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PERFECTION COMES THROUGH HARDSHIPS The violin is made of wood, which has suffered. But it is worth changing in order it to be a good instrument in the hands of a violinist. In the same way, in which the wood suffers, you will accept to become a good instrument in the hands of a violinist. Sufferings are a language of God. God speaks to you to correct yourself. You have killed somebody, robbed somebody and they all complain God and you feel the hard consequences from your mistakes. You correct yourself and become joyful and you rehabilitate before God. Hardships are given on the road of man for correction. If you want them go away, you have to eliminate the mistakes. Otherwise, one, who breaches something and cannot correct himself, is put in a gaol - in restriction, in suffering, in order he to rise. But there is a way, in which he can shorten his stay in the gaol, called suffering. If the material, which is foreseen for fifteen years, is passed successfully and learned by him for three years, he liberates himself within three years and the period is shortened. This concerns each suffering. To a sister of ours, which is very sharp, I told: "Heaven gave you that suffering in the legs, in order your mildness to be developed." Sufferings are not random. Somebody is very apathetic and hardships will be given to him, which will stir him up and take him out of apathy, in which he is. Man shall reveal the secrets of the sufferings, to learn why he suffers. He shall think that one suffering for the moment is a special privilege and happiness. Sometimes you have big suffering. You pay a lot, but the experience, which you gain, costs more. You gain knowledge, which costs too much. That experience enters like a golden thread in the process of your development and plays its role. When you enter the Spiritual world, you will understand that all troubles on Earth have been for good and you will correct yourself. Sometimes man is in low spirits, but his hardships are not as big as he thinks. In each lower life, there are bigger sufferings. Suffering is not so essential, because, when you suffer, you think that you will not forget that, but when it goes away, you find it to be a remote dream. But, one, who has suffered, may value things, and one, who has not, cannot value them. Somebody may complain of life on Earth, but these experiences, these wealth cannot be adopted somewhere else. On Heaven, in the astral world, he will gain what is typical of the relevant worlds, but what is typical of Earth, he cannot gain it there. That is why thank God for what you know. Today the road of human soul is such. Many of you are convinced that you have to be raised carefully, not to get wet in the rain, and nobody shall say a word against you. You shall know that there is another side: you cannot gain experience until you don't have external contradictions. However, if you have external favourable conditions, you will have internal contradictions. We do not understand and think that sufferings are useless. They build the world. With joys we are already in an arranged world. A baked cake is put in front of you; ask it through what hardships it has passed in order it to be served on the table. All misfortunes in life are for people to draw close to each other; otherwise they would not draw closer. Somebody falls; you pass by him, help him and you take up with him. The steamship is unloaded in hardships. It is being unloaded one day, two days, three days. When a sister is sad, let another one go and sing to her, bring her a present. After that let a second sister visit her, then a third one, ten sisters and she will change. A friendship will be formed in this way. One who suffers is a very strong person. Only a strong person may suffer. I speak about the conscious suffering - you bear the suffering and do not become downhearted. If you are weak, you have no choice; you suffer against your will. One, who suffers, becomes stronger, and one, who stands still, becomes fragile. Of course, ones, who want to become martyrs by force, make a mistake. Up, in the Invisible world, man will feast these shakings, which were caused to him on Earth. Sufferings are tasks. Our sufferings are very small; they are a hundred times more exaggerated. Thank God. You have been saved from big misfortunes by the Invisible world for so many times. Rely on God, and not on people. In hardships you walk along a hair and if you are able to balance, then you are an expert. We understand the suffering of a man, but he shall solve one great problem in the world. God, allowing all hardships, has also given their solutions. There is no a hardship without a solution. God has given man powers to cope with all hardships, but man shall study the ways. One, who has not suffered, stays behind. Man's character is always formed through suffering. The more one has suffered, the more he has risen. When darkness comes, you will rest externally, but you will go up by your consciousness. Sufferings neutralize the sin. Those people, who have always suffered, become very elastic and resistant against all illnesses, and those, who have not, when an illness catches them, they go away. Tell yourself: "God punishes the one whom He loves!" The nice stones are cut by the stone-cutter, and he leaves aside the simple ones. If you are simple stones, they will leave you without sufferings. Now, the Divine sculptor works on you and sculptures a statue. You suffer, make noise, but when the statue is finished, there will not be such hits of Nature any more. Sufferings are improvement. They are a method of growth. When contradictions, hardships and sufferings increase, people think that it is bad, but it is a success, because you raise high - the struggle increases first, there are storms, but from then on a special, harmonious life comes.

HARDSHIPS DEVELOP TALENTS After the performance of the Paneurhythmy we gathered round the Master and He told us: Hardships develop talents. All talents, which we have, have come when we were hard pressed. Some birds have hidden feathers in their tails and when an enemy comes near, they outspread their tails to frighten it and in the meantime they run away. They have developed this ability when they were hard pressed. Lots of people look for the Kingdom of God. We will go out of the kingdom of efforts and enter the Kingdom of God. Fish have entered their kingdom of God - the air, when they went out their kingdom of efforts. Suffering stirs up to activity. There is something in man, which, if not stirred up, will decay. Sufferings are for airing. For example, you want to study, to deal with a problem, but a hardship comes and you say that you cannot study. And what you feel through that suffering is more important and better than what you have began to study. Suffering is a spiritual matter. It is one great thing in Life for the time being and evokes big stirring up of the powers in human organism, while they are balancing. Man shall look at things joyfully and optimistically. You have become inert. Your powers are stagnate and when suffering catches you, you begin to think, to talk, and when you see somebody, you smile a bit, become kind.

HIDDEN IN US, WEALTH REVEALS THROUGH HARDSHIPS The Master had read the lecture. We made the exercises and came back to the hall. After a couple of songs, a conversation began, in which the Master said the following: One old man, when he was dying, gave to his son a stick and told him: "Son your happiness is in this stick." He took the stick and carried it always with him and always waited for it to bring him happiness, but it did not. One day, while he was walking somewhere with his stick, a bull attacked him. And during the fight, in order to protect himself, he began to hit the bull by his stick. It broke into two parts and the wealth came out of it. Then he said to himself: "Oh, why did not this bull appear ten years ago?" This bull - a big hardship comes against you, too, in order you to find a large wealth, hidden in you. Each hardship is for the wealth, which you carry in you, to appear. There are people, who cannot manifest themselves without being shaken. The bad conditions, in which the English people live - fogs, island life, etc., have made them be smart and enterprising. Each hardship is a closed cash-desk, which you carry on your back. Do not carry it, but open it and take what you need. Suffering is the Divine bank, where God has put expensive treasures, which we have to open and use. Life is an enormous hardship. Lots of students want to enter the Occult School and reveal the secrets without any hardships. And they shall know that the big revelations are accompanied by hardships and sufferings, of which they have not even dreamt. And Jesus, when he came on Earth to fulfil God's Will, passed through big hardships. There is no harder thing than preaching to somebody, who thinks only for himself. One sister said: "I want to have the experience of Daniel." You want to have the experience of Daniel, but do you know through what sufferings he has passed, in order the secrets to be revealed to him? He was surrounded by court men of wisdom and they all were against him. Daniel was put in big contradictions and nobody helped him. He was within a hair's breadth of death and there was nobody to help him. He was at his wits' end of the dangers, in which he was and the moment he did not find any alternative God revealed to him the secrets. He spoke to him and Daniel saw Him. Here, at Izgreva, there is nobody, who has passed through such sufferings. Some people, who have easy lives, think that the secrets will be revealed to them! This is impossible and there are no exceptions. Paul the Apostle himself passed through lots of hardships. All other prophets passed through big contradictions and it was not until then that God silently began to speak to them. The sister said: "Master, Your words make me become to love sufferings. When they come, I will know how to treat them." Thomas Carlyle* discouraged and wanted to end his life. He found his existence useless, but light came after only three days and he wrote his best composition. A brother of ours, a musician, had an enormous love disappointment, because his girl-friend has told him: "Either the Master, or me!" He loved her, and she loved him, too and he experienced big suffering. I told him: "You are in an interesting moment of your life, because of that suffering. What you experience now means an enormous internal progress for you. When you have such a suffering, you will be able to create elevated works." Great people have passed through big hardships in order to enter the Kingdom of God. Small sufferings impede man. For example, you shall not turn attention to the words of the others. As God fixes the world, today's sufferings serve for correction. For some people, suffering is for correction, and for others it is a test for what they are studying. I will give you a motto: first, put the fingers of your right hand on the thumb of the left one and move them from the base to the top, while saying: "God, let the Divine in me, put there before the creation of the world, grow." You shall repeat this motto three times. You will see what a big result there will be when you repeat it each morning. After that the Master told us to sing a song. We sang "Venir - Benir". ---------------------------------------------- * Thomas Carlyle - an English historian, biographer and moralist (1795­ - 1881) (Ed.)

HARDSHIPS PURIFY AND DEVELOP VIRTUES One sister asked: "Master, which is the way of purifying of the human soul?" One of the ways is suffering. Hardships cause a blessing, because without them man will have big troubles. Without suffering man may corrode. There are hardships everywhere in Nature: birds have neither stove, nor quilt; plants are fixed with their heads in the soil. Look: Happiness is a sign that you are clean, and the sorrow shows that you have lost it. As man has come down to work, he has become shady, he has mud himself. And when he goes out of the work, he will become clean in the same way when somebody goes out of the mine, because he has become black of the coal dust there. If you are ill, fill with joy because of the illness. Tolstoy said that after each illness, enlightenment came, new light came in him. Each illness is general purification. Hardships are subsidiaries for restoration of health. Man purifies through the pains and the soul blooms then! In general, man grows through sufferings. There is a reason, for which to live, to think, to work. While man has been in captivity and slavery, he has studied one thing, and now he will study something else. In order bigger Light to come into man, the body shall pass through purification, in order we to be able to perceive it. In this way some dregs go away and nerves are strengthened. Hardships are filters, which filter all thoughts and deeds. Hardships are fires, which purify. And Purity is a law of Life. Without Purity Life cannot be. Man shall not be happy for the hardship, but for the results, which will come after that. Suffering, which is not understood, makes you older. That is why you shall understand suffering from a scientific point of view. When it comes, it brings seriousness and Purity. One mother had children, who did not listen to her. So, she put a hood on her head, she dressed up in this way, and entered the room. The children frightened. After that, when the mother came back to them in her own clothes, they said: "Mum, one monster came, it was going to eat us!" She calmed them: "If you listen to me, it will never come again." Now our Mother, the Rational Nature, dresses up as a monster, when we do not listen to it and visits us in this way. Through sufferings, illnesses and other things, man gains mildness. He becomes merciful and compassionate. This does not mean that we shall wish for illnesses. This does not mean that we shall not cure ourselves, either. But when they come, we shall know why. Each hardship is an Angel in working clothes. The hardship will surround you by a circle, in order you not to be submitted by lower, dark creatures, which hang round you and get rid of them. You raise your consciousness through hardships and you liberate yourself. You make yourself beautiful through necklace of diamond and think of going out, but when the hardship occurs, you do not go out and nobody robs you. Interpret this, because hardships have very good intentions. Sometimes, when they make it beat you, it beats you, but it does it with Love. An agronomist cuts the vines and the tree, doesn't he? You all are cut in the same way. This is suffering. I will give you two formulas for the mornings: "I can love, I can be gentle." "Today I will love God, I will love all people. Today I will do everything for God's sake. I will live well, because of God. My mind shall be bright, because God wants that." I will also give you a formula for hardships: when you are in low spirits or in a hardship, tell yourself: "God loves me and I love Him, too. Everything in God is Good."

HARDSHIPS LEAD TO GOOD Several brothers and sisters were received by the Master in his sitting-room. One sister said: "This morning You mentioned in Your lecture the reasons and the purpose of hardships. This evoked lots of new thoughts in us." If you feel a pain, it will make you cure the wound. Hardships are blessings. Not the permanent ones, but temporary hardships are blessings. When they come, one, who has started badly, will finish well. In other words, the law is: one, who has ploughed the field, will harvest, and one, who has not ploughed, will not harvest. Somebody massages the legs of one, who is ill and cannot walk. The ill man feels pain from the massages and shouts: "Is that your love?". After a while, however, he can walk again. When the suffering comes, this means healing. You have a big trouble in your life and it is very hard to believe that everything will turn into good. In that case, it is important to believe, to overcome the conditions; this is for strong souls. Everybody has obstacles, depending on the degree of his power. Some people have quite small obstacles, others - bigger. The more you rise, the more you suffer. The Great souls use the hardships. Everyone, who suffers, has gained something without knowing it. But you want to be happy at once. This is impossible. Sufferings prolong life. If you do not have sufferings, you will borrow sufferings. Life on Earth is not possible without sufferings for the time being; the Divine blessings come in this way. Sufferings are the roots of Life and if they are not fertilized, the Divine blessings cannot come. Suffering comes when a higher life connects to a lower one. I carry a watermelon on my shoulder - it is a hardship, I put the watermelon down to cut it - it is joy. The damp weather is excellent for the gardeners, and it is the opposite for the tile- makers. When you suffer, you shall have the idea that somebody else is happy and be joyful for this happiness. You think that when you suffer, the whole world suffers, too and that everything is lost. And when you are joyful, you think that the whole world is joyful. Both are wrong. One gardener met one poor man and threw a walnut at him. The poor man took offence and threw it back at him. The gardener threw the walnut to another poor man and he did the same. The tenth poor man broke the walnut and ate its content. Suffering is the shell. Wealth is hidden in suffering. When you break the shell, you will find the content. This is not an easy job. This is mastery. Somebody was ill and after the illness he could not speak. He offered his services as a servant to a master. His master sent him for firewood. The forest-guard met him and asked him what exactly he was looking for, but the man was silent and he began to beat him with his stick and the man recovered his speech then: "Do not beat me!" So, in this case, that suffering had come as means for liberating from the illness. Hence, often, there are some artificial connections under the law of suggestion. Suffering tears these connections. It is a path from evil to Good. Suffering is studying. Sufferings are an open road for the big Divine blessings, which cannot be given to us in another way. When evil comes to you, if you believe, you will see that God will make evil work for good. One brother was sentenced by the court to pay a considerable penalty - a pot of money. I said: "All is for good! This is how he will learn what he cannot learn in another way. He will have experience, which cannot be gained in another way. And this is the important thing. I see that this is the end of a karma, which is being liquidated. The invisible world will turn all that to good. His status will improve!" All hardships, through which you pass, are for Good. And if you realize that they are for good, they will be for good and in this will you will benefit. And if you do not realize that they are for good, you will not benefit. If you suffer, this is one condition for your happiness. And if you are joyful, you have a doubled acquisition. But if you are always happy, you will be unhappy and you will lose a lot. That is why it is not allowed you to be always happy on Earth yet. In order you to be able to bend a tree, it has to be put in water and heated a little. Hardships are a blessing for the one, who understands them. For example, you suffer when you carry four loafs of bread on your back. They are heavy, but when you bring them to people, suffering turns into joy. You make a favour to the others, not to yourself, and at the same time, you help yourself. Heaven and hell are two contrasts. Joy is in Heaven, and sorrow - in hell. The inhabitants of the Heaven want to raise those, who are in hell, and the latter want to take down the others. We cannot deny that there are useless hardships. For example, you eat hardly digestible food, or you eat mushrooms- hydnums in the evenings. It is useless. You will hardly fall asleep. When suffering comes, know that it will bring you the Divine blessing, because if it does not come, another misfortune will happen. A man complained to me: "I sprained my leg."; I told him: "It is good. You have decided to kill somebody, but be thankful, because now would not do this." He confessed: "Yes, that is so. Where do you know that from?" Sometimes suffering prevents from bigger troubles. Somebody intended to kill himself, but somebody else hit him with an egg on the forehead. It poured over his clothes and he said to himself: "That man totally spoiled my clothes!" He went to clean himself and his desire to kill himself disappeared. Hence, when man is in low spirits, a hardship occurs, which corresponds to the state, in which he is.

