1921_08_21 Defining the Work of the Four Councils (Nik)

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Defining the Work of the Four Councils

Let us now make a secret prayer. I will read you several verses from the sixth chapter of the Epistle to the Galatians, verses 6-10.

What is the great law? You cannot love someone who neither loves you nor hates you. These are the two conditions: in order to be able to love someone, they must either love you or hate you - one of the two. But if they do not have one of the two dispositions to you, Love cannot appear. However, the one who provokes your Love with his hatred, he regrets that he has given you more oil. He realizes that he has increased your fuel - Love; he regrets allowing Love to increase in you.

So, God loves us for two reasons. For now, he loves us because we sin. And the sinful is a temporary delusion of the human soul, which deviates from the path of Love. We think that there is another way in which Love can manifest, but once we have completed our evolution, we will see that there is only one way of Love, one way of manifesting it.

Now let us go back to the practical side, i.e. to the real side, which is essential for us. We want to get organized, in order to work. Organizations can be mechanical - when there is no close internal connection between their parts. The connection can also be organic, i.e. internal; but if in this internal, organic connection there is no consciousness, meaning there is no understanding between the parts, the goal is also not achieved.

What is the great law within Nature? Those who start with the mechanical way of organizing, they grow from without, while those who start with the organic way, they grow from within.

Therefore, if we now acquire knowledge only from without, from the experiences of other people, we have mechanical organizing - we gain knowledge from the outside, without having the inner knowledge that plants have - to organize from within and grow. After our death, this external knowledge disintegrates - this is the reason why some prominent philosopher who wrote many books, after his death may be reborn as a simple man. So, knowledge that we acquire from without, through people, can be easily erased, but no power can erase the knowledge acquired through the great experience of Love. Therefore, true knowledge can be acquired through the right way of Love. This is a law.

In order to love a person, we must know him, be able to reveal his soul, his past and future, and then we will surely love him. In order to respect someone, we must love him. If we do not have this Love, we are strangers to each other. And in order to know God, we must love Him. I will not dwell on how we will know God. We will find Him. We can begin to love God, as we can love a person. So, Love is a quality of the human soul, not of the human mind.

This organizing that we are talking about, you ask, "Well, how are we going to organize?" Do not think that we are creating this organization now, it is implanted in us. And the small disputes that can cause misunderstandings, are like those antiquities that are found during excavations. When they find such antiquities, they pour various acids over them to clear them of the dust, but during this cleaning they also wash the inscription, and in fact the valuable thing is what is written.

We have to be masters ourselves, so that when we clean, we do not erase what was originally written. Now each of you is born for a certain activity. You are not all born for the same activity. This is a fact: all those of you who have low foreheads are not destined for any philosophical activity, they are not for mental work. If the idea of becoming a writer occurs to them, they will waste their time. They are (destined) for practical work. And in the present life they will prepare the conditions for their future life. I have checked this. As a result, those whose foreheads are low and think they have a mind are lying to themselves. They have a mind, but in the astral world, while in the physical world they do not have the conditions for it to manifest. If their violin had only one string, what would they do? Can anyone play on one string? Or if their violin has only my strings and sol (key), can it be played? So their violin must be full, it must have all the strings and the players must understand the laws.

Some of you want to be very active, but cannot be. Why? Their head at the back is very flattened. A person who wants to be active must have a wide head at the back. A man who has his head flattened at the back, when he is asked to do something, always leaves his work unfinished. He will always find one reason or another. But the person with a wide head at the back will always find time to finish his work. So do some of us, when they are put to work - they are gone. Therefore, we must determine the place of each of us - who is for what. Whoever was born for spiritual work - to be spiritual. And what they will be in the future - this is another question. Someone is born a musician and he has a price as such, but another one is not born a musician and even spending a lifetime as a musician will achieve nothing. He will still learn something, same as the one born for it. So, we are all born for something. And if we take up what the Lord has planned for us, we will achieve something, but we say, "I will correct God's plan." And we correct the Lord all our lives. Finally, we say, "I could not achieve anything!" In our next life, we correct the Lord again: "I could not succeed in anything!"

And another thing: in order to know whether your mind is able to manifest itself, give it more intensive work. If in three years you manage to widen your forehead up, so that it becomes two millimetres higher, you can achieve something. But if after three years your forehead has not undergone any change, do not waste your time with various philosophies.

So, according to the intensity of the willpower, we should be able to change our forehead, the shape of our head, our nose and to model our face like an artist. The reason for our failure in this is that when we talk about ourselves, we have a higher opinion than we are, while others have a worse opinion of us than we are. And there lies our whole mistake. Thus we find ourselves between two extremes, so we have to add these two values and divide them by two. We should to take 50% from what we think about ourselves, and also take 50% from what people think about us. What remains - it is you.

