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Discipleship in the New Age I - Personal Instructions to Disciples - D.I.J.
August 1935 There is little that I have to say to you at this time, brother of old. I seek not to change your work or meditation. You [460] have followed the one I assigned for only six months and I seek to have you work at it for a full year. One change only would I make and that is in connection with the third point and the use of the Lord's Prayer. Instead of pondering on the words of that prayer, I give you here some sentences which I would ask you to make especially your own, for they are peculiarly yours. There are three such sentences and you might regard them as constituting a magical phrase for each of your three bodies. You should all remember that ancient phrases (such as these I oftentimes give) are really untranslatable; I but put them into English words which will make their meaning clear. I make no attempt to preserve more than the sense. Phrase I. For the mind. "Like a golden butterfly which flies in tile face of the sun, I find myself poised upon the lotus petal of the earth. I hover; I stay a little moment and then I fly - into the golden pathway that leads unto the sun." Phrase II. For the emotional nature. "There is no darkness and no fog. There is no night or day. There are no storms nor peace, no rest nor strife; only the steadfast will of God which works toward good." Phrase III. For the physical body. "Down from the mountain top I come, bringing the light of Life, the life of Light. Into the chalice of the form I pour that light which life confers, this life which light sustains. I see this golden light transform the darkness into day. I see the blue of life divine pour through the form, healing and soothing. Thus is the task performed. Thus is a man of earth transformed into a Son of God." Give the coming months to these three phrases in your meditation and ponder deeply on their significance. 1st and 2nd months - Phrase I. 3rd and 4th months - Phrase II. 5th and 6th months - Phrase III. Otherwise keep your meditation unchanged. One of the purposes of these meditation seed thoughts is the physical transformation [461] of the lower man, but your success will be dependent upon the changes wrought in the two inner, subtler bodies through the medium of the first two phrases. . . Let the discipline of light carry on its work with you. And, my brother, may I make one practical suggestion to you? Your main problem from the angle of the soul is a physical one in this incarnation. Your tenseness and over-anxiety cause much of your physical disability. To most of your co-disciples and to you I feel the need of saying simply: Be joyful, for joy lets in the light, and where there is joy there is little room for glamor and misunderstanding.
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