1924_03_16 Movement of Energies. A Law of Polarisation

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Note 2p

 

Movement of Energies

A Law of Polarisation

 

 

 

22^nd lecture given by the Master to the Youth Occult Class

 

16^th March, 1924, Sofia

 

- Only the light way to Wisdom can lead us to truth.

 

- It gives us constant Mirth and Joy.

 

 

Reflection

 

Stand up and step aside for more space! We are going to do an exercise with the arms. Focus on the word Love. Love is an outward projection. Then focus on Mirth and Joy.

 

The movements of the arms exert certain influence on your organs and on your will. If you move your arm consciously, you can influence your will. Let us say that you are excited; make the following movement with the arms: keep your arms in front of the chest, then move them aside, shaking your wrists slightly. Then place your hands in front of the mouth. Your indisposition will disappear if you perform this three or four times. This is a kind of a psychological treatment, a kind of psychological airing of the mind.

 

Indisposition will occur because you present a focus through which all the energies of the Sun and the Earth pass. From sunrise till noon the solar energies pass through you. They come from above and go to the centre of the Earth. In the afternoon the movement is reverse. The energies of the Earth pass through your feet and go to the Sun. Consequently, the movements you make in the morning or in the afternoon give different results. Generally, some people feel indisposition in the afternoon, because they are under the earthly influences. You should know how to polarise and concentrate these forces. Do this exercise and let the forces coming from the Earth pass through you. Do not try to stop them because if you try, you will accumulate negative emotions that will trigger a real catastrophe for you – send these energies up. A different current appears at night. There are no mistakes in Nature. It is we who make the mistakes out of ignorance – we stir these currents, thus creating a certain disharmony in our organisms.

 

I want you to do this exercise for ten days on end. If you experience some difficulty, remember my words. Utter these words while moving your arms. If you come up against some difficulty, do the exercise two or three times and check your watches to note when the result occurs. These are mathematical data that will help you work on yourselves and on the others in the future. Make the first trial when you are excited or upset. This is an exercise meant to restore your balance. Pronounce the words Love, Mirth and Joy,

 

looking upon them as keys.

 

The letter L stands for man in motion, the letter J stands for one’s arm, and the letter M in this case represents a person who has certain basic knowledge to understand some laws. Generally, when one solves a problem, he has Mirth, and when one gains something, he has Joy. And also, when you work, you have pleasure.

 

 

Fig. 1

 

Now, you should make some efforts to study your bodies. The human body is a result of the Divine Energy, which has created the present human organism. All the thoughts, desires and aspirations one reveals are forces once involved in the making of his complex organism. Some of the forces have already accomplished their job, but as you are unaware of the laws guiding them, they become an impediment. Taken alone, these forces have accomplished a wonderful job, and according to the law of consciousness a force, having accomplished its job, is supposed to descend lower in its essence and tackle other parts. That is because the matter of your body has not differentiated yet – there is a multitude of cells waiting to be elevated. For example, man is now polarised – the energies in him move to the two poles. If you examine man in this respect, you will see that he is divided. All superior energies in him work in the direction from B to A, while all the inferior energies move in the direction from B to C, which is an act of polarisation. Generally, one lives from B to C in the afternoon, the time when he is indisposed, while in the morning, one is cheerful and well disposed, because he is moving from B to A.

 

Some of the superior energies, initially doing and accomplishing their job up in the brain, have to descend to the lower realms of human existence. We live at a time when human selfishness is of the utmost importance. Selfishness rules the world, but it is time for it to let something nobler and loftier take over. Now a new centre, standing higher than A, is being created in man. The energy of personal selfishness should give way to this centre. This centre is referred to as altruism and reason. Consequently, selfishness should concede to the Divine reason in man. When speaking of Reasonable Life, we should bear in mind that it will make our path meaningful, bringing in great happiness. Selfishness did a wonderful job in the past, but it can no longer make man happy. It is not because selfishness does not want to do this, but because it does not comprehend the laws of human happiness – it gives man as much as it knows. Selfishness will tell you this, “You must submit other people to your will, threatening them with your strength and power.” Very well, only that the same selfishness speaking to you, speaks to other people as well. This engenders an inner conflict within the self, which means evil. This is partly true, but the inner principle of the Divine Beginning in Reasonable Life says that there is another solution in Life. Selfishness used to be necessary, but now it has entered a new area, where the methods of human selfishness are not applicable.

