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LOVE TOWARDS GOD On September 23rd, 1941, we set out to Cherni Vrah. The excursion was four-days - until September 26th inclusive. At first we were nine people, but on the second day, more came, and we became twelve people. In the afternoon we reached the top and settled in the observatory, where the observer Gosho and his mother, Grandma Maria, welcomed us very kindly. The Master was invited into their room, and all of us took the adjacent common room. In the morning we made for Reznyovete - two peaks, lying at approximately 20 minutes distance from Cherni Vrah. A thick curtain of fog was covering everything from our sight. We spent some time in meditation and prayer. After that, a conversation began. Here are the main thoughts, which the Master expressed: Our Love towards God takes up the highest place in the human head. The most elevated one within the human mind is the feeling of love towards God. When a person thinks only about himself, he needs to know that he is somewhere below. The centre of personality is further behind the centre of the Love towards God, and it is more base as well. The conscience, justice, and benevolence are also ranked after that. In some people, the centre of fortitude stands higher than the one of Love, and this position is unnatural. In the souls of all people, the centre of the Love is the highest. The love, which young people have, is the lowest peak; after that, the love of the mother towards the child is a higher one, the friendship is even higher, and in the Divine world, a higher peak than that of the Love towards God does not exist. After that rank the peaks of Faith, Hope, benevolence, etc, and between them, valleys form. Such peaks are forty in number; actually, on the head there are up to 120 tops in their subdivisions, and along with them - another 120 valleys. You see that before you stand vast expanses for studying, and you shall rejoice, even when you are being born and when you are dying, you will always be studying. The Love towards God is a great impulse. God is the highest top, from where all other streams take on their destination. We have to turn to the rational, which is in the Nature, but there has to be someone who will show us the way there. If we want to climb up the highest peak, someone who has been there has to show us where to go through. The English wanted to climb up Mount Everest, they were carrying oxygen apparatuses and whatnot, but their endeavours did not succeed, until the monks of the Himalayas gave them instructions. We aspire to the following: directly entering communication with the Lord. Man has to love the Lord in such a way and be so filled with wealth and Life through his Love towards Him that he shall not need to seek some people to love him. When he loves God, he loves everyone and everything. With this Love he does not feel emptiness, which this or that person should fill up inside him, because he lies in the abundance. Once you realize that there is something higher than you, there is no way that you cannot love the Lord. To love God is the biggest privilege, and people can glorify me for writing something; these are evanescent things, i.e. outer ones. The biggest weal for me is that I love God! When I see the Sun and benefit from its rays, can the thousands of candles, which people will light, benefit me then? There is an important matter, which I must settle - what should my love towards the Lord be. Here is the important question! Big is the joy of Love. Without expressing it, you will rejoice. You love the Lord - that is where the secret is! It is true that everybody cannot love everyone. But that everybody can love each everyone, that is also true. Our task is to tell the people that when we have Love, we have everything. To love the Lord is the only straight thought, with it I hold on to the right direction. It always has to begin with Love towards God, otherwise nothing is achieved. As the light and the warmth are necessary to the physical world, so is Love an inner necessity. You need one thing - put in the Love as a basis, or I add: love God, believe in your neighbour, and hope in yourself! The entire capital is the Love. The following law is very true: when man calls upon God with all of his heart, God will answer him from everywhere. An acquaintance of mine told me, "I was travelling on a hot day, I was passing through fields, I had nothing to eat. I stopped by a pear-tree to have some rest, I saw that the branches were stripped of fruit, and I wanted at least 2-3 pears to be there. A breeze came, it shook the tree, and 7-8 pears fell down. As if they were waiting for me! That made a strong impression on me. I have read many arguments, my desire was fulfilled. The pears fell to me like honey. They were sweet pears". Disbelief has crippled the people. The crippled man cannot see, and starts to believe that he cannot see. He has damaged his eyes. His sight has to be regained. The mountains, the air, the grain, the water, are product of the Rational creatures. When we eat bread, we are in connection with those who have produced it. When we drink water, we are in connection with the Creatures that have produced it. Therefore, you shall drink the finest water, in order for you to connect with them. When you look at a picture, you connect with the painter. Also, when you read what Christ has said, you come into connection with the Christ. That is how you should apprehend things. The first thing that is required for the Inner school is that everybody aspires to form a connection with the First Principle in the world. The first manifestation of this connection is the Love. The disciple must have a connection and should not be disconcerted by anything that happens around. All fear shall disappear! Man should learn first to come to love the Lord; then he will be able to come to love everything. Man has to be first and foremost a carrier of the Love of God. When he loves God, he will recognize that God loves him, and will display Love towards all creatures. If he trusts in the people to love him, he alienates himself from God. Not that it is bad for the people to love him (let them love him and let him rejoice at it, because God manifests), but first of all he needs to trust in God's Love. Your heart must be free, do not pawn it anywhere. Grant your heart to the Lord! You can give to whoever wants from your pitcher, but at the same time you shall send him to the fountain in the mountains. You will love some person, but at the same time you shall send him to God, in order for him to perceive God's Love and become a carrier of it, otherwise the purpose is not achieved. When man meditates on the Love, let him alter the entire setting of his consciousness. If during meditation he breaks all connections with the earthly, his soul will rise up. This has to happen during meditation on God and on Love towards God. Put in action the first law - Love towards God, then love towards the neighbour, and finally, love towards yourself. First and foremost, we shall work for the Lord, then for the neighbour, and finally for ourselves. And now the world is upside down. That is a wrong way. An Englishman thinks first and foremost of the English people, and then of the other nations. So does the Bulgarian, the Serbian, etc. This is not bad, but a time will come when an Englishman will think of the other nations the same way he does for his own nation. The same thing will happen to the Bulgarian, the Serbian, etc. When Christ said that you must deny your father, your mother, your brother, your sister, this means that you must not love them more than God. Christ told that rich young man, 'You lack one thing. Go and give away everything to the poor, and come and follow Me!" The rich young man did not accept, his love for wealth was bigger than his love towards Christ. Only a strong man can work for Christ, and the strong one must have knowledge. In order to have knowledge, he has to learn. And to learn, he needs to have Love. Everything comes unto man according to the degree of Love. When we love the Lord, we will recognize Him. We have to pass on to what connects all rational souls into one whole, and which gives Life a meaning, and that is God. A day will come, when people will recognize God the way it should be. And Love solely is a means, through which we can recognize the essence of Life - the Lord. A thing we do not love remains unknown to us. When you do not love a creature, how can you recognize it? And when it does not love you, how can it recognize you? If we know the Lord, we gain Eternal life, because it comes out of Him. It is said in the Writ, "When you look for Me with all of your heart, you will find Me". The expression "when you look for Me with all of your heart" infers "when you come to love the Lord". In order to recognize the Lord, you have to come to love Him. When you recognize the Lord, you will recognize the people as well. And when you recognize the people, you will come to love them. God loves you, and if you do not love Him, it means that you do not respond to God's Love. If you are being loved, you have to love too. It is said, "Each tree that does not produce fruit gets shoveled, so that it can be determined whether it is going to produce any fruit, and if it does not, it gets cut down". So, man is given conditions to produce fruit, and the fruit is his loving. You shall love the One who has given you all those gifts that you have. When you love a lot of people, you actually love only One. People are windows, through which you see God - through their souls you see Him. When you look at a creature, around which there are mirrors, you see it in many places, yet it is one. That is God. The human soul is fruitless if God's Love does not fill it. Until God's Love and the Spirit of God fill the human soul, man is a stranger, a foreigner on Earth. Let us give thanks for today, let us thank the Divine Spirit, who descends and possesses the people. God intends to save all of humanity, to put Peace, order, Light inside the minds, and for the people to start living in Love, not like so far - in war. When the Divine Spirit and the Love, which will save the world, descend, everything happens then. And all our thoughts, feelings, and deeds get blessed then. Everything you do, do it for the Glory of God. After that we performed the gymnastic exercises and made for the observatory, where we stopped. Regarding the fog, the Master said: This time is like a young bride. Several days she has her veil on, after that she unveils herself. Tomorrow it will surely become unveiled. These rocks here have existed for millions of years, and they can reveal the story. They have descended from above, because the peaks here were once higher. In the battle between the two lodges, the White one wins. Now recruits are being enlisted for the New culture. In the Invisible world, the recruits are at the front, and here the recruits are at the rear. After that, we entered the observatory. There was a conversation about various matters. The Master said: If someone has been a scoundrel for 20-30 years, and repents after that, then the signs of his scoundrelism disappear from his head and his face, but on his hands they remain. Changing them there is most difficult. When the Saturnian lines goes out of the Lunar hill, others are the factors of the human life, and when it goes out of the middle, from where the Life line goes out, then mainly the human himself is a factor of his life. There is no reason why man should stray from the physical world, but he has to harmonize with it. Invisible rays come out of the eyes. And if they are directed downwards, man is a materialist, and if they are turned above, man has an aspiration towards God. The right and the left ear are not completely identical. If the right ear is bigger, this shows a bigger activity today. The left ear shows the past, and the right one - the present. There are two kinds of criminal types: the first one was created by circumstances, and the other one was born a criminal. Those are two different things. That criminal type, who was not born such, can change more easily, because the criminality in him is more superficial. They placed a plate of pears in front of the Master. He gave everybody a piece and commended the Creatures that had created those forms, and said that they knew something of everything. Then there was a talk about earthquakes. If an earthquake is going to be powerful, the crabs come out of the water and flee in disorder over the land. The dogs leave the towns and the roosters cease to sing. Those animals have very fine, sensitive organs for perception of electromagnetic disturbances in the atmosphere before an earthquake. Several days before an earthquake occurs, you too feel a big anxiety, which ceases once it is over. There are rational forces behind all those processes. The continents move. Also, when we look at these rocks of Vitosha, we think that they are randomly scattered, however, they are just in place, and if they are displaced, there will be reasons for that. Everything changes; for instance, frost bound Siberia has a future, because the climate there will get warmer. Because of the dense fog we spent the afternoon in the observatory and continued to talk. Somebody complains that he has not seen a bright day and that there is nobody who can love him. No, God loves him. The Bright creatures come to man, they help him, and after that they go away. There is an archive for all creatures. When the leaders of karma see that a man, who is going to be embodied on Earth, needs more softness, they order for him as a child to receive more from his mother, and if he needs more hardiness - from the father. The predetermination does not limit our will at all. Only when man does something evil, he limits himself and feels that he has done something which is not in accordance with the laws of Nature. And then he has to come to great suffering, in order to break himself of an already archaic habit of his. Swedenborg says that those who live in the First heaven cannot see those who live in the Second. And those who live in the Second heaven cannot see those who live in the Third. The higher ones descend to the lower one. And when the lower ones decide to go higher, they cannot withstand. The next day we went to Reznyovete early again. Cherni Vrah is 2 286 meters high, and the big Rezen is 4 meters lower than it. There was not any fog. The sky was crystal clear and there was a wondrous sunrise. After meditation, prayer, and songs, a conversation began, in which the Master said the following basic thoughts: Unless man knows God's Love, he cannot be of any use neither to himself, nor to the others. Come to love the Lord and begin to think the way He thinks, and act the way He does. If we come to love the Lord, we will come to love all creatures as well. Love has a relation with the Divine, but it is not the love that is being applied today. As long as people love this one or that one, they have not reached the Love yet, and cannot have a result. But it is good still, because they will reach it, only later. Let man love the Lord! When he sees a form, let him see the Divine in it, let him send a love stream, and be on his way. You shall direct your Love towards the mountain; you shall direct your Love towards the beauty. All the evil comes when the love towards oneself is greater, and all the good comes when the Love towards God is greater. Once we determine our relations towards the Eternal Love, we also become interested in all that God has created. "Love towards oneself" infers Love towards the Divine within the man. "Love towards the neighbour" infers Love towards the Lord, who works within the others. Somebody said, "How are we going to find God?" Why, God is very close to man. We have to love God, in order to accept from Him the Love and then go and apply it. In order to love the people, you have to go to God earlier; otherwise you will not have any capital. When you love somebody, he will be keeping the fact that you love him inside his consciousness even after thousands of years. We shall love that God, who manifests inside all people. Faith is a path to God, and with the Love we have a communion with God. Should we have Love towards God, we perceive the Divine and become its carriers. When we come to love the Lord, we will descend along with Him, and He will teach us how to love. It was said, "All will be taught by God". If you invest in yourselves the idea of the existence of God, then before you stands a great future. Become a pipe, through which God can help his children, his neighbours. People think that they love each other. I believe in their love only if they love God. If they do not love Him, their love towards the people resembles a fire, which is only valuable as long as it is inflamed, and when it burns out, nothing is left of it. God is the highest ideal, towards which man aspires. Christ says, 'You have been given to understand, not the others". And now it has been given to more souls than it was then. And after another two thousand years it will be given to even more souls. This is for the devoted: Love is a door for Wisdom and Truth; Truth is a door for Love and Wisdom, and Wisdom is a door for the application of Truth and Love. Some care to be loved and suffer from that. Let them love the Lord, and they will be loved - that is the secret! Is an Englishman not reputable because he is a member of the English country? If you love the Lord, you are a member of the Kingdom of God, and there is always someone to cover your back. If your relations towards the Lord are proper, then all other relations will be proper as well. Nobody can convince me that, without loving God, he is able to love someone. And the people's falling out of love is due to that. Because if the Name of God sits inside my mind, I will not be angry with the people. We are constantly having the delusion that we are loved. It is possible, but this should not hinder us the slightest bit. The main principle is that God loves us. And the other matter will settle by itself. You can never force the people to love you, because this consciousness is not in them yet. The other law is: whatever your relation towards God is, such will be the relation of the people towards you. You cannot love the Lord and for people to behave badly to you. If you have an adversary, it is you who have created it, it is not God. Should you change your relation towards God, should you come to love God, that man will also change - he will not hate you. He hates you because you do not have a proper relation towards the Lord. There is a Truth, in which when man becomes convinced; he will have an unshakable basis. Each day we should go to God to hear a word from Him, and then we will be happy and we will accomplish the finest things. You shall pray, until you hear a word from God. When man comes to Love God, then all the flowers, grasses, trees, all creatures will smile at him. If you do not have the Divine, everyone will chase you away; if you have it, everyone will welcome you. It was said, "When the ways of man are pleasing to God, God reconciles him with all of his enemies". If you are not reconciled with the others, it means your ways are not convenient. A brother asked, "How should the words of Apostle Jacob be understood, "How can you love God, whom you do not see, when you do not love those that you see?" Apostle Jacob has told this to worldly people, not to advanced disciples. He has talked to those who have been far away from understanding the mystical ideas. With the love towards oneself and towards his neighbour, man partly solves the issue. Those who bear love towards the neighbour have a good heart. It comes natural that the people are not able to make a leap from the old love to the new one. In order to pass on to the New love, man has to hold God within himself as a high ideal and to work for Him. A sister asked, "Why are there not any models of the ideal Love on Earth?" Often the reason that there is no realization of that Supreme love is the external influences, even the people themselves. Above all else there has to be souls prepared. If at the greatest trials, which befall the man, he endures without impairing his Love towards the Lord with anything, it shows that his trial was successful. The Love of man towards the Lord is recognized at the greatest trials, sufferings and misfortunes, which befall him. Man is ready to sacrifice any other idea, everything, for the Love towards God; without it there is disappointment, his happiness is in the love towards the Lord. During the conversation, the matter of forgiveness was raised. When you forgive someone and it is unpleasant for you to see him, it is not forgiveness. Whether he deserves it or not, you shall put this aside, you shall love him for the Lord. Someone might be unpleasant to you, but for God he must be pleasant to you. If people are irritating you and you cannot overcome it, then you have not understood. Solve this little problem. You can solve it with a straw, because then it becomes so hard, that even with thousands of leva you will not be able to solve it. Someone discontent comes to you and brings his thought in and you need to have a strong inner life, so that you can bring your thought into him. An experienced philosophy has to be applied. Your sufferings are small. You have not tried the big ones. I have passed through them and I know them. I know what suffering is, and I know how to settle those matters. For some, sufferings are for guidance, and for others - for testing what they are studying. The entire Life is a Great school. When you see a worm, do not despise it. It is a creature that wants to learn the Life through this form. Here on Earth we honor the big people, and above they honor the small creatures. After that we went back to the observatory. During the day we went about the vicinity and welcomed visitors from Izgreva. On September the 26th, filled with blessing, we set off downwards. Upon descending, we stopped at several places for some rest and conversation with the Master. At dusk we were at Izgreva.

WHOEVER HEARS HIS VOICE WILL REVIVE It was Wednesday morning, and after the lecture of the Youth esoteric class we went outside by the slates in front of the reception-room of the Master. The Sun had risen just a while ago and Vitosha, which in its upper half was capped with snow, turned red before our eyes. We were contemplating that picture, and when it faded, the Master said: Thousands of creatures listened to my lecture, and when they left, they went to Vitosha, greeted the day, bid us farewell from there, and they went away. After that we formed in rows on the meadow and practised the Six gymnastic exercises. When we got back in the hall, a conversation began, in which the Master said among other things: If I were you and I listened to the lectures I am giving you, I would have had a magical voice, so musical, that no one in the world has ever heard such. Then, I would have been able to paint ingeniously. The people who follow God are gifted! The most gifted people, the geniuses, the talented, those are occultists. The present pious ones think that when they become pious, they will not need any studying. They look like the one who, when he receives wealth, says, "I do not need work". When you become rich, from that time on you have to brace yourself to study. Only the Divine beginning is in position to make man strong. Some say that humanity has culture. Leave that! You have to connect with God, God's presence should be within you. That is where the strength is. A sister asked: "How do we get the strength to help people?" Through connection with the Great rational beginning. Only from It can you gain strength, and by loving It and being in connection with It at that. The world is one. There is unity in the world, there is unity in the mind; find a place in it, from where you can obtain. God gives his Spirit without limit. But when a soul has not completed its development, the Divine cannot manifest. Those who have not completed their development have no frank communication with the Lord and cannot have one. Not that this is not possible, but even if God spoke to them, they would not understand him. I wish you to hear the first word of the Great rational beginning! It will be not from the outside, but from the inside. It was said, "Whoever hears His voice will revive". When you hear the first word, it is a Rebirth. In the soul of the disciple there has to always be a conversation about the Great rational beginning. This way he is free and within his soul a profound Peace sets in. There are truths in the world that are inaccessible to the human consciousness; this is caused by an indisposition of mind. Let the disciple study the inner side of the mystical life and aspire to imagine it clearly. A brother asked, "How the mystic talents in man should be developed?" Here is how: reflect on some verses, sentences, etc, and study the Gospel by John. Also, in whatever hour a thought about God should come to you, accept it, in everything see God, who tests you and brings you certain blessings every day. In order for us to be good, God has to manifest through us. God chooses the forms, through which he manifests, on his own. The Good - that is God himself. In connection with the Rational beginning, the human soul blossoms. Unless man understands things, he cannot apply them. You cannot read unless you have light. If the Sun within you do not shine, the plants within you cannot bloom, and the fruit you expect cannot ripen. In the world, the opinion of the Lord has to be reliable to you. There is no other who loves you more than Him. If you have a good thought, you are open to the Divine light. If you have good wishes, you are open to the Divine Love. If you have readiness and good will, you are open to God's power. The thought is of big importance, it is a condition for drawing the Divine weal, and for man to become receptive towards it. When you think about God, you gain His qualities. Do not think about yourself that much, but think about the Lord. There is a law: you become whoever you think about; you become the same as the people you surround yourself with. An experienced philosophy has to be applied, because there is a lot of theoretical talk about what is not understood.

