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MAIDEN, FIRE, AND WATER In a private conversation with a sister, the Master said: When you do not have enough faith, you cannot handle many difficulties in your life. With faith, the difficulties are removed easily. When the Divine works, do not try to fit in the human, so that your things will flow. Purity was mentioned. The Master said: A garment is clean and when it becomes stained, it can be washed, but it will always be known that it has been stained. Therefore, whoever has a clean and unstained garment should look out not to soil it. There is a truth: however sinful man might be, it concerns only the personality, but not his soul. The human soul, whoever it belongs to, is always clean and beautiful. The sister shared: "Many want me to be close to them and in an intimate relationship at that. What attitude should I have towards them?" They want to warm themselves, and so let them do so. You are a fire. However, make sure they do not put the fire out, and therefore keep a certain distance between them and yourself. If they get too close, they will put out the fire. A question about the Love was brought forth. The Master told the sister the following example: A maiden is loved by two people. The two are jealous of each other and are at odds because of her. What attitude should she have towards them?

MEDITATE ON LOVE Be thankful for what little God has given you. The little grows. One person got desperate that his life did not have any meaning, and went to a cave. There, a midge alighted on his hand and he got happy that somebody loved him. The Divine is everywhere and it manifests in the small things. God gives you billions of blessings, you travel for thousands of years like royal princes, you have food and drink, and what have you done for Him? Do not get discouraged and do not take it into your head that you will not amount to anything. On the contrary, say, "I will amount to more than I expect!" When you are working for God, you will be strong; should you have faith, the capital is inside you. Try one day, when you are singing, to clear the sky. Another time, when you are singing, wish for rain to fall and water the plants. In the brain there is enormous energy, which you have not worked with yet. When you enter the Love, the minds of all people will be of service to you, because God will be of service to you. Christ says, "If My words are in you at all times, and you are in Me, Me and My Father will make an abode inside you". If that happens, then the entire Earth will be ours, we will be in everyone, and all the mistakes we now see will disappear. Someone's head hurts; I put my hands on his temples, thus I form a magnetic field, and his headache goes away. He has accumulated energy and that is why his head hurts. Through the magnetic field, his energy is taken away and his pain goes away. I tell somebody, whose head hurts, "Why do you argue with your neighbour for a two meter space, you had better go and reconcile, and your accumulated energy will disappear". A rule: when you go to a person, find in him a good feature; should you keep it in your mind, you will have an open door. And now you are looking for negative features in him. Pay attention to the new, which God today has invested in us. Every day He invests something new in us. Should the good - the Love, come into you, then the Kingdom of God has come. What does "lost Heaven" mean? It means lost Love. And how can the lost Love be regained? When man thinks about it, enlightenment will come from within. What God has made is perfect, but people do not understand, and their deeds are imperfect. This Christianity, which we have today, is not what Christ preached. People have established many wayward things, which Christ has not preached. You shall do what God has charged you with on Earth. Someone asks which is right and which is wrong. Right is what Love is; in it, everyone is satisfied. As God has given us everything, what is the reason for us not being content? This is because of a misuse of the goods of God. The lost word is in Heaven. Because people are out of Heaven, this word is not for them. They have to go back to Heaven, i.e. to restore their obedience to God. Man cannot gain this lost word if he has no obedience to God or complete, absolute Love towards God. There is an organized world - the Divine world. There is not a more organized world than it. There things are perfect, there is Freedom. There is a perfect Divine way to do this or that, and when you act this way, you will feel a connection with all people. Each man should meditate upon the Love, in order to gain the lost word and be free. The Master asked the sister this question, but she was silent, and he answered himself thus: She has to become Fire and Water alike; in this way she will solve her task, she will reconcile them. This means that she will manifest the Divine, the eternal in her, she will manifest her soul, so that everyone who gets close to her will become transformed, the Divine will awaken and start to speak within him. She has to manifest the Divine in such a way that these two youths can elevate and reconcile.

ORDINARY, TALENTED, AND INGENIOUS LOVE We were at a brotherly dinner in town, and a sister inquired about where a brother who was away was now. Where he has always been. He was a guest here, and now he is there, in his Homeland. This brother I. was an earthly projection of brother I. above. Brother I. was never on Earth, and neither have you. A sister inquired, "Do those who are close here know each other above?" Those who love each other - yes, and those who do not love each other - they do not know each other even here. In the other world you have a friend, and when you get cross with him, he becomes invisible. In the other world you meet somebody you love; should you think something bad about him, he disappears from your eyes. At the smallest suspicion you disappear from each other. The Love was mentioned. The Master said: In the Love there is no crime at all, in the lovelessness - yes. If the daughter-in-law loved the mother-in-law, the latter would never make any noise. The daughter-in-law and the mother-in- law share the son. If you love a man, he opens before you, a Light is revealed inside him, and you see a new, beautiful world. And if you do not love him, everything is dark, in everything you see the wrong side. Once we come to the law of the Love, we must not demand love. Other matters can be demanded, but once we come to the Love, we are completely free. First of all, the ordinary love has to be examined, then - the talented love and the ingenious love. The love of the young, the adult, and the old has to be examined. And after that you will come to the downright Love. Doesn't Christ say: "When you have not done something to somebody, you have not done it to Me either". Whenever you come to love somebody, you should know that you have come to love the Lord. When you love your neighbour, even if he changes, you should not change. You are candidates for the love only from now on! At the theater, a drama is played for three hours, and you want here, on Earth, everything to happen at once. This life which people live is still not real. When you love somebody, you already contribute to the elevation of humanity. All the people, who love each other without knowing, are building the Divine edifice. Love always builds. When a few people love each other, the entire humanity becomes elevated, and the entire Genesis, everyone benefits from that. You should rejoice that you are in a quite beautiful world. There are dark spirits, who cannot watch the people love each other, and are mad with rage. They want the people to hate each other, and form intrigues. When the Love comes, let the man go, do not give him any instructions. What morality are you going to give the man who loves? Leave him. When we come to love a person, we are interested in that, which we have invested in him. Each person invests in the one he loves from his capital and wants his capital to not get lost, but that is a purely material love. You say, "I gave all my life for him". This is not yet real Love. Do not invest yourself in the Love, in order not to torment yourself. One of the renowned virtuosos of Italy gave his violin to be repaired. He sat down on an unoccupied chair. The craftsman disassembled the instrument to pieces. When he saw that, the violinist fainted, because he had invested his counterpart into the violin. That is where all the difficulty is. You have come to love someone, and like this violinist, have invested something from your counterpart, that is when you worry. The love that is not real displaces the counterpart and then the people suffer. With the real love, the counterpart does not get displaced. Sometimes, when you have a dream of something disturbing, you can awaken abruptly, your counterpart might not place himself, and then throughout the entire day you are indisposed. When your counterpart is not placed properly, you are indisposed, aggravated, you have let go of the float and are looking for a reason to quarrel. In order for the counterpart to be placed properly, when you get up in the morning, you shall pray and you will be well-disposed. Why does man have to pray? The prayer is nothing more than a method for the counterpart to be placed, in order for you to be able to perceive the things properly. The word "Israel" was mentioned. "Israel" means "came out of Heaven" (derived from the Bulgarian interpretation "из Рая излязъл" or "iz Raia izliazul", which pretty much sounds like an extended version of the word). "Ra" in Egyptian means "Light". Heaven ("Rai" in Bulgarian) is a place of the Light. After that, there were other things talked about, the Master closed His eyes and silently pronounced: "God "; His other words I could not hear.

LOVE IS SERVING At a joint lunch, the Master said: In the Love, man must first of all be active and take the initiative. For the Love speak less and do more. When you love somebody, you are ready to make a sacrifice. In the love enters the law of self-denial. You shall serve all. In the Love, the biggest job is at hand for you. There you will be a servant. Love is a sacrifice. Love has to be applied. Water the smallest flower, water the big one as well. In order to recognize your love towards someone, see what sacrifice you can make because of him. Your Love has to be absolutely selfless. Even if the one you love does not suspect you love him. Love has an inner side: when you love someone, you are already giving him, because Life comes out of you and pours into him, and if he is sick, he would recover, if he is sad, he would rejoice, if he is ugly, he would beautify, if he is bad, he would become good, if he is stupid, he would become wiser, if he is ungifted, his gifts would bloom. Love is in the smallest incentives. For instance, should they tell you from inside, "Walk with this person for several score meters to show him the way". And this small favour can become the reason for a big change in your life after some time. I see that in the dead of night someone is in trouble; I light a lamp for him, I bring him out of the bog, I take him home and tell him, "Tomorrow everything will be all right!" The biggest favour that you can do is to tell some people in which way to get out of that slavery they are in. The present life is a big contradiction, because we cannot apply what we know. For instance, you have the desire to comfort a person and you begin talking to him. Do not rush to talk to him. Sit down with him and first keep some silence, then you will talk to him. This is a method. Half an hour you shall wait, and then you shall talk to him. A brother asked, "In which way can we accept the suffering of somebody else on ourselves?" You cannot accept the suffering of anyone who is not connected with you. This connection is the Love. A sister inquired, "What is the main quality of the Love?" To wish the others well as much as you do for yourself. A brother inquired, "Why does the Love not manifest equally in all people?" Can nectar be poured into an unclean glass? First it will go through fire, in order for the impure to burn away, and then the Love will come. You shall serve the one you love outwardly, but at the same time you shall pray for him as well, without him knowing about that. The question about the Love is one of the most difficult ones. When you enter a house with Love, with your presence, without speaking to them, you will bring in harmony. If they are quarrelling, they will cease, if they do not love each other, they will start to love each other. In order to be able to do that, learning and prayer is required. When we go somewhere, we should bring in blessing. Each day we have countless circumstances to be useful. A rule: you do not love somebody; give him bread. If you do not give bread to the one who does not love you, you will darken. When someone gives you Love, however small it might be, even the size of a grain of wheat, accept it, because should you plant it, in four or five years it can fill the entire Earth. Do not divert the small stream that waters your garden.

SOME RULES OF LOVE At a joint lunch, on the outer tables, in a conversation, the Master said: Should you say to yourself, "Can't I love less?", you are then going to the lovelessness. Each day you must grow in Love. A sister inquired, "How?" You love somebody, because you see some good features in him. Find some new features in him every day, and then your love will grow. And he has many good features, because in him lives the Divine. At the time of the conversation, a bird was singing, and the Master said: That bird is singing, "Sow, sow, make, give!" There are some who should get married, and others, who should not get married. A sister asked, "What is the measure, who should get married and who should not get married?" Those who are going to give birth to spiritual children should not get married. Those who should not get married, should serve the Lord, give birth to spiritual children. Let the others get married. The same sister asked, "What does giving birth to spiritual children mean?" Giving birth to spiritual children means the following: first, you shall send across the world good thoughts, good feelings, and you shall proceed according to the high ideal; these are your children, this is a work of the Love. Second, those people, whom you are going to awaken for the Divine, are again your spiritual children, you have given them birth. I have met few people who like. Not that they do not love, but that is not Love. I will give you a rule: each morning, when you get up, through meditation and prayer, come to a beautiful Divine state of inspiration and upsurge, get filled with Love, Faith, and Hope, you will receive a blessing, and thus enriched, begin work. Do not go to work empty and poor. Let us say that there is a new song; play it to man, and without telling him any musical terms, let him understand what you are playing. Such thing is the Love. You are speaking about it, but you have to play it, i.e. to display it. There is a law: if man does not love, his thought cannot be proper. For instance, if there is not any love towards somebody, he will imagine him more base than he is, and if he loves him, he will be able to see the beautiful and the good in him. If you do not have any love towards somebody, he is millions of kilometers away from you, and if you have, he is close. When you love somebody, he should not be cross with you, but for years to keep in his consciousness that you love him. When you love somebody, a movie will open to you, you will see a whole range of pictures, and you will see why you love him. You will see what good turns he has done to you in the past. This is pleasant. And when you do not love somebody, again a range of pictures will open to you, and you will see why you do not love him, you will see what mischief and sufferings he has caused you in the past. And they will tell you, "Now fix this and that!" If you have ten fountains, you will love the fountain that gives the best water the most. When you love somebody the most, in the past he has given you the best water. You love the one who is of more service to you more, and you love the one who is of less service to you less. So the first one draws your attention. When somebody loves someone, he speaks to him mildly, musically, pleasantly; when he does not love him, he speaks to him rudely. Love gives a feature to the face of man, and that feature does not change. But this matter has a deeper, mystical side. When we come to the sacred Love, to the Love of Christ, then you love everybody, no matter what they are - sinful or righteous, good or bad, whether they have loved you in the past or not, whether they have caused you any sufferings or not. Man comes to this insight when he climbs up on the sacred peaks of Love! Since we are talking about the Love, we infer that you are giving what God has given you, without waiting for something for yourself. Sometimes we feel a state that we are full of Love and are looking for somewhere to place it. And sometimes we are so drained that we are seeking to be loved. The first state is ascending, it has potential energy, and in the second one there is an exceptional amount of kinetic energy. A brother asked: "Is it Divine for someone to want to be loved?" Both are Divine - to love and to want to be loved. Man should study those people who walk by the law of Love, he should connect with them. When somebody loves me, I am a door for him. When I love somebody, he is a door for me. When we love the Christ, He becomes a door for us. As long as the Love functions within you, there is something to attract you, and when you do not love or are not loved, you do not want to live anymore. There is a thin philosophy in the Love. When you learn it, you will know how to change the sufferings into joy. When you are in grief, the reason for which you do not know, it can be due to the fact that there is no one to love you. But not that there is no one to love you, but that you are looking for the Love where it cannot come from, we are waiting for affection from the people, and not from the Lord through the people. You only need to aspire to love, and you will allow God to manifest his Love as he finds fit, and through whom he wants. When man is not loved, he must change, he must bring in something new to himself, and in the new form to be loved. Somebody asked for someone, "What is there within him?" He is a seed, he might not have grown up, but inside him he has the power to grow. He is an unfinished painting. In the Love there are 35 million forms, and how many years are needed in order for you to taste them all. Think about it, if it is for three times a day. You need to have a positive philosophy. Look for your Joy in the small things. When on the Earth some people love each other, it might be a secret, but above the Angels know and look whether they are playing their roles properly. Love is specific. Such Love, with which you love, nobody else can have. But you too cannot love like the others. Love is valuable, because nobody can display a love such as yours. Not that you do not love each other, you love each other. When they scatter you throughout the entire Earth, you will start to miss each other. To be loved or to love is in a certain respect dangerous; if you do not have an awakened consciousness, you can always be surprised. Where you love or are loved, there are the biggest riches, there are also the biggest visible and invisible thieves of the world that you have not even dreamed of. Now I will go into the other side of the question: when people love each other, their ethereal counterparts can intertwine. That is where all the danger is, not in the Love itself. And when they do not know how to untwine, then improper connections are formed. Man has to love, without intertwining his counterpart. This is okay. In the Alps, the English tourists rope themselves together, ten people at a time, and when one of them falls, they all can go down. The laws have to be studied, and man has to live well, so that he does not cause himself any suffering or physical sorrows. You got scared and might say, "Then it is not worth it for man to love". No, it is not worth for man to bind himself. A sister asked, "How should we love each other without intertwining our counterparts?" You shall love without binding. When you love someone, do not expect anything from him, leave him free. That is the way for the counterparts to not intertwine. There are other methods as well. Love comes periodically. When it comes to us, it does not stay, but gives Life, and in time, when it comes back again, it sees how much we have used. It always leaves superabundantly and goes away, because if it is with us, we will always be in a blissful state and will not be able to be angry. When it goes away, it leaves us free to do what we want. But there is another reason, for which the Love goes away: because our organism is still not adapted to endure its strong vibrations for a longer period of time. The organism of man gradually has to adapt to endure the Love.

