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DIVINE LIFE IS A REALITY We completed the Paneurhythmy and everybody scattered. Only the Master, a brother and I remained. We sat under the shed. The brother mentioned about a sister, who, these days, was passing through a big internal crisis, lowered spirits. In this connection, the Master said: Man shall know that the Divine life is a reality, which he can try in his life in the way he tries the warmth and light of the Sun. These talks shall have application, i.e. you to be able to cope with certain hardships through their ideas and try the power of methods, presented there, during an examination. There are some young people, who lower their temperature. Their iron was hotter earlier, but it is gradually, without being noticed by them, getting colder. This is a wrong way. Man shall be alert, when an internal crisis comes. He shall use his mind. He shall not allow a negative thought in him and replace it by a positive one. He shall use his mind during the time of the crisis and change his state by it. Man shall be hard and strong when he works for God. No matter what happens, he shall rely on God. He shall know that there is a power over him, which is watchful and be thankful no matter what comes. Sometimes, when internal crises of despair, doubt, fear, etc. come - it is awaking of the old life in man. Man has overcome it, but sometimes, old life wants to awake. Hence, man shall be watchful, have belief, pray and permanently perform internal work. Our sister will overcome that state. One rich Russian woman fell in misery and despair. Things did not go well for her and she decided to commit a suicide. They had decided to send her 500 leva from a charity organization, but the money lost on the way. She realized: "Do not give me anything. I am a big sinner." And she began to confess: "While I was rich, I did that and that to you." She cleaned herself, and a friend of hers recommended her to an American, who called her in Paris. Later her life improved and fifty thousand leva in total were at her disposal. Hence, man's things will not arrange until his soul is not lightened up and an order establishes in him. Now you will be grateful that you have awakened on time and were not late; this is a profit. Plants give us an example for patience how not to be in a hurry at all. For us, wind is an example for assiduousness and handiness and the Sun is an example for generosity and punctuality. It comes up and goes down on time and always gives away. The air, rivers, they are all examples. When a stone rolls along a slope, it shows that everything, which separates from the big rock, falls into the abyss. Life is such today, because people have separated from the Big Rock. There is big advisability in Nature. The Invisible world chooses a good method and within the conditions, in which we live, there cannot be a better result. A better world will come, but you will not be the same as you are now. "We will change", Apostle Paul says, because the conditions will come in accordance with the changes, which will come in accordance with the changes, which will happen in us. The inheritance, wealth of Earth will remain for the righteous men. One day, good people will inherit it and what is produced by sinful people will remain for the good ones. One, who does not understand things in this way, says that things go well for sinful people. It is not so. Things go well for sinful people in the same way as with fishes in rivers, which swim in one direction, but finally they find themselves in the fishing-net and they cannot go on further. Sinful people also go directly towards the net and they cannot go on further. The economic situation cannot be improved by no means through the principles, which countries apply nowadays. There is always a contradiction, hidden in the mechanical ways. You cannot apply the Teaching of the White Brotherhood until you not say: "Let it be." and step back. A disciple of ideas is the one, to whom it is all the same no matter where he is put (first or last place) and he will not feel sorry.

THE AWAKING OF A SOUL In a private conversation with a sister the Master said: Now the disciple may work in a particular way, and namely - to be a model, pattern. The personal example affects deeply and strongly, because the external people are very penetrating and appraise one life-pattern, if it has sense. When it is worked on a soul, it shall be first understood what it needs. You shall know that the awaking of a soul is the easiest job, because you are only a mediator, and the entire Heaven, which is interested in it, work on its awakening. The disciple is free to use each method of awakening of a consciousness in the way he thinks best, provided that it takes effect, and he himself shall have a consciousness of a disciple. Work mainly on those, who are ready souls, i.e. who are ready for awaking. When you feel an impulse to work on a soul, go then and work on it. It means that this soul is ready and the Heaven sends you. In turbid water, dregs remains at the bottom, and in jam, the foam comes out at the top, but man shall not think that everything is foam, because under it there is nice jam. Similarly, when man notices in somebody or in an environment an external, superficial, vain life, this is the foam, under which there is valuable jam, i.e. valuable, deep, internal life. Work on the workers. We shall make our way into the working circles, as well as in the villages. When I cure somebody, I talk simultaneously to the physical and spiritual men. I give to the physical man an external medicine, for example herb, hot water, sunbathes, etc., but the main thing is what I talk to the spiritual man. For example, I say that it will pass, that he will get better. I increase his belief and the words, which I use then, work up in the spiritual man. They give birth in him to a thought and stimulus and this has an effect on the physical man.

GIFTS COME AFTER CRYING A brother and a sister were received by the Master. During the conversation he told them also the following: The need of spiritual matters will gradually occur in Russia. The need of new direction will come out, but it will come in a mechanical way. Now people are being separated to ones, who will come again to Earth, and to others, who will not come. There are sinful people, who will never come again here. They will stay at another place far away for years in order not to be an obstacle. So the voice of the ones who make noise will not be heard in future. Those, who are above in the Kingdom of God, wait for conditions to be established and will come to embody. In the same way, in which when a house is already built, newcomers come to live in it, those, who have been on Earth long ago and after that have worked in the Invisible world, already come and embody to establish justice, order, stop murders, etc. All that will disappear from the face of Earth. Christianity looks like leaven, which leavens mankind. Nothing can resist Love, because it is needed for life. In contemporary people, the way they are organized, you cannot put goodness in order not to flow out. You shall transform their hearts and minds in order to be stable. And today people wake up for while and fall asleep again after that. They think that if they set off along the Spiritual path, they will lose something, and they cannot win anything in the world. Let somebody, who have worked for the world come and say that he has won something. Bigger bulbs are needed now in order Love to manifest and in order it to stay with us a bigger voltage is needed. Some people can manifest Love, but others - after thousands of years. Men and women are transitional states; there are no men and women on Heaven. Internal change will take place in some people, who have worked and who are ready. Time has approached something to be born in you and each of you worries if he will withstand. When one is born, each day will be Saturday for him - God's day. The killed in political and war events work from the Invisible world for lightening of the regime, and the big criminals, who die, they are obstacles, because they have gone down to a lower environment and they are dangerous. When the Kingdom of God comes to Earth, everybody will be happy and will have something to work. There will also be space in art, music and every other direction. There will be conditions for achieving the most sublime ideas. Each moment bears its own opportunities, and you are dissatisfied. God prepares more and more new things, in order to make you satisfied and when he sees that you are dissatisfied after that, He prepares again more and more new things until you begin to wonder. People are not aware of God's Wisdom. Gifts come after crying. Crying is a preparation for gifts. At first you will cry and the gift will come after that. Children begin their lives by crying, don't they?

CHRISTIANITY BEARS THE PRINCIPLES OF THE FUTURE CULTURE In a private conversation with a brother the Master said: Learn to recognize the precious stones and the simple ones. The prayer is an important means for protection against temptation. Man shall pray in order not to fall in temptation, and when he is in temptation, let him pray and he will overcome it. Man shall keep away from extreme trustfulness and from extreme suspicion; they are two extremes. The brother asked: "How to contact Advanced creatures?" When you have progress in studying the Gospel. In this way you will have a connection with the Advanced creatures. Keep the Christian wave. You will have to know that in future the mystical Christianity will become mankind's universal religion. Jesus experienced the karma of the entire mankind. Only the Teaching of Jesus bears a universal idea and the principles of the future culture, because of which it is foreseen from the Invisible world it to become a culture of the entire mankind. No one can devote to and commune with saints, if he has not prepared his mind and heart. When he purifies them, the mind and the heart will become ready for the Divine. The world is not reliable whether our ideas are good or not. One match shall not think if the other matches will take part in the work, which is being done. To commune with saints means to acquaint with those, who are in the same class and after that with the others from the other classes, and they are countless and you will gradually acquaint with them. Time extends or shortens. When? When Love comes, time for achievements shortens, and when hatred comes, time extends. The Divine teaching shall be established as a necessity, and not as a party. One who works for God will commune with saints. One who says: "He is one of us", has old ideas. Everybody is one of us today!

YOUNG PEOPLE ARE HERALDS OF THE DIVINE School-girls from the secondary school for girls came to Izgreva. They were accompanied by their teacher from the Railway Boarding School, who asked the Master to tell them something. They sat down on the meadow and the Master began to talk: Young people are heralds of the Divine. And if they manifest it, their lives will have sense. Develop your gifts, which are in you. I see that some of you have understanding, others are practical and third ones have other qualities. Man is like a flower. Let him bloom and give away scent. They take care of everybody from Heaven and there is such providence for everybody, which he has never dreamt of. We worry like a baby in the trough, who cries and cries until he gets used to it. Genial people have worked; they have studied and have not gained without efforts what they have today. When man perseveres, everything in him develops. Man needs a song of humility. The humble man enters where nobody enters and goes out from where nobody goes out. One student said: "Give us a piece of advice. Tomorrow we will enter life." In sacred minutes, in the depth of human soul, something clear and sublime begins to talk and the striving for living for Beauty, Truth and Goodness awakens. Remain true to that internal voice, which comes from your true nature.

ABSOLUTELY POSSIBLE FOR A STRONG MAN Everything is achievable for strong people. Unachievable things become achievable. Consciousness shall be so flexible that man will not say that a matter cannot be settled. For example, somebody says: "This is absolutely impossible for me!" What is impossible for you is possible for somebody else. Say the opposite: "It is impossible for me not to do this job." We deny the world and we look for it. Hence, there is something in the world, which we have to avoid and another thing, for which we have to look. Even the most sublime creatures go down to the matter, because only in these conditions they are able to develop certain qualities. New way of thinking is needed. The entire present order shall be changed. Now there are karma-inevitable sufferings, which shall be eliminated or at least lightened. There are so many charity organizations, but they help just temporarily and the problem remains unsolved. When you only wish some things, they do not come and help you from the Invisible world, but if you make some efforts, if you start working on this, they come and help you. For example, if you want to make progress in music, when you start working, you will attract help from the Invisible world, but if you are idle, then It goes away. Somebody is melancholic, in low spirits. I will make an experiment. I will choose about ten persons for the purpose. When the first one meets an unhappy person, he will tell him: "Your face is shining!" The second of you will tell him: "Today is an important day; the last day of your hardships." The third one will say: "You will become an excellent poet." and he will become. The forth of you will say something similar. The fifth one, if he is a violinist, he will play for him and when the ten of you have taken turns to introduce energy, stimulus, he will become cheerful. The man in low spirits will rise. Each encouragement has a deep foundation. All positive methods have a foundation. I will choose ten optimists from you now. The pessimist has closed himself, does not go out. You will visit him then. The first one will bring him pears, the second one - something else. Ten nice fruits will be brought to him and when he eats them, he will feel the presence of those optimists and will fill of vital elixir. Pessimism is a pathological feature. We have to look cheerfully at life. Mosquitoes are temporary, they live by one time and when it becomes cold they disappear. Hence, hardships are temporary. One man works on dry sandy soil and plants. Somebody passes and tells him to leave that, because nothing will come of it. But he continues; he has persistence; he ploughs, digs, fertilizes, waters, and cleans. After a couple of years there will be a garden with lots of fruits. So when man starts any work, he shall not turn attention to the backbiting and discouragement of the people round him. Let him continue and finally he will have success. Nature works after own very strict laws, sometimes it gives external conditions, and it does not give internal ones, and another time it gives rich internal conditions - powers, talents, and it does not give external in order man to be able to develop through efforts his will and show activity. If someone cannot sing, let him learn to sing. If someone cannot play, let him learn to play. If someone cannot think, let him learn to think. Do not start with lots of desires simultaneously. Choose one desire and work on it, after that chose another desire and work further. A father has sons, but the son, who works and studies well, is his favourite son. We shall have the approval of God. While we are looking for the approval of people, we are far away from the truth. Man shall not be ordered from outside, but from inside. He shall be led from inside. If man does so, he will become a citizen of the Kingdom of God. The life on Earth is only a preparation for that nice life, which is coming. One brother asked: "How will we guess if spirits are good or bad?" The one, in whom the bad spirits work, will cause a quarrel between two persons and will use very bad names. He has blackness in his aura. When a bad spirits approaches you from inside, your state changes; you begin to feel indisposed, sad, doubt settles in you and so on. When a good spirit approaches you, your soul opens, everything is clear to you. Many things will be clarified to you from inside, light will come. The same brother asked: "My relatives want me to deal only with our domestic matters and live the spiritual ones." Tell them: "Leave me fulfil God's law and after that I will also fulfil your law, if I do not fulfil God's law, I will not be able to fulfil your law, either." Try to convince your parents. One sister asked: "Will all people turn and accept the new ideas?" Only who is ready will be accepted now, the others will remain for later. The first resurrection is for the ready souls. Some will be taken, and others will be left. This is the end of the age. Now evil is being tied. The state of the matter will change. The matter will become more and more ethereal. The radiation of radioactive energies will increase in the course of future millenia. This is the beginning of the slow dematerialization of the matter. The Writ says: "One, who sends somebody who is sinful to God, covers many of his sins." Today the most important work on Earth is the Path to God to be shown to people. Presently, lots of Advanced creatures come down from above, dressed in white clothes. When time comes for the New epoch, they will be the Sixth race, the new mankind and will take up the new. It is mentioned in the Revelation about that. The Kingdom of bad people is almost over. They have no something, on which to rely. One may work for himself, for people and for God. Let him work for God. That is the true work.

