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CRYING IEREMIEV On 16th April 1925, as usual, we came to Izgreva with the Master, in order to meet the sunrise. After that five of six of us remained, we sat on the grass and the Master opened the Bible. He read some verses from the book "Crying Ieremiev", which talk about the sufferings, coming from Jerusalem - ruin, devastation, demolition. The Master closed the Bible and said: "This is coming now!" We did not understand the meaning of these words, but on the next day, at 4 pm, the assault in the cathedral church "Sv. Nedelia", which was full of people, took place. More than one hundred people were killed and even more - injured. It was not until then that we understood why the Master read from "Crying Ieremiev."
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REVEALED AND UNREVEALED PLANS We were in the sitting-room of the Master and one sister asked: "Master, tell us something from Your life." All that I have said will not die, it will live - these are living words. If it is not applied now, it will be applied by other creatures, but we will not leave so what I have said. I do not dare to draw out something, because when I draw it out, it happens. When I draw something out, they follow me from the Invisible world, because my drawings are plans, which they are ready to accept and apply with enormous desire. Everything, which I utter, happens immediately. Creatures from distant worlds come and wait to hear what I will say about God's Love. Some people say: "The Master knows", but my knowledge will not help them, but their personal knowledge will help them. Sometimes I pretend that I cannot sing, because if I sing the way I have to, you will be scared. I diminish, in order to make you sing. When I go out somewhere, weather becomes milder. When I preached at 66 Opalchenska Street, the weather was always fine, and the window was widely opened and nobody fell ill. And when on Whitsuntide we went to Vitosha, it was Monday, 21st June 1937 and it was going to rain, but I told to the Moon to take the rain away to another place. And it really put off for twenty-four hours. Sometimes, when I want a rainy bath, I say up to Heaven to rain and it rains. I always know when it is going to rain, but I deliberately go and I am available. I do not tell to the one, who accompanies me that we will get wet, and I thank the rain that it does a fine job. There are many unrevealed things; Nature has not yet revealed itself. Lots of systems exist in it and what is impossible in a system is possible in another. In those years, when at the lower Musala lakes only the small hut was built, one young man, Kosta, was its warder. We, from the Brotherhood, went on an excursion to Musala peak, and Kosta had caught trout to sell it. I asked him for how much he will send it to me, he made a calculation and I agreed: "Nice, I pay you for the fish, give it to me." The fish were alive, because it had been caught by a spoon-net, and were swimming in water in one enormous tin-plate. We turned it back in the lake. After that Kosta stopped fishing - something turned in him, he became a vegetarian. Once, during an excursion to Musala peak, we were advancing together with a group of brothers and sisters and a poisonous snake had coiled on our path. I put my walking stick on it and then it raised its head and a part of its body straight vertically. After that I made several circles in the air over the snake with my walking stick and it stretched and slowly and silently vanished in the forest. Once I was passing through a mountain and a flock of sheep came out in front of me and a Karakachan was standing in front of me. When I called the flock, they all came to me. I told the Karakachan that I am an old shepherd and sheep know my language. I patted some of them. I told them: 'Your issue will be arranged, graze now here." The sheep complained about their hardships, that their milk was taken, etc. I told them: "Wait a little more." Once I went to the office of Grablashev. One man was writing a statement that somebody has misused with a sum of his I told him that I had owned this sum and I gave it to him. While travelling over Bulgaria, I also went to Vidin. I was invited to a place, where a seance was going to made. They all were men of science. I was told: "Come to see us how we make a seance." A Bulgarian came and entered into a woman; he was her brother and told them some things about the afterlife, but after that he did not want to go away. His sister began to hit the table, Golov was blowing, but the spirit did not go out of the body. It became midnight. They were going to disgrace themselves. People were going to say that they had made a seance and a woman had gone mad. I told: "Everybody on knees! Put her in the middle and read slowly the Lord's Prayer!" When they read the Lord's Prayer, she awoke and asked: "What happened to me?" And the other brother, who did not believe by then, believed. Somebody comes to me and asks me for a favour, to help him with something. I become deeply absorbed in myself and address God in my thoughts to tell me in what way to make good to that man. I put myself in a reception state. Heaven inside me becomes cloudy, cold - this is not my state, I have adopted his state. Hence, by putting myself in his situation, I take his load and his suffering goes away. At first, I will take from his suffering and will give him from my joy. And when I take his suffering, I will transform it. Once I travelled by a cart and I warned the carter: "Wait for a while for that cloud over there to pass away." He did not turn any attention, waved with a hand and said: "What? You are scared of the cloud? Let's go!" After half an hour, it began to rain so that on the road the water was half a meter. It was not until then that he said: "If I had known, I would have never set off." Once a palmist, who was travelling over Bulgaria, came to me. I don't like to talk to people about what I see, but this time I made an exception. I told: "This morning you looked for a doctor, but he was not at home. His wife received you and told you that he had just gone out. From there you went to a milk shop, you took something out of your pocket and ate. After that you came to me." Then that man told to a person that he already acknowledged the Master. Before the war, one missis from Plovdiv, acquainted with the spiritual science, came to me for an advice. She said that she had gathered on or two millions and will build a building. I said: "If you ask me, do not build it now, but if you want, build." She summed up: "I will build, because I will sustain an enormous loss later." This was in 1913 and she started the building. In 1914 the war began and the building was stopped. She sustained a loss and told me: "Why didn't you tell me!?" Another example: a sister from Tarnovo came and told me: "I have some money at my disposal and I want to build another house next to the one I have, in order to rent it for making my life easier." I told her: "If you ask me, don't build now, but let two or three years pass; then it will be all right. If you begin to build, you will lose everything." She said: "Now I know that the material is cheap and if we build, we will take rent sooner from the new building, but I will try to take Your advice." The earthquake in Tarnovo took place, the house of the sister was demolished and she repaired it with the money she had. If she had built the new house, it was going to be ruined, too and the sister was going to remain without money. One sister came to me to tell me that she had no a letter by her daughter and with a sinking heart she asked me if something had happened to her. I concentrated and I told her: "Your daughter will come on Sunday. She is not quite well, but don't worry it will pass." And it happened so. Once I travelled with a man to the station. I told the man, who was driving the car, to stop and return ten steps back; we found there the part that had fallen out of the car. When he found it, he asked: "Who told you?" - "God told me!"
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THE BULGARIAN GOLDEN AGE Three brothers visited the Master today. They asked Him to tell them something about the attitude of the world towards Him and towards the Brotherhood in general. Long ago, when the opponents chased the Bogomils, Bogomilism was in an epoch of low tide then and chasing was possible. Today, even if they tear one hundred pairs of sandals, they cannot do anything, because we are in high tide and what they try to do against us by law will not happen. They followed me by car, to catch me, but they could not - they just reached out their hands and obstacles occurred, they saw that the place was not convenient and they put it off. That is how circumstances arrange. It is the golden age of the Bulgarian people now and if today's conditions vanish, too, then the creation of the Teaching will move to another people and Bulgaria will wait at the queue and even attached by a thread. Everybody in Bulgaria will go through fire and water, which will affect you, the disciples, too, in order to be seen who will withstand. Many people, to whom I have given knowledge, do not use it properly and I will not give them knowledge about electricity and magnetism, because they will misuse it. Let them wait for thousands of years for these laws and powers from science. I will close this Divine book; I will give to the few who are ready, but not to all. One brother asked the Master: "When they write so many things against You, which are not true, why don't You defend Yourself?" Truth does not bear excuse. Why Truth will be excused? There is no need of being in a hurry, ages are in front of us, i.e. the future is ours, and time works for us. Once I travelled with a mister and he told me: "Do you know what is written about You in the newspapers?" I told him: "Be sure at least in that I have not bribed them, as long as they write in this way because of me. They will take their words back one day, if only man does his work well. In all annals of Nature, there is no a described case, in which somebody has worked with Love and has lost something." Some time ago, a brother from Pleven came and mentioned that some people there have spoken bad things about the Brotherhood. I told him that I have not started this movement by my personal will, but after God's order and that is why these are not human matters, but Divine ones and each obstacle, which will occur on its road, will be moved away. One young man came from the region of Varna and shared that once he was my big opponent. He worked in the mine Pernik and talked always against the Teaching, but they tied his tongue, he became completely dumb. From then on, he acquainted with spiritism and saw that I had been at the right side, and he - at the wrong side. He understood that he kicked against something, at which one shall not strike. Everyone, who begins to oppose the Truth, will suffer. One pure thought came to that young man, who had seen his mistake and understood that the world cannot be fixed in the way people walk today. One priest from Varna came to tell me that I corrupt the nation. I answered him: "Whatever you talk, think, in order something not to happen to you! That's what the law is like!" Later, that priest travelled by train and because of a crash, a big case fell on his head and injured him. He came back to me to tell him something for consolation. I told him that he has to live in conformity with God and that we are at the front and that we are in permanent stress. These waves, which always pour on us, shall be repulsed, we shall fight against the arrows of darkness and be permanently awake and sober. This is not a war with blood and flesh, but we fight against the dark powers of hell and it is not easy to repulse all this. They want to extinguish this Teaching, but they will never succeed. They say that this Teaching is new, but it is always one, it is Divine! This Light will suffuse the world and whatever they do, they cannot extinguish it. Everything in the world, which is mortal, is not Divine and it will collapse. Everything, which is immortal, is Divine and will remain. Counteractions, which are not needed, shall not be evoked. I have presented lots of things in my talks and lectures, which shall be studied and the most important thing is the disciple to understand them and use them. The same is with many people, who read from morning to evening the gospels and if they knew how to use them, they would have obtained a big fortune. I want nothing from the world. Did you hear what the Swiss, who came, said? That the apostles of the New Culture come out from Bulgaria. One brother asked: "Where does he know that from?" From there, from where the bees know that the weather will worsen. It is said in the Writ: "Word will not return void." When I was called at the Directorate of the police, I said that if they oppose and begin to counteract the White Brotherhood, droughts, floods, famine, earthquakes, reparations will occur in Bulgaria and finally everything will be smashed up. I also underlined: "I have told nothing, which has not happened, and do you know what would have happened to Bulgaria, if we have not worked by now? But we have worked a lot and always positively!" Today they have a little better attitude towards us, there is no such counteraction. The Teaching will transfer to Russia from here and it will be applied there. Paneurhythmy will be played in Russia. The Germans will apply it, too. I warned Ferdinand about four things: first, I told that they had not to fight against the allies during the Balkan war. If they had not fought, they would have obtained Dede-Agach, Kavalla. Second, in 1914 I told Bulgaria to maintain neutrality, because it will win in this way, that they will give enough land for the price of neutrality; they did not listen to me. Third, after Bulgaria entered the WWI, I told in 1917 that it will lose and measures to be taken on time. I wanted only good for Bulgaria, but I was interned in Varna. Then, after the defeat, they asked me, but I said: "It is already late!" Fourth, I repeated in front of Ferdinand and Boris that they have to be in good relationships with all countries. I have given methods for the various spheres of life, methods of education of a child and the youth, I have given music, I have also given Paneurhythmy; let them apply them now. This is a material, which is tried, and there is no need of searching another method, because that method, which I indicate, is in conformity with the epoch and shall be applied. Our power is not that in some countries treat us well, but if we have connection to the Divine, if we have the support of Heaven. There is already literature, in which I have presented all methods and I do not say to accept on trust, but they can try all this. People preach freedom, which can be taken from them by everyone, but I preach Freedom, which cannot be taken from them by anyone. Let the most intelligent and most selfless Bulgarians come to me and I will tell them a way, in which it can be went out of the present situation.
