is hidden in the fruit. And the first man has wanted to learn this mystery; he has wanted to understand the meaning of good and evil. And we see the result. The first question is: to love or to be loved. Then you will determine when the desire "to love" has appeared in the minds and when the desire "to be loved" has appeared in the minds. Make a simple experiment. It is the following: take a nice cherry. Make the experiment when you are full. At first you want to keep it, you love it, but the more in you hunger comes, in your mind its beauty is lost and in you will be born the desire to eat it. Note the major changes taking place in the mind. There are cherries, make this experiment. Take one or five cherries, but when you are full, let them sit. See how in you comes the desire to eat them. So you have reached in your consciousness the desire to be loved. You will tell the cherry: "So far I have loved you; from now on you will love me." The one who loves will be swallowed. Smaller eat larger. Ever it is in the world. Not the big is strong, but the small. Love begins with a quest for the one you love. The heart of the one, who loves, always occurs. He begins to fear which shows that fear comes together with love. When love visits man, he becomes fearful like a rabbit. It is the law. Who says he is not afraid, he has never fallen in love. If he is afraid, he is not a man. When he enters the field of love, man becomes fearful, unhappy with himself that he has made a mistake, because of which they will fire him from the office. Fear is a natural consequence of love. You plant a tree, it is pleasant to you. In the love, which you have towards it, you are expecting it to bear fruit. The first year, when the tree bears the first fruit, you have a special feeling. What binds us, it is the fruit. And man is born. We are like a tree. As far as people can benefit from our fruit so we are loved. When you have no fruit, you can not be loved. The same law is. Good thoughts, good feelings attract people; they are food. A good feeling feeds man, a nice thought feeds man. Someone comes to you, you will calm him down – it is a meal. Many people as they have gone to the saints, they have gone hungry, but out of the saint goes something and man feels full. If you go to a bad man, your hunger increases, you are afraid. My opinion on an apple depends on its quality. To the nicer, to the more beautiful, the more benign I am better disposed. Good things are liked, benign things are liked. When this beauty decreases, we cannot love. The word "love" I understand perception. You cannot perceive a food that is not cooked well, which is not benign. You cannot love it. Once you perceive the food, you love it. And in love is the same law: you cannot give love if it is not benign. Because love is benign, the man who transmits it raises. This who perceives love, and he exalts. In love, as you love and as you perceive love, you are lifting, you grow up. By sending love, you create the best conditions for your life. Sometimes you think why you should love. You should love to create conditions for life. Why should you love? You should love to perceive, to show the internal features. On the two states depends the happiness of man on Earth. There is a law in the world that operates in the following (on the Earth you have tried it many times): when you love a member of a family, you love the others because of the one that you love. The law is correct. If it happens that the one you love you start to hate, you hate and the whole family. This is true and for a nation. If an alien loves a Bulgarian, he loves all Bulgarians; if he hates a Bulgarian, he hates all people. It is the same and for the English and for the French. If you love some people, it is because other people love you and that with love you love these people. This is the law of the unity of love. You think that things can become arbitrary. No, nothing can be done arbitrarily. Those, who you love, they will recommend you to those who love you. If you say that nobody loves you, then there is no one to recommend you. If there is no one to recommend you, then you have not loved. Once you have a recommendation, then you have loved. This is the law. If you do not think so you cannot be students. And nothing in the world cannot achieve. Only in this way things can be achieved. Then will be formed a bond between you to help each other. If a man loves you, he must make all the other people love you. Now I am not talking to you things theoretical, but practical. I have done a lot of experiments. A poor girl is ugly, she is a servant somewhere, they beat her, they suppress her, and they may amend her situation - if someone loves this girl right a way all the people will start loving her. If you do not love her and wait for the other people to love her, you do not understand the law. So, I say: if you cannot get the ambient to love a man whom you love, your love is weak. One important law: when someone loves unto one, while the others do not counteract him, he will show his love and to them. When in you love is reduced, what is the reason? Brothers and sisters are increasing a little love for you remains. The love of your mother and of our father is given and to the other brothers and sisters. If you have been just one of your father and mother, they would focus their thoughts on you and you would feel that they love you. Now you have five brothers and five sisters, your father and your mother distribute what they have and to the others. What should you do? When you feel that at home they do not love you as much as necessary, you go out into the world to find the lost love of your father and your mother, to find it in someone else's father and mother, or in another brother and a sister. Assume that there is also not real. Until you find a friend, another friend comes and enters among you. To this friend of yours love begins to decline. Comes another, three, four, and it happens the same thing that has happened at home. This law works in the world. Brother might just be the one who you love. This is the Divine law. Love someone - your brother is, love someone - your sister is. Someone you love, you connect to him. The one you do not love, stay away from him - there is no connection between you. The law is that by loving other people they will love you. At first, you will love them and then the others will love you. If you come to love, you should know the following law: man cannot be loved, while he himself has not loved. The child is attached to his mother and loves her because she first has loved him. "I will blot out your sins and will not mention it." Actually Love deletes the sins of the people, it does not see them. Therefore, you cannot love a man until you stop seeing his sins. "Can we love everyone equally?" You can. To love all the people equally, it means to give to every man that which he needs. Whether he will understand you or not, it is another matter, whether he will respond with the same feeling, it is another matter. However, there is a law, which states: love bears. And if you love rock, it will understand you. There is no creature in the world, that when you love it, it cannot understand love. The difference will be only in the fact that every being manifests the love to the level of its development. According to the laws of being, if you are loved less than necessary, you would freeze. If they love you more than you need, you will evaporate, you will turn to air. So, everyone should be loved as much as he needs. To live, you have to have the kind of love that brings real life, without the qualities of death. Once you come to love, take the last place and wait for it to give you, never put your hand to take it. It is already the law. If you want to take, create a law. Wait for it to give you. When it gives you her fruit, take it. It is love. Once you rapture, you are creating the law. You seek at first you to be loved. You should wait; there may be thousands of people before you. Wait, when love finishes the job, it will look at you; it will give you. Take it, it is God's blessing. We want to take, we are very insolent children. Ask with love, look with love; forgive with love. This is a very difficult job, but a job without law. Giving without taking, such a law does not exist on the Earth. To want to love only without love, and such a law does not exist on the Earth. However, in the Divine world such law exists. There they give you bread without asking for money, there they love and do not expect to be loved. Life is based on love. On the Earth, everyone wants to be loved. The master wants his servant to love him, the teacher wants to be loved by his students; the mother wants to be loved by her child. When the child is healthy, she plays with him, throwing him in the air, kisses him, but also wants the child to respond to her necking and caresses. If he does not answer, she is unhappy. There is no selfless love in the world. The son loves his mother so as far she gives him something. The daughter or the brother you love so r as have left something in you. If nothing is left to you, you can not love him. You think that as you have been created by God you must be loved. By God, who is created, he must give something. The law is such. You can not be loved, if you do not bring of the abundance you have. All people in whom God dwells and manifests, I love them. All people in whom God lives and does not occur, I cannot love them. You