Now we should try to create a favorable atmosphere between ourselves for all endeavors, but without ambitions. Because I notice that you tend to develop more personal feelings, those at the back of the head, i.e. you have the disposition of the rooster, of the peacock - oh, its colorful feathers - whoop, whoop, whoop. It says, "Look what I have done!" Well, this colorful tail is millions of years old. But what have you done now? When the peacock finishes speaking, you will see that it is nothing. As it climbs the fence, the rooster crows, "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" Then it goes down again. The next day it climbs up again: "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" Day after day it always does this, and what does it mean by that cock-a-doodle-doo? Once a cock-a-doodle-doo, twice cock-a-doodle-doo, a third time cock-a-doodle-doo, a thousand times cock-a-doodle-doo. What does it mean? Watch this cock-a-doodle-doo by the rooster. When the first roosters begin to crow, a person feels light-hearted, as if he has freed himself from some misfortune. But when you enter the village and hear the dogs barking, you get overwhelmed with fear. The barking of dogs implies that there is some danger, while the crowing of the rooster implies that there is no danger, that something good is hiding. Well, if a rooster came to my doorstep and crowed "cock-a-doodle-doo," then a second one - cock-a-doodle-doo, then three, ten, fifteen roosters crowing, what impression would they make? The first rooster will make a pleasant impression, from the second one onward this impression will begin to weaken, while finally the last rooster will make an unpleasant impression on you and you will want to drive it away. We do exactly the same. This rooster brings great trouble. A rooster comes and says, "cock-a-doodle-doo," he presents a work plan. A second rooster comes - "cock-a-doodle-doo" again, presents another plan. The first plan is good; the second plan says, "This work is so and so, but let us leave it."

Now let us get back to the main idea. In your current state, God has planned what you need to do, He has connected you with famous people and you need to find them, you will feel them and you will need to work with them. These two, three or more people will come with others and you will work together. This is how people, families are united, this is how all humanity is united. Ants and bees are organized according to the same law. Every ant knows its purpose. Who organizes the ants, who organizes the bees? The work goes in a mechanical way. And we, who meddle here and there, think we were created differently. No, we are also organized like them, only we are moving away. This collision, this sinful state, has moved us away from the right path of development.

Each method is useful because once you apply a method, it will reveal where its weaknesses are. You will apply a second method - and it will also reveal its weaknesses. And by applying this method for one, two, three days, you will find the errors yourself and will correct them. These errors occur naturally. Do not think that every job will be perfect. There will be a number of gaps, but over time, if you rely on the Divine law and on God's Wisdom that works, the beings who are interested will help us organize. So now we will start with the organization, which we will test. You will be in a group of a hundred people, won't you? I am asking: how will you start your first job now? How will these work advisors get started? And what will the advisors of the spiritual life start with? Have you seen how some experienced musicians, when taking the notes, they play something here and there, but when a virtuoso comes, he starts from the beginning and plays the whole piece without any notes. Of course, you are not a virtuoso yet, but you will open the score and learn to play the piece well. I hope you will learn it. This will be an impulse for you to awaken the abilities that you have, and you will give each other your energies, which will intertwine.

There are some people in which the natural mind is highly developed, so they will transfer some of their energy to others in which the natural mind and abilities are poorly developed. There will be a transfer of energies in all of you and then an inner uprising will begin. Those who are very energetic will pass on their energy to those who are less energetic, so an exchange of your energies will begin. But if you do not understand the law, you will affect each other in contrast and these energies will be neutralized. How are these energies created? You may have a desire to be first. You must avoid this mistake, otherwise you will look like those 12 beautiful ladies in a city, who were chosen to welcome a king, but provided that the most beautiful of them handed the bouquet to the king. The question of who was the most beautiful one, would be decided by a majority, by a vote. Everyone voted and when they looked at the ballots, they saw twelve ballots with different names - each one voted for herself. If everyone votes for themselves, then there will be no candidate to choose from among all. If we all submit the ballot for ourselves, we will not be able to finish God's work. And this, to put it simply, means that everyone has to make their own way. You will not leave the path in which God has placed you! Each of you will go their own way and will not waver, neither to the left, nor to the right. You can benefit from the experiences of others, but you will not deviate from the path in which God has placed you. This is the desire of all of us - all who are initiated. Neither should anyone impede you, nor should you stumble yourself. And each one of you, when he sees his brother stumbling, should show him the way and say to him, "This is the way," and should encourage him.

