From the Basic Level of Order:
Basic Teachings and Instructions
Brother Emanuel revealed:
My friends, on the level of Order we practice monitoring our thoughts. What is a positive thought, what is a negative thought? What effect does a positive thought have in soul and person and what effect does a negative thought have spiritually and physically?
Furthermore, on the level of Order, I teach that a person should pay attention to his words: to what he expresses and to what he wants to put into his words. Why should the pupil pay attention to his words? Why should he speak only essential things and surrender everything unessential to the Eternal?
Another subject is the alignment of the five senses. But first comes the soul prayer, which helps us to go within. The soul prayer prepares soul and person for the inner life. It trains and stabilizes the spiritual consciousness. Through the various exercises, the person’s cell structure is gradually cleansed
and the soul is oriented and attuned to the cosmic power, to the inner life. ...
My friends, this is the beginning of the Inner Path. The path of love is the effort to align oneself constantly with the eternal wellspring, with the Love; it is the mysticism of love for the one who truly honors God in his thoughts, words and deeds, who loves God more than his base ego. He is the one who truly makes progress on the path to God, our Father. ...
When a person wakes up, his conscious mind and subconscious want to become active right away.
“Vagabond thoughts” that are buzzing around will try to influence you. And the impressions, desires and longings lying in your consciousness penetrate to you as waves of thought, trying to influence you in thoughts. This means that you think about everything that should still be, what already is, what was wrong, what is good, what should be done, what has been done, whether what your neighbor or colleague said was right or wrong, which instructions the boss gave that have not yet been carried out, and much more.
To be able to largely withstand these influences, the wayfarer on the path within should link with the eternal power immediately after awakening, by praying his thankfulness for the night and for the new day into his inner being. ...
Dear friends, the right discipline is also a sign of the love for God. The right discipline brings reverence and respect for God, for the life. For this reason, the wayfarer on the path within should also give honor to God, the life, in his movements and gestures. The whole universe is harmony, balanced, rhythmic life. The wayfarer on the path within should join in this rhythmic, balanced life, in the All-harmony of God. This is why every movement and every gesture is significant. The person has to come into harmony in order to attain harmony in his inner being as well. Positive thinking brings about harmonious movements and balanced gestures, all in all, a harmonious rhythm.
Gabriele explained:
The wayfarer to the kingdom of the inner being ... should endeavor to keep calm in all things and to cultivate the stillness of his heart.
This does not mean that the person becomes lazy and thinks that he should do everything in a slow, meditative way. The one who has awakened the Spirit in himself is dynamic and harmonious. He will do his work in a balanced and harmonious rhythm, concentrated on the task at hand, to the satisfaction of all around him. God is harmonious dynamism, harmonious rhythm.
Body Rhythm and Training the Organ of Sight
Gabriele explained:
The first task for the pupil on the level of Order is the following:
The wayfarer on the path to the kingdom of the inner being pays attention to his body rhythm. Everyone shall now endeavor to harmonize himself from without to within. This means that we should pay attention not only to our thoughts, but also to our body movements. Therefore, we avoid hectic movements. Fast, disharmonious walking leads to outer and inner disharmony.
This does not mean that we should give up a dynamic life, the dynamism of the body, that we should shut down, so to speak. Oh no, quite the contrary! We aspire to the inner dynamism, to the spiritual dynamism, to the noble, rhythmic movements of soul and body. It is not the hectic and disharmonious, the externally directed activity that brings success, or a life under pressure to succeed, but the devotion to the divine, to the power that permeates our inner and outer being, and brings clarity into our thinking.
When we become accustomed to walking in an upright and harmonious way, then we will raise our eyes from the ground and look more often into the distance. In time, the effect is that we think more clearly, because the cosmic powers increasingly flow into us.
Through an upright posture, by looking into the distance and with a life that strives toward God, we participate more and more with the divine workings in all forms of life. ...
