BEINSA DOUNO

SACRED WORDS
OF THE
MASTER
A CALL TO THE
DISCIPLE

Translated from the Bulgarian by

Vessela Nestorova

TO THE SOULS WHO ARE WAITING

That which you long for is coming!

That which you cherish in your souls
is the reality of tomorrow!
Come into the land of eternal spring!
Come into the land of eternal rejuvenation!
Come into the land of joy!
Come into the land of Love!
It is so close to you!
There is no illness or death in that land.
Come and receive the treasures which belong to
you.
Come into the land where you will find those who
know you, and those whom you know.

WHEN THE SUN SHINES

When the sun shines, the earth is roused, the waters

bubble out into springs and start flowing, the winds
blow, the flowers bloom, the trees bear their fruit and
man awakes and begins to think.
This book is for the disciple!
This book is for everyone!
For every man has come to earth to study.
Every man has come to earth to become a disciple.
This book is for everybody!
The animal has learned to feel.
But man has come to earth to think.
The universe is an object-lesson for him.
He is called forth to study.
"He has made him but a little lower than the angels."
Man learns while angels serve.
That which they have learned, they now apply by
serving.
Men are disciples, whereas angels are servants.
In order to be able to serve, one must have been a
disciple at some time.
Service is higher than ordinary learning.
The heavenly servant is higher than the earthly
disciple.
"The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to
serve."
The disciple studies, but the Master serves!

1 The way of the Master

Love the perfect way of Truth and Life.
Place the Good as the foundation of your
home, Righteousness as the standard measure,
Love as the adornment, Wisdom as the enclosing
wall, and Truth as the Light.
Only then will you know Me, and I shall
manifest Myself to you.

2 God

That which generates the eternal longing of the

human soul, and that which she seeks in the
thousands of forms, is Love - God.

The greatest thing in the life of the disciple is

his endeavor upwards - towards that eternal
Good.

3 The Master

The Master alone calls his disciples.

And the disciples know His voice.

4 The disciple

When the disciple finds his Master

he is near to God.

5 Love towards God

The disciple begins with Love.

"If you love me, you will keep my Word".
Love first of all Him, Who has always been true
and unchanging in His Love towards you.
Love Him, Who has given you your life and all
conditions.

6 The three principles

Truth excludes all pleasure. Wisdom excludes

all frivolity.
Love excludes all violence.

7 Light

The disciple lives in the Light.

This is the only real world. The shadow is not
real.
Search for the Light, which has no shadows.
Avoid all thoughts and feelings which bring
darkness into your consciousness.

8 Truth

"The Head of Thy Word is Truth."

Where the Truth shines, the fruit blossoms and
ripens.
The disciple understands the Truth
only when he applies it.

9 Purity

The disciple must be pure in his thoughts,

desires and actions in order to be entrusted by
the Master with the
methods for work.

10 The Path of the disciple

The Path of the disciple is a Way of dawning.

It is a Path of eternal Light - a bearer of Love.

11 God

The Only One Being whom man can approach

most easily is God.

12 Love towards the Master

The disciple has love for his Master. Thus he is

enabled to receive that which his Master gives
him.
The disciple loves the Master.

13 The fire

The disciple must pass through fire

in order to be purified.

14 The joy of the Master

When the joy of the disciple is in God, then the

Master rejoices at the disciple.
For the Master looks not after his own glory, but
after the Glory of his Father.

15 The right Way

The disciple does not admit in his mind any

doubt about Divine Providence. He knows that
the Path he has walked into is right.
It is a Path leading to God.

16 Prudence

The disciple always considers his acts.

Prudence precedes Peace.

17 Good

Know:
The disciple always has the possibility
of doing good.
The Good is a goal in his life.
18 Conviction

The disciple passes through temptation

in order that his convictions may be tested.

19 Soul

Consider yourself only as a soul!

Be conscious of yourself as a living soul
striving toward God.

20 Endurance

The disciple is placed under strong

experiences in order to become steeled in
endurance and alertness of his consciousness.
A life without intensive experiences
is the life of dormant souls.

21 Endurance

The disciple must endure everything that comes

to him.
Behind the things which happen in his life, he
discerns the activity of the
boundless Love which unites all things.

22 Mysticism

Once having found his Master, and once the

Master has spoken to him, the
disciple sacredly guards his Purity.

23 Vigilance

The consciousness of the disciple must always be

wide-awake.
For in the Creation there are quite a lot of souls
which have fallen behind and contrive all kinds of
traps in order to attract him and possibly lead him
astray.

24 Work with the Master

The disciple must experience everything as a

soul, a living soul loving God.
Then he can work with his Master.

25 Understanding

The forms are the cover. They do

not confuse the disciple.
He looks for the eternal idea which works
within them and gives them value.
Thus he comes in contact with the region of the
Spirit, with the inner life of Creation.

26 The consciousness of the disciple

The disciple is always in class.
He knows and is conscious at every
moment of the fact that he is a disciple.

