True faith cannot develop without intuition

True faith cannot develop in a person if he has no intuition. Faith without the guidance of intuition turns into superstition. The present conflict between religions and “faiths” is clear proof that people are led by self-hypnosis, not by intuition or by the spirit of their faith.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.1

Beauty

The only real thing you can give to someone
is beauty.

The only thing you must reveal to others
is your beauty.
The only thing you must expect from others
is their beauty.

The only way to know each other
is the way of beauty.

The greatest labor, the holy labor,
is to lead people to beauty.


-Torkom Saraydarian
From My Heart vol.1

A disciple is a person who is awake as much as possible

A disciple is a person who is awake as much as possible. It is impossible to be awake in every situation and at every moment, but we must be awakened. Yes, you have three children to feed and a beautiful husband with whom you spend every night, having fun kissing and making jokes. In the meantime your daughters are being conditioned by subtle influences to become prostitutes, and you are not interested in that. Aren’t you interest to know what your children are being taught, what books they are reading, why that party is being organized, why your daughters are coming home pregnant or with venereal diseases?

-Torkom Saraydarian
Spiritual Regeneration 

There is something very mysterious in the thought that “they are going to die, and you are going to die”

When you think that one day your wife will die, your husband one day will die, your father and mother one day will die, you behave in a different way toward them. You respect them. You care for them. You value them because you see that you do not own them. They may go any moment from your hands.

You must think about your friends who are going to die, your teachers, your best students, those who served you, your daughters, your sons.

There is something very mysterious in the thought that “they are going to die, and you are going to die.” Do this so that you come to your senses. What the mystery is I do not know yet. You respect them more. You do not rely too heavily on them because you know that one day they will go.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.3

Causes of shocks

Shocks are moments in our individual life when we awaken and come to our senses. These shocks can come from our Soul, from our Teacher, from our consciousness, from our enemies or friends, or from world events. They force us to have a new viewpoint, a new attitude, and a new change in our life.

 

Shocks come when we criticize or talk and do things against the natural laws. Sometime shocks warn us and give us time. Sometimes they destroy us altogether.

 

Shocks are of a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual in nature.

 

The causes of shocks are many, such as:

 

1. Individual crystallization and delay of evolution

2. National karma and crystallization

3. Initiation of a Planetary or Solar Logos

4 .Cosmic disturbances, the tidal waves of which reach our shores.

-Torkom Saraydarian

Cosmic Questions vol.3

How Insanity Comes Into Being

1. Insanity is a karmic reaction to all the harmful, cruel attitudes that a person had in the past.

2. Insanity is a result of the damage to the brain due to drugs, alcohol, and prostitution.

3. It is the result of accumulated guilt feelings.

4. It is the result of obsession or possession.

5. It is the result of consciously acting against your own principles and conscience.

6. Insanity is the result of continuous fear, threat of death, or insecurity.

7. It is the result of heavy bombardment, raids, cruelty, violence, and murder.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Consciousness vol.1

The ancient Sanctuary

As a child I lived in a small town where many creative and influential people lived. There was an ancient Sanctuary. Every morning it was almost full. The dignitaries of the village went there, entered silently, lit a candle, and meditated or prayed for fifteen to twenty minutes. There was no crime in that village. The police were occupied all day with gardening and other domestic duties. The judge wrote novels.

It is not places of gambling and prostitution or nightclubs that can transform a nation, but Sanctuaries and Ashrams that are charged by the fire of the Higher Worlds. Once a man or a nation loses the thread of the Fiery World, the degeneration of the spirit takes place and insanity develops at the expense of the spirit.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds

How Insanity Can Be Cured

It is better to work for prevention than to try to cure it. Preventative methods are

 

1. Joyful home

2. Constructive, honest, and noble relationships

3. Security

4. Peace, love, and respect

5. Creative endeavors

6. Sacrificial service

7. Love toward all forms of life

8. Regular meditation, study, and creative service

9. Avoidance of those who are engaged with

    a. black magic

    b. sorcery

    c. necromancy

    d. mediumism

    e. lower psychism

    f. channeling

    g. drug users

    h. alcoholics

    i. insane persons

    j. slanderers, gossipers, traitors

 

These precautions are safeguards and may help you keep your sanity. These nine factors can be a shield in your life against the attacks of insanity.

