Nothing is more important than to thank God

Revelation 9:20

The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood--idols that cannot see or hear or walk.

rivers one day have to merge into the oceans. Can't blame oceans for their failure

So its all my fault then .

A bit like your worshiping of the invisible man , you think they were stupid for their beliefs , well are you any different ? Don't think so .

read the next post as well. not all YOUR fault but the collective karma as well.

Throwing virgins into volcanoes , burning witches , etc , all work just as well as praying , tell me i'm wrong .

So man in general is the problem . Well got news for you , we are all Gods children , so he is the one who should be put on trial for crimes against humanity .

41You are doing the things your own father does. John 8

Thank you god for allowing the most corrupt to rise to the greatest levels of power. Thank you for sickness, and disease.
Thank you for old age and death. Thank you for putting us here with no real knowledge of what we're supposed to be doing here or whether you actually exist. Thanks a ton bro......

Is your father being put on trial what you do?

Who the fuck is 41 and John 8 was he a king or something ?

You must be thankful because your brain is still functioning and you can type and communicate with people. God forbid your brain stops working ... don't b ungrateful

41 and 8 are the IQ you need to have, in order to believe in the magic sky fairy.



One piece of evidence that God exists.......Just one....Anyone?.........Anyone?..........Thought not.

lets put it this way: can you prove love?
He can only be experienced.
living in a materialistic world, we want to have proof of His existence while wanting to associate with Him. Detach yourself from the materialistic world by whatever way you find easy (of course no suicide.. )

Even if God did not exist, you have endless proof of the fact that a cosmic intelligence exists

"Even if you do not believe in God you cannot fail to recognize that there is an order in nature and, consequently, that there must be an intelligence that created that order. Reflect for a moment on the fact that each seed reproduces its own kind. How is it possible not to see that this must be the work of a higher intelligence? The mere recognition of this law is enough to make us change our vision of the world. You may not believe in God, but you cannot deny the fact that every seed produces exactly its own kind, whether it be a plant, a tree, an insect, an animal or a man. This law is absolute and should make you think.

You may perhaps allow yourself to be ungrateful, unjust, cruel or violent, but if you do, you must know that sooner or later this law will catch up with you and you will see its application in your own life. If you have children, for instance, they will resemble you and through them you will suffer from your own behavior. Even if God did not exist, you have endless proof of the fact that a cosmic intelligence exists."

"Cosmic Intelligence is patient, but we cannot rebel against its laws with impunity; the time is bound to come when we will be destroyed. 'Cosmic Intelligence is really cruel,' you will say, 'if it destroys the creatures that resist it.' No, Cosmic Intelligence is not cruel; it has never intended to destroy anybody. But if, through ignorance or ill will, people clash with the order it has established, the forces they confront are so powerful they will be knocked down. If some poor devil believed he could stand up to a whole army, he would soon be felled. And if a bird crashes several times into a window pane and falls senseless to the ground, it is not the glass that is to blame.

Humans act with as little foresight as that bird: they fight against the divine laws, against the splendour of the universe, without suspecting that what awaits them is their undoing. It is not Cosmic Intelligence, not God, destroying them but they themselves, because they thought they could resist powers greater than themselves."

"In the Book of Genesis, Moses recounts the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise after they have disobeyed God. But this is only a means of explaining the descent of human beings into matter. This descent, in fact, was neither a mistake nor an accident; it was foreseen by Cosmic Intelligence. Why? Because in order to attain knowledge in its totality, human beings were required to develop their intellectual faculties; and in order to develop these faculties, they had to devote themselves to the exploration of matter, which meant placing themselves in conditions which temporarily diminished their perception of the spiritual world. Human beings today find themselves at this stage of their evolution: they are immersed in materialism. But it is not the final stage: when this experience is complete, they will return once again to the regions of the soul and spirit which they left behind, and thanks to all they have experienced in the material realm by way of the intellect, they will return enriched."

"Human intelligence is a manifestation of Cosmic Intelligence, but a very imperfect one; for in passing through minds and hearts which are continually prey to disordered passions, it is limited and obscured. Cosmic Intelligence cannot manifest perfectly through a being who does not know how to control his instincts; but the more this being learns to control and purify himself, the better channel he is for this Intelligence.