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I TAKE YOU TO THE SPRING One brother visited the Master. In a private conversation with him He said: The coming of the Great Masters happens for the liberation of the world. I show you where the path of Light, which bears Life, is and I will not show you the little lights. When I come close to people I am always clean. Cleanness is a quality that shall be adopted by everyone. When I talk about the Sun, you will not expect happiness from me, but from the Sun. I take you to the spring. You will not expect happiness from me, but from the spring. Hence, when I talk with you about some things, I want to take you to the Reality, where there is not sorrow and suffering. The place full of sorrow and suffering is the Unreal and when man does not understand God's paths, he suffers. I have a point of contact with God. I am interested in the point of contact! When I do something, I think then that I know. For me, only the implemented ideas are ideas. I am send by God. They shall know that I have not come by myself, by my desire, but I am send by God to work for establishing the Kingdom of God on Earth. The Kingdom of God has not a form. God talked through Jesus, God talks through me! The ideas, which I present in the talks and lectures, are taken from the Divine. I have come in order to manifest Love, to bring it to Earth. This is my mission. What Jesus talked and what I talk is from the same source. They are not two sources. But each Master is different, bears divine fire from the Invisible world and is distinguished by the fire. You cannot work against the Master. We bear one Divine Teaching, but we do not argue, we cannot compare it to something, time will show. All those, who will come, are determined. Those, who are coming to the Sixth race, are determined. If some of us can find larger light somewhere else, let them go there, it is not a problem. The Master brings the new, when he comes; the old disciples cannot go further without a key and this key is with the Master. The Master explains the opportunities of the present and reveals the future. Now, I have come to teach people to live in conformity with Love; there is no another way, all will come. I want them to test this Teaching. I learn from the Sun. I want to be like the Sun, like the fruit trees, like the springs, like the precious stones, like everything beautiful in the world. I learn from everything, I appreciate everything, I do not underestimate anything. When people walk along this Divine path, I am happy, and I am sorry when they are not on it, because all those sufferings, which they will have, do not make me happy. I want the souls, over which I work, to succeed and one day they to be one written book in order I to be happy that I have done something good. A Master has to come to the world, in order to give image to the people. When a Master comes, he talks to them about something, which they understand. The Master bears the first Love in himself and cannot look at the people with disregard. He treats everybody in the same way, because Love treats everybody in the same way. He knows why the sufferer suffers and why the happy person is happy. He can liberate the sufferer very easily, only by two words: "Accept Love and you will liberate! " You shall love a man, in order to prepare him for the path to immortality. The Master accepts Love from God; it passes through him and comes to the disciple. At first a connection establishes between the Master and the disciple. The Master shall have Love towards the disciple, in order to be able to teach him. Love, which the Master has towards the disciple, is an important factor for the raise of the disciple. I have not taken anything from anybody. I have only given. I have revived them, taken them back from death; I have improved their financial status, paid their depts, and I have not taken anything in return, because that is the way I understand Love - in giving. I feel the unity in the following way: you, when you love somebody, you love me; when you water a flower, I am happy, because it is happy. Here it is how fraternization will happen: we will translate our literature in Serbian, Polish, etc. The Invisible world will give a lighter, and the material will be given by those who are in the School. After the style of the talk, I will tell that one child can speak logically when he learns a poem by heart; it is not a hard work for a person to speak logically, there are certain rules, which he will learn and that's it. Are things in Nature arranged logically? Stars are not arranged by size in the space. What is given in the talks is not only in the words. There are sealed things in the talks, which cannot be delivered by words. Many things remain sealed and only the one, who have experienced them, understands them. The reading of Gospel, talks and lectures shall be done with understanding and application. Everything that you read shall be understood and applied. Some of my talks are purely surgical - I clean the wounds of the people, to whom I talk. It means that I take into consideration the people, listeners, audience who are in front of me. Methods of education and self- education may be found in all lectures. I have given so many methods of education of children, adults, philosophers, poets, etc. Images, which I use, are taken out from Nature. I translate the newest things, which are now in Nature. It was different two thousand years ago. They say: "Jesus has told this once"; yes, but Jesus has also told: "Now you cannot understand some things and you will understand them later." So, today there are new things and after two thousand years there will be even much newer things. Philosophy, life, exercises and all the rest are in harmony in us. These gymnastic exercises are given to the outer world for the first time. Music penetrates the talks and somebody has to be found to play it. The one, who is going to interpret the talks, shall be a master. Truths about the future culture are hidden in the talks. Read the talks and lectures from the Youth and Common Occult Class, as well as the Gospel. Do this before each other things. It is obligatory you to find time for them. The Brother said: "There is hidden meaning in them." Power is namely in this - mind to be trained, to be harnessed into work and to look for the internal meaning of the words in the talks. Sometimes I read a lecture to you and a thought comes to my mind why I have to read it, when you will understand it in twenty years; why from Heaven they want me to read it. Now I give twenty leva to a little child, who does not understand, but when years pass, this money of his will become a capital. The ideas, which I present in the talks and lectures, can be found by you alone, but for each of them, you shall work twenty-five thousand years in order to find it. Let's say that in one talk there are ten ideas; how many years will you need to find them then? And how many talks of the kind are there? That's why I underline that with these talks and lectures the time for your development shortens very much. Once, in ancient times, many people waited at schools for twenty years in order to be given two or three grains of sentences, on which to work after that. Occult science in the west goes along an automatic path, and there is diversity in the talks, as well as in Nature itself. There is internal regularity in this diversity - it is the same in the talks as it is in Nature. I have come out of a world, in which occultists have never stepped, nor seen it. I translate from Nature, from the original itself. I have not talked about Love by now. I have reached to the Causal world by now. This School goes along the Absolute path; when you want to walk along the relative path, you exclude yourselves from it. And outside of the School, it is a school again. Everything is in the plan of God. Once I told to outsiders: "If you want to hear what was written, don't come to me, there are books, read them, but if you want to hear what was not written anywhere, come to me." A priest wrote to me that he had become desperate, because he did not have what to talk, but he had began to read the talks, his life had become worthwhile, he had become joyful and happy and he asked me if he had the right to read them in front of his listeners. He was encouraged by the new. I have never repeated things. What I have said, I will not repeat it even if you give me the entire world. What I have talked about for twenty-five years has already filled the world and the world cannot liberate from it. It is not mine, it is Divine and one day people will accept it inside. Life will not change in the way people believe today. There are invisible workers, who take and spread through the air the ideas, about which I talk to you. The Sermon, brought by Jesus, is spread everywhere by the spirits after that. The new ideas, which I mention, this Divine thought, are everywhere in the world, everybody feels it. Other creatures listen to the talks together with you. Many people listen to what I talk. When I talk, I do not mean only you, but also those who have perfectly liberated themselves. They are not here on Earth; they are free and listen from other worlds. The Brother asked: "How can we reach them?" In order to reach them, you shall make a connection with them and ask them how they have come to that state. Sometimes, in order to rouse, to underline a weakness and help, I talk about things with which I make myself dirty by entering in mire, because each human love is big mud. I force myself to talk about this in order to underline the truth, I make myself dirty, but it cannot be otherwise, I have to tell it. One teacher teaches you knowledge, but do you know how it has been gained? Somebody has tasted the sweet fruits of knowledge, but how does this sweet fruit come, what conditions has the tree passed through, how has it passed through the storms, the cold! If people are ready, I can talk about deeper things to them, but humility is needed. I cannot tell anything to one, who thinks that he knows everything. First of all man shall have humility, if he wants to gain more internal knowledge, i.e. he shall have consciousness that what he knows is very little and that he shall learn from now on. One Frenchman asked me by letter a few questions: first, what have made me to start this movement? I answered him: Love towards God, Knowledge about God and Truth about God. Second, for who is this movement? I told him: this movement is for the entire mankind, and not only for Bulgaria; this movement is organized and the other organizations will come to assist it, because it is Divine. Third, has this movement opponents? I told him: in the time, which is coming, all those who oppose, will get out of their depth. What we bear to the world is as needed as light, air, water and bread. This is the newest situation, which is being revealed to the future mankind. People shall try it. Love shall enter the world in a new way. Things, which we say, shall be checked in order to live and will not be imposed by force. I do not want to prove to you, but I say: Try. If we defend ourselves, we are at the wrong side; it shall be talked only about what has application. What I talked this morning in the Common Occult Class has application. One who does not know the Internal teacher, he does not know the outer one either. The Master cannot work directly on everybody. He works directly on some people, but, on others, he works in this way: he will put a man or two, or three, etc., up to ten between him and himself. Jesus chose twelve persons and he worked on them. Each of them had one typical feature. For example, Thomas had a particular feature and it was a door for Jesus to work between the other people. Also each of his disciples was a door, through which He could work on a special group of people in the world. From all disciples of Jesus, there was mildness only in John. I do not stare at my disciples' mistakes; I have much more important work. I know everything that they think and do. I could raise them, but I do not want; I have left them totally free, because I teach the free. This Teaching is for the free. Do not look for the love of the matches. Love, which is fired by matches, dies out, and the Divine Love is eternal, it never dies out, it is never lost, lives forever and ever. Only when we think of God, Love will fill our hearts. What I have told you is very little: to look for God in everything, to love God in everything and in everybody! I have planted young trees, which are growing now and they will give fruits after three-four-five years. We will see then of whom what is the fruit. No one, who has come to us consciously, has gone out. We neither invite, nor drive somebody away from us. Now I prepare the disciples; time will come, I will fire you and there will not be dying out any more. If only you fire! At first there will be groan, but when you begin to give birth to fruits, you will be already ready. I have sacrificed myself for you, and now you shall self-deny yourselves. The disciple will perceive the Love of the Master through obedience. The Love of the Master. And in the same way in which soils takes rain in he takes the Love of the Master in. Through learning the disciple waters things and they grow up in him. The disciple is obedient in order the Love of the Master to settle in him, and studies in order Love to grow in him. You shall have Love in order you to be accepted by the Master. Only Love can open the doors of Wisdom and Knowledge. The Master chooses his disciples and calls them by his Love. The disciple studies by gratitude to the Master, in order to maintain the Love of the Master. Love, which Jesus showed towards people round Him, was resonance of Love, with which He was loved by Father. When we get to know God, we shall also get to know that He has also sent us to fulfil His Will. Each conscious man, in whom Jesus' Spirit lives, shall understand, that he is sent in order to evidence the Truth that he is sent to fulfil God's Will. If we do not have attitude towards God, what will make us have attitude towards the others? What does Master's goodwill towards the disciple depend on? It depends on two things: first, on the good approach of the disciple to the Master and second, on the disciples studying. He may approach well, but not study well and what is built by the good approach, is demolished by not studying. But there is a disciple, who approaches well and studies well. In this case the Master has a special attitude towards him. Good approach is a capital! The disciple develops his capital through studying. If he does not study, this capital remains undeveloped and then, after a while, it disappears, it is spent. Each thing that does not give fruits, wears out, decreases. First of all, man shall appreciate Love, which gives Life, after that he shall desire to dress Life. Knowledge is a garment of Love; Truth is a guard, house. In Love man is born, in Wisdom man dresses, and in Truth he has a house, in which to live. Love, Wisdom and Truth are three necessary things. Many brothers and sisters are entirely devoted to the arrangement of material and personal problems and do not live ideological lives. That is why it is necessary mind centre to be created - not everything to be announced to everybody, but only to the ones, who are determined. Some people do not apply and sometimes I even regret that I have started spiritual work in Bulgaria. Selfless people are needed. People, who are ready to serve selflessly to God and in the Brotherhood, such people are only certain persons. The certain brothers and sisters are 1444. There is one part from them in the Brotherhood and another will fill it. And they will come by all means! But not all that are now in the Brotherhood are from those 1 444 people. One sister told me: "I want to be with You, to serve You, to become Your servant." I said: "Please, you are wrong! Why you will serve me, your master is God, serve Him! I am a servant, too. Why will I take somebody else's servant, if I am a servant and I do not need servants." Jesus says: "The words, which I utter, are not uttered by Me, but My Father utters them through Me." When sometimes I speak severely to somebody, he could think that God speaks through me. Why not? One great professor may devote very little part of his time to his student, because he is very busy with all sorts of discoveries of his in his laboratory. In general, his work is not to deal only with the student. I have not time, nobody has to come and complain of somebody. Somebody asks: "What shall I do?" Watch me and do what I do, try it. A necessary condition for disciples' progress is studying the talks.
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INTERNATIONAL LIFE A journalist visited the Master and a conversation began about the international life. Each nation has its own function and it has to be free in order to fulfil it. Each nation is like an organ in the human organism. Or, said in another way, each nation is a perceiver of specific energies in the Cosmos, which are shared out amongst the entire mankind, and that is why it is needed for the life of this mankind. The Bulgarians are one organ, the English - another, the Germans - a third one, etc. When Lord comes, he will assemble them all. One day all peoples will bring their own specific nice features and will make them available to the entire mankind. All peoples bear part of the holly Tabernacle and one day when all these parts unite they will form the Tabernacle. And as each nation has its own function as an organ of the overall human organism, it is allowed to have its own language. All peoples have to live in brotherhood as members of one family. No nation shall dominate. Once Babylon, Assyria, the Roman Empire dominated over the other nations, they ruled them, but where is their domination now? Contemporary nations, which dominate, will have the same destiny. All peoples shall have good conditions, no people shall oppress another and stronger peoples shall help to the weaker ones. When you meet an English, an American, etc, you shall feel that you are over the nationality, that you are brothers. Nationalism shall be overcome, leave it aside - man shall not love only his people. Try to be God's sons! In a family, at first parents are dictators and punish children with the rod, but when children grow up, their father will not be able to dictate, he will become a democrat. It is the same with peoples. When they wake up and become stronger, the dictatorship disappears and turns into democracy. Synarchy is the highest form of management, but contemporary mankind is not ready yet to perceive it. It is for the distant future. Collective consciousness awakens in mankind more and more today. The tendency for uniting is increasing and in future, the federation of nations will establish.
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WITHOUT VIOLENCE The Master accepted one journalist and during the conversation he delivered the following thoughts: Violence is not culture, but a preparation for culture. Violence shall stop, to be culture. There is no violence in God. Any violence is paid, consequences are coming. Those who have committed violence are restless. When they go to the other world, they will be restless there, too - the results from the sin find them and they cannot escape; only when consciousness comes, they will be forgiven. Any sin that is committed is committed against God, nothing more. When a man is killed, it is already committed a crime, with which they breach God's law; destiny catches them - there is no deliverance, once they have sinned. How they could escape, when they have sinned? They have committed a murder, they hide in the forests, but die and they wait for them in the Invisible world. Where could they hide? You cannot hide in the other world! Now man uses his power after the habit of the animals, but Goodness, Intelligence shall take an advantage. Man shall distinguish himself by Goodness; in the animal world, the strongest has the right, and in the human world, the weaker shall have the right. New cannot come in any way by violence. Violence shall be absolutely denied as means for coming of the New; violence gives birth to violence. The guest asked: "May violence be avoided?" If we have order of egoism, violence is inevitable, but if we have a Divine order of Love, then violence is useless and is excluded. The stronger will respect the rights of the weaker. When he sees any small animal, for example, an ant, he will pass round it, he will not tread it. He will not cut trees indiscriminately. When man gains power, he forgets himself and becomes haughty - the fall into sin is there. Now we are in the position of the grinder and blade. Now the grinder and blade arrange the world and while arranging it, they are wearing out, and the things, they arrange, are also wearing out. A Bulgarian tied a dog to the tap of a barrel with wine and beat it. The dog, while pulling itself, pulled the tap and opened the barrel. The man went to chase the dog and the wine run. Often when we beat the dog and go to chase it, we lose the conditions that we have. It is a law: in violence, we lose the good conditions, which we have. The Divine science excludes hypnotism as a healing and educational means, because with hypnotism man uses violence on somebody else's will and then a reverse reaction will occur. Batak massacre is repeated - to kill a man without judging him! When God sees that man misuses with the great laws, he teaches him a lesson. People shall repent and say that murders are not allowed. The one, who is guilty, shall not be killed. One, who is killed, is more dangerous in the Invisible world. The one, who does not know the occult law, says: "Let them kill each other!" When they kill each other, they are more dangerous and the situation gets always worse after that. Some people believe in evil. They think that they will benefit of evil and think that when they kill their enemy, they will win. And if a man is convinced that his enemy will become stronger after death, he will not kill him. Somebody says: "Murder is allowed for God's sake." No, it is not allowed! There is no nation that has got on by murdering. That's God's law. If you can create a man, then you can kill him, and because you cannot make him, you cannot kill him. Each murder, each lie, each hypocrisy come out from totally different source. Death is there. Man cannot raise through them. One will be woven, two will be unwoven. Old Jews, not knowing the law, killed the gentiles and the latter reincarnated in them and the situation of the Jews worsened. As long as you walk along the path of sin, you will kill, and as long as you are after the new Divine order, there is not a word about killing. Evil is never defeated by evil, because evil gets bigger. The opponents in Germany did not have to be killed. It is worse when opponents are killed, things are denigrated. If a man kills a dove, he has the same conscious like a lass, who has picked a flower to adorn herself. Evil is defeated by Good. Each war bears illnesses, because these negative thoughts during the war days cause illnesses like poisonous gases and affect also the organisms of those people, who participate in the military operations; the whole atmosphere then is full of these flows. With the negative thoughts during a war, the atmosphere of ether is destroyed and this introduces dissonance in the human organism. It is "karma-karashak[1]" during a war, i.e. karma is activated. The WWII is a war of the birds-airplanes, of the fishes - submarines, of the bone-frogs - tanks, of the trees - guns. I say it metaphorically to those who understand me, and I can say it directly: animal powers in man take part in the war, and the Divine in man or real man does not participate. What is done - war is not after God's will and they will suffer. A singer once told me that when he gave a concert, a disabled person came amongst the attendees - without legs and without hands, a torso, who has listened with interest to the concert. The singer became very excited when he saw him; he could hardly bear the scene. That is what the result from the war is. The New Teaching and the New Life does not allow such scenes in Life. The New Teaching is a life of beauty, joy, happiness, and goodness. This is the Divine life, which will come, because this is God's will. In the Divine life each of us shall be left free. The private war between individuals gives birth to the common. God did not create the world for slaves, for servants, for prisons, for pleasures. God created the world for a school for his children. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] karashak (Turkish) - mixing, stirring (Ed.)
