Awake !

AWAKE!

Awake ye men out of your leaden slumber! Do you not see the ignoble burden that is pressing on you, the ponderous load which tenaciously clings to millions? Throw it off! Is it worth carrying? No, not a second! What does it consist of? But empty husks which the first breath of truth will scatter in the wind! You have been wasting your time and your energies for nothing.

Burst, therefore, the fetters that hold you down and free yourselves! That man who is inwardly bound, will be a slave all his days, even if he were a king. In aspiring to learning you constrain yourself to accept ideas which belong to another and you press yourself into a mould alien to you. You voluntarily subordinate your views to his and accept and take over convictions which he came to by his personal experience.

Take a thought! What is good for one is not good for all; what helps the one harms the other.
Each individual must make his way to perfection alone. The abilities that are given to him, are his equipment. He must be guided by them and build on them. If he does not, he will be a stranger to himself,
he will stand outside or beside what he has learned. It will never come to life in him, thus he cannot profit in any way. He simply vegetates, all progress being impossible.

Listen, all you who seriously aspire to the Light and to the Truth. The way there each individual must realise in himself. If he wants to travel safely, he must discover the way himself. Only what a man has experienced inwardly (in its every mood) can he fully understand! Grief, affliction, sorrow, and joy are constantly
rapping at the door to encourage and to rouse spiritual wakefulness.

Grief or joy will often so completely absorb and turn aside a man\'s thoughts from the paltry trifles of everyday life that, at such moments, he will vaguely suspect his affinity with the spirit that pulsates through
all life.

All is alive, nothing is dead! Happy is he who seizes and holds on to such moments! The feeling of affinity such moments bring, he should use as stepping stones in his ascent. Man must not keep to rigid
forms, each individual must develop from within.

Pity the scoffer and all those who are ignorant of the life of the soul. Do not let their sarcasms irritate you. They are to be commiserated, for they stand as if drunken, as if intoxicated before the great work of Creation or they are blind and grope their way through their earth-life without seeing any of the glorious sights around them!

These unfortunates are confused — they are asleep. How can a man affirm that only what he sees, exists, that there is no life where his eyes do not perceive it, that, when he dies, he will cease to be, and this only because his blindness up till now prevented his convincing himself of the contrary? Have not countless instances proved to him how very limited is the capacity of his physical eyesight which depends upon his brain? The latter again is limited by time and space which precludes his seeing what is above and beyond those limitations. Is there not one among the scoffers who perceives that my assertions are logically justified? The life of the spirit or the life to come is beyond terrestrial ideas of time and space and to be able to perceive it, means must be found that correspond to other conditions.

Our eyes do not even see all that time and space embrace. Look at a drop of water which appears immaculately pure to the naked eye, but looked at through a magnifying glass, contains millions of living organisms, fighting and destroying each other. Are there not bacilli in water and in air that are capable of destroying the human body and yet are imperceptible to the eye? They become visible under a magnifying glass. Who then would still venture to affirm that nothing new, nothing  not already known, will be seen when physical instruments are still further improved? Improve them a thousand-fold, a million-fold, the
objects presented for your inspection will multiply correspondingly: You will not exhaust the supply of matter, on the contrary, existing worlds you could not see or feel before, will unfold before you. We infer, reasoning logically, that the same is the case in all that science has hitherto revealed, a prospect of continuous development but never an end.

What now is the next world, the life to come? Many are misled by the word: the next world. The next world is simply all that cannot be seen by terrestrial or physical appliances, i. e. our eyes, our brain, and other portions of the physical body, and the instruments which serve to assist these to extend their field of action and to do their work more accurately and minutely or in other words, the other world is beyond the range of our physical senses.

There is no partition between the next world and this! Nor is there a gulf. All is unity like all else in Creation. One and the same energy pulsates here and there and in this life-stream all lives, all works, and all is inseparably interwoven. Here we have the explanation how it is that when one part sickens the other is affected likewise. When the physical body is ailing, unhealthy matter from the other side is attracted and forthwith proceeds to join it, thus strengthening the disease. Should the disorder prove to be incurable, the necessity arises to cut off the offending member if the whole body is not to suffer permanently. For this reason, take off your blinkers and look at things from a different point of view! There is no this world and next world. There is but one uniform existence. Man alone has discovered and introduced the conception of an existing difference between them. For man cannot see all. He looks upon himself as the centre of importance in the surroundings visible to him.

