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Note 1 Power, Intelligence and Good In Life the following main condition exists: you never can learn man to what you don’t know by yourself – knowledge is only what is tasted, verified. For example, if man never tasted in his life something sweet, he can’t know what thing is the sweetness – no matter how long you will speak to him for the sweetness, this idea will remain inaccessible for his mind. Man can reach concept for sweet only by one way – how? It is enough just to taste something sweet; from this moment whatever they speak to this man for the sweet, for its stages and qualities, he understands everything. In the same way, no matter how long you will speak to the man for the Good, if he hasn’t taste it, he will not understand anything; if he tastes the Good once, he can understand you absolutely. The Good can’t to be delivered mentally, the same refers and to the evil. So, there are things which can’t deliver in any way without experience; these things can’t be delivered either from the people, even the Angels either– only God can deliver these things. To deliver the things which God delivers to you, this means to deliver their essence; after the people know the essence of the things, it is already easy for the Sensible creatures to show themselves. There why first the essence of the things has to be delivered, i.e. the Divine which hides in them – this means man to experience the Reality in its first manifestation. Now I shall speak only to these men who are chosen; you will ask who the chosen people are. Chosen man is that one who is strong; chosen man is that one who is sensible; chosen man is that one who is good. If somebody wants to know if he is from the chosen people, it can’t be answered anything to him, nobody can’t tell you if you are chosen or no, as and nobody can’t tell you if you will come in Divine Kingdom or no. If some disciple asks me if he will complete the school, I shall answer him: if he learns, he will complete with prosperity – if he doesn’t learn, he will not complete; if he is health, he will complete with prosperity – if he is not health, he will not complete. If the disciple is ill, it is better not to come in the school – in the School the following rule exists: it is not accepting ill disciples, it is not accepting lazy disciples too. Understand this thing sensibly, not humanly – human is transitional, temporarily, the Divine is eternal. The transitional, the temporarily things are taking easy; every thing from which they can deprive you is humanly. If one thought, one feeling or some knowledge is being loosed, they are transitional things. The life can’t be loosed either could be detained on one place or in one direction – the eternal, the real, the Divine things nobody can’t deprive. There why namely man has to strive to things which nobody can deprive – these things are in the man himself, they are given to him from the beginning of his existing. Every thing which man gives, he can’t take it back; every thing which man is not in state to give, he can’t take it – man can’t give the Divine, therefore he can’t take it. Who hasn’t developed the Divine in himself, he lives in one transitional world – he is a man of the constantly changes and he wonders of these changes, he wonders why ones things become in one way, and others – in other way. When man lives humanly, in the world of changes, he can become unhappy in one moment and in one moment – happy. And so, there are three things in Life which always have to be in mind: first, man has to be strong. But primary the animals were strong – they were created before man and took the Power for themselves. All the animals started extraordinary to care for themselves – why? Because they weren’t sensible; when they hadn’t Intelligence, they used the Power not correctly and from the Power they created the violence, as they put the following law in their kingdom: the right is to the strong one – who is strong, he is on the right side; who is weak, he is on the wrong side. There why in the animal kingdom the weak considers for sinful, unhappy, and the strong walks haughty, stand up, with consciousness for worth – the buffalo, the lion, the elephant pass for strong and walk with consciousness for worth. The same thing can be seen and between the people; from here the following conclusion can be take out: who lives only for himself and transform the Power in violence, he lives with the ideas of the animals. Second, man has to be sensible. The man was created after the animals and when he saw that the Power passed in the power of the animals, he took the Intelligence for himself. The animals took the Power but they transformed it in violence; the people took the Intelligence but transformed it in lie and hypocrisy. They made a good choice, but when they couldn’t use the Intelligence correctly, they distorted it, as a result of it, they bring the bad consequences for their unintelligence and till today. They say that the Intelligence is for the people; this is right but they couldn’t use it as it had to, turned it here-there, bended it a little and in the end in the world came in the lie and the hypocrisy – this is what people call fall of man. Why the lie came in the world? The lie came in world because when stepped back from the animals, from the power, the people had to give, to sacrifice something from themselves, but when they couldn’t, they bended the Intelligence. Where the Intelligence bends, there the lie is being notable; when man bends the Intelligence, he falls in the state of that one who receive some sum for charity aims and retains part of it and for himself – he takes the money, look round here-there and say: “I shall take part of these money but I shall give it back.” In this way namely the lie has came in the world. Today the lie walks in the people’s steps – they speak for Truth, for Justice, but still the lie follows them. And really, if you go with a candle in the world, but with great difficulty you will find an ordinary man who not to lie – the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of the ordinary man are dressed in lie. And do you know what the cloth of the lie is? The lie is dressed with silk cloth, with gold, with shining labels; when man wants to pass some lie, he speaks in the name of Love, in the name of some high ideals, in the name of humanity, but in the end of this work ill be seen if all these were truth or false. After that this man will justify himself, will say: “The conditions of the life are hard, I was weak man, I couldn’t bear” – this man excuses, but when he excuses, he lies again. In the same way the people act and in relation to God: they make mistakes, make crimes, and after that they turn to God with the words: “Forgive me, God, I am a weak man, there why I made mistakes!” No, nobody can lie the God – He hears this prayer and say: “Give to him according to his words!” The people wonder why God doesn’t answer to their prayers; as you see, He answers to their prayers but according to the contents of their prayers – but in the lie there is no contents. Now I speak to the chosen ones, to the perfect ones, to these men who experienced, understood and applied the truths in their life. For the sinners I don’t speak – for me the sin is a cloth which the man has dressed voluntarily; the foolishness is a state which man has forced to him voluntarily; the violence is a state which man has strived voluntarily to. All negative in man is acquired from he himself with his own efforts, nobody has forced them to him outside. When the people want to justify themselves for their bad and wrong actions, they say: “We are not guilty for our actions, we are beard like this, we have inherited these weaknesses from father, mother, ancestors.” But, till I have learned the people, I have been convinced myself that nobody is in power to force the evil to them – they alone, voluntarily, have accepted and the evil, and the Good. When God had created the world, He sent on the Earth Angel Azrael, or called in other way Haniel, to bring the blessings to the world; when came on the earth, Angel Azrael put the different blessings on different places – the sweet things he put in one place, the bread – on other place, the books – on third place and etc. He arranged the Divine blessings in a way that everybody sees them freely and to choice what blessing wants. The bees, which were then very beautiful and impressive, came first and immediately have stopped on the table where the sweet things were and stole them entirely; after them the birds came: they have stopped on the table where were put the different cosmetic means – perfumes, ointments, butters for spreading and etc. As you know, the winged creatures, called in the world virgins, like to spread with different butters on and perfumes; generally, there is no man in world who not to spread himself – in this relation he is a bird, the wings of the birds are always greased. When eats and man smear a little – it is always needed and little butter in the meal. After the birds people came to take their blessing: they have stopped in front of the tables where were put the seeds and the books – they have started to learn from the books, and the seeds they have scattered on the whole world. When the blessings have finished, all creatures started to contend who has taken the nicest blessing – if these who have taken the sweet things, cosmetic means, or in the end people who have taken the books and the seeds. When I speak on this way, I want you to understand the things in its deep sense. In the way how the Life is expressed today, it is still not presented in its fullness; for example everyone expects and demands from life what is not necessary for him – some expects to take some honey as the bee, to eat a little and to satisfy; other expects to receive some butter, some bread to eat a little; third expects to find seeds which to sow or books which to study. Every man has desires which he wants to reach; some things that when he realize his desires, he will satisfy. I ask if man eats from the sweet only once, what he will acquire. He always will win something but the Life is not only in the sweet. What man will acquire if he tastes only once the butter or the bread; what man will acquire if he studies only one book or only once he sows some seeds? Life shows itself somewhat only in the single time use of the sweet, of the butter and the bread, of the seeds and the book – this is partial expression of the Life but it is not its full manifestation. No matter how old or bad is one house, it has often to be greased; no matter how man have made a good meal today, he has to eat tomorrow again, and even three times a day – the stomach of man, i.e. his water-mill has to be spread often with butter in order to have work. I look at the idea for the life in its wide, not restricted sense. And so, man has duties not only to his stomach, but and to the lungs, and to the brain – there why man has to breathe correctly and to think correctly. Man doesn’t pay attention of his thoughts, of the breathing, of his feelings, he ignores them, and he dreams for the reaching of some high ideal. For example one dreams to become rich, other dreams to become strong – it is good one man to become rich, but what he will acquire with this wealth; it is good one man to be strong, but what he will acquire with this power? When man becomes strong, he acquires the philosophy of the animals; the philosophy of the animals is nothing else but a philosophy of the personal egoism – the personal life is the most elevated state which the animals have reached to. When man speaks for his personality, he is in the state of the animals which have made their personality a cult. I ask what man can create who lives in his personality or in the violence. The violence has beard again violence, nothing more; the violence has created the laws – today the laws exists for the oppressors but not and for the just men. I shall deliver one anecdote which refers yet to that time when the violence has appeared for first time between the animals. The first case which has initiated between the animals was on the occasion of the complains of one wolf: this wolf submitted a petition to the first judge, in which he complained from one sheep that it ate one wolf. The judge read the petition and said: “Since this case is extraordinary, I refuse to consider such case – never till now whoever heard such thing. It is not possible a sheep to eat a wolf, as a result of it doesn’t exist a law which is able to judge the sheep for such crimes. This petition will be put aside, it will not to be proceeded to it till the fact is not verified; for this aim will be convoked a meeting from elevated creatures which will verify the truth of the fact, and if it turns out real, only then a law will be published for judging of the sheep for similar crimes.” I say: in the world still doesn’t exist a law which to judge the just people on; I call the just people sheep, and the sin – wolves. Therefore for the just people there is no a law, and for the sin people there is; said with other words, for the just people there are unwritten laws, and for the sin people there are written laws. Ones of the unwritten laws which the just people have to be leaded from are the following: they have to love, to make Good, to sacrifice themselves. But there is no a law which to punish the just man – why? Because it is impossible the just man to make a mistake – it is said in the Writing: “The beard from God doesn’t make a sin.” The just man is beard from God, so the just man doesn’t make a sin, the sin is not inherent to his nature. There why it is impossible the sheep to make such a crime what the wolf makes; in this sense the sheep may do everything, but to eat a wolf – never! The contemporary people have to have new understandings for the Life if they want to be strong, sensible and good. Now, when I speak for the chosen ones, I guess that they don’t offence – whatever be said, they don’t have to offence. Although and they take offence sometimes. Who is not from the chosen men and walks on the law of the animals, he will say: “I am strong man and I have to force my way in any way – it was with my horns, it was with my hoofs.” The chosen man can’t serve either with horns, either with hoofs, because between the Power, the Intelligence and the Good exist close connection. The thinking of the contemporary people are diametrically opposite to these of the Divine world – from the position of their thinking they go with their head downwards, but it has to be known that the Intelligence bears from the Good which is a base of the Divine world. From the Intelligence the Power bears. Therefore if the Good doesn’t exist, and the Intelligence doesn’t exist; if the Intelligence doesn’t exist, and the Power doesn’t exist. Who is strong, he can be and independent – this shows that this man is sensible; the strong man has to be and good. Who deviates from these rules of Life, he degenerates, he falls upon on number of unhappiness and sufferings, in a way that the unhappiness in the world comes by the only reason that in the Power there is no Intelligence and Goodness – Power without Intelligence and Goodness creates only sufferings and unhappiness. The sufferings appear as a result of clashes between the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of the people – who doesn’t understand this law, he searches the reasons of the evil out of himself and constantly complains; who understands this law, he knows that the reasons stays in he himself. Out of us is God who created the world, in a way that if you think that the evil is out of you, you will come to the conclusion that the evil is in the First Reason, in God. But it the following law exists: never the part can give its opinion for the whole; never the work of the man can give its opinion for its creator. Man to maintain that the evil is in god, it is the same as the wolf to complain from the sheep that it has ate one wolf; as the first assertion is possible, as is possible and the second – it is impossible a sheep to eat a wolf, so in God there is no any reason for evil. I ask what can be acquired with the evil. First of all the evil can’t be an object for man. The theft for example is evil, but who steals – only the weak man steals. But could the money be stolen? Man may steal the gold of some rich man, to use it for his needs, but in the end this gold doesn’t goes out of the Earth – the gold, the precious stones may be used from one. From other man, but if man goes for that world, he leaves his wealth on the Earth. Man goes for that world as he has came, without any wealth, without any property – the material, the physical goods he leaves on the Earth where he has taken them from. I say: the contemporary people have built their life on a false base which they have created by themselves. Till man things that the reason of evil is out of him, he will always taste the bitterness of this evil; if he things that the reason of the evil is in him, he will be able to remove this reason and will set free from the evil. The evil is nothing else but attitude of the things; when man knows the relations of the things, he will be able to forbear from the evil. How much it costs to the man to forbear his tongue from evil words, what it costs to the man to restrain his mind from evil thoughts, what it costs to the man to restrain his heart from evil feelings? It doesn’t cost anything to the man to forbear from all evil and unclean; if he forbears from the bad, from the evil, he may be happy. After the people want to be happy, then and God, who is in them, and who they have went out from, and He wants their happiness – this is Divine desire. But who disturbs the happiness of the others, simultaneously with this he restricts God in them. God wants to be happy in all creatures – it is impossible one man to be happy and the others to be unhappy; it is impossible God to be happy in the one, and to be unhappy in the others. Who things that this is possible, he puts and himself, and the other people in contradiction. Therefore the moral doesn’t refer only for one – the real moral is common for all creatures. This is the way for everybody who wants to progress, to become perfect; if you don’t walk in this way, you will fall in delusion and will wait other epoch, with better conditions for you – other Teachers to come, other Angels and etc. It always had Teachers in the world, Angels always have fell down on the Earth, it always favourable conditions existed, but man may use all these when the Divine wakes in him. The Teacher, the Angel can’t bring the Divine in man, but it may just give conditions for its development – in other way the Life has got no sense. If the Life will be brought in from now further, if the gifts will be acquired from now further, it may be said that the people understand wrong or they are too late in their development. Some says: “So and so man is not good” – what do you understand from these words? When you say to someone that he is not good man, this understands that he has got no worked enough. – “You are not good painter.” It is truth, till now I still haven’t worked as I have to, from now further I shall work. – “You are not a gifted man.” It is truth that I am not gifted because I haven’t worked as I have to; I shall work more to develop my gifts. Not only this but the people still haven’t came to the state to make Good in a way that not only they to be satisfied, but and God to be satisfied from them. Everyone has experience, he knows what thing is God to be satisfied from him and what thing is God not to be satisfied from him. Some may be done big good, built church or school, and all the newspapers to write for him, but in spite of this he is unsatisfied from himself – why he is unsatisfied from himself? Because God is unsatisfied from him, He hasn’t seen his Good and hasn’t given His opinion. Sometimes man makes so little Good, visible with great difficulty under a microscope, but he is satisfied from himself, he is joyful, happy the whole day – why? Because only God has seen this little Good and has boasted it. After some time the human comes in him and he says to himself: “I made one little good but it doesn’t cost anything; now I shall make one big good in order to be on place.” Really, he makes one big good but together with it he loses and the little. The real good is this which nobody has seen it except God. With the big works man loses and the little – who has strived to big works, he has loosed his whole fortune. If somebody convinces you that with the big works, with the big undertakings you will become saints, you will inherit the Heaven Kingdom, don’t catch faith on his words. Man can inherit the Divine Kingdom and with the most little Good. With the most little Good is coming in the Divine Kingdom, but and with the most little crime is going out from the Divine Kingdom – in this expresses the perfect Love. Who is in Heaven, he is strong, good and sensible; who is out of Heaven, he is weak, stupid, bad man – everyone knows this experience but doesn’t stops over it to think it and study it. Now we come in a world which has established rules and laws which have to be observed absolutely. From the Power, from the Good and the Intelligence of the man depends if he will remain in this world, or to go out of it. Man wants to be free, but his free is being conditioned from his thoughts, feelings and actions – if he feeds in himself evil thoughts and feelings, he will bring their consequences. They consequences restrict him – for every evil word, for every evil feeling and for every evil thought he judges himself. And the society acts in the same way. Many people say: “We can’t observe the rules of the society because its moral has undergone already its time.” I ask which moral is alive today. The live moral stays in communication with God; for this aim man has to start with the Good – it is a spring of Love from all the centuries. The Good is a base for the complete Life, it is a base of the Divine world. Some says: “What I shall acquire if I am good?” Who is good, he will become sensible, and afterwards and strong. The Intelligence expels every lie – the most little lie, the most little evil in man show that he is not good, either sensible. You say: “Is it possible for man in his life not to allow at least one white lie?” For the perfect is possible – it is said in the Writing: “Be perfect, as your Father is perfect who is in Heaven.” We speak for the disciples who can be perfect. The Intelligence is inherent to the perfect, and it develops in absence of lie – the most little lie is to the detriment of the Intelligence. If the lie comes, in the consciousness of the man sets in darkness and he gradually becomes stupid – the lie is a mantle of the insensible life. Till the sensible man doesn’t serve with violence, he keeps his Power; if he allows the most little violence in his life, he loses his Power. But no matter in what little form the violence expresses, as live creature in the long process of its development, it exercises influence over man and he gradually loses his Power, as and his Intelligence. What will remain from man if he loses his Power, Intelligence and Goodness – where is the man then? Some says that in order not to lose his powers, the man has to believe in God. I ask, really the pagans hasn’t believes in God? – “We have to love each other!” Really the wolf, the snake doesn’t love their little ones? It has been known for what love is talking. To love the ours, to love ourselves, this is one love – it is a partial love; to love the God, this is other Love – who has such Love, he will help and to the ant and will love it. One day this little ant will reach the state of Angel, who will help to everybody who has help it, who has made it good; and after that this man will wonder why so much love pours out over him, but the ant will say to him: “Sometimes, when I was an ant, you helped me, you saved my life – what I have today, I owe to you, you became a reason to progress.” I ask do you know how many Angels work today over you for the Good, which you have made them sometimes. But do you know and how many Angels you have stopped in their development with the evil which you have made to them? Now I shall speak to you by humanly for clarification of the idea – to understand why one creatures love you, and others don’t love you. I don’t want to make you more responsible than is need. Which is better for you – to meet one creature which has absolute trust in you for the Good you have ever made to him, or to look you with mistrust? The love except every kind of fraud outside; the lie destroys the man, there why it can’t be excused – who tries to excuse the lie, he stains his record. If I meet the lie, I don’t stop at it but throw it aside, as Christ threw the Satan and said: “Get away from here, Satan!” What the words get away mean? This means: “Go to execute the Will of God; after you execute the Will of God, then you will come to Me.” If you say that somebody has expel you, this understands that this man sent you to execute the Will of God; after you execute the Will of God, you will come back to him – if you want somebody to love you, first of all you have to execute the Will of God. Some says: “You don’t love me”; why this man doesn’t love you? Because you don’t give anything. We love God because He gives to us everything. Who doesn’t give anything, and want to be loved, he understands that he wants from somebody that love which he has to God. This is impossible – why? Because the Divine loves and the Divine is loved – only in this way the Divine develops. When we love the God, we love the Divine in ourselves and in the other people; if we don’t love Him, we reject the development of the Divine which is being given to us from Him – this is the first lie in the world. Today all the people expect their salvation from Christ. I say: if in life of the Power you can’t expel the violence, if in life of the Intelligence you can’t expel the foolishness and if in life of the Good you can’t expel the evil, you can’t reach anything. You say: “The people say so and so” – what the people say and what is being said to them I put aside; for you is important what is saying to the perfect ones. You say: “Who man is perfect?” According to me the perfect man is the strong, the sensible, the good one. Who is strong man? Strong man is this in who there is no violence. Who is sensible? Sensible man is this in who there is no foolishness, in who there is no lie. Who is good man? Good man is this in who there is no evil. If somebody asks if it couldn’t be without violence, I say: “Get away!” – “Couldn’t be without lie?” – “Get away!” “Couldn’t be without evil?” – “Get away!” I don’t want to speak on these questions – let everyone makes what he knows. If it can be without violence, without lie and without evil in the world? According to me this is possible, I have tasted it thousand of times till now and I say: man can live and without violence, and without lie, and without evil. I say: all the creatures have come on the world, have sit at the Divine trapeze and have taken what they have wished. Ones have taken from the honey, have become bees, but they have seen that the work doesn’t go only with honey; others have taken from the butters and the perfumes, have become birds, but they have seen that the work doesn’t go only with butters; the mammals have taken the food, but they have seen that the work doesn’t go only with eating and drinking; at last the people have come, ones of them have taken the books – they have become scientists, others have taken the Good, some others – the Intelligence. In the end they have understood that neither only with teaching, neither only with Good, neither only with Intelligence the work can be done – what have to be done then? According to the law of Divine Love all the virtues have to unit in one – the Love is inside power which synthesizes all the things. If man can’t unit the parts in one whole, if he can’t think them, to find the points of contact between them, he can’t understand Life, either Love. Such man can’t love – the sense of Life is to love and to be loved. What costs to the man to love; what costs to the fountain to give from its water and to slake your thirst, what cost to you after that to thanks to it? On the equal reason and man like the fountain may give and receive, since the Divine swarms from him. When man gives effect to that uninterrupted activity in him in order to use the Power, the Intelligence and the Good as God demands, he will receive the approval of God. There why namely and Christ says: “Be perfect as your heavenly Father!” It is said and: “As Father came to love me, as and I came to love you” – and really, God every day expresses to us His Love. Today many preachers speak for the coming of Christ and wait Him to come, dressed with glory and magnificence, with mantle on his body and with crown on his head. What the mantle and the crown represent? They represent the virtues of Christ which He is dressed with. Afterwards they say that Christ will judge the people – who people He will judge? The sin; in the world there is a law for judging of the sinners, but not and for the just people, it means that there is a law for the evil, but not and for the Good. There is destiny for these people who walk in the way of the evil, but there is no destiny for the just people. Who wants to become perfect, he has to set him free from all the false teachers and false teachings outside and inside him – why? Because the Teacher never can’t lie; the disciple may lie the disciple, but the Teacher never can lie the disciples. For example the disciple may say for something that he heard like this, understood like this, thinks like this and etc., but the Teacher never can speak things which he positively doesn’t know. Who lies, he is a disciple; who doesn’t lie, he is a Teacher. A Teacher is only this one in whom there is no violence, there is no lie, there is no evil; after in some man there is violence, lie and evil, he is a disciple – nothing more. This is the new definition for Teacher and disciple. And so, the disciple is exhibited on contradictions, as a result of it he has possibility to lie. Christ says: “It is enough for the disciple to be like his Teacher”, i.e. not to have violence, lie and evil in him. The disciple has to be strong, to expel the violence from him in order everybody to be able to be glad of him; the disciple has to be sensible, never to lie; he has to be good, never to apply the evil. Some says: “The Teacher lied me” – no, the Teacher never can lie; if somebody lied you, you will know that he is a disciple. The concept for the Teacher is strictly defined: in the Teacher there is no absolutely any violence, any lie, any evil. You have to have in mind this rule in your life; if you are being led from this rule, you will understand all the snaking ambitions in yourself, as and these of the people around you. Who walks in the law of Love, Wisdom and Truth, he is a Teacher; who doesn’t observe these laws, he is a disciple. Years ago they invited me to visit in one family the man of which was considered almost for adherent; and he, and his wife thought to test me in all the rules of the art; they show me one icon, dug out from somewhere deep in the earth, and recommend it to me as antique with big special miraculous power. I watch and the both, I see that and they are not sure in their words; then I say to them: “After you say that this icon is miraculous, leave it on the same place where they have dug out it, build there one little shed – this place to become holy spring in order the people to come to cure – only in that way you will test its power.” I see that these people test me but I don’t say anything – first of all this icon is new, and not old as they say; some people have buried it somewhere in the earth and afterwards by making of excavations this icon was found and accident fell in the arms of my acquaintances. I say: in the same way and the contemporary people act – take some their icon and recommend it for miraculous, but all things have to be tested, to be understood their power. Really there are some miraculous icons, hided deeply in the human soul, but in him there is and false icons – man can save with the real miraculous icons, but not and with the false. Today everyone wants to be free, but he can’t be free till he serves with violence, with lie, with evil; the most little violence, the most little lie and the most little evil are in state to attract to themselves creatures minds of which are so fine that they immediately enslave the man – they force him, rob till they completely destroy him. By this way man remains dead bones – what he can be glad on then? Many people complain from the life and say that they have attacked them; they will attack them, of course, there is providence in the world. It was a time when the wolf couldn’t attack the sheep – why? There are reasons for that: the wool of the sheep contained such energy that whichever wolf decided to come close to it, became on smithereens. One time the sheep was the strongest creature – whichever tiger or wolf tried to attack it, nothing has remained from it, anybody couldn’t stand up against it. But by some confluence of the conditions in the sheep came in one little lie, as a result of it loosed its power; from this time already the wolves started to oppress, to attack the sheep and to eat them. Therefore there are reasons which let the wolf or the bear to attack the man – the reasons are in the man himself. The sheep allowed in itself one little lie and loosed their power; the same may be said and for the man: primary man has been dressed with fire cloth, as a result of it nothing was in position to make him evil – so, when he allowed the lie in himself, he opened the door of the evil. What happens inside in man, this happens and outside of him, and after all this man wonders to his failure. One beautiful thought comes in his mind but it doesn’t pass much time and it disappears – somebody eats it; one beautiful feeling comes in his heart but soon after that it disappears – somebody eats it. You say: “What have to be done then?” Here what you have to do: expel the violence from you, expel the lie from you, expel the evil from you! It is not a question to set free from them outside, I don’t speak for the outside relations – it is important to set free from them inside, to come in unanimity with God, to subordinate to Him. – “How we will subordinate to God?” When you don’t act violence, when you don’t speak false things, when you don’t make evil – only in this way man can see the beautiful face of God, to unite with Him and to receive His approval. In this situation from every hair of the human head will come out fire, will scatter sparks; after that wings will grow to him, with which he will fly everywhere in the space, without anybody see him, without anybody to stay in his way. Then man can say: “Now I understand the deep sense of the Life, I understand what means serving of God.” They talk for one religious man that he has promised to his brothers, as who he passed for advanced in spiritual relation, that he can give them the keys of Life. I say: this brother himself needs the people to feed him, and he will give then the keys of Life. When he spoke long time over this question, his audience asked him: “Where are the keys, give to test them!” – “I just developed the theme only, you will work.” No, man has got no to talk empty works. There are three keys of Life: the first key is on Love, the second key is on Wisdom, the third key is on Truth. Who loves, he has the keys of Life in him and can give them and to the others; who is loved, he also can use from these keys. There are ways, methods through these keys may be applied correctly – they are simple methods, and the little children may apply these keys, especially the key of Love. Who wants to use from the key of Love, he has to become a little child; who wants to use from the key of Wisdom, he has to become old man on one hundred and twenty years; who wants to use from the key of Truth, he has to become young beautiful girl, to move with the speed of the light – if man becomes virgin, young girl, he will acquire Absolute free. Since if man wants to use simultaneously from the three keys, he has to become a little child, an old man on one hundred and twenty years and young beautiful girl, after who all the people run – the little child represents the heart, the old man – the mind, and the young girl – the soul; and then according to the case man will show himself or as a child, or as an old grandfather, or as a beautiful girl. Now I don’t ask the perfect men if they are understood and applied these keys, but say to you: make an attempt to see what you are and till where you have reached – try to become little children, old grandfathers and young beautiful girls. I say to the perfect one: become a little child – show that you apply the key of Love; afterwards become an old man on one hundred and twenty years – show that you apply the key of Wisdom; at last become a virgin, a young beautiful girl who moves with the speed of the light – show that you apply the key of Truth. Who controls these keys, he deserves the honour and the respect of all sensible and elevated Creatures. And really, the young girl and the grandfather deserve honour and respect, and the child use from the love of the others – who how sees a little child, he always will give to him something sweet. When they see an old man, they will give honour and respect to him, and when they see young beautiful girl, everybody will bolt after her – why the people run after the beautiful girl? Because everyone wants to be in her state, to have this heavenly Cleanness. There is no more beautiful thing than the virginity, from the Cleanness. Christ says: “Only the clean by heart will see God” – said with other words, the virgins will see God, the young children will feel the Divine hands, and the old ones will experience the Divine goodwill – this is the ideal of every soul. Who understands the ideal of his soul, he will understand and the sense of Life; if he doesn’t understand the ideal of his soul in this way, Life will remain for him without aim and sense. Then the people will be children without knowing why they are children, will be old without knowing why they are old, will be virgins without knowing why they are virgins. Man uninterruptedly has to change his states in Life – now he has to be a child, now old wise man, now young beautiful girl-virgin. When I say that man has to pass through the phases of the child, of the old man and of the virgin, I take these states as symbols. The child I take as little humble creature, full with Joy and Cleanness – everybody is being glad to him and he is being glad to everybody – the child constantly things how to delight the sorrowful people, how to make them happy; the old man I take in sense of wise man – man full with knowledge, with wealth, with powers for which he searches the most correct way to give away them; the young girl symbolize dedication, humbleness, serving of God. In this way the complete Life is giving a meaning. And really, what higher idea may exist than the serving of God? It is said in the Writing: “This is an eternal life, to know You, the only real God” – we to know God as children who constantly thing to make the unhappy people happy; we to know God as old people who search way to deliver their knowledge and wealth to the others, to use from it; we to know God as young girls, as virgins who want to bring great ideal in Life – Love to God and Love to the fellow men. The contemporary people can be happy, can be perfect. The happiness and the perfection are out of the time and space – there is no creature which can restrict you in making of Good. If it comes to the Good, even Creatures come to help to the man; in a way that if you become as a child, everyone will help you, everyone will run over to serve you – and notice, when the child start to cry, everyone rushes to serve to it. It is said that God helps to the weak people – who are weak? Weak are the children who want to make all the people happy and joyful; said with other words, weak are these people who absolutely don’t thing for themselves. This doesn’t understand that they have forgotten themselves, but they say: “We will find ourselves when we find all the people, since we all have went out from God.” When the people are dissatisfied from us, and we are dissatisfied from ourselves – only by this way we will understand that we are organs of one whole. When one finger of the hand falls ill, the pain will deliver to the whole body, therefore till the lie, the violence and the evil exist in the world, even in the most little form, they always are being reflected over the Divine organism which and we live in – in this state already and we can’t be happy. Here why we all have to work together with God, to throw away from the Divine body, which and we live in, the violence, the lie and the evil. When we set free, when we clean the Divine body from these sediments, we will be happy, satisfied that we have completed one work. Now I want you to be free, not to allow in your mind the thought that you are the most sin people in the world. The question is not who is sin and who – not; fro the painter is important every line to be on its place, and if it will be right or curved, this depends from its function. When he pull one line, which represents the eyebrows of man, this line has to be expressive, to be agreed with the reality; the tones of the music have to be clear and truth; the handsome girl has to be absolutely handsome in every relation; in the speech of the eloquent orator there has got no any violence, any lie, any evil. If there is violence, lie and evil, this speech is not perfect – the Divine grammar doesn’t bear anything superfluous. You say: “We have to be good” – this doesn’t have even to be said, because if man is not good, he will be bad. The Good and the bad are mutually incompatible – the Good is absolute reality upon it everything may be build, the evil is absolute restriction, therefore the Good is a base, the Intelligence is building, and the Power is acquired result. If you don’t put the Good for base, and the Intelligence can’t show it; after the Intelligence doesn’t show itself, and the Power can’t come. Now, I don’t want you to accept these things mechanically, but I say to the musician: “You have to play well – this is in your nature!” To play well – this is Free; to be sensible – this is light in the Free; to be strong, this means to be independent. Man can be good, sensible and strong when he is in one with God – God is the whole and the people are the parts of this whole. If we walk in the Divine way, our live will give a meaning; if we don’t follow His way, we separate Him from us and we live cut off from the whole following from unhappiness and sufferings. Every day God shows himself between the people, but He doesn’t allow to see Him – after He makes some Good, He instantly hides and remain the man to be glad that he received something nice without knowing where it came. God constantly visits the people – they are being glad; and God is being glad when He shows them a way in which and they can act. Who acts like God, He will be good, sensible, strong and health, in his house there will not have unhappiness and distresses and his way will be always open. You say: “Why it is not like this?” Wonderfully thing, you are in prison, with fetters on your legs and guards with rifles guard you; can you be free in this situation? But outside of the prison go about White brothers who send you letters, food, clothes, they care for you. It means that simultaneously you are guarded from two kinds of brothers – ones outside who help you and others from inside who follow not to escape. You say: “What to be done?” You will cry, you will pray till God comes to set you free – He will come to you through one little tiny hole and will say you: “Get up, dress your clothes!” Call to help your first virtue – the Good; after that call the Love, from which the Good has went out – in this way you will become small, you will become small as child and will get out and through the smallest tiny hole without anyone to see you. After you get out in the world, where is dusk and darkness, God will say: “Now you light up your torch, i.e. the Knowledge you dispose of, and go forward.” When you give away the wealth, i.e. the Knowledge which you have, you will become unrecognizable, from your white hair, beard and mustaches will remain anything, you will transform to young beautiful girl after who all the people will run – policemen, prisoners, heads and etc.; by this way the prisons will empty, nobody will remain in them. Therefore who wants to get out of the prison, first of all he has to become small, to transform to a small child; when he gets out of the prison, he has to be one hundred and twenty years old grandfather, to go between the people, to give away from his wealth and knowledge; at last, when you give away your wealth, you will transform to young beautiful girl after who all the people will bolt – in this way they will get out of the prison and will give a meaning of their life. You will say: “Can and we do this?” I speak what the perfect ones can do, and what the ordinary people can do, it is another question. I describe one picture which I have seen, which and you will see soon. – “After how many years?” After one Divine day in which the Divine sun will rise and will not set. And if man wants to see this picture, he ahs to be good, sensible and strong. The Power of man stays in his love to God – if he gets to love God, his heart will kindle and the Light of his consciousness will increase. The hearts of many people are lighted today and they shine as a Sun – they are perfect people. If on the face of earth there wasn’t perfect people, and the Sun wouldn’t rise. Till the Sun is not risen, everybody has to take part in its rising; if it rises once, you have to say: “Let the Sun live, let the perfect ones live!” Sun, which rises every day, never sets – only seemingly Sun rises and sets; but for the perfect ones Sun never sets – who things like the perfect ones, his Sun never sets. Now I shall give you three rules which you have to observe by all means. The first rule: don’t despise your body – what body God gave you, be grateful, since without it you can’t live; you can’t have better body from the present one, don’t want other body. Be grateful from your body and keep it well because the body is a result of your thoughts, feelings and actions from the past – your present body is image of the past, it is a perfect fact but when you build every day, in future you will have other body. Second rule: don’t despise your feelings, your heart – whatever feelings you have, don’t despise them. Third rule: don’t despise your thoughts – whatever your thoughts are, don’t despise them. And so, keep your body health, keep your heart clean and light, keep your mind clean and light! In order your body to be strong, strong, you don’t have to serve with violence; in order your heart to be clean, any lie has to come in it; in order your mind to be light, any evil has to come in it. When the body of man is health and strong, nothing can touch him outside – even if they dress him in prison clothes, even and to put him fetters on his legs, he will remain free again, absolutely unrestricted. The health remains health, the power remains Power, the cleanness remains Cleanness – nobody can restrict the Free, nobody can touch it. Said with other words, if in his life man doesn’t use violence, if he doesn’t use lie in his heart and if he doesn’t bring evil in his heart, he is free, nobody can restrict him – only in this way man will have clear look over everything which surrounds him. Who acts the Will of God, he will be one of His children – such man will be strong, sensible and good. Everybody is being glad to the strong one, everybody is being glad to the sensible one and everybody is being glad to the good one. When I speak for the strong, for the health man, I expel the feeble one, for the feeble men I don’t speak. If I speak for he feeble ones, I would give absolutely other talk to them: I shall tell them that if and the feeblest or the most ill apply the rules which are given in the School, he will have good results. If man expels from himself the violence, the lie and the evil, he will connect with the Divine beginning in himself; then all the illnesses, all the ailments in the body, mind and heart will disappear – they will undress from us as the snake undresses its hide. Then something new will come in you – new thought, new feeling which will rejuvenate us; if we rejuvenate, and the world around us will transform, the obstacles which have existed till then in our mind and heart, will remove and we will feel the Good in its whole inside beauty. The God is the real food which the people have to use. You say: “How the world will be saved?” When all the people – mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, teachers and disciples, priests and preachers, rulings and governed people – expel the violence, the lie and the evil from themselves, the world will be corrected. Then the faces of everybody will shine and they will hold hand like brothers for mutual work – the perfect ones may do this. In this situation who whatever he wants, it will be given to him: he wants money – they will give to him, he wants bread – they will give to him, he wants clothes – they will give to him. But with condition nobody to wants more that what is necessary for him; if he things for two shirts, for two pairs shoes, for two clothes, when he needs only from one, he will lose everything. The perfect man things only for today, he doesn’t thing for the tomorrow day. Now, when I speak, I have in mind the practical application of the questions. The contemporary people apply the truths as they know, but it has to be given correct way for application to them. The sensible, the good people first have to apply the new ideas, and from them the rest to learn. Some says: “Why these methods are not given to the rulings to know how to act?” First of all the rulings have to expel from themselves the violence, the lie and the evil as old methods of work in order to receive the new ones. Where there is violence, lie and evil, there my leg doesn’t step – nothing more. May man who applies the old methods to be chosen from God? The chosen man doesn’t serve with violence, with lie and with evil, i.e. he is strong, sensible and good man – this is the maxim with which we differ the chosen from the not chosen man, only with this way may be untwined the black from the white. They have intertwined in a way that constantly is seeing now white, now black thread: I look one knife, one feather or some other object and I see in it one dark and one light thread; I listen one poet to read his works and I see one couplet light and one dark. One poet praises the snowdrop: “When I see you, my heart winced” – in fact his heart hasn’t winced at all, he doesn’t speak the truth; other poet praises the clean spring: “When I heard your song, I fascinated” – in fact he hasn’t fascinated at all. The spring may be praised only after his power has been tested, after man slakes his thirst; if he slakes his thirst, he will praise it, he will wish to drink and other way from its clean, refreshing water. If the spring praises like this, this is according to the Truth; out of this description of the spring every other is not according to the Truth. That the heart of the poet has winced, that he fascinated, without drinking from the water of the spring, this is not a real poetry. After all this the people will say:” Excellent poetry”; the real poetry has to be alive – Life to gush from it. The heart of the poet to trepan from the image of the snowdrop, this understands that it has made some coup in his heart and at least through this day he would become stronger, more sensible and better. Let the poet write: ‘”Till I saw you, from my power disappeared the violence, from my mind disappeared the lie and from my heart disappeared the evil. In you, snowdrop, in your whiteness and innocence I saw the perfect Divine face.” In this snowdrop one Angel hide, who stays with closed eyes, keeps silent, feels ashamed to look around; but if the poet says that his heart winces by the image of the snowdrop, the Angel immediately opens his eyes and look at him – why? To show that from this moment the violence disappears from the poet and the Power remains, the lie disappears and the Intelligence remains, the evil disappears and the Good remains. The snowdrop opens its eyes for the poet and says: “Already now you may look me and I may look you, because in you there are Power, Intelligence and Good.” Now I wish to all of you to be such poets that when you praise the snowdrop, really your heart to wince. And the eyes of your snowdrop have to open, i.e. to your Angel – he to look at you and you to look at him. Your Angel doesn’t have to remain with closed eyes in front of you. When man has to be with closed eyes and when with opened? One painter wanted to paint me and has painted me with closed eyes; some people asked why this painter has painted me with closed eyes. I say: since there are much violence, many lies and many evils in the world, I don’t want to look. After this other painter has painted me with opened eyes; they asked why this painter has painted me with opened eyes. I say: since the perfect ones came in the world, I wan to look them. In the same way they may paint and you with closed eyes. When man closes his eyes, this expresses sorrowful state; when he opens his eyes, this represents happy state. I wish they to paint you with open eyes, to be happy and joyful, to be glad of the Divine Love, of the Divine Wisdom and of the Divine truth. I wish you to be glad of Life, which is given to you on the Earth; it is not necessary to dream for the Angels – who can live on the Earth well, he will live and in the Heaven well, between the Angels. I wish you to be glad of the three lives – the life of the Power, the life of the Intelligence and the life of the Good, i.e. to the Divine, to the Angel and to the human life. These three lives have to unit in one in order to be acquired the complete Life, You all may reach this not at once, but gradually. Sun of Life is already risen and it shows that God takes the side of the strong, of the sensible, of the good, with one word, God takes the side of the just people. I wish you at least to spend one such life – to show your Power, Intelligence and Goodness, to see you such as you are. When I say that I want to see you strong, sensible, good, I understand to be like God – God is strong, God is wise, God is good. The strong man is free – there is no better thing than this man to be free. After man is strong, sensible and good, he can reach everything. There is no anything in the world which man can’t do, but for this demands work, efforts, sacrifice. In one of the big London churches, where preacher was the eminent Spurjen, have gathered some of its members to think in what way to gather one sum from charity aims. At last they turned to the preacher himself with the following decision: “Since we need from one sum for charity aims, let us gather and pray to God to deliver to us this sum in some way.” The preacher answered them: “Brothers, there is no why to tempt God; before we turn for help from the others, we have to sacrifice something – here I give one sum, give and you how much you can and the sum will be at hand.” And the contemporary people act in the same way – they say: “Somebody has come to set the things right”. No, everyone alone has to give something from himself for the setting of the things right. The world may be set right instantly, as and the lightening of matches becomes – the lighted matches may light and a whole city. How one match lights, as and it may goes out; in the same way Sun light and goes out. In general, Sun doesn’t fade but on one hundred million years there is one exception when Sun sets, i.e. it loses its light and then some of the Divine children, when they see that Sun has faded, strike a match, light the wick of Sun with the Divine Love and it lights again and burn. The same refers and to the life of man: sometimes in life of man becomes fading, darkening of his sun; this thing the contemporary people call losing or darkening of the consciousness – then man finds in one destroying world. After this one of these Divine children or one Teacher has to come who to strike the match and to light the faded Sun – this may happen on magical way, instantly. These Divine children are helpers of the humanity, they are met everywhere in the world. Every man can execute the function of these Divine children, of these Angels-servants; the perfect people on the Earth are namely such incarnate Angels. Now I speak to people the eyes of who are open, I speak to these snowdrops the eyes of which are open and they see us – in this situation our heart will wince by all means. Who mothers the heart wince to? The heart winces only to this mother who sees that the eyes of the child she has beard are open. When the eyes of the new-born child are closed or when the child gets to sleep eternal dream and close its eyes, the grief of the mother is big. I wish your eyes to be open – it is said in the Writing: “Their eyes opened.” When Adam and Eva were in the Paradise, through the day their eyes was closed – they looked with closed eyes and saw nothing, but through the night their eyes opened. The evil, the fatal was there that their eyes opened when the Divine Sun set, but it was already late – in the Paradise set in night and they had to go out, to leave the Paradise; it means that their eyes haven’t opened on time. The sin of the first men is not only in the fact that they broke the Divine order when they ate from the forbidden tree, but they served with the violence, with the lie and with the evil. The Paradise was defined for the development of the first men but they let in the violence, the lie and the evil inside and in this way they loosed their place. When the evil came at the Paradise door, they hadn’t let it inside till they don’t ask God what to do with it; but without asking God, they let the evil in Paradise and with this they created the whole crash as for themselves, as and for the humanity. In a way that if the evil comes at the door of your Paradise, say to it: “I shall ask God if I can let inside or not.” If God doesn’t allow you to let the evil in Paradise, you will stay at the door and will keep till at last it gets bored to wait and comes backwards. And so, let we put the past aside, it is distant story – for you is important the present, in which the new is. The impossible for the past is possible for the present, in which God shows himself. He is the only powerful factor who can save the world. He lives in man and learns him to Good, to Intelligence as He gives him Knowledge, Power, Free and etc. Where God passes, all evil, all wrong disappears – the violence, the lie and the evil disappear instantly. If you are ready to execute the Will of God, He will pass near you and you instantly will become happy; if you are not ready to execute the Will of God, then even God pass near you, you will remain unhappy again, such as you were and early – you will want to be masters but God will deprive you of the lordship. It is enough God to pass near the people just for a moment in order to deprive them of the violence, from the lie, from the evil, which are their capital, subsidiary power, which they work with. Therefore some people are unhappy, and others are happy – why? The first category people God deprives of the possibility to serve with the violence, the lie and the evil; the second category people God sets free from these negative manifestations of Life. I wish to all of you, when God comes between you, not to deprive you, but to set you free from the negative in Life in order to become merry, joyful and happy. Now you all together have to thanks that God set you free from the violence, and in return of it has gave you the Power; He set you from the lie, in return of which He has gave you the Intelligence; He set you free from the evil, in return of which He has gave you the Good. In a way that the animal, the human has to remain aside: the violence is an animal quality – let it remains aside, the lie is human quality – let it remains aside, the evil is acquired from the fallen Angels – let and it remains aside. Let remain in man the Power, the Intelligence and the Good, which God lives in – only in this way the new will come in man. I wish you now God to live in you and you to live in God! 19 August 1931, Transfiguration of God, 5 a.m.