27 Prayer

The disciple prays also alone.

He is concentrated in his prayer
and experiences its words.

28 Exactness

The disciple is exacting of himself in

fulfilling the Divine Laws.

29 Silence

Do not tell your experiences to anyone until

you have achieved something within yourself
that you can rely on.

30 The Spirit

Do everything under the watchful eye

of the Spirit!

31 With God

Be always in contact with the God of Love.

All sin is committed out of God.

32 Contemplation

Contemplation - these are the sacred

moments when sublime images fill
the consciousness of the disciple.
Contemplation is indispensable for the disciple,
so that he may cope with himself.

33 Solitude

The disciple needs a certain period of time

for solitude in order to gain strength.
Thus his thought becomes stable.

34 Guard Freedom

Keep your soul always free!

35 Purity

Purity is an environment in which the disciple

lives.
There is nothing finer than it for the disciple!

36 Divine Love
Divine Love is the morality of the disciple!

37 Growing

The flowers bloom and the fruits ripen under the

rays of the sun.
The soul of the disciple grows only
within God's Love!

38 Character

The disciple has a strong character when his Love

does not change. If it changes, it is not Love.

39 Freedom

In his soul, the disciple always listens to the

voice of God. Then all fear vanishes, and a deep
peace pervades his soul.
He is free.

40 A virgin soul

The disciple must lead a pure, virgin life!

Only then can he be conscious of
himself as a living soul - a virgin soul.

41 The ideal

The trials are not stronger than the ideal of the

disciple.
For that reason, a disciple is known only in
trials.
The disciple is stronger than any conditions,
because he is above them.
He carries within himself the Divine.
There are souls dominated by the conditions,
but such souls cannot have any ideal.
A soul with an unsurmountable will - that is
the ideal.

42 Executiveness

The disciple is strict towards himself!

He keeps the words of his Master sacredly and executes
all His orders completely.

43 The first step

The first step of the disciple:

You must consider yourself as a living
soul, striving in three directions: to feel, to
think, and to act according to God.
The second step: To consider all other people as
souls who must love God.
The disciples of the Universal Brotherhood are
souls, not men and women.
44 The happiness

The disciple does not expect his happiness to

come from outside.
He studies and works upon himself and in the
world, without falling under the spell of the
world.
The apparent happiness in the world is the
guard in the prison who opens the doors, lets the
prisoners out, and then drives them in again.

45 The thought of the disciple

The soul of the disciple must be filled with one

noble thought - the Deed of God!

46 Remember

Remember only one thing:

You are a living soul who loves God!

47 Master and disciple

Once the Master has descended to the disciple,

the disciple goes to Him.
By obedience and Love, the disciple draws close
to his Master.
The Master imparts Love to the disciple while
descending to him,
but obedience is required of the disciple.

48 Ascending

First the Master descends and brings Love.

The disciple awakes and begins studying and
ascending.

49 Natural life

The disciple leads a natural life without

any eccentricity.

50 Silence - the quiet voice of God

The disciple solves the most difficult problems

in absolute silence when all are asleep, and
only God is awake.
The quiet voice of God can be heard
only in silence.

51 A law

One law unites Master and disciple:

To live according to the Will of God!

52 The realm of the disciple

Freedom is the vast Realm in which the disciple
lives.
He must guard his Freedom.

53 The real relations

The soul lives in absolute Purity!

When the disciple perceives the Love of
his Master not as a soul, he becomes perverted;
when he perceives knowledge not as a soul,
he becomes distorted.

54 The Name

The Master calls his disciples by name.

Only the Master gives the Name to his disciples.
And when the disciple hears his Name from
his Master for the first time, he experiences a
joy that surpasses all happiness on earth.

55 Joy

No tongue can ever express that which the soul

can experience by loving God.
The disciple is always joyful.

56 Opening

In the morning the flowers open their petals in

order to absorb the sunbeams.
The soul of the disciple opens up before the Master,
ready to absorb the Truths of God.

57 Light

While the disciple is looking for light outside,

nothing can be spoken to him about God.
When darkness and storms appear outside, an
inner Light dawns in his consciousness, and in
him comes to birth the Love for the Great!
Let him keep the inner Light!
The disciple awaits this moment in his life.

58 The voice of the Master

The disciple cannot have friendship with things

temporal and with God at the same time.
If he loves God, all that is temporal will appear
dark to him, sink and disappear. And then
he will find himself in another world of Light,
Peace and Joy.
There he will hear the voice of his Master.

59 Prayer

Prayer is a purifying process.

The disciple must always pray.
He must fence himself off from worldly influences
by prayer, pure thoughts, and ceaseless Love for God.

60 A law

The disciple enjoys and furthers the

growing of every soul. In the spiritual world
there is a law: when one is raised, all are raised!

61 An inner way

The disciple works upon his spiritual bodies.

There are things which will be given to him
in an inner way.
The external conditions are not always
favorable.

62 Readiness

When the disciple understands his Master in the

right way, he is ready to receive,
and will always be given.

