The Path of the Disciple

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THE PATH OF THE DISCIPLE

 

 

TO BE A DISCIPLE IS THE HIGHEST NAME ON EARTH. Christ gathered his disciples to him, calling them friends.

 

The Master says also: I PUT YOU ON THE SAME FOOTING AS MYSELF.

 

Concerning THE WAY OF THE DISCIPLE.

 

THE MASTER was speaking injust that very year when the Salon was built for the lzgrev — the year 1927.

 

The House was finished when the disciples were called to the Synod. This was the great DEDICATION.

 

Then it was as if the heavens were opened and from thence came down angels.

 

There was great rapture. The disciples came from all Bulgaria. Holy, inspired people, clothed in white, with long hair which reached the bottoms of their ears, cut evenly. The hair is a man’s antennae. The hair contains his whole character and position. The sisters were also clothed in white. They had white hats. The style of their dress was free, the line of the shoulders was natural. How different they were from the fashion of those days! They had long hair in a bun, and in their hair were silver slides, — silver, the metal of good health.

 

THE MASTER was all shining in gold light.

 

THE SYNOD BEGAN AT 7 in the morning of 19th August.

 

THIS SYNOD IS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND, said the Master. The First Day began with the Day of Love. We divide people into four categories:

 

Old Testament, New Testament, the justified — the people of the new times — and DISCIPLES.

 

What were your thoughts and views of life in the past, you will find in the Old Testament.

 

What were your views of life as New Testament folk, you will find in the New Testament.

 

But if you seek in the Gospel the Path of the Disciple, you will not find it.

 

THE PATH OF THE DISCIPLE, that is NEW, and God gives it today.

 

As disciples, you must have a clear concept of the Path of the Disciple.

 

From this viewpoint we pass no moral judgments, we do not say that this one is wrong, that one right.

 

We have absolutely no concern with people’s sins. For us they do not exist.

 

For us there exists only the true life — the life of LOVE.

 

I say unto you:

 

God is the God of Love, of Light, of Peace and of Joy.

 

Consequently these are the QUALITIES OF THE DISCIPLE.

 

If you ask me what must be your ideal under the present circumstances, I say unto you that you ideal must be:

 

LOVE, LIGHT, PEACE AND JOY FOR SOULS.

 

That is not some ideal for eternity, but it can be achieved this day.

 

Now, at the beginning you must have LOVE, BUT NOT WITHOUT LIGHT

 

You must have LIGHT, BUT NOT WITHOUT PEACE

 

You must have PEACE, BUT NOT WITHOUT JOY.

 

What is Love without Light?

 

Surely all the Old Testament people had Love without Light?

 

What good did it do them?

 

What good did it do them?

 

What is Light without Peace?

 

The disciple can tell of one experience of Love in which there is Light. The disciple can tell of one experience of Light in which there is Peace.

 

The disciple can tell of one experience of Peace, which brings Joy to his soul.

 

In this life Love is not given, Light is not given, Peace is not given, And Joy is not given,

 

I SPEAK OF THE NEW LIFE, WHICH IS NOW COMING.

 

IT WILL COME THROUGH THE NEW LOVE WHICH NOW ENTERS THE WORLD. THIS IS THE PATH OF THE DISCIPLE.

 

Those of you who listen to me must understand me well. TO THINK STRAIGHT.

 

None of you should be disheartened, nor be seduced.

 

The men of the Old Testament are embittered,

 

The men of the New Testament are seduced,

 

The Justified are afflicted,

 

THE DISCIPLE ALWAYS REJOICES AT THE CONTRADICTIONS

 

WHICH HE MEETS IN HIS LIFE.

 

He knows that every contradiction is a task in his life, which he must resolve.

 

THESE CONTRADICTIONS are not only facts, but are the result of every kind of life which flows in our organism.

 

The Old Testament life flows in your veins, in the great bowels.

 

You cannot free yourself of it.