PARALLEL WORLDS I see how a saint carries on his back the sufferings and misfortunes of people, he is a loaded up saint and is in life. And when I see that a saint has nothing on his back, I say that he has not entered life, yet. Saints have constant connection with God. The secret is that no matter to where he sets off, God goes with him, this is not something external. If sugar does not melt in water, you have to warm the water a little and it will melt in the hot water. I will interpret this in this way, if you cannot perceive a blessing, warm a little your life, i.e. increase your love, and you will be perceivable then. I see that some of you have become older untimely and you say: "It is already over", and now you have the best conditions, blessings are around you, and you have to be optimistic. You will restore things as they initially have been and you will not breach God's order, because when you breach it, you will do harm to yourself. Now, on Earth, our evolution is stopped by the sin. Yet, some of you will become saints in ten years. One brother asked:"Divine years?" No. Human years. Somebody may become a saint today. If an object of the saint touches a dead person, he rises, and if it touches you, you will become a genius. Our notions for the saint are distorted. What I say cannot be understood by everyone. One brother asked about astrology and astrological predictions. Big astrological predictions do not materialize, and the small ones come true, because the zodiac, with which nowadays it is worked in astrology, is for the small things. And for the big things, there is another zodiac, which shall be used by astrologists. There are seven zodiacs. Besides that zodiac, which is presently used, there is another astral zodiac and so on - seven in total. The line of breaking between the forehead and nose defines how man would act. The thickness of the lips is important, if they are thick that man wants lots of pleasures, he wants a lot from everything. Then, it is of significance also the chin down, which is an expression of the will. The chin is formed after the forehead and the nose. Man with a long nose is hard-working. Nature acknowledges working capacity. Children will have right features in future. The type of the Sixth race has already begun to form. There are almost everywhere such types. Now, Archangel Michael is on the scene. He has taken the leadership of the epoch since a couple of years; when you are discouraged, think of Archangel Michael. Amongst all spiritual people, traducement, hatred, etc. shall stop, and the shells of evil will not affect you anymore. Somebody says: "You do not do your job. That is what the Master has come for.", and this not true. If they had done their job, I would have come again, but I would have talked about totally different things. Divine and human lives go parallel in man. A man sees that Divine life is nice and that is why he will deny the human one and he will again come back to Paradise. He will repent now like prodigal son and will go back to his Father. Now I want you all love God and manifest what is in you. We bring something new.

HAVE PEACE, IN ORDER TO HAVE USEFUL WORK You need thousands of years more in order you to become White Brothers. What love did you apply? You are still silkworms. I spend part of my time for you, but I also have an attitude towards plants, animals, stars, everything. Do not mix up human matters with God's ones. God's matters are always blessed. You say: "We are bad!" But you are not the best, either. Man, who lives well, benefits from himself and if he does not live well, he harms himself. All people are put to tests. And the one, who withstands till the end, will be blessed. The crucial things are very simple, but attention is required, because they are small. In order to be able to see small things and recognize them as important, alert consciousness is needed. People want now grand things, and grand things are results from small things. For example, the best poems are composed of small letters and if these letters do not exist, nice poems will not exist either. Somebody walks along the Spiritual path, and suddenly he goes back to the old. Man is a very tenacious, self-willed creature. They will tell him something, and he will do another thing. Those, who cannot correct their mistakes anywhere, are sent to Earth. One sister said: "I feel that something bad and unpleasant approaches me, goes into me and I become bad. When it goes out, I take on good mood." First of all, the publican, who gives the wine, is guilty, but the one who drinks is also guilty, because he lacks strength of character and does not manifest strong will. In such cases, the methods for facing shall be applied. The cart is yours, but somebody grips you and leads you. Till when? It is till the stronger one comes and grips the bridle. Then the horse and cart will go to where you wish. This means God's spirit to come. When the horse and the cart go to where you do not want, this is an obsession by lower creatures. The cart is your body, and the horse is your mind. When you get up in the morning, somebody has settled in you and has gripped the bridle. Man may find himself in a big hardship. You have some blessings, but lower creatures come and rob you. And you ask yourself where, what you had, has gone; where you joy, peace and good mood have gone. We do not know how to keep what we have. When you hate, you become ugly, and when you love, you become beautiful. The lower spirits want you hate to become ugly, shady and lose your love. Days of dedication come for the disciples. God will visit you to see to where you have reached. You will be examined not in the bad sense of the word, but of the good; everyone shall be ready now. One day you will pass through a big disappointment. This will be the final examination, which you will have to pass. You will be left by everybody. It will seem that all have forgotten you. Nature gives hard walnuts and difficult tasks to strong people. Enjoy contradictions, because in the current conditions life is impossible without contradictions. If we did not have contradictions in today's conditions, life would have been much worse. You shall have peace, in order you to have useful work. You cannot work without peace. Man of peace does the best things. Be in peace with all people, you shall not clash with them. In order man to renovate and be healthy, he shall not allow any negative thoughts, desires and feelings in him. It is nice all people from one society to send shining thoughts to each other. The misfortunes on Earth are results from the fact that very few people think for the sake of us. If everybody thinks good for you and you think good for the others, it will be very well. When man is in an electrical, nervous state, he shall breathe deeply, hold the air up to 100 seconds and calmness will come. The one, who does not quarrel for a year, receives a bonus, and the one, who quarrels, loses a bonus. The one, who does not quarrel for ten years, will receive a bigger bonus. I recommend you now a bonus for one day. Self-education is when man does not lose God's law even in the worst conditions. The wide road is dangerous, and the narrow one - safe. The robber is on the watch along wide roads, and along the narrow ones - he does not. Have in mind the following law: when you judge people, you take half of their sins. You all need one thing: to become inheritors of what is meant for you; because your Father has left you a large inheritance, and you are already mature and you shall not be idle and beg from one or another. Somebody wants me promise for the day of tomorrow, but I cannot promise, because I have not the day of tomorrow at my disposal. I can do something now. You shall say: "If the day of tomorrow is favourable and if it is God's will, I will do that, otherwise I will not." I insist on the following rule: when I enter a house and see that the carpet is curved, I fix it or if I see that a nail has come out, I hammer it, or if I see that the cloth of somebody is torn, I sew it; in this way I will create a good feature in myself. When man regulates his spiritual life, he will also regulate his physical one. The external life depends on the internal one. I know the Advanced creatures, because I love them. Love is the connection with them and they can manifest themselves. They ask me: "You can recognize them, can't you?" I say: "I love them." If you love them, they will do everything; they will arrange all your things; if you do not love them, they will walk past you and go away. Now we are in the desert and we will settle when we reach the Land of Canaan. There have been no better times. God's workers shall be brave and be able to give an answer to anyone. The lower spirits can say from inside, that it is not you who can fix the world. They will say: "Are you their last resort?" You will answer them: "The way you can spoil, I can fix. I will build with God, I am a worker, sent for this work and I will finish it. My plan is given." God's ship never sinks, although sometimes damage occurs.

LIGHT AND MISTAKES In a private conversation with a brother the Master said: We shall find good in people, but we also shall become light for them at the same time; and in this light they shall see their mistakes, without we notice them. The Sun does not see our mistakes, but we see our mistakes in its light. This shall be considered as introduction into the Internal School. The brother asked: "Is it possible a group to be formed, at the gatherings of which Shining creatures may come?" They shall have mystical spirit, gather in strict privacy, at a holy place, which shall be unapproachable for people of the world and nobody shall know about the group and the place of their meetings. In order a man to be accepted in such a group, first he shall lift his cross by himself, which is one of the important conditions. In this way he already is close to dedication. I will point out a feature of the wise man. When he comes to a hovel, he will ask if he may enter and if they say: "Yes", he will stay, but if they refuse him, he will not send bad thoughts; their decision is their right. The wise man would consider a big crime to impose on them.

DEVOTED SERVICE The spirit is the one, who introduces in you the idea to be free. What you want in the depth of your soul is from the Spirit. The desire itself in you, that striving and longing - all that is from the Spirit. He pushes you and introduces in you each idea. The development, rising, and improving of man happens by small stimulus, which periodically come from the Spirit. He will send you from inside one small stimulus, which will raise you a step forward and will introduce something new in you. After that the Spirit sends another stimulus in your mind and this continues throughout the ages. This is the most important factor for man's evolution, for his awaking, which works quietly, almost unnoticed and pushes Life forward. Each stimulus introduces a new idea, strengthened striving, unforgettable spiritual longing and the blessing of a shining beam. Besides internal possibilities, external conditions are needed, too. The external conditions can be given, but you have to perceive and use them. It is time to keep permanently a connection with the Spirit. Why should man go in for his past!? It is a great thing the new consciousness to be born in man. Only Jesus can show the Path. It is One, who have said: "I am the Path, Truth and Life." He is the Path and that is why only He knows things. Who is a disciple? - A disciple is everybody, who fulfils God's Will, i.e. he does not live for himself. The disciple serves God devotedly! One task means another more complicated one. When you solve it, you will be given a more complicated one. Now, during this year, keep your doors and windows opened. It is a law: one who wants will be given. No Master in the world comes to impose himself on the disciple, but the disciple has to come and knock on the door of the Master. The Master will give then. One of the qualities of the Great life is man to want, and not to beg. To want, it means your soul to be full of desire to study. For those who go down, Earth is an ideal, and for those who are climbing, to go up is an ideal. One, who comes down, cannot go up, and who goes up, cannot come down. And for the perfect one, it is the easiest thing to go up and come down. The understanding, which will come from inside, is from God. The progress of man depends on what God has foreseen. Man shall make efforts in order to go inside that flow and develop his internal feeling - intuition; when he enters the flow, everything goes well then and becomes clear. The dark spirit comes to the man to tell him that everything is in the material things. It is said by Jesus: "The king of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with Me." The power of man is not external; it is neither in wealth, nor in knowledge. It is inside. Now man thinks that he has remained alone, he has nothing to worry about, one day he will see the depth of God and His invariability. We want to be helped from outside. The conditions are outside, but help comes mainly from inside. Try to keep what you have, because it is more than that, which you cannot achieve. All that you can achieve, even the most perfect thing, cannot compare with what you have in you. In order God to feel love towards us, we have to have love towards Him and be ready to fulfil His Will. Saints had always suffered before coming to that knowledge. Somebody thinks of developing the powers in him, but he has to become a conductor and perceiver of the Divine in him. It is a law man to become such a perceiver and a conductor and if he does not perceive it and fulfil it, he creates his misfortune. One, who is connected with God's Goodness, is the best; the cleverest is the one, who is connected with God's Wisdom; the strongest is the one, who is connected with God's Spirit and the richest is the one, connected with God's Truth. And the disciple needs three things: studies, work and application. You are in disharmony, because you have many unachieved desires. Do not express two desires simultaneously, because they clash. The religious man will show if he really is religious when he falls among religious people, because among religious people, he is religious. Man shall study the ways of darkness and the Light, know that the world gives him pleasures and that the world is the flesh, and the dark spirit is the darkness. The true world is the Divine one and it is the world of God's Love, Light and Freedom. In order you to be able to realize something, which you desire, it has to pass through your mind, emotions and deeds. If it remains only in your mind and does not go to your emotions and deeds, it will not come true. One sister asked about those, who are still in karma relations with the others. They cannot be disciples. You want to commune with Angels, and one Angel deals with great matters, as well as one saint; they do not have time. Have desire to study, but do not wish to reveal all secrets. You need bread, which to use it today. On, who is under his way to the mountain, has a chance to reach one of its peaks, and one who stays at the lowlands, has no chances to climb. The spiritual acquisition, which you have, will not be lost and when you come another time, you will start from where you have stopped; you will be put in such conditions. You all are candidates for the Holy Fire. Under studies it is understood a way for gaining of immortality. You will be like a blossom, which is about to bloom, and like a spring, which rises. There are degrees in the Angels' hierarchy. People will also pass through the spheres and experiences, passed by them. Nice things are very expensive and man has to pay. The words "for nothing" have a totally different meaning: you have to have three teachers at the same time - in the material world and in the Spiritual and Divine ones. The disciple shall study the internal side of things, strive for having a clear idea of the mystic life, get rid of all external influences and want to find the Truth. He shall work in full consciousness, with belief and leave the final results to the Invisible world, to God. One sister asked: "Which are the conditions for one Divine School?" It shall be established a center of people, who shall have an absolute harmony with their deeds. Everybody shall live in the Light and know how to play his part in the orchestra - to fulfill perfectly what is entrusted to him. Complete confidence is required in all Divine Schools. There are people under the influence of the Black lodge, and the abstainers, vegetarians, good families, good sons, good parents, etc. are in the White lodge. There are people from both lodges everywhere - life is tangled. Man shall look at contemporary world through Divine eyes to see in what respect it can be used. Some of you are not in the School yet. I have not examined them. For example, somebody wants the first place, but he has a task, which he cannot solve. First is the one, who can fulfill God's work, and the last one is the one, who has not fulfilled it. Some people have a very critical mind; they all will fall behind. Only people with ideas will come closer to the School, the weaker will remain outside. There are circles and between all circles, there is one internal combination. The disciple shall study. You cannot buy charity, you have to have it. You cannot obtain belief, hope, love, handiness without efforts, either. You have to study them. And when you learn them, no one can take them from you. One brother asked: "Which is the main feature of the School of the Universal White Brotherhood?" The Path of Love, Path of Wisdom and Path of Truth enter simultaneously in the Teaching of the Universal White Brotherhood and It gathers these three paths in one. The disciple periodically passes through the waves of Love, Wisdom and Truth, repeats them again after that and so on. Man shall help everybody, but be on friendly terms with the talented, genial, saints and keep them in his mind. This is not only for the ones, who are in flesh on Earth, but also for the ones, who have gone. Those, with whom we are friends, shall be clean and selfless. Help everybody, but in accordance with his development. This is a rule for the disciple. And you shall keep everything, from where you pass, knowing that it is God's; everything comes from one Spring. We shall not rely only on that knowledge, which we have, but we have to be perceivable to the new knowledge. These events in the world will now manifest in the old way, and we talk about the new, which is coming. Some people are scared and think that spiritual life takes away from the blessings, no, the spiritual life gives the blessings in life, and the material one takes them away. Some people say that they are not ready yet for spiritual life, because they think that it will deprive them of the blessings of life. One sister asked: "How the disciple will understand whether he is at the right side?" Everybody, who looks for pleasure is at the wrong side and one, who does not look for pleasures is at the right side. Bulls, snakes and many other animals are inside man. Schooling is needed. People, in whom a lot shall be still written down, are many. Under the word "perfection", I understand one written out book, which will be read by the author and the others and will benefit from it, and today many people are books, in which lots of chapters will be added. At first, what is lost shall be restored and then a little acquisition shall come. You have to learn one musical word. It is very expensive. It is lost. You have to find it. When you have it, everything could happen then. The Writ says: "I will give him a white stone with his name written on it, which nobody will know." This white stone - this is the key, this is the musical word. Don't they put lids over both eyes of the horses not to scare them? The Black lodge put exactly the same lids over people's eyes and misled them and that is why they have narrow-minded understanding. Are you looking for the good conditions? The bad conditions of the Divine are more preferable than the good conditions of the human. It is better to have one honest poor friend than one rich man, who impedes you. Prefer the smallest opportunities in the Divine than the biggest opportunities in the human. Jeremiah says in times of the greatest hardships: "I have become a laughingstock." David has passed through enormous hardships! Man will also find himself in a hardship some time or other in the world. Blessed crafts for a disciple of the White Brotherhood are production of grain, vegetables, fruit-growing and bee-keeping. There are also another blessed crafts. You all need a skill. Man shall have at least one craft, on which to rely. He shall have a skill, a profession. Once the hermits, who isolated themselves, studied the herbs and cured people. They were skilful; they were doctors and thankful people brought them everything; man shall have some knowledge. Let most of you begin to serve as examples. Speak to suffering people, because they are ready to understand. They are ploughed soil, because they have suffered. There is no awaking until suffering comes. Many people want to become good, to enter the Kingdom of God to improve their status, but they do not want to work for God. Work for God. If you work, you may be born anew twenty times in this life. You are born anew once each year. Somebody will come to ask you if there is a rebirth. Tell him that each year you are born anew. You may start from the thirty-third year. You may go through ten or fifteen rebirths, but determination is needed. We shall want all that good people think will happen and only in this way a core may form between nations. Speak to people what is allowed. There are things, which are not allowed. Do not speak to people about things, for which they are not ready. This is blasphemy. You took what has been entrusted to you out to external and unprepared people and you became a mess. You shall say nothing about mystical things. You can speak about the internal experience, which you have, only for spiritual rise. Everybody has a spiritual leader, who, with great patience, waits for us to correct our mistakes. If you make a mistake, he will show you the way, whisper to you and you will collect yourself. This continues for hundreds of ages until man finds his way and walks without diversions.

