3. Silence
When a thought suddenly strikes you, keep it back, do not utter it at once, but nourish it; for it will
condense through being retained in silence, and gain strength like steam under counter-pressure.
Pressure and condensation produces the quality of a magnetic activity, in accordance with the Law
that all that is stronger attracts what is weak. Similar thought-forms are thus attracted from all sides and
retained, constantly reinforcing the power of your own, your original thought, yet working in such a way
that through the joining of other forms the originally produced form is refined, changes, and takes on
different shapes until it comes to maturity. Indeed you sense all this inwardly, but you always think it is
entirely your own volition. But you never give purely your own volition in any matter, there are always
other influences as well!
What does this process tell you?
That only in the union of many elements can anything perfect be created! Created? Is that right? No,
but formed! For there is really nothing new to be created, it is always only a matter of producing new
forms, since all the elements already exist in the vast Creation. But these elements are to be pressed into
service for the way to perfection, which is brought about through union.
Union! Do not pass over this lightly, but try to become absorbed in the concept that maturity and
perfection are achieved through union. The principle rests in all Creation as a treasure that needs to be
unearthed! It is closely related to the Law that only in giving can there also be receiving! And what is
required to grasp these principles aright? Thus to experience them? Love! And therefore love indeed
stands as the highest power, as unlimited might, in the mysteries of the great Life!
As with a single thought, union molds, refines and forms, so is it with man himself and with the
whole of Creation, which in a never-ending fusion of existing, individual forms undergoes
transformations through the power of volition, and thus becomes the way to perfection.
A single individual cannot offer you perfection, but the whole of humanity, with all its varied
characteristics, may do so! Each individual has something which is definitely part of the whole. And this
is also why one so far advanced as no longer to know any earthly desires loves all mankind, not one
individual, because only the whole of mankind can make the strings of his mature soul, laid bare through
purification, sound the chord of heavenly harmony. He bears the harmony within himself, because all
strings vibrate!
Let us return to the thought that attracted the other forms, and thereby became strong and ever
stronger: It finally emerges beyond you in firmly united power-waves, breaks through your own personal
aura, and exerts an influence upon your wider environment.
Mankind call this personal magnetism. The uninitiated say: “You radiate something!” According to
your nature, either unpleasant or pleasant. Attractive or repulsive. It is felt!
But you do not radiate anything! The process which engenders the feeling in these others has its
origin in the fact that like a magnet you draw to yourself all that is spiritually similar. And it is this
drawing that is felt by those around you. Yet in this, too, lies the reciprocal effect. Through the
connection the other person then clearly senses your strength, and thereby “sympathy” awakens.
Always bear in mind: Expressed according to our concepts, all that is spiritual is magnetic, and you
also know that the stronger always overcomes what is weak through attraction, through absorption. In this
way “from him that hath not (the weak one), even that which he hath shall be taken away.” He becomes
dependent.
There is no injustice in this, but it takes place according to the Divine Laws. Man only needs to pull
himself together and to will aright, and he will be protected from it.
You will now probably ask: What happens when all want to be strong? When there is nothing left to
be taken from anybody? Then, dear friend, there will be a voluntary interchange, based on the Law that
only in giving can there also be receiving. There will be no standstill on that account, but all that is
inferior is eliminated.
Thus it happens that through indolence many become spiritually dependent, and sometimes, in the....To be continued