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PRIVATE PROPERTY The Master accepted one socially active person and a conversation began about private property. There is no private property the way we perceive it. There shall not be private property. They say that people have many things; no, they have nothing, they delude them elves. Somebody says: "This is mine up to here, and that is yours from there on." This does not exist in the Divine order of things. It is God's Earth, it is nobody's. Whose will be the Factory and for whom will it operate? First of all it will operate for those who work, and the surplus - for all the rest. There are three understandings about property: private property, public property and the third principle - God owns everything. We shall come to the third understanding of property. Radical transformation shall start from there. In order to be free, consider that the house, in which you live is not yours; these are temporary things, consider temporary things for temporary. The only things, on which man has the right of property, are his Spirit, his soul, his mind and his heart.
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FUTURE ORDER - ORDER OF LOVE Some socially active persons visited the master. One of them asked: "What will you tell us about the social issue, which disturbs mankind today." The Master said: Nowadays there are crises in all spheres of life - financial crisis, crisis in the psychic world, in religion, etc. All of these crises have one common root. When you see worn out, suffering people, people, who live in destitute, etc., this shows the degree of development of mankind and it is understood, that it has not reached to a higher culture. There is place and conditions for everybody in the world, but life is put on an irrational base, and Justice and Equality shall be applied in it. What is meant by "Equality"? This means that everyone will be given according to his needs. For example, the little child will be given as much as he needs, as well as the grown-up. The economic issue shall be arranged: each of us shall have a house with two rooms and a kitchen, food and time has to remain for the needs of the Soul. The issue about light, air and water is solved. Only the bread issue remains. Food, which is born by Earth each year, is enough for all, but is not distributed the way it has to be. The society shall solve this issue. Bread shall be so available for everybody as light, air, and water. Everybody should obtain bread for free and according to his needs. And when the economic issue is arranged, then time has to remain for each person to satisfy his cultural needs. It is possible and indispensable bread to given for free to everybody. Then the Kingdom of God will be already on Earth. This is one of the essential issues, which will not be solved automatically. We need people - pioneers, For example, in our Brotherhood, it can be made an attempt people to cooperate and apply the new way of living. The Brotherhood shall have 16 da of earth, where to be worked in the new way. Also workshops to be there, in which to be worked in the new way. Work shall be distributed evenly, and goods shall be also distributed evenly between everybody and there to be enough for everybody. We think that we are poor, but the world is very rich, only that we are poor in understanding. There are lots of resources for all people to live decent lives. The ones who have made the world come to fix it. And now they prepare the people in order it to be clear to them that everybody will suddenly change. It is being done something in today's big crisis. When heart is fixed, half of the world will be fixed. When mind is fixed, the whole world will be fixed. The way we think the world will be fixed, it will never be fixed in this way. The world will be fixed neither by earthquakes, nor by burning of towns, nor by storms; these things demolish the old, but one real change shall happen in people's mind. It is worked hard from the Invisible world in order the new ideas to be perceived by mankind. At first, about one million Angles were sent for saving mankind, but they have not completed successfully enough their task. Some people say "God will fix the world", but this is a very automatic understanding. The problem will not be solved externally, because if it was so, Jesus could take the power to establish a law and so on. If the world could be fixed, there are laws today, too, but the following is missing: people do not understand human soul and do not know the body, they do not consider it holly. When people begin to understand the human soul and when they come to the idea to consider the human body holly, then the world will be fixed. For example, the contemporary countries send thousands of people to die on the battle field and rich people send the workers to the mines, without sympathising them. Let people with higher consciousness come in order all acquisitions of science to be used for good. Society shall be organized in the way our organism is organized. One who thinks that mankind depends on the social order, he is mistaken; it is just as if you make a cart, which is bad and after that you say that you depend on it. You, who have made one cart, can make another more perfect one. Ideas are needed. At first, the change will come in mind and then - in feelings. The world cannot be suddenly changed. Until you all start burning and light the others, life cannot be fixed. What impedes life now? Consciousness, people's understanding. The Kingdom of God is not something physical; one day, when all people awake, it will come to Earth - when conditions for the new consciousness are established and it is set going. The most direct way is people to understand the great truth that they are one and that they shall act after the law of Love. Today's relationships between people are automatic - like boards, united with a ring in a cask, which have nothing in common, but are hold together externally by the metal ring, and when it breaks, they separate and disperse. Today people also disperse like the boards of a dried cask and they see that there is nothing that can keep them together, because their relations are automatic. What is the reason for today's misfortune? - Unloving. And which is the way for mankind going out of this situation? - If Love enters the world, everything will be fixed. All who want to establish communities and fellowships; they shall set the idea of Purity and shall be good conductors of Love. In one Brotherhood, like ours, everybody shall love all and all shall love everybody. If Love enters the world as a factor, then issues can be solved. They cannot be solved in another way, because, otherwise, the animal principle will reign in the world - the strongest will win and will have the right. People shall understand that everybody has equal rights from God. Each person has the same right for food, but as much as he needs, as well as any other creature. Rational Nature has foreseen one plan for all of us - a plan of the Rational life - and people have to study its Divine plan, where everything is foreseen. In order this plan to be understood, human body shall be studied. And when people learn how it is organized, then they will understand the new order. In the head, within this small space, milliards of cells get along; people can do the same, but they shall reduce their needs for this purpose, because they have lots of useless things. One guest asked: "When consciousness of mankind will awake?" If man moves with the speed of an oxcart, ages will be needed for his consciousness to awake, but if he moves with the speed of the light; it will take little time. The future order will be the order of Love; then, as an external manifestation of Love, four things will be applied: honesty, justice, purity and selflessness. When they are applied in the social system, it will be improved. It is a solution to the issue, but how, after all, can it happen? This is an issue on awaking of the consciousness, because it is inside the human soul and has to manifest by itself. So, which love will solve all human issues? It is Love in which honesty, justice and selflessness are included as elements. If only people do not spoil the world, it will be fixed. All famous people, authorities will lose the leadership, will not know what it has to be done and then they will look for the Divine. If we apply God's law, all misfortunes and sufferings will run away from us. This law may be applied in the economic life. They can apply it, but they do not want to, because they still believe that there is an easy way in Life, which will lead them to the desired happiness. But, there is no another way, except the Divine one. They say that the country has lots of nice laws. Yes, it has laws, but there is violence, too. People are very good, because there are laws, but if we leave the country for 24 hours without laws; we will check what sort of people will be they. When a politician gets up in the morning, let him think of God, serve God and govern in conformity with God's Will. Nowadays, when they take the power, they forget themselves and think that they are the main factors and they do whatever they want. It is not needed much in order the world to be fixed. A small effort is required for today's world, with which it can be fixed - all of us have to wish to fulfil God's Will. Abundance solves issues. If you go to a fountain, will there be a dispute on water? No. But there will be a dispute on a small bottle of water. Hence, there is no dispute at the Great, there is abundance, and at the small, there is dispute. Lying, jealousy, murders, false life show that there is no abundance. Everything in the world may be fixed, if people unite; there will be abundance then. Abundance is needed in the world and you shall not misuse it. All bad things come from scarcity. Love will attract abundance. We criticize this or that system, but each of them has been useful in the concrete case and after that it has outlived its time, in the same way as a child uses a toy and leaves it after a certain time. The new, which is coming, is Goodness, Justice, Beauty and Rationality. Beauty ennobles and raises man, Rationality makes him free, Goodness will introduce harmony in the society and Justice will satisfy the needs of all. Obedience without Love, without Rationality, without Freedom is a crime. Free man may obey, but voluntarily. Recently, I received a project of Rossendorf from Estonia, who has a plan for the new order. It is foreseen in this plan everybody to work in a commune, to be recorded how many hours they have worked and against a note for the hours they have worked to get products from the Community Hall, but I see that it is still paid for the work here. They want to create a new order, and it already exists; and we have only to perceive it. The new order issue is solved, because there are communities in Heaven, which live in this way and their order shall be taken down, and not to be invented new orders. The real order exists and it shall be transferred down, in the way the Tabernacle of Moses was seen up and was taken down after the above model. This ideal order is implemented on the Sun, on the planets, but it is not implemented yet on Earth in material respect. All rules exist up, but they want to make experiments here. The efforts of the Invisible world are what has already been tried to be implemented in the human society. Isn't it said: "May your will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven. " Isn't it said: "May your Kingdom come on Earth, as it is in Heaven." And they want to invent some things here, and this cannot be in this way. Now, the New life is being prepared all over the world. Fishes became a model for the steamships, and birds - for the airplanes. And the model for the new order shall be taken from the Higher Beings, because today's order of things is childish and shall be changed. Even the forms shall be already changed, because today's ones are not suitable. The Higher Beings, about whom it is written in the Writ that they will come, they will come exactly now. We say the Lord's Prayer (Translator's note: also called the Pater Noster or Our Father) with the idea that all people have One Father and that we are all brothers; the world will be arranged if all people perceive this idea. The victims from the WWII will act through people, implemented on Earth, in order the regime, the order to be changed. Masses are raising now and it is necessary they to raise. Today's order does not make efforts for satisfying the cultural needs - man works all over the day for obtaining of material things, he comes back home tired, he cannot read and goes to bed. Work shall be collective by working together. Cooperative work shall be implemented in all countries and work shall be given to everybody. There shall not be anybody without work. There is only one Brotherhood in the world, established by God and there is nobody, who is not in that Brotherhood; if somebody does not understand that, this is because of his narrow field of vision. New method shall enter the world - each of us to work something for what he has been born. And when he works for what he has been born, he will not be tempted. Unfortunately, few contemporary people are at their places. All European countries will unite in one federation. The countries have so many debts, but in the new order they will eliminate them, they will remit them and start anew. There are two methods for re-education, which will operate one after another and people's destinies will be solved through them. One of the methods acts from outside: first, the Law of Moses shall re-educate people - through revolutions, etc., and second - the law of Jesus will come. In future, men and women shall be absolutely free from the material conditions. Woman shall not be forced to get marry because of material conditions and man shall not be forced to get marry because of material conditions. Nature has retained the best real blessing for later.
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NEW DIRECTION OF LABOR One socially active person visited the Master. He was interested in what labour will be characterised by in the New culture. In the course of the historical development of mankind, there are three phases in the human activity: making efforts, labour and work. Making efforts is for animals, labour - for people, and work - for Angels. Labour is by obligation - you have to labour, in order to earn something for living. There is joy in work: an artist works and a poet also works, when he writes. Work happens with the least efforts, with the least energy. With labour, a lot of energy is spent, and while making efforts - even more. Work shows that you are free from labour and making efforts. Making efforts is going down, labour is going up, and work is being in the vault of Heaven. Making efforts is slavery, labour is servicing, and work is Freedom. I said that labour is by obligation, and work is by free will - you are free from the karma. When you are not free, it is labour. And when you are free, it is work - you paint, sing, write and work physically, but nobody forces you and in no way obliges you. You cannot go suddenly from making efforts to work; man has to pass through labour. Contemporary people consider things partially. They do not know why it is passed through making efforts, labour and work. Nowadays a violinist plays for money; a baker bakes bread for money, a shoemaker gives shoes for money. Everything is for money today. Nature loves people, who make efforts, who labour and who work, but do not stay idly. When you make efforts, you are in the physical world. When you labour, you are in the Spiritual world. When you work, you are in the Divine world. When man works unselfishly, without being paid, then he works. And when he is paid, he labours. For example, somebody gives a concert in a town and he is paid for that - then he labours, and after that he comes to Izgreva and gives a concert for free - then he works. Making efforts is the hardest thing, labour is a bit easier, and work is the easiest. Somebody says: "I am tired of labouring." And it is pleasant to work. Labour shall be turned into work. The best conditions are in work. Now it is required not labour, but work and man shall do it freely, by Love. There is a story, which characterises the whole mankind; it looks like a tale from "One Thousand and One Nights ": one rich man was carrying a hoe on his shoulder and was looking for somebody to hire him. One man told him: "I will pay you, go to the vineyard." He said: "I do not work for money, I do not want money." "What do you want? Precious stones?" That man told him: "I have so many of them!" The other man said: "Do you help for God's sake?" The man went with the hoe to help. What will be the valuable coin from now on? The words: "For God's sake!" Such will be the future Culture. Make a favour without wanting you to be paid. Throw away the idea to be paid, all shall be dictated by Love. All blessings are included in Love; we shall work for Love towards God. If somebody is paid for his labour, it is not Divine, because the spent energy is paid by nothing. If you fulfil the maxims of this Doctrine, you will be neither hungry, nor ill. Here, in the Brotherhood, we will be like in the Invisible world - no matter what we do, we shall do it for God's sake. This shall be realized deeply in your souls. Everything we have, to be at God's disposal. We shall give away for God's sake. If people believed, they would have had wonderful experiences! All that man has - activity, gifts and powers shall be used for the Glory of God. However, this shall be a continuous process. Everybody thinks that he is a God's cashier. The agriculturist, who ploughs, shall consider that he works for God; as well as the teacher, the clerk, the worker, and the doctor shall consider that all that they earn is for God and it is not their own. If one engineer works with the consciousness of God, that he builds for Him, won't his work be to his liking? And the heart of the one, for whom he works, also opens and he gives more. When one works for God, it is just as if what is possessed by God is also his and he will be richer. If you work, work with Love. If you serve, serve with Love. If you drink, drink with Love. If you eat, eat with Love. If you make something good without Love, I do not want it. Everything that is made by somebody for me with Love, and he benefits by it, I also benefit by it. This will be set as one great law: make everything with Love and be diverse in your methods. The supreme stimulus for work is Love. Do not start any work without Love. Obey this rule! Man shall start asking himself for whom he works, for whom he thinks, for whom he feels, etc. This is the most important question. Nowadays, everything in the world is always done for payment. The judge judges, but he is paid. The preacher preaches and he is paid. Also the lawyer. We shall change our outlooks, but today we do things after the law of constraint. When there is no matter what material stimulus, this is not Freedom any more. Let Good itself attracts you and be strong for you. I would like my clothes to be sewn by a tailor, who does not say bad words. Because everyone puts something into what he produces - good or bad. If this is applied, everything that is made - bread, etc. will bear blessing. And now we all know the weaknesses and do not know how to eliminate them. That is why, first of all, small communities shall be established, which will apply this rules; for example, you will plant one garden after this rules. At the old order, those, for whom you work, pay you and show you the path. But, at the new order, you are paid nothing, but you are left as a member of an own family and you are given everything at disposal. A mother carries her child in her arms, as well as the maid, but she is paid, and the mother works by Love. She is paid, too, but in another way - through the feeling of joy and pleasantness, which are experienced. Servants are paid for fulfilled work, but sons - are not. Son serves for nothing. Somebody asks: "Is it possible to live without money?" Well, that seed, which you plant, how much did it pay to you? The thought about money is hypnosis. We have put much bigger importance into money and we say that it is not possible to live without money. You can live without money, but not without Love! The one, who loves you, will give you everything. When we work by Love, without expecting anything, and when Providence of God gives us, it is a Divine Order. And when we insure ourselves by salaries, etc. it is human order. Invest your capital in the Divine bank. When you do not work for money, but you want thankfulness - or to be loved, or respected, then you are not quite selfless. Actually, man shall not expect anything. Rain is a gift for all of us. Is it bought with money? Sun gives away for nothing; be like it. Be like the spring, be like the fruit tree. Somebody asks how to live. Like the fountain! One who works for God's sake and his personal things are arranged from above, he has eliminated his karma. Some people have to be still paid, they are silkworms, and the ones, who serve to the Eternity, are not paid. In the New culture, the world will be organised otherwise. Imagine that you go to a baker and tell him: "My dear friend" and he will give you bread for free. But from where will he take the flour? He will go to a miller and he will tell him: "My dear friend" and he will give him the flour. This means that the exchange coin will be Love. How will we understand that people serve to God? When it comes to serving to God, people will travel by train for free; you will go to theatres also for free. Actors will also play for free, but, in return, the audience will feed them for free with the most fresh and delicious food. When any brother has lots of energy, we will ask him to gather fruits and he will put this energy into them, he will prepare marmalade. And when somebody is not energetic, we will give him to eat from this marmalade and he will become in good spirits. The one, who serves for free, is paid and is paid even more. Somebody could say so: "Well, if I work for free, if I work for Love towards the other, for Love towards God, then what will happen with me, how will I live?" Here is an answer to this question: when somebody works for free, for Love, he will be given by people for Love. If somebody lives after God, God will take care of him. Hence, the order will be put on a completely new base; one great idea will be applied in Life. We can make an attempt: to put on silk aprons and prepare tea together, but everybody, who will light the fire, who will bring water and who will serve at table, let them work with Love, voluntarily, so that we to drink love tea. If you push a cask, full of water and you tell yourself: "Was this meant for me?", then you take something from the water. It is the same when bread is being knead, etc. This is a whole science. That is why people shall be free. Everything that man does shall be done by good will and when he finishes, he shall be pleased that he has done it, to be joyful. One tea, given by good will, is irreplaceable. Even if you give a drop of water by good will, it is irreplaceable. You put something valuable and beautiful in it. Contemporary people spoil God's blessing, which comes from above, because as transformers, they form one negative environment, in which good turns, sent by God, cannot be brought into being on Earth. They spoil wheat, grapes, etc. with their deeds.
