Lecture given by Daskalos on

16 SEPTEMBER 1991

Our Father, hallowed be Thy name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our transgressions as You forgive those who are transgressing against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory, forever.

Absolute Infinite Beingness, God. Everlasting Life, Love and Mercy. Manifesting Yourself in Yourself as the Total Wisdom and Almightiness, enlighten our minds to understand that You are the Truth, clean our hearts to reflect Your Love towards You and towards all other human beings. Amen.

 

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We said: what is (always), was, and will ever be, in eternity, is the Absolute Beingness. But now, what's this Absolute Beingness? Is this Absolute Beingness Self-conscious? To express the Total Wisdom means this Absolute Beingness has in its nature the Total Wisdom. And the Almightiness? Definitely. The Absolute Infinite Beingness has as its nature the Total Wisdom and the Almightiness. That - that means God. Yes, but what else can we observe in the Absolute Beingness apart from the Total Wisdom and the Almightiness (this is what the human intelligence can comprehend and understand)? That the Total Wisdom expresses the Will as Motion in Its Self. The scientists call it "primum mobile", and all schools of metaphysics also speak about the so called "primum mobile" (which you cannot understand). It is motion, movement without anything moving. What else can we see in the Absolute Beingness? We said it is the Total Wisdom, the Almightiness, Motion (the Will Power), what else? First the Self Sufficiency. The Absolute Beingness is in need of nothing. It has in Itself the Self Sufficiency, and, so, our Soul has in itself the self sufficiency also, because, our Self, the real Self, the Spirit - is God.

Now, what else can you see, apart from the Self Sufficiency? The Self Pleasure of expressing Itself in Its Self. Now, from this moment, the Absolute Beingness vibrates, what you say, the Pleasure of expressing Itself in Its Self - it emanates the Mind, because, there must be means by which the Absolute Beingness will express Itself in Its Self. Now, what else can we see and understand in the Absolute Infinite Beingness? That the Absolute Beingness has Its Multiplicity. As a human body has hundreds of blood cells composing the material body, the Absolute Beingness has beyond any number Beings in it, similar to it - composing the whole, the Absolute Beingness. So, a being is an expression of beingness. We don't have many gods, we only have one God - the Absolute Infinite Beingness, yet, in its multiplicity.

Now, what is the Multiplicity of the Absolute Beingness? If you call the Absolute Beingness God, then we are gods. An expression of the Beings in the Absolute Beingness are gods, but, they are expressing the Will, the Pleasure of the Absolute Beingness. By obligation? No. As their own pleasure. Because, when the Absolute Beingness in its Infinite Total Wisdom feels that Pleasure, immediately those vibrations are presented in all the Beings there, which partake in the Absolute Beingness. So, this is not an order, not even an obligation. It is the nature of the Absolute Beingness which vibrates in the Absolute Beings the same nature of presenting themselves.

Now, from that very moment, from the Absolute Beingness as a whole, and from the Absolute Beings (all the orders of the Holy Archangels) emanates the means of expression which is the Mind. And now, the Mind is Holy - it is not Divine. Do not make the mistake that the Mind is God, or that the Mind is the Holy Spirit (why - we can explain it later). This is impossible.

So, the human intelligence (the human nature) can reach as far as that - those who can develop in their personality what we call the Self-Super-consciousness, that means: express themselves as Souls, not as a Present-Day Personality, the creation of time and certain place in time.

So, what is the Absolute Infinite Beingness, God? We will call it the Eternal Life. It is Life. And what exists, now, are the Worlds of Existence, which are a manifestation of the Absolute Beingness. Worlds. Not one. Universes. Not one. The material universe is only one Heaven.

Now, what can we see? According to the work to be undertaken by a certain class of these Beings (the Holy Archangels - it is how we classify them), they are manifesting themselves as their will and the Will of the Absolute Beingness in a many-fold way. Why the Will of the Absolute Beingness? Because the Total Wisdom is in the Absolute Beingness and in the Beings themselves also, yet, now they choose a way to express themselves creatively.

And so, as human intelligence, we can see these Beings (the Holy Archangels) classified in certain orders. We have, first of all, the three Divine Orders which nobody can know much about. Maybe there are other orders unknown to us? These Orders which we can know very little about are the Principalities, the Authorities and the Thrones. This is what the church and all the serious religions believe.

Now, about the Principalities and the Authorities we cannot know anything, but we know that these Orders do exist. Now, the Thrones. About them we know many things. First, that when a Spirit-Soul is going to be incarnated and humanized, from the Order of the Thrones one with a name Metathronius (a Greek word) comes and joins that Spirit-Soul of a man - becoming egofied. Now, I am using the word ego which means I, the I-ness, the self-consciousness. Egofied means attaching itself to the Spirit-Soul which is going to be incarnated, becoming one with it yet having its own identity. I gave an example the other day. I have a candle. I light it. I have another candle. I light it. I have two flames. When I join the candle I have one flame. Yet, it is two flames in one flame. I separate the candles, I have two flames. So, this Metathronius, egofied with the Spirit-Soul which will be humanized, keeps its nature and is also getting all the experiences of the humanized Spirit-Ego (who is God). Now, Spirit-Ego (our Self) and the Metathronius are one, God.

