'And what about you? Why do you come up here, to the Rock of Prayer at sunrise every morning? Some come because they want to be like everybody else; others for the aesthetic pleasure they get out of it. How many of you come for the sake of the infinitely noble work that you can [...]
'Whether you want to meditate, contemplate or create, concentration is essential. Concentration does not belong to one particular faculty; it consists in engaging all one’s faculties in the pursuit of a definite goal and of keeping them trained unwaveringly in that direction. Meditation, prayer, contemplation and identification all presuppose the ability to concentrate. Concentration is [...]
Human beings are immense, but they do not know themselves. In their higher, divine self, they know themselves of course, but they have to get to know themselves here, through the work of the brain, as they exist in the material world, and it is this that is so difficult. The kitten and its tail [...]
'For the majority of human beings their present level of consciousness is a product of their personality. They are not yet living in the superconscious, which is the level of consciousness of the individuality. It is for this reason that all the exercises and spiritual practices taught in an initiatic school are designed to enable you [...]
'What we are accustomed to calling ‘consciousness’ could be defined as the meeting place, the focal point, at which all the representatives of our psychic and physical organisms have agreed to meet together. It is a little like the United Nations. You can also compare consciousness to a movie screen on which everything that takes [...]
The New Moon of May is two days old, a perfect time to introduce our theme for the month which is ‘Consciousness’ and the associated practices of Meditation and Yoga. This table shows the themes for each month of the year and some suggested books on the subject. Read more. 'A great many of the problems [...]
You must learn to work on your etheric body: I have already given you all kinds of methods for this, using water, the earth or the flame of a candle, etc. If, for example, you have a pain somewhere, you can concentrate mentally on your etheric body and send it beams of light of every [...]
Image: Sahasrara (Sanskrit: सहस्रार), the Crown Chakra, the Third-Eye Continued from yesterday... The outer dimension of the sphere is the domain of the intellect; the inner dimension is the domain of the heart, of feeling. When you look at things only from the intellectual point of view, you can classify and analyse them but you cannot [...]
The Master Peter Deunov There are a great many people in the world who yearn to receive divine revelations and experience the thrill of inspiration and ecstasy, but they have the impression that all that is extremely difficult to achieve. In point of fact, it is very simple, so simple that if I were to [...]
'On the invisible plane, each human being is accompanied by the souls of all the animals whose flesh they have eaten. These souls press in on them, claiming satisfaction for the wrong that has been done to them. Although the animal soul is not the same as that of human beings, animals do have souls and [...]
