The difference between culture and education

Cultured people are those people who have a contact with their Inner Divinity to a certain degree. Culture is not education. Education is knowledge, data, information, and the understanding of how to use this information.

Culture is transformation, self-actualization. One can be educated, yet not be cultured. Education is the collection of facts; culture is transformation of one's nature. Culture cannot be created through knowledge only, but through the transformation of life. Education is our society's way of gaining material things; education is the study of culture. The whole subject of education is civilization and culture. Culture is the manifestation of beauty. Beauty is the result of contact with the Innermost Self. Education can learn about culture but it cannot create it unless man transforms himself.


-Torkom Saraydarian
The Flame of Beauty, Culture, Love, Joy

We must try to live with such faith

Faith is the main characteristic of the child. We must try to live with such faith. People think that children believe something you say because they are stupid, because they are "just children." But if you analyze their faith, you will see that it is an intuitional understanding that all is possible.

To make things possible, one needs pure faith. Faith is the lever that puts many laws into action to create and sustain itself.

Remember that your True Self is everything; everything is in you and you are in everything.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Transformation

True art can be discriminated from false art...

True art can be discriminated from false art by observing its effect on people. If the art creates striving toward improvement and perfection, if the art creates a deeper sense of responsibility and duty, greater love and cooperation, then that art comes from Higher Sources.

If the art increases crime, causes greater attachment to material values and physical pleasures, puts pressure on people to escape from their responsibilities through drugs, alcohol, marijuana and uncontrolled sex, then such art is destructive and self-oriented.


-Torkom Saraydarian
The Flame of Beauty, Culture, Love, Joy

A great amount of music carries only the force of the lower centers

A great amount of music carries only the force of the centers below the diaphragm, stimulating the lower centers of the listeners. Such music has a retrogressive effect upon humanity, because the lower centers are already overactive at the expense of the higher centers, and they do not need overstimulation.

Real creative labor awakens the higher centers and creates balance in the energy network of the human being, which slowly helps man to focus in higher centers to proceed on the path of his evolution.


-Torkom Saraydarian
The Flame of Beauty, Culture, Love, Joy

Love is a state of consciousness of unity

Love is a state of consciousness of unity, which is not affected by our physical, emotional, and mental reactions. Once you are above these reactions you truly love. You have unconditional love.

-Torkom Saraydarian
The Flame of Beauty, Culture, Love, Joy

The transformational effect of meditation in our environment is shocking

The transformational effect of meditation in our environment is shocking. Soon people will respond to the increasing frequency of our individuality. They begin to put their house in order and bring their relationships into the rhythm of Beauty, Goodness, and Righteousness.

Even the bushes and trees will respond to our frequency, and they will blossom for us. They will emanate fragrance in our presence. Our shoes and clothes, pens and pencils will last longer and fuse with us in order to share the joyful frequency waves of our being. It is wonderful to meditate and day by day discover a new level of consciousness, a new strata of awareness within our being.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Transformation

Do we retard the evolution of plants by eating them?

All kingdoms are traveling toward developing a selfhood, and each member gradually develops it as he enters higher kingdoms. For example, in the mineral kingdom, the spirit is locked and it advances through the fire of Nature. In the vegetable kingdom, each plant and tree is ensouled with the spirit not yet individualized but, rather, in a state which can be explained as follows:

All vegetable forms, bushes, and trees are like dewdrops which when they evaporate, become parts of a cloud. This cloud has many gradations. The huge pine tree and the grass do not go to the same level, but they do go to the same chemical formation and come back and produce a new plant. The important point to realize is that the gradations of the cloud advance and develop as a whole, not as individual trees, bushes, etc. A part of the cloud comes again and forms another tree, but the essence of this tree is not of any individual, particular tree.

For example, I have two hundred bottles of water. Each of them contains the same water. I pour them into a barrel and again fill my bottles with the water; it does not make any difference.

