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OUR SMALLER BROTHERS, THE ANIMALS The hives were arranged along the west fence of the Izgrev meadow, and one day the Master, along with a group of brothers and sisters, moved them to the south garden, by the meadow, in several rows. There were better conditions for them there. After that we all went to the shelter and sat down to have a chat, when the bees and the animals in general came into question. The animals are an object teaching about man, and without them no one can progress. They are an appliance for him. The animal kingdom is an alphabet, and whoever understands the animals, will understand the human life as well. The squirrel, once it eats its fill, gathers the rest of the fruit and will bury it in order to have some for later; the chicken will dig around and leave behind, and the swine ploughs and disarranges - it searches, and searches. Every animal will help you in certain cases to understand the Life. In the dog certain energies develop that are useful to man in some cases. If man elevates his organism to vibrate more strongly than the vibrations of the parasites, they run away from him; it is the same with the viruses. People consider starfish to be simple, but they are not simple; should a ray be severed, a new one grows. Moreover, there are plants that live a long life, for 5-6-7 thousand years. We are going in a direction, opposite to where the animals come from; we are going there, and where the animals are going to, we come from there. The animals are underdeveloped souls; they have been flunked in this grade, in that grade, and they have fallen behind. Nature has destroyed the large antediluvian animals, because it is not advantageous to have a large form; they are replaced by the smaller forms, in which Nature put a bigger intelligence. The birds work by the law of suggestion. A sparrow had got in a swallow nest. The swallows were passing by the nest and were telling him "chirp, chirp", and finally they drove it out. They were saying "chirp" in a particular way that the hearing cannot withstand, and finally the sparrow got out. The animals are stages, which man has climbed. All animals are small children that do not think. The animals are souls that do not think about the consequences. There are many small punishments for their crimes, even if they are not judged for their crimes. Some of them have rudiments of thought. The animals do not have a developed chin. Even the most ferocious ones do not have a chin, so they are cowardly. The refined elevated nature of the human soul cannot directly get into contact with that rough environment; it does it through the medium of the animal soul. And now man is half animal, half - man. However, after time, the animal nature of man will be overcome and the moment will come when the real man will incarnate. A century has now come for the liberation of the mammals. The automobiles, the tractors, etc, free them from the great labor and slavery. That is in the order of things. The Invisible world wants to free them and puts to work a machine which does the work of a thousand horses. Now in the Rational life we are coming into the circumstances - with little work to do more things. The ants, the bees, in general - the insects, communicate with each other through the radio. They send each other telegrams through the air. The bee receives from a bee. Each hive has specific waves, different from those of the other hives. The bees know 2-3 hours in advance about a break in the weather, and return on time. There is clairvoyance in the bees. They work in the hive, which is well sealed and no light comes from outside. Man would think that they work in darkness; however, they work in a soft, astral light and do not let any outside light in, because it would hinder them. They are clairvoyants. When the peacock gets up on the hedge to sing, the weather will improve. When the weather is going to get bad, the swine bites a stick and turns around in circles with it; the frogs croak, the leeches rise, the flies descend and bite, and the swallows fly low to catch them. This is how one can tell if the weather is going to get bad. Or when a ship is about to sink, the rats escape from it. In the animals there are many rational things, which will be written about in the future. In the horse there is some clairvoyance, he has some presentiments. When man sets out with a horse on a journey, where there will be a danger, the horse stops and does not want to go, and the master, with great difficulty and by force, will make it go forward. The snail apprehends thoughts: I tell it to eat the lower leaves, not the upper ones, and it then goes to the lower ones to munch them. Sometimes we carry the sorrows and grief of the animals. A wolf starved for three-four days; when you fall into its thought you think that you are lacking something, but it is the wolf that is lacking that thing. Or a fox is lacking something, because it has taken a chicken from the coop, and you weep, because you receive its thought. Some things the animals know better than man. For instance, man does not yet know how to weave as thinly as the spider. How come the electric fish knows how to make electric batteries in its body? Man cannot generate electricity through living matter, but the fish can. Man does not know this art. He has learned to produce electricity through dead matter, but that can also be done through the living matter. When man approximates the super- consciousness, he will gain more. Man has to know that every animal has its specialty. A hummingbird, a bird of paradise sits higher than man by clothing. What man can make such feathers, with such colors and with intertwined lines? That bird has the art of painting its feathers through its blood; why, that is a science. Man has to realize that in every living creature there is a little gift, and he disregards it. He says, "That is an instinct". The honey can be preserved for many years without getting spoiled - good workmanship, and how much do the human cans last? In this regard man has fallen behind. In the Mediterranean there is a fish with a sharp snout that produces sulfurous acid inside itself. It feeds on sea urchins: it pours the acid over the sea urchin, and waits from a certain distance, after that it goes out for a second time and the chalky shell corrodes, a hole forms. The fish sticks its snout in it and feeds on the inside of the sea urchin. So the animals and the plants are not simple, they understand chemistry, they master sciences. Man stands higher than the animals in some respects, because in him there are many potentialities. The Master looked at the cat that was passing by us and said: That soul has fallen behind, it has to hurry up. In cats, their ear is very sharp at the top, which shows that in them there are some lower elements. A cat caught a bird and ate it; I told it, "Why did you eat the bird?" And it told me, "Do not talk about this now". When a cat comes to a home, the home progresses. Healthful is the cat. When it comes, it chases away the illnesses. I observe the animals and draw conclusions - case after case. When you shove some bug, it feigns death and then, when you leave it, it sets off again. I see two beetles are rolling a ball - one drags with its hinder legs, and the other pushes with its front legs, and they succeed, the ball rolls. The dog always tries to pounce on man from behind, because the human eyes are very strong and the dog is afraid of them. Near a bench a spider made a cobweb and caught an ant. Another ant came along, tore the cobweb from all sides, went into the hole, burned the spider with formic acid, attacked it, and it ran away. How did the second ant know that the spider had caught in the cobweb the other one? - It had received a message on the radio. Ants send each other thoughts through the antennae - through them they send and receive radio waves. Where there are ants, there are no snakes, because the ants bite them and pour formic acid over them. By the river Kamchia I saw a big grass snake, about two meters. It stopped and I stopped. I said, "After you". It told me, "After you". But since I asked it first, it moved on first. Once in the Borisova garden I saw a snake; it saw me as well, it held its head up. I told it mentally in its language, "Do not stand here on the road, they will smash you. People do not understand your greeting." And it went away. If there are flies in the room, open the window and tell them mentally that outside there are good things for them; it will be less than half an hour - they will all have gone out. Near Varna I saw above my head that a big flock of birds was flying in a certain direction, and since I knew that they are headed towards a great danger, with my thought I told them to change the course, and they all turned to another direction. I have made experiments from which it can be seen how the animals receive the thoughts of humans. If I introduce something mental and pictorial to them, they move in the proper direction. A bug entered the hole of the worm in order to take it out. However, I sent a thought that I could plug the hole with a newspaper, so that it could not go out, and then the bug saw that there was danger, it went out, and went to a distance of 4-5 meters. While it was waiting, it saw that there was no danger, it went back in and took the worm out. Once in the room a fly entered and a spider captured it. I told it, "In my presence I do not want you to commit a crime; if you do not listen to me, you will find yourself outside". The spider listened to me; it broke off the threads, and let the fly go. I was in Vitosha and I saw that a hound was chasing a rabbit. I told the hound, "Stop chasing it". The hound stopped, thought for a while, and then turned round to leave. Last year I saw how a falcon snatched a crow. Both birds fell on the ground, because they were fighting one another. I told the falcon, "Why have you caught that crow?" Then the falcon let it go and flew away. When a midge lands on my hand, I think well of it and it thinks that it is in Heaven and it turns round very pleasantly. And if I am discontented, it stands and does not move, it thinks that it is cold. It feels that the conditions are not good; it does not attribute it to me, but says that Nature is such; but I know that its state is due to me. The mischief that animals do is very little compared to the good turns. Which animals are the most advanced? The souls of which animals will in the future be incarnated in human form? First of all, the elephant, the ox, the horse, the sheep, the monkeys, etc. A brother said, "What significance do precious stones have?" Each precious stone is in connection with an Advanced creature. When this is revealed to man, he sees the grandeur of God. One who does not know will step onto a rock in which there are crystals of garnet, and will not pay attention. And that is a great world and when man becomes spiritualized, he starts seeing what he has not seen earlier. In the Revelation, chapter 21, it is written about twelve gates, made of precious stones: jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, emerald, sardonyx, sardius, chrysolyte, beryl, topaz, chrysoprasus, jacinth, amethyst. They symbolize the twelve virtues. A sister inquired, "What does the evolution consist in, and what are the factors of the evolution?" The meaning of the evolution is for the Divine Spirit to work in all natural kingdoms: mineral, vegetable, animal, and human. The meaning of the evolution is to have ever higher forms created, through which the Divine Spirit and the great talents if the Monad is to manifest in a perfect way. The Divine Spirit in the mineral manifests to a smaller degree; in the plant and animal form - to a bigger degree; and in the human form - to an even bigger degree; whereas in the angelic form - even better, etc. In that namely is the meaning of evolution. Evolution is a fundamental law in the Creation. Only the factors of the evolution are different, not as the mechanical biology thinks. There are the so-called psychic factors of the evolution. The outside conditions influence, but the way, in which the organism reacts to the outside conditions, is a psychic one. The subconsciousness works in the tissues. On one hand, it is run by the Monad of the organism itself, and on the other hand - by the Advanced creatures.

OUR SMALLER BROTHERS, THE PLANTS A beautiful, characteristic feature of the Master was that, on one hand, He would lead us into an elevated, mystical world, and on the other hand, He would not detach from the physical world around him. The laws and principles He taught us - He always treated them practically, concerning the concrete tasks of Life. He reckoned that Life is one; that this world and the next one are one world, and therefore every physical work for Him was at the same time spiritual. He would plant fruit-trees, He would work in the vegetable garden, He would work with the bees, etc. After we worked in the garden for about two hours, we sat down on the grass to have a rest, and the matter about the life of plants came into question. The Master said: In the natural kingdoms - mineral, vegetable, animal, and human - manifest Creatures from various stages of the Angelic hierarchy. Through the minerals and the precious stones manifest Cherubim, Seraphim, etc. In the entire Nature all classes of the hierarchies have taken part in order to create things. They participate in the life and evolution of the entire Nature. On the evolution of the flowers work supreme Creatures. When you rejoice in a flower and love it, you are already making a connection with those Creatures, and they come and aid you; they show you attention. The plants in the higher worlds are rational, but in their manifestation in the physical world they are silent. Their time has not come, they are only gathering material. The precious stones pertain to another world; higher Creatures work on them. In the plants and animals there is a Divine principle that works. If you study the plants when there is wind, rain, then by their leaves you can tell if the weather is going to get bad. Keen observations are required. The trees are an emblem of self- sacrifice - on the fruit of the plants people feed. The healing properties of the plants, their magnetic influence, have to be studied. They should not be planted too close to the house. The Rational nature has created the plants, and man should not misuse the goods of God. When you contemplate the plants, you shall try to inwardly perceive what their healing properties are. Without the plants man cannot be genius. There are secret forces in them. You have to know when to pick the fruit and when to eat it, in order to be able to take advantage. That is where the entire secret is now. The hazel is one of the magical plants. We need to have an inner communion with the plants. When we go to them and tell them something, we will sense an answer. What appears within you then is the answer of the plant. The trees are considered stupid, and they are so wise! What variety there is in the leaves, in the blossoms. What sweet fruit they give. To extract the good sap from the soil - it is a science. They have knowledge, they have rationality. That energy, which man cannot extract, the plants extract. The grasses and generally - all plants, as well as the animals, go down, and we go up. They walk the path of involution, and we - the path of evolution. They have learned the knowledge on the path of involution. Their I, their Divine monad, is still in the Invisible world and it gradually goes down. This will last for millions of years. And the Human I has already come down to Earth. That is why man has self-consciousness and the other natural kingdoms do not. They have a lower stage of consciousness. When we come to the area, where that knowledge is, the area that the animals and plants have in their subconsciousness, we will learn it on the path of evolution - with our self-consciousness. A weary traveller passes by a tree weighing down with fruit. He does not hurry to pick, he only stays under the branches and wishes for some of its fruit. And it will not be long before a ripe fruit falls down; there is consciousness in the plants, it is no accident. This happens when there is harmony between the traveller and the tree. When the traveller looks at the tree, he comes into connection with the rationality within it. These are souls which live in the Invisible world collectively and manifest on Earth. And when he thinks, in the Invisible world they arrange that he is given a couple of apples. When the grass is torn, it does not feel pain, but when it is uprooted - it does. The more highly organized creatures have pain. The grasses pertain to a lower stage of development. The vibrations of the plants, the animals, and man are different. It is good not to pluck flowers. If you pick them, your head will ache after that. Children should not pluck leaves and flowers; it has a bad influence over them, and when they grow up, they will do more harm. When we pass by the flowers, we will not necessarily smell them, because they have a very strong influence over the astral body and this is not beneficial, a charm happens. In the plants there is a certain attachment and affection. If you love them, they give better fruit. If you are disposed towards them, they are ready to reward you. In Stara Zagora a person told me that an apple-tree was attacked by plant lice and that he was thinking about cutting it down. For several years now it had not borne any fruit, but an acquaintance of his told him: "Leave that apple-tree to me!" The next year there was not a plant louse on the apple-tree and it bore a lot of fruit. That person had gone to the apple-tree with Love and had awakened Love inside it. That is because all those plant lice cannot withstand Love, they flee for their life. Parasites cannot withstand the vibrations of Love. Once a brother came to me and told me that he lived with a landlady who was a little headstrong. She had a flower, a tuberose, which withered and she threw it out in the yard along with the pot. He asked her to give it to him and she agreed. He took it and began to take care of it, water it, and each day he went to it with Love. And that flower recovered, it began to grow wildly, it became larger and let out big beautiful blossoms. Once, when he was standing one morning by the flower, he saw that above it a bright cloud was forming; that translucent steam condensed and a beautiful Creature formed, smiled angelically, and disappeared. It brought Joy into his soul. On the other day the same thing happened. The beauty of that Creature was unearthly. After a few days the landlady came and said: "I see that this flower thrives well, but it is mine and I want it back." He told her, "But wasn't it that I saw it thrown away on the ground and you allowed me to raise it!" She would not hear of it. The brother offered her to buy her another such flower, just as beautiful, but she said curtly that she wanted that one. Sore at heart he gave it to her and felt a great sorrow. On the next day the landlady again threw the pot out in the yard - the leaves of the flower had drooped. Our brother took it, tried to revive it, but it had completely perished. Yes, a plant can come to love you like a person. You put the pot in your room and it comes to love you; otherwise, when you take it outside, it will wither. If it has not come to love you, it does not wither, but once it comes to love you, it withers when you remove it. There are some who love plants very much and whatever they plant takes root, and if they do not love the plants, they do not take root. A lemon was about to wither; a brother said, "Let us remove it and put another plant in its place", but I said, "Leave it". And it recovered; but until it cheered up, I went to it every day to comfort it. So when there is no Love, nothing in the world wants to live, it wants to leave, wants to go where it is loved. The plants, too, grieve like people, but because they cannot talk, their grief is hidden. Now the grain has become contorted; once the people improve their life, it will improve as well. There is dependence between all fruit-trees and man. Before the General war happened, the phylloxera came in Europe and began uprooting the vines; this shows that the phylloxera will come into the human life. War is phylloxera. Then the apples were affected, which showed that the good, the beautiful, will be affected in man. There is a connection between the plants and man. Or, in other words, that, which is to happen to us or which is happening to us, reflects upon the fruit-trees. During the political events they took and killed a lot of people in a forest in the Rhodopes. That forest became ailing and withered. Why? Because the negative, destructive energies of the people who did this got absorbed by the ethereal twins of the plants and it had a destructive effect on them. The fact has to be accounted that the roots of the trees keep the water in the soil on a specific level, and if it were not for those trees, the water would sink way below. Similarly, if you have an indisposition and get in amongst carnations, the good disposition will come and then you will understand their psychic influence, their characteristic psychic feature. Those creatures that have created the carnations, how much have they thought!