cannot love a cold object, because it will take the heat from you. It will take something from you. You cannot love a very hot subject, because it will take something from you. And you will love someone who has life in himself. When you love someone and in you and in the other person, there are benefits. In liking, in love there are benefits. And when you love, and you are loved, you always gain something. In the Divine Love and when you love and when you are loved you ever acquire. There is a small gain. There, where there is a microscopic appendage, however small it is, there you can love. The law is. If no appendage, then hatred is born. Hatred occurs when no appendage. And if you can accord anyone anything, no matter how microscopic it is, he will love you. Between you a contradiction is born because you are not given it. Love comes as a law. It has two sides: either to give or to take. It has two options: what you give, you have to know when to give and what you take you have to know when to take it. And if you give not on time and if you take not on time, you are not of the smart people. And if you give on time and if you take on time, you are from the smart. And in love you should love on time. Sometimes in love you can love someone not on time. And sometimes you can be loved not on time. In the Scriptures it is said: "The whole world lies in the hands of the wicked." This means: the whole world lies in delusions, into temptation. Due to the delusions people have no clear idea about life. Why? It is because they do not have love. Without love man cannot have a clear idea of life, without love life is misunderstood, unknown to man; without love life is a torture. Love is necessary for man to know life. That man has suffered; that has struggled, that he has had trouble, these are illusions. Illusions are on the second place. On the first place is the love that gives birth to life. "My head has become white of pain!" You are lying. These are not any sufferings. Your sufferings and difficulties are made of paper. The only thing man knows is what he thinks. To know a man if anyone likes him or not, he himself must have love. If love is in his heart, he will enlighten the hearts of the others and will realize whether they like him or not. Besides love there is no other way. It reveals all the secrets. How will you know other people's lives, if you do not love them? The only measure in life is love. Without love, as the Divine measure, life will always remain misunderstood. Who has love in him, he already has that measure, with which he can measure all things. Who has acquired love he has already aspired to happiness in life. Where there is love, there is happiness. There is no exception! Some say that love is nonsense. No, unloving is void, and in love - the fullness of life. While you have in yourself love as a measure of life, you will always have peace, serenity, joy, cheer. If you lose one of these qualities, you have lost your measure. "What to do then?" Find the measure and placed it on its place. I ask: what causes disharmony in the relationship of modern humans? It is due to the fact that they put their love on the grounds of knowledge, wealth, etc. One you should keep in mind: love is a strictly defined law that does not depend on any social relations. Love is a law that is independent of all social relations. All you can try. Nor learning can keep it, neither the strength nor money. And if it is not so, show me a man who has knowledge, wealth and power, and to be happy. You think you are the exception; that you enter into life, for you will be the exception. No! And you, as you enter, you will be such a stupid comma, and put out of place. Because the comma is necessary to make a small break, but you might lay this comma there, where there is no break. Love I call on the physical plane the possibly for the smallest vacation: about panting and taking a breath, accept an impression - it is the smallest love. When my pockets are full of money, they love me more; when I am more beautiful, they like me more; when I am wearing nice clothes, when I am more perfumed or when I have more power, they love me more. It seems so. Love is a law that draws attention to the insignificant works in the world. Nothing more! Love does not care about the Sun, the stars; it is not interested in kings but it does care of the small things, which no one pays attention to. And if you want to find it, you should be looking for it there. If you want to look for love, you will find it in one clean spring, where the stones are knocking; in a spring that flows - there it is. Where there is murky water, marshes, it is not there; at least in one small spring pure love is, with the small works. You all are so educated that you are looking for love as the young woman who wants to marry a prince's son. She is looking for love there. Everything can be found, but not love. If you want the love of the people, you have to have the backbone to handle their spit. The law is such. You are looking for someone to love you. He himself does not love, you will love! Then you are looking for someone to make you happy. He himself has not made happy that you will make you happy! How can you believe it? I wonder at the gullibility of people today. Could the unfortunate man make someone happy? People believe that they can become like Dragan, like Stoyan, like Petko and do not believe they can become like God, who has all the possibilities to make them blessed, happy; loving. Sometimes you want things that are big things. Do not ask for big things. Why does this girl want to marry a prince? At first, her motives are not pure. She thinks that there will be facilities that she will be well-dressed, they will respect her; they will honor her. Marriage is just another law. In marrying men and women are sent by God so that advanced souls come in a set time. If two can not get wires to come down a soul, why should they get married? Marriage is opening the door of heaven, there to welcome those, who will come to the Earth. Two people love each other so that God comes between them. If God does not come, the marriage is not legal. If God comes, it is legal. If you want a conceptual marriage, third has to come. Then between those who so love, love is constant. When God does not come, it is a mistake. He says: "I thought you were beautiful." As God comes, everything is fine. And he is beautiful and she is beautiful. In what does misunderstood love sit? In misunderstood love you do not want to give the right to the others to live, you want to obey everything to yourself - you to live, but the other people to serve you. The understood love is when all people want to live as you live and the others to be as happy as you are. The good that you have and you want it for all, as you feel it, so they to feel it. It is a method of nature. All the suffering we experience since thousands of years, they are one. I say: to understand the ways of living nature in which God manifests Himself, to understand how we should live. The father does not act in accordance with the laws of love and bears the bad consequences – his sons in his old age do not love him. The teacher teaches his students, but does not teach them properly - they are ungrateful afterward. We all bear the bad consequences. Not that we want that. We think so it will pass. In the life of service the following law is important: one thing that you have enjoyed for some time, you will step aside for others to enjoy, and you go forward. A mother has wanted to be happy. To be happy, she has to give birth to a child, a boy. This boy she wants him to be very smart, to be beautiful; to be shapely. I say: an excellent desire, a Divine desire; the best desire. She gives birth to him, all enjoy this child that is very intelligent, understands everything. He has grown up, the child has become 21 years old now, look - about 10 girls are running after him, after that child. I tell his mother: "disaster is coming. All these girls want to take your son." They say:" Enough for you, you have born him, as a small child you have been kissing him as much as you want, now he is grown up, leave him to us and we to enjoy him a little." The mother holds him, wants him to be clean. Now they will hate her, a desire will arise in them, they say: "Let her die, to be removed so that her son to stay free." What should the mother do? She has to give up and say: "Son, behold, I leave you with these your sisters, do what you want, whichever you want to choose." Everyone will love the mother then. Either comes home, she will love her. And now, when a son is born to you, for some time he will be with you, then you have to leave him. You do not understand the internal law: you will give up the one you love. You will give up and you will give the others the right to love him. You have a book; someone else comes, give it to him to use it. What is it, if you give this book? This man will read it, he will learn something. We now think that a man can spoil everything. A man is not spoilt. Then I do not know what your faith is. If you think that man can be spoilt, that someone can spoil him; then you have no faith, you have no knowledge. Man no one can spoil him, but he himself alone. Everyone is inspired according to the level of his development. For instance, if a cultural man sees a beautiful girl like an angel, he will be inspired by her. If he is a poet, he would write a nice poem for the girl, if he were