Reflection.
Numbers are often talked about as numerical values, yet they also have living qualities. The living numbers are divided into categories: from 1 to 10 are numbers that represent the Divine world; from 10 to 100 represent the angelic world; from 100 to 1,000 show the human world; from 1,000 to 10,000 are of the animal world; from 10,000 to 100,000 are of the plant world; and from 100,000 to 1,000,000 stand for the mineral world.
Let’s think about the living numbers and their meaning in life. By calling them “living numbers,” we understand that these numbers can serve human beings. The numbers matter not only when they determine a numerical value but also when they determine the direction of things. The unit may appear to the right, left, up, or down from the person. If it’s to the right, it symbolizes sunrise, to the left means sunset, up equals the zenith, and down means midnight. The four directions of the physical world—sunrise, sunset, zenith, and midnight—are not only mechanical points or positions, but they also represent processes, phases, and states through which consciousness evolves. From this point of view, if we say that someone went left, we mean they went toward the sunset.
I’ll read chapter 1 from The Genesis, The Bible.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” In verse number 1 God created the heaven and earth, the first step to the right.
“The earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the abyss, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the water.” In verse 2 the earth was formless and empty— that is the first step to the left.
“And God said ‘Let there be Light!’—and there was light.” In verse 3 the light appeared. This is the first step upward, to the zenith of the sun. In this state of consciousness, a person realizes they are created in the image and likeness of God.
“And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.” In verse 4, people realize that the light is a good thing. This number represents that people need to serve. Four is the number of being of service.
“And God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’ And there was evening, and there was morning—in day one.” In the human consciousness there is light and there is darkness—day and night. The day means virginity and youth, and the night means calmness and old age. In verse 5, the first virgin was born, the youth. The day gives conditions for activities and energy; the night gives conditions for rest, it brings peace and darkness. Night also means old age, that is, the people reconcile all contradictions. Old age is the final limit of contradictions. Therefore, in order to reconcile with the contradictions in life, one must grow old. There is a period of time between youth and old age. Therefore, in order to reconcile contradictions, one must necessarily pass a shorter or longer period of time. Accepting, coping with, or solving contradictions does not happen all of a sudden.
What do the verses mean to you? What do they have to do with your current life? If you know how God created and cultivated the heaven and earth, you will know how to create your external and inner world. This knowledge lies in the living numbers. Pythagoras revealed to his disciples the meaning of the living numbers from 1 to 4 and you have also found the meaning of the number five, because times are intense. Be content with what has been revealed to you so far and what is to be revealed in the future. What has been revealed to you today represents the path in which God’s blessings come. You must study this path and follow it.
Day and night, light and darkness. The darkness is associated with scary things: snakes, tigers, lions, earthquakes, and death. Light and darkness are processes that occur in the consciousness. If you consider them only as external, mechanical processes, they lose their meaning. Also, death and life processes are not only external and mechanical, but also internal and conscious processes. When a person dies, it is not a mechanical process, but organic. The person’s remains are planted in the earth, and after some time will grow up, that is, he will rise again. If you do not die, you can’t resurrect. Death and resurrection are two processes that occur in a person’s consciousness. Only the one who is dead can rise again; the one who is not dead cannot rise.
To die means to go through the worst contradictions and then to rise again. Jonas spent three days inside a whale’s stomach and then rose again. When God sent him to Nineveh to preach, he gave up—he found it difficult and scary. But when he had spent three days inside the whale, he found out that there was something more terrible than the task that God had assigned him. Jonas’s ingestion by the whale was not an ordinary death, but a transition from light to darkness. It’s like falling down a cliff. The opposite process is ascension, coming out to light, or resurrection.
It is said in the Scriptures: “When you eat the fruits of the forbidden tree, you will die.” God ordered Adam not to eat of the fruit of the forbidden tree, but he disobeyed. God commanded Jonas to go to Nineveh to preach, but Jonas also failed to fulfil his assignment. Both lost the good conditions of life and entered into death. Adam left heaven and Jonas entered the whale’s stomach. They both transitioned from light to darkness, from life to death.
Adam and Eve lost Eden, their paradise, because of an apple. The apple may have been beautiful, but it had poison in it. Whoever eats the forbidden fruit will surely die. In order to be saved, a person needs to vomit up the poison. Adam disobeyed God’s command and went into hiding. For a long time, God was looking for him in Paradise, but Adam kept quiet. For the first time, he used silence. Finally God found him and asked, “Adam, why are you hiding?”
“I was afraid, Lord, in front of Your Face.”
The conversation between Adam and God is the soul’s conversation with its Creator.
Adam, coming out of Paradise, represents the beginning of human life, and his return to Paradise means the end of this life. Once a man enters Paradise again, sufferings cease for him, and he enters a new life of happiness and joy. The Paradise of the Earth is located in the poles of the North and South Pole—the world of men is at the North Pole and the world of women is at the South Pole. So, Adam’s paradise is on the North Pole, and Eve’s paradise is on the South Pole. The North Pole also represents the mental world, and the South Pole represents the spiritual one. These are symbols by which we clarify some ideas.
When speaking of heaven, the concept of hell and of sin comes to mind, as a contrast. You don’t have to think and talk about it much. Why? Because the clean towel, when passed through several hands, becomes messy. Then you have to wash it.
Sin is not easy to clean. It is a kind of mud that originated in the distant past. Only Providence is able to remove its stain. Only Providence is able to make something valuable out of it. A person must have great knowledge in order to liberate the mind from the stains of this mud called sin. If you say an insulting word to someone, or if you look at them askance, you must make great efforts to release your mind from the darkness that overshadowed them. To cope with sin, one must elevate one’s mind and enter the new life.
It is now time for people to step out of their present condition, give up their old understandings, the criticism and judgment that is hindering them rather than enlightening them.
Explore the world that God has created, without criticizing it. The task of man is to learn and apply what he has learned, to understand the meaning of his life and purpose as a human being.
This is eternal life, to know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
A lecture given by the Master, held at the Seven Rila Lakes, June 25, 1942, 5:00 pm.
Translated by Eleonora Petkova
Edited by Nevenka Dimitrova, Nancy Crompton
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