CONSCIOUS EMANATION At a conversation there was a question about the development of the clairvoyance. The Master said on that matter: Take your energies up in the head, so that your radio develops most of all. During clear-listening, or the seventh sense, there are three voices. In the first case, the voice comes to the ear from the side, from a distance of 75 centimeters; such was the voice that called to Samuel, "Samuel, Samuel". In another case, the voice is from above, from the Divine world. And when the voice is coming from the Spiritual world, it comes from the pit of the stomach. What the voice says to you, you will check later. A brother asked about the emanation. The going out of the body, the emanation is for few. Some years ago, a Bulgarian writer came to me to tell me about his experiences, which he did not want to share with others. He thought he was insane. He was having a rest at noon, as usual, but suddenly he found himself in the middle of the room and could see his body prostrate on the bed and with closed eyes. Someone behind him was talking to him, "This is you". And he said, "If that body is me, then who am I?" They took him and put him inside the one who was lying. I told him, 'Your spiritual body was detached from the physical one. The one who was watching was you in your spiritual body". And he admitted, "I have not slept for a whole week, I am afraid it might happen again." I told him, "Do not be afraid. It will not happen to you often. That is to show you that you are not the body, but something else. This is not abnormal at all, but an experience". From then on he got interested in studying these things. A sister said, "Master, recently in a lecture You had said that each of us should be able to consciously emanate himself from his body at least once a year. And for 70 years he should have emanated himself at least 70 times". This looks like the following: a person in his body is like in a prison. It is good to be able to get out of the prison and to freely enter the Spiritual world, and then to come back again into the physical body. And there are some that do not allow them to leave the prison. This is true in the ordinary life, as well as in the spiritual life. There are some prisoners - they allow them to go into town, then they go back again, and others are not allowed out of the prison. A sister recounted that that spring, in May, she had had a case of emanation. It was at dusk, and as she was lying she felt that she was outside her body at a certain height, about 20-30 cm, she passed through the wall, and hovered onwards. She could see the village underneath her and the relief of the mountains. During all that time of emanation she felt Peace, Joy, and Love towards everyone. When she came back into her body, she immediately realized the huge difference: she flew like a bird and rejoiced like a cloud, and now she had to walk on the ground with her earthly worries. After that, a brother inquired, "How can conscious emanation happen?" This happens when you concentrate and the emanation comes on its own. However, another condition is required, and it can be achieved only if you have peace, harmony, and are temporarily not thinking about the outside world. Someone says, "I want to be a clairvoyant!" If you are a clairvoyant, you will be miserable. You will see that somewhere far away they are killing somebody and you cannot help him, or that some beast is tearing up a person in a wilderness and you cannot help. You see that someone is drowning far away in a whirlpool and you cannot help. You will see that some of those around you have bad feelings and an indisposition towards you. Who will then save you from that? In order for that not to happen, the clairvoyant must pass through a lower area of the Astral world and penetrate into a higher area of the Invisible world, where he would see the causes for things. Sometimes we are given something good to save us from some misfortune. And when we are given something evil, it is to save us from a bigger misfortune. Suffering is given to man to save him from a great evil. The methods of the Universal White Brotherhood give the opportunity for clairvoyance to happen in a higher area of the Invisible world, in the higher worlds. Clairvoyance is not an easy job. When a person has clairvoyance, he will also have both hardships, and temptations. Because when he sees a person, he will see his past and will learn that in the past he has been a criminal; and he has to have a great spiritual power in order to still treat him well, with a sacred feeling - not only outwardly, but inwardly as well. This should not alter his attitude towards him. Man can develop his sensitivity. The space around us is full of waves, musicality. The clairvoyant observes that onto the upper part of the head of the religious man a stream of light descends. A brother said, "In one of your latest lectures you said that we have to develop the milfoil that is located on the uppermost part of the head, because it is the telephone receiver, through which we connect with God. You said that through that center God manifests". Man must keep the milfoil in good condition. It has to function properly. When a person directs his mind towards the Divine world, towards the Divine, when he thinks about God, the milfoil already works and develops. For instance, when someone who practices singing awakens and develops the musical center of his head, so does the milfoil awaken, when man thinks about God. However, besides thinking about God, a person can also use the movement of his hands as an auxiliary tool by touching the upper part of his head where the milfoil is with his hands; for instance, when pronouncing certain formulae, a drench can be done with the hands. People are even constantly shoving their heads without realizing it. This is done so that they can develop the centers there. There are also other secret methods for developing the milfoil, but for now man has to be content with little. The difficult tasks require a long time for preparation. For each thing God has prepared a specific time and creatures; as well as a combination with people. An acquaintance of mine, director of the national printing- office, said that in the evening, when he enters the room when the lamp is not on, he sees a halo around the head of his wife. We think that everything is already known to us. When you enter the Spiritual world, you will have Faith, you will not trust in anyone except God. Otherwise you cannot endure and go back. You will make a first attempt, a second one, third, ten attempts. If man wants to enter the esoteric life, the life of a higher reality, he has to develop his perception, because man cannot enter the Invisible world if his consciousness does not broaden. This is not a mechanical process, but an internal process. It is said in the Writ: "I will send you the Holy Spirit". You have to work for the broadening of the consciousness; think about that, do not sleep things away. The elevated in man is mainly on his right side, and the more base, the dark inside him - on his left side. When I see a person, I am interested in the elevated, the good in him, and I look on his right side. When the Spiritual world opens to you, you become delighted, you have something to do. I will give you an exercise: when you look at the Sun at sunrise and then turn your back to it, see what is happening on the Sun. But in order to be able to succeed in this exercise, one must first cleanse the mind, and not allow an impure thought, desire, or deed. For the purpose, man must prepare preliminarily by praying in the evening, after midnight - between midnight and sunrise. And the exercise has to be done at sunrise. A brother shared that he was feeling an inner movement inside his chest; that he was seeing bright globes which would open up and bright forms would come out of them, but because he could not endure, all of that would disappear. Gradually you will be able to endure. And then from that bright globe will come out a Creature and It will talk to you. Thus you will enter the Invisible world. The beginning of the development of the sixth sense is the development of the presentiment. Man should develop that presentiment inside himself, he should listen to his intuition, i.e. listen to the Divine within himself, to the guidance of the Spirit. The sixth sense is now a development of an organ which man will use for studying; and for him the next world will be visible, he will study it. Each person should mark which things turn out to be true in his presentiments. Where is the Rational world? Where are the Rational creatures? - Around you. If the eyes of man open, he will see around him many Elevated creatures, saints, righteous, good people. He will see around him a world that he has never imagined. What should you do in order for your eyes to open? Above all, the main thing is to enter the life of Love, which opens the eyes of man. One, who wants to enter a life higher than the one in which he is today, must accept the Love. From the visible we go to the invisible.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW SENSES A group of brothers and sisters visited the Master in His reception room. A brother raised a question about the awakening of the clairvoyance or the sixth sense in man. The Master said: There is an established order of awakening of the clairvoyance. If you apply an unnatural method, then sometime or other you will come back in a natural way again. For instance, grapes can be grown in a conservatory, under artificial heating on the North Pole, but the vine can get confused and stop producing grapes. Concentration is used for clairvoyance. You should all use it. Then, a person must read, pray, and wish for that, until the Invisible world responds. When you enter a connection with the Prime Cause, you have to develop the Virtues as well. Certain methods of awakening of the chakras were appropriate for the Hindus, but for the western nations they are not as appropriate, because their brain is differently organized. For man to enter the Divine thought, which God has implanted in the flowers, is another revolutionary method for the development of the sixth sense. That way you will come into connection with the Divine spirit in the flowers, which works in them, and you will understand the Divine laws. When you go to a soldier and tell him the password, he will reply with the rest of it, will he not? And the flower, when we come into connection with it, will tell what is implanted in it by God. The main thing is to make a connection with the flowers and then the Divine in them will pass over into you and will manifest to you. The Light, the Divine, which passes through the flowers, should pass over into you. That is what is important. All flowers are connected with the Divine creatures. You too will aspire to them and they will guide you further up. Everyone can look into the next world, if he concentrates on a Divine idea and abstracts himself entirely from everything material; he should throw out of his mind all objects from this world, and he will then immediately see the Next world. But it is possible for him to experience fear. A sister inquired, "Why would he be afraid?" Because he would think that he would not be able to return after he has broken all connections with the physical world. If you want to have a connection with the next world, you have to break with this one, and in no sense assume that you have nothing. Man sees some things in his dream, because he isolates himself from the outer forms. The dream is clairvoyance. The clairvoyant in certain minutes must not perceive the outer life in order to perceive the inner one. The ordinary person, because he is not a clairvoyant, because he has not prepared himself to abstract from the outer world, in order to be able to see the invisible, he has the necessary conditions during his sleep; then the outer world does not influence him and he has visions. Without contemplation, without isolation, nothing can be achieved from the outer world. If people want to come into the Love, their vision will broaden. The dreams of a person, who is coming closer to gaining clairvoyance, start becoming more connected. A brother asked, "Which thought is it best for the consciousness to concentrate on during these exercises?" Concentrate your consciousness on this verse, "If My words abide within you and you abide within Me, I and My Father will make an abode within you and I will manifest to you". Then you can take for concentration from John's Gospel, chapter 14, verse 21; chapter 14, verse 23; chapter 15, verse 7. Apostle Paul had the experience of emanation and says, "I saw something, but was I inside the body or out of it, I do not know". He was outside the body. A brother inquired, "Can a person concentrate on the Christ during these exercises?" Yes, he can, but not on the crucified Christ. You should concentrate on images, not on an abstract thing. For the awakening of the inner strengths concentrate your consciousness on creatures who incarnate Goodness, Clemency, Love, Purity, like the image of Christ, etc. These are methods for the concentration of evolution, and in time of involution they were different. In order for man to have achievements in this area, continuous work is required. This cannot happen at once, because through a work like that, the matter of the body has to refine, so that it does not have rough, but supreme vibrations. A sister told the Master, "I would like to develop clairvoyance. But it is written in the books that it will not do without a Master". That is right; it will not do without a Master. Everything is movement there, everything makes haste, haste. You must first become masters and be able to stop what changes quickly. You have to start with the smallest: with the Love, with communion with Nature and with the deep breathing. The sister said, "I love communicating with Nature anyway". You shall walk among Nature, you shall connect with it. The sister said, "I was young, I finished high-school and became a teacher. Such joy was flowing inside me; I felt love towards the children, towards everything - towards the grasses, the flowers, the midges, etc. Why do I not love like that anymore?" At that time you have had the Love as a feeling, and now you have got it as a thought. After that you will come to the more supreme forms of Love. Apply now the above-cited three things and the rest of the exercises - later. If man tries now to enter in a connection with the Invisible world, it is a hopeless case; he has this implanted, and now he only has to harmonize his thoughts, feelings, and desires, in order for that, which is implanted, to manifest. The thoughts have to be filtered. Inside the thoughts there has to be no self-seeking sediment. Pure thoughts, feelings, and desires are needed. The best method for entering a connection with the Invisible world is the prayer. It has been said, "Pray constantly". Upon entering the Invisible world there has to be a Master to lead the affair. When man enters this area, if he has no guidance, he will get scared. I have made thousands of measurings on heads. Once, when I measured the head of one of the first clairvoyants in Bulgaria, a pleasant light was coming out of the center of conscience, but she loved to criticize. I told her, 'You are only just, but not religious". She sees everything and thinks she is religious. If she were religious, she would be a genius, a saint. What makes the religious stand out? - The feeling of reverence towards everyone, the interminable veneration towards everyone, seeing the good in everyone. That clairvoyant was peppery. She once told a man that he had stolen a grater and that when he returns it, then he will get on well, because ever since he had stolen that grater, things were going backwards for him. Always when well-known Elevated creatures are about to come, the more inferior creatures scamper away. In this fear of theirs, they hide inside you. And the fear that you experience is their state. Now, in order to have insight, we need a sixth sense. It will contribute to the other senses, and will bring a new stream into our life. An astronomer can introduce theories to you, but practically what are you going to learn? You need to see the stars with a telescope. The same thing refers to the development of the sixth sense. Now the sixth sense is forming within us, and there still are six other senses, which have to be developed. Man has 12 senses. From the visible we go to the invisible. There is a first octave of the Light, and the second octave of the Light is in the Invisible world. Between the two octaves of the Light, at the border of the physical world there is a dark zone. During execises for the sixth senses, when you come to that border, everything gets dark, because you are passing through the dark zone, and after 1-2 minutes, a new, soft light appears, into which you enter. That is the second octave of the Light. Everyone can do this, but as we said, guidance is needed, in order not to be scared. When one comes back into the physical world from the upper octave into the lower one, he will again pass through the dark border. The physical world is part of the Spiritual one. If you compare these two worlds as two different ones, you will have a contradiction. For instance, you see in a vision a beautiful mountain, and you think that it is a fantasy, a figment of your imagination, and then you see people, who are moving and talking to you; then you are in a real world. When people are talking to you, you are in the real world. Before entering the beautiful world, you will be attacked by horrors, like the local parasites; that is a passing through the dark zone, and when they attack you, you can scoot off. And you have to go through this world in order to go to the beautiful one. They cannot do anything to you, but if you hesitate, you lose. You must not hesitate. In the unhesitating of the consciousness lies everything. When you enter that dark zone, the evil spirits will chase you and pounce on you; that is a great trial. The last instance is there, and after that the doors open. When you are passing through the dark zone, you will hear the most insulting words; such that you have never heard on Earth. The dark spirits will not leave anything sacred that they will not defile. You will encounter these contradictions, and then you will learn to hang up the phone. You will have this experience.

STRONG VIBRATIONS Once at lunch there was a question about the Spirits. The Master said: Man must test whether the Spirits are from God, i.e. whether they work for God or for themselves. The inferior spirits have deluded humanity, they have urged it into a wrong way, and it looks for the things there, where it will not find them. Spiritism is a dangerous area: your grandmother and grandfather have come, they talk to you, and pass before you like the spirits of saints, of Angels. But I see Angels of black colour around them. Many of the so-called spirits are gramophone records, and when a gramophone record talks to you, do not answer it back. And when an Elevated spirit comes, it will tell you, "When you are travelling this way, after five kilometers you will meet a person; he will do this and that, and at his house you will stop". And he describes your entire journey correctly, and it happens the way he tells. And when they are telling you something and nothing happens, then they are from the gramophone records. Creatures that have weaker vibrations can be possessed by inferior spirits, and if they have stronger vibrations, they are fenced against them; that is why one needs to check. The inferior spirits tempt the people. The evil spirit will throw you in the breach and will try not to be caught by the law. Many of the suspicions, doubts, and commotions are from those inferior spirits. Spiritism is not for Izgreva, we have crossed over into a higher phase. If the spiritists want to work, let them go into the world, but not among you. I am guiding you now along the safest paths.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE HUMAN NATURE After the lecture and the gymnastics we came back to the hall for a conversation. In the future the spiritual body will take the place of the physical one, and it will be able to become visible and invisible. Esotericists study the things very superficially. For instance, they study the astral body, but do not know which place corresponds to it in the physical body. Each invisible body has its corresponding place in the physical one, which, for its part, is a result of the upper bodies. In each person there are three souls. Each person represents a tripersonality. For instance, there is a Todor in the physical, in the Spiritual, and in the Divine world. The current description of the Spiritual world is a caricature. They draw it the way it is not. If the ethereal counterpart of the person is taken out at least partially, then when the body gets hurt, it does not feel pain, because the person is outside at that time. If you push his counterpart a little, then the physical body starts to cry. I can prove to you whether there exists a soul in five minutes: by taking it out of someone's body, he will immediately fall down, after that I will bring it back. Then I will ask him, "What did you see?" He will say, "I saw that there was a man lying on the floor, who looked completely like me". And then I will ask him what he is going to say now, does a soul exist or not? Resurrection is an awakening of the spiritual body. Each virtue has its specific tone and colour. Music comes out of the good man, a song, which resembles sounds from a gentle harp. An entire symphony is heard from the good people. Light comes out of the spiritual man's entire body. Man must study his body and see where the centers are.

