Course I - Teaching 6: Method of Living

Be methodical in your lives, years and days.
Look at the magnificent vault of heaven, how solar systems and stars follow their orbs; look at the turns of cosmic years and human days.
It can be observed how everything is law and order in Nature, and how regularly seasons of the year follow each other.
If from the spiritual viewpoint a Soul must have the most absolute free orientation as to outer deeds and method of living, actions of a being must be subject to strict law and vigilance.
It is necessary for a man to drive orderly the rhythm of his daily works in time to the seven cosmic currents that divide the solar days.
That is why one should wake up at dawn distributing orderly his daily actions. Time just exists as duration: so, hours are rapid or slow, short or long, depending on their good or bad distribution. For a man who does orderly and properly his own things, there is time and place for all.
The body of a man must get used to serve its master; and not the master to the physical form. In due time it must rest, and in due time, it must act and work. It is not convenient to give it excessive care, or take it as an enemy who must be destroyed, like members of certain religions do. In the hands of a conscious being, body is an instrument: if you caress it, it slumbers, if you punish it, it rebels, and if you lead it, it obeys.
Some people care too much for health of the body, and do not think that physical health is a natural result of a discreet way of living.
Drink spring waters in abundance, eat mature wheat ears, avoiding both very sweet and very acid substances; food should be regularized, watched and measured so that the individual being is fresh, agile and flexible.
Destructive enemies, like millions of bacteria, are daily gathered together at the porous gates of the human system to appropriate it, destroying its tissues or infecting its lymph. Stay away from danger by means of fresh baths, morning walk and correct breath.
In respiratory exercises, do not adopt odd or affected methods; use the correct way of breathing in three times: breathe in widely through nose, retain some moments the air in your lungs, and breathe out strongly though mouth.
Besides a distribution of the day according the seven cosmic movements, you should move along with the Great Dual Current, which goes up and down slowly, if you wish to be a master of yourself.
These two forces are positive and negative, active and passive, according to the action you wish to take.
When some people are working they wish to rest, and on hours of rest they feel impulses and inspirations of any kind regarding all they have to do during their study or work. But these inharmonious states of mind are just deceitful reflections of voluble and mischievous imagination. If you notice tiredness or boredom when you are reading or working, go on although seemingly you get little advantage of it; you should insist although a thick veil covers your intelligence and dulls your brain; in due time you shall notice you did not waste your time, because the subconscious has worked.
But for instance, if you are much interested in a reading, stop it for some minutes when you reach “the best” so that your reserve of mental energy is not burnt for the sake of fantasy that later leaves a vague memory of your reading.
Much haste not always enables to arrive on time at an appointment; it is convenient to stop and gather energies by and action of your will, contrary to your own purpose.
You could accompany your daily actions with words, whispering many times: health, wellbeing, order, etcetera.
Physical forces, orderly distributed, reflect the state and activity of mental forces.