Note 4p NEW BIRTH Reflection As he comes across his nature, man finds a great discrepancy. He wants to explain the reason for it, but he cannot. For this discrepancy it was said in the Scriptures: “God, I have been created both marvellously and terribly.” The grape might also ask itself why its fresh juice is sweet, but several days later turn sharp and sour. The scientists have solved this problem. They say that special bacteria live in the air called ferments, and getting into the grape juice, they cause Spirit fermentation. The grapes and the fruit sugar within them break down into spirits and carbon dioxide under the influence of the spirituous ferments. So we say that the grape juice turns sour, that is – it ripens. Every single thought, desire and deed leave within man peculiar sediments that undergo fermentation or souring. In order to prevent the souring, man should apply the filter of his heart and mind and separate them before the sediment has been deposited. In order to apply these filters, man should be born again. That is why Christ says: “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” The newly born lives with Divine thoughts and feelings and these never undergo fermentation. Consequently, until he enters the Divine Kingdom, man will constantly undergo fermentation. As he undergoes fermentation, he will taste the discrepancies of his life. As he lives within the Divine – nothing will undergo fermentation within him. One of the great discrepancies in human life is a result of nutrition. As a process, the nutrition causes internal discrepancies within man. For instance, what greater discrepancies you may seek, than those, to which the flesh-eaters come across? Meat contains a lot of poisons and impurities that cause many illnesses. Illnesses ruin human life. The meat food influences not only the human organism, but man’s mental life as well. By eating meat, man acquires the characteristics of the animal he has eaten. Such a distinctive feature of the pig, for instance, is rooting about. The pig thinks that everything might be achieved by rooting about. Rooting about is a negative characteristics that man adopts from the pig. As you know this, you should choose your food carefully. As it roots about the root of the pear tree, the fruit begins to fall on the ground and the pig thinks that it has rooted them by itself. Sometimes the human thinks in the same way. He tills the soil, sows the wheat, and then says that he himself has made the wheat grow. There was a time when the wheat was growing by itself, without being sown by people. Besides, the original wheat grains were very large. The more wise and intelligent people were becoming, the smaller the wheat grains were getting. There was a time, when all the wheat grains were large as cornels. The cornel-tree is a tree that blossoms earlier and ripens latest. Due to this distinctiveness of the cornel-tree, an anecdote has been created. In the distant past, the Devil decided to choose one of the fruit-trees as his own and observe which of them will blossom earlier. As he saw, that the cornel-tree blossomed earlier, he was delighted and said: The cornel-tree will be my tree – it blossoms early, it will ripen earlier, so I’ll finish my job earlier. He was greatly surprised as he saw that the cornel-tree ripened last. The Devil got angry, because for the first time it was mistaken in its choice and cursed the cornel-tree to become hard, so that when they trash somebody with a cornel-tree stick, he might know that he will ripen late. From that day on, the Devil lost its faith in trees that blossom early. The cornels have healing characteristics, though. They are used to prevent upset. They asked the cornel-tree: Why your fruits are so small? Look at the fruits of the pumpkin! The cornel-tree answered: The big things stand for six months only, while the small ones last for ages. August 19, 5 a.m.

Note 4p THE NEW LAW Contemplation Today, everyone wants to be physically healthy. They say: a sound mind in а sound body. Physical health is conditioned by two elements: air and food. Consequently, if he breathes properly and if he feeds himself properly, man will be healthy. The breathing and the feeding are two processes that exist also in the spiritual world. The internal or the spiritual side of breathing is the rightful thinking. The internal, the spiritual side of the feeding is the proper feeling. So, between the breathing and thinking, as between the feeding and feeling, close internal relations exists. If breathing is not accompanied by internal thinking, and if feeding is not accompanied by an internal feeling, this means that these two processes are not properly used. But if man relates breathing with the strivings of his mind, and feeding – with the strivings of his heart, then both processes will be properly brought into effect and with good results. Then we can say, that each man, who, on one side, breathes and thinks properly, and on another side - eats and feels properly, is physically and mentally healthy. In order to avoid illnesses and suffering, people look for the reasons that cause them. They know that if they remove the causes, suffering will disappear. Two reasons cause illnesses and suffering: one of them is physical – improper breathing and feeding; the other one is mental – improper thinking and feeling. Eating is related to the heart and the heart is related to the soul. Breathing is related to the mind and the mind is related to the Spirit. Consequently, that life is harmonious, in which man has managed to properly relate the processes of breathing and eating as regards the forces of the soul and Spirit. In order to acquire this harmony, a man has to get in touch with those people, whose minds and hearts are healthy. He should observe the breathing and the eating of the healthy – not of the sick man. He should observe in what way the thoughts and the feelings of the healthy – not of the sick - men manifest themselves. Serve the sick man, but do not associate with him. What would you gain if you study an empty purse? What would you gain if you sit by a dried up spring? It is useful to study the full purse. It is useful to go to the living spring that is constantly gushing. The empty purse and the dried up spring are the sick men, from which you cannot attain anything. The full purse and the living spring are the healthy man that you can use at any time. The empty purse should go to the full one and the dried up spring should go to the living one. This is a Divine method that should be applied. Contemporary people do not succeed in their life, because they keep their empty purses closed. The empty purse is like a tank that waits to be filled. In order to be filled, this tank should be associated with a house in which there is life. The same holds true for the human as well. Unless he is associated with the rational life, man will remain with an empty purse, an empty tank. All the negative manifestations – scepticism, doubt, and discontent - break the connection between a man and the rational life. It was said in the Scriptures: “We live and move in God.” Whenever he breaks his connection with God, man always remains an empty tank. So, suffering conceals opportunities for a man. Until he has used and understood the capabilities within himself, a person suffers. As soon as he uses and understands them – his suffering turns into joy. Enjoy the little sufferings, accept them with Love, because they are granted from God. If you cannot put your Love into practice, then why do you need it? Even if your Love might not be a grand passion, it should be applied at such a place where it can function. If you water a stone out of Love towards it for dozens of years, what will you give it? If you are constantly kissing and embracing this stone, what will you transfer to it? The most you can do is to make a small dimple on this stone. The human kisses and hugs are not meant for the stones. If in place of the stone there was a person, would you have kissed and hugged him, too? Would you have expected Love from the stone? Each one, who has attempted to make the stone love him, has always ended his trials with a broken head. The tree of knowing good and evil symbolizes nothing but the bad people in the world. This means that God has forbidden a man to feed with the fruits of the bad people. In order to be healthy, man should only eat the fruits of the good people. Now I am also telling you: Eat only the fruits of the good people. This is the new order in the world. Where should you look for the bad and the good people? The bad and the good people are not outside, but within you. The bad people are your bad thoughts and feelings. Consequently, do not expect anything good from your bad thoughts and feelings. The good you can get only from your good thoughts and feelings. August 18, 5 a.m.

Note 4p SEEK NOT YOUR OWN Reflection “Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.” Several nuns served at a monastery. They had a good, devout abbess. Besides her religious duties, she also looked after the farm of the monastery, where they bred several hens that used to lay eggs. The abbess noticed that some of the eggs were missing. She wondered who was stealing them. Finally she came to the conclusion that the nuns were taking the eggs from the henhouse and baked or boiled them in their cells. Aiming to stop this, she gave a strict order not to light fires within the cells. In spite of the order, though, the eggs continued to go missing. One evening, she decided to check what the nuns were doing in their cells. She looked through the keyholes of the doors and saw that some of the nuns were praying, while the others conversed with each another, or read books. In one of the cells, though, she saw something strange: two of the nuns held a wire in their hands; on it they had hung an egg, baking it on a candle. – Oh, my! Look what the Devil taught them! To bake an egg with a candle! The Devil, who was by the abbess, heard her accusation and said: You are blaming me in vain. I myself also see this trick for the first time. – What am I to do then? – Stop breeding hens within the monastery. – How can I – I need these eggs! – As you need them, so do the nuns – replied the Devil and went on its way. August 17, 5 a.m.

Note 4p CAPABILITIES OF LOVE Reflection If you ask the disciple why he goes to school, he will tell you, that he goes to school to study. If you ask the believer why he prays, he will tell you, that he prays in order to get in touch with the elevated world. If you ask the hungry man why he goes to a restaurant he will tell you, that he goes there to eat and satisfy his hunger. What would you answer if they ask you why you go to the mountain, though? One thing should be known: as a person goes to school, church, restaurant, or to the mountain, this is not a one-time process. These processes are dynamic, not static. The person will go to school, church, a restaurant, and a mountain many times, because the studying, praying, eating, and moving are continuous processes. During his whole life, man will go to school and carry books in his hands. During his whole life man will go to church and carry a prayer book in his hands. During his whole life, man will carry bread in his hands until he gets the meaning of eating. During his whole life, man will climb and descend from mountains until he learns how to walk properly. There are people who carry their book, prayer-book, or bread by themselves, while others leave this to their servants. You came to the mountain by yourselves, but you were warned that you would have to carry your book, prayer book, and bread by yourselves. As you know this, you have to rely on yourself. Which one is better: to carry the appliances that you need by yourself, or to leave the others to carry them? To carry something by yourself, or to let others carry it are two great processes in Nature. To carry means to be a servant. To let others carry means to be a master. Both these services require wise men. Can you make a master from a stupid person? Can you make a servant from the lean and weak person? Whatever post is given to the man, rationality is required from him. Two great laws exist: the law of right thinking and the law of right feeling. These two laws guide human life. Both these laws bring good will, space, and breadth within man. When he enters the right thinking area of law, a person has rein, Spirit, and good will for work. When he enters the right feeling area of law, a person feels inspired and begins to create. Externally, people differ in their language, experience, and views, but as regards the natural processes - all of them are alike. As they start to eat, all people eat alike: first they put the food into their mouth, which begins to open and close and twist in all directions. You can teach a person anything, but you cannot teach him how to eat. Each man, each living being knows how to eat. Eating is a natural process, and as such, it fundamentally differs from the unnatural processes. As the artist begins to draw, he paints here and there on the canvass and later on something beautiful emerges. When the poet starts to write, he scrawls on the white sheet. The result from these scrawls is something valuable. The spotting of the artist’s canvass and the scrawling on the poet’s paper are natural processes without which you cannot expect any art or poetry at all. The natural rational processes differ from the unnatural and irrational processes in this, that they are being read and re-read. Rational people appreciate these processes and understand them, while irrational people do not understand them. For instance, the light, which man receives from the Sun, gives rise to seven processes within him. But only rational men understand these processes. Only they know that light is composed of seven different colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, dark-blue, and purple. Each colour is related to certain types of forces within the human organism. Red is related to the forces of the heart, orange – with the forces of the mind, green – with the forces of the will, yellow – with the forces of the soul, purple – with the forces of the Spirit. Light speaks to the man in seven different languages. This means that each colour has a specific language. The one, who understands these languages, is healthy, learned, and strong. The one, who does not understand these languages, cannot use them; as a result he has no achievements at all. Life begins with the red light. As they do not understand the language of this red light, people concentrate only on food. In the course of their whole life, they study the art of eating, but cannot grasp the deep sense of this science. They eat and drink and as they finish their meal, they give thanks. Those, who understand the language of the red light, they give thanks before they start eating. Orange teaches people how to breathe properly. Those, who do not understand the language of orange light, breathe all their life, but they do not have great achievements. Those, who have understood the meaning of the knowledge of breathing, relate it with rightful thoughts and enjoy great achievements. So, the one, who understands the laws of Light, thanks before he starts eating or gets anything. He likes to thank before he has got something, before any work has been done for him. God loves a man before the latter has done something for Him - while he is still a child. A human loves his fellow man as he does something for him. These are two positions, which include two different problems: the problem of the known and unknown. So, God deals both with phenomena that has happened in the past and with phenomena that is happening now. The knowledge of the known includes the human processes, while the knowledge of the unknown includes the Divine processes. The impossible for the human processes is possible for the Divine processes. It was said in the Scriptures: “The impossible for man is possible for God.” The impossible for hatred is possible for Love; the impossible for ignorance is possible for knowledge; the impossible for weakness is possible for strength. Indeed, it is difficult for a man to do a favour for the one, who has caused him damage. Does the man cause damage out of bad will? Very often people cause each other damage just out of ignorance and lack of understanding. If you have lowered someone in a well shaft to do some work, you have to pull him out with the same rope. If you cut the rope before you pull him out, you cause him damage – you leave him within the well shaft. You might say that you should cut the rope anyway. Yes, you will, but after you pull the man out of the well shaft. If you pull the man out of the well shaft and forget to cut the rope tied to his leg, you cause damage – you trip him up and he cannot walk. As soon as you have taken him out of the well shaft, you should cut the rope with which you had tied him and you should set him free. Consequently, in order not to cause damage to other people, you do [M1] each thing in its proper time. If you do not observe this rule, you will unwillingly cause damage and come across discrepancies. Christ says: “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” From what is the human troubled? A man is troubled about the contradictions in life. What should he do, so that he is not troubled? In order not to be troubled, man should leave the discrepancies in the hands of God. They are his business. Only God solves the discrepancies. The mistake of people is that they meddle with God’s things and have left their own business in the hands of God. The child from the first grade should not be occupied with the business of his teacher and give his textbook to his teacher instead. So, if you like to put your things in order and if you want your heart not to be troubled, take your textbooks and begin to learn the letters and leave the philosophical books to the philosophers. I wish you to be generous and to know when and how to act, think, feel, and talk properly. A banker, who was a millionaire, was known by his hard heart. Various ladies, madams, and young ladies used to come to him to ask for financial assistance for charity organizations, but no matter how convincing they were, he never gave more than one dollar. One day, a beautiful lady entered his office, whispered something in his ear and immediately disappeared. Instantly, he took out 25 thousand dollars and offered it to this young lady. One of his friends, who witnessed this, asked him: why did you give such a considerable amount to this young lady? – Because she knows how to talk – said the banker. Up till now no one has talked to me like this young lady. I have never heard such words. What were these words? I leave the answer to this question to you. I wish you to behave like the young lady, who opened the heart of the banker. August 16, 5 a.m. [M1]{you should do} or {you need to do} or {you must do}

Note 4p AT ITS PLACE This morning I shall give you a small breakfast, so that you can work well. As God created the world, people inhabited the Earth and were happy, but they did not know what to do. Then, people were less than today. In order to assign to each man proper work, God sent an Angel to Earth with a big pouch full of instructions, so that each man would know what to do. Each instruction was put in a special envelope. When it reached the Earth, the Angel saw, that a beautiful young lady was bathing in a lake. It stared at her and lost hold of the pouch. The pouch opened and the envelopes scattered on the ground. As they saw this, people ran to the envelopes and snatched them up. Each man took one of them at random – not the one God determined. As a result of this, great discord began among people – it still continues up to this day. So, the disagreement in the world is due to the mistake of the Angel that stared at the beautiful woman and could not fulfil its task. The Angel returned to God with an unfinished task. God asked it how it solved its task – the Angel said that it saw the beautiful daughter of the king with whom he fell in love. God sent it back to Earth, so that it could learn its lesson, but the Angel has not returned there yet. This Angel is within all the people, learning the task of disobedience. The Angel is displeased from its situation, but [M1] suffers. Unless it gathers all the envelopes with their valuable content and puts them in their appropriate places, it will not return to the sky. So, each man was assigned a task – to put each thing in its proper place. The Angel should go among the people and look for the envelopes and transfer each envelope to its owner. When will the Angel return to its homeland? When the new age comes. The new age will release it. Today the king’s daughter fascinates everyone. Who is the king’s daughter, though? She is the world with all its manifestations. It is not bad for man to be fascinated, but not before he fulfils his task. The Angel had to first perform its mission for which it has descended to Earth. After that, it could keep staring and being fascinated as much as it liked. Contemporary man faced with a new age[M2] , for which he should be ready. In order to get ready for the new culture, he has to develop within himself a sense of evaluation of things. There are four things that man should value: the goods of his spirit, soul, mind, and heart. As long as he appreciates these things, he can serve God with all his mind, heart, soul, and force. If he wants to serve God, man should put all his fingers into operation. The forefinger represents the human Spirit, the middle finger – the human soul, the ring finger – the human mind, and the little finger – the human heart. The big finger, the thumb, represents the Divine World – the World of Love. If the four fingers of a man do not get together with the thumb in a complete whole – they cannot use their strength. The human Spirit, soul, mind, and heart should draw force from the Divine World, from the World of Love. That is why, whenever you feel weak, put your thumb against each of your fingers one by one and say to yourself: I will work for God with my Spirit, soul, mind, and heart. Within the human fingers lie forces that man does not appreciate. The human bears great fortunes within himself, but as he cannot use them, he passes for a poor man. For the creation of the thumb – the finger of one of the great deities from the past – Jupiter, thousands of mighty Spirits have worked. For the creation of the middle finger – the finger of the human conscience and fairness - thousands of Elevated Beings have worked. This finger is called the finger of Saturn. For the creation of the ring finger – the finger of the Sun - thousands of elevated minds have worked. This finger shows the human striving towards the elevated and beautiful, towards the music, art, and science. For the creation of the little finger thousands of elevated hearts have worked. This finger is called the finger of Mercury, a secretary of the Deities. If you would like to solve your material problems, turn to your little finger for advice. This finger deals with the material problems in the world. Consequently, having treasures, do not expect people to teach you how to use them – harness yourself to work instead, so that you can put into practice all that has been granted to you. If you do not work on your own, you will make the mistake, made by a king of olden times. This king had three good-quality cherry-trees in his garden. The cherry-trees gave fruits abundantly, so the king decided to send a basket full of his cherries to his neighbour and greet him. He ordered one of his servants to pick some of the biggest cherries and bring them to his neighbour. The servant obeyed the order of his master and went to the neighbouring kingdom. Before he got there, the servant ate two or three cherries now and then, to refresh himself. Until he reached the king, only three cherries were left in the basket. He ate two of them, so just one remained. As he offered this last cherry to the king, the latter asked him how it should be eaten. So, the servant showed him how it should be eaten and returned it to his master. What was to be done by the king who decided to send his cherries to his neighbour, so that the latter can taste them? August 15, 5 a.m. [M1]and [M2]Contemporary man is facing a new age.

Note 4p THE DIVERSITY IN LIFE Reflection I’ll read chapter 10 of the Gospel according to John, who was considered as the bearer of Love. As Love met him for the first time and subjected him to trial, he left his coat and escaped. John is one of the apostles, who lived on Earth longer than the rest of them. Why did he remain on Earth longer? So that he could make the coat that he left in other people’s hands. During his whole life, he was occupied with the goddess Venus and studied her. In the chapter we read, Christ says: “That one, who has come to Earth without Love, is a thief and a robber. The one, who has come with Love, is a shepherd.” That one, who bears Love within himself, has life. He comes to give life, not to take it away. “The thief comes only to steal, destroy and kill.” As they read the Bible, some people say, that there you can read about past things only. There also exists a past that never dies. There exists a past that dies. From the latter you can gain knowledge, but it cannot give birth to anything new. This past is like a dead man put in a coffin. His relatives love him and cry for him, but he keeps silence and waits the moment of revival or burial. If the Love of his relatives is strong, he will come back to life. If it is feeble – he will remain in the same situation, after which they will bury him. As they bury him in the ground, his relatives say: We could not help you – we leave this to you. If you are hero, get up from the grave. As they see, that his Love is weak, they sing several songs at his grave and leave. Each one who lives without Love is sentenced to death. But the one, who lives with Love and Truth, cannot deal with the trifles of life. He deals with the elevated, with the juice of the fruit – not with its peels. “The truth will set you free.” When? When you are penetrated by Love. Without Love, man sleeps and is motionless; with Love he is awake and movable. The real motion is the motion of the Spirit. Until he comes to this state, man should pass through several kinds of motions: mechanical, organic, and mental. Today, Love manifests itself through the same forms: mechanical, mental, and Love of Spirit. The mechanical Love is characterized by a great rigidity. The words it uses are also heavy and firm. Everyone has tried this Love. It cripples a man. The mechanical Love should be transformed into an organic one; organic Love should be transformed into mental Love, and the mental Love should be transformed into Love of the Spirit. As you watch the sky today you do not see any clouds. It is clean, clear, without any fog. The present day is a day of mental Love that already comes. Due to this fact, the Sun rose quietly and calmly. It communicates with all the living beings in a common language. Why? It communicates with all the living beings in a common language because there is no difference in the internal understanding of things. As soon as people come to the external understanding of things, they separate. Languages originated thanks to this great diversity. The existence of many languages shows the external diversity in which people live. As soon as they enter the new age of Love, people will start to use one common language – the language of Love. All people strive to enter through the gate of Love and acquire its goods. It is not enough to only know how to enter through the portal of Love – one should also know how to exit through it. It is not enough to just accept Love – one should also know how to evaluate and put it into practice. While he is jealous, man can neither accept Love, nor put it into practice. Jealousy is a negative feeling that appears within the children and the adult. As with a given family a child is born, his parents are glad and accept it well. After the second child is born, parents are also delighted, but the first child does not accept the second child well. The child is not pleased at the arrival of the second child, so he gets angry, cries, and does not accept it. Mental Love that is about to come in the world excludes jealousy. The new age considers each man as a revelation of the Divine Love. As he knows this, man should use his words, thoughts, feelings, and actions carefully. Each manifestation of a man should be full of content and meaning. If it has no meaning and content, then it is a blind manifestation that profits no one. Contemporary people do not understand Love, because they are still not able to break free from their old views. They think that if you love someone, you have to give him clothes, food, bed, etc. This is an external expression of Love, though – not internal. Real Love implies such manifestations in which form, content, and meaning are in perfect unity and harmony. Real Love is distinguished by an inner mildness. The voice of the one, who has acquired Love, is distinguished by internal mildness and plasticity. No matter how long we talk about Love, after all it will manifest itself in various ways, according to the consciousness of different people. Give a golden pen in the hand of each man and see what each of him will write. The religious one will write: “God is Love.” The scientist will write: The Sun is shining. The one, who is disappointed in Love, will write: There is no use to love. The weak and lazy one will write: The masters treat me badly. The philosopher will write: Love is the beginning of life.[M1] I say: Love is not to be transferred, but lived. Love is a feature of God. Only God loves - human Love is a reflection of the Divine Love. No matter how much he would like to, a man cannot give anything without Divine Love. Can you get warm in the moonlight? The Moon shines thanks to the light of the Sun. Consequently, if a man loves, this is due to the Love he receives from God. For now, man is related to the Moon for it can purify him. The Moon extracts all the poisons and toxins from the human organism. Having in mind the present conditions, without the Moon man would have come across great difficulties. That is why young ladies and young men come out in the evening in the Moonlight – to heal. When they want to live, enjoy, and have fun, they go out in the Sun, but they are careful not to get sunburned. The religious beliefs of people are a result of the influence of the Sun. Their views of the Sun are due to Venus. Man should study the Light of the spiritual sun that already rises over the world, though. This sun rises within the consciousness of the people. It brings new Light for the understanding of Life and Nature, a new understanding of Love. Today we are glad at all our friends that have come from afar, because they have responded to the invitation of the Divine World. We are glad, that they, too, become bearers of the new Love that is already coming into the world. We are glad, that through each of the people here their whole nation is present: through the French – the whole of France is here, through the English – the whole of England, through the Latvian – the whole of Latvia, through the Russians – the whole of Russia, through the Italians – the whole of Italy, through the Germans – the whole of Germany, through the Finns – the whole of Finland, through the Swiss – the whole of Switzerland, through the Greeks – the whole of Greece, through the Yugoslavs – the whole Yugoslavia. In future, when they have the opportunity to respond to the great invitation of the Elevated World, we’ll mention the names of all the nations, whose names we did not mention now. And as one looks at this gathering of various nations, one cannot help feeling glad at the great variety, existing in the Divine World. A Frenchman, an Englishman, a German, and a Russian had lunch at some European restaurant. They noticed that something was flying high in the air. The Frenchman immediately got up, took a newspaper and began to read what was written about this. The German took his hat and went to check what the scientists say about it. The Englishman took out his binoculars and started to look up. The Russian, though, calmly lay on his back and said: Eagle, see this! Here we see four nations, each of them having its specific manifestation. Now I congratulate you with the new day of Love. I wish you to release your hearts from all the worries and confusions. Leave your worries outside and bring within your heart more joy and delight, and much more Love. Keep within your mind the words of the Great Master: “I love you as my Father loves me. I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” The one, who was talking to you thousands of years ago, is talking to you again. He comes to bring Love within the hearts of all the people. The people, who believe in Love, are drawing their future. The present day shows your future. Do not be afraid. Your future is bright like the present day. The Sun is shining pleasantly, the sky is clean and clear, and it is easy to live. Before you and all the nations a great future is being revealed. The future of humankind is great, due to Love that will manifest itself. Everyone and all the nations will reach their hands like brothers and sisters in the name of the Divine Love. God is Love, God is Life, God is Love, Wisdom and Truth, and God is Light. God is Truth and God is Freedom. August 14, 10 a.m. ----------------- [M1]There should be consistency with quotation marks.

Note 4p THE ETERNAL LIFE As disciples of the Great School, you should be generous and give out the Divine Word abundantly – like Christ, who fed thousands of people with five loaves of bread. Whatever each of you has heard, accepted, and put into practice, let him give it out to those people that are genuinely interested. The one, who talks, might become a public speaker. The one, who does not speak, cannot become a public speaker; the one, who studies, might become a learned man; the one, who does not study, cannot become a learned man; the one, who sings, might become a singer; the one, who does not sing, cannot become a singer; the one, who loves, comes back to life; the one, who does not love - dies; the one, who loves Truth, might become a free man; the one, who does not love Truth, will become a slave. Christ said to the wealthy man: “One thing you are short of.” One thing all the contemporary people are short of. A young man went to a qualified potter to follow the trade. As he worked for three years, he decided that he has already followed the trade, [M1] so he told to his master: Please announce that I am now a master, for I am already a man of age - I would like to get married and work on my own. His master agreed, gave him the right to work as a master and sent him to work on his own. The young man made a lot of pottery, observing all the rules he had adopted from his master and put the pottery into the oven to bake. What was his surprise, when he saw, that after baking them all the pottery cracked. He quickly went to his master and told him about the disaster. His master told him: in order that your pottery does not crack, you should stay with me for another three years. – I’ll stay, because I want to learn this art as well, for no one buys cracked pottery. Now he observed more carefully than before in what way his master pressed the clay, in what way he paddled and formed it, hoping, that he will see something more special than what he already knew. As the master was putting the pottery into the oven, he also observed carefully, trying not to miss anything, thinking, that a mystery or a new formula would be revealed to him. What did he notice? He noticed that as he was taking the pottery out of the oven, the master blew in each one of the pots and said: “Hou!” As he saw that, the young man said: I wonder why I had to waste three years for a “Hou!” The master replied to him: This “Hou!” shows your Love towards pottery. If you love what you are doing, the pottery will not crack. Loving pottery is like talking with them. Love is present in a home in which the pottery is being blown at. If you need solid pottery, - go to a home where Love is present. Consequently, each home, founded on Love – succeeds. Each home, not founded on Love – fails. Love is a creative force that does not stand anything negative. As it creates, Love does not accept as constructive material even a single negative thought, feeling, or deed. Love does not bring doubt, hesitation, or any contradictions. A young man of high origin fell in love with a beautiful young lady, whose parentage was high, too. As they married, he had doubts about her Love and suspected that she loved someone else. Because his nobility did not allow him to demand an explanation from her, he left his home desperate and hurt and went to the near-by river with the intention of drowning himself. As he was looking for a deeper place in the river, he heard steps behind his back. He turned and saw his beloved. She came near him and whispered something to him. He was delighted and immediately gave up his decision to drown himself. If someone had asked him what the young lady whispered to him, he would have answered: My sweetheart told me, that if I drown myself because of doubt and suspicion towards her, even the water will throw me out. The water likes to come into the man and quench his thirst, but it does not accept anyone within itself. His sweetheart has whispered to him that she loved him and that she has not loved anybody but him and that she would always be faithful to him. He told her that he was ready to correct his mistake and in the name of her Love – to live and Love everyone. Today, I am also telling you: Do not doubt the Divine Love. Do not draw yourself into your suspicions, because you will fall into its depths, from where it will be difficult for you to exit. The one, who does not believe God, is drowning himself in his own suspicions. Seek God and trust in Him, so that you can meet his three daughters: Hope, Faith, and Love. As you meet Hope, you will become rich in the physical world. As you meet Faith – you will enter the spiritual world, so that your mind enlightens [M2] and you might gain knowledge. As you meet Love – you will enter the Divine World and attain eternal life. Christ says: “This life is eternal – to know you – the One True God.” And I say: Have hope in the one that hopes. Trust in the one who trusts. Love the one that loves. To come into contact with Hope, Trust, and Love – this is the eternal life, towards which every soul strives. August 13, 5 a.m. _______ John, chapter 12, 1 [M1]Unclear – {that he already knew the trade} or {that he had already learnt the trade} [M2]{mind will enlighten}

Note 4p THE VOICE OF LOVE Now, in order to present the truth about a certain problem I have to give several examples. During a winter night, a young man came out of his home and set off for the near-by forest, for a walk. Meanwhile, a pack of wolves appeared. He quickly climbed up a tree and hid. As the wolves passed by, the young man, who had calmed down, was about to come down, as he found out a new horror: a bear was climbing up the tree. The bear stopped one branch below him - it was also trying to escape the same pack of wolves. Looking up, the bear saw the young man who was stunned with horror, but it mentally calmed him down with the words: Don’t be afraid – at this moment I am not dangerous for you, because I, like you, am faced with the same danger. Instead of resting in my den, I went out for a walk, but the wolves ran after me and I hurried to climb the tree. As they saw, that they were out of any danger, the bear was the first to come down from the tree, then it looked at the young man, and nodded to him “goodbye”. The young man also said goodbye to the bear and come down from the tree. This tree symbolizes life, the young man symbolizes the human mind, and the bear symbolizes the human heart. So, as the mind and the heart are simultaneously in danger, they should not fight. They should climb the tree of life and seek their rescue there. One summer day a young man went to the forest to chop wood. Suddenly, he heard a loud roar behind him. As he turned, he saw a large bear. Initially he became frightened, but as he was just about to raise the axe, he noticed, that the bear pointed its paw at him and wanted some help. He peered at it and saw that a large thorn had entered into its paw. The young man held the paw tightly in his hand and took out the thorn. After that, he took out some salad oil from his pouch, daubed the wound with oil and dressed it well. As he finished the operation, the bear took him by one of its paws and led him away. He followed it calmly, curious to see what it wanted from him. As they walked for half an hour, the bear stopped by a tree and looked upwards. The young man also looked upwards and saw bees there that were circling around a beehive. There, he understood that it was inviting him to feed from the honey there. Thus it expressed its gratitude for the favour done. Consequently, as your heart is wounded, appeal to your mind to help you take the thorn out of its wound. After that, it will express its appreciation and show you where the bees live, so that you can take as much honey as you like from there. The bear, that is, his heart, took the young man to the bees and thus it gave him a good lesson – to strive towards purity and towards an organized life. The rational heart can be a teacher of the human mind. What the human mind learns for a thousand years, the reasonable heart learns for one day only. What the reasonable heart has learned long ago, the mind tries to learn now. Some people think that the mind does everything. Partly it is so. The mind does everything on the initiative of the heart. That is why man should understand the truth first by his heart and then - by his mind. The same holds true about Love. Man should first understand Love by his heart and then – by his mind. As you interpret the truth with your tongue to a man, leave him to understand it internally, by his heart. As soon as he understands it, he will transfer it properly to the mind. Many people want to understand what Love is. As regards Love, the heart will be the first to understand and feel it. Whatever outer expression you may give to Love, the heart can neither be bribed, nor cheated. Whenever someone gives money as an expression of his Love, he is deceiving himself. This is the Love of the Earth - not his Love. Money is the possession of the Earth. When someone is giving you a nice woollen dress in order to express his Love, he is deceiving himself. This is the Love of the sheep – not his own Love. He has robbed the wool of the sheep, made a dress from it and now he offers it as his own dress. In what way should the human express his Love, then? A man should express his Love by the help of his good and rational heart. He should show that he loves as God loves. He should love as the mother and the father love. These concepts are for the mind, but their understanding should reach the heart as well. If help does not come from the heart, these concepts will remain just theoretical rules. The only thing within the human that is sacrificing is the heart. All the mistakes in human life originate from the sacrifices that the heart has made. In this sense, God forgives every mistake of the heart that was made as a result of Love. One of the greatest teachers of the old times sent one of his disciples around the world to preach his teaching. At the same time, he gave him the ability to heal. As he entered the world, the first thing his disciple did was to begin to heal. He healed all the blind, deaf, and crippled people he met. The blind men began to see, the deaf men began to hear, and the crippled men began to walk again. In one word, he restored the health of all the people that were deprived of something. But what was his surprise, when, instead of showing their gratitude, all of them started to chase him – those who had began to see started to chase him, those who began to hear started to abuse him and speak ill of him. Those, whose legs and arms he had healed, started to beat him. As he came across this great discrepancy, he returned to his master disappointed and discouraged and asked him why instead of gratitude he found so much abuse, persecution, and pursuit? His master answered him: the mistake is this – first you began to heal and open the eyes of the blind, open the ears of the deaf, and untie the arms and the legs of those people who were put under certain trials from Rational Nature. In fact, though, your first task was to preach to healthy people who have eyes and ears and whose arms and legs are healthy. After that – in your free time, when you had nothing to do, you had to heal the blind, deaf, and crippled. Finally you had to come back to me. All the people you healed were your enemies from the past. I tied them, so that they cannot hinder you today and you might evolve well. As you did not understand this, you untied them prematurely, with which you impeded the performance of your task. Because I tied them then, I myself was going to untie them now. Each man has one blind and deaf thought, as well as one blind and deaf feeling within himself. Should he prematurely untie them? Consequently, as regards his mind and heart, man should help just those of his thoughts, feelings, and actions that are healthy. In his free time, when he has nothing to do, he may heal his ill thoughts, feelings, and actions. The ill thoughts, feelings, and actions in man are his enemies. If he starts to heal them and unties them prematurely, he gives them the opportunity to chase him. As I say, that one should not preach to ill people, I mean, in fact, that they are not yet ready to accept the Divine Word. As the younger son asked for his share from his father, he intended to live. He did not return to his father until he spent everything – money, health, and strength. He returned to his father as a prodigal son. If there were more people to pity and help him, he still wouldn’t have returned to his place. He would still have been occupied with the young ladies. But the young and rational ladies do not tolerate stupid disciples. The son returned to his father, who was not blind, deaf, or crippled. His father was healthy and reasonable. The reasonable young lady always teaches the young man a lesson. She makes him spend his money and become a pig-tender, so that he can come to his senses. Many people think, that in order to study and evolve well, man should be rich, so that he might have good opportunities. If this is true, Christ should have been born in a royal home, under the most favourable conditions. At the same time, he would have had the authority and no one would have dared to touch Him, chase Him, and crucify Him. If He had been born in a royal home, though, Christ would not have done the work that was assigned to Him. He would have learned a lot of things in the palace, but he would not have known what suffering is, or what it means to sacrifice for your fellow man. While he was a simple shepherd, David lived a pure and holy life. As he became king of Israel, he committed many sins and crimes about which people continue to talk about up to this day. Finally his son Solomon was born - the wisest king at that time who had 300 women and 600 concubines. This speaks for his insatiable desires. From the point of view of his grandiose and insatiable desires, many people resemble King Solomon. Before the flood there were also animals with great, insatiable desires, but where are they now? Where did their desires remain? Nothing remained from them – Nature destroyed them. Today, the biggest animal here is the deer. In comparison with the big animals that lived before the flood, it is like a small calf, though. During the Ottoman yoke a Turkish pasha visited a Bulgarian village near the town of Varna. The village people welcomed him very warmly. In order to express his gratitude, he gave this village a present – an elephant. For a whole year, the people from the village fed the elephant regularly, but the village began to get poorer. Each day, they had to give it 50-60 kilograms of rice. They wondered what to do with the elephant – it cost them dearly. One day, the Turkish pasha met a peasant from this village and asked him: Are you pleased with the elephant? – Yes, we are. – Do you look after it well? – Yes, we are. – If you like, I can give you one more elephant. As he heard this, the man became frightened and ran away. Who made the mistake: the Turkish pasha, or the peasants? The mistake was made by both the Turkish pasha and the peasants. The peasants had to know how to use the elephant. They had to harness it to work, so that it can justify the food he ate. The Turkish pasha is the human mind, while the peasant is the human heart. As the mind wants to express gratitude towards the heart, it should not give him an elephant, but a beehive that will bring it great profit. As you study human life you see, that three important things motivate a man: a bright thought, a good feeling, and a noble act. All contemporary people are exposed to internal trials, to internal discontent, that can be removed only by the help of bright thoughts, good feelings, and noble deeds. The only Good, which God has put into the human mind, are the bright thoughts that he receives from the Elevated World, into his heart He has put the good feelings and into his will He has put the noble deeds. The wealth of a man lies in this. If through his bright thoughts, good feelings, and his noble actions man cannot see God, he cannot see Him through anything else. The strength of a man is in his bright thoughts, bright feelings, and noble actions. One of these three features is that as they visit a man, he fills up with such strength, that he preserves his balance irrespective of the hard conditions he is in. One of the great scientists of the old times set a task to one of his disciples, so that he could understand what a strong and a bright thought means. He told him: go among the people around the world; there you will meet three people: a military man, a Brahman, and an adherent – slap each of them in the face. As you finish your task, come back to me and tell me what you learned. The disciple left and the first person he met was a military man. He slapped him in the face, but the military man turned and slapped him twice and threw him to the ground. As he stood up, the disciple thought: this military man was a strong man! He continued his way and stopped by a temple where he saw a Brahmin praying to God. He came near him and slapped him in the face. The Brahmin raised his hand with the desire to slap him back, but quickly lowered it and continued to pray. This Brahmin has turned into a weak man, the disciple thought. Finally he met the adherent – he was lost in thought. He came near him quietly, slapped him in his face and quickly walked away. The adherent remained in the position in which he was before the hit – he did not even move. This one is completely weak – concluded the disciple. As he finished his task, the disciple got back to his teacher and told him everything that he saw and learned. His master told him: until you acquire the features of the adherent who serves Love, you will never succeed. So, a military man symbolizes a man who serves the force. The Brahman symbolizes those, who serve the law, while the adherent symbolizes a servant of Love. Within each man, three types of states exist – strength, law, and Love, while the very man is the disciple that learns from them. Unless he gives priority to the adherent in himself, man will never achieve his wishes. The same categories of people we meet among the whole humanity. Until the world does not give first place to the adherent in himself, people will always find themselves before trials and hardships. Another disciple went to the same master and asked him to explain to him what Love is. The master remained silent and did not answer him, but the disciple persisted. For ten years, he continued to visit the famous Master and asked the same question over and oven again, expecting to get some answer. In the tenth year, the Master, who was a healthy and well-built person, took the disciple to the river Gang, where he immersed him in water. The disciple began to suffocate due to the lack of air and to kick, until finally the Master pulled him out. What did you feel while you were under water? – I felt I was suffocating, I felt I was sinking deeply somewhere for the lack of air. The master told him: When you find yourself in the same situation in life – to feel; that you suffocate, lose consciousness, and miss air, then you will know what Love is. So, three categories of people exist in the world: the category of the military man – the man of force – if you slap him in the face he will slap you twice. The second one is the category of the Brahmin who serves the law. If you slap him in the face, he wishes to strike you back, but he immediately lowers his hand and says: there is no need to defend myself - a law exists that gives everyone full credit. The third category is the one of the adherents, who does not even dwell on other people’s actions and who does not want anything from anyone. As disciples, you are required to be brave and decisive like the military man, but as you serve the Divine – not the human law, that to each one answers with two. [M1] Be resourceful and rational like the Brahmin, who still serves the two laws – the old and the new one, but as soon as he refuses the old one, he immediately lowers his hands and accepts the new law – the law of the Spiritual World. And finally – be like the adherent, who serves the law of Love, because of which he is blind to the human sins and crimes. One day, when you return to the Invisible World, all of you will be subjected to examination - to check to what degree you have applied the law of Love. As they see that you made use of criticism, they will ask you why you criticized. If you say that you wanted to correct the people, they will immediately ask you: did you correct your own self? Do not criticize people before you have corrected yourself, so that you do not find yourself in the position of the grindstone that sharpens the knives of the people. Mind that you do not become a grindstone that sharpens the knives that cuts the people’s heads. The task of a man is not to be a grindstone. Imagine that you are to receive an inheritance of 10 million leva. At the same time you are to take one hundred leva. Do you have to neglect the 10 million and fight to get the one hundred leva instead? Forget the one hundred leva, forget about your debtor and turn your gaze towards the ten million, so that you do not miss the term for their reception. Man has come to the Earth to study, work, and acquire a great inheritance. As he knows this, is he to occupy himself with the mistakes of people and with the trifles in life? The mistakes and the trifles are meshes. The one who falls into these meshes has won the one hundred leva, but has lost the great fortune. If you carry a bottle of water that contains one litre, don’t you have to let the man, who wants to drink, drink some of it? If someone wants to drink from your bottle – give it to him readily. Do not be afraid, that you will remain without water. You are near the source and you will be able to fill your bottle with clear, fresh water. You have to change the old water anyway. Consequently, whatever damage people might cause you, everything is for your own good. Do not think that this is a discrepancy. Do not say, that you have to defend yourself because people cause you damage. There is someone to defend you. When the royal son goes for a walk – should he carry his weapons with him to protect himself? There is someone to protect him. He is constantly accompanied by people who first attend to him and then to themselves. The same holds true for everyone. No matter how insignificant some man in society might be, there are beings that are appointed to protect and defend him. One thing only is required from you – to listen to the voice of those, who protect and take care of you. Somewhere in America, the child of an engine driver used to play on the railway line where trains passed. One day, the child again went to play on the railway line, but at that time the express train arrived. The child had not noticed the train and continued to play there undisturbed. As the train came near, the father saw his child on the railway line and shouted: Lie down! The child lay down, the train passed, and he was rescued. What would have happened to the child if it had stopped to ask his father why he should lie down? Would he have succeeded in saving itself then? For this reason, whatever Love tells you – listen to it. As soon as it tells you “lie down” – you lie down. Get up! – You get up. Shut up! – You shut up. Talk! – You talk. Whatever Love tells you, listen to its voice and obey its advice and orders. The solving of all the problems is in the obedience to love. If you like to know how to understand the language of Love and the obedience, you will enter the practical school of life. What I am telling you now is not a theory – this theory should be implemented in life. Listen to the voice of Love and you will accept the true Life. Listen to the voice of Truth and it will provide you the absolute Freedom. Listen to the voice of Wisdom and it will provide you the required Light. This is the great good for which all of you are called upon in the world. The new age is coming and you should accept the great good in Life, Knowledge, Light, and Freedom. If you accept the Divine Word and live in compliance with it, the Spirit will come into you and the verse will come true: “The Spirit will descend in you” and you will get what you like. In whatever situation in life you might be, apply the Divine Word and you will see the positive side of its application. I believe that all of you will put it into practice. August 13, 10 a.m. [M1]Unclear.