THE SACRED CONNECTION Imagine a lake; if all of its connections with the source are broken, what will happen to it? - It will run dry. That is loss of faith. When you lose your faith in this small life you have, nothing is going to be left. The loss of faith is a breaking of the connection with the Real. Man must never break that connection. What do you have to do? Connect with the Real. A man who is not connected with God looks like a loose leaf, and the wind blows it all around; that is why you have to be connected with God. If someone doubts in God, he has lost everything. Once someone doubts in God, however advanced he might be, an entire catastrophe happens within him. Man is connected with God and he must not look for side connections. It is said, "Do not connect with the world". One connection is enough. We suffer because of many connections. Yesterday I said that I acknowledge above me only God and all other Creatures that are perfect. Man builds a house and it becomes his idol, or he gains wealth and makes it his idol, or gives birth to a child and enthrones it for an idol. This is a false basis, because for a basis we have to place only our relations towards God, i.e. towards the One who has created us, whom we owe our lives. The spiritual people need to have a complete unity with God. When man is not in connection with Him, he is in the relative reality. What constantly rejuvenates is the Divine, and what constantly ages is the human. The true rejuvenation lies in this - for man to enter the Complete life. Someone who is absorbed only with material things is excluded from the table. And the one who has entered the spiritual life has found a treasure, a mine. The one in which you believe has to enter into you. Do not break what God makes inside you; should you separate from Him, you isolate yourself. And when you always hold God in your thought, you are connected with Him and He works inside you and aids you. God always has to talk in the words of the disciple. Then he is free, the fear disappears, and profound Peace sets in within his soul. When you are too far down, hopelessly down, in the greatest suffering, then God is above you and is lending you a helping hand. But you need to have that rope - the Faith, so that He can grip it and pull you up. When man thinks he is strong, God withdraws and leaves him to try his strength, to see what he can do on his own. When you fall, say, "God, I am powerless, You are strong, manifest Yourself!" And then God will manifest. Man should hold on to God as the Earth - to the Sun. When you think about God, you will grow. The thought is from God. It was said, "We will be taught by God". There is a way in which man can learn from God how to think. When you want to acquire knowledge, first of all you will have a desire to understand God's ways, and when you understand them, God will send you to learnt people, who will teach you the details that they are studying. Disciples of Christ believed that Christ had descended from God, and the Divine passed on from Him to them. If they had not believed, this could not have happened. When contact is made between man and God, the Divine Light and Strength pour into him and he gains an insight, he understands things with clarity, and acquires a higher consciousness. We will be well when we become instruments of God and when He manifests through us; however, should we influence the Divine, God in us will not be free and we will be restricting Him. A brother mentioned to the Master about some, who displayed disheartenment. When man is without the Lord, disheartenment sets in. Man has to work. They want to easily enter the Kingdom of God. We need to have inspiration. In Plovdiv, a violinist played before me and said that she had never played in her life the way she did then. Her father, who was watching her from the side, expressed his admiration that he had never seen her so beautiful. She had inspiration. When you want something and they give you ten times more, it means that you have fulfilled God's Will. Sometimes you want, but they do not give you. So you have not fulfilled God's Will. When man finds himself among contradictions, the idea that the Rational sits behind all things, that a Great rationality leads everything, gives him Peace, serenity, harmony, and then he solves all contradictions. Always when you are discouraged, once the Divine thought comes, everything immediately disappears and you feel at ease. When the Divine thought goes away, discouragement comes again, which is an animal state. Someone insults you; you pass by him, and look askance at him. Why are you looking at him like that? When man is not implementing God's Will, he is stealing. When he is implementing it without Love, he is borrowing. And when he is implementing God's Will with Love, he receives for free. You get up in the morning, and until you come back in the evening, what have you accomplished for God? He, who is in an unceasing contact with God, is a source. Then all possibilities are open to him, he enters into new conditions. I caught up with a sister who was carrying a heavy pitcher from the tiny fountain by Dianabad; she would often stop to take a rest and I told her, "There is a way in which the pitcher will become light to you, and you will carry it very easily. Here is the way: say to yourself, "God and I are carrying this pitcher." This applies to every other work you are doing. Once you say to yourself, "God and I are going to do it!" You will then succeed. Everything that is not Love does not endure. The outer love, with which people are now marrying each other, is a parget. Today you plaster up the house, but tomorrow the plaster will collapse. The present marriage is not efficacious, because they fall in love on the outer side, on the fa3ade, they do not form a spiritual connection, and the plaster flakes away. Who is your relative? The one who loves God is your brother and sister. You cannot achieve any longing of yours without the Love that ensues from God, without that Light, which ensues from God, and without that Light, which is spread out by the Spirit of God. The reason for the sin is very small. In the Spiritual world, when you merely turn your back on a creature, you have already transgressed. And when your turn your face towards it, you have already repented and have mended your ways. You shall hold your face towards God. A suffering appears to someone, and he stops thinking about God; why, he has then already turned his back on the Lord. That is the reason for the sin. The Great rational beginning reigns everywhere, and its ways are unrecognizable. All creatures are under Its control. In It we live, move, and exist. When man cannot understand the Divine, the negative forces in Nature take over him and he allows transgression in. In India there are fakirs, whom the English hire to hunt pearl oysters from the bottom of the ocean. The fakirs concentrate, and the sharks do not approach them. The fakirs have learned the art of practicing influence upon the animals. In connection with the Great rational beginning, man is surrounded. Life is a very complicated tangle - an interweaving between spirits and forces - and man cannot easily come out of these conditions with his ordinary consciousness, but only when he looks upon the Life with a higher consciousness. Sometimes you feel abandoned, and in that loneliness you should seek the Divine - wherever you are, hear the voice of God - by the fountain and by the trees, everywhere. There should be no interruption of the consciousness, and it should be awake.

GOD'S WILL The implementation of the Will of God stands higher than being a king, a bishop, an Angel, etc. A person who does his own will is a slave and everyone gets in his way. A person who performs God's Will is free. God's Will hovers above everyone, and at the same time it carries everyone. Everyone obeys it, but you should never say, "I am performing God's Will"; this is the outer side, you had better realize that from the inside. When you are good, strong and wise, you are performing it, and if you are not such a person, you are not performing it and you are an ordinary man. The bad people also perform God's Will. Scoundrels were robbing rich and very rich people; a poor man stumbled upon them and raised his hands: "Rob me!" The scoundrels said to him, "Wait a minute, what are you taking us for, we have an order to rob the rich". They gave him a sum a let him go. Someone wants from you ten or a hundred levs, you do not feel like giving; then scoundrels come and rob you of a hundred thousand. Should the evil become master, it is bad. And this is when man wants to do something personally for himself. And God has not subordinated man to evil. He has freed him. And we are responsible for misusing the Freedom, which God has given us. We restrict ourselves when we are not performing God's Will. When two brothers fight at home, it is not God's Will in even the slightest degree. People have to become servants of the Rational, the Good. To perform God's Will, to glorify God's Name, and to work for the establishment of God's Kingdom, are living laws. One thinks that he can elevate on his own. No! He cannot do that alone, but when God and Christ come to make an abode within him, he will understand the Truth and will elevate. The Invisible world has a great task and many years will pass until it brings brightening into the human consciousness. Man regrets staying behind, but he does not regret having not implemented God's Will. And that is what is important - to implement God's Will, and where he is, it is a subsidiary question. If he has not worked, he should regret that God's work has remained behind. You are people who carry out your will and that of the others very well, but you implement God's Will very little. And the Will of God is sacred. Because the Light, the Knowledge, the Truth come from God, we say, "His Will be done!" Thus, the new will be created in man, and only thus can it be renewed. The verse says, "Those who wait for God will renew". When the Divine comes, it renews. Each organ can function, but it should function in accordance with the Whole. If we perform God's Will, God will be with us, and then we will come into the implementation of the other laws, everything will happen easily. A sister asked, "Why is our will not always in accordance with the Will of God?" There are enemies, who want to make you have wishes that are adverse to God's Will. On Earth, when you perform God's Will, you are close to God, and if you do not perform it, you are far from Him. Crime consists of not implementing God's Will. A sister asked, "How can we tell that we have implemented God's Will?" When we implement God's Will, we have Peace, Joy, Freedom, scope, breadth, and when we do not implement it - disturbance, discontent, indisposition. Christ says, "These flowers God has dressed in those clothes, and you he will dress even more when you are implementing God's Will". You will be dressed unlike any queen has ever been dressed. The head of everything is God's Will. When you are implementing it, the Rationality, the Love, the health, the Wisdom, the wealth, the joy will come; the beginning of each person will be the implementation of God's Will. A brother asked, "What is an implementation of God's Will?" To do what you do not want to. For instance, you receive a guest, you have a piece of bread, and you say to yourself, "I have enough for myself". The Will of God says, "Give half of it", and your heart sinks within you, you do not want to give a gram. We often put a faucet on the goods of God and then complain. When we are not implementing God's Will, we plug up the goods of God, and then suffer. Some want to have the goods of God without implementing His Will. Why, this is stealing! How much does the Sun want you to pay it for all the works the Earth produces and which it grows? There is someone who can think about the people, and they are obliged to implement God's Will. If we do not implement it, contradictions come. From the Heavens they do not wish to employ a guard's method, they will allow you to do whatever you want, and then you will pay for what you have done. One who ceases to perform God's Will degrades, descends, and loses his Freedom. Study the history: the Jews, who did not live by God, were being captured by other nations, and then God would come to free them. You are all deluding yourselves when you are saying, "Look, that one does not live by God, and his things are going pretty well". They are not going well at all, he has put a trivet underneath himself, the fire is already blazing up, and he will start burning. If we coordinate ourselves and implement God's Will, then the Rational forces, which have a relation towards us, will also coordinate themselves and implement ours. When you work with the Rational creatures, your work gets on. Their work is the common work. And when you are doing this common work, the Rational creatures will be helping you. When they are helping you, things happen easily; should you be left alone, you are not doing well. Someone says, "Nobody is paying any attention to me". Above all else, "paying attention" is an inner process. On the other hand, it is not important whether people love you or not, but whether you are performing God's Will. Man has come for God, to implement His Will, not to fulfill the desire of this or that person.

IN THE REGIMENT OF CHRIST We welcomed the sunrise, and Life seemed to me as a religious rite. The grass, on which we were stepping, was decorated with millions of dew-drops, and around us, the pines, which symbolize the eternal aspiration of the Spirit towards the heights, had their tops rising above. Yes, we were in a not-made-by-a-human-hand temple. We formed the wheel of the Paneurhythmy. The Master entered inside the circle, in the center the orchestra started playing, the wheel was set in motion, and our souls began to quiver. Later we found ourselves in another wheel - a conversation began. The one who is born inwardly will desire to render everything he has gained - knowledge, power, and wealth, to God. The Great rational beginning is in the first place of his consciousness. If man wants to be famous, then he is not in the Reality. Everyone, according to what he has, is a cashier of God. Why, when they get into a tight corner, do people come to God? What need does He have of them, when they have lost the best time, in which they could have worked for the Divine? In his youth, man says that it is not the time for him to work for God. When he gets old, he finds out that he is no longer suitable. No, solve the problem now, and say, "I will go to serve! No sufferings, nor detractions, nothing is going to stop me!" A brother said, "A friend of mine wants to serve God". Not only should he have the desire, but he should realize it. With all his strength he should work under the conditions that he is in. Man always tries to arrange his material matters and then work for his soul. However, he arranges and arranges, and just when he has arranged them, he dies. That is why even in the present moment you should begin to work for God. When man works for himself, there is no result, because he forms long waves; they are slow and go only near. When he works for God, he forms short waves, which are fast, go far, and produce a big result. The Will of God should be done without much talk about it. Be like that grocer who would put five grammes over the commodity for luck without pointing it out, but whoever would check would know that. There is One who lives within the people and when you are doing someone a favour, do it because of Him. Do unto the others as God does unto you. God begins each work, then passes it on to the people so they too can do something and have a share in it, in order for them to receive a blessing; eventually in the end He again completes it. One who wants to walk in the Divine way must employ the new methods in his life. If he wants to receive Resurrection, he must observe the following two conditions of the superior Love: first, each morning and evening he should send all people his weal, which is invested in his soul; and second, he should secretly love the people and serve them all day long, even when they hate him and do evil things. This is what Christ infers with the words, "service of God". The Invisible world, when it wants to assign a task to somebody, it will test him in all respects. Whatever you wish, they will give you, and after that they will determine what work you are able to do and on what post. Some have fear that when they enter the spiritual life, they will lose what they have. And they have to be convinced that they will not lose anything; on the contrary, they will gain something. Here are three actions: when we are implementing God's Will, we are working for ourselves; when we are seeking God's Kingdom and His Righteousness, we are working for our neighbours; when we are glorifying God's Name, we are working for God. If you love, you glorify God's Name. The mother carries the child in her womb for nine months and does not complain, and the child would bring water once, and it complains that it has been working too much. Ever since God has created us, He too has been carrying us in his womb, and when we do the smallest thing for Him, we complain that we have done too much. No one can serve his nation if he does not serve God. When each person works to bring the best into his nation, and namely - rationality, honesty, justice, application, the nation rises. I should not be telling you how to serve, it is intrusive, but each person should serve as he understands. If a person works for God, so that it goes well for him, actually the motive is personal interest and he works avariciously. In Love all are servants, and in lovelessness - masters. Now we are passing from an old order to a new one, and until we pass, we have to learn to discern the Divine from the human, because the human also resembles the Divine. Now you are builders of the New. When man completes the work for God, he passes on to a higher state. Once we come to the great contradictions of Life, we are tempted with that, in which we believe. Our idea of God does not endure. So our faith does not endure. If we serve God, what do we have to fear? God is unalterable. When the temptations come, say, "I will serve God!", nothing more. Read page 112 from the tome "The Good Weapon". Wasn't it said for the day of judgement: "Go away, I do not know you". For God to know you means that you implement His Will, serve Him, and become a co-worker of God! God's way is the easiest, there are methods there. What is most difficult is to sin, because you are going to have to pay. The Writ says, "Their deeds go after them". When you are working for God, if you set out for the other world, your deeds will go after you. The New idea is service of the Rational beginning, service of the Whole. You are not going to bring the people your goods, but like the mailman delivers other people's goods, so shall you bring the goods of God. You shall say, "It is my duty to deliver the letters of God". When you hold on to God, you will succeed. Be prepared to work for the One, who has created the world. When man reacts to the Divine, a reaction comes, sicknesses and sufferings come. One who is in the regiment of darkness should go and enlist in the regiment of Christ. Then he will be fired from serving the darkness. Enlist in the regiment of Christ. Your signature has to be in the language of Christ. If all spiritual people decide to carry out the Will of God, the world will mend. If all do so, then the Kingdom of God will come to Earth immediately. Sooner or later, people will pass over the road of complete self- denial and devotion to the Whole. It is a law: when a deed of God has to be done, then if the first one does not do it, it will be assigned by the Heavens for a second one to do it. If he does not do it as well, it will be assigned to a third one, and so on, until the tenth one certainly does it. One should wait! Those who are predetermined will come. Doesn't Christ say, "The sheep my Father has given me will come". The "sheep" are the ready souls. They will all come! It is true that there is an opposition, but it is now comparatively less. When man works for God and God works for him, blessing comes. Now God is working for us, and we are not working for Him, and thus we create our misfortune. There is a law: you cannot come to love God unless you work for Him. Merely speaking the words "let us love, let us love...", without carrying them into effect, means a pointless appeal, good wishes, but passive. There needs to be work! With work for God, man will accept the Love. Work is an implementation of Love. The Black lodge has deluded the people, and they only work for themselves, they settle their own matters; thus, humanity has come into collision with the Divine in itself.

THE SEVENTH DAY, THE SEVENTH HOUR, THE SEVENTH MINUTE There was abundant sunlight flowing. In the garden, the roses were blossoming and were spreading their fragrance. Lunch was over and a brother was playing the violin, and we were singing. After that, a conversation began, in which the matter of serving God was raised. We reason in a human way, when we want to know who is loved by God. All those who work for the coming of the Kingdom of God on Earth, are loved, faithful, and good sons. You shall not seek your weal. It will come at the end. Why do have fear of God? Serve him with Faith and with Love. Those who apply the Love are children of God. And those who only speak that Christ has done this and that, and do not apply it, are out. Man has to see the Love in its great work, he has to see everywhere how God works. He who accepts the Love of Christ will work for God. Love frees the man, and in his freedom, he has to work. God's work is now consisting mainly of finding the ready, the predetermined souls, who have to find the Divine way. One who serves the world is like a loaded beast of burden - they whip him, they force him to work beyond his abilities. If you are not subservient to God as a son of his, you will be subservient to the dark forces as a beast of burden. In your service of God as a son or a daughter, your consciousness must always be awake and connected with God, because the evil spirits are always trying to draw off your attention, in order to break that connection and do some mischief to you. There is no better thing than a man to understand the paths of God, but until he finds them, the dark spirit sneaks up and tells you, "What are you doing going up that steep path? I will show you an easier way". Tell him, "We are taking the part of servants, servants of the Love, and we are going to serve God. Come and serve Him too." God's Will works in two directions: when you do bad, it restricts you through sicknesses and sufferings, and when you do good, it broadens you, it gives you scope, conditions, it emboldens you. We become the reason for God to confine us, because we oppose, we compel Him to restrict us. When we are doing something that is not in accordance with His Will, we come into collision with Him. Certain Angels have come into such a collision. Now the world is in restriction. In one respect, the people are restricting themselves from the Heavens, and in another they are encouraged. Take for example the leaders: the soul of the nation recedes, it abandons them, and with that they get paralyzed. They feel that the national soul is withdrawing and they become powerless. As if the national soul stops all of its sources, it does not provide them with conditions, and they are bewildered. A rational explanation has to be given to Life, not for us to think that in the world there exists arbitrariness; on the contrary - a Supreme rationality exists. We have to be co-workers of God, to work in the same direction with Him, and where He restricts, we should restrict ourselves there as well, and where He frees, we should free ourselves. When we transgress, God puts up with us, and his patience shows that He restricts himself. Man needs to have the proper attitude towards the source of Life. And because you are the branch of a tree, have a proper attitude towards the life of the entire tree, but at the same time be aware that you are not the entire tree. With a proper attitude towards the tree, you are going to receive life from it. Serving God carries Freedom. Do not worry about how it will manifest towards you. When you are restricting yourself in God, the Good will come to you. Everything you gain outside of God you might lose. Happiness is only in God. The connection with God has to be uninterrupted, ceaseless, without any breaking. When you are serving God, you have nothing to give Him, because He has everything and does not want anything from you. When you are serving God and your neighbour, serve selflessly, without expecting something in return. When you believe in God and you serve Him, the money will be running towards you, and you will say, "What is it with you running after me?" One who does his work will have ordinary blessings, and the one who does God's work will have extraordinary blessings. He, who does good, sows and reaps. He, who works for the others, has not lost anything. In serving God, the more time that passes, the more the matters get settled, and in serving only yourself, matters grow worse and worse. Recently, in a Sunday lecture, I read chapter two by the prophet Joel. That chapter is going to be fulfilled. That is why man has to be awake, sober. If God is in man, the strength is in man too. You shall carry out God's Will, you shall think of the others, and God will think of you. For instance, the finger is part of the body, it breaks the bread, but it is another who eats and sends nutritive sap towards the soil. And the finger does not even know the ways in which the food comes to it. The "fingers" - these are the separate individuals. We should carry out God's Will, we should love God, we should work for Him, and in what way will God's blessing, the Life, and all the goods come to you, is for God to decide. You shall trust in God, and you shall love God in the people. A sister pointed out, "Master, I wish to have conditions to serve God". The law is this: only wish to serve God, and the conditions and opportunities will come on their own. Each day will be settled for you, as long as you constantly nurture that desire. There are many souls that are ready to awaken, and there needs to be someone who can point the right way for them. If you desire to serve God, they will come on their own, you will not have to go looking for them. And then, the service of God includes the following as well: whatever you do each day, try for it to be pleasing to God. People are always in service of the Divine. Once they notice that It is within you, they are ready to be of service to you. And when they notice the human within you, they will tell you to go away. What your state in the Divine world is, such you are given in the physical world. When you are serving out of Love, you will not have inner sorrows, and a certain gift or a certain small talent will by all means awaken in you, and it will gradually increase. As long as you think that you know, and you do not learn, they do not give you anything; but should you take up learning, they start giving you, so that you can succeed. The nation that does not want to serve God will disappear from the Earth. That is a law. Each conscious person has to make up his mind to serve God, and once he begins the service, all people will become dear to him, and he will see that those are souls. When you start serving God, you shall take a little, not more than you can carry; you do not need much, because wherever you go, there is everything. There are two kinds of people: some live for themselves and the rest live for the others; so the latter live by God. You, who work for God, will be strong. Man can liquidate his karma only by serving God. When he is determined to serve God, he will be master of what God has given him. When you oppose, all hardships will come to you, the burden will increase. In order for that man's consciousness to be built upon, he must have a selfless desire to serve God, and it should not be material wealth that interests him. I suggest that Sunday is devoted absolutely to God. This means to say a good word to someone, to visit him, to read the Gospel, lectures. The seventh day should be devoted to God, this is for the broad masses; for the faithful it is different - you the seventh minute, the seventh hour, the seventh day should be devoted to God. You can devote six hours for yourself, and the seventh - to God. When man becomes determined to serve God, he builds on another basis, does not go out of a personal view; then the Life has another meaning. The only work for man that is left for the centuries to come is the work for God. When you implement the Will of God, Life is given a meaning. People often ask themselves what the meaning of Life is, and it lies in the service. This is the main problem which man has to solve. When man becomes determined to serve God, his heart gets filled with Joy, his mind - with Light, his will - with activity. You think about the following: "What can I do for the others with what God has given me?" Be as selfless as a pen - when it gets dipped in the ink, everything it takes - it gives. And then they dip it again. The pen enjoys giving when taking. With the Love you have to humble yourself, come down, and help. It will teach you what to say to the people. Love, in all areas, leaves what it has.

