A Question: Master, you say that the personality is not divine by nature but how do you explain that, since nothing exists outside of God? ' The question is an important one, but difficult to answer. The word ‘divine’ has two meanings. When I say that the personality is not divine by nature, I mean [...]
'Human beings have an inborn tendency to avoid effort of any kind. They will do everything possible to get others—other human beings, animals or machines—to do their work for them. And the more they do this, the weaker they become and the more their faculties waste away. If you want to become strong, resourceful and [...]
What kind of work - 'You will say, ‘All right, we’ve all understood that it is not pleasure that will give us happiness. But what will?’ And my answer to that is: ‘Work!’ To replace pleasure by work is to replace an ordinary, selfish activity by one that is nobler and more generous, one that [...]
The Master Peter Deunov The Sage’s lamp is filled with Joy- True wisdom is neither sad nor gloomy, as many imagine it to be, for in true wisdom there is also love: heart and mind work together. The sage’s lamp does not just project the cold light of the rational mind, picking up and highlighting [...]
... And now let’s interpret this little story. The house is the physical body; the maid is the heart, the man-servant is the mind; the mistress of the house is the soul and the master is the spirit. The spirit often leaves us, and when it is away the soul is lonely and feels abandoned. [...]
The heart and the soul are both vehicles of our emotions, feelings and desires. The heart is the seat of our ordinary, earthly emotions and the soul is the seat of our divine, spiritual emotions and impulses. The same sort of distinction must be made between the mind and the spirit: the mind is the [...]
Humans possess several different souls. The first of these, the vital soul, is purely vegetative. The second is more highly evolved and is known as the animal soul; the third is the sensitive or emotional soul; the fourth is known as the rational or reasonable soul, and, finally, there is the divine soul, the soul [...]
The Seven Bodies of Man in relation to the Three Divisions of Christian Theology Consciousness, as we have seen, is like an inner screen and all that goes on in a human being is projected onto it. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that not everything that goes on in a person is [...]
'To 'know oneself' is to become conscious of the different bodies of which we are composed, from the subtlest to the densest or most opaque, to be conscious of the principles which inform them, of the needs we experience because of them and of the states of consciousness which correspond to each one. It should [...]
'Imagination according to the initiate’s understanding of the word, is the creative faculty which allows us to realize our finest aspirations. Imagination can be compared to a woman. After receiving the seed from her husband, instantly she goes to work shaping and building her future child, whose character and form will correspond exactly with the seed’s [...]