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- 0:00Speaker 1: Foreword. It cannot be said of this book that James
- 0:05Speaker 1: Allen wrote it at any particular time or any one year,
- 0:08Speaker 1: for he was engaged on it over many years, and
- 0:12Speaker 1: those who have eyes to see and hearts to understand
- 0:15Speaker 1: will find in its pages the spiritual history of his life.
- 0:19Speaker 1: It was his own wish that The Divine Companion should
- 0:21Speaker 1: be the last manuscript of his to be published. It
- 0:25Speaker 1: is the story of my soul, he said, and should
- 0:27Speaker 1: be read last of all my books, so that the
- 0:30Speaker 1: student may understand and find my message in its pages. Therefore,
- 0:35Speaker 1: hold it back until you have published everything else. There
- 0:39Speaker 1: remain now only his dramatic works and a few poems
- 0:42Speaker 1: to be included in the next edition of Poems of Peace.
- 0:46Speaker 1: That The Divine Companion will prove a companion Indeed to
- 0:49Speaker 1: thousands who have read his books in the past, I
- 0:52Speaker 1: have no doubt. To read it is to hear again
- 0:55Speaker 1: the voice of the writer, and to study its message
- 0:58Speaker 1: is to once again sit at his feet. He trod
- 1:01Speaker 1: the way himself, every bit of it, and he therefore
- 1:04Speaker 1: speaks as one having authority. Lovers of James Allen's works
- 1:08Speaker 1: will indeed be filled with joy to know that there
- 1:11Speaker 1: is yet another book from his inspired pen, and will
- 1:14Speaker 1: eagerly welcome the Divine Companion, Lily L. Allen Part one.
- 1:21Speaker 1: The Divine Companion Ay, the Spirit of Truth. Am the
- 1:26Speaker 1: friend of the forsaken, and the companion of the wise.
- 1:30Speaker 1: I restore the one, and I gladden the other, and
- 1:33Speaker 1: all men I protect, though they know me not. The
- 1:38Speaker 1: Divine Companion Truth as awakener. One, rejoice, for the morning
- 1:46Speaker 1: has dawned. The Truth has awakened us. We have opened
- 1:50Speaker 1: our eyes, and the dark night of error is no more.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Long have we slept in matter and sensation. Long did
- 1:58Speaker 1: we struggle in the painful nightmare of evil. But now
- 2:02Speaker 1: we are awake in spirit and truth. We have found
- 2:06Speaker 1: the good, and the struggle with evil is ended. We slept,
- 2:10Speaker 1: yet knew not that we slept. We suffered, yet knew
- 2:14Speaker 1: not why we suffered. We were troubled in our dreaming.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Yet none could awake us, for all were dreaming like ourselves.
- 2:23Speaker 1: Then there came a pause in our dreaming. Our sleep
- 2:27Speaker 1: was stayed. Truth spoke to us, and we heard, and lo,
- 2:32Speaker 1: we opened our eyes and saw. We slumbered and saw not.
- 2:37Speaker 1: We slept and knew not. But now we are awake
- 2:41Speaker 1: and see. Yea, we know we are awake because we
- 2:45Speaker 1: have seen holiness, and we loved sin. No more. We
- 2:49Speaker 1: have beheld truth, and error has ceased to attract us. Yea,
- 2:53Speaker 1: we have seen the truth not as a dream in
- 2:56Speaker 1: the night, but as a reality with our awakened eyes,
- 3:00Speaker 1: as a beautiful land afar have we seen it, and
- 3:03Speaker 1: we shall press forward until we reach and possess it.
- 3:07Speaker 1: How beautiful is truth? How glorious is the realm of reality?
- 3:12Speaker 1: How ineffable is the bliss of holiness. We have abandoned
- 3:16Speaker 1: error for truth, an illusion for reality. We have turned
- 3:20Speaker 1: our backs on error and confusion, and have set our
- 3:23Speaker 1: faces towards the harmony of justice and truth. Two. To
- 3:29Speaker 1: sin is to dream, and to love sin is to
- 3:33Speaker 1: love darkness. The awakened do not prefer dreaming to intelligent action.
- 3:38Speaker 1: They do not choose darkness rather than light. They who
- 3:42Speaker 1: love darkness are involved in the darkness. They have not
- 3:45Speaker 1: yet seen the light. He who has seen the light
- 3:49Speaker 1: does not choose to walk in darkness. To see the
- 3:52Speaker 1: truth is to love it, And in comparison, error has
- 3:55Speaker 1: no beauty. The dreamer is now in pleasure, now in pain,
- 4:00Speaker 1: this hour in confidence, the next in fear. He is
- 4:04Speaker 1: without stability and has no abiding refuge. When the monsters
- 4:08Speaker 1: of remorse and retribution pursue him, whither can he fly?
- 4:13Speaker 1: There is no place of safety unless he awake. Let
- 4:17Speaker 1: the dreamer struggle with his dream. Let him strive to
- 4:20Speaker 1: realize the illusory nature of all self seeking desire and
- 4:24Speaker 1: lo he will open his spiritual eyes upon the world
- 4:28Speaker 1: of light and truth. He will awake and will see
- 4:32Speaker 1: all things in their right relations and true proportions. He
- 4:36Speaker 1: will be happy, sane, and peaceful, seeing things as they are.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Truth is the light of universe, the day of the mind.
- 4:45Speaker 1: In it there is no error, no anguish, and no fear.
- 4:50Speaker 1: He who has awakened into the light of day is
- 4:53Speaker 1: no more burdened with the troubles of his dreams. They
- 4:56Speaker 1: are remembered as dreams, only as illusion that are dispelled.
- 5:02Speaker 1: The unawakened one knows neither waking nor dreaming. He is
- 5:06Speaker 1: in confusion. He knows not himself, neither knows the others,
- 5:11Speaker 1: and his judgment is without knowledge. The awakened one knows
- 5:15Speaker 1: both waking and dreaming. He is established in wisdom, knowing himself,
- 5:21Speaker 1: he knows others and he judges with knowledge. He is
- 5:25Speaker 1: the understander, the knower of hearts, and walking in the
- 5:29Speaker 1: light of truth, he knows that every dreamer will at
- 5:32Speaker 1: last awake. Three. Truth awakens us out of the slumber
- 5:39Speaker 1: of ignorance, out of the deep sleep of sin. It calls,
- 5:45Speaker 1: and they who hear and awake become wise and blessed.
- 5:50Speaker 1: Truth appears to men, and they see it not. It
- 5:53Speaker 1: calls to them, and they hear not. It speaks to
- 5:56Speaker 1: them through their actions. It cries aloud to them them
- 6:00Speaker 1: in their sufferings. It shines upon them in all their ways,
- 6:04Speaker 1: but they hear not. Neither do they see, for their
- 6:08Speaker 1: ears are deaf in slumber, and their eyes are holden
- 6:11Speaker 1: with sleep. Truth is manifest in the actions of the wise.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Its light illuminates their precepts. But the sleeper in error
- 6:19Speaker 1: has no eyes for the manifest, and the light of truth,
- 6:23Speaker 1: falling upon his sleeping lids, calls forth no visual response.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Where there is no understanding, the repetition of precepts is vain.
- 6:33Speaker 1: Right comprehension is needed. The sinless mind is the seeing mind.
- 6:39Speaker 1: He who has right comprehension interprets the divine precepts by
- 6:43Speaker 1: the light of his own spotless deeds. He does not
- 6:47Speaker 1: repeat in error, but understands by the spirit of truth.
- 6:52Speaker 1: And this is the spirit of truth. To be free
- 6:55Speaker 1: from sin is to abide in good deeds and to
- 6:58Speaker 1: live in peace withal. They that do evil know not
- 7:02Speaker 1: the truth. The truth is in them that do good.
- 7:07Speaker 1: The deeds of truth shine like the stars at night,
- 7:10Speaker 1: dispelling darkness. Truth reveals the everlasting good. It turns night
- 7:16Speaker 1: to day and changes the appearance of all things, so
- 7:20Speaker 1: that sin and sorrow are not and evil is no more.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Four.
- 7:28Speaker 1: We are awake and sea, and we know. We are
- 7:31Speaker 1: awake because we see good, and we know we are
- 7:35Speaker 1: of the spirit of good. Because our lusts have departed
- 7:38Speaker 1: from us, and the bondage of hatred is broken. We
- 7:42Speaker 1: are wedded to purity. We are put on the raiment
- 7:45Speaker 1: of righteousness, and we serve the spirit of love. Therefore
- 7:50Speaker 1: are we awake. Therefore we know that truth has roused
- 7:54Speaker 1: us from the sleep of evil. We are free and
- 7:57Speaker 1: happy because we walk in the life, and we see
- 8:01Speaker 1: all things clearly in that light, and we know the
- 8:04Speaker 1: way we walk and whither we go. But when our
- 8:07Speaker 1: lusts affrighted us and hatred enchained us. When darkness enfolded
- 8:12Speaker 1: us and the dream of evil held us. Then were
- 8:16Speaker 1: we bound and miserable. We saw only our fitful dreams.
- 8:20Speaker 1: We knew not the way we walked, nor whither we went.
- 8:24Speaker 1: He that hates men as evil is in sin, and
- 8:28Speaker 1: he that is in sin is unawakened. The awakened one
- 8:32Speaker 1: is the lover of all men, And there is no
- 8:34Speaker 1: hatred in him. And this is the sign that he
- 8:37Speaker 1: is awakened in the truth, that he loves them that
- 8:40Speaker 1: hate him. Truth ends the dream of evil. It dispels
- 8:45Speaker 1: the illusions of hatred. It liberates the sleeper from darkness
- 8:50Speaker 1: and dreams. Awake, ye that sleep in error, Rouse yourselves,
- 8:56Speaker 1: ye that dream in sin. The splendor of a higher
- 8:59Speaker 1: life round about you, even the life of good. Open
- 9:04Speaker 1: your eyes and see, Be alert and listen, that ye
- 9:09Speaker 1: may hear the call of truth, even as the voice
- 9:12Speaker 1: of the great awakener, Truth as consola one. The knowledge
- 9:22Speaker 1: of truth is an abiding consolation when all else fails.
- 9:27Speaker 1: The truth does not fail. When a heart is desolate
- 9:30Speaker 1: and the world affords no shelter, truth provides a peaceful
- 9:34Speaker 1: refuge and a quiet rest. The cares of life are many,
- 9:38Speaker 1: and its path is beset with difficulties. For truth is
- 9:42Speaker 1: greater than care and is superior to all difficulties. Truth
- 9:47Speaker 1: lightens our burdens. It lights up our pathway with the
- 9:51Speaker 1: radiance of joy. Loved Ones pass away, friends fail, and
- 9:56Speaker 1: possessions disappear. Where then, is the voice of comfort? Where
- 10:01Speaker 1: is a whisper of consolation? Truth is the comforter of
- 10:05Speaker 1: the comfortless, and the consoler of them that are deserted.
- 10:10Speaker 1: Truth does not pass away, nor fail, nor disappear. Truth
- 10:15Speaker 1: bestows the consolation of abiding peace. Troubles come to all,
- 10:20Speaker 1: even the wise cannot escape them. But the wise have
- 10:23Speaker 1: a sure and safe refuge in the eternal good. They
- 10:27Speaker 1: have a comforter, even Truth, who removes the sting from
- 10:31Speaker 1: affliction and disperses the clouds of trouble. Night descends upon
- 10:36Speaker 1: the pure, as upon the impure, but it holds no
- 10:40Speaker 1: terrors for the pure, For the light of truth shines
- 10:43Speaker 1: in the darkness with assuring radiance. Sweet is the sleep
- 10:47Speaker 1: of the innocent, And they that rest upon the bosom
- 10:50Speaker 1: of truth repose in peace. Day lights up the way
- 10:55Speaker 1: both of the wise and the foolish. But the foolish
- 10:58Speaker 1: are enveloped with the darkness of error. They stumble and
- 11:02Speaker 1: are bruised, and have no comforter. But the wise walk
- 11:06Speaker 1: in the light of truth. And should they stumble, they
- 11:09Speaker 1: are lifted up lo they are healed and comforted. They
- 11:13Speaker 1: that have the knowledge of truth shall have the satisfaction
- 11:16Speaker 1: of peace. They are not immune from the vicissitudes of life.
- 11:20Speaker 1: They are not released from the cares and responsibilities of
- 11:23Speaker 1: worldly duties. They are not unassailed by external foes, but
- 11:28Speaker 1: they are RESTful at heart. Their minds abide in the
- 11:31Speaker 1: great calm. Two. The worldly minded have no comforter. But
- 11:39Speaker 1: if they forsake the world and fly to truth, they
- 11:42Speaker 1: will receive the sweet gift of consolation. The world is
- 11:46Speaker 1: the place of pleasure and pain. The truth is abode
- 11:51Speaker 1: of joy and peace. They that relinquish the excitements and
- 11:55Speaker 1: dissatisfactions of the world for the sake of truth will
- 11:58Speaker 1: find an unfailing companion and friend. Even the eternal distress
- 12:04Speaker 1: is in the world. Yea grief and sorrow abound. But
- 12:09Speaker 1: the Truth is calm. It allays grief and soothes away
- 12:13Speaker 1: all sorrow. He Ye, the lamentations of the world. Wilder
- 12:18Speaker 1: are they than the tempest deeper than the oceans roar.
- 12:22Speaker 1: Truth alone can still the tempests of passion and the
- 12:26Speaker 1: storms of grief. Come ye up into the calm resort,
- 12:31Speaker 1: Ye to the great silence. Men are swept along by
- 12:34Speaker 1: the force of turbulent passions, But when sorrow arrests them,
- 12:39Speaker 1: they cry out in anguish love of worldly pleasure has
- 12:43Speaker 1: brought them low, and the world can offer them no comfort.
- 12:47Speaker 1: The world distresses, but the truth consoles. They whom the
- 12:52Speaker 1: world has destroyed and deserted, who are cast down by
- 12:56Speaker 1: pain and sorrow, even they are a friend by the
- 13:00Speaker 1: truth when they turn to truth. None are despised by truth,
- 13:05Speaker 1: None are turned away, None are left comfortless. Ye that
- 13:10Speaker 1: are weary with pleasure seeking, ye that are pain stricken,
- 13:15Speaker 1: Ye that are lonely and desolate, Come ye to the truth.
- 13:19Speaker 1: The truth is above pleasure and pain. Be Ye lifted up,
- 13:23Speaker 1: be ye rested, be ye healed, be ye befriended and comforted.
- 13:32Speaker 1: Three He who clings to his delusions, loving self and sin,
- 13:38Speaker 1: he cannot find the truth, cannot receive the consolation of truth.
- 13:43Speaker 1: All that demeans and defiles must be abandoned. Truth is
- 13:47Speaker 1: not found if the love of self is not renounced.
- 13:51Speaker 1: They who lie or deceive, who hate or envy, who
- 13:55Speaker 1: lust or covet, who think only of their own pleasure,
- 13:59Speaker 1: whose aims are for self and the glory of self
- 14:02Speaker 1: in all that they do. From such truth is hidden
- 14:06Speaker 1: by a veil of darkness, even the thick veil of error.
- 14:10Speaker 1: From such, the consolation of truth is withheld, because they
- 14:13Speaker 1: seek for self only and not for truth. They who
- 14:18Speaker 1: are truthful and sincere, who love men and rejoice in
- 14:22Speaker 1: their success, who are pure and generous, who seek the
- 14:26Speaker 1: good of others in all that they do to them,
- 14:29Speaker 1: truth is revealed. Such stand face to face with good,
- 14:33Speaker 1: and receive the consolation of truth. The foolish seek satisfaction
- 14:37Speaker 1: in sensual pleasures. The vein are pleased with the flatteries
- 14:41Speaker 1: of the world. The one leads to misery and emptiness,
- 14:45Speaker 1: the other to disappointment and humiliation. The wise abide in
- 14:50Speaker 1: the joy of truth, and there are no pitfalls for
- 14:53Speaker 1: the humble. Their feet are steadfast in the way of peace.
- 14:58Speaker 1: We have canceled our compact. The world its pleasures are
- 15:02Speaker 1: put away, abandoned, renounced. We perform the necessary uses of
- 15:07Speaker 1: the world, but we no longer rest upon its forms,
- 15:10Speaker 1: no more seek satisfaction in its thirsty desires. Our hearts
- 15:15Speaker 1: are set upon the good of all. Thus have we
- 15:18Speaker 1: found the abiding sweetness of religion. We have found a
- 15:22Speaker 1: quiet trust and a patient happiness. We have resorted to
- 15:26Speaker 1: the faithful One, the ever present comforter, even the spirit
- 15:30Speaker 1: of holiness. We have taken shelter in his high abode,
- 15:35Speaker 1: And no temptation shall draw us back into the tempestuous
- 15:38Speaker 1: ways of the world. For our refuge is a refuge. Indeed, four,
- 15:47Speaker 1: the way of self is the way of sorrow. But
- 15:50Speaker 1: truth refreshes the weary and lifts up the oppressed. There
- 15:54Speaker 1: is gladness for the grief stricken, and healing for them
- 15:57Speaker 1: that are afflicted with the sorrows of the world. There
- 16:00Speaker 1: is a place of freedom, where the change of sin
- 16:02Speaker 1: are broken, where weeping is not a lamentation is no
- 16:07Speaker 1: more heard. There is a friend for the friendless, and
- 16:11Speaker 1: consolation for them that have no comforter. Come see and receive.
- 16:18Speaker 1: Truth meets all needs and is ready to receive all
- 16:21Speaker 1: who come. The righteous rest there they have received the
- 16:26Speaker 1: fullness of joy. Let also the unrighteous come. Yea, let
- 16:31Speaker 1: them that are weary of sin come, and they that
- 16:34Speaker 1: are burdened and oppressed with the sorrows of self, let
- 16:38Speaker 1: them enter and be glad. There is a home for
- 16:41Speaker 1: the homeless, and a country for the exiled. For the wanderer,
- 16:45Speaker 1: there is a happy way, and the lost have a
- 16:47Speaker 1: city of refuge. Whosoever will turn, let him turn and come.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Truth brings joy out of sorrow and peace out of perturbation.
- 16:58Speaker 1: He points the selfish to the way of good, and
- 17:01Speaker 1: sinners to the path of holiness. Its spirit is the
- 17:04Speaker 1: doing of righteousness to the earnest and faithful. It brings
- 17:08Speaker 1: consolation upon the obedient and skillful. It bestows the crown
- 17:13Speaker 1: of peace. I take refuge in truth, yea, in the
- 17:18Speaker 1: spirit of good, in the knowledge of good, and in
- 17:21Speaker 1: the doing of good. I abide, and I am reassured
- 17:25Speaker 1: and comforted. It is to me as though malice were
- 17:28Speaker 1: not and hatred had vanished away. Lust is confined to
- 17:33Speaker 1: the nethermost darkness. It hath no way in Truth's transcendent light.
- 17:39Speaker 1: Pride is broken up and dissolved, and vanity is melted
- 17:43Speaker 1: away as a mist. I have set my face towards
- 17:47Speaker 1: the perfect good, and my feet in the blameless way,
- 17:51Speaker 1: and Because of this I am consoled. I am strengthened
- 17:55Speaker 1: and comforted, having found refuge in truth, Truth as redeemer one,
- 18:06Speaker 1: Truth is our redeemer. Truth purifies our hearts and bestows
- 18:10Speaker 1: upon us the glorious gift of divine love. There is
- 18:14Speaker 1: no salvation in selfishness. Self is the vessel of sin
- 18:18Speaker 1: and the receptacle of sorrow. But when we fly to truth,
- 18:22Speaker 1: self is ended and love abides forever. We have tried
- 18:27Speaker 1: the ways of self, and we know how hard they are.
