10-The Golden Grain of Wisdom and Health
Beloved brothers and
sisters I enfold you in arms of love and place around each one the
quiet beautiful ray of spiritual renewal and spirit protection. It
is apparent that many of you have been wounded in the battle of
life, for some of you bear the greyness of discouragement or burdens
of weariness as you move through the heavy and difficult conditions
of this mortal and physical world.
Each of you
needs the enfoldment of heavenly love and the healing of spirit
contact; we would weave this around you as beautiful curves of
radiant light and colour - the healing, the blessing and loving
encirclement by means of which each of you may be healed and
harmonised in your inward being.
Beloved ones, I would
say that the seeds of thought and health firstly are to be found in
a nourishing of yourself upon living seeds, the living seeds of your
earthly world. And when your body is correctly nourished, you may
move on and nourish yourself further by right thought and the
absorption of the correct forms of spiritual energy. The human
being, man and woman, brother and sister, you are not just body and
flesh but you are spirit and soul and body and bone, woven together
into a marvellous mysterious interblending of the whole. In this
interblending of the mysterious whole you become that beautiful
healthy man or woman in your youth and maturity, and even in the
days of your ancient age.
Good health
is your birthright; but the health of the body needs to be
sustained upon the right foods. The plants and seeds and fruits,
these contain within themselves a richness of nourishment through
which the correct interblending of spirit forces and spirit power
may come into being for you all. That which you call the health of
the bodily being is the outward and visible sign of the inward and
invisible blending of soul energies and spiritual life force with
your physical body and being. When you ask me about the sowing of
seeds of good health, I would say that the first thing you should
understand is the reaping of the seed rather than the sowing of it.
Your mortal
world is full with rich seeds of health and yet so very seldom do
you take the trouble to garner to yourselves and partake of the rich
seeds of your earth: they are the healing, health-giving
nourishments upon which your mortal body should be sustained. But
rather than partaking of these life-giving seeds, you try to nourish
your bodies upon foods which are dead: not the living substances
but that which is the dead substance of the very earth itself. When
you come to think about the seeds filling your earth with their
life, remember that the seed is the ripeness of the plant, it holds
the very life of the tree within itself.
When the
living vegetation comes to its richness of fulfilment, the seed is
that part which is a golden splendour of beauty, ripened by the sun,
kissed by the beauty of the air and washed in the life-giving
moistures of the rains. Why do you not eat more of the seeds? Why
do you not nourish yourselves more completely upon the grains? Why
do you ignore the nuts?
In your
ignorance you may say that eating seeds is not sufficient food for
the human body, but I would say, Is it not true that birds both
great and small are nourished upon the seeds of plants? And
monkeys, great and small are nourished upon nuts, the seeds of
trees? You human beings live in the midst of a world that is rich
with the life-giving elements of all these plants; you have but to
stretch out your hands, to reach forth and nourish yourself upon
that which is good.
That which
you call rice, that which is barley and wheat – is this not seed?
It is the seed of the plant. From the great golden sunflower comes
a seed rich in oil and charged with nourishing forces which the body
may obtain to sustain itself in weariness and labour and health. Is
it not true that the little olive is also the seed of a tree, and is
it not rich in the oil and food which gives health to those who
partake of it? Are not your trees rich with the nuts and seeds upon
which your being may be nourished? Even the little plants which
grow in your English land have seeds, and each seed has its own
particular form of richness in nourishment and healing property for
those who partake of it.
Further
would I say, If you desire health, then you must know something of
the very subtle interaction of the etheric forces of the soul upon
the substance of your physical body. This subtle interblending and
interlinking comes from the centres of the soul through the glands
of your physical being; therefore it is necessary that you
cultivate within yourself the habits of kindness and compassion, and
it is essential that you cultivate the ability to enter into peace
and silence within your soul-being. As you cultivate these habits
within your being, you make possible the flowing of spiritual
energies through your soul-body in such force and harmony that they
bring health to the physical body of which it is a part. Every
feeling of hatred brings something of destruction into your physical
body; every conscious thought of kindness brings into the texture
of your physical body the energising forces of the soul which later
result in health and joy.
This health
is attendant upon a mind which is at peace and a heart filled with
kindness, and the joy which comes from the marriage of these
forces. This joy stimulates the glands: in your physical being you
will have the right vibration given forth from the glands within the
head because they are answering to the soul vibration of joy, and
the glands in the throat region become stimulated by your actions of
kindliness and love. This kindly action upon gland centres shapes
and harmonises the physical body because it is governed in its
health by the secretions given out by the glands in the secret
centres of the physical body.