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LIFE FOR THE WHOLE The master accepted several socially active persons. One of them asked which the base, on which one rational culture shall be built, is. Each branch, which does not work for the whole tree, is dry and is cut. Our mistake is that each of us lives for himself. Each small branch of the tree shall be aware that it is a part of the whole organism and will obey its laws. If the branch says that it can live separately and detaches from the whole organism, it is sentenced to death by itself. Man plays the role of a branch in Life and if he realizes that he is a part from the Whole, without detaching from it, he will develop properly. You are treating so well your own leg, and why do you not treat somebody else's leg well? When lives of others become as close as the life of our leg, then the world will become a better place. The relationships between people are the same as the relationships between the organs of one organism, because all people together form one bigger organism. And when somebody harms somebody else, it is just as if he hits his leg. When somebody stabs somebody else, he himself will be affected. Lord is the Whole. In God, man will live as a son, as a daughter. What could be better than that! We are parts, parts of the body, but we have all blessings, all possibilities of the whole organism. The whole organism thinks about us. Is that bad? This is the new understanding. It shall be built in a new way. New building is needed. Once a woman came to me. She often fell into despair, crying and said that she had remained helpless, and actually, it was not so, because she had a good job and her father was rich. I told her: „You take care of yourself too much. Stop that, in order the change to come into you. That is why today there are no yet conditions for help to come to you." When you work, you shall have in mind the whole mankind - this is the rational. When you work only for yourself, it is just as if only one finger works and it is not work, it is just an exercise. When you do something, which will be of usage for you and the others, it is useful. You are sitting and thinking: "How will I live?" You shall not think over that. This will be thought over by the tree, you are a branch. And what you earn, if you decide to put it somewhere for yourself, you will be in trouble. Send it to the whole. It is said: 'You shall deny everything and you will lift up your cross. "When you live for the Whole, you cannot make mistakes. When you live for the parts, then you will make mistakes, because when a part in relation to a part is not harmonized, there are no proper relationships and a mistake occurs. When you do not live in harmony with the parts, then you are indirectly in disharmony with the Whole. Man suffers, because he does not work for the common, and his life is foreseen to happen in the Whole. Nations shall not torture one another, because they are parts of mankind. Each nation shall be given its rights, because it functions in the whole organism as an organ. Each individual shall be also given rights, because he is also a special organ in the whole organism and shall function properly. Since you are brought up separately - welfare to be only for you, all controversy is there. It cannot be something else; all parts live in one part. The Devil, from whom everyone suffers, was once a noble man and everybody praised him. Yes, he was a famous person and there was nothing bad in him. His mistake was that one day, when he passed near the Divine mirror, he looked at himself. And when he looked at himself, he fell in love with himself so much, and that is why he committed a sin. Under the phrase "fallen creature" it is understood a creature, who lives only for himself and understands very well his interests. Creatures of hell live exclusively for themselves. What is adopted by somebody there is only for him. He says: „I have to manifest myself." And now the ideas of hell are applied on Earth. People work after the laws of hell, there is imaginary justice. There is order and harmony only for some people. There are big delusions in personal lives. When people consider things from their own point of view, there cannot be agreement. Live shall be considered not from personal point of view, but as a totality. Love the others, because God loves them. Forgive them, because God forgives them. In the Divine world, the suffering of somebody is suffering of the others and the joy of somebody is joy of the others. That is what we strive for. Perfect people are perfect, because they consider suffering and joy of the others for their own. In the new epoch, man will know that his happiness depends on the happiness of the other people. In order you to be able to work, you must have strong legs, hands, eyes, etc. There are also people, who are like legs for you, others - like the hands, eyes, etc.; if they are hurt, you will be also hurt. All these ideas shall underlie the New order, which is coming.
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JUSTICE We were sitting under the hazel and talking. One brother asked: "In what form will Justice manifest itself in the New Culture?" God is God for everybody. Hence, all creatures shall be given the proper for them rights, Justice is the following: all creatures shall be given what is proper for them and no creature shall stumble in his road, in his development. When there is no justice in a country, it does not go well. Laws that exist today are not in conformity with the Divine laws and first of all, people perform their activity for fear and this is wrong. If what is right for me is not right for everyone, it is not right. And if what is right for the other people is not right for me, it is not right. So, God's right is what is right for me to be right for everybody - the light, which I have to be light for everybody. In the animal world, animals are arranged in accordance to their power, because the animal with the power has the right. In the human world, the one with the stronger mind has the right. And in the Spiritual world, the one with the warmer heart has the right. In Heaven power is given to the perfect ones, who have Love, Wisdom and Justice, and little power is given to the one who is not perfect. One shall pay due honour and respect to each person, to each animal, to each plant - this is also what is required from each of us by the New Teaching. Even if you meet an ox, you shall pay the due honour and respect to it and you shall know that it has certain rights. God's Justice considers not only people, but also all living creatures - from the biggest to the smallest ones. And we shall give them what is due, what is required by Justice. God has foreseen everything for all creatures and this is not only for one year, but for their whole lives.
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FREEDOM After performance of Paneurhythmy, we gathered around the Master on the meadow and a discussion about Freedom began. It is best if you freely walk and eat, look around, and sleep. There is no better thing than one, who is free. There is no better thing than one, who is worried by nothing. Sometimes we worry for nothing. Freedom will be preached, free outlooks. Each soul strives for Freedom. Freedom is something internal. It is not only something physical. All of us liberate by Believe, Hope, Love, and Truth. Everything, which is Divine, liberates. One is free, if he lives in God! When you connect to God, you will feel that your chains will fall, the Angle will tell you as he has told to Peter: "Go outside, you are free!" You have to have one horse, which could not be straddled by anyone. If somebody decides to straddle it, he will disappear, but if you decide to straddle it, it will carry you on its back. In this way the others will not be tempted, because if it does not disappear, desire will occur in them to steal it. Your horses are straddled by everybody. There are lots of tenants in your houses. Translate those symbols, which concern internal Freedom. This means that if the lower dark souls has power over you and they invade you and rule you, you are not free. Internal Freedom means they not to have power over you. Somebody says that he is free; there is a whole animal in him and he thinks that he is free. There are three types of freedom in the world: Freedom is a quality of the mind, of feelings and of deeds. When you go outside the frames of this internal Freedom, you are not free any more outside. Man is free only when he fulfils God's will. Man shall know what God's will is at each moment and fulfil it. When God tells something to man, and if he immediately does it, then he will be free. This morning a brother came to me and he wanted me to explain him what Freedom is. One sister brought something and I invited him to eat, but I did not make him pay me; this is Freedom. It is not like at inns, where you go in freely, but when you go out you will pay. Hence, when we fulfil God's will, we are free when we go in and when we go out, and when we fulfil the other will, we are free when we go in, but we are not free when we go out. We have one delusion: we think that when we remain alone, we will be free, and Freedom is in the Whole and when we go in the Whole, we become free. Earth is free when it goes along its orbit. Freedom, which does not damage anybody, this is Freedom. The Divine Love bears internal Freedom, space and breadth. Freedom comes from inside to outside. When the Divine stays to arrange things, everything goes well. In all things that happen with Love, there is no sin; sin is outside Love. By now you have walked outside the law of Love and that is why you have made mistakes and now you shall walk after the law of Love, in order not to make mistakes. Man cannot have Freedom, if he does not pass through the door of Love. There is no constraint in Love. There is Absolute freedom in it. Love is life without shadows. Love itself is a law for itself. When you love somebody, first of all, give him Freedom. Some people, who love, keep under control the person they love, they close him. People do not obey the laws of Love. Everybody wants to take out a patent that this is his, but Nature does not give patents. Each person in the world is free and if people have become slaves, they have become such by themselves. If they have become unhappy, that is because they have lost their Love. If somebody loves you in a human way, he will limit you. No one has the right to possess the lass. She is sent by God to learn. She does not possess and is not possessed. To be loved by the others, this is their own problem and a problem of God, because God is the one, who will impel them to love you, To be loved - this is without a law; I cannot make the others love me. Now we want to impose our will to be loved and this is not right. Everything else, except the Divine is a load. A true man is the one who can never make him do what he does not want to do. If God's law is breached, there is no Freedom. Then limitation comes for the man, because when the irrationally built house is demolished, you go below it. Why people are not free today? Because they do not know to use properly the conditions, in which they live. No matter in what conditions you are, if you know the laws, you are free. Imagine one person, who has knowledge of nature powers and laws. If he is chased, he will immediately produce enormous storm with the speed of 200 km/h. Who will chase him in such a storm? Or he will become invisible - he changes his form, no one can do harm to him. Freedom is gained by work. When Peace settles in you, you are internally free. When you make good, you are free. As long as you make a choice between good and evil, you are free, but if you make something evil, you will not be free any more. Is there only one flower in Nature? There is a big variety, isn't it? There are so many types of flowers! Everyone has special thinking; he is one spray of all the rest; let him think freely. Man wants to put Life in order automatically, but it cannot be so. You shall leave people live the way they understand it. What you do, consider yourself free, when you do it. Limitation is the first characteristic of Freedom. Freedom begins only at limitation. Those, who want to live in brotherhood, shall not be close to each other; they shall leave distance between each other. In order people to live well, they shall live at a certain distance from each other; Love does not happen from a short distance. It shall not be considered that physical closeness is also internal closeness and that physical distance is also internal distance. Two people can be on both poles of Earth and to be still together, to be united. In Love you shall not become attached. You are in the illusion - when you bring one form closer to yourself and you do not see anything else, you forget everything else and you know only this form. Your living area shall not be much reduced. There shall be at least one meter distance from each other. Hence, Love without becoming attached. Do not become very close to each other, in order not to shade one another. Man is stronger than destiny and conditions and if he is braver, he will overcome the conditions, otherwise the conditions will hamper him. Be without halters today!
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TRUTH During a lunch time conversation an issue was raised about Truth. The Master said: The Great Reality, which underlies of the entire Genesis, this is the Truth. Facts shall not be mixed up with Reality. There is no opposition in Truth and if you are in it, illness, poorness, death, and suffering - all of them disappear, nothing will remain from them and you will be free. If you live in Truth, no one can restrict you, you are in the Divine world, and you are a citizen of Heaven. When Truth comes to reign on Earth, the Kingdom of God will come. You shall avoid two things, which God does not forgive: the lie - white and black. Avoid lying. You can lie only the one, whom you do not love, because when you lie someone, Love disappears. There is no lying in Love. This is an absolute law. When you tell a lie, you get older. In the Spiritual world our lies are as stones, which impede the path of the ghosts, and that's why we are judged for lying. In order a man to have God's blessing, he shall not lie. When he lies, God's blessing and the support by Heaven and the Shining ones go away. The Divine in man can raise him, but first of all he must free himself of the lying. If you step there, where the leg of the lie is, you will die. One sister asked: "What is a mortal sin?" Lying is mortal sin!
