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“SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
OF AGNI YOGA”
BROADCASTING 6
Exercise „The Fiery Condition“
Dear Agni Yogis,
the most important exercise of Agni Yoga is called "The Fiery
Condition".
Acquiring fieriness is the safest way to ascend. This is the basic
exercise for your transformation into an immortal being of spirit, for the
strengthening of your soul, the training of your Eternal Individuality and the
creation of the New Man.
Join in if you want to become great, strong and
beautiful and develop the immeasurable potential of your Higher Self!
We can in fact summarize the entire practice of Agni Yoga in one single
exercise that is described with just a few words:
In the morning establish a state of high vibration. During the day,
prevent the vibration from decreasing.
This Broadcasting first explains what a Fiery Condition actually is. Then we will show you practically, as far as it
is possible in a video course, how you can create the Fiery State of your being
and maintain it in the middle of everyday earthly life.
Section I: What is a Fiery Condition?
Nicholas Roerich „Glory of the Himalayas“
The disciple asks, "What is a Fiery Condition?" (Gudrun Stiasny „The Wanderer
through the Zodiac“)
Fieriness is the highest state of your being!
1. Kindled by the
Fire of the Spirit
You are on fire. Your being is ignited.
"But not from a physical fire!?"
No, of course not, but from the Fire of the Spirit! You are literally in
high spirits!
"What do you mean by 'fire of the spirit’?"
In the Broadcasting “The Law of Evolution” (Series “Introduction to Agni
Yoga”) we learned: Everything that exists consists of body, soul
and spirit.
A spark of the divine fire burns in everything that exists, within you
as well.
This divine spirit strives to elevate, refine
and spiritualize the matter in which it is enclosed.
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Learn to recognize the eternal, immutable grain of spirit within you! In
meditation this abstract concept becomes a living experience:
You hearken to what is taking place within you and sense the divine spark.
You experience how the fire of spirit burns within you; how it urges you not to
be satisfied with anything you have achieved and to keep on ascending on the
path to God.
It is especially difficult for people to understand the fiery nature of
things. Each stone is filled with fire. Each tree is saturated with fire. Each
cliff is as a pillar of flame. Who, then, believes this? But so long as people
do not realize the fiery basis of nature, they cannot draw near to certain
energies. Great is the significance of cognition or even of admission or
realization of the manifestation of Fire. With the radiance of each object are
the Worlds connected. But few have convinced themselves of this radiance.
Sojourn in darkness prevents understanding of the Light. (Fiery World III, 435)
This flame strives to seize your entire being, so that you are
completely on fire! When that happens, you get into the Fiery State.
2. Purity,
Vitality, Joy of Being, Light, Love
Titian
"Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple"
The fire of the spirit can completely transform a man!
He may be a liar, a thief, an adulterer, and all else that the world
terms evil; but, at the same time, there may be an awakening of that wonderful
long-dormant power in his heart which has not yet had time to change his lower
nature. (Teachings of the Temple Vol I, Lesson 36 “Divine Love”)
Fieriness transfigures your being and endows you with certain brilliant
properties, about which we will talk in detail in a moment. You are now
- pure as an innocent child, (Titian
"Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple")
- mighty as a powerful fighter,
- joyful, in every situation with a superior smile on the lips like a
great sage, (Nicholas Roerich "Krischna")
- filled with selfless love for everything that exists, like the
Great Mother (Nicholas Roerich "Madonna Laboris") and
- radiating light like a fire, a lighthouse or
a sun.
This new, fiery creature is much greater, stronger
and more beautiful than the old, physical man!
3. State of the highest Vibration
We said already several times
(Broadcasting “The Supermundane World”): There is not matter and spirit, but
only spirit-matter. Matter is spirit-matter of a low vibration, spirit is
spirit-matter of a high vibration. In other words: low vibrating spirit-matter
is physical and visible; high vibrating spirit-matter is subtle and invisible.
The higher the
vibration, the higher the being.
Therefore, if you want to transform,
to elevate your being, you have to increase the
frequency of your vibration.
In the Fiery
Condition your being vibrates with the highest frequency.
Realize a most important fact:
When you increase
your vibration, you actually change the composition of
the subtle matter of your being of spirit!
Low vibrating particles are eliminated and high vibrating ones absorbed. We had already
talked about this process in the Broadcasting on “Meditation”. A real
transformation is taking place. You turn into a greater, higher, finer, more
spiritual being.
Every conscious act
of good or ill intent is changing the course of some vibratory wave and so
creating, changing or disintegrating some form of
substance within the auric sphere of a man. (Teachings of the Temple Vol I,
Lesson 176 “Motion and Vibration”)
If you consist of pure and
powerful subtle particles, you, your true, inner being is purity and power, and
you radiate purity and power. Then, according to the law of correspondence, you
will attract purity and power.
4. Ideal State of the Soul
Matthias Grünewald
(Isenheim Altarpiece) "Resurrection of
Christ"
Fieriness is the highest state
of your Eternal Individuality. It corresponds to the fiery nature of your soul, because spirit is fire!
You - your Eternal
Self, your being of light - is great, strong and
beautiful.
This is visible to the outside
through a royal aura. Like a general in battle by his golden armour, your
higher self must be recognizable in everyday earthly life by its resplendent
emanations. Here we see a particularly sublime example:
(Nicholas Roerich "Fiat Rex")
What do you think
will aliens see who approach the earth in a spaceship, if they are really
spiritually high-standing creatures: Not the Eiffel Tower, not the Statue of
Liberty, not the Great Wall of China and not even the Himalayas, but points of
light: The widely shining radiation of those humans who have developed their
fiery being.
Like the light in
the sombre valley seen by the mountaineer from his peaks, every bright thought
in your mind, my Brother, will sparkle and attract the attention of your
distant friend. Thus we discover our natural allies in
the Shadow-world, and it is our law to approach every such an one if even there
be but the feeblest glimmer of the true 'Tathagata' [Buddha] light within him. (Mahatma Letter No. 45
of February 1882)
"Can I somehow
verify whether what you say is true?"
Of course:
You feel good when
your being of light is great, strong and beautiful! (Matthias Grünewald (Isenheim Altarpiece)
"Resurrection of Christ")
Every decrease in vibration
makes your soul weaker, smaller and uglier. You notice
that and feel unwell.
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The Fiery State is associated
with an inexpressible exhilaration. You have to
experience time and again how wonderful your existence is after the
transformation. This is the strongest incentive to overcome everything within
you that is unworthy of a being of spirit and makes your vibration crash.
Learn to love this highest
state, to prefer it to everything else and never to lose it! Do not allow
anything spoil it! We say quite hedonistically: Fieriness is the highest
delight of your soul, no material pleasure can match
that!
You feel: This is the sublime
constitution that is suitable for the divine part of your being.
When your being
burns with the divine fire, you yourself are divine!
Then you radiate the divine
light that glows in every creature! At least to the extent that this is
possible while in the matter and given the level of your consciousness.
Humanity is divided
into two types. In one the Divine Principle is dominant, but the other is
immersed in the earthly. (Supermundane 590)
“Isn't that an illusion?
A little dwarf imagines he is great, strong and beautiful!?"
No! Here we are at a crucial
point! You can modify your emanations, but you cannot fake, manipulate
or hide them. Either you are burning with enthusiasm, then this fire will shine
from your eyes; or you are cold, then you will certainly lack a fiery
radiation.
Someone who is frozen and
dead, with the best will in the world and no matter how much deception, is
unable to create fiery emanations. We remember (Broadcasting “The subtle
Constitution of Man”): On the spiritual level you cannot hide your true being.
There one recognizes who you really are infallibly from your aura.
Fieriness is not
imagination, but a state of your being!
5. Creation of the Fiery Body
Do you remember (Broadcastings
“The Law of Evolution” and “Bring your Soul to Life”): The human pyramid is
still incomplete. The highest level is still missing. At the present time it is
our task to start to develop the Fiery Body, our Eternal Individuality.
The Fiery Body is a creature
of the highest vibration. Thus, when you put yourself in a Fiery Condition and
increase the vibration of your being, you are at the same time building up your
invisible, your Eternal Body.
In its childhood
the little soul is hidden deep within you.
In its fully grown up state, a great soul reveals itself as an almost
visible, at least noticeable being of light that surrounds your body.
In the Fiery Condition you
tear this spiritual aspect of your being out of its twilight state and bring it
to life.
The fiery body may
sometimes manifest itself even through the physical shell. So
when the manifestations of the Fire of Space have reached a certain intensity,
the fiery body begins to radiate, as it were, in small fires across the surface
of the physical body. Only rarely can this subtle, fiery condition be seen.
(Heart 343)
In a state of highest vibration,
the human pyramid has grown up completely. The Fiery Body is alive and
functional. It enables you to lead a conscious existence on all levels and in
all worlds, even in the highest, the Fiery World, the world of the soul, in
eternity, in Heaven. You begin to develop and use the gigantic potential of a
being of spirit.
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Nature reveals itself in three
physical states: solid, liquid and gas, depending on the temperature or
frequency of the vibration. Correspondingly, fieriness or solar-likeness
is the highest physical state of man: Not just a state of our consciousness,
but a state of our being!
You actually are a higher being!
Just as vapour is
another thing with greater potential than water and ice.
“Do I then cease to
have a physical body, does it disappear? Am I just a being of spirit? "
No, of course not, in this
respect the comparison is misleading: We must not split up the complete being,
the human pyramid. You consist of a physical body and a non-material part, the
soul. Both aspects form an inseparable unit!
Similar to a centaur, this mythical creature half human and half
animal, you are a hybrid being, half material and half spiritual, half visible
and half invisible. (Veronese "Centaur")
The physical body is preserved and the Fiery Body develops in addition. Both
exist simultaneously. As light, you are composed of both matter and vibration.
You are, so to speak, ice and vapour at the same time: half ice, half vapour.
Your entire being vibrates
either high or low. There is no separation between higher and lower self.
"Can’t you
make that a little bit clearer?"
The Fiery Body must not remain
an abstraction: If it is formed, that means in concrete terms: You actually are
a being of spirit which actually appears on the spiritual level - in the world
of the soul: For example as a collaborator of the
brotherhood, a spiritual warrior, healer, disciple, teacher or king of the
spirit. The ideal image according to which you want to shape yourself (as we
had discussed in the Broadcasting “Bring your Soul to Life”) has become a
reality.
6. Creating the New Man
Nicholas Roerich "Lama"
The beings of the next evolutionary
stage, the sixth race, are immortal men of spirit.
Now We assemble the
spirits of the sixth race, and Agni Yoga is the Call! (Infinity I, 188)
The new race is not created
through heredity or breeding, but through spiritual elevation! You transform
into a man of spirit - into Nietzsche's overman! - by increasing the vibration
of your being. Fieriness means higher spirituality and thus a higher level of
human development.
When you put
yourself in the Fiery State, you have at the same time - at least for a moment
- created from yourself the New Man!
We are witnessing the birth of
a new immortal, inviolable, invisible creature which is of the highest
subtlety, almost no longer material.
You are the
creator!
But when your vibration drops,
vapour turns back to ice, the butterfly to a
caterpillar, the spiritual to a physical being and the immortal to an ordinary
mortal man. That must never happen!
It should not be
thought that, in his consciousness, an Arhat could lose sight of the Guiding
Will even for an instant. He proves to be a simple mortal, if
he does not always solemnly bear the chalice of achievement. The power of His
heart becomes dormant as soon as He ceases to feel the Hierarchic thread in His
hand. (Fiery World I, 196)
So easy is it in principle to
climb the new stage of evolution, and yet so difficult in everyday
implementation. A small step for you, but a giant leap for mankind, just like
long ago the elevation from four to two legs.
The species homo
sapiens turns into the higher species homo immortalis.
In the Fiery Condition you
have reached your true greatness! Now you actually are
the great, beautiful and powerful being that you are intended to be according
to your destiny, which is hidden within you. Now you can proudly declare:
Here is the New
Man! (Nicholas Roerich "Lama")
All the exercises for the
creation of the New Man that we have already talked about, such as: Elevation
(see Broadcasting “Exercise 'Elevation'”), transformation into a spiritual
being (see Broadcasting “Exercise 'Transformation into a spiritual being'”),
inviolability (see Broadcasting “Exercise 'Inviolability'”) and “Bring your
Soul to Life” are included in the exercise “Fiery Condition”
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“Isn't 'Fiery
State' too high a term for an average little person like me? Doesn't that mean
the opened fiery centres?
In a sense, you are right. We
can increase our vibration indefinitely. In the highest state of fieriness we radiate so powerfully that an ordinary physical
being could not endure our presence and would be reduced to ashes.
That is why Jesus
in the Subtle Body forbade Mary Magdalene “noli me
tangere”, “do not touch me!” (Fra Angelico “Noli me tangere”)
Today we are talking about the
first steps on the way to this height. There are different degrees of
fieriness. If you continuously raise your vibrations to a higher level, one day
you will need a new, more subtle body that can withstand such a tension. Fire
destroys coarse physical matter, but it is beneficial for higher, subtle
matter, for the spirit.