We said that in the Absolute Beingness there are Archangels of all the orders beyond any number. Now, from their work as the Total Wisdom we classify them according to their vibrations expressing the Total Wisdom and the Almightiness. They possess the Almightiness because they are gods. So, what can we see in these Archangels? What classifies these Archangels? The use they make of the Mind in their creative work in the universes. So - we call them the Lords of the Elements. Now - what are the elements? Certain frequency of vibrations of the Mind. Because, everything, all the universes, are the Mind. So, we have the Mind as the formless Super-substance (without any form). We have also the Mind as Substance, reflection of the Ideas who are in the formless Mind, but, as a Form now. Any form. We have billions of forms, living forms all around us in the material universe. But, you have billions of other forms which are not existing on our material plane - which are in the psychical universe. Those who can move about freely in the psychical world, they can see them, contact them, learn them in the same way they do on the material plane.

So, according to the work and the vibration of these Archangels we classify them in Michaels. A name given in the old times by the Egyptians and other civilizations. They are the Lords of Light, Fire and Heat. We have the Gabriels and the name is just telling their nature. The nature of this element is mist, water (which is around and on the planet). Gabriel is the Lord of the Liquids. We have the Raphaels (billions in number) which are the Lords of (what you call) Magnetism, Etheric Vitality, Energy (call it whatever you like - electricity - and many, many other names). The orthodox science will find out, in due course, cosmic rays. Doesn't matter what name you will give it. It is Energy. The Etheric Vitality. And we have these three Archangels working together.

Now, I have a question (Olivia put me that question). Why don't I speak anything about the Lord of the Earth? When they say "earth" they mean (of course) - matter. Because matter is not only the planet, the Earth. Matter is the Moon, are the stars, the galaxies everywhere (and we say that matter is Solid Mind - that means Mind vibrating in the lowest frequencies). Our material Earth doesn't have an Archangel to the degree of the other Archangels, but, it has a kind of an Archangel which is called Shamael. Sham-ael in the old Egyptian language means Lucifer. I am telling you, Lucifer is not the Devil! He is an Archangel. So, the order of the Lucifers, the Carriers of the Light, are Archangels. But, Shamael is an expression of the Lucifers, and that expression is not as full as the expression of Michaels, Gabriels and Raphaels we are speaking about. So, contacting Shamael we see that Shamael is and is not an Archangel. Because, he is divided to certain intelligences out of which some are considered as evil (by men) and some are considered as good, while all the manifestations and expressions of the Michaels, Gabriels and Raphaels are Holy.

I say and I repeat he is not evil or good. He is antagonistic. That's why we don't mention him too much.

Now, evil and good. What is evil and what is good? We judge it from our own human interests. So, we are in the world of bitterest illusion. Why? From the point of view of a human being a beast, a monster comes in our house, many times bigger then us, and kills our children eating them. What will you call that being? A devil? Yes. For us that entity is a devil. What are we doing to our brothers, the animals, all around us? Is it not killing them to eat them? So, who is a devil now for the animal kingdom? Is it not the human being? Yet: "We are good, very good. Very good human beings." So, what is good and what is evil is according to the human interest. And, we should be just sincere with ourselves.

We shall not speak much about Shamael who, many times, is hostile to us. Why? Because we are hostile to nature. That's what I said, we are sometimes antagonistic and Shamael is antagonistic to us. While really, a Seeker of the Truth, approaching Shamael, will approach him as a friend and a loving brother. But, I am telling you, because he is antagonistic, human beings do not consider Shamael an Angel, Archangel as Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. Why? Because, Shamael is giving to us the material body, the bones, without doing anything, while all the other classes of Archangels are working with the material, with the stuff Shamael is providing - which means matter.

So, I have the Lord of Heat, Light (warmth) Michael working with the substance giving warmth to the gross material body. Then, I have the Lord of the Liquids, Gabriel - working, cooperating with Michael. And, I have also, Raphael - working, giving the magnetism, the Energy, the Etheric Vitality in the body. While these three Archangels are doing their work (as their nature and the Pleasure of the Infinite Beingness - they are always good) they are not antagonistic. Why? Because in building (in the material body) they don't care if that personality of a man is considered good or bad. We inflict a wound, deep wound on the leg of a fellow. That fellow may be a saint or he might be a criminal. The Michaels, the Gabriels and the Raphaels are doing their work. They don't care if the personality living in that body is a criminal or a saint. The wound will be cured! Will close up. It won't stay. So, they don't criticize. They simply work creatively. Shamael is antagonistic. He has a kind of instinctive consciousness, which is antagonistic to the personality of a man. More I cannot say about it, because - no need to say.