 

 

How to Help Insane People

 

You can help them by

 

1. Putting them into professional institutions to heal them through music, colors, dance, and by putting them in “responsible” duties

2. Giving a chance to them to save animals or human beings

3. Giving them hard physical labor at least eight hours daily

4. Making them fast every week for twenty-four hours without even a drop of water

5. Making them abstain from sex

6. Teaching them rhythmic folk dances and movements

7. Awakening love in them toward trees, bushes, flowers, birds, and animals and giving then an opportunity to have gardens and small animals to care for

 

The human soul has always a chance to see what is going on. If we learn to contact the soul and help him, eventually he will help correct the insane situation in the personality.

-Torkom Saraydarian

Consciousness vol.1

Signs of Insanity

• An insane person has no continuity of thought.
• An insane person has no control over his blind urges and drives.
• An insane person has no control over his emotions, nor over his thoughts. He continuously lies, either consciously or unconsciously.
• Insanity acts through obsession and possession.
• His thoughts are anti-survival or suicidal, self-destructive.
• He has no drive for improvement.
• He hides behind his hatred, jealously, and stupidity and never can get rid of them.
• He is confused and because of it others easily can manipulate him for their own advantage.
• He cannot keep steady friendship with anyone.
• He does not inspire truth and confidence.
• He changes his promises, dedication, plans, and relationships.
• He cannot concentrate his mind on his responsibilities and duties or even on his labor.
• His goals change continuously.
• Insanity creates separation and problems between other people.
• The failures, the defeat, the pain and suffering of other people make the insane person happy.
• An insane person can easily be observed by his wealth, success, position, by praise and he uses them as an escape from himself and also to hurt others.
• An insane person does not have joy but continuously runs after physical pleasures.
• He can abandon his friends, his family members and speak foully against them to fill his empty soul with trash.
• An insane person alternately hates you and shows appreciation to you for his own interest.
• An insane person uses force and threats, to control you for his advantage.
• An insane person changes locations, businesses, husband or wife or friends, and has no steadiness in his character.
• An insane person involves you with his problems and then blames you for his problems.
• An insane person also makes abundant promises to you to use you for his advantage.
• His letters have no continuity, no logic. They are written for selfish reasons and are self-destructive.
• An insane person is like a cracked boat, which is very dangerous to sail in.
• Often he falls into fanaticism and uses it as a weapon on others.

-Torkom Saraydarian

Consciousness vol.1

The best way to unfold our chakras

We are told that every human being is equipped with chakras, also called centers, and they are not only sources of energies but also doors leading us to higher planes and to a higher consciousness.

There are seven major centers in our etheric body that directly affect our physical body through the ductless glands and nerves.

These centers can be in any of the following conditions:

-active and unfolded
-half active
-sleeping
-petrified

Knowing that the conditions of the centers have a direct effect on the human consciousness and body and behavior, people tried to use various methods to awaken them, stimulate them, and to benefited by their awakening. These people are as follows:

-Masters
-Dark forces or agents
-Ignorant Teachers
-Opportunists

1. The Masters, with Their knowledge and information, try to prepare some people for advanced initiations and work on the centers of the candidate to awaken the centers with the cooperation of the candidate. Their aim is to prepare advanced leaders to meet certain unexpected or evident needs of humanity. Masters work on higher centers. They work on the head center, the throat center, and the heart and ajna centers.

2. Dark agents try to stimulate and unfold the lower centers, such as the base of spine, sacral center, and solar plexus. Their intentions are
    a. To create excess force in their victims and lead them into destructive actions, crimes, etc.
    b. Generally, to overstimulate the sacral center and lead people into unhealthy relationships.
    c. To destroy a person who has the potential to be a leader for light

3. Ignorant Teachers gather people around them and make them do various kinds of meditation to stimulate their chakras. They do not have a sense of responsibility and do not care what happens to their students in the future. Generally they travel from place to place so as not to see the consequences of their labor.

People under such teachers are at a high risk for various diseases and complicated problems of psychological health.

4. Opportunists are those who make money in teaching about the chakras, of which they have only superficial knowledge.

The Teaching says that the centers must be left alone until the time they show signs of naturally unfolding under the influence of

1. Purity of life
2. Expansion of consciousness
3. Sacrificial service
4. Compassion
4. Right meditation

These are the safest methods that can be used to make our centers bloom and connect our mind to higher dimensions.