THE LOYAL SON, SERVING GOD We completed the gymnastic exercises on the meadow and came back to the hall still under the living impression of the ideas that the Master presented during the early hours in the school lecture. We sang a few songs. The matter about our relation towards the Rational beginning in the world was raised. Here are the main thoughts, which the Master expressed during the conversation: When man begins to live for himself, the evil is born. I ask: if the branch and the leaves live only for themselves, will they not perish? First of all, the leaves, the branches, the blossoms, the roots live for the others, and then - for themselves. And when speaking about God, He is the Whole, for which we have to live first of all, and our happiness depends on this. How does man lose his Freedom? When he uses everything that he has only for himself, his entire basis disappears and he is left on another basis, which has nothing in common with his first basis in Life. Let us present the things in the following way: the first situation is that they want to make you prime minister of Bulgaria, and the second is that you can become a disciple of a great Master, in order to serve God. In the first case they will exalt you outwardly, and in the second one they will load you with having to serve and you will have no reverence. Which is better? - To serve God! There are several stages of the consciousness in the people. Christ says, "Everything should be given to God, everything, which man has at his disposal, should be placed at the disposal of God". Moses says, "Only a tenth should be given to God". And in the ordinary human life, man gives little to God, to the Divine, only every now and then. Martyrdom is an involution, labour is the lowest stage, and serving God is the highest point, to which man is able to climb. What kind of thing is serving? Serving is when one works in order to spread the Love. Wasn't it said, "Seek first and foremost the Kingdom Divine and its Righteousness, and everything else will be applied to you". When people start to love God, they will begin to work as well, as He works. Man has to be smart, good and strong, because only thus one can serve God. Only the good one can be strong. Man has to live first and foremost for God, and after that - for his neighbours, and finally - for himself. All sufferings are derived from the fact that we do not carry the idea of working for God within our consciousness. If you serve Him, you can serve everyone, and if you do not serve Him, you cannot serve anyone. Forget about the personal inside yourself, forget completely about egoism, and think for God's cause! When you do somebody a favour, do not expect gratitude, because again this is payment. Man must not create idols of his own deeds. We have examples of the past - how people have worshipped their own deeds, and they should worship God, who has initially created everything! When man works on himself, he works for the elevation of the entire humanity, because there is a connection between everybody. A wise man is the one who, when working for himself, simultaneously works for those surrounding him. When man works for the others, he works on himself. Now, awaken the people. For two things man will be beaten, and for two things he will be praised. They will beat him if he does not learn and if he does not serve. And they will praise him if he learns and serves. One who has not been learning and does not know cannot serve. In order for man to be able to serve, he needs to know, and if, for instance, you go to someone sick, you can help him if you have knowledge of curing the sickness. A sister inquired, "What is to serve God?" Self-sacrifice. A verse says, "For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life". So how can we not love the world, when God loves it! When you help the others, their Angels help you and create the best conditions for inner activity. When you help the others, your inner conditions become improved, you receive help from the inner side. Man, in order to know God, has to study rational self-sacrifice. If he does not practise self-sacrifice, he cannot learn anything. It is said in the Writ, "We give our bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God". Now failure is due to the fact that there is no self-sacrifice. Some have the impulse, but the impulse is not a sacrifice. From beginning to end man has to be a sacrifice, because Love is a sacrifice. Sacrifice is a law of manifestation of the Love. To apply the Love means to serve God. A brother said, "This morning in your lecture You said that the one only way is the way of self-denial, which leads to the New". This lecture is going to be for those who are taking the New way and are ready for the New, which is coming into the world. Love is an inciting reason for everything. You cannot renounce the Love. Whatever sacrifice you make, make it for God! You have to fight. The weapon is Love. The meaning of Life is for man to do everything out of Love towards God. There is a will in the world, which we must carry out - the Will of God; then we will have an opportunity to manifest. Wasn't it said by Apostle Paul, "Take your sword, put your armor on!" You shall serve God with mind, heart, soul, and spirit. We are in the epoch of serving. Christ says, "I came to carry out the will of my Father as He has taught me". Serving God is a direction for the souls, so that everybody can take part in the Divine work. One who lives for himself has no Love. One who lives for God has Love. If you are rich, you shall assume that the wealth is not yours. You shall allot a very small budget for yourself, and for the rest you shall say that it is not yours, and you shall not even think that you can do with it whatever you want; this can be done as well, but you will lose the sanctity. With every wealth there is a great danger - we can forget the Lord. A brother asked, "How should we serve God?" Everything is God's, so whatever you do, do it for God. It was said, "Do not seek glory from the people, but seek glory from God". Each thing that we do should be for the Glory of God. Someone might be able to speak well, but all this should serve for the Glory of God. When you help your neighbour, you serve God. You want to be happy, but you do not know how. Understand the needs of the others, and do something for them. You see a demolished wall, and say, "What a pile of rubble!" No, take some material and build it repair it. Christ says, "Let him who stands raise the fallen". When someone who loves God sees that a stone is not in its place, he will move it away. I see that two branches have intertwined, so I release them. Or I see two dogs that are scuffling for something, I take out a pretzel and give it to them, and they would stop quarrelling. In life there is nothing that should seem impossible to you. You see a bent down flower, set it up straight. And when you do so, enjoy it. A sister said, "Master, I want to serve God. Can you say how exactly?" Here is how: in everything you should see the positive. You should have faith that everything turns into good. You should not wait for the big things when serving God, because they rarely come in Life, but you should not procrastinate on big things. If someone comes to me and does me a favour, without me wanting it (for instance, I am thirsty and he brings me water), he is already in the New teaching. A young maiden went on a visit well-dressed, in all her finery, and was always waiting to be served; another maiden came; she cooked, did the washing, swept, cleaned everything, and not before that did she sit at the table. We too are now going to God well-dressed, we sit in a chair and we are waiting. And should we enter there, we have to do what is required of us. All the people, who live by their own views and do not take the Divine into consideration, are on the wrong track. I compare how God manifests with how we manifest. It is from there that we have to begin: we have to take as a criterion how God manifests. Among us there was also a brother, who was a guest from Belchevo village in the Stara Zagora region, and the Master told him: Here is what you shall bring to the brothers and sisters: so far they have been bad masters, now they should become good servants. Man has to learn how to serve God. Give somebody an impulse to draw, and another - to read a good book, lend him countenance to write something, give a hint to him to water a flower or to give someone a glass of water. The new moral is: when I pass by a tree, I should provide it with whatever aid it needs. You shall ask God about what you should do. When God comes and tells you something, and when you do not do what He has told you to, you are restricting Him. A sister asked, "How can the little man restrict God?" Here is the idea: can you not restrict the Sun when you close the shutters of the room? God is not cross with anyone, but once you close the shutters, you deprive yourself of one good. If we are with God, if we love God, we will elevate. To love God means to do whatever He tells you to, and to be always disposed. He says, "Cross that river". "Well what if I drown?" Just cross it, nothing more, since God tells you.

ACTIVE IN LIFE After Paneurhythmy we gathered around the Master and conversation began. You think that your life has no meaning. And others think that Life has a meaning. Who is right? Those who think that the Life has a meaning. The New teaching does not tolerate any discontent, uneasiness, and anxiety. The beauty in Life consists of not worrying, even when things are not going well for us. In order to comprehend God, we need to learn to understand God's deeds and to rejoice in them. We all live with the goods of God and receive gifts. Contentment does not mean passivity and vacancy; on the contrary, in that case you are active in Life again. When man is dissatisfied, in his dissatisfaction he should be satisfied. This is the new. When man becomes discouraged, God, who has created the world, goes and comforts him. God is not a God of the dead, but of the living. With the new understanding of Life, consider that every day is Divine and rejoice at this. Work with joy for today and do not worry about tomorrow. Rejoice at that, which has happened, and at that, which is yet to happen. Whatever happens, say, "Let it be for God's Glory!" Take out the notebooks, in which the ones who have to pay you debts were written, and erase everything. In the School I had given you the task "A day in God's Kingdom", which consisted of the following: to spend the day in joy and to not allow any anxiety into your soul, to assume that everything is for the good, to have a beautiful attitude towards all souls, towards all creatures. Elaborate it. Rejoice at the healthy and you will become healthy. Rejoice at the happy and you will become happy. Even if the worst happens to you, rejoice and do not get discouraged. The creatures of the Invisible world would give millions to have the experience of the Earth, and people consider sufferings to be unnecessary. Sufferings are an experience, a form, through which a truth has to be passed on. Sometimes man has a feeling of dissatisfaction, because there are sacred longings within him, and he lives in a crude environment, which does not correspond to them at all. He should not worry, but instead work for the elevation of those around him, through which he himself will elevate and fulfill the mission, with which he was sent among them, and some of them will awake. To create a will in yourself, and in the midst of all misfortunes to walk calmly and in peace, it is an entire philosophy. The Master cast a glance towards the beautiful meadow with the blossoming trees on the background of Vitosha, and said: This view is magnificent, like a living cinema! I am interested in the stones, the sky, the clouds. It is beautiful when a man under the rain does not think that his clothes will get soaked, and does not frown at all: "Did it have to rain just now, it ruined the style of my clothes". You have to enjoy the rain, and when the sun warms you, you should not mutter again that it was hot. Why do we suffer? Because we restrict God. You suffer because you are the first to take. There is no better thing than a man having an inner joy, an inner flash. All days carry blessings. Some blessings are pleasant to you, others are not. The Heavens first of all tests you how satisfied you are. What kind of thing is it for a man to be rational and content? To be put under even the worst conditions, but your state to remain unaltered, not to get discouraged, because in a good situation everybody is content. We say that life is miserable, we have believed in something which is not true. When you get up in the morning, think that Life is beautiful. Life from one end to the other is a Divine beauty! Rejoice at the variety. You think that Life is monotonous; no, it is varied. It is a hard thing for a man to cheer up. If man does not control himself, he worries. Be happy, so that you can become younger. I see that you have grown old prematurely. Rejoice at your eyes, ears, tongue, nose, hands, feet. That, which you see with your eyes, is very valuable. Let us say that some rich person is blind; then what does he need his riches for? Someone says that he wanted to be happy. How can he be happy when he does not enjoy the best that God has given him. What better than to have a head, in which the mind thrives, to have a heart, where the feeling thrives. You want to have at least one housemaid, and even then you are not grateful to God. He has given you two housemaids below - to carry you, two housemaids above - to work for you, more housemaids on your head, and you dare to say that there no one to serve you. You are dissatisfied with Life? Look at the poor beetle that crawls, and be encouraged, because it, in this poor form, makes efforts and works, it understands better than you. With your great wealth you have become discouraged with Life, and it, in comparison with you, is a first-class pauper and with his large poverty is content and works. The worm crawls away and does not get discouraged, and in comparison with it, you are an entire deity. You have more than you have elaborated. You even have more than you can carry. You are sitting and preoccupied, and a birdie is chirping. It is content when it has a million times less than you do. The birdie chirps wherever it wants. Man can also go wherever he wants, as long as he carries out the Will of God. When he serves the people and God, he will then travel far through the air. If you are discontent, if you doubt and get discouraged, you then deny the Rationality in the world and have no connection with the Prime cause. When man has lost the connection with God, then whatever you say to him, he will always be discontent. For instance, you give him a book, but when he takes it, he will put in a negative thought; he will look at random, and will again be discontent. All the contradictions are derived from the fact that people are not musical. We all suffer from drought, from dryness, we lack music. You see that somebody is stooping. That great discontentment is from an inner deficiency. Outwardly we have a lot of riches, but these are mountains of snow. Now, those who are moral will progress, they will prosper. Those who walk in the wrong way need great sufferings in order to mend, to free themselves. People who are not good are recognized by their being discontent. Trust in what cannot be taken away. In the Divine world everything is in an ascending state. The physical world contains a good deal of conditions for the one who understands. For now elaborate on what you have been given. In the future you will be given more. There is something beautiful in Life. Every minute, every hour there are so many beautiful things! We have utilized only a hundredth of the possibilities that we have been given. Do you know how good it is for a man to go through Life without having become discouraged? To the one who does not value the Life, suffering and death come along, in order for him to understand and value it. When death comes and takes away everything a man has, he then begins to value Life and to regret his body, and says, "What a lovely house I had!" So what, God can give you more than He had given you. Now you learn to value the house. The grief upsets the nervous system of man. He should not think that this thing cannot be achieved, that nobody loves him, etc. Thus you cut back all the conditions which you live in. If you believed that nobody loves you, you would die immediately, you would not be able to live. Let us listen to the language of Nature and we will be joyous. First of all you shall believe that there is at least One who loves you. After all, everything you have lost will be brought back to you. When man is content and thankful, things start to go well for him! When somebody has contradictions, he should be quiet and not mutter, so that the spirits do not know where his weakness is. The contemporary person has to free himself of his discontentment, which I call leprosy of the consciousness. One who is greedy becomes ugly because he becomes exhausted. The discontentment opens the door of the human mind and heart to all the bad thoughts and feelings. Overcome! We live in a world of great possibilities.

MUSICAL STATE OF THE HUMAN SOUL, GRATITUDE AND CONTENTMENT The Master wished there to be joint lunches at Izgreva, because they bring people closer, the disciples feel like a family, and thus is developed a new consciousness. Often after meals we sang a few songs and a conversation began, which was initially concerning accidental matters, but then it would elevate and gain an ideological nature. Here is what the Master said at one of the joint lunches: You are making an excellent journey in the Universe, you are travelling free of charge on a ship. Whatever do you have to complain about? You see sky and ground, and when you pass through somewhere, they start greeting you with rockets - shooting stars. Sometimes they greet you with a star that has a tail - a comet. The Sun has risen for you, the stars also emerge one after another for you. The flowers spread aroma for you. What more do you want? The present humanity has to express gratitude not for the big things, but for those small ones - that the rays caress you, that the wind breathes coolness, etc. Why do we not give thanks for that? At some moment your consciousness might be awake, and namely for that you should than be thankful. Why is man full of thousands of thoughts and wishes that are not his? Without opening or reading them, send them away from you. They have loved you a lot to send you on a walk with the Earth. If you decide to pay, only your ticket will cost billions, and gold at that. Be thankful for walking in the Heavens with the entire Earth and the entire Solar system. To give thanks is the best. And with that it will not remain. In the future there will be better things. Each person must give thanks for the air, for the light, for the water, for the bread, for the health, for that he has shelter, for everything he should give thanks. Give thanks that God has provided you with conditions to develop yourselves. Thank God for the little, for it carries the large. He who gives the little, will give the large as well. When you pass the test, as Job in the womb of the whale, you will then go to work. Thank God that you are in one Great school, where you have to learn, and that you are in a world where you have all possibilities. When we learn well, we will be well. A sister said that she was going to the village. Do not worry. Rejoice and be happy like a child. God has thought over everything for you. There is nothing we should not be thankful to God for, we live in a world of abundance. I confess that I owe debts to Nature. In order to repay the oxen for wearing shoes made from their hide, I will stop an ox, pat him, and tell him to forgive me. He will reply, "It is all right". All oxen are one. When you sympathize with the oxen, you are already repaying. When you eat pears, apples, put yourself in their position, it is easy to understand. Realize the sacrifice of the trees whose fruit you are eating, thank them, and sympathize with them. For each berry of the grape that you eat, you have to give thanks. Be happy and look above, from where God watches. Rejoice at the grass, at the bugs, at the river, rejoice even when you cry. It has been said, "Sing and praise at all times God in your heart". Thank God three times a day for the good that He has invested in your mind, in your heart, and in your soul. Our hearts should each day be filled with gratitude for what we see. We see untold riches. We do not value how much the picture that surrounds us is worth - clear sky, blue heights, nice spring, flowing through the grasses. Now you have to pass on a telegram through the radio to the Sun, that you are grateful for today. A good day like this is irreplaceable, it cannot be bought with money, it contains vast wealth. In each moment something new comes, and throughout the entire eternity you will be receiving and learning. During the whole day do what is in accordance with the Divine, because when you come back in the evening, you can be silent, calm, joyous, and harmonious. We sang a few songs and the Master said: Let us thank Him who has created in us organs of the voice. They say that dissatisfaction stimulated. That is an incorrect apprehension. Only Love stimulates the people. And dissatisfaction shows that you have not acted the way you are supposed to. Since you do not act according to the Faith, the Hope, and the Love, you are dissatisfied. When the felicities come, give thanks to God; and when the sufferings come, give thanks again. Everything that God has allowed into the world will be transformed into good. The grief brings material for the Joy. The Joy is an acquired material, and the grief is what was sown. In the coming year, the grief will bring you joy. Give thanks that you are sick, and heal yourself again. When a man falls, he should give thanks. And when he gets up, he should give thanks. In the greatest sufferings you should say, "It is for the good". It is a great thing, when you are in contradictions, to be thankful to God. Your character is being tried then. Why, you are not alone. Thousands and millions of people take part in the difficulties which you are in. Those who want to take up the New teaching should first be content with the unfavourable conditions. Thousands of people are suffering around you and you are not paying attention to them. God has allowed for you to suffer, so that you do not pay attention to the sufferings of the others. Do not be discouraged and do not say, "Nothing will come of me". When you thank God for the good, it grows. When you give thanks for the suffering, it goes away. When you do not give thanks for the good, it goes away. When you do not give thanks for the suffering, it remains and grows. These are four laws in Nature. When the Angel gives you weal and you are unsatisfied, he will decrease it. And when you are satisfied, he will give you more. That, which you are thankful for, grows and produces fruit. And that, for which you do not give thanks, melts away and eventually nothing is left. Thankfulness is a prayer. When a person thanks, he is already praying. When a thought for God comes, man should always be thankful and pleased. Always learn to have a thankful heart. Food is sent superabundantly to all living creatures on the Earth, however, the distribution of the food is not correct. If you give thanks for the good which God has given you, you will climb higher.

REAL CONNECTION Once, in a private conversation with a brother, the Master spoke thus on the prayer: I will tell you something about the secret life of the Christ. During the night, Christ slept for three hours, and spent three hours in prayer. With that prayer He would become an accumulator of immense energies from the Divine world, which He then spent during the day. During the day He would spend a lot of energy, either through Speech, or through healing, and namely that energy He would gather within himself through the night prayer. With the prayer, man goes out with his more supreme bodies, and the more base ones remain on Earth. With the prayer, the astral body remains with the physical one, and it only widens, and the mental and the causal ones go out. So, with the prayer, there is a kind of emanation, more or less. In "Our Father" you have an entire programme about what has to be done. The Good prayer is also an entire programme. The Good prayer has ten keys to drawing the Heavenly forces. Here is a rule: when man says a prayer and opens the Bible, what comes along is not accidental, but given from above. But the prayer is more important. The brother asked, "What should I do so that I can come into connection with what is Real in the mystical life?" For instance, study the conditions, under which the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, etc, received enlightenment. Also, study the apostles too. The best hours for this job are the hours between 12 a.m. and 4 a.m. Man should consider everything to be spiritual and see that everything is good and rational. If he elevates, man will see that Nature is living and it will have quite a different outlook to him. It should be known that behind the physical is the spiritual, and that the physical is an outward, objective manifestation of the spiritual. Whatever the weather outside might be, go out in the evening to watch the sky, but do not do this mechanically, but out of love, and direct a small prayer towards God, only of a few words, but let it be steeped in Love. Say, "God, we thank You for the beautiful Life you have given us. We thank You for this world you have created. We want to live the new way, by the law of the Love that you have brought into our souls. Let Your Light illuminate our minds to settle the matters that stand before the door of our soul." The prayer before meals has been recommended in all esoteric schools. The prayer is the most supreme work, it is a connection. The most supreme rational connection happens through the prayer. The prayer, as it accompanies nutrition, it regulates it. When praying, the inner inspiration is important, not the word. A prayer can be done when the dawn is cracking. The dawn is an opening of the world. The evening prayer is for those spirits that arrange the material which was gained throughout the day, and the morning prayer is for the new material to be perceived. There are creatures of various categories, which arrive between 3 and 7 o'clock. They come in the early hours, until daybreak. Man has to be smart and to use that, which God has given him, and not to stray. The brother asked, "What do these words in the Writ mean, 'At dawn I will look for God'"? In the morning, i.e. before the Sun has risen, you shall concentrate for several minutes, you shall think only about the One, and you shall think that you are among the Angels. In the morning, when you get up, say to yourself, "Be good, be just, be fair, be nice!" The brother asked, "I wish to pray every night. Which hours are the most convenient?" 12 o'clock at midnight is an hour of silence. Pray then. Next, it is good to do so at 1 or 3 o'clock after midnight. Then you will begin anew, etc. This way there will be variety. When man cannot sleep at night, he has to get up and pray. In the morning, when you wake up, get up immediately. Should they tell you, "get up", get up. When the Sun is rising, think about God, his warmth should arouse in you the idea of the Divine thought. Each day you have to rejoice with a new, pure Divine thought. Each day, the new, which comes, is from God. Whatever man looks at, he should think about God. Say, "God, teach me to love You the way You love me". When you have no sympathy towards a particular person, say, "God, I want to see you here as well". Desire to see God in this man as well, and then he changes, God manifests, and he starts to look nice to you. Since we want to see Him in that man, then God will show himself through him. One evening I was passing by a village with a friend of mine. Amidst the village, over one of the houses I saw a pleasant, soft, blue light, which was rising up to the sky. It showed me that in that house lives a good man, who at that time was praying to God and his prayer was being accepted. I drew my friend's attention towards that light and asked him if he could see it. My friend looked in that direction and saw it. However, not every man sees this light. The brother asked the Master, "You said in one of your recent lectures that we have to send thought to the world, with which to help it, to send good thoughts and wishes to all people, to all nations, with which to help them. Which is more powerful - sending them good thoughts, or praying for them?" When we send good thoughts to the people, we help them in reality. The Writ says, "I shall send My Spirit". God constantly sends His Spirit into the world. When we send good thoughts to the people, God sends His Spirit through us. In that case we are instruments. Sending our good thoughts and feelings into the space is something real. Should you send a good thought, it gets planted. There are Creatures from the Invisible world that will welcome our good thoughts and use them for the construction of something good within the people. These thoughts, which we are sending into the world, are for the waking souls. They will accept and utilize them. The good thoughts are never lost. Neighbouring souls are those, whose consciousness is awakened. When you light your candle, its light goes in all directions; the same thing happens with the light in the thought of man. When sending thoughts, you must call upon God, for Him to support and assist those, whom you are praying for. When we are sending good thoughts toward some people, we will transform this work of ours into a prayer, i.e. we will call upon God to bless them, to provide them with conditions, Light, etc. When you are talking to more outward people, you shall tell them that we have to send good thoughts and wishes to the people, and when you are talking to more mystical souls, you shall tell them that they have to pray for them. The prayer is something deeper, more intimate, more mystical, than sending good thoughts to the world. All people think, but not everyone prays. Through the sufferings, people will learn to pray. In the beginning, when man starts on the spiritual path, let him start sending good thoughts to the people, and then move on to the prayer. The prayer is not for everyone. Ships have transmitters, and when they are in a difficult situation, they send out a signal for help. That is the prayer. Man should turn to God the way he knows. A child had been away from his mother for ten years. He got ill and was about to die. They wrote to the mother to come over, because her son was at his wits' end. When the mother stepped up to him, he was unconscious, stupors, and he was not looking; she placed her hand on him, and he whispered, "Mum!" He had recognized his mother's vibrations. It is the same for God. Inwardly, man has knowledge of God's hand. The prayer cannot be without thought. It is said in the Writ, "Come, let us reason", which means that we should think. The brother said, "Some circles of the brotherhood are uneasy. Can we send good thoughts in order to help them?" The good thoughts you are going to send will function more weakly. A prayer is needed here, because in order for what you want to happen, the assistance of the Invisible world is required. Stronger than sending a thought is the act of prayer. With thought, with prayer, we have to crop the Earth, and tighten it up in such a way at that, so that the Divine Kingdom can finally come. When you sit down on a rock for meditation, sit on one that is deeply buried into the soil, not on one that is rolling. Someone wants to enter the Inner school. He has to hand in an application. And when he hands in the application, he will wait. I said that man has to allot particular hours for prayer. In fact, man has to pray constantly, as he raises his consciousness to the Eternal and the Elevated, so that he can be in constant connection with the Rational beginning.

