II, vi. 1. Courageously to know the potential of the penetrating full light, consciously to veil unusual manifestations, these bring harmony nearer. Proceeding by broadening consciousness is the way to true action. Understanding primordial infinite potentiality unites ready souls, without which wonder becomes curiosity. When essence is invisible to the crowd and arouses no attention, being veiled by steady results thru man's hands, such essence will penetrate people's consciousness. It behooves spirit to dwell in spirit. To make of the unusual the predestined via cooperation will compel acceptance even by the dull ones. Therefore, let the miraculous remain only in the consciousness of the few able to look into infinity! Formerly priests guarded miracles for the crowds, now the wondrous is for those who attune. Striving toward cooperation lies at the foundation of evolution. Only awakened creativity destroys ignorance's momentum. Instead of stock market speculation, let there be striving for discovery supported cooperatively. 2. When you find a heap of goodness, readiness and movability, then only one sets to work with the shovel of beauty. A wondrous fire is in sustained communion. Discontent is only knowledge of potentiality. 3. Where people are expectant We send Ours. Above earthy rays blaze the spiritual. Burn the garments of the past. The mole is no fit companion. Hands off, hands off, hands off! Our Shield is forged by willing hands. 4. Routine living must be avoided. He who wishes to reach the unfoldment must not only cast aside all prejudice but enter anew. Upon application to local conditions is built the affirmation of life. For a hundred languages a hundred psychologies. One expression for all is just a stereotyped state structure. Unity in variety gives the best harvest. Fruit must be grown thru new necessary currents. 5. One asks why the Teaching is strewn like seeds. Only of a variety of threads may one create complex motifs. One asks why there is not pronounced first the heavenly dictate and later the evoking of the Earth. Answer: Each thread of the Mother's garment runs thruout, top to bottom and vice versa. 6. Only by experience can one sense how much more shocking than an explosion some discordant whispers are. 7. One must speak still more concisely. The blacksmith must not use the hammer jarringly. The Christ principle may be inscribed upon the palm of the hand. 8. The sound of rain is also not without significance. 9. Everyone can exist but unfoldment requires enlightening consciousness. 14. We ask in kindness not to reject the Guiding Hand. Woe to the one remaining behind! What honor is it to inflict a wound on Me? Wouldst thou strike Him Who gave thy talent to thee? Do not besmirch the Hand of the Giving One else this dirt turn into thy leprosy. Understand thy benefit! 15. We dislike to speak of sacrifice because sacrifice is the most profitable undertaking. A real provider in life considers each expenditure as only a business guarantee. Only the spiritual gift can move the pan of the scales. So rich is the new kingdom that one can break a few dishes without much harm. In large enterprises business stands upon business, not upon personality. I advise the providers in life to have substitues for all positions. Sacrifice is potential, potential a benefit, the benefit being sound cooperation--the Alatir-Stone which resurrects or consumes. 16. Lunar life must be outlived. 17. Life's design of infallibility and flexibility is especially difficult to coordinate, although solar consciousness reveals its line. How many times, starting for Egypt, have We found Ourselves in Mongolia? How many times, having turned the steed homeward, have We again rushed into the dark night lest by sleeping overnight at home We should lose immutablity of the Design? The ways to the guideposts of immutability vibrate and billow as waves. Our way is not of an eternal wanderer but of a hastening messenger. The plan's immutability illumines consciousness potently. We cross all suspension bridges as the plan's light is clear. Nothing can obscure this Design useful to all. One will start to build a bridge, another will hire a swimmer, a third will await shallow water, but one will be found to weave the silver thread of spirit and to cross upon it bodiless, as I take his burden upon Me. Beautiful striving brings one to highest light. 18. Maitreya decrees: "I allot to each according to his growth. Each weaves his own reward. He that thinks falsely of his brother ties a heavy weight to his own foot. Weeds make the spirit torpid. I cannot scatter goldpieces into nettle. Growing a garden of offenses is no great honor. The one perceiving better reaps more richly. To those who have encounted and responded: Leave to Me My sorrow and joy about you. By the power of Christ and Buddha, set up the scales. Show Us all that is great, be ashamed of the small worm that ruins correct weight. The one giving receives. Let it be reckoned accurately. On the left: fear, self-love, greed, suspicion, demeaning, self-pity, misinterpretation of the Teaching, dusty whispering, treason in deed and thought. On the right: giving, compassion, daring, fearlessness, devotion, firmness, vigilance, pliancy, realization of the Shield, achievement's pursuit and hope, spiritual adornment, right understanding, exaltation of good. On the left: loss and payment. On the right: receiving. Each apportions for himself--We see and hear. There is neither day nor night, and the messenger is saddled. I send you My achievement affirmed by centuries. Keep its key clean." 19. At sunrise facing the sun and receiving the ray into the solar plexus, one can feel the victory over the changing sea, thru light one touches spiritual light. But this is only in that spirit which can say: "I have renounced all, I receive all." It is not denial but affirmation then which is neath Buddha's hand. 21. Two companions of Our work are joy and vigilance. If people saw the results of their discontent and understood that slumbering is death, they would avoid the two chief coworkers of darkness. Those who have approached the Light will not pierce themselves with discontent and will not turn to stone.

