Nothing is to be compared with the light wave.

49.  Love and striving work miracles in life.  We are awakening your energy for new thoughts which are needed for transmutation and for the work of thought in life.  You must find the resources to create a new life.  We send you thoughts 

—sharpen them without violating karma.  My work allows no indecisiveness.  What is sent by me take without hesitation.

126.  Austerely and in pure thought commence my work.  Remember the obstacles at the beginning of every great task.

149.  Be benevolent not by impulse but by constant striving.  With pure spirit must you work and all will follow without effort.

361.  Not hope but work directs the builders.  The purity of the tuning fork will overcome disharmonious coarseness produced by human weakness.

378.  You should gaze only into the future.  And so it is necessary to turn to the children.  Only in them is the lawful beginning of the work.  Revealing the new path only in children will you find the power of trust.

396.   One should treasure every hour devoted to my work.  One must grope and find the doorway to light.

446.  Verily I say:  even crumbs are useful in the great Service; one can collect a bowlful of the common work from yesterday's loaves.     -Leaves of Morya's Garden 1924

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I, v, 3.  Ponder each day how to fulfill my work.  Teach the inheritors—teach them beauty.  Affirm their eye.

I, x, 9.   As sparks create ozone so the work of the spirit weaves assistance.  Just open a clean window and help flies in.

II, i, 3.   Joyous is each resourcefulness because the shield is forged on both sides.  Broad is my work, to everyone a place ordained.  By the broadness of your vision will you allot your own part.  

II, i, 7.  Those who will take part in this work must guard their hearts.  Therefore I say, guard the heart--all else is easy to repair.  It represents matter, whereas the nerves are subservient to Spirit. 

II, i, 8.  But to work there where Spirit has descended into matter the conditions of both planes must be met.  One should not estrange oneself from the earthly, yet one must abide in Spirit.  For the mastery of the earthly formulae one must possess a strong channel of the heart because the reflex of the earthly signs carries dangerous sparks.

II, i, 11.  There will be none without work when people will turn to the path of Spirit.  We intend to demonstrate this advantage of perfectionment not for the invisible world but for you yourselves.  We summon to Our path.

II, iv, 12.   And when one has traced the thread from Christ to the blade of grass then only has the scope of work been covered.

II, vi, 2.  And when you find a heap of goodness, readiness and movability you can set to work only with the shovel of beauty.  A wonderful fire is contained in communion with people.

II, vi, 9.   One must stress benevolent and useful unity,and that We appraise foolishness at its worth.  Of course in a great work foolishness may also find a lodging but not on the top floor.

II, vii, 16.  The pattern of work of the dark ones is first to sow disbelief, then to saturate it with desires, then to inflate these into crimes and reap a double harvest.

II, vii, 18.  But if the spirit of the chosen ones recognizes a treason toward the work, then let them address Us saying, "Thou our Sponsor who have given pledge, replace the co-worker."  This will mean that a link of the chain will be unlocked, and the consciousness of the chosen ones will be freed from the effects of the aura of the departing one.  But the departing one takes upon himself his own fate, for everyone is free to build his own house.

II, viii, 15.   The work toward cooperation with highest planets demands that on these planets abide harmonized spirits in conscious work.  Usually the quest is from below and the answer from above--the higher, the more unity.

II, ix, 2.  However (many) people at present work so zealously in the mines of evil that it is inadvisable to give them access to close possibilities.

II, x, 11.  Imagine yourself a fine needle of unusual sensitiveness which reacts to all changes in the surroundings. The needle is connected with a special apparatus which formulates all surrounding currents.  The needle vibrates to all currents, all sounds, all images and the formulating apparatus records all receivings.  The sensitiveness is such that even a thought is registered.  For preciseness of the work there is needed a constancy of surroundings.  A predominant current creates a state of constancy.  It means that the apparatus is adapted to this current.  If the current is changed, then often the apparatus even stops especially if the currents are not harmonized.

III, iii, 1.  When the scope of the work grows the floors and ceilings begin to crack.  Men understand with great difficulty the difference between "it can be" and "it will be”--it seems to them that if it can be it already will be.  But where is the achievement and where the desire to pass over all walls?

III, iv, 6.  I shall specify the qualities distinctive in those seeking the common good.  First - constancy of striving;  second - ability of containment, for poor is he who denies, but the seeker of truth is worthy to work for general good; third - ability to labor, because the majority do not know the value of time; fourth - the desire to help, without prejudices and without usurpation; fifth - renouncement of personal property and the acceptance for safekeeping of the fruit of the creativeness of others; sixth - expulsion of fear; seventh - display of vigilance amidst darkness.