Note 4p KNOWLEDGE One of the tasks of contemporary people is to gain knowledge of one another. Knowledge cannot be gained without the participation of the consciousness’ manifestations. In order to be able to gain knowledge of one another, people should pass through the four fields of the consciousness: the sub consciousness, the consciousness, the self-consciousness, and the over-consciousness[M1] . The sub-consciousness resembles the child within its mother’s womb; the consciousness resembles the newborn child; the self-consciousness resembles the child that already goes to school; the over-consciousness resembles a man, who serves God. The result of these four states is a person striving and Life. As I talk about the manifestations of the consciousness within man, I mean the organized life – not the life of suffering and trials. The organized life implies a complete union of the human thoughts, feelings, and deeds. In the first chapter of Genesis, it is written, that God has “formed man of the dust of the ground”. While man was dust on the ground, he was deprived of consciousness. He was in a “pregnant state” – as is the state of the water that flows, of the air that moves, and of the stones on which he steps. “And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Verse 7) From this moment on the consciousness awoke. The nose is related to the human consciousness; the mouth – with the human sub-consciousness, the ears – with the human self-consciousness, and the eyes – with the human over-consciousness. These phases of the consciousness unite through Love. The gaining of knowledge conceals the great idea – the attainment of Love. Love includes in itself two processes: descent and ascent. Only the rational man descends. In general, only God descends. As we talk about ascension, you should know that it is again God that ascends – as a Rational Beginning. No one can ascend or descend where God ascends and descends. The life we bear within us shows the presence of God within us. He has descended from His exalted world into our world. In order to descend into our world, God has adapted especially, so that He can take the appropriate place, so that He can settle among us as among his children. He has rejected everything He has – His glory and greatness. Thus God lives among us like a human. As we go to Him, we will also live like humans. Since He has come to us, He is looking for a way to transfer to us His blessings, so that we do not misuse them. In order that we can appreciate these goods, we pass through a school of joy and suffering. The suffering begins after a man overstrains himself. It is enough for him to overstrain his stomach, heart, or brain, so that he can experience certain suffering. As man undertakes to do a job for which he is not ready, he suffers. After he does a job for which he is ready – he enjoys himself. Everyone strives towards Love, because it is only Love that can transform the world. Initially, a man lived for himself. This is a Divine quality. Initially, God also lived for Himself. After He created the world, He began to live for all the beings he Himself created. In this way He self-restrained, but He enjoyed His self-restrain that let Him gain knowledge of the creatures He had created. The presence of God within the small beings became the reason for their sufferings. To restrain yourself means to stand besides a great mountain that casts a shadow over you. Standing in the shadow of the mountain you suffer and torment[M2] , because you are deprived of the space that you would have if you were up the mountain, or in front of it. Each man suffers due to overshadowing – constantly someone has overshadowed him. The daughter suffers due to her mother that overshadows her, the son – due to his father, the disciple – due to his master, the servant – due to his lord. The world is full of overshadowed people. When they want to break free from the houses that overshadow them, people destroy them. If they want to break free from the forests that overshadow them – the people clear them. Consequently, in the future - in order not to overshadow one another - the people should be transparent. The mothers, fathers, children, masters, disciples, lords, and servants should be transparent, so that they do not overshadow anyone. The houses should also be transparent, made of glass, so that they do not overshadow one another. Only Love can make things transparent, though. The word “transparent” implies lack of any resistance or opposition to the light and elevated human thoughts, feelings, and actions. Contemporary people live in a world that they do not appreciate as a result they are displeased. No one is pleased about the situation he is in. The mother is displeased because her children do not love her as she would like. The father is also displeased with his children. The children are displeased that their parents are not as they would prefer them to be. Sometimes, the father and the mother are forced to become like bandmasters. They want that their children might become good singers[M3] , but their children have not yet studied singing well. All people want to live well, but have not yet learned how to attain this art. Initially, man was closed in an egg. In order to come out of it, he should know what to do. The one, who does not know this art, opens the egg. They call the opening of the egg the basic tone of life. The one, who strikes the basic tone of life properly, never gets ill. Illnesses show that the human did not strike the proper tone of life. If the human wants to gain knowledge about himself and about his fellow man, this means that they should mutually create conditions for their own development as regards their physique, heart, and mind. New life brings opportunities for gaining knowledge about people. The familiarizing begins with a conversation. The person about whom you should gain knowledge will begin to talk to you. At this moment all the opportunities will manifest themselves for a man. His soul will open and he will see what means are available to him - mechanically, organically, and psychically. Each form is an opportunity for a man. As he studies this form, he gets in touch with it and acquires certain wealth. The one, who does not understand this, thinks that the plants do not have any intelligence. He is deceiving himself, though. The plants are sensible and intelligent. It was observed that as a criminal gets near a tree – it withers. If the righteous man touches a tree – it comes back to life. So, when crimes are being committed – the trees wither; as people do good things in the world - the withered trees come back to life. When crimes are being committed – people die; when good deeds are being done – people are born. Some humans think that only people are reasonable beings. Each man thinks good for himself only. This is a limited comprehension. In the olden times, there lived three masters that were competing for one and the same mission. They made them vote, so that it could be decided which one of the three should perform the mission. As they checked the voting papers they found three different names – each of them had voted for himself. At the meeting of a European [M4] king, 12 beautiful young ladies were chosen and each of them carried a bunch of flowers. It was decided, that one of the young ladies should present the bunches of flowers to the king. They had to vote, so that they could choose which of them should perform the mission. As they checked the voting papers, they found 12 different names on them – here, too, each young lady had voted for herself. This is a discrepancy that exists everywhere in the world. How can this discrepancy be solved? The discrepancy will be solved with the coming of 12 kings. Thus each young lady will present one bunch of flowers. In life, as the young lady is to be married, this problem finds a different solution. The young man whom she is to marry is the king whom they meet. The bride is the young lady intended to give the king the bunch of flowers. Subsequently, the newborn child resembles this king, while the mother resembles the young lady with the bunch of flowers. In order for discrepancies not to exist in life, a man should have just one idea in his mind – the king they meet, and one feeling within his heart – the queen they meet. The king always comes with his queen, though. So, a new understanding for both Life and Love is required from each man. To love somebody means to come down to his level; to love somebody means to give him some of your goods and teach him how to use them; to love somebody means to accept him within yourself and take him to your homeland. The homeland of the human soul represents heaven – the place of all the opportunities and goods that man has ever had. Today, each man strives to return to heaven from where he came out. A dark zone exists between Earth and heaven, though, through which man should inevitably pass. In order to pass peacefully through it, he needs light equal to the light of 25 million candles. As soon as he passes through the dark zone and enters the Divine World, the candle is no longer necessary. In the Divine World it looks like a feeble red light that hardly glimmers. The dark zone is distinguished by bitter cold. The temperature there is 273 degrees below zero. In order to pass through this zone, man should have Love. Only his Love is able to pass through this cold and dark zone. The heat of Love is great. It overcomes even the greatest physical cold. It is not easy to pass through the dark and cold zone. Whether he realizes that or not, man holds tightly to the Earth. He does not want to leave it. Man holds onto the Earth because of his selfishness. The two poles of the Earth – the North Pole and the South Pole, show the selfishness of man and woman. The North Pole represents the selfishness and shows the selfishness of the man, that is – the selfishness of the mind, while the South Pole represents the selfishness of the woman, that is – the selfishness of the heart. In order to understand what the selfishness of the North Pole is, imagine, that all the ice of the pole is gathered in one place and forms an ice mountain, which is 2000 meters high. If you spread out this ice all over the Earth, an ice layer 40 meters thick will be formed. The female selfishness is like the male selfishness. Selfishness does not mean unhappiness for a man – it is a good that he should know how to use it. Selfishness is the wealth that men and women have gathered since their exit from heaven until today. As they didn’t know where to store it, they have piled it up on the two poles – on both the South and the North Pole. Contemporary people are looking for a way to break free from selfishness. How can they break free from it? Where will they put it? If they scatter it on the surface of the ground, it will destroy life; it will destroy all culture. If they melt it, there will be a flood on Earth – a flood which humanity has never seen. The only force that can properly cope with selfishness is Love. It would melt it little by little – imperceptibly. Consequently, do not hasten to break free from your selfishness at once. If you scatter it all over the Earth, it will stop your evolution. If you melt it at once, it will cause a great flood within you that will drown you. Leave your selfishness where it is - to wait for the coming of Love. The selfishness of a man is gathered within the human mind, while the selfishness of a woman is gathered within the human heart. As he sees the danger that stalks a man, God calls the woman first and says: “My child, give me your heart!” God wants to meet the woman first, so that He can cope with her selfishness and organize it. After that, He will call the man. For thousands of years now God has melted the selfishness of the woman. This is the old age. The new age that is coming now will be occupied with melting and organizing the selfishness of the man. This will be the age of the man. Since the woman has already broken free from her selfishness, she will help the man, so that he can break free as well. This is the reason for which a man seeks the Love of a woman. Love has heat, so it will melt the selfishness of the man. I take the words “man” and “woman” in their broad sense and I say: The human heart should help the human mind. A man conceals within himself great gifts, capabilities, and forces, but he does not realize them. As he does not realize them, he lacks faith in himself. As he does not believe in himself, man lives in a made up world and thinks that nothing can come of him. As you look at the Earth in winter you may also think that nothing will come of it. Have a little patience, though. Four or five months later, as the sun light and heat manifest themselves stronger, as the moisture increases, you will see many heads appear from the ground and you will see how life is bubbling everywhere. Now as you study life on Earth you see that it makes two main movements: around the Sun and around itself. The result of the movement of the Earth around the Sun is the four seasons; the result of the movement of the Earth around its axis is the day and the night. As he lives on Earth, man takes part in these movements. The result of man’s movement around himself is his joys and sorrows. The joy represents the bright side of human life – the day; the suffering represents the dark side of the human life – the night. The day in the human life takes turns with the night – likewise the joy takes turns with suffering. And vice versa – the suffering takes turns with joy. Man moves around himself, but he also moves around the Sun – around God. The result of this movement is the four seasons within him. As disciples of a Great School, your task is to study the ground on which you live, but at the same time you can explore the other planets as well. Today, with the capabilities and the feelings you have, you can study the land, but a time will come, when you will develop your inner feelings and capabilities. Then you will be able to move from one planet to another. As you travel consciously from one planet to another, you will be able to trace the way through which you have passed. You will see that there is life on the other planets as well. There are also beings that process their soil as the people on Earth do. Then, the beings from the other planets will descend to Earth. If today some being says that it has descended on the Earth from another planet, no one would believe it - the people would call it crazy, a liar, etc. If someone dares to say that he has descended from the Sun, no one would believe him. Why? Because people have a special concept about the Sun. According to many humans, the Sun is a burning body with a very high temperature. There is a special Sun on which each man should go, though. The inhabitants of this sun elevate human life. They are called Brothers of Love. As a greater number of them descend to Earth, the planet will be completely transformed. Then all the people will be called brothers and sisters. All the people will speak one language. All the mothers and fathers will form one mother and one father. They will come out of the human head, but they will pass through his eyes. The eyes are the only place through which they will pass. As they come to the Earth, they will bring joy and delight within the human soul. That is why the psalm singer says: “As I see God, my soul will be filled with joy.” The outer light we see is a result of the thoughts of the Elevated Beings above us. It comes out from the eyes of these Beings. Animals perceive the light that comes out from us. They do not see things as we see them, because they perceive the light that has passed through two dense types of media, as a result it has undergone double refraction. A man is an instrument; the important thing is what kind of music will come out from him. The thoughts and the feelings represent the music of a man. What will be the thought of a man and what light will he emit depends on his disposition towards the Brothers of Love that come from above. As both young and old you should receive Love wherever it comes from. Love is for everyone – not just for the young ones. In my opinion, young is the man, who has gardens full of good-quality fruit-trees and who picks the fruits by himself. Isn’t it possible that each man has such a garden and will be forever young? The new way of life towards which everyone is striving leads to the Divine gardens and suggests that everyone should pick from the fruits of their fruit-trees. In this sense, the new life requires young and loving people. Now we invite you to leave the old life and enter the Divine gardens of the new life and pick from the new fruits by yourself. Time makes this process easier, but we will also help you to enter these gardens and choose from the most beautiful fruits. Everyone will choose according to the taste of his mind and his heart. Be ready now to accept the goods that your Brothers bring to you. Humanity awaits these Brothers for thousands of years. They are already coming. The people, who do not understand the reason for their coming, say that the second coming is near. Other people call it “the end of the world”. Those people who understand things, though, say that the “beginning of the new life” is coming. August 12, 5 a.m. [M1]I do not know of the word over-consciousness. The word super-consciousness is used in spiritual literature. [M2]{are in torment} or {torment yourselves} [M3]{They want their children to become good singers…} or {They hope that their children might become good singers…} [M4]An is used before words beginning with a vowel sound.

Note 4p SERVICE Reflection And though I have all knowledge; and though I have all faith, and have not charity, I am nothing. [Verse 2] “Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up” [verse 4] “Charity doth not seeketh not her own” [verse 5] “Charity never faileth.” [Verse 8] – Whenever he fails and loses his disposition, man thinks, that he has lost his Love. As he fails, though, this means, that he didn’t have such Love at all. A Love exists that never fails – it is Divine Love. A sky exists, that is never clouded – it is the Divine Heaven. Divine Love is manifested through this heaven. As you see the sky is cloudy you should know that human Love is manifested through it – Love that is not understood. You cannot see the sun through this Love. No matter how much you want to see it, you cannot, because clouds shadow it. As disciples, you are required to have self-control; you are required not to forget yourselves neither in joy nor in sorrow. You often meet scientists, musicians, and artists who are so engrossed in their science or art, that they forget those who surround them. A famous virtuoso went to Paris to give a concert. As he began to play, he was engrossed in his playing and completely forgot the audience – he lost his sense of time. The people got tired of listening to him and they started to leave the hall one after another. The last to remain were the doorkeeper and the virtuoso. As he saw that the virtuoso had no intention of stopping, the doorkeeper came near him and told him: Here is the key, sir – take it and lock the hall after you finish. Why did this musician play so long? For two reasons: either to show that he knows how to play, or he was probably carried away. No matter how well he plays, a musician should never misuse people’s patience. It is not easy to listen to music for hours. The believers are often like this virtuoso. As you meet a believer, he will talk at length what Christ has preached, what the prophets and the apostles have said. Christ, the prophets, and the apostles have talked indeed, but they didn’t talk much. They worked more than they talked. The saints of the old times ate little. They ate once a week. The ordinary man eats three times a day – now and then even four times. So, the saint has lunch twice a month, while the ordinary man has 90 or 120 meals per month. The wastefulness of contemporary people is great. For your excuse you might say that you are not saints. But the world suffers exactly because people are not saints. If they were saints – they would have worked more than they consumed. Wherever you go today – to families, schools, churches, or societies – everywhere you come across arguments and misunderstandings. Everyone argues, quarrels, and fights, because they are not saints. Man should be a saint! Contemporary people maintain the theory of evolution and say that everything can be attained through evolution. According to this theory, they find that everything that happens in life is normal. They say that in the course of evolution, evil will turn into good. This theory is right, but evolution requires a long time. After a long time everything might be attained, but there also exists a shorter way for the attainment. For instance, you cannot turn the lie into truth through evolution. In the course of all times and ages the lie remains a lie. As he does not think about the words he uses, someone says that he is a master of his own self. Are his words true, though? He says that he is a master, but at the same time he suffers, he is ailing, he is in servitude to other people. A master is the one, who is independent, who doesn’t get ill and who always solves his tasks by himself. Another one says he is a slave. He doesn’t tell the truth either. While he says that he is a servant, you see that he seeks other people’s help and that he cannot provide for himself even the most ordinary services. Since he has come to Earth, man should serve. How should he serve? He should serve with Love. Love is the salary for the service of man. On Earth a service is paid with money. Besides, the more they pay, the more they demand. In the spiritual world, though, the servant is paid with Love. The more you love – the more you serve; the less you love – the less you serve. The more you are loved – the more you serve; the less you are loved – the less you serve. The same law refers to the ruling. They love you little – you rule little; they love you much – you rule much. You love little – you rule little; you love much – you rule much. The world will be reformed as people begin to perform their obligations properly as servants and as masters not only towards their fellow men, but towards themselves as well. In order to be a good servant, man should first of all learn how to serve God. As long as he learns how to serve God, he will know how to serve himself and his fellow men. Today, people suffer from servants and masters who do not perform their duties properly. The sick man suffers, because his servant does not listen to him and does not serve him well. In his turn, the servant suffers, because his master restraints him and does not pay him regularly. As the servant and the master are outside a man, he knows the reason for his suffering. What would you say as you suffer and are upset without outer masters and servants? The reason lies in man, in his senses. If he had no eyes, man would not have seen what people do and would not have suffered. If he had no mouth, man would not have answered the words of people and would not have suffered. Love manifests itself through the mouth. Consequently, the mouth should be long-suffering, benevolent, and it should not envy. If the younger brother sees less food on his plate than the food on his older brother’s plate, he starts to shout and gets angry – he envies. If they give him more food, though – he will leave it aside, because he cannot eat it. In spite of all this – he envies. As long as envy enters into him, the child begins to worry and suffer. I do not mean that the person should not have eyes, ears, mouth, or nose, but I mean that he should cultivate his senses. As he sees, hears, and smells he should know what is for him and what is not, how much and when he needs something, etc. If he yields to his lower instincts, he will never be satisfied. The human eye is insatiable. An English millionaire from Australia travelled by ship to England, so that he could be present at the crowning of one of the English kings. He carried 350 million pounds with him, but as he thought that this money would not be enough, he jumped into the sea and drowned. Everyone resembles this millionaire. They think that they are poor, but in fact they are big millionaires. They have at their disposal a brain, a heart, lungs, and stomach that cost billions. They have a body that costs billions. With the help of the physical body they get in touch with a wide world. As they lose their body, the physical world disappears for them. Then and only then do they understand how much their body costs – the body that they did not attach any importance to, the body that they have treated with negligence. Today, everyone wants to be happy. They seek happiness where they cannot find it, though. They think that if they are rich, learned, strong, and beautiful, they will be happy. They delude themselves. Why? We see that the world is full of rich, learned, strong, and beautiful men, but nevertheless all of them suffer. The preachers say that man lives and moves in God and yet he also suffers. Today, people are told, that God is Love that man lives in God and in spite of all this he is looking for Love and cannot find it anywhere. How is it possible for a man to love God and be unhappy? As he loves God and is unsatisfied and unhappy this shows that there is a deficiency in his Love. Apostle Paul says: “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.” Contemporary people need love. If they have love, they will be rich, strong, and learned. The new teaching is a teaching of love. If a man believes in love he will release himself from everything old – like the snake sloughs off its old skin. The old, from which man should release himself, represents his discontent and scepticism. While he lives in the old, man is ready to quarrel with everyone. He quarrels also with his own self. Within each man, there exists a master and a servant who cannot reconcile. The master is displeased because his servant did not perform his orders properly. The servant is displeased with his master because he doesn’t pay him regularly. Have you ever studied the manifestations of the master and the servant within yourselves? As the master manifests himself – the man is proud and walks with dignity; as the servant manifests himself - the man quails and grows smaller. It is good to observe and draw the images of the master and the servant within yourselves. Thus you might know when the real man manifests himself and when the actor does. The actor is paid a lot to play on the stage. In order that he might reconcile the master and the servant within himself, man should learn how to thank God for everything that is given to him. He should thank for [M1] the mind, body, soul, and spirit that has been given. These things cost billions, yet man does not realize his wealth and goes to the stage to perform the roles of others instead. Sometimes, they pay a lot of money to play on the stage as well, but only when the actor is a genius. An opera director engaged Adelina Paty to sing on the stage. As she knew that this opera director didn’t pay on time, she decided to think of a hindrance, so that he could pay her at once. At the appointed time, the audience gathered in anticipation of her appearance on the stage. She had already received 25 thousands dollars from the director, but she still had to get another 25 thousand. In order to make him pay at once, she did not delay. The audience applauded, protested, and waited impatiently for the famous singer to appear on the stage. Highly anxious, the director went to the singer’s room and asked her to go to the stage as soon as she could. She was wearing one shoe. The director had to pay the other 25 thousand just to make her put on the other shoe. He wanted to use her, but she was smart and did not succumb to his tricks. Consequently, whatever man does, he always gets paid. Man got paid for each of the things he did. Man gets paid for everything, but the important thing is that he should work conscientiously, so that he gets paid well and on time. Perfection is required from a man. Only Love can make a man perfect. As long as he lives within Love, he should accept things as they were created and his views about them should not differ. Man misses the opportunities, because he is ready to sacrifice his Love for no reason at all. The young lady is ready to neglect the Love of her mother and father for a young man, who has occasionally come to her home. He passes himself off as her lover and she believes in his words. How is she to tell if this young man is the expected one indeed? How can she tell if they will get on together? If he can simultaneously be her servant and master, then the young man is her real sweetheart. If she can simultaneously be his servant and mistress, then the young lady is his sweetheart. They will get on together. Now I’ll give you several rules. Do not go to hoe your cornfield in the evening; do not go to hoe your cornfield when it is too cold. When you have no money in your pocket, don’t go to a restaurant; when you have no money in your pocket, don’t start to trade. Go to hoe your cornfield when the Sun is shining and the day is bright and hot. When you pocket is full - then begin your undertakings. In compliance with the new teaching I say: begin with Love and end with Love. Begin with God and end with God. Begin with your fellow man and end with your fellow man. Begin with yourself and end with yourself. Many people cannot grasp these concepts, but many people can. As you talk to people about the Divine Love they say that they cannot understand it. As for the human Love – they say that they can understand it. This is not an understanding, though. Why? Because today they pretend to understand it, but tomorrow they cry from it. This is not Love. The young lady applies make up on her face excellently. She knows how to paint her lips, how to powder her face, how to pencil her eyebrows, etc. What are these cosmetics that last for several hours only? In the morning, she makes herself beautiful, but in the evening nothing remains from this beauty. In order to remain beautiful, she has to disguise herself every day. If you start to tell her about the natural and the spiritual cosmetics she will tell you that she does not understand you. Man can be naturally young, without wrinkles on his face. The good and pure life makes the person young, beautiful, and bright. If he doesn’t live well, whatever cosmetics he might use – it will show. You can always tell the artificial things.[M2] A young man laughed at the wrinkles of an old lady and at her white hair. She decided to take revenge. For this purpose she disguised herself in such a way that she became unrecognizable: her face became beautiful and without any wrinkles, her hair became black and shining and she put two rows of white teeth into her mouth. In this way she appeared before the young man and started to cast him playful glances. He liked her, fell in love with her and began to write her Love letters in which he wrote that he cannot live without her. So, she agreed to marry him. He thought that he was happy and that he had obtained his ideal, but after the wedding, she revealed her true looks to him. As he saw the old lady in front of him, he knew that he has been deceived and immediately left the room. “To marry for an old lady” means “to see your delusions”. As soon as he sees his delusions, he will immediately run away. A day will come, when everyone will understand that they have married an old lady. The old lady symbolizes the life of the flesh. As they see how ugly she is, everyone will leave their house and run away. In order to break free from the life of the flesh, man should be patient, benevolent, and he should not envy. If he does not attain these features, man forms a mist within his consciousness - as you today are folded in mist. In this way he himself stands in his way to understand and know the truth. If you want to attain the characteristics of Love, thank God for the sufferings and the joys that are being given to you; thank him for wealth and poverty; thank him for knowledge and for ignorance; thank him for health and for illness. Do not forget that the suffering conceals joy and joy conceals suffering; wealth conceals poverty and poverty conceals wealth; the knowledge conceals ignorance and ignorance conceals knowledge; health conceals illness and illness conceals health. Poverty is a servant and wealth is a master. As the master and servant gather at one place, all is well. The master gives the capital, and the servant gives the work. So, if you like to acquire Love, strive towards the new that is to come. As God gave the law to Moses, the mountain was still covered with mist. Now you also are in mist, because the law is being given to you – the law of Love. The one who lives without Love will be under the mist, while the one who lives with Love will be above the mist; the one who lives without Love will be in poverty, while the one who lives with Love will live in wealth; the one who lives without Love will be in ignorance, while the one who lives with Love will live in knowledge; the one who lives without Love will be in illness, while the one who lives with Love will live in health; the only law, with which you have to serve God is Love. Love never fails. Have complete confidence, hope, and Love in God, so that you can attain all your wishes and strivings. A great future lies before you. As you apply the law of Love, you will test the Divine kindness upon yourself. August 11, 5 a.m. ______ 1 Corinthians, chapter 13 [M1]Word missing – {thank God for} or {give thanks for} or {be thankful for} [M2]{You can always tell what the artificial things are.}

Note 4p THE PERMANENT IN LIFE In life, two types of manifestations exist: unchangeable or permanent, and changeable or not constant. By studying the human character, scientists find both manifestations in life. They know the reasons for these manifestations. At the same time, they also know the exact position of the centres related to these manifestations. For instance, the inner side of human fingers have some special flaps, special lines that hardly change. Sometimes these lines form a spiral, a snail shell-like figure, etc. By them, you can tell what the human character is. Criminology uses these lines to trace criminals. They take the fingerprints from the criminal’s thumb thus revealing his crime. Instead of a signature, people used their thumb-mark. This signature is more permanent than the one that is used today. The signature they use today might be falsified, but the thumb-mark – never. As we talk about permanent and changeable things in life we mean the stability and the instability of things. The stability of things is due to the constant values, while the instability is due to the changing values. The stable, the constant value is a unit with which we measure things. We call this unit “law”. Each human thought, feeling, and deed that corresponds to this unit is good. If they do not correspond to it – they are not good. So, in life there exists a unit of measurement, with which things are being measured. It determines what is good and what is evil. Good is all that gives humans the conditions to grow; good is all that gives a full range to the human mind, so that it can develop. Good brings Light within the human mind. Good is what allows the human heart to reveal itself. Good brings Light within the human heart. The Light and the Heat that the Good brings within the human mind and heart are called the Light and heat of the Good. They manifest the objective side of life. When the Divine Light is missing – man makes mistakes. He cannot think rationally. When the Divine Light is missing – a person is always ill. Many people want to be healthy, rich, and beautiful. The words health, wealth, and beauty are synonyms. The one, who is healthy, is at the same time rich and beautiful. But man can be healthy under certain conditions only. Consequently, a man may be healthy and rich only if there is clean air, clean food, and a hygienic home. If these basic conditions do not exist – he cannot be healthy. The truly healthy man is healthy from the point of view of his physique, mind, and heart. In order to be mentally healthy, man should have stable and positive thoughts and he should not to worry about trifles. Someone is worried by the thought that he will die. The fact that he is worried by the thought of death shows that he does not know what death is. One of the anecdotes about Nastradin Hodja satirizes some people’s views about death and about the other world. One day, Nastradin Hodja went to the near-by forest to chop wood. He climbed a tree, stepped on a bough and began to chop it. During this time, a traveller saw Nastradin Hodja in the tree and told him: What are you doing here? – I am chopping wood. – Do you realize that as you cut the bough on which you are, you will fall on the ground? – This is none of your business. Nastradin Hodja continued his work, but as soon as he chopped the bough he fell on the ground with it. – Oh, my! It turned out as the traveller said. Since he knew when I would fall from the tree, then he should know when I am to die. Nastradin Hodja caught up with the traveller and told him: since you know so much, tell me when am I to die. – After three days. Nastradin Hodja got back to his home and told his wife: Do you know that in three days time I will die? His wife listened to him, but did not say anything. He took his pouch, took leave of his wife and children and went out of town to the foot of the near-by mountain. There, he dug himself a grave under a pear tree and laid down in it. From time to time pears fell from the tree – he ate them and thought: if this is death – it is not frightful - you lie under the pear tree and you eat pears. Two days passed. On the third day, he heard a loud noise. He raised his head to see what was going on. He saw several camel drivers with camels loaded with pottery. As they saw his head coming out from under the ground, the camel drivers become frightened and ran. As a result of this they broke many pots. Displeased by this, Nastradin Hodja was caught and cruelly beaten up. Then he came out from the grave and left. After he went home and saw his wife, he said: I returned from the other world. – What did you see there? – While the pears were falling and I was moistening my mouth with them, it was good. If this is the way to die, then there is nothing bad in death. But the situation worsened after the camel drivers came and thrashed me. It is not worth going to the other world. The views of Nastradin Hodja about the other world are funny, but many people have similar views as well. As they encounter hardships in life, people start to look for a way to break free from them. If they cannot solve them properly, they seek the decision in death. So, various theories about death are being created. Some people say that death is an illusion; others say that death is a dream. What is the dream itself? According to some people’s view, the dream is an illusion, while - according to other people - it is a prediction. Various theories exist about the dream, but in spite of all the theories there are cases when the person dreams something that really comes true. One of the Pharaohs in Egypt saw in his dream, seven fat cows came out from the river Nile, followed by seven lean cows and that the slim cows ate the fat ones. The Pharaoh gathered all the Egyptian men of Love, Wisdom, and Truth and all the dream interpreting men to interpret his dream for him, but no one could. Then the Pharaoh took Joseph out of the dungeon, so that he could interpret his dream. Joseph said: the seven fat cows represent seven fertile years, while the seven lean cows represent seven lean years of hunger. During these lean years, people will use the fruitful years’ yield. As he interpreted the dream, so it happened. There were seven fruitful years in Egypt, followed by seven lean years. If someone has a dream that a snake is chasing him, this means that he will soon meet a person whose character resembles the character of the snake and he will bring him some trouble. Through the dream, they warn him, so that he might know how to cope with this person. A professor, who was a tamer, appeared in America years ago. He tamed bad horses that used to bite. There are horses that have bad characters. As man comes near them, they bite his nose and his ears and they kick wherever it comes[M1] . One day, a very bad horse was brought to the professor – no one dared to come near it. The professor managed to tame it in a very ingenious way. He ordered that beetroot should be boiled. After the beetroot was boiled, he took the horse. The moment the horse tried to bite him, he took a boiled beetroot out of the hot water and put it into the horse’s mouth. After he did this several times, the horse abandoned his habit of biting. This is a method for taming that is negative, though – it is not a Divine one. They often apply this method to humans as well. There is one reasonable Divine area in life. In order to get there, man should live well. A prosperous life contains the conditions for an eternal life. If you do not want to die soon, you should live well. If you want to die sooner – you should not live well. Why should you live well? So that you will have a strong mind, heart, and will. In other words, you should do well, so that you can have bright thoughts, feelings, and deeds. A strong mind is known by its Light. A strong heart is known by its heat and by the stability of its feelings. Heat and the Light are creative forces. The human mind cannot be illuminated unless it has Light within itself. The human heart cannot be processed and cultivated unless it has heat within itself. Contemporary scientists managed to decompose light in the seven colours that compose the first scale. These seven colours compose higher scales with the same, though more delicate colours. If a man concentrates his mind and isolates himself from all the outside impressions, concentrating in himself only, he will feel that he is sinking into a thick impenetrable darkness. After that, something begins to rise within him and he is within Light greater than physical light. This Light might be decomposed to the same seven colours as the physical one, but its nuances are softer and more pleasant. Coming out of your concentration, you will pass through the same dark zone again. All men who die pass through this dark area. Man might come out and go to this dark zone even without dying. If he does this consciously, he can get to the physical world again. If this happens unconsciously, a man thinks that he has died and that he cannot go back. Soon, something special in America happened. A Hindu person used to put people to sleep with the help of suggestion and hypnosis. A young lady from the audience said that she did not believe in these things. The Hindu suggested that she to go to his room and let him do the experiment with her, so that he could convince her of the power of suggestion. He told her at what time she should come to his hotel room. She went to the hotel at the appointed time. The Hindu did the experiment with the young lady and put her to sleep, but he forgot to suggest to her the time to wake up. Due to an engagement he went out of the hotel for half an hour only, but a misfortune happened: he was run over by a car. Since the Hindu did not return to the hotel, the young lady remained there sleeping. The government announced a great reward for the one who could awaken her. The law is: No one can release a person from the thought he has suggested to himself. As he knows this, he should be careful and not allow all kind of thoughts within his head. If someone lets into his mind the thought that he will not become a good man, he begins to believe in it and nobody can help him. Why should he let this thought enter though? Why does he not tolerate the thought that he might become a good man? Both thoughts are equally true. So, why does he not tolerate the positive thought that he might become a good man? Remember: many of the thoughts that pass through your mind belong in fact to others. The thought that nothing can become of you belongs to others. God has created a man so that something might become of him. Each man has gifts and strengths he should develop. This is his civil law. Each one, who deprives people from this law, commits a crime. Each one, who deprives people from the right to do well – commits a crime. Consequently, when he lives well, a man does the Divine will. As long as he effects[M2] the Divine will he is healthy, strong, and rich. Many of the contemporary people are ill. Why? They are ill because they do not know how to use the sunbeams. The Sun comprises all the medicines within itself. An illness does not exist that is not subordinated to the influence of the sunbeams. In order to heal himself, man should drive the sunbeams through certain prisms. These prisms might be physical, but they might also be mental as well. In order for the ill man to accept the sunshine, it should pass through the brains of several people like through a prism. The same thing happens also with the light that we receive from the Sun. The Sun’s energy passes through several transformers until it reaches our eyes as Light. So, the Light we receive from the Sun is refracted and reflected light – not straight. Due to this reason, we see things relatively – not absolutely. We do not see things as they are in real life. The people we see around us are not the same. We have a relative concept about them as well. For instance, you meet a man, whose nose is 3 centimetres long and 2 centimetres wide, another one has a nose 4 centimetres long and 2.5 centimetres wide, and third one has a nose 5-6 centimetres long and 3 centimetres wide. These people have different characters. Their characters are defined by the length and width of the nose. This does not depend on the person himself. Many generations before him have worked for the creation of his nose. The length of the nose shows the development of the mind, while its width shows the development of the heart. So, the length of the nose is a barometer that shows the state of the mind; the width of the nose is a hygrometer that denotes the state of the heart. Contemporary scientists gauge the atmospheric pressure by a barometer and the air humidity – by a hygrometer. When the pressure in both the barometer and the hygrometer rises – it will certainly rain. If the pressure in the hygrometer is not rising, but the pressure in the barometer is rising – wind will be blowing. As he observes the readings of the barometer and the hygrometer, one can tell even the slightest weather changes. If this can be done with outer gauges, it can be done even more easily and accurately by the human nose that is both a barometer and a hygrometer. These gauges cost a lot. The human nose also costs a lot, but man cannot appreciate it. There are many barometers within the human. For instance, the human knee is a good barometer for him. At even the slightest weather change the human feels some pain in his knee or in his joint. This pain determines that it will rain, snow, or hail. As soon as the weather starts to improve, the pain ceases. So, whenever you feel pain in your throat, leg, arm, or something else, you will know that your barometer notifies you. Thus you can become a prophet and you can forecast the weather. If you feel pain in your throat – the weather will break in one way; if you feel pain in your leg – it will break in another way, etc. Contemporary people look for a way to break free from their barometers. Whatever they do, they will have some barometer within themselves, though. If they do not feel any pain, that is, if they do not have any barometer, then the pit of their stomach will play the role of the barometer. Being ill or healthy, they will have a certain barometer. For instance it was noticed that a certain correlation exists between the change in the weather and the human feelings. Without any reason, a man feels a pleasant feeling in the pit of his stomach. This shows that the weather will improve. Sometimes man gets up in the morning and sees that the weather is fine and bright, but he feels some heaviness in the pit of his stomach. He asks himself why he feels sad, he seeks the reason for this, but he understands nothing. Then several hours later the weather breaks. Then his sad disposition disappears. As a result of his dispositions[M3] , man arrives at the right psychological conclusions. A family of six – a mother, a father, and four children describe their observations as regards the law of influence. They have noticed the following: if the father is indisposed on Monday, the mother is indisposed on Tuesday, the older brother – on Wednesday, the oldest sister – on Thursday, the little brother – on Friday, the little sister – on Saturday. On Sunday, all of them have a good disposition. The whole family is glad. As Monday comes, duty begins again. The father wonders what to do, so that he can avoid this duty. I tell him, that as soon as he notices a certain indisposition within himself, it would be better to take his rucksack and go for an excursion. In general, whenever man feels a certain indisposition, let him get down to work and harness his energy. The law says: when people love each other, they transfer to one another their mood and disposition. In this respect, man is a transmitter and receiver of energies. When a certain resemblance exists between two people, they mutually transmit their thoughts and feelings: whatever one of them thinks – the other will receive; whatever one of them feels – will be felt by the other. If one of them is indisposed, he will transmit his indisposition to the other. As he knows this, a man should look for the reason for his bad disposition. As he finds out the reason for the bad disposition, he will be able to break free from it easily. In this way man can easily cope with his problems. The future hygiene requires people with developed feelings to know internally what food they should use and where they should take it. If something from the inside tells you not to eat some food, or not to go to a certain restaurant, listen to this voice. If you do not listen to it, and go instead to a restaurant in which you are forbidden to enter, you will feel a great disposition. [M4] Listen to your inner feeling that each time shows you what to eat, where to go, with whom to make friends, etc. There are restaurant-keepers that do not put good energy into the meals. If you eat their food you will certainly feel disordered. This law can be applied everywhere in life. If you go to the shop to buy something, listen to your inner feeling to see if you feel a good inner disposition towards the man from whom you are buying. If you make friends with someone, apply the same law. Make friends with people, towards whom you feel a good disposition. If you meet a man, who causes some internal contradiction within you, do not make friends with him. If he does not bring any contradiction within you and you have a good disposition towards him, make friends with him and do not be afraid. This man will remain true to you for your whole life. Consequently, do not make friends with the one, who causes a tightening in your heart and a contradiction within your mind. Do not ask why it is so and do not try to strain yourself and to overcome this feeling. If you sow wheat in the sand of the desert what will you get? No matter how much you plough the sandy soil, the wheat will not grow in it. If you want to get any harvest, plant it into black earth. The black earth has been processed for thousands of years in order to improve the conditions for good wheat growing. Contemporary people have come to the law of harmony in life and say that everything should rest on this law. If you expect friendship between two people, see if they are in harmony with each other. If you like to listen to some music, see if your growth is in harmony with your disposition. When he creates, the musician applies the law of harmony of the tones. If two or more tones do not harmonize with one another, he does not combine them and does not make any chords from them. No matter whether you sing, play, or talk – you should observe the law of harmony everywhere. Without harmony, life loses its meaning. But no matter how much he strives towards harmony, a man cannot absolutely avoid disharmony. Bad people are nothing but disharmonic tones. If you cannot avoid the disharmonic tones, that are – the bad people, - you should know where to put them. As regards the good people, - they are tones from other scales, that have nothing to do with them. As soon as you meet a bad person – leave him alone and do not make friends with him. Some young man falls in love with a stubborn young lady and thinks that he will reform her character and that he will tune her to the scale in which he himself sings and plays. The stubbornness, though, is a disharmonic tone in life, for which a special scale is required. Have you tried to transform the disharmonic scale into a harmonic one, so that you can see how this transformation is to be done? A Bulgarian suffered because his wife was very stubborn. No matter what he told her, she always used to put the cart before the horse. One day, while she pulled water up from the well he told her – mind not to fall in the well. She intentionally jumped into the well and never came out. The man started to cry for his wife, because she had left him alone with several children. But half an hour later he saw a Devil coming out of the well – the Devil had become all white. – Where are you going? Why are you running away? – Oh, dear, an hour ago a woman fell into the well and I had much to endure at her hands – my hair turned grey. As the man heard that even the devil ran away from his wife, the man said to himself: I’ll begin to heal people. As even the Devil runs away from my wife, then the illnesses will also run away from her. He began to heal people. As he entered someone’s home, he sat near the sick person and told him quietly: My wife is coming! On hearing these words, the illness left the sick person. Such a man soon improved his life. What does “to become white” mean? The colour white is healthy – it is the colour of generosity. While the human hair is black this means, that he is constantly gathering everything within himself only. As soon as his hair grows white, he stops sparing himself. Many people think that after his hair grows white, the person becomes impoverished. No, people with white hair are in fact very rich. They are just beginning to give out. The people with black hair begin to grow rich, but until their hair becomes completely white, they cannot be called rich. The people with black hair are impatient and short-tempered. They spend a lot of energy in vain. The men with white hair are very gentle. They do not spend their energy in vain, because they know that it is hard to acquire this energy. Consequently, in order for a man to become wiser, his hair should grow white. The black colour of the hair shows a state of reception and rest. The one who wants to get rest should wear a black colour. For this reason, the night was created. Some people consider black as a bringer of misfortune and evil. But black has merit as well. When he wants to rest and receive fewer impressions, man seeks the night. As man receives many impressions and has many desires, his hair grows white as a result of many troubles and worries. The hair of such a man grows white untimely - his hair grows white before he gets wiser. This shows that not everyone with white hair is wise, and not everyone with black hair is bad. So, as disciples, observe the following law: appreciate the Divine within yourself – your mind, heart, will, soul, and Spirit. As long as he appreciates his mind, man will apply it all throughout his life. Through his mind he can transform his negative thoughts, feelings, and deeds into positive ones. The one, who cannot transform his negative deeds into positive ones, does not understand anything of higher mathematics. At a sanatorium in South America there were two paralyzed men who had stayed there for 20 years. Finally, the doctors announced them incurable. In the area where the sanatorium was, there were great snakes, though. One day one of these snakes – a boa - left the place where it lived and left for the hospital to show its heroism. The people tried to catch it, but it hid in the room where the two paralyzed men were. As they saw the boa in their room, the two paralyzed man jumped from their beds and ran out of the hospital. As they saw, that they could stand on their legs, they thanked the boa, that it had entered the hospital and scared them and thus helped them understand that they were healthy. So, as he finds himself in front of great contradictions and troubles, man should know that they are nothing but goods. In times of difficulties, man concentrates. Through suffering man learns and sees that everything in life is advisable. There is nothing inadvisable. When you say that some man is stupid, while another one is wise, - these are relative assessments. In Nature, even the fool has some important function. Who can say that the existence of the Niagara Falls is inexpedient? Falling from a great distance, the water of the Niagara Falls makes a channel within the ground, but it is used for reasonable purposes. For instance, the Americans have made many channels through which they drive a part of the water of these falls. Today, they are lightened by the energy of these channels. Many people have visited the Niagara Falls and various stories are told about their visits. Two young Americans visited the Niagara Falls and settled in one of the near-by hotels where they ate and drank well. As they got drunk, they decided to row by a boat in one of the channels. The boat hit one of the cliffs, though, and smashed. One of them remained on the smashed boat and the water flow dragged him downwards. The other one jumped on the cliff, where he remained for a while. The water was falling with a roar; the people stood on the shore and did not know how to help the young man. Suddenly, one of them suggested the idea of throwing a rope onto the cliff. They threw a metallic rope onto the cliff, by which the young man managed to cross the waterfall. Another American also tried to test the mighty power of the Niagara Falls as well. For this purpose he bought a butt and tarred it well both from the inside and outside. After that, he wrapped the butt with a waterproof fabric, entered inside it and went with the water stream. After a long swaying in the water, the American reached the bank of the channel and after he came out of the butt he said: I wouldn’t enter a butt to measure the might of the Niagara Falls again even if they give me the whole world. Contemporary people, due to misunderstanding the Divine laws, subject themselves to useless suffering – like these Americans. There is suffering that is useful, but there also is useless, artificially created suffering - that is not useful. As he comes across this suffering, man should avoid it. In order to avoid useless suffering, man should have a bright mind. Many people think that there aren’t beings wiser than the humans on Earth. In fact, there are intelligent beings not only in the Solar system, but in the other systems as well. The beings that inhabit the other systems are more intelligent even than the beings that inhabit the solar system. You might say: How do you know this? Imagine that among one hundred people there is one whose eyes are opened and who sees everything. He sees marvellous things around himself and talks about them. How he can see these things? He can see them with his eyes. He has eyes and sees, while the others do not see anything. They also have eyes, but their eyes are not opened yet. One day, as their eyes open they will see these things as well. Everything lies in the ability to see. There was a time, when people saw just three colours, then four, five, six, while today they can see seven colours. A day will come, when they will see more colours in comparison with the colours they see today. They will be able to see within the ultra-violet and infrared spectre of the light. Everyone knows that besides physical food, man also absorbs special Light that is yet to be studied by humans. Not knowing about this Light, man has already felt its influence. For instance, a student tries to solve a difficult task, but it is dark in his mind and he cannot solve it. He thinks over it for a long time until finally some Light penetrates his mind and he manages to solve it. So, there is Light in the world that solves all the difficulties. Unless this Light penetrates the human minds, people will continue to live in darkness and – not wanting this – will clash with one another and will wonder what the reason is for these clashes. It is very simple. The reason for the collisions among people is the inner darkness that exists within their minds. Now I mean the culture that does not bring Light to humanity. Only the Love and Light that the new culture brings can clarify things. As Light enters a home, it teaches people how to live like brothers. A home where this Light does not penetrate is doomed to discord and disagreements. Today there is discord everywhere – in every home and society. Contemporary people form societies and they build towns and villages – like you, who are here on the mountain. Why do people gather together? They do it for two reasons: for good or for bad. You, too, have gathered here for good or for bad. As you see, the question was easily solved. There is not any other solution. If something is good – it is good in every case and if something is bad – it is in all cases bad. But the task of a man is to turn the evil into good. Everyone should study the forces of evil, so that they might know how to transform them, because they are Divine, too. Here, contemporary people take some poison in a homeopathic dose and heal certain illnesses with it. In this case, poison represents evil. Man should know what dose he should use from evil before he can use it. You should also understand evil as a creative force in the world – not only as they understand it today. The one, who does not understand the laws of evil, turns into ash – he gets destroyed. That is why Christ has said: “Do not resist evil.” In other words: Do not fight with evil. The one, who has tried to fight evil, has signed his sentence himself. No man has defeated the evil yet. The only force that can defeat evil is the Divine Love. Remember, that God is among you and that He lives within you, within the soul of each person. As you know this, thank God for the life, mind, heart, Spirit, and soul that He has given to you. If you want to be happy, listen to His voice. The Sun is shining, the wind is blowing, the waters are running, the Earth gives its fruit, the mothers are giving birth to children, the fathers raise their children, because God ordained so. Things happen as He says. He is called the Father of all. All should observe His laws and love Him. I do not say how you should love Him. Love God in your own way: trust God in your own way and you will not be far from Truth. If you do not love your mother, father, brother, and sister and if you do not trust them, then how can you love others and trust them? If you do not love the people that are your relatives, you will not be able to love others, too. Have sacred feelings first towards your father, mother, brother, sister, so that you can have the same feelings towards the people that surround you as well. In this way only, you will be able to reach the new culture that will unite everyone. The task of each man is to know his name and place within the whole – like the Jews - they were 12 tribes and each tribe knew what part of the tabernacle it carried. As they stopped to get rest, they joined the parts of the whole tabernacle, so that they could honour and thank God. Today each man says: I bear the Divine within myself. You do bear part of the Divine. One day, as all the persons gather at one place and each of them brings his part, they will form the new tabernacle in which everyone will worship God in Spirit and Truth. The law of Love will be the law of agreement. This law should be put into practice this year. If you do not put it into practice this very year, you will have to wait till 1999 and then you will have to begin anew. Remember, that the future is for the wise, good, and strong people. If you do not believe in what I am telling you now, one day you will believe and see that what I was telling you is a hundred percent true. All the people, families, societies, and nations that are wise, good, and strong, will have God’s blessing. This starts from the present year. Whether my words are true, or not will see both those, who serve God and those, who do not serve Him. For a maximum of ten years from now everyone will be able to check the veracity of my words. God has already put into action the law of Love and those who do not obey this law will feel the consequences of their disobedience. As you reach this law, there will be only one way to continue. Contemporary people stand before a bright future. Everything bad will disappear. The Earth will drastically change – the Moon will change with it too. God has prepared a new world and new opportunities for those who love Him. As I observe the present people I see that they eke out their living. They go from house to house and beg. In fact, they are royal princes, but they have forgotten this. Which person is a royal prince? The one, who serves Love, Wisdom, and Truth, is a royal prince. The one, who serves Life, Knowledge, and Light, is a royal prince. The royal prince serves Freedom as well. Now I wish you to be royal princes, to be like brothers. Namely this requires God from all the people. [M5] The one, who loves Life, Knowledge, Light, and Freedom, is a brother; as for himself, so for the others. The music of the future will make the dead men come back to life. The paintings of the future artists will make the dead men come back to life, too. The statues of the future sculptures will resurrect people. In order that the ill person can recover, it will be enough for the future doctor to pass by his house. If the beautiful young men and women of the future pass by the house of people who quarrel, they will immediately make peace. The New people – the people of the future culture – will bring Love, joy, and fun everywhere. The people of the future will be distinguished by great poverty and ignorance. They will be deficient in vices, but rich in virtues. They will not be aware what lies, theft, and violence mean and the Earth will turn into a heavenly garden. The people will meet like brothers, with Love. They will not talk much. They will understand each other with one word only. What is the strongest word? In Bulgarian, the strongest and the richest in content is the word “goodness”. No bifurcation exists in this word. Goodness is a Divine feature. I wish that all of you were kind. I wish that all the Bulgarians were kind. The heat of the word “goodness” is high. It amounts to 35 million degrees. Wherever goodness passes – all the contradictions melt. Goodness comprises everything within itself. Goodness excludes all the weaknesses. The kind person is rational, good, and strong. He is both a master and a servant. He is the best, the wisest, the strongest master and servant. I wish you to be kind servants and masters. August 6, 10 a.m. [M1]Unclear. {wherever they go} or {whoever comes along} [M2]{brings into effect} or {does} [M3]{his good or bad dispositions} or {his different dispositions} or {his various dispositions} [M4]In this sentence, the word describing what disposition one should have, should be negative, and here it reads "a great disposition", which contradicts the meaning of the sentence. Example - {feel a negative disposition} [M5]Unclear.