SUFFERING IS AWAKING OF CONSCIOUSNESS One brother was received by the Master. Suffering was mentioned. In order people to be cultivated, big sufferings will come now and their consciousness will be aroused through them. One state will come then, in which people will become capable of going into the state of other creatures. For example, they will take note of the suffering of the flower. If one has alert consciousness and if he steps on a flower, he will tell himself: "This flower suffers, let me help it!" You will come to profundity, when you find yourself in hardships. Profundity is in hardships. Christians were joyful in big sufferings and hardships. Power is in the joy despite of the hardships. Man shall shake himself a lot. Big cataclysm shall come in order he to repent that he does not act rationally. Then he says that he does not make good and understands his sins. Now we take the essential things for important; they are one condition, but the internal state is important. If you break your leg and this serves for your awaking - not to live in darkness, where is evil then? Hence, everything, which happens to man and looks like misfortune, shall be assessed having in mind its contribution to the growth, expansion and awaking of the consciousness. What life would be without suffering? There would be only eggs, which are not hatched. Man shall pass through suffering, in order the ice cover of his heart to break, and joys are useful, in order conditions to be established for working. Hardships awake man from the deep sleep, because without them he is like wheat in granary - he will stand still, but what will the profit from that be? Heaven sends him sufferings for the Love of him, because there is profit in them. The flood rain has come. The water has swept away the man, and he sleeps and will drown in the whirlpool; if he does not awake. If he awakes and begins to shout, they will rush to save him. Water is a symbol and in this case it is the wave of the active social life, which will sweep away man and drown him spiritually. All contradictions, through which man passes, everything that happens in him is a school, which shall be finished. A mother wakes up her child in the morning and tells him tenderly: "Get up, my pet!" The child promises, but he falls asleep again. Finally the mother takes the quilt and puts it aside and the child can't help it, but gets up. Shaking is needed. When a big trouble comes to man, he awakes. If you have fallen asleep under the quilt, you will be shaken to get up. God has allowed all hardships in order you to wake up. When the Divine consciousness of man awakes, he is free. Until then he lives in a world of restriction. Man shall have internal Divine work in suffering, in order it to be useful. Only one in a thousand of all sufferings of the people are true. The others are fictive.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE VIRTUES After the lecture before the Youth Esoteric Class and after the gymnastic exercises, we turned back to the hall. We all had in us the lively ideas, which the Master had presented. He talked about the Virtues, which a disciple shall develop, in order he to have an achievement and the powers and gifts of his soul to develop. One sister said: "Master, thank you for today's lecture. It made clear one of the tasks of the disciple." It shall be known from where to be started with the development of a Virtue. In order you to have Gentleness, where shall you start from? Or you want to be merciful; where from and how shall you start? It is very hard to start. First of all man shall have unselfishness at the School - when he goes to study, he shall have no self-interested aim. In general, when you go somewhere, you shall have no self-interested aim. Go to the super-consciousness. Be selfless, because everything that man has is given to him internally. He shall keep it, but he shall not think that this depends on him. He will be given tomorrow more or less. Another quality of the disciple is Rationality. When good desires are not premeditated, they are dangerous. If man is rational, Heaven is with him. Under the word "Heaven", it is understood the Rational, with which things happen. Quickness of mind is close to rationality. An internal balance is needed. Man shall be a Divine child by heart, and he shall not be a child by mind. Mildness is another quality of the disciple. Be mild like the water, without being water. Be mild like the air, without being air. When somebody is pushed, he begins to cry: "Don't you see me that you push me?" Do not do so, address with Mildness. God is everywhere. He is that Mildness. We live and move in Mildness. Everything will come, if Mildness comes. If somebody has no service, when Mildness comes in him, service will also come. You have no this and that. When Mildness comes in you, what you do not have will come. Because Mildness is the good soil, on which everything good grows. In order you to have normal Warmth, in which Life grows, you shall be mild. If you want to be good, be mild. If you want to love, be mild. Goodness and Humbleness are Divine seeds, which grow on the soil of Mildness. At mildness you are a valley. Everything gathers there. Humbleness is a seed, and Mildness - soil. Lots of contradictions, which you have, are solved by this rule. If one has made a mistake, show Mildness towards him. He has already judged himself. Why would you judge him? Show Mildness towards the one, who has fallen. Make him a bandage and tell him that everything is fine. This is a philosophy, a teaching, which may be applied. One, who does not know it, will go to look for it everywhere and he will say that he could not find it. If you listen to the Mildness, it will make you good, clever and impartial. And if you do not listen to it, it will tell you: "Go away and do whatever you want!" The old man rejuvenates by Mildness, and the young one gets old without Mildness. It is Mildness when man answers in a good manner to the one, who insults him. And gentle is the one, who is not affected by that internally. Storms do not affect him. The Gentleness is a deeper state. And Humbleness is even deeper than Gentleness. It is said: "The Gentle shall inherit Earth." Nobody fights against one who is humble. You cannot fight against him. When insulted, one who is gentle asks for the reason and arranges things well, and one who is humble, has no obstacles. In order man to accept the Divine, he shall have Mildness. Mildness is a condition for becoming perceptible to the Divine. That is why man shall manifest Mildness, tenderness, no rudeness and asperity. Do not think of doing something if you do not have Mildness. An official from the Post Office was rude and he was always beaten on his way. He used to say: "I am sick and tired of those people!" He complained to somebody and he advised him to change his behaviour - to receive people mildly. He did so and after a year everybody changed their attitudes towards him. Another quality of the disciple is to estimate the importance of small things. One, who cannot do the small things, cannot do the big things, either. An important quality of the disciple is the punctuality. The Invisible world does not like you to promise lots of things, which you cannot fulfil. Do everything that you promise. Nature is great in small things. It is very precise and that is why it is happy when it sees that somebody is precise in small things. Another quality, which a disciple shall develop, is pliability. Lawyer Bachvarov committed an offence and he was in gaol of Sofia for four years. He read the Gospel there and became religious. When he was discharged from prison, he had to take back lots of debts and he said to somebody: "Are you ready to give me what you owe me without interest?" - "I am ready." - "All right, give it to me." He asked another man, and he said: "I cannot, but I can give you one-third." - "Give me one-third then." He asked a third man: "Are you ready to give half of it?" - "I am ready." - "Give it." And things went well for him. He had argues with nobody. And he used to say: "I argued earlier, I prosecuted them, but Peace has settled in my soul and those people became my friends. They considered me an extortioner earlier, and now they say that I have changed." There is a bottle of clean water, but two people want to drink first from its single neck. And evil is born there. The one, who takes water first, gives birth to the evil, and the other, who is not pleased, maintains the evil. They shall give way each other. If you argue with somebody else for a loaf of bread, give him the whole of it. He will look at you then and give you a slice. Do not fight for that loaf of bread. There is no arguing without a material reason. Another quality of the disciple is Self-denial. Do not think that you have only one brother and one sister. This is a delusion. Jesus says: "One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers." This is the Truth, which shall penetrate into the soul. Self-denial shall be explained in a new light. Man thinks that he will lose his personality by self-denying. To self-deny means to gain what no one in the world may give you. If you self-deny as a mammal and begin to live as a man, that self-denying has sense. If you self-deny as a man and go up to a higher sphere, in the sphere of the Angels or other Higher creatures, this self-denial has also sense. Another important quality of the disciple is generosity. You say: "We shall be generous!" But what is generosity? One pipe has a diameter of three centimetres. We say then that its generosity is three. If we have a pipe with a diameter of six centimetres, its generosity then is six. The installation is such. Hence, first of all we have to fix the installation in our minds, hearts, and wills in order to make our thoughts, feelings and deeds generous. There is a law: flows come from everywhere towards generous people. Generosity, but not wastefulness! Nature does not like its energies to be wasted unreasonably. All people, who overspend, are hold responsible by Nature. Everything shall be useful and be at the right place. In order you to wash your feet, 10 kg of water are prepared and if you use 20 kg, you will be held responsible. Another quality of the disciple is Renovation. Turn attention to the new, which God has introduced in you. Every day He introduces something in you. You renovate every day. As Life is a school, methods shall be always changed. Methods now are different from the ones, which existed thousands of years ago. Lots of old views, which are obstacles now, shall be changed. Once they were true, but today they are not. We are for the absolutely new! When I speak in this way, you clash your believes. You have played for years "Nice flower, colourful flower". Leave aside the old, of which you are tired. Get rid of the old rags. An important quality of the disciple is the scope. Look for and value the Divine in man. Turn your attention to the Divine in him, and if you look for his mistakes, it is humanlike. Meditate on the following sentence: "When you look for the precious stones, you shall know their natural form and the way, in which they refract the light." The precious stones are the human souls, i.e. God in them. In order to recognize God in man, you shall know the distinctive features, which God has put in him. Which is the specifically Divine, which God has put in him? I will give you a rule for the scope: you shall see the nice things in everybody, give him a stimulus and not miss the case, in which you to notice it. When you see something bad in somebody, you are in hell, and when you see the good things - you are in Paradise. Somebody says: "Be good!" How could you be good if you do not see God and Good things everywhere? One rule for a meeting with somebody: talk at first with God in him and after that with him himself. Internal connections are needed and when you love, the inciting reasons shall be absolutely selfless. Love is stable then. But when there is self-seeking, it is like a worm, which destroys. We may define always how long Love will be stable. For example, a poor man becomes to love somebody, who is rich; for how long will his love last? - Till the rich one has money. When the rich one gets poor, there will be no love; the wealth was the reason. Or you love someone, who is in power, but when he cedes the power, love disappears. These are superficial reasons. Man shall find out the reasons for all feelings, which arise in him. When you have a friend, you shall find in him one of the noblest features, for which you will become to love him. If you cannot find that good feature, you cannot withstand in your love. If you find it, you can form a relationship with him. Otherwise, a mediocre friendship will be established. When you go to somebody, find one good feature in him, keep it in your mind and you will have an open door. There is no a better thing than that a man to know how to walk himself. The Invisible world will also put a note for you how to walk yourself and will see to where you have reached in your development. You meet somebody and see only the cover of the book. You have not opened it to read it. There are new ways, through which relationships between people shall be established. These new ways are based on Love. The scope is based on Love. We are not so careful: a flower has bloomed on the road, but somebody passes and stamps upon it. This is not scope. I stop near the flower, talk with it and after that I go away. I tell it: "For how long have you been here? Where are your brothers and sisters? How is your master? Does he water you on time?" You shall not announce to people that you are from the New teaching, but they shall recognize you by the scope, which you have. Do not speak badly about a man. He was created by God. You may pay for these words of yours with your life in two or three days. You are very responsible when you speak badly about somebody. Every person is a picture, which is being painted by God. The picture is not finished and do not smudge it. When it is finished, it will be beautiful. When somebody speaks to you, do not be in a hurry to answer, but keep silence for a while and after a long consideration, when you understand what it is about, speak then or do something. The occult man shall be silent for a long time and not to be in a hurry to speak, but to think and after that to say what he thinks. Do not say your opinion immediately. When you send a thought to the dog and it leaves, then you are a disciple. If you make the dog angry by stones, then you act like the others. When somebody insults us, the evil passes first through him. At first he is smudged. The following is also included in the scope: when man is amongst people, he shall be at least 35 cm away from them. Another quality of the disciple is to feel the unity of all creatures. It is so nice man to see himself in the others. When you see one good man, you shall see yourself in him and be happy and when you see a bad man, you shall see yourself in him again. One of the important qualities of a disciple is Obedience. And that means to listen to yourself and hear what God speaks to you from inside and fulfil it. The disciple shall have obedience in relation to God's voice, speaking to him from inside. He shall perceive God's thoughts and fulfil God's Will. Another quality is persistency. You have hit one stone ninety- nine times. You say that it will not open and you are ready to go away, but if you hit one more time, the stone will open and you will enter the New world. Man shall be stable. You shall spin one thin thread each day - one nice thought. One, who is able to spin a thin thread, is also able to make a thick robe, because all thick robes are made of thin threads. Man has to be hard, steadfast. Nothing shall be able to distract him from his idea. The saints were such. Somebody is inspired for a moment, but soon that feeling leaves him. The constant enthusiasm is a Divine state. Another important quality of the disciple is Patience. The first thing, which you will learn, is Patience. You will rarely meet Patience in today's age. Quite a few people have it, and that is why misery may be found everywhere. The patient man is quick-witted. Wherever he goes, he evokes no contradiction. Sometimes the Invisible world will put us in such a place, where we will study Patience. Patience is something conscious. You will come to the School of patience and hard tasks will be given to you. It is not an easy job. Jesus passed through the School of patience. There are strong souls above on Heaven, but when they come to Earth, they are weaker. Patience comes from the knowledge that everything comes on time. That ill man, from Ovcha kupel, has studied patience for thirty-eight years. This was Dedication. Patience is for strong people. One woman will bear her bad husband because of God. If she does not bear him, there is no Love towards God. It is easy one to be good towards the good man. When a bad word is told you, you take offence and are angry. This means that you are weak. When you talk with somebody, take off your personality and hang it on a nail. Patience is the first step, on which it is stepped, in order to go to Love. One English company had suffered losses for ten years, and on the eleventh year it earned so much that all losses were covered and there was a profit, too. After that it began to make money constantly and became famous. Only one, who is free, may have patience. The righteous man is free, he has patience, and the sinner bears the misery. You are patient towards the one, whom you love and you are not patient towards the one, whom you do not love. When you get irritated, you lose your power. The opponent wants to irritate you, and there is nothing to be afraid of for one, who is patient. The dark spirit is also afraid of one, who is patient. When you are patient, the dark spirit stands aside. It tries to distract you, in order you to lose patience and it to attack you then. You are about to do something and you say: "Nothing will come of it"; then you lose patience. You say that you are patient; wait, because the Patience is the future ideal of mankind. Patience is a whole science. We have studied it for millions of years, but we have not learned it and will study it more. Each man, who loses Patience, dies. Somebody says: "I cannot bear it anymore!" You shall have patience for an ideal. Misery is not Patience. Patience is for reasonable people. I talk about Patience, with which you will be a master in all conditions. Patience is at various degrees. It is very hard for a man to have Patience. There are lots of people, who have patience, but it is a sham. Man shall leave behind the ordinary moral. While you are swimming in water, which is knee-deep, is one thing, but when you are swimming in water, which is four or five heights of man deep and you are over it, you are a true swimmer then. Now you are good, because the water, in which you are swimming, is low. When you are nervous, you disperse your happiness! You shall be patient. You shall try not getting nervous. Sometimes you get irritated and nervous for nothing. Those, who were calm, have finished the school and they will be employed. You have not finished the school yet. Somebody wants something, which is not suitable for him. What you want cannot happen at once. There is a process, which is needed in order things to happen. Patience is balance. The snake, which is in man, shall be defeated by him. You shall have Patience in hardships. Hardship is pressure, which may give you expansion. That is because the hardship gives you a task and if you do not have that task, you will not have that experience and you will have no a chance to solve it. Man shall be very patient in everything in order his things to be realized. There is a chance for him, too. His turn will also come. You ask what will come of you after thousands of years. The tart fruit will become sweet. We shall have Patience and wait for things to mature. Waiting for what is defined by God is Patience. Patience is a result from the internal understanding of Life. This understanding is gained when we see God in everybody and everywhere. God has hidden Himself in things, but you shall find Him. Another necessary quality of a disciple is the application. In order sugar to melt, water is needed. If the water is frozen, fire is needed. The laws of application shall be studied. Everything that you learn shall be applied. I have given lots of things in my lectures and talks, which you have not applied. Read, study what is already said and make efforts to apply it. Small rules are important. When man strives for applying small things, something big will come after that. When a place is dug, at first the river will begin to flow by little quantity of water, but big water will come after that. Power is in the application of one Divine thought. One seed shall be sown and not only sown, but we shall also know when to sow it. Sow each nice thought, which comes to you. Fulfil each beautiful thought, which comes into you. And people say: "It is all the same with or without it." Application shall not be imposed on you after a law. Do it by free will. The little knowledge, which man has, shall be always used. When somebody praises me, I will tell him: "You like this Teaching, don't you? Think then with what we can help this brother." He likes this Teaching, but he is not ready to realize the least application of the ideas. Work shall be varied. Rationality shall be applied in eating, breathing, looking. Everything is due to work. There is nothing achieved without efforts. Do not think that you will achieve something without efforts. All, who have achievements, have worked a lot. You can enter the Kingdom of God this very day by applying the methods, which I give to you. The best things are very hard. Lots of precious things are hidden there, but you do no value them, because you don't see them. Three disciples listened to their Guru; when he finished, the first of them went to thank him and show his delight. The second one appreciated that the one, who has learned those things, is lucky and went away, and the third one said nothing, but just went to work for God. The third one is on the right side. Everything, which is known, but is not applied, is detrimental to man. Apply one tenth of what you have learned. We talk a lot, but fulfil a little, and we shall talk a little and fulfil a lot. What you apply is profit. The talks and lectures contain methods of application of the New. Everybody speaks about the New, but applies the old methods. Make experiments with the laws and methods, which I have given to you. Man cannot speak about things, which he has not tried. Belief shall be based on real experience. There shall be a School for practical rules. What you have studied by now is only an entrance examination. There are certain practical rules and methods, which you will study from now on. Diligence is a quality of a disciple. God loves those, who are diligent. You may make mistakes, but God wants to know if you are diligent. You fall and pick yourself up, fall and pick yourself up, but God sees that you have worked. Another Virtue of a disciple is: "Without delay." Now, when you go home, you will say: "This is so. It is nice, but it cannot be applied today." Today, people use only the policy of postponing. They will say to a youth: "It is early. Sow your wild oats, get married, and after that see how matters stand." No. When you have inspiration, when you want to sing or play, do not postpone it - sign or play. Also, when a thought for a pray or another Divine work comes to you, do it and do not postpone it! Man shall not wait for the most harmonious, perfect conditions in order to work on himself, but he shall use the conditions, in which he is. For example, you shall carry a book with you, and when you are not busy in the course of another business of yours, you shall use that time for reading for a while. Man shall get used to concentrate even in the greatest noise and uproar. So, when we work for deepening in our internal life and improving of the internal conditions, the external ones will also changed. We shall know that the external conditions depend on the internal ones. Everybody says: "I am not ready yet." When are you going to be ready? If you are not ready, you are late! Do not hesitate and do not say: "Wait till I arrange my life and I will be ready then." One nice feature may be noticed in youths - they immediately perceive and are ready to apply. Youths, who start along the road to religion, shall work. They shall not wait till they get old to look for God. You have all opportunities from sunrise to sunset. This is a whole life - the millions of years, during which you have lived are gathered in that one day. Every day is a new life. But man puts off with years and that is his mistake. As if things, which he puts off, will wait for him. Another quality of a disciple is independence. All people today are influenced by thoughts of others and are not independent. Man cannot give up meat at once, because he is opposed by the thoughts of the others. When man declares himself to belong to a certain Teaching, for which he has to make sacrifices, he shall be very careful. Thoughts of people jostle like flies. Sometimes we accept their thoughts like waves, which we have to transform. Another quality of the disciple is endurance. People discourage each other. This is not from God. Today you have joy, tomorrow you will lose it. It is good man to have the quality of the oak - to endure, and of the pine - to strive upwards. An important quality of a disciple is self-control. Getting into a passion is very often done unconsciously. If you say nothing in that case, you win. Let us say that somebody has insulted you; you have told him that offending word in the past and now he tells you the same. When somebody tells you an offending word, you are ready to blow up at once. Let us not give them a weapon, let us even disarm them by giving them a good example. You change their states by a good personal example. The hardest thing is to change the state of somebody. When somebody insults you, say nothing. Do not tell anybody about that. Keep it for yourself; there is philosophy in that. One sister asked the Master: "What shall we do, when somebody insults us?" When somebody speaks badly about you, he ties you by ropes. And if you say nothing, if you keep your head and calmness, an internal holy Fire will come down into you, which burns the ropes and you get liberated and lots of other people on Earth get liberated together with you. But if you answer him, you answer the evil by evil then and the ropes, with which you are tied, remain and you both are tied. Hence, from an occult point of view, when man is being insulted, he shall say nothing. Having harmonious thinking, not be troubled by the world, debts or something else for half an hour, this is self-control. If somebody is tired, he will light a fire, warm water and drink. One, who does not understand, will drink cold water. The same is done by somebody, who wants to achieve something by less effort. It is the same in life: some people want to enter the Kingdom of God by less effort, without many hardships, by little prayers. However, they gain what they have given. If a well-doer comes and gives you two million leva and takes them back after that, you shall show your self -control, without batting an eyelid. One sister shared: "I am impulsive and when somebody does something bad, I say words, for which I am sorry later." First of all, put yourself in his place in order you to see what shall be done. An Angel saw that a man sins and told God: "How do you bear him?" God sent him to the place of that man and the Angel made twice more mistakes. A necessary quality of a disciple is calmness. Big contradictions come to world, but do not embarrass by that. We live and move in God. Everything depends on our love. When you visit Turkish people, they have a good custom - they will take off your shoes and give you comfortable slippers. The same law is also valid for the internal life: when you go in your secret room - the room of your mind - leave your ordinary troubles and worries behind, do not bring them in the house of your internal life. You shall throw away the troubles; you shall think that you live in a world of Harmony and Rationality. You shall turn back to that childish state, that angelic state. Be strong, without being rude. Be loving, without being weakling. The storm will come into you and you will understand that quietness is stronger and more powerful. The storm also has its place, but the thing that gives orders to the world is the quiet one. That quiet thing, that Divine thing is the powerful one. It penetrates everywhere. If I would write an opera, I would put life in contrasts. If man wants to look at the stars, the sky shall be clean, without clouds. The same law is valid for the internal life: nothing shall embarrass you, because if the Heaven is cloudy, you will not be able to perceive things from above. I would like some of you to make an experiment and have a joyful face for two months, without becoming sad. You are joyful today, but tomorrow you will throw away that weapon. There are some spontaneous movements, which you make, without thinking, and you remember them after that. We shall control us. Somebody pulls you and you are startled; hence, you are not a hero yet. When you walk down the street, a bomb explodes all of a sudden, but you shall be ready and be not surprised by that. You know the old things, through which you have passed, but you do not know the new things, which come for you. And because you do not know them, you shall be interested in them. What worries you is past and not future, because future is bright. People worry about the wind and from where it blows or try to solve problems, which cannot be solved by anybody, for example for how long they will live, etc. Do not worry about this and that. Do not be impressed by the clothes in which you are dressed - bright or rags. You shall be always one and the same. You shall have that quality and not worry that some things does not happen in the way you want. There is a law, which say that if you hesitate for a while, you cannot achieve what you want. It is hard to find the soil of balance in yourself, i.e. to keep balance. You need a point of support. There is no a better thing than the gaining of an internal Peace. Somebody says: "They will rob you!" They cannot. Everything in the world is yours. You shall believe in that. And you believe in the opposite - that things will not arrange. You fall ill and you say: "This illness will not go away." It is very hard to introduce positiveness in man. You discourage and say: "I will die. It is over." Lift your hand and say: "It is not over!" Somebody has broken an earthen jug and what is the use of worrying about that? Another earthen jug can be easily obtained. You cannot stop the wind. What do you worry about? You say: "People are not amicable." There may be somebody, who thinks that you are not amicable. Which is the straightforward thought? When you are ill, say: "There are no diseases in the the Divine world. I will be healthy!" Noting else. Even if the illness progresses, say: "I will recover!" If you continue in this way for a month or two, or for a whole year, this illness will finally go away. If you want to be healthy, do not think about anything negative. Think that you have come to fulfil God's Will. One occult disciple shall think in this way and he will get rid of the clashes of life. Strike a balance in the evenings how much you have won and how much you have lost. Be careful the present decisive everyday life not to distract you from being watchful about yourselves. Man shall be calm and not embarrass despite today's cataclysms, storms, catastrophes and patchworks in peoples' lives. The dark powers will try to introduce embarrassment in him, in order to divert him from his spiritual work and state, but he shall not lose his internal wealth. He shall not lose calmness, Love, Peace, Joy, Belief despite those events; this is one of the tasks, which he shall solve correctly. Stop worrying that your sesame ring has been taken. If they take one from you, they will return you five; if they take eight from you, they will give you sixteen. You cause yourself suffering for nothing. Be careful, because while we are at times joyful, at others sad, we abandon the Divine and cannot obtain what we have to. This looks like words, written down in the sand, which are obliterated by the sea waves. If there is a stone on your way; you will stumble if you walk against it, but if you surround it, you will walk ahead without clashes. Life is bright for initiated people, and dark - for the uninitiated ones. One, who is uninitiated says that he is tired of his life, and one, who is initiated, says that he enjoys Life. One important quality of a disciple is Courage. We shall have boldness, determination, Courage. Christianity breaks people of fear. While you shake with fear, you cannot develop correctly. The hard thing is to break ourselves of fear! Man shall have courage and Belief. He shall understand things. Fear is an animal state. There is not a more dangerous thing than living in fear. The Writ says: "The Evil One runs without being chased." The more sins people have, the more faint-hearted they become. God helps one, who is bold. Fear shall be only a precaution - human consciousness and conscience begin with fear. Now you shall be brave and not be frightened by the bears. Under 'bear' I mean any hardship. After that, you will meet a Shining creature, an Angel, in the Invisible world, which will tell you: "I was the bear, which frightened you." Enjoy what you have no matter how small it is. If you have not passed along that road, which you have passed along, you would not have had the wealth you have at the moment.