Yet, we are antagonistic too, since Shamael is the cause of all the human illnesses if a person is counteracting the Laws of what I call the Etheric Vitality. While other Archangels are building, building and building (creatively), Shamael is presenting illnesses to the material body. That's why I will not speak much about it.

Shamael is antagonistic to a man contacting him if he is not in that state of considered being very, very good, of killing the egoism. When does he work creatively for a man who approaches him? When that man has killed completely his egoism that means - antagonism in each self as a personality to be affected by the Law of Shamael. Then, the Archangels will give him the authority of materialization. He can be the master of materialization. That means - ordering Shamael. Contacting Shamael. Of course, we are not going to create black or brown magicians, or anything like that. The less we say about coming in contact with Shamael, the better. When one, a Seeker of the Truth, reaches higher levels of consciousness, Shamael will come and offer him the authority. So - then, and only then, one can be master of materialization and dematerialization, and, even, of transmuting matter from one state to the other. Because, the Lord of the Matter (of what you call matter) is Shamael. More about that - we cannot say.

Now, a man, raising his consciousness by controlling the Mind, comes first in touch with his Guardian Angel. You are always in touch with the Guardian Angel without knowing it. Sometimes, you talk to yourself and you try to reason. Do you think it is to yourself you are talking? Or, are you having a conversation with your Guardian Angel without understanding it? What makes you feel that this is good or this is bad, don't do it or do it - in you? Your Guardian Angel. That's because that Guardian Angel is egofied. Do you think you speak to yourself? Now, is it with yourself really? Don't do it and he will interfere in another way by creating in you the stings of consciousness, which means - counteracting to your decision, opposing you. Just study what are the stings of consciousness. In making introspection, self-analysis, we have to study all these conditions of our personality.

Now, in the Bible, Holy Bible, one reads in the Genesis "And God said..." to whom? To Its Multiplicity. Said - what does it mean, said? Expressed in vibration His own Pleasure and the Total Wisdom. Said? In what language? Of course, not in any human language. The highest vibrations having in it the Total Wisdom and the Almightiness. "And God said, let us create..." (Create? - bring forward) "... Man." So, a human being is a creation, just as all the other creatures around us (the vegetable and the animal kingdom). To have a material body, "... create man..." (But - it continues!) "... To our image and according to our likeness." To be like "us" - Spirit-Soul-Ego. This is what makes the difference between us and all the animal life around us. We have a self-consciousness. Self-consciousness? Yes. Created in time and place, yet, still we have this self-consciousness, which is our Spirit-Soul-Ego inside. An immortal God. Immortal God! But, as human beings, as Present-Day Personalities, we are a creation having in us the self-consciousness.

Self-consciousness, now. "And," it is said, "He breathed in the nostrils of the man His Breath" (God, the Absolute Beingness) - that means, our Spirit-Soul-Self enters our material body. Now, this is symbolically yet clearly stated in the Holy Bible - this great Truth.

So, our material body, our psychical body, our noetical body, with their etheric doubles, are created. But, as our Self, even as a Present-Day Personality, we are God and God's manifestation. Because, even the personality of a human being (a man or a woman) is a self, and Saint John the Evangelist, writing his Gospel (writing about the Logos) said, "Logos is the Light which lighteth every human being." Every human being coming to the world.

So, manifesting ourselves as self-consciousnesses also, whether we are a Negro, an Aborigine, or anything, we are not an animal. We are a self-consciousness. We are not the descendants of the monkeys and the apes. That is an insult against God Charles Darwin expressed. And I say, we belong to a different Circle of Possibilities and Probabilities (which is the Law in Its Total Wisdom), which we can study.

Now, another question we have. We said, everything emanates and is expressed by the Holy Spirit. Definitely the Holy Spirit is not "Geist". It is a mistake to say "Heiliken Geist" and mean the Holy Spirit. "Geist" means the Mind, only. And, the Mind is not God; it is the expression of God. Now, what's the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is the Absolute Beingness in a certain kind of expression - dynamical. So, I have not three Gods, the Infinite Beingness, the Lord Christ as the Logos, and then the Holy Spirit. It is the same Absolute Infinite Beingness in different expression. There it is on the Symbol of Life. You can see the triangle, equal sided, having in it three other triangles, equal sided also, yet, it is one triangle. That's the Trinity in One. So, all the logoical expressions, by the Absolute Beingness as the Logos, are coming from the Infinite Beingness. Christ as the Logos said, "My Father is greater then I am. I express my Father." And the Holy Spirit which is an impersonal manifestation of the Infinite Beingness is the Infinite Beingness, though; whatever is done carrying the Almightiness of the Infinite Beingness as the Holy Spirit is the Absolute Beingness. So, there are not two Infinite Being-nesses and the Holy Spirit but one in a different way of manifestation. So, we have only one God. We don't present a polytheistic system by speaking about gods. All those gods are manifesting the Absolute Beingness in Its Multiplicity. Multiplicity doesn't mean the Absolute Beingness is multiplied. No. The Absolute Beingness has in Its Multiplicity all the Beings who have ever been and who will ever be, and - who are not created, because, these Holy Beings are not creatures. They are the Infinite Beingness in Its Multiplicity. Now, you can understand that when you reach that state of at-one-ment with the Super-Self-consciousness to understand what is One in All. So, there is only one God. The Absolute Infinite Beingness in Its Multiplicity.