Note 4p LIGHT, HEAT, AND STRENGTH Contemporary people have come to Earth to study, to be good disciples, and to do the Divine will. The one, who wants to be a good disciple, has to keep his mind, his heart, and his will in good working condition. When the oil flows out – the pot is not free from breakage; when the water flows out – the bottle is not free from breakage. What happens to the oil and water that flows out from the cracked containers? They lose their purity – something from outside gets into them and makes them impure. The people on Earth are in the same situation; as a result they come across great contradictions. For instance, a young lady and a young man love each another, marry, and have children. The mother and the father love each other and their children are born and raised with Love. Several years later, though, a disagreement occurs between the parents and the children. What is the reason for this? One or two people of the family are cracked pitchers: either the mother and the son, or the father and the daughter. If all the members of the family are pitchers without cracks, it is impossible for disagreements to arise among them. As the pitcher is cracked, its contents pours out, falls to the ground and acquires some external element that is not inherent in it. Namely, this element brings a certain disagreement for the surrounding people. As long as the father is alive, his sons and daughters live well among each other. As soon as the father departs for the other world, they begin to fight for the inheritance and each one wants to take a bigger part. Through the inheritance, their solidity is being tested. Now they understand that they are cracked pitchers. If the father had not died, his sons and daughters would not have known that they have something ill within themselves. The parable of the “prodigal” son tells the story about the little brother, who wanted to break free from his father and live freely. In order not to offend him and not make him feel limited, his father gave him his share of the inheritance and sent him out to the wide world. After he ate and drank everything, the little son, whom they call “the prodigal son”, came back to his father tormented with remorse. He had understood that his father was a good and a rational person. As he returned home, his father accepted him with all his fatherly love and slaughtered the most fatted young calf in his honour. As he returned from work, the oldest son saw that his father had organized a great feast and asked for whom that feast was. As he understood that his father had organized the feast for his youngest brother, he got angry and told his father: I have been working for you for such a long time, but you have never slaughtered a fattened calf for me, so that I can enjoy myself with my friends. His father answered: Do not be angry. Your brother was lost and found, he was dead and came to life again, but you have to know that everything I have is yours. Should we not enjoy ourselves together with your lost brother? So, the father reconciled with his little son, while his older son was angry with him. Why? Because his pitcher has some crack. The younger son understood that his father is good and reasonable, while the older son accused him of injustice. As disciples of the new teaching you want to go to the world and preach. What will you preach and teach the laymen? If you try to teach them order, control, and lawfulness – they know these things even better than you. Wherever you go among them you will see schools, churches, courts – everything is settled. If you want to teach them how to love each other – they know this also. As you go among laymen, mind that you do not do as the old crab does. An old crab told his son: My son, go straight! The young crab responded: My dad, show me how I should walk. Go straight and I will follow you, so that I can learn. The old crab started to walk and his son followed him. – Oh, my father, I also walk like that – said the young crab. Consequently, as you go to a country, you should observe its laws. You should go in the direction in which the rest of the people go. To preach to the people does not mean to teach them what they already know, but to be able to share with them the goods that you yourself have. As long as you get some good, do not think that you are the only one worthy of it – be ready to share it with anyone who has some need. Do not argue who was the first one to get the good. It is not important who the first one was to receive a certain good, but who has assessed and used it properly. Many people see the sunrise, but few people use it reasonably. The painter sees the rising Sun in one way, the ordinary man - in another. This depends on the eye and on the understanding of a man. Contemporary people suffer because of the wrong views of life they have. They do not understand life, but they do not understand themselves either. For instance, Peter, one of Christ’s beloved disciples, did not know his own self and did not know what was hidden within him. Although he was saying that he is ready to die for Christ, he denied Him three times. He was ready to die for Christ and cut the ear of a Roman soldier, but several hours later he denied Christ. So, Christ said to him: “Peter, hide the knife in the scabbard!” With these words Christ wanted to tell him that he could not do the job by cutting someone’s ear. As soon as a war is declared – at least one man should die. Sometimes you also think that you can correct yourself by a small sacrifice. No, at least one thing in you should die. Indeed, unless hatred, scepticism, and contradictions within man die, he will never be able to correct himself. As soon as the people hear the word “death”, they get confused. They do not understand the meaning of this word. For a man to die means that he passes from one world to another, from one type of understanding to another, from death to life. Many people think that they can easily correct themselves. This is a self-delusion. No one can correct anyone. If the man himself does not want to correct himself, no one can correct him. Many mothers and fathers have made great efforts to correct their children, but they did not succeed. Even knowing this, man continues the self-delusion that he has corrected himself. But as he finds himself before a trial he sees that he has not corrected himself. Man understands his strength only in the face of the trials. They say that a man has to be cold-blooded and bear suffering in a philosophical way. It is easy to talk about cold-bloodedness before the trials come, but try to take the beautiful daughter of some mother and you will see how cold-blooded she is; try to take the son of some father and see how cold-blooded he is; try to take the money of the rich man, so that you can see how cold-blooded he is; take the beauty of the young lady, so that you can see how cold-blooded she is; take the health of the man, so that you can see how cold-blooded he is; take the weapon of the soldier, so that you can see if he is cold-blooded or not. When do they use the word “cold-blooded”? They use it when they want to say that some man bears suffering and tests calmly. But this word is not used properly. Fish are also cold-blooded or with cold blood, but it is neither a philosopher, nor is it patient. When the arms and the feet of the man get cold, he becomes a philosopher: he does not steal, run, eat, and talk. He becomes like a saint. Wolves also gets cold in winter, but it is neither a saint, nor cold-blooded. As soon as it warms up, it immediately attacks the sheep. As it freezes, the sheep also becomes a saint - as it warms up – it starts to graze, though. The wolf excuses itself by saying: If the sheep had a very high, or a very low temperature I would have never attack it. Because it has a small amount of warmth – that is why I attack it. Consequently, the fault is in the sheep – not in me. Is the philosophy of the wolf right? As they do not understand the deep sense of life, people kill the wolves, for they cause mischief. The wolf attacks mainly the sheep. Can you accustom the wolf and make it go without sheep? No matter how hard you try, you cannot change the wolf’s habits. As long as it remains a wolf – it will eat sheep. One of the reasons for which the wolf eats sheep lies in his desire to become a sheep – to soften its character. Everyone chases the wolf and kills it because of its bad character. He realizes that, so it tries to find a way to soften it. As it eats sheep – it will acquire their character and one day, in the distant future, the wolf will become a sheep. So, we draw the conclusion: man acquires the characteristics of the food he eats. If he wants to acquire Love – he should feed with its elements. As you hear that the wolf might become a sheep, you think that it is impossible and contradictory. There are no contradictions in life, though. The contradictions exist only in the human minds. It is the contradictions that say, that someone’s character resembles the character of the wolf. Is it possible for someone to have a wolf’s character? It is. The food man uses might harden his character and turn him into an animal. The unclean and rough food, transformed into bad thoughts and feelings, make the human character brutal. Due to his bad and impure life, man gradually loses his virtues and manifests qualities that debase him. What would you say about the man who sells everything valuable he possesses because of his hard drinking. Selling all his property, he sells his wife and children as well. Such man has sold all his virtues. What would you say for a young lady that sells or pledges her beliefs for the beaux yeux of a young man? This young lady has lost one of her virtues. A day will come when the young man with the “beaux yeux” will “beaux yeux” her as well. Why? Because she has not sacrificed herself because of the soul of this young man – she has sacrificed herself for his beaux yeux. Some young lady falls in love with the hands and the fingers of a young man, so she says that his hands resemble the hands of an Angel. After she marries him, though, she learns the cost of his angelic hands. He becomes like a bandmaster for her and starts to wave with his hands in the air. As soon as she feels these hands on her back, she begins to cry. Each man in her place would have cried too. Each man would have cried as a result of the “beaux yeux” of that young man, who is able to impute to the young lady all the crimes. If a young man loves a young woman, though, he should credit her with all the virtues. He should be an artist for her – not a bandmaster. As an artist, he should make paintings of her every day and to create an angelic image of her. As he paints good pictures, he has the right to sell them, but in no case has he the right to sell his beloved. In this sense, each man should become an artist and to notice the beauty in people. As soon as he gives way to the Divine within himself, man becomes beautiful. God has put into him Divine Spirit, soul, and heart. The bad within a man is like mud that can be cleaned. In order not to get muddy, do not dwell upon the unclean in man. As soon as life gets into him – it will clean everything. The task of the artist is to paint and study the distinguishing features of humans. He should know why the hair of one man is soft and of another one - coarse; why the nails of one man are short and wide and of another one - narrow and long; why the nose of one man is short and of another one – long. As he paints the people, the artist easily studies the features of the human face. A famous artist was called by a rich American to paint him. The artist agreed with him and started to paint him. He worked on the portrait of the American for a whole month, but was surprised, that he could not paint his nose. Each time he corrected the nose, but the next day again something crooked appeared. After he worked on the portrait for a long time, the painter told the American: “I am sorry, but I cannot paint your nose – it does not yield. However I correct it – the next day again I find something crooked. It is the first time I cannot paint someone’s nose. Your nose is peculiar. – Quite naturally, said the American – because my nose is artificial. – Each time the American joggled his nose thus changing the direction of its lines. I say: Do not paint artificial noses! Do not reconcile the irreconcilable things in life. If you owe something to someone, pay your debt. – But I’ll ask him to forgive me. – No, just pay your debt – nothing else. Consequently, if you like to be reconciled with God, you should love Him. You may cry and repent as much as you like, but if you do not love Him, no reconciliation is possible. Only Love is able to reconcile the contradictions in life. Without Love, the bitter words remain bitter, while the sweet words lose their sweetness. Without Love even the greatest good deeds remain fruitless. A rich American died and immediately set out for heaven. At the portal of heaven Saint Peter met him and asked him: Where are you going? I am going to heaven. While I was on Earth, I did a lot of good deeds, due to which I ought to be there. What good deeds did you do? – I built a church. – What did you get for this? – All the newspapers wrote about me. – You have already got your salary. Any other good deed? – I built a school. – What did you get for this? – The school was named after me. – You have got paid for this, too. - Another good deed? – I helped various societies financially and all of them accepted me as an honorary member. – You got paid for this too. Such good deeds are not accepted here. Tell me about a good deed, which no one knows and no one has paid you. The American thought for a long time and finally said: Years ago, I went for business out of the town; a poor widow came after me so that I could give her some financial aid. I told her that I was in a hurry and could not stop, but she was persistently following me. Finally, in order to free myself from her, I threw to her one-dollar and left. – Oh, this is something else. For this deed I’ll consult with God – let Him pass his judgment. So, both of them went to God. Saint Peter entered and told the whole story. After He heard it, God said: Give him two dollars and send him back to Earth. Consequently, God does not accept each good deed, not made out of Love, but in order to gain glory from the people. As disciples, you are required to become artists, to study people and to draw only their beautiful features. You can attain this by the help of Love. Only the one who loves can see the beautiful. Only the one who loves can sacrifice himself. Have you ever asked yourselves if you are able to love someone in such a way that you can sacrifice everything for him? Who might that one be? He may be either God, or your fellow man, or you yourself. Man should begin to love either himself, or his fellow man, or God. However he starts is good, but the important thing is to love. And as he loves, he should be ready for any sacrifice. The strength of man lies in this. A real artist is the one, who – with the strength of his mind, heart, and will - might sacrifice everything. The real artist paints all the lines in their proper places and creates a beautiful picture from them. The mistakes of the people are nothing but parts from the whole, that is – separate lines from a beautiful picture. I wish all of you to be great artists, who paint beautiful paintings from the mistakes and the shortcomings. Love turns all the weaknesses and shortcomings of people into great virtues. The one, who does not understand this, encounters contradictions. The one, who understands Love knows that the crimes and the shortcomings are bad due to the only reason - that they are not committed at the proper time and place. If she feeds her newborn baby with solid food, the mother commits a crime, because the newborn baby should eat only milk. In this sense the evil and the crime - as parts of evil – in future, it will transform into virtues. As disciples, you should learn how to overcome the difficulties. If someone gives you solid food, apply your teeth – your virtues. If you can chew this food – you are a strong man. Otherwise you are a weak man. Look what the plants do with carbon dioxide. Although it is a poisonous gas, they intake it as a food: they decompose it into carbon and oxygen. They retain the carbon within themselves and process it in complex chemical compositions, while they send the oxygen into the air thus refreshing and cleaning it. Today the world needs genius people that might transform the present evil into a future good. The people of the future will have within themselves the might and strength to transform evil into good, into sweet fruits - likewise the plants process carbon dioxide and transform it into foodstuff for themselves and the whole humanity. I wish you all to be mighty and strong, to be heroes, to transform evil into good, sorrows into joys, to form sweet and tasty fruits - as for yourselves, so for your fellow-men. From darkness – towards Light! From cold – towards heat! From weakness – towards strength! August 6, 5 a.m. ____ John, chapter 18

Note 4p PATIENCE People of the new culture will be distinguished by their patience. One important thing that is missing in many of the contemporary people is patience. Today, you may meet a few patient people. Most of the people bear only the shadow of patience – that is, they bear misery, torment, suffering, but not patience itself. They stand the torment and the suffering of necessity, yet they think that they are patient. On the face of it, it really looks like they are patient, but internally they constantly murmur and they are constantly displeased. Many of the contemporary people are displeased with the world and wonder why it has been created so incompatibly. If they were given the opportunity to create a new world, though, how would have they created it? If someone undertakes to create a new world, he would put his own person in the first place. Where would he put the rest of the people? Speaking about such a world, though, we must say, that everybody has already created such a world for himself – everybody has already put his own self in the first place. What can be attained in a world, in which all the people are leaders, though? The world suffers from leaders. Two people argue for first place. Each one views things from his point of view – as they are reflected in him. You say that no one proceeds well, because he did not treat you properly. This person might not have treated you properly, but do you know under what conditions he was? You leave a man at night in a dark room and make him move around it without causing any damage. This is not possible. This man does not see and does not know the environment. As soon as he enters a dark room, he will immediately overturn a chair, or a table, push a book, or break a bottle. It is not possible for a man to walk on the mountain on a dark night without stumbling anywhere. What should a man do in order not to cause damage, though? While the night is dark, he should sit in one place and not move. Consequently, as you see, that two people are quarrelling, know that they are in a dark room full of furniture. They will inevitably crush and cause damage. If you say that someone is a good person, you will know that he lives within a settled world, where any clashes are excluded. Consequently, your goodness is not due to yourselves. If you see a beautiful statue, to whom will you credit the beauty: the sculptor, or the statue itself? The statue is publicity for the sculptor himself. The Americans are very inventive in their advertisements. In the big cities, you often meet someone dressed in a king’s mantle, with a crown on his head, walking with an air of importance and moving slowly like a tsar. From the outside he looks like a tsar indeed, yet no one pays any attention to him. Why? No one pays any attention to him because his back is plastered all over with various advertisements. American people are used to such kings, with backs plastered with advertisements for the other people’s inventions and gains. They are of no importance and do not deserve human interest. What is essential in man? The essential thing in man is his life. Life should flow within man. The statue he made is a nice thing, but it is not alive. A man is more valuable than all the statues in the world, no matter how small and insignificant he is, because he has a soul, Spirit, mind, and heart. For this, man should be loved and honoured. So, the first thing man needs, is patience. He should have such a consciousness, that with the gifts and talents given to him he should be able to overcome even the greatest difficulties without causing any damage. He should put each thing in its proper place. What will the people say about him if he appears in front of them dressed in a coat with the wrong side out? Within the realm of the mental world, the coat turned with the wrong side out symbolizes a twisted Virtue. Impatience is a twisted Virtue. The impatient person has turned patience with its wrong side out and appears with it before the people. In order to be patient, a person should stay at one and the same place. While he is in a dungeon, man should be patient. As soon as the darkness vanishes, his patience is no longer necessary. So, while there are hindrances in his way, man should be patient. As soon as the hindrances are removed, patience yields by itself. A man is already able to move. An impatient person moves in darkness, among hindrances, as a result he begins to feel discontent. Patience is for the reasonable people. A reasonable man first tests things, and then speaks about them. As he sees a fruit, he does not say if this fruit is good or bad, but eats it, digests it and observes what effect it has on him. If it makes his stomach and his brain feel good, then the fruit is good. If it introduces even the slightest disposition, then it is not good. Good fruit finds a place even within the human brain, within the great world of thought. People that live in the world are extremely impatient. While in the invisible world, these people have caused great disturbances. In order that others can be free from them, they have sent them to the Earth, so that they might study and acquire patience. So, a man has descended to Earth to learn the law of patience. All the hardships and discomforts, which a person comes across, are an “object teaching”. Through them, he studies patience. In this sense these hardships and discomforts are in their proper places. For instance, a person suffers and is in torment, but someone else is delighted. Suffering for one is delight for another. Man eats an apple and he is delighted and feels good. If the apple had the consciousness of the human, it would have indispensably suffered. Human teeth are virtues for the apple, through which the human accepts this apple within himself as a guest. By eating the apple, man has to learn from it to be patient. He presses it, chews it, but it remains silent and does not say anything. Patience is something great. Epictetus – a famous Greek philosopher was a slave at a Roman patrician. The master used to treat his slaves in a rough and rude manner and punished them often. While he beat and tortured them, they shouted and grumbled. Epictetus was the only one to remain silent. Whatever his master did, however he treated him – Epictetus remained silent and smiled. His behaviour irritated his master. He wondered at his character. Epictetus wanted to tell him, that he should not lose his self-control, because - though a notable patrician, - some day he might find himself in his place. One day the master got angry and began to press the leg of Epictetus. The latter looked at him mildly and said: master, the way you press my leg you might break it. If you do this, you will be the first to lose, because I will not be able to work for you. But the master kept on pressing his leg until he broke it. From this moment on the Roman patrician released Epictetus from his slavery, gave him a large amount of money and sent him to Greece, where Epictetus became famous as a notable philosopher. This is what we call patience. What do contemporary people do if someone dares to press their leg? It is not necessary to press the leg of some contemporary person in order to test his patience. It is enough to just touch his coat and he will immediately turn towards you rudely and ask you why you are pushing and disturbing him. As regards patience - follow the philosophy of Epictetus. As regards patience – follow the philosophy of the stones. You walk and sit on them, but they do not murmur. They have waited for thousands and millions of years and they will wait as much again until the day for their release comes. What is the reason for human impatience? Some people are very impatient, because they lack stability of character. Without patience the human character is deprived of foundation. We consider such a man as a person lacking moral foundations. Human tenacity is a moral characteristic. In the Divine World, tenacity is a back guard of the person. They say that God is long-suffering. He bears a man with all his weaknesses and insufficiencies and looks for a way to turn them into something valuable. The difference between the words “patience” and “impatience” lies in the particle “не”[1]. Thus the greatness of God might be seen – that He makes the little go a long way. The negation particle “не” consists of two letters, that is – of two elements: “н” and “e”. The letter “н” is a component part of the female impatience. It is a bridge. This shows that irrespective of where she is, the woman starts to make bridges. The man, though, likes to order. This can be seen from the letter “e”. The man gives orders to his wife, too. He demands submission from her. As she sees that a war is about to break out, the woman starts to make peace. Building bridges, she brings armistice. What is the armistice? When does it take place among nations engaged in war? When Love, Wisdom, and Truth settles among them. So, the bridge that the woman builds is her Love, Wisdom, and Truth. Where Love, Wisdom, and Truth exist, the controversies are easily settled. The controversies spread widely where there is lack of Love, Wisdom, and Truth. Consequently, a woman has come to the world in order to introduce the Love, Wisdom, and Truth among the people and to teach them patience. This is what the patient woman do[M1] . There exists an impatient woman as well, though. The same holds true for a man: there is a man of patience and a man of impatience. When an impatient woman meets an impatient man - they start to fight. The woman wants to build a bridge, but she has nothing to build it from. The man wants to spread, to give orders to his wife, but she does not bear somebody else’s orders. The people are hard to reconcile. Why? They are hard to reconcile because they want to join the banks of the river. They have never been together and cannot join. If you want to go from the one bank to the other, though, you should build a bridge. Only a bridge, that is – Love, Wisdom, and Truth – is capable of reconciling two heterogeneous elements. They say, for instance, that two brothers have quarrelled and parted. They have never been together, then. They have been like the banks of a river, between which the water flows. The water has always separated them. In order to bring them peace, build a bridge over them. The water that flows between the banks of the rivers symbolizes human life, through which the people are being tested. Two ascetics – philosophers – worked upon patience. They competed among themselves who will develop greater patience. A beggar served as an object to test their patience. Each day, he went to the first of them and each time he was well accepted. The ascetic used to give him money and food and kindly see him off. The beggar visited the ascetic 19 times in succession. After that, the beggar decided to visit the second ascetic. He went to him two or three times in succession and the ascetic met him kindly, each time giving him something. But on the fifth day the ascetic got angry and told him: Stop bothering me! Stop wasting my time – I cannot occupy myself with you only. There exist many other beggars to whom I have not yet given anything! The beggar bowed kindly to him and told him: My brother, you should work on your patience much more. I visited your neighbour 19 times in succession, but he never got angry. Every time he accepted me kindly as if he was seeing me for the first time. You sent me away on the fifth day, though. Contemporary people, like these two ascetics, compete for patience, but fail at the exam. They have lost the prototype of patience. To the woman the image of patience is one, - to the man it is another. All the rest of the images of patience are copies of these two prototypes. What existed earlier – patience or the being that is patient? First was the being that was patient and patience originated from him – as his property. Consequently, in order to be able to talk about patience, there should be a being that is patient. Any man should strive towards this image of patience. As long as children exist, mothers and fathers will also exist; as long as statues exist –sculptors will also exist; as long as fields exist, agrarians will also exist; as long as writers, scientists, and philosophers exist - books will also exist. Patience is one of the features of Love. As long as you love, you can have patience. If you do not love, you cannot be patient. If a rich and a poor man gather at one place, they cannot stand one another. If two poor men gather at one place, they cannot stand one another. Consequently, when people cannot stand one another, you should know that they are poor. What should they do in order to start getting along? They should have several rich men among themselves. In order to be patient, patient people should surround man. The people are patient when they do not miss anything. So, in order to be patient, man should have a mother, father, brother, sister, husband, wife, master, and a servant. He can find all this within himself. These are his fellow men. If the man finds his fellow men within himself, he becomes patient. He constantly consults them – they help him, but he helps them also. Christ says: “I will send my Spirit.” The Spirit is the powerful and great thing in man, which makes him patient. The Spirit widens the human will and brings into it Love and Light, like the Sun sends its light and heat to all living beings. What we call Sun beams, is nothing but reasonable beings dressed in Light mantles, who run in the whole Universe and spread the Light and heat to all living beings. As they finish their work, they go back in the Sun again. According to one of the theories, the Sun-spots are holes in the Sun, through which the Angels pass after they finish their work on Earth. Whether it so or not, it is not known. This is not a scientific theory that can be proved. Whatever you tell people, they finally ask: Why does suffering exist in the world? Isn’t it possible to live without suffering? Suffering and delights in life are homework for man. Suffering is an internal Divine work - the joy is external. Until he understands the Divine ways, man cannot get the meaning of suffering and joy. So, sometimes the disciple does not understand why this homework is being given to him. The master of mathematics gives some homework to his disciples. A good student always solves his tasks. Unless he solves some of his tasks, he does not calm down. He applies one, then the second, then the third method, but the task is not being solved. He goes to bed, but he cannot sleep. He gets up, lies down again and is constantly thinking about the task. As soon as he solves it, he calms down and goes to bed again. If someone watches what he does, he might think that this man is suffering. He is not suffering, though – he is just solving his homework. So, suffering is nothing but homework. The success of the disciple depends on the proper solution of these tasks. The one, who does not understand the meaning of suffering, wants to get free of it. He does not know that if he goes without suffering, he will also go without joy. As long as there is joy, there will be suffering as well; as long as there is suffering, there will be joy as well. For contemporary people, suffering is necessary as a great good in their life. In what way did the people meet Christ? Did Christ become a king? Did He wear a king’s mantle and was He with a crown on His head? Was He dressed in a gown of a patrician? No, as He descended on Earth, Christ sold everything He had, so that He could help people. Finally, He gave his last mantle and in this way He went to heaven. In fact, Christ was dressed in a gown more beautiful than the king’s mantle. He was dressed in the mantle of Love and on His head He was wearing the king’s crown of Love. In a legend about Christ it was said, that when He was crucified, a woman came near to the cross and asked Him to heal her child, which she held firmly to her breasts. Christ asked them to take the nail out of His hand, so that He could help the suffering mother. He put his hand on the suffering child and it was immediately healed. Then they nailed his hand again. How many people are ready to make a small good from Love in the last moment of their life? Contemporary people get disturbed easily. Someone complains that they did not look at him properly. How did they look at him? They looked at him askance. But how did he find an instrument, with which to define the angle of their look? Another one complains that they did not look at him warmly. How did he measure the temperature of their look? In one word, people complain about one another when they do not love each other. You should love in order to be loved. Love manifests itself in taking and giving. The one who loves – he gives, the one who is loved – he takes. One cannot simultaneously take and give. If in the first moment he gives, in the second moment he will take. One and the same person cannot only give or take. So, real Love manifests itself only when the exchange of giving or taking between beings is proper. We say that a man symbolizes the mind, while a woman symbolizes the heart. We view the man and the woman as principles – not as forms. We can say that the man is mind and thought, while the woman is a heart and feeling. When the man and the woman understand this problem properly, they live well. If they do not understand it properly, they constantly quarrel which one of them is to take first place. Should the legs argue about which one of them of them should be first? At one moment the right leg is first; at another - the left leg is first. As they move, at one moment the right leg is ahead and the left leg is behind and at another moment - the left leg is ahead and the right leg is behind. The important thing is that motion should exist. As the right leg is ahead, man thinks; as soon as the left leg gets ahead – man feels. As the right leg is ahead, man speaks reasonably; as the left leg is ahead – man helps the poor, suffering, and ill people. The right hand gathers the capital, while the left hand distributes it. The distribution of the capital is as important as its gathering. People cannot stand each other because they do not understand the Divine ways. Someone says: “I cannot stand this man.” Why can’t he stand him? Because he had some defect. The fault is not with the man whom you cannot stand, but in your own views. If you enter the studio of an artist who is painting a picture, you will come out of it disappointed. You say that the painting of the artist is very ugly. The mistake is not in the artist, neither it is in the painting – it is in you. The painting was just begun. One day, when it is finished, you may express your opinion of it. You have entered the studio of the artist without his permission. Consequently, each man that you cannot stand is like an unfinished painting. You have entered the studio of God without his permission. God is working on this man – he is not a finished painting yet. In order to be able to stand each other like you are[M2] , let each of you imagine that he is at the studio of God, who corrects the curved lines of your image with Love and patience. Say to yourself: As God tolerates me, in the same way I should tolerate my fellow man. God will continue to work on man for thousands of years until he makes him perfect. A preacher was narrating to his black fellowmen how God created a man. He told them that God took slush, squeezed it for a long time and made the first man from it. In order to dry him, He put him on a wattle-fence, where he dried for three days. One of the people in the audience asked the preacher: Who made the wattle-fence? – This is none of your business. It is not important who made the wattle-fence. The important thing is that the wattle-fence exists. And also, that the wattle-fence makes people impatient. As between two neighbours a barrier, a wattle-fence is erected, immediately arguments start. The neighbours become impatient and begin to quarrel. They become familiarized through the wattle-fence. The door is also a barrier between people. In order to get into somebody’s home, you should open at least one door. If you enter with Love, no one asks you why you have come. If you enter without Love – everyone asks you. For the man, who has Love, all the doors are opened. For the man who lacks Love - all the doors are closed. The one, who enters a home, should carry the presents of Love. If you want to be well accepted, bring them the precious stones of your Love. Let the first stone of the Divine Love be the stone of patience. Have the patience of the great mother of Love, who is constantly ready to help her screaming child. As she looks at it, she says: This child will become a good man. Listen to the voice of the great mother, who is talking to you, and thank God, that through her you learn how to be patient. August 4, 5 a.m. [1] “не” – the negation particle “no” in Bulgarian [M1]{women do} or {woman does} [M2]Unclear. {like you tolerate yourself}