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"OM" CONTAINS EVERYTHING After the lecture and gymnastic exercises, we came back to the parlour with the Master and a conversation started about the language in general and especially about the holly language. The Master said: By the language of a people, you can see the degree of its development. Vowels and consonants have various vibrations with various peoples. For example, in English "r" is avoided, it is barely pronounced; in Bulgarian, it is pronounced differently, and in German - in totally different way. Bulgarian language shall be revised very much, it needs mildness. Some words in the Bulgarian language have a good combination of the sounds, and others - have not. For example the word "ама" (it is pronounced [ama]) is harder, and "ала" (it is pronounced [ala]) is milder. The most difficult languages were the old ones, which were involutionary, and the contemporary evolutionary languages are easily learned. Slavic languages are more expressive. We know very little about how speech was formed. Nouns are of new origin, and conjunctions are of the oldest origin. Language has started with the conjunctions. Verbs came after that, and nouns came at the end. When brain gets ill, man forgets the nouns at the beginning, and then adjectives disappear, followed by pronouns, verbs, and the conjunctions do not disappear. And when man starts to get better, words come back in the same order. There are several holly languages. They are spoken by more advanced beings. One of these languages is Vatan language. It is a language, in which you cannot think, if you are in a state of uncertainty. With this language, everything you see is nice, you see dissonance nowhere, and everything is beauty for you. When man comes to Dedication, he will study one holly language, in which you cannot write or say anything, if your thinking is not straight. Vatan language is holly, Divine language and is for Earth. It is a language of the White brothers. The Angle language is another; there are words for designation of various objects, like our languages, but Love has penetrated in it and that is why man's consciousness shall be raised to the spheres of Love, in order to be able to understand and speak it. For getting known with the heaven language, man shall start studying Vatan language, which, to some degree, is close to it. The holly language exists deep in the soul. Each person has been in the higher worlds, he has spoken that language and that is why he has it in himself, but we are internally silted and we cannot speak it. One of the ancient languages of the White race is the Sanskrit language. In the languages of the White race, there are many words from this language; for example, wolf, water, etc. There are mainly about 250 roots in the language, and when you learn them, the other words are derivatives from them. The words Jehovah and Eva are from the same root. In Bulgarian the female name Yova looks like Eva. One of the strongest words in the Bulgarian language is "ум" (it is pronounced [um] and means "mind"). It comes from the ancient word "om". Om is what contains everything. Om is Light. It means that the word "разум" (it is pronounced [razum] and means "sense") bears the characteristics of the Light. There are several words, which have changed their meanings after a while. Ra is the rising Sun. And the word "Рай" (it is pronounced [rai] and means "Paradise"), in its origin, is the place of Light. "Тъма" (it is pronounced [tama] and means "darkness") is of Sanskrit origin - it originates from the Sanskrit word "tamas". In the word "мома" (it is pronounced [moma] and means "lass"), om is the power. This is a holly mark. All most beautiful things in Nature are put in "om". The words "момък" (it is pronounced [momak] and means "lad") and "дом" (it is pronounced [dom] and means "home") have that mark. In the religious old holly language, "om" is pronounced as [om] or [aum]. Both pronunciations are true. Once mankind consciousness is raised, a common language will come out.
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MAN IS A MICROCOSM Everything is revealed on the left hand; it is important and it is used for palmistry purposes. The capital is invested in the left hand, all gifts are there. The right hand is only what is being developed now and after that what is developed is delivered to the left hand to be preserved. The left hand contains the lines of the past lives, and the right one shows what is adopted now. You shall study what is the skin on the back of the hand, if the figures there are triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, etc. Toes are shorter and this shows that the mind is less involved in there, and in fingers, which are longer, it is more involved. There are cosmic flows that come into the human aura from the entire Universe. Each finger is an antenna, connected to special, live, rational powers in Nature. When man with his thumb touches the forefinger, he awakens nobleness in himself with that; at the middle finger, he awakens justice in himself, at the fourth finger, he awakens beauty and rationality in himself, and at the little finger, he awakens practicality in himself. The forefinger is connected to a known rational center in Nature and if you do not treat well this finger of yours, you do not get into contact with the rational center. The same concerns the other fingers. The thumb is a manifestation of human will. In Roman times the thumbs of some criminals were cut and they became irresolute. By moving the thumb, will becomes stronger; if it stops moving, man cannot manifest will. When the little finger is long, man is earnest at work, and when it is not - he is not earnest and whatever he starts, he leaves it, in order to begin something else, which he leaves again. One brother showed his hand, on which the life line and the head line are separated, the Master said: This means that you are very self-dependent and that your relatives have not influenced you. When the head and life lines unite at the top, this is good. This shows the influence of the parents, the rationality in the individual. The heart line begins from the hill of Jupiter and goes down to the material world. And the head line - vice versa: it begins from the physical world, derives its saps from there and goes up to the Divine world. In the heart line, energy goes down from Heaven to Earth, and in the head one, it goes up from the material to the Divine. The heart line shows the condition of the organism. When the upper end of the head line is split, this shows energy. As soon as we make improvement in the head and heart lines, this is a sign that we can overcome difficulties. The Saturn line (the destiny line) is resultant. It shows how much work has been fulfilled by the mind, heart and will. Lines, which are on the hill of Venus and are parallel to the life line, strengthen life, give life support. And lines, which are transverse to the life line, give more activeness to life; make life more active, more intensive. Lines, drawn on the hand, are a projection. We shall study the real lines in the etheric body. One real palmist sees the major lines of the etheric body. What is palmistry based on? It is based on the following great law in Nature: the powers of the entire organism work in each part of the organism. This is an important biological principle. The following is also based on it: if we plant a begonia leaf, it will give the whole plant. Man is one great letter, in which Nature has written down very much, and one who can read, let him read. Some of you have to study palmistry, not the details, but the basic things, which will stimulate you. A science may be made pleasant. Palmistry is not for revealing the weaknesses. It is a science, which stimulates. One brother asked: "What does it mean, when a man writes one letter thin at the beginning, and thick at the end?" If you thicken the end of the letter, for example if you write Г, В, Б, Л, И (Bulgarian letters), etc., this shows that you are mild at the beginning, and then you are firm. And if you write the letter thin at the end, this means that you are firm at the beginning, and after that you become mild. One sister asked: "What is the importance of the position of the planets?" Planets, celestial bodies in general, are centers, from which enormous energies come out in all directions and on this is based their importance. There are special situations, important life moments, which are determined by the position of the planets, the Sun and stars. The Writ says: "Letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." Astrology, if studied in details, kills, and as a science of Spirit, it is important. The rational beginning created the principles and laws and man shall learn from them. Certain keys are lost in astrology. Man shall know which hours during the day are Sun's hours. Each day has Sun's hours, as well as each night. Uranus and Neptune cause too much misfortune to people not because they have bad influence, but because the contemporary human race is not ready yet to accept properly their energies. Now they increase their activity. Man has twelve bodies and each home in astrology corresponds to one body, as well as each sign. The Moon influences feelings purification - not to be passionate, but to be sober-minded. Religious feelings are sober. There are no like Earth inhabitants in the Solar system - neither on Saturn, nor on Mars, Venus, etc. - and everybody benefits by their experience. Earth is a laboratory for experiments. In the Solar system, when a reform is intended to be implemented, it is done on Earth and when it is successful, they apply it at other places, too. Experiments may take place on Earth. Time is coming now, when the planets will happen to be in a favourable combination and we will begin a favourable evolution. The conditions on Earth will change then. The planets and stars will change their attitude towards Earth. People can never be happy along the path they walk. Not that happiness is unattainable, but it is a combination of all astrological principles that operate. Man has attitude towards the Cosmos. He is a microcosm and that is why all that is outside, in the macrocosm, exists inside of the man, too. There are as many planets and stars inside of the human mind, as they are outside. The internal Venus, Jupiter and Mercury are in contact with the external ones. You have also one internal Sun, which is in contact with the external one. Phrenologists have found out that the center of Mars is round the ears and a little above them. The center of Earth is at the side of the head and slightly in front, where the center of acquisition- loving is. The center of Jupiter is slightly above. Man shall also know where the centers of the Milky Way and stars of first magnitude are in the body. Some influences of Venus are at the back of the head, while others are at the top of the head, where the center of the charity is. Each planet has three influences on man: physical, astral and mental. Venus, as a Morning Star and as an Evening Star, has two different effects on people. The phases of Venus have also an effect. Venus has four phases: when emptying - two and when filling - two. Phases are descending during emptying and ascending - during filling. Unfortunately, nowadays, astrology is studied like geometry and no life is put in it. One brother asked: "How to distinguish sunny types?" There is exuberance in the clear sunny types, they bear Life and go from planet to planet as trippers, and after that they will go back to the Sun. Each sunny type, after passing through Earth, leaves a reflection on Earth. Many Sunny types, whom we have on Earth, are reflections of the sunny types, who have passed through it. To be under the influence of the Sun means to be so filled up with Light that no one can tempt you. When the sunny type comes, then all the rest can harmonize, then we will have perfect people. Plants shall also be studied from an astrological point of view. Astrological botanic is built in this way. Each plant is under the influence of a planet. For example, oak is a plant of Jupiter. When man wants to be stable, he shall eat acorns. Acorns are healing. Organs in the human body, which are under influence of one planet and one sign, are treated with plants, which are under the influence of the same planet and same sign. For example, the lung and heart are under the influence of the Lion and Sun and shall be treated with plants, which are under their influence. When someone comes to hate you, let it be during emptying of the Moon, and when someone comes to love you, let it be during filling of the Moon. One sister asked: "What will you tell us about the Kabala?" Now Kabala is not so important, as it was once. Now world is progressive. When it is talked about Kabala, it shall be known that this is an abstract area and big mind is needed there. Kabala studies the internal world, and the contemporary science studies the external world. In ancient times Kabala was studied in an involutionary way, and creatures went downwards, and now, according to the law of evolution, the reverse path of ascension begins and Kabala shall be studied in a new way. The figures 9 and 10 are favourable. The figure 9 is a completed result; a new cycle begins after it, another epoch. The names, given to people, does matter. They are not accidental. For the one, who knows, this is not accidental, and for the one, who does not know, it is accidental. The mystical meaning of letters and sounds shall be studied. Each sound has special vibration and special influence.
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PRESENT YOUR BODIES IN A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, AND PLEASING TO GOD The Master said: A time has come for the contemporary world to study the human body, and then a social science will be constructed according to the needs of the people. The Writ says, "Present your bodies in a living sacrifice, sacred, and pleasing to God". The Writ also says that the body is a temple of God, which means that you shall enter inside that temple and shall learn. Christians do not yet study in that temple and remain ignorant. The waist has to be rather narrow, and when doubled has to give the breadth of the shoulders. And if the breadth of the hand by the wrist is doubled, it has to give the breadth of the neck. When man is with his shoulders lifted up, it shows that he is wondering what to do. He is like a plant that is young, aspires upwards, but hesitates. And when the shoulders are directed downwards, the person compares himself with an old tree that is tall; he feels strong and looks down with a high opinion of himself. And when the shoulders are horizontal, it is a good sign and shows that the person is on the equator, in equilibrium. The distance from the navel to the end of the hands, which are lifted above the head, is equal to the distance from the navel to the end of the feet. The head constitutes the capital investment, the face represents the capital in currency, and the hand shows the profit. The mind is the physical side of the Divine world, the brain is a physical side of the mind, and the human head is a result of the human Spirit. The soul works through the heart, and the Spirit - through the mind. The lungs are the result of the human soul, and the stomach is the physical man. In the forms of the body, where it is protuberant, the pressure is from the inside, and where it is concave, the pressure is from the outside. In phrenology, the Americans and the English came to a boundary, where they stopped; from there on they need new horizons and intuition. Contemporary physiognomists have no maxims about when the face is normal, they do not know what the measures are. There are rules at what length the nose has to have such and such breadth. When the nose is broader, the feelings prevail, and when it is longer and narrower, the mind prevails. Figure 9 When a part of the brain has been active and functioning, there the skull's bone has become thin, and vice versa. Let us examine the human head (see Figure 9). The worldly abilities are placed below, the spiritual ones - higher up, and the mental and the Divine ones - at the top of the head. A person is pleasant to you, because in him is developed the centre of justice ©, or the centre of clemency, which is on the top of the head, slightly to the front (B), or the centre of Love towards God, which is on the top of the head (A). The centre of music is behind the outer end of the eyebrows and up along the brow (D). The centre of prudence (E), the centre of intuition (F), and the centre of imagination (G) are on the upper part of the brow. The centre of greed is behind the ears and slightly to the front (H). The centre of individuality is between the eyebrows (J). On both sides of the brow is the centre of causality (K), and between the two centres of causality is the centre of comparison, slightly above the centre of the brow (L). Generals have a broad head, their eye does not blink in danger; if a person has a narrow head, no general can come out of him. When the head is concave at the top, this shows a poorly developed religious feeling. Let us say that you have inherited from your father a broad head and that is why you flare up; then you shall send energy and blood towards your brow and towards the upper part of the head. In Boston, the daughter of a rich American fell in love with a lad. Her father sent the portrait of the lad to a phrenologist, who told him not to give his daughter to that man, because he would kill her. And the father did not marry his daughter to him. The same lad married to another woman and after a year he killed her. A brother wished: "Tell us something about the hair." When one's hair sticks up, this man looks like a cornfield, the ears of which are empty and stuck up. More electricity gather in the hair of electrical people and it bristles up. Such hair shows more electricity and less magnetism, and the settled down hair shows the opposite. Hairs are always antennas - you have 250 thousand antennas for communication with the Cosmos. You can gain knowledge from everywhere; you take energy in with each hair. They do not exist without reason and it is not good they to fall. When living conditions are harder, hairs are thicker. The more favourable the conditions are, the thinner the hairs are. When you touch the hairs of somebody, you will guess how he, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather have lived. Hairs shall become smooth. If the character is mild, hairs are mild. If the character is sharp, hairs are sharp, hard. Why do you wash the hairs on the head? Since, because of the dust on them, you cannot take powers from Nature, and then hairs cannot work well as antennas. Man with short hair always becomes very active, and one who has long hair, becomes magnetic. When man has long hair, he is calmer. Long hair is a better conductor, and the short one - a worse conductor. One, who wants to be energetic, shall cut his hair. If he wants mildness, he shall leave his hair longer. Some sisters, who have let their hairs long, are in better spirits. Americans run, course, as if their ships are sinking, and that is why their hair have fallen off. When one has a magnetic character, magnetism goes to the hairs and they do not fall off. And if there is worry between the mind and heart, the hair becomes curly.