GUARD OF MAN Someone says, "I am not going to pray anymore", as if the Invisible world needs his prayer. Whatever you do, you do it to yourself. For instance, you lounge instead of getting up for prayer, the room is cold, you are tired, it is inconvenient for you to pray on time, etc. If you do not pray on time, you will have lost the moment. Did you know that with this prayer you do not contribute to God, but to yourself. With this prayer you will redeem yourself and the others from great sufferings and misfortunes. Therefore, do not lounge; even if the room is cold, get up and pray. You will gain a lot. If in a particular moment man is able to believe that in the world there is a Supreme consciousness, which penetrates through the minds of the people, and if he directs his thought towards that Consciousness, all of his difficulties and hardships will disappear, not suddenly, but gradually, as the sunrays gradually melt the snow and the ice. The thoughts of the world fill the air, and if man is not awake, they will get into him, they will conquer him, and then he will start to think as the world does. The world is a wave that will sweep the man away if he does not have a constantly aware consciousness. This awareness comes with the prayer. The prayer is a guard of man. It must not weaken. Should it start weakening, man has to increase it. You pray; there are evil spirits that surround you and try to break your connection with God at any cost, to cause you misfortune. People have to be awake, to constantly hold a connection with God, so that the good spirits can come and help them. An American was in the jungle, beasts were prowling and snarling around him, snakes were hissing, but because of the electrical net he had wrapped up around him, he was fenced off. Man needs to have a safety net around him, he needs to have something to rely on. Fate shadows the man each moment. As you know this, pray constantly. Do not sit down to eat without a prayer. Pray to God to keep you from the bad fate, which chases you each moment. When man does not pray, his brow becomes lower and lower, and along with that, it kicks back. Also, his chin gradually decreases and goes back, i.e. the will decreases. Unless you deliver everything into God's hands, you will never become free. Unless you pray, you will never become free! It is said, "Pray for each other". When one prays for others and the latter pray for him, the Whole then starts to manifest through them. Pray for everybody. This way we call the Heavens' attention to becoming interested in someone who is suffering. Of course, at the same time, you will do everything that is possible for him. When you get up in the morning, say, "Let help be given to those in need, a hundred schools be built, etc." Say, "It will be done!" Do not ask who will do it, but whatever you can do, do it. You can help people outwardly, but praying for them is worth a lot of days of outward help. Furthermore, rejoice that the others succeed. When a brother of ours was ill, his wife told me, "The children are still young. Let God leave him until they grow up!" When I came to see the ill man, I saw that he was praying, and that is why I understood that he was not going to pass away. We should say thus, "This man has your Will to implement here, God, let him stay here and get his work done!" We should not say, "Let him stay for the children, for us". When somebody goes to work for God, the others have to pray for him, because they may tempt him. When you pray for somebody, his welfare from God to him will pass through you. The manner of the prayer should not be told to the others. The prayer can be with short, long, and medium waves. In order for the prayer to be with short waves, there should not be any counteraction on behalf of the man. If the prayer is with short waves, it goes very far, it goes to the Divine world. Many prayers that have short waves remain here, they cannot rise up. The prayer has short waves when the thought is pure and lofty, and when there is an elevated state of the mind, the heart, the soul, and the spirit. Let him who has to speak at a gathering make contact with the Invisible world beforehand with an intense prayer. And when he enters the gathering, even before he opens his mouth, a force will pass through the people, everybody will feel an upsurge. If at the gathering there is one who has spent some time in prayer just before that, the atmosphere will be completely different, and he will alter the disposition of everyone else. Then the orator will speak with inspiration. Otherwise, coolness will be felt, his speech will be pale. Before his speech, the orator has to call upon God to help him by saying, "God, give me your Speech, speak through me!" And then he will be speaking with power and will be saying to himself, "That, which I say, is not mine, but of God". If he says that it is his, there will be drawbacks. The same is when man is going to speak with someone, to arrange something; before that he has to pray for a long time. Christ would withdraw during the night and pray for a long time, because he was working in a crude environment, and with that prayer He harmonized the souls on which he was working. When man is praying, even without thinking about his talk or about the person he is about to talk with, he perceives the Divine within himself, and then it fills the atmosphere, and what he is talking about deeply influences the souls. This is what happens here: when man prepares things thus, then the Angels, who guide the souls, transfer that, which he speaks to them, in an inward way. Whatever work you might undertake, it has to be preceded and accompanied by a prayer. Then you are not alone. Then the obstacles are removed and the aid of the Heavens is drawn. Then you draw the favourable circumstances. When man is praying, certain forces in Nature go into operation. And when he is not praying, those forces in Nature do not work. Concentration is needed, focus. In order for man to learn how to concentrate, let him be closer to people who concentrate. Next to each other, people benefit. When man falls in the mountain and slips, when he concentrates, he will become master of his movements and he will stop himself. You will call upon the Rational in the Nature, it will help you. Concentration has to be tried. With all things there has to be concentration. One small weight that you can lift with your thought is one small hardship. Man has to know what draws away his mind. The insignificant things draw away the mind of man. What concentration does the wild goat, which jumps from a distance of ten meters, have - it jumps and will lodge its hooves on one span of the steep. With incorrect development, when man does not practice in prayer and concentration, the streams within him, instead of going to the upper chakras, they go down, and thus they get blocked up or their life stops. You shall work in such a way so that the energy goes up. I will give methods for this. It happens by concentrating the mind on eternal Divine ideas. When man thinks over a matter, the human soul awakens. But its awakening has to happen gradually, not immediately. All fires are linked up with the Fire above. Our thoughts and feelings are linked up with God's thoughts and feelings. An inner School is needed, workers are needed. There is a benevolence which is physical and does not contribute anything. For instance, a man is praying and wants to compel God to weep. These are outward effects, they apply to the physical world, but otherwise they do not contribute anything. A brother inquired, "What is the connection between the breathing, on one hand, and the meditation and the prayer, on the other? Is it good to have a meditation and a prayer, accompanied by breathing?" Breathing is an auxiliary tool and facilitates the meditations. The air facilitates the thought and the feelings, because through it we perceive the Divine element.

HARMONIZING OF THE HUMAN SOUL During the prayer, God teaches the man. Someone will say, "How come, wasn't it that during prayer, man sends a thought towards God and speaks to Him?" Yes, but during the prayer, the human soul opens for the Divine world, it tunes with It, comes into a receptive state towards the energies from there, and it accepts the thought of God and receives from the Life of God; then from these spaces, new ideas burst into the human soul. And after that, throughout the entire day, new ideas come into the human consciousness, bright ideas and impulses, which he has accepted from above during prayer. People use words indiscriminately, but then their prayer receives no answer. When during prayer you want something from God, you should want something that is pleasing to God. Which Spirit should penetrate into your prayer? During your prayer towards God you speak to the One whom you love, and to you speaks the One who loves you. The true prayer is a communication of the Love. Love impels us towards prayer. During prayer, above all else you open your soul and pour out your Love towards God. No reciting! The power of the prayer depends on the Great love, on the Peace and the strong fervour to work for the cause of God! Some read prayers and pronounce formulae and think that that is where the power is. But the inner power is in the expression of gratitude and love when pronouncing formulae, prayers. Then such thoughts and feelings, steeped in gratitude and love, will form vibrations, their waves will pass by a man, who will perceive them, and he will be thankful. That is where the power of a prayer and a formula is. Man prays for what has an eternal character. "Uninterruptible contact with God at any time and at any place!" - this should be a prayer to you. Not every prayer will be fulfilled. Fulfilled will be the one that is by the Will of God. And if it is not by the Will of God, it is not fulfilled, and that is for the good. Let us be grateful that some things do not happen by our will. If everything happened by our will, we would have been the biggest wretches. People suffer because a lot of things happen by their will. All the unfortunate things that happen in life are by the will of the people, and the good things that happen are by the Will of God. You have not wished for it, but here, it happens, and it is for the good. Let us be happy, things should happen the way God wants. If we left everything to happen the way God wanted, then our life would flow much more properly, and we would experience happiness. Man has to pray inwardly and say, "God, illuminate me with more light". Man has to open his windows, in order for the Light to come. When the Love comes, he has to use it for the Life that is inside of it. Because Love is the crane of Life and it extends the Life. If the Love could not maintain the Life, then what sense would it make? When somebody tells you something bad, pray to God to transform everything into good. Christ says, "If two or three gather in My name, whatever they beg for, it will be." But want that, which you need, and it will inevitably be. Pray to become an instrument of God, for God to help through you. How many times a day do you turn to God with a plea to tell you what to do? I do not know how many of you turn towards God for advice. Once you think about doing something, you immediately get down to action, you ask nobody. In the Invisible world there are Rational creatures, who are ready in any moment to render a service to the people. When it comes to solving a problem, become absorbed in yourselves, in order to see what the Will of God is. If what you are doing is human, there will be hesitation, doubt; do not do it then. A child is being beat up, and it shouts: "Oh dear brother!" Then it shouts "Oh dear mother!" "Oh dear father!" And finally, when he shouts "Oh dear God!" they stop beating him. We too, when we come to God, everything ceases, but until we come to Him!... During prayer we have to turn to the Christ! The Master said that in connection with His words in one of the recent Morning speeches: "Which one of you writes letters to Christ, and how many of your letters has He received?" It was said by the Christ, "No one can come to Me if My Father does not attract him". And more, "No one can go to My Father, if I do not show him the way". When man is praying, then it is God who is impelling him to do that. And this shows that God has attracted him already. We shall pray to the Christ. Christ is the station, and we shall hand over our letters, telegrams, and prayers there, and He will direct them towards God. During prayers, we shall turn to the Christ, because Christ has said, "I and My Father are one". God is not separate from the Christ. As it is said in one of our prayers, "Lord Jesus Christ, through whom You have deigned for us to summon You." A brother asked, "When man prays, should the prayer be carried directly to God, or to the Supreme creatures, who are between God and the man?" Man should direct his mind to God or to the Christ. As Christ says, "Pray to the Lord of the harvest to send workers". When you pray to God, you gain strength. And people think that the strength is from the outside. I will give you a rule: after each prayer, remain for some time in silence and in a receptive state, in order to see what good God will give you. When the prayer is successful, God always manifests and gives you a small present. However, we, immediately after we finish the prayer, do not wait, but begin another work. Always after you finish your prayer, say the following conclusive formula at the end: "God, let all this be for Your glory and for the welfare of my soul". The only thing, with which the disciple has a result, is the prayer. That is where the results are. They are achieved through prayer.

COMMUNICATION WITH THE RATIONAL BEGINNING In a private conversation with the Master, a brother brought forward a question of the prayer. The Master gave the following explanations: Prayers are necessary to the people for bringing down supreme energies from the Invisible world, which are used for development. When we speak to the people about the prayer, we shall tell them that there is a real world, with which people have to connect. Under the current conditions, as people have alienated themselves, they have closed the opportunities, with which they can be in connection, in order to acquaint themselves with the world above. When you get up during the night, open the Bible and meditate. Then say a prayer. The prayer is a conversation. After you speak, listen to what they are going to say to you. You have to give a straight direction to the thought. The thought is creative. It influences the health. Its rhythm has to enter the body. When you are by a waterfall, what are you going to tell it? He shouts more than you do. The more it shouts and splashes and the more it foams, the more silently you have speak to it and reach the opposite state. Your silent talk corresponds to its loud talk, because the waterfall is majestic on the outside, and you will be majestic on the inside. When the Sun rises, Nature makes noise, and man has to whisper, he has to pray. Prayer is the most silent talk, a whisper, a manner of self-education, a language of the Divine world. If you do not know how to pray, if you do not know the language, they cannot understand you. The prayer is a way of studying the celestial language. The prayer is a conversation with God. You are obliged to know the language of Heaven, and to speak in it. We now want not to work, and yet, to have all the pleasures and that is impossible. The prayer is work. And since man is on Earth, he often writes to his home above - so that they know how he is. When we pray, when we think, we inform how we are, and this is a matter of course. If you are ailing, how many times do you need to pray? The ailing should not even sleep, he has to constantly pray. When he is ill for three-four days, he should pray day and night, not to interrupt for a single day. Prayer, prayer, prayer. Somebody says, "I prayed three times". With three times, the illness does not go away. Constancy is needed, until a connection with the Divine world is established. Once this connection is established, things click. The brother asked, "Master, You said that we have to devote three hours each day to work over ourselves - an hour for the mind, an hour for the heart, and an hour for the will. And you also said that if we do that in the course of ten years, we will certainly have achievements. How exactly should we do that?" In the morning, at noon, and in the evening you shall devote an hour for prayer, meditation about God. You can devote a special time, but if you have no such free time and the circumstances are restrictive, then you can do it along with the other work; for instance, even when you are working on something else or even when you are talking with someone, find a way to become absorbed in yourself and to say a prayer. This exercise has to be done so that it is not mechanical, and that when the hour runs out, man should not say, "Well, I am free, I got rid of this hour!" In order for man to do three hours of meditation a day in the above way, a strong will is required. Now it is hard to isolate yourself, because just when you want to pray for an hour, and suddenly somebody knocks on the door, "Knock, knock, knock". After a while, somebody else will come. But man has to seclude himself for at least an hour, and spend it in praying and meditating about God. Set at least half an hour, an hour, an hour and a half, two hours a day for meditation. Wherever you go, you should be able to become absorbed in yourself throughout the entire day. Evenings and mornings, when everybody is asleep, when there is nobody to bother you in the solitude, become absorbed in yourself, until you connect with those souls that know how to work. The praying one has to seek those who pray above. It is an art. Strong thought is required, and an uninterruptible connection with the Invisible world, with the Divine, has to be maintained. If you think about the good, about what is Great in the world for only an hour a day, then that hour will create conditions for genius in your future life. If you spend even half an hour a day for thought towards God, He is sure to reward you. No matter how small, no matter how ugly a creature might be, it is enough for it to spare what little time it has for God, and it will receive powerful energies from above. As disciples, you have to spend at least half an hour each day for meditation and prayer. Take a sentence from "Sacred Words of the Master" each day for meditation over a quality that you are lacking. The brother asked, "I was at a lecture, held by Tagor. Why did he look strong? Was it because of his clothes?" Tagor spends two hours each morning in meditation and contemplation, and that is where his power stands. So, each believer, who meditates over the Christ for two hours, will make big progress. To the rich, the minutes of pleasure are long, and those of prayer - short, he takes out his watch during prayer. And to the poor, when sorrow comes, his minutes of prayer are very long. God says in the Writ, "Before you desire, I will give to you". We pray and say, "We have prayed for so long, and still nothing". But when we live in accordance with the laws, before it comes to our mind to desire something, it will come. If a hundred brothers and sisters, or at least ten, gather together in one place and concentrate their thought, they will achieve what they want. Prayer is a method of achievement. If you pray to God for someone ailing, he will recover. God in us and us in God can do anything. A person got convinced of the spiritual things and wanted to make an experiment, and on a cloudy day he prayed to God thus, "In order for me to believe that you are listening to me, let a small clear orifice open up in the sky". And indeed it opened. This is as if you are in front of a house and you ask for the window to be opened, and if there are rational people in there, they get up and open it. When you pray to God, He is sure to send someone to help you. And when somebody else is praying, He can send you to help him. If you have faith and you love God, all your prayers will be heard. A prayer might be delayed, but it will be fulfilled; but mainly if you love God. In America, a robber entered the house of a woman with an intention to kill her during the night and rob her. But she noticed that he was getting close, and started to pray strenuously. The woman prayed to God to help the robber, to save him, to pour His blessing over him. The robber, when he heard all that, got out and ran away agitated - the woman's prayer had worked. God has placed us in a rational world, so that we do not get discouraged. Open the radio of the mind, the heart, and the soul, and then from the Divine world they will send you their blessings! It is enough for you to direct your radio towards Heaven, and you will find thousands of creatures, which are able to answer you. Even today Christ is wondering at the contemporary people that it does not come to their minds to direct their radio towards the Invisible world, and instead they get discouraged and say that their life has no meaning, that there is no one who can understand them. When man is praying, certain forces of Nature get into action. And when he is not praying, those forces are not working. We have come to a phase where we have dissatisfaction. You believe, but you are unsatisfied with your belief. You pray, but you are unsatisfied with your prayer. Do not think that God does not need our prayer, but it is a reason for God to manifest, and for us to walk after Him. Great are the ways of God, because there is a counteraction. God manifests at the greatest contradictions. Where nobody can work, God works. Under good conditions, everybody works, and under bad conditions, only God works. Where there is God, even the cold becomes warmth, and where He is not, even the warmth becomes cold. A few more prayer groups can be formed. Prayers are accepted by the Spirit, and it passes them over to God. The Spirit is the Hierarchy, which is a mediator between man and God during prayer. Between man and God there are twelve classes of Supreme creatures. Each thought of ours, directed towards God, goes through these twelve classes in order to reach God. The Invisible world awaits for an appropriate, expedient time to come, in order for our prayer to be fulfilled. Your prayers, even though they might not be perfect, are accepted by the Bright angelic creatures, and sent revised towards God. So pray as you know. And whatever we give birth to, the Invisible world revises it, and then returns it back to us. When man is praying, the Supreme creatures are present. When Christ was praying, the Supreme creatures were present, He could see them and talked to them. On mount Tabor, Moses and Elijah appeared, and spoke with Christ, as He became transfigured before His three disciples, and then He told them to tell nobody about that. He acted with His disciples thus only to show them, but when He prayed He always entered into communication with the supreme rational worlds of the Real world. At each of His prayers, He communicated with them, He could see them, and He talked to them. The one who cannot see has to learn from the one who can. The one who is on the mountain, and the one who is in the valley, will talk through a telephone, they will inform each other of what they see. The brother asked, "When is the prayer heard?" When man entirely devotes his mind, his heart, and his will to God; when these submerge into the three worlds, the prayer is heard. Meditate over the Kingdom of God, and desire for it to come. You all have to put your thought to work - in order for the Kingdom of God to come, the name of God to be hallowed, and the Will of God to be done; in order for that to practically be realized. Man wants to meet the Angels, but first he should seek out the Kingdom of God, and everything else will be applied. This idea has to be understood and it should serve as a motto. Think, and wish for the Kingdom of God to come to Earth! This must be kept inside the mind! Sow the wheat and leave it to grow on its own. What kind of thing is the Kingdom of God? Should It come, there will be peace, understanding among the people, and all these tortures and violence, which exist in the world now, will cease. During that meditation and wish for the coming of the Kingdom of God, you shall not think about thousands of other things, but instead see that with your thought you make a connection and apprehend something. We have to be ready for God to enter and work inside us; then our matters too will be settled. Let us wish and work for the Kingdom of God to come on the Earth, not to think about ourselves and what our situation will be. That is a secondary matter. If an Angel from the sky comes now, what should we ask for? Three things: for the Name of God to be hallowed, for the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness to be established, and to carry out the Will of God by love. We need nothing else. That is what is new in the world! Christ says, "Want, seek, and knock". "Want" - it is connected with the mind, "seek" - it is connected with the heart, "knock" - with the will. Each thing that you want with your mind, which you seek with your heart, and for which you knock with your will, it is given to you. The prayer is very strong when it appeals to God's mercy. It is said in the Writ, "Summon Me in my mercy and I shall help you." When you are in a deadlock and you do not have help from anywhere, say, "I summon You, Lord, in Your mercy". Or you can say, "Lord, I thank you for the great mercy, which you have for me." In order for your prayers to reach above, put faith and purity into them. If you pour impurity into the pipe, through which water flows, will the pipe not get choked up? You write a letter, you put a stamp on, and the mail delivers it. With this letter you send orders to Bulgaria, France, America, their ship companies, and they all carry out your will, they deliver the letter. The power is in the stamp. During the prayer, put the "stamp" on, and you will achieve. The "stamp" is the Divine. You shall always see that you pray, and until a little result comes, you shall persist. When you learn how to pray, you have gained the biggest wealth, which you can now have at your disposal.

THE SILENT VOICE We were at Yavorovi Prisoe. After the sunrise, the entire picture came to life, Reznyovete were gilded by the first rays, the bird choir increased. All of nature exulted. After the prayer program we performed Paneurhythmy. After that we all greeted the Master with the new day. A conversation began. In all times, God has spoken to the people. There has not been a time when God has not spoken. Some think they can be self- taught. Surely somebody has taught you, but you have forgotten. God has spoken to everybody, but some have heard, and others have forgotten. God has a specific way of speaking. God speaks to everyone generally, and specifically - only to those who are ready. The silent voice that talked to Elijah is a specific voice. Not all people can hear the Silent voice. If people fight, God cannot talk to them with a silent voice, they are deaf to that voice. Connect with God, so that wherever you go, you can hear His sweet and silent voice. Should you hear the voice of God, hold it i.e. stop. It is God that makes people live, think, and be free; so He helps humanity. God is that from which we have come out. We are in God! It is God in you that acts within your inner needs and desires. So when man desires something good, beautiful, then it is God in us, who acts within that desire. Listen to the Lord, so that He can manifest in your inner little impulses. Observe one rule: make use of the smallest occasions, the smallest incentives, the smallest thoughts, which come to you. Why do all the people have the will to manifest in the big impulses and do big things? This will come too, but not until the future. All of these big things depend on the little opportunities, which man has utilized. First of all, man has to manifest in the little conditions and opportunities, and if he has not manifested in them, he will not be able to do so in the big ones either. Somebody waits for years, he wants to become a preacher in a big hall; well he is given the circumstances every day to meet a child and talk to it about something. And if he does not utilize that, he will not be able to make use of the big thing either. If he has not made an effort to occupy some time with the separate letters, can he become a writer, can he write a book? Let things be revealed gradually, by the law of the Spirit. Everybody, who answers to the call of the Spirit, understands at once. When the musician places his hand on the string, the latter responds. The sensitive string responds at a slight touch. The same thing when the Spirit touches with the human soul and the latter responds to the incentives of the Spirit; this means it is ready. Not everyone has that. Some have not come from there. They have an aspiration, but have no insight. They have not come to the state of understanding, and now the small things in them have to grow. God constantly speaks. You make a mistake and He tells you, "That is not right". You draw a picture and He tells you, "Make another one". You will make a second one, a third one, and when you come to the most beautiful one, He will approve of it. God does not criticize you. He just says, "Make a new picture". When you transgress, heed the Silent voice of God that whispers to you, "Walk among all the souls as I walk among you." Should a hardship come to you, do not hurry, but start to meditate. Observe how God will solve it inside you. It will not be five minutes before you see that your problem is solved. During the conversation, the question about what purpose man has for thinking about God was raised. The Master gave explanations. Let us make use of the following analogy: on a wall you cast light through a prism, and on the wall, the colours are being projected, but once you remove the prism, the colours disappear. Conclusion: as long as you think, the Divine light passes through you, and there are colours. Once you cease to think, the colours disappear. When you think about God, Life comes, things become real. That is where the secret is: to have a most supreme idea about God! If somebody feels sad, let him think about the Angels. And if he still feels sorry, let him think about God. Why should he think about God? When he thinks about God, the sorrow, which cannot be solved in any other way, will be solved. When you think about God, let all the perplexities disappear from you, let everything shine from within you. When the ailing thinks about God, he has to recover. And if you think about God and do not recover, you are still weak. The water, which can spin the entire motor, drives the watermill. The weak water does not drive the watermill. You are drawing close to what you are thinking about. You are drawing away from what you are not thinking about. When you are thinking about God, you are drawing close to Him. And when you are not thinking about God, you are drawing away from Him. When you are not thinking about God, there is no Life entering into you, and you are growing old. And when you are thinking about God, Life is pouring into you, and you are growing younger. Man has to start thinking about God, in order to become a real man. Everyone who walks on God's way gets their matters onto the right track eventually. Man is not just a single Divine ray; man is Life, a constant stream that comes out of God. There still has not been a case of a righteous man begging. Assume that your name is known in the English bank. Are you afraid that you might be left with no resources then? If your name is known to God, if your life is in accordance with the Divine stream, with the Divine Love, if your name is written at God, you will never be left without the necessary.

