On the keys that lead to the doors of divine truth, by Helena Röerich
(This is one of the many texts of Helena Röerich that were collected in her two volumes of Letters. With incredible beauty, simplicity and depth describes what we have to do if we want to open the doors to the mastery of Being, invites us to explore the path of discipleship within ourselves.)
Dedicated to: the Ancients, the Present and the Future Disciples.
My dear Young Friends!
These three great keys are not stored on other planets or other star worlds, but on ourselves, but by taking possession of them, you will acquire something that is possible to compare only to the worlds. Would it be reasonable to refuse these keys? Certainly not. Therefore, without wasting time let's go for them. In the name of my love for you, I will remind you of the paths that lead to the mastery of these keys.
Their names are: LOVE, BEAUTY AND KNOWLEDGE . Remember these paths, take them and point them out to others.
In each act show mobility, love and prudence. Try to be a wise sculptor at work with yourself and others and be careful to be friable clay in the hands of a bad company.
Choose good friends and in the dialogue with them highlight your good qualities; read good books with them, reach conclusions and try to remember all the best put it into practice in life.
Develop in you plans and methods for creating a beautiful life with will and wisdom, full of work and harmony in relations with the outside world.
Be aware that with every bad thought, word and deed you are breaking the sacred rights with which, like any other creation, you have been generously rewarded by nature.
Develop in you firmness and perseverance and do not entertain yourself during the work. If the work is boring but necessary, make sure that you patiently bring it to its conclusion. It will be easier to do if you undertake each task with joy. You are not a doll or a toy that mechanically performs the movements, but a rational man. Therefore, you are obliged to treat each job with wisdom, care and love.
Try to purify your language of empty and meaningless words. Let your language be clear, precise and brief.
Leave the place full of empty talk, rage and hatred, where the fight reigns, harmful entertainment and stupidity.
If you decide to rest, be sure to give your mind and body a pleasant entertainment and free loads during these minutes of relaxation.
Do not hurry. Eradicate the lies. Be honest and friendly. Develop in you a sense of nobility and in your communication with people be polite and simple. The feeling of fear should also be alien to you.
Maintain balance in both pleasure and suffering, in joy and pain. Always forgive and hate responds with love. Only then will you defeat bad will.
Your thoughts are your children. You must make each one beautiful. Each thought must become a creative force directed towards doing good. Always remember that the power of thought is very great. Prepare to use it for the benefit of the world.
Be precise in everything, truthful and accurate in your actions. Otherwise, you cannot be trusted with an important job.
Life must flow through you in all its splendor and full strength. Do not let unimportant things weaken your perseverance in achieving your goal.
Life and Love are a powerful force and the reason why everything in the Universe exists. Love is the force that governs the world: everything that is done for it has the power of the universal law. Only with Love to everything, you can defeat evil. Bring love wherever you go. You will soon understand how it will help you on all roads.
Be pure and let love emanate from you, as the aroma emanates from the flower.
Make the firm and unwavering decision to become the expression of love and the will to help everywhere when you can. Let your life be a ray of joy for others. Find diamonds in your soul so you can put them in the treasure of the common good.
If you have more knowledge than some of your friends, do not be blinded by the pride of it, do not show your superiority, but share your knowledge if it is appropriate at that time.
Remember that every minute of your life has a purpose. Be able to understand it. If you have difficulty choosing a job or profession, consult your superiors.
Stay tuned for empty minutes. Laziness can grab you because of them. Hours and days can be made of empty minutes and the task of the true man is great. Life is certainly multifaceted and interesting. From the minutes spent sensibly you can weave the true and beautiful fabric of your soul. Therefore, try to fill every minute of your life with work, knowledge or pure thoughts. Let incessant work bring you pleasure and let the fire of inextinguishable creativity illuminate your path.
Try to always keep your thoughts in absolute purity and think a lot about what you can do for the improvement of people's lives and for the mitigation of their sufferings.
Nature is brimming with pure and sacred gifts and is looking for receptacles. Let your soul be bright and clean like glass, for the acceptance of these gifts. Become a ray of light, leave the world of vain dreams and apply your energy to ceaseless ascension to the top.
Let your soul always radiate light and bliss, warmth and compassion, dynamism and desire to help those who are close. Then you will feel how heavy tasks lose their weight and the sorrowful garments of suffering become white veils like snow of the shining pure joy.
Be cautious and condescending in your judgment about people, since you are, rather imperfect. But be strict with yourselves and work tirelessly on correcting your own flaws.
You will face many trials in life. Only through them you will acquire infinite treasures, but you will be prepared to overcome them successfully, only if you are armed with the amunitions of prudence, perseverance and faith in yourselves.
If failure came to you, you did not lose your courage. Discouragement will only weaken your strength and decrease your inner growth. It is better to mobilize your forces and think about what will be the best strategy you can find to continue the action. In this way your tenacity will improve and your powers will multiply. Transform each failure and bitter experience into the most valuable lesson that will serve as a guide in the future. Each obstacle in your path will tell you what it is necessary to develop to open ammunition to continue the fight.
