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HEART

1932

Agni Yoga Society, Inc.

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Second Edition Revised 1975

Fourth Printing 1982

Printed in the United States of America

Signs of Agni Yoga

After our daily labors, let us gather to discourse about the heart. It will lead us beyond the

domains of Earth toward the Subtle World, in order to bring us closer to the sphere of Fire.

HEART

1. To behold with the eyes of the heart; to listen with the ears of the heart of the roar of the world;

to peer into the future with the comprehension of the heart; to remember the cumulations of the

past through the heart; thus must one impetuously advance upon the path of ascent. Creativeness

encompasses the fiery potentiality, and is impregnated with the sacred fire of the heart. Therefore,

upon the path to the Hierarchy, upon the path of Great Service, upon the path of Communion,

synthesis is the one luminous path of the heart. How can the manifested rays be radiated if the

flame is not affirmed in the heart? It is precisely the quality of the magnet that is inherent in the

heart. The highest creativeness is imbued with this great law. Hence, each consummation, each

union, each great cosmic unification is achieved through the flame of the heart. By what means

can the foundation of the great steps be laid? Verily, only through the heart. Thus the arcs of

consciousness are fused by the flame of the heart.

Thus, we shall keep in memory the beauteous attraction of the magnet of the heart, which

links all manifestations. Verily, the silver thread that links the Teacher with the disciple is the

great magnet of the heart. The union between Teacher and disciple affirms the essence of all

evolutions.

2. Many legends tell of the fulfillment of wishes, but they do not speak of the fundamental

condition of issuelessness, which whets the desires to the point of immutability. Each tiny

deviating path already dulls the arrow of immutability. But as one who is unaccustomed to the

water can swim when in danger of being drawn to the bottom, so the solution of the fulfillment of

a wish is found when all paths are cut off. People say a miracle has happened! But often it was

only the intensification of the psychic energy. The heart, the sun of the organism, is the focus of

psychic energy. Thus, in speaking of the heart we must have in mind the law of psychic energy. It

is beautiful to sense the heart as the Sun of Suns of the universe. We must understand the Sun of

the Highest Hierarch as our Banner. Beautiful is this Banner, like an invincible power if our eyes

have assimilated its radiance, reflected in our heart.

3. Whether the heart be called the abode of the Elohim or the synthesis of syntheses, it still

remains the focal point. Even those who recognize in the heart only its lower physiological

functions, even they have an attitude of care for the heart. How much more deeply, then, must he

who knows about the magnet and silvery thread harken to the heart. Therefore the Teacher draws

one away from everything narrowly physical, in order to remind about the spiritual world through

each organ. It is a festival for Us each time a pure direction of thought is projected into the sphere

of invisible existence. One must lead into the abode of the Elohim with complete perseverance, as

though danger pursued the entering one. One can recognize the path of the chosen ones when the

Invisible World has become real and accessible to them; then one can notice the growth of

consciousness, and the very organs of the body become transformed, imbued by the link with

Hierarchy.

4. The heart is a temple, but not an abode of idols. Thus We are not against the construction of a

temple, but We object to fetishism and to bazaars. Likewise, when We speak of constructing a

temple like a heart, We do not mean that it be of heart-shaped design. We speak of its inner

significance. A temple cannot exist without realization of the infinite chain; so, too, the heart

contacts all the sensations of the Cosmos. The heart's anguish or joy interresounds with the far-off

spheres. Why, then, is anguish sensed more often than joy? Of course, the constant cosmic

perturbations agitate the heart that adheres to them. Therefore is the service of such a heart so

great upon the scales of the world. Help the structure of the world! There is neither a day nor an

hour when the world is not in danger! Two eyes alone cannot foresee these dangers, but only

three, as upon the Banner of the Lords! One must comprehend the temple of the heart as an

imminent sensation. Not without cause was the heart marked by the sign of the cross. Thus, the

sign of the cross eternally accompanied the temple of the heart.

5. New circumstances will indicate the path to the future. Truth is the same, but combinations

vary, according to consciousness. How much of the beautiful is destroyed, owing to the ignoring

of the temple—the heart! But let us irresistibly strive to a realization of heartfelt warmth, and let

us begin to feel ourselves as the bearers of the temple. Thus one can cross the threshold of the

New World. How poor in spirit are those who believe that the New World is not for them! The

bodies differ, but the spirit will not evade the New World.

6. Doubt is the destruction of quality. Doubt is the tomb of the heart. Doubt is the source of

ugliness. Doubt must be mentioned in each talk, because where can we go without quality? What

shall we understand without the heart? What shall we attain without beauty?

They will ask, Why first Infinity, then Hierarchy, and only then Heart? Why not the

reverse? But first comes the direction, then the connection, and then the means. One must not

spoil this sacred recourse by doubt. Let us regard the quality of the pulse of a man in doubt and

also at the hour of devoted striving. If doubt can alter the pulse and the emanations, how

physically deteriorating will be its action upon the nervous system! Psychic energy is simply

devoured by doubt.

After doubt, let us recall treason itself, for who is closer to doubt than the traitor? But one

can overcome that darkness only by adherence to Hierarchy, to the most inevitable, like the

radiance of the sun. Truly, it burns, but lacking it there is darkness!

7. The heart is the focal point, but of all it is least egocentric. Not egoism dwells in the heart, but

pan-humanity. Only reason enshrouds the heart with a cobweb of egocentricity. Mercy is

measured not so much by so-called good actions, the cause of which can be too varied, but by the

inmost kindliness; it kindles the light which shines in the darkness. Thus, the heart is verily an

international organ. If we accept light as the symbol of the aura, then its parent will be the heart.

How necessary it is to learn to feel one's heart not as one's own, but as the universal one. Only

through this sensation can one liberate oneself from egoism, safeguarding the individuality of

accumulations. It is difficult to contain individuality with universal containment, but not vainly is

the magnet of the heart connected with the Chalice. One can understand how the heart radiates a

special light, which is refracted in every way by the nerve substance. For the crystal of psychic

energy can be variedly tinted.

8. The purification of the heart is difficult, when the web of egoism fattens it. The fat of egoism is

a bestial heritage. The pure accumulations of individuality can explain that which reason cannot

even conceive. It is especially difficult to inculcate someone with that which has never entered

the circle of his imagination. The heart is considered the abode of imagination. How is it possible

to move when the force of imagination is lacking? But whence will it come if there be no

experimentation?

9. Heartlessness is nothing save an uncultured condition of the heart. Faint-heartedness is a

limitation of thinking. Intolerance belongs to the same family of abominations which impoverish

the sacred vessel of the heart. You know already that the subtle, intensified heart creates an

impetus like a dynamo, thus proving that it is a vessel of universal energy. But the culture of the

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