Certain Knowledge




You will surely never attain certain ‘knowledge’ if beforehand the power of belief has not illuminated your path! – – –

Behold, I too once walked upon false paths when I still did not know myself! –

I too was a slave to my delusion, before I was found by those to whom I belonged long before the time I first experienced myself as a son of this earth within a body of this earth! – – –

Truly I am permitted to bring tidings of those things which bring about certainty; for I had to  experience beforehand in myself of what  delusion is capable of! – –

Those who follow my words will find sure guidance!

Truly I came to know the way which leads to the goal; I became the ‘way’ myself before I was given the task of showing others the way! – – –

I became aware of myself in the eternal radiant light; only then did it become my duty to bring light to all those who sit in darkness! – – –

Only then was I commanded to awaken all those my words could reach from the dream of  darkness! – – – – –

 

I too had once to trust in the power of belief  before I came to certain knowledge! –

And greater trust was required of me than you will ever have to show! –

There was a day when I had to prepare to leave this life on earth for ever. Only the power of belief could allow me to face a test whose outcome could just as well have brought me the end of my earthly life, as it truly brought me – without my intuiting and even less knowing it – awakened life…

I can therefore in truth confirm that you can trust the power of belief!

Furthermore, I can say to you that you will attain certain knowledge to the extent of your trust in the exalted power of belief! – – –

 

‘Belief’ and ‘knowledge’ in this context are not in any way opposed to one another; for what I call ‘belief’ here is a prerequisite for attaining  ‘knowledge’! – – –

The power of belief first creates within you the possibility of certain knowledge! – –

As long as you harbour doubts and fail to entrust yourself to the power of belief, you have no right to ever becoming ‘one with knowledge’! –

There is a chain here whose links are  interconnected.

Trust in the power of belief is necessary; this same power of belief provides you with the trust you need if you would attain knowledge! – – –

‘Knowledge’ here is not knowing of some causal connection!

‘Knowledge’ here is a certain inner awareness which knows no more doubt and stands secured in itself! – –

For those who have attained this knowledge, the ‘proof’ required by knowledge based on earthly thought is but a stop-gap they can dispense with, since their knowledge itself is at the same time proof of what they know! – – –

Someone pressing the button of an  electrical doorbell does not first need ‘proof’ that the  doorbell can now ring; – as he also has no need to know the causal connection which makes the doorbell ring, so, he who has spiritual knowledge is aware of his knowledge without needing ‘proof’, and without bothering about the causal links required for his knowledge to enter his consciousness…

 

Those who would attain certain knowledge in the same way as he who looks sees, even though he is in no position to explain the process of seeing, must simply accept that he cannot gain his knowledge without help from on high, in the same way as he who sees must accept that he can only see if a very fragile organ in his body comes to his aid…

In both events a prerequisite must be fulfilled in order for the thing desired to become accessible. –

The slightest clouding of your eye’s ‘lens’ will rob you of, or impair, your ability to see. You are only able to see through the help given you by a tiny organ in your body. –

But if you want to see as far as the stars or recognise the smallest of objects, you will need the help of those optical instruments man has invented and learned to produce. –

All this will seem to you to be entirely as it should be; you will certainly not expect yourself to have to see without eyes, or to recognise Saturn’s rings without a telescope. – –

Indeed, you have known for a long time that even the most precise telescope is incapable of showing you the farthest stars, and that the best microscope is not sufficient to enable you to see the very smallest of objects whose existence you can deduce without them ever showing themselves to the human eye. –

Yet in spiritual matters you think you can dispense with all help! –

Your ‘God’ is good enough for you just to be on familiar terms with him, and you ask in your foolish ‘presumption’ – since you have, in this regard, lost all ‘proportion’ – that nothing be permitted to stand between you and your ‘God’…

You are like the child who would catch hold of the moon because it seems no further from him than the toy hanging on his window! – –

 

Here on earth you make enormous distinctions between your fellow men. –

In which ever way you  address the ‘great’ before whom you bow: – they are always still ‘men’ just like you, even if you feel they are superior to you in knowledge and ability, wisdom and power, or even through ancient hereditary rule. – –

How contemptuous must be your view of the kingdom of the spirit, if you do not feel intuitively that there exists also in this kingdom level upon  level, and that an almost unending hierarchy rises up, before the most exalted princes of the spirit can be reached. They – living in the innermost light of the Godhead – truly correspond to the picture  human imagination has created of the highest  ‘angels’, of the ‘cherubim’ and ‘seraphim’! – – – – –

‘Princes’ have arisen from among your own fellow men on this earth, and if you value the creativity of the human spirit more highly than all the dignity of princes, you will know of men who have been able to bring about almost superhuman achievements in, what you call on earth, ‘spiritual’ matters; – yet even the highest of those you revere while still active in the earthly apparel hardly attained the  lowest level of those living already within the essential  spirit. – – –

How then can you imagine that you who bows down to the ‘mighty’ here on earth can be so close to your ‘God’ that there could be nothing at all between you and him?!? –

Indeed, – if we were talking about the idol you created after your own likeness, – you are indeed right! –

However, if you would unite with your GOD, who always remains within being from eternity to eternity, and reveals himself within you, then you must renounce such folly! – –

You will have to recognise from within yourself that you need help in this; as soon as you have recognised this, help will be yours. – – –

Help is there for everyone as soon as one desires it! – – –

The eternal First Light itself, which you imagine you can easily recognise without an intermediate stage, has provided helpers on this planet; they can reach you as soon as you want to be reached! – –

 

I have spoken many times to you about this help in other books, using a different form of words as well as different  parables. However, here I want to speak more to you of the condition in which you must find yourself, if you would walk along the path to God…

As soon as you have embarked on the path, you will soon discover that you cannot continue along it unless you receive help from on high. – –

When you discover this, you are ready to receive help! – – –

Do not concern yourself about the provenance of this exalted help!

But be confident in yourself, through the power of belief, that you are bound to receive help!

You will then receive it in all certainty, even if you had no idea where it reaches you from!

With this help alone you will attain certain knowledge! – – –

 

Perhaps you will, in trusting first appearances, think you are merely coming face to face with your own knowledge, you will barely suspect that someone else speaks to you in your soul: – one of those living on this earth, and being at the same time conscious within the spiritual world, albeit on the lowest level of that hierarchy whose higher levels must remain unattainable to you as a man of this earth.

Only in your most exalted moments will you experience this help within you, whether you recognise it or not! – – –

But then the dark hours will return, and you will groan in your despair!…

You will feel ‘forsaken by God’ and will not know where to find refuge!…

Do not let your courage fail you at this time!

Suddenly, once again words will be ‘spoken to you’. Everything that oppressed you will gradually slip away from you! – –

Persistence will bring you to your goal; you will know that exalted powers are guiding you! – – –

 

You are prepared through the power of belief!

You will now attain certain knowledge!

It will truly be yours, if you seek it in yourself! – –

As long as you still stumble and do not know what you want, you will seek in vain for certain  knowledge! – –

You will first have to become certain in yourself, if you would be raised to the certainty of spiritual ‘knowledge’ in the spirit! – – –

If you have put, however, your trust in the power of belief, you will indeed have become certain in yourself! – –

You will discover the source of all wisdom in your innermost being! You will attain a form of ‘knowledge’ within yourself which the outside world cannot give you! – –

Only within yourself, my friend, can you gain certainty! – – –

 

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Bô Yin Râ