PURITY Purity was mentioned in a private conversation of a brother with the Master. Love grows in an environment of absolute pureness. One, who is not clean, cannot love. One, who wants to be loved, shall be clean. You can stand somebody, who is not clean, but he cannot be loved. When an Angel becomes shady, it leaves Heaven. When we come to Love, we shall liberate our language from all irregular phrases. Water shall gush. If you put the water in a bottle, it has already changed and is not the same as in the spring. Imagine that you are at the first spring, where the water is clean. Here, on Earth, each spring has decaying substances in it and the water is not so clean. One thought, passing through the mind is already spotted, because there are unclean substances accumulated in it. It is not clean in your hearts, either. When Love comes out of you, I see a stream of redness. I see that love is dirty. The degree of Love depends on the degree of Purity. Hence, in order God to become to love you, take off your spotted clothes, wash yourself, put on clean clothes and you will be loved. Purity and modesty in everything are qualities, which will make us more perceptive of the Universal love! When you are not clean, God does not listen to you. When He does not listen to you, it means that it is time for you to clean the sewerage. One day we will see how ignorant we have been - blessing was with us, and we were beating our brains. Fire, Light and broad space is needed for purification. Love is a law of purification. Brothers and sisters shall purify themselves. I do not want to deal with this, because I will get dirty. Let them go and wash themselves; this is a philosophy. There has to be an internal Purity. Do not think that I bear it. I bear, but I feel big disgust towards impurity; do not think that Purity is given without efforts. Man will work. He will pass through thousands of hardships until he becomes clean. Somebody says: "It is not possible." It is possible, but it is a quality, which shall be gained. Purity is an external quality, and Perfection - internal. It is said: "Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." It is also said: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." When we pass through hell, we shall remain clean! Compared to the other people, you are saints, and compared to the saints, you are ordinary people. Strive for Purity. Man shall never have self- interested thoughts and desires. Everybody is under somebody else's influence. Everybody wants to conquer somebody, muddle him; and after that he has a loving and misleading look. These are false matters, they do not pass. Somebody says "I love you very much!" It is not worth a bean. Many times they make a mistake unconsciously and when they make it, it is not until then that they realize it. And I, fifteen days before the mistake, realize that I will make it and I take all needed precautions. In the depth of each soul, God is hidden and be careful, when you get nearer to somebody, to serve God. It is God, who suffers in man. The Divine Spirit is the one, who prays and suffers in man. Man sins, and the Divine Spirit in him suffers and prays. Strive for Purity, because when you have Purity, you will see God, and when you see God, you will gain everything. Belief cannot be without Purity. All people shall be clean. Belief put in Purity is already a Reality. What does clean thought mean? - Somebody has insulted you and you want to reconcile with him; you reconcile and think that you have forgiven him, but after a while agitation will come again from inside. After that you want to forgive him again and so on. Hence, your thought is not clean. And when the clean thought comes, you forgive him and you become calm, nothing irritates you. Thoughts of man are not clean as long as he feels irritation. What is mysticism? Mysticism is the strife of the human soul to Purity. Sometimes you say: "I am indisposed"; you are impure then. Sometimes the indisposition may be because of the feet. Wash them. Sometimes the indisposition is because of the ears. There may be wax in them; wash them then and you will feel better. That is why the disciples from all occult schools clean themselves. The saint cleans by himself, from inside. Every day you shall take a bath. Does a worker have time for taking a bath? But he shall do this at least once a week. Part of the water is taken in through the pores of the skin. That is why man shall often wash his face and then water penetrates into the pores and part of the magnetism doubles. Water shall be warm in order this to happen. Some people is dirty outside, and they are clean inside. Others are clean both inside and outside. This is right, because it shall be known that there is a relation between the physical and spiritual Purity. Man shall be clean not only at a spiritual level in his thoughts, feelings, desires, strives, but he has to be also clean at a physical level. Both purities go together; one of them cannot be without the other. That is why the disciple shall also keep his body extremely clean. That is why frequent baths are recommended. The body shall be clean, in order to be able to perceive the higher energies, and, on the other hand, in order to be established conditions for the Advanced creatures to come, visit man and help him. In order man to have achievements, he shall have Purity. What is Purity all about? - When you have Love towards God, you are clean. With Purity man contacts the Spiritual world. Purity is a condition for that. People have come to Earth to serve God and there cannot be internal life without Purity. There cannot be internal connection without Purity. We cannot be in contact with the stars and the Advanced creatures, if we have not Purity. Fish live in clean water, and they cannot live in turbid water. What does 'man to be clean' mean? This means he to be in crystal clear water. May the ocean get dirty when you put a little mud in it? Man cannot lose his Purity, when he also looks like an ocean with his Love and his Purity. When man sees that somebody has big knowledge, his heart does not sink within him with Purity. On the contrary, he is happy that the other is talented and at the same time, he is thankful for what he has. But this, of course, does not mean that he will not strive for an upper state. Also, when he sees that somebody has a big house, he is happy for that and he does not feel sorry for not having such a house. Some people have the desire to understand everything at once, and this is impossible. Long education and preparation is needed in the occult science. Cleaning of the human brain is required at first. It is said: "Be clean and holy!" and a clean atmosphere shall be established, in which the influences shall be good. The Black lodge want to spoil the brain organs with admixture of bad thoughts and Divine thoughts cannot be received from the Divine world then. People from the world cannot receive the Divine thoughts, because their minds are always occupied by ordinary things. Something impressive cannot be played on a simple instrument. When a man walks and the shadow of a woman falls over him, he commits a big crime. When a man walks, he shall always watch for the shadow of a woman to be aside and not to fall over him. Purity is needed. A disciple saw that a woman was passing by his left side and he kept away from her for not being shaded by her, but he did not see that another woman walked on his right side and he failed. I tell you this in order you to understand: man shall clean himself, be like a child. His consciousness shall get rid of everything, which is unclean. One, who is clean, cannot be influenced by a shady life, because the vibrations of the clear one are strong. As long as man keeps his Purity, he is safe. We prepare for the Christening with Purity. If man is clean, the Spirit comes and Christening takes place. Those, who live one pure life, dress in magnetic power and they gain knowledge from inside then. Those, who are given knowledge only from outside, do not live a completely pure life. And those, who do not understand anything, are sinful souls. Clean heart is needed. Clean your heart! The clean souls will remain in the Divine teaching. They will organize and it will be given to them. They will prosper. There will be screening in order the righteous good souls to be organized. If you are not clean, if you are sinful, you cannot go into the Kingdom of God in any way. Nor God will deal with your sins. He says: "You shall clean yourself!" Sin is committed easily, but it is hardly cleaned. A man shall get rid of pettiness and hypocrisy. Honesty shall be seen on the face of the disciple. When one looks at his face, nobleness and purity shall be seen on it.

