The Book of True Life - Teachings of the Divine Master -
Volume VII - Teaching 175 - 207
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Book of True Life - Volume 7
Teaching 191
1. In the bread and wine of my table is the seed of eternal life. Come to him, eat and drink. Weep no longer for hunger and thirst; I will hear no longer your lamentations and your sobs. I want to see joy and peace with my children. As father I am all love, as master I continue to be love, and if I were to show myself as a merciless judge, within that justice too would be my love.
2. The reason is that the essence of my Spirit is love. In it you have your beginning and your end. Come closer, disciples, and sit around the Master, as you did in those days when I was among you as a man. Let your soul remember the loving voice of the Divine Master, who was Jesus. Let it remember those occasions when you followed Me to the floodplains, to the banks of the rivers, to the desert and to the mountains to hear My word.
3. Your soul was transferred to the Kingdom of Heaven while it heard the word of that Master who used the figures and creatures of the earth to create His parables and give men an idea of what the Kingdom of Heaven is. But while some believed, others doubted. But all hearts were filled with peace, and all the sick were healed. I want you to feel with Me as in the solitude of a valley. Let the walls of the meeting room and the symbols disappear before your eyes, so that your soul will not be hindered from rising to Me.
4. Disciples: If I have called you the people of God, the beloved and chosen people, do not think therefore that I love the other communities of the earth less. Once all have recognized Me, I will form out of them a spiritual family in which all are loved equally.
5. Do not consider yourselves spiritually inferior to any people or race. If you consider yourselves the only privileged ones, I tell you in truth that if I have given you divine revelations and prophecies from the first times, it was not because you are the most beloved, but because you are the first-born among mankind in the spiritual sense. Know that instead of vanity you should feel your responsibility.
6. Consider the history of Israel, and you will see that at no time did it allow the other nations to share in the inheritance and grace with which the Father marked it out That because it did the opposite of what my law and teaching commanded it, it shut itself off in its selfishness and used its gifts for itself.
7. In this time I have prepared your soul anew, enlightened it, to lead it anew on the way, on which it shall fulfill its destiny, to warn, bless and save its fellow men
8. Soon you will no longer hear this word. But therefore do not think that I have departed, that I have left you alone as orphans and those who have strayed from the path of development. My Divine Spirit will leave you prepared and will thereafter continue to watch over you. Like a divine shadow I will follow your steps. I will continue to inspire you, speak through your mouth, heal the sick through your mediation, and raise "the dead" through your voice, and when you are united, I will establish My true sanctuary in you.
9. In this time I have found man's heart more barren than ever, than a land of stones, a fossilized land covered with weeds, nettles and thistles Everywhere the weeds are growing and trees with poisonous fruits. The waters are polluted, the springs dry up, the wells are murky, and the rivers no longer flow. There are no flowers in the gardens, and when some are found, they have withered. There are no nests nor birds in the trees. The plagues devour everything, and the gnawing worm destroys everything. This is the image that mankind offers to my gaze at this time. But I have come to bring you seeds, water, and implements of agriculture, that you may seek out the fields which are measured out to you to cultivate them.
10. Do not say that I am leaving you too soon. Remember that this time it was not only three years in which I spoke to you as in the second time. In those days three years were enough to let the news of my miracles cross the borders of Judea and shake kingdoms and empires. In these three years my disciples became masters. I awakened them to love, showed them that humanity is ungrateful, but that in spite of this ingratitude it has nobility, and this nobility is the spark of divine love that every human being carries within him because he is a child of my divinity.
11. The teaching of Jesus shook the deepest roots of the human heart. There I built a temple where I still dwell. But man in his greed for power, riches, human glory and pleasures has changed life, customs, laws and principles, and it is therefore necessary that Christ should return to the people of the earth to awaken them from their deep sleep and show them the way again. Here I am, speaking to you since 1866 until today through the mouth of many successive voice-bearers always the same word, the same essence, the same revelations and prophecies.
12. It has not been three years in which I have spoken this time It has been necessary to prolong the time of my preaching in order to explain my teaching in many ways so that you would eventually understand it. How often does any of my disciples, having confessed that they love Me and believe in Me, go away and deny Me after receiving manifestations and proofs of My truth. But then, when he falls into ruin, he laments, repents and tells Me, "You are the Master, help me. I, who am infinite love and patience, pick him up, draw him to Me, put him in the best place at my table and tell him that he is "the prodigal son. I make a feast, he is cheerful, and if all ─ do not believe so much the Master ─ that that one has repented forever, he again falls into temptation. How many times have I seen many fall, rise and return to Me. That is the reason why the time of my rallies with you has been extended until 1950 to receive you for the first, second and third time, and finally to leave you strong in life.