Note 4p WISE, GOOD, AND STRONG “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.” John, 15:1 As the spring comes, all the vine-growers begin to trim their vineyards. The trimming of the vineyard is a pitiful sight! From wherever you look at the vine, you will see that it cries. But if you go to a vineyard in summer, you will see that each vine-twig is dressed in a beautiful garment and several ripe bunches of grapes hang on it. One sight is the vineyard in spring and another – by the end of summer. As disciples, you should study things in the course of their development, from their beginning to their end, to have an idea of all the processes that are going on in Nature – not only for these fragmentary processes that you by chance have witnessed. Only in this situation can the disciple acquire those forces that are needed for his development. If he stops only at vine trimming, the disciple will not acquire anything. What is there in a trimmed vine? There is one bare vine-twig with one or two “eyes”. As the vine-growers want the vine to bear less, but bigger bunches of grapes, they leave one eye on each vine-twig; if they want to get more bunches of grapes – they leave two eyes on each twig. But there are cases when they do not leave even a single eye on the vine-twig. They do so when they want the vine-growers to get rest. This year it will not give any fruit, but the next year the yield will be bountiful. The same thing happens with a man as well. There are fruitless years in the human life, too. What are one, two, three, or more years in comparison with the whole of eternity? In relation to eternity the year is equal to one second. Light moves at 300,000 kilometres per second. How much time would it take to walk this way if each day you cover 50 kilometres? Estimate to see what the relation is between the speed of light and of man for every second. So do not worry that you have not succeeded to do what other people could. It is important that you should develop naturally, go from one process to another and use them reasonably. Continuity is required from a man – he should not rest his attention on separate processes, but to make something integral from them and express his opinion just after that. The disciple should be wise, but he has to be good and strong as well. The gifted disciple has the following characteristics: wise, good, and strong. As he came to Earth man had an aim – to find something, to acquire some wealth. In this respect a man is like a seeker, like a treasure-hunter. I take the word “treasure-seeker” in its broad sense. Someone seeks a buried treasure; another – some old book in which great things are written; still another seeks a precious stone left from forefathers and ancestors; another tours around as some spy, looking for a suitable place to settle. Whatever man seeks, however he works, he should know that he has come to the world with a certain mission, which he should neither overestimate nor underestimate. In order for man to fulfil his mission, man has to be wise, good, and brave. A 12-year old girl had been left an orphan – without a father or mother. Her father had been a violinist and her mother - a good singer. They could not leave any inheritance to their only child except the violin of the father and the nice voice of the mother. As she was left alone, the girl began to think what to do in order to develop her gifts, inherited from her parents. She knew that a banker lived near them, a big millionaire, and decided to visit him and to ask for some help from him. One day, she entered his office and asked him: Would you like me to play and sing for a while for you? – I will listen with pleasure. The girl began to sing and play her elementary exercises on the violin. After that, she said to the banker: Can you grant me some amount with which I can study abroad and graduate my education in violin and singing? – I can, I will do you a favour with pleasure. – As I finish my education, I will repay you the sum you have given to me. Besides, if you keep your liability, I can predict right now that after my return from abroad, you will marry a good young woman and God will bless you for the favour you did. This girl was little, but she was known by her kindness, rationality, and courage. Many people get discouraged, because they cannot obtain their wishes. Why? Because they were left orphans, without a father and mother and there was not anyone to care for them. They are wrong in their arguments, though. The father and the mother never die. No matter how little this girl was, she knew, that her father and mother had gone to do their work, while she was left on Earth, so that she could continue their mission. A man should be brave and reasonable and he should know that he is alone in the world and that in whatever situation he might find himself, there is someone to take care of him. A rich and wealthy man went to his cornfield to work. In his absence, one of his neighbours - a good, young woman – used to go to his house; she used to clean, wash, put the house in order, then cook and leave the house. She knew where the master kept his key and on finishing her job, she used to leave it there again. The master wondered who did this, but could not find the author of the good deed. One day, he returned from the field earlier and found the neighbour’s girl in his place. – Is it you who does this? If you like, you can stay with me. You will always be “welcome” at my place. I say: If a man cannot find the key of his locked house, so that he can clean, wash, and sweep it – he cannot attain anything. If he can do that, he is welcome by everyone – he will get the Divine blessing and the Love of the surrounding people. You say: is it proper for a man to open his locked house and begin cleaning and washing it? To ask such a question is to ask if it is right to do well, or not. When it comes into question for the good – do not ask. Open the house of any man and do this good. Everyone likes the good. Just this man can do good properly, the one who is wise, good, and strong. Christ says: “I am the vine, you are the vine-twigs and my Father is the gardener.” The vine symbolizes the good in the world, the vine-twigs – the reasonability, and the Father – the strength. The Strong One creates and trims the twigs. Consequently, do not be afraid of the trials; that is – of the trimming. The Strong One trims; that is – sends trials to the human. He knows when and how to trim. As He trims, he throws what is not necessary and he keeps what is necessary for the vine – with one, two, or three eyes and sometimes even without any eyes. The eyes symbolize the capabilities given to a man. The greater his capabilities are, the bigger his achievements are. In order to achieve something, man should work, try hard, and pray. As disciples, you should learn how to pray properly. The prayer is a way to an achievement. To pray properly means to learn how to talk to God rationally. As he learns to talk rationally, man already knows how to move his tongue and his mouth. Such prayer is always being accepted. The mouth should learn to properly receive and give. The tongue is like an inspector, who examines things. Sometimes, though, he can be bribed and can make mistakes also. It is enough to give him something sweet and he allows the food to descend freely downwards. As soon as the food gets inside, it encounters a strict inspector – the stomach. It is very exacting. As soon as it becomes aware that some food has entered in there, which is not suitable for the whole organism, it says: Such things are not accepted here. Out! Sometimes there is a disagreement between the tongue and the stomach – a disagreement from which the whole organism suffers. The tongue says: Be more philanthropic. Let this food get in. The stomach says: I do not accept. What enters inside should be worthy of me. Today, everyone talks about dignity and lack of dignity, or for worthy and unworthy people. Which one is worthy? Just the wise, good, and strong man can be considered worthy. In order to be wise, man should have Light in his mind. In order to be good, he should have warmth in his heart. As long as he has Light and warmth, he will be strong as well. The strength will do the job. Each man is given a job that he should do. He cannot do without Light, warmth, and strength. Give thanks for the job that has been given to you for today. To do it well, you have at your disposal all favourable conditions: clean air, Sun light, and strength. The day is very nice. The Sun is looking at you with delight, with which it wants to say; that man should be wise, good, and strong, that the world has been created with great Love, Wisdom, and Truth, that the world is basically good, and that the Divine Strength is supporting it. In a word, the Sun wants to say, that God is all wise, gentle, and omnipotent. As you know this, do not get discouraged. As God has worked – so you will work as well. Man is gifted with intelligence, goodness, and strength and should manifest these characteristics as the 12-year old girl. He should believe in what God has imprinted in him. Start with small achievements and go forward to the great ones. The great achievements come in the end. As they cannot realize their wishes, the children cry. In this respect, they are like generals that constantly give orders. While the children are little, their parents fulfil their wishes right away. Ten times a night the mother wakes up to fulfil the wish of her child. The father does the same. The cry of the child is nothing but an order. The mother and the father have written at least one hundred letters in order that this child comes to Earth – they have invited this child and they have promised this child various things. As soon as the child sees that they do not keep their promises, the child starts to cry. Through this cry, the child imposes on them and demands that they keep their promises. The cry is inherent not only to children, but to everyone in general as well. A man cries, because he cannot get what he wants. While he is on Earth, he always cries. The terrestrial life cannot satisfy the human soul. The human soul is hard to please. If someone looks at it, it expects a nice look with pleasant light; if someone gives something to it, it wants to test it from the depth of its heart that emanates warm, sweet-smelling feelings; if someone says something to it, it wants to hear a soft, pleasant talk. If it speaks with someone, it wants to be followed closely. It does not bear absent-minded people. If it talks to someone, he should look at it straight. If he looks downwards, this shows that one cannot rely on this man. Now the rational beings are asking you what you will do today. If you look downwards, this shows that you think only about yourself and that you are not ready for any sacrifice. In the case of the young man who asks the young woman if she loves him but she looks downwards, this means, that she is not yet ready to answer him - she presents herself as modest instead. In order to answer someone if you love him, you should test him, to see if he is ready for all the possible sacrifices for you. If today, people are afraid of God, the reason for this is that they are not ready to make sacrifices for Him. They are afraid, that He might ask them if they love Him. In order to love Him, they should give Him everything they have. They think that if they serve God, they will be deprived of all the worldly goods. They are on the wrong track, though. Namely, the one who does not serve God is deprived of all the worldly goods. The one, who serves God with Love, might attain anything. The act of service brings great achievements. Who can serve God? Only the wise, good, and strong man can serve him. As he serves God, man applies the Light of his mind like the artist applies his brushes and paints. As soon as he takes a brush in his hand, the artist immediately starts to paint his picture. He draws one line after another until he draws the whole image. The good man puts in his mouth and his heart. His heart emanates good feelings that are transferred through the sweet words of his mouth. The sweet and good word is a powerful thing. A disciple asked his master: What is good? His master kept silent and did not answer. The disciple insisted and wanted to understand what this good that exists in the world is. Finally his master said: start on a journey and you will learn what good is. The disciple began to travel round the world from town to town, until at one place they suspected him of something, put him into prison and sentenced him to death. The moment they had to put the rope on his neck, he said to himself: I saw many things, I heard my death sentence, but I did not understand what good is. It’s all over with me. At this moment he hears a quiet gentle voice: Release him! Free him from the rope! Let him go to his master. These few words helped the disciple understand what good is. So, man can understand well only when everything ends for him, when everything under his feet is destroyed, when the world darkens before his eyes. Only then man will hear God’s voice: “Let there be light!” As soon as man hears these words, the world again restores, his destroyed dreams come back to life and he becomes young, cheerful, and strong. He hears the following words: “Get back to your master.” Who is this master? This master is the Divine Spirit. He commences with Love. No master is better than him. Until he gets to the Great Master of Love man has passed through many teachers: some of them have worked with light, others – with strength, the third group – with wealth etc. But no master has ever succeeded to lodge into the human soul what it wants. The only thing the soul desires and seeks is Love. Today, let each of you who wish to go to the Divine Spirit – The Master of Love, register at his school. This master is strict and hard to please. Whoever enrols in his school should renounce the world, his own self and his life. What does it mean, “to renounce yourself”? To renounce yourself means to renounce everything that hinders you to go further. During the fight between David and Goliath, Saul gave him appliances with which to defeat his enemy. He gave him a helmet for his head, a spear in his hand and chain armor for his body, so that he could defend himself with them. As he put on this attire, David saw the impossibility of using it and told the king: I had better throw away all this and renounce it and fight with my own weapons. He took his sling, three little stones, and a small bag and faced Goliath. On the first throw, David hit Goliath’s forehead and knocked him out. Then he took his knife out and he cut his head. Consequently, the one who can knock out what is hindering him is a strong man. As he renounced his own self, he could cut the evil’s head. David renounced his own self, as a result of which he could defeat evil. The forehead is the place from which Light emanates. David defeated Goliath with Light. So, the one, who fights against evil, should have Light within himself. In general, the one, who goes to the world to fight, should be armoured with Light in his mind, heat and love in his heart, and strength of his will. He has favourable opportunities to obtain his wishes. Light, heat, and strength are conditions favourable for the development and manifestation of human gifts. Can the singer sing in a cold and dark hall? As soon as the hall is heated and illuminated, the singer feels willing to show his worth. He begins to sing with Love and inspiration. As soon as you see that you cannot show your worth, do not get discouraged, but realize, that the hall, the environment in which you are, lacks Light and heat. As soon as the Light and the heat come, your talents will manifest themselves. Until it is light and warm, one man thinks that he knows a lot. As soon as the Light and the heat disappear, another one finds out that he does not know anything. Both of them are wrong. The real knowledge is not influenced by the outside conditions. Real Love is not influenced by outer conditions. Consequently, as soon as you reach the Divine Love, Wisdom, and Strength, the doubts are out of the question. One can doubt anything but these three things. They are the foundation of human life – the foundation on which he builds. Another thing that one should observe in his life is to appreciate the rationality in which he is absorbed. He should tell himself: I appreciate the world as it is created; I appreciate the good and love God has given to me; I appreciate the Love, Wisdom, Truth, and strength that originate from God. Everyone, with whom one communicates, bears these qualities within themselves. This is the Divine Principle that each man should appreciate. Consequently, each man should be a model for his fellow man. If someone does not love you – you should love him instead. If someone wishes you well, wish him well, too. The one, who does not wish his fellow man well, is deprived of Light. As soon as he has no Light, he does not see things and has no view of them. Can the thirsty one have bad views about the clean mountain spring? He anticipates from afar the pleasure its water might give him. He will drink this water drop by drop and satisfy his thirst. Can the hungry one have bad views about the warm wheat bread? He is aware of its value and might even before he has tasted it. [M1] As soon as he eats enough, he feels an inner appreciation towards the one, who has given it to him. Can the prisoner have bad views about the one, who has released him from the chains around his legs and wrists? Man should correct, instead of blaming himself. As he meets a wise man, he should be pleased; as he meets a good man, he should also be pleased and as he meets a strong man, he should be pleased, too. Because God manifests in the wise, the good, and the strong man as well. Where God manifests, there all the negative manifestations are excluded and there does not exist any evil at all. Keep within your mind the following thought: never fight against evil. If you want to fight against evil, put good in the middle: you stand to the right hand side, let good stand in the middle and let evil be to the left hand side. This is what the good people do. The bad and the irrational people do exactly the opposite: they stand to the left hand side, put evil in the middle and good - to the right hand side. No, good should always be in the middle - between man and evil. Then all the energies that originate from evil will pass through good before they reach the man - good knows how to deal with them. When we say that good can manage with the energies of evil, we have in mind the law of engrafting. The agrarians know this law and put it into practice. When they want to engraft, that is – to cultivate a tree - for instance, an apple tree - they engraft it with a high quality apple. What happens with the poor quality apple tree? The energies of this apple tree pass through the graft and one or two years later this apple begins to bear good fruit. Consequently, when the energies of evil pass through the good, they radically change. As they cannot put this law into practice, people ask themselves what they should do to avoid evil. It is simple. Should the disciple ask how to please his master? If the master teaches mathematics, the only thing the disciple should do is to study – that is enough. As he studies, as he solves his sums regularly, the disciple will have a positive view of his master. If his master teaches music, the disciple has to play, sing, and learn his exercises well. As he studies them well, his master will be pleased with him. In this respect the masters are disinterested. They might be “bribed” just by the good and hard-working disciples. If the disciple is afraid that his master might shadow him, then he is not a good disciple. And if the master fears that his disciple might shadow him, then he also is not a good master. Neither his master can shadow the disciple, nor can his disciple shadow the master. The master is far from his disciple, as a result he cannot cast shadow upon him. Likewise, the disciple is far from his master and he cannot overshadow him. The task of the master is to teach his disciples. The task of the disciple is to study, to graduate from his school successfully, and to be of use to his fellow men. As disciples, you are required to study well and to speak well. Every word you say is being taped. One day, as you stand before the film of your life, you will have to study it in all its details. Then you will see even the smallest mistakes that you have to correct. As you know this, think well what you say. What is easier – to tell someone that you love him, or that you do not love him? What is easier – to tell the hungry man, that he may eat, or to tell him, that he may not eat? If the hungry man can eat, then he is a healthy man. If he cannot eat – then he is ill. That is why do not forget that everything you say will be filmed. You are an actor on the stage that is constantly filmed. If, while on stage, you say you do not love someone, they will think you are ill. The ill person is not allowed to eat, though. If you say, that you love someone, then you will be considered a healthy man. The healthy man is allowed to eat, but just as much as it is necessary to recruit his strength. Consequently, the first thing that is required from the human is to think of what he does and how he speaks. This means to have Light within his mind as a stimulus for acquisition of Love. This implies a moment of the human consciousness awakening. The Light is a preface to Love, but the strength comes before it. The Love comes last. The preparations for its arrival are being made, because Love will come last in the world. Today, people are liberated through Light and through strength, so that they can meet Love with joy when it comes, and retain it within them. Love will build the future culture and future life. In order to attain Love, people should renounce their old views. Love cannot pass through environments penetrated by old views of life and God. – What will happen with us? – This depends on the consciousness of the person. Having in mind the contemporary state of its consciousness, the ant will continue to be an ant for a long time, but it is not so for a man. In spite of all this, not all the ants are alike. Here, on the mountain there are ants that are pure vegetarians. They eat exclusively the grains of some plants. They do not eat any other food. If even the ants bear the strict vegetarian food, how much more the man should differ from all the other beings by the way of his feeding. The most natural and healthy for the human soul are the foods that originate from Love. Such are Light and heat. They are fruits of Love. Until it feeds with bright thoughts, the human soul will never get hungry. It is only under these conditions that man can struggle for Love. As soon as man aspires to Love, a light and new area for work is being opened for him. Apostle Paul says: “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” The whole world and Nature provide opportunities and conditions for manifestation of the Divine Love, that people will ever try. Untold riches, opportunities and conditions are provided for everyone. For each man, God has foreseen countless opportunities. Then should he get discouraged? In order to develop properly, man should look upon all the people as conditions that are to stimulate him to go forward. If he does not view them as such, he himself will stumble. The one, who understands Life, will look at the Light, good, and strength as conditions, through which God manifests Himself. So, every man that has rationality, goodness, and strength, is a good not only to his fellow man, but to all the other living beings as well. Now, as you have come here to the mountain, eat the fruits of Love, so that you may revive yourself. Some people, without being old, think that they have grown old. The most difficult thing for the man is to grow old, though. Since the world has been created, there are 24 old men who are in heaven. Now, the last old man is in a process of creation, so that they might become 25. There are many old men on Earth, though. You can meet an old man at every step here. These are actors on the stage, though – not old men. They should be announced as candidates for rejuvenation. As far as the old age and the process of growing old are concerned, this is an idea unattainable today. The only unattainable and impossible thing for a man is the ageing process. The only attainable and possible thing for a man is the rejuvenation process. Therefore, revive your thoughts, feelings and strength, so that you can resemble rational children. Bear within yourself the Divine Knowledge, Love, and Strength. August 2, 5 a.m. [M1]Unclear – might even what before he tastes it?

Note 7 The Fruit of the Spirit Contemporary people are facing big trials. Today you cannot meet a calm person anywhere. Whoever had lived on Earth, he came to a bad end after all. Nevertheless everyone hopes to finish well. All people - innocent or sinners - suffer while living on Earth. When a sinner suffers, people think that his sufferings are justified, but they ask themselves why an innocent man should suffer. A sinner rectifies his errors and pays off his sins by suffering. And a righteous man elevates himself through sufferings. In other words, some people suffer in order to pay their debts, others - in order to go further. There is a third category of people, who do not want to suffer in any of these ways. But no budget is foreseen for them. Does the contemporary state not act in the same way? It provides budget for two categories of people: for those, who reform themselves, being ready to pay their debts, and for those, who are willing to advance. It has built up prisons and hospitals for the first category of people as well as schools for the second category. But the state does not grant funds for those, who do not want to be in prisons or hospitals neither they want to study. All people today seek happiness. Everyone strives to make his Life meaningful, but he does not know how. He shall create his own philosophy, which to stick up with in any case. He should know where he has come from and where he goes. Without that knowledge he is like someone who has an expen­sive quality violin, but he does not know how to play it. He places it in and out of the box, lubricating the bow and taking the violin in his hands, but when he decides to play, nothing comes out. So the violin is useless for him. It is better to sell it so that at least his material status might be improved. Therefore Life is worthy, when one understands it. Having realized Life and the rules, which govern it, man is ready to benefit from it. Contemporary people cannot use Life thoroughly, because they understand either its material, spiritual or intellectual side. Man himself is a complex being, consisting of heterogeneous matter and powers, as well as of heterogeneous feelings and thoughts. So, in order to understand Life completely, man should first understand himself. After he has studied and come to know himself, he would be able to understand Life and make it worthwhile. It is said in the Bible that God has made man out of soil and has given him breath turning him into a living soul. Man should study, after he has come to Earth, being created according to the image of God and to His likeness. If he has come with a greater mission, i.e. to help humanity, he should study for himself, simultaneously helping his neighbors. Didn't Christ do the same? On the one hand He studied, on the other hand - He helped the mankind. Being disciples, you should study, using the knowledge you get. You say, that you shall receive it for free. No, if one does not study in the elementary school, he cannot continue in the secondary school; if he does not study in the secondary school, he cannot go to the high school; and if he does not study in the high school, he cannot go to the University. Nothing is given for free in Life. While living, one should make use of the lessons of Life - of joys and sufferings. They present the two sides of Life. Many people do not know why they should pass through joys and sufferings. Life cannot be revealed with­out joys and sufferings. If somewhere joys are absent, sufferings do not exist there either. If sufferings are not presented somewhere, joys are also excluded. Life cannot be manifested without these poles. Don't death and Life go together? Death is the reverse side of the existence - Life is its face. Horse loading - it is the right side of Life or its face; horse unloading - it is the reverse side of Life. Therefore, man constantly loads himself in the process of living, and unloads himself by passing away. Man certainly loads himself, but at the same time he is developing his potential in the process of living. He is developing his sight, which allows him to receive true imprints of the external world. When these imprints are true, his difficulties become less. Man is also developing his ear in order to get a good reception of the sounds as well as of what is spoken to him. At the same time he is developing his senses of touch, flavor and taste in order to be correct to everything received from outside. Whoever takes into consideration his memories and imprints of the experienced sufferings, he will diminish his errors and crimes. Whoever does not do this is like a carnivorous animal. For example, a wolf kills and eats sheep not considering the sufferings, which it causes to them. According to the wolfs understanding God has created sheep especially for its species, otherwise it will be sentenced to death. But the wolf itself assumed the right to eat sheep. It had forgotten the initial food it used. Grass and roots were intended to be the sheep and wolfs food. Wolf deviated from the right way of nutrition later on. Man also deviated from the right way of nutrition. God wanted him to eat fruits, but he violated this law. From a hygienic point of view meat is not a clean food. It contains a lot of impurities, filths and microbes from the cells of the animals, as a result of which man is often ill. If you eat meat, it is impossible for you to be absolutely healthy. The contemporary physiologists and hygienists confirm, that man should change the type of food he uses nowadays. But he shall be convicted in order to change his own way of nutrition. Moreover, he shall know what food to accept. There is not a better and healthier food than wheat. But a great part of its nutrients are lost in the present process of wheat milling and bread prepa­ration. In order to use all nutrients you should plough the field and reap the wheat in Love. And if you use animals, you shall treat them well. Many people do not believe this, but one day everyone will be convinced in the truth of my words. Since you have come to live on Earth, you should know the purpose of this. You have come to study and to acquire the eternal Life - the Life of immortality. You should fight in order to get free from the slavery and the limitations of death, so that you may become immortal. No one on Earth has set free by now. In order to set free, man should be simultaneously a master and a servant of himself. If he has not acquired this, he cannot realize Freedom as well as the laws of Life. You should be graduated from at least four faculties in the Spiritual world in order to become a servant there. You need four faculties even for the simplest and the most ordinary spiritual service. If you go to a higher service, then you need a specialization. It is not easy to get some service in the Spiritual world. Therefore, if you want to understand the physical life partially, you should finish at least four faculties. Then even the stones will speak to you in the same way as the gramophone records speak and sing to you. The impossible for one is possible for another. It was impossible in the past that a record could speak and sing, but it is quite a common thing today. What is recorded, it can be transmitted by a gramophone. Scientists know a lot of things, but still they cannot understand the invisible side of Life. This invisible side, which exists, is nothing else, but the Spiritual world. You should study its internal and external features, so that you can realize it. Everyone possesses hidden potential and wealth, which he should study by himself. How is he going to study this? With the help of a prominent professor. A child can never become edu­cated, if his/her mother and father are not educated as they pres­ent the conditions for the development of the child's internal potential. A cow gives birth to a calf, not to some other being. There is an internal potential, but not conditions for it. The world is in demand of genius mothers and fathers to give birth to genius children. It is also in demand of genius teachers. One should be born many times in order to become genius. That is why Christ said: "You will not enter into the Kingdom of God, if you are not reborn." One shall be reborn by water and by the Spirit. The Spirit is the rational, powerful beginning, which will introduce man into the Kingdom of God. No one can do what water, air, Light, Life and the Spirit can do for you. The Spirit gives the greatest gift to man. It is said, that the fruit of the Spirit is Love. Man cannot touch the secrets of the Kingdom of God without coming into contact with the Spirit, without living on Love - the fruit of the Spirit. I wish you all to live on the fruit of the Spirit - Love, which can solely release man of all conflicts and limitations. Live on Love in order to become masters and servants of yourselves. Only becoming masters and servants of yourselves, you will become servants of God too. Listen to the lesson of the Spirit, speaking to you from inside and outside your being. Aug. 9, 5 h.

Note 4p VALUABLE GAINS There are two essential things in human life that should never be forgotten: to preserve what one has and gain what one does not. The present order is built on the first principle – to preserve what we have. The future order will be built on the second principle - to acquire, that is, to gain what we do not have. In order to understand these two principles you should have large views on life. For instance, man does not have what the angels do. So, he has to gain it. But until he reaches the position of an angel, he should preserve what he has as a human. Everything we see around us and in Nature is nothing but a world of descriptive teaching. You were children; you worked, graduated from some school and finally grew old. One thing is important for you – to preserve the knowledge you have acquired. If you lose this knowledge you will be unhappy. To lose what you have gained with effort and difficulty is terrible. Do you know what the situation is of the fisherman who casts the fishing-net into the water and when he is just about to catch several fish, they escape through the holes and return to the water. What has this fishing-net brought to him? The gain is in this – to keep at least one or two fish within the fishing-net. The human mind can be likened to the fisherman’s net. So, if the mind - likewise the fishing-net - is being constantly used for fishing, but does not retain any fish – it brings nothing. A mind that does not retain at least one fish, that is – one essential thought within itself, is not in its proper place. Contemporary people seek the fundamental in life. What is fundamental? They say: There is nothing lasting in the world. You are born and you live and die. As soon as you die, everything ends. To think that after death everything ends, though, is to consciously deceive yourself. Indeed, something dies with death, but what dies is not essential. The fundamental never dies. It lives forever. Two friends, two Cambridge university students, promised each other, that whoever dies first shall notify the other somehow if an after life exists, or not. For this purpose, they wrote a motto on a sheet of paper, sealed it in an envelope and left it at a place, where they could both find it when they needed it. Several years later, one of them left for the other world. The other one, who remained on Earth, began to look for a way to get in touch with his friend, so that he could understand from him, what he was interested in. He started to visit séances and fortune-tellers, but nothing could convince him of the existence of an after life. Then he began to meet adherents, clairvoyants, but they too could not convince him. Finally, he took a plate, wrapped it with a cloth, put a pencil over it and hid it in such a place, where no one could find it. After that, he addressed his friend mentally with the words: I am begging you, if you are alive, write something on the plate, so that I can make sure of the existence of the other world. One day, he went to see if his friend had responded. As he uncovered the plate he was astonished at what he saw. On the plate, with the handwriting he knew, the motto was written, which only he and his friend knew. After the motto, he saw the following lines: Two years have passed since I was here. Just now the daybreak of my life starts. Until now, I had no work at all. After he read what was written, he was already convinced in the existence of an after life. Many philosophers and scientists have talked and continue to talk about the other world, about God, but these are abstract things. Man reads, listens, and finally says: This too is not essential. Man knows a lot of things, studies Nature, but this is transitory knowledge. Namely for this knowledge Apostle Paul had said: “We partly know and partly predict.” This knowledge is so transient as the scene in the theatre. You see actors on the stage, who play the roles of a king, a queen, a judge, a teacher, but this is not real. Consequently, human life is a theatre, where each one plays some role. Whatever the role of the person is – it is not real. Real life is the inner life, while unreal life is the outer one. The one, who presents a tsar on the scene – is he a king indeed? On the stage you see kings, judges, teachers, scientists, but are they in fact such people? As soon as they leave the stage, they undress the costumes with which they were dressed and you see them as the ordinary people they are in real life. The actor plays someone else’s part, written by the writer in his drama. For instance, if an actor should play the role of a famous scientist in astronomy; to play his role successfully, he practises for three or four weeks how to point the telescope towards the sky. On the day of the performance, he comes to the stage with an earnest air, with eyes fixed on the sky and starts to point the telescope towards one or another of the stars. As you look at him you imagine that in front of you is a real astronomer, but as he leaves the stage and you engage in conversation with him you see that he has no idea about astronomy. Another actor plays the role of a judge, passes judgements upon the people, and administers Justice by well-known laws. In real life though, he is not a judge at all. While he was on the stage, he convicted several men, but as he leaves the stage no one respects his sentence and no one executes it. One simple man, a Frenchman, went one day to Paris for sightseeing. As he went here and there he saw many people enter a beautiful building. He concluded that this building is a church and decided to go inside. There he saw that all the people stop to buy tickets. He also bought a ticket and went after them. As he entered inside, he stopped to see what would happen. They showed him a place to sit. He sat and waited for the service to begin. It turned out, though, that he had not entered a church but a theatre. He saw that a criminal was being convicted for murder committed on the stage. After that, the case was up before the court. Several lawyers defended the criminal and wanted to plead innocent on his behalf. The man listened to the long discharges of the criminal and was filled with indignation, because in spite of his guilt they wanted to prove him innocent, so he shouted to the others: Why do you keep silent? Didn’t you see that he committed the crime? I saw everything. He is the murderer! Hearing this just indignation, the audience started to applaud. He turned to the audience in great astonishment, because all of them were witnesses of the crime and nevertheless they were silent. Consequently, as long as man pays more attention to the outer life, he is within the unreality of things. He is on the stage. The stage life is a life of amusements. In order to influence the feelings of people, the author of some play writes a drama, as a result the audience feels moved, admiring, and cries. The audience cries for the unreal sufferings of the actors, but does not cry for the real actors in life that experience great trials and difficulties. A priest told an actor: you preach lies to people and they believe in these lies. As they listen to you, they cry and suffer. We preach the truth to people and they do not believe in it. Whatever we tell them, we cannot make them give way to their feelings and cry. What is the reason for this? The actor replied: The reason is that we present the lie as truth, while you preach the truth as a lie. What does a man gain if he does something for days, but does not believe in what he has done? As he does something, man should believe in what he did. It is a law: man uses only what he can put into practice. What man himself puts into practice remains forever. Consequently, he cannot rely on what other people adopt. Whatever one puts into practice, remains for him alone. In the future, whatever one puts into practice will be considered a common gain for all living beings. Keep in your mind the following thought: all good things that people have gained in the past and in the present, will be possessed by the whole of humanity. Today, each good refers primarily to the one, who has acquired it. For instance, the one who studies becomes a scientist; the one who lives well becomes pure and holy; the one who implements the laws of hygiene becomes healthy; the one who studies the laws of enrichment becomes rich. The enrichment is not casual, though. To become rich means that you have worked in the past and studied the laws through which you can become wealthy. A series of generations prior to him have worked in the same direction - in it he works today as well. A man alone cannot become rich unless he has support to back him up. Christianity today has about 500 million followers. This is not due to a single man, but to the collective efforts of millions of people, who have worked tirelessly for the spreading of the Divine Word for two thousand years. Even now, Christianity has not reached the stage that was expected. Much more should be done to reach what Christ preached. In the future, spiritual workers will be expected who can spread the Divine Word unselfishly and with Love. The human will see in the future the results of what he does at present. So, then each man will get a part of the fruits of his labour. What man has worked on, that he will get. The one, who has worked in the past, will get a share of his fruits; the one who did not work will gain nothing. Many of the strivings of humans have remained ineffective, because their hearts and minds have been under pressure. What will a man get from the lecture of a famous professor if his mind is under pressure from thoughts about the impending payment of some bill of exchange amounting to 20-30 thousand levs? If he cannot pay it, he will be under trial. So, he begins to think if he will win the case or not. As I see how he worries, I tell him, that he will win the case, so he should not be worried. Are you telling me the truth? How do you know this? – It does not matter how I know. As you win the case, you will verify the truth of my words. To someone else I tell him that he will lose his case. Even he might not believe me now, as he loses the case he will see that I have predicted correctly. It is pleasant to know that you will win your case; it is not pleasant to hear that you will lose the case. But not always the loss of something causes trouble and not always the winning brings delight. To lose your illness is pleasant; to lose your health is not. Winning illness is unpleasant; winning health is pleasant. As soon as some illness comes to a man he should know how to meet it, what to tell it and how to see it off. One summer night, a young shepherd, who has dealt with the occult sciences, crossed a bridge and heard some conversation under the bridge. He listened to the conversation and understood that two sisters – fevers – were sharing their intentions. One of them asked the other: Where do you intend to go now? I’ll go to the mountain – to a shepherd, who is very healthy – I’ll take some energy from him and spend the winter peacefully. – How do you intend to do this? – I will be around him as he milks the sheep. As soon as he sips the first spoon of milk I’ll get into it and make him feverish. – And where do you intend to go? I intend to go to a judge – a fat and obese man – I’ll take some energy for the winter from him. After that, the two sisters parted and each of them went about its business. As he heard this conversation, the shepherd decided to take some precautions, so that he could protect himself from the fever. It so happened, that one of his sheep died. He stripped off its skin, dried it and used it as a milk-skin. As he began to milk the sheep, he poured the first spoon of milk into this milk-skin and tied it well. The fever had got into this spoon of milk and there it remained in the milk-skin for the whole summer. Every day, the skin was shaking due to the fever. In autumn, when the shepherd finished his job on the mountain, he descended with his sheep to the village. Because he needed the skin-bag, he untied it, threw the fever out and filled it with cheese instead. After that, he went again to the bridge to hear what the fevers would say. One of them was already there and waited for its sister. At one time it came, but it was weak and hardly walked. As it came, the first fever embraced it, being delighted to see it, and asked: My sister, what has happened to you? Why are you so lean? – Oh, dear, I have not eaten all summer long. The shepherd in whom I was going to enter prepared a skin-bag and put into it the first spoon of milk in which I was. All summer long, I was shaking this skin-bag, but what could I get from it? It has nothing. – Calm down, sister, I will take you with me. We will both go to the old judge and we will get better. As they went to the old judge, one of them started to shake him in the mornings and the other one – in the evenings – they reduced him and turned him into a bag of bones. After they got better and had nothing more to take from him, they left and set him free. What lesson can be drawn from this example? As soon as some trouble appears in your life, put it into the skin-bag. If you have some debt with which you cannot cope, put it into the skin-bag; if you have some failure, put it into the skin-bag. Whatever difficulty you encounter in your way, put it into the skin-bag and let the skin-bag cope with it. As long as it is solid, no matter how much it shakes as a result of the difficulties and the troubles in its life, the skin-bag will withstand. This skin-bag symbolizes the human mind. In order that the mind can withstand the difficulties, the human should be healthy and he should not yield to any suggestions. As long as all the organs in his body are well, he should not think that he is ill. The human should be careful not to cause himself any diseases. As he climbs mountains, he should look in front of himself and not to be enraptured. As soon as he gets enraptured he might twist and break his leg. The ground on which you walk is not all flat, so you cannot move forward with equal speed. There are places where man should walk slowly. If you think that you know everything, and that you do not have to listen to people’s advice, you will encounter great hardships. Contemporary people delude themselves because of two things: sometimes they think they know a lot, sometimes – that they know nothing. These are two extremes. It is true, that there are things they know; it is true, that there are things that they do not know. The knowledge and the ignorance of the human are something relative. For instance, compared to animals, the human has more knowledge than all of them put together. Compared to a man, an angel has more knowledge than the whole of humanity. So, the aim of a human’s life is to reach the state of the angel, to attain its knowledge and capabilities. How can he attain this - he does not know, but the future of each man is designed beforehand. You can tell a man’s future by his head, face, hand, and body. There are scientists, who can determine the mind power of the human by the height and width of the forehead. They can also determine his character - by the height of his scull. They, too, can tell if a given man will be successful in his life, or not. Scientists have found that people, with a head that is wide from behind are very timid. At even the faintest noise around them, they take to their heels. They are timid like rabbits. If the rabbit is hit in the belly by even a small branch, it starts running and thinks that bears are chasing it. The bear is not interested in the rabbit, though. How much blood would the bear suck out from the rabbit? The rabbit has a little amount of blood. Now I’ll give you a method against anger. As soon as you get angry, take a deep breath, exhale and then count mentally from 1 to 10; if you are still angry, inhale deeply again, exhale and count from 1 to 200. As you reach 300, whatever the anger might have been, nothing will remain from it. This is one of the ways to control the energies within man. If you do not want to apply this, then do the following: as soon as you get angry, drink a cup of hot water in sips. Anger develops heat within man. Thus the like heals the like. If you do not apply one of the two methods, the anger will manifest itself externally. You will certainly quarrel with some of your relatives and after that, you will regret the energy you spent, for your broken peace, and spoiled relations with your fellow men. Each thought, feeling, and deed, should manifest in the proper time. If they manifest earlier, or later - the effect is not the same. The philosophy of life lies in this timing. Contemporary people are not satisfied by the present world - they want a better world. For the time in which we live there cannot be a better world than the present one, though. If they want a better world, let them try to create it for themselves. God said: “Let there be light: and there was light.” “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the firmament.” – and they divided. As God commanded – so it happened. Let the man command and try his force, too, and see what he can do. Can the man control the weather, air, and light? He cannot. The only thing to which a man can give orders is to his own thoughts, feelings, and deeds. Man can control only them. Man can control only himself. After he becomes his own master, he can only influence and help others. As man becomes his own master, he enters within the jurisdiction of the Divine Law. If he wants to be a master of others and use them as his servants, he enters within the jurisdiction of the wrong in life, that is – of the delusions. If he has been a good master and a good servant of his own self, man can be a good master and a good servant to others as well. Consequently, two things are required from a man: to be a good master and a good servant of others. This is the practical philosophy of life towards which each man should strive. This I wish to all of you. If you attain these two things, you will have the blessing of God, of the intelligent world and of good people all over the world. July 30, 10 a.m.

Note 4p DIVINE LIGHT Reflection Now I will talk on rationality, which is understood partially by people. Nevertheless they use it. Rationality is a quality of the Divine World. Under “rationality” we imply the Divine Light that brings all the opportunities for human elevation. The more reasonable a man is, that is, the more Divine Light he has - the higher he is elevated; the less Divine Light he has - the lower the level of his development is. Contradictions do not exist for the rational man. In general, contradictions are due to the lack of Divine Light within man. As he has no Light, the human creates these contradictions himself. You meet a young beautiful woman loved by her parents. They care for her and enjoy her, but one day she gets displeased with them and begins to look for a man outside to make her happy. This desire is irrational. Contemporary people want to be happy. This is not possible. Happiness does not exist on Earth. To seek happiness on Earth is the same as to sit on ice and to expect to get some food from it. Ice does not give anything, though. You cannot plough or sow it. Ice can give something only after it passes through a certain process. It symbolizes human selfishness. Seen from the spiritual world, human selfishness is like the Northern Pole – you can see only ice and snow there. The head and the heart of the selfish man are covered with snow and ice. Why? Because he lives more at his Northern Pole. Here and there at his tropical places you might see some vegetation. The conditions at the Northern Pole are bad. Up till today, people still bear the consequences of the Ice Age both from a material and from a moral point of view. The Ice Age was created after Adam’s departure from Eden. Namely that Cain killed Abel. Thus, murder appeared in the world. Why do the people kill each other? So they can take something. A villain kills somebody, so that he can take his money. Without thinking much, a villain kills a human for whose creation Nature has worked for thousands and millions of years. There are people, who can kill a man for several thousand leva. Someone owes two or three thousand leva to another, so the latter kills him. Why? He could not return the money on time. This is a misunderstanding of the Divine laws. As the spring gives its water to the people, does it want them to give this water back? As the clouds send rain to the Earth, do they want to get this water back? When the Sun sends light and heat to the Earth and to all the living beings, does it want some compensation for this? God has given intelligence to the human, so that he can understand and value things, so that he himself can voice his appreciation and give each man full credit. When the living beings accept the water of the spring and clouds, the heat and the light of the Sun, they give thanks and give the credit to the one, who has given these goods. Since they can thank God, they will also thank each man, who has done them some favour. If man cannot thank God, he cannot thank anyone. God has given thousands of goods to a man, but as soon as the human is deprived of even a small good, he is ready to get angry and destroy everything he has created. The small tests speak louder than the big ones. If he cannot withstand the small tests, the large tests will be much harder for man to bear. Why is the man angry? He is angry because his problems are not settled as he expected. Why are they not settled? It is not bad to be angry, but the human should know how to cope with anger. Once it has visited him he should know how to meet, feast, and send it away. If he does not know how to behave with anger, it will cause him great damage. What does the word “quarrel” mean? It means ‘среда’[1], the middle of the day. As middle, it brings good opportunities, but only for the one who understands it. As long as one understands it, he walks in Light in the middle of the night without stumbling. The one, who does not understand it, stumbles even in the middle of the day. After that, he begins to excuse himself and insist that the way was not smooth, and that the people made him bad, etc. No, the fault is namely with this man, because as the anger has visited him he has not paid the required attention to it and has not got interested to distinguish and examine it. Christ says: “You will know that you are my disciples by the presence of Love towards one another.” The disciple should receive each thing with Love. The Love has to be his food. If he does not feed with Love, he will make many mistakes. Love is the healthiest food for the human. What happens to people, who eat healthy food? They lose weight and begin to suffer. What should a man do, so that he does not get ill? He has to feed with the fruits of the Spirit. If he does not feed with these fruits, he encounters the negative forces in Nature; as a result he experiences doubt, suspicion, hatred, and jealousy. When is a human jealous? When he wants to keep something for himself. The young lady is jealous of the young man, because she is afraid that some other young lady might take him. What do the young lady and the young man symbolize? The young lady represents the human heart, while the young man represents the human mind. If several young ladies love one young man, which one of them has the greatest deal of justification over him? Imagine that ten people are arranged at a certain distance from a fruit-tree. Which one of them has the right to pick a fruit from the tree? If these people are on Earth, they will fight, so that they can see which one of them might pick a fruit first. If the last one is the strongest, he will push aside all of them and occupy the first place. In the Divine World this does not happen, though. There each being occupies its own place and does not have the right to make a step neither forward, nor backwards. So, which one of the ten people has the right to pick a fruit from the tree? There is no overtaking and displacement in the Divine World, because there everybody is rational and loves each other. As the first one who stays beside the tree picks the fruit, he will hand it to the remaining nine. Within the physical world this order is not being observed, because it is not yet organized. If you put ten grains of sand in one bottle and turn it upside down, it will occupy different positions and they will change their places. The grains of sand are masters of the situation. If you turn the bottle to various sides, the grains will totally mix up their places and in the end they will conclude: the world is confused, it has turned upside down. The world is not confused, though – people’s thoughts are confused. Consequently, as he stops thinking, or if he thinks wrongly, a human is locked in a bottle, which is in the hands of some outer force that drives him in various directions. As the bottle moves, so the human thought changes. Today the Sun shines and illuminates things, so we see clearly. If the Sun stops shining, we lose the possibility to see clearly. But if the human himself is a Sun – will the situation change? No, it will not change. This shows that the reason, for which we can clearly see, is outside us. Consequently, as long as the reason for the phenomena is external, a man lives within the physical world. As long as the reason for the events is inner, then the human lives in the Divine World. While the human receives Light from the outside only, the danger exists that he might confuse his thoughts and distort his views. If man receives Light both from the outside and from the inside, he cannot go wrong: his thought will always be bright and pure, and his views – right and positive. In the course of straightening their thoughts, people come across various theories. For instance, often the question “why did Judas betray Christ and did he have to betray Him” is being raised. Some people say that if Judas had not betrayed Christ, the world would not have redeemed itself. Others sustain the opposite: if Judas had not betrayed Christ, the world would have been redeemed. Are crimes necessary, so that the world can be redeemed, though? If the Jews had adopted the teaching of Christ, they would have spread it through the whole world, so things would have been put right. Many people think that as they study, they should by all means make mistakes. This holds true for the simple, but not for the wise man. The wise man acquires knowledge and experience without making mistakes. He learns from other people’s mistakes. Should a man eat all the food in order to understand that it is bitter? When the food is good and well cooked, man eats a lot. They often say that such a man is greedy. This means that greediness is caused by nice things, while stinginess is caused by bad things. When food is bitter and well prepared, man refrains and does not eat much. For such a man they say that he is pent and a miser. The one, who thinks and feels well, perceives well. The perception is a process similar to eating. Therefore, we can say, that the one, who thinks and feels well – eats well. And vice versa: the one, who eats well, has a straight thought, for his achievements are good. If he does not think right and if he does not appreciate the things God has given to him, then he loses his opportunities for a good life. When can we say, that the human thinks right? The human thinks right only as he examines the inner sense of things. If he sees a red, blue, yellow, or other flower in his way, he does not say, that these things are casual, but perceives them as special events, through which the rational world is talking to him. The colours of the flowers are the language of the rational beings. The red colour tells the man: I am the bearer of life. If you live reasonably and do not make mistakes, you will preserve your red colour and your freedom. If you make mistakes, you will lose your red colour, your freedom, and you darken. As soon as he loses his freedom, the human deprives himself of opportunities for work. He feels closed, limited, like he is in a shell. Closed and limited like this, he is deprived of the Divine Light and of the rationality. Each colour, as a beam of the Divine Light, bears life in itself. Each colour has active and passive nuances. If the human falls among the active nuances of a certain colour, he becomes active, free, and begins to work, talk, sing, and play. Each action begins with a specific basic tone. Many people want to know what the basic tone of human life is. The basic tone of human life is the tone, with which the consciousness awakens. Since this moment the human begins to think, feel, and talk rightly. Often people talk about the basic thought of a certain lecture or talk. As a basic thought exists, there is also a basic feeling or desire, a basic action, a basic good, etc. Each thing needs a foundation, on which it can be created. The basic tone of life is Love – a fruit of the Spirit. As Love enters within man, he begins to live and dress in a red garment – it is a symbol of fighting. If we say that someone fights, by this we mean, that he looks for the Truth, Knowledge, Light, and Freedom, which give meaning to Life. As soon as he enters life, man starts to learn. Some people think that as they graduate from secondary school and a university, they gain great knowledge and can teach people. What are 20-30 years of studying in comparison with the great science awaiting the human? If man wants to acquire a common knowledge, it is easily attainable. But if he wants high knowledge, thousands of years should pass before he attains it. A young American man went to Germany to study philosophy. He met a famous professor in philosophy and asked him: Sir, do you have some short course in philosophy? I want to finish the course in philosophy in six months. The professor set about thinking and answered him: “We have a short course in philosophy, but you should know that when God wants to create a pumpkin, He needs six months. When He wants to create an oak tree – He needs one hundred years.” Man plants several watermelon seeds, and several months later watermelons sprout from them. How long can the watermelons be kept? If you leave them for one year you will see that they have evaporated and that from the content nothing remained. The same thing happens with all the people that are in a hurry and want to have great achievements for a short period of time. They hurry to catch up to those who are before them and they think they have lost something because they have lagged behind. They get worn out due to their hurry. Wherever you look – most of the people are worn out. The young man, the young woman, and the scientist – all of them are worn out. You can tell that they are worn out by the fact that they do not approve their past life[M1] . As he reaches 100-120 years of age, the scientist says: What did I get from my knowledge? The old lady says: What did I learn from running after young men? All people regret that they did not use their youth properly. But the mistake of the young lady does not lie in the fact that she had run after young men, it lies in the fact that she had to work and develop her heart. All the young men and women, who had run after the shadow of Love, regret that they have wasted their time in vain. Those people, who had run after Love as after the essence of life, are glad they have acquired something and die with a smile and feel appreciation that they have known Love. The difference between the shadow and the reality is great. It is worth it for one to begin from primary school and end with university, but only if his teachers and professors have made him study various books. If, in the course of his 16-years of studying, the disciple has learned at least 16 books, he can say that he has partly aspired to the reality of life. But, if during these 16 years, he has studied one and the same ABC book, it can be said with confidence that he has run after the shadow of knowledge and that he regrets the time wasted. The ABC book, through which each disciple passes, manifests the first Virtue. It is related to the knowing of good and evil. The first people began with the examination of this Virtue. Because they did not take the advice of God and ate from the forbidden fruit, God expelled them from paradise in order to prevent them from eating from the fruits of the tree of life and becoming immortal. They were not yet ready for immortality – that is why they had to go to the world among the contrasts of life and to examine the good and evil there. So far, people continue to study the law of good and evil through the contrasts of life. Passing through these contrasts, people see that joy comes after sorrow, good comes after evil, the pleasant comes after the unpleasant, and vice versa. For instance, a young and well-dressed man enters a big restaurant to eat. As they see that he is well dressed, the waiters promptly serve him; they take off his coat, hang it on a special place. Then they hang his hat and politely bow before him. After that, they invite him to sit at some table and serve him – they bring him what he likes. As soon as he finishes eating, they promptly stand before him and wait for him to pay them. If he cannot pay, they ask him why he has come to their restaurant, since he has no money. Then they tell him politely, that they will keep his outer garment until he pays for what he has eaten. If this young man dares to go to another restaurant like this, there they will keep his underclothes. At last, as he sees that he has remained without underclothes, his pleasant experience will turn to an unpleasant one. So, while he lives, a man constantly encounters situations similar to what the young man experienced in the restaurant. What would you say about the pleasures in life? The pleasures are nothing but establishments in which people are being undressed. As soon as he enters some establishment for pleasures dressed in his street clothes, he will surely come out without them. As soon as he comes out, though, he will immediately feel that the temperature has lowered and that his underclothes are thin and do not keep him warm. What happens to the man externally, the same happens to him internally. As soon as he becomes bare and impoverished, he becomes bare and impoverished internally, as well. As soon as he finds himself in this situation, he becomes displeased with himself. He sees that he lacks rationality and Divine Light. The word “разумност”[2] is composed of the syllable “яра”, that in Egyptian means “light” and the syllable “ом”, means “Divine Properties”. So, the word “разум”[3] means “Light that contains Divine properties”. Contemporary Christians read the Gospel and are indignant with Judas as a betrayer of Christ. They are indignant with Judas, but they do the same. The human betrays the Divine within himself several times a day; several times each day he smears his soul; several times a day he commits crimes against his mind, heart, and will. What more fearful betrayal can exist than this? If the young lady deserts her father and her mother for a young man, whom she does not know and who is ready to leave her a year later, does she not commit a crime? If the disciple leaves school for a small pleasure – does he not commit a crime? If the religious man leaves his convictions for a prominent position – does he not commit a crime? Life manifests from the inside outwards – not from the outside. Consequently, an inner purity is required from the disciple – not outer. As long as he is clean outwardly, he will also be clean inwardly. As the Sun is shining within the human, it will also shine outside him. For us, the Sun is a descriptive teaching, a manifestation of the collective activity of intelligent beings. As they work and think, they produce Light that they send to the whole world. We call it Sunlight. Through the red colour they send life to Earth; through the colour orange they import individuality within the beings; through the colour yellow they send intelligence; through the colour green they give an impulse for growth; through the colour blue they send faith and hope; through the colour violet they input in all the living beings strength, so that they can fight with the difficulties and overcome them. The Sun sends many other colours to the Earth as well, but they are not studied well. Thanks to the intelligent beings, the people use the Divine Light. You ask: Do people really exist on the Sun? To demand an answer to this question is to demand an answer to the questions: “What will be the shape of a man after he leaves his body and where will he live?” “What space will you occupy after you leave for the other world?” While on Earth you had great wealth, but as soon as you leave for the other world, you will not have any other property. There you will not occupy almost any space. In order to make use of the opportunities of the other world, you should desist from your present views. If you cannot desist from your superficial views, you will find yourself in great darkness and you will say that life has no meaning. Life in itself does not lose its sense, but the views of people are able to obscure it. They wrap him as in fog and the human moves hither and thither without being able to see things that are around him. A lot of fog and clouds screen the Sun - behind them it continues to shine, though. The reason for the fog that lies in the mountain is the gathering of two homogenous kinds of electricity. As the electricity in space is positive - like the terrestrial electricity - they mutually repel one another, as a result the fog remains at its place. If the terrestrial electricity becomes negative, though, they will attract each other. As a result of this, the upper electricity will attract the fog to itself and the space will be cleared. So, while people are displeased by the world God has created and while they try to create a new world in compliance with their own requirements, they produce fog within their consciousness. As a result of the fog within their consciousness, the road on which they walk will likewise be muddy. You should know that a world better than the world God has created couldn't exist. Accept it as it has been created and be satisfied with it. People are masters of arguments, scandals, and destruction, but they cannot create something great. Another thing is when the Divine in them takes supremacy. When the Divine manifests in man, he can create something great, he can realize the desires of his soul. Great and noble desires hide within the soul. What does the word “скандал”[4] mean? The syllable “ска” means “scantly”; the syllable “дал” means “to give”. That is, scandal arises each time the human gives scantily. In general, each negative manifestation leads to a scandal. The negative is easy to manifest, but its results can be corrected with difficulty. To break an earthen jug is easy – to make the earthen jug is difficult. To damage a cloth is easy – to make a cloth is difficult. To say a bad word is easy – to wipe it out is difficult. Someone might say that you can simply cross it out, then. Crossing it out does not correct it, though. It is easy to say “I am not a good man”, but it is hard to say how are you going to be reformed? Taken alone, the human is good. Consequently, the good one cannot become bad, but he can be spattered with mud. As he is spattered with mud, he closes within himself and is considered a bad and cold person. As he lives on Earth, man should give to his fellow men as much goodness, light, and warmth as he retains within himself. To love someone means to give him a beam of the Divine Light, warmth, and strength that God has given to you. If you are not ready to give these three beams from yourself, then you cannot love. It was said in the Scriptures: “Love never drops out.” It is unchanging. If man says that once he loved, but now he does not, then he is within the realm of human Love, within the realm of the Love of the eternal changes. As the Love of the human changes, this shows that he does not appreciate the goods that God gives him. To preserve his Love, man should look upon everything that goes on around him as to a descriptive teaching. If he meets a man, who does not love him, let him give himself an explanation if he loves God. If he meets some bad man, let him peer inside himself and see if he himself does not have the same features. As he takes warning from the others without judging, man preserves his Love. He has passed his exam and can go forward. Do not judge the bad man – look for the reason for his wickedness instead. If some young lady is bad, the reason for her wickedness is that she has lost her Love. As he loses his capital, the tradesman can also become bad. As she loses her child, the mother can also become bad. In general, as he loses something valuable, each man might become bad. Should a man grieve as he loses something valuable? Before all, can he lose the good that God has imprinted in him? God has created the Sun as a great good of life. Can anybody take the Sun away from you? Who can prevent you from using the Sun heat and light? No one is able to deprive the man of the right to use the Divine Light, but he himself. Passing through the desert, the wanderers raise dust around them and think that the whole world is covered with dust, too. No, the dust is only around them. As soon as they come out of the desert, the wide horizon is revealed in front of them. All the hardships and delights depend on the human himself; if he lives properly and rationally, he will be released from these hardships and suffering. Consequently, if you want to free yourselves from the contradictions of life, give God a place within you, so that He can work and manifest Himself. Listen to what God tells you and observe his words. If someone offends you, do not hurry to reply before you hear the words of God. Ask Him how to behave. If you do not take the advice of God, you will make a mistake. You will be like a barber, who shaves without soap. You better hide your razors and stop shaving instead. The beards of contemporary men have grown as a result of shaving often. The more often they shave – the sharper and thicker their beards get. On the physical plane there is haircutting and shaving, but in the spiritual world no haircutting and shaving is allowed. Consequently, if you want to be free from something bad within yourselves, do not cut it - tear it up by its root instead. What do you do when you want to pick garlic or onions from your garden? You take the plants by their leaves and you tear them up by their roots. This is the right way. If you want to get free from some bad desire, apply the same method. After you tear it up by its root, it cannot grow again. If you only cut its leaves, then its root will remain in the soil and the next year it will grow again. At the place of the extracted plant you plant a good desire. Nature does not tolerate any voids. The good grows only in Divine Light. We say that evil is a shadow of the good. So, the evil is being generated in the absence of Divine Light. The evil resembles the root of the tree, the good – its branches, and Love – its fruits. Christ says: “You will know you are my disciples by the presence of Love among yourselves.” In other words, you will know that you are my disciples if you have Love born from the Spirit; Light that has come from God, as well as strength and freedom, whose source is Truth. Christ tells him: "What you are about to do, do quickly” (verse 27). This means: what you are about to do, do it rationally, because you will bear the consequences of your action. When Judas was gone, Christ said: "Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him.” (Verse 31) Christ told Judas to go to the world and bear the Light and the Love of God, but he did not listen and betrayed Him instead. Now I am telling you also not to follow the way of Judas, but to go to the world and preach the Divine Love and Light. If you do not realize His words, He will realize them Himself. Then you will experience sufferings, likewise Judas did. As he could not withstand the great sufferings, he himself put an end to his life. As disciples, you should strive for beautiful and nice things without getting drunk or losing your mind. Some right-minded young lady might lose her mind. When? She might lose her mind as she sees something beautiful. She might lose her mind as she meets a beautiful young man. She gets drunk by the beauty like a drunkard by the wine just because she cannot judge things. The outer beauty is not yet the beauty that elevates the man, though. Enjoy the beautiful things without craving them for yourself. As you meet a man with an excellent mind, enjoy his mind without envying him, without craving his mind. You have a mind as well, but you should work in order to develop it. Enjoy the beautiful young ladies and young men without striving to make them your property. A young lady bears a young man within herself, but she has to manifest him externally. The young man also bears the young lady within himself, but he has to manifest her externally. Man has within himself everything he is looking for externally - he has to work, to develop it and to manifest it in front of his fellow men, though. Everything beautiful, elevated, and great in the world should stimulate and encourage man, showing him that he can do the same as well. As he attains and applies it, God will bless him. Until this time comes, the human should not get discouraged and desperate, though, - he should go forward. – But I missed the favourable opportunities. – The favourable opportunities are constantly being given, but you should use them. – I am not estimated. – As you leave for the other world, they will estimate you. The examining committee is in the other world – not on Earth. Earth is a place for teaching lessons and learning, while the invisible world is a place for estimation. There, they estimate each man to see if he is hard working or not. The one, who is not ready for this exam, receives a free ticket to return to Earth and begins to study again. On the certificate of this man it will be written: Here is one of the disciples, who prefer walking to studying. I want all of you here to be among the disciples who prefer to study. I want all of you to pass your exam successfully before the examining committee, so they can write the following about you: “These disciples studied their lessons well and successfully graduated from school.” “The world will know that you are my disciples if you love one another.” If you study and encourage one another in the Divine Good and if you develop your mind, heart, and your strength properly, God will bless you. The world needs good, wise, and strong workers that are ready to say: From now on we want to work for God. We are ready to work for the Divine Love, Wisdom, and Truth, for the whole of humanity, for everything great and good in the world. “Thy kingdom come on earth, as it is in heaven.” Let each of you say to himself: “Lord, let me work on Earth as the intelligent beings work in heaven.” Say to yourself: “God, thank you for rejuvenating us to work for your name and glory.” July 30, 5 a.m. ________ John 13:1 [1]среда - the meaning of this word in Bulgarian is: middle, centre, midway, halfway; crumb, medium, environment; surroundings; background; circle, quarter; sphere; [2] Разумност - rationality [3] разум - reason, intelligence, mind [4] скандал – scandal [M1]This is read as a past life – not the present life. {approve of the way they have lived their life}