 (But in truth his sphere of action is far greater.) In holding this erroneous idea man has forcibly hindered his
own progress. He has allowed his imagination full play with the result that it has produced pictures of monstrosities. Is it then astonishing if some smile incredulously while others bend the knee in excessive devotion which degenerates into slavish servility or morbid fanaticism? Under such circumstances who can be surprised if the faint-hearted are alarmed, nay, seized with terror and consternation? Away with all this! To what purpose this selftormenting? Break down this barrier that human error erected but which never really existed.

As your attitude was wrong hitherto, it consequently proved itself to be a wrong basis on which it was vain to try to build up the right faith or inner conviction. Questions would turn up that made you doubt, waver, and pull down what you had erected and then disheartened, discouraged and resentful you would give up all.
The loss would be yours alone, for it would mean standstill instead of progress — if not retrogression. The way that you must go would only be prolonged.

You are on the right path and are nearer your goal as soon as you have got so far that you look on Creation as a whole and make no distinctions between this world and the next. This advance will encourage you and give you satisfaction, you will then also be better able to understand the law of returns, the one driving and maintaining power, making all pulsate with warmth and vigour. Then the Light of Truth will dawn on you!
Many scoff, you will soon see, merely because they are too indolent to build up a new system which would involve their beginning to learn and to think afresh, whereas others do not wish to remodel their
lives from motives of expediency.

Leave all such alone and do not argue with them, but offer your help and your knowledge to those who are not satisfied with temporal pleasures but seek for something more in their lives than simply to fill their stomachs. Impart to them what is revealed to you and do not bury your treasure, your talent, for, in imparting your knowledge, it will return to you enriched and extended.

Where it is a question of lasting treasure, an eternal law decrees that it is only by giving that one can receive. Like a sacred legacy bequeathed by the Creator, this law will be found in operation in all Creation. To give unselfish help where help is needed, to understand and feel for one\'s neighbour in his grief as in his weakness, is receiving, for it is the plain and simple way to the highest heights.
Honest good-will will straightway help and strengthen you.

A single ardent wish to do good, coming from your heart, will conjure forth a sword of flame from the other side that, with one mighty blow, will destroy the wall or partition that your own thoughts have erected, for you are one with the other world, inseparably bound to what you so feared, denied the existence of, or longed for but never could see. Try and you will find it so! Your thoughts are the messengers that you send forth and which return to you heavily laden either with good or evil.

Thoughts are realities which shape into spiritual forms that outlive the earth-life of your physical body! When you understand this, much will become clear to you. Thus it is quite rightly said «For their works
will pursue them» (or «find them out»). These works that await them are the forms that men create by their thoughts. They will form a circumambient belt of light or of darkness which must be traversed by the ego on its journey to the spiritual world.

Neither protection nor interference from the other side can help you because your will is free! It is no difficult task, it all depends on the will-power that animates your thoughts. Thus you bear heaven as well as hell in yourselves.

You are free to decide, but having decided, you are then irrevocably doomed to bear the consequences of your decision. Thus I admonish you: Keep the seat of your thoughts clean. By doing so you will be a peacemaker and will be happy! Do not forget that every thought you form and send forth either collects all analogous thoughts on its way or is attracted by similar thoughts, thus always increasing in potency till it finally attaches itself to a human brain that, in a moment of abstraction, admits the floating thought-form to operate there. Consider a moment what responsibility falls on the sender if such a thought becomes active through the man on whose brain it made the impression! As every thought keeps in constant connection with you by an unbreakable thread or link, it will return to torment you or to gladden you in the manner and to the extent (degree) which corresponds to what power you sent forth and herein you will be made aware of the share of responsibility you have incurred.

Thus, standing as we do, in the world of thought-forms, we unconsciously make room for and admit thoughts of similar nature to those we are indulging in at the time. Do not, therefore, waste your thought-energy but keep it in reserve, so as to be able to project a keen thought at will, that it may, like a spear, hurled by a strong arm, penetrate and influence all things.