For me, the
conviction of our continuity stems from the concept of activity. Because if I
continue to work tirelessly until my end, nature is obliged to allocate to me a
different form of existence, if the current one is unable to endure my spirit
any longer. (Goethe to Eckermann, February 4, 1829)
Consider what a
high degree of fieriness those creatures must have acquired who can live on a
fiery planet like Venus at temperatures of around 400° C! The beings living
there are much more fiery, that means of a higher
vibration, less material and more spiritual than those on earth.
Section II:
Fieriness as a State of the Being of Light
Nicholas
Roerich „Glory of the Himalayas“
Let us also approach our topic
scientifically. We remember (Broadcasting “Bring your Soul to Life”): Your
Fiery Body, your Eternal Individuality is a being of light.
You are - your soul
is - what it radiates.
Sensitive people can see or at
least feel your body of light. Then you can do that too.
1. The Being of Light consists of Waves
"What is the
stuff our souls are made of?"
Your Eternal
Individuality consists of highly spiritualized substance, of invisible subtle
matter, of waves or vibrations like light.
One speaks accurately of the
"fibres of our being". They are of such a high frequency that they
are beyond our eyesight.
The spiritual aroma
exhaling from every personality used by the Ego, that is, the essence of every
good deed and thought, arises as a definite colour or force, which being still
further purified by its contact with the fires of the spiritual plane,
ultimately becomes spiritual indestructible substance; and it is from these
purified colours that the radiant white light is reflected – the basis of the
individual Aura. From this auric essence are created by means of the Spiritual
Will the Nirmanakaya bodies, the vehicles or bodies of
the Great Masters. This substance can be controlled only by the Spiritual Will,
and it is the highest degree of potential substance. (Teachings of the Temple
Vol II, Lesson “The Plane of Devachan”)
You may visualize your soul
for example like this:
Look here! This is
you! This is how your being of spirit manifests itself. This is how you really
look, not like the image you see in the mirror.
Albert Einstein grasped this
scientific truth as well and expressed it wonderfully like this:
We are slowed down [low vibrating] sound and light waves, a walking
bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred
biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls
play their music.
If you wish to
understand the Universe, think of energy, frequency
and vibration. (Nikola Tesla)
In its last
analysis, all life is Vibration; that is, all forms or differentiations of life
are generated and evolved by the different vibratory rates of one homogeneous
State of Substance which is of a Spiritual nature. (Teachings of the Temple Vol
I, Lesson 20 “The Control of Life Forces”)
"Frankly, I
don’t understand. I am supposed to be a bundle of frequencies? "
Let us take a musical
instrument, a guitar, as an example: It has six strings. When you tighten the
strings, they vibrate at a high frequency, the notes sound high. When you
reduce the tension, the strings vibrate at a low frequency and the notes sound
deep.
It is similar with your body
of light: As a guitar of strings, it consists of waves or vibrations. When the
frequency of its waves is low (that is, they vibrate low), it radiates a dark
aura, and when the frequency is high, a bright aura. Thus, your nature changes
depending on the degree of your vibration.
With the guitar, the physical strings
vibrate. With your being of light, its waves vibrate. Just like the physical
strings of the guitar, you may tune or tighten these waves of your being of
light.
Here you can see how your soul consists of waves or vibrations.
2. Fibre Love
“I still don't
quite understand. Which waves are we talking about and how am I supposed to
tune them? "
One of the waves of your body
of light is love, for example. When this fibre of your being is tightened and vibrating
high, it looks like this, beautiful and harmonious as shown here.
Then you feel love, you
radiate love and you are love - indeed, your whole
being is love, you embody love!
When the tension of this fibre
subsides, it vibrates deep and looks ugly and disharmonious, as shown here.
You are indifferent. So it goes on down to a very low frequency of this fibre, in
which you vibrate in hate, embody hate, radiate hate, and are hate.
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That is why the Teaching so
often uses the term “straining”: You actually have to strain the fibre “love”
of your being and retune it again and again (like the string of a guitar) in order to create a vibrational state of your being in
which you love a fellow human being despite his trouble making, and in which
you love life even in a difficult situation!
We note:
Love is more than a
feeling. You are love itself! Love is a state of your being.
Namely a state of vibration.
The fibre or wave “love” of your soul is tuned high, it vibrates high.
"This sounds
as if I am to create love through an effort of will or discipline !?"
Yes, actually,
in a sense it is like that. After all, we are not talking about
infatuation, which is rapidly ignited by a tiny little trifle and fades away
just as quickly, but about a state of your being.
It must be
understood that We have in mind not the isolated, easily-extinguished
flashes of love; these mirages have no significance. It is steadfast love that
is needed, devotion that burns unextinguished, through all of life’s trials.
(Supermundane 769)
Raise caring,
active love within yourself. Love is a teacher, but one has
to understand how to appropriate it, because it is difficult to learn,
and it is bought dearly through long work and only after a long time, because
one should not love for a chance moment, but rather for all times. (Dostoyevsky
"The Karamazov Brothers")
You can get used to opening
your heart and listening to its voice instead of suppressing it. You can
practise thinking, feeling, speaking, and acting lovingly whatever happens to
you.
You can actually
learn to arouse love within you for everything that exists and to guard
it like a tender plant. You can acquire a loving attitude towards your fellow
men who, however ignorant and indolent they may be, are nevertheless, like you,
bearers of the divine fire. You can get used to overlooking the small, the weak
within them, or to judging it only indulgently, and to emphasizing the lovable.
One of the most beautiful and
practically most important instructions of the Mahatmas runs:
As through a
magnifying glass behold the good, and belittle tenfold the signs of
imperfection, lest you remain as you always were. (Leaves of Morya's Garden I, 30 [32])
You may make
an effort and develop within you a love that cannot be shaken so easily.
You can become embodied love!
Love is - like
truth, justice and beauty - a cosmic principle that
strives to embody itself on earth in a spiritual attitude, in a form of
existence, in a being.
In practical terms, that means:
You really look at your fellow human beings with loving eyes, no matter how
childish or barbaric they may behave. You are permeated with a love that
embraces all humanity. You wrap them all in a loving aura. You love life in all of its manifestations, with all its possibilities
despite all the appalling circumstances.
"Should I
always just love, always just give in, and never defend myself at all?"
No! But you will see: Exactly
where rigour is required, it yields the desired effect best when your
counterpart also feels your love.
3. Further Fibres
There are more of these
strings, vibrations or fibres of your spiritual being than with the guitar,
namely countless:
One wave vibrating high is
joy, vibrating with average frequency is indifference, and vibrating low is
sorrow. Other fibres range from patience down to impatience and from serenity
to irritation; again one fibre runs from power to
weakness and one from purity to filth; others from enthusiasm to despondency,
from solemnity to debauchery, from gratitude to ingratitude, from fearlessness
to fear, from selflessness to selfishness, from firmness to hesitation or
doubt, from vulnerability to inviolability, and so on.
These are all states of your
Fiery Body. When it vibrates high, you not only feel invulnerable, but you -
your true, spiritual being - are actually invulnerable.
When it vibrates high, not only do you feel fearless, but you - your true being
- are actually without any fear, and so on.
“Surround yourself with
Fire and become immune,” is a most ancient Covenant. (Fiery World I, 15)
A Great Soul vibrates high
with all the fibres of its being and looks beautiful like this:
A small soul vibrates low and
presents a chaotic, ugly sight like this:
4. Fiery Condition as Synthesis
Fieriness means: All waves or fibres
of your being of light are strained to such an extent that it vibrates with the
high frequency of love, power, joy, patience, vitality, solemnity, gratitude,
fearlessness, firmness etc., which means, it is love, power, joy etc., and thus
radiates love, power, joy etc..
This synthesis we call the
Fiery Condition. You are now, as they say, tuned high or in high spirits.
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With the guitar, all strings
must be in tune in order to achieve harmony. If only
one of them is wrongly tuned like here, there is dissonance, disharmony.
The same is true of your being of spirit: You are only in harmony, in your ideal state, when
all its fibres are strained. Then you have created a body of light of wonderful
beauty.
5. The principle of Resonance
There is another phenomenon in
physics that we can make use of correspondingly on the spiritual level: Every
object has a certain natural frequency. Waves of this frequency make it
resound.
That is why
soldiers are not allowed to march in lockstep on a bridge: The rhythm could
stimulate the natural frequency of the bridge to vibrate and thus cause it to
collapse.
That is why singers
can shatter glasses with their voices.
This tuning fork is tuned to
concert pitch A; it has a natural frequency of 440 hertz. When I press the
E-string of my guitar here, it also has a natural frequency of 440 hertz. That
means: Striking the tuning fork makes the string resound and striking the
string makes the tuning fork resound. Both ring
together wonderfully.
The same principle
of resonance applies in the spiritual area.
Tune your instrument, the harp
of your being, to such a high pitch that it vibrates at the same frequency as
the waves of Divine Love which permeate the whole Universe. If you are properly
attuned, these waves will cause the string "love" of your soul to resound.
You can actually
tune yourself in to the vibration of the waves of Universal Love, just
as you tune a radio to the wavelength of a particular station.
The vibrations of
Cosmic Love are waiting and hoping, it is their very purpose to find and evoke
resonance within you!
Then the Divine Love plays,
resounds, acts and reveals itself through you as its
individual instrument. You resound in unison with it. You radiate it. You are
Universal Love which through you bends down to those creatures who are in need of loving care.
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When the fibre “love” of your
being slackens, using the principle of resonance you can make it vibrate again
with the help of the waves of Cosmic Love. This is the secret of meditation:
When we say: Love flows to us or fills us, this means
in scientific language: The vibration of Divine Love reaches over to us
according to the principle of resonance because we have attuned our being to
it.
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There is another important
area of application of the resonance principle:
When you are in a Fiery
Condition, when all the strings of your being are strained and in high pitch,
they do not reverberate, they do not show any resonance to low vibrations such
as injury, dejection or desire:
A low frequency
does not cause any string or fibre of your being to resound.
Of course you notice the negative circumstances, but they do
not move, they do not affect you.
Thus it is not other peoples’, but always your own fault
alone when you are freaking out or being thrown off your course: The reason for
this is that there are still low vibrating particles of subtle matter existent
within you yourself, which are being made to reverberate by corresponding low
energies.
"Can’t you
explain that any easier?"
To me, for example, an opened bottle of whiskey does not have any appeal
at all. It could remain on my kitchen table for weeks and months without my
touching it. An open bar of chocolate, on the other hand, would most probably
be consumed within a few days. The one finds resonance within me, the other
does not. Thus, if I change the vibration of my own being of spirit so that
this soundboard within myself is removed, the temptation could no longer reach
me.
6. Spectral
Analysis - Aura Photography
One day we will be able to scientifically recognize, understand,
analyse, measure and even make visible the rays or
waves of which your Eternal Individuality consists, just as the invisible, for
long time unknown X-rays.
In physics, spectral analysis makes it possible to recognize from the
radiation of an object (for example a distant celestial body), the elements of
which it is composed.
The subtle matter of the Fiery Body as well has its own, very special radiation, the aura. From it you can infallibly
read the true, inner being of a person. To put it scientifically: You can
determine the elements, the high and the low vibrating particles of which someone’s being of light is composed.
Human radiations can be seen by the naked eye. We can cite many cases in
which people emitted radiation when in a transport of exaltation. People can
sometimes notice an unusual light in the eyes of one who is in a state of
so-called inspiration. The eyes shine not from any outside source but from an inner
fire. (Supermundane 429)
In the future, aura photography will make these radiations not only
noticeable for the heart, but even visible to the physical eye.
Is it possible to want to have false thoughts? When the day of
photographing the aura comes, many will attempt to replace their habitual
thoughts with something more beautiful just invented. Indeed, people know how
to shed simulated tears. Petty cunning individuals will try to conceal their
essential natures, but the film will prove to be quite revealing.
A remarkable experiment will take place. Hypocritical thought will only
make the picture worse, spattering it, as it were, with dark spots. Thus, new
cunning will not be successful. Sincere, inherent thought produces clear rays.
The needed sacred aspirations will have clear colours. (Fiery World III, 498)
It is possible to carry out many observations of radiations. It can be
proven that over and above the radiations that are accessible even to
photography, there exist still more subtle light waves that can be detected by
a more refined apparatus. (Brotherhood 334)
Then the body of light and its composition will cease to be something
mystical or occult. The Fiery State with its wonderful aura will then also be
scientifically verifiable.
Section III: The Fiery Condition in Detail
Nicholas Roerich „Glory of the Himalayas“
Let us now go back from theory to practice. As everywhere else, the
exercise “Fiery Condition” comes down to one thing only: The man of the future
must acquire higher qualities such as purity, power
and joy! We are now going to take a closer look at them.
