THE LAW OF MOTION

Lecture 7 of the Youth Occult Class

Given by the Master Beinsa Douno
April 12, 1922 Wednesday
Sofia

Secret Prayer

The disciples read the words they had to write in the following order: come, harmony,
absolute, nature, to hope, symphony, persistency, beginning, disciple, peace,
height, crystal, to build up, the hero, diligence, can, nice, star, light, child,
silence, to sacrifice oneself, aspiration, magnificent, God, comes, mutual aid, lotus,
affection, wisdom of humbleness, warmth, perfection, wellspring, purity, bread,
serenity, daylight, to love and enlightenment.

The first of the read words read was Come! - the imperative form of the verb to come. This
verb is related to motion. Therefore, you should study the law of motion. Motion is referred to the first
wish, putting all other wishes and aspirations in action. Can you remember your first idea or wish, when
you were a child? The first impulse in the newly born is breath. Humans start breathing from the moment
of their birth, for the law of motion originates from the Astral world. Babies start crying with their first
breath of air. It is an indication that the physical world they are entering is not very harmonious. Both
children and aged persons cry, because the environment they are living in is not very harmonious.

But this time we will direct our attention to the conscious Life, manifested in our age. The
humanHuman beings come down to Earth to understand Life. Consequently, the souls go out of God in
order to learn Life and each soul wants to know itself. This is the first impulse or the first motion in the
consciousness. Knowing oneself means to know God. Knowing God means to enter the Infinity in the
frames or boundaries of the Finite. It is nothing else but self-determination. Each limitation creates
forms and each form contains a direction of development or a path of evolution that should be made by
the Self, the personality or the human soul for the purpose of its perfection.

Therefore, the human souls come down to Earth to become strong. The words strong (silen in
Bulgarian) and weak (slab in Bulgarian) begin with one and the same letter (s) in the Slavic
languages. The word weak relates to the law of changes; the word strong to the law of constant
values, i.e. the values, which are not changed. In other words, strength means enlargement, while
weakness means reduction.

I ask, what do you think about your coming to Earth? Why In your own point of view, why have
you come to Earth in your own view? You will give different answers. You may say that you have come
to Earth to become strong, to be saved, to get to know God, etc. You will know God, when you become
strong not only physically, but spiritually too. If a child has no power to hug its mother and to suck milk
from her, will it get to know her? - It will not. Human thoughts, feelings and motions, nevertheless no
matter how small they are, hide inexhaustible powers in them. According to the law of contrasts,
weakness means strength. A weak person in our understanding is that the one who knows the slightest
quantities, the slightest manifestations of Life. For example, babies are aware of their helplessness from
the moment of their birth, but their power is hidden precisely in their helplessness.

I point out this law to you, because many persons feel weak in moral aspect, so they say: We are
weak, we have many vices, that is the reason why we cannot follow the spiritual path. It is proof that
you are like little children in the spiritual aspect and your mothers have to bathe you in troughsbaths, for
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you often do immoral things. Your mothers should take care of you for years on the run, by bathing,
nourishing, dressing and educating you until you grow up and become mature enough to make your own
living. Little chickens, for example, are able to make their own living two or three days after they come
out of the eggs. It does not mean that humans are weaker than birds, but the matter in which they are
enveloped, is denser than that of the chickens, as a result of which they cannot overcome the limitations
of this dense matter by themselves.

Keep in your mind the idea that you can overcome all the difficulties you meet. The spiritual
science gives two explanations why humans cannot cope with their problems and think themselves weak.
Going down into the dense matter, some people forget that they have come from the Infinity; so they do
not know that they possess hidden inner powers, which they should develop. Others, who have come
from the Finite, delude themselves that they can do anything as if they are all powerful; and as a result
they have fallen and have lost even what they possess. Today both groups of people think that they are
weak, feeble and unable to deal with the present conditions of Life, due to which they have low spirits. If
you want to get rid of your mental delusions, of the idea that you know everything, ask yourself: What is
happening on the Sun today? and give an answer. Then ask yourself some more questions: What is
happening on the Moon? What is going on in the entire Universe? What is the human being? If someone
considers oneself to be a deity, this one should be able to answer such questions. A deity knows
everything. If you are not able to answer these and many other questions, you should know that as a
human being you represent just a small part of the universal consciousness, of the consciousness of
Being.

I say, if you think in this way, you will come to the question about the moral development of
people. From a spiritual point of view, the moral powers of the human being depend on the primal energy
of the human organism. The Hindus called this energy prana. That is why it is good for you to study
the pranic laws. A good disciple always makes more errors than a poor and unlearned one. The form of
the contemporary people is nothing else, but prana in action. When the amount of prana is not equally
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distributed in the human organism, it leads to diseases. When it is not equally distributed in the human
feelings, it leads to discontent. When it is not equally distributed in the human thoughts, it leads to
senselessness.