 

Consequently it bears a series of contradictions in itself, from which you cannot flee.

 

The New Testament life flows in your lungs, spreads to your sympathetic nervous system, into your solar plexus.

 

The life of the Justified takes up the lower levels of the brain.

 

BUT THE LIFE OF THE DISCIPLE FLOWS ON THE HIGHER LEVELS OF THE BRAIN. SO THAT LIFE REPRESENTS THE IDEAL IN MAN.

 

By what is the disciple known? You will recognise him by the following qualities:

 

THE DISCIPLE bears within a gentle light, which provokes no irritation to the eyes.

 

He talks with such a soft voice that he never provokes the ear. He can feed you with such food that he will never disturb your stomach nor spoil your taste.

 

You must understand these things not by their literal meaning, but by their internal meaning.

 

WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF JOY, which expels all the contradictions from you, you have touched a small part of the Path of the Disciple.

 

I ask: what is THE JOY OF GOD? It is a MORSEL OF BREAD which a small raven brings in its mouth.

 

But you, like the Old Testament man, say: I did not need such a small crumb.

 

While you are displeased, you are an Old Testament man.

 

But when you understand the great law of God, that you will be pleased with the small crumbs which the raven brings you, you pass into the New Testament: you cease to be savage, you begin to be reasonable, to justify the raven and to say: “Verily, how much this small raven is able to carry”

 

Now indeed you do not doubt, and from a New Testament man you be^in to prepare to enter into the life of the Justified. You begin to be bitter: “Cannot more ravens be found to bring me more crumbs?”

 

WHAT MUST THE LIFE OF THE DISCIPLE BE?

 

IT MUST NOT BE WAITING FOR THE RAVENS TO BRING HIM BREAD.

 

The Disciple already has one practical experience: he has a reasoned link with the unseen world, since he has passed through the three stages of life.

 

Now indeed he enters on the Path of the Disciple, in which there are other concepts of life.

 

And so I want you to understand me well: if you become angry, grow savage, you must understand that that is the Old Testament life which is flowing in your veins.

 

BUT THE OLD TESTAMENT LIFE IS NOT YOU, DO NOT MIX YOUR PERSONALITY, YOUR INDIVIDUALITY, YOUR PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE, WITH THE DEEP INTERNAL DESIRES OF YOUR SOUL.

 

EVERY MAN WHO ENTERS THE PATH OF THE DISCIPLE WILL GIVE BIRTH, WILL CREATE ONE NEW THOUGHT, ONE NEW EMOTION, and that not only once in a year, but almost every hour, almost every minute.

 

THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO BE DISCIPLES WILL HAVE ONLY ONE

 

CONCEPTION OF THINGS. YOU CAN HAVE ONLY ONE MASTER IN THE WORLD.

 

Christ says: “I no longer call you servants but friends.”

 

There is slavery in the world of the mind — you are not free to think as you wish.

 

There is slavery in the world of the spirit — you are not free to feel as you wish.

 

As long as others define a creed for you, as long as others impose a teaching upon you, you cannot be free.

 

Why did the Lord give freedom to two disciples in paradise?

 

There are limitations everywhere.

 

There are limitations in the Old Testament life.

 

There are limitations in the New Testament life.

 

There are limitations in the life of the Justified.

 

IN THE LIFE OF THE DISCIPLE THERE ARE NO LIMITATIONS.

 

THERE HIS EVERY ACTION IS CONSCIOUS AND REASONED.

 

In the Old Testament life you have to pay for your sins.

 

In the New Testament life you will perfect yourselves.

 

In the life of the Justified you will help others.

 

BUT WHEN YOU COME TO THE EARTH AS A DISCIPLE YOU WILL LEARN THE FIRST RULE, THROUGH WHICH LOVE MAY ESTABLISH ITSELF IN YOUR LIFE.

 

THROUGH LOVE I DEFINE MYSELF, MY ACTIONS, MY RELATIONS WITH PEOPLE AND WITH THE HIGHER BEINGS.