13. What new stimuli and experiences can the world already offer you? What pleasant surprises could science already have in store for you, or what new delights should the body give you? What is there for you to learn on the paths of vice and sin? If you long for new satisfactions and desire true joys, if you long for teaching and peace, come to my country estate, walk in my way, learn to sow my seed, and you will find more than you could long for.
14. Whoever does not judge this work as pure, perfect, and boundless, does so because he has not sharpened his eye to to recognize truth in order to approach the treasury of true wisdom. Because he is very immature and has not allowed that I still show him what I have to reveal to him.
15. The last three years of these rallies are drawing nearer. They will represent those three in which I preached in the second time.
16. I will make reforms ─ not to my law, but to your ritual acts. I have waited a long time for you to carry them out from you, but you have not taken this step.
I have announced my departure for 1950. Then the brain of my voice-bearers and spirit-bearers will be closed to these rallies. I have told you that then the dialogue from Spirit to Spirit will begin. But what will those who do not prepare themselves do? ─ They will continue to summon my divine ray, which however will no longer descend, and then they will speak with the appearance that I am still making myself known through their minds. Their seers will testify that I am present there, and the healers will go into raptures and say that it is the spiritual world that speaks. Then those will mock those who obeyed my will. They will say that these were deprived of that grace by the Father, and great confusion will arise.
17. Consider: if those are setting out as forerunners and messengers to the nations ─ what else can you do? You would find the fields sown only with error and deceit. There is still time for you to reflect and prepare yourselves for the time when the world will question you. For it will not be content with exploring my word ─ for this it will always find pure ─, but it will search for the fruits that it has borne among this people. After that your fellow men will try to investigate your life, your deeds and ritual acts to find the confirmation of my teachings and my revelations.
If you could save yourselves by the knowledge of my word alone, mankind would have saved itself by the revelation of the law since the time of Moses. Yet Christ, having become the Master, had to come afterward. And still today I come in Spirit to speak to you tirelessly and make you understand that what will save you and carry you to my right hand will be your works of love, humility and mercy. Do you not remember my apostles of that time who were not content to bear witness with words, but who sealed them with their deeds, with their own lives and with their blood?
18. Today I only want the doors of your hearts to open full of compassion for your neighbor, so that mankind may give thanks to heaven by virtue of the virtue of my new disciples, that this work is not just another teaching or a new theory, that it is not another human fantasy, nor the product of a confused mind, but is the continuation of the way God has been showing men since the beginning of time, by which the announcements and prophecies of Jesus are fulfilled That it is the same Christ who worked in the Second Age who now speaks to you.
19. While the world is preparing to empty the cup of suffering that war offers, I am giving you honey so that you may be like good taste on earth If the light that shines in man's mind causes him to accomplish great works for the good of mankind, and it causes human life to be changed and developed ─ what is the light of my divine wisdom that transforms the customs of men to prepare them for spiritual life?
20. The Divine Light, the Wisdom, which radiates down on you from my Spirit, limiting itself according to your comprehension, gives you an inner enlightenment that dispels all darkness. Think, and you will realize that before you recognized this truth which you possess today, because of the time you spent on hearing my word, everything in your life world was uncertain, and you could not imagine that you would receive the enlightenment of so many secrets which your mind could not comprehend.
21. Today I remove that darkness from the human mind; I train man in such a way that he can no longer doubt the truth he carries within him.
22. As long as there are doubts and weakness that seek to defeat you, there will be no true faith among you Faith is felt, it is the impetus that makes you realize an idea without fear of failure. It is the spiritual gaze that is able to see the truth, the final goal of the Way.
23. Let faith take root in you, for not all of you have it. When it ignites, it will fight with the opposition of temptation that lies in wait for you. So that you may reject evil, you must be careful to find weapons for it in the meaning of my word. But he who is not sure of my presence and of my objection judges what he sees and what he hears without his soul being able to rise up to me, for he still needs the liturgical pomp that flatters the senses, in the belief that in this way he can feel what you call inspiration or elevation of the soul.
24. I teach you that it is no longer necessary for your soul to move the heart through the sound of musical notes My disciples in the Second Age rose inwardly until they felt the spiritual peace of the beyond, and they had only the canopy of heaven above their head. They were lifted up because they felt in their heart the sounding voice of the Master.
25. During this time it has pleased me to make myself known to you through the human mind. In what better way could you understand Me if not in this one, where I use your own mind and language?
26. Through this teaching you will be elevated, for everything is designed to develop. Understand that everything has a principle: the power of good. Unfold your virtues within the circle of life in which you live. You have my light to lay the foundations on which you will build the world of tomorrow.