63 Correspondence

When the soul receives everything with Love,

everything is given to her out of Love.
This is a law in God.

64 Mutuality

The first sacred law is:

Love reigns only in the pure spheres of
Freedom.
Love can exist only at absolute inner
freedom.
The Master gives this freedom to his disciple.
The disciple must in turn give freedom to his
Master.
This freedom is sacred!

65 The Master

When you are burdened in the desert of life, the

Master hears your call. Lift up your
consciousness, and you will hear
His Voice.
Then you will be comforted.

66 Unity

Only in God there is real unity of complete

Love and Joy. When you
have them, God is within you.

67 The Divine

Divine life requires of the disciple to

live continually in Love and Joy.
68 Another Name

Be pure.
Great souls live in absolute Purity.
In that sphere the Master gives them
another Name.

69 Purity-Life

When the consciousness of the disciple awakens

to the real bonds with the Master, then he attains
the purity which becomes Life for him.
In this Life he studies, grows, and attains his
perfection.

70 Life for God

The Master is always ready to tell the disciple

the truths about God, as soon as he notices a
readiness and a desire in him to live for that
Great Love which embraces all. Out of that
Love he draws his strength, and
spreads the Light which comes from it.

71 Guidance of the Master

The disciple who knows God within himself,

finds the Master.

72 The Path

The application of the Divine laws to life shows

that the disciple is in the Path of Truth.

73 Intensive Life

Intensive is the life of the disciple!

The disciple experiences joys and deep sorrows
unknown to the world.
This is the sorrow of all the planted seeds in the
dark ground, and the joy of all the sprouted
flowers come out into the light.

74 The Love of the disciple

When the disciple loves his Master, he acts in

his life as his Master would act.

75 A sacred rule

Open your heart every day before the Beloved One of

your soul, so that He may see your most secret
depths.
Every day open up your soul before the Lord!

76 Faith
Have complete faith in God!
Thus all inner fear will disappear.
Believe that you can never lose the Valuable which God
has deposited in your soul before the creation of the
world.
This faith releases you from every fear, suspicion
and doubt. It makes you free and stable.

77 Humility

Humility is an expression of Love towards

the Great One.
The inaccessible summits send their
goods down to the valley.

78 Naturalness

The disciple is entirely natural in his life.

That brings beauty and sincerity in him.
That naturalness offers conditions
favorable for the expression of Love.

79 Understanding

When anything disturbs your view, try to detect

behind the veil of temporary forms the
indefatigable work of the Spirit for the elevation
of the souls towards the Eternal One.
Behind every form, see the image of the Eternal One.

80 The World

Endeavoring to conform to the world is the most fatal

thing for man.
For he always remains deceived.
His harmony with the Silent voice of the Boundless
One makes his life full of sense.

81 Perception

The Master speaks to the disciple clearly and

openly. The disciple perceives His words and
understands them. He guards them sacredly in his soul.

82 The Master

The Master comes down in order to manifest

Love.
This is not an external process.
Through him pass the pure streams of Love
towards all living beings.
Thus he wants to draw the souls closer to the Light
and the Joy in which He lives.

83 Correspondence

When the tree gives abundant and good fruit, the

gardener is glad to water it. And the heavens also
generously bestow sunshine rays and blessing rain upon it.
When the disciple appreciates and guards that
which he has got from the Master, there arises a
desire in the Master to give and reveal to him
still more.

84 Sacred things

Intelligent nature has placed the sacred things upon

the high, inaccessible cliffs,
so that only the ready souls who will
appreciate them may rejoice at their beauty.
The disciple must not reveal the
sacred things to the world.

85 Will

No one from outside can pervert you unless you

desire it.
This is the great Freedom granted to
man by the Prime Principle.

86 The sin

The disciple loves the flowers sprouted in his

soul. They are his beautiful thoughts, feelings
and deeds.
He treasures them, and does not allow any
ground frost to damage them.
The ground frost is that sin which is foreign to him.
The disciple loves the flowers sprouted in his
soul!

87 Good

The disciple deals only with Good.

88 The Spirits

The disciple discriminates between the different

spirits. The evil spirits approach him as man or
woman, while the
Spirits of Light approach him as souls.

89 The first ray

Aspiration towards Purity is aspiration towards

Love.
It shows that one has forsaken ordinary life and
is striving toward the extraordinary one.
When the disciple attains Purity, the First Ray
of Love dawns upon him. Then, before his gaze,
the luminous life of the Great souls is unveiled,
a life predestined for the human soul.
All this is done by God alone. "To them did God
reveal all these things."

90 Guard
Guard the Freedom which God has given you. By
this Freedom you work out and build your character.

91 A Motto

It is great and glorious for man to

serve God and to abide in His Love!

92 Your life

The spring which comes from the tops

waters everything along its way.
If you want to help humanity, correct your own
life!
In this way you act according to the law of the spring.

