Welcome to seekers! Welcome to bearers of the common weal! Welcome of the East.

They will ask, "Who gave you the Teaching?" Answer, "The Mahatma of the East." They will ask, "How can I be useful?" Answer, "From this hour unto eternity."

One must manifest discipline of spirit, without which one cannot be free. To the bound one discipline is a prison, to the unbounded discipline is wondrous, a healing garden. Rejecting the unnecessary, one who envisions evolution acquires simplicity. How readily flashes the beauty of evolution. It is upon each to choose the quality of his fire. Within disciplined spirit radiates the direction of fire, the way of cooperation for the common good. A beacon of a thousand fires illumines the way home and lights the aura's rainbow. Thus the discipline of spirit is winged!

I,v. 1. Once even a hundred were considered a host. A thousand made an army. 2. The spirit perfects itself in contemplating cosmos. Within the void is the source where one finds resurgence. 3. Ponder each day how to fulfill My task. Show the inheritors beauty. Affirm the eye. It is easier to affirm a single roaring than to suffer mouldy consciousness. Let us proceed to the multiplication of strength. 4. I shall send--fulfill My Will. Delicacies are not needed on the way but caution is. 5. On this way let one cash in one's shield of lies. 6. I warn that the non-fulfillment of directives and disrespect of Hierarchy are more dangerous to one than it may seem. The flow of karma may be covered by the ice of understanding. Guard the given path! 7. A mule can draw a cart. A mule bears its rider to shelter in stormy weather. 8. The Teacher's signs must be remembered; his shield must be held in purity. I shall send all defense and all potential--hold the conduit firmly. Amid the maddened crowd veil the spirit-fire. Read My book, be not terrified by the voice of calamity, for the blind do not perceive what is revealed. Evoke My Name more often. Observe the downfall of the kingdom of falsehood. Lie, lie, lie--perish! 9. The Teaching needs to be well understood and applied resourcefully. Smile at small stones!

I, vi. 1. Feel the bond which integrates wondrously. By a wondrous bast are your sandals tied for the journey. As anciently, so unfolds the way. Destined intersections cannot be avoided. Numberless the sendings upon the page of life. All is prepared: do not tear My web. Folly's whirlwind blows away the best designs sent by Me. Being unripe is no excuse. It is better to celebrate victory after the battle than to wander in the mire. Therefore, walk together and be covered by one Shield. Let each purify his breath without spouts of dusty anger. Gathering leaves of devotion, you will understand My way's usefulness. Compulsion is not Our ally. In walking together one may offer counsel. Then, think well, do not stumble. 2. In Our Scales striving is weightiest. Fortune is strengthened only by the current of devout achievement. Spiritual instruction creates the organism's armor. Sensing the quickening of the world, begin the wintery book. Victory must follow My own. Wisely attend to My milestones. 3. Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! Afterwards the receiving; then the triumph of spirit. 4. Each one his aim; I provide the goal-fitting. Thru this comes transformation wherein the mind may be homeward dwelling in all states. The spirit learns Light as sorrow sharpens eyesight. Realization of infinity illumines the bestowed good. There exist the path of the world and the path of wings. Discern. 5. Clouds gather but the morning star ascends. 6. Each instant of spiritual understanding adds its gem of potential's worth. 7. The best zurnas have often lacked some strings. 8. Mothers in their wisdom see subtle conditions bearing upon their child's birth. The mother's spirit knows how the enemy would harm the new wayfarer. During gestation's transition poisons are easily met. The mother's anger can easily be aroused, the home filled with the dust of discontent. So mothers try wisely to direct their attention to whole images or find comfort in natural beauty. 9. In giving one receives. Disdaining materiality, one receives the finer raiment. 10. The form is quickened by the formless and not forgotten. 11. Daringly raise the shield. I ask you not to weaken yourself with gold. My Teaching is not gold-loving. 12. There cannot be mercy till karmic justice is met. 13. Sow better, sowers! Earth is in the toils, hanging by a thread, requiring intercession. 14. I shall call into My House those whom I see approach. The pending sword fills the spirit with pain. 15. Fulfill the task pleasing to Me and advantageous to you, benevolently affirming My House. Gather love's tokens. In love one understands the adorning of purpose. Key your spirit to what befits My House. Reverence prompts one as to the cleanness and beauty. Labor manifests flowers. I take no obol, I requite an hundredfold.