You need to
understand this beloved ones: know that each time you hold the
unrest of resentfulness within yourself or the desire for revenge
which is the inward symbolism of hatred - each time you hold such
thoughts and feelings to yourself you bring about a momentary
inhibition of the action of the glands. As the action of the glands
is altered, so your body will grow into a grossness of excess flesh
or else show in itself an extremity of thin-ness. This is the
symbol of a lack of interaction between the soul’s being and the
being of the body itself. The flowing energy of the soul-body
interacting through the gland centres of the physical being will
bring health in the years to come; or else it will sow the seeds of
disharmony to bring lack of health as you advance into the years
which lie ahead.
Every human
person living the mortal experience day by day is sowing seeds of
the health or disease they will inherit in the years which are still
to come. The mortal or physical body in its years of aged-ness will
show the feelings and thoughts that have been entertained in the
years of youth and maturity. Kindness and forgiveness are the
softening elements which allow an interplay of the soul on the body
so that the body’s circulation may be maintained in harmony, and
even into old age the arteries may be maintained in the flexibility
of youthfulness.
The seed
which needs to be sown is the seed of gentleness and kindness in
thought, in word and deed. But how few of earth’s children sow with
such seeds!
As you have
listened to these words, you have listened to words that have been
spoken by teachers in years gone by. Yet still, beloved ones, you
mete your harshness of judgement upon your brothers and sisters, you
look on them and give the hardness of your thought to them: you
talk about love yet you do not forgive or understand the meaning of
forgiveness. Therefore your bodies become ill, your arterial
circulations harden and your physical bodies show the breakdowns in
health which are the result of the tensions you have entertained
within yourselves in the years of your lesser understanding.
So I say to
you, Garner now the seed of wisdom; take the seeds of golden
understanding and store them deep within your mind. Store deep in
your heart the golden store of wisdom that you may nourish
yourselves upon this golden grain. In the years which are to come
when you wonder how to live and order your lives, take the seeds of
wisdom from your golden store and say to yourself: “The Golden Word
of Wisdom says that all things pass! Why then should I strain in
the acquisition of wealth and gathering of possessions that I will
not be able to retain in the passing of the few years before death
intervenes?” Use the Golden Grain of Wisdom to order your life in a
simplicity of living to lessen the strain which comes as you gather
experience unto yourselves.
Take from
your hidden store the Golden Grains of Wisdom, and say to yourself:
“Why do I torment myself in my emotional being because I feel that
this man or woman does not return the love I lavish upon them? Why
do I exhaust my energies in this emotional fret and sorrow?” Use
the Golden Grain of Wisdom and nourish your spiritual being on the
wisdom of acceptance and relinquishment: know that all you need of
love is to continue to hold your feeling of love for your beloveds.
Whether they love you in return is their responsibility, it is their
joy or sorrow. Do not destroy yourself by restlessness within your
own emotions and thought but nourish yourself upon the Golden Grain
of Wisdom and know that love will come to its fulfilment with the
passing of years and the fullness of time.
We do not
see you doing this, beloved ones. We see you hugging to your heart
your hurt feelings, your worry and torment over what others have
done or failed to do; as you hold this torment to yourself so a
reaction comes upon these delicate glandular centres where you sow
for yourself the seeds of bodily disharmony in the years which are
still to come.
As you live
this mortal life, take the Golden Grain and cease this fretting and
flailing of yourselves because you feel that time is passing and
there is none in which to do what you desire or wish. You destroy
yourselves by your fruitless thrashing at the great stream of
passing time. You have time, beloveds, to do all you really desire;
there is an infinity of time before you. Do we not teach you that
life is continuous and your activities are not confined to the few
months or little years of your earthly experience? What you are
doing and what you are desiring to do is but the sowing of seed to
the future and when you pass from this mortal life into the life of
spirit you will fulfil and continue what you have begun in the years
of your earthly experience.
Take unto
yourself the knowledge and realisation that a little work well done
in the few years of your earthly life may often be of greater value
than a similar work badly done and spread over a longer season of
time. Your fret and worry over the passing of time also brings an
inhibiting action upon the subtle flow of the forces from your
soul’s self into your bodily self and can inhibit the interaction of
gland centres within the centres of the soul-body itself.
Nourish
yourselves upon the Golden Grain of Wisdom, grow strong upon the
golden grains of physical sustenance, and health and strength will
be yours in the future even as health and strength may be yours in
this little moment of your earthly time. Even more would I say, As
you learn to live in kindliness, as you learn to see the passing
scenes of earthly life as only passing scenes, so you will learn to
live with harmony and joy. And as harmony and joy seize upon your
being, so will you begin to breathe with deep breaths of
joyfulness. For truly, as you are sustained by right thought, by
right thinking and right eating, so you are also sustained by
inbreathing the breath which is the very life of your being itself.
Peace,
peace and peace be here.
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