Excerpt from a talk given on July
19, 1979
P.211/212:
...What quantities of
methods I have already explained to you in my talks! I have given you exercises,
gestures, and formulas that you can apply in every circumstance in life to
transform negative states, pacify and harmonize yourselves, and help you to link
up with heavenly entities. It is sad to see how most people who do not know
these methods live, think, and act mechanically,
unconsciously. That is why nothing they do produces any significant
results: their words and gestures are ineffectual because there is no clear
thought or specific purpose behind them.
Today
I want to emphasize this point by throwing new light on the gymnastics that we
do together every morning. Each exercise is very easy to do and the whole series
takes only a few minutes. In fact, at first sight, they may seem rather futile.
But they are not designed to be repeated for hours on end in order to develop
your muscles. No, there are far more important things to develop than muscle,
for even physical strength is not exclusively a question of muscle; you must
certainly have seen evidence of this in yourself.
There
are days when you can walk and run, pick up heavy loads and transport them from
one place to another, and you wonder where you find the energy to do all that.
And then there are other days when the slightest gesture costs an effort, and
you have to drag yourself through the day. What has happened to you? It is
simply that the energy-the electric current, the impulse-has ceased to flow from
your brain to your muscles, so your muscles remain flabby. And where is that
energy supposed to come from? From your nervous system. That is why you must
learn to protect and strengthen it.
And
this is precisely what we are doing with these gymnastic exercises, for they
reach certain centers in our nervous system and nourish, strengthen, and
harmonize them, so that we become capable of carrying out the most formidable
tasks.
There
is an extremely important rule known to initiatic science, according to which each
of our activities must simultaneously reach all three
worlds:
the physical world, the world of feeling,
and the world of thought. You have been doing these
gymnastics for years now, and if you have achieved almost nothing, it is
because you do not know how to work on the level of the three worlds
simultaneously. If you did, you would obtain powerful results that would
benefit not only you but the whole Brotherhood, and even the whole world. Once
again, therefore, I shall show you how the word - whether it is pronounced out
loud or not - becomes effective when it accompanies a
gesture, a feeling, a thought, an intention, a movement of the will.