a writer he would describe her story, if he were an ordinary man, he would want to conquer her, to marry her. Imagine that the fate of this girl is destined not to marry. The moment she gets married, she will die. And many who are married, it is said that they should not get married because they will die. What should they do then? On the others it is written differently: if they do not marry, they will die. In the latter you believe more than in the first. Now the law is such that when people get married, their life continues. I touch on an issue that is interpreted a little crooked. I consider marriage in an entirely different opinion. By "marriage" I do not understand that ordinary association, but the association of rational beings who for centuries still know love and are willing to sacrifice for each other. So far, the statistics show that such pairs occur very rarely on the Earth. Once a man loves, he is already married. Karmically associated person must be married to breed. Celibacy is the black box: to eat and to drink without bearing fruit. The Divine law is to give good fruit. It is not allow marriage between patients imbecilic, depraved. You should marry healthy to give good fruit. A young man can help, can support a maid, a spiritual sister; can take care of her education, training and behold, he has connected his heart with this sister. Marriage, baptism is done by the priest, and the life is ours. Man must be free from the law, from dogma. Man should only once get married. Once he has come to the body, he has married to the flesh. The second time, it is a second marriage. In the flesh you have already married, what are you looing for another marriage? You do not understand the law. The meaning is not in the marriage. The point is the good life to be lived. Marriage is on the second place in the world. Understand now. If you are not faithful to that great law that has put everything in you, how can you be happy? This man, whom you have married, he himself is unhappy. What will you give him? We have replaced God's laws with human laws. At first, a man gets married to educate his wife. It is absolutely impossible for a man to educate a woman! It is absolutely impossible for a woman to educate a man! To take care, to show the way - yes, but to educate it is impossible. She gives her a task that is beyond her abilities. The very first one, she has not born this man. Another mother has given birth to him, she has taken him away of his mother and she has not even asked for. She tells her husband: "If you love your mother, with me you can not live." You may quote the Gospel, where it is said: "Whoever loves his father or mother more than me is not for me." "Man will leave his father and his mother, he will go to his wife and they shall become one flesh.” If he marries a woman who has come from God, he will leave his father and mother, but a woman who has come out of modern women, who say: "To marry a man with a little mind and a lot of money"... Always in human love man suffers. These things will come upon him whether at the beginning of love, or at the end of love, but. He will drink the bitter cup. In the spiritual world, love is not yet perfect; there will become the division. The rhythm of love separates people. Who love each other they cannot live together. They cannot live close. In the Divine Love the law is amended. In the Divine Love man gets alive, he becomes immortal, with everything reconciles. We are talking about the law of love as a link between souls. When this connection is made, people's lives will flow naturally. Then no one will be oppressed or tortured; all the people will help each other. The law of love requires mutual assistance between people. Love is a great science that should be taught. You say: "To love each other" What do you mean by these words? To love means to be studying. If you cannot enter into the situation of man, if you cannot learn and understand his life, you do not understand love and you cannot love. To love, to love man, it means to read the book of his life, every day to browse it. If you cannot read the book of his life, you do not understand the language of love. If someone cannot browse the book of your life and study it, among you cannot exist any relationship. Where there is no love, life is misunderstood. And if man himself can read from the book of his life, he will have the right relationship to God, to himself and to his neighbor. You will open this book, you will read it, you will learn, you will reflect on its content and you will look at it as a holy book. The more you read this book, the more you will understand it. Every day you will find in it something new, something sacred. If you cannot read this book, it shows that you do not know its alphabet. All the people are books, written in different languages that have to be studied. This should not bother you, but you have to get to work, to learn. I say: the price of love should be increased. If in the man you love, you can not every day find one good feature your friendship will soon be over. So it has been thousands of years ago, so it is now. To be the friendship uninterruptible, friends need every day to find one good feature. If this does not happen, I can determine after how many years your friendship will be over. In life is the opposite: all religious and secular people are constantly looking for the mistakes and the shortcomings. Being acquainted with someone the first day they admire him and say: 'He is a saint! "On the second day they say that he is talented. It does not pass much time, they say: "This man is neither a saint nor a genius, or talent, but an ordinary man." Some even consider him a big oaf and say: "We have been deceived in this man." They say that the fire of love can do whatever man wants. In it bodies melt, purify, bright but do not burn. While the warmth of love is spiritual, it raises the dead, heals the sick; rises the fallen, comforts the suffering. If it transforms into physical, it everything burns and destroys everything. You often say: "There is no love between us." What should love be? There is no right thought. What should the right thought? The right thought is: if someone bothers us, he must be at 10, 20; 100 kilometers. The law is: when I love someone, I am approaching. If I love usually I will be at least 10 km away from him. If I hate him, I will be at 500 kilometers. If I love him much, I will be at one kilometer. If you come any closer than one kilometer, either you will melt or he will melt. The oscillations of the people who love each other, are very strong, when they meet, they interact. Loving people are very demanding. A man who loves you, he is extremely demanding. If you love him, you become extremely demanding. Now you think that love is still water. Love is not still water. It is the most powerful in the world. This law is true: if you reveal what love is, as you now live in the world, all of you will sleep. In the good all will sleep - the body cannot stand because in love there is tension of the nervous system. When someone falls in love, male or female, everywhere goes, cannot stop on anything - everywhere sees her. In the car he has seen her, on a horse he has seen her; he has seen that she has gone abroad. He wherever goes, thinks where she is. This is a misunderstanding. She is walking, and he is groaning. The law is: a person who wants a lot, lives in the human. People want a lot. Take a small child, and he wants a lot, he is not content with less. And the angels ask a lot, but are satisfied with less. God wants the least. You cannot understand love, if you do not want the slightest. Someone talks about human, about angelic and about Divine love. I will present them graphically. In the Divine Love, when you love someone, only to glimpse him from afar, from half a mile to see his back or his head, you are all the day cheerful. He has not talked to you, nor he he has seen you, but you are pleased. In angelic love you are cheerful when he only smiles to you. In human love you will be shaking hands with him, you will touch him. When you catch his hand, you will feel that it is cold. And finally, as he talks to you, you will try that his language is not good. All stumble in human love. In the current situation you are in, you have no right to touch the one you love. It is the law. Indeed, we do not let dust to fall on the one we love. You have nothing to tell of the Divine. In the Divine Love you just give, you take nothing. What crime is this? The offense comes with the law of taking, tin he manifestation of love when you expect to get something. And all the misunderstandings are that you want to grab something. Ideological love is selfless. You can love someone without him knowing it, or otherwise love loses the nature of unselfishness. That is the difference between human and the Divine love. Difficult, hard it is to respect the law of the unknown love. This is only for advanced beings. There are few that can meet this law. When you love someone, you should not say that you love him. This question you will decide between yourself and God, and once God experiences and sees that obey the law, then the man who does not love you will love you. And those who have hated you, the will love you the most and those who have loved you very much and you have not love them, will hate you. This teaching is personal; it has not a public use. The Divine teaching has a personal application. I can apply it to