BTL - Volume 7 - Teaching 202
The Book of True Life - Teachings of the Divine Master -
Volume VII - Teaching 175 - 207
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Teaching 202:
Christmas from the perspective of the father
1. See with the gaze of your Spirit the star that leads you into the presence of your Father.
2. Here is the Savior, who in His word brings you the divine warmth that your souls, frightened by the painful pilgrimage of life, need.
3. When you approach Me because of pain, receive my love. Have confidence and take part in the solemnity of this rallies.
4. I want to be with you, so close to your heart that you really feel my presence. I want you and I to be one in the harmony and warmth of this night; that you may be aware that I am your first light, the divine promise, the tireless Master who strives to make your souls perfect, worthy of God.
5. I want to be with you, even if it is only for an hour, but in such a way that it is impossible for you to be separated from Me. See, I want to fill you with warmth, with hope and healing balm, and I want you to remember that I came into the world on a night like this to show you, through my life and exemplary works, the way that leads to the Kingdom of Heaven.
6. Approach Me so that you may receive in your hearts the essence of this Word and your prayer, which comes out of your hearts in silence, may be united in this solemn hour with all the songs of the heavens
7. Pray all, pray for the poor, for the afflicted, for the captives, for the sick, for the orphans. Pray that your thoughts may bring relief to the suffering, cheer up those who mourn and dry the tears of those who weep.
8. There is none among you, however hard his heart may be, who is not inwardly moved in these moments. But I also tell you that in order to think of others, one must forget oneself. Then they, you and I will be one in this hour of spiritual communion.
9. I have visited you in your solitude, and when my teaching of this day is over, I will leave as a trace of my presence a fragrance that will be unforgettable for this people.
10. Let Me collect the withered flowers that your hearts full of sorrows and wounds offer Me, and I will leave there a light of faith and hope
11. It is your heart that my Spirit seeks today to rise anew in the heart of mankind
12. Verily I tell you, if you make your law from my sentences, if you follow my steps and take Me as your model, divine Love will begin to blossom in your hearts, which brought you the seed of immortality when she became man many centuries ago
13. I myself am coming now to explain to you the reason for this love, since you could not comprehend it.
14. Your soul trembles as it listens to Me, telling Me: "Lord, it seems that I have been with You in that time Your Word reminds me of everything. Will You free me from this uncertainty, Master?"
15. Truly, I tell you, in that time spirit beings and men were witnesses of my coming and my work in the world.
16. Your soul is the same, even if it has lived in another world or inhabited another body. Today it weeps with different eyes, but its essence is the same, and its questions are the same. She too asks me, tries to see or discover me. Then I tell her not to be afraid, that she should be cheerful and become aware that life in infinity is a constant questioning, and that it is necessary to be humble, persevering and of great strength of faith to understand the divine lessons.
17. You often want to understand first the great and then the small. But begin by recognizing yourselves. Explore yourself, ask yourself questions, and you will experience how you begin to feed on the fire of your being. For God kindled it with the fire of His Holy Spirit.
18. Vaguely you understand this teaching because you know that you cannot have more knowledge than that which corresponds to your development. But I assure you that those who know how to seek me within their being, in the temple of their own soul, will soon receive an answer to those questions for which they could not find an explanation for centuries.
19. When there is rebellion against the spiritual in man, it is only natural that his small-mindedness cannot judge the infinite. And no matter how much the Master speaks to you of the Father's greatness, man cannot grasp what this truth contains.
20. I must tell you that I speak to you precisely of that knowledge which you are to have of God. For to grasp everything, to penetrate into everything, and to know it as you would like, you cannot achieve.
21. God alone really knows God, the Master tells you.
22. People, be aware of the deep silence with which the universe welcomes and worships its Lord in this hour. Everything is sinking into loving surrender, into sublime contemplation, into deep worship.
23. The reason for this is that all beings and all created things know that I am giving my word just now, the same word that came from the lips of Jesus, to whom men and the kingdoms of nature obeyed, to whom incurable sicknesses gave way and from whom the dead rose.
24. On this night of a spiritual feast for him who knows how to prepare and lift himself up, in the invisible, in the untouchable, you have the presence and visitation of those beings whom you call angels. If you really understood how to detach your soul from the body, you would see the fields, the cities, the homes and the space illuminated by the heavenly splendor of countless beings, messengers of light, peace and love.
25. Heaven approaches the earth, and its light seeks both him who takes time to remember and him who has forgotten spiritual truth.