 

I SAY:

 

THOSE OF YOU WHO WISH TO ENTER INTO THE PATH OF DISCIPLESHIP, MUST HAVE A LOFTY IDEAL.

 

They must learn internal restraint.

 

You ask what is sin?

 

I will tell you. Sin begins with great things, but good begins with little things, with small matters.

 

What is sin? Sin is the perversion of the great life of God.

 

What is life? It is the great daughter of God, whom alone you can take as a teacher.

 

She will take you to your Master.

 

The Master has four disciples in this world, whom he loves. And if these Disciples recommend you to Him, He will accept you into the school.

 

IF LOVE RECOMMENDS YOU TO YOUR MASTER,

 

HE WILL ACCEPT YOU INTO THE SCHOOL.

 

IF THE LIGHT RECOMMENDS YOU TO YOUR MASTER,

 

HE WILL ACCEPT YOU INTO THE SCHOOL.

 

IF PEACE RECOMMENDS YOU TO YOUR MASTER,

 

HE WILL ACCEPT YOU INTO THE SCHOOL.

 

AND FINALLY IF JOY RECOMMENDS YOU TO YOUR MASTER,

 

HE WILL ACCEPT YOU INTO THE SCHOOL.

 

If these four disciples stand credit for you, the Master will open the gates to you, will give you free entry, will bless you, will introduce you to the other disciples, and from that moment you have the entry to the school.

 

If you have not love, your Master cannot accept you.

 

I SPEAK OF LOVE AS ONE OF THE REASONABLE BEINGS, FIRST IN RANK. IT IS THE MOST POWERFUL SPIRIT, THE MOST MIGHTY ANGEL.

 

THAN LOVE THERE IS NO MORE BEAUTIFUL, STRONGER, MORE NOBLE BEING.

 

When you look at the face of that angel, all bitterness goes.

 

When he meets you, he will embrace you, he will caress you, and when he lets you free from his bosom, all your sufferings and all your sins disappear,

 

And after that, when you look in the mirror, you will see that you resemble him.

 

But if you say that all that is your own, you at once grow darker.

 

THEREFORE YOU WILL EMBRACE THAT ANGEL, YOU WILL THANK HIM AND YOU WILL SAY: STAY BY ME, DO NOT LEAVE ME. FROM NOW ONWARDS I SHALL WALK IN THY PATHS.

 

SPEAK TO ME OF MY MASTER, I WILL LISTEN TO YOU

 

GOD’S BLESSING DOES NOT REST IN THE GREAT THINGS BUT IN THE SMALL.

 

The small grain of wheat, for example, contains all the conditions for a great life.

 

So you also contain all the conditions for a great life, Where are they hidden? In your mind, in your heart, in your soul, in your spirit.

 

But for this you need time to understand Love, Light, Peace and Joy in a planet, but God has given you as much time as you want.

 

THE PATH OF THE DISCIPLE MUST BE THE PATH OF LOVE, A PATH OF LIGHT, A PATH OF PEACE AND A PATH OF JOY.

 

Can you enter upon this path, not in the future, but right now, this very moment?

 

Love does not depend on knowledge. Knowledge is a secondary thing. Love does not depend either on your strength or on your beauty.

 

Knowledge, strength, beauty, these are only conditions which your soul can exploit so as to solve tasks.

 

Love is able to solve all questions and, with the smallest exceptions, to resolve all difficult problems.

 

Love is able to resolve 75% of your difficulties.

 

DIFFICULTIES ARE TASKS FROM WHICH THE DISCIPLE MUST NO RUN.

 

If a man grumbles that the Lord has given him such a task, then he is not able to be a disciple.

 

On the contrary, he must say: Lord, I thank Thee that thou hast given me this difficult task.

 

WHEN THE LORD OR THE MASTER PUT A DIFFICULT TASK BEFORE YOU, THEY HAVE A HIGH OPINION OF YOU.