93 Patience

The disciple can be patient, because he knows

how to wait.
The disciple can be patient, because he
understands.
The disciple can be patient, because he knows
that there is time for everything.

94 Selflessness

The disciple bears with great selflessness all profanities

directed to him.

95 The mind

The light of the mind gives a clarity and

awareness to the consciousness of the disciple,
so that he can always be in constant
contact with the Spirit.

96 Mildness

Mildness is a great, pure spring in life.

Always be mild and guard sacredly in your soul
all that flows out of this spring!

97 Always

Always guard your inner purity.

98 Master and disciple

Sincerity is a condition for harmony between

their souls. It is a condition in which the Master
can give and the disciples can receive.
Sincerity is a condition for correct
exchange between the Master and the
disciple.

99 Attitude
When the disciple is sincere, the Master is mild
towards him.
When the disciple is insincere, the
Master is severe.

100 Experience

There are experiences which form epochs in the

life of the disciple!
The experience which the disciple has is for him
alone.
It is the sacred region in his soul!
It is his wealth!
He may transmit it to someone else by the law of
inner freedom, but that he can do only with a
kindred soul whose heart burns with Love,
self-sacrifice and readiness to serve God. If he
transmits it to someone who is not ready to understand
and value him, he will experience great sorrow within his soul.

101 The Spirit

Everything in the life of the disciple has to be

done under the strong impetus of the Spirit,
without any human alloy.

102 Purity

Be pure as a child.

103 Loyalty

Be loyal as God is loyal.

104 The inner voice

Always listen to the voice of your soul, and you

will know how to act.

105 Work of the disciple

Do all that is pleasing to God. This is the

standard of the disciple.

106 Alert thought

When you are sorrowful or burdened, think of God

and of those who suffer. This thought will
relieve and strengthen you.

107 The standard

The attitude of the Master towards the disciple

depends upon the disciple.
Every disciple who studies well, has the favorable
disposition of the Master.
The sunbeams enter a room when its
windows are open.

108 The spiritual bodies

The disciple must develop his spiritual bodies in

order to be always in contact with his Master.
The bond between Master and disciple is
spiritual.

109 Closeness

The Master is a Master to everyone.

But the disciple can evoke a greater Love in his
Master toward himself by doing a sincere and
sacred act in which God manifests Himself.

110 Mystic conversation

* - I am the Way!
* - And the Light which leads me upon this Way!

111 Prayer-Faith

Always be in prayer, and leave all to God.

When God wants to do a thing, He
will create conditions for it.

112 The Real

The truly Great stands behind the material. The

Real, The Great in Life, it is the invisible. For that
reason the disciple gradually renounces all that
is material and transitory. Then the disciple enters the
world where the Light reigns. There the Master is well
understood. And then the disciple's life passes into a new,
higher gamut.
But all this could also happen at once.
It depends upon the disciple.

113 Prayer-Purity

The more water passes through a spring, the purer

this spring is.
The disciple prays often. This is
necessary for his Purity.

114 A Rule

The disciple must never be tempted by the words

of the Master. They should
always raise him higher and nourish him.

115 A law

The disciple must know and always keep in

mind this law:
Everything in life turns into Good!
116 Life

When a small branch sways to and fro, but clings to the

tree, there is no danger. But when it falls
off the tree, then the danger comes.
When the disciple lives for God, he is the
branch clinging to the tree.

117 Boldness

The disciple must be bold and resolute.

Thus he can walk in the narrow path.
The narrow path leads to God!

118 Joy

Always be joyful!
The bond with the ideal world makes
the disciple joyful.

119 Faith, Hope, Love

Only he who is ready for sacrifice withstands

all in Love.
He who has trust in himself, withstands all in Faith.
He who has joy in himself, withstands all in Hope.

120 Faith, Hope, Love

If you are not joyful, you will lose your Hope.

If you do not trust, you will lose your Faith.
If you are not ready for sacrifices, you cannot
attain Love.

121 The three rules

When you fail, manifest your Hope.

When God instructs you, manifest your Faith.
When your neighbour falls, manifest
your Love.

122 The three rules

When the dawn is breaking within you, manifest

your Hope.
When the Sun rises within you, manifest your
Faith.
When the Sun comes to its zenith within you,
manifest your Love.
Hope is in the physical world.
Faith is in the spiritual world.
Love is in the Divine world.

123 Weeping

There is a sacred weeping.

Weeping comes into life by a special way. The
disciple must give way to it. Tears are healing.
They wash and purify
the human consciousness. By weeping
you are comforted, without it, you suffer.
There is a weeping out of compassion.
There is a weeping out of a self-sacrifice for
humanity.
It is the weeping of Christ.
There is an ideal weeping, when a
man comes before the Great.

124 Joy

Limit your earthly desires, and you

will taste of the joy in God!

125 Faith

Faith gets things to realization. The disciple always has

faith.
Faith proceeds from the super-consciousness.

126 Vigilance

The disciple is always cheerful, vigilant

and merry in his life.