LOVE WILL BUILD THE NEW CULTURE A Norwegian woman, who was in Zagreb, learned of the Master, and on September 21st 1938 she visited him. In the conversation with her, the Master said the following: Now, for the first time, a rational connection with the Love is made. Should we put the Love as a basis, we begin evolutionarily; yet some want to walk with the Wisdom, but if man has not learnt the way of Love, he will not be able to walk. There are movements, which go prematurely in the way of Wisdom. And today one has to begin with the Love from down to up. Through the Love, people will learn the meaning of Wisdom. The way of Love is a way from the small to the big. The manner, in which the Love manifests, is the Wisdom. First and foremost, we must study the inner side, not the outer. With the Love, we study the inner side of Nature. We are suffering from a world of lovelessness. Today they call the human egoism love. For instance, the wolf and the rabbit think about themselves, they have only a single little love - their young. Today there is pretty much everything, but there is no Love. When God's Love comes, it will bring unity among the people. The Divine unites the people into one, and the human disunites them. What better than that to enter a place where everyone will love you and you will love everyone. Unless we apply the law of Love, we cannot enter the Life. The new ideas need to be brought in, in order for the people to learn that with all the other methods they will apply, they will not have a proper solution for the problem if the love does not come and if there is no opportunity given to everyone to live. Assume that you are on the North Pole, the water is frozen. What do you have to do? Warmth is needed in order for the ice to melt. So today too the Life has solidified and we have to melt it immediately. When people do not get along with each other, they are frozen. Love thaws. No laws will mend the world, people fix upon the letter of things, but now the Love will start to function like a principle, and this will renew us and the world. The former forms of the Love have brought in certain reforms, but they were not in a position to renew the world. Now the new understanding of the Love is coming. It has to create a powerful impulse in the world. It has to enter the Life like air. As all creatures take advantage of the air, so shall they breathe in and inhale love; then the possibilities will inevitably come along. You are pounding the iron with a hammer, and that is why you are making a lot of noise. However, put it in the fire and then without too much noise you will give it whatever form you want. So with the Love, things are achieved very easily. You say: "We have to live well!" You cannot live well if you do not have Love. We cannot enter the Kingdom of God the way we are now. If man does not begin with the Love, he cannot go anywhere. Love is the easiest way. The other two ways - of Wisdom and of Truth, are very difficult and are for few. The way of the Love is for everyone. We want to carry out the new not by force, but as a necessity. So that it can be seen that only in this way can things be achieved. The world has to lose faith in order to become convinced! The woman will elevate the world. All women have to unite, to understand their task one day. The man will go after the woman. He cannot be without her. She is the force.

KINDRED SOULS In a private conversation with a brother, the Master said: The souls have derived from God two by two. These are kindred souls. It is presumed that man will have 777 cardinal rebirths, and 12 of them will be epochal. Epochal rebirth is when two kindred souls meet on Earth. When the two that love each other meet on Earth, they say no bitter word to each other, and perform great things in Life. In the other rebirths, when a soul is below, the other is above. The one that is above will choose somebody here, who looks like him, and through him he will manifest. However, that is beguilement and in that case man must have patience to wait. The two kindred souls merge to form one whole. The kindred souls are placed in order for the two of them to work like the right and the left hemisphere of the brain. This is called polarization. The other soul might be on the other side of the world or in the Invisible world; they will connect together. The space, the matter cannot obstruct. That is a law of the Love. When you find your kindred soul, you come to the thoroughness of the Love, then God manifests through you, and should He manifest, you learn, and when you learn, you will manifest. When the kindred souls help one another, the kinship becomes realized. It had been there earlier as well, but it is now being realized in another form. The ideal Love is the love between the kindred souls. There is a difference between the love of the kindred souls and the love towards the others. The love between the kindred souls is a measure. There is nothing better than the kinship of souls. People consider marriage to be what it is not. When two kindred souls get married, the kinship disappears. When two kindred souls connect, they look for a third creature - God. Every Angel has a kindred soul, as well as the people. The brother asked the Master: "What relation do the kindred souls have to the Spirit that is sent to man?" The kindred souls, in their development, come down to Earth, when at one moment one of them becomes embodied, at another - the other one does. Together they walk and help one another. The kindred souls are human souls, above which there is a perfect Spirit. This is namely the Spirit that guides them and distributes all goods. The kindred souls have an equal purpose, but have two different functions. When the kindred souls merge, the unity comes, and then the outward contradictions disappear, a merger with the Lord happens as well. Or, more properly speaking, these two kindred souls do not merge, but form a system. They do not become depersonalized. After that, a pair will merge with another pair, then with a third, etc; eventually, all souls will merge, and the Cosmic human will be formed. Thus, when the kindred souls merge two by two and more, they will become one whole; without becoming depersonalized, they will work together and will form a powerful force. All pairs, united together, will form a Universe, a whole. The two poles of a pair cannot be drawn together entirely. They have a certain relation between each other, as the two poles of the Earth. In the future, when two kindred souls merge, they will not be born in the same body on Earth, but in separate bodies; however, they will have a shared body, which will be uniting them. And then, they, with their separate bodies, will function like poles in that bigger body. The body that will unite them will be finer, thinner, and will invisibly envelop with its powers these two bodies. Those things are not said to everyone. They are only for the devoted. They are spoken only to the most advanced students. The brother asked the Master: "What is the relation between the love towards the kindred soul and Love towards everybody?" The kindred soul is a kernel. All souls compose the common organism. When man loves the other people, with this he can love the kindred soul more. The kindred soul is a window, through which we see all souls and their beauty, that is why in the Love towards the kindred soul we love everybody. When man loves all people, he makes a connection with his kindred soul. The Love towards the others is the connection with the kindred soul. Should you meet with your kindred soul, there are no contradictions for you, you love everyone. When the Love is selfless, the manifestations are ideological, elevated; if the idea in man does not alter, if his love does not alter as well, this shows that we are with real kindred souls. Once we come to the kindred souls, it already pertains to the Divine order. In order for man to be able to manifest, two centers are needed; those are namely the kindred souls. The two kindred souls might be on the same stage of development, and it is also possible for the one to be more developed than the other. When two kindred souls meet on Earth, if there are favourable conditions, then both of them remain to work together. And sometimes, after a certain sojourn here, one of the kindred souls goes above, and the one that is below works under the impression of the latter, when it was on Earth. Through the kindred soul everything passes. If it is in the Invisible world, it is the hand, through which the things come to you. It is the inspirer. Everything that comes from God passes through it towards us, and through us towards it. When man receives what comes from the kindred soul, he will then love everybody. The kindred souls represent the Divine side of Life. Without love towards the kindred soul, no Love towards the others can manifest. The Love towards the others is a polarization of the love towards the kindred soul. Imagine that there is a garden created by you. The one who plants and prepares the garden is your kindred soul. When do the kindred souls merge? Ultimately, when they complete their evolution, they merge and work together. The brother asked, "Is it good to direct our thought towards our kindred soul?" You have to aspire to make room for the kindred soul to manifest through you. Open your heart towards it. Everything most ideal, which you can imagine, you shall deem your kindred soul. All kindred souls compose one whole. That body is Christ. In the kindred soul you will feel the presence of the Lord and the Christ. The two kindred souls are a collectivity. The one kindred soul is a total of all creatures that have loved you, and the other - a total of all the souls that have loved those souls that form the collectivization of the other kindred soul. So the two kindred souls are a collection of souls, loved and loving. This is for the Inner school. The two kindred souls walk in parallel and are connected with Supreme creatures that are on this path. The parallel lines are paths of Rational creatures. They do not come into collision, they do not intersect. When two souls love each other, when they aspire to the Lord, their ways are parallel, there is harmony between them. The brother asked, "Why are the two kindred souls, throughout the entire human evolution, found only 12 times simultaneously on Earth?" When the two kindred souls meet on Earth, if they are not ready, they will forget everything, they will forget to fulfill their duties, they will be entranced. And that is why it is allowed for them to meet only 12 times in favourable conditions. Then they display genius.

TESTS OF LOVE After the lecture we all went out on the meadow. The grass was strewn with millions of dew-drops that glittered like jewels. At the bottom, Vitosha was gilded by the rising sunrays. The Master looked at that picture and said: Every such day shows that something good is spoken in the world. It will be settled, it will be settled! The good days are for the future. We performed Paneurhythmy. After that we all gathered round the Master and greeted him. They brought the Master some pretzels. He gave a piece to everyone and said: Thank the Lord for that good which He has given you. Thank those who have kneaded and baked it as well. From now on, in the world there will be abundance! When the Love comes, there will be abundance. You look for it everywhere; that is where your delusion is. Love is a strength that you carry with you. If it is now left for you to wait for it to come into you, it is a hopeless case. You are all rich and now you want high stages, but start from the lower ones. In the state you are in, what do you have to do, how do you continue the Way? For instance, what prayers have some of you made today, what meditations have caught up with you? The one you love sends you away, "Off with you, mind your own business, set me free". It is a test which you have to pass. When your Love is put to the test, it starts to bend. Love is a strength, desired by all. Everyone always aspires to it. But there is an inner competition, and that is where the danger is. Those who keep loving you, even when you are cast out of the society and when you are already poverty-stricken, then they have passed the test of Love. When you love someone and you discover weaknesses or mistakes in him, and your love does not fade away, you have passed the test of Love. When the one you love does not treat you with care and you do not fade in your love, you have passed the test of Love. When the one you love loves others and your love is not impaired, you have passed the test of Love. You should know that your Love will pass through all sorts of tests, and you must be strong in order to pass with a point. When you are cast out and you are left with nothing, God loves you. If you understand that, you are strong. Do not meddle in the love of others, do not counteract the Love. People do not walk by God's Will and God regrets that they will come to suffering, because they are coming into collision with Him. And the anger of God is revealed to the sons of defiance. So the anger of God is prominent as a result of the counteraction against the Love. The Love of God is unalterable, and when we say "Anger of God", we understand something completely different, and namely - with the non-observance of the Divine laws, man becomes unable to apprehend the goods of God, and falls into suffering. Or to make use of a comparison - the sin forms clouds around the person, and he becomes unable to perceive the sunrays. When there is counteraction against the Love, it passes and destroys everything. It does not stop in its wake. No matter how dense the matter, it passes and destroys. Remove the faucets in respect of the Love. The Love does not like obstacles. These norms are not for the world. They are for the devoted. Let the world go with its faucets. The Love is powerful. The only force that does not stand any counteraction, is the Love. When God projects a feeling through you, woe to you, if you want to stop it. It will break through the dam, it will come out and destroy you. It is a force, a storm. If you oppose, you cannot stop it. When a person loves, you should rejoice at his love. This is the New teaching, which you have forgotten. You have much to learn in the Love. And do not hinder a man that loves, because he will do many good things. Even the worst person, when he comes to love, do not hinder him in his love. Everyone loves as they can. Should you begin to teach them how to love, you close the faucet of Love. Do not plug up the Love. The smallest restriction of the Love brings poison into man. To restrict the Love means to restrict the Lord in yourselves. How much they have to love you, you have no right to meddle in that. Leave every man to display his love freely. An inner self-discipline is required. In the conversation there was the topic of jealousy. The Master said: Jealousy is outside the Love. Jealousy is not something you have displayed. Others are quarrelling and you are involved in that quarrel. There is a jealousy of the fallen spirits, which delude the people. All delusions, which you are in with the Love, are theories of the fallen Angels, and you are developing them and name for Love what is not Love. In the current knowledge there is jealousy, because you think that you are going to lose that object. But when you know that you are not going to lose it, can there be jealousy? Jealousy is a negative means, a misunderstanding of things. Then man doubts in the creature he loves. Jean Valjean loved Cosette, they took her away from him and he felt sad, and he should have been pleased that there was somebody to love her. Jealousy had come forth before man appeared in this form. In all insects and in all other animals there is jealousy. Jealousy is the lowest side of mental development, because you already distinguish between one and the other.