WHEN DO WE BECOME FRAGRANT One day in October, we set off to El-Shadai at 4.30. We were about a hundred and fifty people. It had rained during the night and it was cloudy. When we got on Vitosha, the fog surrounded us and it began to snow. The foggy weather isolated us from external impressions and made us become deeply absorbed in ourselves. The dance of the fog, which revealed some peaks and hided them again after that, was interesting. During a conversation with the Master, the disciple's tasks were mentioned. We have false measures on Earth: for example, somebody is pleasant for us, and another - not and this is one false measure. The first one has made us a favour, and the second one -no. Or, let us consider the question for the mellowed character: the old one says that there is such, but I would like you to have not a mellowed character, but a lively one - to change ten times a day, without losing its good-will. Life is a nice thing. One, who understands good life is clever and carries his keys. When he goes to play a piano, he will tune it, and the one who does not understand, sits down in front of the piano, he cannot fix it and says that it is not tuned. Hardship is in ignorance. If you give something to a master, he will do it for ten or fifteen minutes; knowledge is needed. A cock thought that the tow is a nice thing, it went to dig and entangled in it by itself, not knowing how to extricate itself. The one, who has put the tow, has to come in order to extricate it. Knowledge is needed and the one, who knows, does not get older. One sister said: "Tell us how not to get older?" When you are ready. Man is stupid, because he cannot show rationality, and it is not, because he is not judicious. For example, one embryo cannot exist in the desert, because there are no conditions for developing, but if there is humidity, etc., it will. Do not evoke contradictions with no one, do not tell anyone everything. Do not reveal your heart, because those are children - speak little to them and reveal them only a few letters. You have been to a totally different world and when you have come down, you have to adapt at first. You are an actor, i.e. you are on Earth for a few hours. The entire life is a task, which man shall solve. All ways, in which man shall work and advance, are given in Nature. There are lots of delusions, of which we shall get rid. All weeds and prejudices in man shall be uprooted. Only fallow, black earth shall stay and the Divine will come then. Let's establish this rule: to live in conformity with Nature, it helps then. When Good and evil meet and evil gets scared, then fear is born and envy appears. Evil is shaking. It is scared that Light will reveal everything. If I have a Divine idea, if I have the new, I do not have to turn attention to what is the attitude of the others towards it. Some people bear old archaic views. Anger is not channelled energy. It develops in a wrong direction. Anger is always a result from feelings. Malice, lying, disbelieving lead to death, and Belief, Love, Truth lead to Life. Temporary things, which happen in life, shall not change the state of man. Martyrs, who have maintained a certain idea, have been such. Man shall study the whole internal system of the School, which exits from times. For example, an obstacle or danger shall not disturb your Peace and Joy; that is why the disciple shall have deep mystical understanding. The disciple shall contradict the habit. Say that you will not do it for gaining independence and becoming a master. The disciple shall get rid of the old habits. For example, you decide to set off along the Divine path, but you kick somebody like a horse and get a hiding, and decide not to kick any more, but you forget later and kick again. The disciple shall think objectively, impersonally. It is not important what your personal attitude towards the matter is, but how God looks at it. Estimate things not from your point of view, but from God's point of view; when people are in a very thick matter, their power decreases. Today everybody feels something unsteady, but it will pass after a while. I recommend to my disciples to go in for with music, painting, other types of art, studying of a language. And if man has a good elevated life, Love and everything else will come. Some people use eau-de-Cologne, but there is no a better eau-de- Cologne than Love. Odour of myrrh, of misk[1] goes out from man of Love. When Shining creatures come to us, they recognise our sublime thoughts and feelings by the fragrance, which comes out from us. When we think of God and God thinks of us, we become fragrant. The disciple shall voluntarily limit himself, in order to safe his powers and not spend them. Let's say that I make my face beautiful like the one of a young woman; then everybody will fell in love with me and will run after me. And what of that? I will not be free. But I will make an ugly form, in order to be free. Somebody, no matter where he goes, will always want the others to do him a favour, but you do your work by yourself, as far as it is possible and do not always want the others to do you a favour. Often, the richest are neither the cleverest, nor the strongest. The rich man has had brains enough to win his wealth, but he has been not clever enough to win God's Kingdom and after eighty years he will lose everything. The rich man is clever for the world. It is good a rich man to lose his wealth, but not to lose his life. You say: "I will do that and that" and when you say so, you come upon obstacles and conflicts. Say: "I will do that and that; I will go there and there, if it is in accordance with God's Will." Man has too many desires. Leave at least one not fulfilled and it will be a power in you. For example, you want to have patent leather shoes; no, put on simple shoes. You want to be a very clever man, let something, which you do not know, aside (e.g. astrology), and it to be a great stimulus in you. If the parents of a child love him too much and their entire attention is directed towards him, there are people, who are envy and the child will be often ill. Our all worries are for nothing. Another rule for the disciple: you shall not praise people before them. One brother said: "As I am very busy with other things, I do not have time for spiritual work." When man wants to have time for spiritual work, conditions will improve by all means. There is something inside, which will improve the conditions. When the disciple comes to the gathering, he will leave his entire load outside. When he goes out, if he wants, he can take it back. A new actress comes to a theatre; the old one withdraws as a spectator to see how the new one plays. If the new one is a better actress, then she is new, if not, then she is an old one. If the old one is happy for the talent of the new one, then she is from the new people and will want to meet the New, which is coming and learn from it. --------------------------------------------------------- [1] - Misk - odour from the Spiritual world, which is sensed in specific circumstances

FREE IN THE WORLD Some brothers and sisters visited the Master. During the conversation incidentally He said: You shall not leave the world, but you shall be free in the world. When it is said that man shall leave the world, it is understood not externally, but internally. If you study the lives of the prophets, you will see that they were very hard, but they had rich internal life. To be free, when you are amongst people, is like walking in the forest, depending only on you to where you are walking and what you will gather - raspberries or blackberries, the choice is yours. To be in the world, but to be out of it means people not to meddle in your own business. When man enters the world, he will learn one good thing: everybody has concentrated on the thoughts, which border him, with great interest. Somebody says: "To leave the world!" No, when man goes far away from people, he becomes estranged and remains without blessings. One brother asked: "Will I be able to improve my intuition through meditation and internal studying, by keeping away from the external emotions, or shall I improve it through experiences within the external world and physical activity?" When man swims in the sea, he shall keep his head above the water. If the head is in the water, nothing can be done; he shall keep his body in the water, and the head - above it. Have also the method of the plant: the roots are in the soil and the branches - in the Divine world, i.e. half you shall not go out of the world, because there are no good conditions for that, but the other half shall be in the Divine world. When two creatures, the one of which moves quicker, and the other moves more slowly, make a connection, the one, which moves slowly becomes an obstacle for the other, which moves quickly. Hence, when you connect to a lower life, you go down, because you are being impeded and you move more slowly. So, do not connect to men of the world; they impede you, because they postpone, they move slowly. You shall not divorce yourselves from them, you shall live with them, and help them, but you shall not make a connection. Which are good connections? Do not make connections with the world, which will take away your freedom. Make connections, which you can tie and untie by yourself. Somebody says: "Why do you tie me?" - Because you yourself do not tie. If you yourself do not tie, others will tie you; and if you do not untie by yourself, others will untie you. You shall make connections, but rational connections.

DISCIPLE'S SAFETY The world is a school and since we were born, we have been invited in it. Be happy that you were born on Earth and study. God, who has created the world, has foreseen everything. The same law as with eating exists in knowledge. You are hungry; eat, but do not overeat. You will be hungry tomorrow again, eternity is before you. You want to eat up everything - leave some for another time and for others. You are studying the most difficult music now - the music of Life. The entire world is a school for discipline of human souls. The safety of the disciple is in studying. We cannot solve all problems in this transient life. But that thought, which remains in your mind and nothing can darken it, is a high mountain peak - it is on what you can rely in the concrete case; it is the Reality. One teacher has taught you a lesson and you have to learn it in order to thank him. Be with high spirits and study God's laws. Study! What is achieved by somebody in one way, you cannot achieve it in the same way - ways are various, things do not happen in one and the same way. The example of somebody else is only encouragement for you. It is not an easy job until we break up with the old. We have to pass through fire and not burn out; pass through the sin and not get dirty. Use the conditions, given to you by God .Learn from the virtues, which you have and from the mistakes, which you have. You all shall strive for establishing a harmony with the Rational creatures. Man's entire life shall be a preparation for the Spirit, which is coming. In spiritual life, after man has worked for a long time for the others, he shall also work for him himself. Make small attempts, in order the results to be seen. You will work from inside through praying and contemplation, in order to increase your perception power. You shall see God's providence everywhere and the beauty of springs, trees, rivers, and grit and follow their example. It is not in your interest to be praised. The biggest mastery is man to learn to live - this is a whole science. Everybody has to develop his intuition, in order to be able to predict, through which lots of misfortunes will be avoided. There are forgotten talents from the past in everybody, which you have not developed and they stay aside for one life, two lives, three lives. God will judge you about the talents, which He has given to you and which you have not polished. The man of God shall know what the world know and have one plus on top of that - to know something more. One, who has not finished the school on Earth, shall finish it, because he cannot enter the Divine until he passes his final examination. If you do not understand Earth matters, how will you understand the Heaven ones? One, who studies on Earth, will be send to an upper school, and one, who does not study - to a lower school. Man shall be thankful and have the consciousness of a child, who has a lot to study. Man shall pass through all these visible stars to study. So much work is coming for him! How much time it will take him to pass through all these solar systems! Man shall know what is needed in the concrete case. It is impossible he to know everything, and he cannot know everything, because he has not created the world. The pleasantness is not in understanding everything, but to understand the small, which you need in the concrete case. For example, when you go to the spring, it is not important to know how water has appeared and from where it comes; in that case the essential small thing is to drink water, and later the rest. Let man start working with the small, which he has. There are months, in which plants bloom and grow ripe, and there are months, in which fruits are gathered. This is especially for all, who look for the way. I speak symbolically. Those, who have worked more, have developed Divine gifts. Advanced souls are those, who have worked. Each soul, who comes from the Invisible world, brings new conditions for development of the Divine. The mistake is in us, when we have come to Earth, where there are various vehicles; we have get on a buffalo cart and say that it goes slowly. Get off the slow vehicle at the next station and get on another - a faster one. Most of the rules are not given to everybody for two reasons: first, because some people will abuse and will use them to take money from people and for personal aims. Second, because they will not thank God. It is hard to say what man can be, because he is not a finished process yet. Three things are needed - Love, Knowledge and work. The most important things are to be studied from now on. When man studies God arranges his things. Our old views are not in conformity with the Divine ones, which will come. What are whole sacks of old bank-notes, which worth nothing, for? Somebody expects something without making efforts - as a lottery ticket. No, it shall be worked. Somebody else comes and asks me: "Will I finish high school?" I ask him: "Do you have girl-friends towards whom you have special feelings?" - "I have." I tell him: "It will be hard for you to finish high school." I tell fortunes, because his mind is distracted - today laughing, tomorrow laughing and he will not finish. God wants work, studying. Teachers love assiduous students, who study. When there is a capable student in the class, the teacher loves him and because of him he teaches with inspiration the others, too. Apply as much as you have understood. Apply microscopic things each day and do not feed negative thoughts any more. Do not talk about negative things, but about positive ones. Read the prophets. You have to learn something each day - not to become scientists, but to study. From Love to Light, from Light to Freedom and from Freedom to Love? When this circle is completed, man gets younger, and one, who does not know it, gets older and dies. Each of us has to have such a philosophy: nothing to trouble you. Talks shall be studied and applied. They will teach you from outside and from inside; it is said: "Spirit will come and teach you everything." The main obstacle is in us; the obstacles from the surrounding environment come after that. The whole nature is full of material for study. Watch the rabbit how it understands geometry - when there is no more than a kilometre, before the hound reaches it, the rabbit chooses a centre and begins to spin and spin, and after that it jumps off a few meters aside, and the hound remains to spin at that place in circle. If the life of Nature is studied, it can be seen through what phases man shall pass. In order to come to a blessed state, he shall pass through lots of unfavourable phases. Let's take for example the butterfly: before perching from flower to flower, it is a caterpillar, exposed to big dangers, and when it becomes a butterfly, it forgets. When it lays eggs, caterpillars hatch from the eggs again. So, when we come to that sublime consciousness, we go to the old consciousness again later. Hence, it is necessary to stay in the sublime consciousness, which comes to us. Everything outside relates to something inside you. And we, by thinking that there is no relation, pass like strangers in the world. The connection between the external Nature and us has lost. If you go to a pear tree, take a fruit and thank it, in this way, you make a connection with Nature. The Spiritual stands somewhere and I tell you where: "Go and take water along this road." If you wait for somebody else to bring you, this is misunderstanding. When man studies well, he will become a saint; when people start learning from saints, they will become people. Some people look for the Divine in the otherworld, but the Divine is a well ordered life. Some people asked me if there is an afterlife; I told them: "There is no afterlife. What afterlife? Man has taken off his clothes and has gone. He is again in this world, because the clothes are not something essential." Nothing shall impede your mind and heart. For example, you look for God and think of what people would say. This is not important. The experience, which you gain, is important. If you yourself do not try the meal, you will not know what it is like. The little, which you have understood, is worth more than the large wealth, which, however, is not understood. When you give an apple to a child, it will have a bigger influence on him than thousands of pictures with painted trees. You all have to develop certain psychic powers. Otherwise, you will get stupid, you will not be able to benefit from the goods, which Nature has. At first you can make elementary experiments: for example, you have gone out for a walk, but a storm is coming, find a way to withstand. You will see to what extend you will be able to withstand. After that wish for the storm to calm down; if it stops, your experiment is successful. Were you at that experiment when we were climbing to Musala? There was a thunderstorm then and we passed through an electricity zone. Sparkles and fires came out of our clothes. The detectives, who wanted to keep an eye on us, remained down. They said: "It is madness to go up." It brightened up. You witnessed so many experiments and you still lose belief.

