Directing your steps toward the heights,
I am arming you for life's struggles.
In giving you a Teaching for tomorrow, I prepare you
for a new life.
Avoid the dead in spirit—helpers come in growing
numbers.
Not a miracle but a tempered blade is your life.
On the way to the Temple you must endure much dust
and dirt on the path.
Even a beggar's joy is great at sight of the sun.
I am with you.
173. Understand, there is no progress with those who are
dead in spirit.
If even the human touch has power, how much greater
is the power of Our Touch!
The human touch may linger undirected, but Our Touch
bestows its energy for an intended time.
Often a simple wooden icon is more cherished
than a gilded one.
A miracle enters life unnoticed.
It takes time for a pure teaching to make its impress.
Live with patience.
174. Yesterday we approached the question of the aura.
Each one perceives the astral world through the color
of his own aura.
The fuller the harmony of one's aura,
the truer the astral image.
He whose sense of duty is acute will see this before
aught else.
As those who are attracted by love will be borne to the
Realm of Love, and transported, will comprehend
the joy of Beauty.
Only the gem that radiates all hues of Truth
can reflect the full Splendor of the Future.
Yet we must also appreciate the pure stone of one color.
We learn to smile at errors.
Books, like man's passing thoughts, must be chosen
with care.
Many easy things are revealed as useless when you gain
instruction from Me.
When berries are gathered in the woods, only the best
are chosen.
175. Be on your guard.
Let naught impure enter My Dwelling.
I will assail with lightning those who betray My Plan.
I will strike terror upon those reckless ones.
My Shield shall protect those who teach.
We will manifest wonders to those who render homage.
We will send blessings to the guardians of My Sign.
I will send you My Word. Carry it to the disciples.
I am with you!
176. Our Task is to help humanity.
Often a Yogi, merging into Nirvana, strives to forget
the earth.
177. The sun's smile amidst the clouds brings forth
the radiant rainbow.
You will remember the Aura of the Teacher smiling
through the dewdrops of that future day of glory.
I endure all. My Name is defamed,
My Works are assailed and distorted, and
hostile hands would cleave asunder My Shield.
But the roots of the new race grow ever stronger.
Listen to the truth—your cloudy mood comes from knowing
about the unprecedented approaching world cataclysm.
The blind rejoice, the deaf make merry.
But the awakened spirit is filled with foreboding
and sorrow.
Weak-spirited are those who in the midst of battle
dream of peace.
In five years an entire age is outspanned,
But mankind regards its ever-swifter course as a
disaster.
178. I send you this consolation. Pure thoughts do not die,
they flourish though the earth congeal.
179. Judge not too severely the happenings of life;
they are a chain of events leading you to the Gates.
Pure thoughts are needed to surmount the obstacles upon
the way.
He who sees himself as kind is not kind;
But he who blames himself for cruelty demonstrates the
progress of his spirit.
His soul does not rust, and his spirit begins to assume
its true form.
180. In the schools of the future the ways of spiritual
growth will be taught by those who have gained
full ascent.
My chosen ones will bring My simple Word of what
must be rendered to the great nation.
And personal love, national love, and universal love
will offer praise and sacrifice
to the Creator of Love.
We send Our Help and Blessing.
181. Pure music helps the transmission of the current.
We pray by sounds and by symbols of Beauty.