ANALYSIS OF WORDS

Lecture 8 to the Youth Occult Class

Given by the Master Beinsa Douno
April 19, 1922 Wednesday, 19.00 local time
Sofia
I had asked each of you in class to write one sentence in your notebooks that would
include the first of the proposed words from last Wednesday - that is the verb Come! Your
sentence structure should be simple, with just one connection, without adjectives or
complements.
Now let's read the sentences you have written. Here are some of them: Come to God!
Come to Truth! Come onto the Path! Come into the steps of your Master!
I ask, can one really come to God or to Truth? Motion is a spatial process, while Truth is
not spatial. In this case, can one really come to God or to Truth in time and space? Being
disciples of the Spiritual school, you should learn to think and speak precisely, using strictly
determined words in the same way that mathematicians are strict and precise in their work with
numbers and formulas. Each word that is used should express its exact meaning. Now write some
new sentences using the verb Come!" The motion expressed in them should refer to strictly
determined time and space.
What is the definition of verbs? Verbs express actions and states. And all actions are
related to time and space. Which world includes time and space? Time and space are related to
the material world. As a matter of fact, only physical bodies require space and place. Therefore,
volume and space are characteristics of the physical or the spatial world, for example, the world
of forms.
I ask you now about the meaning of the word "Love." Is Love spatial? Love is not spatial.
Love knows neither time nor space. Love has neither beginning nor end. How then can you know
something that is without beginning or end? How can you know something that does not require

time and space? It remains unknown. But if you begin to feel Love, this is the first instance that
determines the state of Love. Is there a relation between states and space? When you say of
someone that he is a person of substance, it means that inwardly he has much at his disposal.
What was the second of the words? Harmony." Then the word symphony comes in
turn. What is the difference between harmony and symphony? A symphony comes as a
result of harmony. These words are outside of spiritual science because they have meanings
different from the literal meanings. When you examine a certain word, you have to pay attention
to its root and origin. You must also consider its conceptual meaning, for example, you should
know the idea that is expressed by the word. In this sense, "symphony is not a precise word. We
say symphony and symphonic orchestra." Which of the two words, "symphony or
harmony, is more precise? Harmony, but not symphony may exist between two tunes.
Which are the most important of the words you have read? Two results of this question
are the words persistency and perfection. God is a very indeterminate word. Love is a
good word. Humans are able to love. Whom? Are they able to love one another? First they should
love God. Before you utter the word God, you must say the word Love. To say the word
God without love is like reading a book without light.
To pronounce a name, or to go somewhere, you should first have the impulse in your
consciousness. You cannot enter onto the spiritual path if you do not have the impulse to do so.
This motivating force can be conscious as it is in animals, self-conscious as it is in humans, and
subconscious or superconscious as it is in Higher Beings. Motion in a definite direction is caused
by an inner impulse that aims at some fulfilment. If the word mother is pronounced without
love, it loses its meaning and sense, as a result of which it will produce a certain disharmony in
human thoughts and feelings. In this sense Love is a key to Life, like a musical key for the tuning
of instruments. Therefore, the word God becomes meaningful only when it is pronounced with
love and tenderness. Love is the key for the notes of Life. First use the key of Love, and after that
say God, for only in this way will this word be filled with meaning and sense. And when the
word God is full of meaning, it will also give meaning to the other words: come,
harmony, symphony, etc.

So, you now know that words are ordered in the flow of speech in the same way that tunes
are ordered in musical work. The poets among you who have not studied that words are like keys
of speech should learn to regard them in this way, in order to know how to use them and where to
put them. What inspires poets to write poems? Love for their native land, for their mothers and
friends. Therefore, both love and affection represent a path leading to a particular destination.
You cannot begin a journey every time, but when you do begin it, you should have a
definite direction and destination. What is the destination of an apple seed when put into the soil?
It moves in two directions upwards, to the centre of the Sun, and downwards, to the centre of
the Earth. What is the destination of the human being, according to you? The Sun. No, the
human being first strikes roots into himself and then thinks how to come to others. To come to
yourself in your language means to come into yourself. Two other verbs originate from the verb
to come: come in and come out. First you have to begin, so as to come in and then come
out of a particular place. Once you have decided to come into a place, I understand that you have
already started on your way. At whatever moment you want to come out, I understand the same
again. Therefore, whatever you do, thinking or feeling, it has a starting point. So the word to
come is like the placing of a key. Keys are demanded everywhere and in everything. When you
say that we should come to God, you are not precise in one aspect, namely that we should know
the direction and the destination of our motion. If someone wants to go to the town of Russe,
Varna, etc., the name of this town determines the destination of ones journey. Therefore, when
you say that you should come to God, you must know the direction and the destination of your
path. Which path leads to God? The inner path, the path that is lodged within ourselves. Do you
have any experience in this respect? We have not experienced such things yet. How can you
then talk about the experience, when you have not yet gone through it?
You should learn to think correctly. Everything of which you speak should be experienced
and tested by yourself alone. It is not good to think without having a thought. What does it mean
to think without a thought?" Thoughts consist of two components simultaneously: feelings and
actions. Without these two components thoughts are not proper. It is akin to saying that you love
without Love. If it lacks an impulse and a method, it's not love. Love says to you in a symbolic