A VISIT OF LOVE On one of the joint lectures, the Master said: Each person has his small insight into the Love. Sometimes, maybe man is visited only for a short time, then that state becomes lost, and man says that he has been in this and that state. Each person will always have one-two-three times of insight into the Love. Because he is not ready for such a visit, it cannot last a long time either. Should this state go away, man wonders after that, and cannot explain to himself how it has come; he does not know how it has gone away either. That is a visit of God! When God visits man, the Love manifests, because God is Love. In Love, man understands what God is. Outside of the Love, man cannot imagine what God is. At a visit from the Love, man understands how he loves God. Then man loves with a great Love the flowers, the trees, the snakes, the wolves, the bugs, the sinful and the righteous, and many new ideas rush into him. There is not a moment more beautiful than the visit of the Love. That is what they call Resurrection, then you accept the Life. In the Divine Love, all Creatures from the Invisible world participate, the entire Heaven then manifests through the man. In the Divine Love, the collective Love of the entire Genesis manifests through you. Through the people, those Creatures who live on the various planets and suns will love you. Those who really love you are up in Heaven, from where they pour their deep Love towards us - directly, or through some people. Each person on Earth who loves you is an instrument of the Love of Creatures from the Invisible world that are relative to you. Before the Master, on the table, a beautiful apple was placed. He looked at it and said: This apple in the future will be a poet.

SOME FEATURES OF LOVE At each brotherly dinner, thoughts were discussed, which supplemented what was said in the talks and the lectures. That is why the brotherly dinners were original and unique; they were not the same in spirit. The remarkable thing was that the Master, when expressing thoughts, always took into consideration the state of the souls, their needs, their searches, the contradictions they were undergoing. At one brotherly dinner, the question about some qualities of the Love was brought into discussion. The Master said: Somebody says that he has fallen out of love. This cannot be. After the recession, there will be an accession, but never a detachment. Between two people, who love each other, there cannot be falling out of love. There are two explanations here, and both are correct: let us say that the person "A" loves the person "B". If the consciousness of "A" is occupied with something else or is reduced, then the Love of God, who loves through "A", will manifest through another person, then it can do so through a third person, etc, but never will the Love towards "B" cease. On the other hand, the person "A" says that he has fallen out of love with "B", but that is not true. There is only a reduction in his consciousness, that is why he cannot perceive, he cannot realize his love towards "B". This looks like a sound, which, because of a reduction in hearing, cannot be perceived by man. But then, when the consciousness of "A" becomes increased, he will again display his Love towards "B". "A" will always have Love for "B" inside himself. There has only been a stretch of the thread between them, but not a rupture. You cannot fall out of love with the one you love. The one you love cannot cease to love you. At some time, he might visibly stop loving you, but that is not true, only the installation has been interrupted, but once the circumstances come along, the Love will manifest again. The Love has not ceased, but there are no perceptions of the Love of God that passes through him. Through him, God has not ceased to love you. A brother asked, "So the Love of God is constant. Does that refer to the person, whom he loves, himself?" This refers not only to the Lord, but to the person himself. If man loves somebody, he will always love him, this love cannot cease; it can weaken, it can visually become lost, but only when man falls asleep, i.e. sinks into other matters. Then, when he awakens, the love manifests again. The love man has towards somebody is not from this rebirth. It is from the distant past, many existences ago. A sister asked the Master, "You said that there is no falling out of love. Does that refer only to the Divine Love, or to the human love as well?" The human love continues as well, it does not become lost. On Earth there are days and night, right? But in the Sun itself it is not like that. The human love manifests again after a periodic sleep of the consciousness for it itself, it constantly perfects, refines itself, until it becomes Divine. The human love will evolve. It is a Love from God, only that it has impurities. And one day these impurities will be removed, the sufferings will cleanse them. Love does not become lost. Each autumn, the leaves fall off, and in the spring, they sprout anew. So everything outward changes in the Nature. When some connections are Divine, they will certainly overcome all obstacles and will manifest. There is an unchangeable Love and a changeable one. Not that the changeable love is bad, but it changes, it ceases to function, it becomes alienated temporarily, in order for man to rest. Someone says, "That one loved me, and now he does not love me". The one who loves you has left you right on time, and has given you exactly as much as you need. After that he will appear again, his inner attitude will not have changed towards you. The Earth goes round the Sun on an orbit, so sometimes it is closer, and sometimes - farther away from it. The difference in the distance is a couple of million kilometers. The same law is in respect of the souls, between which there is Love. Sometimes you are closer to the one whom you love, and whom you go round, and sometimes you are farther away from them. That is the reason for which those who love each other move away from each other. A brother asked, "How are Your words explained, that the Love is always mutual, and that when you love somebody, he loves you as well?" When you love somebody, you have accepted and display God's Love. When you love a person, his soul loves you above, even though the physical consciousness of that person might still not know that. If you love a sinner, his soul above loves you already and accepts your love, and it will not be a couple of years before he comes to love you down on Earth, he will turn over, a change will happen inside him. And so, if you love somebody, his soul above loves you. That is why we say that the Love is by all means mutual. What is above will come down to Earth, and what is on Earth has been above previously. Initially, the Love might be mutual only above, and then it becomes mutual below as well. If you love someone in the Divine way, there is always a response to the Love, and that people do not love each other, it is apparent. Somebody tests you. Even as you love someone, your love has a response within him. We must not wait for an answer. Love manifests in one moment. The manifestation of Love is only a moment. We say "a long time", yet "the long time" is a result of the Love. In time, you will have a second moment. Those are things which cannot be measured. Actually, Love is constant, unceasing, but we perceive it from time to time. That is for now. Always the stronger comes to love earlier. When they love somebody, in him a gathering of energy happens, and if he does not appreciate the Love, this energy will melt him. How many authors have written thus about the Love? None. People have paid attention to many other things, but the Love is incomprehensible to them. In the past, people were ready to apprehend the great science of Love. Few dedicated ones were able to apprehend that. The suffering, the torment is retribution when you do not make way for the Love to pass through you. When you love someone, he does not pay any attention to you, but should you become passive, then he becomes active and starts loving you. So, when one is active, the other is passive. A change happens. The great law of God works in Life. You cannot but love a creature that loves you. Then they will swap. There is a touchstone, which shows whether there is mutuality in the Love or not - if you are content with your love, this shows that there is mutuality. When you are content with your love, this shows that the other one loves you, however, with his ordinary outward consciousness he might not know this, but the Spirit inside him loves you. This is a deep inner process. Mutual Love is dangerous for the time being, if on Earth it is immediate. That is why when one loves, he should not want mutuality down on Earth. Heaven does not allow this. A sister said, "It is a pain when there is no mutuality". There must not be mutuality simultaneously. If two people love each other with equal strength, they will destroy each other. One will be active, the other will be passive, and then the opposite. When you love, you become strong, and when you are loved, you become meek. The Love will come back to you from those people, whom you love. Distinguish between Love and Fondness. The one who sends the Love, has Love, and the other, who receives it and appraises, has Fondness. Then they swap.

LOVE TOWARDS THE ENEMY - THAT IS A SCHOOL Often after a lecture, now with an elevated spirit, we entered a conversation, and various ideas were concerned, about which the Master had spoken. The Word delivered before us compelled us to think, and new flashes and insights came forth, because a broad new world of Light and Beauty was opening out to us. We constantly consulted the Master, and He, with his inherent patience, maintained the conversation, in order for us to understand the Life in a new way. In order to love your enemy, you have to love God in him. You say, "I cannot reconcile with him". Reconcile with God, who lives inside him. Someone is unpleasant to you; he should be pleasant to you for the Lord. If people irritate you and you cannot surmount it, then you have not understood things. Forgiving and loving are very difficult things. There is a great law in Nature: when you forgive, you gain your Freedom. Christ says, "Forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing". This means that He does not want to have a connection with the people who constrained Him, he does not want any inimical feelings towards them to remain inside Him. Because the connections, created by the inimical feelings, are not within our power, and when we want to unbind them, somebody else needs to come from outside to unbind us. And the connections by good feelings are within our power to unbind and bind. Sometimes, not only do you not forgive somebody, but you do not let the Lord forgive him either. You bring him to trial. Then God comes and He brings you to trial as well. When we all go to serve, we will all suddenly become free. Some say, "I will never forgive him". You will not forgive him, but God will forgive him. When God forgives him, you will forgive him as well. The man you do not want to forgive becomes a banker. You have a need, he is good, and gives you without a bill, your opinion of him immediately changes. So God puts someone in a hard situation, and opens the heart of the other one. And thus he will reconcile them. When you love your enemy, you disarm him! Love towards the enemy means that in the past you have pushed that man onto a wrong track and made him an enemy. You have diverted him. You shall love him, in order to bring him back onto the right track. When you love the evil ones, you mollify them. If we perceive the Love, the world will open for us. A dog is barking at you. What is better, to throw rocks at it? Then it will bark at you more, but if you throw it some bread, it will wag its tail and stop barking at you. Should you throw rocks at it, you aggravate it and it will dash towards you from afar. Each hindrance in Life is a dog, which barks at you. The bread will help you more than the rocks. We have to show that in us there is something Divine. You shall try to do something good to the enemy. Through this good, his strength, with which he wants to do mischief to you, will be paralyzed. This way you will defuse him and he will throw his weapon away. When somebody has talked to you for half an hour and has told you insulting words, give him a present. Tell him, "I have never heard such a fine speech. Help yourself to two British pounds". I am speaking symbolically. This means to do him a favour when he needs. A smart man is the one who can turn his foe into a friend. And stupid is the one who can turn his friend into a foe. If we cannot solve the difficulties, then where is your Teaching? We were sent to solve the most difficult problems. You shall solve the problem of hatred through Love. You say, "I will not hate him". That is not the way to speak; you should say, "I will love him". In August 1926, a brother came to me and said, "A man insulted me in the public gardens and told me some very rude words. I flared up and answered him back also with such insulting words and even more insulting". I said to this brother, "That was a test for you and you did not pass it. You had to remain calm and quiet. And because you did not pass the test, sufferings await you". And indeed, later the brother told me that his eyes had started to weaken. That brother told me that he had already forgiven that man, and that he is willing to go and to verbally ask forgiveness. When you forgive someone and it is unpleasant for you to meet him, it is not forgiveness. You shall love him for God. You shall proceed as God does. Whether he deserves it or not, you shall set that aside. When God was doing well for you, did he not do it for your welfare? - He was doing it for the Love he has! You have to equally love both those who cause you sorrow, and those who cause you happiness. The Writ says, "If you do not forgive, you will not be forgiven as well". It is a School. This is not a thing which man can learn in one day, in one week. It requires an entire life. Two people were arguing, and finally one of them said, "What you said is right". And the other replied, "What you said is right". They took each other by the hand and went together. Apostle Paul says, "God was in Christ making peace between the world and Himself, not putting their sins to their account"; so he was forgiving. You have to take from many people; are you ready to forgive, to forget what they have to give? You shall remit the interest for someone, to another - one third, and from somebody you will not take anything. I say to someone, "You argue with your neighbour about a two-meter space. Reconcile with him, and your headache, the gathered energy, will pass". He, who goes to reconcile, is strong. He, who expects the others to reconcile with him, is weak. Each one, who goes to law with others, crucifies the Christ. I do not want anyone, who goes to law, to come to Me. We should not disturb the Divine consciousness within us. God does not want anyone discontent. Love excludes the law. Moses, who served the law, did not enter the Promised Land.

