1939_08_27 THE LIGHTER OF THE HOLY FIRE STARTING

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Note 4p

 

THE LIGHTER OF THE HOLY FIRE STARTING

 

Reflection

 

There exists only one beginning in the world – the beginning of Love, only one statement – the statement of Love, Wisdom, and Truth, and only one salvation or liberation that originates from Truth. The words “beginning”, “statement”, and “liberation” are words, the meaning of which man can understand only after he has studied for a long time. Love as a beginning of life, can be understood only after a man has worked his way to the holy fire. What does the holy fire mean? Schools existed in the old times, in which there was talk about the holy fire. From the outside, the holy fire is like the common fire with the only difference - it was kept burning constantly. Many people have looked for the holy fire in the sanctuary of the temple. They have understood it externally. In fact, the holy fire is within the human heart. This is the internal, the mystical side of the holy fire. Those, who have not studied the law of the holy fire, have experienced great sufferings. Those, who have studied this law, have experienced great delights. The holy fire is a weapon against the enemy of those who seek God. Besides being within the human heart, He can also be met in space. Wherever you look for Him, you will find him everywhere, uniformly spread.

 

There are many theories about the holy fire, but in the end they will remain just theories. You meet a musician, who is talking to you about music, about the relation of the tones, about the harmonious combination between them, but make him sing something – he cannot. He might reveal to you many hypothesis and theories, but as it comes to practice and application - he can do nothing. The theories and the hypothesis are something good, but man should know how to sing properly. The adult man likes to theorize, but the child does not like theories. As it sees a lit candle or fire, it immediately comes near and wants to touch it. Its mother says: Gush! This one-syllable word is a remainder from an old language – the Vatan language. Its meaning is: Until you study things – do not touch. But the child does not understand the meaning of this word and it thinks that its mother says: Catch![1] So, the child goes near the fire, puts its finger near it and immediately jumps backwards. After it tries this three times – it already misses the fire. Now apart from practical knowledge, the child has also theoretical knowledge as well. It already knows that fire scorches. When he should not touch anywhere, the adult person is being told, “Run!” If he does not listen to this voice, he will also find himself in the same situation as the child that has put its finger in the fire, or within the range of the lit candle.

 

Consequently, as they ask what suffering means, I say: suffering is nothing but the burning of a finger, or of another limb caused by a lit candle. As it burns, the candle talks to humans, but few people understand the language of the flame, that is, the language of the light. No language is more beautiful than the language of Light. The flame of the candle is nothing but light that penetrates within the human eyes and enables him to see. This Light is the holy fire of Nature. It traces the borders of the objects and makes them visible for a man.

 

So, human strength is in the knowledge about the holy fire that man has. The human thoughts, feelings, and actions are the forms through which the holy fire manifests itself. Everything in life is a result of the holy fire. Feelings that are void of the holy fire are unstable and cold. This is the reason why people complain that once they were loved, but they have lost their Love. Love cannot be lost, but the warmth of human feelings disappears. You meet your sweetheart and you say that he or she radiates coldness. Feelings void of warmth resemble the North Pole that is constantly covered with ice and snow. The North Pole is white, but cold. Why? Because the holy fire within it has extinguished.

 

The colours white and the black in Nature denote two different states. Within the holy fire they are at their proper places. Black means that things should be accepted harmoniously. White denotes that you should give harmoniously. As soon as you give something from yourself, you will go to study immediately. Today, few people like to study; most people study against their will. Children go to school and cry, because they do not feel like studying; the young bride gets up early in the morning and begins to work, but she cries – she does not feel like studying. There is no man in the world that has not cried. As suffering comes, he takes a towel, wipes his eyes with it and cries – he does not want to study. As he went to the holy fire, the priest used to wash his face with holy water. Then he wiped his face with a clean towel, so that the water drops do not fall on the ground. You, too, wash in the morning, but the water drops fall on the ground. Why? This water is not holy. All the people that served the holy fire were priests. There is no man in the world that has not started this fire. In other words, there is no man in the world, who has not fallen in love, or who has not stopped loving someone. While he is in love – his fire is burning. As soon as he stops loving, the fire extinguishes. He has burned his sweetheart down in his fire. The young lady says: He burned me down! The young man says: She burned me down! The mother and the father talk about their children: They burned us down! The sons and the daughters complain about their parents and say: They burned us down! All the men – masters, disciples, servants, and rulers complain that they have been burned down. There is not a single man in the world that has not been burned down.