HUMILITY Three brothers were accepted by the Master in his sitting- room. One of the brothers said: "Master, recently You have mentioned the words of Paul the Apostle that God lives in the hearts of humble people. Tell us something about this." When a child finishes the first grade, he thinks that he knows as much as the teacher. He finishes the second grade, and he again thinks the same. He does not know that his ignorance is even much more. Some people think that they know everything. They shall not think so. For example, there are so many things in music to be learned by a virtuoso! The natural state is humbleness, and if man is vain, haughty, self-respecting, he is ill. The desire for superiority causes the worst suffering of mankind, the worst disagreement between communities and nations. Everybody wants to be first - the key of all evil things is there. Everybody has a beautiful gift, which he may use, but let him lose his desire for superiority. Superiority is a relative term. The success and inspiration of man depend on the power of the Creatures, which lead him. What superiority then? It is nothing. If my life is useful, it means that a higher Spirit deals with me. In order we to be led and inspired, our lives have to be valuable before God - to be useful. Some people show certain ideas, gifts, talents, make something successful in a sphere and after that they ascribe them to themselves. They think that they have done it by themselves. More humbleness is needed. When man shows knowledge, skills, ideas, he had had the assistance of Heaven, he has to ascribe all that to God. You, when you talk to people, say to yourself: "God speaks. It is His glory!" and you divide things. You tell people that God speaks, but you say to yourself "I speak!" Leave people say that you speak, and tell yourself: "God speaks!" I shall not tell the others from which bank I have taken money. It is not concern of theirs, but I shall know that for myself. Everyone, who wants to be famous, is on the wrong way. We have to look for God's Glory. When the Great spirits come down to Earth, they take a very modest form in order not to attract people's attention and they do not speak about themselves. If I present myself as a very erudite person, what would I earn from this? I am so much erudite as I am. One may say that he is a very strong person and that he can lift up a hundred kilograms, but there are machines, which lift up even more. One, who is not humble, will be humbled. It is very hard to live with a wrong understanding. Your pride has been so big in your previous lives that when you go to beg someone for something, he denies you in order you to become humble. Such measures will be applied until a reasonable humbleness comes. Why has somebody become a beggar? Because he has been self-respecting and now he is being reviled; he will pass through humiliations and he will take all this with humbleness. Man always looks at the external side. He wants to be a minister rather not for being useful, but for the opportunity of becoming famous, but after that they dethrone him and gaol him. The ox will always remain an ox no matter how much it lifts its tail up, and the child, no matter how small he is, has gifts and future. Leave the method to the ox. You, with your gifts, will advance. Pride impedes the development of the gifts. One, who makes things with pride and vain, will pass through sufferings and will be able to liberate himself through them, because they are a big obstacle for his development. That thing, which people call love, is not Love. Love is absolutely different thing. In order man to show the Divine Love, a base is needed, and that base is humbleness. Only when man has humbleness, Heaven will let through him the current of the Divine Love and he will manifest it. It is all the same with all other gifts, with which Heaven endows man. Heaven does not endow with gifts and powers, if man has no humbleness. If there is vain, self-respecting and pride in him, Heaven will be silent and will not endow him. Humbleness is a base for development of all gifts, base for all achievements. When people say that you are clean and bright, you shall keep from their thoughts, because they may put a bug in you. Vain is a grave for the thought. One wants to be known by everybody. What an authority would he be? A hundred people may know him on Earth, but who knows him on the Sun? One, who has not used to the last place, cannot have the first one, either. Humbleness means development. When you become humble, you will have conditions for development, and when you make progress, you will gain what you want. You shall overcome the personal life. Man shall not be impeded by the personal life. Often some people want to be first in the religious life. This is an obstacle for lots of people. When the dog lifts its tail up, it is haughty; it wants to say that there is no other animal like it. A disciple needs humbleness - if somebody walks after you, make way for him to pass. Do not jostle, make way for everybody. Each morning the disciple shall declare that he is a disciple. Each morning he has to enrol for a disciple again as the student enrols at the beginning of each semester. There were 4000 students at a university and they jostled to enrol at the secretary's office. They jostled each other and only one student stood at the end and waited calmly his order. The secretary understood that he is was the only enrolled student. That secretary is the Great Master. Only that student from 4000 students was enrolled, because he had humbleness. To enrol each morning for a disciple, that means to decide not to jostle with anybody and not to send negative thoughts to anybody. When you boast that you have done something, that you have given something to people, you always go away from God. Humility is the only way, the only method, through which you can come nearer to God. Without humility you will remain forever away from Him. One, who thinks that he, will become great; one, who seeks for glory, is far away from God. Man shall have a clear idea of what humility means. Humility means that man wants to live in Peace. The old education shall be replaced by new one. Jesus understood that he shall become humble. You shall start with the humbleness of Jesus. John the Baptist showed humbleness, too. It was Elijah and he said: "This cannot be done by cutting heads off, man shall become humble and power shall submit to rationality." And Moses advanced thanks to to his fault that he was snuffling and that made him humble. And Paul the Apostle said that he had a thorn in his heel. His advancement is also due to that fault, which he had. Praises make man fall. In each man there is a thorn, which helps him to advance, because it makes him humble and in this way, it protects him from falling. I will give you a rule: when man is tempted, let him become humble. He shall immediately feel small before God; temptation will pass by him then. By becoming humble, man shall feel that God is everything, that he has to fulfil the Will of the Great and that he will do what He wants. God shall praise you, and you shall praise God. This is a mystical understanding. Man cannot praise himself by himself. Under the word "unworthy", it is understood not developed and still unsuitable to perceive. You may look like an Angel, but because now you are in flesh on Earth, you will become humble. It is said about Jesus: "He took an image of a slave." It shall be pleasant to you when people do not turn attention to you. If I am a famous man and people turn attention to me, then adornments will go away. It is really a hard philosophy you not be noticed by the others! I went to a gathering. All were erudite and passionate people there. They talked wordily and finally they requested me to tell them what I know. I was silent by that moment. They said: "You know a lot, but You do not want to take the word, You are reticent." I do not look for the good opinion of the others, because this happens only in a perfect world, and this world is not perfect. Lots of people have a high opinion about themselves; pride may be hidden even in the most humble person. He shall give it up and replace it by dignity. Imagine a plate, turned with its face up, and another one, turned with its bottom up. If you put something valuable in the first plate, it will remain in it, but if you put something in the second one, everything will spill out of it. The humble man is the first plate, and the proud one - the second one. This means that the humble man is perceptive of that, which comes from the higher worlds, and the second one - is not. A painter needs not to praise himself. Let him show his pictures and let people see them. Further: do not say that there is a candle here; light the candle in the evening and let it spread its light.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BELIEF, HOPE AND LOVE After the end of the lunch, a conversation began in the small hall. One sister asked: "What is the difference between Belief, Hope and Love?" Nothing can be realized at a physical level without Hope. Nothing can be realized in the world of mind without Belief. And nothing can be realized in the Divine world without Love. Belief is a result from Love, and Hope - from Belief. Hope is for things, which will happen soon, and the Belief is for things, which will happen in the far future. Somebody is pessimistic, because his Hope and Belief are poorly developed. Belief, which has no Love behind itself and which has no Wisdom in front of itself, is not Belief. Hope is a base of the physical life; Belief is a base of the spiritual life, and Love - of the Divine life. Love works up in the cerebrum. The Sunny split is the main capital of Hope. I have to read you a lecture about that, on what people's health depends. When a negative thought obsesses your sub- consciousness and you say to yourself "Nothing will come of it!" The organism is spoiled in this way. An obstacle is put on the way. And if there is an obstacle and you say: "Everything will get better!" and it gets better. It is better you to have bad conditions outside and say: "It will get better!" than to have good external conditions and say: 'Nothing will come of it." When man is good, his body is a good conductor of warmth, and when he is bad, his body is a bad conductor of warmth. Belief, Hope and Love regulate things. When I meet you again, I want to see that all your splinters have turned into diamonds. We will become beautiful with Hope, strong - with Belief, and we will get the meaning of life with Love. You will become beautiful with Hope, strong - with Belief and you will bring Light through Love. People of the new time shall be beautiful. I asked a sister of ours, a painter, to paint a traveler, who travels to the spring, and another - standing at the spring, and a third one - drinking from it. The spring is Life. The one, who travels to the spring, is the man of Hope; the one, who stands round the spring, is the man of Belief, and the one, who drinks from the spring of Life, that is the man of Love. Do not consider that the plan for achievement of any idea is lost. This is a matter of time. The whole eternity is in front of you. You will achieve it, but not exactly today. You can achieve it today, but you do not have so much knowledge. Why do you say: "We got old"? With that thought, wrinkles appear on the face. In this way, you send less blood and less food to the muscles, cells and nerves and that is why wrinkles appear. When you say: "Nothing will come of me", you will go out of the Heaven and you will take the place of the dark souls. You are not the person, who says so, but the dark soul discourages you. Finally only the Divine will remain.