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PHYSIOGNOMY AND PHRENOLOGY The brothers and the sisters were interested in an entire palette of sciences concerning the development of man as a living Monad, and they would enter into conversations on those matters. During one such conversation, the Master touched upon the following thought from the area of physiognomy and phrenology: In every single life, man has to bring something in from the Invisible world, in order to have a better body made from that material. With his thoughts, feelings, and deeds, he brings in capital above, and on that his future body will depend. He will wear whatever he knits and weaves. The face can be divided into three parts, which have to be equal to one third: the forehead represents the Rational world, the nose - the Sensual world, and the part below it - down to the end of the chin - the physical world. Or the eyebrows are a boundary between the Divine and the Spiritual world, and the moustaches are the boundary between the Spiritual and the physical world. Through work, man can stimulate certain abilities - some centers of the brain. Let us say that you do not have a regular skull and a regular face. But we can change them by altering our thoughts, feelings, and deeds. You say, "The conditions are bad!" That the conditions are bad, it is true, but we have to overcome them. That is one task. You cannot break a thick rope at once, but if you have a needle, you will break it in four-five hours - thread by thread. If you have an infirmity, you cannot free yourself from it at once, but by working constantly, for a certain amount of time liberation can occur. There is no thought that does not influence the organs. The thoughts influence even the ear, but more lightly, but they can influence the nose more quickly. Sometimes you are stubborn, but you have no idea, and on top of it all you are resentful as well; look closer and you will see that certain animal features appear over your face. If you study the human and the animal form, in the human you will notice certain animal lines. Man is sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly. There are these little movements in the muscles of the face. Even photography cannot capture the details, cannot capture the human soul. With self-education you can make you face whatever you want. If man starts getting nervous, greedy, or impatient, all this alters the face. The deeds reflect upon the chin, the feelings - upon the cheek-bones, the middle part of the face, and the thoughts - upon the brow. One person has a high brow, but it is narrow at the sides; so he has many ideas, but narrow apprehensions. Someone has a brow low, but sidewards broad; he has broad apprehensions. The physical capabilities, for instance, the keen observation, are developed along the lowest part of the brow. The spiritual capabilities are along the middle part of the brow, and the mental and Divine ones are at the top. When the center of time is developed in someone, he is not tactical. For each mistake there is a sign. There are thousands of signs. And each good feature, as well as each talent, has its sign. If on the brow between the eyebrows there are vertical lines, that man has two rails and on them drives the car and his work goes well for him, he is honest. Another one has one vertical line and is smarter. I am not saying what it means when a person has three or four vertical lines on the brow. Man is the most interesting book that has been written. In it there is a lot to be studied - you can read many things. Venus makes the face something between round and oval. The Moon makes it the roundest. People with a round face walk on the path of the littlest resistance. Mars makes the face broad. The Camper angle has to be more than 90 degrees in order for a person to be a genius. At the current development it is about 80 degrees. Our brow needs to be parallel to the backbone, and now it is inclined by 10 degrees. Man has traveled 180 degrees in his evolution. The fish's face is parallel to the backbone, only it is at the back. The frog's is at 45 degrees, and the human's - at 180 degrees. Figure 4 The eyebrows are connected with the Astral world, with the feelings of man. The eyebrows can have one of these three forms (see Figure 4). The eyebrows' hairs are antennae. The hairs of the right eyebrow are negative, and those of the left one - positive. People who have thinner eyebrows are more resourceful, they apprehend the outer world better, and those who have thicker eyebrows are more receptive to the physical world. When you study the human, the animals, the plants, the crystals, the precious stones, then you will see what a thing the Divine Wisdom is. What mind, what understanding, what prudence, what depth! There are deep things. There is a lot to learn. Unachievable things. Rejoice that there is what to learn. The nose physiologically shows how healthy the lungs are, whether the nervous system is normal. The orifices show whether the gastric system is normal. The normal nose is inside the person. When he frees himself from the unnecessary accumulations, the normal nose in man will manifest. The Greek nose is regular, and shows that the Greeks have had very good conditions. The broad nose is a nose of the pleasure. A person with such a nose desires like the animals - when they eat their fill, they lie down to sleep. Study what nose you want to have. If the nose is crooked towards the left side, it shows that in the feelings of the person there is a deficiency, and if it is crooked to the right, it shows that there is a deficiency in his will, in his strength. If the nose is very thin at the tip, it is not good, it is not healthy. If the nose is very sharp at the tip, not a little round, it shows a nervous state. The nose should not be too sharp at the tip, but there has to be a curve there instead. The length of the nose shows the electricity and the mind, and its breadth shows the magnetism and the heart. The mind has worked on the length of the nose, the heart - on the base of the nose, and the will - on the massiveness of the nose (see Figure 5). Figure 5 In breadth, the nose has to be developed, and if it is very narrow, then it is not good. The musical nose has a particular form (A). There is the religious nose then there is the scientific nose ©. Each nose has its own special quality. If the nose is straight, the mind dominates, if it is concave - the taste dominates, and if it is protuberant, the feelings dominate. Where is the first man, where is the original? We now see a copy. When we see a person, which God has created, it is as if a spring flows, as if something comes from the Heavens. And because we see the things not the way God has created them, contradictions are before us. Once you see that in a person the two wings of the side of nose begin to fan, he is not of the temperate ones. The same thing is if his two lips are moving. If the brow is very inclined backwards, the nose is very protruding forwards. And if the brow ^ is straightening, then the nose, too, gains a lesser incline and gets closer to a vertical position. In that is the tendency of development. Figure 6 With a regular mouth, there have to be two protuberant surfaces and one concave (see figure 6). If the lower lip is thicker than the upper one, it shows that the person apprehends much and gives little (A). Such a person is more passive. And if the upper lip is more developed, the person is more active, he gives more ©. In Nature there are no arbitrary things. A sister inquired, "Why do some people lick their lips?" The lips have to be damp. When man licks his lips, it is in order to moisten them, so that they can be good conduits of electricity and magnetism. The tightened lips or the too opened lips are a bad sign, but if they hardly touch each other, it is good. Thin lips are a bad sign. When the lips get very thin, it is an abnormal condition. The lips perceive the most delicate waves, which cannot be perceived by anything else. So we always have to take care of our lips. In some people the sense has become very weak and then the lips are very thin. If the lips become very thin, the mind has to develop, but if it is not developed, then one walks the wrong way. The ear has three main parts: upper, middle, and lower. Next, it is important how the ear is structured on the inside and how it is placed - whether it is up high above the eyebrows, whether it is against the eyebrows, or under them. When the upper end of the ear is under the eyebrows, it is a good sign and shows a higher spiritual development. When the upper part of the ear is against the eyebrows, it is again somewhat good, and when it is above the eyebrows, it is not such a good sign. Small ears are more awake, more intellectual. Small ears have little capital, and big ears are with a big capital. With the big ears, a person has plenty of verve and is more generous. With the small ears, a person does not have too many expenses, but they, too, have certain defects and one has to know how many centimeters their length is. There is a certain measure. Five centimeters are not small ears. Above all things, the ear has to be big. Then, it is not good for the ear to be stuck onto the head - it has to be loose at the back. Figure 7 Look at Figure 7. The upper part AB is the Mental and Divine world, the middle part BC is the Spiritual world, and the lower part CD - the physical one. And the tip of the ear A is Nirvana. The lower part CD has to be big and meaty, and not thin; this shows a healthy body. CD represents the entire body, and in this way: the entire middle meaty part is the chest and the lungs, the lower part CD is the stomach and the abdominal cavity, and the outer edge MN is the cerebrum and the spinal cord. The part of the Divine world AB has to have round contours, with no refractions; and that is a good sign. The ear fold along the edge has to be broader; that is a good sign. When it is too thin, the person has grown poor. The part XY has to have an outer curve, parallel to the outer contour, which shows a developed person. In the middle area the outer edge PQ has to have another parallel inner edge next to it; some do not have it. In the lower part CD if there are irregularities, etc, then one inevitably goes through a catastrophe. It depends whether it is in the left or in the right ear, and whether it is in its outer or its inner side, and it can be estimated when it will happen or has happened. When a person starts becoming smart, a change in the ear occurs. The upper third of the ear shows the stage of the mind and the wisdom in man. If it is quite broad and correctly outlined, with no creases and irregularities, it shows that a person is more advanced in spiritual respect. In the ear canal there are hairs, which, apart from its physiological service, represent antennae, which perceive the waves. Those antennae serve as transformers, but present-day physiologists do not take that into consideration. They take into consideration only the simple sounds that hit the ear-drums. Those antennae in the ear perceive all kinds of waves from the visible and the Invisible world - close and distant, short and long. If you want to know how a person acts by mind, study his nose. If you want to know what his feelings are, study his mouth. If you want to know what his scope is, look at his ears. You shall give a person what his ear talks about. I have often told the people's teachers that their children have become humdrum, because they do not read them, they do not study their ears, eyes, mouth, nose, hairs, etc. The ear is a ledger; when you open it, you can tell how much capital you have at your disposal. The nose is a capital in currency, and the mind is an inner capital that is invested. Some people think more and accomplish less; so the nose is big. Some people think less and accomplish more; so the ears are bigger. The ears have certain emanations - during a certain time of the year they emanate particular kinds of rays. The nose also emanates a particular kind of rays. Now is the time for you to study elementary things and not to weave yourselves into details. And so, when the nose is bigger than the ear, the person is developed mentally - thinks a lot, but performs little. And when the ear is bigger than the nose, the person performs more, he is more active, and thinks less. And it is best when the nose and the ear are equally developed; then the person both thinks, and performs simultaneously, and that is magnificent. The nose is a projection, a surface from the Mental world, but as I said, the heart and the will are also expressed in it. The eyes are projections of the Causal world and are an expression of the Truth. In man there are projections, surfaces, lines from the various worlds. The form В of the head is a projection of the entire Figure 8 The will of man can be recognized by the structure of the body. The strong-willed person's chin and thumb are well developed. The thumb is the will, the rational in man. If the chin has a crease, it is firm (A), and it is not firm when the will cannot be contained and everything flows out (see Figure 8). A person's actions are expressed from the nose downwards - to the end of the chin. The mind is expressed in the brow. Someone says, "I am ugly". You will put your mind, your heart, and your will to work, and you will have a regular face, a regular head, you will have proportionality. Often one side of the face does not look like the other. Then the face is asymmetrical. In some, one of the eyes is softer, and the other has a firmer look.
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SOMETHING ABOUT THE STARRY SKY That night the sky was suitable for observation. The Master took out the telescope on the ground in front of the reception room. It was 9 p.m. Around the Master there gathered about fifteen of us. We observed the cirques and mountains of the Moon, and a couple of planets as well. Then a conversation began. A question was raised about the inhabitance of the celestial bodies. Hotels during certain seasons are more inhabited, and in others - not so much. Learned people do not know when the planets are inhabited and when they are not. On all planets there is life, only on some the life is visible, and on others - invisible. A sister asked, "How do the Creatures in those worlds look like?" Why, you have been there! Each person who has self-respect has been to Jupiter. Each one who blows the pumpkins on the hedge has been to Saturn. Each one who likes to war, to argue, has been on Mars. We see only the physical planets, we see only the results, and the reasons - we do not. You should often go out to observe Sirius. In July and August it rises to the east some time before Sunrise, and during the spring - in the evening. And every one who is sensitive, by contemplating Sirius, will feel that in him a quiet Joy begins to flicker. That Joy is a presentiment of that great happiness, which awaits the man when he goes to live on Sirius. On Sirius there is an intenser life than in the Solar system, because it is more advanced as a system. In the distant future, when you leave the Solar system, you will go to Sirius. People have descended from the Moon. The Earth is the lowest point. From the Earth they will go on to other celestial bodies. A sister asked, "Where are the most beautiful Creatures in the Solar system?" On the Sun do not marry, but live as souls. The man and the woman are still like poles, they are not souls yet. The woman is the south pole, and the man - the north. The Sun has poles, but they are not cold, they are not frozen. There the temperature is equal everywhere. One part of the solar light energy, upon reaching the boundaries of the Solar system, goes back again, and another part, which does not belong to the Sun, goes on to the endless boundaries. When you go to the Sun, you will see millions of times more beautiful mountains and fields. There are mountains, several thousand kilometers in length, and there is no deficiency like there is here. It is impossible for people there to quarrel, they have more than they need, and when they see someone, they rejoice and want to give. When they give, they feel joyous. Sometimes a solar inhabitant notices that you are in torment here, he flits over from the Sun, and lifts you up. This costs him a couple of seconds; then he goes back again. He enjoys that he has descended and done a small favour. The small mysteries are knowledge for the Earth, and the secrets of the Sun are the Great mysteries. The Creatures that live on the Sun, through their intelligence, through their thoughts, develop that immense heat, which is in the photosphere of the Sun or in its aura. The inhabitants of Venus are higher up than the earthly inhabitants, and the inhabitants of Sirius - even higher. The present state of the Earth is from billions of years back, but that time for the consciousness of the Supreme creatures is very little. The Divine science states that there have been 18 million years since man came to Earth. Each one who finishes his development will be given a task to create a solar system, and then they will see what knowledge he has. In the other celestial bodies there are beauties that man cannot imagine. When he moves there, he will say, "Neither an ear has heard this, nor an eye has seen this". For instance, in another solar system, when you sit down under an apple-tree, it will bend down a branch to give you fruit. But everywhere there are custom-houses, and when you want to go to the Moon or to the Sun, you will go through custom-houses. The energy that comes from the Sun has come there from the Central Sun, around which more than a hundred million suns spin. It is many times bigger than our Sun. The learned people have found a way to tell by the spectral line when a star is coming near or moving away from us. The Earth still grows. It is at a young age. After millions of years, the reverse process of shrinking will come. The poles of the Earth move. In the future, the pole will become the equator, and the equator - a pole. There was a time when the equator was a pole, and the pole was the equator. In the history of the past, the poles have been changing. Bulgaria has been a tropical country, and in the future it will again become one. Esotericists know that once the Sun rose from the west. From that it can be seen what great transformation has happened. Then the Earth's axis has not been in its present position. A change will come in the distribution of the land and the seas. The sea will flood certain countries. This has happened previously as well. We are not exactly on the deck of the Earth-ship, because above us there are other creatures. 12 000 km up above our planet there is a transparent Earth. In order to go to it and to enter it, one must pass through twelve doors. There live Advanced creatures. That world is Heaven - the Upper Earth. At the fall of man, the first people came down, on to the present Earth. The Earth makes certain diversions - delays and intensifications. I know their reasons. In the movement of the Earth there are more than ten exceptions, which scientists today cannot explain. Those reasons are known by the inner Divine science. Figure 3 There are two currents: from the Sun towards the Earth, and from the Earth towards the Sun. That energy, which comes from the Sun towards the Earth, during its return from the Earth towards the Sun, forms a second current. There happens a circumference like blood circulation - the energy that comes from the Sun is the arterial flow, and the flow that goes from the Earth to the Sun - venous (see Figure 3). Sunspots are orifices, through which condensed energy is sent towards the Earth, always with a certain purpose. That energy is sent to the Earth at such an immense speed, that if it came directly to It, it would wipe everything in its wake. That is why between the Earth and the Sun there are several transformers, which perceive that solar energy; when they transform it, they reduce its speed, and it then descends onto the Earth. It will be the most beautiful when the people receive a ticket to travel across the Universe. Then man will understand the Wisdom that exists - that variety of organisms, cultures, and life. He will enter some world where people do not know how to quarrel or rob each other, because there will be no conditions for such things at all. A brother asked, "How do we recognize the Solar creatures when we see them?" Creatures from the Sun constantly come to Earth; in order to recognize them, you need to have a sixth sense.