 

Now, I am addressing those disciples, who have their Divine consciousness awakened and who are at a conflict with themselves. You should take a different tack. You are unable to get rid of your selfishness entirely, but you will tell what has remained of it, “You must give your place to Divine Reason! You will submit to it and obey it!” So when selfishness becomes aware of this, it will also comprehend the Divine, as it is a reasonable force. It will succumb to it and serve it well. All impediments in the present life stem from personal feelings. We can say that ninety-nine per cent of all impediments arise from personal feelings, and only one per cent comes from other feelings.

 

Modern people believe that man is essentially evil, thus they try to root out this evil from themselves. How can it be eradicated? – Evil is only in human deeds. That is why every wrongdoing should be eliminated, but the force standing behind it is necessary. I am going to explain this: let us assume that you take a live ember to set a house on fire. Then, when you become aware of the evil you have done, you say, “I will annihilate fire so that I should not be seduced again." My question is: Can you annihilate fire? The wrong deed comes through fire, but it is impossible to annihilate fire. Another case: let us say that you are hungry, and you need bread. In order to find it, you commit a crime, which leads you astray. Then you say, “I will eradicate hunger, so that I should not have to eat again.” Do you think that in this way you will be able to eradicate hunger? Certainly not. My question now is: Should one steal to satisfy his hunger? Theft stems from misunderstanding of the Divine law. This misunderstanding comes as result of a former practice common for people millions of years ago, when they were still few enough on earth to climb a tree and eat freely from its fruit. Now as the world population has increased and the world has become more structured, people tend to enclose their homes with barbed wire, saying, “Who gave you the right to break into my house and steal? There was a time when you were allowed to do this, but now you can’t climb my tree.” These are regulations we have set down but they give rise to difficulties. We have laid down the rules in our thoughts and desires. We have created thousands of rules, which make us suffer. So, the first thing you have to do as reasonable creatures is to put away all the barbed wire from your gardens. There is nothing to protect within your selves. You should remember a law and stick to it in your lifetime – one who fights against evil most ferociously, makes the most mistakes. When one starts fighting evil, he gets spoiled. You should not fight evil. Think of Love, of Good and of Truth. Make use of them and they will help you. Never fight evil! Replace it with Good and see what it will do! Differentiate between your mistakes and the reasonable forces acting in Life. At times God can put you to trial – He can put you in special conditions and watch whether you understand His laws or not. Anyone defying God will be defeated.

 

You, young people, should form certain views on Life. You do not only have to form them, but apply them as well, to see whether they work in practice. For instance, you might decide to treat people gently and kindly, but when you mix with people, you see that you cannot fulfill your intention. Why? Do you think that if you decide to treat people kindly from now on, it will happen right away? Let me throw some more light on this issue: Imagine that you have planned to visit some poor people to comfort them, knowing that they are hungry. You say, “Tomorrow I’ll fill my bag and call on them.” However, with this in mind, you already believe that the bag is filled and in the morning, when you get up, you forget to make sure whether the bag is full. You grab it and off you go, saying, “I’ve decided to visit these people with a full bag, and here I am going.” Yet when you get there and look in the bag, you find out that the bag is empty. You start wondering who might have taken the bread out of the bag. Well you haven’t put any bread in it, have you? First: Anyone willing to do good should make sure his bag is full of bread. Therefore, you should not say anything about what you are planning to fulfill. Do not say, “I’ll be good tomorrow!” How can you be good? What is being good? The most difficult thing in this world is to be good. (- Doesn’t it depend on the individual to be good?) No, it doesn’t. One who is able to understand the laws should relate to people and Living Nature.

 

 

Fig. 2

 

Let me explain these laws. I have noticed that your minds cannot focus well enough. When I present a drawing of certain issues, you find them quite easy. Yes, it is true that everything seems easy when it is in theory, but when it comes to practice, then it becomes difficult. Take, for instance, the formation of a triangle ABC. Let us say that its sides are in motion, then you can say that the movement is from right to left. When A moves to B, B moves simultaneously to C, as well as, C moves to B. The same movements occur in man, but not in one and the same direction. It is a law that if a good thought is projected in you, a reverse movement will be projected by all means. This might look as a contradiction in Life, but it exists in Nature.

