Most of you know only too well that when your emotions become disturbed over outer conditions, feelings or concepts there is a moment when you are yet able to wrest control of your energies from your own emotional body. Subsequently, if these energies are permitted to continue to rage unabated, that moment of control is lost; and then it is easy for people to do, to think or to say that which they will one day regret....
deep within yourself there is a loving desire to serve your fellowman. This desire is what prompted the descent of the Christ, the un of David, in his role as the Messias of old. The shepherd king, a man after God’s own heart, communed with God and prepared himself for greater service as he tended his sheep. Nowhere was the luster of his soul more apparent than in the beauty of his meditations upon the Spirit of the Lord recorded in the Book of Psalms.
One of the most skillful ways in which the tired businessman or executive, the frustrated mother or wife, the confused young man or woman can find integration and wholeness for themselves is to develop the discipline of being able to direct their emotions to do for them exactly what they want. Such discipline will completely change their outlook, for they will then face life with joyous expectancy, not with dissatisfaction....
-Saint Germain: Pearls of Wisdom 13:13
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194. Finer energy is reinforced by communion with Hierarchy. Thus the wise physician first of all will take care to know the condition of his finer energy and to see that it is in concordance with higher forces. Paying attention only to physical qualities has no significance for the future….
deep within yourself there is a loving desire to serve your fellowman. This desire is what prompted the descent of the Christ, the un of David, in his role as the Messias of old. The shepherd king, a man after God’s own heart, communed with God and prepared himself for greater service as he tended his sheep. Nowhere was the luster of his soul more apparent than in the beauty of his meditations upon the Spirit of the Lord recorded in the Book of Psalms.
One of the most skillful ways in which the tired businessman or executive, the frustrated mother or wife, the confused young man or woman can find integration and wholeness for themselves is to develop the discipline of being able to direct their emotions to do for them exactly what they want. Such discipline will completely change their outlook, for they will then face life with joyous expectancy, not with dissatisfaction....
And so it is essential that We develop in the students those same Christlike qualities that will make them pillars in the temple of God that cannot be moved by human emotions no matter what their guise: criticism, condemnation, judgment, self-pity, gossip, treachery, tyranny or human deceit. The alchemist must be oblivious to all human conduct yet not unaware of worldly thought to the point where he plays the fop. To him the fulfillment of the fiat “Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves!” is the order of every day.
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194. Finer energy is reinforced by communion with Hierarchy. Thus the wise physician first of all will take care to know the condition of his finer energy and to see that it is in concordance with higher forces. Paying attention only to physical qualities has no significance for the future….
I affirm that each physician must pay attention to himself in order to feel to what an extent he himself is ready to renew his consciousness, otherwise he will not find fitting words for those who come to him. He will be unable to inquire into the actual causes of ailments. He will not maintain a self-affirmed influence….The Teaching must disclose paths but not be merely a pharmacy. Let people have an opportunity to observe and discover, otherwise there will be reactions upon karma.
207. The lack of balance of fires and waters constitutes a subject for deep investigation. Some will ponder over it, and many will ridicule.
240. Complication by grossness only demonstrates that the heart energy has not reached a level where it is no longer threatened with drowning in the waves of chaos. One must hasten with the refining process. Each ulcer begins with the smallest decomposition of tissue. A drop of resin can make healthy the ailing tissue, but for a neglected ulcer not even a pot of resin can be of help. Create a manifestation of refinement in the very midst of life--why only in words or in glances when heart energy is multiplied precisely in thoughts. The collecting of the most precious is only for the purpose of returning it…. Only a cheat will try to offer something unfit or useless. One must keep watch over one's thoughts in order to send those of the best quality.
266. In itself chaos is not emptiness at all, but it is so far removed from human consciousness that its approach already constitutes a loss of the guiding principle. Such a deadly principle is sensed as emptiness, and in it is contained no small danger--equilibrium is disturbed, and suicides and various kinds of insanity occur. Not emptiness nor chaos but mean thinking causes the stupid poisoning of the atmosphere. Besides, such thinkers infect their surroundings and thus strike at their neighbors.
339. Let us not forget that Fire as an omnipresent element transmits vibrations instantaneously. And no one can arrest the spreading of these subtlest energies. So many times one has to reiterate about cautiousness with energies. Let us not judge as do people who are unwilling to think on a level higher than the Earth's crust. -M: Fiery World 1934
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47. It is right to affirm that a primary cause cannot exist without the one Fire of Being; and cosmic construction proceeds in like manner, uniting those things which by right belong together.
54. The indication about tolerance does not mean to have always command over one's fellow-worker; it does not mean that the spirit is on such a level that it can condemn those who surround him. The indication about tolerance first of all must awaken in the disciple the understanding of the fact that the spirit must be freed from egoism, because selfhood carries the most frightful monstrosities. Hence only the spirit of a disciple freed from selfhood can manifest leniency.
58. A man can easily regain a right level of consciousness if the spirit is imbued with great reverence for the invisible realms. The indication about tolerance does not mean to have always command over one's fellow-worker; it does not mean that the spirit is on such a level that it can condemn those who surround him. The indication about tolerance first of all must awaken in the disciple the understanding of the fact that the spirit must be freed from egoism, because selfhood carries the most frightful monstrosities. Hence only the spirit of a disciple freed from selfhood can manifest leniency.
All denials arise out of destructive thoughts about the invisible.
335. A harvest of hatred has taken root in the consciousness and must be eradicated. We cannot name even one religion which, while praising the Lord, does not give utterance to blasphemy. Distortion of the Teachings has produced an ever-living terror. Precisely the Teachings have been reduced to the human level, and the temples of man are not temples of the Lord. And the word of the Lords is not affirmed by humanity because the Teaching of Light has been lost in the obscurity of human consciousness. Only the heart tempered in battle and knowing the complexity of life can understand all the darkness of humanity. One can say that the world will be saved by regenerating the consciousness.
