Chapter 29Darkness and Light

Every day things seem to become worse. In truth we feel more and more disgusted with the old rotting world, and are more and more convinced of the necessity of founding, somewhere out of the well-trodden tracks, a new centre of life in which a new and truer light can be manifested, a new world no more based on selfish competitions and egoistic strife but on general and eager endeavours to promote the welfare, knowledge and progress of all — a society based on spiritual aspiration instead of lust for money and material power.

* What I see is the world of tomorrow, but the world of yesterday is still alive and will still live for some time. Let the old arrangements go on so long as they are alive.

Upon earth, the changes are slow to come. Do not worry — and keep hope for the future.

* Let us wait and see. The result is sure — but the way and the time are uncertain.

* In spite of the night the spiritual Light is there.

* Light must illumine the consciousness and the shadows of Ignorance must be dissolved in all.

30 December 1936

* Open your heart and the Light will enter and dwell within it.

12 January 1948

* Life is a journey in the darkness of the night. Wake up to the inner light.

14 April 1954

* All veils must be dissolved and the light must shine fully in the hearts of all.

24 June 1954

* Every obstacle must disappear, in every part of the being, the darkness of the ignorance must be replaced by the Divine’s knowledge.

12 October 1954

* The light is everywhere, the force is everywhere. And the world is so small.

* A new light is dawning on the world. Wake up and unite to receive and welcome it.

* Some men in their blindness, when they seek knowledge, forsake the Light where they are — only to enter into what is for them a new darkness.

12 October 1964

* In their blindness men leave the Light and go to the darkness to obtain knowledge!