III, iv, 15.  Expectancy should penetrate your whole life and fill your work with the throbbing of action.  For in this union is the best and most beautiful.

III, v, 6.   Avoid uniformity as to both place and work.  Actually uniformity accompanies that greatest fallacy, the concept of personal ownership.  First of all the slave of property loses mobility of spirit.  Such a slave ceases to understand that each day of labor should be tinged with a special quality of the spirit. 

III, v, 6.  If each journey forces you to write your last will and testament, and a change of work makes you unhappy, this means that a remedy must be taken.  Most dangerous journeys should be prescribed and changes in the way of most diversified work should be assigned.  This will develop courage and resourcefulness because the primary cause of the defect is fear.

III, v, 9.  Outside the window sounded a call.  One worker ignored it with "Don't disturb me, I am busy!”  Another promised to come but forgot.  A third came after his work was finished, but the place was already empty.  A fourth was set a tremble at the call and, putting aside his tools, went forth at once with "Here I am!”  This is called the tremor of sensitiveness.

III, v, 15.  Understand that work properly apportioned cannot in itself be fatiguing.  One should understand how to effect a proper change of the group of working nerves, and then no fatigue can find access.  Do not try to find rest in idleness.  Idleness is but the microbe of indolence.  Muscles may ache after tension, but you have but to plunge into idleness to begin to feel the full pain.  Whereas by calling into action the opposite centers one can completely avoid the reflex of the previous tension.  Indeed implicit herein is a great mobility which is developed by conscious experience.

III, vi, 9.  You have already heard about the saturation of rhythm of labor as a particular quality possessed but rarely by people.  Its beneficial influence has a far deeper significance than it may appear to have.  Yet the ancient mysteries used these two expressions:  "to labor in the wave of sublime nature" and "to work with the heartbeat of the Mother of the World."

  Among the problems of future evolution remember that after solitary work it is necessary to pass to the organization of far more complex units.  There is an old saying - "Be cautious of the crowd.”  But there is another equally old - "The crowd must be taught to work in Spirit.”  The external aspects of labor may be very diverse, but let rhythm be sensed and then the work will be of a completely different quality.

III, vi, 15.  The best connections with the light are obtained in the morning.  Therefore do not shut out the morning light.  Work in the light, make decisions in the light, pass judgments in the light, grieve in the light, rejoice in the light.  Nothing is to be compared with the light wave.  Even the best electricity, even the bluest yields eight thousand times less light than a ray of the Sun.         -Leaves of Morya's Garden 1925

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3.  Communal life has long been a sign of cooperation and of mutual respect.  So too each workshop can be a cell of a community in which everybody contributes his skill.  Altruism is a requisite if one is to devote one's talent to the common work.

8.  Cooperation must be based upon sound rules.  This teaches orderliness, that is it helps the acquirement of a rhythm.

17.  It is necessary to assimilate permanently the dignity and worth of true work and to relegate childish habits to the archives.  Without betraying one's principles it is possible to find hundreds of worthy solutions.  I wish to see you upon the next step.

22.  One may reach Us only in harmonious agreement.  We need not deification but a certain quality of spirit, as a lamp of concordant tension.  A flickering lamp is unbearable for prolonged work.  The same laws apply in everything, and according to the law of justice a flickering lamp injures itself.  I counsel My lamps not to blink.  The dynamo is not damaged because of the quality of the lamps, but uncoordinated voltage often results in a grievous zing!  And the basic metal must be provided anew.  The laws are identical in everything.

87.  When a difficulty with an inheritance presents itself it may be said that it is possible to leave to the community the wish that the use of certain objects be given over to a certain person for a trial period of three years.  Thus the inheritance will be turned into a worthy cooperation.  One may entrust specially chosen people to look after the quality of certain works.  It is needful to fill consciousness with a realization of continuous testing, for people still do not know how to work under test.  Meanwhile the whole substance of the world is engaged in mutual testing.  But one should understand that testing means also improvement.

102.  It is also necessary that the word express the precise thought.  One must expel falsehood, coarseness and mockery.  Treason, even in embryo, is inadmissible.  Work "as grown-ups" is to be encouraged.  After its third year consciousness easily grasps the idea of community.  What a mistake to think that one must give a child its own things!  A child can easily understand that things may be held in common.