Now, this is just a general lesson.

What is the Mind? We said that the Pleasure of the Infinite Beingness, expressed also by the Pleasure of the Beings (the Archangelic orders), manifests the Mind as the stuff by which they will create and build. So, what they are doing is from the inside of them. It is their nature, creative nature. So, this manifestation of the Holy Beings and the Absolute Holy Beingness, of the Logos and the Holy Spirit (except the Infinite Beingness, call it whatever you like) - this manifestation emanates the Mind. But, was there any time in the past when this was not done? No. Because the Everlasting Life, which is the Infinite Beingness, always had this manifestation of the Infinite Beingness as the Pleasure of the Infinite Beingness and of the Holy Archangels. So, the Mind was emanating, is emanating and will always emanate from the Holy Absolute Beingness.

And now, the Mind. What's the Mind? We said the Mind is the Super-consciousness, formless. There is no form in it. Yet, there are the Laws (the Causes) of the Total Wisdom of the Infinite Beingness. Maybe the Principalities and the Authorities are working there, but we cannot approach and see what they express there. We must study the Laws of Cause. Then, from the Laws of Cause we have (in a lower grade) what we call the Ideas. What are the Ideas now? Laws (Causes), which are giving us, through their reflection, the Forms. So, the Causes of manifestation of everything to be created and which has been created are the Ideas. Now, one should understand what are the Ideas, not by words, but, from a brother instructor - after raising his consciousness to the highest levels of Super-consciousness to partake in the nature of Ideas (which are beyond manifestation). More - I cannot speak about these states of Super-consciousness.

So, the reflection of these Causes - the Ideas, is creating the Forms. Now, I have the Forms in the lower nature of the Mind - which we call the noetical. When we sometimes say for the Mind - noetic and noetical, it is not a mistake. They are two different states. In the noetic I have the Ideas, and the Causes and the Laws. In the noetical I have their reflection - the Forms. The Forms? How many forms? At least you have billions of them on the material plane, billions on the psychical and billions on the noetical plane (which are not existing on the material plane now). And one, when raising his Self-Super-consciousness to these levels, can live in the same way he is living in the material and in the other planes (the psychical and the noetical plane). Then, he will know. Not by being thought by a brother instructor or guide but, now, being in a state to see, observe and come to the reality.

So, no human help is needed in those levels of Super-Self-consciousness. The brother instructor or guide can lead somebody until the noetical level, but then, the one who reaches there (a man or a woman) has to go further by himself. Because, every one of us is a Spirit-Soul-Ego. In those states of the Self-Super-consciousness there are no distinctions. All are Gods.

So, now, how do we reach there? It is a very reasonable question since we say we are Gods. We, as a personality (Mary or George), are Gods? In nature - yes, but, in expression - no. In nature, expressing a Self-consciousness, of course, we are Gods. It is the same Self-consciousness we are (not we have) as Spirit-Souls. But now, as human beings, having a material, psychical and noetical body, we express and create a personality - and, that personality is under the laws of continuous changes, because, the laws of the material, psychical and noetical world are the laws of changes. Everything changes, developing, growing, coming to existence and passing out of existence. Nobody can violate this law (which we need to study). So, each one of us (a man or a woman) having in us Its nature, the Self-Ego (even as a personality now), is authorized to develop his self freeing it from the bodies and realizing who he is. Because, you are not what you think you are! The material or the psychical body (that means your emotions, your desires, your weaknesses). You are not that. Or your thoughts serving desires and emotions. You are not even that. What are you? Now - work and the training! You must learn what is concentration - that means, fixing your attention, your observation, on a certain thing in a certain period of time you choose. But, unbroken and undisturbed concentration. That's difficult, but, not impossible. And, each one must train himself in that before starting what we say meditation. Meditation? What does meditation mean now? What can we meditate on? Anything. Now, we shall speak about the Circle of Possibilities - the next question.

