Divine Move is perfect
Divine move is a transcendental move and the Lord is perfect and flawless. Therefore, those who walk on the path of the Lord should also act and behave in a perfect and noble way. To live a transcendental life and to draw closer to the Lord, we have to act “like Him.” Look how the Lord has acted; act likewise to witness the flourishing of your divine nature…
Perfection and flawlessness are characteristics of the Lord’s acts. Look at the creation and you will see each being is a complete system in relation to itself and to its surrounding. It is a system capable of providing for its needs…The Lord has considered all aspects; He has provided His creatures with whatever they need to lead their existence.
There are different structures in every phenomenon and each structure has a determined role and can provide for one or more necessities of that phenomenon.
Nature, plants, animals, human beings and everything one could see, offer a perfect system where there is a mode and a proper mechanism to satisfy every need. Nothing is going to happen at once without a structure and a mechanism. Everything proceeds “slowly and stage by stage” towards its growth and completion. That is the order of creation.
Religion and divine sovereignty follow the same complete and all embracing pattern of divine move – every angle will be taken into consideration. An incomplete move gives an incomplete consequence; the more a move is complete, the more its outcome will be complete and flawless. This is a general rule.
The Lord’s Religion has taken into account [various] aspects of spiritual, mental, physical, social, moral growth, and still many other aspects, of people and it has ordained rules and commandments for each. Likewise, divine government shall also observe cultural, religious, hygienic, economical and political growths – far from meaning anything like lies and deceits or egoistic games…
This is a characteristic feature of “divine move.” Therefore, neglecting or emphasizing one dimension at the expense of others is an indication of falsehood…
Alone, We Shall Reach Loneliness
One can never reach union with the Lord by oneself for all creatures have come into being in relation with one another and they exert mutual influence on each other.
Sitting in a place and repeating litanies never helped to bring out one’s divine nature. Man has to stimulate every single dimension of his being and draw himself closer to the Lord through his every cell and with both his internal and external body members along with all human beings and the resting creatures. That is true devotion and closeness [to God]. Likewise, retreating to a cave – secluding oneself – and escaping the world and its realities will not lead to achieve union with the Lord. One has to act in all dimensions, with every possibility and every opportunity. To neglect a single dimension or a single possibility will indeed impair one’s move and its result…
The Spirit of God heeds most for those who are less worried about themselves and more concerned about the Lord and divine matters. He cares about those who care less about themselves. He guides and teaches more those who try to teach and guide others. He helps out those who attach more importance to others’ salvation than their own; and He leads them to their salvation and union for their main concern is realization of divine laws and plans. The extent of His presence and involvement in our lives depends on the extent of our presence and involvement in divine affairs…
Let’s not forget that to know oneself, one has to forget oneself; and to know God is to know oneself, indeed.
Holy spirits and guided people care more about those who are more involved and work hard to spread divine commandments and presence – those who give priority to divine will and schemes than their own wants and plans.
Transcendental Life
Whatever we are and whatever exists are blessings and bounties the Lord has entrusted us. We have to return everything to Him, even the smallest and slightest thing He has given us. This is returning to the Lord.
Our whole existence and all parts of our being should be God-oriented and directed towards Him. We have to combine everything with God by loving and paying attention to Him.
Our whole life and being should be filled with divine love and presence. Every space and possibility in our lives should be at His disposal. This is binding human and divine will together. Our culture, economy, politics, religion, education, behavior, desires, relations, hearts, minds, eyes and ears, hands and feet and our every single cell should be filled with divine presence and love. This is the way to [achieve] transcendental life and to lead a transcendental move and to reach salvation and happiness.
Cellular Pattern
You have to be as a cell in the human like system of divine move. You have to form a cell capable of guiding and saving man.
A cell is a full system providing for all its needs. Yet this cell should function in coordination with other cells as well, otherwise it will be destroyed sooner or later or it will become destructive itself.
A cell has different parts and [forms an organizational unit] where every component has it specific duty. The resultant of all duties is guiding and awakening human beings and leading them back to the Lord.
Each and every true wayfarer of divine move should be the nucleus of a cell and form a guiding unit. It is not important whether this cell belongs to nervous, dermal, osseous or muscular tissues. The essential thing is that its outcome and move be for the Lord and destined to teach and awaken human beings.