"LOVE EVERYBODY!" IS A DYNAMICS Several people came to the Master in the reception room. A conversation began. There are two laws. The first one: when you love the Lord, remember that this is the Love of all creatures. The second one: when you love the people, this is the Love of the Lord towards them. When the Divine Love is in you, you love everybody. Man has to be transformed until he becomes an instrument of God. This cannot happen with one hit. When we awaken inwardly, we will see that all people are one with us, that they constitute the unity of a great organism, and then they will become dear to us. And then, when we see the people we have hated, we will be ashamed, because we will be aware that we have to love them. The new form of consciousness is for you to feel that the life of the other people is your life. Earlier, when you were not aware of that, you were not ready to make something for them, but once you realize that, you are ready to make a lot of things. The Truth can reveal itself before the people, but there has to be Love. In the given case, love everyone, as far as your consciousness spreads. Love everyone that you meet. When it is said, "Love everyone", it means loving the creatures as far as your consciousness spreads, i.e. those whom you meet. All people cannot be loved at once. When we say that we all have to love each other, it is a dynamics. For instance, you enter a village; you will love those people as well. Then you will enter a second village, you will establish new connections and you will love them. When I say that man has to love many people, it does not mean human love, but Divine - to wish them well and to pray for them. When you see someone suffering, help him and pray for him. To love millions of people, to love humanity, to love everyone, to help them, much is required there. The Love loves everybody, and that man might not have the same relations is assumed, then of course he will not love everybody in the same way as well. A brother said, "Master, a couple of weeks ago, You said in a lecture that man has to love only those who love the Lord, and three days ago, on Sunday, you said that he has to love all creatures. Isn't this understood in this way: the first concerns that man, who has a less developed consciousness - he can love the good people, and the second concerns a man, who is spiritually developed, and as he has risen to mystical heights, he can love everybody - both sinful and good". In the sinful one you shall love what is not sinful. The goldsmith loves the gold in the gold ore, and when he smelts the ore, he separates the valuable. And another person loves only the smelted gold. In order to see God deeply within the sinful one, it depends on the stage of development of our consciousness. The one who is more developed will love all creatures - both sinful, and good. You and the others are one! The law is: the love of him, who loves one, is very weak. The love of him, who loves two, is stronger, and the love of the one, who loves everybody, is the strongest. Should someone say that he loves only one person, he can only carry a weight of one- kilogramme. The strong person can carry the Earth on his back. To love all people means to gather them in one place, and from them to form a new person. In that person you have to see the beautiful face of the One. When man loves only one creature, his ethereal counterpart has gone out of his physical body, and that is why he becomes nervous, suspicious, he doubts and runs from the people, he is irritated by them, as a result he is like a blossom that can be attacked by caterpillars. If you do not want to suffer, avoid the single love. In order for him, who loves, not to suffer, he should not separate the Love, but love everybody. The circle of Love gradually expands. Initially between two, then towards the society, towards the humanity, and after that towards all creatures. When man loves, this is not the greatest thing. There is something greater - it is the Love itself. Even the stone will understand you when you come to love it. In the world there is not a creature that will not understand the Love when you come to love it. In order to cope with your karma, you have to wish for the good, the happiness of all people. In this way you elevate yourselves, and in the same time you help both yourselves, and the entire humanity. If you wish the good for all people, you are studying the Christ. Then the Spirit of Christ is inside you, and you start to understand the Christ. Then you are under the influence of Creatures that are advanced and want to use you, like a telescope, directed in order for the stars to become closer. The desire that you have is not of your own. The Supreme, ideological Love is displayed towards all people, without them suspecting its source, from which it derives. Vast Love has to fill the soul of man. If you know from whence your Life comes, you will look upon all people with a sacred thrill, as towards souls. If you love the people like souls, they will look upon you in the same way as well. Should you come to this Love, you will be free and happy. Desire something, which can be of advantage to everyone, not only and exclusively to you. Should you have only yourself in mind, you are in a third dimension, in the limited world. If you desire it for everybody, then you are in a world where everything is achievable. You love only your wife and your children, but tomorrow they die and you are miserable. However, if you love the entire humanity, then your conditions do not get lost. If all people are within you and are as dear to you as your wife and your children, are you going to be miserable then? You say, "When the conditions improve, the Love will come." No, you must start with the Love! If you start with the conditions, you will have a bitter experience. You shall display towards the others the Love of Christ the way He displayed it towards you. God has displayed His Love towards the Christ, and God and Christ have displayed the Love towards the apostles. And Christ and the apostles displayed the Love towards the other believers. Then we will finally come to the following: God, Christ, the apostles, all believers and all of us shall display God's Love everywhere. When we display Love towards a person, we help him display Love towards the others. What does descent of the souls mean? This means your mind and your heart to find a response in the mind and the heart of another person, or vice versa. This is descent. Like in the musical instrument: when a string of the piano rings, then those strings that are in harmony with it ring as well. Such a union of the people is the Kingdom Divine. Wasn't it said, "One herd with one herdsman". That herdsman is Christ.

LOVE TOWARDS EVERYBODY In a private conversation with a brother, the Master said: Leave your buffalo cars and trains and travel with the Light. You all want the new, but you stay and do not redeem from the old. Each should feel himself and the others as souls! The New epoch will be a love epoch, and that is why it will liberate the people from the unnecessary sufferings. People will understand that there is no other way than Love. That is the only Way - with the least expenses. Love is an aspiration towards the unknown. With this aspiration, it reveals itself to man, but it will forever reveal itself, it will grow more and more and it will always be an eternal elevated ideal to us, towards which we will aspire. It is said in the Writ, "Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for Him". That is Love! When it is said "You shall not covet", it refers to the human things, but desire what God has invested in you, desire the Love. In Nature, in order to correct a mistake, you have to come to love somebody: a tree, or a rock, a snake, a lion, a tiger, a person, etc. And when you come to love somebody, you will mend the things. It is an entire science, which is yet to be studied. When I speak about Love, they do not understand me properly. I say: when you make a mistake, you shall come to love someone. When you love the rabbit, you shall love it as a rabbit, and you shall love the snake as a snake. When you love the Divine in man, you are on the right track. And that thing, the Divine, you shall love only in one person, as it is expressed in everyone. When you love God only in one creature, you restrict Him. Now if you love only one creature, this is an obstacle between your soul and the Lord. It is not possible for man to not love everybody, because God has created everybody. Some people think that when they love one man, they love the Lord, however, man has to love the multitude, because everything has derived from God, and God lives in everybody. Each man is a letter of the Divine alphabet. If you do not love some people, you do not love certain letters in that alphabet. What will the disciple, who loves only ten letters of his alphabet, and does not love the others, achieve? Therefore, should you enter the Divine world; you have to love all people, in order to make use of the Divine language. Two things are the most important: to perceive the Divine Love, and to come to love the Lord, i.e. to come to love everything! The law is this: if the Love of man towards somebody is Divine, it produces Love towards all creatures. If a man can love someone, he can love everybody. The worst is when we do not love anyone. We must send Love from us, we must not stop. When you love someone, your Love then flows towards the others, it distributes itself, your love towards him passes on to the others. Do not consider Love as a one-time process. You love a person, because he is a reflection of all people. When you love someone, unconsciously in him you love the entire humanity. A creature from the Invisible world loves you through someone maybe for one year, and then it goes away. After that, it finds another one to love you through, then through a third one, etc. It is always the same creature from the Invisible world. Imagine ten million people in the Invisible world, where no genders exist, all are the same; and you are like them. You love a creature, and in a moment you turn around, and that creature melts into the others; you look again - they all look the same. And when you meet another creature, it is also very polite with you, and has the same Love towards you. They have Love. We have deceived ourselves on the Earth that we have to love only one creature. What great power, what great force there is in one such Society - ten million souls, who love each other! Love does not distinguish between the poor and the rich. And the wind blows the same way for poor and rich alike. Whoever distinguishes, there is the human. We cannot free ourselves from the human, it is in place, but it has to be subordinated to the Divine. When you give somebody something, it can be a little or a lot, but it has to be of good quality. Your love towards all people has to be the same not in quantity, but in quality. We do not busy ourselves with the quantity, but with the quality - that is where the power is. Whatever my Father does, I do it as well. God loves the plants, and so do I. God loves the bugs, and so do I. When they ask you why you love the bugs, you shall say, "Because God loves them." When you love all the creatures but one, you do not have a thorough connection with the Lord, because the Lord lives in that creature as well. Some say about someone, "He is of no interest to me." Well, how come? God wants to know about him, and what are you pretending to be by not being interested in him? This is not a way to think. The most difficult thing is for us to have the same relations towards all people. Only God can teach you how to love the people. And until you find the good in man, you cannot love him. In the Invisible world, all are equally good and beautiful, Love makes no distinctions. In the physical world we have a model - the Sun. The Sun shines equally on everyone, but some accept less, others - more. Somebody says, "I am not like the Sun to shine on everybody". Well, shine on those that are around you; the Sun does not shine on the entire Universe. If you distinguish the people, you are in the Spiritual world, and if you have partiality and constantly change and alter yourself, you are on the physical field. On the physical field there is change, in the Spiritual world there is distinction, and in the Divine one there is unity. Should you start to think ill of your friend, you will lose him. When you start to think well of him, he will appear again. In Love there are gathering mirrors, and if you are caught there, you will burn away. Do not try to get caught in the gathering love only in one direction, only towards one creature, but to have scattering love - in thousands of streams, in many directions, towards many creatures. Then Love is safe. Let man love like God! What is the Love of God? We can call it all-forgiving Love towards the people. When things are looked at this way, interest arouses. Having friendship, experiencing Divine Love towards somebody urges man above. The spirit works, the soul is stimulated. When we love God in all creatures in the same way, not some more, and some less, it is then the Divine Love. Some will be left for the future, they cannot save themselves now, because they cannot perceive the Word, or, in other words, they cannot perceive the Love.

FOUR ORANGES After the lecture we performed some gymnastic exercises, then we came back to the hall, where a brother brought the Master four oranges and said, "This is a gift of the Love, gift of that Great Love, about which we talked in today's lecture." With the Love, everything is possible, and then man could not be able to ask for anything irrational. The disorganized world is limited, and the organized one is unlimited. The Divine world is organized. If the Love flows through the human hearts, how easy it will be to settle the most difficult matters! In the Love, with the slightest efforts you will have acquisitions - real and constant. All efforts of the Love go in an ascending degree, and the Love in man needs to have a new insight, a new revelation every day. Love is a boundless world, and when you enter there, you will go from glory to glory. A brother asked the Master, "You, Master, said that today the people have love, but it is one from which they die. What is the difference between this love and the Divine one?" From the New love, people resurrect. Isn't it said, "When they hear the voice of the Son of Man, the dead will resurrect." That is the voice of the Love. People die from the present love, because there is an impurity in it. Purity needs to be preached. A brother asked, "You said that when we love, we have to give, and when we are loved, we have to be given. Is an inner giving of Love, of good thoughts, etc, supposed to be understood here?" Here, both inner and outer giving is understood. The giving has to contain all elements. Those who love each other have a connection above. When the Love manifests here on Earth, it is not on a physical field. It is above in the Spiritual world. Love is not of a physical nature. It is from the Spiritual world. Love gives Freedom, expanse. It has no need of guards and keepers. And the human love keeps track of where you are going, what you are doing. The word "love" is an alias. You do not know the name of the Love. If you knew that name, whatever you said would have happened. You do not live in the Causative world. It is incomprehensible to you. He who enters there will solve all the difficulties; now the people are only dreaming about it. Love does not want any load. You are carrying an entire car full of whatnot, but in the Divine car they do not want you with a load. In the Divine car there is room only for you, without any load. Whoever asks what thing the Love is, is far from it. If man is not by the fountain, he is looking for it. Man has to find the fountain of Love. The soul prepares for the world of Love. It is its longing. Man prepares to become receptive to its vibrations. In the Divine world, life is like Love! A sister asked, 'You said that when we love a creature, we need to know why we love it? How do we know why we love it?" You shall look for the essential qualities, for which you love that creature. You should know what God has invested in it. And to recognize what God has invested in it means to recognize God. And by recognizing God you will gain the Life, because it was written, "And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of You, the only true God, and of Him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ." When you love somebody, you send towards him a shaft of Light and you see that his face has beautiful features. And each time you find newer and newer beautiful features in his spirit. A brother said to the Master, "Many things became clear to me from the lecture on Sunday, when you said that a person should neither be a man, nor a woman, but a person! As it is said in the Writ, "It is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God." With Love, man has to be extremely resourceful. Resource­fulness and prudence are qualities of the Love. When someone who loves you from the Invisible world learns that you are suffering, he shrinks, he leaves that place, he travels through the entire space, and comes to help you. This is now the outer side. But there are even deeper and better things that, even if told to the people, they would be incomprehensible. You are barely at the beginning of that development. There are such fine points, and you want to resign yourselves to the new in the present life. There is nothing to resign to. Man is not a philosopher, but he should be a philosopher. Man is not a poet, but he should become a poet. Man is not a musician, but he should become a musician. Man is not an Angel, but he should become an Angel. We all have to acquire what we will bring with ourselves. Mistakes in the Love are incompatible. When man makes mistakes, he loses conditions to be in connection with the Supreme creatures, which project their Love towards him. And he then loses his Love. Loving those who love you is in the regular course of things. And loving those who do not love you is Perfection. Loving one who loves somebody else is where Perfection is. Help a soul and put whether it will love you or not aside. With Love, you have to be the same towards everybody; if you love somebody more, and another - less, it is not Love. Nobody has the right to require a great love. Leave the one whom you love to love you as he knows. Do not teach him how to love you; otherwise he will ruin even what he has. I explain Love thus: you see a creature and rejoice in it; that is the initial in Love. A midge comes to me, I rejoice. A little wind blows, I rejoice. I see some grass, I rejoice. Those are small things, but they make me think about the big and great things. The grass suggests the following thoughts to me: that it is patient when it comes out of the earth. Many times I might be sorrowful, but when I look at the grass, I say to myself, "It is content, why I should not be content too? I have once been in its place. When it comes in my place, I will be overhead." And I tell it, "If I were in your place, one day you will be in my place." Then it says, "I am very happy!" Some would say, "That featherbrained fellow speaks to the grass. How can one speak to the grass?" I consider the grass as a telephone receiver. When I take the receiver, I connect with the One, Who is far away. I speak with Him, Who is on the other side. When you enter the Path of dedication, you will understand that, and only then will your Life elevate. When there is no growth in Love, it is only a delusion of man that it is Love. You should not dominate those creatures you love. God has created the man and projects in him. Why would you want to dominate Him? When you decide to restrict the Love, it goes away, and then you see that you cannot restrict it. With real Love, when man loves somebody, he loves all those whom this creature loves as well. And when love is not real, man envies those people who love his beloved creature. Our love has to be pure, like the mother's love. The mother is pleased when her child loves some people, she loves them as well. The mother is pleased when more people love her child.