I, vii. 1. There is not punishment nor revenge, there is the counter-spark. "Better not touch." 4. Stay the vile slanders by a smile bereft of irritation. 5. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds.

I, viii. 1. Do not pause before foreign gates, but demand the right of way without disturbing your calmness, because your way is determined. One must with pure thoughts close one's pores to bad air. 2. Those rejoice who have suffered, who were aflame in spirit, who labored. 3. By keeping the aura clear help the messengers to reach you. It is difficult for the dove to fly in a fog. Love the solitude of thought. As I have vouched for you, so entrust yourselves to Me. Perform the great task of the living God. 4. To span an arch twixt full decline and the ascent is not easy. Carriers of spirit look not among themselves for routine. The knife of attention sharpens. 5. In time the personal is superceded by unified consciousness. 6. One cannot replace the heart by an extremity and it is impossible to introduce into the circle of oneness an undisciplined spirit. There are witnesses near at hand who will not burden the artery of a heart far away. 7. The horse before the cart--how hard it becomes to carry all manner of unorganized thinking. 9. To the utmost limit of brain must you be immersed in My potentiality. It does not befit anyone to become wearied. 10. The gnats are displeased with the breeze. They cannot reach you nor sting you. Do not make additional enemies, there is enough. 11. Only the harmony of the battery can maintain the power. Act in accordance. 12. See upon your ring two spirals. Upon one the ascent, upon the other descent, even for an arhat. I shall send you seven opportunities to manifest resourcefulness. Gird yourself with determination.

I, ix. 1. Consider exultation as a potent path to Us. Count steps as you approach the hallowed, each seventh carries My mark--by and by the lightning flash! The open door--by yourself enter. 3. I say irrevocably: While with Me, while without irritation and doubt, the streams of potential are incalculable. Weave baskets in which to carry these stars. Spread the linen of the tents to catch the flights. Thus I lead! 4-5. Labor in the morning; rejoice in the evening in My Name. I bid you anew: May the spirit of the Brotherhood abide in you. 6. Thru the Teaching penetrate to essential bliss, walk with firm step confident to resurrect the greatest hope of mankind based upon the Stone. 7. Consider the unfolding, the procession of peoples. 8. O ball of destiny! The Light has been revealed to thee. Succeed, ball, in reaching it in time! Restrain the evil cunning whirl. 9. To you I say it! Turn to the East, behold My Dawn! Do not spill the chalice of My Hour! Accept your heritage, patient ones! The ancient vessel has returned! 10. The current of solemn communion creates a wondrous ladder. You can discern when to invoke My Hand. 11. How await the unfolding? As waves in rhythm, so the workings, in measured and expectant undulant progression. Understand the clarion hour, heed the pace of life. In silent moments store up understanding on the shelf of experience. How decipher the script? Isolate oneself and apply the lesson to one's dimensions. Here am I newborn, ancient, exile, sovereign, blind, awakened. To all facets apply the potentiality of the Lotus. 12. Hesitate not. Proceed leonine. The fire of Earth wants to break thru. Walk sternly without irritation. Irritation makes the vessel brittle. 13. By spirit retain the Word. The kingdom of spirit approaches as simply as last winter's sere leaves are swept away. I summoned you from the abyss. I sharpened your teeth. I set before you the colorful banner. Understand the Teaching in full wing. Only the upper way leads here, the lower comes not here. Hold the Word neath sagacious locks. Ascend by most valiant thought--I have lifted your tentflap briskly. In spirit forget the insignificant. Incoming Light is great. 14. Pure consciousness is obstructed by gratuitous judgment of brethren. In your devoted efforts My principles must be sustained. 15. As mountain flowers find it hard to pass even one night in a swamp, so for you it is not easy. Many darts has My Shield diverted from you. 16. It is easy to dig a ditch, difficult to erect a house. With a wing-feather you will sweep away the dust. So, guard the wing. 17. Keep My House in perspective. Your destiny is to avoid crowds, sending them the highest good. Pure the mountain silver, find it. The present dirt is naughted in the unfolding light. In the appointed cycles Earth must break the chain forged by men. 18. Great is the Light thru here.