FEAR AND FEARLESSNESS

BEAUTY IN NATURE

Lecture 10 of the Youth Occult Class

Given by the Master Beinsa Douno

In Sofia

Secret Prayer

There was a presentation of the writings on Beauty.I ask, what is Beauty? Is Beauty seen or felt? How will you draw a beautiful face? When you look at some people, you like them in a certain pose. For example, they are beautiful when they stand still in silence; but when they laugh, they become ugly. It is just the opposite for some others they are beautiful when they laugh, and ugly when they are silent. How will you explain this: imagine a round, ball-shaped face with small eyes close to the nose. Is this face beautiful? It is not. Is a face beautiful, if the eyes are remote from the nose? It is not beautiful either. What will you say then about a big, round face with big or small ears? Again, you will say that it is not beautiful. What should the size of the ears be? Your likes and dislikes show that you have a certain inner measure or a scale for estimating things. So, in each case the important thing is not what different authors said about Beauty, but what your inner understanding is. The view of different authors will serve just as an explanation and addition to your view.

People long for Beauty, they perceive Beauty, but if you ask them what Beauty is, what its outer features are, they will not tell you anything in particular. A beautiful face is the one that will maintain its basic features in all conditions of Life. Whether sad or joyful, serious or gay, the basic features will always remain the same. If ones eyes are small and close to the nose, this is an indication of weak impressionability. Small eyes are a sign of parsimony. Large eyes are a sign of wastefulness. In other words, persons with small eyes are poor; persons with large eyes are rich, that is why they can spend and waste their wealth with an easy hand.

In conclusion, a beautiful face is the one in which the parts are fully proportional and correctly related. For example, a forehead, a nose and a chin should represent respectively one third of the whole face. More over, the facial form should not be completely round, but somehow pear-shaped and pointed. When you see a very round face, it is due to a certain quantity of fat, accumulated around the chin. A face loses its beauty as a result of this excess fat. All people of our age long for Beauty, but only after its outer manifestation. The visible outer beauty created great evils in the world. Beauty should be inner, not outer. Inner beauty is expressed in plastic vivid faces of inner depth and sensitivity and nobleness of the soul. The curved lines should be predominant over the straight lines on a beautiful face. Straight lines show that electricity prevails in a certain person; curved lines are an indication of magnetism. Some persons have beautiful foreheads, but their ears and chins are not beautiful. One shall use the measure of Nature - strictly determined in mathematical and geometrical aspect in order to define which forehead, which nose, mouth, chin, beard and ears are correct in size and beautiful in form.

Those who try to lead a beautiful inner life will also acquire that Beauty on their faces. For example, nobleness, purity and tenderness give softness and clearness to ones eyes. If the personal feelings are predominant in someone, it will give serenity to ones eyes, but this serenity will be deprived of the soft element. The eyes will be rough and still. As a whole, eyes play an important role in ones life. That is why, if a negative thought visits your mind, if a bitter or rough feeling visits your heart, do your best as disciples to get rid of them. Take the hammer in your hand, cut and chisel them as a mastered sculptor, process them until they are fully softened. You need great self-control for this. Not only students, but also teachers need self-control. Contemporary teachers in music are cross when their students sing false tunes. If teachers could preserve their self-control and presence of spirit, they would easily correct their students. Under the influence of such a calm attitude, even the poorest among them would be able to correct his voice and sing in a lovely way. If the teacher gets angry, the tunes of the students will be shortened and the singing will be false.

When I am speaking about Beauty now, I have in mind the human soul that is beautiful by itself. Beauty of the soul, by all means, should be poured out in some form. Every form is much more beautiful when it is closer to Truth. For example, your essays on Beauty are good in expression. But they are not so good in content, in their inner meaning and sense, because they do not contain Truth in them. The first requirement for disciples is to give place to Truth in themselves. Everything, consisting of Truth without any additions, exaggerations and cuttings from it, is beautiful.

I will give you a few rules in order to know how to write your themes. Calm down completely before you start writing. When your work is ready, read it aloud to see how it sounds to you. Moreover, observe the effect it exercises over your mind and your sympathetic system. It is well done, if it affects both these systems harmoniously. Read your essay two or three times to make sure that it sounds good. If it sounds good to you, it will sound good to others too. And the opposite if it does not sound good to you, it will not satisfy others, too. Disciples are required to present works that sound good and which are pleasant for listening. Each text that is pleasant and sounds good to you will also be good for us to listen to.

Learn also to write briefly, but clearly and conceptually. When we have time, I will give you an example with an idea expressed in three different forms, so that you may see which form is the best one. It will also be the most beautiful one. Therefore, each idea could be expressed in three different ways. It is good for you to read beautiful descriptions, so that your sense of the beautiful and the fine can develop. The Bible story of Joseph is beautiful and it is good for everyone to read it.

Now, I will give you an example with an idea, expressed in three different forms. This is the idea of Life. I say, Light brings Life, Love brings Life, Truth brings Life. In this case, what Life does Light bring? What Life does Love bring? What Life does Truth bring? Can Truth bring Life directly? Certainly, there is some difference between Life, brought respectively by Light, Love and Truth. Consequently, the object of Truth is Freedom, the object of Light is Knowledge and the object of Love is Life. When we say that Light brings Life, we consider that Light is a requisite for humans to study. They should have Love as well, to be able to study. Therefore, Light calls in the Life of Knowledge, in order to give Freedom to humans. Truth too calls in Life.

In conclusion, when you write your essays in the future, you should read them aloud several times and correct them if you dislike something. When you read your work aloud and it sounds good to you, you will see that it will be appreciated in class too. Write down slowly, patiently, without hurrying.

The spiritual science demands geometrical accuracy from disciples. The sheets of paper you will use can be small or big according to your preference, but regular in form. They can be triangular, rectangular or others, but obligatory regular in form. Your works should be written in neat and beautiful handwriting. It is not enough only to speak about Beauty, but also to act in a beautiful way. Many of you will start writing beautifully and legibly, but at the end their handwriting will become nervous and unreadable. This shows that they are not in compliance with themselves and also that they have some weak points. Fight with your vices until you overcome them.I say, remember all the rules I gave you for good writing and apply them. You should know that each thought, feeling and action of yours, never mind good or bad, are imprinted in your consciousness and influence your life. Thus, from the ugly and negative things you will realize what is beautiful, high and positive in Life.

Secret PrayerThis will be read as artificial faces; for this sentence the word [malleable] would be best.

This should be written sympathetic nervous system.

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