OPERATE WITH YOURSELF Acquisitions will come consecutively on the road along which you walk. Do not feel embarrassed. Man shall neither be in a hurry, nor be quite slow. Man shall study his states. When you have unbelief, doubt, hatred, they all have to be replaced by Belief, Hope, and Love. If hatred comes in you, replace it with a love state. Lots of transformations of the kind are required in the occult science. It is a whole science man to operate with himself. When you get up in the morning, change your state, eliminate each dissatisfaction, imagine that you are in a state of an Angel, of a Rational creature, who is performing God's will and you will have an internal stimulus. Put joy and sorrow outside of yourself and realize that they are something external for you and that you are over them; in this way, you will be able to live in the Reality. You will not despise sorrow, because it is non-advanced creatures, which walk after you, complain and give sorrow to you. You shall stop for a while and take up with that creature - you shall teach it to pray or you can send it to work. How can man be free, when he is tied? He has bad thoughts and desires; how will he get rid of them? Wine contains admixtures of the dung from the yeast-fungi. Thoughts and feelings may also contain admixtures. There may be admixtures in love, too. In that case, envy, suspicion, doubt, which are fermentation of this shady love, appear. Human face, which has had a regular and beautiful form earlier, changes then - everything has an effect on the mouth, eyes, nose, ears, etc. When you have a desire, which worries you, it means that it is not Divine and you shall transform it. There are spirits, who are ready to help during the transformation of the thoughts. The important is assistants to come. When you work, they come. This is the reason for which we pray: "Send Your Spirit." The task of the disciple is to turn his indisposition into disposition. One brother asked: "You have talked that some people do not have harmony between the mind and the heart. What is this harmony all about?" Love and Divine thinking shall come, in order mind and heart to balance. Examples for states, which show that there is no harmony between mind and heart, are discourage, indisposition, irritability, nervousness, fear, anxiety, worries, dissatisfaction, hatred, etc. In that case, disturbance in the functions of the respiration, circulation and digestion occurs, as well as in the functions of the liver. Do not fight evil, but go to Good. When you fight evil, you will gain nothing. Flood rain is coming against you, let it flow away. Do not fight people's superstition, but spread Truth. When somebody is in consolation, in low spirits, renovation may come in many ways, from which I will mention the following: through air breathing-in, through eating of some fruits, through eating of some bread, through drinking of a cup of hot water, etc. Because God is in them and when we consciously breathe in some air, drink water, eat fruits or bread, we make a connection with God through them. You have some negative desires or states; open the Bible and see how with a certain passage or words you will transform your state. There are such parts in the Bible, which transform. Another method, when you feel miserable and are indisposed, it is good to go to a venerable tree, lean you back on it and say: "Here is my sorrow, my burden, give me your calmness", because the tree is very calm and pouring from the tree into the man takes place. And the tree copes easily with your sorrow. When you have rough energies, in order to get rid of them, dig for a while in the garden and they will go into the soil. If you want sublime energies, turn eyes towards the sky. Harness discouragement into work. When man considers life aimless, he shall start cutting firewood. This energy shall be used. Gardens for pessimists may be arranged in future and when they dig, water, seed, etc., pessimism will go away. It is not a problem that all of our plans are not achieved. Their time has not come. The Angels would like to be you.

WHEN YOU SIT DOWN TO THINK Now they put the Spiritual world contrary to the material one, and there is no contradiction between them. Material life has not to be mixed up with the carnal one. Flesh and body shall not be mixed up. The body is a house, a temple, where God lives. And the flesh is a fly, entangled in a spider's web. Man has entangled himself in some desires, and he cannot liberate from their influence. Man shall know, what is unfinished in him, with what he has dropped behind. Each disciple has to know on what in himself he has to work. There is something from the animals in man and that is why he has to look, think, because all misfortunes come from the lower desires. If somebody has ten million leva, what will he achieve with that? He is not at all insured. People shall by no means think. All people suffer from not thinking. We all need self-education - the only thing that can remain in man is what is gained by self-education. Man has passed through all animal forms, now he passes through their habits and has to strive for liberating from them. If man starts living a pure animal life, the forehead inclines backwards, the chin draws out backwards, and the jaw stands out forwards. If man continues in this way for several generations, the form changes. Monkeys are people who have fallen behind human culture - they had not been able to advance in their development and had fallen behind. But there is hope for them in the far future. One disabled person with crutches complained that he did not receive charity; then one violinist went with him to play, the disabled person stretched the bowl and people left lots of money in it. The violinist is the brilliant mind or the brilliant heart. It is misfortune if the disabled person is alone and it is happiness when the violinist is with him. This may happen in one moment, but it may be also waited for thousands of years. Somebody says that he does not want to be very rich; no, you are going to be rich in thoughts and feelings. Each day choose one verse, on which to think. Every day choose something new. You always repeat one and the same thing. The internal states are stronger than the external conditions. Man has to begin with the internal state - he has to start his education from there. If he changes his internal state, the external conditions will change, too. Man will have to work a lot before becoming a master of himself. Remember that there is a lot to be done and remember that lots of things are unfinished. All contradictions in life are important. Each of us has to make an orchard, to seed in himself - in his mind and heart - fine seeds. You are not alone. When you sit down to think you will see that you are not alone. You say something and somebody else in you says that it is not so - there is a National Assembly. Finally, voting takes place, resolution is accepted and you propose. The chairman is the Ego. Every day we have to solve the problems, which have to be solved by the entire mankind. Somebody has an illness - one injured self-esteem; we have to cure it, this is science. He says: "He said me so, I will teach him!" Each person is a material teaching for you; be careful what kind of lesson God wants to teach you through him. Now, in that Divine teaching, someone experienced is needed; many times people have talked, but they do not know how to do it. Every day you have to fix your pictures a little. You have not tried the real evil, you know only its shadows and that is why do not discourage. All of us are equally talented, but they have not worked. The disciple has to develop his talents - be musicians, poets, wise. I want to make you all painters, musicians, poets in order you to be able to experience the life of the flower, of the mineral, of the spring. You will never see what is hidden in one flower until you develop mildness in your mind and heart and work with it for twenty years. Are they many? - Let them be fifty. This may also happen in a moment. The language of the plants teaches man how to live after the Divine way. You have to believe in your gifts. You may become a painter, a poet, etc. - all this is put in you and you have to find methods to awake the gifts, needed in your present life. The capable man, even put at the bottom, will come to the surface as butter, and the incapable one, even put at the top, will go to the bottom as a stone. There are so many mistakes in our lives, which have to be corrected and sometimes we just do nothing and we do not correct them. All from Heaven work, all work - and we also have to work. Stop crying, but correct yourself. If you see a mistake of yours, be joyful; you have made it, correct it. Man shall be relentless in his understanding - to allow no mistakes, to absolutely clean himself, completely and to the end. Reveal each mistake, which you do. Then if you have grown older you will become younger. Do not criticise yourself, just note the mistake and correct yourself. Contemporary science is capable of turning the carbon into diamond, by applying big pressure and high temperature. Hence, the sins that you have are embers, which you have to turn into diamonds. This is science; God assigns a task to you. Do not feel sorry for the mistakes, in order to be able to fix them. If you feel sorry, you lose time. At first, one mistake is so tiny that you have to look at it through lens, and then when it kindles, it becomes big. Do not self-blame yourself, because you blame God in you. When all mistakes are corrected, internal Peace will come. Everybody, who has corrected our mistake, is happy. All joys are results from corrected mistakes, and all sorrows - from the done ones. When somebody corrects a mistake, good comes in future. An animal cannot correct a mistake of its and that is why it cannot make a progress. If man thinks that somebody sinful is clever, this is impossible. Stop breaching God's laws. We restore what we have lost and we consider it profit. A student, who studies shall not make even the smallest mistakes. When you work on a virtue of yours or work on eradication of a shortcoming of yours, but you do not see results, the result is already apparent above, and it will later project here on Earth, too. One sister said: "Now we work on ourselves, but we do not have results." You have a result, but it is above, in the soul and later it will also manifest here. Time will come, when you will be received with date-palm twigs. Cultivate your mistakes. You can cultivate the crab-apple, the blackthorn - you can cultivate all mistakes. The sin is a spiritual leprosa and you all have to liberate from certain grafts, handed down to you by your ancestors. When you see a bad act, learn a lesson and promise yourself: "I will not act like him." Let's say that you have to pay back large sums to a hundred of people; pay them back the debts and the interests. We can fix some things in this way. Man takes offence at nothing! When you are offended by someone, correct your mistake and after that you will tell him: 'You offended me and I corrected my mistake." When somebody insults you, instead of feeling hurt, think if what he has said is right in order you to be able to correct yourself. You are told this in order to think and turn attention. When you correct yourselves, you pay off your mistakes or the mistakes of the others. One brother asked: "How will I guess whose mistakes I pay off?" When you are in a hurry, you pay off your mistakes, and if you are not in a hurry, you pay off somebody else's mistakes. One sister asked: "How will I guess if somebody, who has insulted me, hints or not at some of my mistakes, and if I am really guilty or not?" When somebody insults you, if you do not lose your peace, your harmonic state and if you are completely calm, this shows that you are not guilty for what he is insulting you. If you blow up and lose your peace, this shows that this insult really concerns some of your mistakes. You cannot liberate from mistakes on Earth. If you have not your own mistakes, you will bear somebody else's mistakes. Man learns from the mistakes of the others. For example, somebody has made a mistake; this is as if he has fallen in a ditch, but somebody else sees him and does not fall in it. It is better man to learn from people's mistakes than doing his own mistakes; in this way those mistakes, which you will make, are decreased - there is no need of doing all mistakes. Clever people learn from the mistakes of the others. When you want to become an Angel, you already establish a connection to those Higher creatures and they start working on you - you attract their attention and their assistance. Man may become an Angel for one life. The following is needed for this: when he makes a mistake, to correct it immediately. This is the best way for evolution. There is an ordinary and slow way under the leadership of the Master and finally - a way, again under the leadership of the Master, but with a quick and accelerated evolution. The latter is realised when man corrects each of his mistakes immediately. Be happy that you have hardships, because, in this way, you will correct your mistakes. But you want without hardships; of course, it is possible, but do not make mistakes. And you do a mistake after a mistake and you want it to be without hardships; but it cannot be. Saintly man is the one, who does not make mistakes and notices the smallest mistake and wants to correct it. There are lots of habits, of which we have to get rid. Man, who makes mistakes and does not correct them, cannot have God's blessing. You cannot save one from a mistake, if you have it; otherwise, you will develop it in him further. If you do not have it, you can. If you eat meat, you cannot teach people to be vegetarians; the same law concerns charity, justice, etc. - if you do not have them, you cannot teach the others, either. It is a sin when man does not make his mind think properly, his heart feel properly and his will act properly; in that case he contradicts the Genesis. No matter what the thinking is, it will be revealed. Sometimes, there is a creature in man, which hardly gives away - man feels that he cannot give away, cannot change his state. Man has to work always, why should he idle! No matter what, he has to work; if he stops, what he does not want will come. When someone stupid corrects his mistakes, he becomes clever, and if one, who is clever, does not correct them, becomes stupid. One day my watch stopped; I winded it up and it started to work for a while, but it worked slowly and stopped again. I pushed it again; it was working for fifteen minutes and stopped. In the morning I saw a little hair, showing and when I took it out and winded up the watch, it began to work well. I say: when a hair is entangled in our springs and the mechanism is not working then - sometimes it is all about one hair. The hair means one little mistake. One brother asked: "Which is the best way for correcting mistakes?" Your all mistakes will be shifted on me, so make fewer mistakes. You cannot fix a man physically, nothing is achieved in this way; he has to turn to God - this is the only means. If you have committed a sin, go to God, nothing more! Everybody shall have belief and manifest the Divine. If you take bad food, take castor oil. Also, when a bad thought comes to you, penitence is needed. I will give you a rule for the disciple: if a new melody comes to your mind, write it down right away, because you will not be able to recall it later. The same concerns poetry, philosophical thoughts, etc. Write down everything, which comes to you from inside. When a good thought comes to you, take out your notebook and write it down. When you dream a nice dream, write it down.