I will give you an exercise now, which to do three times daily in the morning, at noon and in the
evening before you go to bed: raise your arms ahead in a horizontal position with your palms turned
down. Form a beautiful triangle by touching the thumbs and the forefingers of your both hands. Then
open slowly open your arms aside, forming a semi-circle. Turn up your palms upwards. Bend your arms
slowly at the elbows and catch the top of your ears with the first three fingers of your both hands (thumbs
are in front, the other fingers behind). Move these three fingers of each hand along the edges of the
ears, the thumbs in the middle, the forefingers along the back part and the third fingers along the front
part of the ears. After that, raise your arms horizontally ahead. Do this exercise ten times in sequence and
finally put your arms down in the following position: the top of the thumb of each hand should touch the
top of the forefinger. When you catch the top of your ears, it will create a small moral impulse in you.
The lower part of the ears is related to the human stomach.

After you perform the exercise, you will see the results you get. You should perform it without
philosophising and picking, but observing yourself and the effects it will produce in your thoughts,
feelings and actions. Until something is applied, it will be of no use for you. You should perform the
exercises I am giving to you until you feel some positive impact. Consider these exercises sacred and do
not talk about them until you have not experienced them and received some results. When I ask you to
keep these exercises in secret, I warn you not to fall into the position of Adam and Eve who ate from the
forbidden fruit just because it was forbidden.

You should observe the following rules for the performance of the exercise: sit down, calm and
thrust your chest out. You should be concentratedconcentrate all the time to followfollowing the
movements of your arms. The aim of the exercise is mainly in your mental concentration on the
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movements of your arms. This is easy, because your mind will go from the physical to the Astral world,
not further more. If your mind is to go to a more abstract world than the Astral one, it will not stand it. It
will be good for you to note the states that you will pass through during this exercise and during all other
exercises. So, you will do this exercise three times daily: before or after praying in the morning, when
you are well disposed; at noon; and finally in the evening, before you go to bed. No one is supposed to
see you doing this exercise. If some of your neighbours ask you what you are doing, answer them that
you have an exercise. But if they insist on details, keep silence. If they continue to ask you even then, tell
them: I have read in a book that the best thing for humans is silence. So, I want to do my best to keep
silent.

The exercises you are given in class are microscopic. You should not expect big results, in order
not to become disappointed afterwards. These exercises are as insignificant, as the first lines in the artists
sketches. If an artist wants to draw a nose, he will first put a vertical line, giving the illusion of a nose.
Then he will put some curved lines and after that he will place the shadows of the nose. In this aspect, the
exercise I gave you is like the right line that will later need some curves, some shadows and so on. This
exercise will teach you to concentrate your mind and to be strict. For this purpose you are supposed to be
lively and honest, sincere enough to oneselfyourself. These are specific states of the prana. The first state
concerns the Mental world, the second state the physical world and the action taking place between
them concerns the Astral world or the World of emotions. Perform this exercise as soon as this evening,
before you go to bed. Breathe deeply, when you do it, in order to receive more vital prana. Prana has
various states: physical, emotional and intellectual or mental. Thoughts cannot be formed, feelings cannot
be revealed and actions cannot be manifested without prana.

So, when I say, that the prana causes the creation and manifestation of thoughts, feelings and
actions of human beings, this does not mean that all humans should have uniform thoughts and feelings.
Each one will receive what he needs and will manifest what he is able to, according to the extent of ones
development. For example, if you put your fingers on the bottom of your ear, some of you will wish to
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drink milk, others to eat boiled wheat or nuts, or something else. Different foods will pass through your
mind. You say: these are foolish things. In our opinion, only the unachievable things are foolish. For
example, we consider that the wish of a poor simple person to become king is foolish. In the remote
future, after a long process of development, this person could really become a king, which is impossible
today. Therefore, when you say nonsense, it should refer to something unachievable at present. But one
day that foolish thing could be fulfilled and become reality. The first letter of the word foolish
(glupav) in Bulgarian has a line above it, which is the sign of infinity ~.

Contemporary people lost a great part of the primal vital energy of their organisms;, as a result of
which their actions are weak. The vibrations of their inner motions are to be uniform, i.e. homogeneous,
so that they could understand and love one another, while studying their lessons. The heterogeneous
vibrations of their inner motions lead to the mutual misunderstanding and alienation between people. The
exercises you are given create uniformity in you. Therefore, you are required today to deal with less
philosophy and more exercises. Later on, you will come to another position to deal with more philosophy
and less exercises.

As you have noticed, the first part of the words written by you is more harmonious than the
second part. It is due to a feature, characteristic for the Bulgarians they usually begin their enterprises
well, until they reach a certain point of obstructions, after which they go to a bad end. The disharmony in
the second part of your words is an indication that knowledge has not yet become a subject of your mind.
You are studying just to say that you know something. Therefore, there is a part of your mind that is still
not awakened. It concerns namely your consciousness; i.e. you are not aware of your possibilities to
know and to be strong. Strength does not mean that you are to use violence. A strong person, in the full
sense of the word, is someone who can elevate oneself without any violence on to others. It is a rule: if
someone violates oneself, this one will also use violence against other people; and if someone elevates
oneself, this one will elevate others too.
Secret Prayer
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