language: Come! In other words: Put the seed in the soil! Sow a feeling in your heart! Sow a
thought in your mind! Therefore, we treat each feeling as a separate seed to be placed in the
heart, so as to bear fruit in the future. We will judge the quality of each seed by its fruit.
The words Love, to love, and I love have two significant elements: first is the
growth, and second is the ripening or the result. The letter ch in the Bulgarian word obich
(Love) shows that the seed should be put into the soil, so that it may grow and develop. But that's
not enough, for the seed should also blossom, set and bear fruit, and its fruit should ripen. This
means that the seed has to overcome all difficulties: winds, storms, snows, frosts, droughts, etc.
The letter a in the Bulgarian word obicham (I love) shows that the seed will produce good
results. Once we have the results, we can test what Love really is. Any results by which we can
judge the reality of things, without falling into contradictions, indicates that we are on the Path of
Love.
Thus, the first word, come, means that you will begin seeking Truth. When you find
Truth, you will begin to love it. When you love Truth, it will free you from fear and falsehood.
At present you are not able to tell the Truth. Suppose that a teacher gives an easy task to a
student, but the latter cannot solve it. The teacher asks him: Why did you not solve the task?
Since the student does not have the courage to reveal the real reason, he finds a number of other
causes by way of apologizing to the teacher. Thus he resorts to falsehood.
The ambition of this student does not allow him to tell the Truth, because it will discredit
him before his classmates and he'll lose their esteem. He will lose nothing in respect to his
classmates, but he will lose in respect to the Truth.
In giving you these exercises, I can read your thoughts and see your ambitions for
displaying your knowledge. But this is already a lie. When you write on a topic, you think you've
said a lot. One can say a lot in theory, but the theory will fail in the first clash with Life. This
indicates the existence of a great difference between theory and practice. Someone says that evil
does not exist in the world, but when he's robbed he changes his stance at once. Then he's

assuredly of the opinion that evil exists in Life. If theory and practice were one in this person,
then even after he had been robbed, he would not think of evil, or admit to it. He would not care
whether his money was in his or in someone elses pocket. This indicates that the things people
say come to nothing in practice there is dissension. You say: How did they take my money!
Didn't they know that I needed it? So? They took your money because they needed it as well.
But this is not right! Rightness is one and the same for you and for them. Whether you or they
get the money, it's one and the same. So it is - if you think like philosophers. However, in practice
it is different. This is where evil is hidden. If a hungry person sees that someone has more than he
can eat, he has the right to take the surplus food and satisfy his hunger. But if someone who is not
hungry takes the food, he will commit a crime because he does not need it. Therefore, only those
who are hungry have the right to take bread from someone elses bags in order to satisfy their
needs. Those who do not have such needs do not have the right to steal.
Please, observe the rules that I am giving you. They are maxims that should be used in
Life. You ask: Who has the right to eat? Those who have starved for three days and have
prayed to God for bread have the right to sit at the table first. Those who have starved for two
days have the right to take the second seat. Those who have starved for one day may take the
third seat, etc. Therefore, an individual's right to take this or that place is determined by the extent
of his need. In this sense we consider hunger to be a deep inner experience. Only those who are
hungry deserve this experience.
I ask, why do people not tell the Truth? Someone goes to buy a cloth. He believes the
trader and buys a pure woollen cloth on trust. But at home he sees that the cloth is not wool, but
cotton. This individual then meets a friend of his and shows him the cloth, telling him that it's
wool. His friend likes it and buys it, but later on he also understands that he has been cheated. He
resells the cloth to another friend and so on. In this way everyone is cheated. I say, check the
quality of things before you buy them! Those who are not experts in certain fields should not go
shopping alone. Thus people will learn to tell the Truth. Only those who know and understand the
quality of certain goods should become traders. Otherwise, they will forever justify themselves,
they will cheat others in the same way that they've been cheated. Only those who know and
understand the subject of farming should become farmers. The ignorant should stay away. Only