1. Purity
Nicholas Roerich
"Kanchenjunga"
Abstract discussions are of no value. You will only benefit from what we
are discussing here if you make the living experience:
In the moment of the Fiery Condition, you have actually
overcome the animal needs, desires and moods of your lower self.
You have no appetite, no cravings for sexuality, alcohol, tobacco or sweets. You are no longer subject to moods such
as irritation, depression, fear, aggressiveness, or doubt.
"How does this miraculous transformation come about?"
It is not that wonderful at all, but quite natural: A man of spirit, in
contrast to a material being, is a creature of high vibration; therefore by its very nature it has no physical desires and
no moods.
If you experience appetite or fear, this is only because your vibration
is low. Then you turn back from a spiritual to a material being, from vapour to
ice.
Scientifically speaking, purity means the absence of low vibrating
particles in your being of light.
In a state of high vibration you are immune,
unresponsive to, your Eternal Being does not reverberate
on lower instincts, thoughts and feelings. Like in a church or a concert
hall, they do not even come up.
There is no soundboard within you for low vibrations.
It is of no avail to use force against you yourself or others. It is
much better to experience that purity is the natural, wonderful
and brilliant condition of your soul. Then you will strive of your own accord
to avoid anything that makes you fall off this lofty position.
That must not remain abstract. Feel how you are pure at a high and
unclean at a low vibration.
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You did already notice: It is difficult, with the help of discipline and
straining the will, to get rid of those qualities which stand in the way of
spiritual growth, and to establish higher habits.
Today we propose a simpler path: You put yourself in a state of purity, vitality and joy of being, in which that what is commonly
called "lower wishes" does not arise - without your having to waste
even a thought on their "oppression". In the Fiery Condition, without
discipline or command of the will, you really desire only that what your higher
self wants.
People dream about their stomachs when their spirits should be filled
with the grandeur of the Highest. (AUM 36)
Do not strive to get rid of desires, but rather to maintain a state of
high vibration - then the desires will disappear by themselves!
The Fiery State drives away temptations, desires, and despondency. At a
high vibration they disappear. Nobody will crave for chocolate or feel sad
while enjoying the pleasures of Paradise:
Fire burns away the habits of the lower self.
Each higher tremor is in itself a victory over
the flesh. (AUM 154)
"Can you give us a specific example?"
Gandhi made many experiments to elevate his being through spiritual
power. One of them was: In order to prove that you can
overcome even such a strong and elementary feeling as sexuality, he spent the
night naked in bed with a naked young girl (usually a disciple). Because his
spirit was in a Fiery State, his body did not express any desire either.
"Have you tried that too?"
Well, that fails because of my wife's resistance. Gandhi as well only
practised this after the death of his wife.
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Purity has another aspect: In the Fiery State you are not affected by
the terrible conditions in the world around you; by all the indolence,
ignorance, injustice, selfishness, malice, greed and
violence.
A being of spirit is not concerned about material circumstances such as:
The weather, misfortune, illness, death, weakness of the body, imperfection of
others, attacks, insults, adverse conditions, suffering, need, failure of plans
and hopes, disappointments about people, poverty, moods and so on.
Your Eternal Individuality lives in the world of the soul. Nothing that
happens on the material plane can harm it.
You are standing above the situation; above everything which is happening
down there and trying to approach you. You are a great Lord to whom nothing
inferior can possibly draw near.
His spiritual growth must be such that he surpasses all those turning to
him. (Leaves of Morya's Garden I, 289 [345])
You are like the lotus that blooms in the middle of a swamp, but from
which all the dirt drips off.
The Fiery Condition is a panacea against every kind of hardship,
suffering, depression, grief, whining and moaning. Just get in the habit of
fighting these attacks not with physical means such as frustration eating,
alcohol, distractions or debauchery, but with the
spiritual exercise of raising your vibration!
There is only one panacea: the uplifted consciousness! (Fiery World I,
127)
There were those among the disciples and followers whose lives were
filled with misery and daily hardship. The Teacher [Jesus] would first help
them by uplifting their spirits, and only when balance was established would He
discuss their problems. (Supermundane 151)
Fieriness means: Any personal concern is eliminated.
Whatever happens to you, you are not angry, insulted, hurt, disappointed
or irritated.
The rider is unimpressed when his donkey is hurt.
You think, “All this is none of my business. I have nothing to do with
it.” This is as if a stranger were suffering. You do not let yourself be drawn
into the situation or be dragged down by it.
"Do you wish to say that mean the New Man closes his eyes and
overlooks all the terrible events in the world?"
No! He sees and feels all the suffering, imperfection
and egotism; even more than others, because he is particularly sensitive. But
he will not allow all this to bring him out of his balance, that is, out of his
sublime state of high vibration.
An ignorant person will be puzzled about how to overcome feelings of
cold or hunger. The one who understands the essence of things knows that these
sensations cannot be made to disappear, but the spirit can be strengthened so
that nothing will unsettle it. (Agni Yoga 192)
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Fieriness in the sense of purity also means desirelessness.
You do not need anything, you do not want anything, you do not expect
anything.
You are satisfied with what you have. You are wishlessly,
that is perfectly happy. Unfulfilled wishes torment you and stand in the way of
the highest state of happiness.
Desirelessness leads to inner
calm. (Lao-tse) (Nicholas Roerich "Lao-tse")
*****
The pure nature of a fiery being also
includes selflessness: you are not asking anything for yourself.
Selfishness has no place in a
flaming heart. (Heart 230)
It was said long ago that
selfhood is extinguished by fire. (Brotherhood 203)
We had already talked about this topic in the
Broadcasting on “Selflessness” (Series “The 10 Pillars of the Practice of Agni
Yoga”).
“Aren’t there some elements of
egoism in the state of ecstasy and the state of Samadhi?” an ignoramus will
ask. But then, how could he know that this supreme state not only has none of
the characteristics of egoism but is entirely antithetical to it? How could
someone who has never known the highest tension realize that precisely such
tension conveys the power of lofty Grace for the Common Good? Nothing generates
such pure self-renunciation as a heart brimming with ecstasy. (Heart 210)
"Do you really mean to
say: I create the Fiery State and then, from one instant to the other and for
all times, I will be pure like an angel?"
No, of course it is not that simple. With a
high frequency of vibration you actually are pure like
an angel. The problem is: You cannot keep this sublime state of mind for long.
Whenever you go out into the world, you will soon encounter some ridiculous
little trifle which lowers your vibration. The great difficulty is not so much
to establish the Fiery Condition, but rather to preserve it unimpaired in the course of everyday life. We shall talk about that in
a moment.
2. Wisdom
Nicholas Roerich "Arhat"
In the Fiery Condition you can make use of
the possibilities of the Fiery Body. This also includes a greater power of
cognition.
Fieriness is spirituality, a refined state of
matter. This goes hand in hand with the highest level of sensitivity. It allows
you to grasp much more of the infinite reality, consisting of material and
spiritual aspects, than with your five coarse physical senses.
In the Fiery ideal State of your soul you are closer to the truth, because:
The divine within you is truth.
As long as your soul is still small, you are far away from the truth.
*****
Your senses sharpen. Your consciousness
expands. You comprehend the non-material, invisible and intangible subtle
reality, which is so infinitely more important for your life than the physical
one.
Your centres are slowly opening: For example the chalice, in which the events, experiences and
accumulations of all your previous existences are stored, waiting to be
unearthed and employed.
Above all, your heart begins to speak, to
warn and to guide you. Through this most important organ of your Eternal Individuality you have access to that intuitive straight
knowledge, which imparts a far higher understanding than the intellect (see the
Broadcasting "Expansion of Consciousness").
Intuition is soul knowledge. (Teachings
of the Temple Vol I, Lesson 20 “The Control of Life Forces”)
The flame of fieriness enlightens you! It
presents you with true, deep insight into the nature of people and situations; with the distinction of the small from the
great, the good from the bad and the necessary from the merely desirable. You
gain real wisdom far beyond intellectual cognition.
Nirvana is the quality of assimilation
of all actions. The saturation of all-inclusiveness brings you true knowledge,
flowing from the tremor of illumination. (Leaves of Morya's
Garden II, 324 [328])
Even children exclaim, “It
came like a flash!” or, “It’s dawned upon me!” Thus are
called the moments of correct and instantaneous decisions. One may remember how
Mme. Kovalevsky solved mathematical problems. Such a
fiery condition linked with the Fiery World is characteristic. (Fiery World I,
102)
A person enlightened by the fire of the
spirit finds the right path in every situation. Let us hear Goethe:
Look at Napoleon, what a fine
fellow! Always enlightened, always clear and decisive, and gifted with
sufficient energy at every hour to immediately put into practice what he had
recognized as beneficial and necessary. His life was the stride of a demigod
from battle to battle and from victory to victory. He could very well be said
to be in a state of continuous enlightenment; which is
why his fate was so brilliant as the world had never seen before him and
perhaps will not see after him either. (Goethe to Eckermann,
11.03.1828)
"Do you mean to say that I will become infallible like the
Pope?"
An important question. We do not want to lapse into the superstition
that someone cannot be wrong just because he has been elected to an office. The
ability to recognize and to act correctly depends solely on personal maturity,
on the level of development and of the consciousness.
“Infallibility” is a relative term, meaning the highest certainty
accessible to the being of a certain evolutionary stage (for example, humans of
the 5th race). At higher levels (Buddha, Jesus, Mahatma) the capacity for
knowledge is of course greater and thus a higher degree of infallibility
possible. So, in the course of our eternal path, we
come closer and closer to the one truth.
Your wisdom grows with increasing fieriness!
3. Power
In a state of fieriness you are always full of
vitality whatever happens to you.
The body uses its physical, the soul its spiritual power, called psychic
energy. Only in the Fiery Condition can you employ it to the full extent, only
then can it work freely.
"When you speak of power, I think of great rulers like Alexander
the Great or Caesar."
That is not quite the point. What we have in mind is spiritual power.
That means:
The spiritual, the divine within you takes control. First over yourself (your
lower self) and then over the circumstances around you.
You gain complete self-control. The charioteer, the Eternal
Individuality, steers the four perishable bodies;
which means practically: you master your physical body, your instincts, your
thoughts and your feelings.
The domination of your lower self gives you a first feeling of the
tremendous power which your soul owns, if only you allow it to unfold. It is an
indescribable exhilaration to walk in full possession of one's spiritual strength
among all the small, weak, helpless, frightened, despondent old men.
The giant slumbering within you has finally freed itself, it steps out
of its prison into the light and enters the stage of the world.
You do not just feel great and powerful. You - your true self - actually is great and powerful!
On the other hand, you also have to feel your
smallness and weakness when the fieriness subsides because your vibration
drops.
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In the Fiery State you have power not only over yourself, but also over
the people and conditions around you. You can steer them onto your path.
Fieriness is a magnet that attracts people. Like gravity, it also drags the
circumstances into its spell and forces them to submit to the Higher Will!
If you are unfit to pass your first probation and assert your rights of
a future Adept by forcing circumstances to bow before you – you are as totally unfit for any
further trials. (Jinarajadasa, Letters from
the Masters of the Wisdom II, letter 27, p 69)
You can "move the mountains" that block your path, that is
overcome victoriously all obstacles.
They will not ponder over earthly difficulties, knowing that many tasks
can be solved by a higher degree of inspiration alone. (Supermundane 141)
When someone is said to be depressed by circumstances, be assured that
he lives unignited. (Agni Yoga 257)
*****
In the Fiery Condition you are an immortal man of spirit of the next
stage of evolution and thus far superior to all the material, mortal, low
vibrating creatures around you, who are dominated by their fears, desires and
moods and thus prevented from developing their potential in spiritual powers.
You are the future!
You are already there where the others still want to go, where they must
go according to the plan of evolution.
Bring this superiority to bear!
You are a leader, a trailblazer who walks ahead on the path to the
future and inspires others to follow.
Highness and love - this is the proud motto of the New Man! (Thomas Mann
"Royal Highness") (Uta of Naumburg)
May this mantram accompany and guide you in
daily life and form the basis for your relationship with the old men.
*****
This superiority only exists as long as your
vibration is high. If it goes down, you immediately lose your power. You have to feel how with a high vibration you are powerful and
superior and with a low vibration powerless and inferior.
"You don't mean to say that you can turn a weakling into a hero
from one moment to the next?"
No, of course no one who is small and weak can become great and strong
overnight. This takes a long way.
Fieriness means: The psychic energy that is present within each of us is
activated and begins to work. That is the key factor! When a little soul sets
out to consciously employ this spiritual power, it will increase through use.
Then you grow too, namely your power.
4. Joy
Nicholas Roerich
"Krischna"
In the Fiery Condition you are always full of joy of being, whatever
happens to you.
The fiery spirit manifests joy, repulsing the dark manifestations with
fire. (Fiery World III, 221)
You always bear a serene, superior, victorious smile on your lips
because the material does not affect you and can only further your ascent.