I will stop here and if there are any important questions, I would like to give the floor to anyone who wants to speak specifically for five to ten minutes. Let them express an idea clearly or give their opinion. But this is not to give an opinion that they think one way or another, only if they have some basic, Divine idea that comes from the Spirit, if the Spirit speaks to them, then let them talk.

- How do we know when the Spirit is speaking to us, because we doubt it many times? How can we know which path is (meant) for us?

Suppose I am a poor man. I go to a gentleman and I want him to give me a job. He does not give me any. I go to a friend of mine, but he tells me, "Wait for it!" But imagine that I have the gift of making wheel axles. I can make nice cars. I see - someone's car has broken; my first job is to offer him to repair the car. He recommends me to a second person, to a third one and here it is - I am making my way. This person will give me something, that one will give me something. Both their car is repaired, and my car is repaired.

Let us now assume the following contradiction. Let us say that I have graduated from a famous university, I have graduated in finance, but there is no suitable position for me and I have to wait one or two years until something becomes available. And I say: I have a degree in finance, so I am not going to make any cars, although I know this craft. I go to the cafes, I smoke cigarette after cigarette... puff, puff. I am asking: what is the point of this? Instead of saying "puff, puff", just take the adze and "clink - clink" with it. Isn't that smarter?

Let us take other examples: you have a degree in beekeeping and you have the gift of handling bees. Get involved in beekeeping. You have an inner gift for farming. Manifest your activity in this regard! You may encounter difficulties, but if you go against your destiny, you will encounter other difficulties. You will overcome the first difficulties more easily and while your karma improves, you will find good friends.

Now some of you find themselves in favorable conditions, others - in less favorable ones. Some of you will fight harder, but we will help them overcome everything. It will not go smoothly for them, but we will show our activity, our mind, our heart and our willpower. Let us say that a sister is a seamstress, she is poor. She wants to work for the Lord. She will leave and will enter a city, asking, "Do you have any job?" She will work in one place or another and will make her way. But if she thinks that she can take an easier way, then she is not worthy of spiritual attainments, that is not the right way. So at the given moment, this is a weapon that God has given you. It is sacred and it will save you from certain temptations.

So now we - both younger and older, will return to develop our abilities as much as we can.

First in the work plan, get busy in the physical world making fraternal gardens. Every city should have a fraternal garden: an orchard, a vegetable garden of 5-20-30 decares (1 decare is approximately 0.25 acres) - as much as you have. Those of you who have nothing to do, let them go there to work, to invest their labor, and what is produced to benefit those brothers who have less. It is practical to utilize free time, isn't it? Some of you may want to open a carpentry workshop in a city. Try to make tables, casks, apply in your free time the art that you have mastered, and whatever you acquire, you will be able to sell. Put into action all the crafts that you know. Someone is a teacher - let them gather 5-10-15-20 small children, open an educational school, a nursery and start entertaining them. Some of you may gather in groups of two or three and translate books - this is an accomplished work. Some may form classes, circles for reading books, works of famous writers, scholars. Others, with musical abilities, may form orchestras of violins, clarinets, etc. When we get together, there should always be a great variety among us - to know and to work, and to write, and to sing, and to play, and to read, we should be able to do everything. The Lord wants us to know a little of everything, so that others can say that these people know everything. And now that we come together, we all want to be spiritual people - especially those who have more experience. What do experiences consist of? The experiences consist of the following: if I take you to a mountainous area, you will have an experience. But if I only have some photos and show them to you, what will you use them for? You will only have some mental ideas. If I take you to a mountainous area, you will perceive the magnetic influence of this area, you will breathe its fresh air, you will drink its fresh and clean water, you will taste all the benefits of this area. Therefore, in order to take you to the spiritual world, I will not bring you a book describing the spiritual life and let you explore it from there, but I will tell you: "Come with me!" One day, if we go on a trip to the spiritual world, you will cut large sticks and I will tell you, "Take one stick each and let us go to the spiritual world." We will find this spiritual world in some mountainous area. You think that it is in some special place.

Where I was this summer, we found a Paradise, I call it the "suffer-joyous Paradise". Any place that can produce in your mind the most beautiful thoughts, the most beautiful feelings and can change your life in some way is Paradise. You will say, "We have never seen such a place." This is a part of Paradise - a corner of Paradise. When you go elsewhere, you will find another corner of Paradise. This Divine Paradise is scattered all over the globe.