 

To the disciple who wishes to learn, the Lord gives everything good.

 

The disciple then says: Lord, everything which Thou has put before me is beautiful.

 

I rejoice in the task which Thou hast given me.

 

That beautiful day is for the Disciple who wishes to learn, for the beloved of God.

 

It follows that only the disciple can say: beautiful is this day.

 

He will not say it aloud, but he will feel in his soul that this is God’s blessing.

 

This indicates that, if you walk in the Path of the Disciple, according as I have spoken to you, your internal heaven will be as clear, and your heart will be as pure, as the heaven is this day.

 

So too both your mind and your soul will be like today’s clear sky, a pure and bright heaven.

 

THE LIFE OF THE DISCIPLE — THAT IS WHAT IS NEW IN THE WORLD.

 

You will not get rid of the old life, but you will push it aside, so that it will not mix with the new life.

 

The first three kinds of life flow in the roots of the whole of mankind, we cannot isolate them at once. Their isolation can happen gradually, as we overcome them, gaining true knowledge in life. Can we isolate these lives? We cannot. It is not a question of isolating them, nor of using them.

 

Christ turns to his disciples and says to them: “I no longer call you servants, you have passed along that path, but I call you friends, because everything I heard from my Father I have revealed to you.”

 

WHAT DID CHRIST HEAR?

 

Christ told his disciples about the power of nature, about which on one occasion they asked Him:

 

“Master, according as we have been told, we take fire from heaven, as Elijah did, to frighten those men?”

 

CHRIST ANSWERED THEM: “That fire is not for now.

 

YOU WILL TAKE FIRE FOR THE HEARTS OF MEN, and not from outside.

 

YOU WILL PUT FIRE INTO THEIR HEARTS. If you take that fire from outside, you will lose your path as Disciples”.

 

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN LIFE IS TO ENTER AS A DISCIPLE INTO THE SCHOOL.

 

Ask: when, next year? No, this very day. Not even afternoon. Do not enter now, the hour is already past. Now, this very hour, while I am speaking!

 

I said to you that this day is the first of its kind. In what connection? The first day of this Synod begins with the day of Love. THAT IS WHY YOU MUST APPLY LOVE THIS VERY DAY If you begin with Love, everything will go on as honey and butter, as the Bulgarians say. Then even the Light will come to you.

 

HOW WILL YOU KNOW THAT LOVE IS ACTING WITH YOU?

 

WHEN YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING, IF NO OXIDATION HAS HAPPENED, THAT SHOWS THAT LOVE IS ALREADY ACTING IN YOU.

 

It is not enough to test this only on one day, but if there pass two, three, then, a hundred, five hundred and a hundred thousand days and no oxidation is observed in you, no confusion, that means that you have achieved the NEW LOVE.

 

Some of you, as you listen to me, will say: look, our Master wants us to leave the world. No, I am not one of those who want you to leave the world. I am not one of those who want you to leave the School.

 

I WANT YOU TO SOLVE ALL THE DIFFICULT PROBLEMS IN LIFE, ALL THE DIFFICULT TASKS

 

A man must learn in the school of life until his most advanced age. Till the last hour, to the last moment of his life, a man must learn.

 

According to the new understanding of life, you must give an impulse to the talented among you, to be interested in their good works.

 

Some of you can sing well, others — paint, a third group — write. You say: I have one small talent.

 

No, you will give thanks to God for this your talent, and you will know that even small talents can be increased and become great.

 

GOD IS THE SOURCE OF ALL GOODNESS.

 

To Him you will give thanks, and to Him you will turn your mind and heart.

 

You will thank God for the good weather, for the good life, for favourable conditions, you will give thanks that He sent you onto the earth among this people.

 

You will give thanks that you are a member of mankind, you will give thanks that you are linked with the angels, and that sometimes even He himself deigns to talk with you.

 

WE REGARD PRAYER AS CONVERSATION WITH THE UNSEEN WORLD, AS CONVERSATION WITH GOD.