- 18:31Speaker 1: We also look upon the weary multitudes, and compassion is
- 18:34Speaker 1: stirred within us. But now we have found the truth.
- 18:38Speaker 1: The pilgrimage of self is ended. Our feet are rested,
- 18:42Speaker 1: and there is no more weariness of heart. The nature
- 18:45Speaker 1: of self is error. It cannot therefore comprehend truth. The
- 18:50Speaker 1: experience of self is suffering. It cannot therefore apprehend bliss.
- 18:57Speaker 1: When the vessel of self is broken and his contents
- 18:59Speaker 1: of an error and suffering are scattered, then is truth
- 19:03Speaker 1: revealed and realized. Truth alone can comprehend truth, and bliss
- 19:08Speaker 1: apprehendeth bliss. How can self no love, seeing that its
- 19:14Speaker 1: nature is its own gratification? How can it know peace?
- 19:18Speaker 1: Seeing that it cannot bestow love, How can it enter
- 19:21Speaker 1: into salvation seeing that it dreads the loss of its
- 19:24Speaker 1: perishable lusts and empty pleasures. Self is the way of
- 19:29Speaker 1: darkness and the path of pain. The Redeemed to put
- 19:32Speaker 1: away self and have accepted truth. Self regards error as
- 19:37Speaker 1: truth when it is pleasing. It regards truth as error
- 19:41Speaker 1: when it is displeasing, seeking pleasure and dreading pain. It
- 19:46Speaker 1: does not know good and evil. Truth knows truth as
- 19:50Speaker 1: truth and error as error. It avoids evil and chooses
- 19:55Speaker 1: good without considerations of pleasure and pain. Divine love is
- 20:00Speaker 1: the perfect flower of truth. For when truth fills the heart,
- 20:05Speaker 1: love blossoms out in the life. By this flower is
- 20:08Speaker 1: truth known. For wheresoever impartial love is, there is truth,
- 20:15Speaker 1: just deeds, pure actions, works, untainted with self, minds, controlled
- 20:20Speaker 1: and calm. These are the angelic messages of truth. The
- 20:25Speaker 1: possesses of these are the Redeemed. Their habitation is peace. Two.
- 20:33Speaker 1: Truth is the savior of the world. There is no
- 20:36Speaker 1: other savior. There can be no compromise with truth. It says,
- 20:41Speaker 1: give up self. Truth is our redeemer. Only when we
- 20:45Speaker 1: yield up all to it self cannot be saved. It
- 20:49Speaker 1: must be abandoned. It must be left to the darkness
- 20:52Speaker 1: in which it originated and to which it belongs. The
- 20:56Speaker 1: light of salvation is only for them that press forward
- 20:59Speaker 1: and leave all selfishness behind. And they who turn not
- 21:03Speaker 1: back into the presence of the Redeemer, they are clothed
- 21:07Speaker 1: with his glory. Who can see the glory of the redeemed?
- 21:12Speaker 1: The redeemed behold it, and them that are about to
- 21:15Speaker 1: be redeemed see it dimly. But the eyes of the
- 21:19Speaker 1: world are holden with the thought of self. The Redeemed
- 21:22Speaker 1: are silent in the midst of men. They accused, not condemned,
- 21:26Speaker 1: not revile not when smitten, they are not angry, And
- 21:31Speaker 1: when mocked they make no sign. Yet him that smote
- 21:34Speaker 1: them they succor in his sorrow. And when they that
- 21:38Speaker 1: mock them are brought low, they lift them up and
- 21:41Speaker 1: bless them. The utterance of truth is deeds. The Redeemed
- 21:45Speaker 1: are freed from all selfishness. They are made perfect in truth,
- 21:50Speaker 1: the thought of self being eliminated, there is nothing remaining
- 21:54Speaker 1: in them they can give rise to selfishness. They are
- 21:57Speaker 1: calm and just, doing that which is right, and passion
- 22:02Speaker 1: is purged from their actions. He who comes to the
- 22:05Speaker 1: feet of truth, earnest in thought, strong in will, and
- 22:09Speaker 1: contrite in heart, will be lifted up and saved. He
- 22:14Speaker 1: will overcome all that defiles and all that causes sorrow.
- 22:18Speaker 1: The light of truth will light up his mind, dispelling
- 22:22Speaker 1: all darkness, and he will stand among them to whom
- 22:25Speaker 1: the cosmic glory is unveiled. Four to the Redeemed, the
- 22:30Speaker 1: narrow confines of self are burst and broken asunder, and
- 22:34Speaker 1: the mind is conscious of the eternal. The universe is
- 22:37Speaker 1: known as it is yea. Its perfection and the splendor
- 22:42Speaker 1: of its law are revealed. So large, so boundless, so
- 22:47Speaker 1: all embracing is the life of the Redeemed In truth. Three,
- 22:55Speaker 1: Immortal Truth redeems us from mortal error. Clinging no more
- 22:59Speaker 1: to the pirererishable, we fly to the imperishable and find
- 23:03Speaker 1: the rock of safety. The body grows old, it withers
- 23:07Speaker 1: and decays, Passions burn out, leaving only the ashes of regret.
- 23:13Speaker 1: Pleasures cease to satisfy, and pains fill up their places.
- 23:17Speaker 1: For Truth is imperishable. It never grows old, nor does
- 23:22Speaker 1: it wither and decay. It does not consume, and it
- 23:26Speaker 1: leaves behind no sorrow and no pain, to set the
- 23:30Speaker 1: mind upon that which is perishable, to be consumed by
- 23:33Speaker 1: violent passions, to live in unhappiness and misery, This it
- 23:38Speaker 1: is to be unredeemed. The redeemed, having the knowledge of
- 23:42Speaker 1: the imperishable, and being possession of righteousness, live in happiness
- 23:47Speaker 1: and joy. For truth is always bright and beautiful. YEA,
- 23:51Speaker 1: truth is always peace, bestowing it calms the storms of
- 23:56Speaker 1: strife to the passion driven. It brings quiet upon the
- 24:00Speaker 1: dark waters of anguish. It pours the oil of stillness
- 24:04Speaker 1: the mind that is troubled, It restores and envelops it
- 24:08Speaker 1: with silence. The Redeemed are satisfied. They are in security
- 24:13Speaker 1: and peace. They are not overtaken by the storms of passion,
- 24:17Speaker 1: nor attack'd and laid low by fierce desires. They abide
- 24:22Speaker 1: in the place of safety. What enemy shall overcome the Redeemed?
- 24:26Speaker 1: Have they not slain the supreme enemy even self? Have
- 24:31Speaker 1: they not taken his stronghold even their own hearts? Yea,
- 24:35Speaker 1: they have purified their hearts, and the impure cannot overcome
- 24:39Speaker 1: the pure. Out of the black night, out of the
- 24:44Speaker 1: fierce war, out of the confusion and the conflict, have
- 24:48Speaker 1: the Redeemed come and now they dwell in the light.
- 24:52Speaker 1: They abide with peace, and darkness and strife are no more. Four.
- 25:00Speaker 1: The unredeemed are in the confines of self. They are
- 25:04Speaker 1: surrounded with darkness. They seek for self only. The redeemed
- 25:08Speaker 1: are in the glory of the universal, the impersonal. They
- 25:12Speaker 1: are surrounded with light. They seek the good of all.
- 25:16Speaker 1: Truth is the breaker of bonds. It liberates the slave.
- 25:20Speaker 1: It sets the captive free. Who chooses bondage rather than liberty,
- 25:25Speaker 1: who prefers darkness to light, He who has not known
- 25:29Speaker 1: liberty loves his chains, And he who has not seen
- 25:33Speaker 1: the light prefers to remain in darkness. And when liberty
- 25:37Speaker 1: is made known, it is desired. When light is perceived,
- 25:41Speaker 1: there is no longer a dwelling place in darkness. The
- 25:45Speaker 1: desires of the flesh are a tormenting fever. The hatreds, conflicts,
- 25:50Speaker 1: and covetings of the mind are a consuming fire. But
- 25:54Speaker 1: there is a healing for the fever, and a water
- 25:56Speaker 1: for the quenching of the fire. Truth is the healer
- 26:00Speaker 1: of the mind. It is a sweet medicine to the afflicted,
- 26:04Speaker 1: and a draft of cool water to them that are
- 26:07Speaker 1: troubled with thirst. There is no unrest in truth. The
- 26:11Speaker 1: unredeemed are in the way of sorrow. Pain and weariness
- 26:15Speaker 1: are their companions. Reaching after pleasures, they grasp sorrows, striving
- 26:21Speaker 1: eagerly for self. Happiness departs from them. But the redeemed
- 26:26Speaker 1: are in the way of gladness. Strength and joy are
- 26:28Speaker 1: their companions, and not departing from good, they dwell in
- 26:33Speaker 1: the house of happiness. From what, then, are we redeemed? From?
- 26:38Speaker 1: What are we saved? And where is our salvation? We
- 26:42Speaker 1: are redeemed from self and passion, from sin and sorrow,
- 26:47Speaker 1: from unholiness and unrest. Even from these are we taken away.
- 26:52Speaker 1: We are saved from lust and hatred, from pride and vanity,
- 26:56Speaker 1: from covetousness and envy. Even from thee are we drawn away.
- 27:02Speaker 1: We are saved by the truth, by the practice of truth,
- 27:06Speaker 1: by the knowledge of truth, and by the power of truth.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Our salvation is from the truth. In truth we rest.
- 27:15Speaker 1: Truth is the redeemer of the world. Truth as reconciler one.
- 27:25Speaker 1: Truth is a reconciler of extremes. It neutralizes all opposites,
- 27:31Speaker 1: It harmonizes all discords and contradictions. It brings back to
- 27:36Speaker 1: us harmony and peace. When we were in error, we
- 27:39Speaker 1: saw all things as erroneous yea. When we were blind
- 27:43Speaker 1: to our own error, we saw error in all else.
- 27:47Speaker 1: We saw good as evil, and evil as good, Light
- 27:51Speaker 1: as darkness, and darkness as light. But now we were
- 27:55Speaker 1: plucked out the eye of error from ourselves, we see
- 27:58Speaker 1: the supreme good. Truth reconciles man to man. It reconciles
- 28:03Speaker 1: man to the universe. It bestows upon him the knowledge
- 28:07Speaker 1: of the good law. It reveals the hidden justice in
- 28:11Speaker 1: all events. In error is unrest, and anger and perturbation,
- 28:16Speaker 1: trouble and turmoil is ever with him who sees injustice
- 28:20Speaker 1: confusion and contradiction. But he who sees justice, order and
- 28:25Speaker 1: harmony is calm and filled with peace. Error sees error,
- 28:30Speaker 1: and truth sees truth. Error being darkness, cannot penetrate the light,
- 28:36Speaker 1: but truth, being light, can penetrate the darkness. Truth reconciles
- 28:41Speaker 1: darkness with light. Error is the great unrest, Truth is
- 28:46Speaker 1: the great peace. He who looks with the eye of
- 28:50Speaker 1: error is restless as the shifting winds, but RESTful as
- 28:54Speaker 1: the stable mountain. Is he who looks with the eye
- 28:57Speaker 1: of truth. We are reconciled to the world we are
- 29:01Speaker 1: reconciled to humanity, and being thus reconciled, we are at rest.
- 29:07Speaker 1: Where unrest is, there is no reconciliation. And they who
- 29:11Speaker 1: are not so reconciled have not received the truth. Two.
- 29:18Speaker 1: All things are proportionate, All circumstances are just. All events
- 29:24Speaker 1: are of causation. He who has received the light of
- 29:27Speaker 1: truth sees all things in their right relations. All things
- 29:32Speaker 1: are ruled by causation. All things are of the nature
- 29:35Speaker 1: of causation. There is nothing which is not contained in
- 29:39Speaker 1: cause and effect. Cause and effect are one. The divine
- 29:44Speaker 1: law is one. Out of chaos into cosmos. Have we
- 29:48Speaker 1: come out of confusion into harmony, out of bewilderment, into
- 29:53Speaker 1: peace perpetual. There is good in all things. Out of
- 29:57Speaker 1: evil comes suffering. Out of suffering comes sorrow, And from
- 30:02Speaker 1: sorrow is lowly wisdom born. Though the night be long,
- 30:06Speaker 1: the morning comes, and with it comes sunshine and singing.
- 30:11Speaker 1: Though the world be in its long night, the great
- 30:14Speaker 1: day will dawn. Lo we behold the splendor of its light.
- 30:19Speaker 1: There are no more any enemies. All are our own,
- 30:22Speaker 1: our beloved, Both them that bless and them that curse,
- 30:27Speaker 1: All are friendly to us. The inward enemy. Being overcome,
- 30:31Speaker 1: all outward foes have vanished away. There is no more enmity.
- 30:36Speaker 1: Men and things are in their right places. There is
- 30:39Speaker 1: no more strife, no more fighting, no more warfare. We
- 30:45Speaker 1: behold the fray, but do not engage in it. We
- 30:48Speaker 1: hear the tumult, and we make no sound. But though quiescent,
- 30:52Speaker 1: we watch, though silent, we are not indifferent. Perceiving the
- 30:57Speaker 1: divine order, we are reconciled to all things, And being
- 31:02Speaker 1: so reconciled, we are in perfect peace. Three. Wherefore should
- 31:10Speaker 1: we mourn and be sorrowful? The very ground of lamentation
- 31:14Speaker 1: is dissolved. The foundation of sorrow is cut away. And
- 31:18Speaker 1: as for sin and evil, they were but are not.
- 31:23Speaker 1: The sphere of controversy is broken about what should we contend?
- 31:28Speaker 1: The world of division is annulled. What have we to defend?
- 31:33Speaker 1: Can truth fail? That? We should argue? That we should
- 31:36Speaker 1: be anxious and concerned? Because truth endure us forever, our
- 31:41Speaker 1: peace can never fail. The seed falls in its appointed place,
- 31:46Speaker 1: The flower appears, and also the fruit in its season.
- 31:51Speaker 1: Day warms and night curls, lightish shed and rainfalls, Snow
- 31:57Speaker 1: covers and frost binds. These things opposed are they enemies?
- 32:03Speaker 1: They work together as one? Who then shall stir us
- 32:07Speaker 1: up to wrath? Who shall draw us into the lists
- 32:10Speaker 1: of contention? With them that agree with us, we are
- 32:14Speaker 1: at peace. And with them that oppose us, we are
- 32:17Speaker 1: also at peace. Friends are not near, nor enemies far.
- 32:23Speaker 1: Praise and blame are not asunder. Truth draws all things together.
- 32:28Speaker 1: It resolves all opposites into one. Yea, forces that seem
- 32:32Speaker 1: divided are now united. Things that seem to contend are
- 32:37Speaker 1: now in agreement, and events that seem to adverse are
- 32:40Speaker 1: now friendly. How foolish we were in our fear, how
- 32:45Speaker 1: blind in our bigotry, how hateful in our heart we were,
- 32:50Speaker 1: as the beasts that rage and kill, or as the
- 32:53Speaker 1: blind beetle that dashes on to its death. All things
- 32:57Speaker 1: are in unison, and fear, and blindness and hatred are
- 33:01Speaker 1: no more. Having departed from the lesser, the greater is revealed.
- 33:06Speaker 1: Having renounced the part, the whole is received, Having abandoned
- 33:11Speaker 1: the imperfect, what remains but the perfect four. Truly, all
- 33:20Speaker 1: things are reconciled, and peace awaits. The door of truth
- 33:23Speaker 1: is open. None hinders, But man holds back. He holds
- 33:28Speaker 1: back for a time, and in the hour of ripeness
- 33:31Speaker 1: he comes forward. Whosoever will come, let him come, Let
- 33:36Speaker 1: him enter, and be glad. All things are now all light,
- 33:42Speaker 1: all law, all truth is now. Time and eternity are one.
- 33:48Speaker 1: Matter and spirit are one. Death and life are one.
- 33:53Speaker 1: The blind see not, but they that have eyes know
- 33:57Speaker 1: the things which they see. We strive not, we stand
- 34:01Speaker 1: apart and are silent. Men hurry to and fro a
- 34:05Speaker 1: little while, A little while they come, and a little
- 34:09Speaker 1: time they go. How eager they are, how anxious, how fierce.
- 34:16Speaker 1: Better than all worldly gain, is the spirit of peace,
- 34:19Speaker 1: Better than rule and riches, is the reconciliation of truth.
- 34:24Speaker 1: Fires burn out and storms subside, but serenity remains. Calmness
- 34:30Speaker 1: preserves and restores, and tranquility is a great possession. Who
- 34:34Speaker 1: condemns our aloofness him, our peace enfolds even him. Our
- 34:40Speaker 1: reconciliation embraces a part. We are not separate aloof We
- 34:45Speaker 1: are not estranged, engaging with none and joining with none.
- 34:50Speaker 1: Yet we belong to all. For the perfect reconciliation is
- 34:54Speaker 1: not partial, but just. He who sees all sides sees
- 34:58Speaker 1: the whole, and and seeing the whole, he is satisfied.
- 35:02Speaker 1: Being satisfied, he is at peace withal Seers of the
- 35:07Speaker 1: great Glory, hearers of the heavenly harmony, knowers of the
- 35:12Speaker 1: perfect Law. Great is your gladness, Wondrous is your wisdom.
- 35:18Speaker 1: Deep is your peace. More powerful is one day of
- 35:22Speaker 1: your silence than a thousand years of noise. All parties,
- 35:27Speaker 1: all sides, all religions are reconciled. Love supports all sustains,
- 35:33Speaker 1: all nourishes all. The great Reconciler is come. He is here,
- 35:39Speaker 1: and we have found him. We sought him, and he
- 35:42Speaker 1: turned not away. And because of this we have received
- 35:46Speaker 1: the world. And peace does not depart from us. Truth
- 35:54Speaker 1: as protector one. Good deeds are truth. Our good deeds
- 36:01Speaker 1: remain with us. They save and protect us. Evil deeds
- 36:05Speaker 1: are error, Our evil deeds follow us, They overthrow us.
- 36:10Speaker 1: In the hour of temptation, the evildoer is not protected
- 36:14Speaker 1: from sorrow, but the good doer is shielded from all harm.
- 36:19Speaker 1: The fool says, unto his evil deed, remain thou hidden,
- 36:23Speaker 1: be thou unexposed. But his evil is already published, and
- 36:27Speaker 1: his sorrow is sure. If we are in evil, what
- 36:31Speaker 1: shall protect us? What keep us from misery? And confusion.
- 36:36Speaker 1: Nor man, nor woman, nor wealth, nor power, nor heaven
- 36:40Speaker 1: nor earth shall keep us from confusion from the results
- 36:44Speaker 1: of evil. There is no escape, no refuge, and no protection.
- 36:49Speaker 1: If we are in good, what shall overthrow us? What
- 36:53Speaker 1: bring us to misery and confusion? Nor man, nor woman,
- 36:57Speaker 1: nor poverty, nor sickness, nor heaven or earth shall bring
- 37:01Speaker 1: us to confusion? The effects of good appear, though the
- 37:04Speaker 1: cause be forgotten, and its refuge and protection is at hand.