myself. My love, I can apply it to all people. But mechanically, I cannot tell them that they should love. I can love all the people - no one can prevent this. But if I say to tell about my love to the people, there will immediately appear a contradiction. Take now the boy who loves the girl, the boy who runs after the girl and says that without her, he can not live; he is ready to sacrifice for her, etc. And this girl laughs and says: "Look at this how silly he is, going like crazy." He reveals his greatest love, and she has no faith in him. And she is right. Why? In the world, in the law of love there is a big contradiction. There is one example. In ancient times, one of the biggest priestesses has fallen in love with the high priest - a great adept, very advanced. But he has not had any disposal to her. She has done her best to convince him of her love. She has said: "I want you to love me like I love you." He has loved her as she has loved him, but at the moment when he has loved her so, she has hated him. He has cursed her and she has become a serpent. Now I ask: If you love someone, what need do you have he to love? This is a misunderstanding in life. If I have worked out a product and I sell it, I always want to get something in return, which corresponds to the product. Such an exchange exists between people. I will give you another important law: when two people get together in the name of love, their relationship must be daytime light - never at night. They should be in the light, to see their faces. In order to be loved by someone, the law is as follows: You will find a nice quality in this man and you will keep it in your mind. When you love a man or whatever living thing, you place it on the same level with you. This law is the same for humans and animals, and plants. And this law is true: there is no man in the world, who when feels that you love him, is not ready to do everything for you. There is no creature in the world, even the worst - a boa, if you love it, it is attracted to you, it wraps around you. But if you lose your love it can make your bones to pieces. The law of love has no exception. The devil, if you love it, and it can also serve you, you can make it gentle and humble. If you lose your love, it can make you to pieces. The law is when you love someone, you can talk his language, if that man loves you, and he will speak your language. The musical world is a world of mediation. You cannot think properly or feel right, if you do not have a musical form in yourself, if things do not get musically harmonious. All sensible things in the world become according to a musical law, they are measured in their actions. Sometimes they are called cause and consequence, rhythm, right thought, morality. Morality, it is a harmony within the human soul - to have harmony between your thoughts, feelings and will. Love is the greatest harmony. The outside of love, it is the largest harmony that exists. What is for you one thing that you love or it loves you? That being that loves you, it plays on you. You are a piano for it. And he whom you love, he is a piano for you. You love someone because you will sit down and play. It is nice to you. You have a piano. But if you sit at a piano and you do not know how to play, you will ruin the piano. You say: "To love someone!" That to love is not a simple task. As you sit on this tool, you should know how to play; you have to know the keys of it. And you sit talking and saying: "At this piano can not be played well." When someone is playing the piano, we like his playing; someone else is playing - we do not like. Usually, when we love someone, we love everything he does: if he sings, speaks, plays it - we find that everything is good and harmonious. Law is that! Love somebody, and his stupidities we bear, if we do not love him and Divine works to do, we say: "It does not cost anything." Therefore reasonable things in the world are not determined by their external qualities, but by what is within us, how we look at these things. So, what man does, he has to consciously study and observe it. "Loving" implies love, the first principle in God. "To be loved" implies the second principle that works. It is the Divine Wisdom. Once you love a day, two, three, a month or a year, you will accommodate a passive state, you will say: "Now I should be loved." The processes will change. In this changing the wheel of life has already spun. In the human body has become a change. The bodies have changed their role. So you cannot sit at the same point, you cannot permanently love; there shall be at least one indifferent. You cannot constantly think. Then you will read a book, you will wait for some author to submit any idea, you will get the strange thought - and then you will be loved. If you are reading an author, he loves you; when you write a book and another reads it, you love him. The same law operates everywhere. As strongly you love, so strongly they love you, for the soul that supposes to be loved, it creates momentum of the other soul that loves it. These are the two poles of life. Who loves stems from the subjective world of life and the loved creates the objective world of life. That is why who loves he wants to see his image in what he loves. Once you look in the mirror you like each other. The mirror is passive, you love the mirror, because your image is marked, you can wear it and shame if it breaks down. Once you lose the mirror, you cannot have a clear idea what this image is. Think for yourself, but do not get the person; his mirror shows you better, you are beginning to wonder to this mirror. Therefore the one you love ever gives expression to your love. That is why you love him. If this mirror is a little dirty, you say: "It is not worth loving it because it does not give a clear idea." Or at least the one you love should give you an inspiration, an incentive. The one you love, he will give you an inspiration. Two people how should they love each other? They should be free. The one who loves should tell to the other: "All that I have is at your disposal." And the other will say the same thing: "All I have is at your disposal." To love each other, the law is such. What we all have, it should be at our disposal. And God, who loves us all, is giving the same example. God says: "All the nature is at your disposal." But until then when we love him. If we do not love him immediately that door closes. Every day we open and shut the door. Note there is a great law of love: one who loves you and whom you love will enjoy the little things that you give him. The one who loves you, he can give you a little seed and you will enjoy this seed because it will get something great. Only love can of little things do great things. The law of perfection is the law of love. There can be no perfection without love. This you can check it. When we love someone intensely, when this love is conscious, see how careful we are, we foresee everything. The less the love is, the less sensitive our relationships are. That is why love must precede perfection. If we have love, we can be perfect, then and our mind will work, and the heart will feel, and the will act. All of you who have been in love at a young age, say: "What nonsense it has been" An old man of 85 years, while watching that old grandmother, says: "Looking at this old woman, I wonder how I have fallen in love with her!" She has already lost her beauty. What he has loved, it does not get old; it never dies. If it gets old, it is not what you love. What is changed, it is that you love. You cannot love what ages – you cannot love sick man, you cannot love and a poor. You cannot love and the rich. There is a rich man whom you can love. The man who is not a slave of wealth, you can love. That poor man, who is not a slave to poverty, you can love. So I say: unless you become like little children, you cannot enter the kingdom of God. If you cannot enjoy the little virtues, the little love, how will you enjoy the big? You say: "Physical Love". Love with thousands of names to name it, it's love. What's wrong in the physical love? You say that there's a spiritual love. What is the spiritual love? You say: "There is Divine Love." That what is in God's Love? Physical love is all Divine, but you do not see it. In the Divine Love all is natural and you do not see it. Physical love is all spiritual, but you only see the external side of love. When you see only the physical side of love, it is a physical love. So do not think. Love is one, there are three manifestations: the physical world will know love as the physical world requires, in the spiritual world you will know love as the spiritual world requires and in the Divine world you will know love as the Divine world requires. If you do not understand physical love, if you do not understand spiritual love, and the Divine love you can not understand. What people say, it is the misunderstood love in the world. If you love at least one man in the world, then and knowledge, and wisdom, and poetry, and art, and science, and philosophy make sense. Who is this man whom you should love? Is it a man on the Earth? Should you love man? No people on the Earth are only shadows, reflections. You must find the soul of the one you love. Indeed the soul lives in the human body, but because of it you will love and the man. The law is: you cannot to forget the one who loves you. It is impossible to love someone and the loved to forget you. The soul has a Divine origin, God