 

TO PRAY MEANS TO LEARN TO SPEAK. MAN MUST SPEAK.

 

Today we suffer, for we have not learnt the heavenly language of God.

 

It is not enough for a man only to pray: the prayer must represent an expression in which the whole human spirit must take part, the whole of his soul, the whole human mind and the whole human heart.

 

WHAT MAN WANTS FROM GOD MUST HAVE ONLY AN INTERNAL SENSE.

 

If you pray, say:

 

LORD, THY WILL BE DONE!

 

I WILL ACCEPT IN GOOD WILL

 

THAT WHICH COMES OF THY HAND,

 

AND I SHALL FULFIL THY WILL

 

WITHOUT ANY TRANSGRESSION OF THY LAW.

 

And thus the Disciple must say to his Master:

 

MASTER, I SHALL SOLVE ALL PROBLEMS WHICH THOU HAST GIVEN ME IN LIFE.

 

I SHALL BRING THEM TO YOU FOR APPROVAL, AND WHATEVER CORRECTIONS YOU MAKE I SHALL ACCEPT WITH GOOD WILL.

 

I say: we shall all open our hearts for the NEW DAY. That is the Day of Love, it is the day of Everlasting Life.

 

GOD REIGNS IN THE HEAVEN.

 

GOD REIGNS ON THE EARTH.

 

And every intelligence, every knowledge, every power, every goodness and every might, whether of man, whether of the people, whether of the whole of mankind, is due to Him Who created the earth.

 

We are members of that earth and must fulfil God’s Will. That is the great law of Everlasting Life.

 

THAT IS THE GREAT LAW OF THE DISCIPLES, WHO WANT TO MAKE REAL THE GOOD AND THAT AS IT IS WRITTEN IN GOD’S BOOK, WHICH IS NOT YET PRINTED UPON EARTH.

 

AWAKENING THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE DISCIPLE

 

Only perfect Love can bring us near to God. Secret prayer.

 

The theme of today’s talk will be one of the most difficult. It will be in practice almost inaccessible to your minds.

 

Sometimes the monotonous situations in life cause a surfeit. There is a surfeit in the physical life. There is a surfeit in the life of feeling. There is a surfeit, too, in the mental life. That means there is a surfeit in the material life, There is a surfeit in the spiritual life and in the life of God.

 

THE GREATEST MISFORTUNE WHICH CAN VISIT A MAN IS A SURFEIT

 

The world is full of surfeited people. All the sicknesses in the world take their beginning from a surfeit. I want to guard you from a surfeit and from hasty conclusions.

 

In the process of the awakening of a disciple’s consciousness he will often fall and will rise again.

 

With what does the disciple fight? With certain difficulties in the world. A thousand contradictions can be born in you. That is not my concern.

 

Contradictions are things which inescapably exist. For example, how can you reconcile the good and the evil? They cannot be reconciled by any means.

 

But you can conciliate the good and the evil in yourself. They have points of contact.

 

To reconcile good and evil means to undertake a grandiose task, such as even the gods cannot resolve.

 

I will ask you: what will the disciple do in the world when his consciousness is awakened? — He will work. How?

 

The Scripture says: Nothing will remain of the old heaven and the old earth.

 

That means: that of the world of the disciple, of his brain and of his consciousness everything will disappear and he will be left as in a desert.

 

Of his heaven there will remain neither sun nor moon, nor a single star. He will hang alone in the air. He will be left absolutely alone like a lonely traveller in the desert. When he speaks, he will not recognise even himself. He will find himself in a terrible contradiction in life.

 

Everything which rejoiced you and made you happy, everything which you knew in life, everything in which you believed and upon which you relied, disappears.

