make bricks without straw

   Realize, beloved hearts, how the fallen ones are jealous of the time and energy and space of the children of the light.  And therefore they increase the burden, requiring that they shall make bricks without straw.  Beloved hearts of light, this is the withdrawal of the essential commodities in the mainstream of life in the nations.  It is the withdrawal of the essence of energy and of the essence of gold itself so that the people must build their build­ings, erect their civilizations and multiply their light without the nec­es­sary physical manifestation of those elements that are required.   

 (by N. Roerich, 1926)

    -Lord Ling:  12-28-1980 at Camelot, Los Angeles, Pearls of Wisdom 24:4

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  Blessed ones, it is good to get over the sense that life should be easy and if it gets tough, life is not for you. You need to flex the muscles of the mind, wrestle with zen koans and the conundrums of the day that seem nigh impossible to crack.  You will have to crack the nut without a nutcracker.  You will have to solve the puzzle and put the pieces together without directions.  You will have to follow the treasure map to the treasure without compass and without specific locations defined.  Such is the test, beloved….[Whenever you are required to work] under the most arduous conditions remember that the children of Israel were required to make bricks without straw.

  May you understand therefore that God gives you a mountain of karma while you have your vigor and your ardor and the fire of your body because if it is not balanced today, on the morrow you may not have the strength to deal with it and disease and old age may overtake you before you have won your victory.  

              -Serapis Bey: 1-1-1990 at Royal Teton Ranch, Montana, Pearls of Wisdom 33:3

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216.  let us speak about paltry idlers and dullards who clutter up the path of life.  They are busy as a pepper-box; they always have a bitterness against labor; they are as puffed up as turkey-cocks; they account for a quantity of stench from smoking; they bring the place of labor into a state of stupefaction.  They think up a hundred pretexts to fill in the cracks of rotten work.  They cannot find an hour for the most urgent.  In their stupidity they are ready to become arrogant and to deny that which is most essential for them.  They are as unproductive as are thieves of another's time.  They must be excluded from the new structures.  For them can remain the carrying of bricks.  

                                                      -Morya:  Community 1926