Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00024)

 Master the problem of remaining cool throughout the entire Battle. 
The Battle of Light is just beginning—millions are in it without 
knowing the final result. But you know, and this knowledge should 
make you wise and prompt a worthy decision. Your spirit must take 
wing in the name of Truth. How is it possible to be uplifted by the 
achievement of the evolution of the World? My Ray carries My request 
that nothing be done to hinder its light. Instead of wings of 
achievement it is easy to grow black horns—wings of false reasoning. 
The dark spirits have black emanations resembling horns.

20. It is necessary to strive toward the utmost, the absolute. The 
utmost absolute gravitation will be toward the far-off worlds. 
Earthly beauty is lost in the glory of the super-stellar rays. 
Earthly science, remembering with difficulty yesterday and ignorant 
of tomorrow, is insignificant, and contributes nothing to the 
knowledge about the course of luminaries coming into existence.
How may one approach the above-mentioned Absolute? It cannot be 
done through technical means or earthly science, nor by descriptive 
art. It is possible only through the expansion of consciousness, when 
the earthly being is engulfed by the emanations from the distant 
spheres. Thus, those who are approaching Us, or rather the boundaries 
of the orbit of Earth, lose their specialty. Only in the realization 
of all-comprehensiveness may one endure the brilliance of the 
luminaries. But in order to contain this scintillation, one must set 
alight one's inner fires.
The element of fire is most striking, transcendental, and if you 
wish to classify Our Community according to the elements, refer to 
the great fire which gives all, purifies all, and requires nothing.

21. We are not lovers of the world of bodily survivals, the lower 
Subtle World—the Astral World—but, like everything else that exists, 
it cannot be avoided in spiritual development. The world of bodily 
survivals contains certain elements needed for the intercourse 
between the worlds. For example, the means of transportation are very 
little understood by the dwellers of the Subtle World. Although they 
have the possibility to strive upwards they are busy with the 
constructing of dark houses, in imitation of the earthly ones. But if 
still during their lifetime they had broadened their consciousnesses, 
they would have been able to measure the hem of the garment of the 
Mother of the World.
The better possibilities can be awakened by those who are able to 
perceive with a spiritual consciousness. But for the preservation of 
consciousness it is necessary to sense this during one's lifetime. 
Then the state of the contemporary world of physical survivals will 
be almost erased. Not the prayer "rest in peace," but "learn in the 
space of the Light." With all your consciousness remember the 
problems of evolution. When the striving for repose disappears then 
are the Gates drawing near.

22. One may reach Us only in harmonious agreement. We need not 
deification but a certain quality of spirit, as a lamp of concordant 
tension. A flickering lamp is unbearable for prolonged work. The same 
laws apply in everything, and according to the law of justice a 
flickering lamp injures itself. I counsel My lamps not to blink. The 
dynamo is not damaged because of the quality of the lamps, but 
uncoordinated voltage often results in a grievous—zing! And the basic 
metal must be provided anew. The laws are identical in everything.

23. There is no soulless justice, but only shining goalfitness. 
Indeed, the glorious goalfitness cannot tyrannize, but reveals the 
gates of beauty. And the call of goalfitness fills the space with the 
rapture of victory. Events and creations constituting goalfitness are 
not small outworn fragments but are the precious parts of the Cosmos.
Only a realization of Cosmic individuality can illumine the steps 
of evolution. Otherwise, in the earthly understanding evolution will 
remain only profitable investment of capital. You already know that 
capital deprived of goalfitness is only a millstone about the neck. 
And, as a manifestation of infection forms spiritual and bodily 
ulcers, likewise does a manifestation of the lunacy of covetousness 
bring harm to the spirit and the body.
On the Earth we are much concerned about the body; therefore it 
is necessary to penetrate into the origins of illnesses. A physician 
could say to the patient: "You have an attack of cupidity," or "the 
anemia of self-conceit," or "stones of treachery," or "a rash of 
gossip," or "a stroke of hatred."
At cemeteries we so love to recall the merits of the departed 
one; it would not be amiss to set forth the true causes of the 
diseases—the spectacle would be instructive.
Friends, I repeat—hold your thoughts pure, this is the best 
disinfectant and the foremost tonic expedient.
To the "world teachers"
Christina