References compiled from the
The Call
Illumination
They will ask thee how to traverse life.
Answer: Like crossing an abyss upon
a taut string
Beautifully, carefully, and fleetly.
The Call, Epilogue
4. My Friends! Happiness lies in serving the salvation
of Humanity.
Put aside all prejudices and, summoning your spiritual
forces, aid mankind.
Direct the unsightly towards the path of beauty.
As the tree renews its leaves, so shall humanity flourish
on the path of righteousness.
45. The miracle of Beauty in the adornment of our
daily lives will exalt mankind.
Raise high your light.
Illumine the beauties of My Temple.
Teach the Joy of Beauty.
Teach the Happiness of Wisdom.
Teach the Bliss of Love.
Teach the Glory of Unity with God.
I will grant you the power and fleetness of Mercury.
193. The character of the people will be illumined
by the beauty of spirit.
Weep not where tears are useless; arrows are needed
to transfix the dark spirit.
199. I bring a talisman to all:
Whosoever proclaims Beauty shall be saved.
202. Sacrifices have been made upon M.’s Mountain.
It is difficult to pray when the mind is filled with
worldly thoughts.
Your will must guard the place of prayer.
It is better to truly know people than to be charmed by
their masks.
If human hearts were filled with beauty, no sacrifices
would be needed.
But many are the unillumined ones.
Therefore, it is a thorny way that leads to each truth.
229. Yes, yes, yes, each word of unity is as the seed of
some fair flower.
To cultivate a garden of beauty is permitted to all.
But where are the gardeners who can judge which
seed is best?
260. But observe Our Instructions.
Fulfill Our Message.
Know to carry the Light.
And understand how to manifest the grandeur of Beauty.
271. At the gates of the New World the crowds gather.
Yet they perceive not the portals.
But easy are the steps of the spirit.
By a single wish can worldly things be seen
as they are.
Blessed are you who aspire to Beauty.
272. To learn all the outpourings of nature’s manifestations
and to realize them as Beauty, means to accord
wings to mankind.
288. You lay a new foundation for the
manifestation of Beauty.
With you do We pronounce the beginning of a new
Teaching.
Flood tide and ebb tide succeed each other, but the
ninth wave rises highest.
I want to show to you the great battle of this,
Our day.
333. Remember, Art is the one vital medium of the coming
culture.
Through Beauty will you approach.
Understand and remember.
I have entrusted you to pronounce Beauty.
I bid you pronounce Beauty.
If you desire the gates to be opened to you, use
My Sign.
I said Beauty, in combat and victory.
I said Beauty, and failure was covered by Beauty.
Mountains blossomed with Beauty.
And you must give entrance to the flowers of Beauty.
Let the children approach.
Bow before Him Who brought the Beauty of the
great Universe.
Understand, there are no possessions—nor decisions,
nor pride, nor repentance.
There is one thing alone—Beauty.
And to you I say:
Guard, expound, and affirm this Beauty.
Therein lies your way.
With Beauty shall I meet those who will come to Me.
And they are already on their way.
344. New ones will manifest themselves in action.
They will reveal the shield of Beauty,
And, full of love, will open the doors to those who
knock.
And a Bridge of Beauty will lead you on your new path.
354. Kindle with love the light of beauty,
And with action manifest to the world
the salvation of the spirit.
356. Teach My Path.
Help people to develop an understanding of man’s nature.
They will understand the nature of Service.
They will understand the joy of the Beautiful.
360. Brothers, in all thy beginnings, remember the time of
silence.
Then are you approached by the Messenger of
the Teaching.
And thus, understanding prayer and podvig,
Glorified by beauty, strongly embracing power as
sacrifice,
You will reach the Temple.
I:V:3. Ponder each day how to fulfill My Work. Teach the inheritors—teach them beauty. Affirm their eye. Wherefore years, when one may accomplish in weeks?>
II:IV:4. Fearlessness is Our leader. Beauty is Our ray of understanding. Simplicity is Our key to the secret doors of happiness.
II:IV:5. Simplicity, beauty, and fearlessness—Christ and Buddha spoke of nothing more. And it is a blessing if the spirit vibrates to these covenants.
II:VI:17. A beautiful striving brings one to the Highest Light.
II:VII:14. One must know that amidst spirituality the realization of beauty lives but rarely. A sound understanding of beauty is the rarest quality, and will be valued by the Lords above many things.
III:II:2. They will ask: “What kind of heaven is yours?” Answer: “The heaven of toil and struggle.” Out of toil is born invincibility; out of struggle, beauty.
III:II:4. As I send you each shield, so must you make use of each moment. Not for a reward and not because of fear do you go forward, but because of a realization of the Cosmic beauty.
III:III:11. I strongly urge you to emphasize the beauty of the firmament and to link it with thoughts about the future.
III:IV:1. Prayer is the realization of eternity. In prayer there is beauty, love, daring, courage, self-sacrifice, steadfastness, aspiration.
III:V:13. People are attracted by beauty and by luminous knowledge. Only that Teaching which contains all hope, which makes life beautiful, which manifests action, can promote true evolution.
III:V:18. An unmistakable sign of Our Call is when you are borne irresistibly, as if on wings. Thus accept Our Community of Knowledge and Beauty. And be assured that, although one can search every mountain gorge, an uninvited visitor will not find the way.
III:V:20. You ask why so many tests are necessary. In the Community everything is attained by experience; therefore, it is right to regard testings as growth. Tests lie as thresholds to the gates of Beauty.
Do away with sighing and tearful faces when speaking about tests.
III:VI:12. Success lies in expanded consciousness; it is impossible to approach it in fear. The ray of courage will lead above obstacles; because, as the world now knows, the seed of blood grows, the seed of knowledge grows, the seed of beauty grows!
III:VI:19. Each thought about the Common Good is persecuted unmercifully, whereas only growth of the individual spirit can fill the treasury of the General Welfare. This conformity of the individual spirit with the world Common Weal also constitutes the Beauty of the Cosmos.
Additional References to Beauty
The Call:
Paragraphs: 6, 43 , 51, 145, 74, 181, 252, 253, 294, 318, 334, 337, 350, 353, 357, 374, 393, 424, 435, 452.
Illumination:
Pages: 8, 13, 14, 16, 53, 88, 93, 119, 123, 132, 137, 139, 142, 153, 158, 173, 193, 249.