But each time a tree is exposed to different influences, the essence of the tree develops, and so does the "cloud". This is why, when we eat plants, we do not retard the individual process of development. When eating them fresh, we give to their essence the experience of a higher form of existence.

But the case of animals is different. The animal spirit is not a cloud, but it is separated into stable forms. In eating an animal we stop its progress as a separate being and retard its evolution toward higher kingdoms.

Killing a man is a greater crime because the human spirit is not only separated from the mass spirit but also individualized. In the animal stage, the spirit is functioning on the astral plane and is still not completely a self. In the human stage, the human soul is himself; all Cosmos is within the soul as a microcosm.

Karma heavily strikes those who shed human blood because they retard not only the progress of individuals but also the progress of those with whom those individuals were connected.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds

Vices and the Subtle World

To overcome our vices, we need to fight against them while we are on earth. It is only on the physical plane that we can develop the energies to overcome our vices. It is interesting to know that though we may carry our vices into the Subtle World, we cannot find satisfaction in them. One can never gratify his vices in the Subtle World because gratification of the vices is felt mostly by and through the physical vehicle. Each vice exercised in the Subtle World creates a flame which burns the astral vehicle, causing much pain and suffering to the soul.

The danger in carrying vices into the Subtle World comes from the fact that the carriers of vices try to come in close contact with low-level human beings whose consciousness is asleep on earth. They try to stimulate them and direct them to similar vices, in order to feel their satisfaction through their vices. Easier access is given to such spirits when alcohol is used; when one goes to sleep with the thoughts and feelings of malice, slander, and greed; or when one sleeps near slaughterhouses, whorehouses, or places where there is moral pollution, stagnated matter, or rubbish. Cleanliness is a great help in rejecting such nightly visitors from our homes.

Blood also attracts such visitors. One of the factors that greatly helps them is a foul mouth, a loose mouth, or a mouth that pours out filth, curses, and blasphemy. Such emanations radiate certain signals to the carriers of vices from the Subtle World.

Human vices and habits continue to exist throughout many incarnations. It is possible for them to grow and become stronger.

Vices or habits can be eliminated if the will is activated and used strongly to destroy them.

If the person succeeds in climbing consciously to the highest strata of the Subtle World, he can dissolve the accumulations of vices and habits in his astral body. Each vice or habit originates from a force formation in the aura, and this subtle tumor is not easy to destroy.

The higher harmony and fires of the highest levels of the Subtle World can dissolve them. They can also be dissolved if strong will is exercised on them while one is still living on earth.

It is also interesting that in the Subtle World one cannot develop new vices. It  is on the earth that vices are germinated, developed, and used. One can continue his vices in the lowest levels of the Subtle World, but as he climbs higher, they look stupid and non-interesting.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds

All kinds of bloodshed bring the lower astral world into contact with the earth

In the battlefield where the blood of millions is shed and is in a state of decomposition, numberless entities from the astral world are attracted. The emanations from decomposed blood and the associated emotions, horrors, and thoughts are the food by which low astral entities live. Thus, all kinds of bloodshed bring the lower astral world into contact with the earth.

We are told that these astral entities are attached to the auras of those who eat meat, who work in graveyards and taverns, and who consume alcohol and drugs. The first sign of such an attachment is a feeling of vampirism in which all your energy is suddenly exhausted. After your body adjusts itself, you feel emotional and mental depression; then degeneration of your morals starts.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds

In the month of Scorpio - Be very careful that you are not tempted by dark forces

In the month of Scorpio...

Be very careful that you are not tempted by dark forces. If any stupid thought, criminal thought, or mechanical urge or drive to do something that is not honorable or good for your prestige comes to your mind, it is usually coming from somewhere else. It may be coming from a subconscious urge and drive hidden within you, or dark forces may be influencing you.