A VISIT BY GOD On July 22nd 1940, the Master set out for Musala with a small group. After a short stay in Borovetz, we set out for the top. Here are a few thoughts of the Master on the way to the top of Musala. In the music of Nature there are no rests, there is no interruption, it is perpetual. And when in our music we place rests, it continues within the thought of man. There is an eternal circle (apparently, here it refers to the geometrical figure) in life. There are no contradictions inside it. And if there are any contradictions, it is ostensible. Look at those pines, their tops point towards the Sun. The Sun is where their tops point. Here is the conversation with the Master at dusk by Musala Chalet. The current war is liquidation of the karma. All the first Christian martyrs liquidated their karma by forgiving. And that is how the connections were broken. The law is: if you forgive, the karmic connection breaks. When you do not forgive and you oppose, the connections of the karma extend. What is going to come after the events of today is very good. The contemporary modern war is a horrible thing; you have no idea of its horror. The Day of God was postponed, so that the people could acquiesce, but it will come. The coming of the Day of God is accompanied by suffering. Now the consciousness is awakening, and the nations are already becoming convinced that they cannot do anything alone, and that they need each other. First of all, the Mental world starts to get purified. Inside the mind there are parasites, as well as in the Spiritual world. It is being purified as well. In the physical world too, purification will happen. The liquidation takes place in all the three worlds. From the Divine world comes what is New, come the creatures of the Sixth race. We are in the beginning of the Second Coming. You, the spiritual ones, need to be well armed. The Day of God is being postponed, postponed with the only hope that the people will mend, but the Day of God is already coming with power. A rearrangement of the entire planet Earth is happening. We are at the beginning of the Second Coming. The first period of the Second Coming will last 45 years. Then it will be put off for a while, and then it will start again. In waves, in waves it will come! Then there will be a second period of 45 years. Then it will be put off for a while again. After that, a third period of 45 years will come. They ask, "How will the world mend?" If the stupid come to fix the world, it will take thousands of years. But if the smart ones come to fix it, it will be fixed very soon. Everybody can plough the field up, but not everybody can sow. The good seed has to be sown. Suffering is ploughing. The wheat seed, in order to sprout, has to be sown at a two-finger depth, not at a depth of one meter. Some people are not ready yet for a spiritual life. Here, in these parts, electricity prevails. When people are inert, let them come here to become active. On July 22nd we spent the night in Musala Chalet. In the morning on the next day we were on top of Musala. There, the Master held the lecture "The Divine and the Human World", which is published in a volume with the same title. After breakfast, the Master held a second lecture on the top - "Rules of Love", printed in the same volume. After that, a conversation on various topics began. The topic about a visit of God was also raised. There are two moments, when God seeks us, and when we seek Him. Let us observe the concurrence of these two moments, because then things are achieved most easily. And if God is far, then it is hard. God says, "Seek Me out as long as I am near". When joy comes, and you do not know what the reason is, it is because it is a joy of a most paramount order. The causative body is not yet developed, and that is why we are still only sensing it, without knowing the source. The psalmist says, "When he sees Your face, his heart will exhilarate". Joy and Merriment come from the presence of God. When the Spirit of God visits the man, man is then joyful. When man is ready to carry out the Will of God, then comes the Joy. A brother shared, "On one of the last Sundays, at 5 o'clock, at the gathering in the hall I had a Divine state." Man can enter the way of "Eternal Generation". The eternal generation comes from the Spirit, which originates from God. There was a conversation with the Master by the "Okoto" lake at 1 p.m. When Christ sent his students two by two, He sent them like soldiers to work. And that is why everything was prepared for them from above. Everyone who goes like a soldier to God's field (here it refers to a crop field) is supplied with everything. When you are looking for an explanation for an order, do not explain it mechanically. A 3-4-year-old child is in a pram, but when it grows up, it cannot fit into it, therefore, another order is needed. Mankind also in its present-day order is a grown up child that cannot fit into its pram; so the order has to be changed. You meet a man who is rude. He who treats you that way is testing you. Neither a poor man, nor a rich one can go to school, but only a smart one. Many of you pay attention to what people say. Few think what God will say. In America, God told an American that he has to preach the Divine truths. He refused, and he went and crossed the ocean, reached Australia, where he took up merchantry, however, 20 years later he went bankrupt, he went back and again he became a preacher. Then he had an insight, and what God had told him happened eventually. At dusk we came back to Musala Chalet, and in the morning on the next day, July 24th, we climbed up to the top of Musala. There, the Master held the lecture "Law of the Parts and the Whole", again printed in the same volume. After that we set out downwards toward Borovetz. At the bridge between Musala and Borovetz we had a short stay, and there, in a conversation, the Master said: When you do something out of love towards God, you are free. Freedom is only there! God has to come down into the people, in order to alter the human love and transform it into a Divine one. And we have to live within God, in order to straighten our love. Man has to rely on the Divine. There is a Divine providence, on which man has to rely. We think about working spiritually, after we settle our matters. No, begin to work now! You love a man. You have to adapt yourself to his love. If you do not adapt yourself, you cannot perceive it. The thing about marriage is you are hiring yourselves out as servants. In the next world there are no marriages. The next world is like that light, which is above us today. The Mental world is so well arranged, that you can go wherever you want. In the next world you will not be able to quarrel with anyone. Yes, first of all you have learned to love the Whole, and now you are learning to love the parts. You seek to love someone, to love a part of the Whole. No soul must go outside of its orbit. Two souls have an aphelion and a perihelion. When they come to a perihelion, they display their love. We can bring the Love into the following comparison: you have someone, to whom you have given your treasure. The treasure is the Love, which you have invested in someone. Somebody says, "He does not deserve that love." You must not speak like that. You should encourage the people, because every man deserves the Love! If he does not deserve it, he has to die. You should have the scope as if among relatives. If somebody cannot give you an amiable look, you will give him it! Wish well to everyone. You have not yet displayed your love. Increase your love each day by a hundredth of a degree! We continued on the way to Borovetz. We arrived there on time, and in the evening we were in Sofia.

THE UNITY IN THE WORLD First of all, let me say a few words about my summers with the Master. The first summer in the mountains with the Brotherhood was in 1920, in Stara Planina ("Old Mountain" - the long mountain range stretching through central Bulgaria); tents were pitched on Sinite Kamani ("The Blue Stones" - a nature park near the town of Sliven), there were mainly brothers and sisters from the town of Sliven. In 1921, the Master spent the summer with many brothers and sisters, mainly from Sofia, in Rakitovo village - in a picturesque recess of the Rhodope Mountains, among coniferous forests, in the so-called Tzigov Chark. During that summer we built a nice fountain in the vicinity. In 1922, the Master spent the summer with a big group of brothers and sisters from Sofia and the province in Borovetz, in the so-called Woodland school. During that summer, the Master organized outings to the vicinity, particularly to the beautiful meadow of Shumnatitza, and often to the top of Musala as well. In 1924 we spent the summer by the lower Musalenski lakes, on an eminence, which descends from Musala downwards like a ridge, and divides the valleys of Beli and Cherni Iskar. This countryside the Master called "The unknown peak A-B and B-A". There He was with a small group of students from the Special class and held a few lectures. From the year 1925 began the regular summers on Musala. The bivouac was set up near the lower two Musalenski lakes, and there were regular outings at dawn to the top of Musala. The sojourn there lasted 3-5-7 to 10 days. Those excursions were made under more severe conditions. Most of the brothers and sisters were without tents. Some did not have any shelter. Fires were the saviours, around which they warmed themselves and dried. There were such joint Musalenski summer holidays during the years 1925,1926,1927,1928, and 1929. From 1929 began the summers by the Seven Rila Lakes and thus - until 1942 inclusive, with two year breaks, in 1933 and 1934, when we spent the summer at Yavorovi Prisoe on Vitosha. Until 1939 inclusive, there were joint summers at the Rila Lakes, and in 1940, 1941, and 1942 there were no joint brotherly summers, but the Master was going with a small group of about 7-10 people for 5-6 days. After 1929 there were no joint summers on the top of Musala, but the Master again visited it with small groups, and namely in the years 1934,1935,1937,1938, and 1940. Here we will say a few words about our summer at Yavorovi Prisoe. This exceptionally beautiful, picturesque place is covered with coniferous forests and is located at the foot of Reznyovete. Through the Yavorovi Prisoe, deep in the ravine gurgles the Bistrishka River. We went to Yavorovi Prisoe on several paths - through Bistritza village, through Simeonovo village, straight through Aleko Chalet. We engaged the karakachanian horses of Bistritza for the luggage. The first task of the Master after pitching the tents was finding springs. He found a good spring near the Bivouac, but amidst swamps and mud, so we cleared the area. We moved enormous blocks with levers. After a few days at that place a fountain popped up, decorated with pebbles around, arranged with taste. The Master pointed to a small meadow above the Bivouac for a place for Paneurhythmy. With common efforts we evened it. And after a few days on the meadow delineated the distinct circle of the Paneurhythmy. At that magical place, beautiful days went by, filled with spiritual activities. Mornings, from an eminence we welcomed the rising ofthe Sun with prayers and songs. Often at sunrise the Master held a lecture. After Paneurhythmy we had interesting conversations with the Master, or we took up common work for the furnishing and hygiene of the camp. The evening fire, which was always attended by the Master, was a beautiful ending of the day. The Yavorovi Prisoe are located at a high altitude of about 2 000 meters, and before our eyes opened a vast expanse towards the Sofia Plain, Stara Planina, Lozen, and Plana Planina. The majestic Reznyove were powerfully hanging above us, like patrons and guardians of these sacred places. Reigning all around was a silence, which enthralled us and compelled us to concentrate, in order to listen to the voice of the eternal and intransient. There our human consciousness elevates to a mystical world. And the Moraines, located above our camp, were a perfect place for meditation and prayer. These are enormous blocks, scattered around like a sea of stone, and below them flow the waters that come from Reznyovete. The Moraines are surrounded by forests from everywhere. During our summer we sometimes had outings to Reznyovete. Once we organized a night outing to them. We set out at 2 a.m. We used electrical lights. The aim was to welcome the sunrise there. We passed by Piperkata, an eminence, then - the stalwart snowdrift, which was still preserved at a dank place under the top. We reached Golemiya Rezen on time, and after the prayer and the songs, at the beautiful sunrise we lit a fire and warmed some water. Here we spent several hours. We read an old lecture and after that a conversation began. During the conversation, the Master said: In all of our sufferings we search for the reality. We search for something, and then see that it is an illusion, and again we go on searching further. In Love too we search for the Reality. We search for the Reality in our father, in our mother, in that lad and in that damsel, we see that they go away. Yes, as long as you are not inside the Reality, all the voices you hear in nature are rough. And when you come to the reality, you hear a voice, which is pleasant and it is as if honey drips on your heart. And then you start doubting again, again come the rough voices, again they confuse you. But even the soft voice, which will come again, will brighten up the sky. Sometimes you think that life has no meaning, you get discouraged, and all of a sudden from somewhere someone looks at you amiably, and then to you the grass, the flowers, everything, gains a meaning. This reality, which the sorrow forms, and the reality, which the joy forms, are not real. The world of Reality has a bright colour, the world of changes has various colours. Reality itself is nonspatial. If the Sun would draw nearer and fill the entire sky, what would our situation be then? We are not next to the Sun, it shines on us from afar, so that there is room for it to manifest elsewhere as well. The same law: you should never require a man to fill his consciousness only with you; there is no such thing in the world. Even God, who is so great, withdraws to a certain extent, so that you can think and seek Him. God does not want to take possession of your consciousness with no remainder, so that you can be free. In life, man has to be like a jeweller, who is looking for a precious stone. A wise man looks for a manuscript, a sacred book, and when he finds it, he reads it. Sometimes you look for someone, but you do not know the street and the number. So try not to forget the street and the number of the one whom you are looking for. The name of the One, whom you are looking for, is God. The street, where He lives, are the Angels. And the number - that is the good people. Interpret, this has to be interpreted. And you do not know the name, the street, and the number, and something is not right. You shall see whether you have mistaken the name, the street or the number. When you find the name, you shall ask for the street and then, when you come to the number, you shall ask the people. Then you will see that God lives in the hearts of men and the minds of the Angels. This is a very difficult science, but when you learn it, everything will be all right. A brother asks me, "Master, in which way did You find God?" He thinks this is something mechanical. How can I tell him? I adduce an anecdote to him: one was complaining that there were no good people in the world, and that all were bad. One day they beat him up good, but a good man cured him and he said, "There is a good man". So, in order to find God, they have to beat you a lot, and then you will find Him. The one, who is going to come and heal you, will be the first good man, and you will come to know that there is something good in the world. If the Sun shines very nicely, then when I go out, I will accept my share of light and warmth. But let us say that I have been under very unfavourable circumstances and I have not used the Sun's light and warmth, then the mistake is not in the light, but in me. When you are ready, whose face are you going to see? I am not going to tell the name. He is without name. We call Him Father, but He is more than a father. We call Him Beloved, but He is more than beloved. We can call Him with a thousand names, but none of them is able to express what He actually is. He is more than everything. For now, He is considered our Father, our Beloved, and our Friend. You say that you love somebody. Who do you love? The one that you love is not in the body. When our consciousness is awake in that moment, God is there. When our consciousness is not awake, God is not there. And when they love us and we realize that they love us, and then God is within us. When people love us, they love the God in us, and therefore we should not protest against why they love us. Indeed, when a king comes to a house, everyone looks at the house, but they are not there because of the house, but because of the king. When God manifests inside a man, people love him, because God has manifested inside him. We need to have this idea. When they love you, you will always benefit, and when you love, you will again benefit. So in Love (no matter whether you are loved or you love) you always win. True Love is when the man opposite sees God in me and I see God in him. It is said in the Writ, "You have taken for free, so give for free!" This refers to Love. When you love someone, God in him has begun to speak to you, no matter whether he knows Him or not. Be happy that you have seen God in him, be happy that God has spoken to you through that man. If you cannot love someone, it means you have blindness, you cannot see the Truth. God is in them, this Truth exists within them. With Love, man is an instrument of the Love of God. Love is an attribute of God. God is the one who loves through us. How can you tell that God loves you? When you love the other people, it shows that God loves you. Indeed, Christ says, "As the Father came to love me, so did I come to love you." When man comes to love God, when man lights the Holy fire within himself, like a magnet he will attract people, everybody will love him. These are two laws. To love means to look yourself in the mirror every day, because when you love the other people, you look at yourself. When you love people, you love yourself. When you love the others, you love God inside them. So Love is a mirror. Since I display Love towards the others, I have the approval of God that I am implementing His Will. Love is an implementation of the Will of God, of God's law. It is not easy to explain the Love. It is the greatest law in the world. Love is unexplainable. It can be presented in any form, but by itself it is unexplainable, because Love is God. Love in man comes from God, man is only an instrument and he cannot explain something which is above him. Man only has to give effect to it, not to confine it. If Love is spoken about, it would not be understood in human. After we had tea, a conversation was taken up again. Knowing God is a condition for the Eternal life. Outside of Love, you cannot recognize Him. Outside of Love, God is unrecognizable. You can study His deeds, and you will always benefit from something, but the main thing is the Love. The meaning of Life is in the knowledge of God. This Teaching is difficult to adopt, and if man does not suffer, it will be hard for him to understand. You cannot come to know God if you are happy from the outside, if all your needs are satisfied. You need to have grief from the outside in order to come to know God. Occupy your time with those who need help. This means to show people the way to God. Christ said, "I will make you fishers of man", didn't he. The Spiritual world will show the man where to go and where he should work. The Invisible world will send us to the ones it has predestined and prepared. He who wants to get acquainted with the esoteric sciences, has to recognize the supreme, the Divine, or in other words, to recognize God. This means to recognize the circumstances under which we can grow. You recognize those whom you love. You cannot recognize a man as long as you do not love him. You have a friend, and yet you are not acquainted with him. If you do not love somebody, it is a mask for you. And if you love him, you will see that he possesses a great soul, bigger than the Universe, and for thousands of years you are going to have to study what beauties hide within it. When you set out for the next world, you will see how much the others love you. Ordinary love is for the Earth. At Reznyovete we spent several hours, and on the way back we passed through the so-called Samodivska polyana ("Fairy meadow"). The lectures which the Master held at Yavorovi Prisoe in 1934 are published in the little tome "What is Great in Life".