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VITAL MAGNETISM One morning after Paneurhythmy, we came back from the hall and the Master started talking: If man is demagnetized, he will not gain anything. In order to gain something, he has to be magnetic. All learned people are magnetic. All healthy people are magnetic. When you are magnetic, you have confidence, faith that you will succeed in what you are going to do and you are disposed, you do not worry. You say, "It cannot be otherwise." Some people strain and strain and their work does not go well; they are not magnetic. Magnetism is naturally given, and when the organism is dilapidated, it flows out. But we should not leave it to flow out. Straight thoughts, straight feelings, and straight deeds are the way, in which we can restore the magnetism inside ourselves. Magnetism is a capital. Without it you are sentenced to death. If you have it, Life already functions. If you are nervous, you lose your magnetism. The magnetic person does not fluster, he is calm like a person with a shop full with goods to the brim. So you should provide yourselves with magnetism. Irritation, unrest are demagnetization. Sometimes I have to stop myself and to talk to you about what a great power the magnetism is. Nothing can be done without it; it is what holds the Earth connected with the Sun. If you lose your magnetism, you will turn into dust. It organizes the body, the family, the school, and the society. The animals have an animal magnetism, and that is why their head pulls. The magnetism which man has and which we are talking about is a rational thing. The magnetism draws food, and clothes, and everything - once you remove your soil, things come along. But first of all you will not get nervous. You will not assume that people are bad; this demagnetizes. Sometimes you get cross - the magnetism flows out. And when you go to a magnetic person, you subside. Can you get cross and nervous by the spring? For the rich person to give you one or two hundred leva is child's play. He will say to you, "Help yourself to this 10 000 leva!" Can you get cross with that person who constantly gives you? Then why do you not have Faith? You go to God - He is the rich one. You say, "Where will I find Him?" That is where your mistake is. - You will find it in yourself. You go to a banker. Ask, "Did God come today to the banker?" If they tell you, "He is there", then go, and where God is not, do not go. When the Divine comes into the person, God rises in him. When you look at the magnetic person, he is like a burning stove, and the nonmagnetic person is like a cold stove. The magnetic force in man is not in a static state, because the magnetism comes and goes. That is why you have to work in order to become magnetic, and each day to be disposed. First and foremost: you should not be touchy, you should not take offence. A brother asked, "Which foods give more magnetism?" Meat food is nervous, and fruit food is a conduit for magnetism. First of all, when you eat, you should be satisfied, even if it is a bit of dry bread. You should concentrate your thought, you should breathe correctly. Calmness is a result of the thought - you are profoundly certain of something. A person is connected with the grocer's through telephone, and when he calls, they will bring him bread, sugar, etc, while another does not have that connection with the grocer's and has to go there alone to get some products. The magnetic person is connected with the grocer's, and the nonmagnetic person is not. I am speaking symbolically, make a translation. All conditions in Nature are favourable, it is a law, and the unfavourable things are because of your misunderstanding. It depends on the level of understanding. The magnetic person does not lose, he knows and understands things, has actions, has a language. Everything goes masterfully; things in him are not complicated. You are demagnetized. Death is a correction of the demagnetized people. It comes to those demagnetized old people, in order to correct them. Now the main thing is the magnetism. Once you get nervous, you have no magnetism, and things will not work out for you. Be calm. God has created you and you have all the conditions you need. Be content with what you have. It might occur to a horse to become a lord, but he will remain a horse. If you are not gifted in languages, do not wish to teach. Have at your disposal the gifts which you have. So, everyone can be magnetic. And never do a job; never begin a job before having become magnetic, because otherwise you will not succeed. It is an entire school, that. In the esoteric science you will study the magnetism; otherwise you cannot achieve anything else. The straight thought, the firm thought are a magnetic state. What can the sick person do? He has no magnetism. The magnetic person has an inner disposition. He has excellent Faith, excellent Hope, he has Love. He is superabundant like the calm water. He stands quiet and calm, as if he is not doing anything, but he works intensively. In him there is no yelling, he is not like a bell. Once you lose your equilibrium, say, "Magnetism I have not". The magnetism exists. You want to gain tranquility; go to the trees. You want to have a change in your state; go to the mountain, get on an aeroplane. There are ten-twelve methods of gaining magnetism, but you stand and say, "I have no luck". Where there is Life, there is magnetism. The magnetism is a conduit of the Life. And the Life is a carrier of Love and magnetism.
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THE COLOURS The Master, with several brothers and sisters, visited the General art exhibition in the Arts academy. While passing by Venelin street, He looked on and whispered, "Future graveyards". That was in 1943, and indeed - in 1944, during the bombings, a large part of the street turned into rubble. When we came back from the exhibition, around the Master gathered quite a lot of brothers and sisters on the ground in front of His reception room, and so we entered the hall and a conversation began, in which there was the matter of colours, which came into question. The red colour has various nuances. A certain nuance of it means fight, and if it prevails in you, you have a desire towards war. Red is a colour of Mars, it stimulates and concerns the human will. If someone is lazy, let him put on a red-coloured garment. The red colour makes man active. That colour means Life and let him who is anemic wear it. One who is sick should put on a kerchief or a scarf as red as flame. The red colour influences the heart. Pink is the colour of Love. Orange is a colour of the human I and of individualization. When your feathers are rumpled, when you are crestfallen, contemplate in your consciousness the orange colour, in order to gain a feeling of your own dignity. Yellow is the colour of Wisdom and means intelligence. If a yellow colour prevails in you, you want to work mentally. If you want to think well, wear yellow-coloured clothes, and you will develop mentally. It is a colour of the nervous system, it gives scope, it regulates, it balances. The green colour is connected with the senses and calms, most of all. It is a magnetic colour, growth forms through it. Blue is the colour of Faith and of Truth. If you do not have a good disposition, put before yourself the blue colour; it brings in energy and Peace, it soothes. Blue-coloured clothes tone. The blue colour is for the spiritual life of man. Then we can grow spiritually. With the Faith you have a blue colour in your aura. With the Faith you receive through it, and without it you cannot serve God. Serving God consists in the following: we will serve God with what has been given to us by Him. With the dark blue colour you will feel a little grief. That is in reserve and has to be thinned out. Violet is the colour of the Spirit. It means Strength and carries Strength. It is a colour of Jupiter. It concerns the human will and the human Spirit. The black colour should be worn by the one who is nervous, and for the one who is healthy, white is good. Hats, umbrellas, etc, should not be black. One who wears black becomes avaricious. With the white colour you give, and with the black - you take. The white colour means Purity, with it there is an intensive inner life. If you want inwardly to work, put the white colour as a basis. The poet describes a flower, because behind the flower stands something rational. The white flower tells us, "Be pure!" The purple flower tells us, "Be strong!" The yellow flower tells us, "Think well, be rational!" The red and the pink flowers tell us, "Use Love!" Man should have flowers with different colours in his garden. You love somebody because of the red colour or the pink colour in his aura. You love somebody because of the yellow colour, another - because of his faith or because of his blue colour, a third one you love because of his strength or because of the violet colour, because they pass it on to you. So you love the others because of what they can give to you. And people love you because of what you can give them. When man loves a colour, he has a need for it and let him carry it. In general, as a rule: the brighter the hue of a colour, the bigger and better the spiritual influence it has. There are colours electric and magnetic. For instance, red, yellow, light blue, and violet - can be electric, and orange, green, dark blue - magnetic. Soothing colours are light blue, light green, and light yellow. Today in medicine colour medication is employed - the so- called chromotherapy. However, here an esoteric law is in force, that in medication the mental colours act more strongly than the physical ones. Man can be medicated with colours better when he imagines them mentally, rather than with the physical colours. For instance, he will bathe his entire body or the diseased organ with a shaft of rays from a given colour. With his thought man actually creates a thought-form with the respective colour, and it functions more strongly, because there are shorter waves.
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THE NEW FARMING Once we were planting fruit-trees. The Master was working together with everyone. After that we sat down on the grass and started talking about the new farming and gardening. In the flow of the conversation, the Master said: The farmer has to work with Love; now he hoes the earth with his ordinary consciousness. Let us say that an apple is planted by a pure man, who waters it with Love; that way he contributes something to the quality of the apple. That is why the best gardeners, vine-growers, farmers have to become. You will plant the vine; you will cut it and dig it without uttering a single bad word. And when it ripens, you will go and pray each morning, and then the grapes that will be yielded will be special. When you are planting a tree, you shall tell it how it should grow. And it will grow as you have told it; plants are quite smart. Fruit- trees desire attention, someone to love them. And that is why good gardeners are those who love the trees. Some people's farms have eared well, and others' have not, but the farms are the same. Then when I pass by, I say, "The person, whose farm this is, has such and such a character, and the person on that farm has such and such a character". The first one has put something good in the farm. I would like, when I go somewhere to visit, to be presented with bread from wheat, to which the farmer has sung both when sowing, and when reaping. A farmer came to me from a south Bulgarian village, and told me that he had debts. I told him, 'You will pay your debts in the following way: you will take some seed - be it wheat, or some other plant, you will purify it, you will bake it in the sun for two or three days, and after that, when sowing it, you will sing the song "Bless the Lord, O my soul". Then you will go out each morning in the farm for a prayer and gymnastics. Moreover, from the produce you will set aside a tithe for a Divine purpose. And thus you will succeed, you will get on well". And after sowing the farm with wheat, beans, etc, he would often visit it. At sunrise on one end of the farm he would pronounce the Good prayer, on the other - 91 Psalm, on the third - the Good prayer, on the fourth - "Our Father". After that he would stand in the middle of the farm and pronounce a prayer. Furthermore, he would sing the song "Bless the Lord, O my soul". And his farm began producing exuberantly. And the villagers, astonished, would say, "We plough with our oxen, and this man takes somebody else's and is with day-laborers, and yet he earns more than we do?" Very soon he paid his debts. Furthermore, that brother shared with me that he was a horseshoe maker and wanted to leave his trade, because the animals would become violent, and he would get nervous, beat them, and with that he would impede himself. I told him that even if he left that trade and took up another job, he would have troubles there, too, and would get nervous there as well. But I advised him to apply the following method: when the cattle come, to go out - either out of the workshop or inside, but to secretly say a prayer, elevate his thought. When he goes to the animal - an ox or a horse, to tell it this, "My good animal, you aid our life and I want to do you a good turn, to put shoes on to your feet, so that you can walk freely. Be at ease, I will not do you any harm, I will help you". I told him to put his right arm up on its head and to stroke its back - from the head to the tail; during this he will speak mentally kind and soothing words to it. I told him also that when he finishes shoeing, when he releases the cattle, the last one will turn its head towards him, take at a look at him, snort a couple of times, as if it is sniffing something; with this the cattle will express their gratitude towards him. I gave that advice to that brother in 1923, and a few years later he came back to Izgreva and told me about the result. The cattle were always quiet and calm, even his clients increased for the reason that he would not hit the animals - people would come from other villages to have horseshoes made. Once they brought a wild horse; the owner gave a warning, but our brother told him, "Not a bother, it is all right, do not worry; he is a very mild horse". And our brother said a prayer, without the horse's master noticing, and started stroking from the head to its tail, and spoke mentally to it. And the horse stood kindly, and its master said, "I have never shod him like that, with him not even making a budge. What did you do to him so that he does not budge?" That person was from another village - from Pobeda village, but he became a permanent customer to him. Our brother would set aside a tithe from the wheat and the trade for a Divine purpose. And everything went well for him, soon he paid all of his debt, which amounted to 23 000 leva; thus he tried the law, and that law is strong. If the ploughman, who ploughs the farm, does not say a single bad word, his work will be blessed. Each bad word, each impure thought gets into the wheat like poison, which reflects harmfully on the one who feeds on it. If the ploughman ploughs and sings songs about the Lord, each one who eats from that wheat will recover if he is sick, and will rejuvenate if he is healthy. Take a decare of land and till it in the new way - during the entire time when you are ploughing, sowing, and reaping, maintain in yourself the nicest thoughts and feelings, and you will see what wheat you will produce. You can sow four or five decares and earn as much as from a hundred decares. Sow a farm, stay at it to speak kindly to it, so that each ear gets filled with 250 grains. And then, with a little effort, but with Love, you will have a lot. Regrettably, we have gotten used to the old order of things. In the future, the plants will be best fertilized with electricity. Today the surroundings of many villages are barren, there are no trees, everything is gray and unwelcoming, but in the future all bare hills will be planted with fruit-trees. The forestation, instead of happening with decorative plants, should happen with fruit- trees (where the height above sea-level allows it, of course), and then the Earth will be a fruit garden.
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EVERYTHING TURNS INTO GOOD It was sunny and calm. At Izgreva, in front of the evergreen pines, fruit-trees were blossoming here and there. During that spring, a common breakfast on the outside tables was introduced. That was a beautiful occasion to be in better contact with the Master, to share and to ask our ever flowing questions. A sister said, "Master, this morning at the lecture You said that everything is for good. I have had many such experiences in my life and I believe in the Rational creatures." Some have skepticism, but should say, "Everything in Nature is possible that is rational. Everything rational is possible!" It has been said, "Everything that happens to those who love God transforms for their good". So God transforms everything and there is not a thing that He cannot transform into good. The dead can arise, the sick can recover, the ignorant can become learned, the pauper can become rich. Things are impossible the human way, in the way that we think, matters are impossible. Everything is for good, and until we recognize that it is for good, we will always be trying. Everything that man tries is always for his good, but he does not understand. For instance, a child is born to poor parents; neither his father, nor his mother can put him on track. God lifts them both, and a wealthy man adopts the child. Man never loses, even though he thinks that he loses. Someone utters, "Let the Will of God be done!" However, if one of his desires is not fulfilled, he grumbles and is unsatisfied. No, he has to strive to achieve certain desires of his, and whatever happens, to say, "Let the Will of God be done, everything is for good, for the greatest good!" When God does not fulfill some of our desires, it is for our good, since they can be not for our good, should they be irrational. When you have a rational desire, whose achievement will be for your good and for the good of your neighbours and will help for your spiritual elevation, God will certainly fulfill it. Therefore, when you are sure that your desire is rational, have patience and wait, it will certainly be fulfilled. How does God stand all those crimes, etc? There is a great secret: in hell they do not live as God wants, but the world is created so that no matter how they live, everything turns into good. That is where the unachievable Wisdom of God is, that He turns everything into Good. And He does not stop the criminals from committing crimes, and He does not stop the wars, because He wants to leave the people free and in Freedom to come to the Good. Enjoy one thing, enjoy all that happens to you; it is for your good, nothing more! God will turn it into Good. It will not be long; it will not be many years and you will be doubly and triply rewarded for that. A disciple was dilly-dallying along the road and forgot to carry out the tasks that the Master had given him. And as he was walking, someone came out in front of him, slapped him twice nicely in the face, and went away. Then the disciple quickly remembered about his forgotten tasks. It is the same with a disciple that wanders around the roads of Life, completely forgotten about God's ways. But someone slaps him twice in the face, and then he collects himself, pulls himself together. This is what it means for everything in the world to contribute to the Good. That he, after being slapped in the face, bends down and finds the book he has long been looking for, and the jewelry he has long been digging for, are these two slaps not worth it? The one who slaps him in the face can act consciously or unconsciously. He slaps him twice in the face in order to make him think. At the greatest contradictions say, "Everything is for good!" A poor worker in America always used to say, "God will provide!" His wife, who was an extreme materialist, would say to him disgruntled, "When you have such a mind, how much more are we going to suffer! Look, darling, nothing comes along like that". An economical crisis set in and they fired the worker from the factory. His wife put her hands on her chest and said, "Let us see now how your God will provide!" The window was open and a child that was carrying a dead crow threw it in through it. The worker caught it and saw that there was something thick inside its throat. He pulled out a necklace, which the crow had stolen, and recognized that it belonged to a high-placed person, and brought it to them. The owner of the necklace said, "Since you brought the necklace, God will provide and I will find you a job". And to this day you regret you have come out of Heaven. It is an ill fortune that you have come out of there, but the goods you have now - the good of God's Love, which is shown towards you, is due to that misfortune which befell you in Heaven. But you still ask why God allowed those things; yes, God did not cause them, but allowed them, in order for you to gain something. It is for your good! Whatever happens to you, it will one day turn into Good. If you believe, very well; if you do not believe, it will again turn into Good, only the process will continue. Since the Rational nature has sent you to Earth, it thinks about you, it has not abandoned you. They may revile you, they may say that you are ignorant, it does not matter. The most difficult Teaching is for man to believe that everything that happens is for Good. The people's heads will grow white until they understand that truth.