 

Then you will find yourself in the position of Christ when he was on the Cross and like Him you will shout from the depths of your soul: “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani” — “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”

 

Sometimes now it is hard for you when they abandon you. You have not yet experienced the meaning of real abandonment. BUT EVERY MAN MUST BE ABANDONED. WHEN I SPEAK OF THIS ABANDONMENT I understand AWAKENING THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE DISCIPLE. ONLY IN THIS WAY CAN THE DISCIPLE UNDERSTAND THE REALITY OF LIFE.

 

So I say that when there comes that terrible great moment for the disciple on the first day — STILLNESS — there will be no light about him and he, from the depths, from his own experience, will call upon that Invisible, unknown God of Eternity, creator of all things upon the earth.

 

He will call upon Him with all his soul, with all his spirit, with all his mind and all his heart and will say: LORD, I WANT TO TRY THEE! THOU ALONE ART THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS! THERE IS NONE OTHER IN THE WORLD SAVE THEE!

 

If the Disciple can call upon God with this completeness SOMEWHERE IN SPACE THERE WILL SHINE FORTH A SMALL MICROSCOPIC LIGHT, WHICH WILL CAUSE HIM SUCH GREAT JOY, THAT HE WILL AT ONCE FORGET ALL HIS SORROWS AND SUFFERINGS.

 

From somewhere far away he will hear the voice of the Lord, the voice of his Master:

 

“DID YOU NOT WISH TO KNOW ME DID NOT YOU WISH TO TRY ME? PREPARE YOURSELF NOW FOR WORK”. THEN COMES THE FIRST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. AND GOD SAYS “LET THERE BE LIGHT” and there was Light. THE DISCIPLE WILL SAY:

 

“MAY THIS LIGHT, WHICH I SEE SO FAR AWAY, SHINE IN ME!”

 

And if he is of the chosen disciples, when he says “Let there be light”, light will come upon him.

 

Consequently, the day will begin with good, the night with bad.

 

This mingled life of light and darkness will be separated: On the one hand will appear the light, which brings good with it; on the other hand will appear darkness, which bears evil of itself.

 

SO THE DISCIPLE WILL CREATE THE FIRST DAY IN HIMSELF.

 

T H E  L I G H T.

 

By “LIGHT” I understand the great urge of the Disciple to learn.

 

This means the Disciple must begin with the LIGHT (in Bulgarian — Videlinata).

 

“And He divided the Waters from the Waters” — the second day, meaning that God divided the life of Heaven from earthly life, from the life of man. The firmament is the boundary between the Heavenly and the earthly life.

 

THE DISCIPLE WILL CREATE THAT FRONTIER IN HIMSELF AND IN TIME OF BITTERNESS HE WILL DRINK OF THE WATERS WHICH ARE ABOVE.

 

Sometimes you want to drink of the waters of the earth, of earthly life. If you drink of those waters, you will never quench your thirst. You are now dealing only with the water which is on the earth. Note that all the saints who have dealt with the Heavenly world, when they have been curing some sick person, have gone to the waters above the firmament. Turned into scientific language this means:

 

they have cured only when they have succeeded in attracting the sun “Prana” or the Heavenly life to act upon the man, and he has immediately produced a reaction.

 

Sometimes your life becomes meaningless, and you have no impulse to go forward.

 

How are you to give meaning to your life? That is one of the great mysteries.

 

IT IS ENOUGH TO GET ONLY ONE TEN THOUSANDTH PART OF A MILLIGRAM OF THE WATER OF THE HEAVENLY LIFE AND TO INTRODUCE IT INTO YOUR BODY, AND IT WILL AT ONCE PRODUCE A BENEFICIAL INFLUENCE UPON YOU, AND YOU WILL BE BASICALLY CHANGED. EVERY MAN MUST LIGHTEN HIS OWN EARTH AND HIS OWN HEAVEN.

 

YOUR SUN, YOUR MOON AND YOUR STARS MUST SHINE FORTH.

 

In this manner you will have means, measures with which you will understand things. And in this sense, every man can say:

 

the Lord created the sun, the moon and the stars for me to be able to separate the days, the years and the seasons of my life.