We said that everything existing as a living form, from the amoeba, the ant, the fly, the bee, the cows, the lambs, the colts, to the elephant, has a beginning and an end. From that beginning to the end they complete the Circle of Possibilities. But, the end is the beginning - like in a circle. That's why we say the Circle. And, for a man? It is reincarnation. So, let us take a circle of a human being. First of all it is from the creation of the Holy Archangels - the spermatozoa in the body of a male person. Male person makes love to a woman giving this spermatozoa and the woman the opportunity for a new being and creature to come to the world. Being and creature? What does it mean? The bodies are the creatures, the being is the Spirit-Soul, which will be incarnated - or, re-incarnated. So, that personality now in the world of existence, starts from birth, then growing, growing to become an adult, a young man or a young woman (it depends), and then himself (or herself) causing a new beginning and an end of a circle of possibilities of another creature and being. And then, coming to the end, which is - passing over. So - that person covered a part of the Circle of Possibilities. Not the whole Circle. The life continues in the psychical plane. It goes on! It continues in the noetical plane. It goes on! You have a rest - and then, you are incarnated again, in spermatozoa as you did the first time. Now, new body, new circumstances, new places. But, in that creature is the Spirit-Soul-Ego to adapt itself to the circumstances, create a personality - live in different circumstances as a person, yet, having (in that person) Its nature "I am I". "I am the Spirit-Soul-Ego. I am Life!"

So, our Spirit-Soul-Ego is Life. That's why we are Gods. And, we are living (for a certain period of time) as human beings. As human beings we have a beginning and an end. We have to go around the Circle of Possibilities. Now, what is this Circle of Possibilities? A few moments, a few hours, a few days, a few years, or many years - it depends upon the Form, the living form, the manifestation of life. What is the duration of the Circle of Possibilities of a microbe, of an ant, of a fly, of any animal, of a tree or a little plant? Studying the nature all around us we will observe the Circles of Possibilities, which means - you cannot go from your Circle of Possibilities to the other Circle of Possibilities. We start from the seed. There are many, many kinds of seeds. Billions of seeds having the same size, the same color and the same substance (matter). Yet, in each seed there is a Circle of Possibilities. The seed of a mustard plant and the seed of an eucalyptus tree are the same (when you see them and put them on your palm) and no scientist can distinguish which is the seed of mustard and which is the tree of eucalyptus. The Total Wisdom of the Almighty is there - in them. Planting them, one seed will give me a eucalyptus, which may live for hundreds of years. Maybe. That is its Circle of Possibilities. What is the Circle of Possibilities of a mustard seed? A season, few months - to dry down after producing more seeds.

What is to be distinguished and studied is that all forms of life are favored by the Archangels of creation (and their Archangels supervising them) through creativeness. That means - creating seeds, which will carry on the Circles of Possibilities. Now, is that not most wise? Can we not just see, now, that Super Intelligence we call God, or - Life? We should just understand that God and Life are the same thing!

Yet, what is the Eternal Life? What is the phenomenon of life? These things can be studied in deep meditation. Meditation now? (We usually meditate on the Circles of Possibilities.) This means, after learning concentration - training yourself for that (then you can start observing the Circles of Possibilities). Take something (anything), a plant, and find the beginning - a seed. Take a palm tree - how does it start its life? Now, until you reach that point, don't go behind it - go forward in its Circle of Possibilities. So: observe a seed in the palm of your hand. Plant it. (Meditation means also visualization - you have to train yourself in this to get the skill of it.) Seated comfortably, with your eyes closed (after relaxing completely - definitely) and with no tension, peaceful, start visualizing a seed (any seed). Let us take a seed of wheat. Close your eyes and see the seed in your palm. Drop it down on the ground, fertile ground. Now, see a landscape. See the rain. See the drops of rain making the earth jump covering the seed. Continue with shooting roots. Two white little things piercing the ground, going down. And over it, the greenish sprouts appearing on the surface. See it as you can see it in the field. Growing and growing - not jumping. See it growing! Continuously. Not just getting bigger and bigger - meditation means see it growing naturally, properly. Then see the whole landscape. There are billions of wheat plants now. But, stick onto that one you are meditating on. See the plants waving in the field. See the combine now, working. See those reaping the wheat if you like. (Conditions changed.) See what you can see and what you like to see - but, continuously! See the Grace of God making so many seeds. And each one of them will have a beginning in what we call the Circle of Possibilities. It cannot escape from it. Throughout the centuries all the seeds of wheat have been the seeds of wheat.

Now, this is the study on what we call the Total Wisdom of God and you will realize that everything on the material plane (in the vegetable and the animal kingdom - everywhere) is under this Total Wisdom. If you don't like to call it God, call it Super Intelligence. It doesn't matter. Anything you do you won't be able to comprehend what is the Absolute Infinite Beingness unless you bring the Absolute Infinite Beingness to your measures of understanding. It is not offended. Don't worry. The Absolute Infinite Beingness is not offended if we try to understand It, bringing It to our measure. But - not to our weaknesses for God's sake! To our measure of reason and understanding of what It might be.