Some Don’ts:

1. It is absolutely forbidden to meditate on the chakras except under the supervision of your Teacher, who clairvoyantly sees the effect of your meditation in your bodies and life.

2. It is forbidden to exercise Hatha Yoga, since it stimulates the ganglias built by the centers and affects the centers. Hatha Yoga can be used only to cure certain etheric sickness, done under the supervision of a clairvoyant medical doctor.

3. Chakras can be stimulated by breathing exercises, and ignorant teachers allow their students to use various breathing exercises to stimulate various centers. Real Masters of the centers forbid such an action, warning us that it can have a drastic influence on our health.

4. Centers can be stimulated by certain drugs. Such an action is equal to suicide.


Some Do’s:

The Teaching says that the best way to unfold our centers is for all centers to unfold harmoniously and coordinate with each other through expansion of consciousness, purity of life, meditation, and sacrificial service.

Under the influence of the expansion of consciousness, centers open naturally and without causing any damage to either the etheric body or the physical body.

Any time you are advised to work on the centers, be very cautious. Do not risk your life.

If the personality is not clear of maya, glamor, and illusion, the increasing energy of the centers makes your maya, glamors, and illusions uncontrollable. You feel you have fallen in to the current of a flood – going toward destruction. The released energies multiply your habits, hang-ups, moral weaknesses, and a time comes when you lose control entirely. It is here that you can fall into the danger of obsession or the confusion emerging from your subconscious mind.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Esoteric Science of Healing

If one learns lots of things but does not give, his light will be taken away from him

We take, take, take and never give. It is stealing – and stealing is worse than taking. We must take and give. That is why if you only take in this life, in the next life you are going to be poor and starving because you broke the Law of Balance. If in this life you are living like a king and you do not care about other people, in the next life you are going to be a street-sweeper.

One must receive light in a certain measure and then give light. I have seen many people who learned and learned, and then kept silent. Suddenly their wisdom was taken away, and they became average people.

Gratitude is receiving and giving. If one learns lots of things but does not give, his light will be taken away from him. Light does not belong to us; every bit of wisdom that we have is given to us as a gift. If we do not use that gift, it is taken away. This is why a person can be so wise, but his wisdom can be taken away if he does not share it with gratitude.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Spiritual Regeneration

That is your Christ within that is going to call you, to make you a lion

There was a lioness and this lioness was pregnant. When the time arrived, she did not have any place to have that baby except in a flock of sheep. She went there, had her baby, and ran away. The shepherd came. He said, “What a beautiful cub! This is fantastic.” And because the lion cub lived a few years with the sheep, he started to eat like a sheep, cry like a sheep, jump like a sheep. He imitated and he identified with the sheep, and he became a sheep. The shepherd was so happy that he had some kind of different sheep that was bigger and fierce, and the sheep began to play with him. Three years later, one day when the shepherd was playing his flute, suddenly he heard the roar of a lioness. Immediately this little cub raised his ears, looked around, and like an arrow he went to the mountain. He ran to his mother, and from that day on the sheep missed him.

Why did he go? This is the secret. He heard the call. Once you hear the call of your Teacher, of your Master, or that heavenly One that calls you and says, “Hey, come up to the mountain,” you go. That is your Christ within that is going to call you, to make you a lion instead of a sheep.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Christ vol.1

Why do our bad actions affect us?

Bad actions work against natural laws. Suppose I have a knife in my hand and I put that knife into somebody. In actual etheric vision, I have put that knife in my own etheric body because I was identified with him or her in the same moment of the crime. The wound I gave is already in my subtle bodies. It takes time to come down and manifest in the dense body. First it comes to the mental level and you become a little “wishy-washy.” Then it comes to the emotional level and you become negative. Then it comes to the body, the place exactly where the knife hit, and your problems start. Whatever you sow, you reap.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Esoteric Science of Healing

How does karma form a cloud?

"Question: How does karma form a cloud?

Answer: A cloud is formed by your wrong actions, negative emotions, or polluted thinking. Every time your bodies are forced to do something against the Law of Nature and against the laws of your conscience, they emanate a gas, an element, which accumulates in the body which took the wrong actions. Their accumulation are the seeds of future sicknesses.