Try always to stand in the light. Stick with everything that is Beautiful, Good, and Truthful. Most people are influences by dark forces, and they do not know why they are doing things. The way to avoid being trapped by dark forces is to use the standard of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. Anything that is against Beauty, Goodness, and Truth is not coming from your Soul and you should not obey it.

A disciple is a person who wins victories over every kind of dark suggestion. For example, if a suggestion comes into your mind that you are lonely, nobody loves you, etc., stand in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth and reject it. You will see that the dark forces will immediately disappear.

You must have experiences of becoming a warrior. How can you be a warrior if you do not fight?


-Torkom Saraydarian
The Wisdom of the Zodiac, vol.3

In the month of Scorpio - Exercise strict control over your mouth and tongue

In the month of Scorpio...

Exercise strict control over your mouth and tongue. Do not talk about things that are not your business. Most of our failures are due to lack of control of the tongue. A disciple always tries -- even though he is not always successful-- to swallow wrong words before they escape from his mouth. Whenever you gossip or say something unnecessary, you pollute your aura and slowly destroy yourself. But if you swallow these words, you do not create that destruction for yourself or for others.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Wisdom of the Zodiac vol.3

Emotional attachment to living and dead persons as a means of possession and depresssion

 When a person emotionally loves another person, such as the mother, wife, husband, child, or even an animal, he creates an emotional tie with the person or animal. When this person or animal dies, the same emotional affinity exists with them. No possession takes place until the departed person or animal leaves his astral body. When the astral body is left behind, the person on earth attracts that astral body, which slowly penetrates his own astral body and contaminates it in a decaying process. The person first feels he is closer to his beloved one, but he gradually realizes that some force is acting independently in his body. Animals, because they live simultaneously in the astral and physical world, see the astral body of a departed owner, and think he is always with them.

Astral bodies all have emotional recordings in them, and they pass all these recordings to the living person. Besides filling his emotional life with confusion, the astral bodies begin to decay, casing unusual emotional problems and heavy depressions.

A contaminated astral body cannot be cured by any orthodox methods. To avoid such a disaster, people must not be attached to their beloved ones. Real love serves and sacrifices, but never attaches. When the beloved one leaves, real love exercises total joy and detachment. Many husbands and wives are obsessed through their attachment. This is the reason why, when one of them dies, the other passes away soon thereafter.

Emotional attachment cannot be translated as a sense of responsibility but as a chemical fusion between two astral bodies. When the person departs, he takes part of the astral body of the devoted one with him. The departed portion of the devoted one's astral body is used as an element of comfort by the departed one, and it is translated by the living one as a deep longing and a sense of depression.

It is this departed portion of the astral body that serves as a link between the two beings. When the power of the departed soul over his astral body weakens, as he leaves it on the astral plane and steps to the mental plane, the living portion of the astral body of the living person is magnetically drawn back to the astral body of the living person. The astral portion of the living person in the astral body of the departed person always nourishes itself by drawing the energy of the living person.

Emotional attachment between two living persons is also not beneficial because the emotional elements, glamors, desires, confusions, and anxieties of each person flow into each other's astral vehicle, creating disturbances, tensions, and irritations. Such a transference is accomplished through the solar plexus center, which eventually becomes super-active and damages the organs connected to it.

-Torkom Saraydarian

Other Worlds

When you are angry, you tune in to the lower astral plane...

When you are angry, you tune in to the lower astral plane, and you start channeling the current of anger. If your anger turns into a thoughtform, due to certain planning to satisfy your anger, an astral entity enters your thoughtform and uses it as a destructive mechanism.

When there is massive anger, massive fear, or massive hatred, the masses become channels of such forces which collectively exist in lower astral levels. It is after such a process of channeling that obsession takes place and mass insanity comes into being. At the present we see how many people in the world are acting insanely and living an insane life. This is a phenomenon which is very dangerous to the survival of humanity.