- 37:09Speaker 1: What can amulets and charms avail? What can the muttering
- 37:13Speaker 1: of set prayers avail? What can the observance of formal
- 37:17Speaker 1: rights avail? They cannot avail. They are empty, They are
- 37:22Speaker 1: without efficacy, and are a void of protection. Righteousness avails,
- 37:28Speaker 1: the doing of good deeds avails. A pure heart and
- 37:33Speaker 1: a blameless life avail. They are filled with joy and peace.
- 37:38Speaker 1: Truth is a happy retreat and an eternal protection. In truth,
- 37:43Speaker 1: there is no more doubt and uncertainty. There is safety
- 37:46Speaker 1: and security. There is a straight way and a quiet rest. Two.
- 37:54Speaker 1: The righteous know the protection of truth. Their minds are free,
- 37:58Speaker 1: and they are happy hearted. Empty excuses and vain quibbles
- 38:02Speaker 1: they harbor not, They scheme not how to protect themselves.
- 38:07Speaker 1: Their deeds are invincible defenders. Their lives bear witness, and
- 38:11Speaker 1: they are not ashamed. The unrighteous are overtaken with shame
- 38:15Speaker 1: and confusion. They try to hide, but cannot. They have
- 38:20Speaker 1: no place of concealment. Their deeds accuse them, and they
- 38:24Speaker 1: have no protection. How happy are the righteous, They are
- 38:28Speaker 1: relieved from all anxiety. Walking with truth, they walk in
- 38:33Speaker 1: perfect freedom. How fearless are the righteous. They have no
- 38:37Speaker 1: dark forebodings. They dread no evil. When evil threatens, they
- 38:42Speaker 1: are calm and unafraid. Truth shields them from the afflictions
- 38:46Speaker 1: of the mind. It fortifies against misery, It destroys self, delusion,
- 38:51Speaker 1: and sorrow. The light of truth reveals error and the
- 38:55Speaker 1: cause of error. It also reveals the effects of error.
- 39:00Speaker 1: It frees the mind from all subjection to evil. He
- 39:03Speaker 1: that is established in truth is established in safety. Truth
- 39:07Speaker 1: cannot proceed from error, nor error from truth. Good cannot
- 39:12Speaker 1: be the effect of evil, nor evil the effect of good.
- 39:16Speaker 1: This is little understood, But the righteous understand, and understanding
- 39:21Speaker 1: they are glad. They rejoice in the law of truth.
- 39:25Speaker 1: The understanding mind is not misled by appearances. It rejoices
- 39:30Speaker 1: in good against all appearances. When events press, it does
- 39:34Speaker 1: not think the good has failed. When outward things fail,
- 39:38Speaker 1: it does not say righteousness has not supported me. When
- 39:42Speaker 1: persecution comes, it cannot say lo truth affords me no protection.
- 39:49Speaker 1: Truth is in the thought and not in the thing.
- 39:52Speaker 1: It resides in the hearts and not in the outward habit.
- 39:57Speaker 1: It destroys the inward enemies, and the verses have no
- 40:01Speaker 1: more power. Their sting is gone, that evil is dispersed.
- 40:05Speaker 1: The peace of the perfect ones can never be destroyed. Three,
- 40:12Speaker 1: the pure in heart are protected from within. The perfect indeed,
- 40:17Speaker 1: are guarded by good. They are upheld by the good law,
- 40:21Speaker 1: by the knowledge of truth. They are lifted up. They
- 40:24Speaker 1: stand and do not fall. Truth cannot be overtaken by error.
- 40:29Speaker 1: It cannot be overturned by man. Error passes away, but
- 40:33Speaker 1: the truth remains. Men fall, but the truth remains. Truth
- 40:39Speaker 1: cannot change. It is eternal and indestructible. Hearing is the
- 40:44Speaker 1: salvation of the wise. Hearin is the protection of the pure.
- 40:49Speaker 1: Hearin is the joy of the perfect, that, being one
- 40:52Speaker 1: with truth, they have come to peace eternal. He who
- 40:56Speaker 1: is one with truth reflects truth, is deadfast, fearless, serene.
- 41:03Speaker 1: He changes not, but is always true when tried, he
- 41:07Speaker 1: does not falter when assailed, he does not fall. Permanent
- 41:12Speaker 1: in purity and peace, he is established in gentleness and strength.
- 41:16Speaker 1: Who mourns for sin, who gropes for deliverance, who searches
- 41:21Speaker 1: for the permanent, Let him make himself pure, Let him
- 41:25Speaker 1: come to truth, Let him find peace in the practice
- 41:28Speaker 1: of good. Things are impermanent. They have no abiding protection.
- 41:34Speaker 1: Truth is permanent. Its protection abides through all changes. Ill
- 41:39Speaker 1: deeds are exposed in torment and confusion. Good deeds are
- 41:44Speaker 1: established in bliss and wisdom. Truth is a friend that
- 41:48Speaker 1: does not disappoint, a protector that never fails. The world fails,
- 41:54Speaker 1: it fades and passes like a dream. Truth stands, it
- 41:58Speaker 1: becomes more distinct. They who have found truth are satisfied,
- 42:04Speaker 1: protected by truth. They have found a protector. Indeed, the
- 42:08Speaker 1: patient are protected from impatience. The pure are protected from impurity,
- 42:14Speaker 1: The humble are protected from pride, the loving are protected
- 42:18Speaker 1: from hatred. Greed flees from the presence of the open
- 42:21Speaker 1: handed into the habitations of the peaceful. Strife cannot come,
- 42:27Speaker 1: and folly walks not where tread the footsteps of the wise.
- 42:31Speaker 1: Truth is its own security. It protects without premeditation. It
- 42:36Speaker 1: dispenses with disguises and shields by its own inherent reality.
- 42:41Speaker 1: Its light disposes of all darkness. It exposes the false
- 42:46Speaker 1: and reveals the true. Error falls before truth, Its shield
- 42:51Speaker 1: is shattered, its sword broken. YEA, it is laid low
- 42:55Speaker 1: and cannot rise. It is helpless and has not champion
- 43:00Speaker 1: nor defender. Truth does not fall before error. The powerless
- 43:05Speaker 1: cannot overcome the powerful. The lesser cannot subdue the greater.
- 43:10Speaker 1: The slave does not command the master. All things are
- 43:13Speaker 1: subject to truth. Truth is a shield to the righteous,
- 43:18Speaker 1: a shelter to the pure, a light upon the pathway
- 43:21Speaker 1: of the just. Truth is supreme. Truth is invincible. Truth
- 43:27Speaker 1: is triumphant for ever and ever. End of Part one
- 43:33Speaker 1: of The Divine Companion by James Allen. The Divine Dialogue
- 43:38Speaker 1: between a Master and the disciples.
- 43:41Speaker 2: Master read by bab Gonzales.
- 43:45Speaker 1: Disciple read by Algae pag I.
- 43:49Speaker 2: The Master dwell in the hearts of all men, but
- 43:53Speaker 2: all men do not consciously dwell with me. He that
- 43:57Speaker 2: abides with me in all his thoughts deeds has reached
- 44:02Speaker 2: the divine consummation.
- 44:05Speaker 1: Salutation, rejoice, or ye who seek truth, be glad and
- 44:10Speaker 1: not sorrowful, or ye who love truth, for your sorrow
- 44:14Speaker 1: shall pass away as the mists of the morning. Your
- 44:18Speaker 1: doubts shall be as the darkness that is not, And
- 44:21Speaker 1: as a dream of the night shall your afflictions be.
- 44:25Speaker 1: The disciple cried, and lo, the Master heard. The disciple
- 44:30Speaker 1: was ready, and lo, the Master was at hand. The
- 44:34Speaker 1: disciple sought, and behold the Master was revealed. One of
- 44:42Speaker 1: seeking and finding. Where is knowledge? Where is truth? Where
- 44:48Speaker 1: is peace? I am sorrowful and find no comfort in men.
- 44:52Speaker 1: I have gone astray and find no surety in the
- 44:55Speaker 1: teachings of men. Yea, even in myself I find no
- 45:00Speaker 1: truth and no remedy for my doubt and sorrow. I
- 45:04Speaker 1: have striven in the pride of my heart. I have
- 45:06Speaker 1: contended with men for my opinions. I have mistaken evil
- 45:10Speaker 1: for good and have called ignorance knowledge. And now I
- 45:15Speaker 1: am alone, and there is none to hear me. And
- 45:18Speaker 1: if I cry, there is none to hear my voice.
- 45:22Speaker 2: Nay, I am with THEE, and I hear thy voice.
- 45:27Speaker 1: Who art thou that dost assure me?
- 45:30Speaker 2: I am the spirit of truth.
- 45:33Speaker 1: O Master, O Spirit of Truth. Why didst thou not
- 45:37Speaker 1: come to me? Before, Why didst thou leave me so
- 45:40Speaker 1: long desolate?
- 45:42Speaker 2: Thou wert not desolate till now Pride was thy companion,
- 45:48Speaker 2: and pride satisfied thee. Where pride is there, I cannot come,
- 45:55Speaker 2: And he who listens to its flatteries cannot hear my voice.
- 46:00Speaker 2: Self glory blinded thee, so that my form thou couldst
- 46:04Speaker 2: not see. Self exultation deafened thee. And when I called
- 46:10Speaker 2: thou didst not hear. Self seeking led thee astray, and
- 46:16Speaker 2: my way was hidden from thee. But now, having put
- 46:20Speaker 2: away pride, thou hast both seen and heard. Ask, and
- 46:26Speaker 2: I will answer. Seek, and thou shalt find.
- 46:32Speaker 1: Comfort me, I Master, for I am weary. Strengthen me,
- 46:36Speaker 1: for I am weak. Teach me, for I am lacking
- 46:40Speaker 1: in knowledge.
- 46:41Speaker 2: He who deserts self and takes refuge in me is
- 46:47Speaker 2: never deserted. My word is his comfort, My law is
- 46:52Speaker 2: his strength, and my commands his instruction and knowledge.
- 46:58Speaker 1: Speak thy word, and I will listen. Reveal thy law,
- 47:01Speaker 1: and I will walk therein command me and I thy servant,
- 47:06Speaker 1: will obey. For thou art the master whom I so
- 47:09Speaker 1: long sought, and having found thee, let me not depart
- 47:13Speaker 1: from THEE.
- 47:15Speaker 2: He who follows self abandons me, But he who abandons
- 47:20Speaker 2: self lo he is with me always.
- 47:25Speaker 1: Hitherto I have clung to self. I have followed after
- 47:29Speaker 1: vain and empty desires, and caught in the toils of
- 47:32Speaker 1: self delusion. I have not known thy presence. But now,
- 47:36Speaker 1: O Master, I have found THEE. And having found THEE,
- 47:40Speaker 1: let me remain with THEE. Let me be thy child,
- 47:44Speaker 1: obeying thy voice. Let me be thy pupil, receiving thy instruction.
- 47:49Speaker 1: Let me become thy disciple, and follow wheresoever thou dost.
- 47:54Speaker 2: Lead thy humility, O, disciple, hath made THEE mine. Thou
- 48:00Speaker 2: hast entered the gateway leading to my kingdom, even to
- 48:05Speaker 2: the kingdom of a righteous life. Henceforth, thou wilt follow
- 48:10Speaker 2: truth and not self striving. Thou hast entered searching, Thou
- 48:16Speaker 2: hast revealed, seeking, thou hast found. Ask whatsoever thou wilt,
- 48:23Speaker 2: and I will not withhold instruction.
- 48:26Speaker 1: Two of entering the way. Teacher of teachers instruct Thou.
- 48:33Speaker 2: Me ask, and I will answer.
- 48:37Speaker 1: I have read much, but am ignorant. Still. I have
- 48:40Speaker 1: studied the doctrines of the schools, but have not become wise.
- 48:44Speaker 1: Thereby I know the scriptures by heart, but peace is
- 48:48Speaker 1: hidden from me. Point out to me, O Master, the
- 48:51Speaker 1: way of knowledge. Reveal to me the high way of
- 48:54Speaker 1: divine wisdom. Lead thou, thy child, into the path of peace.
- 49:00Speaker 2: The way of knowledge, O disciple, is by searching the heart.
- 49:04Speaker 2: The high way of wisdom is by the practice of righteousness,
- 49:09Speaker 2: and by a sinless life is found the way of peace.
- 49:14Speaker 1: Bear with me, O Master. In my uncertainty, I am
- 49:17Speaker 1: bewildered by the multitude of opinions and by the number
- 49:21Speaker 1: of schools. Am I confounded? Delusion blinds me, doubt encompasses me,
- 49:26Speaker 1: and I cannot find the way wherein I should walk.
- 49:30Speaker 1: Teach me how to search, how to practice, how to
- 49:33Speaker 1: wear the garment of a blameless life.
- 49:37Speaker 2: Delusion and doubt, O disciple, are within thyself. Within thyself
- 49:43Speaker 2: also are reality and certainty. By thine own errors only
- 49:47Speaker 2: art thou blinded? Remove those errors, and thou shalt behold
- 49:53Speaker 2: truth engaged. Therefore, in holy meditation, search thy heart with
- 50:00Speaker 2: the searching of truth, and cast out therefrom all that
- 50:04Speaker 2: is of self.
- 50:06Speaker 1: What is of self?
- 50:09Speaker 2: Desire and passion and egotism. From desire and passion and
- 50:14Speaker 2: egotism springs self delusion, and self delusion is the obscuration
- 50:20Speaker 2: of truth. Renounce desire, overcome passion, put away egotism. Then
- 50:28Speaker 2: will delusion be dispelled, and all thy doubts will vanish.
- 50:33Speaker 1: A master great is the task which thou hast set
- 50:37Speaker 1: before me. Labories the work which thou commandest me to do,
- 50:43Speaker 1: steep and strange, the way of renunciation which thou hast
- 50:46Speaker 1: pointed out to me. Desire is deeply rooted in my nature,
- 50:51Speaker 1: and passion binds me fast to earthly things. YEA, desire
- 50:56Speaker 1: and passion are my very self. Must I renounce myself?
- 51:01Speaker 1: Must I yield up that which seems so sweet? O?
- 51:05Speaker 1: Men long to preserve the self. They pray for its
- 51:08Speaker 1: eternal preservation and position. And must I let it perish?
- 51:13Speaker 2: Thou must, for thou hast vowed to follow me.
- 51:18Speaker 1: YEA, I have vowed, and I will follow.
- 51:21Speaker 2: Thee seest thou how all men suffer? This is because
- 51:27Speaker 2: they long to preserve the self. This is because they
- 51:31Speaker 2: labor for its eternal preservation and possession. In desire and
- 51:36Speaker 2: egotism and passion are turmoil and unrest. In me alone
- 51:42Speaker 2: is peace weary and pain. Stricken is the world because
- 51:47Speaker 2: it knows not me, But in me. There is no weariness,
- 51:52Speaker 2: and pain and sorrow cannot come to my abode. My
- 51:56Speaker 2: abode is a purified heart. The upright mind is my temple,
- 52:01Speaker 2: and the blameless life is my holy habitation.
- 52:06Speaker 1: I will take refuge in THEE, in thy abode, in
- 52:10Speaker 1: thy temple, yea, even in thy holy habitation.
- 52:15Speaker 2: The purified heart is not stained by desire, the upright
- 52:20Speaker 2: mind is not impelled by passion, And in the blameless
- 52:25Speaker 2: life there is no thought of self. Search thy heart
- 52:29Speaker 2: and follow truth. Put away the self of desire and
- 52:34Speaker 2: passion and egotism, deny, overcome and abandon it. Let no
- 52:41Speaker 2: vestige of it remain with THEE. For it is the
- 52:44Speaker 2: author of all confusion, the source of all affliction, the
- 52:49Speaker 2: spring of pain and sorrow and unrest. Rest Thou in me.
- 52:55Speaker 1: Thou hast pointed out to me the way of truth,
- 52:58Speaker 1: even the holy way of show fishness. That way will
- 53:02Speaker 1: I walk. My resolution, a master of truth is fixed
- 53:06Speaker 1: in THEE. I will put away desire and will cling
- 53:09Speaker 1: to THEE. I will be deaf to the voices of passion,
- 53:13Speaker 1: and will listen only to Thy voice. I will not
- 53:16Speaker 1: seek my own, but will obey the Holy law. Lo,
- 53:20Speaker 1: I put my feet upon thy way. Lead thou, thy servant,
- 53:24Speaker 1: unto light and peace.
- 53:27Speaker 2: Thou hast entered, our disciple, the path of righteousness. Thy
- 53:32Speaker 2: feet are set upon the way of wisdom. Thou shalt
- 53:35Speaker 2: comprehend my law. The light of knowledge shall illumine thee,
- 53:40Speaker 2: and I will guide thy footfalls unto peace.
- 53:45Speaker 1: Three of discipline and purification. I am in sorrow, o Master.
- 53:53Speaker 1: My feet are weary, and darkness is closing around me.
- 53:57Speaker 1: Desert me not, but come now to my assistance. My
- 54:01Speaker 1: desires are strong, and they cry out for their habitual pleasures.
- 54:05Speaker 1: My passions are violence and overwhelm me with their strength,
- 54:09Speaker 1: and the voices of my false opinions weary me with
- 54:12Speaker 1: their demands. The way is dark and difficult to follow.
- 54:16Speaker 1: Shed upon me, oer Master, the light of thy knowledge.
- 54:20Speaker 1: Comfort me with the balm of thy instruction.
- 54:24Speaker 2: Thy sorrow, o disciple, is of the Self. In me.
- 54:29Speaker 2: There is no sorrow. The darkness which surrounds THEE is
- 54:33Speaker 2: the shadow cast by the Self. There is no darkness
- 54:37Speaker 2: in me. Truth is serene and sorrowless. There is no
- 54:42Speaker 2: weeping and weariness and lamentation in truth. Even now, though
- 54:47Speaker 2: thou ceast it not, my light is shining on thy pathway.
- 54:52Speaker 2: But thou seest only the dark illusions of thy worldly self.
- 54:57Speaker 2: Press forward and think only of truth. Look not behind thee,
- 55:03Speaker 2: nor let thy mind swerve from thy holy resolution. Great
- 55:08Speaker 2: is the conquest which thou hast entered upon, even the
- 55:12Speaker 2: mighty conquest of thyself. Be faithful, and thou shalt overcome, Lead.
- 55:19Speaker 1: Me a master, For my darkness is very great. Clouds
- 55:23Speaker 1: of selfish thoughts envelop me, and the enemies within my
- 55:27Speaker 1: mind assail me continually in the snares of my own,
- 55:31Speaker 1: making my feet a court. And when I think to
- 55:34Speaker 1: walk firmly, I stumble and fall. Yea, my falls are
- 55:38Speaker 1: many and grievous, and my wounds frequent and sore. Will
- 55:43Speaker 1: the darkness lift a master? Will trial end in victory?
- 55:48Speaker 1: And will it be an end to my many sorrows?
- 55:51Speaker 2: When thy heart is pure, the darkness will disappear. When
- 55:57Speaker 2: thy mind is freed from passion, Thou wilt reach the
- 56:01Speaker 2: end of trial, And when the thought of self preservation
- 56:05Speaker 2: is yielded up, there will be no more cause for sorrow.