26. Rejoice, O men, rejoice at least in this night, when you are not yet able to keep this peace for ever.
27. Rejoice with natural cheerfulness of heart, which is cordiality and return to goodness. Yes, rejoice with bliss of the Spirit, which is eternal enlightenment.
28. "Holy night" is what you call this night in memory of the night in which the rabbi came into the world.
29. Under the divine influence of these memories, people come closer together, absentees are remembered, offences are forgiven, families come together, friends visit each other, hearts are filled with hope. Everyone seems to expect something surprising, which they cannot say exactly ─ on the night when people let a little cordiality enter into the hardness of their hearts, and some let a little spirituality enter into their materialism. But I ask you: do you think that only this night is worthy to be called "holy" by men? Could you not, with a little love, make all the nights and days of your existence "holy" so that you might experience that life is holy in every moment?
30. You tell Me: "It is the night in which every year we remember that night when You came to our world to bring us a message of love. But I answer you that that hour indicated the moment when that man was born, when "the Word" became man, but that my Spirit was then as close to men as He was before, and as He is now.
31. But as long as you do not live a daily life wholly devoted to the law, to truth, and to love one another, strive at least to be spiritually united on this night of remembrance.
32. Seek Me all, come all to Me, but come obediently and humbly and expect everything from the mercy of your Lord
33. No one comes with self-importance or vanity, for I tell you that you are dearer to Me as needy and sinners, but humble ones who wash their stains in the crystal clear waters of My forgiveness
34. Ah, if only you could come with Me in Spirit and see from here all the misery of mankind!
35. If the powerful, the rich and those who live surrounded by comforts, wanted to be with Me this night, I would take them in Spirit to the places of pain and poverty they do not want to see
36. Then I would tell them: leave your feast for a moment and let us visit together the places where your brothers, the poor, live Let us see how they celebrate this blessed night of sorrows for some and festivities for others. Do not worry, I would tell them, I ask you only for a few moments, then you will be able to return to your feast and your merrymaking. Then I would take them from place to place and show them an old mother who, in the solitude of her miserable night camp, mourns the loss of her children who were her hope, and who were snatched away from her by the war.
37. This woman lives only on memories and prayers. While there are many who are intoxicated by pleasures, she drinks the cup of suffering. Her soul is only waiting for the hour when she will leave this world and enter eternity. For her hope for mankind has long since been extinguished.
38. After that I would show them children who roam among men, who do not respect the life of their neighbor, who neither love nor understand the needy.
39. I would cause these people to hear the so profound questions of the children, who in their human ignorance ask the reason for so much injustice, so much hatred, selfishness and cruelty.
40. Then I would take them to those places where the stifling groaning and lamentation of a sick person can be heard, who experienced how his body collapsed, like a branch breaks off when the storm whips him These are the sick, the defeated, the forgotten.
41. Later I would cause the gates of the penitentiaries to let us pass through, so that they would see the thousands of people who, for lack of love, mercy, light, justice and peace, have fallen into the darkness of a prison.
42. And so I would show them from place to place in a single image all the misery and pain that this striving for power, the greed, hatred, materialism, and the unquenchable hunger for power of the rulers have caused with their false power ─ of those who think they are powerful and yet are not, and who do not let anyone possess what is rightfully his.
43. But I do not call them, because I know that they do not want to hear my voice, although it is audible in their conscience.
44. You, however, people who are currently hearing Me and who have experienced privations, loneliness, coldness and also orphanhood, and who therefore feel so much sympathy for those people who cry out of hunger and thirst for justice ─ come to Me, and together we want to visit in Spirit the sick, the afflicted, all the poor and forgotten of the world
45. Come so that you may see how I spread out my cloak and unite it with yours to cover lovingly all mankind Come that you may hear my spiritual voice saying to those who weep, weep no longer, be no longer sad, awaken to faith and hope, what light is on the way of life. Truly, I tell you, if you pray and "awake" again with true faith, these days of pain for mankind will be shortened.
46. Yes, beloved people, from here, from the seat where you are resting to hear Me, you can let your soul approach My abode so that it may better see, understand and feel the tragedy of men, their brothers
47. Do you see those crowds of people who are full of blessings? They are soldiers who, during the battle, made a brief truce to offer Me a few minutes of prayer and remembrance. But their joy and blessing deceives. They eat and drink to relieve their suffering. There is a great pain in their heart. They are suffering, people, they are suffering very much, and especially on this night, which is a torment for them. Every memory is a sting, every name or face they remember is a wound.