Because you know: Exactly that will happen to you what you require in order to take the next step on your path of unlimited
growth.
The joy of achievement is luminous, but even more luminous is spiritual
joy. There is no precise term for the essence of spiritual joy, but it would be
the most appropriate to call it fiery joy. With the help of spiritual joy, we
can sense the fieriness of all of nature. This understanding will most easily
elevate us to the Supermundane World.
Understand the beneficence of fiery joy. It expands the consciousness,
and draws all the best accumulations toward itself, as a fiery magnet. The essence
of man is transformed and the so-called old man is
burned away. Then, one would experience exaltation in even the most ordinary
surroundings.
How does the wave of fiery joy fill the spirit and open communion with
the Highest Worlds? Despondency and irritation are impediments. It is not easy
amidst earthly agitations to avoid these companions, but spiritual rapture
burns them away. All obstacles fall before fiery exaltation. Let us be joyous,
let us be light-bearing! (Supermundane 810)
The Mahatmas call out to us:
Joy, joy! (Fiery World II, 258)
The world is beautiful! Life is beautiful!
Our Teaching represents the world as rich, joyous
and attractive. (Community 263)
"How can I find this joy in the midst of all the suffering?"
We have explained already many times how you succeed to turn suffering
into joy. Watch again the Broadcastings "The Secret of Immortality",
"The Meaning of Suffering" and "Rejoice at Obstacles!"
"Isn't a joyful being more or less innate?"
No! One of the 10 most important statements of Agni Yoga is:
Joy is a special wisdom. (Community 156; Agni Yoga 185; Hierarchy 96 i.a.)
That is to say: a sunny mind does not come out of nowhere. It is the
result of the hard inner work which is required to create and maintain a high
vibration.
That must not remain abstract. Sense how with a high vibration you are
joyful and with a low vibration depressed. Defending your fieriness also means maintaining
joy in every situation, during every work. This is a great skill, a kind of
meditation in the middle of everyday life.
5. Fire of
Enthusiasm
In the Fiery Condition the fire of the spirit has seized and kindled
your entire being. It transfigures the physical man.
In the Bible, the symbol for this transfiguration is the Pentecostal
fire: The fire of the Divine Spirit is poured out on Jesus’ disciples in order to strengthen them and to give them higher
abilities. (Acts 2, 2-3) (Titian "Outpouring
of the Holy Spirit")
You are on fire, ignited by the highest fire, the flame of enthusiasm.
The enthusiasm of lofty perceptions can transform one’s life, if one is able to sustain these valuable inner
vibrations. (Supermundane 857)
The beautiful expression “being in high spirits” means: You are filled
with a high spirit. The fire of the spirit shines in your eyes and is reflected
in your aura. It burns within you and radiates from you.
The quality
of action depends upon one’s enthusiasm. We know that enthusiasm is reflected
in and ignites the aura. This state of enlightened tension can arise during any
labour. The ancients called it a divine greeting, for it alone could endow
every task with the radiance of perfection. (Supermundane 461)
Enthusiasm is a sublime state of your being! You are fiery means: You
are enthusiastic!
Those who are wise understand that everyone, during a moment of
enthusiasm, is already in a supermundane state. (Supermundane 516)
"Enthusiasm for what?"
Well, that is the big question. Everyone has to
find the answer for himself! What do you find enthusiasm for within yourself?
What are you looking forward to every morning like a child, so that you jump
out of bed in no time? What is there to discover? What is there to learn? What
wonders does life offer today?
Every day is an irreplaceable gift!
We are here on this earth in order to make our
ideals a material reality.
May man perform heroic actions in spirit, from
such heroic deeds a radiant aura is built. And when this light becomes strong
enough, the dreams can be turned into action. Not without reason it is
said that each dream will at some time be turned into reality. (Supermundane
607)
Never start a day without summoning enthusiasm for the possibilities
that the coming hours will offer to make your personal dream come true: For the
endless ascent on the path to God, the execution of your mission and the
cooperation in the great Work of the Mahatmas. But above all for the wonderful
creative work on the New Construction:
There where you are right now standing, you create two works of art: The
New, immortal, inviolable Man of Spirit and the New World!
Each man experiences enthusiasm, but these sparks of lofty elation
occur as isolated flashes and do not transform the whole life. But for all
that, such states of the spirit are possible even amid trying conditions. Let
us imagine such an exalted state as continuous, it will then bestow still
higher enthusiasm. Of course, all existence shall likewise be elevated.
(AUM 449)
Remember (Broadcasting “Overview” of the Series “The 10 Pillars of the
Practice of Agni Yoga”): What are the 4 spheres of life that fill the day of an
Agni Yogi?
Connection with the Higher world, service to the common good, service to
the neighbour and education or self-perfection.
Yes, look, here you see what you can and must get excited about every
new day: You may weave a new fibre into the Silvery Thread of the heart
connection with your teacher. You may contribute another stone to the evolution
of the spirit. You may take a further step on the Spiritual Path, which will
make you a little bit greater.
*****
People in whom the fire of enthusiasm has been extinguished, who no
longer harbour any ideals or dreams for the realization of which they are
fighting, are dead. They actually exist, these
proverbial dead souls: living corpses, whose bodies nonetheless continue to
vegetate.
Truly, it is better to be aflame than to be dormant. (Agni Yoga 528)
There are two types of people, the flaming and
the decaying. (Supermundane 239)
To avoid this decay, you need to maintain constant enthusiasm.
The Sacred Fire must always be alight. (Fiery World III, 526)
The Teaching of Agni Yoga demands to be continuously inflamed. Sometimes
respite from the manifestations is needed, but the inner flame is never
extinguished. The ever-burning inner fire is pointed out in many Teachings as a
step on the path of realization. One should accustom oneself to the
manifestation of ever-present fire. The inner flame burns like a bonfire. It is
unworthy to suppress it. (Agni Yoga 414)
The sacred fire within you must never go out!
Take an oath that the sacred tremor shall not leave you. (Heart 509)
If We observe a fall downward it means that Fire of the heart is
drooping. Let us not droop, for this is unbecoming to Fire. (Fiery World II,
467)
Since times immemorial, spiritually minded people have faced an existential
problem: The great thoughts, the high ideals that inspire them hardly survive
in the material world. Pericles once complained:
Why does what you touch become small when it was so great when you
thought about it? Everyday life eats us up.
When leaving the theatre, the temple, or scientific gatherings, people
at once sink into the dust of everyday life. Moments before, they were
enthused, or wept, or were inspired; then followed immediate forgetfulness.
Most, already at the door, quickly return to their commonplace ways, and the
most majestic tragedy barely touches their stony hearts. (Supermundane 646)
With the exercise “Fiery Condition”, Agni Yoga makes a new attempt to
solve this problem of humanity: It shows you a way to permanently maintain the
fire of enthusiasm in the midst of the cold material
reality.
6. Love
Fieriness is love! We had already talked about this subject at the
beginning. Therefore, there remains only little to say here:
There is no isolation in the Fiery State. You recognize your connection
with everything that exists because within in it the same spirit fire burns as
within you. When you feel this, you cannot regard yourself as being separate
from the rest of creation. You cannot think of yourself without thinking of the
entire Cosmos at the same time.
The fiery soul does not love a single human being, but all of humanity,
even every creature.
Love not the man, but mankind. (Supermundane
332)
7. Life in Heaven
Nicholas Roerich
"Ecstasy"
The Fiery Condition implies the life of the Fiery Body;
which, as a spiritual being, can only exist in a spiritual world. Thus,
fieriness means living in the Fiery World, in Heaven – and this not only after
death, but already now during the incarnation on earth.
"Fantastic! How is that supposed to work? How should I live in
Heaven and on earth? "
Just as man, consisting of physical, subtle and
fiery body, is an inseparable unit, so the three worlds (material, subtle and
fiery world) are an inseparable unit as well.
Therefore, we must not split up and think: Today I am a body that lives
on earth, and tomorrow, after death, a soul that goes to Heaven. No! Of course,
your Supratemporal Individuality exists already today, even during the earthly
incarnation. Thus, the better view is:
As a hybrid, half-material, half-spiritual being, man lives with his
body on earth and with his soul in Heaven - and that at the same time!
You are never only on earth, but always half absent - namely in spirit
in your Supermundane home.
However, this is true only if your Fiery Body is already sufficiently
developed.
A small soul, which has only just shaped its subtle body to some extent,
does not reach in the pyramid of the worlds beyond the lower, near-earth layers
of the Subtle World. A great soul, on the other hand, is a giant who has his
feet on earth and his head - the Fiery Body - in the Fiery World (see Fiery
World II, 12).
In the Fiery State, in ecstasy (that is the title of this painting by
Nicholas Roerich) you reach into Heaven. Exactly that makes your greatness. (Nicholas Roerich "Ecstasy")
Now we understand why small, coarse souls have no
access to Heaven (see Broadcasting “The Supermundane World”): Not
because St. Peter refuses them entry, but because they have not yet developed
the tool that enables them to dwell in this highest sphere.
Knowledge of transitoriness results in a feeling of breaking away from
the Earth and impels the spirit to those planes where man verily dwells with
his fiery being. (Fiery World III, 368)
Let us make this clear with the help of some pictures:
The tools, the four bodies, are on earth or in the Subtle World, the
driver (the soul) is at the same time in Heaven, in the Fiery World. The whole
team forms an inseparable unit.
You are the marionette which has to play a role
in the material world and at the same time the puppeteer who steers his vehicle
from a higher level, that is, controls its thinking, feeling, speaking and
acting.
One can attain fiery equilibrium by living consciously in the earthly
and the supermundane life. But one should not think that one need only immerse
oneself in the Supermundane World to achieve equilibrium. On the contrary, one
should actively apply all one’s forces to the earthly existence, but with the
understanding that this effort is needed for supermundane achievement.
(Supermundane 806)
This is what is meant when the Teaching says:
The Agni Yogi verily lives in two worlds. (Infinity I, 238)
Your life in Heaven is taking place already now, not only after death!
“Again, that's pretty abstract. How can I put that into practice? "
Watch again the Broadcasting "The Path of the Inner Temple".
There we had already explained how you can live in a sanctuary, in Paradise in
the middle of earthly work, regardless of the external circumstances:
“Attachment” is the magic word: You can attach any place in the material
world to any place in the Spiritual World. Thus, you connect your place of
residence and work with your Eternal Home. It thereby becomes a part, a
settlement of your teacher's ashram on earth.
Now let us go a step further and say:
Every moment you can participate in the life of the Supratemporal
Community to which you belong, in the life of your soul mates: your teacher -
your spiritual father -, your classmates and your disciples. (Nicholas Roerich "Zwenigorod")
Man should strive with all his power toward the Supermundane World. He
should develop such a consciousness that he feels like a participant in the
life of Supermundane World at every hour. (Supermundane 738)
The New Men are immortals: Gods who live in Heaven!
You never leave your Heaven, not even while on earth. There, on the
second, the higher, the subtle, the inner level of reality takes place your true
existence: the life of your soul!
Our sojourns in the various strata are short, but on entering the Fiery World
we can remain there. And when we come from there, we preserve the fiery
solemnity wherever we are. (Fiery World I, 576)
If you are living in Heaven already now, how completely natural and easy will it be to ascend to this highest sphere
after death!
"I've lost track: What does life in Heaven have to do with the
Fiery Condition"?
Quite simple: Only with fieriness, in a high vibration, you can
participate during your material existence in the life of the Fiery World and
of the Great Souls residing there. In a state of fear, irritation, dejection or aggressiveness you are connected to the lower
layers of the spiritual world and will attract the unwanted guests dwelling
there.
*****
I am not sure whether you have already grasped the full meaning of what
we are talking about here:
In the Fiery Condition you are really living in Paradise!
In the highest world that you can possibly imagine! Your dreams come
true. There is no greater happiness, no higher achievement! Nothing should drag
you down from this height!
*****
So far we have viewed things like this: During
the day you descend from your Heaven down to hell (to the lowlands of the
material world, which are alien to your soul) and return to the top in the
evening (see the Broadcasting “The Path of the Inner Temple”). Now let us go a
step further and say:
You are living at the same time both in Heaven and in hell!
Learn to live simultaneously in both the earthly and the Supermundane
Worlds. (Supermundane 900)
"Impossible! Either I am roasting in hell or enjoying the peace of
Heaven. You can't do both at the same time! "
Well, look at it differently: Even in hell - particularly in hell! - you
preserve the radiant splendour of your being of light! Like a lighthouse you
bring light to the darkness and attract the sick souls.
You carry your portable Paradise, the temple in your heart, with you
everywhere, especially to the abysses of life.
With your Inner Temple you are building a Heaven in the middle of hell -
what a challenge to the dark ones! The pitiable dwellers of the underworld who
approach you enter this Paradise.
How beautiful it is to be constantly aflame! There is no dungeon such
that the fire of the heart cannot illumine it. Thus, be aflame with beauty!