- 56:09Speaker 2: Thou art now upon the way of discipline and purification.
- 56:14Speaker 2: All My disciples must walk that way before thou canst
- 56:19Speaker 2: enter the white light of knowledge, before thou canst behold
- 56:23Speaker 2: the full glory of truth. All thy impurities must be
- 56:28Speaker 2: purged away, the delusions dispell'd, and thy mind fortified with endurance.
- 56:35Speaker 2: Though darkness surroundeth THEE, Though temptation assaileth THEE on every hand,
- 56:41Speaker 2: though thou art sore, distressed and ceast not before THEE,
- 56:45Speaker 2: yet relax not thy faith in truth. Forget not that
- 56:51Speaker 2: truth is eternally supreme. Remember that I, the Lord of Truth,
- 56:56Speaker 2: am watching over THEE.
- 56:59Speaker 1: Great is my faith in truth. And I will not forget,
- 57:02Speaker 1: but will remember.
- 57:03Speaker 2: THEE walking faithfully the path of discipline and purification, not
- 57:10Speaker 2: forsaking and abandoning it, and not longing to enjoy the
- 57:14Speaker 2: pleasures which thou hast left behind THEE. Thou wilt learn
- 57:18Speaker 2: those things which are necessary for THEE. Thou wilt learn
- 57:23Speaker 2: of the nature of sin and the meaning of temptation,
- 57:27Speaker 2: of suffering and sorrow and their cause and cure, Of
- 57:32Speaker 2: the fleeting nature of thyself and its pleasures, Of the
- 57:36Speaker 2: permanence of truth and its abiding peace. Of what are
- 57:40Speaker 2: the marks of ignorance and what constitutes. Knowledge of what
- 57:44Speaker 2: makes evil and what is eternally good, of the painfulness
- 57:49Speaker 2: of self and the bliss of truth. Wilt thou learn.
- 57:54Speaker 2: Thou wilt also learn of illusion and reality. Be faithful
- 57:58Speaker 2: and endure, and I will teach THEE all things.
- 58:03Speaker 1: I will not turn my faith from THEE, nor will
- 58:06Speaker 1: I desert thy holy way.
- 58:09Speaker 2: Hear me again, O disciple, walking faithfully the path of
- 58:13Speaker 2: discipline and purification, not abandoning it, but submitting to its austerities.
- 58:20Speaker 2: Thou wilt acquire the three lesser powers of discipleship. Thou
- 58:25Speaker 2: wilt also receive the three greater powers. And the lesser
- 58:30Speaker 2: and the greater powers will render the invincible. By their aid,
- 58:35Speaker 2: Thou wilt subdue all sin. Thou wilt overcome the uttermost.
- 58:41Speaker 2: Thou wilt achieve the supreme conquest.
- 58:45Speaker 1: What are the lesser and the greater powers?
- 58:48Speaker 2: Self control, self reliance, and watchfulness. These are the three
- 58:54Speaker 2: lesser powers. Steadfastness, patience, and gentleness. These are the three
- 59:02Speaker 2: greater powers. When thy mind is well controlled and in
- 59:06Speaker 2: thy keeping, when thou reliest upon no external help but
- 59:11Speaker 2: upon truth alone, and when thou art ceaselessly watchful over
- 59:15Speaker 2: thy thoughts and actions. Then will the three lesser powers
- 59:20Speaker 2: be thine. And with these powers thou wilt dispel the
- 59:24Speaker 2: great darkness. Thou wilt approach the supreme light. Approaching the
- 59:29Speaker 2: supreme light, thou wilt become steadfastly fixed in truth. Thou
- 59:35Speaker 2: wilt become patient with an infinite patience, and gentle, with
- 59:39Speaker 2: the gentleness which nothing can change or mar Then will
- 59:44Speaker 2: the three greater powers be thine. Then wilt thou come
- 59:48Speaker 2: to the end of the path of discipline, and wilt
- 59:51Speaker 2: ascend unto the higher path of knowledge. Walking the path
- 59:55Speaker 2: of knowledge, thy sorrow will cease, Thy darkness will pass
- 1:00:00Speaker 2: away forever, and joy and light will wait upon thy footsteps.
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: I am reassured Oer Master, and am strong to proceed.
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: I am obedient to thee, and will submit to Thy discipline.
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: For thou hast comforted me with the word of knowledge,
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: Thou hast strengthened me with the exhortation of truth. Thou
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: hast instructed me with the instruction of enlightenment.
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: Blessed is he who obeys the truth. He shall not
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: remain comfortless, but shall receive the benediction of peace.
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: Four of renunciation. Teach a divine Thy light is breaking
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: in upon my mind. I now know the cause of
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: my sorrow and suffering. I apprehend the sorrows of mankind
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: for my sufferings other sufferings of the world. I see
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: that sorrow and suffering are rooted in self, that evil
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: and are in the desires of self, and that all
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: the desires of self must be relinquished. Guide me, i master,
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: into the way of self sacrifice. Teach me how to
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: abolish self from the mind. Reveal to me the truth
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: about renunciation.
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: Renunciational disciple is twofold. There is renunciation in the letter.
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: There is also renunciation in the spirit, the renunciation of
- 1:01:27Speaker 2: outward things and particular acts. Only this is the false
- 1:01:31Speaker 2: renunciation in the letter, the renunciation of inward desires and defilements.
- 1:01:38Speaker 2: This is the true renunciation in the spirit. Beware, or learner,
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: of the renunciation which is false. Perform thou the renunciation
- 1:01:48Speaker 2: which is true.
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: Instruct me further in a renunciation which is according to truth,
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: then I will embrace and perform it. So shall I
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: avoid the renunciation which is erroneous and misleading.
- 1:02:01Speaker 2: Seek no gratification in the things which thou doest, look
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: not for reward in the things wherein thou strivest. Do
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: all thy duties meekly, put away desire. This is the
- 1:02:14Speaker 2: true renunciation. Do not think of gain or loss to thyself,
- 1:02:20Speaker 2: think not to obtain pleasure, and avoid pain in thy acts.
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: Do all things faithfully that are necessary to be done.
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: This also is the true renunciation. Sever not thyself from
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: the world, but relinquish all love for the world and
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: its pleasures. Do thy work in the world without thought
- 1:02:42Speaker 2: of personal ends. This again is the true renunciation. Not
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: by the outer things of the world. Is a man defiled.
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: He is defiled by the low desires of his heart.
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: To renounce the world, and not to relinquish to clinging
- 1:02:59Speaker 2: to self. This is the false renunciation. Not from riches
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: or poverty, not from wife or children, not from power
- 1:03:08Speaker 2: and servitude. Not from these things do afflictions spring. From
- 1:03:13Speaker 2: indolence and self indulgence, from lust and covetousness, from hatred
- 1:03:19Speaker 2: and pride. From these things only do afflictions spring. Renounce
- 1:03:25Speaker 2: thee evil within, and the things of the world will
- 1:03:29Speaker 2: not defile thee. Put away all thought of self, and
- 1:03:33Speaker 2: whatsoever thou doest it will bring to thee no suffering
- 1:03:38Speaker 2: in all thy duties, forsake the thought of self, and
- 1:03:43Speaker 2: sorrow will never overtake thee. He who quiteth a duty
- 1:03:48Speaker 2: that is irksome, seeking happiness thereby, he who fleeth from
- 1:03:54Speaker 2: the scene of temptation, seeking strength, thereby he who abandon
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: his obligations, seeking bliss. Thereby such a man, O disciple
- 1:04:06Speaker 2: falsely renounces he is deluded and will not attain to
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: purity of heart. As a brave soldier when death is inevitable,
- 1:04:16Speaker 2: does not desert his post, thinking of duty only and
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: not of self preservation. So he who renounces truly remains
- 1:04:26Speaker 2: in his place in the world, performing all his duties steadfastly,
- 1:04:31Speaker 2: not thinking of self. Renounce self, o disciple, Renounce all
- 1:04:37Speaker 2: the tendencies of self. Renounce all the passions and prejudices
- 1:04:42Speaker 2: of self. Renounce all the errors and egotism of self.
- 1:04:48Speaker 2: Such is the true renunciation. Such is the sacrifice which
- 1:04:53Speaker 2: leads to enlightenment and peace.
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: What amaster are the tendency of the self.
- 1:05:02Speaker 2: Lust and self indulgence, self seeking and avarice, hatred and anger,
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: vanity and pride, doubt and fear. These are the tendencies
- 1:05:14Speaker 2: of self, These are the things that must be renounced.
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: And these things, O Spirit Immaculate, I will renounce. I
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: will obliterate them from my mind. I will abolish them
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: from my inmost heart. For now I see how they
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: lead men into ways of blindness, that they make sneers
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: of suffering for the feet of men, that they dig
- 1:05:37Speaker 1: deep pits of sorrow for men to fall Therein. I rejoice, O,
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: Divine One, in that which thou hast revealed to me.
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: For thou hast opened unto me the way of holiness,
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: thou hast pointed out to me the straight path of peace.
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: Thou hast shown me how to walk the sure way
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: of wisdom. THEE will I follow, lead me to Thy law.
- 1:06:01Speaker 2: Blessed is he who follows where I lead. He shall
- 1:06:05Speaker 2: ascend unto the high and heavenly places. He shall behold
- 1:06:10Speaker 2: with the vision that is faultless. He shall see with
- 1:06:13Speaker 2: the eye of truth, which comprehendeth all things.
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: Five of purity of heart. While I am undergoing Thy
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: discipline and purification, while walking the holy way of renunciation,
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: let ye behold the beauty of thy purity. Reveal to
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: me the purity which is divine. For I would know
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: the highest even truth. I would gaze upon thy face,
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: O Master, I would behold thy glory. I would see
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: thee as thou art.
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: He who rightly renounces, who humbly purges his heart of self,
- 1:06:50Speaker 2: who diligently searches for truth, not for selfish pleasures. He,
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: my lonely one, shall find my purity. Hey, my faithful one,
- 1:07:01Speaker 2: shall surely see my face. He, my chosen one, shall
- 1:07:07Speaker 2: come to me at last.
- 1:07:09Speaker 1: Thou art my refuge in my dwelling place. My eyes,
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: I know, were wrist on thee. At last, my heart
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: at last will stay itself on thee. Show me the
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: highest and holiest way, even the stainless way of purity.
- 1:07:26Speaker 2: Thou art ready to be washed free from thy defilements.
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: As a vessel. Thou art ready to be cleansed. And
- 1:07:34Speaker 2: when thou art cleansed, thou shalt be filled with the
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: pure water of truth. By these four things is the
- 1:07:43Speaker 2: heart defiled, the craving for pleasures, the clinging to temporal things,
- 1:07:49Speaker 2: the love of self, the lust for personal continuance. From
- 1:07:54Speaker 2: these four defilements spring all sins and sorrows. Wash thou
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: thy heart, put away sensual cravings. Detach the mind from
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: the wish for possession, abandon self defense and self importance,
- 1:08:14Speaker 2: and do not long for personal immortality. Thus putting away
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: all cravings, thou wilt attain to satisfaction. Detaching thy mind
- 1:08:26Speaker 2: from the love of perishable things, thou wilt acquire wisdom.
- 1:08:32Speaker 2: Abandoning the thought of self, thou wilt come to peace,
- 1:08:37Speaker 2: and not lusting for eternal life, Thou wilt realize the
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: incorruptible truth. He is pure, who is free from desire,
- 1:08:47Speaker 2: who does not crave for sensual excitements, who sets no
- 1:08:52Speaker 2: value on perishable things, Who is the same in riches
- 1:08:56Speaker 2: and poverty, in success or failure, in victory or defeat,
- 1:09:02Speaker 2: in life or death, who does not set up his
- 1:09:07Speaker 2: own opinions, who is willing not to be lo He
- 1:09:12Speaker 2: it is who possesses my pureness. His happiness remains, his
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: rest is sure, his peace is not disturbed. He knows
- 1:09:23Speaker 2: what constitutes holiness. He understands the stainlessness of truth.
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: I will cleanse my heart with the cleansing of truth.
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: I will be pure as thou art pure. I will
- 1:09:37Speaker 1: put away the thought of pleasure. I will not covert
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: perishable things my personality. I will regard as of no importance,
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: ceasing to crave for its eternal continuance. Death comes to
- 1:09:50Speaker 1: all men, and the tears of sorrow flow. But truth
- 1:09:54Speaker 1: is eternal, and its knowledge leads to peace. I followed self,
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: but it was filled with pain. I followed the world,
- 1:10:02Speaker 1: but it was fraught with heavy sorrow. But now, o
- 1:10:06Speaker 1: Master of Truth, I follow thee, and thou art leading
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: me to bliss unspeakable. Thou directest thy steps into the
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: way of purity and peace.
- 1:10:16Speaker 2: Be strenuous in effort, strong in resolution, patient in endurance.
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: So wilt thou overcome all sin. Thou wilt become divinely
- 1:10:29Speaker 2: pure sorrow and pain thou wilt altogether subdue, and thou
- 1:10:35Speaker 2: wilt acquire joy and strength and equanimity.
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: Sikhs of righteousness.
- 1:10:44Speaker 2: Stand up, son of light, and put on the garment
- 1:10:47Speaker 2: of righteousness. Rejoice and enter the glad way of holiness.
- 1:10:52Speaker 2: Open thine eyes and behold the glory of truth. For
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: thou hast been faithful and obedient, thou hast been patient
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: and enduring. Thou hast conquered and overcome the great enemy,
- 1:11:07Speaker 2: even self. Thou hast slain the great darkness, even the
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: darkness of ignorance. Thou hast dispersed the great veil, even
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: the veil of illusion, Thou hast torn asunder. Henceforth, thou
- 1:11:24Speaker 2: shalt walk in the way of knowledge. Thou shalt dwell
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: with peace. Thou shalt bask in the light of immortality.
- 1:11:33Speaker 2: Rise up, son of truth, in my divine dignity. Put
- 1:11:38Speaker 2: on the shining life of righteousness. For thou art no
- 1:11:42Speaker 2: longer self. Thou art truth. Thy deeds will be according
- 1:11:47Speaker 2: to the eternal, and thou wilt be a beacon to mankind.
- 1:11:53Speaker 1: Now, o Master, I see THEE as thou art. I
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: see thy ineffable beauty and glory. How can darkness d
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: well where thou art? How can sin and sorrow approach Thee?
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: I am dazzled by the power of thy majesty. Thou
- 1:12:09Speaker 1: art Truth. Thou art the Eternal, and he who knoweth
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: THEE liveth in thy light. He doeth the deeds of
- 1:12:17Speaker 1: light and not of darkness. Point out to me, now,
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: o Master, the righteous way, reveal unto me the jewels
- 1:12:26Speaker 1: of the perfect life. Instruct me in the doing which
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: is according to the eternal, so that I may be
- 1:12:33Speaker 1: watchful and fail.
- 1:12:34Speaker 2: Not Unrighteous is he whose acts are born of self.
- 1:12:40Speaker 2: Righteous is he whose acts are born of truth. The
- 1:12:44Speaker 2: unrighteous man is swayed by his feelings. Likes and dislikes
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: are his masters. Prejudices and partialities blind him, desiring and suffering,
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: craving and sorrowing self control, he knows not, and great
- 1:13:02Speaker 2: is his unrest. The righteous man is master of his moods,
- 1:13:08Speaker 2: likes and dislikes. He has abandoned as childish things, prejudice
- 1:13:14Speaker 2: and partiality he has put away, desiring nothing. He does
- 1:13:19Speaker 2: not suffer, not craving, enjoyment, sorrow does not overtake him.
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: Perfect in self control, great peace abides with him. Do
- 1:13:31Speaker 2: not condemn, resent or retaliate. Do not argue or become
- 1:13:36Speaker 2: a partisan. Maintain thy calmness with all sides. Be just
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: and speak truth. Act in gentleness, compassion, and charity. Be
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: infinitely patient. Hold fast to love and let it shape
- 1:13:56Speaker 2: thy doing. Have good will to all, with out distinction.
- 1:14:01Speaker 2: Think equally of all, and be disturbed by none. Be
- 1:14:06Speaker 2: thoughtful and wise, strong and kind hearted. Be watchful. Let
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: no thought of self again creep in and stain thee.
- 1:14:16Speaker 2: Think of thyself as abolished, dispersed in all thy doing.
- 1:14:22Speaker 2: Think of the good of others and of the world,
- 1:14:25Speaker 2: and not of pleasure or reward to thyself. Thou art
- 1:14:30Speaker 2: no longer separate and divided from men. Thou art one withal.
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: No longer strive against others for thyself, but sympathize with all,
- 1:14:43Speaker 2: Regard no man as thine enemy. Thou art the friend
- 1:14:47Speaker 2: of all men. Be at peace withal. Pour out compassion
- 1:14:53Speaker 2: on all living things. Let boundless charity adorn thy words
- 1:14:58Speaker 2: and deeds. Such is the glad way of truth. Such
- 1:15:04Speaker 2: is the doing which is according to the eternal. Filled
- 1:15:08Speaker 2: with joy, is the right doer. He acts from principles
- 1:15:13Speaker 2: which do not change and pass away, abandoning personality. He
- 1:15:18Speaker 2: has become a power. He is one with the eternal,
- 1:15:23Speaker 2: and has passed beyond unrest. The peace of the righteous
- 1:15:27Speaker 2: man is perfect. It is not disturbed by change and impermanence,
- 1:15:33Speaker 2: freed from passion. It is equal minded, calm, and does
- 1:15:38Speaker 2: not sorrow. He sees things as they are, and is
- 1:15:43Speaker 2: no more confused.
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: Thou hast closed me a master with righteousness, the perfect
- 1:15:50Speaker 1: life thou hast revealed to me. Thou hast shown me
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: the holy and the happy way. So fish abolished. An
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: I am thine, my thoughts to that thoughts. My words
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: are thy words, My deeds are Thy deeds. Thou art eternal,
- 1:16:06Speaker 1: and all my doings shall be from thee A lad
- 1:16:10Speaker 1: is the fever of life dispersed. Is all the darkness
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: of the mind. Uncertainty and unrest have vanished away. Sin
- 1:16:18Speaker 1: and suffering are ended, and peace abides forever.
- 1:16:23Speaker 2: Thou hast opened thine eyes to the eternal light. Thou
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: art no more self deceived nor self afflicted. Enter now,
- 1:16:33Speaker 2: o disciple, the high way of divine knowledge, and receive
- 1:16:39Speaker 2: the bliss of immortality.
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: Seven of knowledge of the law. Show unto me, Now,
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: o Master, the perfect knowledge, Reveal unto me the working
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: of Thy law. Illuminate my mind with the wisdom of enlightenment.
- 1:16:56Speaker 2: The law of life is perfect. Nothing can be added
- 1:17:00Speaker 2: to it or taken from it. It cannot be altered
- 1:17:04Speaker 2: or improved. None can avoid or escape it. Its operations
- 1:17:10Speaker 2: are just. It is eternal and abides in the midst
- 1:17:14Speaker 2: of change. By it, all things are protected, and there
- 1:17:20Speaker 2: is no confusion. The good is preserved in bliss and peace.
- 1:17:26Speaker 2: The evil is purified with punishment and suffering. Knowledge. It
- 1:17:32Speaker 2: crowns with calmness ignorance. Its scourges with unrest. It works
- 1:17:38Speaker 2: with twofold action. It is eternal causation. It takes note
- 1:17:44Speaker 2: of every thought and deed. Thou hast attained, o disciple
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: to spiritual vision. Look now upon the world, and tell
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: me what thou seest.