 

Plant a wheat grain or an apple pip and you will see that half of the seed has an impulse towards the Sun, and the other half has an urge to move downwards. This happens simultaneously – these are two opposite movements up and down. The juices running in the roots and the branches also move in opposite directions – the current of the branches runs down to the roots, while the current from the roots runs up to the branches. This is how a crossing of energies occurs. The same refers to you: as soon as a thought occurs in you, it wants to thicken and find its soil; therefore an opposite movement is formed. One who does not understand the law of the opportunity of making a thought come true, if not careful enough, will get in trouble.

 

Such conflicts exist in all of you. Sometimes I can see that you look dark and gloomy. How come? – You feel low and you try to find whose fault it is, so you say, “I’ll know better next time! I’ll give him a piece of my mind!” Whose fault is it? Who are you going to take it out on? Looking dark is indicative of a will force – the flow of energies to the centre of the Earth. At this point the Light in man is missing. Your face is dark and your eyes are dark. You are looking down at the ground. Whoever comes up to you, you tell him, “Leave me alone!” Yet an hour or two, or a day later you are in a different mood. You go out beaming and you say, “I have overcome this conflict.” You feel high, your face is radiant, and you say, “The fight is over!” Yes, it is, but only for a while. It won’t be twelve hours later that you will be in the same dark mood, and then you will be high again – you move like a pendulum. This will happen no matter whether you want it or not. All great people, men, women, children, even animals, experience this.

 

I have watched dogs, cats, and oxen – they all experience polarising. The ox can be calm and well disposed in the morning – its master comes nearer, so the ox licks his hand. In the afternoon it is indisposed as if saying, “Don’t touch me!” If it were a horse, it would bite or kick you. This polarisation is typical of all animals. The horse might be harnessed, and yet it would show its temper. Years ago I met a colonel accompanied by his orderly. They were going to the seminary in a carriage. However, the horse was in such a bad mood that it wouldn’t move. The colonel and the orderly got off the carriage, patted it on the back, and stroked it, so the horse made a few steps. They got on the carriage and the horse halted again. They got off again, patted him, stroked him and the horse started. The orderly got on and the horse kept moving. When the colonel got on, it stopped. In the end, the colonel decided to go on foot. The horse had told him, “Today you are to walk. I am not in the mood to carry you.” You might say, “What a bad-tempered horse!” This is actually polarisation – the horse tells the colonel, “Today you are not going to get on the carriage. I’ll carry your orderly, but not you.” This polarisation of energies I define as losing balance. Such a state always occurs when you are in doubt. You feel abandoned as if everybody were against you, so you say, “I am unhappy.” You feel deprived of this or that; you start imagining things, losing touch with reality. Then a few hours later, you say, “At least God is with me.” And then you see that everybody is well disposed to you. In both cases you are wrong – people are what they have always been.  

 

Now you are going to observe things, trying to make use of them. If you cannot apply the laws I am giving you, everything will fall on you. All your future work as teachers, professors, doctors, or whatever, will depend on your inner grasp of these laws. You should be able to understand the essence of man, so that on seeing him you could be able to help. Now I focus only on the simple manifestation of these forces. As a result of polarisation many misfortunes occur. I do not want to discuss negative forces in Nature, but if you have a negative attitude, you will leave this place convinced that evil in this world is very powerful. Evil is powerful only because you love it – that’s all. Evil draws its strength on love – love for evil makes it so powerful. If you do not feel love for a certain deed, it cannot exist. The deed is powerful, only because we love it. You hate someone because you love him, and vice versa – you love him, because you hate him. You want to make the person love you, so you say, “I love you and you must love me; if you don’t love me, I’ll make you love me.” Such violence is evil. The other individual will get rid of this energy; if he is human, there will be a special aura formed round him, creating a certain disharmony between the two people.