good disciples should attend school for study. School is a place for talented and gifted students. It
is said in the Scriptures: You have received for free, so shall you give for free! Only talented
disciples receive free schooling. A teacher in music will take up a student and teach him for free,
but only if the student is gifted. Why? Because the students heart will be burning with love for
music. Mediocre students usually wait impatiently for the end of the lessons so they can get
away, while talented students are very single-minded. They think mainly of one thing: their work.
Mediocre students are double-minded, thinking of at least two things simultaneously. Therefore,
talented individuals and those of genius are distinguished mainly by their thinking at a certain
moment they have only one thing on their minds, the one thing that is most important. If you go
to God with your gifts, burning with the aspiration to study and grow, He will take you for His
disciple and teach you for free.
Now, since we speak of Truth, the Invisible world will put you unexpectedly to a test so
that you can see for yourselves the extent to which you can tell the Truth. It will be a great
surprise for you, but you want to know Truth, dont you? It is not easy to know Truth. It is even
more difficult to realize when and how to reveal Truth. I will give you an example of this. A
young person had three good and faithful friends who had sworn their friendship and loyalty to
him. One day he decided to put their friendship to a test. So he killed a calf and put it in a sack,
then went to the first friend and told him: A creditor of mine came yesterday to get his money
back. As I did not have the money, I killed him and I have hidden his corpse in this sack. What
will you advise me to do now? Give me a piece of advice, please!" "Get this sack out of my
house right now! Hurry up, because we will both be blamed if someone finds it here! Then the
young man went to the second friend, told him the same story and asked: What is your
opinion? I do not want to interfere in this. Treat the dead body as you wish. Finally he went
to the third friend with the same story. What shall I do now? Listen, my friend, I am going to
help you. I have a secret place in my garden that no one knows about. We will bury the corpse
there, and no one will know what you have done; your crime will not be discovered.
I ask you, whose love was the greatest? The third friend demonstrated his readiness to
sacrifice himself for his friend, which means that his love was real. He took part in concealing the
crime and was prepared to share the penalty. One is the main criminal the killer - and the other

is the concealer and accessory after the fact. In such case, he will share the penalty with his
friend. Through this example I wanted to direct your attention to unusual Truth, not to trivial
Truth. Real Truth will free you; trivial Truth will limit you.
The Master may also come to class with a dead calf in a sack in order to test his disciples
in revealing the Truth or not. He may say to one of them: Listen, I killed a person and put his
body in this sack. Tell me where to hide it and keep it a secret. He may tell the same story to
another, yet ask him to tell it to everyone on the street. When both disciples are called into court
to reveal what they know, the first one will say that he knows nothing. The second will say that
he knows about the crime of his Master. Finally the two disciples will fall into contradiction.
I regard the next two cases as symbolic of Life. The Master gives a full bottle of water to
one of his disciples with the assignment: Do not tell anyone about the contents of this bottle,
keep it secret. Then he gives a full bottle of water to another disciple with the assignment: Tell
everyone that the contents of this bottle is water. Therefore, when someone keeps silence, he
will receive the maximum amount; when someone speaks, he will become empty. When people
do not reveal the Truth, they fill themselves; when they do reveal the Truth, they become empty.
It is a Law. This is the deep meaning of the words: Tell the Truth! or Do not tell the Truth!
Keep quiet and do not utter a word when you are empty, and when the Truth is not in you then
your bottle will be filled. When the Truth comes to fill you, then speak, tell the truth to everyone;
thus you will empty your bottle and it will begin to refill.
We will stop here. I spoke to you mostly about the first word, come. I also spoke of
some other words. Today we spoke of seven words altogether. We will discuss the remaining
words throughout the year. They will provide us with material for many lectures.
Be ready, for the Master may come to you with a sack and order you to hide a dead
person. Consider well what you should do, because you could go to prison for more than ten
years. It is not easy to tell the Truth! You may see all of this in a dream, realize you've concealed
a crime, and go to prison. When you wake up, you will say: Thank God, it was just a dream, not
reality. Many events and situations in Life are like this, as though happening in a dream. Those

who awake from the dream and are aware of reality are on the right path; those who are not
awake live unconsciously and feel fear and horror. They ask themselves: What will happen to
us?
I wish you to waken from the deep sleep into which you have fallen, realizing that much
of your experience is not real, but fictitious.
Secret Prayer

Comments from the corrector:

Just a few helpful notes -The punctuation, the period or comma for example, goes inside the closing quotation marks.
I removed the commas in the second paragraph because the quotes are complete sentences.
Here's an example of the placement of punctuation inside quotation marks from a book I have -The ancient Chinese also used small "counting rods," and the Romans made simple computations from
little pebbles, or "calculi."
In honest puzzlement I asked her, "Why didn't you use a desk calculator?" "I don't know how." "Then what
about a pencil and graph paper?"
So, where I corrected your quotation marks, unfortunately my computer does not put in the pretty ones
you have, so you'll have to type over mine with your nice ones for your final text.
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Near the beginning, the sentence that comes at the end of the paragraph:
When you say of someone that he is a person of substance, it means that inwardly he has much at his
disposal.
This was very difficult, but I think I came up with the correct interpretation.
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Not far from the end there's a Scripture quotation, but it isn't exact. It doesn't look exact or right to me. I
think it may be more like "As you have received, so shall you give." You'll need to either find the exact
quote from Scripture - and should include Chapter and Verse - or re-word the sentence to read - without
italics It is said in the Scriptures that as you have received, so shall you give.
I don't think the words "for free," are included anywhere in that quote, though I could be wrong about that.
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i.e., should really be written out in the text as

word. So he said in Bulgarian

for example,

for example,
or

with a comma, because it is the spoken

for instance,

i.e. does not convey what he said.

This is really a minor point, and not extremely important, but I thought I would point it out. I let this go a
few times and left in i.e.