DISCIPLE'S CONSCIOUSNESS ALERTNESS After the performance of the Paneurhythmy we came near to the Master to greet him. It was one of those unforgettable spring days. The fruit trees have blown into flowers and made the meadow fairy. The slender pine-trees stood upright, gilded by the sunbeams. Snow still gleamed on the peaks of Vitosha and freshness exhaled from it. The case in point was the alertness of consciousness. There is an apache, with which you cannot cope. You have one nice feeling, one nice thought, but they disappear, because the apache has stolen them. There is no one to keep you. A solid thought is needed in order you to be always fenced, one excellent philosophy is needed. Consciousness shall be always on the alert and man shall know, in the concrete case, whether the consciousness is his own or somebody else's and which thought to accept and which not. Now you have to keep from falling when you rise upwards; from occurrence of a reaction. For example, a tied bug flies off and falls, flies off and falls and finally it liberates itself and goes away. Sometimes you are also tied. There are vermin in man, which want to delude him and then rob him, and there are Higher creatures, who want to protect him from them and in general - they help him. Man has to do something, in order not to fall: when he is awake, it is fine, but at a small interruption of the consciousness, the vermin get inside. When they want to rob you, they will make you drunk, i.e. they will blur your consciousness and when you sober, you will see that you have nothing. We do not know how to keep what we have. The mosquitoes stick their proboscises and suck blood; there are also psychic mosquitoes, which discourage you by sucking your energy. We have to liberate from the useless torment of the lower creatures. Jesus came to liberate the mankind from some creatures, of whom people used to be captives. Yes, power is there: the conscious life to correct things. There are some formulas, but I dare not to give them, because you do not have rhythm and you do not fulfil them wholeheartedly. And sometimes you as if shoot cartridges in the air, but you cannot do mischief. Man shall never impede the Divine in him. When he impedes it, he destroys himself. When man wants to arrange his things in a human way, he creates his unhappiness; in other words, man has to liberate the Divine in himself and it will arrange his matters. New education is needed, new understanding, new ways. You can put in your room clean or opal window-glasses; in one of the cases, they will not let light in profusely, but if you put crystal clear window-glasses, it will be even better. One who knows much and does not apply it, suffers a lot. Man does not suffer from much knowledge, but from not applying it. The whole mankind goes to a new phase and a coup d'fttat takes place. People cannot live any more in the old way. The old shell is cracking and chicken either has to go out or die - one of both. Somebody feels sorry for the old time, but new sprigs go out from the old ones and fear is unnatural here. In Ellada, they related that people had seen one big bony frog* in the sea and thought that this was an island. They fixed a flag and settled, but after a while the bony frog began to move and they ran away. In the same way, an idea emerges in our minds and we think that it is an island and we put a flag, but after that we go away. In translation, it means not to cheat ourselves by illusions. While you were going down to Earth, you have chosen a plan, but when you step on it, you find another plan. As long as you think, feel and act right, you are where you have to be; as long as you do not think, feel and act right, you are not where you have to be. Think, feel and act like Jesus on a small scale. People look for the easy way, and it is the hard one. Under an easy way, it is understood an ordinary path of life. The beautiful path with the big achievements and success is the Divine path, which actually is the real easy way. It is preferable to get up early than later from a spiritual point of view. With regards to this, there is a wonderful example in the Gospel with the wise and unwise young girls. When a thought tends to divide, it is of human nature. One man married to an old woman, who was dressed up as a young woman. After that the old woman showed her real face, which the man had had to check from the beginning. You also have lots of your own ideas, which you have to check what they actually are. People shall not be pig-tenders. Malice, hatred, impure thoughts, desires, feelings, etc. are the pigs, after which man looks and he shall leave them and go to his father. There is no reason for staying with them and listening to their grunting, this is no concern of yours; do not drive them away and leave them, because if you drive them away, they will come back. Man shall liberate his mind from some useless thoughts, desires and acts. He shall learn to get rid of the useless load each evening and keep the most valuable, which may be applied in the concrete case. Man has to find ways for liberating from the thoughts of the others in him, which divert him. There are five degrees of people - ordinary, talented, genial, saints and Masters, and there are five categories of thoughts and acts. For example, now you can have an ordinary thought, and another time you may have a talented or a genial thought, etc. We have to distinguish the thoughts. When a nice thought comes to you, do not reject it like a cock, which skips the diamond. In each moment you have to know where the Divine is. We have to go out of this world of hesitation and suffering and come to a world of harmony, where everything is Joy and Merriment. There are feelings, which are of animal origin, and there are ones, which contain rationality - they are Divine and shall not be mixed with one another. When we say that man feels, and does not think, animal state is understood. What will be the results from that? In the physical world, when you slip downwards, there is nothing to catch at and you continue to go down like blazes. It looks like that to the others, but it is not the same for the disciple; he must have overcome this slipping downwards, because he works consciously. Before becoming aware, man is in a chaotic state. Lots of useless things may gather in the mind and man shall liberate from them. Dust enters the room without invitation. Man shall recognize what in his mind is dust and liberate from it. If you have Light and Warmth, the non- advanced spirit keeps away from you - it cannot approach you, but it always wants to stop the Light and Warmth in you. Contradictions in life are objects for interpretation. No matter what happens, one who can unriddle, shall not embarrass. When man acts without Divine light, then evil is born, and catastrophes come. For example, when man gets angry to someone and wants to beat him, without thinking of consequences. One sister asked: "How to avoid bad thoughts?" Think of good! Go five fingers up. Do not enter the lower flow; if your legs touch it, you will go under its influence. Sometimes something suddenly flashes internally in you, and sometimes - slowly. The candle glows all at once, and the Sun rises slowly. The quick things are human, and the Divine methods are slow. When you enter no matter where, fence yourself, make in your thoughts shining circles round yourselves and breathe deeply; after that you can enter, because all bad influences are eliminated in this way and everything arranges. It is a mastery man to know how to use favourable conditions, which are given to him at the moment. The disciple shall always remember that he is a student; he shall never forget it - no matter in what environment he is and what environment he works. When God speaks to you and tells you to do something, the second voice tells you, through you yourself, that there is no time and that it is not worth being so good, that you do not have means and strengths, and that you do not have to fast and pray so much. The second voice is the voice of the tempter. Side inlets may occur in man, but he shall eliminate them. Once they put the eye of a man on one of the pans of scales, and on the other one they put gold, but the pan with the eye did not lift up. They piled more gold, but it again did not move. Finally they added a little soil and it lifted up. Man shall not want lots of things; if he wants lots of things, his eyes become weaker. You are connected to Jesus. Go along that Path and the connection will increase by itself. You all live in the life of the past; you say that you have prayed ten years ago and God has listened to you, but the present day is the important one. Each day brings vast wealth. And you, thinking about the past, lose the present. Now you have to put a base; your internal life is important - you shall be right there. The internal man is from God. When you do something and you do not like it, it is from the dark spirits; if you do something and you like it, it is from God. The Divine always whispers to man from inside. When man forgets the road, he asks for it the others round him, doesn't he? Man also has to ask from time to time the Invisible world, he has to wait and be in no hurry to solve the problem. Listen to the new ideas, which are whispered to you from inside. Today, the Divine thoughts and the thoughts of the dark spirits are entangled everywhere, that is why man shall not think that he will get rid without the alertness of his consciousness. The dark spirit says to God: "They look very good, they sing very well, but they are not such as they pretend to be. Wait, I will give them a game to screen them." Hence, the dark spirit wants to screen you. The little sins look like a publican's glass - you clink glasses in the inn and everything that God has implemented in you disappears; the aim of those, who want to rob you is achieved in this way. You have to recognize the dark spirit the first time he visits you and take measures. Your Angel - leader may talk to you through somebody and that is why you have to listen to what good people talk. Somebody will ask you how you are going to live in future. I do not think about the future, I think about the present day and I believe that the next one will be better, and that the third one will be even better. One, who asks what will happen with him, does not understand life. Life, from one end to the other, is a Divine beauty. One Master recommended to two of his disciples the following: to the first one - to tell people, whom he meets, that they will succeed in everything, and to the other - to tell people, whom he meets, that they will not succeed in anything. When the second disciple came back, he said that he had been beaten many times. We shall say people: "This too shall pass!" Contemporary people hesitate everywhere - both men of the world and men of God. They cannot recognize the Divine in themselves, they give in and sometimes the human gains mastery over. Sometimes we give advice to the soul - she comes forward, and we always ask whether it can be in another way. We always keep in our minds those, who have done harm to us and in this way we impede our advancement. When the animal comes in man, brotherhood and sisterhood - everything noble in man disappears. Man can liberate from the lower spirits, which come. How? - He must not allow their weaknesses. If he has them, he attracts all foes. Man shall give up the old and leave only what is valuable and what is not - get rid of it. When the nervous energy wears out, all illnesses come. When you do not have nervous energy, you are a tradesman in bankruptcy, who has no capital. There shall not be outflow of nervous energy. If you tell yourself: "It does not matter if I will understand it or not." or "It is over for me", your nervous energy flows away in this way. Each man shall have tension - to be in suspense; then energy comes and it is spent wisely. You have to self-educate from now on. Man is a stranger on Earth - he will be called one day, but he knows neither when nor how. They will call him when he does not expect, that is why he has to be prepared. When you are low-spirited, despondent, when you feel to be dejected, this means that you experience for one hour or for one day one not good past life. And when you feel to be jolly, happy, cheerful, then you experience one whole nice past life. A man is coming against you; do not think if he will pass by, but think in advance how to make space for him. In this way you save time and dignity. If you think in this way, desire will arise in the other to pass by. You have chains, but you are thirsty; there is water nearby, but you cannot go, your legs are tied. However, the key from the chains turns out to be in your pocket - unlock the chains, leave them, go to the fountain and drink water. When you pass through the kingdom of the dark spirits, pass dirty and when you cut it across, wash yourselves. One wise man was taking one beautiful royal princess across one country, where they wanted to kill her, but she was dirty and ragged for not recognizing her. When man works no matter in what sphere and implies personal feelings, the blood goes to the centre of the personal feelings, and not to the front and upper brain centres, which need blood. Then man can advance neither mentally nor heartily, nor musically, etc. When man has high aspiration, the blood goes to the front and upper parts of the brain and develops his supreme centres. But, if he stops working in the sphere of the high aspirations, the blood goes to the back and then man goes down to animal feelings - irritation, quarrels, revenge, and anger. Then a creature from the Invisible world has to come, to lead him, because he will bring suffering on himself. Life is the best music. It is hard to live, because we does know how --------------------------- * Bony frog (archaic) - turtle (Ed.)