MY FATHER AND I WILL MAKE AN ABODE WITHIN YOU In a private conversation with a brother, the Master said: In many people there is something amassed from the past. If there is jealousy, suspicion, a brotherhood cannot be formed. This is not that Divine thing which unites the people. When talking about the Love, someone feels shame, because his love has impurities. That is why man needs to have pure thoughts and desires, and when the Love passes through that clean environment, it will not gain any impurities. When your consciousness is unclean, it cannot elevate to a higher area. The Divine Love will come to renew the world. Two people that love each other should know what distance they should place between each other. It should neither be too big, nor too small; Rationality will tell you what exactly it should be. Because the Love is Fire. When you bring imprudently the source of warmth to a plant, it will burn, won't it? The brother asked the Master, "You said in the lecture that man needed to have a connection only with one creature, only with the Lord, and should connect with nothing else. What does this mean?" When self-interest is put in, love is with a connection. Make sure that no one else becomes obsessed with what you love. Do not wait for any personal benefits from the Love. You cannot have Divine Love if you do not aspire to the centre, to God. When two of you are going to God, you are friends. When you are moving away from God, you become adversaries. Love has quite a peculiar quality, and when it enters man, it incites him to read, study, work for the Lord, admire and see the elevated everywhere. When you find the Divine in man, you have found the veritable man. And if you find the human in man, you have found the shadow. The brother asked, "You said yesterday that we can love as Christ loves." Christ has said, "Me and My Father will make an abode within you." We can love like the Christ, or more specifically - give pace for Christ to manifest in us. Apostle Paul says, "Not I, but Christ lives in me." Love is a manifestation of God in Life. He, who has worked his way to this great law, has gained everything. Until he has had his fill of Love, man cannot be a factor in Life. The difference between falling in love and the Divine Love is in the following: if the love that you have towards somebody does not cast a shadow upon your Love towards God, then that Love is Divine. But if your love towards somebody casts a shadow upon your Love towards God, then that Love has an impurity. Wanting to be loved by the one you love is human business. An irrational creature cannot enter the Divine world. All creatures are rational there. In order for you to be able to have a high connection with the love of a creature, then you have to understand it, and it has to understand you. In the Love there is an exchange. The Divine Love is eternal and unceasing. It was written, "Try Me and see that I am sweet." With the Love, no matter the form, everything is good. However, from the physical love they expect what it cannot give. It contributes very little to the man. The Love of Christ is spoken about in the following verse: "He who has the Spirit of Christ." The Love of Christ should be understood by the Spirit of Christ. People have yet to learn, as they have succumbed to ignorance. Christians now think that they understand what Love is. Unless they apply it, they cannot recognize it. When I say "I will pay my debts", and repay out of Love, then the action is important, not the words. When people love each other, they attract each other. The Writ says, "Christ came to love the sinful before they were righteous." And you say, "How should I love?" Like the Christ! You shall say, "Christ was able to, and so am I! Love is the only thing that can withstand all the endless sins of man and elevate them." My definition of the Love is: if your love can obliterate inside your mistakes and the mistakes of your neighbours, it is Love. So you will not pause upon the sins of the people, and when you come to the perfect Love, you will find yourselves in an endless world. It is very difficult to forgive; not only to forgive, but to also forget, and not only to forget, but to leave not a trace of that. Should you come to this Love, you are immortal, you are boundless. Then you will create a world of Beauty around yourselves, a world of only Love, Peace, Happiness, Joy, Harmony, and Bliss. When you are in connection with this Great Love, you then understand your Master. When you find your Master and when He finds you, He will be blind to all of your mistakes. Your Love in the future has to be such that we would be able to walk forward. Each one of you, through the Love, has to obliterate in his mind and in his heart all mistakes, and then the Lord will come to write. The Lord needs a clean book, in which He can write His Word. So now the Love has to obliterate, first and foremost, all mistakes of yours, in order for us to be able to set out. And then we will finish the School and we will enter where? - Into the New epoch, where they do not marry each other, but are like Angels. And this epoch will come. This can happen. This is in the transformation of the consciousness.

QUALITIES OF THE DIVINE LOVE We were out in the El-Shadai area in order to welcome the sunrise. After we had a cup of tea and performed Paneurhythmy, we climbed up and settled on a meadow near the road to the first shelter. It was covered in fresh grass and flowers, and a stream was flowing ahead of it. The mighty Rila range could be seen beyond, on which there was still quite a lot of snow. As we were sitting, a bird was singing on a branch, and the Master said: The bird is telling us, "We are living here very well. How are you?" The Master looked at the stream and said: This water here is an entire musical symphony. The Master pointed at some speedwell and forget-me-not sprigs, and said: The blue colour functions soothingly; if you are worried and you look at blue flowers for some time, you calm down. And the yellow acts upon the mind. An automobile passed by us on the road, and from its window somebody shouted, "Blissful is your life!" A conversation opened up, in which the Master said the following thoughts: Love is a great manifestation of the Rational life. By the Love, it can be judged as to what degree a person is rational. You should always know that the Love is the greatest, most rational thing. Do not separate the Love from the rational. Always assume that whoever you love is rational. You cannot love what is not rational. When you come to love somebody, you will become blind to all of his infirmities, and in him, a desire to elevate will arise. Should these two processes be absent, the Love cannot manifest. In the Love there is gesture - when it gives, it gives generously. Love has a great task. It binds the wounds of man, and passes by. Once it comes to the negative things, it says, "You can live without me as well", and it is gone. Once it becomes lost, all the sufferings come along. It is a law: first and foremost, you should begin with God, and then you will finish well with the people. If man loves the Lord, he will also love the people even more than they can even carry. The Love is Divine if a creature passes through the centre of another creature and vice versa. When a creature passes through the Divine, it connects with the Great Reality, which lives within the other creature; The Love is Divine. When a creature does not pass through the centre of another creature; in this case, the Love is weaker. When a creature covers the other one, this is appropriation. Your love towards someone has to give you and the one loved by you an impulse for work in Life and mutual aid. If the love is real, you will grow as souls. The rivers merge into each other. The transfusion of the souls is an inner process. The rivers merge and shores transfuse. When the rivers do not merge, the shores do not transfuse either. Both processes go simultaneously, and that is exactly what exists in Nature among the creatures. The same thing happens between the man and the Lord, between a man and a man. In the merging, there is a transfusion of one soul to the other. This merging and transfusion can happen only between two souls, between which there is Love. The same thing is in our relations towards God. In time of prayer, Love towards God can be felt, in order for a merging and a transfusion to happen. That is why the basis of each prayer is the Love towards God. A saint, an advanced person experiences the Divine Love several times in his life, and then he has bliss, he feels the Lord in everything, and loves the Lord in everyone. All other states of the Love are Spiritual love, not Divine. Each saint is so in love, that because of the Love, he has forgotten the worldly things. He is so entranced with that, which he has seen, that he has forgotten how to dress up. His ideal is so high, that he has forgotten everything, and while he waits for letters from above, he will sometimes weep for that, which he has seen. A brother said, "Master, recently, during a lecture, I felt a Divine presence, I felt the grandeur of the Love, about which You spoke, and I started to weep. In the lecture, You said that when man loves, the Spirit has visited him." Christ says, "I am not from the other world, as you are not from this world." With this, Christ wants to say that one who loves is not from this world. He who loves with the Divine Love is from the devoted. People know about the elementary things, but they have yet to learn about what Love is. They speak in an ignorant tongue about the Love. They are like someone, who talks about art, and does not know how to paint. Those, who are interested in the spiritual sciences, often have a clear notion of things. Neither through a charity organization, nor through manifestations will the world mend. This only helps to a certain extent. What will mend the world is for people to become good instruments of the Divine Love. And that happens through preparation and through good life. It is required for you to be pure, good, and rational, to have faith, hope. In order to be a good instrument, you need to have the necessary qualities, so that you can cause good conductivity, and then the Supreme, the Rational will get into you. And you will learn things, which are never explained, but tried. For instance, you can talk about the sweetness of sugar to someone only if he has little experience in that. The conductivity of the man for Love is very important. If man has clouds inside his mental and sensual world, he cannot perceive the Divine wave of Love, which comes from above, but if his Heavens are clear, he will perceive it. There is nothing more beautiful than the Love. He, who regrets that he loves, deludes himself. If you renounce the love, you shorten your life. So in your garden of Love, cultivate all flowers, and plant new ones. A brother asked, "Is there anything more perfect than the thought?" There is nothing more perfect than the Love, but, in order to understand it on Earth, there needs to be thought. The thought is an environment, through which the Love is passed on. If he does not think, man cannot love. Outside the thought, Love is incomprehensible. We aspire to the Perfect love! That is what we seek! Love has to be in the subconsciousness, in the consciousness, in the self-consciousness, and in the superconsciousness. Let us display that Love which never runs dry. I go to the flower to see what God has written in it. I go to a stone and do the same thing. In these books I read what God has written, and as I read from them, they read from me as well. In the Divine world, the living books enjoy it when they are being read. Now why do we grieve on Earth? Because the people pass by us without reading us. When we start reading what God has written in a living book, we love. For them to love us means to read what God has written in us. Doesn't the Writ say, "Written is the law of God in our hearts." Each person is a book, and when we love him, we are reading it, and when we do not love him, the book remains unintelligible. A sister asked, "What does it mean when you say that man should not take a liking to this or that form?" In the forms he encounters, man has to see the Divine, but he should not stop at them, but carry on. Man is a part, and God is the Whole. You shall take a liking not to the part, but to the Whole. The ineffable love is the Real love. The Master sang the words, "Oh, Ineffable love!" This is God! He cannot be expressed. When you sing these words, you have to imagine the grandeur of the Lord, the kindness that pours out of Him, His mildness, that stillness inside Him, which forgives you, "It is all right". Only the Ineffable love is Love of God! When the Master said those words, many were left surprised, because so far, he would say, "Only the manifested Love of God is Love". The Master explained that thus: Both sentences are correct. Yes, somebody loves you, he renders you service, and when he displays his love in this manner, this is a Divine Love. However, this matter has another, deeper, inner side - the experiences inside, which remain hidden, are the Divine, the Real. Should the Love manifest already, it is not Love. Now it cannot manifest in the physical world in its completeness, because here the matter is much rougher, but in the future it will be able to manifest here the way it does in the Divine world. Happiness is in the apprehension of the Divine Love. In the Divine Love, man has love towards all creatures, and the great Joy that he experiences is the presence of the Lord, who loves the snakes, and the beasts, and the worms on an equal level with us. And there is no higher state than this. They have spend billions above, in order to give us this nice day. No king is able to do that. What is the time, what is the temperature, how many people have signed up for this excursion? It was 12 o'clock at noon. On the meadow by the Shelter, the temperature was 35 degrees. We were about 120 people.