The intelligence of a human being is not therefore uniquely the product of his studies and reflections; it also depends on the state of all the cells in his body. He must therefore oversee and protect their balance and harmony. He must pay careful attention to the quality of his physical food, but especially to the quality of his psychic food – his sensations, feelings, desires and thoughts, or he will remain closed to the greatest revelations. The only way to improve one's intelligence is to improve one's way of life. The initiates have always believed this; they have always known it and worked accordingly."

"Cosmic Intelligence has endowed human beings with subtle centres which enable them to communicate with the realms of the spirit. These centres are, in the world of the soul and spirit, the equivalent of our physical sense organs, and we must first work to become conscious of them and at the same time adopt rules of conduct that enable us to develop them. All these practices, all these rules given to us by the initiates - which we call moral standards - must be respected by us. And why must we respect them? Contrary to what some people may believe, it is not a question of submitting to human conventions, or of pleasing a God who lives somewhere above the clouds. The true reason is that every one of our thoughts, feelings, and actions has repercussions in the depths of our being and helps either to enrich or to impoverish the life within us."

"Cosmic Intelligence constantly sends currents of beneficial, luminous forces through space to work on you and make you a better person. But you need to prepare the right conditions to enable them to visit you. If you are not improving, you are not doing anything to open the door to them. Your weaknesses and impurities are gradually forming a carapace around you, which stops these forces from reaching you. How can you break this carapace? By undertaking a work of purification, in the firm realization that by not giving in to a vice or harmful habit you are inwardly opening a door to the luminous world. Since so many friends from the invisible world want to help you, why stop them? Open up your heart and your soul and say: 'Welcome, luminous spirits, I need you, give me your light.'"

"How many opportunities are we given to transcend the mediocrity of daily life! But who bothers to pay attention to these occasions? The silence of the night, the starry sky, and the immensity of space offer us the best conditions for distancing ourselves a little from human affairs, for reflecting on other worlds where beings more evolved than we live in harmony and splendour. All of our preoccupations mean nothing to them; they are insignificant events. You will say: 'But what do you mean, insignificant events? Famine, wars, and murders are terrible!' Yes, they are terrible, but in the eyes of Cosmic Intelligence, they do not merit much attention. For Cosmic Intelligence, only the events of the soul and the spirit are important. If human beings attached more importance to those events which could take place in their soul and their spirit, instead of giving material affairs priority, there would be far less misery and tragedy on earth."

"Although human beings persist in their search for happiness, they do not find it. Why? Because they set their sights too low, where they find only its opposite. Happiness is a state that is extremely subtle, extremely delicate; it is like a flower, which cannot be exposed to bad weather without wilting. Cosmic Intelligence has put happiness in a safe place, high in the most elevated regions. Yes, cosmic Intelligence has placed its treasures where sound cannot reach them.

To attain these regions, you must wrest yourself from the level of your ordinary passions and their great fluctuations and intensify your soul’s vibrations. When disciples introduce silence into their soul, they rise to those regions where cosmic Intelligence has placed happiness."

"Human beings are inhabited by a multitude of entities that have been charged by Cosmic Intelligence to watch over their development. If, through negligence or unwillingness, people are destroying something in their mind, heart, or physical body, some of these entities begin to prick and bite them to make them return to the right path. These calls to order are what man calls suffering, and as suffering is unpleasant, he sees it as an enemy. But, on the contrary, since it is a warning to him, he must consider it to be a friend: it comes only to show him that he has strayed from the good conditions where the path was light and open before him. He must therefore make the effort to understand its language and say to it: 'May God bless you, I have understood and will repair my mistakes.' The moment he has understood and decides to correct himself, suffering is given the order to leave him, because it has done its work, it has fulfilled its mission."

"Cosmic Intelligence hasn’t sent us to earth for us to think only of leaving it once we’ve arrived, under the pretext that heaven is our true homeland. The desire to abandon earth for heaven is just as harmful to our physical and psychological health as the desire to abandon heaven for earth.