48. While you are at peace in spite of your sorrows, while you can see your parents, children and wives, they have to endure the bitterness of not being able to embrace them, and the fear at the thought of perhaps never seeing them again
49. Many, many of them suffer when they destroy lives, devastate homes and cities, sow pain, grief and tears, and then believe they have lost every right to return to their family, to peace, to the bosom of theirs.
50. I know that many of them are not guilty, they have neither hatred nor the will to destroy in their hearts. I know that they are victims, slaves and instruments of the truly evil.
51. I alone can save them; my love alone can cover them protectively. In the world they are abandoned.
52. You, people who cannot imagine what this trial means, but who today have been touched by my word on the most sensitive strings of their heart ─ send them your thoughts full of mercy and light. For verily, I tell you, they will feel strengthened and encouraged, without knowing why, to pray and hope that the murderous war will finally come to an end, and their ears, instead of the roaring din of battle, will again hear those sweet words that say, "Peace on earth to men of good will.
53. Pray, people, and thereby bring about that the world awaits the light of a new day, that people remember my promise ─ that speaks of better times, of spiritualization and well-being.
54. I also tell you: Let us now turn to the hearts of
children and let us seek out those who lack everything. Look at them: they sleep, in their dreams there are no reproaches against anyone, although their bed is very hard.
55. There was no bread on the table today, yet they are resting in confidence for the new day. They wear rags, but they feel no shame, because they are innocent, and they smile, though their bodies lack warmth. They are angels on earth, for in their smiles without anger the purity of heaven is reflected.
56. O innocence! Cover them with your best cloak, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven!
57. You all call this night "Holy Night", and I pour out a flood of blessings on all my children.
58. Know that I am yours, and you are mine. Remember that I proved My love to you by living among you, the common people, born in poverty, toiling among thorns and dying in privation.
59. You cannot say of Me that I do not understand you For I have not only seen your sufferings, but I have lived through them myself.
60. I speak to you also about the old ─ those who have long since passed the spring of life and now feel the cold of winter. With increasing age they lack strength, energy and health. The work is hard, the limbs become clumsy, and they are no longer asked to cooperate.
61. So the old people see themselves excluded from the life struggle of others, they see themselves left alone, and their humiliated hearts must sink into sadness and get to know need, misery, hunger, loneliness. I speak of them because they likewise need your help and comfort. Love them, people, and you will have the right to sit down at the great table of the spiritual banquet, where I will tell you Bless you who, in following the Master, were able to understand all those who suffer.
62. So begin to develop compassion in you. Then I will use your hands to impart my blessings through them, and never again will you resist that I use yours to give it to your brother, so that when you say to Me, "Lord, all that belongs to me is yours," you will say this from your heart.
63. If you have exercised charity in your life, continue to do so. But if not, begin with the first needy person who knocks at your door, whether he be a sick person of the soul or body, a desolate heart, a widow, an old man, or a child.
64. Remember that the truly needy represent Jesus, that He comes in each one of them to tell you, "I am thirsty", thirsting that you love one another.
65. Is it possible that people's hearts are not shaken by the images of great pain and misery that this humanity offers? Yes, yes, it is possible. I see those who do not suffer need, caressing with their eyes the treasures they possess with more tenderness than men, the children of God.
66. Beloved people, you have accompanied Me in these brief moments to visit those in need. Be blessed for this. Do not think that I forget the rich and powerful. For although they apparently do not need me, I know their misery, their sufferings and also their misfortunes best. But today they believe to have everything. Why then ask me for help, since in their opinion I am the Christ of the sick, the pariahs, the afflicted? They do not know that it is my task to save them from the false splendor, to give them true and eternal happiness.
67. Know ye who, besides yourselves, have heard my word with intimacy, and have felt their Spirit tremble for love? It is Mary, beloved people, the maternal Spirit, who lives in the bosom of the Creator, and whose innermost being will always be united with the memory of Jesus.
68. Her walk through the world was short, although it was longer than mine, because she came earlier and left later. Her short and loving words were a heavenly caress.
69. Feel her in Spirit, love her and turn to her spiritually. Know that whenever you perform works of mercy, she will be with you, holding her mantle of intercession and motherly love over the suffering and bleeding world, and in every one of your grievances or sorrows you will be able to hear a voice that will answer you heartily: Have no fear, I am here, have confidence.
70. People, you have been with Me; my breath has entered into your heart in this blessed night and has made you forget all your troubles.
71. Pray that the light of your Saviour may be your guide and lead you through this stormy sea which you are crossing today
My peace be with you.