STAGES OF LOVE One of the beautiful traditions was the so-called brotherly dinners, when separate families of Izgreva invited the Master and about 25-30 brothers and sisters to dinner. A joyous, lofty atmosphere was created. The entering of the Master was celebrated with a joyous thrill, which went through our souls. We were excited that He was among us. After the dinner, songs, conversations began; we shared our memories and experiences. The Master always expressed very important thoughts, which were also the most interesting part of the brotherly dinners. Here I will present thoughts of the Master, expressed during one such brotherly dinner: In our superconsciousness we receive pure Love, but when it descends and comes to the self-consciousness, it gains a certain impurity, and then man begins to love the good and the bad. This happens when we are not purified. After that, this stream of the Supreme love descends into our consciousness, and if our consciousness is not purified, it gains even more impurities, it gains an animal character. After that, this Love passes through the subconsciousness and again climbs up into the superconsciousness, in order to regain its initial purity. Thus, on this wheel, the Love goes, and that is why we have various stages of Love: animal, human, or physical, spiritual, mental, and Divine. The Love is Divine when it is free from impurities, when it is completely unalloyed - as such as it descends from above. I have spoken to you about the physical and the Spiritual love, but for the Divine one I have spoken to you little. All lower stages of the love are not yet the Love, but its outer side. The forms of the Love are different according to the stage of the Love. The New or Divine Love, which will manifest on Earth, will create new forms of the Love. The old love has produced what we see, and the new forms, which the New Love will create, are going to be something completely different. But do not wish to bring the forms of the old love into the new one. Leave the old behind, and when you are building the new, try not to raise any dust. This will come into the new education. The small Love passes through a small pipe, and there are hindrances - that is the human love. And the big Love passes through a big pipe - it is the Divine Love. The human love is in the astral person, and the Divine Love is in the Spirit. In the human love there is joy and suffering, in the Spiritual love there are changes, i.e. increases and decreases, and the true Love is the Divine one. The person who manifests with his love is weak in the Love. In the Divine Love, a lot remains undisplayed. In the human love, everything is displayed, and in the Divine one, what is not displayed is much more than what is displayed; it has depth. The present ordinary love is karmic, it is not clean, and that is why it is not stable. The Divine Love is not karmic and is lasting. The Writ says, "What has birth from the flesh is flesh, and what has birth from the Spirit is Spirit." So there is a love of the flesh that passes, disappears. It is the human love. And there is another Love - the Love of the Spirit, which lasts forever. It is the Divine Love. When some fall in love, they are like angels to each other, and later they do not want to see each other. He who loves with human love goes well, but later he chills. And the Divine Love is initially weak, and gradually increases more and more. In the Divine Love there is no interruption, but an unceasing growth and increase of the Love. The human love is like the burning of firewood, which is dying out. The human love is brief, and the Divine Love is compared with the burning of the Sun. On the other hand, the human love has quite different purposes. In the human love, inferior spirits participate. Each one who works with the human love is left deceived. In the Divine Love there is Purity. Man needs to have a connection only with the Lord, and with the people - relations. In the human love there is burning, and the Divine one has Light, with which the fruit ripen. Man has to outgrow the physical, carnal love. It is a phase, through which man has passed, but now he has to rise up to the most supreme forms of the Love. With the human love, he, who loves, restricts, while the Divine Love does not make any restrictions to the one who loves. All of your weakness is because you fall in love. Love is a natural process, and falling in love is surfeit. If there is falling in love, the surfeit will come, the discouragement, the misunderstandings, etc. In the human love, man has quite a weak understanding of the Love. In the Divine Love, God sends his Spirit. It is different where the Divine Spirit is. In the Divine Love, you shall love all those who have turned to the Lord, and with that, God will be an ideal to you. When you love somebody, his bad condition passes over to you. This happens with the human love, whereas with the Divine Love there is no such transfer. The sins, vice, weaknesses of the one whom you love are also transferred. And when you hate somebody, you again connect with him and gain his qualities. The enamoured, in the human love, looks like a calf that has tucked its head into a pot and does not see anything, until it finds a hard spot to break the pot. The human love is a love of the passions. That, which the astral man and the astral woman display, is no Love, but only a fiction. Love is a completely different thing. The lower and the higher feelings collide in man. These sorrows and sufferings are due to the physical love. This is a thicker matter, and when man gets entangled in it, until he frees himself, he will experience sufferings. A number of creatures from the Astral world act in this love. Each love that produces any bitter feelings is not Divine. Man has to distinguish the human love from the Angelic one and from the Divine one. When a man becomes tempted by the forms of the woman and vice versa, this is not from them. The dark spirits do that through them. The human love manifests through kisses and embraces. The Angelic or Spiritual love manifests through the smile. If the one you love smiles to you, you are joyous. In the Divine Love, only by glancing at the one whom you love and by thinking about him, you rejoice. In the Divine Love there are no contradictions, there are no sufferings. It manifests through Light. You look at the Light, and you see the Lord everywhere. In the human love, there is a magnetic web being cast between two people, in order for someone to become embodied. The spirits attract the man and the woman, in order to become embodied through them. In the physical love, people do not know that they are fulfilling somebody else's desires. When man has frequent elevated aspirations, the Bright spirits come to love him and work on his elevation, in order to prepare him and embody him. A sister said, "A woman asked me to ask You how to love." There is no point teaching her how to love. First of all, we will teach her how to inhale and exhale. The difference between the ordinary and the Divine Love is in that one of them is warmth from outside, and the other - from the inside. When a body becomes warm from the inside, it does not cool off. The Divine Love has three stages. The first step is to give the man you love what is most necessary - bread, clothes, conditions. The second step, you shall send him to school, you shall educate him. The third step is to grant him with gifts, to make him talented. With the Love you send him, you will make him gifted and you will rejoice at his gifts and his success. The Divine Love does not stay where there is private life. Man has to spread his love outside the family. Someone wants mutuality, but he wants to enslave that person with that. Many young ones grew ugly with incorrect feelings and contradictions, in constant inner struggles. When the love is not Divine, man grows ugly. All seek the happy life, and happiness is in the understanding and in the application of God's law. The human love ages, and the Divine Love rejuvenates. When the lass is very beautiful, as she knows that someone's angel is weak, she should put a simpler cowl on, so that this friend can go to work, and not to slack off. In the human love there are hits. The hits are the excessive enthrallment, which comes and stuns. It deceives, leads into an area of inactivity, and man cannot work. In the Divine Love there is no argument. Should there be an argument between two, then both of them are not rich. That, which we love, we do not keep constantly before ourselves physically, but inwardly within us. A man, who complains about the people, does not love the world, neither do the people love him. They ask what adultery means. Adultery means any love which is not Divine. If you love someone, God has projected your love towards your beloved through you. A brother asked, "How can we tell whether we have understood the Love or not?" If an unpleasant thought or feeling is in a position to destroy your inner peace, you have not understood the Love. I told a young brother that the one he loves does not answer him on purpose. Heaven deliberately makes it so that others woo her, in order for him to suffer and for something to burn away inside of him, which is useless and harmful. He will pass through suffering, in order to be cleansed. A brother inquired of the Master, "Didn't You say in the last lecture of the Joint esoteric class that we have to find and restore the relations we have had amongst each other before our coming out of God? Are those relations of the souls between each other different or not?" The relations of each soul towards the others are different, but again, of course, they are Divine. All people have come out of the Lord under different circumstances, not suddenly. The relations between the souls are different, otherwise there would have been monotony. The relations between the souls have existed in Eternity before their coming out of the Lord. These relations were relations of Love. Restoring them is our task today. The relations, which renew those eternal, primal relations, are correct. There are tasks, which we are studying now. However, they have always existed in Nature. There are even tasks in Nature, which we do not know yet. It was mentioned that somebody was going to travel on Tuesday. The Master said: It is always good to travel. In the Divine world there is only one day, and here there are seven days. Leave the traditions. You cannot accept the new unless you renounce the traditions. They are old habits. Now then, why don't you sing a song!

WHEN YOU SEEK ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART, YOU WILL FIND ME In a private conversation with a brother, the Master said: "How should I gain the Love?" - That is an incorrect expression. Love is not a thing that will pour in from the outside. If man does not have any Love and has yet to acquire it, it is a hopeless case. He has Love and all that is left is for him to manifest it. You shall pray to God for you to manifest Love, and you shall leave it to God. Many times, people take human views and think of them as Divine. And the love which man thinks to be Divine is very often human business. Man has to differentiate human love from the Divine, and not to confuse them. They want to know in which way the Love will come. We shall wish for it and it will come. When we implement God's Will, we can also have God's Love. It can manifest within us, because everyone who implements God's Will is pleasing to Him. Man has to go through the sacrifice, servantry, service, in order to come to the Love. For instance, a rich person sacrifices everything for those around him, but they do not thank him at all. He is left with nothing, but in spite of that, he does not repine at all, but thanks the Lord. He is a servant and serves the Lord, and because he does everything for the Lord, at some time, the fountains of Love open up within him, and he is already passing on to a more supreme life. The folk wisdom is abundant with very frankly said sentences. In "You burned me!" - This means that in the love there has been more warmth and less light. With the Love we have to transform the Warmth into Light, because now we need it more. So far, the people have been putting more Warmth than Life, and there is a discrepancy. Take the hoe and work for somebody. That hoe is in your hands in order for you to meet with a loving soul. You will do a favour, and that favour is a connection. Then you will disperse, and the Divine connection will remain. In the New race, the following has to penetrate - for people to be like rational children; and now everybody presents themselves as something they are not. Unapproachable is the limit of the Love, it is a constant process of growth. The hitherto prevailing forms of the Love are outworn. Love has to be put in a broad form, accessible to the human mind. The subject of the Love is inexhaustible. Love is a beautiful world. The Writ says, "You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart". And who seeks? The one who loves! With the Love, man seeks God! Self-denial is a spiritual Love. Suffering is a material, which, after you process it, you will receive Joy. And self-denial is a material, from which the Angelic love is formed. After the Angel thinks about God, he denies his bliss in Heaven, and comes to Earth to help. He descends alone, only by thinking about God, and not by order. The human and the Spiritual love are a material for the Divine Love. The human love begins with happiness and ends with unhappiness, without exception. The Angelic love begins with unhappiness and ends with happiness. And the Divine Love begins with bliss and ends with bliss. It is useful for man to have an interest in studying the Love. For instance, he should examine what was written in the lectures on Love, because in this way, many beautiful and great insights come, enlightenments come from inside the essence of the Love. The lectures must be studied! And it is not important to only read, but to apply what we read and to make experiments. Because without experiments, nothing can be achieved. Otherwise there will be scholasticism. The brother asked, "Your words in one of your recent lectures made a big impression on me, that the Love of Christ towards every man is bigger than the Love of Dante towards Beatrice, and I have constantly been meditating on that for a couple of days, but how should we work in order for the fountains of Christ's Love to open up and for us to become instruments of that Love?" Make experiments. Here is one: you see a withered flower; water it as much as needed, and you will be a witness to what is going to happen. That is an experiment. The flower symbolizes a person or some other creature, and the watering represents sending a stream of Love towards it. When you see a man or some other creature, send him a stream of Love. Another experiment for the Love: let us display Love towards a sick person, and if he recovers, it will show that we have it. A change has to happen in the one who loves, as well as in the one whom they love. If a change does not happen in the one who loves, a change cannot happen in the one whom you love either. God's Love cannot pass through us without leaving something of itself. In this respect, experiments have to be made scientifically. If you love somebody, bring through your Love Light into his mind, Warmth into his heart and Strength into his body. Above all else, he has to become healthy. And if you cannot do that, then what is this love? However, in order to bring this change into him, a change needs to happen within you. If you alone pour out, it will be passed on from you to the other. It was said, "Love your enemy", but how? For the enemy, Love needs to be used, which will disarm him. There are ways that have to be tried, not dry, scholastic systems. We cannot only talk in theory about the Love, but we have to make an experiment about what Love is, what justice is. We need to have a correct apprehension of things and according to the Divine science at that. Furthermore - man has to consider meditation on the Love of Christ as important, as necessary as the breathing of air. In religious people, the personal feeling is often very strongly developed. This is not good at all - the activity of the cerebellum is increased through personal feelings. Man will go through there, but he should not stay, but climb up - to the upper part of the head, where the centre of benevolence and love is. And there he will have a meeting with God. Man studies the Love in a time of disaster. Then he most efficiently develops insight into its essence and tangibly sees how it works in the world, how the Love of God manifests towards us. Man needs to have an open soul for the Love, because it is everywhere. Man needs to have an open ear to listen to its song. A group of three people should be formed; these gatherings should happen at 12 a.m. twice a week - between Friday and Saturday and between Saturday and Sunday. Those days will be temporary, and later I will conclusively say on which days it is going to be. At those gatherings, Love will be meditated upon, and God's Love will be wished to flow through all hearts. The brother said, "In chapter 17 of the Gospel by John, Christ said, 'You, Father, are in me and I in them." So the Love of Our Father will pass through the Christ and from Him it will come to us." This is so, but how many people are able to understand these mystical things? At the time of the gatherings, there will not be much speculation preliminarily, but you shall let the Divine begin to speak within you, to guide you in what you should do and how you should meditate on the Love. The brother said, "At the time of the gatherings of the group, we will send a powerful stream of Love towards all creatures and we will wish for them to become instruments of the Love. We will endeavour to come to love everybody, to send them streams of Love." An enlightenment of the consciousness has to come. If there is no enlightenment from the Spiritual world, then it will be difficult for man to understand. Let those, who are going to do a meditation upon the Love, have a basic idea about the Love, and let it grow like a seed. Let them begin with the small, and when their consciousness broadens, this idea will begin to grow. In the people there are a lot of unclear conceptions. For instance, Apostle Paul says, "Love is a fruit of the Spirit." And it is also said, "God is Love!" These are two different conceptions. Love, as an essence, is God, and, as a manifestation, it is a fruit of the Spirit. Three people for the group of the Love are enough. Because God says, "I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." - Three people. At what time people will pray - these are secondary and third-rate matters.