Import of One’s Service
It is up to you to determine how much you want to work for the Lord and for the rescue and instruction of human beings. Now, you have to define the extent of your service, whether it would be a great and universal one or a trivial and insignificant one. Decidedly, if your act is important and great, you will also face an important and great result. And of course one has to bear in mind that without protection and guidance of the Divine Spirit, every move would be tainted, disharmonious and harmful…
Simulating the Creation
It is our duty to return to the Lord and take others back to Him, to wake up and awaken, to draw ourselves closer to God and help others to get closer too, to flourish ourselves and help others to flourish as well, to free ourselves and deliver others…But how could we do that? And how could we succeed?
[Since we are engaging ourselves in] a divine move, we have, therefore, to act like the Lord. That is to say to act perfectly and according to a perfect mechanism. We have to follow and simulate the pattern of creation. Only then, our move would be correct and in harmony with divine will.
An individual and isolated move is always condemned. Everyone should proceed in a harmonious-mutual way within a perfect structure along the divine path. This structure should necessarily keep to the pattern of creation and divine structures, otherwise [one’s] move would be contaminated with satanic and false teachings…
To return to God and to take others back to Him, we need to proceed together, in coordination with each other and within a perfect and ultimately universal structure. Each and everyone should serve the Lord by fulfilling his divine duty according to his faculties. However, one has to avoid acting in isolation and retirement. You should move on both levels, from within and from without, thus your acts will mature on a dimensionless and cosmic scale.
You have to act within a perfect system, similar to that of creation and in accordance with the growing and evolutionary process of existence. According to a fundamental law, if you act perfectly from outside, your inner move shall be perfect as well, and vice versa…
Everybody has to assume [his role in realizing] a part of “the divine scheme”. He has to take up his duty in such a trend and according to his possibilities, abilities and faculties. [He should avoid] any isolated and independent act which would put him in contradiction with others.
The essential meaning of serving the Lord is to walk in the right path and to guide others towards it. Serving the Lord is to draw oneself and others close to Him. To serve means to work for the realization of God’s will and goal which is to save and guide humanity…
You may be acquainted with various spiritual schools. Most of them have no perfect and all-embracing move to offer. On the contrary what they propose is limited and incomplete. They have taken into consideration only one of few aspects and have either denied or forgotten about other dimensions or have probably repressed them. Consequently, such moves could only bring about incomplete and limited results.
The Lord is certainly unbounded and above any failings; therefore divine move is never limited or incomplete…
Human-Like System
Man is potentially a perfect being. Therefore, a divine system and structure should resemble a human being. They have to be equipped with a mind, a heart, hands and feet, eyes and ears, memory and creativity and many other parts as well. They should also keep a growing and evolutionary trend…
Each and every one of you, according to the degree of his love and his faculties, has to be a part of this human-like guiding scheme. Some are essential and vital parts; some are important and some others small parts.
Constituent parts - or cells – of this human-like guiding scheme should be love and divine presence. Each person should assume his [responsibility] and play a key-role in connecting this global movement to the Lord. This is the right and methodical way to fulfill one’s duty…
A Great Job, a Great Result
To do a great job to get closer to the Lord and to please Him may have a different impact than doing a trivial and insignificant one. If you do something great and important for the Lord, He will also achieve, through His will, something much greater in your life. The deeper and greater the result of our act is along the divine path, the greater and stronger the impact of divine will shall be in our lives.
To perform our principal responsibility, everyone should not necessarily act in a same way, become aware in a same manner and guide with the same method. To fulfill one’s principal responsibility, it is not necessary that everyone act in a same way, get informed in a same way and guide in a same way.
Private and Public Road
Every person is endowed with a particular and exclusive gift and faculty. His main step towards the Lord would be to activate that very faculty, yet that would not be his whole move. It would be a decisive, though not sufficient, step towards union with God. Two wings are not enough to fly an airplane; but an entire assemblage of many other parts and devices are indispensable to this end. Likewise, man should take advantage of the entire flow of awareness but to concentrate on one main stream.
Barren Knowledge
All knowledge is not guidance and all science is not awakening. [As a matter of fact] it is possible to add to one’s knowledge without adding to one’s awareness or to develop science yet failing to add to one’s awakening. Not only this kind of knowledge will not help human growth and development but it will also weaken or block reception of divine presence and flowering of inherent faculties in man.