BELIEVE IN THE IMPOSSIBLE Today after the performance of the Paneurhythmy a conversation with the Master began at the meadow. Belief was mentioned. You are tired. You have lost presence of mind, but when a good word is said to you, you are encouraged. This is Belief. Belief raises and changes your state. Belief always gives something, which you cannot obtain in another way. Belief is in this: if you do not understand things, you shall say that you will understand them, and not to discourage and think that nothing will come of you. Somebody says: "What have you gained by now with your belief?" If I believe, everybody will help me, and when I do not believe, nobody will help me. When you do not believe, you are alone, and when you believe, you are together with everybody and there will not be contradiction then. This is mastery. Belief of man is like a fortification. Imagine that you have a home, built within a locality, where tigers live, but it is surrounded by a thin wire-netting and you are not scared by the tigers, because when they come, they will hit against the net and turn back. But when they find you unprepared, they will attack. One American went to the jungle to study the life of the monkeys. Tigers, a boa and other beasts came, but he let current through a net, put round him as a fence and all animals ran away. Man of Belief is fenced. When you want to apply a plan and if you are in two minds, the plan will not be successful. While you are in two minds in your life, you are not on the right track. Believe in the impossible. It is true Belief. If you believe in the possible things, it is Knowledge. Belief in the impossible and you will try it. Sometimes you impede yourselves by yourselves, because there is no Belief. All genial people distinguish for being men of Belief - when they apply a principle, they have no hesitation. The talented person may hesitate, but not the genial one. Why did disbelief appear? It appeared, because the idea of God was used for oppression. One man came to me in 1933 and I told him: "After a year your things will arrange." And they arranged. Today he came again to me. He is again in hardships. I told him: "Now your belief will be examined. If you have Belief, your things will be arranged, and if you do not have Belief, they will not arrange." When we come to God, no sufferings shall discourage us, no matter what they are. The dark powers will try to discourage us, but we shall withstand. People will come from outside to delude you that God does not love you. Others will say: "Why did you set off on that road?" It is not said that the ones, who set off on the Road, will have all conveniences; the conveniences will come later and they will be destitution at first. For example, when you sow the field, there is nothing in the granary, but you will have what to harvest. Suffering is sowing. And man shall rely on nothing else, but on God! Somebody goes to England, carries valuable documents and money, but they rob him on his way and he is embarrassed. No, after they rob you, be quiet, calm, as if nothing happened. When despair, doubt, discourage, unhappiness come, apply Belief. Belief is healing for all diseases, because energies from Nature are attracted. Belief leads to the elixir of Life. But when that elixir comes, the lower creatures will step forward to impede you in order you to deflect. The turning of the world is one very important issue. One judge from Varna related me about his experience: his belief strengthened after his mother died. He had not believed earlier, but he already saw so clearly the spiritual organization of the world; and everything had come in him in a natural way, he could not resist it any more. Because he loved his mother, after her departure, she began to work on him. She raised him spiritually and he already shared her views. The Master said to one of the brothers: You shall be on friendly terms with people, who have no critical minds. This will help you, because your mind is critical. One, who has no trust and Belief, cannot achieve anything. It is very hard to be on friendly terms with such a man. The secret of Life is the following: Belief draws its matter on disbelief. All unbelievers are workers in quarries and crash stones. And when they have piled heaps, they transfer them and people of Belief begin to build. Paul the Apostle is a philosopher; he said: "Listening depends on belief." This is an absolutely deep philosophy. I will explain it in brief: if you have Belief, you will be able to listen from inside what God speaks to you; your soul will understand what God whispers to it. And God always speaks to man. Put a flower into the cellar, where sunbeams do not penetrate, and it will start withering. Take it out in the sun and it will develop well. When people have Belief, they are in the state of a flower, taken out in the sun, i.e. they start taking in life, prana. And when people are in disbelief, they stop taking in prana.

BELIEF We set off to El-Shadai. The weather was quiet, and the sky - clean. We welcomed the sunrise in the course of our climbing. We performed the Paneurhythmy at El-Shadai. The blue colour of the sky over us deeply influenced upon our souls. When we gathered round the Master, He told us: This coming here costs each of you 25 million leva. Belief was mentioned and the Master said: Belief is based on super-consciousness. It is a beam from the super-consciousness. There is something deep in man, which knows the things. Each person is born with the idea of God, but later, when the human consciousness sinks in the matter, this idea is drowned. People have no idea of so many things. Somebody says that he has no Belief. Let us say that he has not, but it is a delusion, because there is a specific centre of Belief in the brain and sometimes it does not function. Hence, actually, each of us has Belief, but the centre does not function and it does not manifest then. Please, turn the key! You also have Hope. It also exists, but does it function? Please, put it into operation! There is also a centre for Love, but how does it function? Do not say that you do not have this or that virtue, but say that you have not put the relevant centre into operation yet. Only push the buttons. Belief in God means understanding the rationality of Nature. Man shall believe in the Whole; it is hard to come to that understanding. When you are not connected to the Invisible world, you think that you are left to the mercy of fate. Once, a Bulgarian priest told me what he had learned from the Animate Nature: he was sitting under a pear-tree, something flit and hid under his cassock. That was a lark. He looked up and saw a falcon. He learned his lesson: he told himself that the lark is cleverer than him, because, under constraint, it had found his cassock; and he, under constraint, has to seek refuge with God. As I said, Belief comes from super-consciousness, and, externally, it is manifested as a law of the mind. The Belief in God develops mind. When you believe, God's blessing will be with you. While you are making an experiment, you will believe and when you finish the experiment, you will have knowledge. Hence, first of all, you shall have Belief in the One, who have created everything till you check that things are true. Belief will prepare Knowledge. Belief is over Knowledge. It is firm confidence that there is a Higher consciousness, on which we can always rely. Belief is connected to Love. The more Love you have, the more Belief you have. The more you love somebody, the more you believe in him; and you have mutual trust; you cannot mistrust each other, because when you love him, he also has Belief in you. In this sense, Belief is used for measurement of Love. Belief means the power of Love. The more Knowledge you have, the more Belief you have. Hence, Belief is also a measure for the degree of your Knowledge. It is also a measure for the Truth. Hence Belief is a measure for Love, Wisdom, Truth and Freedom. Doubt may come in you that as you are a small creature God will hardly deal with you. You shall tell yourself: "God treats equally small and big things. All sizes are equal for Him." When man comes to God, he shall say: "I am a sinner, but I know that You, God, with Your power and Your goodness is bigger than my mistakes. I will make good, just give me conditions." You shall show humbleness. It is said, in Psalm 51, that God lives in the hearts of humble people. You shall tell God: "I know, God, that you will not reject me!" There cannot be Belief without Love. Because, in what will you believe? You will believe in Love, because God is Love. Belief shall contain Intelligence and Love. If you contact the world of Love, Belief heals man. God lives in each person to the extent to which he believes in Him. You have to rely on God. Some people have not foreseen that they will have hardships; but if they come, they look for help from outside, but why, when help comes mainly from inside. One brother asked: "Some people say that one who believes in God will lose his individuality." No. The one, who does not believe in God, will lose his individuality. God is the one, who gives man individuality and image. When man commits sins, he loses his individuality. We shall believe in what God has put in our minds, hearts and bodies and in what He has put in the minds, hearts and bodies of the others. Jesus, by relying on Himself, He relied on what Father had put into Him. We have to keep the capital, which God had invested in us. Belief, which strengthens the mind, feelings and will, is true Belief. God may not be pleased without Belief. Hence, you cannot please God without strong will, with which you will serve God, without strong feelings and without strong mind, full of Light. When man thinks that something is not arranged, that he is short of something, this is believing and not belief. Belief is work for God. Man shall be always in a praying state, this is belief. When man prays three times a day, this is believing, and when he is always in a praying state, this is belief. One brother said: "Master, thank You. You gave us directions for internal work. And these directions will be useful for us not only just for a day, but for the eternity. We will apply this. This is great Revelation for us." One, who believes is strong. He radiates. Powerful energies to all directions come out from him. Man of Belief is an antenna, which receives energies from the whole Universe. Belief is a perceiver and that is why things happen with Belief. Perceiving happens with Belief and Reality comes after it. Hence, under Belief it is understood one process of perception. And you can develop your Belief only in hardships and sufferings. Somebody asks me if I believe in God and I give him a beautiful pear. I also take out one for me and tell him: "Let us become as sweet as these pears." We believe only in what we have tried. Why do some people have strong Belief? This is based on their experience from the past and today they come with a ready capital. However, there are things, which we have not tried yet, but are true. The power of man is in his Belief. One sister asked:"What shall be our Belief?" Childish! Man shall thank also for what he will become and for what he will not become. And when things happen and when they do not happen, both cases have its good side. Man shall believe that there is something more rational in Nature than his own understanding. For example, it rains and you are in the mountain and wet to the skin, but it is a blessing for the others - go into the joy of the grass, flowers and trees, which have waited days on end to begin to rain. Belief shall be clean, like a spring without sediment. Now we need this Belief, which teaches us to live. If you have a hard time, you do not live. When somebody is a skeptic, then night has come in him. In order to strengthen his Belief, man shall work. You have belief, but when your father or your sister dies, you cry; your belief is not enough then. There is a law: if you believe in what you speak, you deliver it. When man has Belief, help will come from everywhere, things will arrange. Belief has a magical power in that respect. When you have Belief without hesitation, all things are realized on time. Belief precedes each achievement. You shall believe before you are given something. When one soldier, who goes to the front, believes that he will stay alive, he stays alive. If he believes and does not have hesitations, the bullets will not reach him. One sister said: "I wish so much to go to Musala." You can go only if you have Belief. On the other hand, be happy for those, who will go to Musala. Man will achieve things, in which he believes. Things, in which he does not believe, will be postponed. Man shall get rid of disbelief. Everything is possible with Belief in God. You shall have such a Belief, which to be a Divine stimulus for realization of things. There is something, which is not achieved, because you do not understand the Divine ways. Belief goes together with Love. If man fulfills things after the law of Love, what he begs for will be given to him then. And they shall understand that everything done in the external world will depend on their internal Belief.

LET US LOVE EACH OTHER One brother had a private conversation with the Master in his sitting-room. Praying was mentioned. Man shall pray all the time. He may get up after midnight and pray, and in the day-time, he shall devote five minutes each hour for praying. This may be done everywhere and the others will not notice. Even if you are a clerk in an office, you may become thoughtful for a while and look as if you think on what you are writing, but you are actually praying secretly. The Brother said: "Thank you very much that you gave us a method for praying each hour for five minutes." Do not tell everybody about the five minutes, about which I have told you. The brother asked: "When shall we pray during the night?" The following rule may be applied: when you awake in the night, you shall pray; but this matter has a deeper side - even when you are asleep, you shall be still awake, have an alert consciousness up, where you have an astral work. Yet, during sleeping, you may go even higher. Man shall have Belief, pray, expect and raise high with his consciousness. One day, man will go up to a peak, in order to have space in front of him. The new work today is to become to love each other! It shall be started from there!

PLANT INSTALLATIONS A few brothers and sisters were received by the Master. One of the sisters said: "We wish to become more intimate with Nature, with the internal life of Nature." Study the plants. Form a notion of them. They are like books and you will learn something from them. Study which plants what cure. In many cases, people do not know how to use plants as remedy, but it is time to learn it. You will go to those plants, of which you are fond, because you will be able to learn something then. Choose one of them and see what influence it has. You will learn the language of the plants, by communicating with them. You cannot become suddenly familiar with the smallest details, concerning a plant. Study simultaneously the Gospels. If we continuously use God's Word and live through Jesus, then Love and the One, from whom Love comes out, will begin to build in us home. They will build the New and when they finish, He will manifest before us. This building has begun long ago, from time immemorial. And now it will manifest before us. The same brothers and sisters, after a while, were received by the Master. One of the sisters said: "Master, you told us to make exercises for establishing a connection with the internal lives of the plants and with the Advanced creatures, which work on them. Tell us more about that." You will study the plants on site and by insight from inside, you will learn what they heal. The books, in which it is written about their healing features, will be only as a subsidiary means, but you will learn mainly from inside by insight what these or those plants cure. When you go to the flowers, you will begin to perceive new thoughts by the radio; new things will gleam in your mind. The occult science shall begin with botanic. This is the order. And, at last, man will come and you will be given the first examination for dedication. Why do I tell that flowers shall not be picked, but to have a sacred feeling towards them? - Plants are installations, which we have to keep, because Life depends on that. You may pick one flower, but only if there is a really important reason. You will go to the flower with reverence, because you shall have such a feeling towards what God has created. With that feeling of reverence, you will contact the Creatures, which work on them. Especially on the mountain, there are favourable conditions for internal studying of the plants. Work at the same time on the four Gospels in this order: Luke, John, Matthew and Mark. You will start with the Gospel of Luke. You will study the Love of people with Luke, who have aspiration for God and look up. You will read Luke in order to understand Love, which strives for God. If you want the purest aspiration for God, read Luke. If you want the purest Love, read John. You will read John, to understand Love, which comes down from God. You will study the supreme, pure Love with John - God loves through people. You will read Mathew, in order to understand Love, which serves the people down in their sinful state. You will study Mathew to understand Love towards poor people in the world, who suffer. You will read Mark to understand Love, which satisfies the smallest needs of people here on Earth. You will study Mark to understand Love towards the outcasts of fortune.