But in battle you should always remember the well-being of those who are close. Be careful to buy your own well-being at the expense of the suffering of these nearby. Such well-being is cruel and unstable.
Be able to consume your energy carefully and sensibly in any job. Get ready to have a strong, vigorous and robust body. Do not load it with food in larger quantities than is necessary for normal nutrition, nor do you carry it with anything that is obviously harmful to your health. Study the laws not only spiritual but also those of the right physical growth. Your body is an immediate tool that you will treat wisely. Through such management, you will carry in a more lasting way, the most precious receptacle of natural and health forces, through daily storms and along the paths of Unstoppable work.
But this receptacle is given to everything that exists. Therefore, be equally sensitive to the health of people, animals, birds, and plants. For example, plants collect light and heat from the sun in the same way that you do. Flowers, like you, would die if they were deprived of them. It means that you are brothers, but you are older, stronger and smarter. Therefore, one should always give adequate help to the weaker and pay more attention. You are gifted with greater strength and wisdom than many located under you, therefore, you should always protect the helpless and the helpless whether they are these people, animals, plants, etc.
A saying goes like this: When the night is darker, the brighter the stars are and so, you will be the bearers of light, love and knowledge in human darkness and earthly struggle. The more light you have, the more darkness you will disperse.
Develop in you the greatest sensitivity and love possible to the nature that surrounds you and you will hear their unstoppable voices singing a praiseworthy hymn to the life-giving sun. Love the starry sky and penetrate its depths. In the calm of the night turn your eyes to the shining stars, to the unknown worlds where everything is also alive, where everything is full of powerful beauty and magnificent light But from other worlds our Earth It also seems like an asterisk. Therefore, she is also full of beauty and greatness. Let your soul be a spacious cradle capable of embracing this beauty and greatness. Let your soul be a mirror capable of reflecting the generosity and the many faces of nature's creative genius.
Open your perception of beauty more widely through art. Love music and painting. Look more deeply at the play of colors. Sharpen your perception of sounds. Show more interest in everything, embodying the genius of the creators of beauty. When choosing a profession for yourselves, do not be unilateral or narrow minded. When possible, take interest in everything that can enrich your perspective.
Rejoice before all that is an expression of beauty. Rejoice at the last rays of the sunset. Rejoice at the first rays of the sun at dawn. Rejoice, and the sunlight will be brighter for your soul, and the distant worlds will be closer.
Be like the sun, which generously spills itself into light and dynamism. Look how many roads to the great springs wait for their travelers. But to go for them, it is necessary to always move forward and life itself is movement. Forward or backward. You move with every thought, step, action. If they are directed towards Good, you will invariably go forward, but be careful not to take steps backwards.
It is necessary to reach the top of the mountain, but how difficult is the climb and how easy it is to roll down! Is the last thing reasonable? Think of the infinite happiness that it is, to take possession of the top and to show others the way. That much of the unknown you will see from there! That great and immense horizons will appear before your astonished eyes! You will then understand all the value of the road traveled! You will receive what you persistently sought for yourself, despite the resulting hardships and difficulties.
And so always, with every minute of your life ascend higher and higher. Remember that during difficult ascents you will be offered a helping hand.
And the greater your help to people, the more majestic and wide your mind and soul will be and the easier it will be for you to climb difficult.
Therefore, eradicate from you the feeling of selfishness. Do not be a debtor of nature. She has rewarded you with great gifts. She has planted great seeds in you. She is waiting Will you multiply her treasures? Will you share them with others?
Try to hear the voices of everything that exists. That way you will understand its specific aspects. Having understood, fall in love with a love that encompasses everything that exists. Acquire a deeper and deeper knowledge. Develop in you the appreciation of harmony and beauty as much as possible. With love, knowledge and beauty go to the people. Unite them. Build life with them, full of light, vigor, tireless work and joy. In this great creative attempt, you will acquire new endless sources of power and knowledge and by aspiring to learn the hidden secrets of nature in the name of the Common Good, you will be thus paying your debt.
Following this path, you will acquire the three great keys of BEAUTY, LOVE and KNOWLEDGE .
With them you will open the doors that lead to the luminous sources of divine truth.
Be able to take possession of these keys
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Helena Röerich (1879-1949)
Helena, daughter of architect Shaposhinov and niece of composer Mussorgsky. Woman with unusual skills, a talented pianist, and author of several books, including "Fundamentals of Buddhism" and a Russian translation of "The Secret Doctrine" by Helena P. Blavatsky. The collection of his letters, in two volumes, are an index for wisdom, spiritual deepening, and simple advice that he shared both with a number of friends with whom he corresponded, as enemies or co-workers alike.
Founder, along with her husband Nicolás Röerich, of the Agni Yoga Society that presents a living ethic that encompasses and synthesizes the philosophies and religious teachings of all ages.
He collaborated with Master Morya-Khan upon receiving His telepathic dictates (just as Alice A. Bailey was with the Tibetan Master Djwal-Khul) on Agni Yoga. Until 1940, 13 books of Morya and two others were published with "The Letters of Helena Röerich".