You Have to Take Action and Leave the Result to the Lord
The main point is not necessarily to awaken and guide people but to fulfill our duty toward the Lord. That is to do our best and to make every endeavor to guide others. We have to fulfill one’s duty and to observe the law of divine guidance regardless of whether we would be successful or not. The result depends on the Lord and on His will. We have to be clever in guiding people. In case we had done our best and we were still unsuccessful in guiding others – which is very unlikely and rare – at least we would have executed our main duty. Though the Lord had wished otherwise yet He will act according to His own law.
Excuse
People are used to run away from realities by justifying and convincing themselves. When they are reminded of their duty – from within or from without – they go to great length to find excuses to evade troubles of serving the Lord through guiding others. Most frequent excuses one uses to put off [what one has to do] are pretexts like, “Wait for a while and begin later;” “Let’s finish that job first, you could get on with the other in a much better and easier way;” “You don’t dispose of sufficient means;” “This is a hard thing to do, you are not enough strong to do it;” “You first take care of you own problems and then get involved with others’ troubles;” “I’m still not enough instructed, how could I instruct others?” “I’m still not [completely] awaken, how could I wake people up?” “Someone has to guide me first, and “then” I shall be able to guide others.”
Yet we can serve our Lord without uttering a single word and call people’s attention to their Creator. Don’t wait for someone to else to make you move along the divine path; but be first to step forward. If you take one step, He shall take twelve steps [toward you]. Were we to know one single word and would we teach it to others, it could act as a keyword and contribute to discover the whole truth. Even if we knew but a single word and we would teach it to others, the impact of its comprehension could contribute to discover the whole truth.
We Are Responsible
We are responsible towards everyone, Moslems or Christians, Jews or Zoroastrians, Hindus or Buddhists, either apparently religious people or pagans, and friends or foes.
We are responsible towards everyone. We have to give everyone the message of returning to the Lord and invite them to Him. It is also possible that some fulfill this divine duty using indirect methods; but in general, whatever that could, directly or indirectly, bring people back [to the Lord] is a method of accomplishing this divine duty.
Irradiating Light
The divine teacher inflames our being. He shines his divine light upon us and we get filled with it to the degree of our capacity. We have, in our turn, to repeat what the master has done to us; we have to shine upon others. It is a characteristic of the divine light that the more it irradiates the brighter it becomes. This is the very characteristic of God’s love and presence indeed.
With Each Other and not Separate from Others
On equal terms, two persons’ will are stronger than a single one; and three persons come to think more intelligently and more profoundly than one individual. Therefore, [it is wiser] to cooperate with each other in carrying on your divine assignment – which is the same for everyone, to think, to plan, to act and to flow together.
Three streams make a much stronger flow than a single stream. Do you believe that a stream can reach the sea by itself? No, but a river pours into the sea for it merges and unifies various drifts flowing together towards their destination.
If you do not begin right now and today [to undertake your divine responsibility] you will not witness the final victory.
If a person, deliberately, neglects and delays to receive and transmit the divine presence, it is much likely that he would find himself pushed into to a previous stage. The outcome of every undertaking is determined by its start. Therefore, if a task gets started in right and serious conditions, it shall ineluctably result in success.
Patron and Supporter
If you truly serve the Lord through guiding and healing His servants, the divine teacher - the Spirit of God – shall directly support and be with you and guide you from within. When you truly intend to guide others, you shall see that the Spirit of God shall give you the power to talk and choose your words and put them into your lips. You shall automatically understand things that you were unable to comprehend earlier and see things you couldn’t see before.
To this end, he shall prepare and implement us with necessary means at the right time and he shall open up ways and let us know things we need to know.
If we act according to the wills and plans of the Spirit of God, it is certain that the Lord shall see to our desires and needs. This is God’s promise. He who is entirely at God’s service and yields to the will of God’s Spirit and is whole heartedly submitted and open to divine flow shall be transformed into a channel where the divine flow runs through him. He carries the divine guidance.
Use God’s message only for drawing closer to Him…
The Salvation Elixir
From a point of view, the divine move could be summarized in developing the divine presence and spreading the love for God in one’s life and in others’ and the whole world as well. In other words, returning to the Lord and making others return.