Some people, once they have decided to pray and meditate, run the risk of giving way to laziness or even mental confusion, for they come to the point where they can no longer distinguish between what’s real and what’s imaginary. That should be avoided at all costs. Even moments of ecstasy, which are the most desirable states for a mystic, are very detrimental to health if they are not experienced in moderation, with caution and wisdom. It is said that God is a devouring fire, and the physical body is not built to endure this fire for any length of time."

"We meet people everywhere who complain about how badly the world is designed: so much of what happens proves it! But this is only their opinion. Everything is good and everything is in its place as far as cosmic Intelligence is concerned, because it knows how to make use of everything.

Take chemists, for example: they may have poisons, viruses or even explosives in their laboratories, but, instead of using these to poison and destroy people, they use them to discover useful and curative substances. Could cosmic Intelligence possibly be incapable of doing what chemists can do? It needs all these materials, all these elements we consider bad, because they are useful in the universal economy. If human beings do not know how to make use of them, this is their fault, and no reason to believe the world is badly designed. "

"After death, when human beings have left their physical body, they enter the lower astral plane, where they are subjected to all the injustice and suffering they have inflicted on others. You will say, ‘But what if they have done wrong involuntarily without realizing it?’ In the eyes of cosmic Intelligence, ignorance is also unacceptable. But the aim of cosmic Intelligence is not revenge, nor even punishment; above all it wants humans to become conscious, and so it makes them experience the suffering they have inflicted on others, so that they can learn, understand and become perfect.

Some creatures cross this lower astral region very quickly, as they have not committed very serious faults; others remain there a long time, suffering. When this stage is over, they enter the higher astral region, where they feel joy and happiness proportionate to the good they have done, for they must also become aware of their good actions. If they have given others courage, hope and light, if they have awakened faith and love, they live these same states."

"Many people reason the way a mouse might, as it moves towards a mousetrap that has a tempting piece of bacon in it… The mouse suspects there’s some danger, but it thinks it can go in and out very quickly. So it makes a dash for it, but the trap closes even faster and catches it. In the same way, you may say to yourself, ‘I’m very clever, I’ll manage to eat this little bit (meaning, ‘I’ll enjoy certain pleasures and give free rein to my instinctual tendencies’), nothing and no one can catch me. I’ll grab what I want and get out.’ But it’s impossible – there is a law at work here. As soon as you touch the trap, that’s it, you’re caught.

So far, no one has been able to escape nature and its mousetraps. Each time you give way to one of your base tendencies, the trap closes, and then, without knowing why, you feel ill at ease. Do not delude yourself; even the most intelligent, the cleverest of people cannot escape the laws laid down by cosmic Intelligence."

"The knowledge you are given in an initiatic teaching is so far removed from your usual field of consciousness that it does not penetrate your brain immediately. But the fact you have heard it or read it means something of it will remain in your subconscious, and one day, once your understanding has developed, this knowledge will resurface in your memory.

In order to reach this understanding more quickly, you must exercise your brain, which is the best instrument there is. It does not grow weak with age along with the other organs, for the divine hierarchies have deposited their powers in it. No, it doesn’t grow weak, but only provided we nourish it with mental activity. Thought is a sort of ladder we have received from cosmic Intelligence, and it is essential we learn to use it to go higher."

"Human beings are inhabited by a multitude of entities that have been charged by Cosmic Intelligence to watch over their development. If, through negligence or unwillingness, people are destroying something in their mind, heart, or physical body, some of these entities begin to prick and bite them to make them return to the right path. These calls to order are what man calls suffering, and as suffering is unpleasant, he sees it as an enemy. But, on the contrary, since it is a warning to him, he must consider it to be a friend: it comes only to show him that he has strayed from the good conditions where the path was light and open before him. He must therefore make the effort to understand its language and say to it: 'May God bless you, I have understood and will repair my mistakes.' The moment he has understood and decides to correct himself, suffering is given the order to leave him, because it has done its work, it has fulfilled its mission."

"If some stones are so precious, it is because they vibrate in harmony with cosmic intelligence; they are yielding, receptive, and that is why they are transparent and let the light pass through them. Other stones, which are opaque, are opposed to light, and since light cannot go through them, it abandons them; it shines on them only superficially. But the precious stone is a stone that understands, and it tells itself, 'I must be transparent to let the light pass through me and let the full richness of its nuances shine. I will be loved and appreciated, and people will take care of me; they will not let me be soiled or crushed by anyone; I will always be beautiful, radiant and in perpetual splendor on a necklace or crown.' This is how a precious stone thinks. It is up to you, now, to interpret..."