 

The burning of humans presents one of his past experiences. The burned down people sleep in their graves, but they already have to rise from the dead. The holy fire will make them rise. The more a person has burned down, the more awake is his consciousness. He does not find sense in life until his consciousness awakes. As soon as his consciousness awakes, he already understands life as a foundation, on which he should build. He already understands that the world - with all its forms - provides opportunity and conditions, created by the holy fire for the elevation of the human as a Spirit, soul, mind, and heart. Through these appliances[M1]  he builds a beautiful body, with which he gets in touch with the Divine World.

 

So, remember: The holy fire gives meaning to all things – pleasant and unpleasant. The one, who does not understand the meaning of this fire, wonders why suffering befalls him. The hen, with a knife embedded in the neck, might ask the same question as well. From its point of view – this is a crime, while from the point of view of man – this is good. If the hen has benevolently sacrificed itself for the elevation of a man who slaughters it, then its death is justifiable.

 

In the past, various people have come to Buddha as to a master – Brahmans, scientists, philosophers – who wanted to know the truth. One day he decided to isolate himself and told the disciples that he was not going to receive people that day. All the visitors were turned back – no one was accepted. As Buddha lay under a tree, he noticed from afar, a poor man approaching. He immediately jumped to his feet and directed his steps towards him. As they saw this, his disciples thought: This is strange! Today our master did not see anyone. Distinguished scientists and philosophers visited him, but he turned all of them away, while at the same time he jumped on his feet as he saw this poor man. As he understood the thought of his disciples, Buddha called them aside and told them: Once, thousands of lives ago, I was a Brahman. One day, as I was reading my prayer, I felt awfully exhausted and fell on the ground – I could not finish my prayer. At this time a rabbit jumped into my fire and was roasted. I cut from its meat, took refreshment and finished my prayer. These distinguished people who visited me today are looking for Truth for their own sake. Not one of them has sacrificed his life as this rabbit did. This poor man that I received today was the rabbit. He sacrificed himself for me, so that I could be elevated, so today I also did something for his elevation.

 

Consequently, until he cannot throw himself into the burning fire and roast, so that others can eat him, man cannot be elevated. The rabbit sacrificed himself, so that Buddha could take refreshment. If it is a cold winter day and you are in the mountain with rucksacks full of warm clothes, food, and drink, but you have no fire – you are finished! And the one, who can bring you a lighter for the fire has saved your life.

 

Contemporary people have everything, but they are missing one thing – the lighter to light the holy fire. As you find this lighter, always carry it with you. The fire has the capability to burn and melt things. Whatever you put into it – it does not reject anything. As people talk about fire, they become frightened. They have in their mind the fire of human Love that burns their hearts down. Light the holy fire within the human with the Divine Love and do not be afraid. It will start burning, it will light, but it will not burn. Light the human soul with the holy fire of the Divine Love and see what happens with it. It will dress in white and begin to light. The colour white is an allegory of purity. The Divine good gathers within the white colour. As you decompose this colour, you will find these goods manifested in seven different colours. The contemporary scientists do not know what does each separate colour symbolizes and what its application is. They know how many billions of vibrations each colour consists of, but they do not know how these colours can be used. Only the enlightened and the genius ones have this knowledge. The same might be said for the holy fire as well. Only the enlightened people know what holy fire is. Talented people have begun to study it, while the common people have not yet heard a thing about it.