To the one who strives toward God, even the conscious contemplation of a flower or a meadow of flowers, the contemplation of trees and bushes, gives inner refreshment and rest, as well as the alignment with God, the stillness. The Eternal reveals Himself only in the stillness. We should also look at the starry heavens and the sun with its rays.
We take what we are watching into ourselves. This brings peace, trust, hope, confidence and, again, alignment with the Highest. We become more still and more God-conscious, because we feel His power and His presence. This also allows us to experience that noble thoughts, pure words, purified senses and spiritual dynamism enable us to work in a balanced
and rhythmic way—which has nothing to do with a meditative attitude at work: It is working with the inner power, without hectic activity, yet purposefully and in awareness of our goal. ...
Gabriele continued to explain:
Therefore, we practice the right discipline, to attain the harmony of soul and body. Uncontrolled eating, fast chewing and hasty drinking also lead to disharmony. Through this, the body rhythm changes immediately. As soon as we fall back into disharmony, we also take up our old habits, which we thought we had overcome. Hot and very cold drinks also have a disturbing effect on the rhythm of the body. Very hot and very cold drinks cause a revolution in the nervous system. The nerves become tense. They suffer a shock. This disturbance affects the entire organism. This means that we fall back into hectic activity and inner agitation. Our movements, our whole body rhythm, change to the negative, to the disharmonious. ...
To achieve a constant alignment with the Highest, we have to pay attention to many things: to monitoring our thoughts, to what we say, to
our body rhythm, and to gaining control of our five senses as well. The five senses, the senses of hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch, also need to be refined. The five human senses form the antennas to without. If our senses are coarse and unrefined, if they seek only in the temporal, then we are world-oriented, not God-oriented. ...
Therefore, the outer senses should be trained and refined and thus connect more and more with the inner senses, the senses of the soul. The more the pupils refine their five senses, the nobler their frame of mind and the purer their soul. Therefore, we work from without to within. What refines externally awakens in the inner being. ...
The five senses of the soul are the five spiritual types of atoms that are found in every particle of the soul. The more we refine our feelings, thoughts, words, deeds and our five senses, the more the spiritual senses—the senses of the soul, the spiritual-atomic structure—turn toward the core of being of the soul, the incorruptible primordial principle. The more we refine ourselves, the more precisely we align our soul
antenna with the incorruptible core of being in the soul. Therefore, the more we are aligned with God, the more stably our antenna is directed toward the primordial principle and the more divine powers we receive.
Training of Sight and Hearing and Overcoming the Past
Brother Emanuel:
With the exercises I am giving to you, namely, to take into yourselves the nature kingdoms—that is, the essence of life in the forms of nature—I am trying to convey to you a slight inkling of the unity consciousness, of being related to all things. Everything you observe, everything you see, is in you as essence! ...
In addition, you learn to recognize your base ego, which lies in the deeper layers, in your subconscious and in the soul garments. But you also find out the extent of your selfless love. The observation of the outer and inner pictures brings out those feelings and thoughts in which the pupil, the wayfarer on the path to God, can recognize himself. ...
Gabriele:
Brother Emanuel gave us another task for training our organ of sight. We go into a contemplation. We look, for example, at an evergreen
tree, a flower or a bush, whatever we like at the moment. However, it should be a plant. We look at the object as we have seen it up until now, that is, only as matter. We look at it solely with our physical eyes, only externally, without moving the inner being. We keep our eyes open as we do this. We look at the object. We record our thoughts and feelings in our mystical journal. ...
A little later, we will again look at the same or another plant. We look at it, but then close our eyes and take the picture, the impression of the plant, into our inner being. There, we let the impression reverberate. We again record in our mystical journal whatever we feel, sense or think while doing this.
We can do these exercises two or three times a day, especially when we suddenly feel that our senses are turning strongly to without and our body rhythm is becoming hectic. ...
Gabriele said:
The one who journeys inward to this great, allencompassing consciousness, God, truly feels that he is a child of the universal Spirit, a cosmic child. Although we people still feel the heaviness of the Earth, because the material garment is of this Earth, we, who strive toward the Spirit, have an inkling of the lightness of the inner being, the dynamism of the all-encompassing Spirit, the source of eternal love.