During the past ages, people created many, many gods to their measure giving them their own faults, vices and weaknesses. Now, any god they have created is the Infinite Beingness. Everything that existed and exists in the Infinite Beingness. It is created by what we call the Mind - which is the emanation of the Infinite Beingness. So, whether you go to South Africa or to any other place, and you see a wooden ugly form of a god and people kneeling and praying - they pray to the Infinite Beingness without knowing it. You call them idolaters. No - they are in need to believe that they have protection of an Intelligence higher then themselves. That was a need of human beings since the cave-man. That was a necessity! So, why should we see them as idolaters since everything is of God and from God (although they don't know it)? And now, Christians. Though Christians are calling themselves non-idolaters, they have the Saints in the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Church. The Protestants (Luther) took away the Saints, even the Virgin Mary. What do we really see subconsciously (instinctively - not consciously)? The Mother of God. Was the Mother of God in our consciousness before the birth of Mary (Virgin Mary - she was named Virgin)? She reflected the real Mother - but the Mother of Nature was before the birth of Virgin Mary who gave birth to Christ. And for me it is the Infinite Absolute Femininity - Creativeness, which was always, is now and will always be. It is an aspect of the Absolute Infinite Beingness. The pan-sympathic femininity which was reflected in its highest degree in Virgin Mary. Yet, Virgin Mary had a form of a woman (perfect, though). Yes, a phenomenon of life in a period of time and in a space-place, which was Palestine. She passed over, as we believe - dematerialized her body. Because, the body of Virgin Mary in substance is different then the body of any other woman, just so, that the Absolute Infinite Beingness (as perfect as It is) could be incarnated as Joshua the Christ. Also, the body of Joshua the Christ was not just like the body of anybody else (walking on the waters). So, this is not something to be discussed. Let the theologians do it.

So, Luther has done a greatest mistake by banishing noble elementals, which were - the Saints, for which the people were feeling the need of having them. What are the Christians now, believing in the Saints? What are the Saints? The Saints were human beings who succeeded (by prayer and by the way of their life) to raise their self-consciousness to the highest levels of the Self-Super-consciousness. Therefore, they can be contacted even now. These are the Saints. We can contact Christ, because, whatever existed exists in the Cosmic Consciousness - either active or dormant. Everybody can investigate that by reaching higher levels of Self-Super-consciousness.

So, we said that everything is the Mind. Good. These elementals exist now. We have the purified, good, Archangelic and Angelic elementals, and the evil elementals also. Why should we contact the evil elementals all the time - kneeling before this idol? Our egoism - that is the idol. And, not before the pure and good elementals, which might be called the Saints? Most of the Saints are unknown. And most of them Canonized as Saints in reality are not the Saints on the other side because they have been human beings with even criminal tendencies. Of course, we are not going to discuss that. I don't believe in all the Saints. But, I do believe in the Saint ship of Francis of Assisi (the Dominican founder) and many, many others that (these intelligences - their Super-consciousnesses) are around us and ready to help us. But, they don't accept a name now. You can contact any of these Super-intelligences around the planet whether you call Saint Nicolas, or Saint Savas, or Saint Dominique, or Saint Francis or Saint Anthony, or any other name given. Now, in their Super-consciousness they are all one and they are ready to help. Of course, you will find this when you raise your consciousness to their level (because, there are many, many levels of consciousness). And, you can do that by continuous meditation, reaching that level we call intuition which, now, is the interference of your Guardian Angel, going further to what we call contemplation and to the other states of consciousness for which there are no names. You have to reach them, know them, without giving names. No need to give names.

So, this means - meditation! And this means - using the Mind, which is our property. It's our right to use it to know. To know what? That we are not the Mind, and that we are not the bodies, and that we are not the phenomena of life (which are a reflection of our Self) - reaching the state where I know that "I am I". No more Mary or George. Name?

Yes, it's enough - the name "I am I". That's common to all. What's wrong in that? We enter our nature. We enter the Heavenly Man - the Idea of Man - through which we have been humanized. There is no special name for the Divine Heavenly Man you are reflecting. Even Joshua the Christ, who was God - the Logos incarnated directly coming through the Idea of Man - called himself the "Son of Man" honoring the Idea of Man. Can you come in contact with the Idea of Man? Yes, when you reach the Self-Super-consciousness and you have, not in your personality now, but in your individuality the qualities of the Divine Man - you'll know what is the Divine Man (the Heavenly Man). Because, we belong to that order of the Archangels called Man, and Man is a class and an order of the Archangels.

So, why do we neglect this origin of ours, our source, the Heavenly Man (the Idea of Man)? Who will teach us about it? Our Guardian Angel who took that form and that shape in us and with us. Of course, in the Inner Circles of our Order, a brother guide is teaching the way of contacting and coming in touch even with the divine Heavenly Man. This means - you come in contact with Christ, because, you cannot reach Christ in Its Logoic nature. It is too high for us, unless we see Him as a human being, as the Ideal Man. And this means, unless we create and conceive pure elementals. It is through elementals we shall see the reality behind the elementals.