A PATH TO LOVE We were several disciples in the reception room of the Master. There was the question about methods of the development of Love in man. The biggest science is for us to display Love. It is a very easy job for a man to come to love, but he does not know where to put his finger on the violin - when you move a little bit to another position and there is no longer a correct tone coming out. Love requires precision. When you are talking to a man about love, it is not Love yet. The words "let us love each other" are not in place. Or somebody says to me, "Tell me about God's Love". I tell him, "Come to the table now". Someone says, "How difficult it is to love!" When you do not know, it is difficult, and when you know, it is easy. When you get up in the morning, sing, "Who has made the Sun shine for me?" As the Sun listens to God to give out warmth and light to the people, to the bugs, to the grasses, to the flowers, so should you act - without any fawning. God gave Adam and Eve to learn what thing obedience is, and they did not learn it. The biggest art is for man to love. Only the perfect man is able to love properly. If you do not know how to love, you have not solved a fundamental problem, which the Genesis wants. The entire Genesis wants you to love it. A brother asked, "In which way can the Love grow inside of man constantly, become increasingly intensive, and expand more and more?" Man can connect with the Invisible world through thought for God, contemplation, and prayer. When man connects with the Invisible world in this way, the Advanced Creatures connect him with those souls on Earth, whom they are in a bond with. Keep this inwardly. When man thinks about God, about the heavenly things, the Love in him increases. The best way for creating conditions for the Love to flow is the prayer. That is a strong practical method. The other methods are secondary. Once you establish a connection with the Prime Cause, the favourable conditions flow in from everywhere. Nature needs to be given a strictly scientific base. Man cannot understand the Love, unless the idea about God does not become clear within him. Christ has said, "I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life" and man has to get into this Way, this Truth, and this Life, in order to understand the Sacred love. It was said, "Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him". The Sacred love is related to the following - for Christ to live in man. Apostle Paul says, "Not I, but Christ lives in me". That is a communion, of which the people have no notion. Man has to finish with the ordinary things and then come to the mystical. When speaking about the Sacred love, it is an inaccessible area, which will reveal itself on its own. The rules there are different. The inaccessible today is accessible for the future. Man should examine that, which is accessible, and leave the inaccessible for later. For this area man has to be ready. This does not depend on the desire of man. In order for him to enter that area, he has to achieve other things. Somebody wants things that are unattainable for him today, because there are other things, which he cannot leave out; why, if subtraction and addition are not understood, division cannot be understood either. But man needs to have aspiration, and in order to have achievements in this area, he has to read the Bible, study the life of great people, who have had insight into this area. When the inner state of man alters, his inner abilities will awaken; otherwise it is useless to speak. You shall elaborate what the prophets, the apostles, Christ have elaborated. They have annunciate. A brother said, "Master, You mentioned in one of the lectures that you have not yet spoken about the Love. And what you have said is still a foreword. You have talked to us about the presents of the Love, but the Love itself - still nothing. How we desire, Master, to hear what you have not revealed to us about the Love; please, guide us to how we should prepare, in order to perceive it". For this purpose, study the Gospel of John and then think for quite a long time on the Love of the Christ, while also pausing upon His Love in relation to His sufferings. How great, deep, and elevated this Love has been, which has led Him to be ready to suffer for the others. Then, it is all in all necessary to meditate upon the Love for five minutes in the morning, at noon, and in the evening. Also, it is necessary to find the good, Divine features in the people, not their human mistakes, and to come to love them. In America we travelled in the train with a Bulgarian. She was a very intelligent and beautiful woman, and she told me the following thought: "When I meet a person, I try to find a good feature of his and I keep my mind on it. And I have never found an exception, I make a friendship, and I do not remember anyone doing mischief to me". She is absolutely right. When you go to somebody else's yard, the dogs will pounce on you, won't they; that is why you have to call forth the master, and he will make the dogs shut up. Translation: when you go to a man, you have to call upon the Divine, and then it will command the human element to shut up. You cannot love a man unless you cease to see his sins. Even in the bad people there are good features. In order to love someone, you need to have a basis for that. You can love him either for his mind, or for his heart, or for his will. A brother asked, "What do your words 'Find a friend inside yourself, so that you come to love him' mean?" This means for you to seek the good sides of a person, and when you find them, he is already inside your heart. A man who loved to criticize a lot was allowed in Heaven by the gate-keeper. He used to say, "This is not right, that is not right". Thus he annoyed them, and they wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible, but they did not know how. Then one figured it out and said, "Outside the world, a great enterprise is being undertaken". The guy said, "Let me go and fix that!" And so he went. After that they closed the gate to Heaven for him and did not let him in anymore. When you meditate upon the Love each day, it will reveal itself to you. That is an inner method. When man apprehends the inner relations, the world will broaden for him. Man is like a child, which gradually learns how to walk in its way. There cannot be any haste; everything - according to age. In the Divine science hasty things do not bring any benefit. A man who is not ready is a full bottle which has to empty in order for a new drink to be poured into it. Man first of all needs to have appreciated the gifts of Love, in order to advance towards the Love itself. The appreciation of the goods of Love is a preparation for the understanding and manifestation of the Love itself. Without having appreciated and understood them, man cannot understand the Love itself.

THE MATTERS OF THE HEART REMAIN FREE The Master took a spud and went to dig the vegetables. We were about ten people, and we followed him in the work. After some time, at about 10 o'clock, we sat down on the meadow to rest. The weather was sunny and calm. A conversation began, in which the Master said the following thoughts: When the Love, the good in you, come along, do not be afraid; the Kingdom of God has come. Without the law of the Love, man cannot be happy. He can delude himself, but upon death, he will lose everything he has gained. Only the free person can love! Only the one who thinks can love! Only the one who loves can live! Only the one who lives can work! You shall not eat from the tree of lovelessness! The lovelessness gives rise to all the contradictions in Life, and the Love gives rise to harmony in Life. Today, in the Love there are many admixed things, which are not Love. There are alien things in the Love, from which the people are afraid. Here at Izgreva, our Ivan had a filly, which was gifted with the habit of stopping in the middle of the road. Ivan would get off the cart, he would caress her, he would give her provender, and she would go again. Then, she stops again. He would get off and caress her and give her something again, so that she could move. Ivan told me, "I apply the evangelical proceeding, and it goes well. The law of Moses does not work at all. You can beat her, but she will not move". Another case: here, on the road, the orderly was driving horses that were pulling the cart. But once the regimental got on the cart, the horses did not move. The regimental got off, the horses moved off. This happened three or four times, and in the end he gave up, "You go, I will walk". Maybe that colonel had negative feelings and the horses did not like him. So employ the evangelical rule for yourselves as well. When man awakens, he will see the One who loves him in his Reality and Beauty. If he understands the Love, he becomes free. The man of Love is the free man. Evil cannot be done unto the one who loves, because around his hair there is a big fire. And to the one, who does not love, evil can be done, because around his hair it is cold. As long as you apply and live inside the Love, you are absolutely free. Once you violate it, you are no longer free; God applies the law towards you. The one who loves you will find you in the most difficult situation and will untie you, he will free you. You are speaking about Ideal Love, but you do not know how to display it. And if they display Ideal Love towards you, you will not know how to appreciate it. In order for a man to have Ideal Love towards somebody, he must not get any closer than 10 km from him, and must watch him through binoculars from there. The Ideal Love infers not seeing any flaw in the one whom you love. How should you understand these 10 km? They represent the Freedom. That is symbolically speaking. A distance of 10 km means the following: giving complete freedom to the one whom you love. In what does the Freedom lie in a particular case? For no one to enter into the place that God has given him. When two people love each other, by moving for a certain period, they will come to the closest distance - next to each other; those are minutes of happiness. Then they move away again, but they will also meet again, and so on. A periodic approach and recession of the souls happens, like the planets in their movement. The heart cannot be given orders. For instance, you cannot make the people love this one or that one. The matters of the heart remain free. If we had left our heart to be guided by God, then the matters would have been settled. Do not stay too close to me, because you are overshadowing me and you are losing me. In the families, when they are physically close together, people start quarrelling. You can be so close to someone, that you can even trip over him. Others are so far away, that you barely see them. It is best to be at such a distance, so that you enjoy communicating and not trip over each other. Should you want to be very close to each, you bury your happiness. Stay away from your beloved, because the closeness will burn you. Does the Sun get closer to you? It warms you from afar. The karma is liquidated through the Love. Some people are amiable to us by the karmic law, but others are antipathetic to us again for the same reason. We have to rise above that law. People wait to be loved. One, who waits to be loved, is poor. Wanting to be loved means wanting to take. And when you love, you give. And it is said, "More blessed is the one who gives than the one who takes". He, who loves, is rich. He does not look to whether they love him or not.

POWER FOR ACHIEVEMENT In a private conversation with a brother, the matter about Love was raised. Love is required for the achievements - the true mother; it is a power for achievement. You cannot achieve something if you do not have Love; otherwise, even if you achieve something, they will take it away from you. In the other world, into which you are going, you will appear ready as disciples who have completed a lower grade; and you will be taught further. Otherwise, they will send you back, because they are noble. Outside the Love there is only anguish. All the other teachings, on which man feeds, look like mouldy bread. Love is a Light, which comes out of God. It is not a thing that can be stored. When it comes out, the Love passes through you, and in the same moment you have to utilize it. Each thing done without Love is condemned to death and gets destroyed. Love is a path, which leads to achievements, for which the human soul longs. God is in the Love, and where God is, everything can happen. Someone complains, "The conditions under which I live are bad". Nobody can help you with the conditions, under which you live, because you do not love. Love, so that an exchange can happen. - "I am getting on well with life!" So you love. I shall love, and the conditions will flow. Every day you can check that on a small scale. With Love, the world can mend. If you do not put God's Love into your work, you will not succeed and it will not produce any fruit. Why you love someone you do not know and you cannot know. It is just a given fact. Somebody loves you. Why? Because he is rich and has what to regale with. Man loves and he is free to love. Man does not love and he is free to not love, but he bears the consequences. Our love, our faith needs to have a practical application. Love puts proper relations among the people and there is no other law that can bring the people together; Love and Wisdom make the true connections. If you love, your prestige will elevate. Loving is a bigger wealth than all the treasures in the world. Christ, in spite of all the earthly crimes, did not hesitate in the least in His Love towards the humanity. When you love, God is pleased, because you give pace to what He does. When you love, you display God's Will. You love in order for God to be glorified! In the future, the human organism will change and man will breathe ether. One, who loves, forms the future organs for breathing. Ether will be breathed through the sympathetic nervous system. When a man, who has Love inside himself, enters a community, he can influence all who are present. They sense the vibrations of his soul and begin to display the Love. When a man comes into a house and the happiness starts flowing there, then he has Love. In the Love, the welfare of all people is our welfare, and our welfare is a welfare to everyone. The Divine body needs materials, with which to work, and those who do love you give them to you. In the brain there is enormous energy, with which you have not yet worked. When you enter the Love, the brains of all people will be in your service. Christ says, "If my words abide in you and you abide in Me, I and My Father will make an abode inside you". If that happens, then the entire Earth will be ours, we will be in everyone, everyone will be in everyone, and then all mistakes we now see will disappear. I wish that one day, all of you, who have loved, reap the fruit of your Love! The Good is a result of the Love. Once the Love comes, this world will start to change, like the stream, which, wherever it passes, the plants blossom and knit.