- 1:17:57Speaker 1: I see, er Master, great darkness called ignorance. I see
- 1:18:02Speaker 1: lurking therein the smoldering sparks of desire. I see how
- 1:18:06Speaker 1: those sparks gather strength, they intensify into flaming passions. And
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: over all mankind are heavy clouds of sorrow. And these
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: are for the quenching of passions.
- 1:18:18Speaker 2: Thou hast well seen. Look again, and say what thou beholdest.
- 1:18:25Speaker 1: My sight hath pierced the cloudy veil of sorrow. And
- 1:18:28Speaker 1: above all I see the great light cord Truth. And
- 1:18:32Speaker 1: there is no darkness therein. No desires can enter there,
- 1:18:36Speaker 1: and there are no consuming passions. There is no weeping
- 1:18:40Speaker 1: and no unrest.
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: Thou hast seen, all, disciple, the law of life. Thou
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: hast perceived the twofold action of the law. There is
- 1:18:51Speaker 2: ignorance which fosters desire. Desire is the painful hunger to obtain.
- 1:18:58Speaker 2: It is also the feverish clinging to that which is obtained.
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: Thence arises separation from the thing desired, and this is
- 1:19:08Speaker 2: suffering and sorrow. From desire also arises egotism or selfishness.
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: Thus is created an illusory self, and in the delusion
- 1:19:20Speaker 2: of the self is the nightmare of the world's woe.
- 1:19:24Speaker 2: Thus man suffers by the action of the law. He
- 1:19:28Speaker 2: can also escape suffering by the action of the law.
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: When desire is abandoned, the painful hunger of the mind
- 1:19:36Speaker 2: is cured, the burning fever of clinging to things is assuaged,
- 1:19:42Speaker 2: and there is no separation and sorrow. Thence arises union
- 1:19:46Speaker 2: with all that is, and this is satisfaction, bliss and peace.
- 1:19:53Speaker 2: From non desire also proceed humility and love. The delusion
- 1:19:59Speaker 2: of a permanent and separate individuality is destroyed. The preservation
- 1:20:04Speaker 2: of the self is abandoned, and thus is cut away
- 1:20:07Speaker 2: the ground of hatred and pride and selfishness then arises holiness.
- 1:20:16Speaker 2: The reality of things is revealed, Truth is perceived, comprehended,
- 1:20:21Speaker 2: and known, and this is the knowledge of the law.
- 1:20:26Speaker 2: This is the bliss of immortality.
- 1:20:29Speaker 1: Very simple is the law o truth. Yet who shall
- 1:20:33Speaker 1: comprehend it? Beautiful to behold? Yet, who can gaze upon it? Faultless, inequity?
- 1:20:40Speaker 1: Yet who will listen and receive it?
- 1:20:43Speaker 2: The pure hearted one receives, beholds, and comprehends. He acts
- 1:20:49Speaker 2: with the action that is not attained by sin. His
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: charity is without limit. It embraces all living things. He
- 1:20:58Speaker 2: perceives with the vision that does not err. He does
- 1:21:02Speaker 2: not condemn. Knowing the perfect law, and knowing the perfect law,
- 1:21:07Speaker 2: he has entered into peace.
- 1:21:10Speaker 1: Where knowledge is perfected, peace abides. Great is the calmness
- 1:21:14Speaker 1: of the wise. Deep is the peace of the pure, perfect,
- 1:21:19Speaker 1: the bliss of them that know the truth. Still, to
- 1:21:22Speaker 1: the tempests of the mind, there is no more perturbation.
- 1:21:26Speaker 1: There is a haven for the storm tossed, a home
- 1:21:29Speaker 1: for them that are lost and forsaken, a refuge for
- 1:21:33Speaker 1: all who wander in the night. I have found thee
- 1:21:37Speaker 1: Thou eternal One.
- 1:21:38Speaker 2: At last, Thou hast sought and found, Thou hast fought
- 1:21:44Speaker 2: and conquered, Thou hast striven and attained. He who has
- 1:21:50Speaker 2: afflicted has become the healer of men. The child has
- 1:21:55Speaker 2: become the instructor, the pupil has become the teacher. Disciple
- 1:22:01Speaker 2: and the Master are one. What I am that thou
- 1:22:06Speaker 2: art abide with me in peace? Benediction, and now peace
- 1:22:16Speaker 2: abides self is dispersed, and there is no more anguish.
- 1:22:22Speaker 2: Truth is attained, and affliction has ceased to be. The
- 1:22:27Speaker 2: pilgrimage of pain is finished. There is no more toil
- 1:22:32Speaker 2: and darkness. There is no more doubt and weeping. Unrest
- 1:22:38Speaker 2: and sorrow have vanished away. Love folds the world to
- 1:22:45Speaker 2: all that suffer peace.
- 1:22:49Speaker 1: End of the Divine Dialogue. End of Part two of
- 1:22:54Speaker 1: The Divine Companion by James Allen Siction one profit I
- 1:23:02Speaker 1: as sea, cast forth this seed upon the broad plains
- 1:23:06Speaker 1: of the world, and leave it to the watchful care
- 1:23:10Speaker 1: of the Supreme. The Divine Messages the first prophecy called
- 1:23:17Speaker 1: the awakening suns of Light. I salute you, children of
- 1:23:23Speaker 1: the morning. I greet you awake, Arise, and rouse ye
- 1:23:29Speaker 1: them that slumber. I proclaim to you the advent of
- 1:23:32Speaker 1: the morning, the dawn of the new day is upon
- 1:23:35Speaker 1: every living thing, And down the holy mountain cometh the
- 1:23:39Speaker 1: light of love, the lowly one, bringing good tidings and
- 1:23:43Speaker 1: publishing peace. And this is the majesty of the morning,
- 1:23:48Speaker 1: that evil shall flee from the valleys, and hardly shall
- 1:23:51Speaker 1: darkness find a lodging place. For where light is, there
- 1:23:55Speaker 1: is no darkness. Where good is, evil is dispersed, where
- 1:24:00Speaker 1: peace is strife is destroyed. Where love is all hatred
- 1:24:05Speaker 1: has ceased, where purity is all sin is overcome. And
- 1:24:11Speaker 1: from the abode of truth all error has fled away.
- 1:24:15Speaker 1: And this is the joy of the morning. That evil
- 1:24:18Speaker 1: is conquered and good is triumphant, that the glory of
- 1:24:21Speaker 1: truth is revealed, that the path of perfection is opened up,
- 1:24:26Speaker 1: and the bliss of a holy life is partaken of.
- 1:24:29Speaker 1: And this is the consummation of the morning. That darkness
- 1:24:33Speaker 1: is dispelled by light, ignorance by knowledge, illusion by reality,
- 1:24:39Speaker 1: and error by truth. And the majesty of the morning
- 1:24:43Speaker 1: is revealed, and the joy of the morning is comprehended,
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: and the consummation of the morning is realized. Ye who
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: have waited, come now and gaze your fill upon the heights.
- 1:24:56Speaker 1: The coming of the king is announced, even the King
- 1:24:59Speaker 1: of Peace. And they who are stricken and afflicted shall
- 1:25:03Speaker 1: be made glad the mourners, and they that sorrow shall
- 1:25:06Speaker 1: look up and rejoice the change of them that are
- 1:25:10Speaker 1: bound shall be broken, and they shall go free. That
- 1:25:14Speaker 1: defiled shall be cleansed and purified, and the weary and
- 1:25:18Speaker 1: travel stained shall be at rest. Come ye that are
- 1:25:22Speaker 1: thirsty and drink, Come ye that hunger, and be filled.
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: For the water of immortality is found, and the bread
- 1:25:30Speaker 1: of life is made known. Awake ye sleepers, and shake
- 1:25:34Speaker 1: off the dreams of illusion. Rouse ye from the stupor
- 1:25:38Speaker 1: of mortality and slumber no more in the realm of self.
- 1:25:43Speaker 1: For the master of compassion is revealed, the law of
- 1:25:46Speaker 1: good is expounded, and the great reality of a stainless
- 1:25:50Speaker 1: life is accomplished. The truth of the ages is made
- 1:25:54Speaker 1: plain in that habernacle of the Holy Heart. It is revealed.
- 1:25:59Speaker 1: The guileless perceive it, the righteous hear it, the holy
- 1:26:03Speaker 1: realize it. It is manifested in all its glory in
- 1:26:07Speaker 1: the conqueror of sin. Ye that search in the darkness,
- 1:26:11Speaker 1: come now unto the light. Ye that see the evil
- 1:26:15Speaker 1: and the woe without, Come with me, and I will
- 1:26:18Speaker 1: show you its source. Go ye into the secret chambers
- 1:26:22Speaker 1: of your hearts. Seek there until ye find meditate there
- 1:26:27Speaker 1: until ye awake. He that dreams in self is asleep
- 1:26:32Speaker 1: in truth. The dreamer can neither know himself nor the awakened.
- 1:26:37Speaker 1: The awakened knoweth both himself and the dreamer. He also
- 1:26:41Speaker 1: knoweth the emptiness of the thing dreamed. The sleeper in
- 1:26:45Speaker 1: self is involved in evil. He is encompassed with darkness,
- 1:26:50Speaker 1: he is surrounded with woe. Such is the plight of
- 1:26:53Speaker 1: the dreamer, and the source, continuance and end of evil
- 1:26:57Speaker 1: are hidden from him. Awake, therefore, ye that sleep, awake
- 1:27:03Speaker 1: from the sleep of lust, Awake from the slumber of hatred.
- 1:27:08Speaker 1: Come out of the painful dreams of avarice, self indulgence, vanity,
- 1:27:12Speaker 1: and pride. Shake off the nightmare of doubt. Be drugged
- 1:27:17Speaker 1: no more by groundless faith, by error and a clinging
- 1:27:21Speaker 1: unto death. End ye the sleep of self, and awake
- 1:27:25Speaker 1: in the reality of truth, For the end of self
- 1:27:28Speaker 1: is a beginning of truth. Behold the glorious truth. Awake, Awake, awake,
- 1:27:37Speaker 1: ye are sleeping, ye are dreaming. Awake suns of the morning,
- 1:27:43Speaker 1: and fill the world with music. Come ye and dwell
- 1:27:47Speaker 1: in the light. Come ye and tread the path of perfection.
- 1:27:51Speaker 1: Come ye and be exalted with the exultation of holiness.
- 1:27:56Speaker 1: So shall ye know the supreme love and peace. The
- 1:28:02Speaker 1: second prophecy, called the Messiah. Consider the signs of the times.
- 1:28:09Speaker 1: War is rampant, strife is raging, and the fires of
- 1:28:13Speaker 1: passion are devastating the earth. Nation is opposed to nation,
- 1:28:18Speaker 1: creed to creed, and system to system. Science has discovered
- 1:28:23Speaker 1: its own weakness. Philosophy has confounded philosophy, and a confusion
- 1:28:28Speaker 1: of mental tongues has become universal. Yet in the height
- 1:28:32Speaker 1: of all this confusion, in the midst of the fierce
- 1:28:35Speaker 1: clash of prejudice and a passion, one has descended, whose
- 1:28:39Speaker 1: name is Love, whose mission is peace, and whose end
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: is unity. Walking in amidst is he, But men know
- 1:28:48Speaker 1: him not because of their infirmities. Yet at his touch
- 1:28:52Speaker 1: the blind receive their sight. The deaf here and the
- 1:28:55Speaker 1: lame walk silently hoily is he working in isolated hearts.
- 1:29:01Speaker 1: Here and there a disciple is called, and he hears
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: and follows. And the disciple knows his master, and the
- 1:29:09Speaker 1: master his disciple. The chosen few have not been deaft
- 1:29:13Speaker 1: to the command follow me, And they have followed with
- 1:29:17Speaker 1: sure and certain steps. They have gazed upon the face
- 1:29:21Speaker 1: of the serene One. They have sat at the feet
- 1:29:24Speaker 1: of the perfect One. They have accepted the instruction of
- 1:29:27Speaker 1: the Holy One, and peace abides with them. They walk
- 1:29:31Speaker 1: amongst men and are not discerned. They have relinquished all
- 1:29:35Speaker 1: strife in their inmost hearts, hating none, condemning none, They
- 1:29:41Speaker 1: have entered the gate of forgiveness. Good Will is a
- 1:29:44Speaker 1: breath of their nostrils, and boundless charity is the master
- 1:29:47Speaker 1: of their thoughts. They have ceased from vain longings. They
- 1:29:51Speaker 1: have chased away all fluctuating desires. They have passed through
- 1:29:55Speaker 1: the gait of sacrifice. They have clothed themselves with the
- 1:29:59Speaker 1: garment of Him. They tread the path of good, and
- 1:30:03Speaker 1: their gait is steadfast. Fear and doubt they have dispersed.
- 1:30:08Speaker 1: They walk upon the turbulent waters of sorrow, and they
- 1:30:11Speaker 1: sink not and are comforted. They are no longer confounded
- 1:30:15Speaker 1: by false philosophy. They have passed through the sea and
- 1:30:18Speaker 1: the desert, and have entered the promised Land. And these
- 1:30:22Speaker 1: are they who have been born again for the salvation
- 1:30:24Speaker 1: of the world. In the time of darkness, they have
- 1:30:28Speaker 1: accepted the light. In the time of evil, they have
- 1:30:31Speaker 1: chosen the good. In the day of self seeking, they
- 1:30:34Speaker 1: have silenced the many voices of self, and have followed
- 1:30:37Speaker 1: the one voice whose music harmonizes all. Therefore they rejoice,
- 1:30:43Speaker 1: not blind to the evil, but because the omniscient One
- 1:30:47Speaker 1: has shown them the end of evil. Yea in themselves,
- 1:30:51Speaker 1: they have already accomplished that end, For they have become
- 1:30:54Speaker 1: one with Him whom they have followed. All that belongs
- 1:30:58Speaker 1: to the world they have given to the world, and
- 1:31:00Speaker 1: they have not murmured. The clouds of confusion do not
- 1:31:04Speaker 1: darken them, and the fires of passion do not scorch them. Therefore,
- 1:31:09Speaker 1: let gladness reign, For with the great darkness of these times,
- 1:31:14Speaker 1: there has also come great light. Though the rivers of
- 1:31:17Speaker 1: sorrow are swollen high, the banks are perfumed with the
- 1:31:21Speaker 1: flowers of blessedness. Though strife is raging, peace has entered
- 1:31:26Speaker 1: into their midst. Though confusion has covered the earth, unity
- 1:31:31Speaker 1: has been revealed. And though many continue to dream the
- 1:31:34Speaker 1: dreams illusion, the visions of the Great Reality have gladdened
- 1:31:38Speaker 1: the ken of the wakeful. Awake, ye sleepers, arouse yourself,
- 1:31:44Speaker 1: ye dreamers, when will ye open your eyes and see?
- 1:31:49Speaker 1: The Perfect One has appeared. The stainless majesty of the
- 1:31:52Speaker 1: Holy One is revealed his sleepless watchers have hailed him,
- 1:31:57Speaker 1: and he has borne away their weariness. Come, then, ye sorrowing,
- 1:32:02Speaker 1: and be glad. Come ye weary and find peace. Come
- 1:32:07Speaker 1: ye toilers, and be at rest. For the longing of
- 1:32:11Speaker 1: the ages is fulfilled, and he whom we call Master
- 1:32:15Speaker 1: has appeared. He is the sacred inmost heart of love.
- 1:32:22Speaker 1: The third prophecy called the all One to do good
- 1:32:27Speaker 1: and to remain unknown. Let this be called humility, to
- 1:32:31Speaker 1: bless one's persecutors. Let this be called love, to rejoice
- 1:32:36Speaker 1: at the good fortune of one's enemies. Let this be
- 1:32:39Speaker 1: called perfection. Thus is the all One manifested. Thus is
- 1:32:45Speaker 1: the truth made known. The knowers of the all One
- 1:32:48Speaker 1: are perfect. They are without sin, dwelling in truth, and
- 1:32:52Speaker 1: robed with holiness. Behold, the all One is revealed. He
- 1:32:58Speaker 1: is made known to his worshipers. The garment of evil
- 1:33:01Speaker 1: has fallen away from them, and they put on the
- 1:33:04Speaker 1: perfect garment of good. The old bottles of error are broken,
- 1:33:08Speaker 1: and the new bottles of truth are filled with the
- 1:33:11Speaker 1: wine of life. The believers in the all One drink
- 1:33:15Speaker 1: and are satisfied. And the doers of his word enter
- 1:33:18Speaker 1: into the joy of immortality, and Who are they that
- 1:33:22Speaker 1: believe in the all One? Who are the doers of
- 1:33:25Speaker 1: his word? The believer and the doer is known by
- 1:33:28Speaker 1: these sure signs. He is freed from ignorance and is
- 1:33:32Speaker 1: not enslaved by likes and dislikes. He is freed from
- 1:33:36Speaker 1: hatred and does not condemn. He is freed from partiality
- 1:33:41Speaker 1: and does not engage in strife. He is freed from
- 1:33:44Speaker 1: self seeking and does not defend himself. He never lets
- 1:33:48Speaker 1: go of patience, He does not doff the robe of purity.
- 1:33:53Speaker 1: He goes not out from the dwelling place of love.
- 1:33:57Speaker 1: The Knower of the all One is perfect in knowledge.
- 1:34:00Speaker 1: He is blameless in thought, word, and deed. The all
- 1:34:04Speaker 1: One is sought by practice. He is perceived by knowledge,
- 1:34:08Speaker 1: and he is realized by the perfection of practice and
- 1:34:12Speaker 1: the consummation of knowledge. To rise above good and evil,
- 1:34:16Speaker 1: hatred and love, prejudice and error, desire and pain, self
- 1:34:22Speaker 1: love and sorrow, passion and remorse, life and death is
- 1:34:27Speaker 1: to enter the unending peace of the all One. Is
- 1:34:31Speaker 1: To realize the immortality of the all One is to
- 1:34:34Speaker 1: become the all One. The all One is at perfect good,
- 1:34:39Speaker 1: which is beyond both good and evil. He is at
- 1:34:42Speaker 1: perfect love, which neutralizes love and hate. He is at
- 1:34:46Speaker 1: perfect life, which is not broken by life and death.
- 1:34:50Speaker 1: He that would know him, let him become his disciple.
- 1:34:54Speaker 1: Let him remove the ever changing opposites within, until he
- 1:34:57Speaker 1: comes to that which changes not. So shall he find
- 1:35:01Speaker 1: the eternal rock, even the blessed all One, the master
- 1:35:05Speaker 1: of peace. He that searches without he shall not find.
- 1:35:10Speaker 1: He that is proud of his knowledge, he shall not find.
- 1:35:14Speaker 1: He that fortifies himself against others, he shall not find.