But why the love for the Lord and the divine presence are the essence of the divine move? Because both are the source of all goodness and sublime values and thoughts and moves and they are the principal essence of divine guidance and the one and only way of returning to the Lord. To love the Lord and giving one’s attention to Him are determining factors to eliminate corruption and deviations, poverty and ignorance, diseases and sins. Indeed, ignoring divine presence and forgetting the Lord are the cause of every disease and human pain and every evil and wickedness arise from them both.
Let’s Be One
Still from another point of view, the divine move lays emphasis on uniting all ideas, trends, moves and desires in the divine presence and orienting them in the same direction as the divine guidance. That is to say let’s be one and unify and avoid dissension, separation, distance and discrepancy. Let’s live in peace and union and keep away from conflict and hypocrisy; and let’s restore this peace and union in both inner and outer worlds.
Giving and Receiving
Every move in nature consists of two reciprocal currents. This rule applies to divine move and providential guidance as well: to receive guidance and to guide others, to return and make others return, to get informed and inform others, to call on and getting called…These moves are correlated, mutual and together. In other words, according to the law of existence, if we wish to return to God we have to make others return to Him; or if we seek to be drawn to the Lord, we have to draw others to divine presence…This is the only way to draw closer to the Lord and [ to witness] the manifestation of the truth…
Selfishness Does Not Lead to God
In human history, no one has ever been guided nor reached the truth through selfishness and conceit. No one has ever reached union with God by caring about oneself or going after one’s desires.
According to God’s prophet, “He who has sought his own salvation has lost it, indeed.” This means he who clings to his life is, in fact, ruining it.
In the Same Direction
To benefit from the guidance, protection, support and assistance of the Divine Spirit when returning to the Unbounded Being, we have to act according to the divine nature. That is to [be] like Him, [to act] according to His ideas and with His methods and to move in the same direction as His missions and will. The Spirit of God is a divine nature for guiding, returning, saving and uniting humanity; he is a nature full of love and affection. Therefore, when we care for people and try to guide, teach, forgive and serve them and when we are at God’s service and set our goals and plans in accordance with divine will, then our contact with the Divine Spirit has been established and the divine self and spirit will manifest themselves within us.
If we desire that the truth manifests itself within us and we reach union with the Lord we have to submit ourselves to and serve God and His Divine Spirit with our whole existence and through every aspect of our existence – with our mind, act, feeling and will, with our time and energy, with our body, soul and spirit, with our past, future and present…
Who is My God?
One of the most important issues of our life is to know whose servant are we?
The Lord says, “Your salvation and exaltation reside in being the servant of the Lord of Heavens and Earth. This way I shall have a manifest presence for you and in your life.”
Many people are God’s servant only in their words, but they practically serve their own evil self. One’s free-will is a prominent sign of one’s servitude. In other words, our free-will determines: to whom do we surrender our being? Whose will do we follow – ours or God’s? Whom do we pay attention to – ourselves or God? Whom do we care for – ourselves or God? Whom do we serve – ourselves or God?
He who serves his own evil self and is bound by his own desires he is undoubtedly under the influence of the darkness and wickedness of the satanic self.
A servant is entirely at the service of his creator. But what should we, in fact, submit to the Lord? We should yield Him our time and energy, our will and thought, our possibilities and abilities, our destiny and life and our entire being.
Way of Service
How can we serve the Lord? By loving Him [we can serve Him].
How can we love or serve Him? We can love or serve Him through His creatures and His most loved creation which is human being.
How can we serve or love humanity? We can serve or love humanity by guiding, teaching and taking them back to the source of all goodness.
“Returning to divine presence” is the basis of serving the Lord.
Exchange of Energy
In order to bring and increase divine abilities and energy into our lives, we have to use our abilities and energy for the revelation of divine presence. The more we spend our energy and possibilities for the Lord, the more we get emptied of negative energies and the more we shall receive divine and creative energy - a living and dynamic energy.
Like a River and not a Swamp
To use our strength and possibilities, our opportunity and energy, our abilities and talents for satisfying our personal and selfish desires and needs is to waste them all. On the other hand, this [self-centered effort] would spoil and corrupt us from within and without. Spiritually speaking, abilities and faculties we enjoy have a negative direction; and for this very reason, the more we spend negative energy [for our own purposes] the more negative and destructive energy we shall receive from existence. Since our released energy and faculty return to ourselves - [if spent for selfish ends] – they are going to leave destructive and corrupt consequences. This resembles a swamp which water – even if flows – goes back to it.