 

If we see man as a triangle, the sides of this triangle get broken, and a kind of rust or frost covers the human body. If one is healthy, these lines are parallel and flowing like sunrays – they are extremely beautiful. If a kind of disharmony occurs, these lines break into dust or rust and then diseases come along. At times the lines break in the chest; as a result, one develops consumption. At times this happens in the brain and one goes deranged. If this happens in the heart, one gets a heart attack, etc. That’s why one should be confronted with difficulties so that this frosty, rusty crust can be dispersed. This is the reason why great misfortunes come in this world. When the egg cracks, the Light will shine in one’s mind, and he will find his normal state. If you feel indisposed, you should go to Vitosha Mountain to spend a few hours there and then come back – your state will transform, you will polarise in ascending order, and you will start thinking that you are capable of achieving anything. Yes, you can do what is within your power.

 

Now, you should establish among yourselves an atmosphere of harmony, as your future work will depend on mutual understanding. Otherwise, negative energy can accumulate around you, making your aura unattractive. Those who have their lines broken put off people, while others, who live in compliance with God’s laws possess a kind of magnetic power, i.e. the Divine Force acts in them, making them more attractive.

 

First, you should always try to find a positive meaning in things. All forces in Nature are basically good. Evil exists only in their application – that’s all. So, you have applied certain Divine thoughts and desires, but Nature wants to teach you a lesson by intensifying these desires, as a result inner sufferings are inflicted. These sufferings teach you a moral, so you say that a given law is true. Once you have learnt this law, you can live wherever you decide. You may want to live on Earth, be healthy, have friends, have a future, be useful to your nearest and dearest, but how are you going to achieve all this? Consequently, you should be reasonable. If you live the way modern people live, your life will be similar to theirs, and thirty or forty years later you will say, “It is not worth living. Everything is an illusion. Everything is a deception.” This is the greatest misfortune that can befall you.

 

My wish is to apply at least a fraction of what I am telling you. You need it, as it will help you reduce difficulties coming through the past by at least fifty per cent. I have noticed that most of you are getting ill. Why? I know that there is a kind of disharmony in you. You have accumulated surplus energy and you can’t let it off. If such a thing occurs, you should start blowing. Make room for everything that comes. Let it in, but if it is possible, you should say, “Everything in this world is for good.” Make small experiments with yourselves. There are certain problems that cannot be easily solved.

 

Do not think that the formulae, I am giving you are easy to apply. The formula I have just given you (moving your arms towards the chest, aside, blowing out, shaking the wrists and uttering the words Love, Joy, and Mirth) can help you solve thirty per cent of your problems, but carrying this out is a great responsibility. This is for greater difficulties, whereas this exercise will cost you nothing. How long would it take you to do some good? You can always do good; besides, the result will always be positive. When you do the exercise in the morning, you will improve by thirty percent. When you do it at noon, you will add another thirty per cent. If you do it in the evening, you will have a total of ninety per cent. Thus, only ten per cent of your problems will remain to be solved. A score of ninety per cent is enough, but it needs a lot of work. You will say, “I can do without these exercises.” Yes, you can. Don’t people die without exercises? Yes, they do. Someone will say, “I can do without learning.” – Yes, you can. It is possible to live without knowledge, but it is better for one to live reasonably and participate in the great Love of Nature, in the Joys of Nature, and in the Mirth of Nature. It is better for one to know why he has come to Earth.

 

How can you understand the law of polarisation now? Each thought, however good it is, once projected in you, will cast a shadow. You should be aware that dense matter surrounds you. Consequently, wherever you project your energy, some friction will occur. This friction is related to you, as no matter what your thought is, you will always produce a counteraction. The law is reverse, too. If you think something bad, this bad thought will give rise to something good. Forces in Nature are always balanced. Whether you start upwards or downwards, there is always balance. If you start with the positive, the negative will manifest itself; if you start with the negative, the positive will counteract. If you start with the Divine, the same thing will happen – first the Divine will manifest itself, then it will be followed by the human, and vice versa. If you are indisposed, try to observe what thought will arise from this indisposition. For instance, you feel indisposed, but you come to think of visiting a friend, so you do it. A friend of yours lives far from you, let’s say in Varna, but you come to think of him. You haven’t seen him for five years. Now you have the chance to visit him. Do not miss the opportunity, go to Varna, have a nice trip, and you will get some excellent experience. On second thoughts, you will be distracted, and you will say, “But I am going to spend too much money on this trip.” Do not spare your time or expenses, as they both are given to man, while the good you are going to do is of far greater worth than time and money. If a good thought crosses your mind, make it work. If a negative thought comes to your mind, the law is reverse. Let us say that suddenly you come to remember that someone owes you money. You immediately decide to ask for your money back, or sue the debtor. If such a thought occurs, do not do anything – do not leave your home, do not make a step out. Keep that thought back [A1] in you without doing anything about it for a day or two, until your mood changes for the better. Otherwise, if you act on the spur of the moment, you will make such a mess that it will take you years to settle things. The law is this – do not make a step, spend the day at home, until your balance is restored. On the next day, when you feel great, go to that friend of yours who owes you money and tell him, “Don’t worry, pal. Everything will be OK.”