Note 6 A WAY TO LIFE “Remain in me, and I will remain in you.” John 15:4 “Remain in me, and I will remain in you.” While living in an air space, man should know how to cope with the air. In order to use the opportunities that the air provides, he should have an attitude towards it. Only in this condition can man receive from the air the elements that are needed. In order to make use of the lessons and lectures of his teacher, the disciple should be concentrated; he should understand what is being taught to him. If his mind is distracted, if he deals with side thoughts, the disciple cannot make use of the knowledge transferred to him, and as a result he visits the school in vain. What will the deaf man gain, if he goes to listen to some singer, or some musician? The singer sings, the musician plays, but he hears nothing. Likewise, now I am also talking, but few of you listen and perceive. Why? Because many of you are occupied with various problems: you have to pay some bill, or your apartment, or you are not satisfied with the conditions in which you live. As long as the thought of the human is distracted, nothing can reach his mind. He thinks about anything but what is being spoken about. Consequently, only the one who has opened his mind and heart can remain in Christ. Therefore, Christ says to His disciples: “Remain in me, so that I remain in you.” “Remain in me, and I will remain in you.” It is the greatest thing in the world for a person to remain in God. It is said in the Scriptures: “God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.” To worship Him in Spirit” means to worship Him for Love. “In Truth” means “in strength”. The one, who does not love Truth, cannot be strong. Whoever worships God in Spirit and in Truth is strong. Love is a creation of Spirit, while the strength is a creation of Truth. Now, as you look at the sunrise you begin to think about the presence of the Divine power in the world. From afar the Sun looks small, but in fact it is much bigger. The space within which the Sun moves is so vast, that there is room for millions of Suns and billions of stars just like ours. Besides, in space there is a place for many more universes that are to be created in the future. The process of creation is limitless – it has neither beginning, nor end. The matter from which suns and planets are created is also limitless. Many people want to know where the end of the world is. The concepts “beginning” and “end” are relative. As he begins to think, the human is at the beginning of the things; as he stops thinking – he is at their end. As long as he loves God, as long as he serves Him, as long as he remains in Him in Spirit and in Truth, the human is at the beginning of the things. As he stops loving and serving Him, he is at the end of the things, where everything disappears. Someone might like to know what the meaning of the world is and how it was created, etc. This desire is untimely; he is not ready for it. Is the disciple ready to be like his master? If he wants to be a scientist like his master, it is okay, but together with the positive sides of his master, he will adopt his weaknesses as well. Is he ready to cope with the weaknesses that he has adopted from his master? It is not easy to cope with the weaknesses and the shortcomings of others. A pious, religious man, decided to reform the world by burning incense like the priests do in churches. He decided to take an incense-burner and go from the one end of the town to the other to see what he will attain. I advised him not to do this, because if the world could be reformed by incense burning, then it would have been reformed by now. Millions of priests' burn incense today, but the world is still not reformed. It is worthwhile to burn incense, but you should do it with your thought. The human thought should smell sweet and should disperse Light. If a man, having such a thought, starts from the one end of the town to the other, from one village to another, he may soon be able to reform the world. For millions of years the Sun shines and burns, but the world is still not reformed. For millions of years the wind blows and talks to the people, but his words did not reform the world. The world is settled – it does not need to be reformed -– however, the human world is not settled, but this world is being reformed bit by bit. The world, in which the Advanced Beings live – those that have completed their evolution, and that serve God in Spirit and Truth, is settled. These beings have been assigned to the task of controlling the physical world. The land, on which the humans live, is like a large ship with which they make their excursions, without knowing where they go. They do not know when they arrived on this ship, and they also do not know where they are going. People talk about the creation of the world, about the creation of the human being in Paradise, but they are unable to recall the creation of the world or the creation of the human being in Paradise. God created the human, but the human does not remember anything, because his consciousness was not awake. God had to awaken the human for a long time, before He succeeded. As soon as he awoke from his deep sleep, the human began to cry and demand food. Up to this day he continues to cry and demand food from God. Up to this day God takes care of him and provides for him the necessary food. Man gets everything that he demands. Everything is given to the human – just like parents who give everything to their children while they are at school. As soon as they finish school, they apply as candidates for teachers at primary or secondary schools – according to the education they received. Contemporary people think that they are strong, learned and good. In order to understand what they are, they should make trials, so that they can get thoroughly acquainted with themselves. As far as strength goes, let the one who has a strong thought, try to stop the blowing of the wind, or the rain, or let him try to dissipate the clouds with the power of his thought. It is possible to talk to the wind - we have an example for this: When He was in the boat with His disciples, Christ fell asleep, but during this time a storm developed at sea. The disciples were frightened and awoke Christ. Do not fear – said Christ. He concentrated His thought and stopped the wind. Christ understood the language of the wind and spoke with it. The wind listens only to the one who loves him, who serves God in Spirit and in Truth, and who is a strong and loving person. If the human talks to Nature in the name of the Truth – it listens to him. It was said in the Scriptures: “You have fallen in love with the truth in man.” The one, who lives in Truth, is the only one, who can obtain his wishes. Outside of the Truth things are unobtainable. “Remain in me and I will remain in you.” It is great and beautiful to remain in God. When a person obtains this, he does not need the praises of people anymore. What is the use of praising people? Whatever opinion you might have of the human, keep it – you do not need to say it. Whether he does good or not – do not comment on that - he is still at the beginning of the good. The good in him is not yet completed. He is an artist, who has just begun to paint. He is still learning how to lay the paint and you praise him. Praising him, though, you distract his attention from his work instead of helping him. Do not say anything before he finishes his picture. As the picture comes to life and starts to talk, then you can express your opinion. One of the talking pictures is the human. All that God has made is alive. All that has been created by God is immortal. All that has been made by the human is mortal. And when we say, that man dies, we mean, that only what is not divine within him dies. When someone dies, people say, that everything is finished with him. Why? This is because they cannot see him. Indeed, when man cannot see things, he stumbles. Then what will you say about affection? Affection is invisible too, but you say, that this man or that man loves you. So, in some way you can determine if someone loves you. In order to establish this, you first have to see his Love; then you have to hear that he loves you and finally, you have to smell the fragrance that comes from him. The processes of seeing, hearing and smelling are internal ones. The one, who loves, emits a special fragrance - like the fragrant flowers and fruits do. Consequently, after you smell the fruit, you taste it. You do the same with those whom you love. Through your senses you can tell what his properties are. What is the reason for the fragrance of fruits? The reason is the beautiful thoughts that function within the very fruits. These beautiful thoughts are caused by rational beings that aim for the development of the fruits. As you eat fruits, the rational beings examine you in order to see in what degree you have recognized the Divine ways. Whether you believe in this, or not, is another thing. Even though you do not believe, you use the fruits as healing agents. For instance, the cherry and the peach are healing agents. The cherry is recommended against anaemia and neurasthenia. In spring you can eat as many cherries as you like, but you should do it with Love. In order for you to benefit from the fruits of the cherry tree, it has to be grown by a good man. If you eat from the fruits of such a cherry tree, the state of your nervous system will improve. “Remain in me, and I will remain in you.” Why should a man remain in God? - So that his wishes might be obtained. If he does not remain in God, his wishes will not be obtained. When a king gives an order for some good to be done, his order is obeyed at once. But if a poor man issues the same order his voice will not be heard. So, if you would like your word to be heard as well, remain in God. If you do not remain in God, then your word will not be accepted. Christ says: “If you remain in me, whatever you ask from my Father will be”. Now, I wish for all of you here to remain in God. If you remain in God, you may even be able to speak to the stones and they will listen. Is this possible? For God everything is possible. You are ready to believe, but only after you see that something has already happened. However, until it happens you do not believe. After the ship sets out, you believe. But once she sets out, she follows her way, no matter whether you believe or not. You might say, that the stones of the mountain are scattered, but this only appears to be a mess. In fact, all things in Nature are settled according to special laws that add external beauty. Few people are able to see and understand this beauty. For instance, you tell someone that he is good and wise. You can see this, but yet you do not see his shortcomings. He is beautiful, but he is not rational or patient. He is observant, well dressed, but he does not appreciate his clothes and he does not enjoy them. He dresses for the sake of people - not for his own sake. It is much better when the human dresses for the sake of God and is constantly ready to appear before His face, to show his heart and mind, so that He can see how he has lived. Whatever mistakes God sees in man, He keeps silent and does not judge anyone. God is long-suffering and benevolent. In spite of this, man dares to complain that people were bad and unjust. As a person, is not he the same, though? The human is bad when he does not remain in God, when he does not serve him in Spirit and Truth, then he does not use the Divine goods rationally. Besides, the human is bad because he does not use his heart, will, soul and Spirit properly. Having this in mind, do you think that everything you like might happen? The wickedness you have is not of today. You brought it from your past when you had many masters. All that you experienced then is now written on your faces. It is enough for one to just look at you in order to understand that in the past you were disobedient, and as a result you have scars on your head, legs and hands, which are visible even today. As a result you have reached the present and you are now characterized by a vigilant consciousness and you say: today we will live as God likes. “Remain in me, and I will remain in you.” Why should you remain in God? - So that you can correct your past. If you decide to correct your past and to live well, then the rational beings will begin to cooperate with you and help you. However, at the slightest hesitation in you, they will withdraw at once. If you decide to live well, they will start helping you again. Knowing this, do not hesitate in your good decision. You might say that you are not ready yet for a pure and bright life, but in order to get ready, you have to work. The small child that should begin first grade cannot study at a secondary school. This does not mean, though, that he should not study at all. First the child begins first grade and he does well at school. Then he gets older and several years later he will be a student at the secondary school. After seven years of studying at primary school and junior high school, this child will be ready for the secondary school where more work will be required of him. After that, the child will enter university. As he works and studies diligently*, he will be ready for a higher life and will then be able to serve God. Whatever position you might find yourself in you should work, you should put into practice one method after another method, until you can reach a certain status. “Remain in God.” Why you should remain in God? - So that you can have a clear notion about Him. He does not live in contradictions. Since people do not know this, as soon as they come across some contradiction that they cannot solve, they get angry with God and say: "We will not study!" Getting angry with his master, the disciple says: "I will not study!" Getting angry with her mother, the daughter says: "I will not work!" One or two days later she leaves the home of her parents and runs away from her mother. Wherever she goes though, she will be made to work in something. An ox decided to run away from his master and went to a forest, so that he could live more freely and more independently. His master did not look for him – he let the ox be as free he wanted. Two years passed, but the ox did not return. Then a cold winter came. The ox wandered around in the forest, but one day he was attacked by a pack of wolves. He put his back against a tree and desperately fought against the wolves. After some time the ox managed to get free and ran until it reached the home of its master and hid there without his master noticing him. His master only saw him in the morning. The ox thought: it is bad here with you, but without you it is even worse. It is bad with God, but without God it is much worse. Nothing is greater for the human than serving God! The reason for our inner delight and joy is due to this - we have made what God wanted from us. If we do not fulfil His laws we feel sorry and suffer. As He sees us in this state, He says: Do not do that. Be mindful and do not make mistakes – making mistakes is not for your good. What does the teacher of drawing do when he sees that the picture of some student is not good – he takes a pencil and erases it. When he checks the picture of this student again and finds out that his picture is still not well drawn, he erases it again. By this he draws the attention of the student to the mistakes and makes him correct them. If the student cannot correct his mistakes by himself, the teacher takes the brush and the paints and shows the student how to draw. By drawing his attention to the eyes of the portrait, the teacher wants to tell the student to like the truth. As he draws his attention to the ears of the portrait, he wants to tell him to love and value the Word. If he draws his attention to the nose, this means that the student should develop his sense of smell, to perceive the smells properly and to know people. If he draws his attention to the mouth, this means to learn how to eat wisely. Remain in God, so that you can get acquainted with one another in the name of the great Love. Remain in God, so that you can serve Him in Spirit and Truth, so that you can be brave and decisive, be strong and loving, and ready for great sacrifices. So, when you meet someone who loves you, say: It is Him! When you meet a man who is ready to make all kind of sacrifices for you, say: It is Him! A religious man fell into great contradictions and lost his faith. One day he came out of his home and went for a walk in the town, in order to think more freely. Lost in his thoughts and his grief, he did not notice how several hours passed, and at one point in time he got hungry. He noticed that at a distance of ten meters there was a pear tree. He came near to the pear tree and began to examine it, but he did not see any fruit there. Again a failure! I have no luck at all, said the young man sadly. He moved just two or three steps away when a feeble wind started to blow. The wind swung the branches of the pear tree and he heard something falling to the ground. He bent down quickly and noticed that several nice pears had fallen down. He ate the first pear with appreciation and said to himself: It is Him! Then he ate all five pears and after each pear he thanked God with the words: It is Him! After that he said: I never ate with such relish and appreciation as today. It is Him who makes people love us. It is Him who makes the wind blow. It is Him who gives the great goods in life. It is Him who brings light thoughts into our minds, noble feelings into our hearts and who makes us behave boldly and decisively. It is Him who gives us food to support our organism. “Remain in God, Spirit and Truth!” July 26, 5 a.m.

Note 4p THE DOOR OF LOVE Reflection The life of contemporary people is at a standstill. In this respect, it resembles a man who has reached a static state: wherever he goes, whatever he does, he is constantly thinking about the past, about his youth. He repeats one and the same thing and does not acquire anything new. They say, that practice makes perfect. The old man says that the repetitions comfort him. Some believers also talk about their past – how they were filled with enthusiasm, what ideals excited them, how they loved one another, etc. To repeat things means to declaim them without adding anything new from you. But this is a standstill in life. Christ says: " Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a person be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (Verse 3) The kingdom of God is a world towards which the souls strive. So the one who is born passes into another state. He has not reached a standstill, a static state, like the old man - he enters into a new area instead, where the things rejuvenate. The meaning of life is in the eternal youth of the soul. Many people complain that they are not successful in their life. The reason for their failure is in the things that distract their attention. For instance, eating distracts the attention of a man. A person who thinks about food only, thinks that life does not exist without eating. He is right to think that the person has to eat, but to think mainly about eating does not correspond to the Divine Life. Eating is a condition, a means to an end, but it is not an aim. A fish thinks that unless she swallows the smaller fish, she cannot live. She preaches the teaching that if she does not live in the water everything is finished with her. Why? Because each fish, that has tried to get out of the water has finished with death. So the fish concludes: That life does not exist outside the water. What does a person say about this question, though? Examining the course of life he says: Thanks to the great sufferings, the fish began to try to get out of the water. For thousands of years, they tried to get out of the water and adapt to the state of the air before they turned into birds. The fish cannot grow in the water, because they eat each other there. Do you think that the people who eat meat have conditions for growth either? As he eats pork, man acquires some of the features of a pig. As he eats chicken, he acquires some of the features of the hen. Consequently, whatever food man eats, he acquires its features. So, if he wants to protect himself from the bad characteristics of the food he eats, man has to purify it first. For this purpose he should learn the laws of purification. The vegetarians say that their food is purer than the food of the meat eaters. They are vegetarians, but nevertheless they eat cow and sheep butter, drink milk, eat eggs, and even like fish. They excuse themselves saying, that Christ also ate fish with his disciples. The Disciples of Christ caught fish by themselves and Christ grilled it on His fire. Each person would like to eat from the fish that Christ grilled on His fire. The fire on which Christ grilled the fish has an inner meaning. A man should understand this meaning first and speak after that. We examine eating as an internal – not as an external process. The inner side of eating is a method for knowing the great life. That is why Christ says: “Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you.” This means, that if you eat the flesh of Christ and drink His blood, you have life in you. But if you eat the flesh of animals, or of people, and drink their blood - you have no life. It is not one and the same thing whose flesh you eat and whose blood you drink. The very way in which you eat the flesh and drink the blood also matters. If you go among the man-eaters who eat human meat you will see scary things. The man-eater is more horrifying than a beast. He is more horrifying even than the Devil. What can you acquire from human meat? Today, both secular and religious people strive towards fast acquisition of knowledge, wealth, and power. In this respect, they are impatient – they want to know everything. They resemble children, who knowing that they are having new clothes made, constantly ask their mother when their new clothes will be ready. They want to put on their new clothes for the forthcoming feast, so that they can show their friends that they are dressed nicely. They do not know that they are the same both in their new and in their old clothes. The coat does not change the human character. In the present conditions it is not possible for a person to know everything. If he knew everything, he would have been very unhappy. Learning would not bring him anything special. No matter how learned he is a man does not change his character. As they become very learned, people begin to divide into groups and cannot get along. This is what we see in Christianity. As the number of Christians increased, as comments and interpretations on famous religious questions appeared, Christians divided into east and west and into Christians-Evangelists. The East and the West Christians paid more attention to the outer side of Christianity: to the outer ceremonies, to the clothes of the priest. According to their interpretations, the priest is a substitute of God, they say that he should be dressed in expensive clothes and he should wear a king’s mantle, with a crown on his head and a sceptre in his hand. With this, they want to emphasize the sanctity of the Divine servant. These are human regulations, though. God has not given them. Did Moses have a sceptre in his hand when he led the Jews away from Egypt? He carried in his hand a simple shepherds staff, with which he made great miracles. It was enough to hit with this staff to get what he wanted. What is the use of holding a golden wand or sceptre in your hand and to hit with it, but not to get what you want? The sceptre symbolizes knowledge. What is the use of knowledge from which you cannot get anything? No matter how many times you hit with this knowledge, nothing happens. Knowledge has a meaning only after you hit with it, you can do what you like. The sceptre, which knowledge brings, should be used. It can be used only after it is broken. If you install a wire for electricity along a circle, you will have an electrical current, but you will not have light. If you want to have light, break the circle somewhere else and get two poles, through which two streams might flow. A young boy inherited a rod from his grandfather. His grandfather told him: This rod remained from your great-grandfather. Great force is hidden inside it. The boy interpreted the words of his grandfather literally. Wherever he went he carried the rod with him. Ten years passed. The boy grew and became a young man, but instead of helping him the rod made him unhappy. Each of his undertakings ended in failure. As he looked at the rod in his hand, he felt like throwing it somewhere, but something in him did not let him. One day he went to cut down trees. At this moment, a bull appeared who was ready to kill him. The young man raised the rod against the bull and began hitting his head. As he hit him several times the bull got out, but the rod broke. Lo and behold! Several golden coins fell from within the stick. Only now the young man understood why his grandfather was telling him that the strength was in the rod. He regretted that the bull had not come earlier so that he could break the rod over his head. Consequently, as a man acquires some knowledge, he has to have a sense, an idea of how to put it into practice in his life. In order to be able to apply his knowledge reasonably, a person should also have experience. To have an insight means to perceive things internally. Guessing implies being able to draw a conclusion on the grounds of what you perceived by the help of your insight. But experience has only that one who can apply his knowledge. [M1] A man applies the experience first to himself: to his heart, mind, soul, and Spirit. People often talk about the heart, mind, soul, and Spirit without understanding the essence. They talk about the soul and they think that the soul is subordinate to the body. They talk about the mind and they think that the mind is only an instrument. They talk about the heat and they examine it as a vital organ, participating in the blood circulation process. The heart solves the economical problem of the human organism. They say, that the heart pulsates, that is, that it beats 72 times per minute. Each beat of the heart is a cosmic one. This shows, that the heart is related to the cosmic energy. At each heart beat there comes new energy, as a result the whole organism is rejuvenated. The number 72 plays an important role in Nature. For instance, 72 people translated the sacred books. The number seven is a positive number and denotes the creative powers in Nature. The number two is a negative number that arranges things. So, the number seven is a creative number of the angels, while the number two is a creative number of the Divine World. The two numbers – the positive number of the angels and the negative number of the Divine World unite in the common number 72. As man lives normally, according to the Law of Love, his pulse is normal; if he breaks this law, his pulse changes. All the negative states that man experiences – doubt, suspicion, discouragement, losing of faith, lack of Love, influence the human pulse. Not knowing this, a person causes himself misfortunes. With his negative thoughts and feelings he changes the cosmic pulse – the bearer of the Divine blessing. It depends on the human himself if the ways for this blessing will be opened. He himself blocks and unblocks it. In this respect, a person resembles an English millionaire, who one day entered the basement to count his gold and remained there. He forgot to take the key with him and due to his carelessness the door swung shut behind him. The key remained outside and he met his death beside his favourite wealth. Before his death, he wrote the following words: If someone could have brought me a piece of bread I would have given him half my fortune. In conclusion to this I say: Never leave the key of your inner fortune outside. As you unlock your fortune, keep the key with you. Man has at his disposal three keys: the key of faith, the key of hope, and the key of Love. As he is hopeful, a man applies the first key. As he gains faith – he applies the second key. As he acquires Love – he applies the third key. Faith, hope, and Love represent three keys for revealing the secrets of Nature and the Divine treasures, determined from time immemorial for the souls that have come and that are coming on Earth to do the will of the Father. The wish of you all should be reduced to this – to feel to what extent you do the Divine will, according to the laws of hope, faith, and Love. If you do the Divine will according to the law of hope, you should be dressed in a Divine garment. If you do the Divine will according to the law of faith, you should be a source of Divine water. If you do the Divine will according to the law of Love, you should be dawned by Divine Light. Love illuminates a man. Dawning on him, it awakens bright thoughts and exalted feelings. Christ says: “No one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit”, that is, unless you are born of the water - that comes as a result of the law of faith, and of the Spirit - that comes as a result of the Law of Love. Love is the bread descending from heaven. If he does not feed on Love, man cannot be born again. Only the one who was born acquires civil rights that he can use. “Unless you are born again.” The birth mentioned in this verse is not a single process. It is not a static, but a dynamic process. This birth comprises opportunities for growth. Indeed, after the child is born, it begins to grow as regards its body, mind, and heart. It should constantly grow in its acquisition of the Divine Knowledge. Growing in consciousness, man can be born again - of water and of the Spirit, - from where the creation of a new man begins. The people create this new man even now, but in the course of this process they use organs made by past generations, as a result of which their “new man” has their old habits and weaknesses. They take hope easily and they lose hope easily. It is noticed, that when he does not have money, man is indisposed, hangs his head and gets discouraged. As soon as he gets some money, his Spirit rises; he becomes pleased and ready for work. Unless a person is born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The same holds true for the spiritual state of a man. As soon as he meets a good person - he gains courage. As soon as he meets a bad man - he loses courage and starts to think that all people are bad. Why do you gain courage after you meet a good person? A good person is like a statue, well made by a famous sculptor. This statue can be sold and it can provide for your whole life. A bad person is a simple, crude stone that was not yet processed by the tool of the great sculptor. A day will come, when this stone will fall into the hands of a sculptor, who will carve an excellent statue out of it. For the one who does not understand the Divine laws, this stone is not worth a bean. But for the one, who understands the Divine laws – he knows that the simple, unprocessed stone is an opportunity for the great sculptor to put his knowledge and art into practice. A bad person is like soil in which you can gain knowledge. What better condition for work might exist than the opportunity to turn the bad man to God? Some religious people want to turn only rich people to God, for they have money, which they can give to the poor. They think that if they turn a poor man to God, he not only cannot give anything, but he will even ask from the others. This is a wrong view. Do not rate a man externally – as poor or rich – view him as a soul that carries its wealth with itself. In many cases the poor man is ready to give even more than the rich man. He is ready to work for the others and help them. There are poor men, who, as they turn to God, begin to work for their fellow men with Love and dedication. An old legend tells the following incident from Buddha’s life. As a Brahmin, one day Buddha prayed to God. His prayer was very long, but he could not finish it, for he was very exhausted. Meanwhile, a rabbit passed by him and jumped into the fire to be roasted. Buddha made use of his sacrifice, cut a part of the meat and ate it. Gaining new strength, he finished his prayer and thanked God, that he had sent him the rabbit, so Buddha could fortify himself. In his next life as a Master, Buddha helped people and advised them how to live. One day he decided to rest and indulge in meditation. He told his disciples that this day he would not accept visitors. Brahmins and high-ranking people were coming, but he turned all of them away. Meanwhile there came a simple, poor man. As he saw him, Buddha stood up, met him kindly and talked with him for a long time. His disciples were very surprised and asked him: Master, today you refused to meet high-ranking people, but you showed this poor and simple man so much attention. For what reason did you do this? Buddha answered: in the distant past this man was a rabbit. One day, as I prayed to God and was very exhausted, he sacrificed his life for me – he jumped into the fire and was roasted. I ate from him and refreshed myself and was able to finish my prayer. Today I repay him for his sacrifice. Contemporary people demand great attention either from God, or from a person. In order to use somebody’s special attention, though, they should have made some sacrifice for him. Have they made the sacrifice the rabbit made for Buddha? Who has sacrificed his life for God? You, too, like to be loved without making any sacrifice for the people. How can you tell who loves you? If someone tells you sweet words, is this Love? The sweet words cannot be used to determine if it is Love. They can encourage the human and introduce some refreshment in him - this is not Love, though. What is Love? When two young people fall in love within each other, they go blind and cannot see anything in front of them. They forget the whole world: no matter if they eat or drink – no one exists for them. They live for one another, they caress and stroke each other and say: our life was given meaning. This is a wrong view on Love, though - just then their lives lose their meaning. Their Love is refreshment, but it is not the eternal limitless Love. Perceiving Love that comes out of the Light of God man falls in love with everyone. He loves, he enjoys, and he is ready to sacrifice for all. He does not yet live in the realm of the individual but in the realm of Universal Love. This Love relates the human soul with the souls of people. He gets in touch with a living person, with his soul – not with his personality. It is great to love! Only the one, who is related with God – the only one that responds to the desire of a person to be loved, can feel the greatness of Love. God helps him in all cases and upon all sufferings. As he enjoys something, God enjoys with him. Whenever man turns to God with his prayer, he always gets His answer. God helps the human through people, animals, and plants – all of Nature is at His service. As man encounters great suffering, he gets discouraged, loses his sense of life and starts to think that he is a great sinner and that everybody has deserted him. Just then, God sends him someone to grant him considerable attention and Love. Through this attention, God manifests Himself and helps him. If a person grasps that this is the Divine providence, he acquires something valuable. If he does not grasp and appraise it, he will lose it and he will experience great hardships. In order to easily manage with the hardships of his life, man has to be forever young and not get discouraged. Contemporary people grow prematurely old, because they think that they know everything. Their situation is like that of the frog in the puddle. In spring, until she is young, a frog croaks. The croak continues for three or four months and then stops. In winter, both the young and the old frogs become silent. Man should not be in the position of either the young, or the old frog. While he is young, he should be ready to study and acquire knowledge. Growing old, he should realize that he still has to learn a lot. No matter how learned a person is, there still are things, which he does not know. A learned person got into the boat of a simple seaman for a row on the sea. He asked him: Do you know something about mathematics? – I don’t know anything. – You have lost a lot. – Do you know something about astronomy? - I don’t know anything. - You have lost a lot. - Do you know something about natural sciences? - I don’t know anything. - You have lost a lot. – At this time there arose a tempest in the sea. Then the seaman asked the learned person: Do you know how to swim? - I do not. – You lose everything. With my ignorance I will preserve my life – the most valuable thing for a man, while you - in spite of your knowledge - will lose everything. Many contemporary people know everything - like this learned person - but they do not know one thing only – how to swim. What can be likened to swimming in life? Swimming might be likened to Love. The one, who does not know Love, has lost everything. Apostle Paul says: “If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.” In order to enter the kingdom of God and release his soul from all the hardships and sufferings, man should attain Love. Man can break free from his past, present and future only with the help of Love. He will break free from his sufferings – from his past life - and he will stop expecting his happiness from his present and future. Many people expect that in the future Christ will come to the Earth to save them. Christ lives in the present, in that, which was born from Love. A mother loves her child because she gave birth to it. To the other children she does not have any special attitude, because she did not give birth to them. This means, that a man feels Love only towards those thoughts and feelings he has received from Love. Towards all the other thoughts and feelings he has another attitude. Consequently, to know a person means to experience his Love. In order for him to know you, he has to experience your Love. In other words: in order for you to know the one who loves you, you should pass through the door of his Love. He, too, can know you only if he passes through the door of your Love. Christ passed through the door of human Love as well – he experienced the sufferings. He sacrificed everything out of Love towards humanity. Christ says: “I am the door. That one, who does not enter through me, cannot enter the Kingdom of God.” Christ passed through the door of human Love. Now a human should pass through the doors of His Love. The one, who passes through this door, will enter the Kingdom of God. Christ expresses this thought with the words: "If a man loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” So, each man should pass through the door of Love. Is this door at one place, though? It is at many places. How many times should the human pass through the door of Love? He should pass through it many times. Imagine that you have to walk along a way, several thousand kilometres long. To walk this way you have to pass by many places: valleys and fields, mountains and forests. Each of these places has its own door through which you should pass. If you should pass through many doors in order to pass through the ways on Earth, how many more doors should you pass through, in order to enter the Kingdom of God? At every step you will pass through the beings, which will test your Love. As they see, that you have the Love with which you can enter the Kingdom of God, they will let you in and they will provide you with a free ticket. The exaltation of the human soul as it catches a glimpse of the Divine face is great! After the resurrection Christ appeared before his disciples, but He told them: “Don’t touch me until I ascend to my Father.“ What does it mean to ascend to God? In order to ascend to God, man has to have passed through the greatest sufferings and to have drunk the cup of sorrow. Only such a man is ready to face the face of God. Nothing in the world can bring him back from his way. Nothing can tempt him. Why does God give to the man a bitter cup instead of a sweet one? If He gives him a sweet cup, every man will drink it. Every man whom He meets in His way will stop Him, drink from His cup and leave. No one wants to drink from the bitter cup, though. Consequently, no one can take away from the human the wealth he has acquired through suffering. The one, who has gone through suffering, says: I felt good that I suffered. Why does suffering come in human life? Because they have to acquire the goods that God has determined for them. This thought should underlie deep into the human mind, so as he comes across some suffering he might see what is hidden in it, instead of complaining about it. Suffering is a screen, behind which some good is concealed. Three young men fell in love with a beautiful wise young lady and each of them wanted to marry her. In order to test their Love, she subjected them to the following test: she made a cardboard barrier that looked like a steel one and stuck three sharp knives into it. The candidate had to pass through this wall on a bicycle. The one, who dared to do this, would have the beautiful young lady. The first candidate accelerated, but getting near the wall he saw the three sharp knives and stepped back: I do not want to die! The second candidate accelerated, came to a certain place, but seeing the sharp knives thought: What will I get from the young lady if I make this sacrifice for her? At this thought, he hesitated and moved back. The third candidate accelerated, not thinking about the consequences. He had one wish only – to marry the beautiful young lady. What happened? The barrier and the knives proved to be cardboard. He reached the wall, broke it and appeared to the other side. He gained the Love of the young lady. As they saw this, the other two candidates said: We could also do this. Today, everyone is subjected to the same exam. As they come near the cardboard wall, all of them step back. A poor simple man will be found, though, who does not think much about the consequences and who will pass through the barrier. After that, the second exam will follow – passing through fire. The barrier through which the human should pass will be made of iron. In order to overcome it, he should have great heat - to melt it. If he does not dare to pass through it, he will not be able to pass his exam. The difficulties in life are nothing but an iron barrier. They can be melted only through fire. They are a result from the struggle between the outer and the inner life of a person. The one, who withstands this struggle, will be saved. The saved one will live in Divine freedom and service to God. It was said in the Scriptures: “Only the pure in heart shall see God.” It is worth it for a man to pass through all the sufferings and purify his heart, so he can see the face of God and the face of Christ. “To see the face of God” and “to know love” would mean that he has attained the wishes of his soul. Strive for this Love that shall provide you with the flight of the angels, so that you can tour the whole universe and study it. I wish you to feed with Love, to be born of water and Spirit, to become citizens of the Kingdom of God. Christ says: “That one who loves me will be loved.” July 23, 5 a.m. ---------------------------- John, chapter 3 [M1]Unclear - {But only the one who has experience can apply his knowledge.}