II, vii. 1. Can the tiger's roar possibly be worse than treacherous thinking? Not only for actions but also for thinking does man accumulate grave karma. Some thought tortures the spirit; there is no difference between word and thought. Here is no threat--We have only examples and cares. Each is free to jump into the abyss, but he must be forewarned. 2. One has to forget all conditions--then the light is lit. Every joyous loss is an immense gain. To the house where achievement lives one can screw an iron bolt. I am knocking in the rain. Why do people fear only lightning? 3. Night fell. Christ was seated at a threshold. A scribe approached and asked: "Why doest Thou sit in the passageway?" Christ answered "Because I AM the threshold of Spirit. If thou wouldst pass, pass thru Me." Afterwards Mary came out of the house and, seeing Christ, said: "Teacher, share our evening meal." Christ: "The gift of the heart glows amid darkness." 4. A member of the Sanhedrin asked Christ: "Wouldst Thou come to us if we should call Thee?" Christ answered: "Better that I go to the cemetery, for there there is no lie." The Sanhedrin member continued: "Why dost thou not acknowledge us when even Thy father was married by one of our members?" "Wait until your house crumbles, then shall We come." "Wherefore shalt Thou come, to destroy or to build?" "Neither for destruction or erection but for purification, for I shall not return to the old hearth." 5. On a ship traveled a trader of monkeys. In his leisure he taught the monkeys to imitate the sailors spreading the sails. A storm arose and the sailors hastened to lower the sails. The monkeys, knowing only how to spread them, followed the sailors and hoisted the sails again. The ship was lost because the teacher had foreseen only fair weather. Thus spoke Gautama, restorer of life's lotus. 6. Magic seeks a substitute for life while We teach to ameliorate existence by taking advantage of the possibilities of life itself. 7. I teach the useful as the indicated and cognized cooperation has been accepted and entered into. The hammer is working, the chains are clanking, grey people continue to find pleasure in the cup of lechery. They know not that the hands of the clock have moved imperceptibly and that tomorrow the doors close to their ingenious amusements. My gatekeeper will tell them: At dawn an altar was erected to the Lord of Wisdom. The grey ones will depart. Stern and inflexible stand My guards. One cannot compare the steel of their helmets with the gold of the grey ones. 9. Our goal is not to be Teachers but Co-Workers. For this there is needed firm realization that thru mutuality absolutely everything will be brought to useful fruition. 12. Why do I attune with the mountain spirit? The Teacher is sending His Shield. The master desires to see you mountain-like. He yearns to see you disconcerted by nought. The Guru feels how courageous you must be to proceed. The Teacher alerts to grave danger. The master counsels to maintain courage. He helps conquer the evil hand. The Guru not purposelessly draws forth memory. The Teacher looks ahead. The master enjoins one to keep invincible spirit. He wishes to dispel fear. The Guru wants one to have calm judgment. The Teacher restrains from grievances. The master advises to conceive bold projects, as ever. He is concerned with your health. The Guru sends you forth. There has been warning enough. 13. When the judge would free one, he must hear the redeeming "yes"--the desire to offer up. 14. A sound understanding of beauty is the rarest quality and is valued by the Enlightened above many things. It is better to approach the great with difficulty than to master the small with ease. 15. Everything inharmonious is especially harmful; therefore a thunderclap is less dangerous than the newborn's scream. 16. A smile of determination is the best guide. One must acknowledge the goal and devote oneself to the higher design. Every personal desire is harmful, striving toward achievement is vital. Desire is not achievement; achievement is the realization of necessity. The current flows forward not by one's desire but of inevitable necessity. The spirit knows where the impulse of desire and where the rock of necessity. How oft a divine name pronounced helps create the bridge of succor! When working with mankind one must wash one's hands often. Only thru consciousness of utter urgency will you crossover. The method of the dark ones is first to sow disbelief, then to saturate it with desires, then to inflate and reap a double harvest. 17. Nearing shore, be ready to sail again. Expel small thoughts, they stifle. 18. A while ago Mohammad had to promise warriors of Islam raptures in Paradise. Must I promise the glitter of rubies? 19. Can a building endure wherein a poker is sought more than the Lord? The condition of the Brotherhood is full co-measurement of thought and expression--the bulwark of beauteous truth. The best judgment is based upon beauty. 20. A new wonder will bring the nations together. Our Ray expels doubt. The hand does not shake while measuring experimental liquid, as the researcher knows that one drop may blow up the house.