RAISE TO THE HIGHER WORLDS After the lecture and the gymnastic exercises, we turned back to the hall. A conversation began about the examinations and the temptations, through which man passes. The opportunities for temptations are so thin that man has to think in order to see them. You don't feel well; cope with it and no contradiction to remain in you. Bad feeling comes in you; you shall cope with it. Sometimes in one temptation is hidden as if desire to work for mankind, but it is a cupboard. The world is a garden, in which we live and every day people eat from the forbidden fruit. When the stupid one comes from inside and tells you that no man will come out of you, you sorrow, but after that when the clever one comes and whispers to you from inside that you will become a man, and you are joyful. Sorrow and joy! We shall not be slaves to the external conditions and to the internal desires. If a bird is chased by a cat, what shall it do? Compete with the cat or fly off? - Fly off. You are chased by the dark spirit; fly off with your consciousness, raise yourself toward God and then it could not go toward God, and it will only look at you like the cat. Man shall raise to the higher worlds, in order to overcome the hardships of the environment, in which he is put. The lower, dark spirits do not enter the temple of God. If they talk to you, this means that you are out of the temple, and if they do not talk to you, you are in the temple. When man enters God's temple, the dark spirits will wait outside and will tell themselves: "He stays quite long; he prays quite long, we are tired of waiting." When a doubt comes to you, you shall diagnose - you shall know that you are outside of the temple. Like ore, which is put in the oven to melt and gold to be taken out, the Higher creatures take people through some hardships. These hardships are fiery, in order the good in you to be awakened, and what is useless to remain aside. When God made the first man, He wanted to see if Adam has obedience and gratitude, but he failed the examination and had to pass through the road of suffering. There are very dangerous things in the Spiritual world. In contemporary occultism, some people want to be strong, to do whatever they want, without being responsible. Some people are looking for troubles. Somebody asks me: "Do I progress or not?" If I praise him or if I reprove him, I will do harm to him. If I praise him, bad spirits will come and will say: "There is something for robbing!" And if I reprove him, they will say: "He is one of us, let's go to him and give him an advice." Neither praise, nor reprove a child. The life on Earth is one of the Great Schools. For now, there is no greater school than that for us. If you live well here on Earth, there is a chance to be Angles in future, but if do not live well as persons, you cannot be Angles. The souls shall be stimulated, in order they to get rid of the limitations. Man has become slave of the circumstances voluntarily. At the begging of each job, man is completely free and if he does not obey the first freedom, which he has, a little limitation appears after that. At first you are on a flat surface, but after that you come to a surface with a little gradient and you already lose part of your power. Then the gradient becomes larger and larger, you will begin to slip downwards and finally you will reach to the bottom. Hence, when you fall in the first battle, you lose. That is why man has to be strong in the first battle. It shall be worked on the young brothers, because some of them are tempted by Maya - the illusions of the external forms, which delude. Some of them have taken some things very close to their eyes and as a result of this their entire outlook is darkened. One circle of mind activity shall be formed amongst the young brothers, in order they to work with their minds. Man cannot pass without ebbs and flows; they will inevitably come for each person. However, the clever man does like the Egyptians with the Nile: when the weather was rainy, they used to gather water from the river in basins, and they used it afterwards for watering of the cultures. The wise man also makes capital, when there is high water and when the low water comes, he does not feel insufficiency, because he has made capital out of the high water and can spent without worries. The Invisible world examines only the capable souls, and they do not examine at all the ignoramuses. After the disciple passes the examinations, given to him by the Master, he accepts God's blessing. One sister came to me and complaint that she had been beaten; I said: "You, as an occult disciple, have not had to tell anyone, you have had to keep this to yourself, and I have had to learn about this from the others, not from you. And you are the guilty one, because you have had a bad opinion about him - you think that he is bad and that is why the bad in him manifests. And from now on, if he ever comes into question, you have to say always the nice and good things about him. On the other hand when you were beaten, you had to praise God that you have passed an examination, but you complain. When the first Christian martyrs were beaten, they praised God. Thirdly, why didn't you fence, when that man came close to you? Why didn't you stand up in front of him and say these words: "God will not allow you to raise hand against me." All examinations, through which you pass, are tasks, which you have to solve. They will see if you have had faith, feelings, and mindfulness towards people, to what extent you have been impartial, to what extent you have kept your dignity. When you go to the Otherworld, they will see if you bring a diploma or not. You cannot bring a diploma, if you cannot solve the tasks, and you fail. Three times a day - in the morning, at lunch, and in the evening - the real face of man can be seen. But this doesn't last for a long time - the real man's face does not appear always." At first the hardship is external and then it comes internally. For example, everything is fine with your family; all are united in it, but there is poverty and insults outside. But when the material matters get better, the woman and children go crazy - the one who caused that outside, had come inside. For example, David, before becoming a king, had external hardships, and when he came to the throne, internal hardships occurred. Under internal hardship it is understood struggle inside the human soul - doubts, lower desires, etc. What is christening? - They will put you to some tests and if you pass, you are christened. If you withstand in Love, you are christened; if you do not withstand, you are not christened. It is the same with Truth, Knowledge, etc. You are not christened yet, but you will be. Christening means to withstand. They will examine you: sometimes humanity is dressed up in the form of the Divine, it dresses in it and at first it is a little hard to be realized. Hence, three states may appear: human, Divine and human, dressed up as Divine. There is a law: when you enter the spiritual life and begin to progress, the opposite will come; counteractions will come. At first they examine you and when the examination is over, you will show what and to what extent you can do. Somebody asks what examinations are for. In order you to manifest yourself; if they do not exist, you cannot manifest yourself. The examination is for revealing if man knows what he had studied and what he can apply. There is no creature, besides God, which is not tempted. Only God is not tempted, and all the rest can be examined. When you are examined, you can also make a mistake. Each creature, that comes from God to Earth, if it is not active, if it does not work, there is a possibility it to be corrupted, to fall. I know why you, who were so good, became bad. Then, for some time, you were very beautiful, and now you have changed. The occult science, the way you have studied it in the past, was very difficult. Pythagoras stayed for twenty years in Egypt, passed through lots of examinations; he waited to be introduced into the pyramids, in order to receive a dedication of the Egyptians. After that he had to spend ten years in Babylon to pass through examinations and be dedicated; he studied also in Palestine. And after he came back, he established the Pythagoras School. There are people who have not committed a sin at all. This depends on the human will. As long as man does not perceive his sin through his will, he does not commit sins. It is a sin if you deliberately breach those great laws in Nature. God examines the skinflints and the generous. At the beginning He puts the skinflint in poverty, and the generous - in abundance and examines them what they will do; and after that he exchanges their places, then again vice versa and so on. Man shall be upright. The sin does not depend on the quantity - it is all the same if you steal one stotinka or one million leva (Translator's note: Bulgarian currency). The way of thinking is the important thing. One has stolen one stotinka, because there was no more, but if there was, he would steal it. Each desire that limits you is a halter; have such desires, which do not limit you. When you are with a halter, you have to know that it is a halter and if you find yourself under it to know how to liberate from it. When they want to appoint somebody for a cashier, they examine him by putting him amongst one hundred opened cash-desks and they watch if he will take from them or not. If he takes, he is not for a cashier; if he does not take, he can be a cashier. So, you are also sent, because they prepare you for service and now they test you if you are going to take from the cash-desks or not. Not all people are ready. One American wanted to know what undiluted concentrated ammonia is, but when he smelled it, he felt on his back. They asked him: "Do you want more?", but he refused: "No, it was enough" So, the realized life is happiness, and the one, which is not realized - suffering. There are lots of things in the world, which are sweet, but poisonous. Once they did sacrifice in order to attract the shady spirits through the blood and people to get rid of them. A lamb or another animal was slaughtered in order people to be delivered. This is not allowed in the new culture. No bad thought shall be allowed at a place where people gather. Do not allow any bad thought to enter your mind at the place, where you sleep and work in order not to attract bad influences. There is a big struggle in man until he learns to be a master of the dark spirits. If you blow up, you have become a conductor of those spirits, and after that you repent and that is not at all pleasant. That is why you have to control yourself. Long time passes before man balances himself. When we take the non-advanced spirits away from our consciousness, our internal Heaven will brighten. Fear, unbelief, mistrust, anger, etc. are lower influences and when we liberate from them, our Heaven will brighten. The clear space of our internal Heaven depends on our consciousness.

IN FRONT OF THE PORTRAIT OF OUR MASTER Father’s courage and goodness toward people; Creature that knows and sees and stretches out his hands toward us; powerful voice that speaks us of Truth, Purity and Rationality; heart that reads in the hearts... with silence on His face, His image tenderly settles in our perceptive souls. Always imperturbable and never hesitant, it seems that you dwell in a world of Angles and near you our souls become aware of themselves, liberated from the noisy chains of past and unconsciousness. Taken from Your hands, one clean and never dying out gift – gift of Peace of Heaven, created by loving Wisdom, my ego hears the wide Heaven that sings in Your look. Oh, Master, discovered again, Master for pure Love, symbol of Divinity, an invigorating model and deep source for the thirsty from inexpressible joy! If we set off the narrow road, light – inextinguishable and gentle – sets off with us. Paris, 30 November 1937

A POEM BY STELA BELMEN, FRANCE In 1937, the Master gave Stela Belmen his portrait. On this occasion she wrote a poem in French, and its free translation in Bulgarian is presented below.

DISCIPLE'S PATH In the broad sense of the word, each man is a disciple, because of which what is said by the Master for the disciple concerns everyone. In a private conversation with one brother the Master said: Man is studied by the dark spirit psychologically, and when it finds a weak point, it will tempt him there. There are intrusive things, which torture man. It is very hard for somebody to cope with them, as well as to catch a dark spirit, it gets out. The lower spirits go to conquer people and they consider this as a significant acquisition. They always promise big things. Once they promised Adam and his wife to be like God, but it is all the same practice today. Adam lost everything. They are profuse of promises. The powers of evil are free to submit somebody and lead him astray. The fall of man first happens in the Mind world, when man disconnects from the Divine. The evil has dreadful hate towards man. Sometimes when the sin comes with those disgusting thoughts, everything in you demolishes and you say: "It is over", but God's Love comes then and you are glad again. When you want to write, something impedes you, it tells you: "It is not for you, you cannot do that!" and you stop, you do not write. But, write no matter what, because it is better to write no matter what than nothing. Each hardship is a material lesson. What they call temptation is a material lesson. If you do not overcome it, you will be marked "Poor", "Failure", and if you overcome it, you will be marked "Excellent". One, who has already suffered at the hands of the dark spirits, does not make mistakes. When somebody knows the laws, he can harness one lower spirit to work. One thief wanted to rob a known professor, who had two golden electrodes at his laboratory. The professor turned to the thief calmly and said: 'You want me to give you these things. OK, take them." The thief grasped the electrodes, and the professor turned the wheel and paralyzed him. After that he took him round the rooms and when he let him go, he told him: "Do not dare to come and rob men of science anymore." When one passes through certain hardships and temptations, when they come again from the powers of darkness, they will be of another kind, they will be of such sort, which he had not expected. That is why, he shall be always watchful. For some hardships, he is already experienced and ready, but the temptation will be of totally different character and that is why if he always has a watchful consciousness, he will be able to withstand. One tests his will with three things: money, power and women. He shall not be tempted by power, women, and money; if he rests on them, he has failed in the examination. Today lots of people talk about ideas and idealism; they mention that they work for the general welfare, but if their consciousness is analysed, it will be found out that they think of their personal interests and finally it will be revealed. All that is inside man will be tested and revealed. God needs completely selfless workers, who will work by Love toward God, without thinking of themselves. Man shall make difference between Believe and credulity. Many friends are credulous and when somebody talks them about some projects, they believe, but they do not know that something mercenary is hidden and some time or other it will show up, because what is inside man cannot remain unrevealed. Job lost everything - wealth, children, etc., and afterwards he got everything back. Job was pious and became a disciple through the examination. The wind that swings the trees is of benefit, because it increases the flow of the saps and the tree produces better fruits. And man, by passing an examination, benefits. One, who passes through a hardship, is blessed. God walks at your right side, and from your left side, the fallen, dark spirit is on the watch for you. The dark spirit tempts you during your entire life - he will follow you even till the door of the Kingdom of God, give you praises, wealth, illnesses, power and various humiliations in order to hinder and tempt you. The dark spirit makes you think: "Look at that man what a sack of gold he has. You also want such a sack, don't you?" Then you stop thinking of God, but of those things, which you have loaded on your back. When a man enters in the mystical world, the dark spirits will show up to test him; the accuser will come. Man shall solve many things through experience. When they brought the dissolute woman to Jesus, He said: "Everything is erased and do not commit any sin." You never solve the question what evil is for; only know that it can be avoided. These creatures of evil will come and they are interested in putting bad thoughts in your mind. But these bad thoughts, this is not you, this is their state. You have something and they want to rob you and in order to rob you, they have to unsettle your mind. And the Shining creatures will come and introduce into you the finest thoughts and they are not yours. Where is the man? You are the man, who simultaneously experiences the good and the evil and will learn a lesson. If a man does not learn how to think properly, he can cope with the hardships in life with difficulty. So many thousands of years man tries to liberate himself from that internal atavism. The Occult School has lots of examinations, which can be taken by the disciples. For example, one disciple is talking with one of his fellow and is holding a very profound and inspired conversation, and somebody says him: "May you bring me some water?" He has to go, in order not to disturb the harmony and then continue the conversation, without the least dissatisfaction. Everything in life is an examination. Somebody suffers and does not know why he suffers, and for the disciple, it is a material lesson. When man is amongst the biggest contradictions, sufferings, he shall be thankful to God, to have joy and harmony in himself. This is an examination. God says: "I can tell you many things, but initially I want to know if you can carry the load, which I will give you." Each person is put to temptation. Temptations will come sometimes. It can be without sufferings, if you do not commit sins; and it can be with joy, if you lead a pure and holly life. But you all have to pass through fire; gold cannot be purified until it passes through fire, can it? When man becomes callous, they put him to fire. When the fire goes away, man says: "Now I began to grow wiser." How much time will pass till consciousness to live well comes to people! - This is a long process. There are many microbes, which live in us and you shall watch yourselves. Lower creatures make noise in you. You have one lower desire, which leads you. Who are you? - The one, who is tied to this desire. At first, one very small desire evokes in you, the origin of which you have to know, because if you make a contact with it, you will suffer. Some states, which you experience, are not yours; they have come from outside. This is not you. Now you carry one life, which is not yours; it is from the lower creatures. A friend of mine told me that he had saw a man in New York, who walked along the streets in a king's robe and only advertisements hanged on his back. We wear king's robes with somebody else's advertisements. We shall liberate from them. One man shared with me that he was looking for a house facing south-east, but one broker had taken him to a house, which was not at all fine and convinced him so skilfully that finally he had agreed to take it. But today he was wondering what to do - that house was very dark and cold, exposed to north-west. The dark spirit is also such a broker, who convinces you, praises in front of you what he wants to sell and afterwards you wonder what to do. When the dark spirits of hell enter the Divine light, they see nothing, and when they enter the hell, darkness is their light. As long as you keep the idea of God, you are in the Divine light. The dark spirits are blind there, they see nothing and you are saved. This is the way for getting rid of them. One analogy: the owl sees nothing during the day, and he sees very well in the night, doesn't it? The sin in man is disobedience to the rational and Divine, and obedience to a lower life. The thieves of belongings are nothing compared to the thieves in the Spiritual world. You have just set off along the Path and they worm themselves into your favour and begin to swell you, saying: "You are much more than the others. You are this, you are that." And after that they shower you with all epithets and say: "No God speaks to you." All hardships, which we confront inside and outside, are our wealth. These are tasks, which we have to solve. One sister asked: "It is written in the Lord's Prayer: "Don't lead us to temptation", and somewhere else it is written: "God tempts nobody." How shall this be understood?" These words from the Lord's Prayer are understood in this way: God not to let us enter into temptations, to keep us from entering into them. God examines man, but does not tempt him. Temptation is completely another thing. During an examination, the teacher examines in order to see how much the student knows, and with the temptation, he is tempted to commit a sin and they want to bribe him. During an examination, they put 100 kg on his back to see how big his will is. He can fail an examination. To fail an examination, it means not to be able to lift his load. And there is moral fall at the temptation. After an unsuccessful examination, everyone has the right to sit for it again, and after fall into a temptation he loses everything. At the last examination, man will remain alone, left by everybody, without any external support and will find support only with God. One sister asked: "Will the final examination will be soon?" It has even started! Many people sit for it. Some people have failed, and some have passed. "Is it allowed to take the final examination again?" It is allowed. It is bad when somebody is not allowed to take the final examination. It is a privilege, when someone is allowed to take the final examination. "Are we allowed to?" You are allowed to; it is another matter if you will pass it. One, who is allowed, he will pass it no matter how; it is true that he could fail, but he will sit for it again. The subjects are a lot. Each of the brothers and sisters has to sit for the examinations, when they come. When Job was overtaken by sufferings, he at first saw the ugly spirits near him, but when he stared into the distance, he saw the Shining spirits. Hence, what was near him was dark, and what was far from him was beautiful. Then he understood that all that was happening was for good and Peace and Joy settled in his soul. Earth is a place for the final examination. One, who passes it here, will be given a ticket for everywhere. The Advanced creatures from the Invisible world want to come here, in order to take the final examination. One, who does not pass the final examination and leaves, will not be given a ticket. The Writ says: "Blessed, who pass through hardships." Blessed written books. Blessed washed clothes. You will take one bottle, clean it, wash it in order it to be completely clean. When in the Invisible world, they want to give somebody new knowledge, they will clean and clean him, that his hair will stand on end and he will cry: "It has already gone, we lost, we became feeble-minded, and nothing remained." The life on Earth is presented as very ideal before man. The experience that he will gain is the big wealth, and the way, in which he will gain it, is hidden from him and he is presented only the blessings-the experiences. Finally, he will obtain a big wealth, but while he obtains it!...This looks like the situation of that wealthy man from Gabrovo, of whom a statue was put in front of the theatre and he told himself: "Ivan, Ivan, how much time it had to pass before you were put there!" So, in the Invisible world, the result, which will be obtained in the physical world, is not hidden from man, but the hardships through which he will pass are hidden. At your going down to Earth, you will be told: "Go with that plan, you will have acquisitions, as well as some hardships." And when you are passing through unbearable hardships, they will rash to help. Various people take different examinations. There are no two people with the same examination. There is a certain difference. If they give you external joy, they will give you internal hardships; and if they give you internal joy, they will give you external hardships. This cannot be avoided - they will not give you hardships both externally and internally. Stupid people prefer joy and after that sufferings and the clever ones prefer sufferings at first and after that joy. Stupid people say: "Let's be joyful now no matter what happens after that", and clever people say: "No matter what happens now, at the end we will be joyful." Many people think like mice, don't they? One free mouse walked round the field, breathed clean air, but one day a mousetrap was put in front of its hole, which it began to investigate right away. "There is something in this trap - dried meat or something else!? " - It told itself and climbed on the trap, without knowing that the one, who had put it, was much cleverer than it. It snooped from here, it snooped from there, and finally it was trapped; it had not had to begin to snoop into this trap. There is also a trap in front of each of you. One friendly protective warning: keep away from the traps, which are put in front of your doors. Leave them behind; do not enter to investigate what is in there. Do not self-delude! One brother asked about the internal examinations. All that will come in a natural way - you will be given a task in life and this is an examination. Palpations and stomach-aches are ordinary examinations. If they give you one million leva and after that they take it - this is an examination. What do you have to do in the state, in which you are, how do you have to continue your way? Let's see how many of them have meditated and prayed and how exactly? You love somebody, but he tells you some words, which hurt you. You need Love in order to pass your examinations. By examining your Love, it begins to break down. Try to learn and enter the new wave, which will lift you upper to the new phase of Life; otherwise you will repeat the class. Man shall be hard and resist till the end. People cannot avoid the examinations. If you avoid one examination, given to you by God, another will come. When man has a noble aspiration, a noble ideal, for which he lives, then he has great powers of endurance to all hardships and temptations. What you have inherited from the previous generations and from the Animal world is manure and one who is clever will find its place, and if he does not know and if he is not clever, he will wallow in that mess. When the animal nature prevails in man, his face begins to change. Philosophy is in that: want to be masters of yourselves! Man has to submit the lower and take energy out of there like the plant, which strikes roots into the soil and takes saps out of there. That woman wanted to tempt Joseph and if he was implicated, it would be all over with him. But he passed this examination - he paid for his karma through the prison and he was born again in this way. The Creatures from the Invisible world, which are around you, are two categories: higher ones and lower ones. You will learn from the higher ones and you will harness into work the lower ones.