Note 4p LOVE AND RESPECT You cannot have a second lunch after one good lunch. You can get a light snack, but not a whole lunch. Why? You cannot get a whole lunch because your stomach is full and cannot receive more food. As man goes to a spring, he has to carry a solid earthen jug. If his earthen jug is cracked, the water will pour out. Sometimes the human also can be like a cracked earthen jug. Whatever you pour into such man - it pours out. He cannot think rationally, he cannot hold anything within himself. On examining life and the manifestations of the human you can see, that he experiences two ages: the age of the prime in their youth and the age of the older, which are in the decline of their life. The first are considered happy, while the second are considered unhappy. This view is a result from a wrong understanding of life, though. Why? Because how can we say which is better – the Sun rise, or the Sun set? Such evaluation is right only on the face of it. Growing old, man lets the young one rejuvenate; rejuvenating, he lets the old man grow older and wiser. Man should constantly rejuvenate, though, and grow older in the course of his whole life. If the old man does not rejuvenate, though, and if the young man does not grow older, they can never get along. Today, the one, who has spent more of his life occupied by negative, rather than by positive thoughts, is considered older. After some time, the negative thoughts and feelings burn down and do not leave any trace deep within the human. They are dynamic. They lack the potential energy that is created. People are afraid of illnesses, afraid not to grow old prematurely. They think that as they grow thin and become yellow, it is a sign of growing old. Becoming thin is not ageing, though. Two or three months after his illness, the human again recovers and rejuvenates. Human strength is in his mind and consciousness. As long as his mind is bright and his consciousness awake, he constantly rejuvenates. In order to rejuvenate, man has to mix with young people. There exist two ages in the world: constant youth and constant old age. Those, who are always young, we call people of Love and those, who are always old, we call people of Knowledge and Love, Wisdom and Truth. During human life these ages constantly change. Man is being born as a child that grows, passes through adolescence, youth and maturity, until he finally grows old. Irrespective of his age, man should constantly rejuvenate, though. In order to rejuvenate, two things are required from him: if he is young, he should respect old people; if he is old, he should love young people. Consequently, if he wants to acquire knowledge and become wiser, the young man should respect old people. If he wants to rejuvenate, the old man should love the young one. Life stimulates human achievements, while the knowledge provides the opportunities to attain these desires. Contemporary people are provided opportunities for great achievements, but they fail, because their views are limited. They say: Whatever efforts we make, we cannot have great achievements, because everything ends with death and there is no other life. How do you know, that another life does not exist? Does the setting of the Sun mean that it disappears? Man can think so for one day only, but on the next day he understands that he has not thought right. As soon as he turns to the East, he sees that the Sun is again rising. Consequently, when you say, that the human dies, it is a temporary setting of his terrestrial life. Not long after that, turning to the East you will see that the same man has risen somewhere else. As he comes again to Earth, this man keeps silent and does not say his name, so that the others do not recognize him. That he has come here many times, we can see from the fact that at each new descending to Earth he comes with new knowledge and experiences that he has gained in his past life. How and from where could he learn to eat like a human, if he has never come to Earth? If he never came to the Earth how does he know what is good and what - evil? This shows that the human has descended to Earth many times. Even as a child, before anyone has taught him, he can cry and enjoy, and this shows that he has within himself a knowledge for the pleasant and unpleasant, for the good and evil. The cry of the child is a protest, a disapproval of its mother actions. As she put the child in a tub to bathe it, the child suddenly starts to cry. It recalls the time when it was in the water as a fish and does not want to return to the same conditions. Its mother will have to persuade it for a long time until it understands that this water will free it from the difficulties of life. This is not the water in which it once was. Many of the people’s suffering are due to the same reason. As they find themselves in the realm of certain experience through which they have passed, they cry, they suffer, and they do not want to pass through it another time. They do not know that the things in Nature reiterate. They think that they pass through the same experience. Each thing that man experiences bears new knowledge, new opportunities for him. The human does not pass twice through one and the same way. So, if you want to be constantly young, keep within your mind the idea for constant youth. If a man is not young, he cannot be friends with young people; and if he is not old, he cannot be friends with old people. The one, who wants to be friends with young men, has to be young; the one, who wants to be friends with old men, has to be old. Examine how the little child behaves with his grandfather. As he goes to his grandfather, he assumes a serious presence and tells him: Grandfather, tell me a story. His grandfather starts to tell him the story and the child listens carefully as if he understands everything. The grandfather is satisfied with his grandchild and he tells him: Come again tomorrow, son, and I’ll tell you a story even nicer than this one. Isn’t it better for a man to have a grandfather who can tell him stories? Isn’t it good that the grandfather has a grandchild to whom he can tell stories? The child needs the grandfather, but the grandfather needs the child, too. The knowledge of the grandfather is necessary for young people. Someone might say that old people have outlived their time and that they are not needed anymore in the new times. This understanding is wrong. Can you tell that as it grows old, the Sun is not longer necessary to Earth? When does the Sun grow old? The Sun grows old as it descends to Earth. The more it descends to Earth, the older the Sun gets. As soon as December comes, the greatest ageing occurs – the days become shorter, while the nights become longer. Starting from the day of its greatest old age, the Sun again begins its ascension, passes through a new phase – the phase of its rejuvenation: the days begin to gradually increase, as the nights begin to gradually decrease - we say, that the Sun has reached the highest point of its rejuvenation. Whatever happens with the Sun, the same happens with a man: he also gradually changes the orbit of his life. Like the Sun, he also changes his direction – he moves in one or another direction, as a result the days of his life at times, increase and at times, decrease. This should not in the least scare or trouble you. You meet a Sabbatarian, who wants to make you believe that the Sabbath was the seventh day, on which God rested. What would this Sabbatarian say if he goes to the North Pole, though, where there is only one day and one night? If he lived there, in which day would he have believed? Here you have 365 days, of which 52 days are Saturdays, while at the North Pole there is only one day – only one Saturday. There, everything is covered with snow and nothing grows. Then how would you believe in one day – in a Saturday, which bears nothing? To believe in the Sabbath is a verbal understanding of things. To think so, though, would be the same as to think that you have come here on Earth just to eat, drink, and do whatever you like. Anyway, this is the view of both the young and old now. They do not know their purpose. The young man was sent to Earth to acquire knowledge, to become strong, to be useful to humanity. Accordingly, the old man should leave his wealth as an inheritance to the young one. While he was young, he gathered wealth, accumulated it like a banker in his cash-box, but as he grows old – he has to give it away. As he grows old, man should also learn how to be generous and self-denying. He should deny his wealth and his youth, in order to acquire true Knowledge and Love, Wisdom and Truth. Self-denial is something great! If he gives up wine, the drinker profits; if he gives up his unfairly acquired wealth, the human profits; if he gives up violence, man profits; if he gives up illnesses, man profits; if he gives up unbelief, doubt, suspicion, negative thoughts, and feelings, man also profits. So there are things, from which the human should indispensably renounce. In order to give up something, man has to have found another one that might fill the void. For instance, for the sake of Love, many young men are ready to give up drinking, smoking, and many other vices. Some young man falls in love with a young lady and because of his Love towards her, he stops drinking and smoking. He becomes hard working and attentive towards everybody. Consequently, while Love preoccupies human minds and hearts, men can achieve all they want. As soon as they lose their Love, their life loses its meaning. Now, you have come to the mountain to learn its story. All the mountain peaks and cliffs witnessed ages when the Sun was rising not only from the East like today, but also from the West, North, and South. They witnessed ages when the axis of the Earth was perpendicular. There was a time, when the Earth axis was horizontal, too. Can you imagine what climate, what flora and fauna existed then? Those were distant geological ages, for which contemporary science and history keep silence. There was a time when even your shape was completely different from your present one. As regards your shape of that time, you keep silent. Man should not talk about the past. In one of the past wars, a drummer passed through a rich Russian village. In one courtyard he saw many hens. Seeing the hens, he wanted to kill several of them, so that he could cook them. He took out his knife, killed two or three hens, disembowelled them and prepared them for cooking, but suddenly his commanding officer called him. In his hurry, he put the disembowelled hens in his drum and appeared before the commanding officer. The officer ordered him: Soldier, beat the drum! – It is not possible, sir. – Why? – Because the drum is damaged. Why is the drum damaged? – Because there are hens in it. Now I am also telling you: do not put hens in your drum, that is, in your mind. If you put hens into your mind, you will not be able to think any more. The hens are the useless thoughts that man should not put into his mind. If you put a useless thought into your brain, it shuts up, that is – it stops thinking. The brain is a place, where only bright and exalted thoughts should enter. The age, through which contemporary people pass, is distinguished by great goods. One of these goods is human belief. Someone says that he believes in his friend. Why does he believe in his friend? He believes in his friend because his friend has given him one thousand leva. This is not belief, though, - this is knowledge. Why? It is knowledge because he believes in possible things. If a friend of yours gives you one, two or three thousand leva, this is something possible. Since it is possible – it is knowledge – not belief. The true belief implies that you believe in things that are impossible today. What cannot happen today will happen tomorrow, though. These things are one hundred and one percent true. For instance, you believe that the Earth will change, and that it will be transformed into a paradise garden. As you come again to the Earth you will see that my words are true. Then there will not be ill, or suffering men; there will not be fires, earthquakes, and floods like those that happen today. Great disasters happen on Earth today. Then no disasters will happen on Earth. At present 40 million people are being born and around 35 million die annually. Some countries want their population to increase. Population growth is a natural process, but it has to become rational. If it does not become rational, then human suffering will increase. The same happens upon the increase of human desires. The more human desires increase, the more suffering increases. If his desires decrease, his sufferings decrease as well. In the course of the year, man should obtain at least one desire, one thought, and one action. So, if he lives 50 years, he should realize at least 50 thoughts, 50 feelings, and 50 deeds – 150 all together. Imagine that these desires cost ten million leva each. As you can see, man will have great wealth then. Today, everyone wants to be rich, but wealth depends on something. Certain brain centres determine if man will have many cornfields, houses, books, or money. If these brain centres are well developed, the prosperity of man corresponds to them. If these brain centres are not well developed - the person remains poor. But not all the brain centres are intended for the gain of wealth only. The phrenologists have noticed that people who like to philosophize have two strongly developed centres at the front of their forehead. Those, who do not like to philosophize, have not developed their philosophical centres. The one, who likes to dress well, has developed those centres that are in the lower part of the forehead. If the religious feeling of a man is strongly developed, the upper part of his head – his crown, is highly elevated. If his religious feeling is not developed, then this part of his head is low. There is an empty place there instead – like a valley. Those centres, that are strongly developed, send part of their energy to the ones that are poorly developed. The same happens in Nature as well. The energy from the mountain descends in the valleys, so that a proper exchange and balance of its forces can be attained. The poor man is like a valley in which wheat grows. The wealthy man is a high peak, from where the energies are pouring towards the valleys. After some time, the valleys will be elevated and become mountains, while the mountains will slope down and become valleys. Many people do not understand the Divine laws and they say that the human is an unbeliever. By what you can tell, that he is an unbeliever? He lives well; he neither quarrels with anyone, nor robs anyone. Another person is considered a believer, but in fact he does not live well, robs people and causes them damage. In what can you see his belief, then? The belief is something real. The one, who has faith, does not lie, steal, or rob anyone. The thing a person can do at a certain moment is real. The poor man promises to do something, be he cannot do it. Why does not he keep his promise, while the wealthy man does? Because the rich man has the strength to keep it, while the poor man does not. Consequently, this thing is real: that which the person can do at a certain moment. If he cannot do it at a certain moment, then it is not real. The one, who can realize his thoughts and feelings at a certain moment, is a strong man. If he wants to be strong, man should not postpone the moment for the realization of his good thoughts and feelings. Each good thought that man can realize on time strengthens his mind. Each good feeling, realized on time, betters the human heart state. So, the good thoughts support the health of the cognitive state, the good feelings support the proper blood circulation and breathing, while the good deeds support the health of the digestive system state, as a result, the person eats and sleeps well. Think right, so that your brain can be in a normal state. Breathe deeply, so that your lungs can be in order. Do well, so that your stomach can function regularly. Two millionaires talk with each other. One of them complains that he cannot eat. – Eat, do not fear, you have resources to satisfy all your desires. – I cannot – my stomach is upset. – This is something else. Indeed, a disordered stomach is an awful thing. The person wants to eat this or that, but whatever he puts in his stomach, is being rejected. Here the stomach imposes its will. As a result, a man is forced to eat several spoonfuls of oat soup. To such a man I would recommend the following regime: to keep in his mind light thoughts, to keep in his heart-exalted feelings and to always do well. If he applies this regime regularly, his stomach will improve. If he cannot eat, let him call a poor man in his house, put food in front of him and say to himself: God, help me eat like this man eats. Bless him, but bless me, too. If he does so for at least ten days running, he will feel an improvement in his stomach. We have come to the Earth to do the will of God, to live well. This is a general law for all: for the countries, for the people, for the societies, for the families, for the separate people. Due to lack of understanding and disagreement of opinion, people do not live well. Some believe in one, while others believe in another God. Some believe in one country, while others believe in another country. There is no unity between people. They do not know that they have descended from one source, from one Father, from one God, Who has created the whole Universe. By the word “universe” we mean all the goods that come from God. These goods are distributed rightfully according to the great laws. If he observes these laws, man is glad and happy. If he does not observe them, he is exposed to illnesses, suffering, and death. As he loves God, man has everything at his disposal; he is always healthy, glad, and ready for work. The Love of God does not imply human feelings, neither does it imply the belief that the human professes. Only the strong man can love God. As he loves Him, he will always remain at the rear and let the weak ones be ahead. He will protect the weak ones and He will be their rear guard. God always remains at the rear, so that He can protect the weak ones and help them. Therefore it was said in the Scriptures: “God will be your rear guard.” With His light thoughts and actions, God helps the weak and the suffering. Thus should each man act as well. If he is strong, he will remain at the rear to help the weak. If he is weak, he will come forward, so that the others can help him. Contemporary people are afraid of death - that is why they remain at the rear. What is so awful about death? When a man dies, he goes to the world: he dies, that is, he goes to another world, more beautiful than the terrestrial one. If you enter this world for a while, you would not like to come back. This world is consciously hidden from your view, so that you can stay on Earth and study. It is hard to live on Earth, but on the other hand life provides great experiences to the human. The terrestrial life provides opportunities for great acquisitions. Earth provides the human with the light matter he should cultivate. Thus cultivated, he brings it to the other world - to work with it there. This matter does not exist in the other world. As he returns to Earth again, man sells this cultivated matter, so that he can buy another one that he will cultivate as well. You might say that man descends to Earth to trade. Well, what is wrong with trade? Trade is necessary so the people might get acquainted with each other. They need the goods of the tradesmen. If the baker does not bake bread – where will you get it? If the milkman does not sell milk, or the agrarian does not sell wheat, or the gardener does not sell fruits - you would not be able to live. However you view trade – it is necessary, no matter if it includes the exchange of money or of goods. Everyone has come to Earth only with the purpose to study and know each other. If the master does not teach his disciples, he will not know them, but they will not know him either. As they play together, as they study in one and the same school, the children also get to know each other. It is hard for people to know one another and live like brothers. All of them talk about brotherhood and sisterhood, but in fact money occupies the first place. No matter if they buy bread, cheese, or something else, everywhere money is being exchanged. While money plays an important role in human relations, no brotherhood or sisterhood may exist. The relations of the brotherhood exclude any sale. The brotherhood members give without expecting anything. The one, who wants to realize brotherly relations among his relatives, should renounce the sale. It was said in the Scriptures: “Give, so that it might be given to you”. The brother who gives generously to his sister never becomes impoverished. Where brothers and sisters love each other in the name of the Divine Love, evil is excluded. The new teaching comes in the world in order to bring the brotherhood and the sisterhood among the people, to make them work for one another. Where the brotherhood and the sisterhood exist, there Love reigns. A day will come, when this idea will be realized. All of you, who are here, as well as those, that are scattered in the whole world, will witness this day, as today you are witnessing the rising Sun. The day of the new age will come – the age of the rising Sun. The world was created for the good people, who have come to the Earth to manifest their Love to God and become the sons of God. July 23, 10 a.m.

Note 4p ALSO IN ME* "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” John 14:1 The only thing with which everyone is familiar with is trouble. Everyone knows what trouble is, but few people know its origin. The hungry man is worried about bread, the thirsty man – about water, the mother – about her child, the friend – about the condition of his friend, the scientist – about his scientific works, the lover – about his Love. The one who has eyes, is worried about losing his eyesight; the one who has ears, is worried about losing his hearing; the one who has a tongue is worried not to lose his speech, the one who has legs is worried about losing his legs. Are all these worries justified? If they are not – should you sustain them? No one keeps the trouble within himself, but nevertheless it does exist. The reason for this is the poor faith and the ignorance of man. The one, who is troubled, has to strengthen his faith. The one, who is troubled, has to study and acquire knowledge. Today, everyone talks about Love, knowledge, and friendship, but as soon as they attain this, they begin to feel sorry. Why do they feel sorry? Because they did not know where to start from. What is the first step with which man should start working if he does not want to feel sorry? The mother gives birth to a child and then feels sorry for this. The disciple acquires knowledge and then feels sorry he has acquired it. A person makes friends with someone and then feels sorry for this friendship. For what reason does a man feels sorry for his obtained wishes? The reason for his discontent is that he cannot know everything. If he knew everything, though, he would have understood that the person he loves has fallen in Love with someone else, so he would have begun to worry. Knowing everything, he would have understood that some other person is stronger, wealthier, and more learned than him and would have begun to worry. In order not to worry, man has to examine what the children from the first grade do. They begin with the first letter of the alphabet and continue until they study the whole alphabet. What is the first letter a man should start with? Someone might say that he should start with the letter “a”, since it is the beginning of all the alphabets. It depends on what we consider as a beginning, though. According to a Jewish myth, when He created the world, God called together all the letters, so that He could see which of them to begin with. The letter “Aleph” came first, but God said that He cannot start with it, because it was the beginning of a bad word. After the letter “a” all the rest of the letters took turns, but God also rejected them for the same reason. Finally, the letter “b” came. Due to the fact, that in the Hebrew language this letter was not a beginning of a bad word, God began the creation of the world with her. In the Bulgarian language, though, with the letter “b” begins the word “battle”, which shows, that the creation of the world has not been peaceful. There was a great battle upon the creation of the world. What does the word “battle” mean? When and where do people fight. Do they fight as friends, or as enemies? The fight is being used everywhere: between brothers and sisters, between friends, between parents and children, between men and women, between two nations. What is the reason for the fight among humans? Why does the mother beat her child? Did she ever ask herself why she beats her child? One of my acquaintances saw what a bear did with her five whelps. This happened in a village by the Black Sea. The bear used to go to the river with her whelps to find food for them. She used to take a stone and bang with it in the river. Then to immediately thrust her paw in the water and throw out a crab. One of the little whelps used to take the crab and eat it. The bear was taking out the crabs one by one, but the same little bear ate them. The other baby-bears could not take even a bite. The bear lost her patience and hit it with her paw. The little bear rolled on the ground and did not get up any more. As she saw this, the bear came near it, begun to sniff it, but the little bear did not move. As soon as she understood what she did, the bear begun to roar and continued her way with the rest of her little bears. Why did the bear roar? The bear roared because she did not know how to hit. Contemporary people also cry often. Why? They cry often because they do not know how to behave. Each man who does not know how to behave harms himself and his fellow men and after that roars - like the bear that killed her whelp. The bear could hit her whelp without killing it. Losing her patience she hit it hard, wanting to teach it not to be self-interested and greedy. She wanted to teach her little bear how to behave properly: to make it move aside after it has taken a crab, so that the rest of the little bears might take their crabs too. Today everyone strives towards acquiring a lot of knowledge. Why do they need a lot of knowledge and science? Why do they need a lot of food? How many bites does a person really need? You pretend to be learned men, but you do not know how many bites you need, so that you can eat enough without eating too much and to preserve your natural disposition to eat again. The number of bites determines the health of a person. If he takes 20 bites, man feels like quarrelling with the others. If he takes 13 bites – he becomes suspicious and does not trust anyone. If he eats 14 bites, whatever he undertakes will be dissolved. If he eats 15 bites, he will easily change his convictions. If he eats 16 bites, he will enter into a partnership with the Devil. “To enter into a partnership with the Devil,” means to put his methods into practice. One cold winter day a gentleman visited some acquaintances of his. As he entered, they asked him how he felt – did he not feel cold. – No, I do not feel cold – he answered. So, they asked him to sit far from the fireplace. He occupied the place so indicated, but soon after that he began to shiver and asked for permission to sit by the fire. In the beginning he wanted to hide the truth and show them he is strong, but as he could not bear the cold, he was forced to reveal his true situation. Can we say, that a man, who - feeling bad, says, that he feels good; and feeling good, says, that he feels bad - loves the truth? This way of behaving is not right. What does “to tell the truth” mean for a man? “To tell the truth” means to create something within yourself. “To speak the truth,” means to give things the content and meaning initially put into them. For instance, what content and meaning can you give to the letter “a”? To use the letter “a” in its dynamic state means to load some of your acquaintances with something. If he is a friend of yours and you love him, you will load him with Love; if he is not your friend – you will load him with hatred. In the first case, the load has value. Your friend is loaded with gold. In the second case the load has no value. You have loaded your acquaintance with sand. If you say that you do not love somebody, you should expect that people would not love you either. In spite of all this you want everyone to love you. Unless you learn how to love, you will not be loved either. If people love you, you will love them as well. Consequently, unless you love, the others will not love you. And unless people love you, you will not learn how to love either. People learn how to love in the process of their mutual Love. First, God loves us in order to teach us how to love. At the same time we should also love God, so that we can learn how to love. Consequently, in order that a person might love someone, he should love himself first. Can a person not love himself? Sometimes a person may come to a point not to love himself, but thus he comes to a point of committing suicide. All suicides are due to the fact that a person has stopped loving himself. Now the question arises: is Love finite, or non-finite; that is, is it limited or unlimited? In all its manifestations Love is limited. How much water can you put in a bottle with a capacity of 5 litres? You can put in it five litres at the most. As soon as the bottle is filled, the water you put in will start to pour out. Consequently, if you love a person more than he can accept, then part of your Love will be in excess. This Love will pour out and the result will be mud around you. This mud splashes around you; as a result troubles between you follow. What is the reason for which you love one person more that you should? The self-interest. What is the reason for which you love the banker more than the one, who has no money? You love the banker and praise him because you want to open his heart and make him give you more money. Likewise, the quarryman praises the stones when he likes to break several pieces from them. He praises them not with his tongue, but with his hammer: he hits them from here; he hits them from there, until he breaks some pieces. As soon as his hand starts to ache, he gathers the split pieces and goes home. He is satisfied that in return for his Love towards the stones he has something valuable. As they quarrel, people manifest their Love in a negative way. They say to each other bad words, which – after transformation - acquire some meaning. For instance, they tell somebody, that he is not reasonable, that he is not a clean person. What should this person do? He can put a comma after the particle “not”. Then the phrase becomes: no, you are a reasonable man; no, you are a clean person. The words “unreasonable, unclean, ignorant” are relative terms. What is unclean for the Bulgarian is clean for the Swiss. There is a special kind of yellow cheese, which the Swiss eat only after worms begin to grow in it. Bulgarian people consider such yellow cheese decayed and do not eat it. What is the worm? According to Bulgarian, worms symbolize a mistake. As he sees, that someone has made a mistake, he says: This person is bad. The Bulgarian throws the worm outside, while a Swiss person digests it. Where should you keep the other people – inside or outside yourselves? You will have to solve this question by yourself. If a person is poor you leave him outside yourself; if he is rich – you receive him inside. You love a person because he is learned, rich, and strong. What should be the measure of love, though? Imagine that the worm turns into a wheat grain. What would your attitude be towards it? Will you leave the wheat grain in the barn, or you will sow it in the cornfield? The Bulgarian likes to sow. As he sees wheat in his barn, he takes it out and he throws it in the field. Swiss people like to gather. The Bulgarian depends on what he has thrown into the field. Several months later, he goes to see what has become of the thrown wheat and finds stalks of 60-70 wheat grains. A Swiss person thinks that nothing remains from what was thrown. Sometimes people have an incorrect attitude towards their fellow men. As they see a poor and unkempt man, they write him off as something from which they do not expect anything good, and they forget him. Soon after that, this person amounts to something good. He becomes famous in a certain field of science or art. They did not suspect that the person, from whom they did not expect anything, could have great potential. Contemporary people do not understand the laws of life; as a result they do not have proper relations with one another. Likewise, they do not have proper relations with themselves and their states. For instance, if grief comes to them, they want to get rid of it as they got rid of the poor person. If joy comes to them – they receive it wholeheartedly. If grief makes man dissatisfied and joy makes him satisfied, this shows that there is something unbalanced within this person. If a student is rated “six” on a subject, he is delighted. Why? Because the grain is already thrown into the soil and it will soon grow, flower, develop, and bear fruit. If he is rated “poor”, he suffers and cries. The poor grade means that they will yoke him as an ox to plough. He will plough in the field all day long and he will not get anything special for this. His master will collect the wheat in the barn, while he will eat dry hay or will go to the forest to graze. Living on Earth, man experiences various situations, from which he learns. If he is a soldier, he will lift and put the gun down all day long and he will conclude that he has not learned anything from it. The gun is equivalent to a poor mark. If a soldier is a philosopher and likes to think, he will be able to make something good from this activity. Consequently, rate the ordinary person with six[1], so that he can have what to sow in the field. The philosopher, or a wise person, you should rate with “one”. In the hand of a wise person this “one” will transform into a pen and amount to something good. Contemporary people come across great difficulties, because they have confused things. They have put the “one” in the hand of the ordinary person and the “six” in the hand of a wise person. The ordinary person, the agrarian, lifts and puts the “one” all day long and he finally says: Nothing came out of my business. Give the “six”, that is – the cornfield - in the hand of the agrarian, and let him plough and sow, but put the golden pen in the hand of the wise person. The cornfield of the agrarian will amount to food for the whole world, while the pen of the wise person will amount to great words for all humanity. Each person has a “one” in his mouth – his tongue. With this “one” he can go round the world and enlighten it. Everyone wants to be happy. They do not know that their happiness is in their skill to manage the “one” in their mouth. Some people are considered patient. They sit and keep silent. Their mouth is shut, but their tongue moves. It is an art to know when to move your tongue. The result of its unreasonable movement might be a great misfortune. It is not important if the mouth of a person is open or shut. It is important if his tongue is moving. A person sits with his mouth shut, no voice can be heard, but his tongue is moving. This is equal to talking. Another person opens his mouth, talks, but his tongue is moving forwards and backwards. The important thing is what the pen – the human tongue – writes. If it writes “love”, “peace”, and “joy”, the result is one; if it writes “hatred”, “envy, “revenge” - then the result is different. When people talk about freedom in the world, this implies a review of the book that a man has written. When man goes to the other world, God will not judge him, instead, He will order an Angel to open the book of his life and start to read before him all he has written with his tongue. The Angel will read the book of your life and you will suffer from what you hear. As sensitive people, you cannot pass this exam: you will want to come down to Earth as soon as it is possible, so that you can correct your mistakes. This is the only way to understand that such an essay should not be written. It is not easy to enter the invisible world. As a three day visitor each person can go, but on the fourth day he himself will want to get back to Earth and correct his mistakes, to write a new essay on a new theme. Many people want to go to the other world, so that they can see Christ and then return to Earth again. They do not know that they have met Christ on Earth many times and treated Him badly. What will be their state when they meet Christ and He shows them all the good and ill, which they have written about Him? How many times have you doubted God and Christ? How many times have you spoken ill about them? How many times have you blamed them wrongly! A person complains that since he began to read the Bible and the Scriptures, his business worsened. Why was he out of luck? Because he does not understand what Love is. It was said in the Scriptures: “Love does not take offence.” As a person offends this person, he does not listen to the words of Christ, but gets angry, asks for explanations and is dissatisfied by people. If he wants to overcome the offensive words, let him imagine, that the one who offends him speaks a foreign language that is unknown to him. If someone is telling you offensive words in English, or in French – languages in which you understand nothing - will you take offence? You might listen with content and say: How nicely this man speaks! Consequently, apply in your life the following rule: Never allow anything negative within yourself. Whatever negativity you hear, see, or happens to you, say to yourself: I do not understand this. It is better if a person is ignorant about bad people and a learned man for the good things, instead of being a learned man for the bad things and an ignorant man - for the good things. Christ says: “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” Trust, that all what God has created, is for your own good. Trust, that I have come to show you the real way that leads to the eternal life. This faith is real, that withstands all the hardships. If it does not withstand all the hardships - then it is a poor faith. The healthy person withstands heavy burdens. The believer should give an example to all the beings that live within him. Milliards of beings live within a man and rely on him. They want to see a good example from their master. If he does not know how to eat, their master causes trouble to his stomach; if he does not know how to breathe, he causes pain to his lungs; if he does not know how to think – he causes disorder to his brain. So, the human state of health depends on his proper feeding, breathing, and thinking. As he eats, a person should feel fine. He should know how many bites he should take. Children should take 21 bites at one meal, while each grown-up should take 12 bites. For a person to eat properly means to assimilate vital power from food. If he does not observe this process, a man is exposed to many unnatural states that cause diseases. Some people ask how much a person should eat. If he eats little and does not think, a man does not use food; if he eats a lot and does not think, he again does not use it. In general, if the eating is not accompanied by thinking, it is of no use. In order to eat properly, man should be reasonable. If he is reasonable while he eats, he uses the goods he is given properly; besides, he should send a part of the surplus goods outwards. In fact, he processes this good as a thought that he sends outwards in the space. If there are beings near him, he gives them directly from the goods he himself has been given. If he is far from them, he will send them these goods as a thought. You should constantly give to the contemporary world. People are afraid to give, for they might suffer privation. As they give away everything they have, though, they will remain with their own life and will establish a proper relation with God. The one, who does not give, breaks the relation between God and his own soul. "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” As a remedy against worrying, Christ recommends to have faith and that is why He says “Trust in God; trust also in me.” In other words, believe that God has created everything for your good. Trust also in me – trust that I will show you the real way that leads to The One Whom you seek. Christ says: “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him. And no man can come to my Father, unless I show him the way.” "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” Why is a man troubled? He is troubled, because his faith in God and in Christ is weak. As soon as his faith becomes stronger, his trouble will vanish. The trouble is nothing but clouds that hinder the Sun from a man. [M1] Today the sky is clear there are no clouds. Consequently, today nothing hinders you to see the Sun and nothing prevents you from believing. – But what will be tomorrow? – You should not worry about tomorrow. The program of today does not include tomorrow. If clouds appear over you, it means, you have descended. If you have faith, you will ascend above the clouds, where the Sun is shining brightly. The difficulties you encounter are the clouds in your life. Apply your faith, so that you can rise above the clouds. As the contemporary aviators rise with their airplanes, several kilometres above the clouds, where the Sun is shining, so you too can rise above the difficulties in your life with the help of your faith. I wish you to rise - with your mind and heart - above the clouds, which prevent you to see the Sun, and to receive the bright thoughts and noble feelings. Believe in Life, Light, and Freedom. July 21, 5 a.m. [1] Six is the higher possible school mark in Bulgaria. [M1]{the Sun from shining on a man.}