WE HAVE A HOME NOT MADE BY HUMAN HAND We were at a joint lunch, sitting down at the outside tables. After we finished with the food, a brother started playing his violin, and everyone gathered at the Master's table. So we sang a few songs, and after that there was the matter of the departed ones in question. When you go to the hereafter, you will meet with people who think equally as you and have the same ideas. When you come to the royal gate, they will make you declaim a poem or to say some epigram, or to sing a song, or to do a deed, so that they can test you. Guyler was a tinker, and when he died, he had 10 000 leva. His wife did not know where the document for the money was, but he appeared to her in her sleep and told her where it was. After his death, doctor Saraffov appeared several times to a woman and asks her, "Pray for me, because during my life I did not pray at all". Moreover, he cured her from phlebitis, sent her to Chamkoria, where doctor Mittakov arrived, and by the advice of the dead man, the woman became his patient. When you hear a crack from the departed, they are talking to us: one crack means "no", two times - "somewhat", three times - "yes", four times means "without any doubt". A nice thought of yours, sent towards creatures from the hereafter, becomes perceived by them, and their heart starts to quiver. And when you perceive their good thoughts, sent towards you, your heart starts to quiver. The departed take a big part in the life on Earth. A big part of what happens here is due to them. Thanks to the departed to the other world, an intensive life is maintained on Earth. Thanks to their activity, we endure, otherwise we would become discouraged by the bad conditions. They constantly guide us and say, "It is all right". The departed do us many more good turns than when they were here. Some departed ones do not appear after their departure, because they are very busy with work there. Doctor Mirkovic's older brother died and left 20 000 leva for a chapel, but his son used it for himself. The dead one came and told his brother, "Go and tell your nephew to make the chapel, it is a shame". The cause of death is not one and the same. It is determined by God who will live how much, but because people do not obey, do not walk God's way, few people remain to live as much as it is destined for them. Sometimes God allows you to be lifted from the Earth, so that you do not make any more transgressions. The psalm singer says, "Do not take me at the half of my days". The Master turned to a sister and told her: Your daughters departed, because one of them was going to get divorced, and because of that she was going to have great sufferings, and the other one was going to get married and have children, who were going to cause her great sufferings. The mother asked, "How will they find their way above, when they are passing through Purgatory?" Because they went through great sufferings on Earth, that is why they are free, they will not go through Purgatory. When there is a danger for a righteous man to commit a crime, they elevate him. And when there is a danger for a sinner to make or to entice a righteous man to commit a crime, then they lift him. When the child complains to God that it is not treated well, they take it in, it goes away. You shall cherish the child, because you will be paid two thousand leva a month. When the children are taken, they are taken by a maternal or a paternal mistake. The mother or the father sometimes become displeased with their son or daughter, and God takes the children in. There are many reasons for the departure of the children. One of them is the following: sometimes the child does not want to live in that apartment, because it is not made well. If the father and the mother love each other, if there are no contradictions, then in that house everybody is healthy. Even when sickness comes, it soon passes. And when they do not love each other, they fall sick, and some of the family depart. And the child sometimes says, "Away with the father, away with the mother!"; then some sickness falls upon the father or the mother. After his departure, man has the following tasks: first, to attend the Heavenly schools; second, to work at God's field, and either among the recently departed, in order to orientate them in the new conditions, or among the people of the Earth, by protecting them from evil (for instance, he might be given the task to mend a sinner on Earth); third, the departed participate for some time in the processes of Nature, for instance, they work on the growth of plants. A brother inquired, "When somebody departed appears to a person, how do we know that it is not a thought of ours?" The thought-form is distinguished by the fact that it will not talk, and when it is a soul, it will talk. In order for somebody departed to appear to you, in order for you to be able to see him and talk to him, you have to love him. Keep inside your mind the nicest features - like an Angel he should be in your consciousness, and then he will come. You should not say, "He was a little stubborn, but I hope he has changed". A soul cannot appear until 40 days have passed, because it is occupied exclusively with itself. They bring it to all the places it has lived in, in order to see its entire life. It is after that that they give it work and it can appear. Apostle Paul says, "If our earthly abode is destroyed, we have a home not made by a human hand". Somebody on Earth is suffering, and when he departs for above, he rejoices. Then why would we weep for him? Man is never dead. The dead are more alive than the living. A priest came to me and said that he was afraid to serve in the church alone, there had to always be another priest with him. He asked for advice from me. I told him, "There is a person whom you have offended during their lifetime". He had beaten his mother and she had died. I told him, "The dead people are more real than us. You have to reconcile with your mother." When you enter the next world, it will be strange to you initially. Each planet of the Solar system has representatives on the Earth, like each country has its ambassadors, only they have finer bodies and are free from the restrictions of the body. How many times we have met them! They do not manifest. The entire Solar system represents one whole. A brother asked, "Will my father welcome me?" When you depart for the next world, you will be welcomed by those who love you. If your father loves you, he will welcome you. Two brothers came to hate each other; their mother died, and they became reconciled with each other. That reconciliation is due to the mother. Suicide is because of possession by inferior spirits. An inferior creature will persuade somebody to commit suicide, in order to take his energy and to live on it. One wanted to kill himself because he needed 2 500 leva. I told him, 'You do not know what kind of thing suicide is, you will come to a position, ten times as worse, and you cannot go back". I gave him 2 500 leva and he did not kill himself. Many departed ones worry about their unarranged earthly matters. You had a house on Earth, you depart, but your relative sold it, and you are angry. A person departed and his wife married another; the dead one, because he was not advanced, was angered at his wife. In Svishtov a man had a wife, who died in childbirth. The widower got married a second time. Once, the second wife was beating the orphan, but her hand became numb as a stone, and only after a great plea did it slacken. The departed wish for us to not slow them down, to think about them. When we think about them, they are happy. And never do they want for us to remember their transgressions. Some departed souls are so advanced that they can create a body immediately; then you will not suspect at all that he is from another world. Sometimes the departed one will find a living person on the Earth, whose vibrations are close to his, and he will manifest to you through him: you just got acquainted, and he is already smiling to you somehow peculiarly and familiarly. In Varna I talked to two young maids, and through them manifested the departed Golov and Dukov. If someone departs ten years earlier, then he will stay here for ten years, in order to finish his work, because man needs experience, material. The Spiritual world is a broad area, where materials are needed. Those people who get killed remain on Earth, and if they are not advanced, urge others to avenge them. Soldiers who get killed on the battlefields go up there as workers, in order to persuade the incarnated that they must not wage war, that that is not good. A sister said, "Brother Durzev departed and he does not manifest through others". How many times does he pass by you and you do not recognize him. Above he is accepted into the musical academy and writes quite a few songs. Come on now, sing his song! We sang the song "Kindness, kindness", arranged by brother Durzev. The Master continued: When they killed Stephan, he possessed Paul, and the latter, thanks to him, got elevated. So now Durzev surely has some Paul to carry him. There are some things that are not allowed to be told. A sister inquired, "Can the departed listen to Your lectures?" The departed attend the lectures. They stay with those whom they love. You think that at the time of a lecture the departed are among you; no, the departed fill the hall, and you are among them. A brother asked, "When someone does not have conditions here, is it not better to get lifted, so that he can come to more favorable conditions?" No. It is much longer and much harder to come here, and after a much longer time what you want will be given to you, than if you resolve the problem, which you have been given now, correctly - under the conditions that you are in. Because these inconveniences, which are given to you in life, are like a means of defense for the correct development of the values that you have. Now you are in the best conditions. You live with the Great. And in order to live with the Great, that is what the good conditions are. The essential thing is to live with God. If you live with God, everything will be arranged. It is the Great. A sister asked, "Will we be in the next world with those whom we love the most?" That is exactly how it is going to be. The sister asked, "Who is going to meet us above?" The child will be met by its mother. The friend will be met by his friend. When you depart, only the good will remain memorable - the Love which you have displayed. A sister told how she took home a sick cat and looked after it, but was told that there was no point to look after and show compassion to a cat that is either way going to live only another two or three days. What is the use of that? The Master said: No, in that case too it is good to show benevolence, because it is a great blessing for a creature, which in its last days of its earthly life feels that they are showing Love towards it, to be cared for. And it is a great sorrow if a creature is dying alone, abandoned, without seeing that it being cared for. After his departure, man elevates from the Ethereal world to the Divine world. His life after his departure represents an upsurge, an ascension. That is why man vividly animatedly feels that a great way of advance lies before him, that he has to grow, that something grand awaits him. But that consciousness lasts for a short time, and soon after that he comes back to his ordinary consciousness. Man, however sinful, is always given an opportunity to take a peek into the Great life and the Divine world, even though only for a couple of moments. And that gives him the impulse to live for it on the Earth - and ideally and loftily at that. He who is prepared sojourns consciously for a longer time in the Divine world.

THROUGH THE DARK ZONE We were at a brotherly dinner. A sister played a few musical fragments on the piano with deep feeling. There was the matter about the departed in question, and the Master said the following thoughts in the conversation: When a person from Heaven is born here, people on the Earth rejoice, and those above feel a little sad. When someone from the Earth gets up there, they grieve here, and above they rejoice. During the day, the dead wonder why we do not see them and do not recognize them when we meet them, and during the night, when we see them, we talk to them. A dead person meets you and tells you "good day", and you pass him by and he feels odd. He says, "We have known each other for so many years, why does he not greet me?" Those dead people who do that live in a semi-material world; they have not prepared, and live in it for years. And one who is ready does not live there after his departure, he is free, he is not occupied with material things, and passes through it more easily. One who is even more prepared, does not stop in it at all, and goes directly into Heaven. Now the intercourse with the Invisible world is still difficult, because there is no arranged mail between it and the Earth, but in time there will be. Whoever is here, on Earth, has died in Heaven. Between the physical and the spiritual body there is a connection, and when it breaks, that is the death. Not all people free themselves from the body upon death. There are people, who remain connected with it after death, and that causes suffering. They remain tied for some time in the grave, and then they become free of their physical body. The sinful one remains tied by the grave, and the righteous one has no connection with the grave - he passes directly. The physical body is like a diving suit. When man enters the water, he puts on a diving suit, but when he comes out, does he need it? No, he leaves it. When someone departs, I never keep the idea that they are dead, and consider them alive. The departed are more grown, more enlightened, understand things better, have a more correct notion of the Life, and understand that we have to be better. And one of the biggest sufferings, when you go to the hereafter, is: if the one you seek has gone down, and when you come here, he is there. A sister asked, "What condition are the departed in?" The people who are on the Earth are like the fish in the sea, and the departed are in a more sparse environment and are like the creatures outside the water; for instance, like the birds in the air. If you think about someone departed, he is with you or thinks about you. You cannot think about someone if he does not think about you. Departed or not, if you think about him, he thinks about you as well. Why will you go grieve for the departed? There are no dead! A sister said, "I receive a lot of obituaries, I have a lot of deceased relatives". That is a delusion. When the Sun sets, is it gone? The real man lives always, and what they call death, is the throwing away of the old garment. When some people get buried, their bodies remain indecomposable and their hairs grow; that is what they call becoming a vampire. That is quite a big trial for them, and a lot of time is required in order for them to become free. I had conversation with someone, who told me, "I am in two minds now. I preached to the others that there was no soul, that all of this was nonsense, but something in me whispers, "There is!" Inside I have become divided. Outwardly I maintain that there is not, but something tells me from the inside that I am not going in the right direction". Yes, those who deny later become very zealous. The departure from this world we can call elevation. The departed one gets elevated. The physical world is a world of changes; there is no reason why man should look for happiness here, but with one other culture this will be possible on Earth as well. Death is an Angel with two faces: one is frightful, and the other is so beautiful, that there is not a more beautiful face than it. One who dies goes to the other world to gain strength. When there is nobody to credit him here, he goes to the other world. When you live here and after that leave for above, you will enter the Real life and will say, "I have worried for nothing". The departed, who are not awakened, live there in a world of illusions. Man must not be afraid of death. However, he must not have a premature death. When a person lives for some time on the Earth, after he has done his work, he goes above, like the one who has worked all day and goes home in the evening to rest. Actually, the beautiful Life is above, and the one who goes above, goes into the beautiful Life. We can wish for our life to be prolonged here, in order to work for God, however, this will be deducted for us, because with that we deprive ourselves of the beautiful Life above. God says, "I wrote you down on My palms". If you die, you go to God. From God you have come out, and to God you go. What do you have to fear? Between the living of this world and the living from the next world there is no difference. Because there are living ones in the next world and there are living ones in this world, there are dead ones in this world and dead ones in the next world. Each death is a release from prison. When you die, you are free and you are now young. You have been here, for instance, at the age of 120, and when you die, you have another body - you are young like a boy at the age of 15-16. This is not for all souls however. For the smart souls, death is a liberation, and for those who are not smart - a torture. For what you can do on Earth for 50 years, in the next world 250 years are required. When you go to the Invisible world, you have to be ready. If you are not ready, they will send you back. The departed one has to pass through a dark zone, and only those who understand the laws of the matter can pass through the zone without being noticed by the inferior spirits. After death, the inferior spirits start chasing man into the dark zone, in order to take away what he carries. One who has lived well will pass easily through there, however, it is difficult for the one who has not lived well. Such a soul is on great trials until 40 days after death. A brother asked, "When we depart, will we be chased?" They do not chase those who have a ticket. And what is the ticket? The ticket is Faith. A departed mother announced, "Tell my daughter that I live in water!"; this is due to the tears of the daughter. There are dead ones who stay in the other world for 10-15 years and you cannot persuade them that they are dead. They sit down by the table, they want a spoon and a fork, and they are indignant that you do not pay attention to them. They do not know that they are in the hereafter. A dead person would throw the spoons, the plates, etc, on the floor when guests came to his home. He was a flint, and, after his departure, his sons started spending widely and he was deeply indignant. I advised them to put cutlery on the table, a plate with food, and an empty chair in front of the table. After that he ceased doing that. One who is not ready for the other world will find himself in such great contradiction. After death, man goes to a place which corresponds to his earthly life. He who remembers how he has been in the grave after death, and has witnessed the decomposition of the body, when told to do something bad, he procrastinates, "No, I remember how it was like there in the grave!"; and one who does not remember that, goes to commit crimes. The soul that departs, if not free from the earthly bonds, remains down here to live; in order to go to the highest circles, it must free itself from all earthly bonds. A person who is not very adherent to this world, after his death goes to the worse world, and if he is adherent, he goes to the better one. Which is better? To write a hundred books, or for you to be a well written book yourself? The latter is important for Heaven. When you go there, they will not ask you how many books you have written, but will examine you whether you yourself are a well written book. Imagine that I am a shepherd in the mountain and I live in a cabin; prominent people come to me, I receive them, and one day their houses are open to me. And if I do not receive them, their houses will remain closed to me. If you have obliged the people here, above you will have better conditions. Those who are about to depart are very sensitive, they are like detached. That is why one must not weep by those who are departing. Because they feel it like a sting from a needle. At that time there has to be a quiet and calm atmosphere around. When a neighbour of ours departs and we say, "They took him away from me, they bereaved me of him!", that is not correct, because he is not yours. Generally speaking, you have to know one thing: the situation for the departed to the other world is ten times as better as that on Earth. Think that way! The departed live a collective life. In the other world there is collectivism. And nobody can come individually, wherever he wants. If the entire society, to which he belongs, wants it, he will come. We are speaking about things that we know. When the father departs, the children's matters get arranged better. He helps from above. In the hereafter, people who love each other see each other, and those who do not love each other do not see each other. There is a law: we should keep the best inside our minds for those whom we love. The good memories draw the departed one closer to you, you will even see them.