NINE BLESSINGS - NINE METHODS FOR WORK Today, after the gymnastics, we went to the hall. The conversation about the Bible was continued. I shall give you a method for rejuvenation: read the Bible three times for three years and you will rejuvenate with ten years, no one will recognize you - your face will change. But, there is a special way of reading. And if reading cannot introduce in us the Divine energy, what is it for, then? One brother asked something about Moses. When Moses descended from Mount Sinai, he understood that he had lost authority. The Jewish played round their idols, round the golden calf. They have forgotten the fast. Then he threw away the commandment tablets, which he had brought from Sinai and broke them. He punished lots of Jewish, but Tablets of Stone were not there and he had to go for new ones. Sometimes we throw the Tablets of Stone for nothing and go to arrange things. And then neither the things are arranged, nor are the Tablets of Stone available. Moses was not allowed to the Land of Canaan, because he had thrown the Tablets of Stone. He was not allowed for the miracle, which he made when he took out water without glorifying God, either. We also sometimes like Moses throw the Tablets of Stone and in that case we cannot enter the Land of Canaan. There is no more dangerous thing than that. Do not throw your Tablets of Stone. The prophets spoke in one language, which we literally understand. Read Daniel and Ezekiel. They remind about the events that take place now; especially from the chapter 37 of Ezekiel on. Isaiah considers the internal side of the culture, and Daniel - the internal changes, which will take place. Isaiah says: "The wolf will live with the lamb." Hence, good and bad people will come to an agreement at last and will live side by side. Good people are the lamb, and bad people - the wolf. You are in a phase of materialization of famous prophecies. The things, written down by the prophets, are models of the reality. Everything, seen by Daniel, is not written down. Only part of it is written down. What is seen by John is also partly written down. There are things, which are obscure, if they are written down. Isaiah spoke about present times. He spoke with such a belief about the future! The prophet, whom I like most, is Isaiah. One sister said: "Master, You told that when I read Isaiah, I will feel his presence. I read Isaiah, but I did not feel his presence." Until you do not become to love Isaiah, he will not open your heart. Read Isaiah with Love and he will visit you then, will introduce you to a new world, will explain you not only what he has written, but will tell you new things, which he has learned from then on. Study Daniel. The twelve chapters may be analysed. If you can, make an analogy with the present. It is written in Daniel: "For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together."; hence, where decaying culture exists, there will be destroyers, who will destroy it. This concerns the recent years. One brother asked: "How the 4th chapter of Daniel, where the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, who became an animal and after that again a human being, is interpreted?" The thing, which happened with Nebuchadnezzar concerns the present times. It has relation to what happens today with the entire mankind. One event from the life of somebody may repeat after that with the entire mankind. You know the example with Ezekiel, who does certain things after an order from above, in order to be shown to him what later will happen with the Jewish people. The pride of Nebuchadnezzar is a symbol of people's pride today. The animal state of his consciousness has manifested because of his pride. And when he understood that God rules everything, he became humble and he regained his human form. Now, the same will happen with the mankind. When man, after falling in an animal state, becomes humble and understands that everything is from God and glorifies God, he will get rid of the animal state of the consciousness then. The whole mankind will pass through that state, through which Nebuchadnezzar has passed. Where it is said that the branches had been cut and only a stump had left, buried in the soil, it means that the Divine life of man will go away from him and he will remain only with a life, connected with the thick matter. This is the present material epoch; hence, it is foretold, too. Where it is said that the divine dew will make him sparkle, it shows that, after all, Divine beams, Divine thoughts and feelings will still come from above in order the Divine life not to completely extinguish in him and to smoulder like a sparkle till time comes for it to flame. And where it is written that his body will be covered with feathers like an eagle, it shows the pride. And the seven seasons, during which this will last, mean seven epochs, within which the mankind will be in that lowered state. And really, when man goes away from God, the lower, animal features manifest in man and it is said in the following important law, which is pointed out by Paul the Apostle in his Epistle to the Romans, chapter 1, from verse 28 to the end. This law says: when man declines to know God, God draws back and he falls under the influence of the dark lower powers. Big degradation comes then and the lower powers gain the mastery. Where it is written in Ezekiel and in the Revelation of St. John that fire will be thrown over people from the sky, these are the bombs, which are thrown from the aeroplanes. This is foretold literally by Ezekiel and in the Revelation. WWII is as a result of the present karma of the mankind. One sister asked about the nine blessings. They are nine rules, nine methods for work. It is said: "Blessed are they that mourn." Mourn for what? - Blessed are those, who mourn for people not wishing to agree in order the Kingdom of God to come. Each of the twelve apostles had a specific feature, one virtue. They correspond to the twelve zodiacal signs. The Revelation of St. John is for the most erudite people. It is said in the Revelation: "And I heard that the entire creature is humbled"; hence, all become humble in the end. The Gospel of John is a Gospel of Love. If man meditates on the Gospel of John, he will connect to Love. I will give you to meditate on the verse: "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." After that choose ten chapters from the Proverbs, by drawing lots, and you shall meditate on those chapters, which you has drawn out.

HALO ROUND THE HEAD After the lecture and the gymnastics, we turned back to the hall with the Master. The study of the Bible was mentioned. You shall study the Bible, the experiences of the prophets. Each prophet has a specific experience. The saints also have specific experiences, and you will also have your own specific experiences. And you shall translate in your own language; translate also my talks in your language. The holy books shall be studied in order man to be in connection. There is one way for studying them. It is hard to understand those prophets, who have lived thousands of years before us, because we are not in their situation. One brother said: "Master, this morning You said in the lecture that when man reads Holy books, he connects with the Creatures, which have written them, talks with them and receives elucidation by them." It is written: "I am with you all the days -- till the full end of the age." If it is so, it means that the Spirit of Jesus is always with us and always directs us. In the Bible, you will study the persons, who had visions - the prophets. Study their characters, what they said and the way they lived. Once, the saints lived in one way, and now - in another. Presently, a saint hides himself, you cannot recognize him, and he is in a physical body, speaks and becomes invisible. Although he knows, he always checks his knowledge - whatever it is said to him, he will go down to check. Some people want to become saints. They do not know at all what sacredness is. The Divine light shall be perceived and spread around. Halo will be formed round the head. I will assign you to meditate on the First General Epistle of John and on the verse from the Gospel of John: "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you." Study and meditate also on the chapter 12 from Isaiah. Study the Bible. This means you to get in touch with those, who have written it and not only in the time they have written it, but also presently, now. The Spirit of God, who has worked through all those people within that long period of time, works also today and explains you the matters in another way, elucidates the same subject better.

CONCENTRATION ON THE RAINBOW Several brothers and sisters were received by the Master. One of the brothers said: "Master, in one of your last lectures, You directed us to concentrate our consciousness mentally on the rainbow, by disregarding everything physical, and we will feel then darkness round us and after that, we will see another rainbow with very pleasant colours. This is a reveal of the Invisible world before us. We want to do that exercise." Good. Do it. In addition, take the following exercise: look through the Bible and choose content for concentration; for example, you may choose something from the life of Jesus. The purpose of the experience with concentration on the rainbow is contacting the Invisible world, development of the clairvoyance powers, and the experience with the Bible is something else. We have in mind the far future with the experience with the rainbow, i.e. something that you will gain in future, and with the experience with concentration on Jesus, you will gain something in the present epoch; hence, it is more efficient. Make this experiment and you will tell me the results after that. See what exactly you will choose for concentration. One sister said: "We find as most appropriate a scene from the life of Jesus to be chosen, for example, how Jesus preaches on the mountain, how he walks with his disciples through the meadows, or the last supper of Jesus." The Master approved that with readiness.

THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS TAKEN FORCIBLY During a private conversation with a brother, the internal work of the disciple was mentioned. In order man to learn to concentrate, he shall be nearer people, who concentrate and be friends with them. People benefits from each other. Do for ten days the following exercise: take Psalm 96 and Psalm 10 and meditate on them, by comparing both psalms. Take chapter 15 and chapter 21 from the Proverbs, meditate on them and compare them. After that, compare the psalms and the proverbs. During the next ten days contemplate on the 3rd verse, chapter 3 from the Gospel of John: ""Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." You will meditate without making efforts. You will keep that bright thought in your minds for ten days and see what thoughts will come to your minds and you will write them down. Those thoughts will stay like seeds - you will sow them and see what will come out. After these ten days, read for two months the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, by one chapter a day. They are 66 chapters. Take out the most remarkable verses. You may take out one, two or three verses from a chapter. First order them in the way they are ordered in the chapters. After that, order them so that to obtain something like a chapter from them. One sister said that she feels great need of the Divine science. The Kingdom of God is taken forcibly. Our consciousness grows without a break and we shall help it by ourselves in that growth.

THIS IS AN ETERNAL LIFE Several brothers and sisters were received by the Master. The relationship between the disciples and their Leaders and the Advanced creatures was mentioned. This relationship exists. If we mean the meeting, you have met your Leaders, but you do not know them. Apostle Paul says: "When man have fed somebody, he may have fed an Angel." Man shall pray for Knowledge, for Wisdom. The meeting has sense, but what will be the profit for a disciple if he is deaf and blind? First of all there has to be a receiver and the Advanced creature shall spoke by it. Let relationship establish first and thoughts be delivered and accepted. And we want to meet them right away. No. First you will accept their thoughts and after that the meeting will take place. I can indicate an hour for meditation and contemplation, but when I tell it, it shall be used constantly. I will give you the following exercise: send bright thoughts and feelings for ten days to some of your brothers and sisters. Send the best of your thoughts to a friend of yours in the mornings, at noon and in the evenings - in order a desire to be created in him to serve God. By sending such a good thought to that friend of yours, it, on its part, will fill the space. One brother asked: "Shall we send to one and the same friends or to various ones?" To various friends, but to those, with whom you are in harmony. And if they do not accept your thoughts, they will come back to you with an appendage, with interest. And if they accept them, they will again come back with an appendage, with interest, but a bit later; such types of thoughts, after finding favourable soil, come back again. Hence, when man does good, it returns. Good thoughts also return. Apply the following exercise: take for meditation the verse: "This is eternal life, which they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent." You will meditate on it for ten days, three times a day, in the mornings, at noon and in the evenings. In connection with that verse, during these ten days, take also the First General Epistle of Peter and after reading it, you will meditate on it and mark the most important verses, which have made you a special impression. You will follow the path of self-development and of enlightenment till the moment comes, when all from the Internal School, who go separately, gather. Man lives simultaneously his own life and the lives of all the rest in the School, and also - of all creatures in the world.

WATER, WHICH ALWAYS FLOWS Several brothers and sisters were received by the Master. The internal work of the disciple was mentioned. Pray on and on! When consciousness is awake, it is time for praying then. We will thank three times a day for the Good, which God has implemented in our minds, hearts and souls. When you get up in the morning, concentrate for three minutes, think of God and you will think that you are amongst the Angels. After the prayer, make an experiment in silence what waves will come. Sometimes only a voice may come, which is not so well defined, and sometimes the voice becomes well defined. One brother asked: "When these experiments may be done?" They may be done always, no matter when - in the day-time and at nights. Man shall not miss the chance - no matter where it is, he shall make such experiments. One sister asked: 'You have told in one lecture that the Holy Books shall be studied in a new way. Tell us some directions for the way in which we shall study the Holy Books." Here is the way: think of God, for the Divine order, which is perfect. Man shall not be in static state. Changes shall happen in him, i.e. he shall not be like stagnant water, but like water, which always flows. One brother asked:"Which is the method of emanation?" The method is concentration. Man will naturally go out and go in in his body then. Concentration shall be done in a natural way. When man goes out of his physical body, it shall be like a rest for him. I will give you an exercise: open the Bible for ten days and read the pages, on which you have opened it by chance. Put your finger randomly, although it will not have a relation between the verses. And if a thought concerning these verses comes to you, mark it. After that take for meditation the verse: "How much better and of more value is a man than a sheep." Grasp the form and contents simultaneously. Meditate on that verse for nine days and on the tenth one you will come. Take for meditation the First General Epistle of Peter, chapter 4, the tenth verse: "according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God." Take also for reading and meditation the First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. Meditate in the mornings and in the evenings before going to bed.

SEVEN GROUPS OF THREE PERSONS In a private conversation with a brother, the Master said: Pray assiduously and wait till you receive directions from inside. The internal enlightenment will come in three ways: physical, astral and mental. Read from the Gospel of John - from chapter 10 to chapter 19 and meditate on these chapters in order to contact the Spirit, to understand things. When you acquaint with Jesus, you will have also a connection with the Advanced creatures. This is the right way for contacting these Creatures. Sometimes a sister comes to the Brotherhood and presents herself to be a very religious woman, and after she gets married, she forgets. And there are some people, who come here and are honest. These things shall be known, otherwise you will be disappointed every time. Man shall bear Divine thoughts. He shall be convinced that each thought, sent by him in the world, is Divine and he shall not think about the consequences. Man shall study the Word, and at the same time he shall practice praying and contemplation. This is the path and he shall not worry. He shall have belief till enlightenment and communication with Jesus come. Open your hearts and souls. Light will penetrate there and understanding will come. How shall you read the Gospel of John and other holy books? Start at first with a prayer. Pray not by a letter, but by Spirit. And when you finish with the reading, thank with a prayer again. Begin and end each reading with a prayer. And, while reading, when you come upon a place, which you do not understand, pray again for understanding. The holy language was mentioned. The Master said: This language is studied at the Internal School. It is written: "When the Spirit comes, he will teach you." When you go up among the Angels, their language will become easy for understanding by you. For that purpose you shall raise your consciousness. I will give you an exercise: meditate often on the Divine world. Let seven groups of three persons form. These groups shall gather each Monday in the evenings for now. Big groups are not practical. The brother asked: "Will these groups follow one and the same order?" Let diversity exist in the activity. After a couple of gatherings of the groups on Monday in the evenings, let them gather once a week between 4 am and 5 am. You will spend the time in prayers, meditation, concentration and contemplation. You will meditate on the following: Love brings Light and Freedom. Light brings Freedom and Life. Freedom brings Light and Love. When you begin to gather in the mornings, you will change the days - each week you will gather one day ahead: for example, if the first week you have gathered on Monday, the second week you will gather on Tuesday and so on. Turn your attention on what influence each day (Monday, Tuesday and so on) has. This are mystical matters. There is need of mystical matters! You will pray the Divine goods to become available for everyone. By working in this way with Divine meditation and contemplation, you may repel the common evil. When man begins to get up early, it will gradually become a habit and he will get up without an alarm. The Kingdom of God cannot come in an external way, but through a change of the mind. They shall pray in the groups for internal arrangement of the world. There are people, who are religious, but they cannot be mystics. Work may not be assigned to them. David stumbled against that woman - the wife of Uriah. Solomon also stumbled there. This is an animal state. Mysticism is an internal striving. Mysticism will come later. At the beginning man will have an ordinary religious striving, and after that he will come to mysticism. You cannot be really religious without being a mystic. One mystic understands the internal sense of religion. The brother told the Master: "Recently you have given to me a task to send three times a day a good thought towards somebody and wish Love to awake in him, fulfil the Will of God and serve Him. You gave me this task for ten days and they have passed." I will give you another task for ten days: send one thought each day to all good people - their Love towards God to increase. It shall be done three times a day. And it may be done three times at night. We shall have polarization between three times in the day-time and three times at night. The getting up at night shall be done with ease. Man shall habituate himself to get up at night. Sometimes, you are about to get up for a prayer at night and you tell yourself: "I am not in good spirits." Man shall learn to find those good spirits, and not to wait for them - he shall turn the lower spirits into good spirits.