27. You have tangible evidence for your spiritual development. Today you can no longer think as you used to. You are different from your parents, and your children will be different from you. You cannot avoid this, it is a higher power that drives you. Verily, I tell you, evil will not prevail, it will be virtue. For the one who practices neighborly love cannot be selfish; the one who feels love cannot hate; the light does not permit darkness.
28. I want you to walk safely on the way which I show you, so that you teach your children to walk on it. Your advice should always be sincere, then my word will reach the heart of him who needs it in time.
29. There will be some who fight against themselves as a result of their own viciousness; but they will need my light to recognize their faults and love their neighbor as their own brother.
30. I will go ahead of you, people, and remove from you every obstacle, that you may go forward.
31. Come today to the feast, beloved people, where you can enjoy for a short time the presence of your Master
32. Come and fill your heart with my peace ─ that peace which is in me and which you so much lack on earth
33. It is enough for me if a few hear me, because tomorrow they will carry the testimony to their fellow men.
I know that if I were to call out to all, the majority would not come running because they are busy with the affairs of the world. They would reject me and prevent men of good will from coming to hear me.
34. Here, in the seclusion of these simple places where I make myself known, I cause my seed to sprout. I gather the simple minds in groups, and then, when they are far from the noise of materialistic life, I speak to them of love, of the Eternal, of the soul, of true human and spiritual values, causing them to contemplate life through the Spirit and not through the senses.
35. these newcomers I call disciples, and they who never possessed anything, who were never noticed by their neighbor, were filled with satisfaction when they saw themselves called by Me and rose to a new life They set out with the conviction and joy that they can be useful to their neighbor. For the Lord has laid His revelations in them and has shown them the way of love.
36. Some reject them and mock them because they call themselves disciples of Jesus. But verily I say to you, although they are denied this grace, they will continue to be my disciples.
37. Man believes that heaven is so far away and so high up that it is very difficult for me to make mzself known among these little children, and this is because they have only a vague idea of what "heaven" is and what the word "heaven" means They do not know that "heaven" for the soul is the state of perfection, purity and light to which every soul must reach, and not a particular place in space.
38. As the soul rises, it expands more and more the world or home in which it dwells. Therefore, when it reaches perfection, it will dominate infinity, will be able to go everywhere, everything in it will be light, harmony with the Father and with all. This will be her heaven, this will be her kingdom of heaven.
What more can the soul see than eternal peace, wisdom, the bliss of loving and knowing that it is loved?
39. It is about two thousand years since I dwelt among men. To men of today this time has appeared so long that they now see the history of my deeds and the memory of my words through the glasses of fantasy, as if everything that surrounded me at that time was supernatural. But they must know that the earth and the people of that time were as natural as the present ones. If you think that only those were worthy of the grace of my presence, you are in error. For I have always dwelt in the heart of man and from time to time I reveal myself to him ─, whether as man as in that Second Age, or in Spirit as today.
40. It is necessary that man knows me so that he has a clear idea of the truth. For he who knows the truth cannot stray from the way of the law, since he is then able to hear the voice of his conscience.
41. He who does not know the truth is a blind man who cannot find the true way. He is a deaf man who cannot hear the inner voice that comes from God. This is why I have come again to the world to uncover the truth that has been hidden from it and to reveal to it new lights that lift it up from the sad and miserable situation in which it lives spiritually.
42. I will know how to awaken in man the noble striving to rise to me in the way of good. I will reveal to him the existence of the true heaven, the new "Promised Land," and prove to him that I am not far ─ simply because, if I were far from mankind, man would not exist at all.
43. Disciples, keep in your hearts the memory of these words, so that you may enjoy my law in your meditations and reflections.
44. Understand that I am the Source of Love Come to Me and you will satisfy your desire for compassion and love. See the light of my Spirit illuminating every mind and rise to a useful and fruitful life. In the past you were not even able to direct your own steps, and today you lead multitudes of people.
45. Many went toward the bottomless pit, but they heard my voice, and turned back, and today they are struggling to climb the mountain. Now that you are my disciples, I tell you Since I have formed a community with you, I will receive you only when you will come to Me united in one will.
46. In this community there is much misunderstanding and many false interpretations; hence the divisions and the differences. I tell you, there is still time to study my teaching to correct those errors and to uproot from the heart of the crowds of believers all that has sprouted as a harmful plant. Those who are most responsible for this are those who were the first to receive their commissions, for they have heard me the longest time. To those who came first I say: Fill your hearts with charity and see in those who came last your little brothers and sisters. Let your example, your life and your words show the crowds of the faithful the perfection, greatness and excellence of My work.