Let such a thought resemble the Holy Spear of the legend that it also may fight for the right, heal wounds and serve in furthering the progress and development of Creation. Concentrate your thoughts, therefore, on activity and on progress!

To do this you must upset many a time-honoured verdict and reveal errors in dogmatic teaching of long standing. Some phenomena wrongly understood and interpreted may be the obstacle in the way. One enlightening ray from above shows how wrong are the conclusions arrived at after so much speculation! When man at last recognises this, he will pause a while petrified, but then resume his work, for nothing may stand still in the universe.

Let us take the conception of time as an illustration: time flies,  times change, one constantly hears men say — and a picture of changing time presents itself to our mind. It consolidates and becomes an accepted tenet or basis on which men build up further conclusions. But they soon come upon contradictions which they cannot reconcile.

They lose their way and leave gaps in their deductions which cannot be filled in in spite of all their ingenuity. Many think that here faith must  things, for your spirit will be living in the pure light of truth. Thus make yourselves independent, burst the fetters that hold you down! If obstacles present themselves, welcome them joyfully, for they mean that you are on the right way to freedom and to spiritual power. Look on them as gifts by which you can profit, and then you will overcome them with ease.

They are either put in your way to teach and to mature you or, may be, they are the result of some debt you have incurred which you can settle in this way and free yourself. In either case they will help your advance. Set out to meet them with a bold heart — it is for your own
good!

It is foolish to talk of reverses of fortune or of trials. Every conflict, every sorrow, means progress. They are opportunities accorded to man to drive away or weaken the results of former misdeeds. The only way of redemption lies in the ever rotating wheel of cosmic events in which the creative will of the Father manifests His Justice towards man, forgiving him and lightening his darkness.

The minutest swerving from this order and all the world would go to pieces, so clearly and so wisely is all arranged. And supposing we have the case of a man who is burdened with a heavy debt from his former life, must he not despair? Will he not tremble at the thought of how he must atone for and redeem his debt?
No, he can take heart and, dismissing all care, gladly set to work if his will is honest; for then the countercurrent of his goodwill, will neutralise his debt and square his account.

Good-will, like a thought-form is a living thing, a mighty weapon, capable of upsetting every weighty and dark burden oppressing the ego, and thus of leading it to the light! The power of volition! A mighty power, a never failing magnet, which, in attracting like powers, grows to avalanche. This again unites itself to spiritual potencies and can then return to the starting point, the origin, or better said, to the author himself, lifting him high up to the light or pressing him down into slime and mire, exactly corresponding
to what the man willed in the first instance.

He who is acquainted with that law of returns which operates in all Creation knows that it will invariably and unavoidably act in his case also. He will know how to profit by it, will love it and fear it. It will gradually animate the invisible world around a man, he will feel its influence so distinctly that it will silence all doubt. If he pays attention he must become sensible of the vibrations that affect him and at last he will be aware that he is the focus of restless activity that he absorbs, like a lens absorbs the sun\'s rays. Concentrating them on certain points he kindles a fire singeing and destructive but also healing and
animating and bringing blessing.

Men are truly lenses that send forth invisible waves of power that they have absorbed by their will. They do good or evil, bring blessing or injury. We can and we are to light blazing fires in the souls of men, fire of enthusiasm for what is good and noble and uplifts man. For this purpose, it is but needful for a man\'s volition to be under control — indeed that would make man lord of Creation. It is man\'s own will that brings him destruction or release, retribution or reward with unfailing certainty.

Do not fear that this knowledge will alienate you from your Creator or weaken your faith. On the contrary, the knowledge that we can make use of the eternal laws, makes Creation appear all the greater to us. It compels the investigator to bend the knee in veneration more profound than before. Man will then never wish to do evil. He will eagerly and joyfully grasp at the best staff that exists: love, love of all the world and love for his neighbour. A love inciting him to make his neighbour share in the glorious enjoyment of this consciousness of power.

Catégorie : Connaissances | article publié le : 01 janvier 2019