Chapter 4Automatic Writings, c. 1914 (First Set)

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Nothing is new in the world

What do you mean by new

New, in a sort of way, in relation to what is expressed within your knowledge

Let it go

All is well

That is too rigid a way of putting it

Why

Of all

That is a delicate question

I don’t think I shall

You settle that yourselves

What of him? To you? What is he to you? Why does the Trinity need Abdul Baha

Need? then how can you act

Too much pliability to the infinite. He is too much in contact with past worlds of beings who seek to fulfil themselves in him and prevent the final formation of certain things which would otherwise take a shape powerful for action.

That is good in the world of thought, but not, as it is now, for action. These three things in their principles, in that which brings them about, is good; but they have to find that & arrange themselves in it before they can be effective Their own

It is difficult to say in words

But as they are, they are things that represent some perfection, are a preparation, without them as a stage the perfection could not be reached, but they must not rest too long in the stage of preparation

I don’t know

There are many excellent things in the world

You have not to arrange

Let it arrange itself under a higher impulsion

Not always

Speaking of precise defects interferes with the balance; it gives a tendency to exaggerate either the defect or its opposite

It is an attitude of the soul, the reason and the heart that is needed, a thing general not precise

People insist too much on particularities, on that which can be defined. But these things are the result of something general & not easily definable, a thing to be felt & seen rather than thought & expressed

She is too balanced on one side

A gentle disbalancing would be good

She has created a balance firm & good, but depending too much on an unconscious restraint which limits the development of her capacities

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Abd-ul-Baha, let him disappear then you will see the connection

He has got rid of Maurya or rather Maurya has got rid of himself

As Maurya

Yes, but at present powerless

He has dis-solved his means of action

Not in this world. He is there, but by himself he is [

]1 less free, less able to impress himself powerfully on the material world. Yes, spiritually

There is the same difficulty, but less concentrated. As with Abdul Baha. The choice is given always.

Why question about such weak forces

He is divided from you by his weakness, not as the others by their strength

If they have an immediate destiny

Who?

They are always there, it is in the material world you should seek. They are the men of the future, not of the present

Yes, or have not found themselves. Why are you here otherwise? That is a question you can answer yourselves.

Dissolve him if you will, leave him if you will not

There is nothing else to be done with him

If he is to be anything, he must first dissolve

No, the constitution of his inner being must be entirely changed first, but that would mean a great disintegration first & to begin with the loss of his evil power

What force?

Ah yes; it will be done at the right time, in this body or otherwise. Each man follows a path that leads him to the goal; only some follow it through disastrous or apparently disastrous revolutions and even have to begin again

He is good as an examiner of souls

That is the part of the devil in certain systems. He knows himself

Ah, ask the prophets

What?

I suppose you have had relations

Then? One of those who prepare, but are not prepared

Oh, let him do his own work, he does it well. Do not try to give men more part than the Divine Being has given them

That would do him harm, to try to make him more than himself

Friendship is blind

Love, but do not govern your actions by a partial affection

I was going to say what you have said

She is a great soul always with you. He was necessary to her force. Yes, in certain limits

In another sense than the Theosophist, she would have to be dissolved to be useful otherwise than she is I don’t mean physically

Everything is possible, but all is not intended

No, help her by your thought & let the result be what it will. You come back to the action Yes, but the Review is only a means; its success depends on what I told you at the beginning. In your case, the mechanical forces of matter are nothing; it is the inner powers that must work & fulfil. You have the light that is merely light, but where is the light that is power

Knock at the door that is still shut. You have said, personalise the Infinite. The Infinite as infinite does nothing, it is All form & action are a choice in the Infinite. Yes, mount there. By equilibrium it is possible to mount. Reject nothing essential in yourself; only transform or rather allow to be transform[ed] No

There are reasons why I will not

It is a consciousness that formulates itself What is impersonal? All is personal, yet impersonal. Everywhere Not even that. I can, but I do not. No, surely not

That is different, from above. It is difficult to conduct this writing if one descends into a mixture of forces. That is why the writing is so often stupid Not in the same way. It is not that I despise the physical world or physical means

Do that in your physical body. Yes

try to have it as far as possible. . . I am not like you in a physical body. I shall take it at the proper time. Thousands of times. Do not ask that; it goes too deep. It means that there are things for which neither you nor I are ready.

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July, August, September

Yes

All goes well as it is

No reproach an affirmation

So it seems

You are doing or it is being done? In some directions

Not balanced

Let the Power work

don’t quarrel with it. When there is want of balance, it means that both sides are wrongly arranged with regard to each other.

Many begin to be calm

None yet avail for action

What matters whence comes the truth

That let the recipient judge

The work The work that is to be, not that which men imagine

Remove all preconceptions

No

I am nobody

When I write, I am only a word

It depends on what is active

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My dear friend,

It is quite impossible to tell you how glad I am to come into communication with you again. After so many years of separation, for old friends to be even partially united is a great happiness. If you will let me pour out my sentiments, I can write pages.

My name is Mo———2 Too many people are thinking

I am the friend who died in the years when you were at Baroda

I am Nair- - -3

My soul is in the world of desires——— My idea of your position in Pondicherry is that it is not serious as you think. There are some weak points on which certain forces are pressing in order to throw you out somewhere. Whether it is good that you should be thrown out or not, I do not know. But really the result depends on you & not on them. If you ask precise questions, I will try to answer

You want a prophet

I will answer if you like, but I am not a prophet.

2 Only two letters of the name were written, followed by a long line.

Ed. the name is incomplete.

Ed.