THE LAW OF CAUSES AND EFFECTS The light energy returns to the Sun again. Each energy returns to its source again. The karma is based on that. We are a ray that has come out of God, and by the same law - by a certain necessity - we will go back to God, even though millions of years might pass. We have to be careful when we know that each thing will come back to us. At the end of the century, all who have taken part in the good and the evil will be judged, the karma will be liquidated. There is an eternal justice in the world. After each thought and each feeling, which man has created, complete a circle, they will inevitably go back to him. Wherever he sends them, even in the boundless space of the Universe, they will go back to him again. That is the law. The suffering and the joy, which he has caused to other people, will inevitably go back to him. A person carries seeds, and wherever he passes, he buries here and there. After ten years, when he passes by there, he will be able to taste the fruit. When another person passes by a place and uproots the trees that have grown there, after ten years he will search and ask, "Why isn't there anything here? What a wasteland!" - "That is how it is here, because you have uprooted the trees". On the feelings, thoughts, and aspirations of man depends his health and his future on Earth. In the present world we experience the past things, and our current thoughts, feelings, and deeds we will experience in the future, as an outer life of ours. You apply this Divine teaching, but have no result, because it will come later. You want quick results. One told me, "When I entered the new way, everything started going backwards for me". - Where things are going backwards for you now, it is from the old life, and the fruits of the current life will come later. Help those in need, and they will help you in the future. And if you do not help them, in the future they will torment you. You cannot free yourself from the theft you are going to make in any way; when you become rich one day, the same will happen to you as well. Whatever you do, they will do unto you - both for the evil, and for the good, the law is the same. An adept came to a saint, who had been living in the desert for 20 years, and the saint told him off. The adept put a slate, and the saint's words got imprinted there. A year later, the adept brought that slate and it told all the words to the saint. The saint raised his hands, "What evil have I done to this slate so that it reviles me that way?" The adept said, "It is you who has created this slate". So if they revile you, you have created that revilement; we are a reason for the people to tell us off. When the telling off comes, you should say, "Thank you, God, you have given me very little. I deserve more". Whoever wants to be perfect has to do like that. Someone says, "Nobody thinks about me". But you have not thought about anyone either. If man throws pieces of glass over the yard and after that walks barefoot, he will get hurt. That is how the law of the karma is explained. With your hidden evil you provoke the evil in the other person. With your hidden good you provoke the good in the other person. The crimes are due to the inferior spirits, who work through man, but man is responsible for letting them in. Someone has offended you, and you say that you cannot love him. But you have offended somebody too. If people knew the laws, they would have lived differently. Each mistake carries horrible consequences. Man has the freedom to do good and to commit a crime. But after he commits the crime, he loses his Freedom. And vice versa - when he does something good, he becomes more free. Somebody tells you bad words; after you regale him, you can give him friendly advice, "Whatever you say to me, you should not say to the others, because you will be woeful. You should speak to the others sweetly." According to the karmic law, the sin carries restrictive conditions, from which we have to free ourselves. When man commits murders, he stops in his development for a hundred years, and works for the one he has killed, who gets born within him. When a man deviates someone from God, he suffers for thousands of years, and during that time his development comes to a halt. There are very bad consequences for everyone who deviates in the least way. Sometimes God forgives provisionally. He forgives one sin of yours, but once you commit a second one, God takes out your first sin as well. If a prisoner corrects himself innerly, he will soon become free. A brother asked, "How long will it take me to redress my dues?" How long will it take a snail to travel a hundred kilometers? A hundred years. And an automobile - one or two hours. If you are rational, you will travel this way for a year, if you are not - for a hundred or more years. Some think that they will redeem themselves through a lie, but they will be caught. If they are not caught today or tomorrow, it will be one day. One who plucks flowers will one day begin to resemble a plucked flower. The plucking of a flower reflects badly on the person. People do not know that. The plucking of flowers is felt by the Earth, which is a living organism. Freedom lies in the rational and the permitted. In the person there are atavistic features. The little mistakes have to be redressed, because otherwise they become big. Apparently, man might think that things happen at random, but they do not happen at random. Many nations committed iniquities, and now upon them acts the karmic law. The weak people will initially be beaten and will be weak, but in the end they will become strong. Now God is on the side of the weak and is against the strong. The good people will initially be beaten, and in the end they will be under good conditions. Somebody asks whether something is predestined. Yes, when you go to the tavern, it is predestined for you to pay. And when you do not go to the tavern, it is not predestined for you to pay. On Earth, to the person come all those people, whom he is indebted to by the law of the karma, and they take from him certain things; and if you know the law, you will be grateful. Other people, on the other hand, will come and give you. The spirits drive several thousand people like a herd and they slaughter one, and the rest of the flock does not know that their turn will come too. That is how it is when certain sinful people gloat over other sinful people's suffering. Even if you turn aside a little bit, Nature, which is so rational, will hold you responsible, and then for all the goods, with which it has gifted you, it will want an account from you and you will have to pay. Once you commit an offence, they close the credit. There are Creatures up there, who understand your schemes - what you are going to do. Since you act wrongly, they will lift their confidence from you. The karma is paid up by sufferings. God is in the beginning and in the end, and in the middle is the redemption of the karma. So man begins initially with the good, then the middle is bad, and in the end he finishes again with the good. So the suffering is one, the delights are two. A brother inquired, "How can man liquidate his karma?" Man liquidates his karma by working for the others, for God. Through the Love, man can liquidate his karma. It is said in the Writ, "Love will cover many sins". Each mistake has to be covered by a good. When the New birth comes, when man is born anew, he will free himself from the law of the karma. With the law of the karma, you have to go somewhere, because you have established connections with certain people, so that you can pay up. The thousands of evils are thousands of filaments, thousands of threads. How can you break them? - By doing thousands of good turns. The karma is liquidated by the Rationality. If man has Rationality, he liquidates with it. When man is paying up karmic duties, he must not make new debts. The biggest art is for man to be able to alter his fate. When you die, you temporarily become free of the karmic law, they temporarily do not want from you any giving and taking. But in the hereafter they do not become liquidated, and when you come back here, they will again want you to rectify.

A LAW FOR DEVELOPMENT At a joint lunch, there was the matter about rebirth in question. The Master said: There are no slain people. A person is imprisoned, and when they kill him, they release him from prison. When you go to the Invisible world, you have to be ready. If you are not ready, they will return you. Not everyone who goes up there is accepted. When one goes up there, he must immediately begin work. Sometimes they will send you to help from above the beetles or the apples. Yes, you were once in that world, but it is now different, it has now been ventilated. We are still not yet in the real world. If you tell the caterpillar that it can live without crawling and without munching on leafage, it will say, "How, this cannot be!" You shall tell it that there are such creatures that fly. It will say, "No, I do not see them, where are they?" We rejoice, because Creatures from the Invisible world come down to us and pass their Joy on to us. They are Creatures from the upper department of the other world, to them we are like children, with whom they have fun. Now we are both in the other world and in this one. There are three reasons for rebirth: the first one is that there are souls that have come for redemption; the second one is that there are souls that are born in order to perfect themselves; and the third is that there are souls that have come to help. The latter are free. When a person comes out of a house, he goes into another one, then - into a third one, and so on, until he finds the best one. Likewise, when a person comes out of a body, he goes into another one, and so on, until he finally finds the best one. So in each rebirth man makes a better body for himself, a better organized brain, a better head. Man must pass through all nations, because each nation carries certain qualities, and whoever does not pass through that nation cannot acquire them. When the soul descends from the Invisible world, it has a programme, given by those, who guide it. If a person dies prematurely, during the rest of his years he remains on Earth to work invisibly, and after that he goes up. There are some who die young, but do not die prematurely, because that is their plan. Old people, after their departure, become reborn after about 45 years. Previously, that period was bigger. Children become reborn soon - after 1-2-5 years. Young people, after their departure, come back after 3-5-10 years. The rebirth is a boon - you are given new forms and conditions in order to progress. A father, who loves one son more, gives him all, because in him he will be reborn; that is the whole mistake. Miscarriage infers that the woman does not want to carry out the Will of God; that is a sin. If the child does not want to serve its mother, God takes it. If the mother does not want to serve her child, God takes her. A child died in a family from Varna, and appeared to her mother to tell her, "I cannot be born with you, but I will be born there and there in that and that family, and you will come to get me from there". Another case: in a family from Sofia, the child died when it was 6; a few years later they had another child born, who comforted its mother, "Do not cry, mom, because that child is me!" When the man becomes too hard, they put him on the opposite pole, in order to become soft, and he is born as a woman. And vice versa - when the woman becomes too soft, she is born as a man, in order to become harder. At the lunch there was a sister, a teacher, and the Master told her: In the distant past you have met those who are now your colleagues. And the students, whom you teach now, are your students from before. Say to yourself that you are connected with them from the past, and you will see the good side of things. From the Invisible world they determine who will spend how much time on Earth. The father sends his son to study abroad, and when he finishes, he will come back. While you were descending, you were given good advice, but you have forgotten what you were told. And you cannot learn what you study here in the other world. The strong will is gained through obstacles in the physical world. Why do the spirits descend? Because only the physical world can steel the human will. In order for a spirit to be tested, in order to check where his mistakes are, an incarnation and descent to Earth is required. That way a check will be made - on Earth, a person shows what he is. In Heaven it is easy, there is an arranged life there, and try to live on Earth in a Heavenly way. Each day shows what you are; if you are smart, you will know how to correct yourself, and when you find a mistake of yours, be happy and say to yourself, "Now I got it!". People descend in a group - in groups of 10 000, 20 000, 100 000 people. The members of a group spread themselves among all nations, but among them there is an inner connection. Each one of you has at least about 10 000 related souls around the entire world. Therefore, wherever you go around the world, around different countries, you will always find people who will welcome you. But that way of coming, which we have now, will be replaced by another. Through marriage, entirely base spirits can often be born. The Advanced souls will be coming to Earth through embodiment. The way of reproduction will change. Each soul will be in the position to makes its own body. After the Resurrection there is no marriage.

THE ELEVATED IN MAN On July 14th, 1928, we set out with busses for Borovetz, and the Master - with a car. We were around 150 people from Sofia and the province. We arrived and immediately set out upwards along the path. We stopped here and there in order to receive something from those clean places. Below the river was thundering, which was sometimes on our left, and sometimes on our right. At the bridge, which is half-way between Borovetz and the Musala chalet, we had a break for a cup of tea. Reaching us was the rumble of a waterfall, which descends from uphill along the steeps with its eternal song. We set out again. When the distant vision of Mount Musala appeared, within us awakened the feeling that we have set out to immerse in a world of sanctity. In the afternoon we arrived at the lower two Musala Lakes. A small chalet rises there. Some brothers and sisters accommodated themselves there, some - in tents, and some built themselves shelters. In the first years of our outings in Rila we were not yet as furnished as we were later by the Seven Rila Lakes. We spent the time until the evening arranging our camp, we went about the two lakes, and contemplated the surrounding peaks. "The Sphynx" rises like an eternal sentinel of those places. On the other side along the ridge is the "Unknown Peak AB & BA", which is connected with dear memories of our holiday there in August 1924, for about ten days. There the Master held lectures as well. At three o'clock past midnight we made for the peak. We lined up in a long chain, electrical torches were flashing here and there, and like a fantastic vision, curved in a spiral and flexible, we were floating forwards. About ten minutes before the sunrise we were already at the top. It was quite cool. The observatory was not yet built then. The sky was clear and the sunrise was majestic. Only down low in the valleys the fog was gathering. We performed a prayer program, accompanied by songs. After the sunrise it got warmer. The wind ceased. We all greeted the Master with the new day. After we all sat down, a conversation began. Direct your mind towards God and think about what you want to achieve. There are good places down along the road, and when we are descending, you shall not hurry, you shall fill your bags - as much as you can carry. In order for these things to be told to you, what has been told so far has to be understood. The greatest thing on Earth is the self-control. Should man reach it, he has become a master - he will go back to that initial state, in which God created him. At first he was a master of himself, then he lost his Freedom. Each negative thought, no matter how small it is, undermines the moral mainstay, and then man says "Nonsense" or "Not going to happen". Without self- control nothing can happen. Self-control is not a process that comes suddenly; it weaves in thread by thread. The beautiful is there too, as it is obtained thread by thread. Each time the difficulties come, so that it can be seen whether man can control himself. Suffering is a Divine fire, which cleanses man. It brings in a new Divine stream of Life. At first we think that we are losing something, but then we notice a small acquisition. It is hard to carry the sorrow, but it is twice as hard to carry the great Joy. The one, who loves you, will give you so many gifts that you will get tired of carrying them. The Master looked at the yonder peaks of Skakavtzite, west of Musala, and said: This place looks like blossoms. These are all blossoms of a New culture. They are waiting for God's blessing. The temperature was 11 degrees. We got up and looked around the surrounding area. Mount El-tepe in Pirin was clearly visible, south of Mount Musala are the two Maritza Lakes, the sources of Maritza. The valley of the Maritza Lakes is a cirque, left from the ice age. That place we called "Altar". Next to the "Altar" rises Mount Mancho. Further along the valley, which we called the Great Rila Desert, and along which the beginning of the Maritza River flows, are a few more cirques and peaks - the Small Musala, Chadur-tepe, Nalbant, Belmeken, etc. Upon descending from the top, we stopped for a short while by the small river that flows out of the uppermost Musala lake, called "Okoto" ["The Eye"]. It was 7 o'clock. When he looked at the river, the Master said: Each of you should wash their face and hair here, and upon washing should say, "God, fill me with purity, tenderness, faith, humility, and the other virtues". The washing of the face here matters. Then, when he looked at the water that was flowing, the Master said: When one looks at this water that flows, if he is indisposed spiritually, he will immediately feel an upsurge. When we stood on the snow under "Okoto", the Master said: Here is the Sanctuary of Rila. Mount Musala is the dome of Rila. The Sanctuary is a triangle, formed by the lake "Okoto", the Maritza lakes, and Mount Musala. The Sanctuary covers all that area from the "Okoto" lake to the Maritza lakes. A day like today happens once in a hundred years. We came back to our camp by the lower Musala lakes. We stayed there for a bit, and at that time the Master said in a conversation: We have to gain an acquisition of our Freedom; then whatever we want, we will be able to do. Wherever we want to go - whether to Mars, or to another solar system, we will be able to visit them all. Whatever you want, you will achieve. The Earth, in its structure, has to change. There is something in its structure that is missing, but in the future it will be achieved. We decided to have lunch by the "Okoto" Lake. We set out at 10 o'clock and throughout the entire day until 6 p.m. we stayed there. What silence was reigning! Gentle waves were dancing over the blue lake surface. The Spirit of the Eternal filled our souls. By that sacred lake, the Master said: Study the mountains psychologically. This is done by spending some time in each area of the mountain, and you will see what disposition you will have, what ideas and incentives will arise within you. Initially on the Earth there was a Sun culture. All good things we have today have remained from that time. Then the fall happened, which covers a long period. In the arrangement of the stones one can notice disarray somewhere, but elsewhere they are set so that rationality can be noticed. Here, by "Okoto", there is something fine. If one will meditate, one will begin to see pictures of the past - grand and fine. Here we have to make an experiment. The place contains a lot of magnetism, I will show you in what position you should put your back, and you will see what influence you are going to feel. These rocks around us are stored energies for the future. If people had any knowledge of those energies, what running there would be hither! This place sometimes functions electrically, and sometimes - magnetically; it is variable. "Okoto" disposes to thinking, creativity; so does the "Altar". The water of "Okoto" is very nice. We all sang the song "Musala". When man does something, he should do it as the others have never done. Labour is needed. Nature gives nothing to the lazy people. Each thing that man thinks about becomes accomplished. There is nothing that man has thought about that has not become accomplished. Then the consequences will come - good or bad. Whatever you want from God, you will gain, but you will have the consequences as well. There are certain secrets, so that interest can be created for the people to work. On the following day, July 16th, we climbed up on Musala again. The weather was fine. We spent quite some time on the meadow on the top. In the conversation that was held there, the Master said the following thoughts: The body of a person is not a reality, the Reality is inside the person himself. Between the personality and the soul there is a big difference. The personality is engaged in petty matters, and the soul - in elevated ones. The soul of a person is the real person. The person you see is only his clothing. You think that your mind and your heart - that is you. In the person there is something more essential than the mind and the heart. The person lies neither in the personality, nor in the individuality. Every one person is a sacred book. If you do not know how to read, you cannot take advantage. Each person has to know his name. There quite a few precious stones in man, but a jeweller has to come and make brooches out of them. The strength of man lies in his name. How rationally God has created the world - so that people can have something valuable, because of which they take a liking towards each other. There is not a better world than this. For the person who understands, Life is beautiful in its details. And for the future, the Advanced supreme beings have planned something even better. When Life is looked upon that way, it is pleasant. Sometimes we think that Life has no meaning at all. The soul is something great! It feels broad, it is free from restrictions. Sometimes man doubts in himself. What is that doubts in him? Doubt derives from the human, and there is something more elevated in man, something Divine, which knows the matters. In Heaven you were geniuses, but when you came down to Earth, you became different. The reason is your installation. In every person lies the Divine; if it was not for it, it would have been pointless to preach to the people. Great riches lie in man. All people are written Divine books. In the next epoch there will be circumstances for a manifestation of the human soul. First of all, all of you have to realize that you are good. Each one should say "I am good". The human soul does not know what crime is. The human-animal suffers, the animal-human hesitates, and the human-human thinks. And the Divine in man is perfect. Man is an extremely small part of what he is. His Spirit in Heaven sends only a small part of itself, through which he draws experience, and if the Spirit sends a bigger part to the person below, he becomes a genius. By "ordinary person" we understand the one who has not developed his gifts; the talented one has developed them, and the genius already creates. Now take out your talents. For instance, some of you have a voice, with which you can give a concert to a couple thousand people, but you have not developed it. Some of you have talents for art. In the New culture there will be a need of people who are prepared. In the New culture will come not ordinary people, but talented ones, geniuses, and saints. Some of you can be first-class, genius poets. The situation is very terrible when man thinks he is poor. At the first stage of magnetic sleep the magnetizer orders, as well as at the second stage, but once it takes the person to the fourth stage, it can no longer order him, he is free. Then he becomes a clairvoyant, he sees things. If you call a sick person as you would a doctor, he will diagnose the sickness, and will very felicitously prescribe medicaments. Should you wake him up, he will not know anything. Nature has made people free, but they have to pass into the fourth stage. The suffering of man derives from his inferior animal nature. The darkness in man produces all sufferings, all delusions are there. When each person comes to Earth to be reborn, he passes through a place where they immerse him in a river in order to forget everything, because if he remembers everything, he will not learn what is new. And when he returns, they immerse him again in that river, in order for him to recall everything. A sister asked, "When does the soul appear as it is in its real nature?" Only to the one whom it loves, and it hides from the one whom it does not. The soul appears as it is only to the one who loves it, and hides from the one who does not. Only when you love someone does his soul reveal itself before you. We often act towards the people according to their outer manifestation, and not according to what they have deep inside their soul. I see how even the biggest criminal cries every night, prays, regrets his mistakes. So there are two creatures that live simultaneously within man. From Love's point of view, all people are scientists, because the real knowledge is written within them. It is enough for man to lift the curtain of forgetfulness in order to remember what he has learned in the distant past. Upon coming down from Musala, the Master told us to take a white quartz stone from a place near under the top. When we came to the small river that flows out of "Okoto", the Master told us to wash with this water again. He wetted a towel and sprinkled all of us who were around Him. We spent July 17th in the camp by the lower Musala lakes. In the morning of July 18th we climbed up on Mount Musala again. There the Master held the lecture "Unity and Community", which is printed in the volume "Good and Bad Conditions". Around 10.30 a.m. we performed the Six gymnastic exercises. After that we performed another exercise. Before that the Master said: With this exercise we will send a greeting to all brotherhoods, which are to the east in Asia and to the west in Europe, and also to those that are to the north and to the south, a greeting to all brotherhoods that constitute orders of the Great World Brotherhood, a greeting to all awakened souls. The exercise is described on page 240 and 241 in the same volume. On July 19th, Thursday, we climbed up again on Mount Musala for the sunrise, and the Master held a lecture "A Law for the Good". It is not yet printed. In the morning on July 20th, Friday, on Mount Musala, the Master held the lecture "Inner Calm", which is also not yet printed. After that we came down to the camp and from there we set out for Borovetz. We stopped by the bridge between Borovetz and Musala. We made a fire there. At about 7.30 in the evening at that place the Master said in a conversation: The Advanced creatures, who guide the evolution of all natural kingdoms, are from an Angelic hierarchy. Such Creatures guide all human races as well. Each nation has its tasks, has acquisitions, which it has to contribute to the common-to-all-mankind treasury. The Black race has developed the consciousness to a certain degree. The Red and Yellow races have continued the development. The White race has already developed mainly the nervous system, the mind. The next race, which comes, will be a Race of the heart. During the evening, from the people of that race there will be a pleasant, soft light coming out - a halo, and the face will stand out in light. The way they are drawing the saints now, it is a shadow. The New will be even more majestic. A sister asked, "When will that be?" There are already born ones from that race, there are ready types from it already. It is that future that people aspire towards. A brother asked, "What is destined for the Bulgarian nation to develop, can we know the programme?" First of all, stalwart bodies have to be created, stalwart hearts, and stalwart minds. This is one task. There was a word about the prayer, and the Master said: The prayer is a good thing. It is a mystical, peculiar state of the soul. There is not a better state than that, and it should never become a burden to man. It should not be unvaried, but varied. Man has to pray for the others as well. It is a privilege for man to pray. The prayer is a breathing of the soul. With it there happens a cleansing of the thoughts and of the blood. A rule: when man prays with certain prayers, each time he has to add something from himself. We spent the night there, and on the following day we came back to Sofia.

