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and fear are poor advisers. A great number of superstitions can be cited which make adults
comparable to children. We urge that you abandon all superstitions and learn reality in everything.
Pity those who jump on one foot. This spectacle calls to mind a fairy tale wherein the nurse, in
order to prevent the child from running away, suggested to him that it was a sign of high birth to
walk on one leg.
246. The man who is not free, who thinks of himself, who acts for himself, is plunged into an ocean
of false currents. The man even remodels his speech into a manifestation of external expression
that is in conformity with his egotism. Pay attention to how accents are displaced on words of
foreign tongue, in disregard of meaning and philology. People re-cut alien sounds to fit the custom
of their own country. Indeed, the self-conceit of ignorance and a contempt for the neighbor are
indicated in the distortion of speech. To reason out and to penetrate into the meaning of a
neighbor's feeling is incompatible with the coarseness of petty self-conceit. The feeling of
irresponsibility and the undiscarded sense of ownership create the feudal lords of our contemporary
times.
Notice that he who mutilates the meaning of speech, through senseless displacement of
accents will be a man who lacks comprehension of evolution. The sensitive man prefers to use
simple expressions in order not to destroy a meaning unknown to him. No one can listen to a
messenger who distorts the meaning of his mission.
Condemning one, turn to yourself! Unfair owner, do not forget that someone else's
infatuation for possession is only a reflection of your own! First of all, be concerned with the scope
of your own consciousness. If the beast of ownership has not been forever engulfed by your
consciousness, you remain not free, enticed by the mirage of Maya. Learning, one may solve the
difficult problem of possessions in the joy of enlightenment.
It is permitted the baker to eat all the bread, but he does not do it. The man who has
cognized the essence of all things is not in need of them. The consciousness must be the object of
primary consideration. Take realistically everything within the boundaries of all life.
He who is not free, who acts for himself, sinks into an ocean of false currents.
247. When lightning singes the wings, when thunder alarms the ear, when the anchors of earthly
well-being disappear, then will Our messenger knock. The smile of contentment does not open the
door to him. The wooden beam of self-conceit closes the entrance to him. The obvious will become
apparent to him who wishes to receive the guest. Although the path of evolution is unalterable,
each one disposes for himself. The sword-blade is being forged, but the pile of dross-contentment-
grows. Signs of the extinction of light are appearing. In the forge the sword-blade has already been
tempered. Affirmed are manifestations of a wonderful New World. There is still much rubbish, but
the ashes of the dross is the cradle of the blade. One may know all the imperfection, but slander
against the New World will be a stumbling block on the path. The Dragon is still alive. Every blade
must be raised from the ashes. The spine of the Dragon has hidden the distant worlds. The enemy
has concealed the entrance into the World of Light, but the stars will appear through the rifts in the
spine. The pit of refuse does not bring despondency, but the golden spine of the Dragon raises as an
allurement. Let us take up all swords directed at the Dragon and count them again attentively.
It is time to make ready the Banner of Maitreya.
Who said that the time of Maitreya is without lightning and without whirlwind!
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We prefer to test you in flight.
248. First of all, let us keep in mind that it is impossible to retard the process of ripening fruit. Let
us review the pages of history The time came for liberation of thought, and the stakes of the
Inquisition blazed; yet thought flowed on. The time came for people's rule, and the firing squad
began to thunder. The time came for the development of technics, and the retrogrades were
terrified; but the machines moved on, pulsating in the tempo of evolution. Now has come the time
for realization of psychic energy. All inquisitors, retrogrades, wiseacres and ignorant ones may be
terrified, but the possibility of the new attainment of humanity has ripened in all its incalculable
potentiality. Inquisitors and retrogrades may build jails and insane asylums which will be fit
enough for them later in labor colonies. But to turn back the matured step of evolution is
impossible. Just as it is impossible to deprive humanity of all the ways of communication.
The denier of evolution can withdraw into hermit life and dream about the delights of
regress. But life itself, reality itself, will indicate new, incontestable manifestations. Only the
judicious mind of a realist places these manifestations into a scientifically conceived, orderly
scheme. All the near-sighted mystics and the petty conventional literati will be in the place of the
ignorant. The banner of the newly realized energy is being raised. Each new acquisition must fill
every heart with joy. The thinking of the community member must throb at the possibilities of new,
useful studies of reality.
We summon to knowledge, for only knowledge can assist in absorbing the complex of
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