When we serve our own desires, our life becomes like a swamp – lifeless, still, dark, deadly and empty of joy and freshness. However, when we serve the Lord, we become like a river; we flow and run towards the sea and shall finally become one with it. Although the river is flowing and sends its water towards the sea, yet it is continuously replenished by its source and fed by bordering currents and receives fresh, living and life-giving, and flowing water.
The Least
The least we could do is to divide our lives – time, energy, possibilities and faculties - into three parts and devote one part to divine and spiritual matters, a second part to others and the last one to ourselves.
Sense of Responsibility
In case we can truly assume a responsibility it is indispensable not to delay for this is a rare opportunity. Nonetheless, we should be cautious not to accept a responsibility that we cannot carry out, otherwise we are going to fall into a lower rank and get ourselves into a position of distrust and irresponsibility.
According to divine teachings, if we wish to reach union with God and witness the manifestation of the truth within our being we have first to assume and execute our divine responsibility.
Divine responsibility is adapted to each person’s conditions, yet it is of a similar nature in everyone. A divine responsibility consists of a series of divine duties and each duty is made of a series of obligations and each obligation includes a series of moves.
He who executes his divine duties has indeed chosen the most ideal and the best way to serve the Lord and receive guidance; for the principal divine move consists of fulfilling one’s divine duties.
But how can we find out about and assume our divine responsibility and mission?
This is in fact an enigma in everyone’s life which has to be solved. It is also called God’s scheme or cosmic plan.
In general, by performing simple and common moves a person begins gradually his divine obligations and gradually – [and rarely suddenly] - gets informed about his duties and he finally learns about his divine mission and responsibility. If we succeed in doing our obligations, we shall get informed about our divine duty and by accomplishing one duty we shall learn about the next. This procedure continues until the enigma of our divine responsibility unravels itself and we find out about our ultimate mission.
Now, this procedure could also get reversed. That is to say if we neglect or fail in our duty, we shall degrade to a lower level of obligations and with any further lack of success we shall still descend lower. In case one fails to accomplish his divine moves, the flow of divine guidance is going to be cut off and that person steps into satanic moves – into negative and destructive energy…
To receive and accomplish our inner and cosmic duties, we necessarily have to succeed first in carrying out our outer and earthly duties. Once these latter get accomplished, we automatically enter the field of our inner duties…
As we progress along the path of divine guidance, we get gradually initiated into our obligations, duties, mission and ultimately our divine responsibility through direct or indirect suggestions of the Spirit of the Lord. That is how we can reach union with God.
Like the Peerless
If we wish to become like the Peerless Lord we have to act like Him; and His acts consist of various aspects.
Let’s suppose that if the Lord were to appear in a human embodiment, how would He behave? Wouldn’t He be concerned about saving, teaching and guiding humanity? Would He only care about His own desires or would He only look after the best [human beings]?...
We Are All One
As a matter of fact, human beings are truly attached to one another and belong to a single body. When that body is suffering, what are the chances for a single cell to save itself alone? It hasn’t the slightest chance. Its salvation depends on that of the whole body, indeed.
The Term of Harmony
To serve humanity through spreading love and divine teachings is like giving the healing remedy to a suffering patient. Yet coordination and respect of directives, consideration of each individual case and a conscientious approach have a determining impact on achieving that objective. On the other hand, any wrong, isolated, and non-guided initiative without previous coordination is likely to aggravate the situation and take a turn for the worse…
If a human cell functions in isolation and absence of coordination with other cells, despite its prolific and apparently positive activity, it is considered as a cancerous and deadly cell. Similarly, any isolated attempt and self-centered initiative to teach and guide people are considered as a malfunction [of a malignant tumor].
To return and make others return towards the unbounded divine existence summarizes the lives of prophets, saints, divine teachers and exalted spirits.
Man is responsible and accountable in God’s Presence for every moment of his life and every bit of his possibilities; for his whole being belongs to the Lord. The best way to spend and use his opportunity and possibility is, therefore, to contribute to the realization of divine plans and will. This way, not only have we returned them to the Lord but we have also opted for the best and most creative reaction.