THE GIFTS OF LOVE The Master called our bivouac on Vitosha "El-Shadai". The area is very magnetic and has an easterly exposure. On a beautiful spring day, when the purple crocus was a decoration to El-Shadai, we climbed up there. We were about 150 people. The Master drew our attention to the violet hue above Kamen Del and said that spring prana had been accumulated. We welcomed the Sunrise along the way. We had rests here and there on the meadows. The sun was abundant. At about 9 a.m. we performed Paneurhythmy on El-Shadai, after that we sang a few songs, and a conversation began. In the conversation, the Master said the following thoughts: You should know which the presents of the Love are. It brings Life, Light, Warmth, Freedom, Strength, Beauty, health, nobility, it brings everything good, all virtues. Even the most distorted love brings blessing. Love brings Wisdom and Truth. A Love without Wisdom and without Truth is not Love. A Love with Wisdom and Truth is the perfect Love. When you love somebody, you display these gifts of the Love. The one you love displays them as well. Love forms the Sacred fire. Love awakens the thought, and the thought awakens the Love. Everything good in man is awakened by the Love. Love is a door to perceiving the Wisdom and the Truth. A man who loves accepts and passes the Divine forces on to the others. The New, the Love, began 400-500 years before Christ. Love is a door, through which man enters the Life. The one, who is not in the Love, is in the nonexistence. Love removes all obstacles, all difficulties, and gives all possibilities. To the one, who is not in the Love, the obstacles are as necessary as they are to the plant, which is not yet ready to live freely, without being stuck into the thick matter of the soil. The head of the plant - its root, is stuck into the ground. Why does the Love bring those gifts? Because with the Love we are in harmony with the entire Cosmos, and the energies of the Whole pour into us and bring in upsurge and renewal. When somebody loves you, you are a garden, he sets a stream going towards you, and everything blossoms inside you. When he does not love you, he stops the stream, and then you recognize that he does not love you. The stream of Life flows towards you, that is why the Love has to be put as a basis in Life, so that the stream of Life does not get diverted from the people; because once it gets diverted, all misfortunes come along. Each one who loves you is a source from which you draw. Be careful with that source, watch not to grieve it with something. When you study the Life, you will see how important the Love is. If the mother does not have any Love towards her son, and if the father does not have any Love towards his daughter, then the life of the mother and the father becomes shortened. The opposite is also correct. You ask, "Why do I have to love?" Your life will get prolonged, you will become happy. Now you are dead people, who are conversing in the grave. The heads of the dead people have to ripen. The dead has to start loving, in order to see that he can live. And if the love of the others does not help us pass from death on to Life, then what is this love? When I love somebody, he has to pass on from death to Life. Then the Love is Divine. If you love, you live. We grow old with our egoism and we grow younger with God's Love. And when man goes to the other world, he should go with Love. Each thought that has passed through the Love is elevated. There is not a moment more beautiful than the one they call Resurrection. That is the moment when man realizes the Love. Should you realize it, you have resurrected. And your Love makes the one you love immortal. A brother asked the Master: "When it is said that the Love gives Resurrection, isn't that Resurrection understood both spiritually, and physically?" There are not two kinds of resurrection. There is only one Resurrection - it is the awakening of the consciousness, the flowing of Love within man, it is a connection with God, it is the knowledge of God. Wasn't it said, "It is a life eternal to know You, the One, the True God and Christ, whom You have sent". To get to know God, this is what Resurrection means. And knowing God happens through Love towards God. The other resurrection - the physical one, is a shadow, a reflection of the process, which happens inside the human consciousness, and it is a consequence of that connection with God. How did Christ revive Lazarus? He loved Lazarus and sent a powerful stream of Love towards him. This Love of Christ awakened and transformed the consciousness of Lazarus, Love awakened inside of Lazarus, which resurrected him physically as well. A change happened within the consciousness of Lazarus and then the body came to life as well. One who wants to get familiar with the question of the creation of the Universe; one who wants to understand the inner meaning of Life; one who wants to gain Wisdom, Knowledge, Strength, health, Immortality; he has to put the Love as a basis of his life. The biggest slavery is the death. It is the biggest adversary, from which we have to free ourselves. An overmastering faith man needs to have. Lovelessness brings death. The solution to that is coming, it cannot be procrastinated. Once the Love comes, the crows will no longer caw, but sing instead. I am speaking symbolically. Love nourishes, Wisdom teaches, Truth liberates. With Love, things happen easily, a thought comes to you at lightning speed about how to act, and you rejoice. When the one who loves you comes to you, if you are sick, you become healthy, if you are bad, you become good. The first food on which man has to feed is the Love. Get closer to the actual food. We have wealth, material, but a lighter is also needed. Everyone who loves you is the lighter. The law of the Love is that where It is, all obstacles, all impossibilities get surmounted. The law of the Love both protects you, and frees you. Once the Love comes, man becomes free from all sufferings and anguishes, they become pleasant to him. Love is an apotheosis of everything in the world, and has to be an uninterrupted process. A sister said, "Master, the Love vanquishes all obstacles, doesn't it?" Love does not vanquish the obstacles, but once they see it, they take to their heels and run, they do not wait for it to come. When Solomon said "all is to no purpose", he meant that everything without Love is to no purpose. The sufferings in the world are lovelessness. To us, what happens in a moment, and what happens throughout the eternity, has an equal value, because what happens now begins today and becomes realized in eternity. When the Love comes, you will have a feeling that you have embraced the Earth and you are carrying it. You have to enter the aura of Love! Now you are looking for a reason to love somebody; that is a demerit. When the Love comes, you cease to see the contradictions. You are indisposed and you feel like kicking the cat, but you say to yourself, "When I kick the cat, another will kick me". When the Love comes, man gets renewed from all sides; the Angels get renewed as well; the animals, the plants - also. But man becomes renewed as a man, the Angel - as an Angel, the plant - as a plant, the rock - as a rock. One, who does not walk on the path of Love, dries up and becomes very sour. The one, who walks on the path of Love, grows. He, who is bitten by the snake of lovelessness, even when speaking to you, with his words he will transfer his poison. But the world will voluntarily submit to the law of Love. Whoever does not submit to this law cannot advance. The Love, which is the new music. I do not want mechanical discipline. Display what has been invested in you. Do not accept anything forced! Without Love, man is a hollow walnut - plant it as much as you want, nothing will come of it. If the Love does not come, the invested gifts will remain underdeveloped, man, with all of his gifts, will remain underdeveloped. The more they love you, the more gifts you will have. Through the Love, people will become gifted. Behind all poets, musicians, artists, there is always someone who loves them. If there was not anyone to love them, nothing could have been expected from them. That is because, when a musician is great, the reason for that lies in that soul, who loves and inspires him.

UNKNOWN LOVE In a private conversation with a brother, the Master said: Our love should be unknown. You love somebody; love him - love does not do anyone any harm. You shall love someone without telling them that you love them. Be a carrier of God's Love and do not worry, do not be afraid of the consequences. Do not tell the people that, let them sense it themselves, that you carry Love. If someone hungry comes to me, I will satisfy him. How much has the saint worked to reach this condition! One has to probe deeper and deeper into the depths of the Genesis. You know that somebody loves you, but still you nudge him, "Tell me, do you love me?" When he tells you that he loves you, with that the love does not increase, on the contrary - it remains in half, because it is very difficult to pronounce the words "I love you". And when you say those words, half of your strength goes there, and then the strength of the Fondness decreases and even becomes quite lost. Gone becomes the Angel of Love. When a man starts to display to you that he loves you very much, eventually he ends up with little, because nothing more can be given than what he has told you, and he ends up with nothing; that is an involution in Love. And in the real Love you feel that initially your love towards someone is very small, very paltry, and you do not express it, but it grows, it increases, until one day you manifest it in its entirety and strength. Thus you go towards the Great love, which is real; that is an evolution in Love. When you ask "do you love me?", three contradictions will be born. If your friend tells you that he loves you, you want to know how much he loves you - a lot or a little. And if he tells you that he loves you the most, a doubt will be born in you. And if he does not fulfill a desire of yours, then you will say, "See, this means you do not love me!" When I love someone, I will not bother him, I will not talk to him about my love, but instead I will go to help him, to do him a favour. Helping a man in need without saying a word to him, without giving him an expression that you love him, that is where the new in the world lies. What does Love require from man? - To love everyone, without them knowing about his love. The smart man has to love all people, without them suspecting that. If you tell someone that you love him, for ten years he will constantly want to make checks to see whether you love him or not. I call Love the following: you enter a house, in which there is a plentiful table, everything is laid, you want them to play for you and music is flowing around, but you do not see anybody. In the garden there is fruit, flowers, the sun is shining, but you do not see anybody. All that you want is there, but you do not see anybody.

THREE LAWS OF LOVE In order to love, you have to enter the Causative world with your consciousness. Whatever channelization you might have, you have to connect with the First source, in order for water to start running, otherwise it is purposeless. Once man re-establishes his relations with the Prime Cause, simultaneously with that he re-establishes his relations with his neighbours as well. God loves you, and in order for you to show that you love Him, you shall pass His Love on to the others. There are two laws of the Love. The first one: when I love the others, this shows that God loves me. The second one: when the others love me, this shows that I love God. If two people do not love each other, they will die. Find the neighbour, whom in this instance you can serve, and, when serving him, God will come to help you. Then you will find God. Your neighbour is that person, whom when you serve, you will find God. You should find the Great within the small. When you love the other people, you give them Life through your Love. First this Love will bring in all the goods and life unto you, and then - unto the others you love. A man lives within God, but God does not live within him. Even though God does not live within him, and he lives within God, God tolerates him, and that is why we shall love him. Then he will open out. Apostle Paul says, "Once you were in darkness, and then you turned to God". It is also possible for the others, who live in darkness, to turn to God. How is this going to happen? God knows how, and therefore do not worry. Should you want to place a strong foundation upon your relations, you have to properly assess what God has invested in every man. A sister from the province complained that nobody loved her. She should not expect to be loved, but she herself should love. Her single mistake is that she waits for the people to love her. The law is: when you love the other people, they will come to love you. You should come to love first, and then the others will come to love you. The third law of the Love reads: Love towards oneself. Do not mix up egoism with the expression "to love yourself". "Love towards oneself" in the esoteric sense is to give pace to the Divine within yourself and to have an aspiration towards perfection.

HOW YOU SHALL LOVE GOD We went on an excursion to Vitosha at 8:30 p.m., and reached Bivaka at about midnight. Entering a communion with the Bright creatures was our goal. At about 1 a.m. we lined up across the meadow at a distance of one meter from each other. Thus we spent 15 minutes in meditation and secret prayer. At dawn, after performing the prayer programme, a conversation began. In the conversation the Master said: Today the world is full of contradictions and hardships. Everywhere the world is a hospital. The smallest creatures suffer. You are walking, and you can trip over some rock. However, there is a Real world without those contradictions. Be constantly plunged into the Reality, so that you can live consciously within God. Each moment, man should aspire to see the manifestation and the presence of God in the smallest things around him. All matters can be settled only through the Love. With the law of violence, nothing is achieved. The love towards each creature must be like the one between Radames and Aida, or in each creature we must see Aida. Actually, the love towards Aida is a Love towards God. This is a searching for God in this or that form, but in order to see Aida in each creature, you must enter the Real life. A brother said, "Before talking at a meeting, I connect with the Lord, I experience love towards the Lord, and then I send that, which He accepts, towards the people, and when I talk, I have a wondrous result". To love God more than everything, means to be a monk. When man sticks with his Love to God, he breaks the connections with everybody, in order to be alone with Him. That is not an easy job. Man should love the other people, but he should not make connections. This means for man to be alone with God and to love without establishing connections. A brother said, "You said in one of the recent lectures what monk means. It means that he loves everybody, but does not connect with them, and connects only with the Lord". To be a monk does not mean running away from the world. Man has to learn to serve the Lord in the world. If he is disturbed about who and how to love, he is not a monk. He needs to have learned that long ago! If he has not learned it, he is not a monk. The evolution in the world begins with Love towards God, before that it is an involution. Once man transgresses, he will fall, he will involute, but after that he will ascend and be a carrier of the Divine in the world. If you are increasing your Love, you have a future. Call upon God in times of difficulty - where no one can help, and you will see. Come to love the Lord, and in the future you will gain everything. You cannot live consciously if you do not love the Lord. Love towards one is dangerous, and Love towards God is safe. Our love towards the Lord is a response of God's Love towards us. The thought of Apostle Jacob, which I explained to you once ("How will you love God, whom you do not see, when you do not love your brother, whom you see"), has to be understood mystically, like this: whoever does not love God in his brother, how will he love that God, whom he has not seen? The weak side of a person who has no respect and esteem for the others is that he has no Love towards God. If you have a correct idea of God, then only by thinking about Him, if you are ill, you will recover, and if you do not understand a question, it will clarify immediately. What you perceive from God you shall utilize as God requires. The salvation of man depends on perceiving the Love, using inside himself what he can use, and sending it towards the people. He must give as much as he has taken. Unless man connects with the Lord, he lives under the law of the karma. Now birth, marriage, etc, is under the law of karma. If you live in the law of Love, you leave the law of karma. You then have Freedom. The most important thing is that man has a sacred feeling towards the Lord, and then his sorrows and sufferings will momentarily disappear. In that situation, man feels strong, brave, and is able to do everything. Should he move away from God, he becomes weak again. In order to alter his fate, man has to alter his relation towards the Lord. Each one, who moves away from the Centre, becomes enslaved, and when he gets closer, he becomes free. The Love towards God will give a meaning to our lives; it will free us from limitations. Love is food. The Immortal is there. Let us acquire a connection with the Lord, so that we can find that element, which we are lacking - the immortality. That is the lost key, the lost word. When you make use of the water in a bottle, it is a temporary process; soon the bottle will empty. The process has to be eternal. When man enters the Boundless, he no longer dies. We should know that there is One, whom we can rely on. Whether you are a butterfly, a bug, or a worm, it makes no difference. But know that there is One, whom you love and who loves you. Man has to be sincere, pure, to always have Love and proper relations towards the Lord, so that He and the White Brotherhood can subserve him. If man is left alone to do something, he cannot accomplish anything significant. The Love towards God can mend the world, and then the true Life will come. You shall have only one Father, and everybody else shall be your brothers and sisters. When this idea becomes alive in you, things will get fixed. Should the idea of "Love towards God" enter the world, it will cardinally solve all problems. When we come to love the Great in the world, and see It in the light, in the wind, in the water, in all the creatures, in all of the tiniest things, the world will mend. When you love, you care, and you serve, you are one of the new people and your heart will be filled with Joy! After we had tea, we performed Paneurhythmy on the meadow. After that we gathered around our beloved Master and sang many songs. At about 10 a.m. the Master ordered us to spread separately in the hazel-groves for meditation. We had the communal lunch on the meadow, where we formed in a big circle. The Master was inside the circle. The day was one of the unforgettable. At around 4 p.m., after a joint prayer, we set off downwards.