"Cosmic Intelligence is patient, but we cannot rebel against its laws with impunity; the time is bound to come when we will be destroyed. 'Cosmic Intelligence is really cruel,' you will say, 'if it destroys the creatures that resist it.' No, Cosmic Intelligence is not cruel; it has never intended to destroy anybody. But if, through ignorance or ill will, people clash with the order it has established, the forces they confront are so powerful they will be knocked down. If some poor devil believed he could stand up to a whole army, he would soon be felled. And if a bird crashes several times into a window pane and falls senseless to the ground, it is not the glass that is to blame.

Humans act with as little foresight as that bird: they fight against the divine laws, against the splendour of the universe, without suspecting that what awaits them is their undoing. It is not Cosmic Intelligence, not God, destroying them but they themselves, because they thought they could resist powers greater than themselves."

« Man was built by Cosmic Intelligence in such a way that he can fulfil himself and attain his full stature only by maintaining ties with a higher world from which he receives light and strength. When human beings rely exclusively on their own limited intellect they deprive themselves of true understanding, and it is this lack that is the cause of all their disastrous mistakes. When men are motivated only by a lust for material possessions and power and act in total disregard for the plans of Cosmic Intelligence, they stir up layers of the physical and psychic atmosphere and arouse formidable forces whose fury is turned against them.

The Age of Aquarius will soon be upon us and the tremendous upheavals accompanying it will oblige human beings to understand the reality of the invisible world and the laws that govern it. But the beauty, splendour and harmony of the new life that will emerge from these upheavals will be beyond anything imagined by man. All those who have been secretly working for the coming of the Kingdom of God throughout the world will join forces and work together, and the bastions of ignorance, materialism and despotism will crumble and collapse.

This I tell you. And it will be: nothing can prevent the coming of the new era, the new Golden Age. »

"Every day, remember to attune yourself to Cosmic Intelligence. Every day, strive to vibrate in unison with it, to melt into it. Open yourself to its immensity and allow yourself to be carried away by its waves of light and peace. This is one of the most enriching and profound experiences you can give your inner life. It can be achieved only through love, however, for it is love alone which allows true fusion. Jesus said: ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ In fact, God does not need our love; it is we who need to love him, because through our love we draw nearer to him. I am telling you the same thing when I ask you to harmonize yourself each day with Cosmic Intelligence, to act according to its will, even if you do not yet really know what it asks of you. This is what it means to love. When we love another, we are always attuned to him. We believe in him and devote all our energies to his satisfaction."

"Someone says: ‘Before I commit myself to the spiritual life, I want irrefutable proof of the existence of God and the invisible entities, of the immortality of the spirit and of life after death.’ Oh dear! This person will have to wait a very long time…all his life, in fact! And as he will be doing nothing while he is waiting, he will stagnate; he will prevent the development of his best qualities, and he will be unhappy. You may say it is normal to want to understand and see for yourself before making a commitment! Yes, but in this case, it is like someone in the dark refusing to press the light switch until the entire wiring system is explained to him. Or like someone who refuses to get in his car until the engine is dismantled and he is shown how every last piece of it works. Isn’t it more reasonable to begin by turning on the light or getting in the car? Afterwards there will be all the time in the world to understand how these things work. Well, it is the same with the spiritual life; you understand by engaging in it."

lol

just because you haven't been either foreordained and/or predestined to have walked hand in hand with the Lord all the days of your life, knowing Him on an intimate level whereby you considered that all men must have had this same close ongoing relationship with the powers that clearly were unprecedented in truth within this world...