47. It is necessary that the church leaders make an effort to study my teachings and commandments, that they watch and pray for their church members, that they may be heard by the people and obey them, and that they may be regarded by them as prophets.
48. Every time ye hear the Father speak unto you in the sound of righteousness, ye are shaken. But afterwards your weakness brings you down again, and you fall into the "trials of the wilderness" which serve to make your soul strong.
49. When will all the children of this people be united with you, who are scattered among the nations today? These are hearts that wait only for news of the multitude of people who are undergoing hardships on the way to the "Promised Land" to set out and join them. It will not be necessary for them to unite materially, since the way is within the heart, and the "Promised Land" is in the peace of the soul.
50. Each one will receive in his place the inspiration of his father and the thoughts of his brothers and sisters to feel comforted. My new "people of Israel" will appear in all parts of the earth and teach the teaching of spiritualization with genuine sincerity.
51. How can you think, people, that because you come together in different places of assembly, this is to be a reason for you to be distant from one another. Only ignorance will prevent you from becoming aware of the spiritual bonds that unite all the children of the Lord.
52. Let the gifts of your Spirit be revealed so that intuition and revelation guide your steps and you do not profane or defile the gifts I have entrusted to you.
53. This time has brought to your soul the divine gift of a new opportunity to lift you up to your Father.
54. He who came as Messiah, who walked on earth and with his word and works showed man the way to salvation ─ It is he who today comes in the Spirit and makes his voice of righteousness heard through conscience.
55. To many I have sent out the call that they may come and attend this rallies and hear this word. But not all those who are called have rushed by.
56. The multitudes who follow Me are those who felt in their soul the desire to come and enjoy the shade of the mighty tree and receive as an heir the seed which they would then carry into all the world. They heard the voice of their Lord and wanted to be sowers like Him. Gradually they became disciples, knowing that tomorrow they would leave the warmth of their father's home to bring a gift to all who hunger or thirst for love, truth or justice.
57. Mighty have I made my word known, that this people may not be shy towards the learned. For truly, I tell you, many of the called scholars have gone astray in their own learning.
58. Works, words, prayer ─ this is the mission by which this people must teach their fellow men. Under the cloak of the most loving Mother, it must overcome distances, trusting that that divine mercy will not separate from it.
59. Often you will speak of Mary's existence and love, and you will experience that the hearts are not moved by it. In other cases you will be rejected because you proclaim her name and teach the faith in her. But do not worry, remember that while Jesus died on the cross, a woman in pain felt herself die at the foot of the cross. It was Mary, the Mother, who felt all the pain of this world. Did that crowd of spectators notice the presence of that woman? No, people. But time passed, and she, of whom not even her name was known, was considered the Mother of the Redeemer in human terms and spiritually the Mother of mankind. An altar was erected in the hearts of men for that heavenly motherly love which made itself visible to the world through Mary.
60. As he who draws water from a well to irrigate his fields, so come men to the rallies of my Word. Each one has a number of people, a family or a community to nourish them spiritually, and he knows that only with Me can he find the crystal-clear water that can make his fields blossom and bear fruit sufficiently.
61. My heart as Master receives with emotion those emissaries who come from faraway places in the name of a group of people. I send to those hearts through them my message of peace and my teaching of wisdom.
62. You do well to seek me in the bosom of those who have heard me the longest, for they have learned much But do not forget that it is not necessary to cover material distances to find me because I am everywhere. The only distance you have to cover to feel my presence is that which exists between your materialization and the spiritual goods.
63. Return in peace to your home, your neighborhood or the bosom of your community. But first clothe yourselves with zeal, with righteousness, and with energy, that you may lead those who belong to you on the right path, that you may not allow anyone to belittle this teaching by his works, that you may bring healing balm in your hearts to dry the tears of your fellow men who knock at your doors day after day in their desire for your mercy. Make sure that through your works my teaching appears as what it is: the true source of love, forgiveness and redemption.
64. Reflect on your past, contemplate your present, and you will come to the conviction that you have indeed been sent to this earth to fulfill this mission Not human words will convince you of this truth, but the proofs I have sent you on your life's journey. Convinced of the truth of these teachings, you are to devote yourselves to the accomplishment of your mission with all the zeal and all the love of which you are capable.
65. The Master tells you: Do not limit this work to a habitual course of things, however loud it may appear to you, and do not say, "Lord, how perfect is your work. For beyond what you see, there is something higher which you will achieve tomorrow. So you will go forever from one level to another, without ever seeing the limits of my wisdom, because it has none.
66. Do not stop, but do not go too fast either. Measure your steps, and let each of them be safe through study and meditation.
My peace be with you!