lives in it. If you find the soul of the man, you will be ready for any sacrifice. The Divine law states: that if you love a soul, you will love and the others. But on the Earth this law applies in completely opposite sense: if love a soul, you close in yourself and you cannot love the other souls. As a result of this retention of love in you, a row of controversies and destructions are born. And death is the result of misapplication of love. Who does not love, he will surely die. The one that you love cannot die. When a mother loves her children, they do not die. If children are dying, it shows that the mother does not love them. This law is 100% true; in it there are no exceptions. The outflow of love, when the human consciousness is in the field of love, it is the most beautiful feeling. For all those who have come in contact with it, the whole world opens up. Compared to what I see, you are blind. You say: "What do you see? I do not see evil. I only see the good. Only love I see, only knowledge I see, the truth only I see. This is what I see. The law is such that in the Divine world you cannot see someone unless you love him. This you can see whom you love. Once you have the slightest negative thought, he does not appear. Once you fall in love with him, immediately in love he is revealed. If anyone wants to see you, he must love you. The law is: people can be seen only when they love each other. People can speak to each other, only when they love each other. Now there are some here who have left their families in the other world and they do not see them. Their mother does not see them – there is no love. Once you love, the dead speak. They are alive, they resurrect. Love loves the quiet world, where the vibrations are so sensitive that the leaves all can hardly shake. Very quiet should be. This speech as it is now, it is all a storm. When speaking of love, you say: "I love you" This storm is so strong that it will break all the leaves. Once you get out of this storm, you say: "Enough of love!" This is not love. It is the human language. Love is another world. The laws of love, this is the song of God, His relationships he has with the human souls. This is love: the relation of God to all human souls who have come out of him. It is love. What God submits to the souls, love is. To each soul he gives something. There is no better thing in the world than to accept what God gives. That someone has died, it is not love. The wind is blowing, and it is not love. One love begins with the first ray of immortality. When man becomes immortal, then love has shone on him.

Love for God – God’s Love Each man, each family, each community, each nation that loves, has future. Nature has a special favor to those who live in love. It is the law. Love is the law, sacred and powerful law, which caused all the other laws. And life derives from this law. The law of love is the law of God. This law of love is sitting in the following: to love God as a whole. And when we talk about the love for God, we understand the only law that exists in the world. To love God, it is the greatest law of being! Do not seek to understand what this law is. It will always remain not understood, it cannot be understood, but it may be applied. Why should we love God? If you do not love God, you will disappear, and if you do not love God, you cannot be developed, and if you say otherwise to occur, without God, you will be the most miserable man in the world. Could you ask: "Why should I go, why should I look, why should I breathe?' You say: "Can not man do without going?" He cannot. "Can not man do without breathing?" He cannot. "Can not man do without food?" He cannot. Talk about justice. What is justice? Intuitively is understood that justice should not be taught; it is born. Righteousness is what you internally understand yourself. Nobody can teach you to understand the justice. What you learn is not justice. You can study honesty, but righteousness is understood itself. Man bears it in himself as a quality. This is a law to which refers and love - and it is not learned. You will study the manifestations of love, but love as an essence you will not learn. It manifests itself. If you explain love scientifically, your mind is darkened. By studying unreal things, the mind and the consciousness become cloudy. You ask: "What is love?" About love it is not talked. Nobody knows what love is as a whole. As a manifestation of the whole all know what love is, but not as a whole. What causes the bird to feed its young, without expecting something is a manifestation of love, what causes the woman mother to raise her children and work for them for free, is a manifestation of love. What makes all the people do something without expecting a reward, this is a manifestation of love. Someone says: "I do not want to be religious." Then your head will be flattened on top. What would you look like then? In some animals the head is flattened. Years ago, someone said: "blatant job is man to be a religious. This is savagery, the rudest thing." I have not objected, but I have said to him: “Blessed are the animals that lack this sense." The animals have no religion. Then they sit on a higher place, but what have they done? We do not understand the construction of the world. We look on things very superficially. You ever want you to be explained to, to understand. It is for the ordinary people, it is very simple situation. Those who are talented and ingenious, a formula they will understand it, they will develop it, they will reveal it according to the laws as formulas are revealed. What is real? You say: "Man has to be religious, pious." But what is piety? Piety, this is the law of love. To love someone, that is devotion. Man who does not love cannot be pious. The law of higher is: always gratitude and love for God to gush. You will say: "How does this work?" If you do not know, look how the young men and the young women love. They fall in love with God. "I do not know where to find him." How the young man falls in love? He is looking for the girl. He looks here, he looks there, he does not like this one, he does not like the other, until one day he sees her somewhere, and his heart is lighted. And you go and criticize the young. They show you the way how you can handle. The greatest preachers are the young girls and the young men. They are the written law of God: you will love God, as the young man loves the young woman. Or vice versa - as the young lady loves the young man. "You have to love God." Have you studied the law, how to love God? Tell me now, how should you love God? How will you love? You meet on the way a cat whose leg is broken. If you take and fix the leg, it is already love to God. Where will you show your love to God? You see a plant dug somewhere, if left, it will dry out; it will die. You, because you love God, you get it, you plant it. Then you come to the people. Poor people there are everywhere, you will help and nobody knows you, it is love. You will start trying to love. Make such attempts and see what impact they have. You are involved in high positions of love. There are high chances, but now you do not realize them. You sit and say: "nobody loves me." You have not come into the world you to be loved. People will love you only when you know how to sing well. For love can live only healthy people. Love is not for the sick people. It can make a service to the sick, but it is for the healthy. Some old believers with their old traditions will cite that God no one has ever seen. They are strange! Indeed, the sinner, can he see God? In the current understanding of the people there is a contradiction in the scriptures. Surely it is said that no one has ever seen God, but his name is still in Scripture that man is made in the image and likeness of God. What is meant by saying that no one has ever seen God? The law sits in the following: without love, no one can know God, but when your soul is filled with love, you will see God and know Him. This is the most important thought. No matter how much and what you are spoken to, you will never understand the Word of God until you fall in love with God. If I do not love God, I could never give His Word. The law is the same for me and for you. If you love God, you will find out if what I am saying is true. And if I love God, I speak the truth. When you do not understand the Word, it does not mean that you do not listen or do not hear, it shows that you do not love God. If you do not love God, your love for your desires is stronger. Then whatever you are spoken to, it is useless. Negative things are not typical to rational men. These are supplements that have come after. Therefore everything negative in the world you will return it back to its place. Man is not born for evil, for good is born, man is not born for hatred, he is born for love. Hatred is a consequence, evil is a consequence; intelligent life is a consequence. So you should meditate on - not from your own point of view. It is because as a man you are so important only as far you abide by whom? By that, the First in the world, who has created the human thought, who has first manifested the love in the world, because and good and bad people aspire to the law of love. Take those poor people: thieves gather the whole gang and one another defend themselves, they love each other. A robber will not abandon his comrade, he may be bad, but there works a unifying force. If they lose their love, their work is