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Do you know your higher advantage?

May 9, 1984
Moscow


        So these two weeks work, made the problem of physical body clear. Not enough of sleep and continuos daily labour made us realise our body as really temporal. If me are given an injection or surgery, our cell will cry so evidently and so loudly that we will become identified with this ache and the reality of this total ache will amaze us. We are sure to know, that a physical body is temporal. We certainly know that, but this inner knowledge goes away and we rarely treat our body as temporal. But when you get tired physically of the daily round you suddenly see that the principle of consciousness that entered your body and has been using it, has its temporal experience here and then will go away and this body will disappear. This is the way animals disappear as we eat them up. This is the way grass disappears, as animals eat it up. This is the way minerals disappear as grass eats them up. We don't see anything in it. But as soon as we have Soul to eat up personality, we pretend that "Soul saves personality".

        In the apocrypha there is an utterance of Master Jesus that "God is the devourer of people". In all the sources, preserving esoteric knowledge and the basis of esoteric practice it is mentioned that the One Life is immortal, but the higher consciences within it absorb lower consciences which, beginning with the human stage, have the freedom of choice to survive, being identified with the One Who eats up, or to be eaten if identified with the lower conscience of physical, astral, mental bodies; to be identified with those who are eaten up. Whether we want this or not the problem of death or the problem of temporary life of bodies exist in reality, and the earlier we stop being proud as personalities the more time is left to make up inside us the One who "eats up" (Soul).

        These days the body has definitely become one of the object of the temporary world, though more perfect than all the rest. Our wonderful body that we adore and patronise has turned out to be something that will be subjected to a complete collapse. We see this structure as our dress, as a temporary construction. Jesus says: "...and your will disperse flesh among plants and animals because you recognised yourself as a flesh ", - you remember apocrypha? There arose a problem of physical body and immediately there came a more careful attitude to it. Careful, tender, understanding - as to some wise organism, very delicate, very childish, which serves for us but which is not we. We separate from it because its temporary life and its mortality have become not just merely understood but have become the deepest and inalienable emotional experience.

        It is in this state that you feel humble and sad. You ask yourself: "What do I respect? Myself as conscience in this body or this body itself? Have I worked up my spiritual conscience?" You know, when it is difficult to find the way out, the only thing you at least have to do, is not to lie.

        We know that astral body as a sum of emotional patterns also disintegrates. And mental body is subject to disintegration too. These bodies are more fine and perfect as compared to physical ones but they also disappear. So can you imagine how hard the higher cosmic nature has been working to create our astral - mental vehicle (our personality)? To our mind they are amazingly beautiful organisms as compared to plant, animal, mineral. Suddenly a man realises that he is not only physical, but also an astral and mental corpse. And nothing whatsoever.

        And what shall we do then? How to make control over our personality not too late? And how much is the importance of the personality that it claims its priority which we won't make use of after all?!

        Being shocked with such a revelation some people wish to their children as to the real continuation of themselves and disappear into them. Others are hurry to create "immortal" works. But this or that - all is illusive. One ought to seek in oneself is left unruined.

        Often the image of ourselves (personality) which is being developed for two and a half thousand years at the period of individualisation, appears in our dreams as an old woman who, as a rule, doesn't want to sacrifice herself to - new organism - Soul, and instead of sacrificing herself she, by a old habit of a growing organism, uses the energies of Soul. Do you remember Russian fairytales with their running through line of fighting between Baba-Jaga and the Girl Soul?

        At the moment of a person's death his central entity flashes - and lightens up his personality and sees this Baba-Jaga. If you die as personality the light of soul or spirit will pour into you freely and in this case there will be no old woman-Death, there will come Kali! Kali will embrace you and Soul will enter the Being and that will seem to you life, more abundant, than life on the Earth. But our astral and mental bodies like to eat and they eat via our ambitions, via our pride drawing down the energies of the "girl-Soul" They have no right for this. You realises this and you ask yourself: " You want to survive here? Well, you can do this, you are given the opportunity, but probably you are wasting time given to you for quite a different purpose? Don't you waist the energies of the Girl to prolong the life of the dead Baba-Jaga?"

        Imagine, that I have a hammer in my hand. I held it in one hand for a while, put it into my other hand, played with it and gradually forgot that I had to hammer in the nail. In our illusive existence of vehicles, we forget that it is with us that the nail is hammered in and that it is Soul itself that hammers in via the vehicle prolonging its own Life. That is what our periphery entity is doing: it wants to draw down on itself the energies of our eternal Existence. If you understand this you can ask yourself: "Why do you make fool of myself? What do I report to? Do I reality think that I am interest everybody but my own self? Whom am I telling lies to? Why don't I take a decision? Don't I remember of my higher advantage?"

        If we continue to feed the image of our own self, this old woman comes again, but she turns into "a young pannochka" (N. Gogol "Viy") slim, refined, wild.

        Our Soul clings to our personality and through this vehicle the eyes of Eternity watch the world. But the witch also "clings" like that. So, whom do me identify ourselves with? What do me want from life? Emotional, hearty joys? Knowledge? Sexual satisfaction? No, we want the truth and immortality. I remember my mother looking interrogative at everybody before she dies: "Tell me what am I? Where am I going to? Where did I come from? Why are you silent about that? You all have been is competent!?"

        The Old Woman-Death - is a female manifestation. And the one we call King of the World - is a male manifestation. We are the evidence of these two, we are the cells of their body. They do lend us all and then take it all back. But we also are the cells of the body of Hierarchy of Light. The Mother of Hierarchy gives a gift a sets us free.

        So who shall we choose as our mother: the old woman or the Mother of Hierarchy? Who shall we identify ourselves with? What shall we work up? Shall we reject off all that doesn't have spirit in it or shall we continue cheating ourselves?


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