(Fiery World I, 410)
Thus Heaven and hell are connected and form an
inseparable unit. Hell is only the very lowest level of the pyramid of the
worlds. At least wherever you are - no matter how deep down - there prevails a
heavenly atmosphere, the gate to Paradise is open.
If Jesus was able to descend to hell and to appear there with a radiant
robe of light, you too can learn to solve the much simpler task of maintaining
your fieriness in normal earthly everyday life. (Nicholas
Roerich "Christ's Descent into Hell")
*****
Sometimes it is beautiful with us, then Heaven and earth merge. But when
things get infernal on the material level, there is an awful tension: Man, who
lives in both spheres and whose mission it is to connect them, must do a
tremendous split to bridge the gap, whereby he threatens to be torn apart. That
is why one speaks with good reason of today's torn up man.
When the Higher World is striving upward and mankind propels itself
downward, then indeed the cosmic current cannot be realized. Therefore,
disharmony rules in the World. (Fiery World III, 189)
8. Connection with
the Higher World
Giovanni
Girolamo Savoldo "Transfiguration of Christ"
In the Fiery Condition you are firmly connected
with the Heavenly Powers, your soul mates, and especially with your teacher.
From this connection you draw strength, joy, consolation, knowledge
and guidance.
Fieriness at daily work is like a constant meditation, a synthesis of
active and contemplative life.
*****
In a state of high vibration you are attuned to
the vibrations of the Supreme World. You are receptive to
the inspirations which pour down from the Fiery World onto the earth in a
constant stream, give you insight and show you
solutions for your everyday problems.
There may also be cases of fiery illumination. The Fiery World brings us
flashes of illumination, similar to lightning flashes
in the coarse manifestation of a thunderstorm. Just as thunderstorms always
supply Earth with a purified store of prana, so does the Fiery World constantly
pour out waves of influences. It is a pity that the receivers are few, but if
one were to begin to exercise the consciousness for communion with the Fiery
World, then such a receiver could naturally assert himself. (Fiery World I,
103)
Whenever your vibration is low, you move away from your Heaven and your
teacher: The connection is disturbed, interrupted, and nothing invigorating or uplifting can flow down to you anymore.
*****
Fieriness is the prerequisite for a conversation with your
non-incarnated teacher. The crown (or bell) chakra at the top of your head,
which is responsible for the communication with the Higher World, begins to
open. Only in the Fiery State are your senses so refined and sharpened that you
can communicate with beings from the Fiery World.
The Transfiguration, in which Christ spoke to Moses and Elias (Mt 17:
1-8), is a biblical example of a Fiery State. (Giovanni
Girolamo Savoldo "Transfiguration of
Christ")
9. Nirvana
Nicholas Roerich
"Nagarjuna"
The Fiery Condition is also known as Nirvana or the highest state of our
being (Helena Roerich Letters Vol. I, letter of 02.06.1934).
"I'm sorry, but I cannot do anything with this Eastern concept of
doing nothing."
Yes, this mysterious concept of Eastern wisdom is mostly misunderstood.
In fact, it means a sublime state of your being, which can roughly be described
with these attributes:
Purity, power and joy; inner tranquillity and
peace that nothing and nobody can disturb; resting in oneself, in one's centre;
being in balance, in harmony, in accord with one's higher self; remaining the
same in happiness and unhappiness; consonance with the Cosmos, with every
flower, every tree and every star; serenity and desirelessness.
And all of this not in a lonely monastery far
away from the world, but in the midst of the earthly battles.
Friend, if you want to see a clear reflection in a basin of water, wait
until its surface becomes calm. Calmness is the garment of wisdom.
(Supermundane 690)
Nirvana is not quietness in the traditional sense, especially not
inactivity.
Bliss, Nirvana, Divine Nearness and all analogous terms for the higher state are
usually understood in an earthly sense. Thus, Bliss is always understood as a
blissful oblivion and the delight in some kind of indolent
rest; but oblivion may be understood only as the oblivion of all earthly means
and examples.
Truly, why such limited earthly ways, when one can already act through
the higher energies? Is it possible to identify Divine Nearness with indolence
and immersion in oblivion? Such a correlation is contrary to the very meaning
of approach to the Highest Principle. (Fiery World I, 644)
Fieriness – Nirvana – means: In the midst of
the storms of life to strain to the utmost all your spiritual powers in order
to maintain all the fibres of your being in the highest vibration!
A reflection is clear on a calm surface. Each agitation distorts the
clarity. Likewise, the primary energy requires calmness in
order to reflect Truth. People talk much about the tranquillity of wise
men, but it is really a great tension, so great that the surface of the energy
becomes mirror-like. Thus, calmness must not be taken for inaction.
(Brotherhood 132)
There is no such thing as perfect rest in a constantly moving, eternally
evolving Universe.
Since the so-called state of Nirvana is not rest but rather the highest
tension of energy, one might ask whether rest even exists. Indeed, how is it
possible to imagine rest if everything is in motion and exists on account of
motion? The very concept of rest was invented by people who wished to flee from
existence. They preferred immobility, forgetting that there cannot be a moment
without motion. Equilibrium is the concept needed. The seeker should think not
about rest but about how to maintain equilibrium in the midst
of the whirlwinds. (Heart 260)
Fiery joy, fiery enthusiasm, fiery solemnity – that is what Nirvana is!
10. Practical Tip
Nicholas Roerich
"Brahmaputra"
Pause time and again in the midst of the
worldly hustle and bustle! In a brief moment of
leisure, do not immediately turn on radio or television. Enjoy the moment: You
are currently not exposed to any attacks. Enjoy the greatness and beauty of
your being of light! In the Fiery State you can rest serenely within yourself,
in your Nirvana. This is your way of having a good time!
You have reached the goal of your striving. You can be proud of the
artwork you have created. Like God on the seventh day of creation, you may rest
for a moment, look at what you have achieved and say to yourself:
Behold, it was very good. (Genesis 1,31; 2,
1-3)
This short exercise of elevation fits into every small break between two
work steps; it may be practised on the way to work or during shopping, queuing or performing a mechanical activity – that is every
time when you do not have to fulfil any duty, to solve any problem and to carry
any responsibility. Despite all troubles, there are many such moments every
day, all of which you may use to restore the high vibration.
Section IV: How to Establish the Fiery Condition?
Nicholas Roerich „Glory of the Himalayas“
We are now coming to the decisive step. We do not just want to theorize, but show you practically how you can put yourself
in a Fiery Condition.
All fine words are of no use at all if you do not set out to walk this
path. It is not enough just to listen to what I am telling you and to nod your
head in agreement.
The Fiery Condition is a spiritual exercise!
If you want to make progress, you must get to work. To the inner labour
on the artwork of your soul, your invisible body of light.
"What is it you want me to do?"
You create the Fiery State in meditation in the morning, at noon and in
the evening. For this, you have to master the practice
of meditation, which we have already described in the Broadcasting
"Connection with the Higher World (Meditation)". There are several
ways to carry out this exercise:
1. Exercise
"Elevation"
Nicholas Roerich
"Blue Mountains"
Repeat the exercise "Elevation" (Series "Spiritual
Exercises of Agni Yoga"). Climb in spirit a mountain peak. Now, as after a
physical ascent, you are close to Heaven. You have already experienced: Thereby
you can increase the vibration of your soul and tune its strings of purity,
power, joy, love, solemnity and peace of mind to a
high frequency. (Nicholas Roerich "Mountain
Peak")
2. Ignite the Soul
by your own Fire of the Spirit
We said at the beginning of this Broadcasting:
A spark of the Divine Fire burns within you.
This fire of the spirit strives to inflame you.
Fan the tiny flame that glows within you so that it grows to a mighty
fire. The greater and stronger the flame, the more its light radiates from within
you, forms a bright aura around you, lights up the darkness in your
surroundings and illuminates the people you meet.
One can attain fiery equilibrium by living consciously in the earthly
and supermundane life. But one should not think that one need only immerse
oneself in the Supermundane World to achieve equilibrium. On the contrary, one
should actively apply all one’s forces to the earthly existence, but with the
understanding that this effort is needed for supermundane achievement.
(Supermundane 806)
3. Practical Tip
Nicholas Roerich
"Brahmaputra"
For practical purposes, imagine your soul like a candle. In the quiet of
the morning retreat you hold this candle to the flame
of your spirit fire and light it there until it flares up. Now you yourself,
your true, inner being are on fire! You are burning brightly! You are in high
spirits.
Let the fires be set aflame! Do not extinguish the sacred fire of the
spirit. (Agni Yoga 640)
That must not remain abstract and theoretical! Practise that! Strive to
make the living experience! You will see: there is no
higher state of happiness! It is difficult to describe with words this process
of inflaming your entire being. You have to experience
that yourself!
Can you affirm that you are practicing Agni Yoga if you have not even
realized the birth of the inner fire? (Agni Yoga 413)
The important point is: Your soul must actively meet the spirit and
consciously absorb its fire.
The soul does not ignite by itself!
Apply to man the words: kindling of the spirit.
For the kindling of the fire, which dwells in all the manifestations of
creation, was imposed on man. One should remember that powerful energies have
been entrusted to man; therefore, whoever does not kindle the spirit does not fulfill his destiny. (Fiery World II, 447)
4. Ignite the Soul
with the Spirit Fire wherever it burns
Arnold Böcklin "Sacred Grove"
The fire of the spirit burns not only within you, but elsewhere as well.
You may also take it over from there.
You have already experienced what ignites your being: A spectacle of
nature, listening to a piece of music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven or Bruckner,
love, a great speech, a book from world literature or the sight of a heroic
deed. All this is not illusion, but spiritual reality:
The fire leaps over to you and puts your being in a lofty, Fiery State.
An old gnarled oak, a mystical forest give you
of their power.
Amidst contacts with fiery radiances, the seed of the spirit will be
kindled the more. (Fiery World I, 644)
Other people can also transfer their fire to you, especially of course
your teacher.
5. Tune the Fibres
of your Soul to a high Vibration
Fieriness is a state of the highest vibration. In scientific language we
may say: In the morning meditation you tune the fibres or waves of your soul so
that they vibrate high.
Burning, fieriness and Fiery Condition are just other words for the
vibration of your being of light with a high frequency.
You attune the strings of the harp of your being to the frequency of
purity, power, joy, light and love.
*****
You ramp up the vibrations of your being of light and unfold it like a fan. You build up your Fiery Body, whereby its conscious life begins. By increasing your vibration you overcome the mere material state of your being. Here is a short video in which this process is illustrated:
(Music: Beethoven Triple Concerto op.56)
Beethoven's music makes you feel the gigantic potential that lies hidden
deep within you and is now beginning to manifest itself.
*****
When the fibres of purity, power, joy and love
of your being of spirit vibrate high, you radiate these qualities. They are
reflected in your aura. Now you are pure, powerful, joyful
and loving. Like a sculptor, you are creating a great, beautiful
and strong soul with a golden aura.
Build well each day some part of the eternal structure! (Teachings of
the Temple Vol II, Lesson “Easter Day”)
Be smart, upgrade yourself! We are artists! The work of art that we are
creating is ourselves!
When you are busy with the inner work on your Eternal Individuality, you
are at the same time the artist and the work of art!
The Thinker pointed out the similarity of the work of thinking to that
of sculpture. Urusvati knows that, like sculptors, We
chisel out the foundations for the broadening of consciousness. (Supermundane
651, 652)
We have already found out many times: This labour is possible in all,
even the most terrible circumstances. It is precisely the everyday difficulties
that offer the best opportunities for embellishing your true, inner self (see
the Broadcasting "Rejoice at Obstacles!").
*****
That must not remain abstract! You have to feel
whether your soul is alive, your fire burning, your being of light ramped up,
and your aura shining golden. You are very well in a position
to determine the frequency of your own vibration!
"Tuning myself to a high frequency, ramping up, how exactly does
that work?"
In order to raise the frequency of the
vibration of the strings, waves or fibres "purity",
"strength", "joy" and "love" of your spiritual
ego, you should descend deep into your inner being, hearken to the voice of
your heart and remember what we said at the beginning of this Broadcasting
about these fiery qualities:
Your soul has no desire for material things and is not affected by the
events on this earth. It is indestructible and with its spiritual power,
psychic energy, is able to master its body and the
circumstances. Your Eternal Individuality is happy about all conditions because
it can only grow through them. And it loves everything that exists.
If you become aware of this, you will automatically enter a state of
purity, power, joy and love.
Then you are in high spirits.
We discover a secret: Purity, power, joy and
love are first states of your consciousness and then become states of your
being. Your consciousness is the true reality.
When you change your consciousness, you change your being.
6. Find Purity,
Power, Joy and Love within yourself
Fieriness is a state of your being of purity, power, joy
and love.
In its original, immaculate nature, your soul is pure, powerful, joyful and loving. So you “only”
have to penetrate in meditation through all the dirt, all the accumulations
that you have gathered around your Eternal Self in the course of millions of
years, and get back to this ideal state, which actually exists, but lies hidden
deep within you.