certainly doesn't mean that your ilk is the only ilk herein

not even close chucky

read it and weep

you see we aren't compelled to convince you of anything, nor have we ever been, as knowing what we know first hand and second nature is about life and the living thereof in a manner you couldn't comprehend if you were brought fully into the loop regardless

hence you will come into the truth as and when you do

when it has become undeniably real and an unstoppable force to be largely reckoned with both at your back and in your face without repentence

in other words it isn't in the last bit concerned about ruffling your feathers under any circumstances as that's exactly what the doctor will have ordered in your regard by that point in time

at the onset of an altogether exciting new Age into which you will be cast and/or drug helter skelter if and as the case may be

either way, your tickets have been purchased and will be paid for in blood just prior to such, hence know without doubt that you'll be "in like Flynn" accordingly

and up well past your eyeballs in same/shame/blame

; )



ain't no way of avoidance thereto

if you were allowed receipt of that which constitutes "evidence" in this regard, it would nullify your potential to utilize such to your advantage thereto thereafter

you wouldn't wish that upon yourself now would you, in truth?

if so it's merely because you as yet haven't come up against the full force of uncompromising power which can in no way be swayed or tempted thusly in any regard

you will either dive in head first wholly begotten of the Lord in having the faith to take that leap

or you will lose all that one stands to ever gain in having bothered...

you see it's structured perfectly wherein and by no man can make or take advantage thereof or too, and only those who have gone the full measure of distance with but a wing and a prayer will EVER, and I do mean EVER come up flush with a Royal same, having received a "pat hand at the draw"

that's right, they knew better than to tempt Fate as they understood the basic precepts of Truth

upon knowing which one is free to forego the necessity of sorts requirative of all that fall desperately short of such from the get go

once having stumbled or staggered in turn never in truth regaining their momentum freshly loosed from the starting gate

YET on the first day of the Millennium Age EVERY KNEE WILL BOW...

; )

and we didn't say "maybe" slick

this

Problem is for those responding in the negative OP will take take it upon him/herself to stick around and try and convince us otherwise

..and not just piss off as instructed

OP should piss off on his own thread? Seems you have that a bit backward, I, for one, enjoyed the message.

It seems logical and rational that if you don't like a thread you shouldn't spend time on it.

Beware of 'some' people on this thread.


They will give you negative karma, just because they do not agree with your point of view.


Shows how hypocritical the delusional God squad and their rabid rantings, truly are.


Remember, your 'God' is watching you and what goes around, comes around!

If you have children, they are unfortunate creatures indeed. Many understand the love of God when they have children.

Some, however, never grow up.

God is there if you look beyond yourself, but narcissistic people never do that.

Last Edited by beeches on 07/26/2013 03:33 PM

just saw your post! May you continue along the path you have found. God seeks out those who want to be near to Him.

And for you, Dear Turtles Voice, are the words Jesus spoke in the Sermon on the Mount:

"Blessed are those that mourn, for they shall be comforted."

you are living proof of that.

With every fiber

Amen.

"Any attempt to prove the existence of God through argument is a fruitless undertaking. By means of reasoning, we can argue certain points to prove His existence but, by using the same methods, we can also prove His non-existence! The more we try to prove the existence of God, the more we risk introducing doubt in others. If people are not ready to accept what you tell them, it is no good. They must open their own minds; it is not you who can do it for them.
You will say: ‘Oh, but if someone were to perform miracles before all these non-believers, they would have to believe all the great truths that religion and the sacred books teach us.' Do you really think so? At the most, they would be impressed for a few moments, as if though they were in the presence of a conjuring trick, and then they would forget. Attempts to prove the existence of God are a waste of time. There is really only one thing to do: lead human beings to that level of consciousness where the question of God's existence is no longer even asked."

You seem angry and in despair. I wish I could be as perfect as you but I am just a person.

Your hubris is your undoing. Your God doesn't like judgmental people but you seem very judgmental,I suggest a cold,hard look at yourself.


Your soul is black and rotting.


Judge not,lest yea be judged (sic)

Which god are you talking about OP? there are many

GOD

There is One who manifests Himself as Love, as Wisdom, and as Truth.

There is One!

And all of Living Nature speaks of this One, of this Great One.

They call Him God, Lord, Father.

It is He who fills everything, all of creation, all worlds, all solar systems, and nevertheless, He is still unrevealed. He cannot reveal Himself completely, even in all eternity. It does not contain all the forms by which He might reveal Himself.

Of Himself, the Absolute, the Unattainable, has no form. He is "nothing" but this "nothing" contains everything within itself.

He limits Himself without becoming limited. He diminishes Himself without being diminished.