UNITY OF LIFE At dusk the Master was out from Gornitzata, and we, about 12-15 brothers and sisters, surrounded Him. A brother inquired about the unity of the Creation, and He said: In the Creation there is unity. For instance, you are standing among a hundred mirrors and see yourself in a hundred places in various poses. Your reflection is in a hundred places, but you are one. All those that you see in the mirror of the Creation are shadows, and He, who is outside the mirror, is real. When a cat spins its tail around and sees it, it thinks that its tail is another creature, and when it bites it, it meows with pain. The cat deludes itself that its tail is another creature. We do the same thing: when we do violence to another creature, we begin to grieve and recognize that we are one with it. Man has to enter the real world. I enjoy it when I meet good people, because we are one. The humiliation of one man is a humiliation for the others. The success of one is our success. The virtues of all people are our virtues. The mistakes of others are our mistakes. Life is one. The life in us and in all creatures is one and the same. In some select moments of life, when you are in an elevated state, for an instant the great truth for the unity of all flashes up, and then you go back to your ordinary consciousness. A person told me that one night he had gone out to see the stars and felt one with the mountains, the grasses, the flowers, the animals, with all people. Joy, Peace, and Light filled him, and new ideas rushed into him. That state had lasted for a very short time. A sister remembered, "I remember, Master, once on one of our excursions to El-Shadai, there was a basket of cherries before You and You said, "Wash them at the fountain and distribute to everyone, for I have thousands of mouths".

THE STRAIGHT THOUGHT After performing Paneurhythmy, we came back to the hall and undertook a conversation with the Master about the straight thought. Both the matter and the Force are thought. Everything else is real, but that is a relative reality, and the real reality is the thought. For someone to acquiesce to somebody means that he has straight thought. Start thinking straight and you will become handsome, strong, and your thought will improve. You have a pain; start thinking straight and it will decrease in half; then - to a quarter, and eventually it will disappear. To believe in God means to think straight. God is your Father, who has created the entire world. Think about the Name of your Father. You sit down on a stone in the shade under the trees, and say that they are stupid. Think about them! When you start thinking about them, you will see that they are not stupid. The stone also thinks; wasn't it that when you carry a diamond you will not get ill. The simple stones are more ignorant, and the precious stones think, only not like the people. When the grief comes along, rejoice that through it you come to the straight thought. Each piece of joy is a fruit of a straight thought. What is straight thought? Straight thought is the Divine thought. Straight thought is to think like God does. You shall perceive the Love of God, and the slightest good feeling, which would arise within you, is from the Divine world. It shows that you have a straight thought. You have to equally love both those who bring you grief, and those who bring you joy. The Love towards God and the love towards the neighbor is a whole science in the Esoteric school. In order for your thought to be carried out, you have to love your neighbor and with that to help him think as God thinks. Which thought is straight? Each thought that produces Love is a straight thought. And each Love that produces thought is a straight Love. If you think, your grief will turn into Joy. If you stop thinking, your Joy will turn into grief. Once you stop thinking about God, the grief will immediately come along. That, which we accept from God, is His thought. I need to have a desire for God's thought to be carried out within me as Love. To apprehend God's thought as Love - that is the accomplished thought of God. The righteousness is in stages. To not be disturbed by the outer things is achieved through the straight thought. As long as man is not disturbed by the outer things, he knows nothing. When your thought becomes stronger than the thought of the wolf, he cannot do anything to you. Otherwise he will stand in your way. With the sufferings there are spirits, whose thoughts are stronger than yours, and they crush you. If you have a straight thought, they cannot do anything to you. A positive knowledge is needed. How can the thought become stronger? Through the Love! When I talk about work, first and foremost I understand thinking. Thinking is work. The second work is feeling. The third work is acting. But the first and foremost work is thinking. When a righteous man goes to hell, with his straight thought hell will become Heaven. And when he leaves, Heaven will become hell. The straight thought is Heaven. The straight thought creates the most beautiful forms. There is not a more beautiful form than the straight thought. Let us say that you are discouraged and you are sighing for something, "This is unachievable", etc; but once the straight thought comes to you, it is now achievable. With the straight thought you can do many things. If you have a straight thought, you will rejuvenate. Our strength lies in our straight thought. The dog cannot bite you if you are thinking. Even if a robber comes, he cannot rob you if you are thinking. Even if he takes your money, he will give it back. Even if he wants to take, he cannot, if you are thinking, because he is afraid. It is the same as when there is electricity in the network. Let us say that during nighttime you are in the woods; you will think and nobody will attack you. A dog is following you; do not turn around, but only think and it will stay away; should you get scared, it will attack you. If you talk to it, it will see that you are afraid and will attack you. The same is for the foe. You are indisposed, so you do not think. The straight thought has a practical application. It solves the contradictions. You suffer because you do not think. There is something abnormal in the world, because people do not think. When the wolf eats the sheep up, he does not think, because he does not know that when he eats the sheep up the shepherd will shoot him down. The main thing is the thought. You are sitting and thinking that your matters are settled and you are enjoying yourself. You start thinking that your matters are not settled, and you immediately droop. Then start thinking. A man, who was sentenced to death, said to himself, that they cannot hang him in any way, he reckoned that all the ropes would break. And they really broke. And Christ says, "All that you desire will be given to you". And if you are not receiving, then you are begging poorly. And you are begging poorly when you are not thinking straight. When you think straight, the things will happen. And when we are not thinking straight and want things that are not straight, they will not happen. All that God thinks of will happen. And whatever you are thinking of will happen, if you have a straight thought. Man often goes back to his animal state, and sometimes does things with no thought. When he is not thinking, he is an animal, and when he is thinking, he is a person. The animal looks like a raft, which is carried by the water ever downwards, and the person is a ship, which goes up and down, the water does not drag it, and goes wherever it wants. When you stop thinking, all misfortunes come unto you. When man makes a mistake, he is not thinking. Those who have a strong and good thought succeed in everything. Their thought is stronger than the thought of the others. When a person comes to you bristling up, if you have a strong, straight, and good thought, he will withdraw. Then the cells in him join your straight and good thought and alter his intention towards you. Because his cells perceive your straight and good thought and tell him, "He is a good man, no use attacking him. Treat him well". An enraged tiger pounced at a saint, but the saint had a straight and good thought; he only gave him a look, and the tiger lay down to lick his feet. When the saint, with his straight and good thought, sent Divine life towards the tiger, his cells rejoiced and soothed him. When man starts thinking straight, he will free himself. In the straight thought lies the salvation of the world. If your thought is moving at a high speed, who can restrict you? Whatever obstacles there might be, it will leap over them. Sometimes man does not believe in what he thinks, and with that he impedes himself. Once you believe, an opportunity will appear. You have despaired and think that Life is meaningless. And once you believe that Life has a meaning, your indisposition will change. Your thought will be carried out if it is a precious stone. A person was embarking on a ship for a distant voyage; all the others had people to see them off, but he did not, and said to himself, "Is there not a brother in the Lord Jesus Christ, who can greet me?" And when he said that, someone turned up. You have to think, so that an infusion can happen into you. To think means something to flow into you. A fruit is initially astringent and bitter. Then the light and the Rational creatures come, the fruit becomes sour, and finally - sweet and good for eating. Also, each thought, upon coming to your mind, cannot immediately be used. You shall leave it for the Divine Love to shine on it, until it becomes ripe. If man wants to develop his mind, he has to take up mathematics. If you toss a bird into the air, it does not fall, but when you throw a rock, it falls. A man who thinks does not fall, and when he does not, he falls. The base desires tie the people to the Earth, and the thought lifts them up. You are gifted. You shall develop your mind. So far you have paid attention to your feelings, and now you shall pay attention to your mind. When you come to the mind, the human beliefs will start to fall. When wind comes out, mosquitoes hide. They cannot withstand the air resistance at all. "When wind blows" - this corresponds to the thought. When one thinks, all mosquitoes will be gone with the wind. Mosquitoes are the bad thoughts, feelings, and desires. Figure 2 In order for man to enter the experienced side, he must think in a completely different way. The reason for your misfortunes is that you do not understand. When you become a little cruel, push the center of clemency above, and you will grow mild immediately (see B on Figure 2). And if you want an even more elevated state, push the highest spot of the head (see A on Figure 2). God has to be like a Sun to you. Some days we might not be able to see the Sun, there are clouds, but through the clouds comes its light and warmth. I feel that the Sun is somewhere and I accept its light and warmth, and I know that one day I will see it. The clouds will disappear, but the Sun will not. I can have difficulties, they will go away, but the reality - God - will be there always. We think that God has forgotten us. No, we have forgotten God. A child, who knows the name of his father and his mother, does not get lost. They ask him and he finds them. And a child, who does not know their names, gets lost, because when they ask him, he cannot say.

LAWS OF THOUGHT After the Youth class, the conversation was based upon the ideas of the lecture that was just held. It often turned out that we broached mainly the questions of the lecture itself, because it had given rise to new questions in us. A sister inquired, "How can we tell whether a thought is from God or not?" When a thought has come into you from the Divine world, it brings in light, harmony, ease, you are joyous throughout the entire day. That thought has come from above. And when a thought causes you grief, darkness, weight, indisposition, this shows that it has come from the lower areas. If you want to protect yourselves from the influence of the bad thoughts and feelings, surround yourselves with positive thoughts and feelings. They are a strong fence, a shield against the evil. Do not bind yourself with bad thoughts, the thought is a strong rope; if you bind yourself with bad thoughts, it is a suggestion. It binds you once, and you cannot unbind easily. Man should steer clear of negative thoughts. When someone sends you a negative thought, for example, of suspicion, etc, it will go back to him; the question about the good thought stands in the same way. If man sends a thought of suspicion, this will have two kinds of consequence: on one hand, suspicion will arise in the other person towards him, but also he himself will become more suspicious as well. That is why man should always send good thoughts. A thought can hatch inside you and cause you an entire suffering. Man has to be careful. The bad thoughts close the doors for the Spiritual world. How can you chase away a thought or a feeling? - You will attract a stronger thought or a stronger feeling, with which to replace the impure thoughts and feelings. Let the pure water drive away the turbid. So when a bad thought comes to you, put a good one against it. When it comes to your mind to steal something, go and give something as a present to a poor man. When man thinks, he frees himself. Never should man leave his heart to control the mind, and the mind - the heart. The mind might influence the heart, but it controls itself, and vice versa. Some people have a valvular heart disease, because they have left their mind to control the heart. How important the good thought is! Good thoughts have a repercussion upon certain forces of Nature. When a thought of yours is good, certain forces of Nature work and help you. We will pay both for the good, and for the bad thoughts. In the Divine bank we put the good thoughts and feelings in the "to take" department, and the bad ones - in the "to give" department. So when you go up there one day, they will show you what you have to take and what you have to give. We are responsible for the thoughts we send. We will be judged if they are bad. Because the current life is based upon the thoughts of the past. There is nothing underboard. That, which you think, is chronicled. One day they will show it to you and will tell you, "This is yours". That is what fate is. When you see the mistakes of people, do not speak about them, because you are harming yourself. Instead, see whether there is a good feature - hold on to it, that is the Divine. There are chemical reactions, produced by the thoughts, feelings, and deeds. The blood is altered by them. The red corpuscles alter. It is a law that whatever man thinks, he will do; that is why he should always think of the good. You cannot stop your mind from thinking; if you stop it, the Invisible world will cause you so many misfortunes, that from day to night you will think about how to make your living. The misfortunes will make you think. When you do not want to think, you react to God. God wants to manifest through you, and when he does, it is for your own good. You were born to give pace to the Divine thought within you. If you give pace to it, you will not be left down-and-out, you will not suffer, and no illness will catch up with you. And when you counteract it, all sufferings will come unto you. Should you allow the Divine thought to go through you, you are free. It is said in the Writ, "Where the Spirit is, there is the freedom". There is a law: whatever people you think about, you become like them; whatever people you surround yourself with, you become like them. Someone discontent comes to you, he brings in his thought, and you need to have a strong inner thought, and in this way to retain your freedom. The happy man lives less, because they envy him, and the unfortunate - more, because, whoever sees him, says, "oh the poor, poor fellow", and support him with their thought. A sister asked, "Master, can man talk to someone with his thought?" Yes, it can be perceived, his thought will enter the consciousness. For instance, you want to meet somebody, to see him, and if he is sentient, he can perceive your thought and it can come to his mind to pass by where you can meet. When several people are doing a certain job, there should not be any people around that do not take part in its implementation, because they will obstruct with their thought. A brother told the Master, "There is an American and East- European school, which says that when a person works with his thought, he is happy, and when he thinks he is rich and handsome, he will become like that". That is a wrong apprehension. If man applies the method to obtain certain things by imagining that he has them, he will go through great disappointments. For instance, a swain wants to marry a rich damsel, and indeed that desire becomes realized - she is rich, but bad. So he falls from some bad circumstances to other, worse ones. So when man aspires in this way to obtain happiness, wealth, beauty, he will have disappointments. What is natural is the following: to serve God, to love Him and everything, and then the goods will come to him in a natural way.