 

These are rules you should apply mainly to yourselves. If you do not follow them, you will learn them sooner or later, but the hard way. Clever people learn through the experience of others, while those who are not wise enough yet, learn through their own experience. That’s why you should share your experience. This is what is required of you as disciples in an Occult class. The advantage of those who study in a class is that they learn from each other. If you cannot benefit from this advantage, your studying together is pointless. By observing each other, you will notice that one is more experienced in life, another is more patient, cleverer, wittier, or better at some field. Some are perceptive, others are compassionate, and still others are more determined. These can be incentives. Anybody can inject in you the urge to improve. If you live alone, you will be deprived of these beneficial influences. This is the positive aspect of working in a class. Someone will say, “I have become rougher round the edges since I entered this class.” No, you have missed the point. A class consists of various elements. This diversity is a good thing. There is a law according to which you can choose your friends. Some day I will show you how to do it.

 

 

Fig. 3

 

There are people among you, who if brought together, will inevitably fall out. This is how I explain this: if we bring A and B together, they will not be able to stand each other. You will say, “Let’s help them make it up.” This is absolutely impossible, because it is the negative forces that act between them. The individuals A and B are negative people. They can do an excellent job, but there is something missing. What can be done? They need a third person. This is the person C through whom you will pass A and B. They will meet at C and look at each other. But it is essential that C stand up in the centre. Then A will tell C, “Tell B that I do not like him. He has such and such shortcomings.” Yet C is clever enough to tell B, “A said that he likes you a lot.” However B says, “I'm sure that’s not true.” Then C tells A, “You know, B said that you are a great fellow.” Now C stands on top observing A and B and sees that they are both displeased. Then C projects itself down at D and sends B to D. B and D get together, so do A and C, reaching an agreement. Then you have the line CD, which is the force that bridges the gap. Therefore, more intense energies should pass through some milder medium in order to soften. I refer to CD as moderating conditions in Life. For instance, the heart is a kind of environment that acts towards moderating human thoughts, while the feelings in the soul moderate the human Spirit. That’s why when someone is thought to be rough they say, “This man has neither heart, nor soul.” They do not say that he has no mind. He might be clever and strong, but if he has no heart or soul, he is not one to live with. This does not suggest that A and B have no gentle feelings. They at their embryonic stage. The gentle forces in Nature exist as embryos in everyone. Therefore, the CD forces are positive, ascending forces in Nature as they can bring reconciliation, while the forces A and B can diverge – they need to bend.

 