Note 4p BASIC HYGIENIC RULES I'll read chapter 5 of the Galatians. From this chapter you can see what the ideas and the views of the first followers of Christ were. The circumcision discussed in this chapter is an old law (Verses 1 – 3). Today, the vine is also circumcised, so that it can bear more fruit. The vine-growers have made a series of experiments: they circumcised some vine-twigs, not circumcising others. Thus they observed what vine-twigs will bear more fruit and came to the conclusion, that the circumcised vine-twigs develop better and give more fruit.[M1] "You, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. For we, through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith." (Verses 4-5) In these verses, the theme about the justification and release from punishment is discussed. Man can be released from some punishment not by law but by faith. "I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be." (Verse 10) - In each society, there are people who trouble both themselves and others. These are the people, who attend to the personal life, that is - themselves. There are such people everywhere: both in the secular and in the religious life. In order to get out of his personal life man has to realize, that he has come to Earth, so that he can serve God - not himself. As soon as he realizes this, he has to give way to the Divine in himself, so that it can manage his matters. Consequently, man should not meddle with God's matters. "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another." (Verse 13) The service without Love makes no sense at all. "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness" (verse 19). The word adultery can be examined in its broad and its narrow sense. In its broad sense adultery implies giving priority of a man to the Divine, of the flesh - to the Spirit. If you love people more that God, you commit adultery. If you love food and clothes more than God, you commit adultery. "Idolatry" (verse 20). - Idolatry implies service to what is not real. "And they that are Christ's have crucified flesh with affection and lust." (Verse 24) – That is: once they crucified flesh and now they cultivate it. In the past the masters were cultivating their disciples with the help of a "falaga"*. Later they brought them to their knees. Then they slapped the two sides of their face. Today, they cultivate them by the help of reprimands, scolding, punishment for ill behaviour, etc. "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." (Verse 25) In order to live by the Spirit, man has to break free from the personal element within him. What does the personal life of a man manifest? The personal life can be likened to the formal dresses of a man that he wears in special cases. He cannot work in these clothes. If he likes to do some work, to do someone a favour, man should put on his working clothes. Can the young bride go to cook in the kitchen dressed in her bridal dress? It is all right if sometimes she cooks dressed in her bridal dress as well, but in such case she has to go to the kitchen of Nature and get her food from there. She may take a clean dish and fill it with ripe, sweet fruit from the trees. Or she will take fresh, newly threshed out wheat from the barn, boil it and offer it to her beloved one. If she likes to cook in an ordinary kitchen, though, she has to take off her bridal dress and put on an ordinary one. If she wears her bridal dress every day, she will clash with everyone. If she appears among working people dressed in her white dress, they will begin touching this dress and examining it from all sides until they finally stain it. After that, she will quarrel with them, because they have stained her dress. Is the action of this bride reasonable? If she were reasonable, she would not have to appear among the workers dressed in a white dress. Another question is if she had to appear among brides, attired in their wedding dresses. Hence we can draw the rule: when you go among workers, put on your working and unclean dress. When you go among people who are just talking, dressed in their clean, new clothes, dress with your white clean garment as well. That is how all the workers and artisans do. If you enter among artisans you will see, that they are dressed in their dyer's clothes. As they finish their work, they put on their clean clothes. Consequently, it is not important in what clothing the man is dressed. Clothing is related to the outer setting of things. The inner clothing of the man is important. This clothing defines his character and virtues. Until he works out his inner clothing, man makes a lot of mistakes. The child also makes a lot of mistakes before learning to write a good hand. No matter how many corrections the master makes, the child continues to make mistakes. But the more the child grows, the more he begins to realize his mistakes and corrects them by himself. Contemporary people occupy themselves with one another, mutually criticise themselves, not knowing that the mistakes man makes have nothing to do with his soul. For one thing, they do not have a clear notion of a man. They do not know which person is good and which one - bad. For many people the strong person is bad and the soft person is good. The mud is also soft, though. Is the mud good? Is the dust good? Because the mud stains your clothing and your shoes, you consider it bad. The dust does not stain like the mud does, but nevertheless you consider it bad. Bad is that man, who cannot utilize properly the Divine Love and Light. Good is the person, who properly puts into practice the Divine Love and Light. That one, who cannot use the Light properly, starts to suffer and look for help from the doctors. As soon as they see him, the doctors will tell him, that he is anaemic. According to contemporary scientists, anaemia is a result from the decrease of the red corpuscles in the blood. In order to heal his anaemia, a man should eat food that increases the number of the red corpuscles. This explanation is a superficial, though. Health does not depend on the number of red corpuscles’. The reason for good health is hidden elsewhere. Now all of us here are in a favourable situation – the air is clean, the altitude – high - from such an altitude ideas descend that we can accept only here. As soon as the disciple joins the class, he will take in new thoughts, feelings, and actions. Outside his class the disciple takes in a special kind of matter that differs from what he takes in at class. Why? He takes in a special kind of matter because the matter has different features, different vibrations - coarser and finer. The higher a person is elevated, the finer matter he can take in. The condition and the mood of a man depend on the matter he can take in. If this can be said about the physical matter, how much more can it be said for the spiritual one. For instance, when he has dressed in an article of clothing made of fine material, a man is in good spirits. As soon as he dresses in an article of clothing made of coarse material - his spirits fall. Some saints used to put on clothes made of coarse material, so that these clothes can feel rough on their skin. In this way, their senses were constantly awake and their thought was constantly directed to God. You often hear people say that they have to love one other and that they should love God. It is useless to discuss such themes. Doing this resembles the saint, who wears clothes made of coarse material, so that it can feel rough on him and thus remind him to think about God. If you visit a home where there is no electrical heater, it is no use saying - it is cold – you better install your electrical heater instead, and as you talk, bring your heat to that house. Let the hosts notice by themselves that you have something special. Let them notice the room temperature difference before and after you. That one, who observes and understands things, can draw conclusions – both about the rational beings in the world and God. The one, who lacks understanding, will strive to find God externally - he will ask where and what God is, etc. God has descended within the human mind - as light, within the human heart - as heat, within the human will - as strength, so that he can think, feel and act. After all, this man tries to find God where He does not exist. The most beautiful and greatest, the most reasonable being in the world is God. The beauty is related to the Truth. A man can also be beautiful - if he loves Love, Wisdom, and Truth. See Love as a beautiful and accessible image and you will give meaning to your life. Love is an ideal and an aim in a human's life. Everything people do is in the name of Love. Without Love they can attain neither Wisdom nor Truth. As people attain these virtues, these great forces - they become powerful and beautiful. Talking about beauty, we mean mainly the internal beauty - the beauty of the soul. That one, who is internally beautiful, is externally beautiful too. The beautiful person is delighted with all the people and sends his Light to everybody. Does the Sun not do the same also? The Sun is beautiful. It sends to us its Light, so that we can see it. The beauty of Love is in the heat. In fact, a person can be beautiful only if he bears some of the heat of life. The heat gives the human Spirit a good frame of mind. The heat opens the way for a person. Without heat, that is - without good feelings - the way for a man is closed. A person can be loved only when he bears the Divine Goods within himself and generously hands them out. If he is not ready to give from the Divine Goods, then he does not use the Love of people, or of the Exalted Beings. The one, who does not give away the Divine Goods to his fellow man, has diverted from the shortest way. The same holds true for the angels as well. The one, who distributes the Divine Goods to all the needy ones, is a bright angel. The one, who keeps everything for him is a fallen angel. Many people are afraid to give, for they might get impoverished. That one, who distributes the Divine goods with Love, though, never gets impoverished. Can the fountain that gives away abundantly get impoverished? If it is connected with a large inexhaustible source, it will never get impoverished. If the fountain does not give away, though – it might get impoverished. Everyone will abandon it then. They will seek another fountain that is ready to give without fear. Consequently, the one who gives - is being given. The one who hinders the Divine Goods - is not being given. As he notices this, such a person falls into contradiction. To break free from this contradiction, he should give. Do not hinder the Divine Goods! If you break this rule, you will be held responsible. You might say, that though you have been misers, now you are ready to give. Now you are what you have already been. Many of your views are from the past and you still are not able to break free from them. You have been masters, servants, mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters, but you have not performed your mission properly, and so you still carry consequences of unfulfilled engagements. What is the service of the father? - The father gives. And what is the service of the mother? - The mother processes. The mother receives the things from the father and processes them. The children receive the processed materials from their mother and father and put them into practice - in their life. The reason for the contradictions the present people come across, is that they did not give freely as fathers and did not receive and put into practice freely as children. That is why when God gives the Good to a person, the latter has to receive, process, and put it into practice freely. You want from God to love you without studying. This is impossible. When the master loves his disciple, this disciple has to study and be one of the first disciples. Some people want their master to love them and want to be the first disciples, but without studying. This is impossible. For the disciple, it is important to study. Sometimes he is very kind-hearted, but lazy. Such kind-heartedness cannot save him. After he enters school, the disciple should study. What does the disciple profit if he has excellent behaviour, if he has not quarrelled with anyone and if his marks are poor? He has not said a bad word to anyone, but with his bad marks he has provoked his master to tell him bad words and to be angry. A disciple, who makes his master angry, is not a good disciple. Do you think that such a master is bad? He is angry because he wishes his disciple well. Likewise, is the doctor, who forbids his patient to eat, a bad person? The healthy person should eat, but not too much; the ill person should eat little and sometimes even starve - this is required by his illness. Ill person should breathe a lot of air and eat little food. If he wants to develop properly, man should receive first light, then - heat, after that – air, and finally - solid food for the body. So, as he lives on Earth, man needs air - as food for his etheric double, for his astral body. For a person “to eat food” means to acquire light thoughts for his mind. For a person “to eat heat” means to acquire good, exalted feelings with his heart. As a man properly acquires the light as food - his mind brightens; as he acquires the heat properly, his heart becomes good and noble; as he acquires the air properly, his strength becomes great; as he acquires solid food properly and assimilates it well - his body becomes healthy. If the human body is healthy and if it is constantly improving, this means, that he eats food properly; if his strength is increasing, this means, that he feeds properly with air. The air contains a special kind of energy, called by the Hindu "prana". Other scientists call this energy life-giving electricity, or a life-giving magnetism. You have come here in the mountains not only to breathe clean air, as many people think, but you have also come for prana, that is, you have come here for the life-giving forces of electricity and magnetism. Go out early in the morning, so that you can absorb the special light beams of the Sun - as food for the mind, and its heat beams - as food for the heart. The best time for the lungs to take the prana from the air is in the morning. The mind, the heart, and the lungs acquire their food - as a result of this, the body becomes more receptive to take the proper food. Then we say that a person has fed properly. Without knowing, he has kept all the rules of hygiene for proper nutrition. The basic hygienic rules for good nutrition are as follows: proper reception of light, heat, air, and solid food. If a man adopts these rules, other rules will follow – the rules for his attitude towards God, his fellow man, and himself. How should we love each other? This is one of the hardest questions. To love a person means to help him. You can help him in the following way: you can enable him to accept light, heat, air, and solid food properly. If he needs help as regards his mind, then you will show him how to receive the Light; if he needs help as regards his heart, you will show him how to receive heat; if he needs proper breathing, you will show him how to breathe properly; if he needs health, you will show him how to eat. Some people are nervous and short-tempered. Why? They are nervous and short-tempered because they do not breathe properly. Sometimes, in the presence of a person, a man feels irritated and ready to get angry and quarrel with his acquaintances. In the presence of other people, though, he calms down. One person irritates you, while another one calms you down - what is the reason for this? A notorious doctor noticed that his patients wanted to have long conversations with him. Being a good and kind person he preferred not to tell them that it was time for them to go and leave him alone to work, so he invented a special device that was supposed to make them leave his consulting office. To the chair his clients used he fixed an awl and tied it with a thread. When his client stayed for a conversation more than he should, the doctor used to pull the thread; the awl pricked the client and made him immediately get out of the chair. So, the disputes between two people are nothing but a stitch of an awl. All people have such awls within themselves, with which they stitch one another. - This person offended me strongly. - This means, that you have stayed with him for a long time. How long do you have to be with the person you love? The time you should spend with the person you love is fixed. The one, who loves a lot, should spend one minute; the one, who loves less, should spend two minutes; the one, who loves little, should spend three minutes. The one, who stays for more than three minutes, will taste the awl. Adopt this rule to your thoughts and feelings. If a bad thought comes into your mind, or into your heart, do not let it stay for more than one minute. Try to free yourself quickly from the bad thoughts and feelings, so that you do not become depressive either to yourself, or to your relatives. At present, everyone talks about Love, but each of them understands Love differently. Some people think that the closer they are to each other - the more they love each other. But as soon as they marry, they see, that it is not so. This is a wrong understanding of Love. If someone marries, it does not yet mean that Love has visited him. Love is an attribute of the soul. The soul is the one that loves. In this sense no one is married. The soul does not marry and does not bind. The individual person marries in order to fulfil a mission. The Spirit also does not marry. That is why Christ says: "Those who marry this century neither marry a woman, nor a man." What people call marriage, is an act only on Earth. What Love is the Love that changes? Before he marries, the young man says to the young woman: I am dying for you. After he marries her, he tells her: I am dying from you. Which Love is stronger - to die for the man or to die from him? One thing you should know: do not trust Love that changes. True Love is eternal. The true Wisdom and Truth are eternal, too. Man should believe in them. If your faith is stimulated by Love, Wisdom, and Truth, then you are on the right track. Man recognizes the strength of his faith by this that he usually does not suffer. If he becomes ill, he manages to deal with his illness easily. Illness is good for him. He eliminates his illness so easily, as the big athlete eliminates his opponent. The human strength is being tested through the illnesses. If a person is strong, he will defeat the illness. If he is weak - then the illness will defeat him. And you should know that illnesses are nothing, but big athletes and wrestlers that attack you, so that they can test how strong you are. You will wrestle with them, you will bend, you will twist your hands and your legs, until one of you wins – you, or the illness. There are people, who influence a person not only physically, but mentally as well. By their thought they can twist some part of your body: your face, your hand, your leg, etc. But there are also people, who help a man by their bright thoughts, who release all the difficulties and distressing states from him. With their thought they are bigger athletes even than the best wrestlers. So, when we talk about evil, we imagine it as a wrestler, who ties the hands and the legs of the human aiming to limit him. No matter how strong evil is, though, good is always twice as strong. It comes to help a person, unties his hands and his legs and sets him free. A man has come to Earth not to fight with evil, but to develop self-control and patience and work with the positive forces of Nature. Why should a man be perfect? A man should be perfect in order not to yield to the negative forces. Patience is armour that protects a man from evil. Faith, Hope, Love, and Truth are armour, too. If he does not armour himself with them, then a person yields to the strong beings, to the wrestlers, and becomes a toy in their hands. In order not to be a toy in the hands of these beings, a man should have Faith, Hope, and Love. In order not to be a toy in their hands, he should have knowledge, Light, and freedom. Contemporary people live in a world of limitations. On the one hand these limitations limit them, but on the other hand they set them free. The reason for this is within the beings that live in the universe. Some beings do the Divine will; others do their own will. The second kind of beings likes to hamper the people and hinder them. They enter into them, study their weaknesses and begin to suggest to them various thoughts, aiming to hamper them. If they enter within an unmarried young lady, they begin to suggest to her the thought to fall in love with a young man. If they enter within a young man, they direct his attention towards the young lady and soon after that, the young man and the young woman meet and fall in love with each other. If they cannot marry, they begin to suffer. If they marry, soon after that their Love disappears and they feel like strangers and want to separate. This Love has been created artificially and therefore it vanishes. This Love is as durable as the love between the pig and its owner. The owner loves the pig; he feeds it, takes care of it, so that it can grow fat. As soon as he sees that it is fat enough, he takes it out of the pigsty and sends it to the other world. The love of the master towards the pig lasts till Christmas at most. As soon as Christmas comes, squeals, shouts, and cries are heard. The master puts a knife to the pig’s neck and starts to talk to it: do not be afraid - such is the law. In order to change your living conditions, in order to be able to leave the pigsty and go to Heaven, I have to stab your heart with a knife, or cut your head off. I speak figuratively, but this is the way evil beings fascinate people. As he likes to secure himself somehow, man is ready to trust anyone who promises him happiness. As soon as you meet a person, who promises a lot, though, know, that he is not telling the truth. As he has come on Earth, a person should know that the only one who can secure and nurture him is God. Everyone who serves Him is a Divine servant. As a person knows mission on Earth[M2] , a person should give freely, generously, and thank freely for everything he gets. Give and take freely. In other words: give with Love and take with Love. As we preach about Love, Wisdom, and Truth, many people want to know if what we preach is true. They want evidence. Truth should not be proved - it should be verified. As they put it into practice they will know that it is true. When man hurries, he does not speak the truth. Truth does not hurry - she awaits her time. How can you prove, that the air is clean? As soon as you inhale it in your lungs, you can say if it is clean, or not. A man himself is an authority for Truth. As soon as he inhales the mountain air into his lungs, he can express his opinion on its cleanness. As he lights his candle, man can express his opinion on the strength of its light. God has lodged within the human measures, with which he himself can define the force of light and heat, of air and water, cleanliness, etc. In what way is the strength of a musician expressed? The strength of a musician is expressed in this, that he transmits a part of his musical energy to his listeners and helps the development of their musical centre. If he cannot do so, this means that either he is not a great musician, or his listeners do not have an ear for music. The sunshine and the sun heat are powerful, because they help the growth of everything alive - plants, animals, and people, helping the development of human gifts as well. If you would like to make something good of someone, the energy of the good should flow off from you and the person should receive it. If such an energy exchange has not had an effect, you cannot make him a good person. If you like to make a man a believer, a part of the energy of faith should come out of you and enter his respective centre. Not everyone is developed equally: some have a strongly developed centre of faith, others have a strongly developed musical centre, the third have a strongly developed philosophical centre and the fourth - a well developed power of observation, etc. Each person should work hard in order to develop within himself his poorly developed centres. As disciples of the occult school, each one should know himself and should know which centres within him are well or poorly developed. People that are great individualists have a receding forehead. The upper part of their forehead is slanted, while the lower part of it is well developed. They are very observant. The people, who have a straight forehead, where the upper part is well developed and the lower part is poorly developed, are good philosophers. They like to philosophize on abstract problems. You will hear them philosophizing on the following subjects: Why has God created the world and in what way did He create it? Who can answer the question why God has created the world? During the creation of the world, humans did not exist. So, the world has not been created because of people. For whom did God create the world? He created the world for Himself. What do the words "to create for Himself" mean? The words “to create for Himself” mean, “to create for all”. So, God created the world for Himself, for the angels, for the exalted and for the rational beings, for the people, plants, and animals. In one word, God created the world for all the beings above and below man. Because having in mind that God contains all the creatures within Himself we may say, that, God has created the world for Himself, while He thinks that He has created the world for us. Because He manifests himself through all living beings, God is glad when we get along with each other. He is glad that we understand and put His laws into practice. As they do not observe the Divine laws, though, men criticise each other, as a result they mutually hinder one another. What does the word "criticism" mean? The criticism is a natural, a Divine measure, with which things are being measured. If you apply this Divine measure properly, then the criticism is in its proper place. If you do not apply this Divine measure properly, then the criticism is not in its proper place. You say about some person, that he is not good. How did you come to the conclusion that he is not good? What measure did you apply to him? As a musician says for a person, that he has no ear for music, he has put him under examination. He has used the tuning fork - the measure for the determination of the tuning of "A" in music. He says to that man: Strike the note "la". He strikes the note "la", but the musician checks it with the tuning fork and sees, that it is not right. Now strike the note "C". Strike the note "F". As he checks with the tuning fork, he sees that all the notes are right. Finally, the musician concludes that this person does not have an ear for music. His judgement is right, because he has applied the measure, with which the musicality of that man's ear should be measured. What measure will you use for the good man? The one, who never gets dirty and who never muddles is a good person. The one, who never loses his cleanliness, is a good person. Can you muddle the water of some deep mountain lake? The one, who never takes offence, is good. His temperature is ten thousand degrees. What is the offence? The offence is nothing, but an iron ball. What will happen to this ball if you throw it at a man, whose heat is ten thousand degrees high? Before it reaches him, it will melt. So, no offence can reach a good person. Today, almost everyone takes offence, because his heat is low. Contemporary people strive towards a new order and control those that exist in the invisible and rational world. Consciously or unconsciously they strive to this world, but they should know, that the rational world does not like ill people, or weak people. If such man gets among them, they immediately send him to Earth. In this respect they resemble bees. When some beehive gets an ill and an unclean bee, they immediately throw it out. Reasonable beings do the same. They do not tolerate an unclean being among themselves. Man has come to Earth namely in order to learn how to live a pure and sacred life and get ready for the rational life. Through his ignorance a person can injure his organs and thus spoil what he came to do here on Earth. That is why he needs real knowledge. As he enters some religious society, man has to be rational, to have knowledge, so that he does not cause damage either to himself, or to his relatives. Religious life implies relations between two people. In this relation the people are close to each other, so if they are not reasonable enough, they might cause a series of damage and sorrow to each other. When they climb up the Alps, tourists tie each other with a rope in order to climb the dangerous places more easily. Then they should be careful, because if one of them falls into the precipice, he might drag the rest of them down. But on the other hand, all of them together can save that one, who has slipped and fallen into the precipice. Such a chain of people resembles the spiritual life of societies. There, everyone is interrelated: if one of them falls – all the rest might fall. If one of them is rescued - then all of them might be saved. Consequently, all the spiritual people should protect each other. Do not think that the ground, on which you stand, is flat. It has high peaks, big cliffs, deep precipices, where everyone might pay with his life. Man encounters great temptations and seductions on his way that can trip him up. Imagine that you meet a young man, who is carrying a young beautiful lady in his arms. What would you say about this young man? You might say that he is a bad and suspicious person. But what would you say about him after you learn that the leg of the young lady was broken? She could not walk with a broken leg. The young man saw that she had broken her leg and helped her. Is this young man bad? As he expresses his opinion about something, man should know the conditions in which those things have happened. When people get closer together, you do not know what aim is hidden in their rapprochement. You do not know what the aim of God is to draw the good people closer with the bad ones. What is the aim of a person, who puts the ice into the fire? He wants to melt it and to turn it into water. Ice is not good for a person. But as he turns it into the water, he can use it rationally. It was said in the Scriptures: "Do not grieve the Spirit who leads you to the Divine Way." In order not to grieve the Spirit, learn to use your own judgement. Do not look at things narrow-mindedly. Unless you learn the deep significance of things, do not express your opinion about them and do not ask why has God let this or that. [M3] No matter how much and what kind of hardships you might have, do not draw hasty conclusions. What should the plough think about itself? Does it have to think that faith is unfair to it? The plough was made to do some work. A human was sent to Earth to do the will of God – just this. If he attends to problems different to the will of God, he will rest as the plough that has finished its job. And if he continues to philosophize, God will leave him in the soil for a longer period. If he rests longer than he should, he will rust. A plough that does not work gets rusted. A plough that works - gets shiny. Consequently, keep in your mind the thought: whatever happens in your life is to the good. If a human does not understand why things happen - it is another question. The important thing is that whatever happens in the world is for the best. The one, who does the Divine will, will get His blessing. The one, who does not do it, will be exposed to great suffering. This is a law. And if you attend to people's mistakes, then you will bear a part of them. As you know this, do not occupy yourselves with bad people. Do not think that you can make them better. A bad person is like a damaged machine that can be mended only by a master. Why do you think that someone is bad? You think that someone is bad because he has not lent you money? He did well, not to give you money. If he had done you this favour, you would have used it for useless things. Some people borrow money in order to marry. What is this marriage? He has graduated only from primary school and decided to marry. According to the Divine Teaching, man can marry after he graduates from elementary school, junior high school, high school, university and a specialization. A person, who has graduated only several school forms, or only several grades, is not fit for marriage and for giving birth to offspring. Marriage is only for highly advanced people - for people mentally and spiritually advanced. What do we mean by "marriage"? In its broad sense, the word “marriage” implies a relation of two people by something. To become a minister in a given country is the same as being married to this country. To become a king also implies marriage. What will you create as a minister, or as a king, though? If you would like to become a father or a mother, these again are high posts. It is not enough to only become a mother or a father, though - you should create something as well. If you want to become a master - you marry. What will you create as a master, though? You should create something even if you become a servant. In order to become a servant, the invisible world requires by all means a higher education and a ten-year specialization. The angel is a servant of heaven, but has a lot of knowledge and experiences - more than all of humanity. On hearing this, you should not get discouraged, but you should know, that you are surrounded by beings, who wish you well. In order to attain what you like, you should listen to them. Your failures are often a result of disobedience. The result of the disobedience is discontent. Feeling dissatisfied, man begins to look for the reason of his failures in the ambient people and says that the people are bad, that the world has not been properly created, etc. He thinks that the only good person is he. The prophet Elijah also thought, that evil should be destroyed, and for this reason he killed 400 false prophets. After that, he got frightened and escaped to the desert. He said: "Now I remained alone and they want to take my life." God answered him: "You are not alone. There are seven thousand prophets like you in Israel". After the killing of the prophets, though, the prophet Elijah lost his power. He had to come again on Earth and corrected his mistake. He realized, that the world couldn’t be corrected by force but by Love, Truth, and Light. Now I’m saying to you as well: as disciples, make the foundations of your life from Love, Wisdom, and Truth and begin creating from there on. The fruits of the Spirit are: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, self-restraint. The true life is the life full of light, heat, fresh air, and food. July 19, 5 a.m. -------------------------- *Falaga – a wooden device, used to fasten the legs of the punished disciple, after which they thrashed his feet. [M1]One can say that a vine is pruned – the word circumcision is not used in this way. [M2]Unclear – {As a person knows his mission on Earth} or {When a person knows his mission on Earth} [M3]Incomplete – add the word {happen} at the end of the sentence.

Note 4p THE REALITY OF LIFE Reflection “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth.” John 4:24 "God is a Spirit." The word "God" in all the languages is not understood. It is not a simple notion. Man has to study it for a long time before he can understand it. As long as it remains incomprehensible, this word does not bring any benefit. Only the comprehended things can bring benefit to humans. God is a Spirit and the Spirit is God - it is one and the same. How a person will speak is not important – it is important that he should understand it. The words "God is a Spirit" comprise the reality of life. Whether man denies or admits this reality is not important. No matter how much he denies it, no matter how much he doubts it, no matter how much he philosophizes on its existence, anyway man feels that something confines him and he cannot do without this reality. Man cannot live without both this reality and air. No matter how much he denies air, no matter how much he insists that he cannot live without it, it is enough to stop receiving it, to see that he cannot live without air. The physical life of man is determined by breathing. As he stops breathing, his life stops as well. On the same grounds, I say: As soon as a man stops thinking about God, he dies. Sometimes, human life is being made senseless, because he seeks the reality in the shadows. He thinks that what surrounds him is real. What surrounds man is a relative reality, though, that is - shadows of reality. As long as he believes in the shadows of reality, man becomes superstitious and constantly loses something from his own self. As long as he believes in the absolute reality, he grows and increases, acquires knowledge, strength, and wealth. The one who lives in the shadows of the reality becomes poor. As soon as he enters the true reality, he starts to eat well and enters the abundance of life. "God is a Spirit". In order to understand the deep meaning of these words, man needs mental Light. He has to enter the Light of life that reveals the presence of God. The one that has entered the Light of life is the only one who can see the wide world around him. Through this Light he sees life internally. Without it, he can perceive the world just by its reflection - not straight. The real world is wide, so man cannot grasp it. For instance, man can get what the Sun is by the Light that comes from it, but in fact he does not know what it is like. Scientists say that the Sun is a body burning with high temperature that - according to the various scientists - varies from 5000-45,000,000 degrees. But no scientist has been on the Sun, so that he might have absolute knowledge of it. As soon as there is some talk about the Sun, this shows that both the common person and the scientists know something positive about it. All people know that the Sun is a bearer of light and warmth. According to the way the sunbeams reach the ground, according to what the angle is as they reach the ground, this heat is stronger or weaker. It is noticed, that various temperatures affect the bodies differently. For instance, at low temperatures the bodies freeze, at moderate temperatures the bodies grow, while at the high temperatures they melt. Low temperatures are for weak creatures, the moderate temperature is for common creatures and high temperatures are for strong and rational beings. Common creatures and the majority of humans live at a moderate temperature - we see this from the fact that the human body temperature is 37 degrees. As soon as this temperature is increased by three or four degrees, man goes to the next world. But there also exist microbes, that live at temperatures of more than 120 degrees and some of them even withstand 500 degrees. These are scientific affirmations that need proof. According to contemporary scientists, the Sun is a burning body, while the Earth is a solid dark mass illuminated by the Sun. The interior of the Earth is a fiery melted mass, while its surface is hard, because of the pressure under which it stands. This means, that the solidity of some men is due to the same reason. They too, as the Earth, are under great pressure. Often there are great depressions and great pressures in Nature. Then the people feel great discomfort. As soon as its depression passes away, their discomfort immediately disappears. Depression exists in the mental life of a person as well. For instance, each unclear feeling causes depression in his heart, while each unclear thought causes depression in his mind. If man understands them, he feels great joy. Inner peace and calm set within him. Within the Divine World, the thoughts and feelings that are understood are fruits, which the human Spirit eats. If the human Spirit does not eat such thoughts and feelings, it gradually weakens and becomes feeble - like the body of a person, who does not eat well. Weak and skinny people cannot be beautiful. Beauty is not just an outer quality, but an internal one as well. If a man likes to be beautiful and to have a pleasant face to look at, he should know what food to give to his Spirit. If he feeds it with suitable food, a man acquires both spiritual and physical beauty. If he is not beautiful both in the spiritual and the physical sense, though, he cannot be considered a beautiful person. Christ says: "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." (Verse 32) What is this food? Christ answers: "My food is to carry out the will of him who sent me and to finish his work." (Verse 34) Christ came to Earth to do God's will, to deliver clear thoughts to humans that can show them the right way and turn them to God. Those who have not adopted Christ’s thoughts, live outside God, as a result they die. If man wants to be immortal, he has to know God. Immortality is in the recognition of God. Therefore it was said: "This immortal life is to recognize you - the Only One True God." Why does a human have to have faith? So that he can live. If he does not have faith, he will die. Consequently, if you want to die – have no faith; if you want to live - have faith. If you want to suffer – have no faith; if you do not want to suffer - have faith. Sufferings are a result of unclear thoughts, feelings, and deeds. The difference between clear and unclear thoughts is like the difference between artificial fruit made by a man and natural fruit made by Nature. The difference between the clear and the unclear thoughts produces different results. The unclear thoughts, feelings, and deeds in human life lead to sorrow, difficulties, and finally – to death, while the clear thoughts lead to joy, fun, and life. Talking about unclear thoughts, we mean the thoughts that have sprung from the Divine Light. [M1] The Spirit eats Divine thoughts only. At the same time, we say God is Love. Consequently, as the Spirit eats Divine thoughts, it gives birth to Love. The fruit of the Spirit is Love. On its side, Love gives birth to life. So, to enter the reality of Spirit, one should experience Love. To understand what Love is he should experience life. "God is Spirit". The believers read this verse, yet they are seeking the way to believe in God and His Spirit. I am asking: is a man able to believe in the existence of the Sun before the sunlight illuminates him? Can a man believe in the existence of fire before he perceives its heat? Can a man believe in the existence of bread before he tastes the life this bread comprises? Can a man believe in someone's words before he tastes them? Much of what I talk might [M2] seem incomprehensible to you, or you might think you know it. Whatever you think, you should test the things. Because men do not taste the things and take a lot of them for granted, we may say they know few things. They have a lot of synthetic and analytical knowledge - they do not have mental knowledge, though. Little of their knowledge has become their flesh and blood. Until he analyses the matter of the body, the chemist decomposes it into its component parts. Until he synthesises the substances, the chemist forms more and more complex compounds. By breaking down the complex bodies and synthesizing the separate elements in complex compounds, he performs a series of processes that deserve examination. Combining two elements you may get some kind of gas - it can ignite and light, but it cannot explode. Using the gas wisely, you can get light, otherwise, combined with air, or oxygen - it might ignite and explode. Many chemists have been hurt due to such explosions. One famous American professor was combining an explosive before his students; the explosive power was ten times bigger than the power of dynamite. So, he took one small amount of it and ignited it. Knowing the explosive power of this matter, he said to his students: Run! Instantly the audience ran outside - the professor and the students got out. Explosives are dangerous. Even the smallest particle of these substances comprises such an amount of explosive force that may bring great misfortunes. On dealing with such substances, man should know how to use them. There are words in the human speech that bear great explosive force - they cause an explosion within man. As soon as the sweetheart of the maiden tells her, that he does not love her, she returns home broken hearted and crushed: her gaze becomes dull, her face reddens. Her life loses its meaning; she does not feel like living. Why? Because her sweetheart has told her that he does not love her. He voiced one word, set the air in motion, so she does not want to live. What should she do? She should learn the law of transformation. Instead of repeating, "he does not love me", she should transform these words and say, "he loves me". Or, if her sweetheart tells her, that he does not love her, she should put a comma after the negative particle "not". Then the meaning of the words will become positive: No, he loves me. Consequently, unless he wants to suffer excessively, man should learn to put commas next to all the negative thoughts. If someone says, that God does not love him, he should immediately put a comma after the particle "not". The only one who loves him is God. If someone thinks God does not love him, the reason lies in him. Due to his misunderstanding of the laws, he directs bad thoughts towards God. Then his own thoughts return to their creator again. Not realizing these bad thoughts are his own creation, man thinks they come from God. No, God does not occupy Himself with negative thoughts. Now, as you know this law, never say, that you do not love this one or that one. Saying you do not love someone, you commit a crime regarding God. Something beautiful and great has been put within each man, for which you should love him. It has been said in the Scriptures: “He fell in love with the Truth within man." So, a particle of God exists within each man. Each man needs Love, so love each other. To love someone means to feed him. To love you means to feed you. The human Spirit eats clear thoughts. Send a bright, clear thought to the man and leave him alone. He will receive your thought, cultivate it, that is, he will “eat” it, and after a time he will send some other thought back to you, which you will eat. People start losing their Love the moment they have worked their way to it. They want to keep it for themselves only. It is known, that when two people love each other, they turn off all the taps within themselves in order that this Love does not come out. They want to use it by themselves. No, as soon as he finishes his meal, a man should give what was left to the other people – thus they also might make use of Love. There are two kinds of Love in the world: love of the shadows and love of reality. The love of the shadows is Love of limitations and sufferings. We do not mean this Love. We mean the real Love, which neither limits the others, nor limits itself. Love described in the novels is the Love of the shadows. There are three kinds of this Love: dramatic, comic, and tragic. If their Love is dramatic, the characters suffer. They suffer mutually and faint before they marry. As soon as they marry, no one faints any longer. If their Love is tragic, the characters die. If their Love is comic, the characters remain alive and laugh everything off. They do not view life seriously. Tragedy is related to mind, and drama - to the heart. There is no suffering and death in real Love. There, the relation between the souls is increasing and never breaks. Real Love is characterized by growth and achievement. So, have in mind, that human Love is Love of shadows. It is like a beautiful dress in which the heart dresses itself. As soon as it gets dressed in this garment, instead of rejoicing, the heart begins to suffer. Why? The garment is not suitable for it. Such Love constantly takes. It does not give anything to a man, so he is in constant discrepancy. What do we see in life? Two people fall in love with each other - due to lack of understanding the laws, though, they run across the Love of the shadows that constantly takes. Each one of them wants to take, till one day both of them begin to hate each other. To preserve their Love, they have to experience the real Love that differs in giving. If he does not give and take, the human cannot be loved. Man should know when he should accept God's Love and when he should give it. In Love, things should have their proper time. When we talk about the Love of the shadows, one should not judge himself: a person should neither underestimate, nor overestimate himself. A man has to have a proper measure with which to measure the things, he should know, that he has two valuable things inside himself: Spirit and soul. As he knows this, he should neither underestimate his Spirit and his soul, nor overestimate them. The Spirit and the soul represent in man the mother and the father. Consequently, love your father - your Spirit, and your mother - your soul. Work in unity and harmony with them in order to develop your mind and your heart that are given to you as tools for the physical world. "God is Spirit". Where does God manifest Himself? God manifests Himself within the mind - through light, within the heart - through heat, within the will - through power. God also manifests within the human soul and Spirit. If we cannot find God at these five places, we will not be able to find Him anywhere. All the noble and exalted feelings ripen within the human soul thanks to the Divine Heat and Light. Not only the human soul should give birth, but the mind and the heart should give birth too. What is the mind that does not give birth to thoughts? What is the heart that does not give birth to feelings? What is the will that does not give birth to force? Consequently, the mind should give birth to light thoughts and nurture them. The heart should give birth to warm feelings and nurture them. The will should give birth to power, which should constantly increase. If he cannot nurture his thoughts, feelings, and actions, man will spoil them spoiling also his own self. Human thoughts, feelings, and actions should be healthy, clear, because they are part of the composition of his body. At the same time, they are also part of the composition of the future world. A new world is being created. It is designed in space as on a cloth. To understand it, man should become engrossed with himself. He can achieve this by examining the small quantities. Each thought, feeling, and action are such small quantities, that man should consciously examine them. As soon as a bright thought comes into your mind, examine how it was born, what was its origin, etc. As soon as a good feeling comes into your heart, find out its origin. Examine the origin of your thoughts, feelings, and actions, noting the minute, the hour, the day and the time they were born. Thoughts, born in spring, summer, or winter have different features. As He stopped by the well to rest, Christ talked with the Samaritan woman. He was telling her about the life-giving water, but she thought He meant the ordinary water and was wandering how he can give her water when there was nothing to draw this water with. Likewise, now you do not understand the problem of thought, so you also might say as the Samaritan woman: “Give us from this water, so that we will not become thirsty.” At last, Christ told the Samaritan woman: "Go call your husband!" – “I have no husband.” Man implies the human mind. This means, the Samaritan woman did not have a mind; that is, her higher mind, perceiving things properly, was not awakened yet. Until he lives, man should develop his own self and his elevated mind. To manifest his elevated mind means to manifest the male principle within himself. Today each man wants to be brave, to manifest character and power. Man cannot be brave, unless he has mind. Man cannot be stable unless he has heart. The mind develops bravery - the heart develops stability. Therefore, man differs from the woman in his power; woman differs from the man in her stability. Leave a woman in an empty house and see what happens. Several years later, the house will be full. What man does externally happens within him internally. Because one of the features of the heart is to gather, woman gathers and fills the house. Man does not need many things. Man needs few, but important things. As disciples, you should strive to attain light thoughts that have a high price. These thoughts come from distant spaces. They are brought to Earth by rational beings that have a special mission. These creatures love people and come down to Earth especially to bring them light Divine thoughts and elevated Divine feelings. These thoughts and feelings are gifts for people. If they receive them on time, they should process them within themselves. Thus processed, they bring radical change in their lives. Each clear thought, feeling, and action is a great blessing for a man. That one, who appreciates them, becomes a great person. Christ says: "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." This means: I have a task - to fulfil the will of my Father - not my own will. Each person was sent to Earth, so that he can fulfil the Divine Will. Therefore, each person was given a special mission. This mission consists in the reception and implementation of light thoughts and elevated feelings. If he fulfils his mission properly, a person will have attained something valuable, that he can carry with himself to the other world. July 16, 5 a.m. ---------------------------- [M1]I am not sure if this needs correction, but surely clear thoughts come from the Divine Light, not unclear thoughts. [M2]{I talk about might…} or {I say might…}

Note 4p DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THOUGHT Contemporary people aim at happiness and acquisition of knowledge and force. They do not know that all this can be acquired by a rightful thought. Which thought could be considered rightful? Rightful is the thought that can transfer all it has taken from God to a man. If it cannot transfer this – then it is not to be considered rightful. Which thought could be considered rightful? Rightful is the thought that accepts only goodness. Wherever it meets goodness, it gathers it and lets nothing fall on the ground. It accepts goodness, cultivates it within itself and sends it away. Both the rightful and the positive thought give something to a man, but as long as he works. If he does not work and wants only to win, man resembles an aristocrat, who counts on his servants. His servants do things for him, yet he says that all the wealth belongs to him. This wealth is a fictitious capital. Suppose you have two disciples, one of them studies - the other expects to be told all the lessons without any effort; one of them will gain more. The one who studies will gain more than the one who does not study. As disciples of the occult school, you should examine things in their deep meaning and penetrate into their essence. For instance, contemporary chemists say that water consists of two elements - oxygen and hydrogen. They do not know that water comprises one more element as well. Up till now, scientists could not discover the third element of water, for it is a matter that resists material examination. Although, water is highly necessary for a man, it causes great damage as well. It can drown him, and when it happens, the reasonable world holds hydrogen and oxygen responsible. From a material point of view, hydrogen and oxygen are unconscious, irrational beings, controlled by rational ones. Namely these rational beings are responsible for all the damages water causes to man. The rational being, like the artist, uses brushes and paints as training aids, with which to express the great ideas of existence. Water is a bearer of the great Divine principle. Through hydrogen and oxygen man examines the character of the rational beings that control them. Oxygen makes the water dynamic, while hydrogen makes the water soft. Therefore we say: the water that does not transfer dynamism and softness to a person is not clean. Since it is not clean - it is not healthy. Contemporary people are interested in the good quality of water as much as they are interested in their own actions. What deed is good? Imagine that some friend of yours brings you a basket full of grapes, apples, and pears. What will you do with these fruits? Can you eat them at once? You cannot. Do you have to throw them away just because you cannot eat them at once, though? If you throw them away, this means that you have not appreciated them - this will hurt your friend. Every day, you will eat a fruit or two until they are finished. As you eat, gather the seeds of these fruits and plant them. This is a good deed. Why? This is a good deed because both the outer and the inner lines of conduct correspond to each other. So, each thought, whose lines coincide with the lines of the human mind, heart, will, and Spirit, has a beautiful form. When you receive such a thought, you better preserve it, process it well and repay it properly. Each thought, with lines that do not correspond to the lines of the man, causes him a pinch, like old and ineffectively made shoes. The thoughts that make an invalid from a man are not to be considered rightful. In a religious sense, there are also thoughts, the lines of which do not coincide with the lines of the mind, heart, will, soul, and of the human Spirit. A man cannot benefit from such thoughts. They can turn him into an invalid. In order not to become an invalid, he should avoid them. It has often been said to contemporary people, that they have to say thank you at each meal. This does not mean that they have never been thankful - it means they should be awake and they should realize that exclusively the goods God has given them have sustained their life. In their consciousness, there has to be something new, so that growth might exist. If these processes do not exist within his consciousness - a man is destined to stagnation. Stagnation exists only in the material world - a man is put in the organic life, though, where everything grows, blossoms, develops fruits, and ripens. What would you say to your friend if he gives you a pear modelled from clay, or painted on paper? You will thank your friend, you will enjoy the pear, but you will not be able to taste it. This pear can be preserved for a long time. You can give it to a museum as a model, that might characterise the art in a given age, but there is no growth in it. This pear will never rot, because it is not genuine - there is no life in it. Genuine is the pear on the tree that grows, develops, and acquires something new each day. The fact that it rots does not deprive it of a future life. It bears a seed - the beginning of new life. Then also, each fruit should have some aroma and scent. Until it ripens, pears do not allow it to be touched[M1] . As soon as you go near it, the pear says: "Do not touch me!" As soon as it ripens, it offers itself and says: "You can eat me now." If in the first case you do not touch it, you do God’s will. If in the second case - when the pear tells you to eat it - you fulfil its wish, you also do the will of God. Therefore, until the fruit ripens - do not touch it. As soon as it ripens - you can pick and eat it. Many people want to love and to be loved. To love somebody means to eat him. This person has come to you, so you accept him as a king: you take off his coat and take him into your living room, where great honour and respect await him. If your guest is close to you, you will kiss him and then begin the tasting - to see if he is sweet or not. In everyday life, this process is called eating, but with the highly elevated people it is called affection as well. If you tell this to an ordinary person, you will embarrass him. He would not understand the deep meaning of affection. No matter how much you talk to him about it, he will not be able to get it. If you tell him, that he cannot love everyone, he will consider this as a restriction. I ask - how would you love the bee? To love it means to invite it to your place. To invite it means to give it honey to eat. Only under this condition will it visit you. As soon as the honey is spent, it will quickly leave you. You cannot “eat” it, though, that is - you cannot give it a corresponding place in your heart. As he has come on Earth, man needs communication with people. But in order to communicate with the people and relate to them, man has to observe two conditions: to appreciate a man and to love him. Thus the souls are related in the invisible world. So, if some of you enter a society of rational beings from the invisible world, he will return with great presents. He can use these presents all his life. This shows that they have valued and loved him as he valued and loved them. If he descends to Earth without presents, this means that the rational beings have not valued him, nor he has valued the rational beings - as a result, no relation has been established between them. Consequently, whenever man complains of his poverty, it means he has not valued and conceived the deep affection for God that he should. If you love God, He will never drop and leave you in privation. If you love a person, it is impossible for him not to respond and be ready to do some good for you. If he is not ready to do something for you, then your Love towards him has been self-interested. You have not done him any favours and you have not sacrificed yourself. As it loves someone, even a bee sacrifices itself and gives its life for him. A person suffers from rheumatism in his legs, but he cannot be healed. Why? He cannot be healed because no one loves him. He seeks help from doctors, but they cannot help him either. Finally, the bee comes to help him. It stings his legs several times, so his rheumatism vanishes. With these stings a bee sacrifices its life for him. Knowing the properties of the acid the bee secretes, you can heal yourself consciously. Contemporary scientists examine water and its properties and use it for healing, but they do not do this in one and the same way. Some recommend cold compresses - others recommend warm ones. When you put a cold compress on the ill spot, the capillary tube vessels narrow, as a result special reactions are provoked inside the human organism. If you put warm compresses on the ill spot, they provoke favourable reactions in the organism. Warm water causes expansion of the blood vessels, as a result the circulation of the blood improves. As he knows the properties of the warm and cold water, man can heal in a spiritual way. For instance, instead of warm water, man can be healed by his thought that may expand the capillary tube vessels in the same way as the warm water. So, as in the human organism there are two flows - arterial and venous, so in the human thought the same two flows exist. The arterial flow brings joy and delight a person, makes him bright and cheerful; the venous flood makes him sad, a pessimist, and indisposed. Through sorrow human blood is being purified, but meanwhile he is displeased, angry, and wants to quarrel with the others. It is not bad to quarrel with other people from time to time, but man should know how to argue with them and what to say. As he meets a bad person he should tell him: you are very good - better than you should. [M2] To the rich man he should say: you are rich, but you are heavily loaded - it is dangerous - your spine might break. Be careful not to fall under the pressure of the wealth you have won. To a strong person he might say: you are a very strong person. Wherever you go, whatever you catch, turns into dust. A rich person might ask how he can come out of the difficult situation he is in. A person will tell him, that he should become generous and give. To the strong one he might say, to work and help the weak people, so that he can spend his excessive energy. To the good person he might tell him to manifest his goodness not only towards himself, but towards his fellow men as well. I will give an example to illustrate my idea. There lived a man, who was such a miser, that he thought only about money. A young man appeared, accompanied by several servants, who carried a huge wagon full of various silver and golden jewels. They were giving jewels to whomever they met on their way. As they heard that, the people began to crowd to this young man. Each of them carried a container - bigger or smaller - so that he could get some of these riches. The miser heard about that and immediately went to the place, where the riches were being distributed. He saw people carrying big or small plates, but they seemed insufficient to him, therefore he took a huge container. As they saw him, the young man said to him: Lie down on the ground! The miser did lie on the ground and waited. The young man ordered his servants to put the container he had brought on his chest and started putting spades full of jewellery in it one after another. Heavily burdened by the weight of the container, the miser started to shout: "It is enough. Stop loading me, I cannot breathe, I am suffocating!" The young man looked at him and said to his servants: "Do not take the container off his chest yet - let him learn his lesson." Thus the rational world wanted to teach him a good lesson, so that he could understand that he has lived exclusively for himself and has always taken more than he had to. So, the suffering contemporary people experience is nothing but results from their greediness. These sufferings show that each person has taken more than he should from the goods. Man should not be greedy. It is enough to give him a small dish from these goods. How much does one gram of diamonds cost today? If one gram of diamonds costs a lot, then how much more would the goods the invisible world has given to every man cost? If he is greedy taking more than what has been given to him, a man will find himself in the position of fish, that is – within the reality of many wishes and great suffering. Water cannot give fish what they need: food, air, and light. Water makes them mobile, but it deprives them of the conditions that human beings have. They have no speech; they have no culture at all. Their life is a life of self-extermination. For this reason, some fish succeeded in leaving the conditions of the water and turned into birds. Even as birds, they are not satisfied by their life, so they strive for something higher again. As for the elements carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen it should be known that they did not transfer any special features to the creatures that live within the water and in the air, so these creatures strive to come out of their environment and enter the area in which the human lives. The elements used by contemporary chemistry are great aristocrats. [M3] If you do not know how to deal with them - you will suffer. Do you know how many learned men, how many chemists have suffered from radium, until they learn its properties? For instance, men often play games with dynamic Love without suspecting the damage it may cause them. Dynamic Love may drain the human heart and turn it into dried meat. Contemporary people - young and old want to love. They do not even suspect that Love is a complicated science for the examination of which thousands of years are necessary. To love a person means to examine him. Man cannot love himself, yet he cannot break free from selfish Love. Namely this kind of Love causes the greatest misfortunes. It transfers a greater amount of heat to the human heart, as a result, after a certain amount of time it gets charred. Due to this Love, the human mind reddens, while a man himself becomes neurasthenic. At last, even the person’s will becomes black. As his will gets black, he is considered an evil man. This is a figurative presentation of the changes that a person undergoes. In order to get rid of his drying heart, of his reddening mind, and of his will blackening, man has to strive for rational Love. He should become a master of his mind, heart, and will. As disciples, you should strive to transform the colours red and black into white. If the learned people have succeeded in transforming the limy stones into lime with which to whitewash their houses, should they not turn the colours black and red into white? Besides, they should obtain such a white colour that does not ever change. Once they obtain this colour, it should be preserved forever. So, as he awakens, a person should retain some fundamental thought in his mind, that can show him what he should do and how he should give from what he has taken. After that, he should retain a substantial feeling in his heart - to show himself how to receive the goods and process them. Finally, he should stop his thought on some essential deed - to serve as a model for his further actions. Man should know that each one of his actions towards any person is an action towards God. Man should be careful towards people born from God. The person, who was born from God, has a bright mind, noble heart, strong will, exalted soul, and strong Spirit. Each person, who does not posses these features, was born from his fellow man. As you meet a person born from God, direct all your love towards him. Meeting such a person means you have acquired something valuable in your life. Every day, you should aim at meeting one such person. In his present life, though, man can hardly meet at least one person born from God. All the people that you meet today are servants of the one that was born from God. When they say that a man should have an alert consciousness, this implies that he should be on the lookout for the moment when he is to meet the truly born person. If he does not keep this moment, he loses favourable opportunities in his life. To fall in love for a person does not mean to look for someone to marry – it means to find the one, who was truly born. If he meets such a person, he has received the great blessing of life. If he never meets him, he will be exposed to great suffering. Each one is looking for this person, but he is not to be easily found. When can you see the Sun? After it rises. No one can see the Sun before it has risen or after it has gone down. Consequently, if you would like to see the most distant stars in heaven, you should use a telescope, that magnifies and brings the objects near the human eye. To the spiritual eyesight, the mind is like the telescope for the physical eyesight. If the human mind is not bright, it will not be able to magnify all the forms God has created and be able to study them. If you do not have a bright and alert mind, then you will pass by these forms without recognizing them. You will pass by the one that was born from God without knowing him. If you have a bright mind, you already have an opportunity to meet this person. If you have a kind heart as well, then your opportunities increase and you will meet him twice. If you have an exalted soul, you will meet him three times. If your Spirit is strong, you will meet him four times. And if you love God, you will meet him every day. This is one of the greatest truths in life. Do not think that it is easy to meet a man born from God. This is a Divine good and the Divine goods are being given only to the one, who can appreciate them. From the moment you meet this man, your position changes fundamentally - a real takeover occurs within you. For instance, Adam, before entering the Garden of Eden, was a common animal, but God met him, got him out the unfavourable conditions and lodged him in heaven - to rule the animals and be their master. One thing was required from Adam - obedience and rationality. In order retain the new conditions Adam had to fulfil what was required from him. Each person, who wants to get back to heaven, should fulfil the condition required from Adam: not to eat from the fruits of the tree that helped to distinguish good from evil. If he does not keep this condition, he would neither return to paradise, nor keep his present situation – instead, he will find himself in the position of an animal, wagging his tail and competing with the other animals. So, keep rightful and positive thoughts in your mind, so that you can attain that which your soul strives for. Our aim is that you might come into terms with the great Divine law that functions in the world now. Express your thoughts rightfully without restricting yourself. Strive for what God created. If you cannot attain your wishes, do not get discouraged or angry. It is not bad for a person to get angry and lose his temper, but he should be ready for this. Wrath is an energy that aims at going out. In order that this energy gets out[M4] , man should be ready and know how and in which direction to direct it. If he is not ready, then he should postpone the war until he arms himself well. It makes sense that a person might make war, but just in case he is certain, that he will win. [M5] Until he gets ready, he should study. What would one gain if he tells someone he is bad and bad mannered? Now, since you have come to Earth, you should study. Before you finish with your sciences, you will have to pass through many schools and masters. As disciples in the low school, you will pass through certain teachers; as disciples in the junior high school you will pass through other teachers; in the secondary school - through others, in university - through other masters. Finally, you will enter the school of the invisible world, where you should have excellent marks. On all the subjects, you should have 12 - the highest possible mark. First, they will ask you if you love your father and mother. As soon as you say, that you love them, they will give you a candle and make you light it. This candle can be lit only at the thought for your mother and father. If the candle does not start to burn, this means you do not love your father and mother. In such a case you will have to return to the Earth and work once more. After some time, they will make you pass the same exam again. You will not be allowed to be a disciple in the school of the invisible world, unless the candle begins to burn at the thought of your mother and father. Many people say that human can live even without a burning candle. They have been mislead. A man cannot live without a burning candle. The burning candle represents the human mind that shines in the darkness and puts a person on the right track. If a man is given a task, he will solve it only if he thinks. If he does not think, he cannot solve his task. A man should constantly think. If someone gets angry, make him take several buckets of water and wash the wooden floor. As he begins to work, he will spend the energy that has piled within him and his anger will disappear. Anger in man is just a shaking of the fruit-bearing trees, so that everything useless can fall off them. The basic thought you should bear in your mind is, that God manifests to the human through all the rightful deeds. While man eats with gratitude and breathes properly, God expresses Himself through him. Through each rightful thought, in each noble feeling and good deed, God also expresses Himself to him. If you come across some noble feeling, enjoy, for God makes Himself known through it. You might not be able to see this, but some day you will see and understand Him. You do not know what God has prepared for you. You hurry and you want to attain everything at once. This is not possible. A child from the first grade cannot enter university in any possible way no matter how hard he tries. Much more science and knowledge are required from such a child, but this should not discourage him. As a child studies regularly and with love, this child will begin to manifest as Love. So, young men should study Love, adult men - Wisdom, and old men – Truth, that is, putting things into practice. Love, Wisdom and Truth are three bites of the Divine World. Each person should taste these three bites, so that he can satisfy his spiritual hunger. While he is young, man should study life; as an adult, man should study knowledge and Light, as an old man - he should study the methods for the application of these things in life. Now I wish you to accept Love, Wisdom, and Truth within yourselves as your daily bread that can give you strength to put your things in order. July 12, 2 o'clock p.m. [M1]{pears do not allow people to touch them} [M2]Incomplete – {better than you should be} [M3]{very superior} [M4]{In order for this energy to be released} or {In order for this energy to get out} [M5]{but just in case, he must be certain that he will win.}