To know each other, use the following method. You gather two people together in one place, you tell your friend something, but he is not interested in what you tell him. The reason for this is not that this brother does not want to listen to you, but that he has developed some abilities and you have developed others. You talk to him about music, about art, but he thinks about the trees, about his cows, about the butter, to have a house, a garden and so on. You talk to him about music, but he thinks about his cows. Then he starts talking to you: he tells you about his cows, gets excited and wonders why you are not interested. You are both right. He is interested in one thing and you - in another. Then the one who is smart will say to himself, "In order for this brother to understand me, I have to descend where he is." Or he must ascend to you. And so do the young people. When two young people love each other, the boy, being a musician, talks about music because he has a musical feeling, and the girl intuitively adapts to him, shows that she is interested in music, fawning. He says, "Oh, I have found her!" But after they get married, he sees that she has no interest in music. "What a fool you are," she says, "I was interested until I got married, but now it does not have to be this way between us."

I see that some of you may think like philosophers, while others may not. Some of you are active in the physical world and can do a huge, excellent job, while others are not active - they cannot do so much work. So, all these energies that we have, we will leave them to act in a Divine way. We will not change the Divine way in any way.

Those of you who are in the Education department, let them exchange thoughts on what books to publish, what books to be recommended for reading. And some of you who can, let them read these books. We will try to distribute this work to become more intelligent, because as we are going now, we are not intelligent. People from the outside world are smarter than us.

Keep in mind that Christ says, "The sons of this age are wiser than the sons of Light." Some of us must suffer long until we learn the right Divine way.

Now there is another danger. Those of our spiritual brothers who are engaged in physical work, we should not let all their energy be absorbed only by the physical, but let the spiritual also speak in them. A man of physical labor, who has not expended his physical energy, and enters the spiritual world so unprepared, he will cause a whole anarchy. You will investigate this matter. Each group of one hundred people will choose ten of the smartest people among them.

This morning, when you drew lots, you made a mistake. This mistake consists in the following: when one of the apostles became a traitor and a traitor to Christ, he lost his position as an apostle. The apostles gathered, drew lots who to replace him, and chose Matthias. And then there were other candidates in front of God. The apostles chose Matthias as their candidate, but the Lord chose Paul. Which of the two did the bigger job? Paul. Once you have two opinions and draw lots, it is 50% true. The draw cannot resolve the issue. So, you will also draw lots to solve a difficulty, but it will be 50% resolved. Then do you think that in drawing lots everyone has fallen into place? Therefore, the work that you could do yourself, you assigned to the Lord, and here, He resolved it again. The physical man asks: "Should I work in the vineyard or become a clerk?" The question is resolved - the hoe. There is his calling. It will work wonders. If he has a mentally gifted son, he does not need a hoe, but a mental field - to work there.

- Can there be any shuffles from one group to another?

There may be a shift of some people from one group to another, i.e. an overflow. Once you settle, those who are left outside, they will be in reserve. You will tell them: "Can you not come to my place, and I stay in reserve?" In these hundred people you will all take part, you will start thinking about how to create a job for everyone. Here is a sensible way to create a job! When someone is in a path of temptation, create a job for him in order to get rid of that temptation and to be able to earn at least his livelihood.

- Since bees live the most harmonious life, and we are preparing for such, isn't it good to start with bees and take up researching their life?

When you give an artificial honeycomb to the bees, they do not throw it away, but just fix it here and there. So do we - will not throw away the artificial honeycomb, but will fix it only here and there. Some friends have already started - they have taken up beekeeping. Some attempts have been successful, but others have been unsuccessful. Do not be discouraged! Every job should start with the little one.

If some of you want to express their opinion on some unexplained issues, let them speak. Talk about issues of self-development, self-education, and I would like you to dedicate your idle time to external activities. I speak of idle time, because it must be used wisely for our spiritual development and ennoblement. This should be the first thing, the purpose of your work.

- What work will the fourth group do?

It has the biggest job - conciliation. For example, two sisters have quarreled - the conciliators will investigate the main reasons why and for what they have quarreled, and that is not to decide who is to blame, but to look for the reasons. This activity is important not only for you, but also for those from outside. We will make a small model, to show how it should work. In some city, you can do the following work experiment: get two or three families together for a year, at least eat together without any restrictions, let us see how you will do the experiment. When eating together, you will cut your budget. We had such an experience at our resort. There were twenty of us, who, if we ate alone, separately, we would pay dearly, but together, we paid 16 lev (TN: the currency of Bulgaria) a day per person. And at the same time you will learn to eat only what you need. One or two meals are enough. Then women will also get rid of unnecessary work. Then the sisters can get used to having a shared laundry, to wash together and to have a shared kitchen. Make an attempt - this is not necessary, but this way you will see what the practical results will be. While now a woman - she spends all day at home working and her labor is scattered. For example, when washing separately, more wood is burned, more soap is consumed and the expenses are higher. Apply this where you can, where conditions allow. The first time the attempts may be unsuccessful, they may give the opposite results.