127 The endeavour of the disciple

The disciple of the Universal Brotherhood

in his life endeavours to achieve the realization of:
Divine Love,
Divine Wisdom,
Divine Truth.

128 Long life

Purity prolongs life.

If the disciple keeps his body pure, he lives long;
if he stains it, he changes it earlier.

129 Love

Love bears abundance. In

abundance all dissatisfaction vanishes.
The disciple has understood Love in the right way only
when he has reconciled all contradictions in his
life. Otherwise he has not understood Love.

130 Love-Purity

He who loves, comes to love purity.

In the name of Love, the whole life of the disciple
must be pure.

131 Patience

Patience is a great science!

The roots of patience are in the Divine world.
Patience with Love, patience with
Peace, patience with Joy.
Only he who loves is patient.
Only the man having Peace is patient.
Only the joyful man is patient.
Only the sensible man is patient.

132 Seeing well

Every transient form is an incomplete picture

upon which the Divine Spirit is working.
The disciple sees everywhere and in
everyone only the good.

133 The New birth

Birth is a continuous process.

Every day the disciple must be born to a new
world.
Every day he has a new knowledge of Love, a
new knowledge of how to serve God.
Every day he must have a new insight into the
inexplorable ways of God.
Every day the Spirit visits the disciple and tells
him a new word.
It brings purity into his consciousness and
transforms him completely. It elevates his thought.
Wait for the visitation of God every day!

134 Freedom

When the soul of the disciple is awakened to

God, it becomes free. And he must not limit it by the
vain desires of the body. In the law of Karma,
man is within limits, but once he begins to live
for God, he enters Grace and Love. And here he is
already free.

135 Stays and passes by

Christ knocks at the door, and when it opens for

Him, He enters in, but when it does not open, He
passes it by and continues on.
In the same way the Master speaks to his
disciples. He works with and helps those who listen
to Him and fulfil His words. But when
they are offended by His words and do not
understand Him, He passes them by and
continues on.

136 A test

The disciple must be wide-awake when he is in

the world. There he will be led through countries with
flowers. He must only pass through there, without
stopping. If he stops, he will be intoxicated by
their fragrance - will fall asleep and
remain there.
That is why his consciousness must always be
awake, concentrated on its purpose,
and in contact with the Master.

137 Nature

All forms in nature are symbols of an eternal,

ideal world. They are the book from which the
disciple reads what God has written.
The disciple begins his studying from nature: springs,
grasses, flowers, mountains. There he seeks the right
methods of life and purity.

138 Heart, mind, soul

The disciple has the heart of a child.

He is an adult in his mind.
And in his soul he always cherishes the
highest and the noblest.

139 The aura

The disciple always surrounds himself mentally.

He has to keep his aura impenetrable to the
influences of the transient things.
The thought about God encircles his aura with
its Light.

140 Purity and Love

The disciple must always be pure in order to

understand and perceive Love.
When he attains Purity, he comes to love the whole
world.
Purity is his enclosure.

141 Love

Love is sublime! It is the Great law

that always fills the soul of the disciple.

142 Prayer

The disciple must always pray in order to

keep in contact with the invisible
world and protect himself from
the lure of inferior spirits.

143 Light

The disciple must always walk with

Light in order to keep himself from stumbling.

144 Study

The disciple must think only of one - that he

must study. And he must never consider himself
greater than the others. He knows that the
science that he still has to study is
infinite. He realizes that he is only at the
beginning of the Great Path.
Boundless are the peaks of learning which he
must climb!
For this reason he is humble. Humility leads him
into the Temple of Wisdom.
He who speaks of himself is not a disciple.

145 Calmness

The disciple must always keep calm - under all

circumstances; he knows that it is for
his good.
Fear is something animal-like.

146 A Spring

The disciple must drink Water only from the

Spring. He should prefer to go
thirsty than to drink impure water.

147 He who thirsts

Only the thirsty man will find the spring in the

mountain.
Only the thirsty one goes to the Spring. Only the
disciple will find the Master in his life. Only the
disciple will remain with the Master.

148 Good

What you think, you absorb into

yourself. Think often about the Truth,
Love, Wisdom, Righteousness and Virtue.
And they will abide in you.
Water that springs from the deep is pure.

149 The joy of expectation

The disciple is always content with the moment.

He must always have something Divine to look
forward to. This is his joy and comfort.

150 Intelligent

The disciple must be very intelligent. He has to

understand all things cleverly.
It is good to walk on a path illuminated by
the Light.

151 Love

When the disciple enters Love, there already are

other laws ruling there.
Love is something spiritual. In Love there is no
separation. In Divine Love there is no interruption;
it always grows.
152 Towards Love, Light and Truth

Keep your thoughts always above earthly things.

Raise your thoughts up towards Love, towards Light,
towards Truth.

153 Surprise

Nothing should surprise the disciple.

He must always be calm.
He knows that there is a Divine
Plan that directs things.
And therefore nothing surprises him.

154 Prudence

Prudence is required in the life of the disciple!