 

So, as you do not understand things, you resemble the common people; as you understand them – you resemble the talented people; as you put your knowledge into practice – you resemble the ingenious people; as your attempts are successful – you are saints; as you work freely with the holy fire – you can be a Master. The one, who has not been a common man, cannot be talented; the one, who has not been talented, cannot be a genius, the one, who has not been a genius – cannot be a saint; the one, who has not been a saint, cannot be a Master. It is not enough to just be a master. Something specific is required from the master. All in all, in order to be a mother, a father, a brother, a sister, man should have specific characteristics within himself. In order to be a mother, a father, a brother, or a sister, man should bear the image of God within his Spirit, soul, mind, and heart. If man does not bear this image within him, but nevertheless occupies the honorary position of a mother or a father, the human will cause great misfortune. Such a mother and father will give birth to a sinful son or daughter.

 

What man is sinful? Sinful is the one, within whom the holy fire does not burn. Once this fire burned, but then it was extinguished. Within the sinful man burns the common fire, in which everything burns and melts. That man is righteous, in whom the [M2] holy fire burns without extinguishing and without burning down things. As soon as the holy fire extinguishes, man experiences great cataclysms. As regards the holy fire – I do not tell you to start it, but to keep it going. Each man should keep the holy fire going on his own – he should not let his servants take care of it. Each man is his own priest, servant, angel, and seraph of his holy fire. No one can extinguish the holy fire of a man but himself. After he extinguishes it, he begins to complain and suffer, that [M3] no one loves him. This is not true. God is the first to love the man – that is why he has sent him to Earth - to study. When a man says that no one loves him, in the first place this means that he himself does not love. He has lived only for himself. Has he sacrificed like the rabbit that jumped into the fire, so that Buddha can eat it and finish his prayer?

 

Consequently, as he lives and sacrifices for his fellowmen, man begins to realize that the virtues of men are his own virtues as well; and that the crimes of people are his own crimes as well. The same holds true for the good and the bad deeds of people, which are his good and bad deeds as well. As you have this consciousness and you see that someone makes mistakes and crimes[M4] , you will say to yourself: My brother is wrong, consequently I am also wrong. Therefore, I will correct my mistake. As you see an apple, thank it for its unselfishness. It gives from its good to everybody. As you see a spring, thank it for its unselfishness also. Whoever passes by it quenches his thirst.

 

I wish the hearts of all people to be like clear springs that constantly well up.

 

I wish the minds of all people to be like gardens with sweet and tasty fruits.

 

I wish the souls of all people to be like schools in which the good is being taught.

 

I wish through the Spirit of all people the good of life to be put into practice as regards the lives of their fellow men and as regards their own selves. And I wish that whatever they do, they do it for the glory of God.

 

I wish that all the people on Earth might keep their holy fire burning. Love reigns wherever the holy fire burns. The lighter of the holy fire is hidden within Love. There are many safety matches within the matchbox, but the first match is the most important one. From this first safety match the whole world might take advantage. Consequently, as you want to make[M5]  something valuable in your life, make[M6]  just one good deed, but lodge within it all your Love, all your knowledge, and all your freedom. This good is the first safety match, the first lighter, with which you have started the holy fire within your soul. This good will accompany you through the whole of eternity – to this and to the other world as well.

 

So, may your heart, mind, and Spirit be in everything you do. May the eye of God, of the angel, of the cherubim, and of the seraph be in all your deeds. This is a feast. This is a resurrection of the human soul. As soon as he rises from the dead, man enters the abode of his Father. All of heaven knows that he has brought Life, Knowledge, Light, and Freedom in the world, for the glory of God, of his fellow man, and of his own glory.

 

Strive to attract the attention of God to your Love.

Strive to attract the attention of God to your studying.

Strive to attract the attention of God to your putting Truth into practice.

 

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Luke, 12:1-10

 

[1] In Bulgarian language the two words have similar sounding (e.g. “gush” and “drush”).

 

 

 [M1]Usage. {Through these he builds a beautiful body…}

 [M2]{Such a man is righteous – the one in whom the…}

 [M3]{suffer and complain that…}

 [M4]{and commits crimes}

 [M5]{do}

 [M6]{do}