Thus, through anger, fear, hatred, greed, and revenge, one becomes a channel for the pollution of the astral plane. This is why in all religions these five are considered sins and are condemned. Those who are filled with these five will enjoy neither earth nor the Subtle Worlds.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds

In the month of Libra - How can we create balance in our life? - Beauty

How can we create balance in our life? - Beauty

Increase the beauty in your life expressions, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Beauty balances you because beauty is nothing else but the manifestation of spirit in matter, in its completeness.

Dedicate yourself to beauty. Buy beautiful things. Increase the beauty in your visualization, in your imagination, in your relationships. Be beautiful, and beauty will balance you.

When you strive for balance in your life, you create natrum phosphate in your body. This cell salt helps your digestive system and your kidneys by balancing them.


-Torkom Saraydarian
The wisdom of the Zodiac vol.3

In the month of Libra - Do not be affected by the ups and downs of the world

The symbol of the scales reminds you not to be affected by the ups and downs of the world. Immediately when someone says something good about you, your scale rises. If the say bad things, it drops. You start your day very happy and balanced. Then you turn on the news and you go down -- just like the stock market! The person who is on the path of  mastery does not fluctuate because of the changes happening around him.

It is difficult not to be affected by the ups and downs of life, but if we do not conquer difficult things, we will always be the slaves of easy things. We can become Masters only through mastering things that are difficult. The most important lessons in life are the lessons that are difficult. If a lesson is easy, it is not a lesson; it is a game. This is a difference between a game and a lesson.

If we can keep our scales balanced no matter what happens to our reputation, our pocketbook, our emotions, our friends and enemies, we will graduate from the human kingdom and enter another kingdom. There is a tremendous illusion in the minds of human beings that Nature created human beings and stopped there. Look at the galaxies. Look at the heavens. Man is not at the top; man is just the beginning. Cosmic Beings are still ahead of us. Who is organizing these energies, laws, and other Universes? We must not be stuck where we are.

-Torkom Saraydarian

The Wisdom of the Zodiac vol.3

When you have any success, pray

Immediately when you have any success, pray, so that you do not become proud and vain and you keep your honesty and humility before God. A wise man once said, "In front of any defeat, pride walks." Whenever we are really successful, pride comes to our mind. To destroy that pride we must give credit to that Almighty Source.

-Torkom Saraydarian

Other Worlds

When you have great joy, you must pray

When you have great joy, you must pray. Some people wonder why they should pray when they are successful and happy; they think they have everything and do not need anything else. But our greatest failures come at the moments when we are very successful and joyful. We forget the source of all our joy. If we forget the source, no matter how rich, beautiful, or joyful we are, all our successes will work against our spiritual interest.

-Torkom Saraydarian

Other Worlds

Prayer brings healing

Prayer brings healing. Many scientists have documented miraculous cures which have occurred as a result of prayer. These cures were called "miraculous." They are actually not so. Prayer is a method of fusing yourself with a power station which raises your vibrations and creates harmony within yourself. When you create harmony in yourself, you are healed. Health is harmony. Health is a condition where there are no disturbances or distortions. When you are synthesized within yourself, you are healthy. That energy, which is sometimes called the psychic energy of God or the Spirit, cleans and purifies all distorting factors that you have within yourself.

-Torkom Saraydarian

Other Worlds

Prayer keeps dark forces away from you

Prayer keeps dark forces away from you. Dark forces are yours and other people's ugly and criminal thoughts. When you pray, you radiate your light to such a degree that these dark thoughts cannot come close to you.

You are going to increase your frequency to such a degree that it does not allow any wicked or distorted frequencies to penetrate into the field of your electromagnetic energy.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds

Prayer creates optimism in you

Prayer creates optimism in you. There is a heavy pessimistic cloud sitting over humanity at this time in history. Many people think the world is about to be destroyed, that war is coming, that famine is on the way. Like lightning, prayer destroys this pessimistic cloud. Prayer gives you optimism because you see that you are standing with God, and with His help everything is possible.

-Torkom Saraydarian

Other Worlds