Consequently, it is important for criss-crossing to occur often in Nature. Let me explain this: if any of you has a long face, he can be quick-tempered, so he should make friends with someone who has a round face, indicative of a milder temper. Long-faced people are more active, while round-faced people can have accumulated rough and painful matter. The curvy lines are prevalent in people with round, corpulent structure, whereas the straight lines are typical of people with elongated structure. Some people believe that the face should be round and plump. No, the face should not be plump, but it should not be too haggard either. It is important also for the eyes not to be too deep set – it would indicate that one’s heart is exhausted. That’s why you should always try to think positively. Do not think negatively about anybody or anything. For instance you say, “That’s too bad,” without realising that this evil affects you by making you rougher. If you think of someone’s vices, you should bear in mind that vices exist in everyone. Bad thoughts, feelings and impulses occur in everyone. Even the most patient person can lose his temper. We have a great personality in Jesus Christ, but we can see him grabbing the whip to drive everybody away from the temple. This is an energy that finds its expression. Was it possible for Christ to persuade these people leave the temple without using the whip? Yes, it was. Why did he use the whip then, as the Gospel says? Did Christ hit anybody, or just raise the whip? Some think that he did this out of weakness. No, it was not a weakness; it was just a method through which he said, “If you do not fulfill God’s will, you will be chased and beaten ever after.” Is there any of you whom this whip hasn’t struck? There is a whip in every household. It is a symbol. When the whip strikes, there will be cries and tears, but one who does not understand the law, will say, ”How could Christ grab the whip to use it?” Christ says, “If you are going to turn the temple into a marketplace, there will be crying, not peace in your home.” What does it mean when the whip strikes you? – The whip stands for sufferings, which means that you do not act according to God’s will. The whip is a symbol of intense mental and emotional sufferings experienced by man. Everybody should understand God’s law and apply it. The Divine Spirit has been working on us for thousands of years endowing us with legs, arms, brains and a heart. If we cannot control our organism in our present life with its forces – with this brain, this heart, these nerves and veins, as well as with all these small cells in it – what can we expect then? You get up in the morning without sparing a thought for your body. Pray for it. Send a thought to your body – think about all your cells entering your brain, your stomach. Think about all the living creatures working for your organism, and send them, as all good masters do with their servants, a good thought, a valediction[A2] . Encourage them to work and they will rejoice. What you actually do is get up in the morning without thinking about these workers. You think big, but all great things depend on these tiny creatures. Do you know what might happen if all these cells in the stomach, the heart and the brain refused to work and said, “We won’t work any more!” The heart starts beating more slowly, and we say, “My heart is going to fail.” Send an encouraging surge to these cells, talk to them – they can understand everything. There is a Divine law that guides them. Encourage them, as they are reasonable creatures. Be sensible and kind to them. Talk to them as a good master does. When you get tired, you can stop. If you feel some pain in the foot, stop. Pull off your sock, rub the foot, think about each separate cell in it and you will see it won’t be an hour before the pain disappears.

 

People nowadays do not think that cells possess consciousness. It is not true. They have an intelligence you cannot even think of. Your health and abilities depend exactly on these cells. That’s why you should send a positive surge to these cells. Send them a good thought in the evening before going to bed; when you get up in the morning you will feel some pleasant disposition. Well, these cells are your servants. They will say, “Our master has introduced a reform in our lives, so let us serve him better.” The modern Occult teaching has proved this. If people do this they can lengthen their lives by as many years as they wish – ten, fifteen, a hundred, a hundred and fifty, two hundred. You will say, “Who can possibly find the time in the morning to pay attention to these tiny cells, sending them good thoughts?” You should think of them first. The Gospel says, “We are a temple where God lives, and everything in us is alive.”

 

Therefore, we should stand in awe of everything God gave us. We should be grateful that God placed us in the body we have. We should be glad that all these tiny souls and cells will grow up as we are now in millions of years. When you meet them they will say, “I know you.” “Where from?” “I used to live with you.” “Where?” “In your head, so I am very well acquainted with the rules and order there.” Another cell will say, “I used to live in your heart and I know what you feel.” A third cell will tell you, “I used to live in your stomach.” All cells will remember where they come from and will bear your knowledge.

 

Now, all of you in this class are such small cells. Just as all cells of an organism constitute one whole, so you make up the organism of a more reasonable Creature. When you get up in the morning, a good thought comes to your mind. Where does it come from? This Creature sends you His blessing and says, “Live in peace! I will help you.” Why? – Because you are part of His organism. As a result, you feel encouraged and well disposed. You feel safe, because you live in a body guided by a reasonable Spirit. So, we are always safe – do not think that there is no safety in this world. As long as you live sensibly in compliance with God’s law, your life is safe.

 

You are clear about the exercise, aren’t you? You will have to do it for ten days – every morning, noon and evening. Keep record of the results. See whether the results will come immediately or later. You observations will be very interesting. You should also examine the law of polarisation, which is a science itself.

 

- Only the light way to Wisdom leads us to truth.

 

- It gives us constant Mirth and Joy

 

 

 

 

 [A1][Restrain that thought]

 [A2]This means – an act of bidding farewell. Perhaps this should be [a greeting].