I WILL GIVE YOU THE WEALTH OF SECRET PLACES In a private conversation with a brother, the Master said: There is a great knowledge for studying! And Love is the door. You shall see to it that more Light gets into you. Rejoice that the world constitutes an area, incommensurable by knowledge. It is unattainable. Such good things there are for studying, that time is required for man to come to them. Love is the only door, through which Knowledge is obtained. And where it is not, you cannot learn, you have no disposition. The eastern philosophy has very little bread, which is barely enough for it, and that is why it hides it, it does not give it, it keeps it in deep secrecy. The western esotericism does not have the deep methods at its disposal either. The New teaching contains abundance; it leads man to the fountain. There are esoteric sciences, which deal with conserves, and other esoteric sciences, which deal with fruit that they pick directly from the garden. Now people believe in the old, they refuse the New, which God says at the moment. The future generations will believe in what we study now. The brother asked about the teaching of the yogis. Towards the teaching of the yogis we need to have an attitude like the one Christ had towards the prophets. The way of the yogis is a preparation for the Divine teaching. Their teaching makes sense in respect of that they prepare the way. We do not deny the Teaching of the yogis, but the New, which now comes, is the Divine. The brother mentioned a person who had been several years in India and had not met with its esoteric side. In order for man to reach the inner side of India, in order to be entrusted with something, he has to spend at least 20 years there and go through many tests during that time. Pythagoras stood like a simple-minded student for 20 years in the Egyptian schools, only to have a single secret revealed to him. He knew a lot, but the Egyptians did not give him the whole key, but only a part of it. The brother asked the Master, "Daniel was in the esoteric School of the Essenes, but have David and Solomon been in the Essenian school?" The Essenian school had two circles - outer and inner. Daniel was in the inner circle, David was in the outermost part of the inner circle, and Solomon was in the outer circle. Christ understood the laws of the vegetable and the animal kingdoms, he wielded deeply the entire Divine science. And each person, who connects with the Christ, will connect with the source of great knowledge. We can be interested in the ancient knowledge, but the knowledge that is important is the one that comes from the Christ and that comes now. We gather what we have lost. We barely reach that state we have had. That, which they call progress, is not. Why, progress today lies in regaining the lost, and only after it has been regained, will the people start to progress. Man needs veritable knowledge. If he has it, he will never find himself in a difficult position. One, who has knowledge, can overcome the causes. A learned man, if he is being chased, will create a fog, in which he will sink, or he can form half a meter of diluted mud and they will give up; and if they chase him during winter-time, he will make a meter of snow and they will again lose him from their sight. The world is full of riches. You have not entered the treasury of Nature to see what is gathered there. In the book of Isaiah it is written, "I will give you the wealth of secret places". Knowledge will be given to everyone, according to the stage of their development. To those, who are faithful and ready, more will be entrusted. Knowledge without Affection is dangerous. Knowledge with Affection is a great thing. Somebody comes and says to me, "Tell me how bad people are distinguished!" I told him, "That I cannot tell you". Because, when he knows who the bad people are, he will become a detective and will get paid. There are magic words, which, when we pronounce, we get surrounded with. And each magic word has a great creative and destructive strength. With it you can stop the wolf and he will not attack you, because he knows that if he strikes he will suffer. Only by saying such a word, everything gets settled. You have to learn this art of becoming visible and invisible. That is where the strength of man is. How he becomes visible and invisible, man cannot understand, until he does it. Nature is full of great Knowledge, provided man develops an ability inside him. On every pebble, history is written. In the future you will have enormous libraries, and on each pebble you will read the history. There will be a great upsurge in science, when people begin to study the spiritual functions of the organs as well. How many millions of years it took the plant to alter the position of its head by 90 degrees, and then by another 90 degrees, and by 180 degrees, as it is in man. Now man is turned with his head up, and the plant - down. The brother asked, "What can you say about the musical vibrations, which the human organism emits?" Not only the human body, but the plants and the animals too emit musical vibrations. What is more: every organ of the human body emits musical waves with a specific tone; for instance, the lung, the heart, the liver. But apart from that, in the depths of his character, each person has a main tone, which does not alter. That tone is invested in him by the Lord. His main tone is specific. No one else has his main tone. The brother inquired, "Tell us something about the periods in the human life". The first period is physical - from birth to the 7th year. From the age of 7 to 14 years, the feeling develops. From the age of 14 to 21 years, the mind develops. During the first seven years, the body functions. During the second seven years - the heart does, and during the third seven years, the energy is transferred to the brain. Like the Earth goes round the Sun and we have spring, summer, autumn, and winter, so in the psychic world there are causes that alter the circumstances, under which we live. Every seven years the circumstances change. The three years after the 28th year are years of matriculation. From the 28th to the 31st age is the critical period in the human life. Everybody goes through a crisis then. Those three years are years of test and there is not a place where you will not be pushed. You need to be brave, to carry the sufferings, to carry your test. Should the tests come, they are a good sign. If you are suffering, if they are testing you, the Masters deem you reliable. The brother inquired, "What does the expression "second death" mean?" Second death - these are the worst circumstances. Then you look like a rich person, who is deprived of everything. You are deprived of your beautiful life, and are in the worst circumstances, like in the central prison. So those who have died a second death are in prison. The religious people need more science, they know only partially. The brother asked, "What is the future of humanity?" All people who love the Lord will become Angels, the others will remain being human. One who lives in God will become an Angel. The Angels live in the heart of God. The brother inquired, "Are there spiritual aromas or scents?" Barely in the most advanced saints there is fragrance, like in the flowers. The bad thoughts, the bad wishes in man are a stench! And in order for one to be able to live on Earth, the Invisible world has decreased the olfaction of man; if our olfaction developed too much, we would run away, we would not be able to endure the stench that comes out of the bad thoughts and feelings of man. The brother inquired, "How can an inner, spiritual communion with the flowers happen?" Here is how: you stop by a flower and want God to manifest to you through it. Never will God speak to you through the flower, if you have not loved it beforehand, because otherwise there will not be any conditions for inner communion. If you, with thought and feelings, have worked on a form and Nature, for example, the flower, then the mature moment will come, when the Truth, the essence of this form, will manifest in your consciousness. That essence we call God. The brother inquired, "What can you say, Master, about the Vital elixir?" In Nature there are certain plants, out of which a liquid is taken, which, when you take it, dissolves the accumulated mud in the body, and man lives a longer life. This liquid we call Vital elixir. It is enough to drink a tiny droplet of the Vital elixir with pure water, in order for one to receive Life for at least a few centuries. Whoever gains this Life once, he cannot free himself of it even if he wants to. If a person has suffered from some serious, incurable illness, like tuberculosis, cancer, leprosy, etc, a drop of the Vital elixir is able to momentarily provoke a reaction in him, to revive him, to rejuvenate him, to make him a new person.

ORGANIZING THE SPIRITUAL BODY At Izgreva, the roses were reigning in peace and serenity. They had a magical appearance and aroma. We were silent and watched them open up under the sunrays. Unnoticeably a conversation was broached. In the conversation, the Master said: The esoteric disciple must be silent. If man is carrying fish and the cats sense it, then a train of cats will start after him. So we have to protect some things, for which humanity is not yet ready. Hide the precious stone, so that you do not lose it. And everything, which humanity is ready for, should be told to it. There is another reason, for which some things should not be talked about. Only things that are not said happen. Things that are said never happen. That is a rule. Out of a hundred things said, one happens, and out of a hundred unsaid - ninety-nine happen. This law is very natural. If you plant a hundred walnuts and nobody knows of them, ninety-nine will grow up, but if you plant a hundred walnuts and say it, how many would grow up I wonder? The children will go there, unearth them one by one, and eat them. Put things in their place, use them properly, because otherwise they will be taken. Once an Advanced creature sees that you have put a talent not in place, i.e. you are not using it well, it is taken away from you. Do not worry about what you have because nobody can take it away from you. If they take it away, it will come back in one way or another, if you have Love. We have good wishes and let us give them circumstances to manifest. We can contribute to the mending of the world. A third depends on us, a third - on the Angels, and a third - on God. The bad man cannot bother you, since he goes down; he moves away from you. If you think constantly about his badness, then you will be going down with him as well. A sister inquired, "Why is our Gathering taking place in August?" The beginning of the physical year is on January the 1st, the beginning of the Spiritual year is on March the 22nd, and the beginning of the Divine year is in August. Then a Gathering of the Sun happens with representatives from all planets, that is why we make our Gathering during August, since there are the most favourable conditions for it then. A brother inquired, "You had given a task in the Youth class to choose some stars and to observe them each clear night. What spiritual purpose does watching the stars have?" In Nature there are Creatures who can illuminate the world all around. There are many kinds of rays. It could have been made so that we could perceive some other kinds of rays, with which during the night it would be bright for us, however, the Providence ordered that there should be day and night, and during the night it should be dark, so that we can see the stars, because that functions educationally. By watching the stars, we connect with the Eternal, with a world of great harmony and beauty, with the thoughts of the Bright creatures, who inhabit them. And that elevates and ennobles us. That gives us an impulse to live for something sublime. The earthquakes came into question. Europe is moving towards the equator, and as a result of that, upheavals, earthquakes happen. The Sun will start rising from a different place, which will happen after a long time. All people are very afraid of earthquakes, because they have been frightened thousands of times. Another reason for the earthquake is the gradual rising of the bottom of the Great ocean, where a new continent of the Sixth race is being formed. A brother inquired, "What is the influence of coal?" One of the reasons for the war is the force, which is emitted by the coal. The creation of the world came into question. In the periwinkle is shown the way, in which the world was created. The solution of things is not in the circle or the ellipse, but in the spiral. In the open circles, spirally wound, there is already a solution - the beginning is A, the end is B (see Figure 1). The beginning and the end will connect. Once we enter the metageometry, the astral geometry, there the figures are more. The forms are all segments of the upper bodies. Figure l A brother asked about the fourth dimension. The fourth dimension is the world, which the A people go through and out and enter the Spiritual world. The fourth dimension is in an unceasing movement. Often those who are Figure l clairvoyants see Creatures that can be seen, but not in this air. That is the fourth dimension. One who lives in the world of the tessaract becomes visible and invisible in the world of the third dimension. Why does man drink water? - Not only to receive the material, liquid water, but to also receive through it electricity and magnetism. As Marconi lit the electric bulbs in Italy and Sydney - in Australia, so can the suns be lit only by turning a switch. Some Advanced creature, by sending energy, can make our planet shine like a sun. When the sound comes to the ear, it transforms into electric waves. After that, in the brain there occurs a transformation another two times - initially in electric, short waves, then - in magnetic, long waves, and after that they transform into tones. The contraction of the heart also depends on the electricity. The installation is electric. The search for underground waters came into question. For this purpose, plants can be observed. The plant can sense the moisture that is 20-30 meters underneath it. Wherever there is underground water, there the grass is more exuberant, the trees are more branchy. Observance of the strata, studying of geology can help in the search for water. The science called radiesthesia deals with the search for water even with a stick. What great advisability there is in Nature! Notice, the impure water, no matter how much it gets purified, even if through distillation, still retains certain fluids, which cannot be ascertained chemically. In order to get ideally pure water, Nature turns to the following: when the water goes to the upper atmospheric layers, it dissolves chemically into its components, and then, when it goes down, it becomes water again. A brother inquired: "How is the nestinarstvo explained?" When you put your foot into the fire, it will unpleasant to you, but should you raise the vibrations of your organism - to be more powerful than those of the fire, you will not burn. That is the explanation of the nestinarstvo. The nestinari's body vibrates more strongly than the vibrations of the fire, and that is why it does not burn them. Everything in Nature is polarized. The right hemisphere of the brain is positive, and the left one - negative. The North Pole of the Earth corresponds to the right hand, and the South - to the left one. Put a person to your left side and put the same person to your right side, and you will have different results. Let us say that you are nervous and he is nervous; if you go to his right side, you will have negative results, but if you go to his left side, since it is a soft side, you will have positive results. A sister inquired, "How can I improve my memory?" Remove from your consciousness all anxieties and unrest, all fears, all bad thoughts and feelings. They cause a weakening of the memory. Do exercises for deep breathing and it will increase the memory. Never overeat and do not take opposing foods that are difficult to digest. Make attempts for concentration. When you read books, meditate upon what you have read, without letting the thought divert. There is a law: when you are describing the ugliness of somebody, you gain it. Do not describe the ugliness of anybody. The man has to be careful of corrupt women. The woman has to be careful of corrupt men. Because they are like vampires, who suck out the human energies, and man becomes enervated, falls ill, degenerates even in the spiritual respect. I will give you a rule: rejoice at the achievements of others, their acquisitions and erudition and abilities as your own. If you rejoice at the weal of others, you will gain it as well. A brother asked, "What will you say about the spirit and the matter?" Materialists take matter for granted and build upon that. The others take God for granted. Both are on the wrong side. God and matter do not exist in the way we think they do. The outer manifestations of the matter are not matter. For instance, if you screw a light bulb, a light circle is formed, but it does not exist. We are for the fraternization between idealism and materialism. There is a material, a Spiritual, and Divine world. Christianity is a harmonious combination between the physical and the spiritual laws. They asked the Master to say something in more detail on the matter. When the causative body of man is organized, he will move to live up in his head. When the causative body of man is awake and developed, man starts to live more in his brain. And if man is standing on a chair, he yields it. Such a man sacrifices for the others. Today you will yield, tomorrow you will yield, you will make room for somebody else, and thus you gradually educate the causative body. This is a good way for development. Once our causative body develops, the Supreme creatures will come to help us. This is collective work. If you do not live for yourself, but for the others, those Supreme creatures will help you. The causative body has new strengths at its disposal. If you live for your personality, whatever you think of, does not happen - you can think for ten times in a row, but nothing happens. When man lives in the causative body, whatever he thinks happens. The organization of the causative and the more supreme bodies in man is called "organization of the spiritual body". This happens first through contemplation, concentration, and prayer every day, at least for half an hour, with full concentration of the consciousness; second, in the display of Love and third, through service of God, of the Whole. A sister inquired, "Master, say something about the realization of our wishes." There is not a thing, which man has wished for, that has not been fulfilled. Whatever man wishes, he will be given, but not immediately. It might be realized when he is already elevated spiritually and has outgrown it; then it might even cause him suffering. A man was a passionate smoker, and wanted to accumulate a lot of tobacco in his house, but that was impossible. When he turned 80, he was already a total abstainer, and they brought him bales of tobacco. Why? Only because he once wished for it. That is why man has to be careful of his unreasonable wishes, so that they do not weigh down on him later. Be careful of one thing - that not all of your wishes get fulfilled; then man grows ugly and coarse. A tenth of the attained wishes is enough, and let the rest be left unattained. We will aspire to the unattained. A brother asked, "What shall we do so that the people have faith in us?" I will tell you one of the ways: a good man went into the forest and met a bandit. He had trust in everyone, and that is why he felt he could trust the bandit as well. As a good man he was aware that in the bandit lives the Divine, and then that good manifested, and the bandit did not even touch him, he saw him off, and he even gave him money on hand. So when you have trust in a person, and when you are aware of the good, the Divine in him, he believes in you as well. Until man learns this art, he has to make attempts. The formula, which the Master gave that morning in the lecture, came into question. "I want to be honest, just, rational, and noble". I will give you a practical way of applying that formula. You can use the hair on the head. During its pronunciation three times a day, you will run your fingers through your hair from front to back with both hands. The energy, which you send through the fingers, will be perceived by the hair, and from there it will be passed on inwards. A brother inquired, "How can we transform the indisposition into disposition?" When you are indisposed, go out, go amongst the people, and when you come back, you will be disposed. Nature likes variety. For this purpose you can go amongst the trees, and amongst the flowers, which functions educationally. A brother said, "Some esotericists point out that one should not go out into the world, so that he does not become stained". They are from the simple esotericists. When man goes amongst the people or amongst the plants, he perceives energies that renew him. There are many other ways of transforming the indisposition into disposition.