*****
You should sense this original purity and greatness of your true being
with pride and shame! Then you can let these qualities slowly grow out from
your inside until they gradually appear on the outside as well.
7. Fill your Soul
with the Spirit of Purity, Power, Joy and Love
If the picture of lighting your fire does not help you, we can also
choose another idea: You fill yourself with the spirit of purity, power, joy, light and love. You may find this spirit not only within
yourself. You can also absorb it from space, just like a giant telescope that
takes up cosmic rays.
Even the Highest Beings must be filled with spirit in
order to act. The expression be filled is quite precise, for indeed one
needs to be filled. This means filling oneself with an abundance of the spirit.
But does this not also mean that we must enter into
contact with the Hierarchy?
Only by drawing the spirit from the Highest Source do we receive renewal
and intensification of the fiery energy. That is why it is not indicated
anywhere that a person should withdraw in spirit; on the contrary, seekers
should be filled with the power of the spirit that leads to Light. (Heart 412)
"How do I fill myself with this spirit?"
We had already said (Broadcasting “Meditation”): It is in meditation that
comfort and knowledge as well as purity, power, joy, light
and love flow into you.
8. Constant
Exercise
The Fiery Condition is not established once and for all in the morning
and then lasting for the rest of the day. It is a constant exercise!
The instruction not to practise Agni Yoga in a monastery in the
Himalayas, but in the middle of everyday life, takes on a whole new dimension:
When you practise fieriness, you are constantly doubly busy:
On the outer level with your earthly work and at the same time on the
inner level with safeguarding your high vibration.
While you are working in the everyday life, you are continuously asking
yourself: How can I avert harm (a drop in vibration) from my soul? How can I
use the situation to my advantage by promoting the growth (the increase in
fieriness) of my Eternal Individuality?
Not for a single hour should one extinguish within oneself the flame of
lofty thinking. The highest sage loses his power if he ceases to think about
the future Abode. People will ask whether prolonged thought about the
Supermundane will impede their earthly activities. Indeed, this thinking should
accompany one even during the hour of most intense activity. It is beautiful if
someone can always carry within himself a lofty thought. (Supermundane 651)
*****
The exercise “establishing the Fiery State” is only successfully carried
out when you really feel how you have transformed and became inflamed: How you
turn into a different being, a man of spirit; how the spirit fire, the flame of
enthusiasm burns within you and how your body of light radiates greatness, strength and beauty.
What an achievement! Now, you actually are a
great, strong and beautiful creature with a sublime, golden emanation!
"Are you a magician or a miracle doctor that you can turn someone
small, weak and ugly into a great, strong and beautiful person?"
Well, we are not talking about physical strength or beauty, but about
true, inner greatness, about a beautiful soul. You can shape your Eternal Being
yourself with your own strength, with spiritual means like an artist his work
of art.
The secret of a great, beautiful, attractive man does not lie in the
outward appearance of his person or life, but in the fieriness, the enthusiasm
that radiate from him.
The New Man is a beautiful soul!
Take Socrates as an example, who was downright ugly and whose external
life as a simple man in distressed circumstances with his quarrelsome wife
Xanthippe had nothing sublime, great or beautiful
about it. Nevertheless, he was one of the most brilliant souls of all times!
You feel the beauty of your being of light, your aura. This is not
imagination, as you can see from the fact that you also sense precisely when
your vibration drops and you - your emanations - actually
become ugly!
Section V: What affects the Vibration?
Nicholas Roerich „Glory of the Himalayas“
In daily life you have to watch carefully: What
elevates you? What drags you down? It is in particular from
mistakes that you can learn!
1. What increases the Vibration?
Emperor Marc Aurel
You can feel for yourself what increases your vibration and strengthens
your fieriness: Above all sublime, in other words, uplifting thoughts,
feelings, words and deeds.
When performing a heroic deed, one’s vibrations are raised, awareness of
physical sensations disappears, and the entire being is filled with a fiery
insight. Each thought about the Supermundane raises the vibrations and fills
the consciousness with fiery striving. (Supermundane 735)
The happiness of your life depends on the nature of your thoughts. Our
life is the product of our thoughts. (Marc Aurel)
Furthermore, it is high ideas and great ideals which arouse your
enthusiasm, and in addition nature, art (especially music), a visit to a
museum, concentrated work or the solemnity of a
church.
Of course, joy increases your vibration.
It should be reasoned that first of all the
highest vibrations must be maintained. Joy provides such vibrations, just as
does exalted striving. (Supermundane 741)
Each good joy, even the most ordinary, heightens one’s vibrations. Thus can be shown how a joyous person is made stronger.
(Supermundane 823)
"Isn’t here the cat biting its own tail!? I am to create joy in order to attain the Fiery Condition, which is a state of
joy? "
The solution to the riddle is: Find joy within yourself, awaken it in
your own interior, then your vibration will increase.
But we do not want to assemble a long list of factors as in a textbook.
Valuable is only to make your own experience of what elevates you, and then to
align your daily practice with it.
2. Practical Tip
Nicholas Roerich
"Brahmaputra"
“In theory, everything you say is very good and
beautiful. In practice, however, I still have great difficulties with all that.
Once I am tempted or depressed, disgusted with the world, or craving for
alcohol or other pleasures, I cannot find the way to raise my vibration. Then I
am stuck in the swamp and simply unable to drag myself out of it like
Munchausen by my own hairs. "
I tell you something: The panacea for creating and maintaining the high
vibration in everyday life is the proximity of the teacher, whether physically
or in spirit. With him, for example for a guest of Helena Roerich's in the Kulu Valley, there can be no boredom and certainly no
oppression, but only joy and enthusiasm.
The Teacher himself must be so aglow that his approach alone passes on
the fire. Such an everyday task is difficult, yet people are tested precisely
in everyday life, which is the sister of Infinity. (Brotherhood 471)
That is why it is so important that you not only listen to, but above all
practise what we discussed in the Broadcasting "Living in the continuous
Presence of the Teacher" (Series "The Path of the Disciple").
In the heightening of the vibrations, the help of the Teacher is most
significant, as He can transfigure by his mere touch a disciple who has attuned
his receiver to the rhythm of the vibrations of the Teacher. (Helena Roerich
Letters Vol. I, letter of 09.07.1935)
As opposed to that, your vibration drops when you move away from your
teacher through unworthy behaviour which is inappropriate in view of so high a
presence.
You will experience that stepping before the teacher is a simple and
safe way to restore the Fiery Condition in any situation or mood.
3. What lowers the
Vibration?
You should observe, feel and experience what
lowers your vibration and align your daily practice accordingly. Remorse and
disgust are reliable warnings from the heart.
This is different for each individual, although there are some general
rules:
Every consumption of physical food makes your being more material and
thus less spiritual. The spiritual disciple therefore eats as little as
possible. Eating too much or too heavily causes your vibration to drop. Alcohol
extinguishes your spirit fire.
Moods such as irritation, fear, doubt, despondency, self-pity, whining
and complaining are low vibrations.
Animal desires directed towards the material are not in tune with the
high vibration of a being of spirit.
*****
The everyday worries haunt you in abundance: There are your dear fellow
men with their ignorance, indolence, selfishness or even violence. There are
expectations relating to you yourself, or to others, or to the course of events
that are disappointed. Technology does not work, trains or planes are late.
Your own efforts are unsuccessful; you cannot rely on others. These are all
hard tests for keeping your Fiery Condition.
*****
Bad books, movies, music or words that do not
uplift you, but address or arouse your lower self, threaten to drag you down.
"What are and how do I recognize bad books or movies?"
Yes, your intellect is as helpless as the proverbial cleaning lady who
is about to destroy an installation:
Is that a work of art, or may I throw it away?
In contrast to that your heart, when you read a novel by Tolstoy or
watch a thriller, feels very precisely what is valuable and elevating and what
worthless and distracting.
*****
If you cannot find any other cause for a decrease of your vibration,
also consider cosmic currents or encumbrances due to negative influences from
the stars.
We call these and many other factors poison for a sublime state of
consciousness.
Your task is:
First identify this soul poison, this extinguisher of the fire, and then
avoid it!
Section VI: Maintaining Fieriness in the World
Nicholas Roerich „Glory of the Himalayas“
It is of the utmost importance that you be aware:
The Fiery Condition is, at least at the beginning of the Spiritual Path,
a temporary, transitory achievement only. The frequency of the vibration of
your being is constantly changing. It switches from one minute to the other
from high to low and back again.
As vapour transforms back to water or even to ice with the slightest
cooling.
You are actually a fiery, eternal being in one
moment, and a material, mortal one in the next.
The tender flame of the fire of your soul is most delicate. Your task is
to carefully protect it every moment. (Nicholas
Roerich "Guru")
When amidst the throng, carefully guard the light given unto you.
(Leaves of Morya’s Garden I, 10 [11])
You must not allow the chaos raging around you to extinguish it.
One can also notice that the fire burns low whenever there is the
slightest deviation from the Hierarchy. Just as a whirlwind blows out torches,
a deviation into the abyss of Chaos ruins the fires of the heart. (Heart 536)
The storms of the world must not even make your soul fire flicker. It is
to burn calmly and steadily.
We do not value ephemeral flashes, but we do value the inextinguishable
flame. (Supermundane 455)
Because by fieriness we do not mean passion!
There is a great misunderstanding about the idea of the fieriness of
actions. People assume that fieriness is contained in impetuous outcries and
movements, but, as a matter of fact, Fire is expressed completely otherwise.
One may become more speedily united with highest Fire in silence than in a
verbal request. Thus upon all manifestations of life
one may learn how to come close to highest Fire. (Fiery World III, 436)
Even more important than establishing the Fiery State in the morning is
to maintain the higher vibration of a higher being intact during the day!
In meditation you can make wonderful experiences of being a great, strong and beautiful soul. But this is of very
limited value only if you do not translate it into material reality. The
bright radiance of your being of light should shine especially in grey earthly
everyday life.
Auch das ist Kunst,
ist Gottes
Gabe,
aus ein
paar sonnenhellen Tagen
sich so viel
Licht ins Herz zu tragen,
dass, wenn
der Sommer längst verweht,
das Leuchten immer noch besteht. (Goethe)
This too is art
is God's gift
from a few sunny days
to take so much light into your heart
that when the summer has long passed
the resplendence is still there. (Goethe)
Your sunlike nature makes its appearance in the arena of earthly life,
like an artist on stage. You have to be well prepared
for that. There is an examination taking place. Will you pass or will you fail?
Here you have the opportunity to prove that you really
are a great, beautiful and strong spirit.
Are you still dreaming or are you already living? (John Anster Fitzgerald
"The stuff dreams are made of")
You alone are responsible for the vibrational state of your soul, nobody
else!
If you crash, you should not blame other people or external
circumstances!
People do not wish to understand that the quality of the fire borne by
them depends upon themselves. (Fiery World I, 665)
*****
You cannot forever enjoy only the quiet. All the strings of your being
must be highly strained at the same time! In the world both the fibre of
tranquillity and the fibre of enthusiasm are to vibrate high! The gigantic task
is:
Combine Nirvana, heavenly tranquillity, with enthusiastic work in the midst of the earthly chaos!
And that even when washing dishes or cleaning the toilet. Any work
necessary in the community can and must be carried out joyfully!
*****
In the course of a day there are countless
attacks against the fiery constitution of your Eternal Individuality. You must
repel them all, as in the case of strikes against your physical body.
"Against whom am I fighting?"
A crucial question. We are not talking about pouncing on an assailant.
Your struggle is for keeping your own vibration high.
You go into a very special battle, namely into
a fight with yourself, with your own lower self, or the state of your soul, for
the preservation of your purity, power and joy, your light and your love. Go
joyfully into this struggle!
*****
Your soul has got to defend its position in Paradise! It must not allow
itself to be dragged down from its higher standpoint, from
its throne, to the lower levels.
Do not make yourself small, keep your head in Heaven! Do not allow
anyone or anything to drive you out of your Nirvana! (Tian tan Buddha, Hong Kong)
It is so true: People around you often behave disgustingly. But do not
let yourself be upset! Love your little brothers and sisters, even if they are ignorant
and selfish! Fight evil! Do not allow small souls to divert you from your great
Spiritual Path, the path to God! May your motto be:
The dogs are barking, but the caravan moves on.
What must never happen is that your vibration is lowered and the highly sensitive work of art, the golden radiance of your
body of light damaged! Do not let them get you down – otherwise it will be you
yourself who is the stupid one, and the barbarians around you would triumph!
When your joy or your love subsides, the radiant shine of your being of
light will also disappear.
How stupid of you if, out of anger at the stupidity of others, you
yourself destroy your own work of art!
It has got to stay that way: Your soul is invulnerable and unshakable.
It overcomes disgust and smiles serenely at all that what it cannot change
anyway.