RIGHT OF THE DIVINE SOUL Two sisters and a brother visited the Master and He told them: You will love God and He will acquaint you with the Hierarchy of Angels. You will acquaint with the Angels through God in you. There is nobody between God and man, except Jesus. Be with Jesus and He will introduce you. God leads Jesus and Jesus will acquaint you with the others. Jesus says: "Whoever denies Me, I will also deny him." Hence, things happen through Him. They talk about adepts that no one has died for the mankind, and Jesus has died for the mankind. There is a special way, the way of Love, which is a way for getting closer to Jesus. The other things are external. One of the sisters said: 'You mentioned during today's talk at 10 that if man makes attempts for ten years by praying, meditation and concentration, by setting aside from everything transitional, he can contact the Invisible world, the Real world." When I said that man shall set aside from everything transitional, I meant that man shall have Peace, not worry about material things, liberate from all troubles, anxieties and fears and when he prays in such a state, he may gain internal insight and understanding. When water comes to a garden, it is important whether flowers accept it. They become fresh then and bloom. The same concerns contemplation. It is important whether internal flowers bloom from contemplation and become fresh. If things happen mechanically, there is no result. Nothing may be achieved in the old way. If you light a wax candle, it will not burn like the Sun. God's Will is not fulfilled by one wax candle, nor by one feat, nor by one good act. The Invisible world appears without images at first. Do the following exercise three times a day: turn your mind upwards and see what though will come to you. See what category of thoughts are given to you, because they will be various. After that the Invisible world will talk to you by images. For example, you may see the image of a cherry or an apple. These are symbols. The Invisible world want to tell you through them that we shall give nice fruits even in the worst working conditions. Children long for things and that is why they receive what they want, and adults think and think and that is why they receive nothing. The brother asked: "Is it well the internal powers to be developed and the esoteric life to be entered through meditation on the chakras?" Such type of work with the chakras is violence, because reverse reactions may occur then: man gets tired and does not want to pray, enters again to live in the world and receives energies from it again. This is one unnatural situation. Continue with contemplation; prepare yourselves, because the New Birth, the coming of the Holy Spirit is an internal law. Right of the Divine Spirit is to introduce you to the esoteric world; this is not a right of the man. Man shall pray for that purpose and wait. Didn't the Apostles wait for 40 days? "40 days", however, is a form, and it may be waited for 40 years. For example, Moses waited for 40 years in the desert. He was 80-years-old when he went to take out the Jewish to the desert. When internal insight comes to man, New birth, he will be sent to fulfil one job in the world. Not only to contact the Divine world, but also to work with what he has learned. He will be given work for God. Man shall clean and harmonize his thoughts, feelings and desires, in order to contact the Invisible world. The thoughts shall be filtered and there shall not be any self-interest or dregs. Meditate on a sentence from Sacred Words of the Master every day, in order to be realized what qualities are needed for the disciple. The disciple shall see to where one desire is Divine and to where it is not. We shall go out of the world of hesitation, from the world of sufferings and come where everything is Joy and Merriment and Harmony exists; the Divine may be understood then. You take and read the 150 psalms of David and find out which psalm to which category belongs. Find out which of them belong to the Divine world, which to the Spiritual world and which to the human world. This is a mystical method, and all methods in the occult sciences are physical. There are no Divine achievements in all occult sciences, because it cannot be done with physical efforts and lots of people delude themselves with the occult science. Mystical matters are not solved by the occult science. Because the methods with the mystic matters are totally different - man shall enter the world of Love and calm down. And that Peace shall not come in an artificial way, but naturally. This is hard for the disciple. May a child walk at the beginning? At first there shall be desire to grow and after that walking will come. We will look for God and we will look for him in His Love, in His mercy. We cannot look for God outside of Love. Man will study God for an entire eternity. Those, who have passed along this road, know that. This is something great and impressive and what you learn, you have to apply it. And you shall also be absolutely ready to understand another thing. This is the same as in mathematics: when you learn and understand well a mathematical rule, you are ready for the next mathematical truths. One good method for contacting the Invisible world is the following: the strongest sentences shall be chosen from the Writ and the mind shall be held on them. In addition: man shall turn to Jesus and want more Light. He shall turn to Jesus, because Jesus has said: "No one may come to Me, if My Father does not call him" and "No one may go to Father, if I do not show him the Path." How long you are going to pray depends on the intensity of the prayer. For example, if you walk slowly for an hour, the distance will be shorter than if you walk 15 minutes with a higher speed. When man wakes up at night, he shall pray. And when he sleeps, he shall be again awake; he will have work in the Invisible world then. During sleeping, one may go to a higher world; this means you to work everywhere and your consciousness to be alert everywhere. Meditate on and study the Seventh series from Power and Life. After that you can take for meditation the fourth year from the General Esoteric Class. Listening is a blessing. If Earth does not perceive rain, snow, dew, etc., it will not have springs, will it? Read the Seventh series in the following way: from the first talk, read and meditate on the tenth page; from the second talk - page 12; from the third talk - page 3; from the fourth talk - page 14; from the fifth talk - page 9; from the sixth talk - page 7; from the seventh talk - page 8; from the eighth talk - page 5; from the ninth talk - page 3; from the tenth talk - page 11. Study after that the World of the Great Souls; meditate on one sentence every day. Study and meditate on the Rila Talks - Motive Powers in Life. Meditate on the verses from chapter 15 of the Gospel of John, There is material for concentration. Study also the book of Isaiah by drawing lots for the chapters.

THE FIVE BROTHERS The Master formed a group of fifth brothers for internal work. They visited Him and He gave him the following exercise: You will gather only once a week - on Sunday, at midnight, for half an hour in meditation, i.e. four times per month. Let us see what a result you will have. And after the meditation, two persons shall open the Bible at a venture, read a couple of verses. The acquisitions may be big or small, but you will always have acquisitions. Watch what the weather is then - are there clouds, which stars are on the sky, because the sky is an important sign. Your meditation will be on the new. A new thought will always come to you. You will allocate so that there to be at least 1 or 2 meters between you. If the distance is 3 meters, it will be even better, because when people are closer, meditation is not so good. When you finish the four gatherings, you can pose lots of problems then - the most important ones, which have application. You may meditate on that organization, which the saints have. Good people have organization, as well as the Angels. Man shall meditate on what is perfect. You know the ordinary. Meet a person, who thinks of ordinary things. What interesting is there in that? It is another thing when you meet somebody, who thinks of exceptional things.

TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES Two sisters and a brother visited the Master in the reception- hall. The communication with the White Brotherhood and with the Advanced creatures in general was mentioned. In order you to get acquainted with the White Brotherhood, several conditions are required: your Love shall not be ordinary, but Divine; the Divine knowledge shall have affected you, as well as the Divine Truth and the Divine Life, and the Divine freedom. These are the elements, with which you will start. You communicate with the White Brothers and shall study the spiritual laws. It is not very pleasant for them to appear at the material level, because the environment is very thick, material and as it is not favourable, they shall prepare a long time to appear. You'd better move to the mountain - there are good conditions for them there to be visible. You shall choose not only a clear place, but also a place, where others will not follow you. Nobody shall know and see that they appear before you. The excursions that we make to Rila have a purpose! One who understands, understands. There are better conditions on Rila than on Vitosha for appearance of the Creatures. When we go to the Lakes, I will show you where this aim may be achieved. There are conditions at Rupite, as well as right from Musala, where there are peaks between Musala and Rupite - in Skakavtsite locality; where man seldom may be seen. We may go sometimes. Man shall always maintain the connection. He shall think. When he does not think, he does not maintain the connection. In order to see the burning blackberry bush, Moses had to go to the desert, which means that he had to go to a clean place. And it was said to him: "Take off your shoes, because this place here is holly." The place, where Moses had that experience, was special - it was very clean. Special conditions are needed for specific things. I said that for getting in touch with the White Brothers, the mountain, for example Rila, is a favourable place. But, with greater efforts, it is possible man to meet the Shining creatures everywhere. However, there are things, which cannot happen everywhere. You keep the small thing; there is a Divine order, which will come. They are much more exacting in the Invisible world than on Earth. Do not think that it is an easy job. There are things, which are very easy, and there are things, which are very hard. There shall be an internal connection between the man and the Angel in order a communication between them to be established. There shall be something, which to form the connection. You shall go along God's Path and things in your life shall happen after God's Will. You cannot study the subjects of another class, but the subjects of the class, to which you belong. You can do that as a by-work, but the most important is what has been given to you to study. First of all, people on Earth shall be clean and saint-like. God will not do what we want, but he will do it to the extent He agrees with what we want and only if it has come out of Him. If a Divine idea has come out of God and gone into me, God will help. Everything, which has come out of God and gone into us, will be; there is nothing, which is able to impede the Divine idea. Man has two natures - lower and Divine. When man goes into the evil, he becomes ugly. For the purposes of contacting the Higher rational creatures, the best way is man to strive for serving God. By serving Him, this is the only way Creatures to come to him and help him. Man shall develop in him certain powers for dealing with thin matter. This is not an easy job. The brother asked "How could man become a conductor of these powers?" Through Love and studying; this is a way for contacting the Creatures, which have completed their development on Earth. In order man to achieve communication with the Angels, he shall think of them and their consciousness. Moral of people is personal and their moral is common. People look for their personal profits, and they look for the general good. Think of their ideas, intelligence and cleanness. When you think of them and in general, feel Love towards them, they will manifest before you then. One sister asked: "Which time is the most favourable for practicing the sacred hour?" The most favourable hours are from midnight till the sunrise. When you are at the Rila Lakes, do not pray in the tents, but go out to the Prayer Peak after midnight. When man becomes deeply absorbed in himself and when he works amongst the others, implementing a personal element, he does not gain profit, but if he does it for God, he benefits then. If man remains equally thankful when somebody reviles against him and when somebody praises him, he is closer to understanding the Truth. The submission of an application for entering the Internal School is an internal process. In order man to draw closer to the Higher creatures, he shall think in the way they think. With regards to the communication with these Creatures, I will tell you that you shall go along the path of Jesus. There is no another path, except the path of Jesus. Man shall turn his mind to God and then his things will arrange. One great understanding, an internal enlightenment, will come. When man comes to love God and sets off to the Angels, they will welcome him. But if he does not come to love God, there is not a reason for welcoming him. When man goes to the Angels, he shall learn their language for ten years, and after that he shall attend their schools in order to understand their culture. When man is on Earth and comes to love God, he will find the Creatures above, who love him. One condition for contacting the White Brothers is to work in the way they work and work together with them. They work during the creation of the grass, during the movement of the rivers, they participate during the coming of the light, help in life and everywhere, they participate in the lowest jobs. We have lost the internal connection with the plants and that is why life shortened. When you find there healing qualities, you will connect to the White Brothers. You pray somewhere and want the White Brothers visit you. You want a lot - they to leave their work and the place, where they work, and visit you. No, you will go where they work and there will be conditions for them to appear before you then. Meditate every day on the Advanced creatures. This makes the communication and connection with them possible. Besides the night hours, the following hours during the day are favourable: between 11 am and 12 am; between 5 pm and 6 pm; between 9 pm and 10 pm; about midnight, as an exception. Notice that a public harmony shall be established, in order the ones from the Invisible world, the Divine world to come to work. When such a community is established, it becomes a centre for their coming. They come then and form internal intimate connections. In general, it shall be said that in this sphere one shall start with Jesus. Study the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and the 19th chapters from the Gospel of John, meditate on them and go into this spirit, until you come to understand things. Now you are closer to the Kingdom of God. You can gain easier now than earlier. When a woman went to the home of a saint, she had to wait for him there. She swept up, brought water, cleaned. After that he taught to her. And some people go without making any efforts and want to be taught. First of all man shall imagine that the Spiritual world is full of Rational creatures. And as far as we can have their attention, our success depends on that. We shall not imagine things mechanically. Man shall always remember that he lives before lots of witnesses. He shall lively keep the idea that there are minds round him, which are alert. First of all he perceives their thoughts - he has an antenna and he receives their thoughts by it; after that he will make a more intimate connection. In order you to contact the erudite people, what shall you do? You shall study their works. For example you want to acquaint with Goethe or Kant, or Darwin. You shall first acquaint with their works. You will connect with them in this way. One interpretation: Nature is a work of the Rational creatures and study it now, in order you to contact the Rational creatures, which are behind this order of things. If you want to make yourself familiar with a home, acquaint with the children of the family. And when you come to love them and become friends with them, you can acquaint with the others. Interpretation: if you work on Earth and turn your souls to God, which are the small children, you may contact the Higher creatures. I may give somebody another method for acquainting with an Angel: go and do good to a poor suffering man. The Angels come to Earth to help and when somebody has very big contradictions, when you go to help on your part, you will acquaint with the Angel at the place, where he has come. Big hardships are a place for acquaintance with the Angels. The appearance of the Higher creatures may gleam in you during a beautiful day, during a beautiful weather, at the appearance of zephyr, at the murmur of a mountain spring, at the fluttering of a song bird. Their lives are so sublime! The Higher creatures have met you lots of times and some of them have spoken to you. They may stay in one material form for a long time. And when you want to acquaint with them in an internal way, you will become deeply absorbed and wait for years. It may take you a year, ten years, twenty years, thirty years, but they will come and visit you. You do not know on which day this Creature will come. Imagine that a Creature forms in front of you a shining ball and you see it. This is already an acquaintance with one of those Higher creatures. And if the Creature wants to go deeper into your consciousness, it may take a human form. Apply ten days the exercise, which I have given you for studying of some chapters from John. After finishing it, start another exercise for ten days. Take for meditation and concentration the first verse from the 15th chapter of the Gospel of John: "I am the true vine, you are the branches, and my Father is the vine grower." During these ten days take for studying the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians and choose some verses for meditation.