 

MY LIFE IS A BOOK UPON WHICH, WITH THE HELP OF THOSE LIGHTS, I SHALL DESCRIBE WHAT THIS LIFE IS THAT GOD HAS CREATED.

 

The season of my life is a definite document in which it will be noted WHETHER I HAVE CREATED A SMALL UNIVERSE AS GOD WISHES.

 

When we speak of the Disciple, we understand a life of creation and not a life of blessedness, which he has been given.

 

When the Disciple has passed through the first three lives, he is given the opportunity of applying his strength on a small scale, to see how the old life differs from the new.

 

THE NEW LIFE IS A LIFE OF PURIFICATION. AFTER THAT REAL CREATIVITY BEGINS.

 

When you come to the work, you need examples, to know what the new life demands of you, and how it must come.

 

WHEN THE NEW LIFE COMES, EVERYTHING THAT YOU NOW SEE WILL NO LONGER INTEREST YOU

 

This life must be in conformity with God’s Love, with God’s Light, with the world of God and with God’s Joy.

 

When I speak of the disciples, I see for them a great work, for which they must prepare.

 

WE LIVE IN GOD’S REALITY OF THINGS, BUT WE MUST UNDERSTAND ITS LAWS.

 

Everything has its cause.

 

Consequently, in order to comprehend the causes and impulses of things, you must learn all manifestations, all phenomena in life and nature.

 

When a thought is born in you, you must look at it carefully to see whether that thought is yours or is a guest, whether it is your sister, mother, or father.

 

You must understand the origin of every thought which is born in your mind.

 

You must create in yourself a House of God. IT REPRESENTS THE NEW BODY OF THE MAN, WHICH HE NEEDS FOR THE NEW LIFE.

 

There is THE NATURAL BODY, THERE IS THE SPIRITUAL BODY.

 

Many people ask: what thing is the New Teaching? WHAT THING IS THE NEW TEACHING? IT REPRESENTS THE HARMONIOUS CONJUNCTION BETWEEN A TRIANGLE AND A SQUARE.

 

What is the figure of a square, which shows how family life should be organised? Therefore we must learn this great law. Therefore the father and the mother should together arrange the life of their son and daughter. And the son and daughter should together arrange the life of the mother and the father. In contemporary mathematics it is stated:

 

“lfa conceived or imaginary number, that is, such as does not exist, is multiplied four times by itself, or it passed through four different conditions, the result is units which make a real number, with which we can contend.” What does this mean?

 

We shall consider it in relation to the square:

 

The square remains inconceivable to us as long as it exists somewhere in the unseen world. But when it is multiplied four times by itself, it achieves real unity, a real home.

 

On the basis of the same law, when a man is multiplied four times by himself, it means that he passes through the causal world, through the mental world, through the astral world and finally through the physical world. If a man knows how to multiply himself by himself, then he will know his own reality.

 

We come at last to those laws of alchemy, to that higher mathematics, which we must understand. The corners of the square have relationship to the man, because every corner is the centre of certain forces, which act in the direction of the diagonals.

 

How do we measure these forces? They are measured in the centre of the square, that is, in the centre of the square where the two diagonals intersect.

 

The centre represents the whole. All the forces of the square have direction towards this centre.

 

WHILE ALL FORCES STRIVE TOWARDS GOD, CONTRADICTIONS DO NOT EXIST IN THE WORLD.

 

They exist only as a creative act. What is the triangle? A LAW OF RECONCILIATION.

 

Here you have three points of contact, but that is GOD’S CONJUNCTION.

 

TO HAVE A HARMONIC CONJUNCTION BETWEEN TWO SOULS, FIRST OF ALL THERE MUST BE BETWEEN THEM AT LEAST THREE POINTS OF CONTACT.

 

And now, from the conjunction of the triangle and the square, there is formed the pentagon. It represents the home, the house in which five souls must live, under one roof.