MASTERS PATH One sister was accepted by the Master and He said: I have been inspired and this happened on 7th March 1897 after the old calendar (19th March after the new calendar). Then I was given a mission from Heaven, and then I was told that I am a Master for the entire mankind. The assigned mission is in connection with the new path of the Slavism and with the coming of the Sixth race. It shall be mentioned that the inspiration of the Master had become by stages. © The Master has related me that when he was in a period of observation of fast and prayers, he climbed to a peak near the village of Arbanasi, Tarnovo District. Jesus appeared in front of Him then and told Him: "Give Your body, Your mind and Your heart to me and work for Me." The Master said: "God, let your Will be, I am ready! "(This happened before the involvement of Bulgaria in WWI, in September 1914)

I HAVE GATHERED YOU FOR SEVERAL REASONS In a private conversation with a brother, the Master said: I have gathered you for several reasons at this School, and I will mention three of them. First of all, why have I gathered you at the School? In order a community of people to be formed, who to have great Love towards each other; an environment of Love to be formed, in order from here to be sent powerful waves of Love, It to be spread all over the world, and reach to the souls of the mankind and awake them. Second - in order to prepare you for preachers in the future ages. You all, even the smallest, will be preachers in future; you will be given knowledge, power, gift. The magical power of the Writ and the powerful aid of the Invisible world will be with you; you will be given all favourable conditions in order to preach the ideas of the New culture, the ideas of the Sixth race, which are presented in the talks and lectures, and they contain exactly these ideas, that is why study them carefully, in order to prepare yourselves for this important work, which is forthcoming for you. Third, you do not belong to the White Brotherhood, yet. One of its members has great knowledge and powers, is a master of the keys of the natural powers and works for the raise of the mankind and the entire nature. And you are disciples of the White Brotherhood and I prepare you in order to enter It and become White Brothers. This is the great, for which I prepare you and which expects you.

MASTER - DISCIPLE RELATIONSHIP One sister went to the Master for a private conversation. In order to have a proper attitude toward me, to understand me, the disciple has to be clean and he will be clean, if he has not a sin, and he will not commit a sin, if he keeps God and the Shining creatures in his mind. When I have a connection with a disciple, I know what will happen to him after thousands of years and I have it in mind and I take measures. In order the disciple to have a proper relation to his Master, he must understand Him. Then, even he is away from Him, he benefits from Him the way he does not benefit, if he does not understand Him. It is best if the disciple understands his Master and is near Him. Each person shall be loved at least by one, but if he is loved by nobody, there is still One, who loves him - God. Yes, above each person, there is one eye, which watches. Love does not know space. No matter where you are, in another country or on another planet, It is always with you. God has created man in order to have somebody toward whom to manifest His Love. There is Love only toward One and when you love somebody, you are capable of seeing in that form the One. In order to be realized if the disciple is devoted to an idea, he will suffer for it. In order to be able to resist all temptations, this means to know God. The first dedication for the disciple is to pass through sufferings and to withstand in peace, balance and joy. The second dedication for the disciple is to pass through joy and withstand again without hesitation. The sister said: "In one of the last lectures You spoke of the significance of the formula "God is Love". For pronouncing of the formula God is Love, three preparatory exercises shall be done: First - visit of a poor man. Second - meet the sunrise in a stormy and cloudy day. And third - see a little child, creeping and looking upwards. The visit of a poor man means the following: to find someone, who does not have anything, but is pleased. Also you, when you are devoid of everything, to be pleased, and not discouraged. When you pass through all this, you are already quite prepared for pronouncing the formula God is Love. Meeting the sunrise in a stormy weather means you, in a time of sever trials, to have internal uplift, enlightenment. And 'seeing of a little child creeping and looking upwards' means awaking of the consciousness and Divine life in man. The disciple has to know how to listen to his Master, how to understand Him and apply His ideas. These are the three conditions for the disciple. A true disciple is the one, who tells his Master: "Do whatever You want with me, but give me knowledge!" And a true Master is the one, who treats His disciples selflessly and does not want any payment from them. What I give at the School, it is theoretical outside and as a theory it is easy, but there are internal tasks, which will be given to everyone and then the Teaching becomes very hard. I diminish myself and show myself as an ordinary person to those who cannot understand me in another way. The Master may take in front of His disciples any form. When I want, I will come to the disciple, I will light up, I will water and I will again go away. To love someone without expecting anything from him, this is Love. God's Love, once manifested, remains forever. The relationship between a Master and a disciple is not only for one life, but for many lives. I can dress somebody, feed him, give him a bath, clean him, but I am close to him, when I teach him. The perfection of Love is the meaning of My Life.