We should not deviate anything from the divine path in vain. God is the true owner of everything including our selves. Therefore, to prove your merit to God, offer and return everything, including your self, to Him. In return, the Lord shall give His eternal life and life-giving being to deserving people…
Abusing or misusing blessings we have received thanks to divine grace or [opportunities and faculties] that the flow of guidance has provided us will undoubtedly provoke God’s anger and wrath and attract us divine retribution. This is indeed an inevitable consequence [of such abusive behavior]. There have always been people who have wanted to use the divine flow to satisfy their desires and personal feelings or to reach their ends, but they have all ended with a deadly blow.
Shift in Direction
How can we serve the Lord?
The best and most appropriate way of serving and thanking God - considering our actual conditions – is to put our faculties, abilities and possibilities in His service. To walk in divine path, you need not to do many things. All you have to do first is to change the direction of your life, your acts and activities, and of the time and energy you spend. In other words your efforts should be God-oriented.
In every given circumstances, what you can do for God is what you have do for Him. Nonetheless, you have to make sure of what you can really do?
True and False Trends
Every true and spiritual trend in the world is under the guidance and control of the Spirit of God. False trends wrapped in a divine appearance do not belong to that sphere and are as misleading as fatal.
God’s elite through the whole world, whether they know it or not, are chosen by the Spirit of the Lord. However, absurd pretensions and self-centeredness are two serious threats compromising servants of the Lord.
There are also some fool and ignorant individuals who after a short acquaintance with the divine trend and a brief introduction to divine teachings lay claim on them and use them to satisfy their egoistic and ambitious purposes. Yet the divine will shall soon get them caught in their own dreadful-conceited demeanor and they shall perish.
[Let’s not forget that] the divine elite and mediums or channels of divine guidance have specific signs. Some schools have chosen personal and individual methods to reach the truth and to know oneself and God. Yet their failure in fostering a great and eminent personality is the strongest proof of the failure of their methods and clear evidence that selfishness and self-development can never bring true guidance.
Transferring Molds
Arts, sciences, sports, economical, cultural and publicity activities, various professions such as writing, translating, movie making, lecturing, and many other [social activities] are various means for diffusing love of God.
We ought to transfer and increase divine presence by any appropriate method and any possible means. We ought to diffuse love of God through our words, acts, ideas, behavior, attitudes, activities, profession, relations and contacts…
We ought to use whatever we can offer, say or teach with the intention of developing divine presence. All followers of truth are responsible for solving each other’s problems – problems which could be obstacles in one’s progression along divine path.
Consolidation
We ought to consolidate all ideas, all spiritual, divine, cultural, political, economical, religious and social trends and currents with divine movement and returning trend to God; or, to orient them towards and harmonize them with the Flow of Divine Guidance – both from within and without.
Deadly Traps
Satanic self is rooted in sleep, delusion and ignorance; therefore, it uses every means to make obstacle and resist to the trend of truth and divine guidance.
To hinder mans move along the divine path and [deviate him] from the way of guidance and truth, satanic self would uses every possible means and works on human psychological mechanism. To mention but some deceits Satan uses to entice people into falsehood, to mislead them, and to capture their attention to evil and darkness, we could enumerate the following tricks: tempting them with various games and fascinating occupations, provoking strong emotions and inclinations, provoking forgetfulness and ignorance, encouraging self-justification and false excuses, fostering pessimistic doubts and wrong comparisons and false reasoning, encouraging improper identification, stimulating new desires and fancies, stirring up jealousy, arrogance and greed, advocating wrong presumptions and expectations, encouraging likings, attachments and possessions, luring into delusion of guidance and wisdom, stirring fanaticism, causing prompt judgments and decisions, impelling to denial and refutation, encouraging delays, provoking weak emotions like cowardice, feelings of insecurity and escaping reality…
According the Lord’s command we all have the obligation to invite and attract people to divine presence and call them to Him.
Recommendation of the Divine Move
Use every opportunity and possibility, every chance, every contact and relation, every idea and word, every act and mood, every knowledge and possession, every ability and faculty to spread and consolidate love of God and divine presence in people’s heart as well as among societies and nations. Dedicate your whole life and entire being to develop the presence of the Lord. Each and every person who loves God ought to become himself the center of diffusion of divine love.