So, in reality, by meditating (that means - getting the skill to understand the nature of the Mind and how to use the Mind) we are creating elementals. And, we create elementals, even now, in an instinctive way (because, we are a phenomena of life), a subconscious way, by our feelings - not knowing very much about things. With right thinking (creative now), creating elementals, even in higher levels (but, all the time it is the elementals, which means - the Forms), until we reach that level where we don't need the Forms any more - where we enter into the origin of the Forms which are the Ideas, the Laws, the Causes. Now, I think we are in very deep waters and need to come to the surface.

So, anybody has the right and this is the persuasion of Godman, Joshua the Christ, "Be ye perfect as perfect is your Heavenly Father". That's clear. We have the right. He is persuading us. How? We may ask Him - how? He will say - I told you: "Know the Truth and the Truth will liberate you", from all the illusions in life. He gave the answer. Shall we be now like Pontius Pilate asking what is the Truth? What is the Truth? Why didn't Christ reply to the roman governor? Because, even if He did tell him he wouldn't understand. But, He told us "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life" - which means, the Truth is Life. That's clear. How can we understand all that? By making the use of the Mind as right thinking - meditating, visualizing, observing and understanding. Understanding what? I, who understands, am not the object of understanding - which means, I am a different person. Now, I can master and control my material body. I am not my material body then, but I am living in it. We said that we would study what is going on in the material body just to appreciate and value the creative work of the Holy Archangels in it. It is a great honor to engage themselves all the time to continuously create a body and keep it in good health so that we may live in it. But, you are not the material body. It is theirs. Let us call it ours also. They will not get angry. Study our emotional body (psychical body) and see that we can control our desire, control our emotion, control the elementals composing our personality and our sub consciousness, be able to clear up completely and clean that dirty pool of our sub consciousness from our weaknesses, jealousies, enmities, hatred, the desire of attacking. So, we are not that because we can control that. And then, we are using the Mind, and can use it properly instead of using it as before - serving our emotions, serving our desires. Now, I give the mind, my mind, the mastery to check them, control them and, through the mind, I come to certain decisions - that I am not the mind also, because, I can control the mind. Many are making the mistake believing that they are the thought. We are not the thought. And also, the Mind is not the Holy Spirit. You Germans make a great mistake to connect the Mind to the Holy Spirit. Because, the Holy Spirit is the manifested one and the Mind is the means of manifestation. So, you have to make this distinction. The Holy Spirit is the Infinite Beingness Itself. You shouldn't separate It. So, what emanates from the Holy Spirit emanates from the Absolute Infinite Beingness (which is the everlasting Life).

Now, first of all, study and meditate (not at the beginning because it is a difficult subject) to know - what is Life as a manifestation. What is Life as a phenomenon of life? But, this is still more difficult then just using the mind in concentration and meditation on what we call the Circles of Possibilities of anything you chose to meditate upon.

So, knowing after all what is the Mind, how do we use it? What is reasoning? You get to understand what is the value of the phenomenon of life. Yet, your life (of a man or a woman) is not to be considered that it is of not much value. It is! Because, if it was not of much value why should the Holy Archangels engage themselves continuously to create the spermatozoa for you and work in the body you call yours until the time they decide to dissolve it so that they will give you another one. So, these things are to be studied by means of meditation.

That is what I said the other day: we must occupy our minds with the right meditation, because, there are certain things given as meditation by the eastern schools leading nowhere. Now, by studying, we have the Circles of Possibilities and Probabilities. I cannot say that these are not difficult things to do. But, they are possible and we need to do them. You are going to gain really the right knowledge of nature and of what's really going on around us. And also, study our own personality. Boldly, facing it, acknowledging the faults, which means - you are working double, as the Present-Day Personality and as the Ego. But, in reality, you are not double. You are one. I gave an example - to create a coin I need two faces. But, it is one coin. On the one side is the nature of the coin (which is your nature - God, the Absolute Infinite Beingness), yet, you never care about the real value of the coin because you see the other side all the time (which is your Present-Day Personality). So, it is better to see that you are a golden coin with some value because we have a variety of values in what you call the coins as money.

So, now, the Mind is the most precious thing given to us by the Infinite Beingness, God, or by our inner nature, our Spirit-Soul - because, we also emanate the Mind as Gods. Yet, it does not emanate from our personality of George or Mary. It emanates from our Ego. But, do we feel our inner Ego now when we have fixed our attention too much on our Present-Day Personality, a creation of time and a certain place in space? We have to free ourselves of this illusion!

So, what do we understand? One can have money, properties, honors, everything around him calling all these things his - with what right? Did you make matter? Never mind. I shall not discuss this any more. But, what is really our right (and our right property), though we are not giving much attention to it, is our mind. Because, our mind - the Mind expressed through us and that's why I call it our mind - is our identity. It is our little self on the material plane as George or Mary. Unless you use the mind (one way or the other) how can you know that you exist and that you are? So, our biggest property, given to us by the Father, is the Mind. "Our daily bread" we are asking for. So, we have to use the Mind. Do we use our mind as reason (all of us) or are we living instinctively like all the other animals around us? What does make us feel that we are different from the other forms of life around us and the animals? Just, the use of the Mind, expressing ourselves as a Self, as an I-ness, as an Ego! So, knowing that - we value Life. Because, as a Spirit-Soul we are Life, the everlasting Life (as Spirit-Egos we are immortal - but, not as a personality).