THE LANGUAGE OF THE RATIONAL BEGINNING On October the 5th, 1939, we set out at 4:50 a.m. from Izgreva and reached Borovetz at 6:20 a.m. We dropped by the villa of sister Stoyanova for a few hours. There, in a conversation, the Master said: The Jews were a haughty nation; they were given very little territory, so that they can be humbled and understand that they have to live on a wide scale spiritually, not materialistically. The Bulgarians also look like the Jews in this respect - they also had some land cut from their territory here and there, so that they can be taught and understand in the same way that they have to grow in the spiritual. From sister Stoyanova we set off upwards at 9:30 a.m. and reached the Musala chalet at 3:20 p.m. On October the 6th we set out at 3:10 a.m. for the top, which we reached at 6:00, and the Sun rose at 6:19 a.m. The sunrise was nice. The Master read chapter 15 of John's Gospel. After that there was a secret prayer. Then the Master said: Write down the following words: "The path of Life is hard. God's Love, God's Wisdom, God's Truth manifest on this path, and Life achieves its eternal purpose." After the Good prayer was said, a conversation began. When we are gathering here now, it is the Spirit of God that is gathering us. This is not a human gathering. Each one of you has the voluntary desire from within, from God, for us to gather here. Great is the patience of God. God, who puts up with the sinful and turns everything into good, has an unsurpassable patience. God, by loving the people, has restricted Himself voluntarily. He says, "I am first and last!" God is the first in creating the world, and last in the redemption of sins. You should never say, "in the past it was better for me, and now it is worse" or "in the past it was worse for me, and now it is better", or "in the future it will be better for me than it is now", or "in the future it will be worse for me than it is now", because everything that comes, comes for the good and carries a condition for the good. God always manifests one way or another, according to us, according to our needs. In each moment, what happens to us is best for the given stage of development in which we are. If we say that it will be better or worse for us, this violates the law of faith, the law of contentedness. Never say about the time, "This time is not good." The wind blows for the good too, and it carries something for the good. Neither should you ask, "Does God love me?" He loves you ever since He has created you, because He has created you with Love. There is no need to doubt His Love. Man comes down to Earth, while carrying a fortune from above. Once he sets foot on Earth, he will work and earn, he will take something from below as well. And when he comes back above, he will deposit the fortune he has taken, along with what he has earned, in the common bank. When the child gets his hands and feet dirty, the mother washes them up. God does the same thing with you when you get yourselves dirty with the mistakes you have made. Love infers the following: when God loves us, when we are talking about God's Love, it infers taking from God, and when we are talking about our love towards God, it infers that we have to give to God. When man is praying to God or when he does something for Him, it is Love. You still do not believe that God loves you. Your reception of His Love in a lower degree is entirely your fault. I wonder at the people as I am watching them grieve when God loves them. If you are in grief, your grandfather and your grandmother are in you, whispering their grief to you. Believe that God loves you, and you will immediately become encouraged, you will stand up. The only one who has in mind the welfare of all creatures is God. His ultimate aim is to satisfy all creatures, and for everyone to feel good. God is ready to satisfy all the needs not only of the people, but of the tiniest creatures, which He has created, be they insects, blades of grass, etc. Think that God loves you. This is a Path to perfection. If you cannot think that way, you cannot come to perfection. That you cannot see God everywhere - that is where the entire mistake is. Deem that God is everywhere. If you are not doing any good, God is not there; not that He is not there, but you are not manifesting Him. And once you do a microscopic good, God is there. Always reckon that God is with you; then you will do God's will. Accept it as an axiom that God loves you. Do not dig into how much God loves you. It is said, "You have come to love the Truth in man." So God loves the Truth, the Divine in man. Your beloved is the One who loves you - He is in the bread, in the water, in the air, in the light. Since God loves you, there is something of His within you. Boundless is the Love of God, with which He has watched over us for thousands of years. In order for God to be recognized, the Old and the New Testament have to be studied, the entire Nature, the sky, and the earth. A man was loved by God, but God put on a human mask and. While masked, He told the man, "I love you and I have always loved you. My Love is eternal!" After some time He left the man and the last one cried. But God put on a new mask and the same thing happened again. When they met for the third time, the man, crying again, said, "Two people told me they loved me, but now they do not love me and they left me." The masked one smiled and said, "That's all right. I love you eternally!" Actually, the three masked men were the same Being - God. So everyone who loves you manifests the Love of the same Being - God towards you! God loves you through them. Inwardly, God loves all creatures equally, but outwardly, He loves them according to the stage of their receptivity. The Love of God, outwardly expressed, is more particular and greater towards the one who lives righteously than towards the one who lives unrighteously. God keeps those people who love Him in His consciousness and helps them more. The inward Love of God is equal for everyone, but the outward is different, because they do not receive and value it equally. The attitude of Nature towards all living creatures is good. I can see its manifestations. When the wind is blowing, it is going to be humid, rain is going to come, the grass is going to grow and the fruit trees are going to bloom. Or the sun shines; I say, "It is good". And everything grows up. It becomes hot; I say, "Very good. Those who have shivered will warm up." I see the fruit hanging from the trees and say, "I am glad that not only the people, but the birdies also have something to eat." All creatures take advantage of the goods. The love of God towards us is a cause, and our love towards God is an effect. One who loves you is aware of even the smallest things that you need. There is nothing better than to be loved by someone. You think about a good book and it will come. You think about a flower and it will come. You think about a walk and it will happen. The one who does what we have wished for is God. The sky, the stars, the plants - we have wished for all that, and God has done it. What is now required from us? To offer Him some of the fruit and tell Him that we are very satisfied with it. The consciousness of man has to broaden, to feel God's presence everywhere, and to feel how God's thought develops everywhere. You can never free yourself from the one who loves you. You can free yourself from anything, but from a man who loves you - never. Where can you be free from God! - You cannot. Wherever you go, He might not manifest to you, but you feel that you cannot go outside of Him. What we love is always within us. It is a Teaching, very simple to understand. Let the holy Fire of Love blaze up inside you! Let the spark of Love ignite within you. When we entered the observatory, the Master got talking with the observer, he said to him: The nervous condition that you are in and the irritation are due to your breathing. Hold your breath longer, and think about the breathing in this time. Man does not gain anything through anxiety. When we went outside, the Master said: Everyone wants to be happy. This is a personal element. However, this is not a way of achieving happiness. We had lunch on the top of Musala and stayed until 2 p.m. After that we went down to the Musala chalet. When we gathered in the evening in our room, on the top floor of the chalet, a conversation began. Each man who sins deprives himself from his Freedom, and when he lives by the Truth, he uninterruptedly frees himself. The man of Truth wants to know what the essence and the price of things is. The man of Love possesses Warmth, which melts everything. That, which penetrates and illuminates things, is the Wisdom. And that, which lets everything be done in the world, is the Truth. Mighty is the nation that decides to carry out the Will of God. It does not matter whether you have committed a big or a small sin. You might have committed a small sin, but you are connected with millions of people, and when you commit it, you have given those millions of people a reason to commit a crime. On the next day, October 7th, we set out from Musala chalet at 10:20 a.m. and reached the villa of sister Stoyanova in Borovetz at 1:45 p.m. At dusk in the villa of sister Stoyanova began a conversation. It is said, "Dead in his sins", right? So the sinner has died. They say about someone that he has died now, but he has died long ago. Some people want the lecture or the talk to be mechanical. Then there is no work left for the reader. And as it is given now, there is a lot of work to be done on the lecture. If it is hard for him to understand, then at least the examples will have an effect, and this way the given principles will become clear to him. Whoever passes by Izgreva says, "Very nice place, very calm. It is pleasant to stay here." But they do not know why it is that way; they only feel that there is something else. Before the spring has come yet, a current comes and some flowers appear long before its arrival. Also when something Divine is coming, some people sense it and they awake. They are heralds. The man of Love is a hearth that warms. The man of Wisdom is a lighthouse that spreads Light. And the man of Truth is baker who gives bread to everyone who passes by. Every single job, in which there are all three manifestations, goes easily without exception. Someone comes to me and says, "I do not know how to treat the others." I tell him that this is very easy when the following rule is observed: when somebody comes to you, put yourself in his place, and see how you would want him to treat you; and so treat him that way. All believers of Christ are "Israel". When a nation becomes conceited and wants to be above all, this law applies to it: "Pride precedes the fall." All old nations - Romans, Greeks, Carthaginians, Phoenicians, etc, are now reborn again. The Slavs represent the stock of Judah through which Christ manifested. The English and the Germans represent the male principle, and the French and the Slavs - the female one. The English and the Germans have the power to organize, and the motivating reason is the will, while in the Slavs there are new ideas and they are motivated by the Love. The Divine is in the Love. Now the soft element is coming to the world! The Divine Spirit, through the Slavs, has something to bring out to the world. The English, the Germans, the French, the Americans, are teachers of the Slavs. All nations have some good feature of theirs. In the morning on the next day, in a conversation the Master said: When somebody does something good, and if I see that this good is not as well done, I am not going to correct it. If he has given somebody some bread that is not enough and is dry, I will finish his good by giving warm bread, and I will not go and tell him, "Why did you not do this and that good to him?" By the word "Truth" it is understood that when it is inside you, you can do what your soul desires and you can be content and happy. The expression "whatever your soul desires" means doing what the Divine within you would want you to do. In Skakavtzite and Rupite (small mountainous protected area) there are Advanced creatures, but only where no man has ever set foot. It is said, "Take your shoes off, for the place on which you step is sacred." This does not concern the physical shoes; the feet represent the virtues, so a change has to happen within the consciousness of the one who goes to places of Nature that are purer, more sacred. There live Supreme creatures, and if a man comes, who is not ready, he will be crippled by their strong vibrations. A brother asked, "But if he goes ready, purified, shouldn't he be able to withstand? Can we too go to such place some time?" In the way that we are going to the mountain now, cannot be done in the same way in such places. Another brother asked, "Perhaps man has to go not with the body, but emanated, is that right?" No, with this body, but in another way. Nature makes sacred places deserted, there are no plants growing, there are no animals either; therefore, man also does not show up there, because nothing attracts him, since they are deserted, and on the other hand because they are inaccessible as well. A brother inquired, "What is the meaning of the verse: "For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life". This means that Christ is a transformer, because man could not go directly to God without Christ, because God is a consuming Fire. And if the Sun did not have a transformer, we could not have been able to withstand its energy. Transformers of the solar rays are the air and the moisture in the atmosphere, otherwise, the solar warmth and light, which come towards the Earth, would scorch everything on it. Somebody asks, "Can't it be without Christ?" One who says that man can save himself without Christ, he does not understand the law. When Christ came to Earth, He illuminated all people - those who believe in Him and those who do not as well. However, those who have accepted that Light are believers, and those who are closed inside their rooms have not accepted it. Christ has shined on them too, but they have not perceived, and now the question is whether they will perceive. The Writ says, "Seek me while I am close." Once man loses the circumstances, he has to wait for another epoch. It is said, "The harvest is big. Pray to the master of the harvest that he sends more workers." From the Invisible world, workers have to come, and when they find such workers on Earth, which are suitable, they will possess their bodies to work. So here Christ speaks not of the earthly workers, but of workers that should be sent by the Invisible world. Someone asks, "Whither should I turn my face during a prayer?" These are outward things. If man thinks about God, he is turned towards the mystical east. First of all, man has to free himself from certain delusions. Even in the smallest things there is a Rationality which is not mechanical. Learned people will say that this house is warmed by the fire in the stove, but the fire has no consciousness. Behind the fire is the rationality of the face that lit it. The same thing is true for Nature - the worldly people know how the fire was lit, and the religious people know who lit it. Both sides are good. The theories of scientists are mechanical. They study the atoms, the electrons, the ions - this is the material side; after that, the substance and the meaning have to be learned. After breakfast we all set out for the beautiful countryside of Shumnatitza, which is not far from Borovetz. Shumnatitza is an eminence, covered in high grass and many flowers. We passed through the so-called Wide meadow, and when we reached Shumnatitza, from there a broad expanse opened, a part of the mighty Rila range and vast pine woods could be seen. The Master looked at the beautiful picture and said: Behold, this is a live cinema before you. But this is not the real yet! We spent some time at Shumnatitza, and came back another way to the villa. In the villa of sister Stoyanova, after finishing the lunch, a conversation began. Each departure of man from here above is different, because the situation here and the situation there are different in the various periods. When you come back, you will see that the other world is no longer the same as it was when you left it. And if you remember the other world, you will not be able to work here. This is until a certain stage of development. When he comes here, man comes to straighten something up and to learn something. The Earth is a place of exile, but then again, what culture and what entertainment is given to the people. Should you come down to Earth, you are given freedom to apply whatever you want. There is such a big variety in the Universe. The planets are abodes. A variable construction of the matter is now taking place within the man, inside his atomic and ionic structure. On October the 8th we spent an unforgettable evening around the fireplace in the villa of sister Stoyanova. The fireplace was built in an Old-Bulgarian fashion, as well as the set-up of the room. The fire was wondrously illuminating our faces, shadows and lights were flickering over the walls. I have to say that every time we came back from Musala to spend the night here, the fireplace was abundantly lit with wood. And in those magical surroundings we had long and interesting conversations. The brothers and sisters who were there on that October night asked various questions, and the Master, as always, answered them with benignity. We are now passing towards a new way of living. Now is a transitional epoch. Once, after the fall of man, on Earth appeared the Black race, the black colour. In it, the self-consciousness started to restore. Then came the Yellow and the White races. In the Sixth race, the Light is being restored. It will be the luminous race. It will radiate Light from itself. You are doing good now, but as a reflection. And man has not yet come to the state of giving Light from himself when doing good. Man has to put the following into his life: first, the Name of God should be sanctified within us; this is the great thing and it means that whatever man does, he should do it for the Name of God. Second, he should seek the Kingdom of God, and work for it to establish on Earth. Third, the Will of God should be done; this means application. Think about the Name of God, about the Kingdom of God, about the Will of God, work for them, and then think about yourself. The entire Sun is covered with high temperature, and those sunspots are doors, through which the Solar creatures go out and back. Some ask, "Why did Christ come?" I said that He was a transformer. He was supposed to handle the evil in the world, to convert it into good, to suck up all the poisonous gases of evil. When His blood was shed on the cross, He brought His Life into the world, and thus leavened all the life on Earth, like an injection or transfusion of new blood into an old man, who becomes renovated. But time is needed for that action of Christ to manifest. If the teaching of man being able to do whatever he wants comes into the foreground, people will become animals. In the Divine morality, the good that I do should benefit all others. A thought is right when it concerns the good of the entire humanity, and then with each thing you do, God blesses you. A man can shout; it will be heard a kilometre away, and another can talk quietly, but his talking might go over the entire Earth. This is when he emits short waves. Somebody asks, "Do you love me?" This question is awry. In Love there is a law: if you love for a thousandth of a second, then the Love can no longer be interrupted. If there is an interruption of the Love, it is not Love. What prolongs Life is the Love. What encloses Life, which gives it all conditions from outside, is the Wisdom. If a man has Love, you cannot ask whether he is smart. He is wise and truth- loving! If he has Love, he also has Wisdom and Truth. These three things are inseparable. The new methods have to be applied in the world. All of our sufferings will be valuable in the future for studying, and will be subject to extensive examination. When you are suffering, you have got to know why you are suffering. The faces of all those who study the New teaching change, and the others notice that there is something new in that Teaching. If the thought that what you are striving for is impossible to achieve catches up with you, then pronounce the following words: "It is impossible for me, but for the God within me it is possible!" Why would you say that you will put off for another rebirth, it is not clear whether you will have such favourable circumstances then; do your work now. For instance, somebody works with cement and leaves the work for tomorrow, but the next day the temperature changes and then it would not be possible to work with cement. When everything flows forward for you, when you begin to do well, then be on the look-out, because great trials will come to you. When obstacles come to you, you are safe. Each good initiative is preceded by darkness and contradictions. Because when the Divine light comes, our light darkens and we are already in darkness. Once I was passing by a military post and dogs approached me, an entire pack. However, a female was circling around me and was not letting the others attack me. Then the soldiers called them and they went away. I thanked the female, "Well done, you are a very smart dog!" So when you are attacked from all sides, there will always be some female which will circle around and protect you. Another appropriate example: a karakachan (nomadic mountain shepherds of the Balkans) was going on board the Greek ship "Elpis" going to Tzarigrad (the Slavic name for the city of Constantinople), but his favourite dog grabbed him by the trouser to drag him out. He then returned the ticket and with that he saved himself, because the ship sank from the storms on the way, and not a plank, not a passenger survived. A sister inquired the Master, "How is it explained that some people feel the Love only for a second, it passes through them in only a second?" I will give an example to clarify. Let us imagine that between the Sun and the man there is a board with a small hole and that board is spinning. When the hole comes in front of the eyes of man, he sees the Sun, and during the other time it is hidden, but if the board be removed, he will always see it. So it depends on the obstacle in the consciousness of the respective man. When the thought is impure, it represents an obstacle, and Love cannot display through the man. And when man displays Love for a thousandth of a second, it shows that there has been a purification of the consciousness in that moment, and that is why man has apprehended and perceived it. Man has Love, but often, an interruption of the Love happens, because there is an obstacle, there are clouds; this is namely the sin. This is the same as when day and night come, while the Earth is spinning around the Sun. While you are in the day, you love, and when you are in the night - you do not. However, you have to emerge above that field, above that area, in which there are no changes in the Love and where there is no interruption of the Love. I will give another example: you have a friend who is moving. If you stay in a low place at home, at first you can see him through the window, but should he continue moving on the road, he will soon go out of sight and you will have to wait for him to come back again. And if you elevate to a high place, you will then always see him. This is what the non-interruption of Love means. To be in a high place means to have an elevated consciousness. The man who has come to love you cannot betray you, he cannot cease in Love. You can tell me that you love, but I will find your neck and your hand and then I will see whether you love. The neck and the hands of a man who has love widen. You can be loved by the one who loves everyone! We are now interfering in the freedom of men. You tell someone, 'You do not love me." But let us leave the people free. He is free to love or not. Do not interfere in his freedom. You might not love someone, but another loves him. You do not find anything in him to love, but what has the other one found? Who is right? The one who loves has found something interesting in him. For instance, I look at an old book and say that there is nothing in it, however, another one comes and claims that it is very interesting. Who is right? The one who has read it. Love gives all of the material, Wisdom arranges it, and Truth works with it. In Bourgas (a marine town in the eastern parts of Bulgaria) a woman who lay down to sleep found herself outside of her body and saw it lying between the sheets. Thus she went out through the window, and after that she woke up in bed. She was then afraid to tell her husband, so that he would not think she was crazy. That is an emanation. When you pass from a field to an upper one, the border is crossed through sleeping. For instance, to find yourself in the Mental world, you have to go to sleep three times upon crossing the border and to wake up at a higher field. When you are making attempts, you have to be in a harmonic environment, in order not to spend too much energy. Man has to aspire to find the souls. He has to see the Divine soul in every man. Otherwise we are still in the area of shadows. As long as you watch only the outward, it is a misunderstood business. The man who does not know God can commit a crime. And those who wait for God will have their strength renewed, they will become younger. What happens to the coal will happen to the people. The coal is cheap, and when it becomes a diamond, how much is it going to cost! People too have to become diamonds from coal, when they put themselves at a temperature of 15 million degrees. When you are ill, that means you have to pay off a creature, and now that you are ill, you are paying it. However, when you turn to God, God comes and pays for you, and they free you, you recover. We need to have the desire to be spiritually reborn. Even before our rebirth, we want to be happy, but that cannot happen. Only after man is reborn will he be happy like Jove, who got everything back again. Remember: when you pray, your feet should not be touching, but should be a bit away from each other, so that you are not locked inside yourself. On the awakening of the human consciousness there are four stages. You shall initially straighten your mistakes. Secondly, you shall become rich with virtues. Thirdly, you will take the mistakes of another and shall straighten them too, you shall pay for the mistakes of others. Fourthly, you shall work for the establishment of the Kingdom of God on Earth. In our virtues God manifests, and in our mistakes He is not there, He withdraws and leaves us free. In the virtues we learn to know God, because we act like Him. In our mistakes we learn as well, because of God's clemency, since He does not judge us, but only whispers to us "Do not do that", and does not tell us "Why did you do that?" All people are instruments of God's consciousness. Somebody says, "How can you listen to that ignorant person?" No, God speaks through him. He says something, and I translate what he says. What he says is a ciphered telegram to me. He does not understand why he is saying that to me, and I decipher and I am grateful to him. In the morning on the next day, October the 9th, several brothers and sisters visited the Master in His room in the villa. A conversation began. When you are cast out by everyone and they consider you to be scum, there is One who loves you. An Angel then walks with you and tells you, "Do not be afraid, God loves you, it will be all right." The personal morality is more advanced than the social one. In all nations the social morality is far behind. For instance, you steal or kill a man, and they put you in prison, and during a war, when you kill, they do not punish you. But today, in the common morality too people must not be killed. When they execute criminals, they become more dangerous, they remain on Earth, and commit crimes through other people. When a man commits a crime, it is not he who has committed it, but other inferior creatures have gone inside him and have done it, and then man wonders what he has done. You should not be influenced by the people, but within yourself you have to be straight. When we do something bad, we try to not let people know about it, however, in the Invisible world they know everything, and our fate depends on them. The one who works for the welfare of the people always benefits. I will give you an example: two men rode their horses on a road covered with snow and they saw a man lying prostrate, freezing with cold. One of them said, "I do not want to stop", but the other one got off his horse and revived the man by rubbing. By the movements he was making, he got warm too; that saved him as well, because the temperatures fell completely, and the other one, who was unsympathetic, froze with cold on his horse. When man does something wrong, he might fall. Do not speak ill of the people, you might break your leg, and you might even pay with your life. Do not speak ill of the people, because it is dangerous. Barely one in a hundred of what you think about them is true. Here is an example: a man from Novi Pazar (a city located in Serbia and Montenegro) had just one leva and did not know how he would carry on afterwards. Just as he sat somewhere to rest, a beggar came by and asked him for money. A voice told him, "If you do not give the leva, great sufferings will come to you!" And so he gave the leva. And from there on things went well for him. After that we all went down for breakfast. At 3:10 p.m. we set out with a car for Sofia, where we arrived at 4:45 p.m.

