Course I - Teaching 5: Reserve of Energies

If the beginner wants a rapid progress, he is bound to get used to reserve his physical, intellectual and moral energies.
The motto “working is praying” is true, if by work we understand a perfect self-consciousness of the being as to all his deeds, even the most insignificant.
A direct result of this continuous self-inspection will be a considerable increase of forces in productive ethereal centers, which, applied in due time, will abundantly pour health, correctness and success on life. First of all, sexual energies must be reserved.
The great power is on sexual energies, and this power is source of any manifestation of life and basis of all reproductive functions; also these forces, wisely kept and led in due time, vitalize and renew the body and affect notably the human mind.
According to Hindus, the Divinity has his seat at the sacrum of the human body, and the Universal Force sleeps there in the form of a coiled serpent, which is a symbol of both good and evil.
Sex hormones pour on the blood the sap of wellbeing and happiness.
If a man knew the true and complex sex functions, he would not use this lofty attribute only for pleasure and reproduction, but also he would learn how to transmute this force into an energetic and mental substance, thus bringing a true inner regeneration.
Since religious instructors knew this great secret, they ordered entire abstinence to their priests; and many persons called to a more perfect life, instinctively practiced celibacy; and those who by their rules had to get married, made of reproductive functions a holy and restricted deed.
Our constant wish should be the transformation of sex energies into the Word.
The Word produces sound, and sound retained is vibration, and vibration wisely sustained and led becomes power.
The Creative Word made the sidereal systems. Accordingly, we must restrict our words.
Usually old popular mottoes condense wise laws: “Word is silver, but silence is gold”.
You cannot guess how much energy a talkative person spreads; in Egyptian Temples, the Initiates had strict silence as a solemn and holy rule.
In the Apollonius of Tyana’s times, aspirants had to observe compulsorily permanent silence during the five first years.
Cistercians observe the law of silence for life.
Christ said: “Your words should be: yes, yes, no, no”.
Our word should be a clear and concise expression of the idea we wish to express.
One spends vocal energies with emotional and wrathful expressions, with the habit of laughing or weeping too much; but one terribly spends them by backbiting and lying.
“Light on the Path” reads, “you cannot enter the Path of discipleship until your tongue learns how not to hurt”.
Also, a useless and mean word is charged with negative energy that viciously surrounds a being that said it, and damages him intensely.
So, one should speak little, or speak to transform the word into a constructive source of good, by building and supporting the Great Work.
When one speaks well, prudently and rightly, a law of analogous sympathy makes forces immediately to be replaced.
If always we call some person in certain way, we will observe how this person gradually adapts himself to the nickname.
In the beginning of their life of renunciation, the Sannyasis change their name so that the word may go along the new forged ideal.
Ancient founders of religions imposed on the prayer the method and vocalization of the word, because they were aware of the power of the vocal energy.
Numerous energies also escape continuously through the eyes.
An exercise by which a novice learns how to refrain his eyes consists in forcing him to declare every night the number of human faces he has seen during the day.
The eyes get use to jump continuously from one side to another, and not only lose spiritual strenght, but also physical strenght; a peasant accustomed in the field to focus serenely his sight, is able to distinguish a man or an animal at a distance where a city-dweller just sees uniformity.
Also, by habituating and carefully directing our eyes, gradually we learn to focus the inner sight on the being itself.
The eyes are mirrors of the soul; a serene and quiet mind expresses itself through eyes with an equivalent expression.
Some Sannyasis made vow of continuously staring the sky; and Saint Bernard did not know the roof of his cell, because his eyes were ever downcast.
Keep the energies of your eyes so that while looking, you see instantly everything and you even scan the innermost depths.
It is better not to see many things; but if one sees them, it is convenient to erase them from the retina. Then, when you use your eyes, look in such a way that they may shine like brilliant sunrays.

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