We reach this point by training ourselves in concentration, in the right meditation. In cleaning our Present-Day Personality by (what we call) introspection or looking within, or, checking the nature of our sub consciousness - and, we are the masters of it. We can make changes! And by doing that, the real gain is to realize who we are. And so, we advance and advance.

Of course, all this is for the general public, for everybody. A Seeker of the Truth (a brother guide) has more complicated exercises which cannot be used by anybody from the public - unless, one reaches those degrees of the order which are the Inmore and the Inmost Circle (not the Inner Circle because many can enter there). It is very difficult to enter the Inmore Circle (which has three degrees) and the Inmost Circle (which has another three degrees) - leading to what? What is beyond? The real Self-realization. To know who you really are as a Spirit-Soul. And what is after that (if you reach there)? You become most powerful. Matter is in your hands. All the worlds are in your hands to deal with. In the psychical plane you become an invisible helper entering all the sub-planes with authority - to help. The noetical world - it is in your hands. You can master the Mind. But, of course, you are not "Black Magicians" to influence the others to change their minds - even for their good! Because, everybody should get his experiences. Remember, in each step of development is the devil to persuade you to change route. That is why I am telling all the time "We must kill the egoism". Because, egoism is the worst devil - the cause of all the evil in the world - presenting itself as the Angel of Light (as the Bible says). You have to be conscious to see this "Angel of Light" coming here as the sense of "good". If that is so - it is the Devil. This means, when you gain the authority of mind reading (of being able to change the minds of others) you don't have the right to do it even believing that you are doing for their good. No!. They are on the stage of development where they should have their lessons! Interfere - free them from pain, but without influencing their personality. Now, the Devil (as egoism) comes to you as the Angel of Light: "But, I mean good". Dominating all the others? This is a warning for the Seekers of the Truth. Because, somebody (who entered the Circles just now) may say: "Yes, but what I have done I have done for his good". I say: "Stop it!" "But..." "Stop it! You will get his lessons. Advise and keep silent!"

So, the first thing a Seeker of the Truth should know is to value the freedom of the will of the others and allow them to get their own lessons from life. Interfering only to minimize the pain, but not to change their disposition. Advising them to change - yes. Forcing them to change - no. This is something that needs much clarification. And, everybody needs this. Many parents (and, some of you) think that by forcing their will on their children, for their good, are doing their duty. They are wrong! You have to persuade them, convince them to accept and make the change from inside and not by your threatening. What is the result is the opposition, because it is in the human nature to oppose.

So, now, we'll make a meditation.

Relax completely. Start from the toes. The legs. The thighs. The abdomen. Feel your body but completely relaxed. Not with tension. Start breathing deeply feeling the lower part of your abdomen first and then the lungs. Then, empty the abdomen first, and then, the lungs. Start with three beats of your heart. Three beats, in - three beats, out. In and out. Do it when you are alone for five minutes, without any other thought. If thoughts are coming to you, take them away. Just concentrate on the lower part of your abdomen and on your lungs - feeling not only the air, but the etheric vitality also. (Later, we will see it with visualization.) Now, start breathing in and out in four beats. In and out. Do it the next day for five minutes. Now five beats. In and out. Do it the following day, again for five minutes. You must train yourself to breathe comfortably and feel the lungs and the abdomen. Now six. In and out. You should get accustomed to this kind of breathing and in the course of time you will find which is the most comfortable for you for the work to do. I prefer the four beats for the beginning and later the six beats. Don't do any other breathing exercises you may find in Yoga books. They are dangerous! Many who were practicing in such a way have succeeded in breaking down their nervous system. So, these are the safe ways of breathing for future work of meditation. But now, concentrate and learn these ways of breathing. Later, of course, with visualization, you will see in breathing the vitality as a light entering your body. The vitality remains and the air goes out. Breathing you load your etheric double with this vitality. Of course, the Seeker of the Truth has more complicated exercises to do with breathing, loading his etheric double with more and more vitality. And then, by using colors to give qualities to this etheric vitality. So, start learning how to breathe properly. Yes.

Tomorrow I will answer other questions.

Again, I say, when we say Holy Spirit we mean the Absolute Infinite Beingness Itself. You don't have three Gods. You have only One in different expressions.

Now, what must be our attitude towards the dogmas of various religions (as Seekers of the Truth). We have the Buddhists, the Brahmans, the Hindus, the Muslims, and the Christians. And the Christians are the Greek Orthodox, Bulgarian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Catholics (all over the planet), the Protestants. Who is right and who is wrong? Everyone is wrong not understanding the real nature of the teaching of Christ, which is - Love and Service. Christ said, "Love your neighbor as yourself". Yes.

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