SACRED HOUR The Master has told us that for mystical conversations a day has to be chosen, when the sky is clean, the weather is quiet and there is abundance of sun. Once, on such a shining day, about 10 o'clock, one brother was accepted by the Master and the disciple's internal work was mentioned. Every day, man shall spent some time for praying, meditation, concentration and contemplation in order to perceive energies from the Divine world for developing his sleeping powers and more sublime consciousness to awaken in him. Nowadays, there are favourable conditions for more profound work. The brother asked: "How man may contact the Rational creatures?" This is a nice one. Keep in your minds the thought that when an advanced man talks to you, Shining creatures talk through him. If you do not understand what he talks about, how could you understand what they would tell you? Praying, mediation, concentration and contemplation are needed for communication with Advanced creatures. Without internal enlightenment, man cannot be ready, and he shall prepare for a long time. Man shall wait until the Sun comes up, won't he? Let him only pray the day to be clear, because he will not see the sunrise. For example, the other day, we wanted to see falling stars, but we did not, because of the cloudiness. When man contacts the Creatures, before knowing their language, he will speak to them in his language and there will be translators; this will last till he learns their language. The night hours, when people fall asleep, are best for mediation. Then you will contact the Creatures, because there are things, which may be delivered, when the consciousness is awake and there is no much noise outside. If it is noisy outside, it cannot be understood then what the Spirit talks. Have meditation and contemplation after 10 pm, when people fall asleep. The periods from 2.30 am to 3.30 am or from 3.30 am to 4.30 am or between 3 am and 4 am are also good. Some of us want to acquaint with the Angels and this is good, but we have to be one with them, to learn from them, work with them. But, as people criticize them, Angels are far away from people and people cannot acquaint with them. When a bright thought comes in you, a Higher creature has visited you and left you a blessing. This thought is your gift. Each nice feeling is a gift from these Creatures and from God. If we turn attention to these thoughts and feelings, we already make a connection with them. The best way to contact Rational creatures is to contact God - to think of them and be conscious of them as Creatures, through which God manifests. Nature shall be studied. All manifestations of its are always results from the activity of the Rational creatures. We shall consider the entire Nature as a manifestation of the activity of the Rational creatures and in this way we shall enter in a mystical communication with its internal life, which is a life of these Advanced creatures and we shall see manifestation of God in them. Another way for making a connection with the Advanced creatures is reading of the Gospel, "Acts of the Apostles" and other nice holy books. The Writ says about the Advanced creatures the following: "They are official spirits, which are sent to serve those, who will inherit the Kingdom of God." Read also the experiences of those, who have made a connection with the Advanced creatures. In general, the Spiritual world now is the same as it was once. It has changed, but there is a connection between the past and the present. We have changed and we think that the Spiritual world has changed. The Creatures have already another attitude towards us, because we have changed. One father changes his attitude towards his child, when the child grows up. When the child becomes cleverer, the father speaks in another way. We will see the change, which we make in us, in the same way outside. When an angel appeared before John, he fell, remained strengthless and bowed, but the Angel said: "Do not make a bow to me, but to God." With lack of reverence, in a human way and by human methods, you cannot make a connection with the Spiritual world. Man shall study the experiences of people, who have passed by that road in order to make a connection with the Invisible world. This is not something, which man can gain in an artificial way. This is inaccessible in a mechanical way. By studying their experiences, man will gradually wake up and will gain experience by himself. Man shall work and experience will come. Jesus has said: "Wait in Jerusalem and not leave until the Spirit comes." Man shall have big desire, deep enlightenment, be assiduous and be ready when the favourable time comes. Often people miss the favourable time, when it comes, because they are not ready. Favourable time does not come often. If man has missed the favourable time, he shall wait for another favourable time. 10, 15, 20 or more years may pass before that. In order man to make a connection with the Higher creatures, he shall be clean, and he has to pray in order to become clean. It is said: "Knock, search, want." These words, however, shall be understood. To search, it means to overcome hardships. To want, it means to find the Path, along which you can walk. To knock, it means to work. In order to find the Path, you shall reconcile with the contradictions in your life. The Brother asked: "How shall man contact his classmates from the Internal School?" Man shall clean himself for the purpose. Light passes through clean glass. Cleanness is in the following: man to have no obstacles, which will impede the Divine light to pass through him. Daniel had met Michael and Gabriel. In order man to have that experience, he shall have a life of ideas. This is the condition. Michael and Gabriel are Archangels. Michael deals mainly with the political life, and Gabriel - with the spiritual one. Daniel met Michael and Gabriel after a prayer. In order man to be able to meet Creatures, he shall spend an intensive life of prayers, contemplation and meditation. He shall prepare himself in order to get used to the new vibrations. Through exercises for concentration and contemplation, man can gain insight, pass through the dark zone and see the red colour and the other colours, but in an upper octave. Then, the Invisible world will reveal before him and he will contact the Higher creatures. There are several octaves of light: physical, spiritual and Divine. There has to be a Master at the entrance into the Invisible world to lead the process. This is a sphere, in which if man enters without being led, he will get scared. At insight in the Spiritual world, you see the vibrations of colours at first. And the higher these vibrations go, the more beautiful they become and they shade. And when the vibrations become much higher, they take the form of a very beautiful Creature, which smiles at us and disappear after that. This is an Angel, which have come to man. If he wants to make you an impression, he will appear dressed in his beautiful form and will smile at you, and if he wants to teach you, he will come quite simple, dressed in clothing with straight lines, in a robe and with a belt. Then everything begins to talk to man - grass, flowers, trees, and the whole meadow. This Creature teaches man in this way. In order that picture to reveal, you shall have absolute Cleanness and put up with everything in Nature and with people, and with everything else. You shall have bad thoughts at all and a bad attitude towards anybody. You shall have nice thoughts and feelings towards everybody and everything shall become pleasant for you. There shall be nothing unpleasant for you and exactly then the Angel will appear before you and Nature will start talking to you. Hence, you shall come to love everything with your soul and your mind, heart and body shall purify in order that to be seen. Besides in the early morning hours, practice praying and concentration at noon and in the evenings. Study Isaiah, Daniel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and see in what way they have gained insight. Hence, study all prophets - both the major and minor ones, and after that the Apostles. Read the Gospel of John. It is mystical. Man shall consider everything for spiritual. He shall spiritualize everything and understand that everything is nice and rational. If man rises, he will see that Nature is alive and it will look totally different to him. Spiritual things are behind the material ones. Man shall know that the physical form is the external, objective side of the soul. Study the Bible in the following way: write down the numbers of the pages of the Bible on slips of paper and mix them in a bag. Every day take out one slip of paper, read the relevant page and choose the most important verse; after that, return the slip of paper in the bag. By comparing the verses, see what conclusion you will make. You will be lead from above which pages to be chosen. Centres are being developed through these exercises. The Old Testament is for very erudite people. It is very profound and it is not for children. There are centres in man for communication with the higher worlds. These centres are seven. They are organs of the spiritual body and shall be awaken and fed in a very natural and right way. Some measures shall be taken at their awaking: it is obligatory man to have one righteous life, otherwise he will totally spoil himself. Special preparation is needed. When these experiments are made, quietness is needed as the one needed when a pregnant woman will give birth. These experiences, which you have, will be as a foreword to what you will receive now. Mysticism is a process of liberation. The sublime moral feelings are the elaborated thoughts of the Higher creatures. And man perceives the sublime feelings of the Rational creatures as his own thoughts. The process is the opposite there. The completed processes of the thoughts will be perceived by you as feelings in order life to be given to them. They will be seeds, which will grow and get stronger. You will become their mother, because the feelings are the ones that give striving. There is no striving without feelings. The mystic characterizes mainly by sublime feelings and Love. This shall come out of his mind and the internal Light. One, who has no Light, if you talk to him about it, your words will be dead for him. The New and Old Testaments shall be studied for contacting the Angels and it will be understood that the most important condition is Cleanness. Man's striving is also important. Man's strivings shall be from the same level, where Angels' strivings are, i.e. serving of God. The Shining creatures want to contact other creatures in order work to be possible. The cleanness of Vitosha helps for easier contacting the Hierarchy of Angels, but they do not live on Vitosha. The same concerns lots of places on Rila, where they do not live, but the cleanness there helps for contacting them. The most inaccessible places on Rila, where they permanently live, are an exception. In order man to contact Higher advanced creatures, he shall work. He shall clean himself every day. There are so many useless thoughts and desires, which surround him like flies. Man has various useless thoughts and most of his life he spends doing useless things. When he goes into the esoteric side of Life, he will contact the Invisible creatures and he shall be very careful whether he is capable of the smallest negative thought - mistrust, doubt, hesitation. The Occult science is a science of the unknown. And the more you know, the more things you will realise that you do not know. In the esoteric side of Life, man shall enter when he is ready. If he is not ready, if he has a negative thought or negative feeling, it is dangerous. If he enters there, he will draw closer to lots of Creatures, and each intimacy is dangerous, if man is not ready yet and sends negative thoughts and feelings. Higher invisible Creatures lead the creatures on Earth and if you do not contact these leading Creatures, you cannot contact the Invisible creatures, either. If you do somebody a favour on Earth, the Invisible creatures above will regard you in favour and you will be able to contact them, and this means you to work for the spreading of the new ideas, turn souls towards God, lead them to God, and help for their awaking. In such a case you will be in Higher creatures' good graces. Hence, for the purposes of contacting the Higher creatures and the Real world, the disciple shall have the cleanest thoughts and connect with the minds of all good people. When you deliver one strong thought in the air, it will come to all good people on the face of Earth. In this way you will mentally acquaint with them. There are laws, after which a thought is sent. The stronger and more defined a thought is, the sooner it will reach its destination. Man shall have strong thoughts, strong concentration, and have no other thoughts, distracting his mind. In order man to be able to contact these Higher creatures and the Real world, he shall be prepared from the past. The past and the present shall connect. Man shall not think that he will be able to contact them if he only does something now; he shall have worked in the past, it means a condition shall be available from the past, too. When man contacts the Hierarchy of Angels, he shall have something, with which to attract their attention. They shall have the same interest like a tradesman, who does something out of interest. For the purposes of contacting the Hierarchy of Angels, the following may be said: the specific law is connected with the general one. First the general law shall be applied and after that - the specific one. This means that if man cannot contact God, he cannot contact anybody else. If he contacts God, then he will contact the Hierarchy. When a diplomat is send to England, he acquaints with the king of England. An ordinary citizen cannot have such an acquaintance; interpretation: the communication, which a saint may have with the Invisible world, a righteous man may not have. Until you not learn the language of Heaven, how you will contact the Invisible world? Only a few occultists have read from the source, and the others have only a mess, they have taken from here and there. Let us say that you come to me and say that you want to acquaint with the English. What method will I use? I will tell you that you will have to learn English and I will teach you. After you have learned the language, I will give you an address for correspondence. When you know the address you will write to the Englishman, and he will answer you. After relationships are established, you will go and visit him and you will see how the English live. It is the same with the Divine world. The songs, which I have given to you, with the words "Mahar Benu", "Venir - Benir", etc., are all given in the language of the White Brotherhood. The brother asked: "How the Divine language may be learned?" You will remember the Divine language from inside. Man will get into the Divine language from outside to inside. How much time it will take him to learn it? It depends on his will. At first we shall create a spiritual body, through which to communicate with the Invisible world. Turn your efforts to this. Everything depends on your assiduousness. Man has a connection with the Invisible world now, too, because each thought of his, each desire of his are efforts from the Invisible world. If sometimes modest ambassadors are sent from the Invisible world, who bear small notes to man and he throws them to wait for big notes, man is left high and dry. Why did Jesus choose Apostle Paul? Because he had the opportunity to awake, that is why he chose him. Paul was devoted. You will live two lives simultaneously, you will have two methods. You will work with people the way it is worked with men of the world. The Truth will be given to them in a profane language. You will also have a holy hour. You will isolate yourselves every day, you will contemplate; meditate on the most sublime thing. You will have achievement. Man shall not worry about results at all, because troubles are big obstacles, big defects. For example, somebody often says: "I have worked for so many years and I have achieved nothing." This is an obstacle. Some people want to contact the Invisible world suddenly, but this may happen in a extraordinary case. Most people are being gradually connected to the Real world. You will pray, concentrate, contemplate, meditate, sow the seed and you shall not worry about the future. When you sow it once, you will tell it: "Now, you think!" It will solve the task. There is an internal side in the Divine science, which is for the devoted. I will give you an exercise: read the Gospel of John for ten days. Find the most important thing in each chapter; find such parts, which to be as though connected to each other and to come as supplements to each other. There are things, which are related to life on Earth, others are related to the heart, third ones- to the soul and fourth ones - to the Spirit. The concentrated man shall always turn his mind to God like a Spring; he actually turns his mind to That, from where Lives and blessings of all people come. Besides, you will imagine the consciousness of Jesus during these ten days - how He looked at things. You will imagine a Creature, which is alive and the consciousness of which is connected with God and is devoted to fulfilment of God's Will. The way Jesus thought, this is Jesus. For the second stage of the exercise, during the next ten days, read the first ten chapters from Isaiah and choose three verses from each chapter for meditation. At the same time, meditate on what Jesus would do if He were you. You are in front of a broad world, which shall be studied very well, not in the light of the old, but in the light of the New. Old things are fallen off leaves.