The disciple avoids all disputes.
Prudence is a daughter of Love and knowledge.

155 Sensitivity

The waters of a lake ripple at the most gentle

touch of the zephyr. The disciple must become
more sensitive in order to perceive the
delicate waves that come from above.

156 The White Light

When the disciple is merged in the White Light,

he recognizes his Master.
The Master speaks to him out of the
sphere of the White Light.

157 The Real Home

The real home of the disciple is within his soul.

He has no home outside.

158 God

It is a great thing to serve God.

It is always beautiful in the presence of
God.

159 The Divine Love

As we expose ourselves to the Sun,

so must we live in the Divine Love.

160 Love

When the disciple loves God, he purifies

himself. But he can be purified also through
suffering.
Love is a living power, a stream constantly
flowing from God, which must
pass through our souls.

161 Love

When the disciple lives in Love, he solves all his

problems easily, and contradictions exist no
longer for him.

162 Concentration

The disciple must control his thoughts, and with

his thoughts, serve the Truth.
Therefore it is necessary for him to concentrate
his mind.
He can think about the life-giving light, about
the beautiful seven-coloured garment which it
wears, and about its musical speech.

That is the great harmony in the world. He can

think about the Life-giving Divine Sun,
towards which all things move.
In this way man's consciousness is tuned.

163 Sound consciousness

When the disciple is concentrating he must

not fall asleep, but he must be fully awake. If he
falls asleep, he might be carried away
by the negative currents of nature, out of which
he can only extricate
himself with great difficulty.

164 The Path

The disciple must always be wide-awake on his

Path. This is the Path about which the Lord
says:
"And few are they who walk there in"

165 Freedom

The disciple is free when nothing can lead him

away from his Path.
There is nothing more powerful than
his task.

166 Meditation

The disciple must meditate and not fall into a

reverie. When he is meditating,
he is awake, for his mind is active;
but when he is day dreaming, he falls asleep,
because then the lower emotions
come into play.

167 The Path

The Path of the disciple is pleasant because it is

a Path of ascent!

168 A moral backbone

The disciple must be so elevated morally

that his aspirations stand above all temptation.
He cannot be tempted by evil.
The disciple must have not only moral
aspirations but also a moral backbone.

169 Experience

The disciple must benefit not only from his own

experience but also from those of others. Thus,
he enters the path
of unifying Love.

170 The essence

Man is a collective being.

He must realize that he bears the image of God.
He must have a firm and established character,
and recognize the
essence of the Eternal Good.

171 The reality

Do not fix your attention on anything outside

you until you have come to know yourself.
When the disciple comes to know the reality
within himself, he begins to understand the
reality which lies at the
foundation of the whole Creation.

172 Birth of the Spirit

The disciple must be born of the Spirit. Then he

rises above the temporal, and contradictions
exist no more on the
earth for him.

173 The will of God

We must live according to the Will of God!

It includes the welfare of all living beings.

174 Desire

Desire what is based on higher reason!

Desire what is good for all!
Desire what God desires!

175 Freedom, limitation

The disciple is free.

That is why he limits himself. He who does not
limit himself is limited by nature.
176 Insight

You cannot see anything clearly in a turbulent

lake. The calm lake reflects the mountain tops,
the sky, the sun, and the stars.
The disciple must have a calm soul and a steady
mind. Then comes the insight,
and many contradictions become clear.

177 Knowledge

Knowledge is accessible only to wise and Faith

men. He who believes should study;
while he who knows should apply. There is
something beautiful in knowledge.
Knowledge cannot grow without faith.

178 Naturalness

Light enters the soul of the disciple like the

coming of Dawn. The disciple must not expect
anything by miraculous means.
All things in life must happen naturally at their
appointed time.

179 Faith

Believe in him who instructs you! Believe in

him whom you love! The disciple must have
absolute faith in his Master.

180 Getting hardened

The young sapling is exposed to the storms in order

to get hardened and grow into a mighty oak.
The disciple has to pass through certain
tribulations in order to become stronger, to
rise above them and come to understand things in
the right way.

181 Learning

For the disciple, the physical world is a place

only for learning and not a place for oblivion.
Learning makes his life complete, beautiful and
joyful.
Only learning gives content to his life.
And only service makes it full of sense.
The disciple only passes through the physical world;
he does not stop there.

182 The Sacred Book

Everything within the One you love interests you.

The disciple tirelessly reads the Sacred Book of
Nature in order to come to know what God has thought.
God is his Beloved!
183 The test

You are holding in your

hands an ordinary cup of which you are most
careful. It breaks. You start to weep,
thinking that all is lost. But Intelligent Nature
- Love - has prepared for you another cup with
precious contents.
The disappointment prepares you for the new enchantment
which awaits you.
Thus you approach the new surprise
of the world of Reality.

184 Love

Remain true to Love in all trials! The

disciple must endure all to the end in Love,
without any doubt in it. The path of Love is a
path of numerous tests,
which he will undergo in order to see how
endurable he is in Love.