He creates and is never exhausted. He reveals Himself in everything but He Himself is not in that which is revealed.

He sustains everything - from within and from without - but He Himself participates in nothing.

We compare Him with Light, Reason - the Logos. But He Himself is neither Light nor Reason.

Light and Reason - these are His manifestations.

God is not present in the world in a material way.

Indeed, when an artist paints a picture, is he in the picture? When a sculptor carves a statue, is he in the statue? The Great Unknown reveals Himself as Light without shadows, as Life without interruption, as Love without change, as Knowledge without errors, Freedom without limitations.

And when we say that God is Love, we understand that Love is one manifestation of God. Therefore, wherever there is Love, wherever there is goodness, which is the fruit of love, there God is revealed.

When we speak of God as Love, we have in mind that Being from whom all life in the universe proceeds and who unites all living souls in one whole without being changed Himself.

There is only one Being in the world who is absolutely good in the true and full meaning of the word and that is God. He is always kind. In His benevolence, God has absolutely no desire to do evil to anyone. If He passes by even the smallest insect, He smiles at it and gives it all the best conditions for life and development.

God judges no one. He restrains no one, He limits no one.

God is most beautiful in that He remembers only the good we have done. The evil He does not remember.

God gives perfect freedom to all beings. Never has He told any being in the universe, no matter how small: "Do this!" or "Serve Me!" He points out the way, but leaves each being free to make his own choice - to do as he thinks best.

Indeed, what does it profit God if we reverence Him and serve Him? Can we give Him knowledge? - No, He knows everything. Can we give Him power? - No, He is all powerful. Everything might pass away, everything might fall apart. He remains unshaken.

The only way in which we can appeal to God is through our helplessness, our misery. When He looks upon us, so small, so miserable, so ignorant, in His greatness there is born a desire to reach out to us and tell us: "Rise up now!"

God's desire is to set us free, to purify us, to enlighten our minds, to ennoble our hearts, to bring into our souls that light by which we come to know that He is Love.

In the heart of God there is something great.

It is He who elevates whole nations as well as separate individuals. All good things come from Him - knowledge, wisdom, truth, freedom. He has elevated all great men. They represent the inspiration of the divine spirit. It is God who wishes to introduce Love, Wisdom, and Truth into the world through these men.

In God's Love, Wisdom and Truth the totality of life throughout eternity is included, as well as the blessing of all souls. Whenever Love, Wisdom and Truth are manifested, the divine Spirit is present among men, and life then is manifested in its real essence.

Man must know that there is only one God and one Love, one Wisdom and one Knowledge, one Truth and one Freedom, one Righteousness and one absolute criterion, one Virtue and one source of good for all.

Except for this criterion there is no other measure of the great reality, and the truly real is only that which belongs to the One, the living God.

However, many people ask: "Does God exist, and if He exists - where is He?"

The entire universe represents the "city of God" where God abides. His consciousness, His mind, is so great that it embraces even the smallest beings and governs their lives.

All angels and all great beings who lived millions of years before us on earth, understand what God is. They stand with holy awe before that great Being from whose heart flows the Love that advances and supports the whole cosmos.

And if you ask them where God is and what He is, they will reply in your own language: "No being is nearer to you than God. No being has a more awakened mind, a more responsive heart, a mightier will. For Him, nothing is impossible. No being is nobler, holier, purer, wiser, mightier, more powerful than God. He is everywhere. He is in heaven - in all the suns, and on earth, behind everything: behind air and water, behind stones and plants, behind animals and man. There is nothing in the world which God does not sustain."

Everything within us and outside us, everything that surrounds us is the background behind which God is hidden as a great artist. He is hidden well because He wants to leave us free.

And because God is so well hidden, men unceasingly search for Him on the surface, and wish to reach Him by external means, to prove His existence.

But God is not a reality that can be proven.

The attempt to prove the existence of God is equivalent to affirming that there is no God. Every proof of the existence of God is a mechanical process.

When a man requires evidence for the existence of God, that shows that he has cut off in his consciousness his connection with Him.

When that connection is restored, life begins to flow unceasingly from God to man, and back from man to God. Then in the mind, in the heart and in the will of man there is a continuous stream of divine consciousness.