done. Bad people know that love is an inner force, an inner necessity. In human love a lie is presumed, all these relations are afflicted, but in the Divine Love lie is absolutely not presumed. There is a law on that! If you suspect God in His actions, great misfortune expects you. That is the law. If you suspect the One who has given you life, who has given you all the blessings in the slightest bad thought, you will be on the wrong path and you will suffer. The One who has given you life, goodness, who has created all things, has the best wishes to you. This holy thought you should keep in mind, in your heart. Moses, a great dedicated, has said: "Do not mention the name of God in vain." This is one of the great laws for those who want to study the great Divine teachings. So he will sanctify the name of God. Until you do not start sanctifying the name of God in that great sense, transmitted by pristine Divine spirits, no one can be raised higher than the foot on which het is located. If your relations with God are correct, then all your other relations will be correct. If you do not love God, you cannot love properly anyone else. Love to God is an inner necessity - all your capital. It is the law. The happiness of man is his love for God. Ever, when man calls God with all his heart, He helps him everywhere. Misery of the people comes from the fact that we believe in what it is not. And faith you should know that it is not something very significant. You, as you believe, you are not in truth. When you have faith, do not think you are in love, you are in wisdom. No, no, far away you are from love, wisdom and truth. If you examine the hope these are already the laws in the physical world - how your body is organized. You say that you have the laws of faith. To believe, it means to study the laws of the human thought. It is not yet real. Do not think that when you have a thought, it is real. Just entering the law of love, the real works begin. Only in love things get real. In faith things are not real. You believe that you will be in a year saved, but salvation has not come. You are poor; you believe that after one year your poverty will go away. So in this case you believe in things that are not here yet. When love comes, you try reality. This is life that does not change. Now you walk around the outside of the law. One day you walk in the light law, the second day in the dark, etc. It is day and night. Your state is changing permanently. You decide something, a good desire comes to you and on the next day you say: "I will delay a little." And every day - delay, delay. Do not delay things! It is because with delays nothing can be achieved in the world. Second, third, fourth, thousands of issues remain unresolved. And we finally say: "we could not achieve anything." In this external way no achievements can there be. These are limitations, slavery, sufferings; death. Moses says: "The first law is to love God and to love your neighbor." On these two laws sits the whole human life. So now you do not expect the world to improve, do not expect the people to enhance. This is secondary. You leave this issue behind. But you can make an attempt to know and to feel the coming of the Divine forces or to find out how love acts. No one can tell what love is. Temporarily man can show you a love deed, but then you can doubt. As you come to true love, there is no longer any doubt, there cease all faithless, there ceases all evil. Everything stops there. And life of eternal joy begins. The world already has another view, man becomes powerful. Manifestation of love depends on awakening of the consciousness. The law is such: you have to love someone in the world. If man can not love that first ray, which has come into his eye, he is not a man. When we believe in God, what do we gain? We will get an impulse. Without impulse life cannot occur. Life begins with an impulse. The first impulse, it is the Divine inside man. To live, to move, these are Divine impulses. A law of love says: when you love, this love is distributed to all people. The wave of love that comes from above through you and manifests, is distributed everywhere, overflows the entire planet, all over the world. When you love, many begin to love. With your love you are awaking their souls. Thus you help the entire humanity. When I love the wave of love runs through me and is transmitted around the world and millions of people start to love. When we love God, remember that it is the love of all beings. One law states: that man who does not love the Divine currents can not pass through him and he dries up, he loses his life. A people who has love, it will be able to develop properly, it will grow, and a people who has no love, it will shrink. That is the law. You do not make a distinction between like and love. You have the same concept for them. Love flows from the center to the periphery - from God to the periphery, and like - from the periphery to the center. Like is venous blood that returns to purify, while love is the arterial blood. Therefore love we can liken the blood that comes from God. Why should we love? The blood must come from God and must end in us. And without love man cannot be happy. And as far as you allow this love to circulate in you, so you will have a happy life. And if you are unhappy, so the circulation is not correct. But this circulation depends on us, on our perception and understanding. You say: "When we go to the other world things will become clear." Those who do not understand the law, they expect to go to the other world, to understand it. And these who can understand the law, they can learn it in this world. If you gather the love of all humanity, of all the saints, good and righteous people, of all angels and the gods of heaven, hardly their love will produce a microscopic part of the love of God. God is Love, in which there is absolutely no malice. God is love, where there is no vice. God is love in which reigns absolute purity, absolute light, and gladness, and joy, and all the wealth in the world. This is called the law of that inner bliss. You must have a concept of God. God in his manifestations as he has been yesterday, but today there is already another respect in my consciousness. Actually, God has not changed, but everything has changed, conditions have changed and I can think that God has changed. Even in the bad conditions God's Love does not change. If I do not understand the law, I will say this: "God has forgotten me." Only in the bad conditions we cannot perceive God's Love. And the good conditions depend on us. In the Scripture it is said: "For I God, love judgment, I hate robbery and iniquity." This is why every man who wants to be loved by God, to love justice and reject oppression of soul and injustice. God loves only those who follow in his footsteps. The law is. One-law states: that when you are connected with God you will receive his thoughts. While in touch with the wise center of being, people can be carriers of God's thoughts. When you think of God in you is coming a flow of forces, you will receive the Divine energy and all your gifts and abilities will develop properly. One law states: that when you love God with all your mind, heart, soul, and strength, you are in harmony with the whole universe and therefore you attract the energies of the entire cosmos, they will renovate you and raise you. The Basic Law reads like this: if you do not love Him, Who loves you, there is nothing you can achieve in the world, nothing you will know. If you can not love the One Who has worked on you and permanently keeps thinking good thoughts for you and is permanently as a servant to you, there is nothing you can achieve in your life. These are two important things. Then someone will say: "No one loves me." This is not true. It is because if no one loves him, he will not appear on the Earth to live. Without love, he cannot be revealed. Once he lives on the Earth there is someone to love him. And finally, he should find the One, Who has caused him to come to the Earth. We must respect the God's law; the law of love has to be respected because on this law human happiness depends. You, if you love someone, you will create a royal road for your soul. The one you love does not think that 10-20 people could love him. The man, who you love, will create possibility for your future – you lift yourself up. If we love God, we will raise God, but as we love Him with that love we love and ourselves. You say: "What need is there to love God?" You need. If you love God, in every way you can succeed. If you do not love Him, if your love is shaky, you cannot expect any achievement in the world. It is because the connection between all things is God, who is hidden in all aspects of life. The only one who can guide you, who can give you light, the only One who can give you heat, who can help you in the most difficult times of life, it is He who sacrifices. Even if you are in Hell, he can get you out of there. We live thanks to the fact that God loves us. If He has not loved us, we would have died. Without God's love there are no conditions for life. Because we live in, we see the great love of God, which is poured upon us. Many people buy lottery tickets to win millions, but often they do not get anything. There is one company of Divine Love, from which anyone can buy a ticket. There all the tickets win. In the human lottery the tickets earn less, and the Divine – all win. However, few are buying