Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00324)

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An announcer of glad tidings always has a happy heart; and, as the 
Hebrew poet says in substance: "Beautiful on the mountains are the feet 
of them who come bringing tidings of good cheer." I always feel, when 
standing on this platform to speak, that I am like the messenger of glad 
tidings to men; for our wonderful philosophy is replete, is full, of the 
most noble and elevating thoughts -- not garnered merely from the 
storehouse of the thoughts of the great seers and Sages of the ages, but 
thoughts that you and I can prove to be true by entering into our own 
fora, going within ourselves, into those silent places that every human 
heart possesses, which are so similar to, and yet so different from, 
each one as contrasted with all the others.

In these silent places we receive illumination, we receive visions of 
truth, because our spirit -- the core of us, the heart of us -- has gone 
into the very core of being, where it is native, from which it is 
separated never, from which it originally sprang, and with which we are 
all in direct and unceasing communication.

Realize this wonderful truth; take it to heart; for there are fountains 
inexhaustible of wisdom, of knowledge, and of love -- yes, and power -- 
power over self first of all, which means power over the so-called 
inanimate nature in which we live and move and have our being.

What is this core of your being? That is the question, friends, that the 
great sages and seers of all the ages have answered: it is the inner god 
in you, the divine spirit, the Christos-spirit, the living Christ. These 
are not vain words, not poetical terms; for there is nothing so real, 
nothing so actual, nothing which gives such comfort and help and solace 
in time of stress and grief and sorrow and suffering.

It is a wonderful experience to go into the silent places of the heart. 
It is pitiful how the average man fritters away his time in a fevered 
and restless search for the things that amount to so little after all, 
and that perforce he needs must leave behind him when the great and 
beautiful angel of death is at his bedside.

But in life, while we are living as men and women on this earth, we can 
at any moment, if we so will, not merely ally ourselves with, but become 
at one with, be, the very heart of the universe. This is the substance 
of the noblest, the most elevated, religious and philosophical teachings 
that the world has ever received.

It is into these quiet places of the soul, if you like to put it so, 
into these deep silences of the heart -- that is to say, the inmost of 
the inmost of the human being -- that enter the great seers and sages 
when they want to acquire more light and greater knowledge; for by so 
doing they enter into the very structure and fabric of the universe, and 
therefore know truth at first hand, because they become in their own 
minds and intelligences, in the interpreting organ we call the 
mentality, one with that universe, vibrating synchronously, 
sympathetically, with the vibrations on all planes of the Eternal 
Mother. There they become at one with all, and therefore know truth 
intuitively.


         /Questions We All Ask/ by G. de Purucker


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