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PROVIDENCE It was during the first years. A brother visited the Master at 66 Opalchenska Str. At that time the Master received upstairs, in his room, which served him as a study as well. Later He received in the small middle room, next to the first one. The matter of Providence came into question. During the conversation, the Master said the following thoughts: The Providence derives from the circumstance that Nature is rational, that Rational forces stand behind all of its phenomena. It is not a dead machine, mechanism. Detectives were chasing a young lad; a damsel let down a rope from the upper floor, which the young man climbed up, and thus he got saved. We always have a rear; that is the Rational creatures above, who help us. And if they help, everything comes about. The Invisible world is so careful with all of our thoughts and feelings, that when sometimes we are sorrowful, they will send something that will draw our attention and delight us. The earthly life is built with big contradictions. We are cold, but the warmth of the coal has already been envisaged thousands of years ago; that is why Nature has created it. So it does quite a lot so that people can be happy. From the Spiritual world they always come to our aid and save us from many troubles. Man has to remain true to those who help him, to the Divine. You will always have a need for sun, trees, water, etc. The pictures that you see around you have been painted by others. The thoughts that come into you have been created by others. Today is set up by our friends. You have vast wealth - an excellent mind, an excellent heart, an excellent body. Use that wealth. In Nature, everything is given to us altogether at the same time. We are given small circumstances in order to make an effort. When you satisfy a person with everything, he will be left alien to people; in order for that not to happen, he has to lack something. You want to lack nothing, but then you will be unhappy people. The brother asked, "Does the Master count as a condition to the disciple, or is He an opportunity?" The Master is not a condition, but an opportunity for man. If you come into harmony with Nature, with the Rational creatures, you will be helped. Someone who is harmonized with you will bring you a fresh loaf, a pot of beans. If you are in harmony with Nature, this will come just in time. Anyone can try that. If we work for the Love, everything that is timely will come. There are things which are not necessary or are not timely, or perhaps require more time to happen, maybe, a few years later. It is unthinkable for a person who walks on the Divine path to be tripped by someone. But until he becomes convinced, until he gains some rational experience, he trips himself. We suffer because we are preoccupied with many material things, and if we took heed to the Divine thought, then seventy-five per cent of our misfortunes would disappear and only twenty-five per cent would remain, because there are inevitable things. God has provided, and now we seek for Him to provide. Correct understanding is needed. People say, "What will happen to us?" Well what about the birds in the forest, the fish in the river, the worms in the soil? Since God takes heed to all of them, He will take heed to you as well. The beauty of Life is in knowing that there is someone who thinks about you. What misadventures pass through man's head! If God did not protect man, he would not withstand. Everything has been envisaged by the Lord. That force, which has created the entire Universe, has not left humanity alone. There is a law that works, but not the way we think. At each step there is Providence, but people do not see. Things come about not with human efforts. Those seas, oceans, etc; did they all come along with human efforts? God created the world so that we can be satisfied. People carry on as before and do not let the Divine providence manifest. All right, let us say, the flowers in the garden are cultivated by man, but what about those that are in the mountains? So there is someone to take care of them, there is Providence! People constantly receive gifts: the food, the sight, the teeth, the tongue are all goods. We all live with the goods of God. There is not a thing that will happen to man that he will not be warned about. He gets warned about everything. Faith, Faith is needed, like in the children. It has been said, "If you do not become like the little children, you cannot enter the Kingdom Divine". And people want to be like the old folks. Sometimes God leaves you, but He is still with you, and when He sees that you are falling, He will catch you. While descending the mountain, you can be exposed to thousands of dangers, and thanks to being protected by something, you overcome. Someone comes to me with some sickness, but it is a reason for that man to come to me. The Invisible world has prepared this occasion for him in order for him to come and for me to show him what change there has to happen in his soul so that he can connect with God. A poor man was wandering the world. He believed in the people, he believed in God as well. He arrived in a town, and everyone else who entered through the gate were welcomed and received; only he was left to walk from house to house and hear the same thing - that there is no room for him. He grew disheartened and said, "God, I am abandoned by all!" But a young man pushed him on the shoulder and asked him what the matter was. He answered that no one would receive him in that town. The young man was high-placed; he took him onto a phaeton, brought him to his home, gave him a sumptuous apartment at his disposal, and said to him, "Here you can stay as much as you want". The traveler said, "Very nice people live here". The lad said to him, "No, this is a place where God lives!" When people abandon man, then God works for him. The brother asked, "What is a Boon?" Nature is full only with miracles. A child is born, it knows nothing and everyone takes care of it. There is common Providence for all creatures, but the special providence for someone righteous is a Boon. When man is under a Boon, whatever he wishes happens. A righteous one was traveling from one village to another on God's business. It was winter-time and a blizzard came out, snow drifted, the wind was hitting right in his face. He strung up his will and endured until the middle of the road. Then his toes and fingers became stiff with cold, it was impossible for him to go further, and he prayed to God for help. The wind subsided immediately. He reached that village and once he crossed the threshold and closed the door from the inside, the storm appeared again with a terrible strength.
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PHASES OF THE ASCENSION OF THE HUMAN SOUL After the lecture and the gymnastic exercises, we returned to the hall again. The phases which the human consciousness goes through in its ascension were mentioned, and the Master said: When the human soul begins to awaken and sets out on the path of ascension, it goes through seven phases: Phase one, which is from God, - Address. The human soul resembles a seed, buried in the ground, and thus, covered in thick matter, it falls asleep, loses knowledge of its origin and nature, but after it gains enough experience, in it gradually begins to glitter a higher consciousness. Man in a certain phase of his development experiences a profound change, an inner crisis, an inner storm. Until then man has lived unconsciously, without asking himself about the aim and the meaning of Life, but in a certain moment he feels a vacuity, and realizes that his life hitherto has been without a basis and without direction. He then goes through a dark period of searching; he experiences a great inner suffering. And in time of the greatest inner storms, within him a tiny light flashes forth, which begins to grow and which fills him with by then unexpected Peace and Joy. That light is the idea of God, of the Rational beginning, which works in the entire universe, and within it. That exactly is the first stage of the human awakening - Address. Until then man has been with his back towards God, towards the great center of Life, and at the Address he turns with his face towards Him. Why at a certain stage of his development does man come to the idea of the Great rational beginning? Because that idea is inherent in him, he comes with it to Earth; it lives in the depths of his soul. The Address phase is a deep inner mystical process. This is an illumination of the human soul by a ray that comes from the Great rational beginning. That is why Christ says, "No one can come to Me if my Father does not summon them". The same idea is expressed in the following words, "God has drawn you with the threads of His Love". The second phase is Repentance. This comes from man. The person, who has turned to God, strikes a balance of his life hitherto with a new criterion, with a new measurement. In him is now born the consciousness of a bright, pure life, and he deeply repents for what he has done in the past. The third phase is Salvation. It is from God. A person, who has gone through the Address and Repentance phases, has a desire to carry out the Will of God, to serve God, to live for the Truth, for the Beauty. With this he now enters the Salvation phase. And what does "salvation" mean in the mystical language? - It should be known that in today's epoch of human development comes a spiritual wave, and whoever accepts it enters into new circumstances of Life, into a New culture, and that namely we call Salvation. Salvation means that man is inscribed among those who will elevate into a new cultural stage, under the new circumstances of Life. And those who do not accept that spiritual wave remain in the old life and will wait for a new wave to take them up in the future. So they will miss today's epoch. The fourth phase is Regeneration. It is from man - the Divine in him manifests to a greater extent. At this phase the consciousness of man broadens more, the desire to serve God increases in him. The fifth phase is Rebirth. It is from God. The Rebirth is preceded by a great sorrow, a great suffering. That is called accelerated liquidation of the karma and it is the travail of the new man. Because each one who wants to work for a great deed, for God, needs to be free from karma, and that is achieved through accelerated liquidation of the karma - through suffering. What he has to pay, that, which has been left after many rebirths, in this case it paid much sooner, in order for him to become a free citizen of the New life sooner as well. That is why, when a disciple of the Divine school goes through great sufferings, he has to know that he is on the verge of Rebirth. When the disciple enters the Divine school, initially his life is easy, filled only with joy and delight. If he is well-off, it shows that he is still a listener, not a disciple, and still stands in the antechamber of the School. And when the great tests come (inner and outer), sorrows and sufferings, it shows that he has been admitted as a disciple, it shows that he has now entered the School. And after he has passed them, the disciple enters a new phase - Rebirth. He is free from karmic law. In him awakens the Cosmic consciousness, he feels the unity of Life and has Love towards everything; he comes to a deeper understanding of Love. Compared to that state, the previous life is only a preparation and residence in the shadows and illusions of Life. Until then, in a sense, the life of the soul is still dead, asleep. That is why Christ says, "And when the dead hear the voice of the Son of Man, they will come to life". Here the word "dead" implies all people with ordinary consciousness. The sixth phase is Enlightenment. When Enlightenment draws near, man goes again through a new test, which is greater than the one that preceded the Rebirth. Because the more advanced man is, the more difficult the tests through which he goes are. And after he passes them, he gains Enlightenment, i.e. his consciousness enters a higher stage; new strengths awaken in him. With the Enlightenment man begins to communicate with the Advanced creatures, he enters their society, he learns the sacred language of the perfect ones, he gains great knowledge of the forces and the laws of Nature, the keys to those laws are entrusted to him, and he knows the methods of working with them. The seventh phase is Resurrection. At one time the sunny sky gets covered with dark clouds and man goes through a great darkness, through the supreme test, which precedes the Resurrection. That test is greater than the tests that precede Rebirth and Enlightenment. Man feels alone, abandoned seemingly by the Invisible world as well, and it is as if all hope is lost. And if he passes it in the greatest darkness and remains true to the idea of God, if he realizes that God has not abandoned him and that everything is for good, then the test ends and man enters the Great life of liberation. This phase is called Resurrection and in it man completes his evolution on Earth, in him awakens the Divine in a great completeness. He is not a man anymore, but has elevated into a higher stage, he enters a life where there are no sufferings. The tears are now forever erased from his face. As it is said in the Revelation, "I will forever erase the tears from your eyes". Then, even if he looks for suffering, there will not be any, and he will go to show his brothers the path towards liberation, the path towards the Light, in which he lives.
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INVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION In July 1924 a brother visited the Master when he was still living on 66 Opalchenska Str. The weather was warm, sunny. The conversation was held in the yard. The involution and evolution came into question. Involution is a descent from God towards matter, and evolution is an ascent from matter towards God. In the Revelation God says, "I am alpha and omega - the beginning and the end". This means that every creature descends from God as a Divine ray, goes through all worlds, and again returns to God. The minerals, the plants, the animals go down, and we go up. They have learned the knowledge by the path of involution. What does it mean that they walk on the path of involution? The I, the Divine monad, which works in the minerals, the plants, and the animals, is still in the Invisible world and gradually descends. In the mineral kingdom the I, the Divine Monad, is still quite far from the physical world, and that is why there it has the weakest stage of consciousness, called subconsciousness. In the vegetable world the I, the Divine monad, has already descended below, closer to the material world, and that is why the plants have a higher stage of subconsciousness. In the animal kingdom the I, the Divine monad, is quite close to the material world, and that is why the animals already have consciousness. In man the I, the Divine monad, manifests in the physical world, and that is why he recognizes himself as an I - he has self-consciousness. From all four natural kingdoms on Earth, man has self-consciousness for the first time. So far the process is involutionary. Actually, in the human kingdom, too, the descent into the thicker matter continues to a certain epoch. From Christ starts the evolution, i.e. the upward emergence. The coming of the Christ is the most important moment in the history of mankind. Christ brought that strength, through which the turn becomes possible; the change from an involutionary process into an evolutionary one. One part of humanity today is still on an involutionary path, i.e. it continues its descent into an ever thicker matter, and the other part has begun its ascent, its evolutionary way. These are those who have assumed the new form of Love - Love as a principle. Those people have outgrown the personal life; they serve humanity, the Whole, everyone. And those who live in the personal life continue their downward descent. On the border between involution and evolution, man experiences an inner takeover, and after that begins the path upwards. In the involution, one goes from the big to the small, and in the evolution - from the small to the big. There is a knowledge that is obtained in the involutionary process and now has to be replaced with a new knowledge - an evolutionary one. The methods of the esoteric science must too be replaced with evolutionary ones. And so, the minerals and the plants have subconsciousness, the animals have consciousness, man has self-consciousness, and the Advanced creatures have super-consciousness. A person, who has self-consciousness, has at the same time subconsciousness and consciousness inside him. On one hand, in the subconsciousness, everything experienced in the past is stored, and it contains the accumulated experience of that past. And on the other hand, the subconsciousness also covers the guidance of the Advanced creatures, who participate in the development of the natural kingdoms. The cells in man have subconsciousness. The activity of all organs and systems in man is run by the subconsciousness. That, which today's psychology teaches about the subconsciousness, is only a small part of the broad area of the subconsciousness. In the evolutionary process, from the consciousness, in which it lives now, humanity will rise to the super-consciousness, i.e. the Divine consciousness. With that, bigger possibilities open up for humanity. New strengths, gifts and talents will arise in man, i.e. new talents, hidden in the Monad.