105.  Often the students themselves do not understand their destination.  The teacher as a friend prepares them in the best direction.  No compulsion is applicable in schools.  Only persuasion can be suitable for stimulating learning.  More experiments, more discourses--what a joy there is in the application of one's forces!  Little ones love the work of the "grown-ups."

117.  Labor is the crown of light.  It is necessary that school pupils remember the significance of labor as a factor of world-creation.  As a result of labor there will be steadfastness of consciousness. 

133.   The community being a fellowship first of all, sets as a condition for entrance two conscious decisions--labor without limit and the acceptance of talks without rejection.  It is possible to eliminate faint-heartedness by means of a twofold organization.  As a result of unlimited labor there may be a broadening of consciousness.  But many people, not bad otherwise, do not envision the results, being frightened by incessant labor and enormous tasks.  And yet they have accepted basically the idea of community.  It would be harmful to include these yet weak people in the community; but in order not to extinguish their striving one should not cast them out.  For this it is useful to have a second organization - friends of the community.  Herein without forsaking the customary order of life these newcomers can become more deeply conscious of the community.  Such a twofold organization permits the preservation of a far more concentrated sincerity in the work.  

138.  Out of obstinacy of ignorance enemies intensify their forces in order to stick to you.  But you have nothing to conceal because you work for humanity, and the enemy must become an imitator or else perish.  This perishing indeed is not by your hand but is from a spark of the world apparatus. Therefore I insist on fiery striving.

147.  We wish to see you steadfastly conquering.  Each victory teaches prudence, but this restraint palpitates with flights. …He who moves toward achievement must proceed as if summoned by a work bell.  For the striving one the thinnest surface is sufficient.  Aspire!

163.  cheerfulness serves as a wine of joy.

165.  indeed the common work is so much in need of solicitude that a true economy of forces must be adopted.  The most economical principle is equality which destroys privilege and cupidity.

171.  Only organic development and diversity of intake determines the actual capacity of the treasury.

185.  What to consider a manifestation of work is a difficult question.  We know that the answer is in the quality and not in volume and quantity.  But new people often do not see the quality, and for them the sign of external volume overshadows the substance.  Because of light-mindedness they are occupied with blowing bubbles and then take the rainbow of decomposition for the light of illumination….Distinguish great works from corpses.

194.  The voluntary controller must himself know how to work more thoroughly.  Therefore it has been established with Us that every criticism must be based on better knowledge.  This experience creates a convincingness which is spread far and wide.

216.  Beware of those who have no time.  Being falsely busy indicates first of all inability to make use of the treasure of time and space, and such people can execute only primitive forms of labor.  It is impossible to attract them to construction….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 the thieves of another's time.  They must be excluded from the new structures.  For them can remain the carrying of bricks.

216.  We know many workers who find an hour for the most important; it does not seem to them that they are too occupied.  Whoever is not grudging in his work will receive bounteously.  This quality of containment of labor is indispensable for the expansion of consciousness.  Can anything replace the joy of the growth of consciousness?

220.  See that former friendship and enmity be carefully examined; that no testimonies bend a resolution--personal examination, personal testing, personal responsibility.  I advise you to begin the testing with a proposal to rest, not to work.  Each one who is glad not to work is no co-worker of yours….Look after the silent ones especially sharply.

224.  know how to find joy in eternal labor and in eternal vigilance.  You have heard music and singing in Our Community.  These must be looked upon as a part of the labor.

267.  Two sailors were shipwrecked and cast away on a desert island.  Both nearly perished from hunger and terror, for they considered themselves forever cut off from the world.  A ship picked them up.  And later there was erected on the island a strong lighthouse.  These same two sailors remained at the lighthouse to save the other perishing ones.  Now their frame of mind was altered.  They were happy, directing the light of rescue and no longer feeling themselves cut off from the world.  This means that realization of communion with the world and of usefulness to others completely transforms people.  Work in common is a pledge of success.

271.  The cooperative is not a shop but a cultural institution. There may be also trade within it but its basis must be one of enlightenment.  Only along such lines is it possible to apply cooperation to the new life.  Such unity is not easy; people have been accustomed to combining commerce with cupidity. Such an error is difficult to eradicate.

273.  Humanity must suffer very much before it comes to an understanding of the advantage of unity.  Most destructive forces have been directed for the purpose of obscuring the embryos of unification.  Each unifying agent is subject to personal danger.  Each peacemaker is disparaged.  Each worker is ridiculed.  Each builder is called madman.  Thus the servants of dissolution try to drive from the face of the Earth the Banner of Enlightenment.      -Morya:  Community 1926

        -gold plate of the Romonovs