- 1:35:19Speaker 1: Realize our disciple, Thine inward error, thine inward delusion, Thine
- 1:35:24Speaker 1: inward ignorance, Thine inward delusion. Rooted in self, and having realized,
- 1:35:30Speaker 1: leave error and cling to truth, Fly from ignorance to
- 1:35:35Speaker 1: the knowledge that is pure, and fortify thyself against the
- 1:35:39Speaker 1: enemies within thyself. By this way is the all One
- 1:35:42Speaker 1: approached by none other. Is he accessible. He that is
- 1:35:47Speaker 1: willing to be naked to self, let him come and
- 1:35:50Speaker 1: be clothed with truth. He that is willing to die
- 1:35:53Speaker 1: to error, let him come and be reborn as a
- 1:35:56Speaker 1: child of truth. He that is willing to become empty,
- 1:36:00Speaker 1: let him come and be filled with the knowledge of
- 1:36:02Speaker 1: the all One, the good that is supreme, the humility
- 1:36:06Speaker 1: that is sublime, the love that transcends all sorrow. To
- 1:36:11Speaker 1: this attainment, shall he surely come who seeks the all
- 1:36:14Speaker 1: one by the path of peace. The fourth prophecy called
- 1:36:21Speaker 1: unrest the voice of the Spirit. To the children of
- 1:36:26Speaker 1: the flesh. This is darkness to be enslaved by sin,
- 1:36:33Speaker 1: This is light, to be free from sin. There is
- 1:36:36Speaker 1: a place of darkness, a dwelling place of deep darkness.
- 1:36:40Speaker 1: And they who abide their cry out of their unrest.
- 1:36:44Speaker 1: They cry and are not heard, because their cry is
- 1:36:47Speaker 1: of self. They call upon their God, but the silence
- 1:36:51Speaker 1: is not broken. The echo of their own voice they hear,
- 1:36:55Speaker 1: and it affrights them, and they remain in their sins.
- 1:36:59Speaker 1: And remain in their sins, they shall cry. We have
- 1:37:03Speaker 1: sown wheat and have reaped straw. We have plowed, but
- 1:37:07Speaker 1: we have no produce of our labor, and lo the
- 1:37:11Speaker 1: great famine is upon us. We stored away much grain,
- 1:37:14Speaker 1: but the rats have devoured it. We put away much fruit,
- 1:37:17Speaker 1: but it has decayed, and the long winter is before us.
- 1:37:21Speaker 1: We bartered and acquired much gold, yet we perish for
- 1:37:25Speaker 1: some the thief has stolen, and the rest is moldy.
- 1:37:29Speaker 1: What shall we purchase? Having no bread? There is no bread,
- 1:37:33Speaker 1: and no cellar of bread. We die, and there is
- 1:37:36Speaker 1: none to save us. And again, in their deep bitterness,
- 1:37:40Speaker 1: they shall say, we have toiled mightily, but we have
- 1:37:44Speaker 1: no reward. That which we built is destroyed, that which
- 1:37:48Speaker 1: we made secure is undermined, And all our wonderful works
- 1:37:52Speaker 1: are crumbling away. We ate and slept, but now we
- 1:37:56Speaker 1: are afflicted. We made sacrifices, yet now we are deserted.
- 1:38:01Speaker 1: We build ourselves pleasant mansions, and there is no rest
- 1:38:04Speaker 1: in them. Our sorrows are as the deep seas, Our
- 1:38:08Speaker 1: miseries are as the great mountains. Our woes are many,
- 1:38:12Speaker 1: and our pains are great. There is no cure for
- 1:38:15Speaker 1: our diseases. There is no relief for our sorrows. We
- 1:38:19Speaker 1: are weary, and there is no rest. So shall they cry,
- 1:38:24Speaker 1: and they shall not be heard. So shall they suffer
- 1:38:28Speaker 1: and shall not be relieved. And they shall seek for
- 1:38:31Speaker 1: rest and shall not find it. For in the place
- 1:38:35Speaker 1: of darkness, in the dwelling place of deep darkness, there
- 1:38:39Speaker 1: is no remedy, there is no redress, there is no salvation.
- 1:38:44Speaker 1: Where self is lord and king, there is no peace.
- 1:38:49Speaker 1: Ye who are in the way of impurity, Ye who
- 1:38:52Speaker 1: are the subjects of self. Listen, though ye understand not here,
- 1:38:57Speaker 1: for the day cometh when the precepts of the pro
- 1:39:00Speaker 1: are remembered, and his words are burned into the heart
- 1:39:03Speaker 1: with brands of fire, where there shall come upon you
- 1:39:07Speaker 1: the night which is more than darkness, the hunger which
- 1:39:10Speaker 1: is more than famine, and the deprivation which is more
- 1:39:14Speaker 1: than death. When love shall be crucified, and hatred be
- 1:39:18Speaker 1: set free, when peace shall be banished and strife be glorified,
- 1:39:23Speaker 1: when righteousness shall be mocked, and confusion shall flourish, And
- 1:39:28Speaker 1: the voice of the prophet is no longer heard. When
- 1:39:31Speaker 1: that time comes, and ye cry and are not heard,
- 1:39:35Speaker 1: suffer and are not relieved, sorrow and are not comforted,
- 1:39:40Speaker 1: remember this, He that rouseth himself early seeth the sun rise.
- 1:39:45Speaker 1: He that watcheth diligently and taketh a light findeth his
- 1:39:50Speaker 1: way out of the darkness. And he that striveth with
- 1:39:53Speaker 1: an uncomplaining heart is crowned with the crown of peace.
- 1:40:01Speaker 1: The fifth prophecy called Transition the voice of the Spirit
- 1:40:07Speaker 1: to the children of sorrow. Arise, ye awake, open your
- 1:40:12Speaker 1: eyes and see why will he sleep the sleep that
- 1:40:16Speaker 1: is painful. Come out of the night of unrest, out
- 1:40:20Speaker 1: of the dark nightmare of sin and affliction. For there
- 1:40:24Speaker 1: is a way out of the place of darkness, and
- 1:40:27Speaker 1: out of the dwelling place of deep darkness, a pathway
- 1:40:30Speaker 1: that is sure. There shall be light and safety. There
- 1:40:34Speaker 1: shall be rest and healing, there shall be joy and satisfaction.
- 1:40:39Speaker 1: There shall be no more dreaming. For him who is awake,
- 1:40:43Speaker 1: who says, with deep resolve, I will abandon self, and
- 1:40:47Speaker 1: truth shall be my lord. And thus resolving, there shall
- 1:40:51Speaker 1: appear upon his right hand a gateway that is dark,
- 1:40:55Speaker 1: and upon his left hand a portal pleasant to behold.
- 1:40:58Speaker 1: And he shall stoop and enter the gateway that is dark,
- 1:41:02Speaker 1: And there shall come behind him mockeries and revilings and
- 1:41:06Speaker 1: laughter that stingeth. And entering, he shall take up two swords.
- 1:41:11Speaker 1: The first is called the sword of searching, and the
- 1:41:14Speaker 1: second is called the sword of dividing. And with the
- 1:41:18Speaker 1: sword of searching he shall destroy the enemies of wisdom.
- 1:41:21Speaker 1: And with the sword of dividing he shall sever good
- 1:41:24Speaker 1: from evil. He shall encounter all the enemies of light,
- 1:41:28Speaker 1: them that cast the great shadow, he shall disperse and
- 1:41:31Speaker 1: the strong keepers are the keys of hell. He shall
- 1:41:34Speaker 1: put to rout. He shall pass through the fire called suffering,
- 1:41:38Speaker 1: and it shall not devour him. He shall cross the
- 1:41:41Speaker 1: dark ocean called sorrow, and it shall not swallow him up.
- 1:41:45Speaker 1: And when he cometh to the great desert called desertion,
- 1:41:49Speaker 1: he shall not turn back. And he shall come out
- 1:41:52Speaker 1: of all his darkness. He shall find the shadowless light.
- 1:41:57Speaker 1: Upon the outermost edge of the great darkness. He shall
- 1:42:00Speaker 1: hear a voice, the voice of the Holy One. Then
- 1:42:04Speaker 1: shall he know that the King of Truth is near,
- 1:42:06Speaker 1: and that there cometh the Anointed Prince of Peace. And
- 1:42:10Speaker 1: he shall follow the voice, because it is gentle and true,
- 1:42:13Speaker 1: and it shall lead him to the eternal abode of light,
- 1:42:17Speaker 1: where every veil shall be lifted, at every mystery solved,
- 1:42:21Speaker 1: and he shall perceive the majesty of the Master of Truth.
- 1:42:24Speaker 1: He shall behold the beauty of the Law of Righteousness.
- 1:42:28Speaker 1: He shall gaze upon the glory of the Great Reality.
- 1:42:31Speaker 1: He shall hear the song of the Redeemed, even this,
- 1:42:35Speaker 1: the sweet song of salvation. Sin is destroyed. How perfect
- 1:42:40Speaker 1: is the law. Sorrow is slain, How mighty is love?
- 1:42:45Speaker 1: The clouds of affliction are dispersed. How glorious is the light,
- 1:42:50Speaker 1: error is fallen, How immaculate is the truth. Awake, ye sleepers,
- 1:42:56Speaker 1: rejoice in the truth. Look up, ye fall ball and
- 1:43:00Speaker 1: rejoice in the light. Let the thirsty come and drink,
- 1:43:05Speaker 1: Let the hungry come and eat, Let the dying come
- 1:43:08Speaker 1: and live. Salvation abounds, and redemption is sure. And entering
- 1:43:14Speaker 1: the gate of peace, the empires of this world shall
- 1:43:17Speaker 1: be to him as dust, its glories as clouds that
- 1:43:20Speaker 1: are dispersed, its pleasures as chaff that is carried away,
- 1:43:25Speaker 1: and its pursuits as houses having no foundation. And the
- 1:43:30Speaker 1: voice of the Holy One shall say unto him, conqueror
- 1:43:33Speaker 1: of self, slayer of sin and sorrow, disperser of shadows
- 1:43:39Speaker 1: and delusions, put away the sword of searching, and let
- 1:43:42Speaker 1: the sort of dividing be sheathed. Here are no sorrows,
- 1:43:47Speaker 1: Here is no darkness, and affliction and strife and division
- 1:43:51Speaker 1: cannot enter here. Lowly doer of righteousness, thou hast found
- 1:43:56Speaker 1: my law. Silent seeker of truth, thou hast found, and
- 1:44:00Speaker 1: may peace. Lover of meekness and good, thou hast found me.
- 1:44:06Speaker 1: Take up thy abode in my eternal habitation, Thy warfare
- 1:44:10Speaker 1: is ended, and thy rest is achieved. The sixth prophecy
- 1:44:17Speaker 1: called peace the voice of the Spirit to the children
- 1:44:22Speaker 1: of truth, Rejoice and be glad yea be filled with gladness,
- 1:44:28Speaker 1: for the great task is completed, and there is no
- 1:44:30Speaker 1: more labor. The long journey is ended, and there is
- 1:44:34Speaker 1: no more weariness. The days are numbered, and the Savior
- 1:44:37Speaker 1: has come. There is peace upon the hills and in
- 1:44:41Speaker 1: the valleys, a tumult of great joy for the child
- 1:44:44Speaker 1: who is Love and wisdom is apprehended, and the Kingdom,
- 1:44:48Speaker 1: which is good will and peace is proclaimed. Sing Ye,
- 1:44:52Speaker 1: Holy ones, ye pure and peaceful. Let your voices be heard.
- 1:44:58Speaker 1: Truth is established, and righteous reigneth. There is joy for
- 1:45:02Speaker 1: every sorrow. There is oil for every wound, and there
- 1:45:06Speaker 1: is healing for every broken heart. For the weary, there
- 1:45:09Speaker 1: is a rest that endureth, for the wandering, an eternal refuge,
- 1:45:14Speaker 1: and for the despairing and tempest tossed a harbor of
- 1:45:17Speaker 1: great gladness, for there is sinlessness of heart. Out of
- 1:45:22Speaker 1: the dark places of self, beyond the uncertain valley of
- 1:45:26Speaker 1: transition is found the peaceful path of holiness, upon the
- 1:45:31Speaker 1: high peaks of purity, upon the mountains of righteousness. Even
- 1:45:35Speaker 1: upon the lofty hills of love. There abideth eternal peace.
- 1:45:40Speaker 1: There awaiteth everlasting rest. Whosoever will climb, Let him come
- 1:45:46Speaker 1: and see, whosoever will strive, Let him come and know.
- 1:45:52Speaker 1: Whosoever will overcome, Let him come and enter. In the
- 1:45:56Speaker 1: darkness is dispersed. The power of evil is to droid,
- 1:46:00Speaker 1: and the weal of fate is broken. The light abideth
- 1:46:05Speaker 1: in eternal glory. The power of good is supreme, and
- 1:46:09Speaker 1: righteousness and love have broken every bond. Death is slain,
- 1:46:14Speaker 1: for life is known. Doubt is no more, for immortality
- 1:46:17Speaker 1: is tasted. Fear is cast out, for perfect love is revealed.
- 1:46:23Speaker 1: The King of Truth is near, and he is perfect Knowledge.
- 1:46:27Speaker 1: The Lord of Life is at hand, and he is
- 1:46:30Speaker 1: perfect purity. The Savior is here, and he is perfect Love.
- 1:46:36Speaker 1: Therefore peace abideth, yea abideth forever. These things are made
- 1:46:42Speaker 1: known to the righteous, to the wise, their glory is revealed.
- 1:46:46Speaker 1: And by the guileless alone are these three perfections comprehended.
- 1:46:51Speaker 1: For he that is unholy knoweth only that which is unholy.
- 1:46:55Speaker 1: He that is holy knoweth holy things. Perfection cannot be distorted.
- 1:47:00Speaker 1: Behold its beauty Righteousness cannot be broken. How faultless are
- 1:47:06Speaker 1: its proportions, Truth remains undisturbed, How incomparable is its calm.
- 1:47:12Speaker 1: And because of this there is great rejoicing. Because of
- 1:47:16Speaker 1: this there is holly gladness. Because of this there is
- 1:47:21Speaker 1: unending peace. End of Part three, Section one Prophecies. Section
- 1:47:30Speaker 1: two Exhortations. The first exhortation concerning purity, the purity that
- 1:47:39Speaker 1: is stainless. To this, I exhort men to the purity
- 1:47:43Speaker 1: of the highest I point the sons of light. I
- 1:47:46Speaker 1: exhort also the children of error to the excellent way
- 1:47:50Speaker 1: of purity. For outer purity groweth truth, and they who
- 1:47:54Speaker 1: seek it seek the heavenly light. Ye who are bound,
- 1:47:58Speaker 1: come now and be free. Say not I am helpless,
- 1:48:02Speaker 1: Ye who are enslaved, For the wave of emancipation is
- 1:48:05Speaker 1: opened up. YEA even salvation knocketh at your door. Will
- 1:48:10Speaker 1: you choose liberty? Or will ye rather choose to be
- 1:48:14Speaker 1: bound in purity? There is freedom understanding dwelleth in her temple,
- 1:48:19Speaker 1: and joy and gladness and peace are her door keepers.
- 1:48:23Speaker 1: Come then and listen to the exhortation of truth, And
- 1:48:27Speaker 1: having listen'd, do that which is pure and doing that
- 1:48:31Speaker 1: which is pure, ye shall know the supreme blessedness. Not
- 1:48:35Speaker 1: in thy acts alone shalt thou find purity. The purity
- 1:48:39Speaker 1: of the highest is not confined to acts. Nor by
- 1:48:43Speaker 1: cutting off thy acts shalt thou become pure, But by
- 1:48:47Speaker 1: cleansing the source of thy acts, even thy mind and heart.
- 1:48:51Speaker 1: For a pure mind cannot commit impure acts. Neither can
- 1:48:55Speaker 1: a stainless heart bring forth any unlovely thing. What then
- 1:49:00Speaker 1: defileth and what maketh clean? The unchaste thought, the impure desire,
- 1:49:06Speaker 1: the selfish inclination, This defileth and bringeth forth darkness and death.
- 1:49:12Speaker 1: The pure thought, the holy aspiration, the unselfish love. This
- 1:49:18Speaker 1: cleanseth and bringeth forth light and love. Come, then, and
- 1:49:22Speaker 1: see how straight is the narrow path of purity. Come
- 1:49:26Speaker 1: and know how open and unsecret are the beautiful courts
- 1:49:29Speaker 1: of truth. Come and understand how simple is the excellent
- 1:49:33Speaker 1: law of righteousness, Easy to find and pleasant to walk?
- 1:49:37Speaker 1: Is the path of purity? Open wide and inviting entrance?
- 1:49:42Speaker 1: Are the gates of truth? Near at hand and ready
- 1:49:45Speaker 1: for investigation. Is the law of righteousness. To harbour hateful thoughts,
- 1:49:51Speaker 1: to cherish lustful inclinations, to nurture the seeds of malice
- 1:49:55Speaker 1: in the heart. This defileth and leadeth to suffering, to
- 1:50:00Speaker 1: thirst for pleasures and rewards, to dwell upon the sins
- 1:50:03Speaker 1: of others, and to think I am better than this man.
- 1:50:08Speaker 1: This maketh impure and causeth thee to wander from truth,
- 1:50:12Speaker 1: to seek for thyself and not to consider others, to
- 1:50:15Speaker 1: depreciate others, and to think highly of thine own works,
- 1:50:19Speaker 1: and to make proud and stubborn thy heart. This staineth
- 1:50:23Speaker 1: thy soul and taketh THEE away from thy peace. Behold,
- 1:50:28Speaker 1: how glorious is the path of purity. How lovely is
- 1:50:32Speaker 1: the treasury of truth? How comely and beautiful is the
- 1:50:35Speaker 1: garment of holiness. To be free from hatred, lust and malice.
- 1:50:40Speaker 1: How sweet, how pleasant? Not to desire pleasures and rewards.
- 1:50:45Speaker 1: How good, how joyful, not to magnify evil in others?
- 1:50:50Speaker 1: How fair, how lovely? To put away all egotism, How beautiful,
- 1:50:56Speaker 1: how peaceful. The blessedness of a pure art is beyond conception,
- 1:51:02Speaker 1: The loveliness of a sinless mind is beyond comparison. And
- 1:51:06Speaker 1: supremely blissful is the immortality of the righteous peace, producing
- 1:51:12Speaker 1: is the purity of the highest joy. Inspiring is the
- 1:51:15Speaker 1: stainless life, and rich in wisdom is the heart that
- 1:51:19Speaker 1: is sinless. Ye who are tired of sin, Ye who
- 1:51:23Speaker 1: know the bitterness of impurity, Ye who seek the everlasting peace,
- 1:51:28Speaker 1: Come and enter the door of purity, and let holiness
- 1:51:32Speaker 1: be your companion. Purify your thoughts, wash white the garment
- 1:51:37Speaker 1: of your mind, cleanse ye the secret places of your heart.
- 1:51:41Speaker 1: This done, truth shall come and dwell with you. Knowledge
- 1:51:45Speaker 1: shall be your lamp, and wisdom your guide. Righteousness shall
- 1:51:49Speaker 1: be your everlasting protection, and light and joy and peace
- 1:51:54Speaker 1: shall abide with you forever. The second exhortation discerning humility,
- 1:52:02Speaker 1: the humility that is blameless. To this I exhort men,
- 1:52:06Speaker 1: I point them to the sublime pathway of humility without humility.