LAWS AND METHODS OF WISDOM Once a group of students came from the town and wished to speak with the Master. He accepted them and in the conversation with them He expressed the following thoughts: The hitherto existing sciences have many aberrations; so there is an incorrect refraction happening, and that is why things are not seen clearly. The way the world was created is excellent. We do not have a true notion of the world, and our scientists study it mechanically. The method has to change. What is being taught in contemporary science is good, however, the base material has to be reworked. The role of science is to gather material and each of you should know how to elaborate it. There are principles, laws, forces, and forms. The forces guide the forms. The laws guide the forces, and the principles guide the laws. The ways have to be pointed out, in which the laws of Nature should be studied, the methods, by which this is achieved, and what we should be. A student inquired: "What can you say about the relation between man and nature?" By the condition of Nature we can tell what the human culture is. If the shore of a river is dilapidated, this shows that the people are not clean. The human thoughts and feelings exercise influence on the fruit. If the people are good, the fruit will be very good, there will be no stains. If you enter a garden and see that the fruit is good, know that this person is good. If a person is good, the trees will be properly branched as well. A student inquired, "How is this dependence between the people and the environment explained?" When a person thinks, he sends mental radio waves about, which are absorbed by the ethereal bodies of the surrounding plants, and if those thoughts were wrong, incorrect, they will influence the ethereal plant bodies accordingly, they will give rise to improper currents inside them, and this will reflect upon their outer forms. The upbringing of man reflects on the vegetable kingdom. If you examine the skin of the fruit with a microscope, you will read a lot of things written on it. When you are feeling oppressed, when you are indisposed, when you have a big grief, find some century-old tree, lean on it with your back, and say, "Please, take my grief away, my oppression, and give me your tranquility!" Because the tree is tranquil, the storm and the hail do not worry it. A transfusion of magnetism, of life, is going to occur, from the tree into the man. And the tree copes with the human sorrow easily. Another student inquired, "Is there a certain dependence between man and time?" There is. If at a certain place the people become better, then the sky there becomes clear, the rains come on time, the wind blows on time. If the people become worse, the time starts to look like them too. The people, with their irregular feelings, thoughts, and deeds, create abnormal currents in Nature; will there not be a draught if the windows of a house get broken? A person who has destructive and negative thoughts, feelings and deeds, sends out into Nature destructive energies, which disturb the regular processes in it, and create irregularities. This change in the weather now - storms, cyclones - is due to the events in Europe. Strong is the human thought in its positive or negative action. And man must have a sense, he must enter into a connection with Nature, must value what things the light, the air, the spring day are. So there is an inseparable connection between us and Nature. The breaking of the weather often depends on us. We think that since we are placed in the world, we can do mischief to someone. No, what we do will affect us above all else - individually and generally. When in a village the people become very bad, their brain becomes very active and emits such energies that scatter the clouds, so that not even a drop of rain falls in the village. When people have bad thoughts, the rain is driven back. With their good thoughts, the people draw the rain, the moisture. Whatever we think happens accordingly. The breaking of the weather is due to the war between Russia and Germany. The two sides send enormous destructive energies to each other, and that, of course, influences the climate. When certain peace-making elements gain superiority, a small improvement in the barometer is due to that. The Master showed the drum barometer that was placed on the table and said: Here, around the cylinder, a band is wrapped, on which a needle marks every little fluctuation in the weather in a zigzag-shaped line that goes up and down. When the reasons are mechanical, these undulations in the barometer are written in one way; when the reasons are organic, they are written in another way; and when the reasons are rational, psychical - in a third way. Here belong the influences of the hard soil, of the waters, of the air, of the temperature, of the light, of the psychical states. There is a range of other reasons. They are from the invisible ones. Man should not command the weather. He might say, "Please, can it be put off for a while?" If it cannot, you shall accept it. Rain is a weal, but the hail, sometimes as large as a tomato, is dangerous. It is good if the wind blows on us from behind, so that we have luck in our feelings; this has a pleasant effect. It also reflects well on the spine. And when the wind blows from the front, against the chest, it is beneficial for the will. No matter where it blows from, the wind always has good influences, only man does not understand it. There is nothing surplus in Nature. Everything in it functions educationally. A student inquired, "Is there a connection between the man and the earthquakes?" For the earthquakes there are many reasons. Some of them are purely mechanical, tectonic, but behind them there are other rational reasons. Apart from those reasons, the human thought can influence it as well, especially if it is collective and if it has a negative destructive character. Then such thought, with its radio waves, creates in the atmosphere destructive electromagnetic energies, which can influence upon the earthquakes. The human thought can produce an entire catastrophe; it can disrupt the balance, the breathing of the Earth. There are quite a few hollows in the Earth, and then they can crumble. Geologists today examine earthquakes mainly from the mechanical side, and the Writ says in many places: "Live well, so that the earth does not spew you out". When an earthquake is going to happen, you feel anxious; you cannot sleep, because a lot of electricity is being developed. Once the roosters cease to crow, it is a sign. Three or four days before the earthquake, the dogs gather in a pack outside of Sofia. The snakes come out of their holes and run. And those people, who have a keen sense of smell, perceive in the air a smell of sulphur. The Invisible world sometimes puts delays the earthquakes. A student inquired, "What is the purpose of the positive human thought?" Whatever you invest in Nature, it becomes realized. An empty word should be avoided, a full word is needed. Forget words like: "I cannot", "I am poor", "I do not know it". You say, "This is not the way it is going to be" and this way it works. You say, "Apparently, this is how I am going to spend my life" and you spend it this way. Therefore, avoid the negative thoughts. When they call you "nutty", tell them that you are nutty wheat, which costs money, and that you are not straw. We see only the wrong side. You are indignant that a car is raising the dust on its way, but that it is going to achieve something good, you do not see. A true philosophy is always finding something good even in the most negative things. Then, people can influence each other with their thoughts, and they are responsible because of that. In this respect they represent interconnected vessels. When you are up to something or when you do something, your thought gets transmitted to many other people, and they can do the same thing; and if your thought or deed is bad, you are responsible. When you have learned your lesson well, you have helped thousands of people this day. If you do not learn it, many others are not going to learn it either. Each deed in Nature has a relation to the whole. And the whole has a relation to its parts. Sometimes you set the cards upright next to each other. If you shove one out, all of them fall down. So when you make a mistake, many others will fall. You are connected with quite a few others. You pass by a garden, abundant with fruit, and say, "If only I could gather some", but you refrain. After you, somebody else passes, but with a weaker will, he accepts your thought and steals. So when somebody commits a theft, the others are responsible as well. A man will commit a crime, because you are his debtor and do not repay him. Give the money to the person who has to take, and save that man. Because when you give, you will influence the others to do good as well. Should you want to have an influence in the world, do a good turn. When a person corrects a mistake of his, he helps the entire humanity, because many will correct their mistakes. And when he makes a mistake, he causes harm to all who are connected with him. That is why we always have to cling onto the right track. When you love somebody, all virtues from the entire world come into him and give him worth. If the others were not good, he would not have been good. There is an inner law: whatever you do, you affect the entire organism of the Animate Nature. That is why when you are tormenting a person, this reflects upon the consciousness of God, for which you will also have retribution.

RATIONALITY IN NATURE The Master was in the reception room among young people, and a conversation opened up, in which He emphasized that Nature has to be studied. All manifestations of Nature are always a result of the Rational creatures, who work. We must not look for the Rational creatures outside of God, but inside of Him, and we have to look for God in the Rational creatures, because all good thoughts and feelings of ours are depending on the common thought, which prevails in the Cosmos, and which is carried around everywhere. We have always been in connection with it, but have not been aware of that. For instance, when we read the Gospel and all holy books, we enter a communion with the Spiritual world, with its stages. When the Creatures speak to us, we have to be responsive. When the Sun is rising, let us welcome it, let us perceive that, which it sends us. Let us benefit from the thoughts and feelings that come into us during contemplation of the sunrise. The Rational creatures in Nature, who help us, are Servant spirits, who have been sent to serve those who will inherit the Kingdom of God. When an Angel appeared before John, he fell down and bowed and was left without strength. The Angel told him, 'You should not bow before me, but before God". Without reverence, with human methods, man cannot enter a communion with the Spiritual world. The Rational creatures have to know the condition we are in, in order to help. Life is great music, and all processes, which happen in Nature, are conducted by the Rational creatures. They are the great musicians. What has to be understood by the phrase "Animate nature"? The Animate nature is a totality of all the living, rational souls. The forces, with which Nature moves, are Rational creatures. The irrational has derived from the Rational. In Nature there is a regularity, which is rational, not mechanical. The Rational controls everything and is absolutely free. The outer side of Nature is mechanical, irrational, but there are Rational forces behind it. If you put a dry stick next to a bean plant, it wraps around it; there is consciousness inside the bean. The Rational Nature envelops the irrational. The matter is only an outer expression of the Spirit. The Rational is outside the matter, as the Rational is not in the wheels of a machine. All things are defined and are in their place. Those who have created the world were smart. The weather changes, clouds come, wind, thunder, and we think that the weather is bad, yet it is good. In the clouds there are Rational forces at work. Upper and lower clouds have to be distinguished. Particularly important are the high clouds at a height of 12-14-15 kilometers. They express more clearly the action of the Creatures that work inside them. Servant spirits operate inside the clouds, who are not Angels, but are above the man in evolution. Observation of the clouds is beneficial in the physical respect, above all things. Each thing has to be examined in three respects: physical, spiritual, and Divine. When the changes of the clouds in relation with the weather are studied, meteorological knowledge will be gained. In the northern parts there are people who know by the clouds and by other signs what the weather is going to be five months ahead. It was recently found that at a large height above the Earth there is an ozone layer, which lets only long ultraviolet rays through, and does not let any short ultraviolet rays through, because they would destroy everything with their power. What rationality, what advisability reigns in Nature! So there is a Rational force, which watches over everything. Contemporary scientists are wrong if they think they can conquer Nature. It does not allow you to control it. Only the rational person can harness the forces of Nature, because he conforms with its laws. No one can subjugate Nature; one has to learn from it instead. We are in an organized world and we think that we are factors and that we arrange matters, and as a result of that, great delusions come. Nature punishes the lazy and gives good conditions to those who have worked. It makes millions of experiments and leaves the best. Even today it makes its experiments. For instance, it has given many pairs of legs to the centipede, to the spider - eight, to the mammals - four, to the human - two. Nature gives subjects for meditation. A river flows out, it connects with another one, and together they flow into the sea. Always translate the things in Nature. When perceiving the light you concentrate on the Divine world, the light will speak to you. It is alive. Unless everything comes to life in you, you will not be on the Right track yet. The Rational creatures create everything in the world. On Earth we shall examine the methods for application. In order for the Earth to be created, thought was required. In order for the air to be created, thought was required. In order for the Sun to send light and warmth, thought was required. People deny that and reckon that we are the only creatures who think.

TAKING AND GIVING In the beginning of our settling in Izgreva together with the Master we made a small fountain behind the garden Dianabad - by the forest, which later became Loven Park. The Master discovered a spring, around which there was a bog, but that was cleaned and a fountain was built, and a pebbled ground was made in front of it. At the front end of the ground were placed two pillars with stone flowerpots. On the fountain was put an inscription, given by the Master, "Society maintain cleanliness. Society conserves the good. God's weal is a weal for everyone." Once, when we were working, an old peasant came by, who complained of pain and infirmity. The Master told him to have a few rain baths in the summer, in order to be healthy. He told him to have the rain soak him for a short time, to go back home and to immediately change his clothes, and to drink a few glasses of hot water, in order to restore the lost warmth. The Master always made the fountains in various styles, and in this respect there was great variety. What difference there was between the style of the small fountain by Tzigov chark in the Rhodopes, near Rakitovo village, where the Master spent time with a large group of brothers and sisters during the summer of 1921, and the one by Dianabad, or by the Second Rila Lake, or by the Fifth, or by the Sixth. Once, after finishing work, appointed for the small fountain by Dianabad, we remained for a little while to have a look at it and to admire it that it sprung up in this deserted place. A conversation began, and in it, the Master said the following thoughts: God requires you to be carriers of His goods and to distribute them to others. He does not want you to give Him, but He wants us to distribute that, which He has given us. When we understand how generous God is, we will get on the right track. We do not have a straight notion of God. If you all learn to give, the law works. But if you reason for economy, etc, those are human inventions. Generosity is a quality of God. People only express His generosity. Somebody is stingy, so he does not express God's generosity. It is a law: each good that you receive, you have to share with the others. An animal might come to you and take something from you. A law of giving and taking has to exist in the world. It is not allowed for one to think about living without giving. Man must not wait for God to send the tax-collectors. It has been said, 'You have taken for free, so give for free". Do not keep what you have taken. This is a law inside of Nature and it is a great misfortune that the present world does not understand the main law. If you are generous, when you go to someone, you will pass on your generosity. Unless you give the field, it will not give you. If you are stingy towards it, it will give you stingily as well. If you stop that, which God has given you, it destroys you. I do not say that I do good, but I say, "I display the generosity which is inside of God". He who gives little gets blessed a little, and he who gives a lot gets blessed a lot. Or, more specifically speaking: the less or the more that you give wholeheartedly is blessed equally. Do not stop the Divine in yourself; let it flow, because if you are halting it, you will cause yourself misfortune. Do not keep the superfluous things. It is a law not to deprive ourselves from what is most necessary, and to distribute the rest to the others; it will be blessed. I had an orange; a person came along and I gave it to him. He said to me, "What about You? You will be left without an orange!" I replied to him, "Do not worry about me". And indeed, while he was still with me, another person came and brought me a basket of three oranges. I said, "If I had not given, the other ones would not have come". There is a law of interconnected vessels. When you desire to give, in other people a desire to give arises as well. You must not clog the faucet. When you do not give, bandits will come with guns, and there will be no other way - you will give. Room is made and new things flow in for the one who gives. When the time for perception comes, and you do not perceive, you will suffer. And when the time comes for you to give, and you do not give, you will suffer again. Your coming to Earth costs more than anything else that you gain materially on it. Only the experience you can gain on Earth is what is left for you. Why is the Sun learned, why is it smart? Because it gives everywhere. Stinginess freezes, and generosity unfreezes. There is nothing better than man learning to give, but he should know when to give. Let the learned one go to those who have no knowledge and give it to them. Giving is not only in the material, but in the good thoughts as well. The wish is also giving. For instance, when you say a good word to somebody, it is giving as well. There is an outer giving - through deeds and by telling useful things to somebody; however, there is also an inner giving, which is pouring a blessing out of your soul towards the others. A generous child is the one who, when given an apple, will share it with his friends. When the cherries come, should you meet a friend, give them in handfuls. You can do the same with the apples as well. When you give a friend some things, give them to him and do not want them back. If you are keeping them in your mind, you will limit yourself. You have given for the Lord, to fulfil your duty as his servant. Let us say that you have many apples, and very fine at that, but somebody gives you a small and wrinkly apple. Accept it, because he has invested something valuable in it, which will bring you a great blessing. If you refuse, you reject your happiness. Do not tell him, "I have a lot, and I have no need". Always when a man has started to distribute, it shows that he has set out up towards the Sun. And if he is not giving, he is going downwards.

