Teaching 9

25. Be watchful and pray, I repeat frequently, but I do not want you to familiarise yourself with this gentle advice, rather that you study it and put it into practice.

26. I tell you to pray, for he who does not pray, will surrender to thoughts which are superfluous, material, and sometimes unsound, with which, unknowingly, he encourages and fosters destructive wars, but when you pray, your thought, like a radiant sword, destroys the veils of darkness and the bonds of temptation which today are imprisoning many beings, saturates the environment with spirituality, and counteracts the forces of evil.

27. Do not weaken before the struggle, nor despair if you still have not seen any result. Understand that your mission is to struggle to the end; but you must take into account, that only a minimum part of this Work of regeneration and spirituality among mankind will be required of you.

28. Tomorrow you will leave your place and others will come to continue your work. They will carry this Work one step further, and thus, from generation to generation, My Word will be fulfilled.

29. In the end, all branches will unite with the tree. All nations will unite as one people, and peace will reign on Earth.

30. Pray, O disciples, and perfect yourselves in your elevation, so that your words of teaching and love will find an echo within the heart of your brethren.

31. Truly I say to you, that if these people, besides understanding their destiny, were already complying with their mission, through their prayers mankind would attain grace. But you still lack the charity to feel your fellowmen as true brethren, and to be able to truly forget the differences of races, languages, and creeds, and furthermore, to erase from your heart all trace of rancor toward those who have offended you.

32. When you succeed in elevating your feelings above so much human misery, the most sensitive and sincere petition in favour of your brethren will emerge from you, and that vibration of love, that purity of your sentiments, will be the most powerful swords which will destroy all the darkness that wars and passions of men have been creating.

33. Suffering has prepared you, O Israel, and in your bondage you have been purified; for that reason, you are the indicated ones to watch over those who suffer.

40. Be healed in Me, forget your sorrows and express love; he who has love has everything; he who speaks of love, says it all.

41. But when you understand that everything which emerged from Me is perfect, harmonious, and beautiful, you ask yourselves: Then, why do the children of God live in the world, destroying and annihilating? What force motivates them to disavow and destroy one another when they all emanated from the limpid fountain of the Father? What are those forces, and why has not God, with His infinite power, stopped the advance of men who destroy the peace? Why does He permit wickedness among mankind?

42. Listen, O disciples: The spirit possesses as his heritage, the freedom of will and the conscience, and every man at birth, is endowed within his spirit with the virtues, and can make use of them. In his spirit is the light of his conscience, but at the same time that the matter develops, so do the passions and bad inclinations, these being the ones that battle against those virtues. God permits this, because where there is no struggle, there are no merits, and this is what you need in order to ascend along the spiritual path.

What would be the merit of the children of God if they did not struggle? What would you do if you lived filled with happiness, as is your wish in this world? Would you expect spiritual progress if you were surrounded by comforts and riches? You would be at a standstill, for merit does not exist where there is no struggle.

43. But do not be confused, for when I speak of struggle, I refer to that which you develop in order to overpower your weaknesses and passions. Those struggles are the only ones which I allow in men so that they can dominate their selfishness and their materialism, in order for the spirit to take his rightful place, illuminated by the conscience.

44. That inner battle, I do authorise, but not the one which men use with the desire of exalting themselves, blinded by ambition and wickedness.

45. The noise and the horrors of destructive wars have dulled the sensitivity of the human heart. They have prevented the manifestation of every elevated sentiment, like charity and compassion.

46. I do not mean to say that everyone is like that; no, for there are still men in which there exists sensitivity, compassion and love for their fellowmen, to the point of sacrificing themselves to spare them harm or free them from an ordeal. If men are capable of giving you this kind of help, what would your Heavenly Father not do for you who are His children? Then how can you think that He sends you suffering and desolation?

47. I am the same Master who, during the Second Era, spoke to you about the way to the Kingdom of Heaven. I am the same Christ manifesting the truth across the centuries, the eternal lessons which are unchangeable, because they are revelations which emanate from My Spirit.

48. Behold the Father in Me, for truly I say to you, that Christ is one with the Father from eternity, even before the worlds came to be. In the Second Era that Christ, who is One with God, incarnated on Earth in the blessed body of Jesus, and in this way He came to be the Son of God, but only as Man, for again I say to you, that only one God exists.

49. Sometimes you think I speak too much about the spirit, and that I forget about your needs and human preoccupations, to which I say: "Seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you". Then, you will have peace, serenity, comprehension, forgiveness, love, and in the material you will have everything in abundance.

50. I know, and am aware of all your needs, and I am committed to alleviate all your concerns according to My will, and if, on occasions, you feel disappointed because I have not immediately granted what you asked for, it is not that you are less loved by the Father, it is because that is best for you.

About Album of Wisdom

This book is the abridged version of the compiled Divine teachings that were received by human understanding from 1866 to 1950.