No power in the world can overthrow a king of the spirit from his
throne. Only he himself can give it up. (Ingres
"Napoleon I on the Imperial Throne")
1. Practical Tip
Nicholas Roerich
„Brahmaputra“
We are coming to a key question: How often do you find yourself in the Fiery
Condition? Three times a day in contemplation, or only once a week because you
do not keep the meditation times? Several times a day, even when you are in the
world?
Lengthening these periods of time is the vital inner work that falls on
you. At the end of each day, you must give an account to yourself of how often
and how long you succeeded to maintained yourself on the height.
2. Spiritual
Discipline
There are no prohibitions! Agni Yoga forbids prohibitions!
Remember, We have no forbiddances. (Leaves of Morya's Garden II, 318 [322]
Prohibitions are not needed; even the harmful should not be prohibited.
It is better instead to turn the attention simply to the more useful and the
more attractive. (Community 102)
Also, you do not need any prohibitions at all!
You notice for yourself when your vibration goes down.
You feel bad when you give in to your lower self and take in soul poison
or allow it to infiltrate you. You feel good when you express the divine aspect
of your nature.
The Eternal Individuality, the King, the Priest within you despises
everything that lowers its vibration, weakens its soul
and tarnishes the radiance of its being of light!
It wants to grow greater. It disdains everything that makes it smaller.
The barely loved spiritual discipline is not a blind following of
meaningless rules. It is a tool, a goal-fitting behaviour with the aim of
keeping your soul in its wonderful ideal state of purity, power, joy, light and love.
*****
Prepare yourself for typical situations which, according to your own
experience, put you "out of tune"! Recognize the habits that reduce
your vibration and get rid of them!
"In spite of best will and great efforts, I hardly manage to
maintain myself in the state of fieriness."
Yes, every beginning is difficult. We all are all still small souls and
only slowly getting greater.
If your vibration drops, you made a mistake. Responsible for this is are not adverse circumstances or nasty people, but solely
your own weakness. You have allowed your lower self, the animal aspect of your
being, to reveal itself.
This is not bad if you counter-steer immediately and get up again
straight away.
If you learn from the mistake and make an effort
not to repeat it, it will make you progress.
It is not events that matter, but the experience which you can gain
through them.
*****
Spiritual discipline must complement meditation until the proper
behaviour passes into flesh and blood. We want to transform permanently into
men of spirit, the elevation to the Fiery Condition is for the time being only
temporary.
Of course, one cannot force oneself to direct one’s
thought upward. This direction of thought becomes natural, but only after long
experience. (Agni Yoga 471)
This is ultimately a matter of habit. If a baby can learn to walk, you
too can learn to keep your Fiery Body alive all day.
3. Practical Tip
Nicholas Roerich
"Brahmaputra"
The mysterious waves of music belong to the Higher World. When they
saturate us, they put our physical, but above all our fiery being in a state of
higher vibration. Here is how we can make use of that phenomenon:
Did you already observe how often you hum a melody to yourself - mostly
unconsciously, almost silently, purely within you? For example
at work, when going for a walk, in the office on the way from one room to the
other?
*****
An effective tool to keep your being well tuned is to hum at every
opportunity a spiritual mantram with a simple text
and a simple melody, such as for example:
A hymn like “Gott ist gegenwärtig”
(God is present) by Gerhard Tersteegen, the Hare
Krishna Mantram or the holy word “Om”; the motet
“Locus iste” by Anton Bruckner, which creates a
sanctuary within you, as we saw in the Broadcasting “The Path of the Inner
Temple”, or the Triple Concerto by Beethoven, which had just now accompanied
the unfolding of your body of light.
This exercise brings the vibrations of your being into harmony. You may
hum almost without tones and only give your inhalation and exhalation a certain
colour, a particular tint.
*****
I have got used to humming "Tabenisi" as often as possible.
Meanwhile, I am thinking of my true existence, of my life in my eternal home,
in my ashram in the spiritual world, see www.tabenisi.org.
This mantram goes like this:
(Nicholas Roerich "Fortress of the Spirit")
Such a humming occupies the mind, which is tirelessly at work, distracts
it from worldly matters and relaxes it.
4. Observation and
Steering from above
Nicholas Roerich
"Tsong kha-pa"
The decisive step with the "Fiery Condition" as with many
other exercises is: Transfer your consciousness into the invisible part of your
being, into your Supratemporal Individuality.
As a being of spirit which lives in the Spiritual World, the soul is not
affected by anything that happens on the material plane.
From this higher level you look down onto all those tiny little human
beings and the earthly chaos. From above, from the standpoint of eternity, you
observe the drama that is taking place beneath you in the lowlands of the
material world, and how your tool, the body, is faring. If it is hurt or
attacked, cheated or lied to, tortured or betrayed,
nevertheless your soul on the height remains unshakable. (Nicholas Roerich
"Tsong kha-pa")
For each one on the path there is but one immutable Might: Hierarchy.
Upon this sacred Principle one may construct; from this sacred Summit one may
contemplate the world; upon this Stronghold the spirit becomes winged; upon
this Summit can be built a mighty evolution. (Hierarchy 217)
You are an alien, a Heavenly being, which has briefly descended in order to fulfill a mission on
earth. Apart from that, you have nothing to do with the barbaric conditions
down here, and you will return to your Heavenly home as soon as possible. Above
all else, you have to pay attention to maintain your
dignity as “Messenger of the Gods”, that is, to preserve your high vibration!
You must not sink down to the level of the primitive culture you were sent to
raise. (El Greco "Annunciation; Nicholas
Roerich" From Beyond ")
"Isn't it grossly exaggerated, how here a small, insignificant
person is being raised to an angel?"
Well, think twice: Your immortal soul has already dwelled in highly
developed civilizations such as Atlantis, Egypt or
Greece. If you are a spiritual person, it is obvious, almost imperative that
you have already lived in previous incarnations in a
spiritual culture under a spiritual teacher or guide, and that you were a
member of a spiritual community (to which you continue to belong in the Subtle
World): Where else should you have developed your spirituality?
Perhaps you were once a member or disciple with the Essenes, the Sufis or the early church around Jesus, in a temple of
initiates or mystics, or in the schools of Pythagoras, Plato or Buddha.
Therefore, it is a spiritual reality that you come from a Higher World,
a higher culture and have descended to a lower level.
*****
After death, in Heaven, in your teacher's ashram, you will smile at what
is oppressing you today. Then you realize how vain and small it all is. The
same is true if you place yourself in Heaven already now.
When anger, sadness, irritation or despondency
arise, you must immediately switch to the observation mode and place yourself
next to or above you.
“But what if I just feel concerned? How do I get out of this hole again? "
Take a moment and listen to the voice of your heart!
It explains you the situation on the spiritual level, in your true
existence: Your soul has no reason for these moods, because nothing that
happens on the material plane can affect it or obstruct its path. Your Eternal
Individuality thinks differently than your perishable personality: It knows the
meaning of suffering. It gratefully welcomes the apparent obstacles and
adversities of the earthly sphere as steps of ascent.
Your soul goes enthusiastically into the battle with chaos, in which it
serves the progress of evolution and can prove and strengthen its powers.
Your heart leads you back to your ideal state of joy and fieriness.
Indeed, one should look upon earthly things through the fire of the
heart; only such inspection can foil the snares of Maya. (Fiery World II, 460)
You should defy adverse circumstances and right then and there ramp up
your being of light again so that it shines great, strong
and beautiful in the middle of the darkness.
5. Practical Tip:
Emergency Meditation
Nicholas Roerich
"Brahmaputra"
In a moment of temptation or weakness, have a short emergency meditation
to raise your vibration again: Close your physical eyes for a minute and watch
with your inner senses. See through the veil that separates the worlds and look into the Spiritual Sphere!
One can gradually approach fiery consciousness by eradicating the
barriers between the worlds. (Fiery World I, 616)
Recognize your true existence! Look at the whole picture of material and
immaterial reality.
Among those labours to which one can turn, let us not forget the mental
work that develops the imagination. We continually perform mental exercises. A
superficial observer at times may think that We are asleep, when in the midst of Our work We close Our eyes and send out
thoughts to wander in the kingdom of imagination. These moments have great
significance, for such imagined images become real. We cannot judge when this
realization occurs, but it does take place and is of help to mankind.
(Supermundane 602)
In a flash, for a short moment take part in the life of your Eternal
Homeland! There you are a great Lord, a spiritual warrior, a disciple, a teacher or a king of the spirit.
There you enjoy the peace and quiet of the place where you have been
meditating for thousands of years! (Svetoslav Roerich
"Damodar Kund")
You visit the community of your soul mates and can talk to them. (Bellini "Transfiguration of Christ")
Up there in Heaven evil cannot reach you. You can escape the darkness of
the earth by flying up and away.
When our consciousness is completely transported into the domain where
there is no fear and depression, then we are invulnerable to any filth. (Fiery
World II, 72)
"Isn't that heartless?"
No, all the injustice, hardship and suffering hurts
you, even if you only see them happen to others. You help wherever you can.
However, if your little brothers and sisters refuse to be assisted, the
terrible events must take their course, all of which have a deeper meaning (see
the Broadcastings "The Meaning of Suffering" and "Rejoice at
Obstacles!"). Not even the Masters of this world, the Mahatmas of
Shambhala, have the power to interfere with the Karma of humanity.
6. Vigilance
Rembrandt
"The Night Watch"
The most important tool for maintaining constant enthusiasm is tireless
vigilance.
The greatest concern of the Stone Age people was to prevent the campfire
from going out. Equally carefully you must guard your inner fire.
To attain and maintain the Fiery Condition - that is, to shape the Fiery
Body and transform into a New Man - is not a trifle, but a great achievement.
It requires maximum concentration.
You have to examine yourself every moment: Am I
a being of spirit, an immortal or not? Am I up or am I down, have I crashed? Do
I vibrate high or low? What am I radiating? Black or golden emanations,
irritation and dejection or joy, strength and love?
The moment enthusiasm is gone, the earthly impediments return. One’s
mental ardour can become continuous, and like wings will carry one to the
Guide. We can work best where there is fire burning, and therefore warn against
fear, depression, and despair, which, like damp coals, cannot produce the
needed fire. (Supermundane 223)
You may doubt the existence of the soul, the Fiery Body. Nevertheless you feel the state of your own vibration.
You learn to sense when you have reached the Fiery Condition – but also
when you have lost it.
When his vibration drops, the man of spirit must immediately take
countermeasures. Like a violinist in a concert, you have to
retune individual strings of your being over and over again during the day.
Under the pressure of the hostile to the spirit
conditions the tension slackens, for example that of the fibre of love when
you are angry with other people.
You notice immediately when your physical body is doing badly. Likewise,
you have to perceive whether your body of light, in
any given moment, is radiating greatness, power and beauty or smallness,
weakness and ugliness.
What do you always ask yourself:
"Am I glowing? Am I burning?"
Do I shine? (Fiery World I, 615)
It is not evil or obstacles that lead to a decline of your vibration,
but your own thoughts and feelings!
Constantly monitor your thoughts and feelings!
It is not easy to maintain this highest tension all the time! The
temptation is huge to lean back and relax according to the motto “You have got to spoil yourself sometimes”. But that
implies loss of fieriness, which is the highest, that is to
say the most strained vibration. Entertainment and distraction are the
opposite of tension and concentration.
The gigantic task is: Be focused every moment!
Concentrate every single second on the goal of maintaining your high
vibration, your fieriness – otherwise you will not achieve it.
Now you know why it is said: Nirvana or the highest happiness requires
constant tension.
7. Practical Tip:
Take a Break every Hour
Nicholas Roerich
"Brahmaputra"
Every hour, pause for a moment in order
to make sure that your radiation is still intact.
And make it radiate again if necessary.
Create your ideal, the higher the better. Concentrate your energies upon
the working out of that ideal; then work as though every hour held all your
hope, your only opportunity. (Teachings of the Temple Vol III, Lesson “One pointer”)
*****
The being of light that you create in the Fiery State is great, beautiful and strong, but at the same time an infinitely
sensitive and extremely fragile work of art, like a Chinese vase.
It consists only of vibrations! The slightest knock can destroy it.
Treat it with extreme care like a valuable treasure and protect it with
the utmost vigilance against all harmful impacts!
8. Practical Tip:
Keep Vibration high for one Day
Nicholas Roerich
"Brahmaputra"
Another important exercise: Make an effort to
stay in a state of high vibration for at least one day.
Choose a specific, trouble-free day (preferably a Sunday) and
concentrate solely on establishing and defending the Fiery Condition. This
should be your only goal that day. Nothing else matters today!
Observe what brings you out of this state: other people, the
circumstances, your own habits. Learn to get up again immediately.
Section VII: The Fiery Condition as Service
Nicholas Roerich „Glory of the Himalayas“
It is not a selfish pursuit to maintain the Fiery Condition. The
frequency of your vibration is of immense importance not only for you yourself,
but also for your entire environment.