THE EXPERIMENT WILL BE TONIGHT Once, during a conversation, the Muster shared several events from his life. One day, while I was standing in my office in the town, a lass came through the wall. She was very desperate and was crying. I asked her what's wrong and she answered me that fifteen minutes ago she had been killed by her boy-friend, who thought that she had cheated on him. - "What am I going to do now? Where am I? What shall I expect? Our house is on the same street "Opalchenska" and right against Yours and because I know that You a wise man, I came to You for an advice." After these words of hers, I talked a long time - about an hour - about the new life, which is forthcoming. I said that she had to have connection with God, to pray Him and that those Great brothers, who will direct and support her, will come to her. We said together the Lord's Prayer. In the course of the conversation, her aura became lighter and she went away encouraged. Once, while I was travelling over the province, I talked, after which the larger part of the audience went away, and only about fifteen people from the brain-workers remained. One of the young teachers addressed me: "Science, with its last investigations, proves the materialism and that is why I do not believe in spirits." I suggested him to make an experiment. "I do not accept an experiment - he answered to me, - because if I accept, it means that I am not completely convinced in materialism, and I am." I told him: "Accept the experiment, because if it turns out to be of benefit to you, you will be even more convinced in materialism." - "All right, I accept." - "The experiment will be tonight." On the next day he found me where my lodgings were and told me what had happened during the night: "I was convinced that there are spirits, but, please, let's not repeat the experiment another time... I switched off the lamp and went to bed. At one time my bed began to swing. I was scared and covered myself over the head with the blanket. After that my bed began to raise towards the ceiling and when it reached it, it made several tours and lowered at another place. I did not sleep till the morning." Below we will present some other events from the Master's life. One sister came once to the Master to thank Him. Two years ago she had the intention to marry, but the Master stopped her to wait, because if she had married her future wooer, he would kill her. And that was what exactly happened; she refused him, and that man married another woman, whom he killed. After thanking him heartily, the sister asked the Master to tell her what to do during the next two years. © One brother shared that he had big troubles in his family and did not know what to do. The Master explained to him that he had an enemy in the Invisible world. He had been his enemy from past rebirths on, and during the last one, he had been a relative of his, who, after his departure to the afterlife, chased him and did harm to his relatives. He recommended him to pray for this enemy of his and to do this every day, six times a day, no matter at what time - to choose by himself. To pray also for those of his relatives, to whom he does harm. After a while the troubles in that family stopped. The Master had told us: "I can cure; there is no illness, which I cannot cure. I can also raise the deaths, but whom? Not all of them, but only those, about whom God tells me. One man came to me, because his wife was ill. I told him to go away and that his wife will recover. He left dissatisfied - I had not listened to him and later he came to me and thanked me for his wife's recovery. Once, when we were on an excursion on Vitosha, sister Yanakieva felt sick. She complained to the Master and He said: "Look how beautiful those peaks of Vitosha are, as well as the fields there." Sister Yanakieva was surprised that the Master did not talk about her illness, but about totally different things, but, in the same moment, her illness disappeared. Once, a brother of ours came to Izgreva from Sofia and told: "I had conversations with several high school teachers in Sofia, who do not know that I am in the Brotherhood, but they also think that it is wrong to call ourselves "masters", and it is more correct to call ourselves „teachers". The masters are creatures, who create and lead cultures and epochs - these are Krishna, Orpheus, Hermes, Buda, and Mr. Deunov. We already understand that Mr. Deunov creates a new culture in Bulgaria - his leadership and his spiritual stimulus can be felt everywhere." © At the beginning of January, an Albanian Orthodox monk from Mount Athos came to Izgreva. When he worked and lived in Rome, he dreamt one old monk, who showed him a house on a street and called him there on the next day to tell him something. On the next day the Albanian monk found the address and met the same old man from the dream, who told him: "I will die after fifteen days, but I will help you from the afterlife. After a while you will go to a small country and a Wise man there will tell you what to do." Sure enough, after fifteen days the old man died. From then on, since the monk was a clairvoyant, he over and over again saw the old man, who helped him, round himself. When a month and a half ago the monk arrived at Tsarigrad, an internal voice told him to go to Sofia, but he did not for what exactly. He stayed for an entire month in Sofia without orientation, until an acquaintance of his, already a friend, told him about the community of the White Brotherhood. The monk intuitively understood that there he will find the One, he was looking for and expected and came to Izgreva. When he met the Master, he immediately understood that this is that Wise man, about whom he had been told. The Master gave him directions and told him to come after a year, in order to give him new methods. © When he was a young, the Master lived in Novi Pazar, where his father was a priest. Often the Master went outside of the town and spent his time meditating. Once, their maiden saw that there was firewood piled in front of somebody else's house and took from it to make a fire in the stove. The Master returned, in order to take the firewood out of the stove, told her to take it to the place from where she had taken it and went out again. © A Bulgarian, who studied at the same University with the Master, told us that the students often went on excursions within the surrounding country, talking about casual things, and the Master used to say: "Look how beautiful Nature is!" The students noticed that at some time Peter Deunov used to vanish somewhere. Once, after they had looked for him for a long time, they found him on a meadow in the forest, where he was spending his time praying and meditating. Once the Master was at the piano in the big hall and played for a long time. After that he told us that when he was a student, one professor invited him to play something on his violin. He improvised just in front of the public at the moment he went on the stage and played the "Song of the Prodigal Son". He played in absolute silence how the son separates from his father, how he returns after that... And when he finished, the people from the public continued to be silent. When they came to their senses, they began to applaud. After that they asked for the musical score of the "Song of the Prodigal Son", but the Master had never written it down in notes. He gave it as a present to their hearts, unexpectedly composed on the stage. © Each of us has its own path to the Master. sister Georgieva dreamt that she had to go to 66 Opalchenska Str. She was curious why she had been sent there and went embarrassed. She was received by sister Gina Gumnerova, who presented her to the Master, who welcomed her. That is the way she began to attend the lectures. And the writer Mara Belcheva was awake when she saw in the sitting-room of her lodgings the image of a wise man moving in the space from left to right gradually vanishing. Later, when she met the Master, she recognized that not made by human hand image in Him and joined the path of discipleship. © Once the Master told the spiritual group, which included several brothers and sisters from the Youth Occult Class: "Organize a gathering and I will visit you." During the gathering, one sister felt extraordinary enormous love towards all presents. She was surprised by what was happening with her and understood that the Master had manifested himself and that she had made a contact with his consciousness at that moment. And when some time passed, she turned again to her usual state. "If I completely manifest my Love, you will not withstand that, and you will melt" - these are words of the Master. © At a Sunday talk at 14 Oborishte Str., the Master said that each of the listeners will receive per one letter from the Invisible world and let him open it and read it. After the talk a sister, in a private conversation, told us: "While I was listening to the talk, something extraordinary happened to me: I felt that all brothers and sisters are like Angels and I felt great love toward them. My Love increased also toward all people and all other creatures - tiger, wolf, snake, snail, stone, flowers, and trees. I was in bliss. Then I understood the words of Isaiah: "I will become joyful, because You dressed me in salvation." I understood that God had prepared that state for us to have it permanently, when we finish our development." Other brothers and sisters also shared that they have experienced such a state. That was the letter from the Invisible world. © One sister went to the Master and told Him that on the next day she wanted to go to Vitosha alone in order to spend the time in meditation. The Master answered that she could go. On the next day, while she was up, dense fog fell and she lost her way. She appealed to God praying and to the Master for support. She was sitting on the grass, when she heard steps behind her. She turned and saw that the Master was coming toward her. She rushed happily to greet Him. The Master said: "Go after me!" After a while they reached to the road and the Master suddenly disappeared. On the next day she went to thank Him. In 1924 a brother was appointed as a disinfector at Dupnitsa Station, but he went to Sofia to the Master to tell Him that he did not want to remain there. The Master thought for a while and told him: "After seven or eight years you are in Sofia!" After seven years the brother was dismissed from that position and was appointed in "Forest Industry"of Balabanov Brothers in Kocherinovo. He stood there for a year and after that he came to Sofia. So, in this case, both figures (7 and 8) were of importance. © In May 1912, the Master, sister Dukova, brother Dr. Dukov and brother Epitropov set off for the Rila Monastery. They travelled by train to Radomir, and from there on - by a cab. When they reached to Boboshevo Village, they stopped. The Master and sister Dukova sat at a table outside of the inn to talk, and Dr. Dukov and Epitropov went somewhere. The cab was stopped near the Master and sister Dukova, where hay and grains were spread. At one time, a hen with four chickens showed up. Sister Dukova cried out of admiration: "How beautiful these chickens are! Only for petting!" The Master said: "Three of them will remain!" Sister Dukova thought that when the chickens grow up one of them will be slaughtered, because they were hatched a few days ago. No more than five minutes after the conversation one of them went near the cab and was kicked by the horse. It immediately died, and sister Dukova was convinced that the Master has deep insight into things. © One brother related the following: "Once, when were on Vitosha with the Master, I heard one song over His head. This singing passed and went away, it lasted only for a moment and it could not be seen who was singing. Then another brother said: "What is that? Singing is being heard over our heads!" The Master turned toward us with a smile: "Did you hear it, too?" These were Shining creatures, which has come to show their goodwill toward the Master." © This happened in August 1921, ten days before the Gathering in Veliko Tarnovo. The roof of the building was within the vineyards and there was a leakage right above the hall for prays and over the Oracle. The Master asked who can repair it. Peter Kamburov answered. One more brother came to help him and the moment they revealed the roof, from north-west, from the direction of Belyakovets Village, a black cloud came along, threatening thunders and a severe storm. Large drops of rain began to fall. At that moment the Master passed near the reservoir, went out in front of the white back door and stood against the storm for about a minute. The clouds immediately directed to north-east, in the direction to Arbanasi Village. When He came back, the others said: "Master, You stopped the storm!"- 'Yes, but only for two hours. Its way was from here, but I ask the Creatures to wait for us until we finish with the roof." Sure enough, they had just finished, the same black cloud came along again. Both brothers could not climb down the ladder on time and the rain drenched them to the bone. The Master said: "These are heroes! Give them per one warm cup of tea now." © One brother asked God to find his Spiritual teacher and three times he dreamt how the Master appeared before him. In his first dream he saw the Master with lots of disciples, dressed in blue clothes, but He was outside of the group. In the second one, he dreamt again the Master and he saw himself craving for the spiritual life. In his third dream he saw the Master upright in front of himself, and behind Him - one big Shining creature, manifesting itself. The Master says to him: "I am the One, whom you are looking for, and now find the Brotherhood." After the dream he met brother Nikola Kamburov and announced: "I am a member of the Brotherhood and even if you drive me away, I will be here. There is no power, which can drive me away from the Brotherhood." Brother Kamburov introduced him into the hall and he began to cry in front of the portrait of the Master. © A few years ago, one brother had the opportunity to go to America. Relatives of his proposed him to study at the University of New York at their expense and he asked the Master whether to go. The Master said: 'You are free to go, but Izgreva is the biggest University in the world." This brother stayed in the School. © Near Izgreva, there was an asylum for women after the name of Mrs Yulia Malinova. Once, when Mrs Malinova visited the asylum, she came to meet the Master and He showed her round Izgreva. At the end Mrs Malinova said: "The air is especially clean. This made me an enormous impression."After she left, the Master told us: "Mrs Malinova feels that here, at Izgreva, there is something special, but she cannot understand what exactly. And the special thing is the following: there is a source of Light at Izgreva, which spreads all over the world. Izgreva is a mystical centre. In spiritual aspect, Izgreva is higher than the Himalayas. The powers of Higher Spirits are directed to this place." © One brother related that at one tour over the provinces, the Master visited his home. They had lunch in the yard and the brother showed a tree, which had not produced fruits for several years. The Master went to the tree, spent a few minutes there and when he came back, he gently said: "It will produce fruits in future."Sure enough, from then on, that tree produced plenty of fruits. © Towards the end of August 1944, we were for two days on Vitosha, at Ostrets Hut, and after that we stayed at the nearby hut Edelvais, also for two days. The Master delivered a talk. There were about seventy persons. Beauty and solemnity emanated. At Edelvais Hut, the Master said to a sister: "This is the last gathering of one Master." © Once, during a conversation, the Master told us what, according to the Divine science, the real greeting between people shall be: when we meet a man, we shall send from the depth of our souls Light, with which we will light him; and we will see the beauty of his soul in it, because human's soul is beautiful. And then we will love him, we will send mentally one blessing towards him and after that we can greet him externally. When we greeted the Master and kissed His hand, we sometimes felt the scent of nyux[1] Lots of people experienced this, because when they are in high spirits, they become perceptive to the scent of nyux. This fine, unearthly scent fills the room for a second and after that disappears during hearty praying, too. © One sister had been sick with a fever for several years. When He saw her low spirited, the Master told her: "Good spirits and boldness!" She explained that she would not be able to go to the Rila Lakes, because she would be in a fever. The Master said: "Don't worry, you will come to the Lakes and you will even bring stones to the building sites!" The sister told herself: It is not enough that I am ill, and I will bring stones!" However, at the same moment, the fever went away. One sister, who lived at Izgreva, had severe rheumatism in the ankle joints. Once she felt so sick that at each step, she felt strong pains, from which her face distorted and she stopped at every few steps. She hardly reached to the corner of the garden in front of brother Simeonov, when the Master appeared. He asked her how she felt, looked at her ankles and said: "Sun- baths!" The moment He went away, the sister understood that her pains had disappeared and she gave up her rheumatism. © In 1924, sister D. lived in the town and in July she fell ill of heavy dysentery. When they asked the Master for remedy, He said flowers of hollyhock to be boiled and she to drink from the tea. Sister D. did so, but she did not get better. On the other day, they invited the Master to visit her. When He entered her room, He asked her in detail how she felt and after that He asked for a violin. He played the song: "Bless, O my soul, Lord". When the song finished, sister D. immediately jumped out, sat on the bed and said: "Master, I am completely recovered! I'll get up to do the housework. How could I thank you?" The Master said: "By doing the smallest good thing." © During the autumn in 1933, sister K. was ill with one of her ears, she did not even hear with it. The Master said she to go to one of our sisters, a doctor, in order her to lave the ear. The doctor was absent and sister K. went to the Russian Red Cross. She did the same procedure with our sister several times after that, but without a result. She went to the Master again. He put his hand near her ill ear for about five minutes and asked her what she felt. She felt pleasant warmth, which came out of His hand and entered her ear. The Master told her to come again after three days. When she entered the hall to play at a concert, at the same moment she felt that she was getting better. After three days she went to the Master only to thank Him. © Brother V. from Botevgrad, in 1952, fell ill, his stomach swelled. His illness laid him and no way out of the situation could be seen. In the evening the brother went to one sister of ours, very worried that he will leave his relatives in very complicated material matters. The sister told him: "The Master helped me within a day, after I had been for two months on bed. He cannot but help you, too." They agreed to pray together the same evening, each of them staying at his place, and at 10 o'clock they said in the following order: The Good Prayer, 91st psalm, the Prayer of the Kingdom, the Lord's Prayer, a prayer to God for recovering and an appeal to the Master for help. Brother V. recovered completely the same evening. © Years ago, brother Anastas Boinov, a lawyer in Tarnovo, was very ill. The Master was in Sofia and they called Him telegraphically, because the doctors had already given up the ill man. When the Master came, Boinov said: "It is clear that I will leave for the Otherworld." The Master denied: "No, you still have work here." And He began to talk with Boinov for half an hour. They talked about various matters, but not for the illness. After that He told him: "Stand up for a second!" and Boinov stood up. On the second day the Master visited him again and after a conversation of two hours, He told him: "Stand up for a while and walk for some minutes!" The ill man began to walk, and on the third day he recovered. After that the doctor came and he was very curious how he had recovered. Boinov said: "The Master came because of me and told me to stand up and I stood up; He told me to walk and I began to walk!" During a tour over the provinces, the Master visited Bourgas. They gathered for a Brotherhood dinner at Dimitar Makedonski and Todor Stoimenov's place. At the middle of the dinner, Apostolidi, who lived in the next house and was the host of Makedonski and Stoimenov, arrived. He was very excited and said that his son is very ill, in agony and asked the Master for help. After Apostolidi went out, the Master gave a towel to Epitropov and told him to go to the ill child and put it on his face and leave it there for the whole night. In the morning Apostolidi arrived happily and said that his son had recovered. From then on he became an eager member of the Brotherhood. © On an excursion to Vitosha, one brother of ours, a former teacher at the Technical High School, told us the following story: "I was also invited to a meeting of the graduates of the High School and to my surprise they expressed gratitude to me for the directions, which I had given to them. They told me that each word was as a beacon in their lives. I became excited. This was done not by me, but by the Master, because while I was talking I drew on His talks with full hands and gave away; I evoked love toward life in my students. I also received grateful letters even from Austria for the direction, which I had given. With this example, I point out what power the ideas of the Master have." © On 19th August 1930, we had a gathering at the Seven Rila Lakes. In the morning, before sunrise, we climbed to the old prayer peak, which is between the lakes Elbur and Balder- Daru. After the prayers and the songs, the Master started a talk and at the beginning He said: "At the moment, presents here are Dr. Mirkovich, Penyu Kirov, Dr. Dukov, Golov, Kazakova, Stoicheva and others - brothers and sisters, who have gone. Besides, at this moment, there is a cordon of Angles round you and you are amongst them." © Another time, during a talk at the Lakes, the Master had said: "When you sleep, Angles go round your tents, wanting to see how you are equipped and they bless you." Here I will present what sister B. experienced, because her experience has a connection with the above mentioned. On 22nd August 1938, it was after 8 pm already, when sister B. went out in front of the tent and sang for a long time. After that she went inside and saw three Angles with beautiful faces and shining clothes. They arranged in the form of a triangle, two of the Angles being the base, and the third one - the peak. They said (she did not know in exactly what language, but understood somehow internally), that they are protectors of that Rila cloister and that they had came to show their admiration for her singing. She also understood that they are pleased with our gathering. After that they stretched their hands toward her in order to bless her and they dematerialised - they withdrew to help in their supreme and invisible way. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Nyux - specific scent of cleanness, which is emanated by saints and spiritual teachers

BE WITH WATCHFUL CONSCIOUSNESS Since 25th November 1943, almost every day, we went to Vitosha with the Master - to the forest of Simeonovo Village. We spent the 10th January 1944 at a home on our way to the village of Simeonovo. In the morning, as of 9 o'clock, the Master told us: Don't delude yourselves. Big air-raid is coming over Sofia. It is coming and be in contact with the Great rational beginning, be with watchful consciousness. The Master was serious. Sure enough, at lunch time, the big air-raid happened over Sofia, and in the evening there was another.