185 Sensitivity

The disciple should not lose his sensitivity. He

should never let his feelings become dull.
Elevated thought refines the nervous
system and makes it more sensitive.

186 Love and Wisdom

Extraordinary is the life of the disciple.

Love and Wisdom abide in his every act.
Love represents crystal-clear water from
which he drinks, while Wisdom represents a
mountain peak which he climbs up.

187 Tenderness

Tenderness is a necessary quality for the

disciple.
He has to be gentle!
It paves the way for Love. Tenderness does not
break a crushed reed, nor quench the smoking
flax.
It brings to earth the radiance of the
angelic world.

188 The world

The disciple will be in the world, but

the world should not be in him.

189 The Great

A high ideal fills the consciousness of the

disciple!
How beautiful it is when the disciple
carries something great in his soul!

190 Towards the Great

How wonderful it is when you know that you are

moving towards the Great, for there life
becomes full of sense.

191 Purity

The clear diamond reflects Light perfectly.

Purity is a condition for all attainment.
Only the pure one can pass through the portals of
Supreme Knowledge! The disciple must be pure.
- Always pure! For the disciple there is nothing
greater in the world than Purity!

192 The promise

The disciple must always keep his promises in

order to develop stability of character.

193 God

- Fear not!
God is unchanging! He gives to
everything its due, generously.

194 The real

The most real thing for a disciple

should be his aspiration towards
the ideal.

195 Light

You must have Light in your life!

Light reveals the beauty of the world.
Things grow in the presence of light.
Light is food for the mind.

196 Harmony

The first task of the disciple is to restore

harmony within himself.
Harmony is attunement of the thoughts, feelings
and actions. It is inner musicality which fills
the soul of the disciple.
In spite of all contradictory
conditions, he never loses his character.

197 The influences

The disciple avoids the influence of the

temporal world until he becomes stronger.

198 Right understanding

The disciple should understand all things in the
right way.
This will give him the right methods for work.
He should not cause himself suffering through
misunderstanding of things.

199 A fixed time

When the Master is instructing the disciple, the

latter should not demand anything from Him,
but only listen to Him and understand
him correctly.
There is a precisely fixed time when the Master will
give something to the disciple.

200 Recompense

The joy of the spring consists in this:

when the plants which it waters give abundant
fruit.
The disciple who has received much from the
Master can recompense Him only by his Love for God.

201 Fasting

The disciple can begin his fast when he is

in an ascending state of his Spirit.
Then he can rise more easily above
the material matters.

202 The doubts

The disciple must pass through the doubts.

It is a region which he must traverse, and traverse it to
end. There he will find himself in a North-Pole
night - a long night. But he has to understand the law that
he has to undergo it in order to come out
again into the bright day. And stand firm
through all the time.
When this dark period is over,
there will come insight - the bright day of
Initiation!

203 Doubt

Doubt is a problem for the disciple

which he must solve correctly.

204 Doubt

The first test which the disciple imposes upon

himself is doubt. For this reason he must pass
alone through the night of doubt and conquer it
by himself.

205 The world of Love

When you live in Love, you believe, and all is

bright for you. By this you will know that you
are in the world of Love.
There is no doubt there; as soon as you begin to
doubt, it shows that Love is absent.

206 Hardships

As soon as the disciple definitely starts on the

Path, great hardships will appear which may
cause him to stumble.
He must not be confused by them. These are things
outside of him; he must always be going forwards!

207 Reconciliation

To be reconciled to God, that means to accept His Love.

208 The methods of God 208

methods of God

To love God, that means to employ all methods which He

employs.

209 God

To understand God, that means to make use of Divine Light.

210 Knowing God

You can know God only when you love Him.

You can know God only when you feel His Love.

211 Divine righteousness

To live according to God, that means to make use of Divine

righteousness. And this righteousness treats everyone equally.

212 The standard

The Master will give to each one as much as

Divine righteousness has assined for him. No
one is given less.
But the Master is free to give more
to anyone.

213 The soul

The disciple must love the soul of men, and being so, he
should not hate anyone.
The kindred soul of the one you love, and that of
the one you do not love, are equally loved above.
But you, according to the flesh, have
discriminated between them. That is a sin.

214 Account

The disciple is not obliged to give people an

account of his acts. Before he acts one way or
another, he should take into consideration the
Divine laws and rules.

215 Morality

A disciple is concerned first of all with how

his work stands before God, not before people
and public opinion. This is the true morality in
the life of a disciple.

216 Morality

Morality - this is the Love of the disciple for

God.
There is no other morality.

217 With Love

The disciple must do everything with Love, then

he will also do it easily.
If Love is absent, he will meet many
contradictions on his way, and first of all -
doubt.

218 The world of Love

The World of Love is a world of Great

achievements. Anything done without Love is
fruitless.
Anything done without Love is a crime.

219 The Kingdom of Peace

Find the place and the inner meaning of

everything that happens.
Thus you will keep your balance through
the storms of life.
This is necessary, if you would enter
the Kingdom of Peace.