- 1:52:11Speaker 1: Who shall see truth without meekness? Who shall comprehend thee
- 1:52:15Speaker 1: all one without lowliness? Who shall find the great reality
- 1:52:21Speaker 1: Love dwelleth with humility. Wisdom also abideth there, and peace
- 1:52:26Speaker 1: remaineth with the lowly heart. Put away thy pride, think
- 1:52:30Speaker 1: no more of thy superiority, and purge thy mind of
- 1:52:33Speaker 1: all its vanity. Then shall the truth dignify thee Truth
- 1:52:38Speaker 1: fleeth from pride, Wisdom departeth from egotism, and holiness and
- 1:52:43Speaker 1: vanity cannot dwell together. Out of humility cometh light, But
- 1:52:48Speaker 1: darkness dwells with vanity and pride. Of what art thou
- 1:52:52Speaker 1: proud O, man? Of thy beauty? Corruption awaits it of
- 1:52:58Speaker 1: thy garments. The more and the dust shall destroy them
- 1:53:02Speaker 1: of thy possessions. Tomorrow another shall possess them of thy talents.
- 1:53:08Speaker 1: Their luster shall be dimmed of thy fame. It shall
- 1:53:12Speaker 1: disappear as a mist of thy learning. Even now it
- 1:53:17Speaker 1: is surpassed of thy works. They shall vanish away forever.
- 1:53:23Speaker 1: What then remaineth? If all these things are as naught,
- 1:53:27Speaker 1: wisdom remaineth, and truth and love, and joy and peace
- 1:53:32Speaker 1: and enlightenment are established. But these cannot be known to
- 1:53:36Speaker 1: the proud. Neither can the vain man understand them. And
- 1:53:40Speaker 1: their glory is not revealed to him that is subject
- 1:53:42Speaker 1: to self. What can darkness reveal? He who walketh in darkness?
- 1:53:48Speaker 1: What shall he see? The proud are blinded by darkness.
- 1:53:52Speaker 1: The vain stumble and lose their way, and grief and
- 1:53:56Speaker 1: desolation are the end of self. The enlightenment of e
- 1:54:00Speaker 1: he is more than learning The power of meekness is
- 1:54:03Speaker 1: more than the strength of many conquerors. And he that
- 1:54:06Speaker 1: makes slowly his mind establishes himself upon a rock. How
- 1:54:11Speaker 1: shall the proud stand they fall of their own weakness?
- 1:54:15Speaker 1: How shall the vain endure? They are as reeds without support?
- 1:54:20Speaker 1: How shall a self seeking flourish? They are as barren seed,
- 1:54:24Speaker 1: blown about and finding no soil. Put on the garment
- 1:54:28Speaker 1: of humility, and thou shalt not fall. Make gentle thy heart,
- 1:54:33Speaker 1: and thou shalt endure as the mountain. Put away self,
- 1:54:36Speaker 1: and thy work shall flourish as seed upon good soil.
- 1:54:41Speaker 1: The arrogant regard themselves as kings, for they are less
- 1:54:44Speaker 1: than serfs. The meek regards themselves as serfs, for they
- 1:54:49Speaker 1: are more than kings. How easily are the proud injured?
- 1:54:53Speaker 1: Every day they suffer pain? How often are the vain wounded?
- 1:54:57Speaker 1: Weeping and sorrow are their portion? How readily do the
- 1:55:01Speaker 1: selfish suffer deprivation? Every day they grieve over that they
- 1:55:05Speaker 1: have lost? There is no pain in humility. Meekness destroyeth sorrow,
- 1:55:11Speaker 1: and the pure in heart can suffer no loss. What
- 1:55:15Speaker 1: can a man retain? What endureth? And where dwelleth immortality.
- 1:55:22Speaker 1: The things of the world pass away and none can
- 1:55:24Speaker 1: hold them. The body perishes and is no more seen,
- 1:55:28Speaker 1: and the opinions of men are as smoke in a
- 1:55:31Speaker 1: high wind. Holiness can be retained. Truth endureth, and immortality dwelleth.
- 1:55:37Speaker 1: In the sinless heart, I sought the world, but peace
- 1:55:41Speaker 1: was not there. I courted learning, but truth was not revealed.
- 1:55:46Speaker 1: I sojourned with philosophy, but my heart was sore with vanity,
- 1:55:51Speaker 1: and I cried, where is peace to be found? And
- 1:55:55Speaker 1: where is the hiding place of truth? In humility? I
- 1:55:59Speaker 1: found peace in a practice of righteousness, truth was revealed,
- 1:56:04Speaker 1: and in self obliteration, I reach the end of pain
- 1:56:07Speaker 1: and vanity. Bend low, ye, pilgrims, prostrate yourselves, ye weary
- 1:56:13Speaker 1: and disconsolate, Give up that ye love, ye stricken and afflicted.
- 1:56:18Speaker 1: For he that bendeth himself shall be straitened. He that
- 1:56:22Speaker 1: prostrateeth himself shall be lifted up. And whosoever relinquisheth self
- 1:56:27Speaker 1: shall see the end of his afflictions. Narrow and low
- 1:56:30Speaker 1: is the portal of humility. But he that stupeth and
- 1:56:34Speaker 1: entereth therein shall stand forever. The third exhortation concerning love,
- 1:56:43Speaker 1: the love that is perfect. To this I exhort men,
- 1:56:47Speaker 1: even to the love of the Highest. How beautiful to
- 1:56:50Speaker 1: behold is love? How glorious to contemplate, and in practice,
- 1:56:55Speaker 1: how sweet and full of gladness? To find love is
- 1:56:59Speaker 1: defined affection To no love is to know the eternal.
- 1:57:03Speaker 1: To practice love is to manifest truth. But how is
- 1:57:07Speaker 1: love found? How is it revealed in the heart? How
- 1:57:11Speaker 1: is it practiced and made manifest? Not to be a partisan,
- 1:57:15Speaker 1: not to practice hatred, not to engage in strife, not
- 1:57:19Speaker 1: to practice deception, not to covet, not to retaliate, not
- 1:57:24Speaker 1: to condemn. Not To do all these is to find love,
- 1:57:29Speaker 1: To put away prejudice, to rid the mind of pride
- 1:57:32Speaker 1: and vanity, to disperse doubt and fear, to wash from
- 1:57:36Speaker 1: the heart the stains of desire, to purify the mind
- 1:57:39Speaker 1: of every defilement. To do all these is to know love,
- 1:57:44Speaker 1: to be always patient, to be supremely calm, to be
- 1:57:48Speaker 1: ceaselessly holy, to be forgiving to the uttermost, and to
- 1:57:53Speaker 1: be equal minded towards enemies as towards friends. To be
- 1:57:57Speaker 1: all these is to manifest love. Where love is light
- 1:58:01Speaker 1: is where love is not, there is impenetrable darkness. Where
- 1:58:06Speaker 1: love is, life is. Where love is not, there is
- 1:58:10Speaker 1: the deeper death. Where love is truth is. Where love
- 1:58:14Speaker 1: is not, there is error and confusion. Love changes not.
- 1:58:19Speaker 1: For love is truth, Love sins not, for love is perfect.
- 1:58:23Speaker 1: Love grieves not for love is the eternal. Love is
- 1:58:27Speaker 1: not subject to birth and death, for love is immortality.
- 1:58:32Speaker 1: How illusory is the world? How fleeting and empty are
- 1:58:36Speaker 1: the pleasures of the world. How real is love? How
- 1:58:40Speaker 1: steadfast and full of peace is the life of truth?
- 1:58:44Speaker 1: How vain are the pursuits of men? How heavy is
- 1:58:47Speaker 1: the weariness of self? But the practice of righteousness is fruitful,
- 1:58:52Speaker 1: and sweet is the peace of truth. He who hath
- 1:58:55Speaker 1: love hath all things. The Master dwelleth in love. In love,
- 1:59:00Speaker 1: the great reality abides, and the wonderful peace is only
- 1:59:04Speaker 1: found by love. The purity of the highest is there
- 1:59:08Speaker 1: the majesty of humility also, And he who ad just
- 1:59:12Speaker 1: his heart to love is perfect. Seek self, and love
- 1:59:17Speaker 1: shall be withheld from you. Seek love and lo it
- 1:59:21Speaker 1: is already with you. Who seeketh enlightenment, who seeketh truth,
- 1:59:26Speaker 1: who seeketh love? Let him that seeketh come and say,
- 1:59:31Speaker 1: open ye doores a purity be closed no more, Ye,
- 1:59:36Speaker 1: narrow portals of humility swing open wide, Ye, everlasting gaits
- 1:59:41Speaker 1: of love, and his voice shall be heard in the
- 1:59:44Speaker 1: innermost places. He shall not cry in vain, nor shall
- 1:59:48Speaker 1: he lose his way, but shall pass through to his
- 1:59:51Speaker 1: everlasting rest. End of Part three, Section two Exhortations. Section
- 2:00:00Speaker 1: three Instructions. Instruction concerning the Master to the obedient and
- 2:00:09Speaker 1: the ready, to all who are willing to understand, To
- 2:00:12Speaker 1: those wandering in the darkness and unable to perceive the light,
- 2:00:16Speaker 1: come now and listen, Come now and be made glad.
- 2:00:21Speaker 1: Enter now into the revelation of purity. The Master is
- 2:00:24Speaker 1: not perceived by the senses, nor comprehended by the reason,
- 2:00:28Speaker 1: nor realized by argument. Not on the hills, nor in
- 2:00:32Speaker 1: the valleys, not in the earth nor sky, not in
- 2:00:36Speaker 1: any outward thing is the Master to be found. Creeds
- 2:00:40Speaker 1: and schools and books cannot contain him. He dwelleth within.
- 2:00:46Speaker 1: Cease from thine outward search, a weary one, Cease from
- 2:00:50Speaker 1: no wanderings, O child of night. In thine own heart,
- 2:00:54Speaker 1: dwelleth the Master. He is not hidden from thee but
- 2:00:57Speaker 1: by thyself. The Master is the inn ward voice, the
- 2:01:01Speaker 1: inward light, the inward peace. Behold, I show you the
- 2:01:05Speaker 1: dwelling place of the Master. It is a purified heart.
- 2:01:09Speaker 1: He who hath broken the bonds of self, who hath
- 2:01:12Speaker 1: slain desire, whose mind is quiet, conquered and subdued, whose
- 2:01:17Speaker 1: heart is calm and mild and full of peace, He
- 2:01:21Speaker 1: hath entered into the presence of the Master. Unto him,
- 2:01:24Speaker 1: the glory of the Master is revealed. O thou who
- 2:01:28Speaker 1: christ and receivest no answer, O thou who wanderest and
- 2:01:33Speaker 1: findest no rest, O thou who searchest and findest no light,
- 2:01:38Speaker 1: Bring hither thy fainting heart, Bring hither thy blindness. Come
- 2:01:43Speaker 1: and listen to the instruction that is holy, and having listened,
- 2:01:47Speaker 1: find satisfaction and rest. There are truths many, and there
- 2:01:52Speaker 1: is one truth, even the pure mind, the supremely perfect life.
- 2:01:57Speaker 1: There are saviors many, and there is one savior, even
- 2:02:01Speaker 1: the supreme enlightenment of wisdom. There are teachers many, and
- 2:02:06Speaker 1: there is one teacher, even the glorious revelation of righteousness.
- 2:02:10Speaker 1: There are masters many, and there is one master. Even
- 2:02:14Speaker 1: the Spirit of truth and truth Savior, Teacher and Master
- 2:02:19Speaker 1: are one, plain and unmistakable is the way which leadeth
- 2:02:23Speaker 1: to the Master. Overcome thyself. This is the way. Purify
- 2:02:28Speaker 1: thy heart, and thou shalt gaze upon the face of
- 2:02:31Speaker 1: the Master, cling to self, and thou shalt not find him.
- 2:02:36Speaker 1: Abandon self and lo the Master abideth with thee. The
- 2:02:42Speaker 1: impure have no eyes to see the pure. The darkness
- 2:02:46Speaker 1: cannot penetrate the light, and immortality is hidden from that
- 2:02:49Speaker 1: which is perishable. Therefore, leave that to which thou clingest
- 2:02:54Speaker 1: yield up thy desires, and the satisfaction of the Master
- 2:02:58Speaker 1: shall fill thee up thy opinions, and the light of
- 2:03:02Speaker 1: the Master shall illumine. Thee. Go not after thee evanescent
- 2:03:06Speaker 1: and the perishable, and thou shalt enter into the possession
- 2:03:09Speaker 1: of the eternal and imperishable. Thou shalt become one with
- 2:03:13Speaker 1: the Master, and shalt dwell with him in immortality. The
- 2:03:17Speaker 1: Master waiteth yea eternally waiteth Patience is his name. He
- 2:03:23Speaker 1: departeth not from compassion, and where righteousness abides there dwelleth
- 2:03:28Speaker 1: he hidden? Is he in love? Come unto love, and
- 2:03:32Speaker 1: thou shalt find him. The light of wisdom envelopeth him.
- 2:03:37Speaker 1: Purify thine understanding and thou shalt know him. The glory
- 2:03:41Speaker 1: of truth covereth him up relinq we self, and thou
- 2:03:45Speaker 1: shalt see his form. Why perceivest thou not the truth?
- 2:03:50Speaker 1: Why hearest thou not the voice of the Master. Thou
- 2:03:53Speaker 1: perceivest not the truth because of thine own errors. Thou
- 2:03:57Speaker 1: hearest not the Master's voice, because of voices of self
- 2:04:00Speaker 1: clamor loudly within thee. As clouds hide the face of
- 2:04:04Speaker 1: the sun, so the clouds of error hide the face
- 2:04:07Speaker 1: of the Master. Yea, the thick clouds of sin. They
- 2:04:11Speaker 1: shut him out from men, who then shall see the Master,
- 2:04:16Speaker 1: who shall comprehend him, who shall dwell with him, who
- 2:04:20Speaker 1: shall hear his voice, Even he who is of a
- 2:04:24Speaker 1: pure heart, who is gentle, compassionate, and infinitely patient, who
- 2:04:29Speaker 1: returneth meekness for anger, love for hatred, forgiveness for abuse,
- 2:04:35Speaker 1: and silence for condemnation. Clothe thyself. Therefore, in the garment
- 2:04:39Speaker 1: of humility, acknowledge thine errors, even thine inmost sins. Thus
- 2:04:45Speaker 1: confessing thyself, thou shalt find the way of love, and
- 2:04:49Speaker 1: finding love, thou shalt find the Master, and finding the Master,
- 2:04:54Speaker 1: thou shalt be at rest deny thyself, subdue thyself, conquer thyself.
- 2:05:01Speaker 1: Let not good will depart from thee. Be at peace
- 2:05:05Speaker 1: withal yea, even with the beasts. So shall the highest
- 2:05:09Speaker 1: Truth take up its abode within thee. Unto thee, the
- 2:05:12Speaker 1: heart of the Master shall be revealed. Sorrow and suffering,
- 2:05:16Speaker 1: and fear and doubt shall flee far from thee, and
- 2:05:20Speaker 1: the knowledge of immortality shall fill thy heart with peace.
- 2:05:24Speaker 1: Thus is the heart of the Master made known. Thus
- 2:05:28Speaker 1: is he revealed unto them that are ready to receive him.
- 2:05:34Speaker 1: Instruction concerning the Law to the humble and the faithful,
- 2:05:39Speaker 1: to them that are seeking humility and faith. There is
- 2:05:42Speaker 1: one supreme law, even the law of good. Think not
- 2:05:46Speaker 1: that which is evil, Say not that which is evil.
- 2:05:50Speaker 1: Do not that which is evil, Think that which is good,
- 2:05:54Speaker 1: Say that which is good, Do that which is good.
- 2:05:58Speaker 1: So shalt thou come to know the law. By no
- 2:06:02Speaker 1: other way can it be comprehended. The knowledge of the
- 2:06:05Speaker 1: Law maketh the heart glad, It filleth the mind with joy.
- 2:06:09Speaker 1: It destroyeth all sorrow, suffering ceases. For him who knows
- 2:06:13Speaker 1: the law, sin and grief and affliction leave him, And
- 2:06:17Speaker 1: wheresoever he goes, peace follows him. Happy is he who
- 2:06:21Speaker 1: has perceived the law. Blessed is he who practices it.
- 2:06:26Speaker 1: Divine is he who has become one with it. Come
- 2:06:29Speaker 1: thou that searchest weary and almost hopeless, prostrate thyself in
- 2:06:34Speaker 1: the dust of obedience. Deny thyself to the uttermost, leave
- 2:06:39Speaker 1: all that thou art proud of yea sacrifice. All. So
- 2:06:44Speaker 1: shalt thou put on the yoke of loneliness, and shalt
- 2:06:47Speaker 1: thou enter into a knowledge of the law. Then shalt
- 2:06:50Speaker 1: thou come to know the three names of the Law
- 2:06:53Speaker 1: of good. The first is justice, the second righteousness, the
- 2:06:59Speaker 1: third love men, loving self. Deny these lofty names, and,
- 2:07:05Speaker 1: having no knowledge of the law of good, wandering in
- 2:07:07Speaker 1: the dark, they fall into treacherous places, and fear and
- 2:07:12Speaker 1: doubt and sorrow and suffering dwell with them. Practice the
- 2:07:16Speaker 1: inward righteousness, and thou shalt see the ineffable glory of
- 2:07:19Speaker 1: the three names. Thou shalt comprehend the law of good,
- 2:07:24Speaker 1: and bliss and peace shall fill thee. To know the law,
- 2:07:28Speaker 1: to obey the law, to practice the law. This only
- 2:07:32Speaker 1: is salvation. This only is emancipation from error and unrest.
- 2:07:37Speaker 1: Supremely glorious is the law of good. Supremely peacegiving is
- 2:07:41Speaker 1: the knowledge of the law. Supremely blessed is he whose
- 2:07:45Speaker 1: pilgrim feet walk in obedience with the law. He who says,
- 2:07:50Speaker 1: I will no more cling to self, I will no
- 2:07:53Speaker 1: more engage in strife, I will no more retaliate, I
- 2:07:57Speaker 1: will no more judge and condemn too. I have clung
- 2:08:01Speaker 1: to self, I have sought to gratify self. I have
- 2:08:04Speaker 1: defended and protected myself. But now I will abandon self.
- 2:08:09Speaker 1: I will sacrifice and not defend myself. Yea utmost crucifixion
- 2:08:14Speaker 1: shall be mine. I will love all men and only myself.
- 2:08:19Speaker 1: Will I condemn. The garment of humility shall cover me.
- 2:08:23Speaker 1: Righteousness and love shall be my protection. Even in the
- 2:08:26Speaker 1: highest will I take my refuge. Good will shall be
- 2:08:30Speaker 1: my guide, Compassion shall not depart from me, and the
- 2:08:34Speaker 1: divine gentleness of truth shall guide my thoughts and actions.
- 2:08:38Speaker 1: Thus will I cease from sin? Thus will I practice
- 2:08:42Speaker 1: the highest good. He who thus resolves shall know the law.
- 2:08:46Speaker 1: The law of good. Shall he comprehend, the fullness of
- 2:08:50Speaker 1: its majesty shall be revealed to him, And from all
- 2:08:53Speaker 1: evil shall he be protected. Therefore, let a man believe
- 2:08:57Speaker 1: in good. Let him cling to good, Let him practice good.
- 2:09:02Speaker 1: He will thus come to comprehend himself. Comprehending himself, he
- 2:09:06Speaker 1: will comprehend the universe. He will thus arrive at peace.