 

As you see

 

THINGS IN NATURE ARE NOT RANDOM. WE LIVE IN GOD’S REALITY OF THINGS, BUT WE MUST UNDERSTAND ITS LAWS.

 

And so the square is the measure for the definition of all forces which meet in us.

 

YOU MUST CREATE IN YOURSELVES A HOUSE OF GOD. IT REPRESENTS THE NEW BODY OF MAN WHICH HE NEEDS FOR THE NEW LIFE

 

THERE IS THE NATURAL BODY, THERE IS ALSO THE SPIRITUAL BODY.

 

Now, as disciples, you must have a strong desire to go forward.

 

YOU WILL HAVE DIFFICULTIES IN YOUR LIFE BUT YOU MUST NOT BE DISHEARTENED.

 

YOU WILL MEET CONTRADICTIONS, BUT YOU WILL NOT LOSE YOUR FAITH. YOU WILL MEET HATRED WITHOUT HATING.

 

You will bear the evil and the good on your back, without taking part in their conversation.

 

Have you born your cross in this way? I ask: who will liberate you from his cross?

 

THAT IS THE GREAT TASK WHICH YOU HAVE TO SOLVE AS DISCIPLES.

 

Whether you are a believer or not, whether you are a worldly or a spiritual man, you cannot throw off the contradictions of life.

 

WHEN WE SPEAK OF LOVE, WE UNDERSTAND THE SINGLE FORCE WHICH CAN ACCOMPANY YOU ALONG YOUR DIFFICULT PATH AND SUCCESSFULLY LEAD YOU OUT OF IT.

 

And now, I want you to be active, not inactive.

 

The disciple has work, he has something to do. What does the good son do? He goes every day to the work. Today he goes to sorne garden, tomorrow to a vineyard, he digs, he cleans up, and when he has gathered up enough richness, he takes it home to his household.

 

So too you, — whatever you gather on the earth, you must take it above. How do you think you can get there?

 

Do you think that if you go as a sinner with empty hands, they will greet you with wreaths of laurel?

 

So I say, when you return to God, you must work either as a servant or as a son. Which position do you wish to occupy?

 

AND SO THE LIFE OF THE DISCIPLE IS A great LIFE. WHEN YOU ACCEPT THE GOODNESS OF THAT LIFE, YOU WILL SAY: THERE IS REASON TO BE ALIVE!

 

THE DISCIPLE MUST SAY:

 

WHEN I SEE THE FACE OF MY MASTER, WHEN I UNDERSTAND THE SENSE OF THAT KNOWLEDGE WHICH I HAVE LEARNED FROM HIM AND WHEN I BEGIN TO USE IT WITH ALL MY POWER, I SHALL BE SATISFIED WITH MY LIFE.

 

Christ knocks on people’s doors, so that he can show them the way by which they can solve the difficulties of their lives.

 

DOES CHRIST KNOCK ON EVERY DOOR? — NO. HE KNOCKS ONLY ON THE DOORS OF THE DISCIPLES, AND ON THOSE OF PEOPLE WHOSE CONSCIOUSNESS IS AWAKENED AND WHO HAVE SPENT MUCH TIME IN PRAYER.

 

CHRIST WILL KNOCK, THE DISCIPLE WILL OPEN TO HIM, AND CHRIST WILL HIM GIVE THE FIRST LESSON.

 

Behold I knock on your door, says Christ This verse refers to the disciples, to awakened souls.

 

The Talks from the Synod “The Path of the Disciple” lasted for hours. They poured out in a broad, bright wave, reaching the consciousness and to the super-consciousness of the disciples. They provided food for the heart, the mind and the will. They were, too, rules for life.

 

What we give you now is a summary, also taken from the Master’s Words, spoken at one of his lectures to the secret Youth Class during 1943:

 

“Extract from today’s lecture a short, scientific summary, which can be printed in the periodical Grain of Wheat. You will write little, but concentrated, in scientific form!”

 

I believe that we are carrying out his advice and his testament.