tickets from this lottery. When I take the word "love", I understand that space power in the world that can energizes the human body. Love, even in its low expression is the force that harmonizes all organs and gives impetus to human life. Love is the reason for the coming of the light, the heat of science for the good relationship, for everything in the world. It is not just a feeling that cheers man, but it is that great Divine impulse that gives impetus to the whole nature, to the whole mankind and that urge after all with its mighty power will improve the world. It can take thousands of years, but this incentive will cause all the people to accept this law of love. For now, those of you who have entered into this situation, you are talking about love, but that love must be understood in a very broad sense. This is not only for those who share your views, but also to all people who have that love in themselves - as you meet them, you will feel as if they live in you. And if you see that in someone is born a good idea, you will enjoy it as yours and you will wish him success, you will encourage him. If you are a musician and you listen to someone else who plays better than you, you are the least to envy him, but you will be happy that he plays so good. This means man to live in Divine Love. There is the great, absolute law that confronts things instantly. This law states: that any disability can be faced when is restored the link between the human soul and God. This law is of the Universal White Brotherhood. You cannot have a proper relationship with anyone until you do not have a relationship with God. The first thing that is required to establish this connection, it is humility. This is one of the laws of the Universal White Brotherhood. Humility is the first quality that is required of the student. To God you will go not just, not a scientist, but humble. If you have humility, God's love can come to you. In the spiritual world, humility gives plasticity to the human soul to perceive the benefits that the Divine Spirit brings. To this aims the human soul. Only under this condition we can perceive. The law is such: If you think, you are connected to that who thinks of you. If you feel you are in relation with those who have good feelings for you. It is the original it is the Divine Love on which man grows. You may know and you may not know who he is and what the name is, you know a man, then freedom is sitting in this - the Sun says to all the people: "I have a rule in the world. You go out and set to where you want and select which location you want - a peak or a valley." But come in where the Sun can shine on you and then you will perceive from its good. But if you do not get out of the Sun, this light no one can bring it to you, no one can give you that light which you alone can perceive. Nobody can give you Divine love as you can perceive it. Can you give love a being, but no one can give you love so, as you yourself can perceive it. This is the first state. If God finds you awake when he comes to you, you will grow as the seed; you will develop and bear fruit. But if he cannot find you on the field and awake, you will rot and you will not bear fruit. This is the Divine law. Everyone, be he secular or spiritual, can receive love. However, there is the following law: anyone, who wants to gain the love, he has to be in contact with the Divine consciousness, because it penetrates the human body: the cells of his brain, the lungs, the stomach, and etc. Anyone who knows this by studying the internal causes of life is able to make the slightest contact with God. From that moment he is a happy man because a twist comes in his fate. If you make the slightest contact with God, you will suddenly turn over a sheet of your life. It is enough to have the least contact with God and your karma will be softened. Love removes all weaknesses and infirmities; it is an especially cosmic stream that runs through all living beings. The more properly is received and transmitted this energy, the healthier man is. Good conditions, new conditions, it is heaven in which love can manifest. At the singer, when he comes to those who love him, a desire to sing will be born. Once I can sing anywhere, you love me; if I cannot sing, you do not love me. If I am in some people and I can do good, people like me, and if I am in some people and can not do good, they do not love me. Anywhere where you can do something you are loved. If you cannot do you are not loved. Then, if in you the Spirit does not work, you do not love it and it cannot be proved. The same law is: if you love God, God in you could do everything. You have to love Him. You say: "Why should we love God?" It is because the unattainable things in life God must make them within us. If we do not love Him, He cannot work in us. If we love Him, He will do these things and we will see them becoming instantly. Someone is ill, let him make an attempt. His leg hurts. If he loves God, the pain will immediately cease. Even on his deathbed to be if he applies love, the situation will improve and he will be healed. This is the Divine law. In the new teaching the good, the Divine good has to come from God. But the law is the following: that good sometimes right next to you can not come, you need to go through any medium. For example, the light passes through the air. And you should thank for its going through the air. There is a dangerous country, which brings with it the light that comes from space. And the air must retain something of that light, to adjust it to you. Divine Love will pass through that man who loves you to adjust to you. Everyone who loves you is an environment for you, through which will pass the Divine Love. Everyone can be helpful for you and you can be useful to every man as an environment. The Divine love sometimes has to go through several people, to adjust and to come to you. Everyone who loves you, he gives you that Divine Love without any impurities, while the one who does not love you, he gives love with impurities. A love without any impurities brings joy. And every impure love brings suffering. There are these two laws - the first: when people love you, it shows that you love God; the second law states: that when you love the people, it shows that God loves you. You need a little clarification: when I say that God loves you, it is understood in a different sense. God's Love for you is always invariable, but the phrase "God loves you" means that you are receptive to His Love. Love does not deal with the negative aspects. It is the law. As long as we talk about the ills of the people, how people will be repaired, we are far from love. Impairments that exist in the world are shadows that the artist puts to stand out the colors, to be able to express man. Nobody can deploy the hearts of people to love you, but God. Only He can have the hearts of the people. The spirits have tried this, it is the law. For us, people are just conductors, condition. For us the people are as important as they may become conductors, conditions to gain God's Love. It is because people are needed. We have not yet direct relationship with God. And for the sole reason that God is a pure being, and our thoughts and feelings are not so pure. Consequently, between God and us there must be an order of consciousnesses, of beings. These creatures represent layers and our thoughts and feelings, as passing through are filtered out, so that when they go to God to be pure. A man can be a filter for you and you may be a filter to him in respect of God. This is the law. The Scripture says: "In the beginning has been the Word, and the Word has been with God." At first all modern people, all spiritual people, should explore light in its internal manifestations. Sometimes you are happy, sometimes you are joyful; you are well disposed. This disposal depends on the light that has come into you. Man cannot always be happy and cheerful. Joy in the current conditions comes from light. That reasonable light periodically comes to the Earth. Periodicity, it is a law of love. Under current conditions, because our nervous system is not strong enough, love is coming regularly. Because it is exceedingly active, it is approaching and moving away from the man to allow him to grow stronger. Love is approaching and is receding to strengthen his nervous system to be able to perceive the benefits that it brings. If you can not accept the benefits of love, happiness can not come. You have come to a place where you need one thing: to understand the great law of love. At first, to determine in what direction manifests love, where from comes love. If your love does not come perpendicularly to you and if it does not make any impact on you, you are in the shadows. Love must come down exactly perpendicularly to you and then it should have an impact on you. And if this love can not give you an extension, if it can not bring down all your sorrows and sufferings, if it can shed light into your mind, if it can not get you out of the arms of death, and if it can not to loose the chains of your feet and bring them down, it is not God's Love. Love of God removes all chains. And if this love comes to you and does not bring down all the old clothes and leave you naked, it is not God's Love. God's law states: that while contrary to God's will until you do not receive the love in yourself, you will suffer. The moment you receive love in yourself, God will forgive you and your suffering will leave