COME WITH ME TO THE FOUNTAIN The conversations with the Master would begin quite unexpectedly and extemporaneously. Towards nightfall, the brothers and sisters liked to stroll in the Izgrev meadow. And sometimes the Master would go out there and conversations would begin. With each good deed, man feels a joy inside himself, he enters a new world, he feels strong, powerful. He finds himself grown up and as if curtain after curtain is lifted before him. Why does man feel joyous with the Good? Because he is in harmony with the main law of the Genesis - the Unity. And then an influx of strengths from the entire universe is infused into him. In the process of evil, abundance is turned into penury, and in the process of Good, penury is replaced by abundance. Good is a capital, which in the future one will operate with. Each good thing done is happiness for man. Do not refuse to do good, for which in the given moment you have been given the occasion. At another time, you might do another good, but you will never again have an opportunity to do that good thing namely. When you do something good, it will come back to you. The same applies for the evil. When a person dies, he cannot carry anything from his treasure from this world to the other. At the border there are customs officers, who halt and detain everything. However, the saints know a way to carry all of their treasure over to the other world - it happens by doing good. Being good is a state of health. If you are not good, you cannot achieve anything. All the best achievements rest on the Good. Someone says, "Nobody accepts me. People do not have esteem towards me". Well how can people, to whom you have not done anything, have esteem for you? Go, cure a man, and you will have esteem. When you enter a place where they are arguing, see why they are arguing. One has to give, and the other has to take. You shall tell them, "How much are you arguing for?" - "For a thousand leva". Put it there and tell them, "Take it and treat yourselves!" There is a law: when you do somebody good, you awaken him. Even the smallest good you do is on your account, it will come to your aid and it will redeem you from a great misfortune. It might seem like nothing to you, but a bright thought of yours, sent towards somebody, will come back like an Angel to you when you are in a great need, and will help you. If you do a small good to a creature from the Invisible world, your matters will be settled for an entire year. Sick or not, bend down, take the fallen glove, and hand it to the man. A man was not getting on with life at all. Once he tripped over a fallen man, whose leg was broken, and said to himself, "So far I have not done a good thing". And he carried him on his back to town. And that man was prominent. And from then on, things started going well for the former one. You can always do good. For instance, somebody needs help, but you are sick; direct your thought towards him being helped. Then there will surely be someone to help him. There is a great variety in this. The way in which you can do good is solely yours; everyone should do good in the way he knows. I pass by someone, I give him an apple, and I go away. Another will give him something more and will talk to him. A third one will give him something, but will also tell him, "Come with me", he will bring him home for lunch. No one else can do good the way you can. It is beautiful the eternal variety in the Good. Once a good man broke down, he got desperate, and said to himself that doing good is not worth it. He said to himself, "I will no longer do anything good to anyone". One day he fell into a gang of bandits, and told the ringleader about his life from beginning to end, without forgetting to say that doing good was not worth it. "I have done good over and over again, and so what?" The ringleader told him, "Because you have been doing good, your head will not fall from your shoulders now. Once you did a good thing for me, and that is why I will now spare you." The man asked him, "When I did you good, why did you become an outlaw?" The other one answered him, "I became an outlaw, but you became a traitor. Because when you renounce the good, you are a traitor. I am an outlaw, but I have not yet become a traitor. Go home now and do good like you did earlier, and I will leave the outlawry". The small incentives of the Good achieve the big things in the world. Think firstly of the people, and then for yourselves. When you do a good thing, for 25 thousand years you will reap the consequences. A sister said, "My husband gives clothes and money to the others". This is nothing. This is not a benefaction. You give clothes, money, bread - okay, but which is more valuable? When you give from the Love and Light of your soul, you are good. The new understanding does not tolerate doing good to somebody in an ordinary way. I meet someone. I will not open my bottle and give him, because after that he will again have the need for water, but I will take him to the fountain instead. I will tell him, "Come with me to the fountain". I have to take him to the fountain! Translate this symbol. Give someone a book to read, and tell him, "If you study this book, you will have everything". We do not want happiness now, the happiness is but a result. First, man has to learn do to good to somebody; second, the happiness will come after the studies, and third, the other one will also follow with doing good of his own to somebody else, etc; this is what the open and living good is. There is a good above the karma. There is a good, which is for the liquidation of an evil. Then you are doing good for karmic reasons. But there is another good for the good itself, not for karmic reasons. This is now the dharma. This is a real good. There is water only for washing, and there is another water, purer - for drinking. The good that someone does for karmic reasons, i.e. as a repayment for a good, done to him in the past, is valuable for the Heaven, however, the most valuable is the good which happens not by the law of the karma, but by Freedom and out of Love. You should not do good only once a year, but each day, even if it is a microscopic good; then your mind, your heart, and your soul will work excellently. Wherever you are, whatever the circumstances you are under, you have an opportunity to do good. Behind the Good lie the acquisitions of the human Life. Even under the worst circumstances you have an opportunity to do good. Why should the world get filled with these words, "I cannot, I do not have the circumstances". In Nature, wherever you go, you can do something. You see a stone and you trip over it; put it in place. Or you see a piece of paper rolling about the road; bend down, pick it up, and put it aside. Everything that you do is recorded in Nature. There is a book where it is all written down. You ask how to do good. When you are doing it, no one should know about you. The good thing done is like an oasis, which someone thirsty can stop by. You all are from one family, but you do not know each other. Never regret that you have done good. The struggle between the good and evil is one big secret, with which the Great spirits are occupied. Read the volume "The Royal Way of the Soul" and discover that, which is most important and which can be applied.

THE ART OF DOING GOOD We were at the Bivouac. After a certain stay we climbed up on Vitosha, by the second shelter, where the height is 1560 m. Around us there were many violets in bloom and the Master said: The violet is used as tea and cures asthma. Gather violets and other healing herbs here. A sister inquired, "In which cases is it allowed for the flowers to be picked?" Only in two cases: when they are picked for scientific research and for healing. In the conversation that was started, the Master said: The Love towards the neighbour will give rise to the good in us. You cannot do any good as long as you do not love. How can you be good if you do not see the Lord everywhere? Very little is required to be good. For instance, you will give a glass of water to somebody. If you cannot do anything good to some person, do a good thing to some animal, plant, or fountain. Above all, do something good to your feet - wash them in the evening. If you cannot do anything good to your feet, how can you do anything good to the people? When you eat the apple, sow the seeds. Do good to the others, because they are part of you. You think that you are good, but you cannot display your kindness yet. A good man is the one that lives for God. A bad man is the one that lives for himself. One who lives badly has never seen God, and the one who lives well has seen Him. When you are doing something good, you are getting closer to God. Not with one good deed, but with that great incentive inside are you getting closer to God. I will give you a rule - in every good thing, in every deed we have to make a connection with the Divine world, in order for it to manifest. For instance, you hand somebody a glass of water; stop, become absorbed in yourself, feel love towards him, send him a stream of love. When you wait for a while, in order to come to the circumstance when you can hand a glass of water to someone, you put something valuable from your soul into it. And then, along with the water, your neighbour accepts that Divine thing, which comes out of the depths. In the world, out of which we have come, they are keeping us responsible for everything we do with what they have given us. When you do something good, the profit is left for you. Sometimes the musician cannot work if he does not have a musical environment. So, thousands of musicians have to work in order for an incentive to be there. Also, in the good, thousands of people have to work well in order for an incentive to be there. Those who do not perform the Will of God properly create the evil. And those who know how to perform the Will of God have God do the good through them. When a person does something good for you, give glory to God, realize deep inside yourself that this is from God, not from the person. When you are giving something, give it with a consciousness that it belongs to God, not to you. The wealth that we have belongs to God. They say now, "Be good". How can you be good if you do not see the Lord and the good everywhere? The bad people work individually, only for themselves, and the good people - collectively, for the others and for themselves. In man there is something fatal. He is going straightforwardly, and all of a sudden he commits something bad - this is in the flesh. The flesh has to be subdued to God. On the upper world everything is in harmony, because everybody helps each other, and by Love at that. There the law is the Good. They love each other and do each other good. The Good rules the world. The evil represents a brief outer order, and the Good - an eternal order. Doing good is not a duty, but a privilege! A rich person went to a philosopher and asked him how do proceed in order to have a run of luck. The philosopher told him, "I will give you two words and you will have good luck, but for those two words you shall pay. And if you are not lucky, I shall give you your money back, and you shall give me my words back." Those words were: "Be good!" The rich man, who previously thought how to cut some lev off his employees' salary, how to make some deal, would already remember the words: "Be good!" He wanted to dupe somebody, but would remember the words and would not do it. And from then on his matters began to get settled. So the good that man does settles the matters of the others, and his matters get arranged as well. After some time, the rich man went to the philosopher again, in order to tell him, "I would not give your words back for anything in the world!" The most difficult question that exists in the world is for the people to become good. This is a great art. You have to work. The only rational thing in the world is the Good. It is the eternal, the powerful. What can transform things alchemically, what can transform the simple elements into precious stones, that is only the Good. Love makes the eyes pure and bright, and evil makes them dark. With the evil, the face darkens, and with the Good it becomes bright. When I see a person, what I am interested in is whether he has opened the door to the Good and the Love. Self- discipline has to start from there. Should you do a good thing, a small favour, even if nobody sees you, do it and take pleasure in it. For instance, in the forest you water a flower and you take pleasure in doing it. Nobody has seen you. That flower stays in your mind. The Good is a prerequisite for Perfection. Why do we have be good? In order to have conditions of Life and because Perfection is life and our aim. Initially, the sin is like a very well dressed damsel - spruced up, ornamented with rings. But, should you commit a sin, it gapes at you like an old, toothless granny. When a man does something evil, he grows old, and when he does something good - he grows young. Man cannot gain the Good life at once. In order to be good now, he has to have laboured for centuries. Each good deed, each good thought increases our faith. Only when man acts with Good, he is free, should you do evil, you become a slave to the circumstances. If you are bad, you are a chained slave. When you are prowling to kill somebody, another will be prowling after you, and then the freedom is gone. God is the Good in the world. When man does something evil, it comes from the dark spirits. When you do a bad deed, you then have a mental and sensual derangement and you cannot see the situation clearly. With each good deed man frees himself. If you do a bad deed, you limit yourself; then hurry up with the good one, in order to free yourself. Somebody would say, "Why would we do good?" Without it you cannot grow. You have made a promise above and why have you not fulfilled it here? People have taken an absolutely different direction, they engage in other things. In order to live well, you have to surround yourself with a good environment. And you will create a good environment for yourself only through doing good. Should you not do anything good, do not expect any good life and any happiness, nobody is interested in you. So it depends on you whether you are going to be happy or not.

YOU WILL GROW WINGS After that, a joint conversation was carried on, which elevated to ideological heights. In the conversation, the Master said: There is no point in looking for the Love. We are living inside it, and therefore we must open our consciousness, in order for it to enter into us. Take for example a dog, which is so simple, but when it loves you, it is ready to make all sacrifices for you, and when it does not love you, it bites you. It is preferable for a dog to love you than a man to hate you. There is a misunderstanding of the Love. We are afraid of being told that we love or that we are loved. First of all, if you love somebody in the new way, he will reform, he will become like an Angel, he will be ready to make all sacrifices for you. When the Love comes, you will grow wings. If you are an 85- year-old granny, you will become a 19-year-old damsel. And you will never grow old - should you come to the age of 33, you will stop there. People are afraid not to burn with Love. Yes, this is a transitional period, because man is not yet adapted to its vibrations. Man has to live for a long time in the law of the Love in order to perceive its vibrations and to adapt to it. A great school is built for the Love, the best and most experienced school - the Life. There will not be anyone of you left that will not kindle. You will burn, you will burn! In this human life, in some rebirth here, on Earth, will be, without any difference, after one, two or ten rebirths. You have to form a society of people, instruments of the Love. And to have experience now. And you now grieve that there is no one to love you. The only thing you are lacking is that you do not love. That you are loved I know for sure, but do you love? Now you shall love, in order to live. If are not ready to sacrifice everything in order to receive the Eternal life, the Love of God, the Rational, then what will you achieve? Man has to leave this life of lovelessness and to come to the life of the Love. A life without Love has no meaning. When man has despaired, he has understood that a life without Love has no worth. And therefore, let him leave this life of desperation and enter the life of Hope. When I say that you have not loved, here is what I mean particularly: do we not say to a little child, "You still do not understand what it is for a student in the fourth course. You might have been in the lower departments, but you have not been in the university". When I say that you have not loved, I mean that contemporary people have not been in the university of Love. There is love of the departments, there is junior high and high school love, and there is university love. I am now talking about the university love. A lot is needed, but it will be too!

THE ETERNAL WEAL In a private conversation with a brother, the Master said: Love is the eternal weal. It constantly swells into man. When you love somebody, you are helping his thoughts, feelings, and deeds, you are bringing an upsurge into them. In the future, the Love will be a basis of the entire Life, and of education, and of the social life, etc. Each thing that you do you should do in the name of the Love, and it should be a stimulus. Your task is to awaken others by emanating Love. If you emit Love, people will start looking for you and coming to you. If we can carry the Love and give it out, we are working for God. Let man love as God does. Let him be condescending and careful, as God is condescending and careful. To love is the greatest privilege that God gives you. And to appreciate the love of the others towards you is also a great privilege of yours, and if you do not love and if you do not appreciate the Love they have towards you, you will remain in an animal state. Spend each day in meditation upon the Love! There are inner methods. When man apprehends the inner relations, the world will broaden for him, and then he will enter the other world, he will see it, as if he is above this world. It is very beautiful. Everything there is arranged and you do not want to go back to Earth anymore. The Spiritual world does not reveal itself to us for the sole reason that if it reveals itself to us, we would not want to go back and work. The beauty of the other world recedes deliberately, so that we can work here on Earth.

CONNECTED WITH THE LORD OF LOVE At a conversation with a brother, the Master said: By the New teaching, God should be put in first place, and man - in last. Then God draws man and puts him in first place. All who violate this rule break down. The Jews did not acknowledge Christ as a messenger of Heaven, they crucified Him, they put Him in last place, and after that they suffered. Christ put God in first place, and Himself - in last, when he said, "Not my will, Father, but Thine be done!" And that is why Christ got elevated and took first place. The Love towards God has to be at the head. It is said in the Writ, "The Sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down". This refers to the present times. The Sun is the countries, the moon is the wrong religious beliefs, and the stars are the authorities which will lose their influence. Some people try to settle their own matters first, and put the Lord after that, but the law is: work with the Lord for the Lord. I do not know a person who engages in fishing, charcoal burning, butchery, that has come to any good. All have broken down! A business that is not by the laws of God or a business taken up without God, leads only to loss. Some want to make provision for themselves and to work for God at an old age. If at a young age they have not worked, there is no way for them to work at an old age either. What better provision do you want when you are connected with the Lord of Love. God has given you the most necessary by providing you with light, air, water, and bread. Never has God deprived man from these four elements. And that is why man must thank, believe in God and love Him, work for and serve Him. Otherwise, man will be somewhere far from the Lord, and the dark forces will draw him and he will serve them under the lashes of the whip, of the torment, and of all the sorrows of life. Why are they in torment, why do they suffer, and why are the people miserable? Because they do not believe in the Lord, they do not love the Lord, they do not work for the Whole and do not serve, but are scattered leaves and work only for themselves. That is the old teaching. And in the New teaching, the Love is in first place, and man - in last. Why are they fighting now? For land. The land is of God! Man is given not to rule it, but to work it, and to be mainly a cashier of the goods, which it gives out to everybody who needs. To himself he must only keep as much as it is necessary for him. What is this massacre of people for, what is a war like this for? For the newspapers to write that a hundred thousand people were killed there and there, somewhere else - two hundred thousand, this many planes were brought down, that many ships were sunken. They do not value these killed people, they regard it as an ordinary thing, but they will give response to everything!

ORBIT AND INFLUENCE OF LOVE We are at a brotherly dinner. Many guests are invited. But what Peace does the presence of the Master bring in! When He is among us, we all get filled with inner harmony and an elevated state visits us. The Master has a wondrous effect on those around him. We get filled with hope, every discouragement and all contradictions disappear. In the conversation there was a question about the lectures, and the Master said: When I am holding a lecture, firstly I have to be changed by it, then it will influence the others as well. It is the same for the music: if the music that the musician plays influences him, it will reach the listeners as well. The distinctive feature of the spiritual man is that out of his eyes come invisible rays, which are directed upwards at an angle of 45 degrees. When the rays are directed downwards, man is a materialist. Someone might be talking about spiritual and Divine things, but if he does not have that angle, he is a screen for the spiritual. The clairvoyants see everywhere. This is a gift, which can be developed in all people. When a change is about to happen, everybody feels that it is going to happen. If you know, you are going to take certain measures, you will prepare and will learn a good lesson. Each person is a specific model and there is no one else like him. When somebody is discouraged, do not persuade him, but invite him to a feast, and speak to him after that. He will already be disposed by then. The human love gets nipped by frost and in the following spring it buds again. And the Divine Love is like a thuja [a type of aromatic coniferous tree] - its leaflets are evergreen. Love manifests properly when the one that loves is ready to do anything for you, and appreciates whatever you do to him. You shall tell the one that loves you not to stand between you and the Lord. Once those who love each other get closer than they should, then all dissonance is born. Nature has an orbit and it forbids you to go out of it. In the Love there is no commanding. Do not ask how somebody loves you and why he loves you. You want to moralize - this is not Love. Love is outside the human mind, outside the human heart, and outside the human will.