The path inward is the path of love for God, our eternal Father. Without love, there is no path to God, because God is Love! ...
Many people ask again and again: What is love? Love is the creative power which brings forth the pure life, the spiritual forms, and vivifies the temporal forms, matter. Love is a band that joins everything that is pure. We begin again to develop the love that beholds everything as perfect. It is our spiritual heritage, which we accept once again. The acceptance of this spiritual heritage, which is the creative, all-encompassing Love, God, takes place step by step:
– When we immediately forgive an upset person who wrongly accuses us, this is an act of love.
– When we pray from our heart and entrust ourselves in prayer to God and remain in this trust, this is an act of love.
– When we selflessly help our neighbor without expecting anything, neither gratitude nor a friendly smile, this is an act of love.
– When we do not condemn our neighbor who, knowingly or unknowingly, acts or speaks in a hurtful or denigrating manner, this is an act of love.
Through these and similar demonstrations of love, we come into our heritage again. ... In this way, we become conscious sons and daughters of God again, who gradually find their way out of the law of cause and effect, out of the wheel of reincarnation.
Brother Emanuel said:
By training your senses, you come to the schooling of the heart. Through this schooling, you will recognize very soon that every negative feeling, every impure thought and every negative action turns against you. The alert pupil aligned with God will then no longer wish others evil or condemn them. He will no longer entertain negative thoughts against his neighbor. His words will be noble and pure, for he knows that whatever goes out from him will fall back on him.
The conscious wayfarer on the path to God feels that God, the life, is in all Being. He knows that whatever he does to life he ultimately inflicts on himself. The one who conquers himself and wants to progress on the path to God will strive to see the good in his neighbor and to affirm it. This is the selfless power, the life of infinity. The pure and beautiful in your neighbor—the life, God—is in every human being, even in the one who is still marked by his ego and unconsciously betrays his ego through his words, gestures and actions. Therefore, do not judge, because through this, you become your own judge. ...
Many people keep bringing back what is already far in the past. They move it for hours and days, thus intensifying the correspondence in their subconscious and in their soul garments.
I ask you to let the past rest as much as possible, so that it may gradually dry up.
When despite all efforts to let the past rest, occurrences from this life come up, that is, when they keep coming up again and again, then you should look into these feelings and analyze them. The one who lives in his past cannot master what comes toward him day after day.
“Excursion” into the Cosmos
Brother Emanuel said:
Many a one among you is still afflicted with worries, difficulties and problems. As long as you live in the midst of these vibrating complexes, you think they are important and cannot be surrendered so easily.
For this reason, Brother Emanuel advised us to do the following exercise:
In feelings, place yourselves into the All, into the middle of the universe. Close your eyes, go within and see yourselves floating or standing in the midst of infinity, of the All. Leave your difficulties and problems on the Earth, where you had them or where they have their origin. Vibrate upward in your feelings and say the following highly vibrating words, which should lend you wings to accomplish your task more easily. Speak these positive powers into your inner being:
“I am a cosmic being; my homeland is the universe, the All. I vibrate upward, toward the suns and worlds of infinity. My problems and difficulties remain on the Earth.”
These words should be one with your world of feelings and thoughts; then you will be able to do this task successfully. Dear brother, dear sister, if you are now in the All in your feelings, then look down on the difficul-
ties and problems you left behind, which have remained attached to the temporal, to matter.
Gabriele explained:
When we stand above our difficulties and problems, only then do we recognize that they are trivial and insignificant, and that we should not attach too much importance to them. When we look at things from the point of view of the universe—that is, from a great distance to our difficulties and problems—we see the unessential and transitory. From there, from the All, we suddenly recognize how foolish it is to be preoccupied with inconsequential things over and over again.
There in the All, far from the problems and difficulties, we get an inkling of the meaning of cosmic consciousness, of what living in unity with the Eternal means. There, in the All, we get an inkling of what it means to live in unity with all Being.