- 2:09:10Speaker 1: When a man's body is defiled, does he not wash
- 2:09:13Speaker 1: it and make it clean? When a man's heart is defiled,
- 2:09:17Speaker 1: Let him likewise wash it and be clean. Five are
- 2:09:21Speaker 1: the waters which wash away sin, Purity which washes away
- 2:09:25Speaker 1: all indulgences and lusts, Pity which washes away all self seeking,
- 2:09:31Speaker 1: an indifference, humility which washes away all prejudice and pride,
- 2:09:37Speaker 1: Joy which washes away all covetousness and envy, Love which
- 2:09:42Speaker 1: washes away all hatred and condemnation. Whosoever will let him
- 2:09:47Speaker 1: come and be clean, the waters are ready and waiting.
- 2:09:51Speaker 1: Blessed he is who is free from sin. He knows
- 2:09:55Speaker 1: the supreme law of good and dwells in peace. Thus
- 2:10:00Speaker 1: the law of good expounded. Thus is its spread abroad
- 2:10:04Speaker 1: in the hearts of men. Instruction concerning the Great Reality
- 2:10:12Speaker 1: to the awakened and enlightened, to those who seek to
- 2:10:15Speaker 1: be awakened and enlightened. There is darkness, and there is light.
- 2:10:20Speaker 1: There is dreaming, and there is waking. There is illusion,
- 2:10:23Speaker 1: and there is reality. The darkness apprehendeth not the light.
- 2:10:27Speaker 1: The dreamer knoweth not his waking mind, and the wanderer
- 2:10:31Speaker 1: in illusion is unacquainted with reality. Of two ways, therefore
- 2:10:36Speaker 1: one must be abandoned. The dweller in darkness seeth nothing,
- 2:10:40Speaker 1: not even himself. His feet stumble. He knoweth not his way.
- 2:10:45Speaker 1: Abandon darkness, and thou shalt come unto the light. Coming
- 2:10:50Speaker 1: to the light, thou shalt see all things. Thou shalt
- 2:10:53Speaker 1: know thy way, and thy feet shall cease from stumbling.
- 2:10:57Speaker 1: The way of the dreamer is uncertain, and pleasure and
- 2:11:01Speaker 1: terror afflict him. He knoweth not where he standeth. He
- 2:11:05Speaker 1: controlleth not himself. And is it the mercy of the unreal?
- 2:11:10Speaker 1: Abandon the dreams of self. O, thou that sleepest awake,
- 2:11:15Speaker 1: Open thine eyes to the morning, and thou shalt comprehend
- 2:11:18Speaker 1: thine own divinity. The walker in the way of illusion
- 2:11:21Speaker 1: is surrounded with shadows. He receiveth not the substance. Grasping
- 2:11:27Speaker 1: at bubbles, he is scourged with grief and disappointment. Clinging
- 2:11:31Speaker 1: to the perishable, he mourns, and following after that which vanishes,
- 2:11:36Speaker 1: he is troubled with unrest. Abandon the pathway of illusion,
- 2:11:41Speaker 1: the pathway of thy perishable self. So shalt thou find
- 2:11:45Speaker 1: the imperishable truth. Gladness shall take the place of mourning,
- 2:11:50Speaker 1: and thine eyes shall be opened to the glory of
- 2:11:52Speaker 1: the Great Reality. What then, is the great Reality? For
- 2:11:58Speaker 1: great reality is a stainless heart and enlightened understanding, a
- 2:12:03Speaker 1: soul whose perfect grace is not disturbed by the practice
- 2:12:07Speaker 1: of righteousness. Only can the Great Reality be known. He
- 2:12:11Speaker 1: alone can perceive it. Who controls himself. He alone can
- 2:12:15Speaker 1: enter it. Who purifies himself. He alone can abide therein,
- 2:12:20Speaker 1: who is free from all sin. In the Great Reality,
- 2:12:24Speaker 1: all religions and philosophies culminate. They meet here and then
- 2:12:29Speaker 1: vanish away. For there is no division in the Great Reality.
- 2:12:33Speaker 1: Strife and unrest cannot enter there, and he who comes
- 2:12:36Speaker 1: to it is filled with peace. Thou who wouldst understand
- 2:12:40Speaker 1: the Great Reality, Thou who wouldst enter it and know
- 2:12:44Speaker 1: its peace? Seek the one behind the many, Seek the
- 2:12:48Speaker 1: silence behind the noise, Seek truth behind self. Seek for
- 2:12:53Speaker 1: that which is holy and peace giving, which abides and
- 2:12:57Speaker 1: does not pass away Like the morning dew wisdom abides,
- 2:13:02Speaker 1: love abides, compassion abides, Truth abides. Therefore, sacrifice self for self,
- 2:13:12Speaker 1: and all things of self are perishable, they belong to
- 2:13:15Speaker 1: the unreal. Awake, Then, out of thy dreaming, disperse all
- 2:13:20Speaker 1: thy shadows, destroy all thine illusions, and thou shalt enter
- 2:13:25Speaker 1: the Great Reality, filled with peace. Thou shalt dwell with
- 2:13:30Speaker 1: the eternal harmonies, filled with bliss. Thou shalt sing the
- 2:13:34Speaker 1: everlasting song, the song which thrills the spaces and the
- 2:13:38Speaker 1: world's thy song and mind. Thus shalt thou sing. I
- 2:13:43Speaker 1: have made the acquaintance of the Master of compassion. I
- 2:13:47Speaker 1: have put on the garment of the perfect Law. I
- 2:13:49Speaker 1: have entered the realm of the Great Reality. Wandering is ended,
- 2:13:54Speaker 1: for rest is accomplished. Pain and sorrow have ceased, for
- 2:13:58Speaker 1: peace is entered into. Confusion is dissolved, for unity is
- 2:14:03Speaker 1: made manifest. Error is vanquished, for truth is revealed. Blessed
- 2:14:09Speaker 1: is he who is resolved to abandon self. Blessed is
- 2:14:12Speaker 1: he who is pure. Blessed is he who has destroyed
- 2:14:16Speaker 1: all his illusions. He has found the Great Reality. At last,
- 2:14:21Speaker 1: the universe is glad, for again the Master is revealed.
- 2:14:25Speaker 1: The universe is glad for again the law of good
- 2:14:28Speaker 1: is expounded, the universe is glad for again the great
- 2:14:33Speaker 1: reality is comprehended. End of Part three, Section three Instructions.
- 2:14:42Speaker 1: Section four. Discourse concerning the way of truth one self restraint.
- 2:14:50Speaker 1: What is truth? It resides in the silence of perfect deeds.
- 2:14:56Speaker 1: That silence is sufficient for the wise. I therefore discourse
- 2:15:00Speaker 1: not upon truth. I discourse upon the way which leads thither.
- 2:15:05Speaker 1: For truth is not of words, but of life. And
- 2:15:08Speaker 1: though truth govern the tongue, its seat is not there.
- 2:15:11Speaker 1: Its seat is in the heart. What words shall add
- 2:15:15Speaker 1: beauty to the ineffable, and what man shall glorify truth?
- 2:15:20Speaker 1: Let the ineffable give beauty to words, and it man
- 2:15:23Speaker 1: be glorified by truth. I therefore point the way which
- 2:15:27Speaker 1: leads to truth. Not by speculation do I point the way,
- 2:15:31Speaker 1: but by practice and attainment. The way is named self conquest.
- 2:15:37Speaker 1: I write for believers, for them that believe that self
- 2:15:41Speaker 1: can be overcome. I write not for them that deny
- 2:15:44Speaker 1: that self can be overcome, and who thus exalt and
- 2:15:48Speaker 1: give dominion to self. He who believes will walk the
- 2:15:52Speaker 1: Holy way, and walking it will reach the highest truth.
- 2:15:57Speaker 1: Let him who thus believes equip himself helmeted with faith,
- 2:16:01Speaker 1: armored with patience, and armed with a sharp sword of resolution,
- 2:16:06Speaker 1: he will be prepared to attack the enemies of truth
- 2:16:09Speaker 1: within himself. He will enter upon the practices of truth.
- 2:16:13Speaker 1: By practice, the artisan becomes accomplished in his craft. By practice,
- 2:16:18Speaker 1: the truth lover becomes accomplished in truth. The way of
- 2:16:22Speaker 1: truth is marked by three great practices. The first is
- 2:16:27Speaker 1: self restraint, the second self examination, the third self surrender.
- 2:16:34Speaker 1: These three include all others. He who refuses to practice
- 2:16:38Speaker 1: self restraint, who says in his heart, I will eat
- 2:16:42Speaker 1: and drink, and make me garlands of pleasure, he cannot
- 2:16:45Speaker 1: find the way which leads to peace. But he who
- 2:16:48Speaker 1: says within himself, I will dwell with abstinence. I will
- 2:16:52Speaker 1: make my abode with chastity. Integrity shall be my companion,
- 2:16:57Speaker 1: and faith shall light up my darkness. Yea, virtue shall
- 2:17:00Speaker 1: be my refuge and my stay. He will find the
- 2:17:04Speaker 1: way which leads to truth. Lo, he hath already found it,
- 2:17:08Speaker 1: For the practice of virtue is the entrance to the way.
- 2:17:11Speaker 1: The vicious man destroys, but the virtuous man builds. He
- 2:17:16Speaker 1: slays himself, who thinks only of his own pleasure, he
- 2:17:19Speaker 1: preserves himself. Who controls himself, He who renounces pleasure and
- 2:17:24Speaker 1: restrains his passions, preferring steadfastness and integrity to gratification, will
- 2:17:30Speaker 1: partake of the joys of virtue. Pleasant will be his friendships,
- 2:17:34Speaker 1: pure his affections, and long and prosperous his days. Thus
- 2:17:39Speaker 1: walking with virtue, happiness will wait upon him. Partial blessedness
- 2:17:44Speaker 1: will be his portion, and he will reach the first
- 2:17:47Speaker 1: great resting place. Yet staying there he will not reach
- 2:17:52Speaker 1: the highest two. Self examination. He who seeks the highest
- 2:17:59Speaker 1: will end upon the practice of self examination. Searching the
- 2:18:03Speaker 1: inmost recesses of his heart, following up the intricate threads
- 2:18:08Speaker 1: of thought, rigorously testing the quality of his motives, he
- 2:18:12Speaker 1: will find out the hidden springs of desire. He will
- 2:18:15Speaker 1: lay bare the roots of the tree of life, and
- 2:18:18Speaker 1: finding the eternal cause, he will know both good and evil.
- 2:18:23Speaker 1: He will see the highest and will no more perish.
- 2:18:26Speaker 1: As a beautiful flower is formed, its growth not being seen,
- 2:18:31Speaker 1: so would he grow in wisdom unseen of men. Yet,
- 2:18:35Speaker 1: when wisdom is fully formed, when the flower of truth
- 2:18:38Speaker 1: becomes manifest in all its beauty, men unacquainted with its
- 2:18:42Speaker 1: silent growth, will say, this man is wise, whence obtained
- 2:18:46Speaker 1: he his wisdom? How knoweth this man letters, having never
- 2:18:50Speaker 1: learned as a child in the womb, as a plant
- 2:18:54Speaker 1: in the earth, as an object in the eye of
- 2:18:57Speaker 1: the approaching traveler. So wisdom is formed in the heart.
- 2:19:01Speaker 1: So knowledge grows in him who diligently examines himself, who,
- 2:19:05Speaker 1: having found the roots of evil, tears them up with
- 2:19:08Speaker 1: the hands of renunciation, and burns them to ashes in
- 2:19:12Speaker 1: the fire of knowledge. He who thus examines himself, who
- 2:19:16Speaker 1: rectifies his inmost heart, and rejects all the errors of
- 2:19:21Speaker 1: his mind, who, seeking out and humbly acknowledging his own faults,
- 2:19:26Speaker 1: refusing to dwell upon the faults of others, will make
- 2:19:29Speaker 1: swift progress toward the goal of peace. He will cleanse
- 2:19:33Speaker 1: his heart, He will purify his understanding, subduing self. He
- 2:19:39Speaker 1: will no longer look through the eye of self, apprehending truth.
- 2:19:43Speaker 1: He will perceive with the unveiled eye of truth. He
- 2:19:46Speaker 1: will know both self and truth. All his works will prosper,
- 2:19:51Speaker 1: for his acts will be righteous, His tongue will speak wisdom,
- 2:19:55Speaker 1: for his heart will be pure, And where his feet
- 2:19:58Speaker 1: of trodden, the flower of love and peace will grow.
- 2:20:02Speaker 1: He will refuse to dwell with unrighteousness, folly, and impurity.
- 2:20:06Speaker 1: He will reject, and he will say, under strife and hatred,
- 2:20:10Speaker 1: depart ye from me, kindling the fire of inward knowledge,
- 2:20:14Speaker 1: keeping bright and constant its flame, and feeding it with
- 2:20:18Speaker 1: patient and loving sacrifice. Let a man burn up all
- 2:20:22Speaker 1: that is perishable within him. Only, thus will he find
- 2:20:25Speaker 1: the imperishable. Let him eliminate the dross of error. Only,
- 2:20:30Speaker 1: thus will he discover the gold of truth. Let him
- 2:20:33Speaker 1: destroy all sin. Only, Thus will he find the stainless one. Only,
- 2:20:39Speaker 1: thus will he approach the highest. Thus, seeking out the
- 2:20:43Speaker 1: source within himself, passion will not long torment him. Finding
- 2:20:48Speaker 1: the cause of passion, he will destroy it, and self
- 2:20:52Speaker 1: restraint will give way to composure of mind and heart.
- 2:20:56Speaker 1: Far will he travel on the way of peace, and
- 2:20:59Speaker 1: reaching the seat and resting place, will taste of fuller
- 2:21:02Speaker 1: joy and blessedness. Yet staying there he will not reach
- 2:21:07Speaker 1: the highest. Three self surrender, Having well restrained himself, having
- 2:21:17Speaker 1: deeply examined himself, Let the lover of truth now enter
- 2:21:20Speaker 1: upon the practice of self surrender. He who practices self
- 2:21:25Speaker 1: restraint travels well. He who practices self examination travels better.
- 2:21:31Speaker 1: He who practices self surrender travels best. He only can
- 2:21:36Speaker 1: know the highest, who surrenders self, who makes the inward
- 2:21:39Speaker 1: sacrifice complete, who holds nothing back, who calls nothing his own,
- 2:21:45Speaker 1: who refuses to set his heart upon any earthly thing,
- 2:21:49Speaker 1: putting aside all his lusts, empty himself of all his vanities,
- 2:21:54Speaker 1: divesting himself of all his theories and opinions, he will
- 2:21:57Speaker 1: become empty, naked, and will without possessions. And having become empty,
- 2:22:03Speaker 1: he will be filled with truth. Having become naked, he
- 2:22:06Speaker 1: will be clothed with righteousness, Possessing nothing, He will be
- 2:22:11Speaker 1: lord of all. When self surrender is practiced in its completeness,
- 2:22:16Speaker 1: then is the highest reached. Then is truth comprehended. Then
- 2:22:21Speaker 1: is perfect peace enjoyed. He who has conquered himself can
- 2:22:25Speaker 1: never be brought low. He who has surrendered himself can
- 2:22:29Speaker 1: never be confounded. He who has overcome the world can
- 2:22:33Speaker 1: never be disturbed. The flames of lust will not burn him,
- 2:22:37Speaker 1: for he has quenched them. Temptation will no more scourge him,
- 2:22:41Speaker 1: for he has destroyed the cause of temptation. Restraint will
- 2:22:46Speaker 1: no more be needed, for he will be perfect in truth,
- 2:22:50Speaker 1: freed from self. He will be freed from sorrow, freed
- 2:22:54Speaker 1: from error, he will no more grieve. Freed from impurity,
- 2:22:59Speaker 1: he will cease from suffering. He will enter into the
- 2:23:02Speaker 1: highest joy, and, reaching the final resting place, will partake
- 2:23:07Speaker 1: of perfect bliss and blessedness, not valuing that which perishes.
- 2:23:12Speaker 1: He can never be robbed, not loving himself, he can
- 2:23:16Speaker 1: never be wounded. And though men should slay him, he
- 2:23:19Speaker 1: can never be destroyed, for he is no longer self
- 2:23:23Speaker 1: but Truth, And who shall destroy truth? All bodies die,
- 2:23:29Speaker 1: but truth does not die. All things pass away, but
- 2:23:33Speaker 1: Truth remains forever. He who has surrendered self has become immortal.
- 2:23:39Speaker 1: He is no longer separate, but has become one with truth,
- 2:23:43Speaker 1: and he manifests the highest though men perceive it, not
- 2:23:48Speaker 1: of self restraint is born, Virtue of self examination is born.
- 2:23:53Speaker 1: Knowledge of self surrender is born. Love. Happy shall he
- 2:23:58Speaker 1: become who restrains himself. Blessed shall he become who purifies himself?
- 2:24:04Speaker 1: Divine shall he become who surrenders himself by virtue. One's
- 2:24:09Speaker 1: life is governed by knowledge. One's life is purified by love.
- 2:24:15Speaker 1: One's life is perfected. Virtue is the seed, knowledge, the
- 2:24:20Speaker 1: plant and love the flower. The seed knoweth not the plant.
- 2:24:25Speaker 1: The plant knoweth not the flower, but the flower knoweth itself,
- 2:24:29Speaker 1: plant and seed. By self restraint, passion is slain by
- 2:24:34Speaker 1: self examination. False belief is slain by self surrender. All
- 2:24:40Speaker 1: illusion is laid low. Self restraint leads to strength, Self
- 2:24:45Speaker 1: examination leads to wisdom. Self surrender leads to holiness. Perfect
- 2:24:51Speaker 1: In self restraint, self examination, and self surrender, a man
- 2:24:55Speaker 1: has reached the highest. He has become one with truth
- 2:24:59Speaker 1: and will no more wander, Unalterable in compassion, firmly established
- 2:25:05Speaker 1: in righteousness, and steadfast in holiness. His heart thrills in
- 2:25:10Speaker 1: unison with the heart of all. He knows the unending joy.
- 2:25:15Speaker 1: He has found the heavenly peace. Having stooped to the lowest,
- 2:25:19Speaker 1: he is exalted to the highest. Having conquered sin, he
- 2:25:24Speaker 1: is crowned with holiness. Having crucified self, he is glorified
- 2:25:29Speaker 1: by truth. Willing to be nothing, he has become all,
- 2:25:34Speaker 1: yielding up all things, he has become possessed of all,
- 2:25:38Speaker 1: giving his life, he is clothed with immortality. Altogether virtuous,
- 2:25:44Speaker 1: he is altogether happy, altogether righteous, He is altogether blessed,
- 2:25:49Speaker 1: altogether pure. He is altogether peaceful, beautiful in meekness, majestic
- 2:25:56Speaker 1: in love, and invincible in innocence. He will manage in
- 2:26:00Speaker 1: fessed the ineffable. He will teach without words, no more troubled,
- 2:26:05Speaker 1: no more tormented, no more afflicted, Arisen, awakened, healed, and
- 2:26:12Speaker 1: made perfect. He has unveiled the face of the Highest.
- 2:26:16Speaker 1: He knows the great rest, the deep silence, the profound peace.
- 2:26:23Speaker 1: In the light which knows no darkness, he walks, and
- 2:26:26Speaker 1: it casts no shadow on his pathway. End of Part three,
- 2:26:33Speaker 1: Section four Discourse concerning the Way of Truth. End of
- 2:26:40Speaker 1: The Divine Companion by James Allen