Mr Reitsma asks: ‘How do I get to know myself?

There you have the question, which keeps occupying us.

Paul Brunton, who is close to you, has written a new book about this, entitled: ‘The Secret Path’, in which he reveals a practical method, especially suitable for the Western human being, in order to get to know himself.

He calls this process ‘transfiguration’.

Paul Brunton wishes to achieve this by:

a) self-analysis

b) a daily ten minute concentration

c) a breathing technique and body yoga, as fakirs, magicians and yogis practise this

The dedicated pupil must bring his thoughts and feelings under control, which, according to Paul Brunton, can be achieved in a few years by means of a strong will and the daily ten minute concentration.

Then, according to him, intuition comes forward, which prepares the way for the pupil to his Divine ‘ego’.

Now my question is: Can this be achieved in one life in your opinion?’

Jozef says: ‘You will read in the books how you get to know yourself, and then you will already have begun with it!!

What are all the things you already know about your life?

Masses!

There are no secrets for the cosmos, the masters can now analyse the life and as a result of this you will get to know yourself!

What do you want to achieve with all those methods, Mr Reitsma, with that concentrating ten minutes a day?

Nothing, if your concentration does not always continue, your life is not tuned into the books.

You have it much and a thousand times easier than all those yogis and fakirs, because we continually possess the contact and they do not.

They must now try this under their own power and will not come further than they possess in own feeling and consciousness!

You will read this once more in the books ‘Spiritual Gifts.’

Self-analysis?

Do good and then you will continue and love, what you can love and the Spheres of Light will be open to your life.

And what do you hope to achieve by means of a breathing system?

Spiritual expansion perhaps?

Spiritual awakening, a higher love?

Come on, don’t make me laugh, that is all very well for the East, not for our life, because we know, that we must make it by means of hard work and serving and not by anything else.

You have twenty books there, you can now read them from me.

But you can read two thousand of them, and then you will still not be conscious, because you must master it.

If you say: ‘I still doubt myself, and I am willing, but it is still not working.’

My dear child, all those people are really fighting a battle here.

But you do not believe that either and I do not believe it either.

Because there are plenty there, and enough and sufficient, they are thinking, but they still do nothing for it.

They read, madam, and they think it is all wonderful and stand talking and also already know a lot; and they kick left and right from themselves.

Left and right, they kick away from themselves.

Yes.

And he says: ‘Yes, they are those little devils in me.’

If you know that those things are there, they are the snide remarks we make to each other, why we hack those things ...

But that does not go suddenly.

To conquer a small characteristic, madam, is a fight for life and death.

But once you have mastered that ...

Do you understand it, madam?

They are all busy groaning here.

Who is not groaning here?

If you begin with this battle, you are busy groaning, you pull yourself inside out.

How do I get to know myself?

How does the human being learn to bow.

Bowing is everything.

What are the first foundations for Socrates?

How do I get to know myself?

Sir, what is the first foundation for that?

Yes, Mr Götte.

(Gentleman in the hall): ‘To know what your origin is and what you live for.’

No, no no no, you do not need to read any books at all.

It is not working: where the origin lives and what you are and what you are like; I have just told you it already: first bowing to everything, to suffering, to sorrow.

And then I met people during the war who had more and a thousand times more than you here, and everyone.

I do not know how you must act soon.

But we have already got and seen it from many people, who did not collapse, and stood before the firing squad and were shot down.

And people read books here, they master something, and bow to nothing, sir.

They do not think, they think completely off the mark.

They just go around it.

Oh sir, they talk there in society, and then they have: ‘Oh sir, just go away.

Your wife is dead?

Oh sir, just carry on.’

His wife is alive, isn’t she?

‘Yes, your wife is alive, sir, will I tell you something?

Do you want to read books?’

After four months they have to prove it themselves, sir, and they collapse.

Boasting, sir, there in the office.

Sir, if you come to the other side and you stand there and you want to convince people and you have not yet proved it yourself; sir, that sphere will not even be there.

You do not even have another side, madam and sir, and no hold and no bottom under your feet, because you had to first prove that here, and you have to prove that there, and everywhere, by bowing.

Bowing.

And how did you think now that I learned to think when master Alcar began with me?

Just to overawe the human being: I know everything, I have been on the other side, I write books, they paint, and I may disembody, and I fly through space?

Oh madam, I must first still be able to experience a perfectly ordinary dose of scarlet fever, a lovely dose of pneumonia, in order to prove that I can bow to a delicious slap right in my face, now in the lungs.

The human being asks what he will be like in the Divine All and forgets what he will be like here in the truth.

If you begin about cosmology, we are now talking about the cosmology in the Diligentia, about the universe, about the universe ...

Madam, every thought is universally deep, master Zelanus says and the masters say, and that is the truth.

Prove first what you can do.

We can boast and shout and make a fuss.

The human being wants to imitate me by possessing gifts.

I wished you could do it, and that you could really do it; then you would get everything free from me, if you do it just like that.

But in one week you will be completely finished, out of society, then Rosenburg will expect you.

And we all know Rosenburg here in The Hague, that is a mental institution, a psychiatric institution.

But the human being wants this, and the human being does that, and the human being does this, and the human being wants everything; yes, from another person!

But when he comes to stand before that coffin, that dying of a characteristic ...

Ladies and gentlemen, is it true or not, if you can understand each other and you can bow your head with each other, and you really watch out so that you do not experience any disturbances, then you will have a heaven as a paradise.

And then you certainly do not need to be rich, then it will really not matter whether you have money.

But then a walk in nature is worth more than a theatre, than a big dinner, and a cinema, and a car, madam, because standing on your own two feet in Mother Nature and the unity, the seat, and the conversation, and the laughter, and the feeling of that fine soul next to you because you understand each other ...

If you can really do that, madam, and you go into that human being, you descend into that human being, you really talk to a deity, a living God and you renounce that Herman, that Nico, or that Pietje, and Klaasje, and Kees - and whatever all those people are called - and we are not concerned with ourselves, but we still see each other as life, then you will experience paradise.