In the Light of Truth
Grail Message by Abdrushin
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5. Responsibility
This question is always one of the first to be considered. By far the greater number of men would like to disburden themselves of every responsibility and cast it on something or someone beside themselves. This being derogatory to themselves does not disconcert them. In this they are really very humble and modest, but unfortunately they only desire to go on living the more merrily and unscrupulously.
It would be so fine to gratify one's every wish and let one's desires run riot at the expense of others without having to pay for it! Mundane laws can, if necessary, easily be circumvented and conflicts avoided. The more cunning ones can even under their cover make quite successful raids and do many things that would not bear closer inspection, even while enjoying the reputation of being exceptionally praiseworthy people. Thus, with a certain amount of discernment, one could live quite comfortably in accordance with one's own views, if .... something did not awaken an uneasy sensation from time to time, a certain disquietude as to whether many a thing should not be different from that which is the outcome of one's own wishes.
And this is really the case. Truth is serious and inexorable. The wish of man can in no wise bring about a deviation in this respect. The law that what a man sows, that will he reap remains adamant.
These few words contain and say much more than one might think. They correspond exactly to the actual process of action and reaction that is present in Creation. No more appropriate expression could be found for it. In the same way as the harvest brings the manifoldness of the seed, man receives back with interest what he has awakened in his own sensations and sent out in his thoughts. Thus man bears spiritually the responsibility for all that he does.
This responsibility begins at his taking a resolution and not at the time of the action which is but a consequence of the resolution. Resolution is the awakening of serious intention.
There is no partition between this life and life in the next world. All is an immense entirety. Like an extraordinarily ingenious, never failing mechanism, the whole mighty Creation, visible and invisible to us, interacts on itself. Uniform laws bear the whole, permeating it and connecting it like strands of nerves, in constant action and reaction.
When the churches and the schools speak of Heaven and of Hell, of God and of the Devil, they are right. The mistake lies in the teaching of good and bad powers. That must inevitably lead the serious seeker into misconceptions and doubts; for where there are two powers there must logically be two masters, in this case two Gods, a good one and an evil one. And this is not the case.
There is but one Creator, one God, and thus one Power only that permeates, animates and develops all Being. This pure, creative, divine Power pulses through the whole of Creation continually, and forms an integral part which cannot be severed from it. It is to be found everywhere, in the air, in every drop of water, in the growing rock, the struggling plant, in animals, and naturally also in man. There exists nothing where it is not also.
And as it permeates all things, it likewise permeates man without cessation. The structure of man resembles that of a lens. Just as a lens collects the sun's rays as they pass through it, and sends them on in a concentrated form, so that the heat-giving rays, united on a given spot, singe it and set it on fire, so man, owing to his intrinsic qualities, gathers the divine creative force pulsing through him together in his soul and directs it on in a concentrated form by his thoughts.
According to the quality of his inner feeling and its accompanying thoughts man guides the Divine creative power which works unconsciously for good or for evil.
This is the responsibility which man must bear.
You who are often so painfully seeking the right path, why make it so hard for yourselves? In all simplicity picture to yourselves the pure force of the Creator pulsating through you and how you are guiding it by your thoughts for good or for evil.
Then you have it all without trouble or effort. Consider that it simply depends on your own inner feeling and thoughts whether this immense force produces good or evil. What great constructive or destructive power has thus been given you!
You need make no effort, you need not cling to any so-called occult practices in order that you may attain, through all possible and impossible mental and physical contortions, to some step utterly worthless for your real spiritual advancement.
Cease wasting your time. This toying has often developed into a painful torment and means no less than the practices in convents of scourging and mortifying the flesh. It is only another form of the same thing and can bring as little gain.
The so-called occult masters and pupils are modern Pharisees, in the truest sense of the word. They are indeed a resuscitation of the Pharisees at the time of Jesus of Nazareth.
Reflect joyfully that merely by your good inner feeling and thoughts you are able to guide the one mighty, creative force. It works exactly corresponding to the quality of your inner feelings and thoughts. The force is constantly present. You need only to guide it, and this without any art or subtlety. No scholarship is required, not even the art of reading and writing. It is given to each one of you in the same degree. In this no difference exists.
As a child, playing with the switch, can let loose an electric current of enormous strength, it is given to you, through your mere thoughts, to guide divine force. You may rejoice and be proud so long as you use it for good, but tremble if you waste it, or still worse, use it for impure purposes, for you cannot escape the reciprocal action which lies in Creation. And if you had the wings of the morning, the hand of the Lord, whose force you have thus misused, would reach you by means of this self-acting law wherever you might hide yourself.
Evil is effected by the same pure, divine power as good. The free choice to decide in what manner one will use this Divine power, entails a responsibility from which none can escape. Therefore, I say to every seeker: “ Keep your thoughts pure. You are a peacemaker by so doing, and are happy!”
Rejoice, you ignorant and feeble ones; for to you the same power is given as to the strong! Do not make it too hard for yourselves.
Do not forget that the pure, creative Divine power also flows through you, and that you too, being men, can guide this power in a particular direction by means of your inner feeling, that is your will, for good or for evil, destructively or constructively bringing joy or sorrow.
As there is but this one Divine power, the mystery becomes clear as to why darkness must give way to light, and why evil, in every serious, final struggle, must give way to good.
If you guide the Divine power to good, it remains in its original purity, undimmed, thereby developing greater force; whereas, dimmed by impurity, a loss of power ensues. Thus, in the final struggle, the purity of the power will be what penetrates and determines.
Every one of you feels, to the very fingertips, what is good and what is evil. To indulge in subtle inquiries would but confuse and be a waste of power. Refrain from so doing, for, like a swamp, which lays hold of all within its reach, it would paralise and suffocate you. Gay joyousness dispels all gloomy thought. You need not be sad or depressed. At any moment you can begin the road upwards and make good the past, whatever it may have been. Do nothing but think of the process of the pure, divine power flowing through you, then you yourself will shrink from guiding this purity into the unclean channels of bad thoughts, because, without any effort, you can attain to the highest and noblest ones. You have hut to guide. The power works on independently in the direction you desire.
Thus you have your happiness and your unhappiness in your own hand. Then hold up your heads courageously and wear a brave face. Evil cannot approach unless you call it. As you willy so it will be unto you.
