Mantras, Mastery, and the Five Purifications

GA 266I — 28 December 1905, Berlin

Esoteric Lesson

Today he wanted to tell us two things about mantras and about the most important rules that the exalted master Morya gave to his disciples.

There are nine qualities that are characteristic of masters:

1. Truth
2. Wisdom
3. Immeasurability
4. Kindness
5. Infinity
6. Beauty
7. Peace
8. Blessing
9. Unity.

He demands five things from us:

1. Purification of the mind
2. Purification of love
3. Emptiness of memory
4. Clarity of understanding
5. Extinguishing or inflaming the will.

The mind must be purified. Love must lose all that is unchaste and become divine. In order to become objective, the memory should not hold on to anything that could give rise to prejudice. The mind should be clear, and the will, where it is selfish, should be extinguished, but where it serves as an instrument of the Masters, it should be inflamed.

Mantras generate vibrations of the word that correspond to the vibrations of thought in the Akasha matter.

About the Christmas saying “Gloriam in excelsis deo et pax hominibus bonae voluntatis”: it has a mantric effect in Latin. Then he said an Indian mantra with similar content, with which he also concluded.

The festivals are fixed points established by the masters. New Year's Day too. That is why elevation is important.