So if we are able to enter the All, infinity, in our feelings, we feel that we are suns that radiate and shine much more brightly than all the countless suns of the All.
From the Basic Level of Will:
Gabriele:
Only through the power of our Redeemer will we find our way back to the heart of God, to the central might of love. Through Christ, we return to the universal Spirit, to our eternal Father who created us.
Our path to the heart of God is the Inner Path, for the kingdom of the Lord is within, in us. By recognizing, learning, experiencing and suffering, we become aware of our human ego, which—through our behavior—has brought us and others into many sorrowful situations, into effects, events and confusion, under which many suffer. On the Inner Path, we get to know and experience the many sides of our ego, which have already moved and brought about many things in us. Let us think of our hours of sadness, of pain, hardship and illness. Let us think of the hours of despair, of heartache, fear and worries. Let us think of the many blows of fate in our life, and also of our depressions and aggressions. All this was caused by the complex of our own ego.
It is we, ourselves, who have caused this, and not our neighbor, whom we often blame or have blamed for it. In many cases, he merely addressed and triggered what already was and is in us. This is why we should not blame our neighbor for the circumstances in our life. We should knock on the door of our own heart; for there is where our offenses lie, in our heartlessness toward our fellow people.
On the Inner Path we experience and learn about our human ego. We should surrender it to Christ and clear up everything that has to be cleared up. Through this, our soul becomes more light-filled; our feelings grow brighter, our senses purer and our way of thinking and acting more selfless. This is then the ennoblement of the human being, the growing into the kingdom of the inner being or moving into the heart of God. ...
Because of the rhythm of day and night here on Earth, we have been given the possibility to live more consciously. At night, our soul goes into higher regions, provided it is a light-filled soul that is attracted from there. The soul brings from there increased energies into the physical
body and into the day. This enables us to live in the now. Then we live in the day, that is, in the today—not in the past and not in the future, but in today, in the day, in the hour, in the minute— and we learn infinitely much about ourselves. This is why we can surrender many things to Christ on one day and overcome them. Through this, our soul becomes lighter, and day by day it gets brighter in us. For us human beings, this means that we become clearer and can live more consciously. Only then, do we live. Everything else is mere vegetating.
Once we have learned to live in the right way, that is, to live the day, thus living in the now, using the hours and the moments, then our life is interesting: We experience our true being and our still remaining human ego. Daily, we are given the strength to overcome the all-too-human aspects the day may bring, and to be glad of the spiritual ones. ...
Gabriele then spoke about the impulses from the energy of the day:
Each day approaches us like a veiled figure. As soon as the light of the day increases, the day unveils itself individually for each person. It shows each one what he should recognize and clear up today. Through impulses, it admonishes us to take care of this or that and to clear things up.
The impulses can be our thoughts and feelings. Impulses can also be given to us through our neighbor, for instance, through people with whom we speak or whom we encounter. Simply by meeting them, thoughts can be stimulated that want to tell us what we should clear up or recognize today. Every occurrence of the day that moves our inner being is an impulse, so that we look at ourselves.
Such impulses of the day that move us can also be the “precursors” of an impending danger— such as illness, need, blows of fate—forerunners for everything that breaks out of our soul, so that we can work on it in time. However, if we do not listen to the countless impulses that the day brings with it, then we will have to suffer through what we have caused.
Therefore, we recognize that each day is a gift from the Lord. Each day is His grace. Our body would not have to endure suffering, need, worries, illness and many other things if the causes were recognized and overcome in time through remorse and forgiveness—and through selfmastery. The negative forces withdraw from the one who recognizes his faults, his causes, in time and surrenders them to Christ, also leaving them with Him—and if he should ask for forgiveness and does so, and if he should forgive, and does so. As explained previously, they will be transformed by the eternal Spirit into positive power. These positive, divine energies then intensify within the soul and in our body. Through this, the soul becomes more light-filled, the body healthier and the person more peaceful, joyful and happy from within, harmonious, dynamic and devoted to God—and finally, free of his base ego.