220 Blessing

When some Divine blessings are hindered,

the reason lies not in God, but in the disciple.
God has prepared a blessing for everyone.

221 Weeping

The disciple should weep when no one is

watching him. Then weeping is blessed.
He can weep before others about human affairs,
but when he is weeping about something Divine,
he weeps alone.

222 The heaven

The disciple lives on the earth but thinks about

heaven. On earth he wants to get the Divine laws
to realization.

223 Patience

Endure all for the sake of Love until you attain

Love. When it comes, you will receive patience.

224 Love

Only Love teaches one obedience.

The new obedience is obedience out of Love!
"He who loves Me will keep my commandments."
This is possible only with Love. And after that
comes the gift:
"And I shall abide with you, even unto the end
of the world."

225 Obedience and learning

When the disciple receives the Love from the

Master, he has obedience, so that Love may be
planted in him. And he learns in order that
Love may grow in him.

226 The hands

The hands are created for work!

When the disciple looks at them, they tell him:
"We are created for work!"
The disciple must not be indolent.

227 The fingernails

The disciple should not have white spots on his

fingernails. They are the result of a powerful
disturbance and annoyance.
The disciple must always be very calm. - There
should exist no surprises for him.

228 Good

The disciple will go to the Good by his feet; he

will do Good by his hands, and will speak it
by his lips.
All three worlds should participate in Good: the
physical, the angelic and the Divine one.

229 The Head

The head of the disciple should always be upright,

not bowed.
When it is bowed, it is apt to receive some
negative thoughts and moods. And when it is
upright, the disciple comes in contact with the
solar energies and the positive in life.

230 The look

The look of the eyes should be soft and pure,
never divided, and always in contact with a
Divine thought.

231 The look

The look of the disciple is such that it never

disturbs the harmony in the others.

232 Greeting

The best greeting is that of the eyes. It is the

purest, and God accepts it.
Love is something spiritual and Divine. It finds
expression in the physical world through the eyes.

233 Movements

All the movements of the disciple must be

voluntary and conscious. The disciple must not
make even one movement
unconsciously because such movements
are under the influence of laggard spirits.

234 Erect posture

The disciple must always have an erect posture,

it keeps his consciousness awake and
predisposes his Spirit to work.

235 A rule

After having been with his Master the disciple

goes directly to his home
without stopping anywhere on the way.

236 Food

Fruit is the most ideal food.

The disciple should eat mainly fruit. It cleanses
his body and also his feelings and
thoughts.

237 Food

When the disciple is eating, he should

be filled with gratitude and Love.

238 Sleep

It is good for the disciple to stay awake until ten

o'clock in the evening
and then to go to sleep.

239 Sleeping

Upon going to bed, the disciple settles all the

contradictions of the day in his mind, restores
his calmness and, like a newborn child, falls
asleep in the shortest time.

240 Illness

The disciple should not be ill.

He should regard illness as an educative
effect whereby nature balances the forces of the
organism.
Love excludes all illness. Love is the bearer of
abundant Life.
The ill person, merged in Divine Love, can be
healed in a moment.

241 Occult medicine

The disciple must have a knowledge of nature-

medicine. Food, water, air, and light are healing
factors. The solar rays, absorbed with Love, are
most beneficial to the body. They act soothingly
upon the soul and refreshingly upon the Spirit.
The disciple can heal himself also by raising his
thoughts and feelings to the Spirit. He is healed
also through prayer and, in some cases, by
prayer and fasting.

242 Pure blood

The disciple must have pure blood. Pure

thoughts and desires maintain the
purity of the blood.

243 Clothes

The disciple is careful of his clothes because

they are impregnated with his own aura. If they
should fall into inappropriate hands, he will
suffer without knowing where his suffering
comes from.

244 Clothes

The clothes of the disciple must be loose and

comfortable. Not the clothes, but the face should
stand out, and not the face, but the soul.

245 Warmth

The hands of the disciple must always be of a

moderate temperature. They must be warm.
Cold hands indicate an oppressed mind. More
sunshine is necessary. Warmth brings well-
being of Spirit.

246 Money

Disciples should keep the following rule in their

relations: service/or service, but not for money.
Money can spoil a man. It bears another image,
while service bears the image of Love. Through
service the disciple receives and delivers the
image of Love.
Friendship will be the future coin of exchange!
Love will be the future coin of exchange!

247 Money

The disciple must not render services for money,

that is contrary to every rule in the occult school.
He must serve only out of Love.

248 Two rules

I. (concerning myself) The disciple should never

ask for money in case of need. He should do
something to earn the money needed.
II. (concerning others) The disciple must never
give money as help. He should find some work
for the man in need, and then instead of giving
him one dollar, he should pay him four dollars.
In this way the person in need will be free,
because he has helped himself through labour.

249 The street

When the disciple is walking in the street, he

must be in concentration and prayer in order to
avoid unnecessary trouble.