you. Try this law. Admit to yourself that God is Love and you will go out of the place of torment, you will feel that all men are your brothers. Therefore, if you want to grow, receive God in yourself as Love. In love we do not suffer from abundance but from a demure love. All diseases arise from non-love. Ever, when you need to love and you do not love, a painful condition will be born in. Ever, when you need to love and you do not perceive the love, a painful condition will come. It is inevitable. It is inevitable not only for the people, but also for the angels it has been inevitable, and for large princes and for advanced beings. Due to the non-understanding of this law they have gone away. The law will fix the work. It is God's law. People are not to blame, but their understandings. There is a law in the world: man who is not willing to voluntarily implement an impulse of love creates his greatest disaster. If your love induces you to a deed, no matter how small it is, however small, if you do not make it, you are creating misery for yourself. Love does not like countermeasures. When you come to love, do no counteract! It brings to you in all its manifestations the greatest good that you are thinking. That to which it incites you, do it without any counteraction! In other works you can counteract as much as you want. If it makes you do mud, make mud; if it makes you to plant a tree, plant it; if it makes you to build something, build it. Whatever it makes you do, just do it. Anything that love makes it remains in perpetuity. What love creates, it always remains. All things that we make with love will come with us. Those, made without love, they will remain on the Earth. What is lost is real. If once you have only touched love, you can not lose it. It is reality, and reality is not lost. Law is that! Finger that is connected with my hand, it can not be separated at its will. For this finger the point is just the hand. If it separates from the hand, it is sentenced to death. Therefore, when man gets to know God, he becomes already a part of the Divine body. Only then he has weight and security in life. He has already scruff behind. Great, love is a powerful force, but when considering the implementation of God's Will. This love lifts all living beings. If it does not have in mind the will of God, it brings disharmony in the world. There has come someone asking me what I think about love and in what love I believe! I believe only in that love, whose light never turns off. In the light of the candle I do not believe. This light lasts only a few hours. Moreover, to light a candle, matches are needed. I do not believe in the light, for which matches are necessary. Somewhat I believe only in the light of the Sun. The day will come when the Sun will be dimmed. Therefore I can not put all my faith in bodies the light of which is not eternal. However, there is a sun that never turns off. It illuminates the smaller suns. This law applies to souls. There are small, young souls that are illuminated by the larger ones. The latter are illuminated by larger, etc. God does illuminate all the souls. The law is: the love of God is the same for all beings, perfect or imperfect. God's love is eternal and unchanging. One is more loved because he is more opened to the light and to love and accepts more. Another has closed, so gets less - on him depends to get more. When he opens, he will accept more light and heat. In fact God loves both equally. If they open the same they will get the same. Get rid of delusion to think that God loves all creatures as reduces his love for you. Love of God or of whatever being to you is specific. Anyone except you to love, no matter how much loves him, no one can take his love to you - it is yours and specific. It is correct when you love and you are loved to enjoy. Enjoy the manifestations of love unto one or all. Love is one and indivisible. The only thing that is not divisible is love. Love to every man, to every living being is your love. Love has the same attitude toward one and all. Who likes an ox, he loves and man. I define the great law so: love includes the benefit of all beings. When Christ has said, "Love your God with all your heart, mind and strength" He has implied exactly this great law - to love everything. If you love the smallest insects and trees, you can love and God, if you can not love them, you can not love and God, because if you do not love the small things that you see, how will you love God whom you do not see? If you do not love what surrounds you, how will you love what is far? Therefore the implementation of the Gospel teaching should start with the small rules and to go to the big. The big rule is: to have love for all that God has created. I am not talking about the shadows of things, but the realities. There is a cosmic law that makes all hearts beat the same. Once you walk in love, your heart shall enter into the flow of this law and the heart begins to sing. There is no better song than that of the heart. The first thing that we need to start with is the heart of man. The Scripture says: "My son, give me your heart!" You will ask yourself to whom you have given your heart? Is it to God? The first bet that man must give to God is the heart. God does not want your mind but he wants your heart. If you give your heart to God, you will have the greatest good - He will give you life. There is one law: you give - the cup, God gives - the water. To this you should aim now! It is the best, the most beautiful state. To give man his heart to God, this is the greatest privilege for him. There is no better, more beautiful state than that! It will bring such joy, such peace and such an extension in your soul, as you have never felt. It is the best condition that a person can have. Christ has shown to the mankind what real food is: one day the soul will feed only with the Word. The one that feeds with the Word of God he will always be healthy. If he does not feed with the Word, he will sick. Therefore, if you are sick, you will know that you are not feeding with the Word of God. If you are given an insufficient amount, increase it. If you feed with the Word, you will gain love. And then, when a great misfortune or hardship happens to you, do not hesitate, but say to yourself: "I do not know why God is testing me, but I know that it is for good." Even Christ has come to the Earth to resolve an important issue. Why should he be crucified? For everything he has been crucified. He has said: "It should be!" Later Christ has found out why he has had to go through these trials. Passing through trials and suffering, Christ has learned many things. At first they have been unclear. Do not think with your mind, you can resolve everything. Love is known by that in all conflicts and misunderstandings between people, it does not judge anyone. It does not say that this or that is not right. It sees all people as part of an overall body. Those who have a better understanding are less wrong. Those who have less love are more wrong. Who has more love is less wrong. The same applies to the wisdom and the truth. It is the law. If love is reduced and life is reduced; if love increases and life increases. Love excludes all contradictions. It is a great force that handles everything. The law is: when love comes and fight comes. Thank for the fight that comes from God, not from the people. When God tests man, he sends love. When testing the human mind, God sends the faith. They say that God punishes everyone he loves. So love punishes. For the one who does not understand the laws, love is a punishment, but for one who understands them, love is a blessing. The day will come, whenever it is, when on one of your tests, you will need to put all your soul, to heal the king's daughter. That test will come and may be it is even now. You now have tests, but these tests cannot be compared with the one that awaits you in the future. When you put all your soul, and only then will you understand what love is. Christ says: "I have authority to lay my soul, to give it, but I have the power to take it." I told you the other day in the conversation that the human soul no one can enslave. If I put somewhere my soul, for it to be a conductor of the Divine Love, this is precisely what it requires. The soul ever wants to be a conductor of the Divine Love. In love - and life and death have meaning. In unloving - and life and death are meaningless. To rationalize things love must come - the mother of life. It means to actually feel the presence of her mother everywhere. If you live in love, no matter what happens around you, your eyes not to blink. You will know that in the greatest dangers, nothing will touch you. Man who dies, he is a being in which there is no love. It means eternal life - to know you, the Only One, the true God. If you live in God, death is excluded for you. And the scripture says: "If you fulfill the will of God, if you love God, God may not but love you." On the contrary: God knows that we can not love Him, because God works for our good. Therefore, whenever it is, one day we will love Him. In the world there is no such law not to love the one who loves you. And one day we all will love God, because and He loves us and works for us. Some realize, some do not realize - there are reasons for this. And one day I realize that our love for God will be reborn, it will not be abstract and then that love of God will be manifested. We will love each other.