A benevolent thinker is surrounded by a rainbow, and through his light
brings healing. (AUM 143)
By elevating yourself, you also help others to rise. Your presence
alone, your mere existence as a radiant being encourages them to imitate you.
My life is my message. (Gandhi)
Man as the highest creature living here is responsible for the vibrational
state of the earth as a whole.
This is made up of the vibrations of all the individual human beings and
of the places where they come together. Therefore, each and
every one of us has to take care that his own and the vibration of his
surroundings are high. If the condition of the earth as a
whole improves, we will, according to the law of correspondence, attract
again higher vibrations and thus a better fate.
Improvement of the planetary vibrations can take place only through the
tension of humanity. The centre of all manifestations is mankind. Vibrations
are so disharmonious that it is difficult to establish a connection with the
Higher Worlds. Therefore the lower strata can admit
the infiltration of low vibrations, while higher radiations do not reach the
Earth. The permeation of space with vibrations which assist the establishment
of higher radiations is the task on the path to the Fiery World. (Fiery World
III, 331)
1. The 4 Heroic
Deeds of an Agni Yogi
Heracles‘
Fight with the Nemean Lion, Hofburg,
Vienna
Your personal Great Service consists of four labours, which, to finish
this Broadcasting, we are now going to discuss:
1. You establish and maintain your own Fiery Condition. Thereby you
create the New immortal Man of spirit from the untreated raw material of your
soul, as we had already discussed in the Broadcasting “Bring your Soul to
Life”.
2. You raise the vibration of every human being you meet by setting him
aflame with the fire of your spirit. This is how you spread the New Man.
3. You turn your place of residence and work into a room of high
vibration, as described in the Broadcasting “The Path of the Inner Temple”.
Thereby you create there where you are living a stronghold of the New World.
4. You raise the vibration of every room you enter and turn it into a
sanctuary. This is how you spread the New World.
Just like Heracles his 12, you have to
accomplish these 4 labours in order to achieve immortality and to be accepted
into the circle of the Gods. (Heracles‘
Fight with the Hydra, Hofburg, Vienna)
These are your personal heroic deeds, which you can accomplish any
moment and in any situation of everyday life.
The Service is so great that each step already constitutes a heroic
deed. Each day, with each thought, something great is done. (Fiery World II,
465)
2. Preserve your
own Fire
Botticelli
"St. Augustine"
For this Great Service you must first guard your own fire and be aflame
yourself. When your own vibration is low, when you are offended, hurt,
depressed or sad, you cannot inspire your fellow men either.
No matter how gloomy the darkness, your golden aura must shine
undiminished and give light to your surroundings.
What you want to ignite in others must burn within you. (St. Augustine)
Sincere striving for self-perfection is not egoism,
but has universal significance. The thought about improvement does not
concern oneself alone. Such a thought carries within itself the flame needed
for many kindlings of hearts. (Fiery World I, 81)
Being a candle is not easy. In order to give
light, one must first burn. (Rumi)
When, however, your own vibration is low, you are putting out other
people's fire.
Here is a particularly beautiful instruction from the Master:
Each teacher should teach the Higher World as a
higher joy. No one will condemn him who brings true joy. Yet how
much enthusiasm must one develop in oneself in order to
be a harbinger of joy! If a teacher has attained such a degree, he merits all
reverence. (AUM 127)
3. Ignite others
Nicholas Roerich
"Flowers of Timur (Fires of Victory)"
We said at the beginning of this Broadcasting: You kindle your soul with
the fire of your spirit. Now we go one step further: When your spirit fire
burns, you can also kindle other people with whom you come
into contact.
There was one flame, now it has become two. (Fiery World I, 192)
It is possible to create, saturating the surroundings, only when the
heart energies have been kindled. Without these sacred fires it is impossible
to realize the Higher Ethics. The action of the fiery heart evokes and sets alight
fires in surrounding hearts. Thus creates the true
Agni Yogi. (Fiery World III, 164)
Just as you arouse your own fire in meditation, you can also ignite with
your fieriness the soul fire which glows as a small flame inside someone else.
You transmit your own enthusiasm to those around you. The flame of your candle
lights someone else's candle. You pass on your fire!
One lone fire can kindle a multitude of torches without being exhausted.
(Supermundane 814)
I came to send a fire on the earth, and what would I rather than that it is already
kindled! (Luke 12, 49)
Fieriness means high vibration. Your own high vibration seizes by itself
everyone who approaches you.
It is impossible for anyone to either raise or lower his own individual
vibration without raising or lowering everything connected with him. (Teachings
of the Temple Vol III, Lesson “To Templars”)
When you are burning, you also inflame your surroundings.
One should note not only the achievements of apparent heroism, but also
the great path of kingliness of the spirit amidst daily life. We know these
great spiritual warriors who saturate the space and all surroundings with their
fire and inspire others to heroic deeds. Thus, it is necessary in life to watch
the subtle actions of the kingly spirit. (Fiery World III, 41)
The emanations of a pure earthly teacher raise the vibrations all around
him, sometimes over a tremendous area. Thus, not only is space purified, but
sometimes even the fires of the individuals who surround him are kindled. That
is why, in ancient times, it was considered a great privilege to live near a
Teacher and serve Him. (Helena Roerich Letters Vol. I, letter of 09.07.1935)
If you come across the low vibration of a fellow human being, you must
not allow yourself to be dragged down, on the
contrary: you have to elevate him!
Everyone you meet should part from you in a vibrational state higher
than before the encounter.
4. Practical Tip:
Love ignites the Fire
Nicholas Roerich
"Brahmaputra"
The fire in others can only be kindled through your love for them.
"Why is that so? What has lighting a fire to do with love?"
Fieriness is born in the heart!
The fire of the soul is the fire of the heart!
If you want to inflame someone, you will not succeed by persuasion or
reason and certainly not by compulsion. You have to
reach his heart!
Denn es muss von Herzen
gehen,
Was auf Herzen wirken
soll.
Because that what is to work on the heart
Has to come from the heart. (Goethe,
Faust II, 3rd act)
Your neighbour will only open his heart to you when he feels your love
for him.
The heart will not be aflame without love. (Heart 243)
It was said long ago, “He who knows how to love has a fiery heart.” For
strengthening the energy, a fiery impulse is needed. No form of reasoning
produces that fire which is kindled by a spark of the feeling of love. (AUM
516)
This is confirmed by the eternal words of the St. Paul:
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love,
I am nothing. (1 Corinthians 13, 1, 2)
A cold, hard-hearted ascetic will not be able to touch the hearts of his
fellow men.
Only the flame of the heart can warm when the clothes have been torn up
by the storm. (Supermundane 232)
Mothers caution their children—don’t go near a
cold man. One who has been warmed by the sun carries warmth with him. People
wish to warm themselves in proximity to him. Is it not the same with the
flaming heart which is attached to the Fiery World? People hasten to the
glowing heart to warm themselves, and avoid the deadly
cold—thus it is in all Existence. (Fiery World III, 478)
"Sometimes I find it difficult to love these ignorant, coarse,
selfish barbarians around me!"
You should regard them as little children and yourself as a father, a
mother or a doctor who lovingly furthers their growth. The proper attitude is:
You do not curse, you are not disappointed, you are not offended - these are
low vibrations, a decline of your ideal, Fiery State; and most important:
You do not condemn any of your little brothers and sisters!
It is wrong to rebuke the ignorant in anger, for such abuse is only
harmful. But there will be benefit if one bends down and finds convincing
words. It is not easy to go to the level of the ignorant, but a thoughtful
person will understand that when a passage is low, one must stoop to proceed.
Condemnation is a deadly principle. It can easily be avoided if one remembers
that destruction is not equal to construction. (Supermundane 847)
You wish to help a certain fellow human being to kindle his fire. You do
this out of love for him, not because of some abstract idea of the common good.
5. New Man created
through Transmission of Spirit Fire
It is of the utmost importance that you realize: The New Man of the 6th
Race will not be born physically. He emerges when the Brotherhood or its
emissaries ignite the soul fire of individual, receptive people with the flame
of their spirit.
The New Man spreads through the transmission of fieriness!
In the gathering of a new race, the Adept who lives among men turns out
to be a great spiritual warrior. Thus is the creation
of the nucleus of the new race realized. The fire of the ordained spiritual warrior
kindles the spirits of the chosen ones. When the spirit of the spiritual
warrior transmutes his fires, he kindles simultaneously the torches of others.
(Infinity I, 190)
Many ask, as soon as they have read the first pages of the Teaching:
“I am completely thrilled! What can I do to spread Agni Yoga?"
Of course, you should first recommend the books. But that alone is not
enough, because when proposing to read thousands of pages, you do not reach
most people at all. Which Christian has read the Bible?
Better let your spirit fire shine. As any light, it attracts like a
magnet! Do not think so much about spreading Agni Yoga, but rather:
Spread fieriness!
Transmit your fire to others! Infect them with your enthusiasm for the
New Construction, for the works of art of the New Man and the New World!
The spark of the spirit kindles the heart,
hence Our Teaching is in need of spreading through the fire of the heart. How
can one kindle the torches of spirit without the fire of the heart? Only fire
uplifts creativeness and imbues each action. (Hierarchy 100)
The New Man is a creature of a higher vibration. Raise the vibration of
everyone you meet! This is how you spread the New Man.
Address the Eternal within your fellow men! Strengthen, inflame their
souls with your fire!
Know how to ignite and inspire your neighbour. (Supermundane 756)
May many great, strong and beautiful souls
blossom around you!
6. New World
created through increasing the Vibration of every Place
The New World is a place of higher vibration.
Saturate the room where you are living and working with an aura of
purity, subtlety, spirituality, dignity and solemnity.
In this way you make your home - or at least your meditation room - a
stronghold of the New World, an extension of Heaven to
earth.
Then go out into the world, raise the vibration of every room you enter
and make of it a sanctuary! We have already discussed how this can be achieved
in the Broadcasting “The Path of the Inner Temple”. This is how you spread the
New World. Thereby you contribute your stone to the earth’s as
a whole becoming over time a temple, a planet with a high radiation.
The world is regenerated upon the principle of Fire. The fire of the
centres, the fire of the spirit, the fire of the heart, the fire of heroism,
the fire of attainment, the fire of Hierarchy, the fire of Service—these
constitute the principles of the New World. (Hierarchy 375)
“That is once again too pretentious for me. In my everyday environment I
can neither create New Men nor build the World of the Future."
Well then let us put it more simply. When you are in the Fiery
Condition, you can uplift the grieving and the downcast. You can create a pure
atmosphere around you, settle disputes, suppress coarse words and deeds and establish harmony. This is how you elevate your
surroundings.
That is not as high-flying as it may sound at first. For a mother in her
family, for a doctor in his practice, a craftsman in his workshop, a lawyer or
architect in his office, for a teacher in her school class and everyone else,
increasing the surrounding vibration is a task of the completely normal,
everyday earthly life.
Following the example of St. John of Capistrano, about whom we have
already spoken (Broadcasting “The Path of the Inner Temple”), who turned an
entire military camp into a sanctuary.
Fieriness means: Taking every step in beauty
and dignity, thereby radiating beauty and dignity into one's surroundings and
thus creating a world of beauty and dignity.
A pure, clear, childlike, merry soul like the "Little Lord"
brightens up the darkness around him and transfigures his whole environment.
The greatest benefit that we
can contribute consists in the broadening of consciousness, and the improvement
and enrichment of our thinking, together with the purification of the heart, in order to strengthen our emanations; and by thus raising
our vibrations, we restore the health of all that surrounds us. (Helena Roerich
Letters Vol. II, letter of 25.10.1936)
7. Key to Happiness
- Key to Service
At the end let us summarize briefly:
The exercise “Fiery Condition” is the key to your personal happiness.
What can there be greater and more beautiful than to walk across this earth
any moment as a being of spirit of a higher vibration (according to your ideal
as the disciple of a great teacher or as a king of the spirit, a healer or
spiritual warrior), and everywhere and at all times to
live in your personal Paradise (according to your ideal in a sanctuary or a
royal castle)?
*****
But the high-minded among you strive for even more: They want to pass on
their happiness. To them applies:
The exercise “Fiery Condition” is the key to your personal service.
Through your fieriness you raise the vibration of the people and places
with which you come into contact. You cannot do anything greater or more
valuable!
How, then, does a Hierarch create on Earth? By uplifting all the
surroundings. (Agni Yoga 663)
When you leave your room and go out into the world, may your motto be:
Onward to heroic deed!
How sad when there is no heroic deed in sight! If you want to go with us
and fight with us, join joyfully in the battle cry of the Mahatmas:
Onward to battle! Onward to battle! Onward to battle! I hear the call
and bow my head before the Command of the Blessed Master. (Leaves of Morya's Garden II, 181)
The quintessence of this Broadcasting and of the exercise "The
Fiery Condition" is:
The New Man is a high vibrating being among low vibrating creatures.
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