Then all those empty and ridiculous questions, whether there is a God, or there is no God, whether God loves us or has forgotten us, are ended.

Our love for God, from which proceeds the living connection between Him and man, is a mystical inner experience which manifests itself in various forms and degrees. The magic power of this experience is hidden in that moment when man directs his mind, his heart, his soul and spirit towards the eternal Beginning, without any hesitation and without any doubt. When this moment arrives, man can accomplish anything. Only then can he understand the meaning of life, because only God can reveal that meaning to him.

Then man will understand that he was born to love God, to imprint his life with that love, and not to be a servant to human conceptions.

Man's soul whispers this softly to him. Because - you must not forget - the only beloved of the human soul is God.

Therefore, I call only him a "man" who has come to love God. The moment in which he is self-determining and loves God, designates him a man. Such a man draws the attention of all good men and they say: "Something divine happened today."

The greatest moment of a man's life is when he comes to love God. That means that he is blossoming and the fragrant aroma will be carried far and wide. It means also that he overflows continuously like a fountain that knows how to give. In this state all reasonable desires of the man can be fulfilled.

Then man becomes truly free. He attains that freedom which Truth brings. And by Truth we mean the link which God established between Himself and us.

There is no other freedom. People of today who have lost almost entirely their link with God, imagine that they can do anything they wish to do: they think that they even have the right to criticize God.

Indeed, no other being has endured greater profanation than God. But He, so to speak, has not even knitted His brows. He looks quiet and peaceful in the radiance of His never changing benevolence.

Only he who lives in that unchangeable, real world where God lives, who serves God and understands His will and His laws, only he is free and only has "free will."

Remember this: The one being who loves us is God. He is one and the same, when we rejoice and when we grieve. In sorrow and in joy, it is God who speaks to us.

Remember also: in order to ask what God is, you must have studied not one but many eternities.

And only after you have acquired all the knowledge of heaven and earth, will you have the right to ask that question. And do you know what answer you will receive? Clearly and simply: "God is Love, which you must experience within yourself."

But before that, while you grope for evidence of the great reality, remember these simple truths: If you ask yourself where God is, know this: wherever there is life, wherever there is thought, wherever there is feeling, there God is.

If you doubt God, you doubt yourself. Because there are no changes or betrayals in God, the reverse cannot be true. There are no exceptions in the Love of God.

Therefore, wherever you go, you may doubt everything, but God - never! Know that He is everywhere, and when you call on Him, He will help you.

When you hear people say that they do not believe in God, observe them attentively and you will find that they consider themselves gods. Do not serve such gods!

Remember also: where there is meaning, God is there. Where there is no meaning, God is absent. And where God is absent, there is "hell."

You might ask: When is man good? At the moment when God manifests Himself in man, he is good. When God is not manifest, man is evil.

When God enters into man, man becomes joyous and ready to perform any service. When man refuses to serve God, God forsakes him.

Do not ask yourself whether God loves you - He has not stopped loving you from the first day to the last - but ask instead whether you love God.

Test your love with the only sure standard: which is stronger within you - your own desires or your love for God? If your love for God is the stronger, you are on the right path. But if your love for God is weaker than your desires, then suffering and misfortune will not cease.

If man has God's love within himself, whatever may happen will turn out for good. If he lacks that love, then his path is long and difficult, and his desires unattainable.

The path toward God is in perfection. The perfect man has only one thought - his advancement toward God! Without perfection God remains incomprehensible for us. By aspiring to perfection, man will come to know God as Love.

Then he will feel the pulse of all living beings on earth. There is no greater bliss for a man than this - to feel this pulse.

Then man will understand the great meaning of these supreme words uttered by Christ: "I live in God and God lives in me."

"I live in God" - this implies that God is "without." "God lives in me" - implies that God is "within" and I, the man, am "without."

Therefore, when God is within you, do not restrict Him. Give Him absolute freedom within you, so that He may also give you absolute freedom within Himself.

"The Devil" is a being which has restricted God within himself, and therefore, God has limited him from outside.

Give absolute freedom to God within you. And then a boundless world will be opened up for you.

Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno)

29 000 children under the age of 5 die every 24 hours.

I think there are more important things to do.