THE RATIONAL BEGINNING IN THE WORLD On September 27th, 1937, we set out from Izgreva (once a settlement near Sofia, founded by the Master; today it is a district of Sofia called 'Izgrev') at 5:17 a.m. We were the Master and six people. We reached Cham-koria (Borovetz) in less than two hours. After a while, we headed for Musala at 9:30 a.m. We had lunch by the bridge, which is midway between the resort village and the top. There, the Master looked at the beautiful scenery around us, and said: Who can make such scenery? Nature, when making its entertainment, it makes it skilfully. Human awareness is the hardest thing. He has to get into a tight corner, in order to become aware. When parents cannot bring up their children well, then in the next rebirth they become teachers in public schools, and teach those children. In the public schools, the relations between the teacher and the students carry on in the next rebirths as well. And the more they advance, the more intimate their relations become. We reached the chalet at 2:00 p.m. We went to bed at 7:00 p.m., so that we could get up early the next morning and welcome the rising Sun from the top of Musala. Once we opened our eyes, we set out at 4:00 a.m. sharp and reached the top at twelve to six a.m. The Sun rose at twelve past six a.m. On our departure from the chalet, the temperature was 5 degrees above zero, and on the top of Musala at sunrise it was 2.9 degrees above zero. At sunrise we had the following programme: The Good Prayer, Gospel by John, ch.10, v.10- 12. After that, a conversation began, and here are some basic thoughts of the Master: When we read the book of a poet, he himself is in each verse, in each word, isn't that right? We have to see God's presence everywhere just the same. To deem, that in all of Nature, His thought is present. Yes, God abides in his deeds. Each Word, which comes out of the mouth of God, is living bread. If in the rising of the Sun, in the blossoming of the flowers, in the flowing of the river, in the relations between people, we see the presence of God, then that is the correct look. We are in dependence of a point, the Rational beginning, from which all goods come. And man has to see in the living creatures the manifestation of God. A bear is coming towards you; if you recognize God within it, it will not spit on you; it will not do you any harm. And if you do not recognize God within it, it can attack you. Once in Plovdiv I entered the house of a colonel, in order to make my measurements. A dog bit my hand, and I said, "That's all right, you are a good dog." And it let go of my hand, and sat down quietly. You have to respect all living things, because they are created by God. When the consciousness of God is directed towards a small part, let's say, towards a single person, then that is the presence of God in man. Some people want to see God. God is in the light, in the air, in the water, in the bread. We are all submerged in God. To rejoice in Life anywhere you see it - in ants and in the grass, it is as if you are rejoicing in God. Rejoice that you live within Him. God is in everything, and He manifests to us. And we shall do everything for God. When we see a flower, a bee, a midge, or a person, we shall say, "Since God has created them, and out of love towards God shall we help them. Whatever we do to any creature, we shall do it out of love towards God". Somebody comes to you and helps you; this is the Spirit of God, which helps you through Him. Your pear-tree has yielded pears. This is God's Goodness. You need to have respect and esteem for everything that helps you, because God is there. Somebody does not have any respect for the ox. Well that ox has helped him, God's providence works through it. The tiniest flower carries a fragment of the Divine world. It endures, it rejoices in the slightest piece of goodness. Do not exclude God from the world. He is in the position to fix it. He is everywhere: among the Angels, among the plants, among the animals, and among the people. It is enough to look through the eyes of Love, so that you can see the beauty that is everywhere. When you see a midge, be pleased. It is a letter of the great alphabet. Without it, something will be missing. Do not comprehend the world mechanically. God does not govern the world mechanically, because if he did govern it mechanically, we would not have been able to think. Man rolls like some stone. God thinks constantly, and when you collide with Him, you start to think. You collide once - you get hurt; a second time, a third, until finally you learn not to collide with Him. Explore God, who lives within the people, and God, who lives within you. Without that intensive connection with the First beginning, man might have some disturbances, misunderstandings, etc. God is that Beginning, which rationalizes the Life. There is not more beautiful moment than the one when man feels for an instant the presence of that Beginning within himself. It brings in great Joy and Light. Then, man solves all the problems of the world, and that force starts to work within him, and he stops tripping over in his life. They say, "Where is God?" God manifests in every man and in everything. One who understands Him knows that, and the one who does not - he looks for Him where He is not. When David wanted to build a temple, a house of God, God said, "When a house is built, it is not a place that God can inhabit." There is a place that God can inhabit - the human heart. The temple - that is the human heart. We have a projection of God inside us. The Writ says, "It is life eternal to know You, the one, the true God." The Writ also says, "God is Love". So Love is a manifestation of God. God always displays what we did not know. You think that God is like the humans, and that he invites those, who are loved; no, God has no such character. For Him, the first saint and the biggest sinner are the same. You philosophize and say, "Why have you given me little?" Because you come with a small mug. When you go to God with such a mug, He pours little. Go to Him with a big mug, and you will be given more. Remember one rule: if you set out for God with a cask, you will have to carry it yourself, and when you fill it up, again you will have to carry it on your back. Nobody is going to carry your weight to God. The law is to bring to God such a vessel, in which you will put as much liquid as you weigh. "Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount" (Gospel by Luke, ch.3, v.13). Actually, God loves the good, the righteous. Not that God does not love the sinful, but outward it looks as if He does not love them. Remember, the sinful are not perceptive to the Love and the goods, which come from God. Today, people respect and esteem the sinful. For instance, they love king someone, but the murders, the crimes he has committed, nobody notices. And the righteous, without sin, is hated by the world, but God loves him namely because he is sinless. The saint should not expect anything from the people. It is said, "Do not expect glory from the people." God has an aversion for evil, and preferred to banish from Heaven those, whom He loved, once they made a mistake. Because He loves them, that is why He banished them, so that they could learn from the school of Life. When we are disgusted with sin, then God is in us, because He is disgusted with sin. He signalizes you from within, "The thing you are doing is not good." And when you sin, the fallen spirits whisper to you, "What you are doing is a good thing." Should you sin, the one, who approves of it from within, is a fallen spirit, and the One, who does not approve of it from within, is God. God never loves outwardly. For instance, man wants wealth, however, God does not give it to him, because it will do him harm. When man does not penetrate into the good distant design of God, he does not understand things. If God does not cause you suffering, you will not be able to heal yourself. In the eternal Joy, man must enter when he is ready. What is God? God is what makes you happy, joyful, feeling full, and having no need of anything. Where there is God, there is the strength, there is the beauty. For the Great rational beginning we have mechanical apprehensions, from which we have to liberate ourselves. If you have Life, God is within you. If you have Knowledge, God is within you. If you have the slightest piece of Freedom, this is now a presence of the Great rational beginning. These have to be the criteria for His presence. God is the Absolute rationality, with which we must always be in harmony. By the word "God" we understand that Rationality in the world, which removes illnesses and sufferings, and provides us with conditions to develop. Wherever there is rationality and goodness, there is God. So believe in one God; when you find Him within yourselves, everything will be in place, you will learn by light, and everything will be pleasant to you. Which is the strongest in the Great rational beginning? That, which distinguishes Him - the clemency. With all its workload, wherever it passes, whatever it is working on, if it sees that you are suffering deeply, He will stop to give you a hand, and will be on his way. God is attentive, no matter how small your desire might be, He always remembers and gives a hand for that, which is necessary. This is characteristic of the Great rational beginning. He says, "This small life deserves a small piece of joy." There is no one like God. Only God possesses that feature. When man is abandoned by everybody, the last one, who will find himself next to him, is God. He is the last refuge, the last instance, which we stop by. And Peace settles immediately within you, comfort comes. You fall; God will tell you, "Do not worry, your matters will be settled." And from the last instance on, everything will go forward. This has to serve as guidance. Keep in your mind that great quality of God, and when you come to the greatest despair, say, "I have reached the bottom, but this bottom is the Divine!" God's paths are thus: you cannot know a piece of God's work as long as it is a bud, but once the fruit ripens, you can then try it and see what it is. You will eat it, and you will go to work. As this fruit sacrifices, so shall you go to sacrifice for God's Cause. If someone dies, they assume that God is the reason. Yet God says, "I do not take delight in the death of the sinner." Somebody is sick. What is the reason? They say, "God". That we get sick, it is not from God, but that we are healthy, is from God. Yes, cleanse all the negative thoughts from the ideas of God. They say that God has created the world, and they speak well, but they understand that He has created it like man creates his mud; here is where the wrong is. Or they say that God rules the world, and they think that He guides it the way people manage to, and that is not right. A way has to be found in order to tell who God is. And He is the One, who can remember you, get you out of trouble, and help you; the One, who can get you out of the nothingness. And that One, who loves within us, is the Great rational beginning! The One, who brings Knowledge and Freedom into us, is the Great rational beginning. Only by the Path of love can we come into contact with God. When you adopt the idea of being a manifestation of God, everything will then be possible, Knowledge and everything else will come immediately, and matters will be settled easily. Because we are not ready when God passes by, He remains hidden. I have one opinion about God: nobody should meddle in His business. When it comes to this, I stop. When the Divine goes out of you, it makes a circle, and then comes back to you. If something in me is Divine, it is mine and what is not - it is not mine, and they can always take it away from me. In the human nature there is no Freedom, whereas in the Divine there is, and no violence exists there. In the world, God fights for our Freedom as well. He is the One, who constantly works within us, in order to liberate us from slavery. Our situation looks like this: a child wants from his mother bread with butter, and at the same time, he is crying his eyes out. After the cry, his mother will give him what he wants, however, if he asks his mother and waits without crying, again she will give him, and twice as fast at that. Isn't the second thing better? So do we, when telling God, let us wait without crying, and He will give us what we desire. God is one. There has to be unity, we are all within Him. He knows the price of everything. Outside of Him, nothing exists. He does not take into account that one man is taller, and another - shorter. Both the good, and the bad live within God, but their understanding is different. When a sinner goes to God, he becomes a righteous man. A sister asked, "Isn't God everywhere?" It depends on the consciousness. If the consciousness is awake, God is closer. If it is not awake, God is farther. The only perfect Being is God. We are created in His image. The form, which man has now, is not Divine. You have to see the spiritual body of the man, in order to have a slight notion about God. It is said in the Writ, that God has repented of creating the man. This has to be understood mystically, and namely that He has prematurely given goods to man, and with that He has restricted himself. God leaves us free, so that we can connect with Him. And He withdraws when we do something, at that. And when we make a mistake, He tells us - Correct the mistake!, and withdraws again, conserving our freedom. The Great rational beginning is always on the side of the weak. And we should always be on the side of the weak. What is the idea about God? Do not leave the pure air, do not leave the Light, do not leave the Love, do not leave the Knowledge. When these things gather together: air, Light, Love, Knowledge, etc, when a thousand things like these gather together, you will have a slight knowledge about God. What kind of a thing is God? He gives us Light, so that you can see, air, so that you can breathe, love, grief, knowledge, so that you can think. It is a grief, but God has only tightened you up a bit, so that you can think. You are so distracted, that with the next step you will fall into the well, and that is why God is tightening you up, so that you can watch your step. The idea about God, the idea about loving God has to be explained. Once it is explained, man will then understand the Life as well. The main principle in a spiritual school is that there is one understanding of God, which should serve as a criterion. There is one truth, of which man must be convinced. It can be sensed and realized, but you might not be able to find a way to express it. And only after you have actually tasted it, after the result you will be able to share it. We serve a Great rational beginning, in which all possibilities are included, and from which all impossibilities are excluded. The deep things can only be said by those born by God. God puts up with us, even though there is something unpleasant in us. God has in mind that one day these children of His, who sin every so often, will understand Him; and He endures and He likes it. In any one moment, He can make it so that they do not sin, but He wants them to choose the good by free will. Since we live and move within the Great rational beginning, then why do we worry! If you have an adversary, it is you who have created it, not God. And once you understand your relation towards God, once you come to love God, because God is within that man, he will cease to hate you. And today he hates you, because you do not have proper relations towards God. The connection, with which God attracts us, is the Love. Why did Christ stop by the blind man? He stopped because He wanted him to be able to see again. It was not the blind one who found Him, but it was Christ who found him. When man lives a good life, he is in a prominent position, where God can see him. The Great rational beginning is constantly working, and we have to learn to work like it. And now we have to awaken and realize that God works within us. The entire language is somehow materialistic. For instance, they say, "God should come into us." Well God is everywhere, God is within us. So the thought, hidden inside these words, must be, "I have to realize that God is within us." There are things that penetrate the walls of the room, and there are things that do not. The Primordial Life penetrates everywhere, and the limited - only in some places. Place both of your hands on top of your head (the bathing we do at the end of Paneurhythmy is quite the same exercise - the fingertips are touching that place on the head and are perpendicular to its surface), and then think about God. God will come and help. He says, "Seek me out in a day of grief." We performed the exercise, after which we entered the observatory. The observer complained that he was bored. The Master said: Now the scientists have come to an astral area, which is above the physical world, and that is why they cannot work with ordinary methods. To the top of Musala they should send a pious man as an observer, who should dedicate himself to science. The observer here has to know how to bring variety into his work. He needs to have inner work as well. We then went out and sat down on the meadow. And so we stayed until 11:30 a.m. The weather warmed up. The temperature reached 28 degrees centigrade. And as we were sitting on the meadow, the Master said: When the weather is about to change, you can tell that by the following: if in the evening your feet are growing cold, this shows that there is plenty of electricity in the air. Then the Master silently examined the surrounding area and continued: A rock is forming now in Izgreva. There is a soil, which is currently elevating and becoming more and more solid and firm. In time, those who live in Izgreva will have a big change - their thoughts and feelings will have new aspirations, the Rational will work within them. Also in Turnovo, at the place where the gathering was held, a rock is forming. Those rocks are literally forming, and in time they will be as hard as a flint. Something rational is working in Russia as well. So there are rational places in Nature. Bulgarians did not need to wage war. How can a nation come to any good when it is waging war? After a war, at least thirty years are necessary for the damage to be repaired. The same law works for the inward life: if you become cross four times a day, it is an entire war, and after that, how much time are you going to spend to repair what was destroyed inside you? Notice that where we have passed, after us they came and cleared a path. There is not a place by which we have passed, and where after that people have not come and done something. The Master looked at the Skakavtzite countryside, and at all the tops and peaks between Musala and Rupitte to the west, and said: Advanced Creatures live there. Our coming here, to the top of Musala, has a completely different meaning than somebody else coming here. At about 12 p.m. we descended from Musala and stopped by the topmost lake, which we call "Okoto" ("The Eye"). Here I will present the conversation with the Master by the lake. Faith is a path to God. But Love is a path to receive something from God. Outside of the Love, life does not exist. It gives out life and happiness. If you do not find the path of Love through faith, if you do not find the path of Wisdom through Love, if you do not find the path of Truth through Wisdom, and if the Truth does not show you the link that is between Love and Wisdom, then you cannot achieve anything. When you go to God, Love will help you receive a gift from Him and return after that to distribute what you have received, in order to help the others. Through the Love we have for God, He gives us everything. The sky was clear and blue, without a single cloud, and there was abundant sun. Bugs were flying around. The Master caressed a blade of grass and said: Whatever the tiniest bug does, do not think that it is stupid. The grass has knowledge as well. It has learned for years. So we will learn from everywhere - and from the grass, and from the bugs. The Master looked up to the top and said: Bulgaria is a Promised Land. It has the best of fruit. And there is no one like the Bulgarian gardeners - they know them even in America. We came back to the Musala chalet at dusk. On the next day, September the 29th, at 3:50 a.m. we set out towards the top. We reached Musala at 5:53 a.m. The sunrise was at 6:14 a.m. The Sun came out between the peaks of Belmeken and Iber, there was a light haze. We performed the following programme; "Our Lord", The Good Prayer, ch. 65 by Isaiah, "From the first he was the Word". After that the Master said: The story goes that the gods resided on Olympus; however, that was not the present-day mount of Olympus, but the Rila massif. It was the great Olympus, which later subsided. The present-day Olympus formed later. In the future there will be films which will be present how the Earth was created, and will copy from the actual film, which has been preserved - the Akashic records. The Creatures have preserved all those processes of the past in the form of a film. In the future, people will see them. Remember, there is a connection between the Himalayas and Rila. At about 11 a.m. we came down by "Okoto" again, where the Master said: You have a completely crooked view of Love. Love must never be scattered, it must not be spilled. Here is what happens: you grow fond of someone and you give him a lot of money, and he buys himself a car, starts living at a high rate, drinks, and lives a spoilt life. They call you and ask you, "Was it you who made this benefaction?" The entire humanity is responsible for the mistakes that happen. For everything, which happens, each man is responsible, and mathematically, a red bill will be brought to him in order to pay or take a certain profit. Let us wish the following: all people to be healthy, all to learn and to have an exchange among each other. A sister asked, "Who are those now, who have been disciples of the Christ?" Even if one knows that, it is best to remain silent. People think that we live like they do, but what do they know about our inner life? They do not understand us. Now the Astral life is free from the dark forces. And today there is liberation from them in the physical world. What knowledge the dark forces have, they have stolen from the Bright creatures. However, the knowledge of the Bright creatures grows, and the knowledge of the dark ones does not, and that is why they are limited. In the Revelation there is the story about the woman who gave birth to a child that was snatched and hidden, because it was pursued by the dragon. The dragon symbolizes the dark forces, which will be bound to the core of the Earth and will be banished from the physical world. When the woman was tempted by the dark forces in Heaven, they then stole from her the Divine knowledge, because the woman is a daughter of God. But the woman saved that child, so there is liquidation happening, so they are now binding the dark forces. When is man carrying out the will of God? For instance, when a poor man comes to your house, you should receive him and yield your bed to him, and after that you should not say, "It will be better if this one does not come another time". At 1 p.m. on September the 29th, we set out from the "Okoto" lake, and at 2:30 p.m. we reached the Musala chalet. At 3 p.m. we went our way down and at 6 p.m. we were in Borovetz. There we stayed for one night at the villa of sister Stoyanova. After dinner we had a long conversation with the Master - until as late as 11:30 p.m. Man suffers from his waywardness. He does not eat properly, nor does he drink properly, nor does he do all the other things properly. In some people there is a grumbler. If there is a grumbler in you, then you are not him. Whatever they give him, he is dissatisfied. Once man loses his Love, then the Light and Warmth in him disappear. Our mistake is that we want to find happiness on Earth. And the Earth is a school. That, which we seek, we will find in another place. Everything on Earth is temporary. In another epoch, this happiness will be achieved on Earth as well. Once Love comes, it will give that Freedom that you seek. Once Love comes, the dead will resurrect. With the Love, one gives, and the other perceives. Each genesis begins with the Love. Everything begins with the Love and everything ends with the Truth. You can distinguish between one man and another. The one who does not understand can distinguish. Tonight assume that you have the Love, speak as though you have no need of it, because you have it. Yes, you have yet to study the science of Love. Learn all the kinds of its lighters. You have Love but you have not displayed it. Deem that you have it. The piano, on which you are playing, is good. And the notes, which are in front of you, represent a good symphony, but you cannot play the piano well yet. What is the idea of this example? That God has created Nature well, and that whatever He has written in it is good, and if someone does not get on with his life, he is the cause. People want the big Love, but they have to be content with even the smallest thing they get. It is a misunderstanding that everyone starts with the big Love. In Love you have a state where you are content with even the smallest, and you close your eyes to the mistakes of the one you love. A creature on Earth, which is considered a genius, when it finds itself among the Angels, it will be an ignoramus, it will speak like a child that gapes, and will say, "This job is not for me." Meanwhile, it started to rain. The Master said: Notice how the Rational works in the world. If we had remained up there today as well, it would have rained on us. Health is in the air, and the people, as they do not know how to breathe, cannot perceive it. Knowledge is in the Light. But as people do not know how to perceive the Light, they do not know how to perceive the Knowledge either. The man who suffers is in a higher place. And the one who rejoices is in a lower place, in the valley. Bad people avoid climbing up on the high places. They always try to be down, because the inferior creatures, which are within them, cannot endure up there, and they will have to leave them. On the other day, September the 30th, in the forenoon we came back to Sofia.

THE GREAT ENVIRONMENT On September the 9th, 1935, the Master set out for Musala with a small group of seven brothers. In Borovetz we loaded the luggage on horses and we headed for the top on foot. On the way, during the breaks, we had interesting conversations with the Master. Here are some preserved thoughts. One who trusts in the worldly, in the material, will inevitably and eventually be disappointed. One, who trusts in the spiritual, but with self-interested motives, will be disappointed as well. Only he who selflessly trusts in the spiritual will not be disappointed. That is the Divine. Now the White race is passing collectively through the phase of greed (for instance, the Italians in Abyssinia), and the Bulgarian, on the other hand, is passing individually through the greed; of course, the Invisible world uses all of this again for the good. Once, Musala was the highest mountain peak in all Europe, later it has lowered down. Bulgaria has been a sea and a land several times; however, the Rila massif has always remained a dry land, and has risen like a large island above the waters. In the afternoon we reached the Musala chalet, where we spent the night, and on the next day we set out for the top early in the morning. On the top of Musala, at the rising of the Sun, the Master read the Second Epistle of Ap. Peter to the Corinthians. After the prayer a conversation began. The first manifestation of God, which we know, is Love. God is Love. From the stars, from the Sun, from the fruit, comes the Love of God. Love is in the air, in the water, in the pears, in the apples, in the bread. And that is why each form we encounter should serve as a connecting link to us, through which we should connect with what is in it, namely - with the Love of God. That is why, when we perceive the air, the water, the apple, the pear, the bread, when we observe the stars, the rocks, the flowers, we have to connect with what they are an instrument of. And if, while eating, we make a connection with the Love of God, we have then eaten well. And if, while breathing, we touch and accept the Love, which is in the air, we have then breathed well. And if, while casting a glance towards Nature, we touch the Love, which is in its forms, we have then looked at it well. I have touched upon the matter of Love from all sides. It is all-penetrating and it is the great environment, in which we are submerged. Even in the tiniest creatures, in the atoms, in the forces - its influence can be seen everywhere, in one form or another. I see a fountain, and in it I find the Love. That man, who built it, has wished people well. I see a spring, and I call it Love as well. Some rational creature has let it flow to us. I see that the Sun is rising, and I find that this is Love, because some Supreme Being elevates our luminary above. This is the Love, which stands in the Sun. I see how the tree grows - Love is there, which makes it grow. In the small things, Love is strong. I see everywhere what providence there is - that behind all things stands God's Love. Man endures the sufferings because of Love. For the Love that God has towards Christ, He endures the suffering. So sufferings are not stronger than Love. Christ said, "I loved them to the utmost". And in another place, "I do not pray for the world, but for those, which it gave me, and for those, who will believe through them." A martyr is being cut to pieces, and he endures through God's Love. Love is above death. In the Brotherhood, a group of at least twelve people has to be form; they shall understand Love, and be instruments of it. Love is the light of Life. A life without Love is meaningless. Christ has said, 'You have to love each other. That is how others will tell that you are my students". A preacher would quote Isaiah, but not a word about the Divine Love. Moreover, he does not talk about the ways and conditions, under which Isaiah received what he has written. People do not know each other now. Through Love there is a deep knowledge among the people. Everything is Love! God's Love precedes everything. Before it becomes faith, it is Love. Life is produced by the Love, and it is only a single condition for its manifestation. The entire world is an incarnation of Love, and it has derived from Love. That is why the first impulse of the man should be the perception of Love. When you say that the Sun does not think about you, you become discouraged. First of all, you do not speak rightly, because your father and mother have thought about you, and that is why you live. Secondly, if you have any brothers or sisters, they do not think the way you want, but they think about you. Maybe others think about you as well, but you do not realize it. The air thinks about you, because it enters your lungs. The Sun thinks about you, because it shines on you. The water thinks about you, and the tree also thinks about you. When you pass by their side, they tell you, "Welcome!" Every day, the Sun and the stars flicker to see someone. The small bugs dance anxious to alight on somebody. The trees tremble impatiently for someone to come and take from their fruit, and you say that there is nobody to love you. After this conversation, we entered the observatory to have some tea. When we went out in the open again, the Master continued: The energies of the mountains descend down to the field, in order to make it fertile. In the future, the mountains will lower down, and the fields will rise up into mountains. The Master looked across Musala towards the pine woods, beyond the valley of the Beli Iskar River, and said: There are some clean places; Creatures live there. In general, Creatures like places where human foot never sets, so that they would not be disturbed. They know the art of becoming visible and invisible. Here they have abodes and live a semi-physical and semi-astral life. These creatures were once people. They are functionary creatures, servants of other, more advanced Creatures, which have completed their development, and direct everything in Nature. The ether penetrates the air. Things penetrate each other. What penetrates, dominates. The smaller thing lives inside the bigger one. The bigger envelops it. The ether has four states. They think that the ether is homogeneous everywhere, however, this is not correct. The suns are centres of ethereal energies. The pressure of the ether forms the suns. Wherever there are suns, the pressure of the ether is the biggest. When the ether presses, solar systems are formed in the endless space; so this pressure is not the same everywhere. When you are climbing a high mountain, the inner pressure is bigger than the outer. In that case, if someone more sensitive comes to a high altitude, he starts bleeding. That is why namely, when you walk from down to up, you have to gradually adapt, and the inner pressure and the outer expansion have to balance. You have to stop from time to time for 30 seconds, so that this balance can come. There is a Brotherhood, which travels the world and brings culture. It has been in India, in Egypt, in Babylon, in Persia, in Palestine, in Greece, in Rome, in France, in England, in Germany, and is now moving to the Slavs. Wherever it goes, there is culture, everything moves and develops. Bulgarians say that when man loses his Love, he becomes clumsy, heavy; and they are right. There is no expansion from within them, and the outside world presses on. The denser the environment, in which a creature lives, the more inferior it is. For instance, the moles, they live in the soil and that is why they are more inferior. But there are creatures, which live inside the crust of the earth, and take advantage of particular rays. So far, our Solar system with all its planets has been descending. And today, it is moving in an ascending way, it is lifting up, and will therefore soon enter a new area, which corresponds to a New culture. It is being calculated, that the entire Universe resembles an egg, whose inner capacity equals hundreds of millions of light years. This was also said by the old occultists. One year for God is equal to one with fifteen zeros for us. Once in 365 million years, God descends to settle things. The word "descent" refers to directing the consciousness. Present-day people will become Angels. Angels differentiate from each other by the stage of their development - the evolution, through which they have passed. When the present- day Angels, who are helping us, passed through the phase of humanity, present-day people were like plants and animals. The people of that time were taking advantage of them. Now, Angels are coming to help people, in order to repay for what they did to them when they were human. Angels communicate with people through the law of inspiration, and that is how they transmit their thoughts to them. Angels understand us, and we should not create any obstacles for them, so that they could transmit their thoughts to us. The energies of the Angels are so immense, that they have withdrawn from the people, so that they would not harm them. When Angels go to people who are not ready, the latter faint and lose consciousness. Remember when they came to Christ in the Gethsemane garden, in order to capture Him, they fell to the ground and He reduced his energy, so He would not hinder them. The Black lodge wants to make people collide with the Divine world, in order to cripple them. There is a danger in the religious people - they have ambition. Scientists also have it. And for Christ it is said, "He assumed a slavish image"; so there was humility. You deem a man is ignoble, however, in him, God lives. You shall exchange with him, otherwise you will deteriorate. The Divine is everywhere, if we understand things. A brother asked the Master, "Since when have we begun to descend with You in groups?" Ever since you descended from the Moon. From the Sun we have descended to the Moon, and from the Moon we have descended to the Earth. There is a group, which always comes with the Master. From the beginning, ever since the Master has been descending to this Earth, a group of disciples has been descending along with Him. At all great events you gather in one place and come with the Master. And when there are no great events, the members of this group disperse towards various places and are reborn. And then, when they gather back together, they exchange their experiences. Man must not say a single rude word, nor should he have a rude thought, because with that the Love inside him crumbles; not that it actually crumbles down, but it recedes, and man is left abandoned. In order for Love not to abandon you, neither should you say any rude words, nor should you nourish any rude thoughts. Now the time has come for the Black lodge to withdraw, and for the White one to gain superiority. We have been sent to Earth so that the Name of God can be glorified. On the descent from Musala, we stopped for a while by the streamlet, which comes down from the highest lake "Okoto" ("The Eye"). There the Master said: Isis is a symbol of the Truth, which was obscured, and Osiris represents the rising Sun. Each man has to pass through Isis, in order to reach Osiris. Isis was a woman. "He, who unveils Isis, must die!" A great adept lifted the veil of Isis, saw the beauty of her face, but did not die, because he knew the laws. He, who unveils Isis, cannot go to Osiris. Osiris preached for the Sun. Isis and Osiris lived in the pre-historic epoch. They later became symbols of the Egyptian schools. The veiled Isis represents the Truth, which is hiding. In each person there is a veiled Isis. That is the soul, the Divine, the holy inside man. To know the soul in a man - that is called dedication. During the epoch of the Black race it was terrible. At that time there were such murders, such crimes that have not happened with any other race. Now the Black race is a servant of the White. Now is the epoch, in which the Sons of Light will come, the Luminous race. We came back and spent the night again in the Musala chalet, and on the next day we went to Borovetz, from where we set off for Sofia with an automobile.