There is also karma which is created through non-action. That is the other part of it. For example, you were supposed to do something, and you did not do it. That is a form of karma. You were supposed to say something now, and you did not because of your fear, because of your hesitation. It formed karma because you did not do it. You planned something beautiful, and you did not do it when you could do it. That is also karma. For example, say that a man is dying, and you are just passing by. You could have made a sandwich and fed the man. You did not do it. Your heart told you to do it. You did not do it. It is bad karma in your aura. Not only what you do makes karma or non-karma but also what you do not do, what you do not think, what you do not say created a karma.


-Torkom Saraydarian
The Eyes of Hierarchy

Sooner or later, people must learn to stand on their own feet

Once I asked my Father in great anxiety, “When you die, to whom am I going to ask questions?’

“First of all,” he said, “do not worry. I will be with you for a long time. But in case I am gone, ask your questions to Christ... and wait for the answers...”

“Where is He?”

“Never mind where He is. Your questions will reach Him almost instantaneously. But you must try to be sensitive to His answers and, when you grasp them, put them into action. After you learn to communicate with Him, He will teach you how to ask questions to your Soul and develop companionship with your Soul. Sooner or later, people must learn to stand on their own feet in order to be worthy of higher achievements.”


-Torkom Saraydarian
Education as Transformation vol.1

Geographical changes

The earth has its various movements that are natural consequences of various energies and fires playing upon it. But in these movements, there are “unnatural ones” that are the result of human wrong doing, negative emotions and destructive thinking. Accumulations of such thinking, feeling, and acting cause unnatural movement in the earth’s natural movements. These unnatural movements are what cause natural calamities.

 

Geographical changes were always natural for the earth. The Soul of the earth gives enough warnings to enable animals, human beings, even plants to migrate to safe places during natural changes. Such warnings are not given by Nature if humanity is the cause of the natural calamities. This is why people say that man either destroys himself or leads himself onto the path of survival.

 

-Torkom Saraydarian

Cosmic Questions vol.3, p.98

Faith in others

Having faith in others calls forth their innate divinity into manifestation. This happens gradually and slowly, but as your faith increases in others, they begin to respond to your faith more deeply.

 

It is possible that they may first try to take advantage of your faith and think and act with self-interest, even sometimes to a degree that exploits you, but be patient and stay in your faith so that gradually you cleanse them of all wrong motivations and evoke their true spirit to manifest.

 

Of course, you can show them their failures and selfish conduct, but always make them feel that you have faith in their future success and cooperation. Such a faith is called the invincible conqueror because it slowly destroys a crystallization within them and opens a path for the spiritual light to pour out, washing all that is selfish and ugly.

 

 

-Torkom Saraydarian

Virtues & Values vol.1

In the act of abortion, you destroy the physical body and the baby lives in the etheric plane as a “spook”

In the act of abortion, you destroy the physical body and the baby lives in the etheric plane as a “spook” with an astral and mental body. Sometimes you even destroy his etheric body and delay his evolution for a long time until his astrological sign coincides with his urge to build an etheric body. Sometimes his astral and mental bodies disintegrate as a chain reaction to the destruction of his etheric body.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Esoteric Science of Healing

Psychic energy increases as it is used to help others

Once I remember my Teacher interviewing a businessman. He asked, “All that you have done in your life was to provide a happy life for yourself. How much did you think about the happiness of others?”

 

The man looked at him with a pitiful smile and said, “Why should I worry about the happiness of others?”

 

The Teacher, putting his hand on the shoulder of the man said, “Our only happiness is conditioned by the happiness of others – may God be with you,” and he left the room.

 

Later I asked my Teacher why he did not talk longer to convince the man about what he said. The Teacher replied, “Those who use psychic energy only for their own benefit eventually become stupid. Why hammer a nail that is crooked.”

 

Psychic energy increases as it is used more and more to help others.

 

 

-Torkom Saraydarian

A commentary on Psychic Energy

When you are expressing emotions, be there

When you are expressing emotions, be there. “I love you!” “I love you...” How stupid it is to say this with insincerity. “You know, you look beautiful.” No, be sincere and say, “You are so beautiful!” Look what this will do.

When you mean it, he or she feels the contact of your energy and suddenly identifies with the beautiful expressions you have given. He says, “You are really beautiful. I really believe it.” What is happening is that the woman feels she is so beautiful. You heal her. You destroy many, many accumulated, false suggestions in her mind that she is ugly, that she is square, that she is fat, that she is lean, and so on. You clean them with one minute of concentration, when you are there in your words and expressions and you mean it.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.1