It is realized that these teachings are contrary to the accepted ideals of our time which consummate the failure of some six thousand years of human history, therefore the time has arrived for man to take an inventory of his failures and revise his view of life in order to conform it to the Reality.
Our practice has been to analyze the mind of an individual by regarding its determined expression, but the Creator has placed within the mind of every inhabitant of the earth the divine expression which he will sooner or later assume, and this can only be accomplished by bringing to birth and experimenting with the opposition of his real character of expression.
A man threatened with abuse will invariably reveal some expression of the true character of his mind. If you present to a man’s mind your attainment to the consciousness of truth, he will naturally either accept or deny it. In the future, therefore, accept a man’s understanding and character as he expresses it, and then try to evoke his true manifestation of expression. This is an overhead process of bringing the good and evil within him to manifest; first accept him as you find him and then by the more subtle use of Yoga evoke the truth and by analyzing his power to accept or reject Truth, bring to the surface his real character of expression.
By spraying a man with the vibration of the consciousness of nature, he will come to its directing impulse. By this means he can be slowly brought into a consciousness of his own ignorance of Truth.
When a man for the first time comes under the vibration of nature’s consciousness he will realize his falsity to Truth, as well as the calmness of the vibration and the peace which is flowing through him from nature.
Nature’s subtle vibration, transmitted to others through you, will determine their true character of expression regardless of their desire to protect themselves; therefore, when you meet a person throw this divine attribute of nature into his consciousness. By doing so you will give him a precious antidote to the evil working in him. Thus through personal contact in your future work, you must bring to birth in the pupil the knowledge of his own finer expression, in order to give him the power to achieve, and make manifest the possession which you have cast into his atmosphere.
In the ether of nature there lies the awakener—that sovereignty of spirit which brings into activity the hidden powers within man. These powers remain dormant in humanity and are seldom disturbed, though it is possible for man to become the instrument of the “Awakener,” and attain to a consciousness of the bounty which Mother Nature bestows on those who seek union with her and work in her service.
A manifestation of nature’s awakener is the great need of humanity today. Then man will realize his true character and experience within nature. To prepare for the awakening is the part which the forerunners always perform when they have attuned themselves to nature’s fixed principle, and the underlying streams of energy which, though seldom experienced, lie hidden within all men.
The student will recognize that the divine energy in man cannot be separated from the divine energy in nature. The awakener in nature is your brother “man of nature” and he awakens you by sounding his vibration into your objective being, so that you consciously re-establish yourself in nature’s being. Union between objective man and his “higher self” is in nature’s keeping.
The great devas in nature give the student his first and finer perception of the reality which exists within. They seek to bring peace between the objective man and his Innermost which, during incarnation, lives and moves within the keeping of nature. They teach that the sovereignty of the spirit exists in every living thing in nature.
Man does not comprehend what is going on within him. He knows little of the workshop within his body and is ignorant of the laws which govern it. The devas say that a man should scribe his own circumference, placing his mind upon the point at the foot of his compass. Man not only scribes his own circumference, but the circle which he has scribed represents the conscious limit of his mental expansion. Though man looks out beyond his circumference into the objective world, he seldom turns around and looks inwardly to the true center of his being. Yet through all flows the real spirit of his Being with which he must attain to union by expansion of his consciousness. He must seek inwardly, not outwardly and must aspire for more light, and yet more light, in order to become conscious of the “pure light” at the center of his circle.
If you would gain knowledge of light, begin by discussing darkness. If you would consider Truth, begin by discussing falsehood, the opposite. Plan a lecture on these lines, and if you wish to speak on good, commence by discussing its opposite, evil. The modern preacher talks about the beautiful sunrise or sunset, or of the gifts of nature. If you would instruct your hearers, place their minds upon opposite conditions, which will stimulate them to seek the cause.
Man becomes sick because of a breakdown of law and order in his system, caused by mental, emotional, or physical defilement of his body, either by his ancestors or himself. The so-called “bad” man is usually a pathological case, some organ or center of his body being malformed through ignorance of the Law.
Seek always for what a certain character in history did not achieve, and by so doing you acquire a clearer understanding of what he did not possess, and why. By a similar process you can arrive at the motivating influences in the circle of your acquaintances.