CONTENTS THE GREAT RATIONAL BEGINNING The great environment The rational beginning in the world The language of the rational beginning The unity in the world A visit by God The silent voice Communication with the rational beginning Harmonizing of the human soul Guard of man Real connection Musical state of the human soul, gratitude and contentment Active in Life The loyal son, serving God The seventh day, the seventh hour, the seventh minute In the regiment of Christ God's will The sacred connection Whoever hears his voice will revive THE HIGHEST PEAK Love towards God How you shall Love God Three laws of Love Unknown Love The gifts of Love Power for achievement The matters of the heart remain free A path to Love When you seek me with all your heart, you will find me Stages of Love Qualities of the divine Love My father and I will make an abode within you Four oranges Love towards everybody "Love everybody!" Is a dynamics Love towards the enemy - that is a school Some features of Love A visit by Love Tests of Love Kindred souls Love will build the new culture Some rules of Love Love is serving Ordinary, talented, and ingenious Love Meditate on Love Maiden, fire, and water Orbit and influence of Love Connected with the Lord of Love The eternal weal You will grow wings The art of doing good Come with me to the fountain Taking and giving WISDOM Rationality in nature Laws and methods of Wisdom Organizing the spiritual body I will give you the wealth of secret places Laws of thought The straight thought Unity of life The elevated in man A law for development The law of causes and effects Through the dark zone We have a home not made by human hand A few words about the human nature Strong vibrations Development of the new senses Conscious emanation Our smaller brothers, the plants Our smaller brothers, the animals Involution and evolution Phases of the ascension of the human soul Providence Everything turns into good The new farming The colours Vital magnetism Something about the starry sky Physiognomy and phrenology Present your bodies in a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God Man is a microcosm "Om" contains everything TRUTH AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS Truth Freedom Justice Life for the whole New direction of labour Future order - order of Love Private property Without violence International life MASTER AND DISCIPLE I take you to the spring The Bulgarian golden age Revealed and unrevealed plans Crying ieremiev Be with watchful consciousness The experiment will be tonight Master - disciple relationship I have gathered you for several reasons Masters path Disciple's path A poem by Stela Belmen, France In front of the portrait of our master Raise to the higher worlds Disciple's consciousness alertness When you sit down to think Operate with yourself Disciple's safety Free in the world When do we become fragrant Devoted service Light and mistakes Have peace, in order to have useful work Parallel worlds Absolutely possible for a strong man Young people are heralds of the divine Christianity bears the principles of the future culture Gifts come after crying The awaking of a soul Divine life is a reality SACRED HOUR Sacred hour Take off your shoes The five brothers Right of the divine soul Seven groups of three persons Water, which always flows This is an eternal life The kingdom of God is taken forcibly Concentration on the rainbow Halo round the head Nine blessings - nine methods for work Plant installations Let us Love each other VIRTUES Belief Believe in the impossible Difference between belief, hope and Love Humility Purity Development of the virtues Suffering is awaking of consciousness Hardships lead to good Hardships purify and develop virtues Hidden in us, wealth reveals through hardships Hardships develop talents Perfection comes through hardships Hardships bring nobleness and beauty Divine stays with suffering Suffering is a path to Love Torture and hardship Joy comes after suffering Reasons for the hardships Suffering is a law of concentration Attitude towards hardships

VALUABLE RULES To the Master had come brothers and sisters, guests from abroad. Question: Please, give us some methods for work here, on the mountain. First you need purity. Thoughts must have a natural light, but only when a man is notin conflict with himself. And the heart must have natural warmth. With this warmth, the state of a man does not change - the positive state of the soul remains stable. I will give you two exercises. Watch during the day, the blue color of the sky. When you watch the blue color of the sky, you must keep in mind that everything in the world has its own meaning. Through this exercise we can become more open to the thoughts which come from the Sun, to the rational influences which come from there. During this exercise, when you make a connection with the blue color, your state will change. The second exercise is: at night, watch the stars, and keep in mind that the whole Universe is full of rational life. Rational creatures travel from one solar system to another. Question: What will you say about the current political events and about the contemporary spiritual movements? The contemporary political and spiritual movements are only harbingers of the Great, Divine, which is coming in the world. They are aids. And whatever they do, whatever the events to come, everything will turn into good. Question: How should I work in my profession? A man should work in his profession with love. He must think of it as means toward interconnecting with people. He should not think of it as some load. Through every profession in the physical world a man learns something, acquires certain virtues. There is one anecdote. A child went to a great hero. The child begun hitting the hero with a stick and told him: "Do you know what I can do? I am beating you really hard!" the hero took him, lifted him and turned him upside-down. After that he put him to the ground. Then the child said: "I want us to become friends." If someone can lift the hardship in the air and turn it upside-down, it becomes his friend. When some great hardship comes to you, lift it in the air and turn it upside- down. Then you will have a lot of friends. This is the Divine law of Love - only through the law of Love can you become friends with the hardships. For Love there is no hard work in the world; for it, all works are easy. You will be assured of that when you start applying it and testing it, now it is still just theory to you. One sister asked: Please, give me some health guide­lines. You have to drink orange juice. Eat slowly - then the nerves on the tongue, the palate and the gums have time to draw the vital power of the food; because the stomach digests only the rough matter of the food. When you eat, you must not think of anything else but the food. It is good to drink hot water. You should not drink cold. You have to take deep breaths two times a day. Every morning during all seasons do the six gymnastic exercises. They work very well on the brain, the sympathetic nervous system and the respiratory system. When you choose a home, under it there should not be any subterranean water flows. Houses under which there are such flows are not healthy. In such houses man feels indisposed - you are sensitive to the emanations of the water. While you sleep, your head should face north. Take your time going to bed, until you have taken all precautions. Every morning and evening take time for a prayer, reflection and contemplation. There is one law: when a man is praying and contemplating, more blood is attracted to the upper front part of the head and the spiritual organs, which are there, are developed. Question: How can a man gain the habit to concentrate? Here is one method: when the weather is good, take a prism. Disperse the light through the prism and watch the seven colors of the solar spectrum. First stop on the color you love the most; after that stop on a second color, on a third, etc. This way you will learn to concentrate. On the other hand, through the effect of the colors your health will improve. Question: How can we transform our disharmonic relationships with some people into harmonic ones? Those who a man does not love have harmed him greatly in the past. I will give you one rule: do favors for the one you dislike. Then your antipathy will become sympathy. Question: How should happiness be interpreted - as something physical or spiritual? Happiness can be neither physical, nor spiritual. Happiness is something Divine. Love is one of the greatest laws of life. Outside of Love, no happiness exists. Happiness comes exclusively from God. A man can be happy only if he keeps God in his thoughts. Do not rely on the humanity inside yourself, or on the humanity inside your neighbor. Trust the Divine in yourself and the Divine in your neighbor. You want to be happy. Only by the law of Good can a man be happy. In order for you to become happy, you have to be useful to all rational creatures. Now you are unhappy because you are not useful to them. If you are useful, they will love you. When they love you, the happiness will come on its own. You have to love God, to believe in God, in order to be happy. Do not take happiness as something material. You want to be happy when you wear some cloths or put on some shoes. The happiness is not in the cloths you wear. Sometimes you are happy that you have a friend who loves you; what makes you happy is the Love. If you doubt it for a moment, it becomes heavy; an inner darkness creeps inside you. While we get that there is One, Who loves us, we are happy - this is God's Love. While you think you are loved, you feel vivacity, cheerfulness. The happiness is an expression of that endless Love which exists in the world. Happiness is an external expression of Love. It stands on that - knowing that there is One, Who loves you. Someone asked: Tell us, Master, something from you, without a question. Develop that which God has planted in you

THE DIVINE TEACHING This morning we were gathered around our beloved Master at the mountaintop and in silent contemplation we were expecting the rising Sun. It was one of those fresh, cool mornings, which take place in the mountain after continuous rainfall. Down below us the fog was stretched like avast sea all the way into the horizon. The mountains, washed and clean, were rising in the transparent air like a new world. The peaks were uplifted like worshipers in the bright silence of the early morning. The vivid colors of the dawn passed into high ranges and got to barely perceptible gentle hues, which showed the sunrise was nearing. Suddenly, the first ray shone. Joyful, mighty, abundantly giving, the Sun came out. Encircled with bright sparkling diadem, it rose triumphing and its image was reflected in the mountaintops and dew, in colorful shades. The bright path was spread out over the fogs beneath us. The Master said: Remember this image! Then he continued: If we want to rid ourselves of the bad circumstances, only the Divine teaching will help us. We must not criticize the other teachings; let each express itself through the fruit it bears. Christ says: "Go and preach and I shall be with you till the end of the age. I will go and prepare a place for you and I will come back to take you."[1] He is talking of those who are going to enter in the Inner school - to study the Being. Christ also says: "Whoever is not against us is with us."* All who are not against the Divine teaching are with us, whatever the way they preach. ---------------------------- [1] Literal translation of the quote of the Master (note of translator)

THE PATHS TOWARD LOVE Several days went by covered in fog. It was raining from time to time, but today the fog started to lift, to move around the ridges or deep into the valleys and to gradually melt away and disappear. At last around noon the sky cleared and the last clouds went away. The sun was sending continuously its rays, it caressed us with its warmth. We felt it particularly blissful after the humid days. The Master took us to a high meadow near the camp and there we made ourselves comfortable. As we were talking under the sunrays, our beloved Master began teaching us and giving us guidance toward a good life, which is a life in Love. Love exists in every creature, and if someone has not manifested it, it means that he has not yet been given the circumstances necessary to do so. While it is in the granary, the wheat does not love anybody; once it is planted, it has the circumstances to manifest itself, it starts to love. Until it germinates, the seed of the wheat is exposed to great suffering. To know when to talk, how to think, how to feel, to be smart - in this lies perfection. Without this, Love cannot manifest. To acquire Love, you need humility. When humility comes, knowledge will come and Love will come. Remove from yourself the thought of superiority over others. Know that every man, every soul has the chance to ennoble itself, to lift itself. Another method for the development of Love is for a great yearning to be awakened in you, to crave and thirst for it, like the flower for life-giving humidity and for the sun rays. Those who crave and thirst for Love will be satisfied. If you want Love from God, He can give you however much you desire. Do not hesitate in Love. Good times are coming, they are very near, only an inch is left. Someone may ask: "Will this be here?" Here, on Earth it will be. A practical method of developing Love is the following: plant several cherry trees. Grow flowers too, especially red or in other colors. In two-three years you will feel a very pleasant feeling of love. This is a practical method of developing Love. Plant also watermelons or other fruit. Every plant has hidden powers in it. The rubber plant brings calmness in man. If you want to become active, grow cherries. If you want to develop your Faith, grow blue plums. And so, if you want to develop yourselves, grow fruit trees, flowers and vegetables. Water the fruit trees and say to yourselves: "As I water the trees, the same way God will pour onto me His blessing." I want to teach you to serve the plants first and then the people, because the plants will appreciate you. A man who is ready to water several trees is ready to bring water to many people. He who is faithful to the few is also faithful to the many. Each one of you, who wants to be loved, must have in himself the Life, the Purity and Rationality which God has. If those three qualities are present, he will be always loved and he will have the circumstances to manifest Love. There is no exception in this. Love presumes perfection; when you make a mistake, it cannot manifest. An important method of developing Love is serving God. He who serves God is in a condition to perceive God's Love, he becomes perceptive towards it. When you serve God, He will teach you how to love. When do the angels come down to you? When you serve God. Another method is the following: in every man you meet, find the good things, which God has invested in him. The first thing Love requires is for you, when you meet someone, to find at least one sublime part of his character, for which you come to love him. Think good of the others! When a man thinks good of others, he thinks good of himself too. The echo of each of your thoughts will come back to you; one day you will hear it. If you keep in your mind the bad part of someone, it will leave a mark in your brain and you will come to look like this man, you will not be able to escape crime. There is a law: when you assign someone some good quality, it will come back to you; if it is bad - the same will happen. It is better for you to see the good, so it can come back to you. You meet someone and you say: "He does not know anything"; this will come back to you. Do not speak badly of a man, because in this way you are speaking badly of God's work, and you do not know God's purpose for him. God has not finished His work yet. You yourself are unfinished work of God. If you think a man is good, if you believe in it, he may not be so on the outside, but you will know that in time, he will manifest his goodness. Never look for the shortcomings in people, the underdeveloped things, because with this you walk on the opposite path, you harm yourself. The law is: when even in the worst man, in the thug, in the beast, we feel God's presence, He will manifest within him - this creature will be awaken and a radical change will occur, God will speak in him. We can make experiments so as to be sure of the power of this Divine law. This law we must apply on a daily basis, so we can lift the others, and ourselves. To know a man, we must harbor good thoughts and feelings toward him. We have to know things as they are in the inner, the Divine world. The better the thoughts and feelings we have for the people, the stronger we will be on Earth. When we lose our good thoughts and wishes toward people, we lose the best thing on Earth - our inner friends, the helper angels, and our development depends on those inner friends. Everyone must be aware that as God is loving, lenient and good, we must be as well. When a man sins, do not judge him! You do not know if he is a sinner or not. If you judge him, you will definitely be put in the same position. Neither praise people, nor reproach them. The main thing is the fulfillment of God's will. Slander is a great deficiency in today's century. There is nothing worse. To keep the good characteristics of people in your mind and not criticize anyone - this is a definite method for the development of Love. From there you shall begin. As you look for good characteristics in people, you will begin to explore them - this is one rule. Find the best as well in yourself, find your best characteristic, which God has invested in you, start from there. This means to know yourself. Another method for the development of Love is the following: thank God for what he gave you, for the opportunities you have, for everything. In this way you perceive God's Love. When a man eats and does not thank God, he is in the mediocre life; if he thanks, he is in the Divine life. It is like this for everything else as well. When you get up in the morning, thank God for getting up. Be thankful for the cold, for the rising Sun, for warming yourself by the fire. Be thankful for the inner disposition God gave you. Go back to the camp and thank God awhile for today, for the good He gave you, for the life, for the mind, the heart, for your body, for your friends. You have to feel good for living on Earth even if you have a lot of bitterness. Life cannot be bad. By the words bad life I understand the following: residue has enter in the life, but life on its own cannot be bad. For instance, you sit here and you listen to me. If you had been developing your gifts and concentrated your mind, you would have seen what treasures, what riches there are, here, on this mountain. And now you see that it is all closed. When you come to the real knowledge, you will know this. There are not such treasures everywhere; they are only on certain places. Sometimes you may be only a few inches from the place. The treasures, hidden in the ground, are for smart people, who will fulfill God's will. You must have a correct interpretation of things, and to protect yourselves from unnatural feelings. If the wind blows on me, I know that it is doing its work; if there is a fog - as well. Was the whole mountain not wrapped in a cloud when Moses went to Sinai? God is Love in the whole Being. When we are dissatisfied with Him, He retreats and leaves us alone, i.e. the connection between you is interrupted. Then we feel vast loneliness. This is even scarier. When a man goes to the mountain with a feeling of gratitude for everything, the Rational nature gives him riches. Then he has circumstances to draw from them. One sister asked: Why did God allow some people to sin and others not? Why is it ordered such a way? God gives freedom to everyone. God gives freedom to the mosquito to bite you, to drink blood, but he gives you freedom to push him. If I am smart I will push it, if I am not smart I will let it bite me and then I will say: "Why did God order it to bite me?" God has given freedom to the seducer to seduce you. If you are smart, you will resist. Even a child can tie up the hero, if the latter lets himself be tied up, but when the child starts to wrap the rope around him, it is enough for him to spread his hands and he will break the rope, he will release himself. The seducer goes to the strongest. And so, gratitude leads to Love. A man cannot understand Love, in its mystical depths, until the idea of God becomes clear to him. To manifest real Love, you must raise your relationship toward God. I have many things to say, but only to people who are one with God. Even if the others sit before me for a thousand years, I will not say a word before them. I know the people like they do not know themselves. I know myself too. The knowledge comes from Above and it will reveal itself to people, according to their consciousness, to their spirituality. All the shapes that exist in Nature are an alphabet of a science, which has to be known in order for life to make sense. You will study it for many years, and the longer you study it, the larger the area of study becomes. The whole exterior world is a material teaching. Everywhere man goes, he has to study. Through the visible we are taught about the invisible. What is knowledge? I call knowledge the ability of the bird to fly; if it cannot fly, this is not knowledge. Therefore, knowledge is what you can do. You need knowledge, which has a practical application: not only to be accumulated in your minds, but to be applied and to bring peace. The Earth is a school and it has its own program. You think you are very literate but they put you in first grade - they find you do not know the alphabet. They fail you until they awaken your mind and you understand that you do not know. Two-three existences will pass until you understand that. When Nature sees that someone works unwisely with its energies, it takes it from him together with the capital.

METHODS OF WORK Once, the Master told one brother from abroad: The first thing, with which it necessary to begin, is to explore yourselves, to know what is hiding in you and what potentials you have. After that, you have to work out a correct understanding of life. Between the material and spiritual things there is one correct concordance. The laws by which this can happen have to be understood. If you want to work in the world, you must understand Love, because it has a relationship towards people. First you will get to know the Love which functions in the physical world, with its forms and laws; after that, the Love which functions in the Spiritual world, with its laws. In the physical world you will study Love from the point of view of Hope; in the Spiritual world - from the point of view of Faith, and in the Mental world - from the point of view of Love itself. Violence must not be used. You cannot force your ideals on people who want to live a mundane life. With the understanding that they can find happiness in the material world, people have limited themselves. Instead of taking the physical world as an exterior condition, they have made it into a goal. A mystical understanding of life is needed. A man has to pass from the area of believing to that of Faith. In the area of believing all ropes break, but in the area of Faith the rope never breaks. If we want more people to come to us, we have to go down to them so we can help them. If a man stays only at the heights, how many people will go to him? Work with faith, in that the people you can help are already determined. They are waiting for you to go to them. We are at the end of an era. It is completed. It is said: "The Sun will darken" - this means that the contemporary countries will darken. It is said: "The moon will darken" - this means that many old religious viewpoints will fall. It is said: "The stars will hesitate and will go out" - this means that many authorities, great people, will darken. It is also said: "Then shall appear Christ, the Son of Man" - this means that his ideas will come and will prepare the culture which is to come. Question: How do you recognize it when God's voice speaks to man? When God's voice speaks to you there is peace in your mind and heart. And when He does not speak to you, there can only be peace in the mind, not in the heart, or vice versa. The ordinary human life starts with Love and ends with hate - people, in the beginning, start off well, and then they fall out. The Divine life however, starts with joy and ends with joy.

THE HAPPIEST DAY Today, when we got down from the Praying top, the Master said: The happiest day - this is the day of Love, of Knowledge and of Freedom. The ancient knowledge has been acquired in a state similar to sleep, i.e. it is acquired during the devolutionary period. In order to make a man happy, first rob him and after a year return to him what you have taken. Then he will be happy because he will appreciate what he has. There is no happier creature on Earth than man. All creatures under man are unhappy. When a man is blind and his eyes open, do you know what happiness he feels? It is the same law when something new is uncovered from the human mind. A man must have that feeling - to appreciate the food and everything he receives. You have been in Heaven and you have not appreciated it and for that they have deprived you from that blessing. And now, when you go back to Heaven, you will appreciate everything that is there. The hungry are happy where the bread is. The sick are happy where the health is. The ignorant are happy where the knowledge is. Whoever lost Love is happy where the Love is. Everybody is happy when they find what they are looking for.