- In order to be successful in such a life together, should not there be competition at work?

There should be, but with Love.

What is the target point of the mother? The child. As long as she has a child outside, she can work. What is the target point of the teacher? The students. The teacher works while there are students. Once he loses his students, he stops working. There must be an outside stimulus everywhere.

- Is it possible for these groups to work together if there are people from different cities in them?

At first they will correspond by mail. For example, some brothers from Sofia will rent a plot and will start cultivating it. Now the Ruse group are making such an attempt, but they have not done their job yet, they have not seen their result yet. The Aytos group are also making attempts - everyone is working.

When trifles occur in a job, it breaks down, and this can be done by anyone, be it a man or a woman, as long as they use the trifles.

Keep the following idea in mind: when you start these attempts, if you plan to provide for yourself financially with them, do not get started at all. These small attempts are not means for providing (material) security. If someone has free time, let them engage in these experiments. Let us Suppose now that a few young brothers form a small commune, they want to live an ideal life. Now why do they get blamed? They enter this commune and start earning. After a while, a sister turns to God and says, "I also want to work," and enters inside. She falls in love with one of the brethren and wants to get married. Well, that is not bad. They get married, then they have children. And now, to provide for her children, she will expel all other members of the commune. And that is why I do not say like you that women ruin everything, but women take everything. And the opposite is true. For example, five or six sisters decide to live a communist life. A brother wants to come and work with them. He falls in love with one of the sisters and wants to get married. They marry and drive away the other sisters. These things are not bad, people have to get married, but when we start working for God, we have to put all things in their place. The question is not whether to get married or not, whether to have children or not, the point is to live a reasonable, Divine Life.

Finally, let us try to make an ideal commune. The whole fraternity will rent some plots together, so brothers and sisters from all cities will go to these places to work throughout the year.

- Will all brothers and sisters agree to work in the common vineyard?

The work is difficult to arrange in the physical world. This is one of the difficult questions. Now this work must be undertaken by young and old, by everyone, so that we will see both the good and the bad sides, and this will be an experience for you. In this job, I want you to engage only in your idle time, when you have nothing else to do. The Svishtov group are also making attempts, and the Sliven and Sofia groups are also planning to make experiments.

Some brothers and sisters expressed different views on the forthcoming work of the four councils and the formation of the communes. Everyone emphasized that this work would be successful, if there was Love and readiness for self- sacrifice. A wish was expressed to correct the mistake made in the selection by lot, and a desire was noticeable in everyone for the Master to point out to us certain jobs for the groups.

These four groups (Councils) are one task that you need to solve correctly. When you say that the choice must be annulled, this does not mean that when you make a debt, you have to cancel it, and by signing, you have to get your signature back. Whatever happened - happened. We do not think this is a mistake. This is not a mistake, it is an experiment that you are making now. And this experiment will be fixed. Everything will be fixed, it will come to its natural order. All those who are elected will enter their roles. First of all, you did not understand what it means to join the Labor Council. You got scared - you think you will take the hoes to work. The idea is not like this at all - to take the hoe. We just want to use our free time and not be left idle, to enter into sin. It can be one day of the week or the month, but according to the law of Love. Even if we use one day - we have succeeded. Now you have already entered, you have harnessed yourselves. With your work you will create a wave of working. You get excited, but then you immediately step back and say, "I am not fit for work." Those who have entered are already starting to regret that they have entered, and those who have not entered are regretting that they have not entered.

You have four groups (Councils) and I will select a hundred people, because I have stock, I have the right to select a hundred people. Everyone will get to work and no one will be left idle.

Do not be embarrassed if your experiment has failed. Each first attempt is unsuccessful, it is always like that. Do you know how many unsuccessful attempts God has made? Well, He created the first man in His own image and likeness, put him in Heaven, but the experiment failed. Christ came, and He made a second experiment. And this experiment failed. Why? Because, by leaving the work to His chosen disciples, they ruined it and He has to come again to correct it. And more attempts are to be made. The Lord drove Adam and Eve out of Heaven and then came down to earth to teach people not to fight. Now people are trying to solve theoretically which teaching is more correct.

It should always be known that the first attempt is unsuccessful, not that it is not successful, but it is a preparation for a second attempt. Do not get discouraged, because if we think like this, we will all begin to fall into a dizzy state, we will begin to feel heaviness in our heads.

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