348. Do, indeed, people wish to know those roots of evil which destroy constructiveness? Closing the eyes to the existence of evil and its source abases man to a still lower level. The fact that the evil principle exists as opposition to Light is long since known. Just as good is manifested in limitless ways and aspects, so also is darkness. True, mankind prefers the way of unmanifested evil. Indeed such darkness is very attractive to the small consciousness because it is not necessary to expiate flamingly its actions; and the personifications of evil assume such an attractive application! -M: Fiery World 1935
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18. But no one under any circumstances should ever place himself on a level with the lowest. Let us recognize what man receives from even one approach to the far-off worlds….A single vision of the distant worlds is enough to transform one's entire life. To understand even a particle of life in the other worlds is to acquire a vivid remembrance forever. Such an approach is already an illumination of the consciousness. Aum is the power of Grace, and help is at hand for each one ready to set sail from the shore of the flesh.
107. Light-mindedness, curiosity, suspicion and unbelief are all of the same dark family….If the consciousness is at a level that permits curiosity where there should be reverence for the greatness, there cosmic dross must be anticipated. Is it possible to approach higher realms out of curiosity? Rather put the hand into the fire; thus let suspicion be charred!
249. You yourselves see how many people fail to understand the meaning of simple words. At such a level it is necessary to excuse their confused minds and to repeat the words as to a deaf person.
415. Woman’s upbringing and education are not on a level with man's, and motherhood itself is not protected. -M: Aum 1936
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21. State medicine and hygiene stand at a low level. Medical supervision is no higher than that of the police. No new thought penetrates into these outworn institutions. They can only prosecute, they cannot help.
188. Each transmission of the great Wisdom is indisputable, but it will have its own followers. Those who honor Hierarchy reverence also its messengers. The world lives by motion, and the issuance of the Sacred Teaching is evoked by advancing.
433. Goal-fitness has been excellently developed in all the kingdoms of nature. This quality is not always appreciated by people; they know too little of the past, and they do not wish to think about the future. …People usually limit themselves to quests of known places; they forget that life passes along the most unexpected paths, and its traces can be found unostensibly and unexpectedly. It is essential to preserve the writings of contemporaries which in the course of time will help to find places already leveled to the ground.
479. There can be brilliance in false stones. Deep thinking can also be expressed in very singular words….When there is talk about raising the people's level, precisely simplicity is required in all its convincingness. This quality must not only be accepted with one's mind but loved with one's heart; from it emanate both cooperation and brotherhood.
502. Can there be any judgment concerning peace among those who are full of coarseness and cruelty? One should observe such “peace-makers” in their daily home life. One should hear how they discuss their own affairs and those of others. One ought to become acquainted with their jokes and slanders in order to understand their complete unfitness in the matter of peace. But no one is concerned with the moral level of those who sit in judgment on the destinies of whole nations.
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Even if man accepts the truth that fundamentally there is only one energy, this alone will not be enough for progress--one must also learn to picture to oneself its innumerable qualities.
9. The northern tundra and the Gobi desert guard treasures; should one hasten to reveal them? Only a high level of consciousness can deal with such valuable treasures; and with knowledge of the spiral of evolution diamonds will not be cast under the wheels of chariots. Even for a proven patience it may be hard at times to await the approach of a caravan that brings joy.
137. Never forget the brilliance of emanations with which the dark ones can surround themselves. For beginners this fact is rather puzzling, but when one has studied the science of radiant energy it becomes clear.
170. The task of the Teacher is the same in all centuries. He must continually deal with the same questions without hurting the feelings of those who ask by telling them that their questions have already been answered in ages past.
180. The Thinker said "A salutary shield is spread from Heaven to Earth, but instead of raising themselves to it, people use every device to bring it down to their level. They do not realize that even the most beneficial remedies can lose their power in the earthly mire."
194. It would be easier to find brigands that are more honest than two-faced judges!
211. If you give people equal knowledge, for one it will be insufficient and for the other too much, confusing him and even causing him to betray.
245. Only if there is inner striving can one achieve the harmony that enables him to apply many formulas of the Teaching. But some fools demand immediate delivery of the philosopher's stone and do not even take the trouble to seek out the literature on this subject. They expect the Teacher to send them a talisman with which to find hidden treasures and assume that, without taking the level of their consciousness into consideration, he should immediately reveal to them the secrets of nature! -M: Supermundane 1, 1938
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259. Experienced observers should carefully and objectively collect facts about the progress of evolution through the decades.
265. But few realize that they are experiencing a departure from their former level of consciousness and are starting a new step. Few will welcome such signs because as a rule people fear the new or unknown. But there will be some who are prepared, and these few will rejoice for they know that each new step is a reason for joy.
265. One must listen to the call of consciousness. The Master first of all considers the level of consciousness of the disciple and then transmits knowledge accordingly. Man's great advantage lies in his ability to realize his progress, and it is so much more joyous when this progress is also for the common good. Let us not be fearful. Courage and striving are the wings that will help us to soar toward the goal.
298. Everyone should strive to perfect his art and his work. Even if these attempts are not always successful, they will nevertheless help one to achieve a new level of concentration.
350. The outward appearance of a deed is not its essence: this essence is clearly perceived in the heart of the author of the deed. Thus man should not become a sower of destructive forces. Let everyone think about creating good. When people think scientifically they will understand the laws of ethics. -M: Supermundane 2, 1938
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