When a sufficient volume of positive qualities appears in your inner world, you begin to acquire a predisposition to imply primarily positive motives in the basis of the deeds of anyone of your neighbours, when you come into contact with his hitherto unfamiliar inner world.
2. If you have not acquired a sufficient amount of positive qualities, then, depending on how much more negative qualities predominate in your inner world, so much more, when you come into contact with hitherto unfamiliar qualities of the inner world of any of your neighbours, you will be interested in implying primarily negative motives in the basis of seemingly familiar deeds of your neighbour.
3. If you are overwhelmed with fear, you will inevitably imply probable danger in everything unknown and slightly known around you.
4. If you are filled with happiness, then you will notice something funny and amusing in all of the same images that frighten the fearful man.
5. I verily tell you: the colours of the surrounding reality in your consciousness correspond to what you are filled with.
6. That is why, to a great extent, you do not see what actually takes place in the reality, but you see what is visible through the layer of colouring, which you interestedly impose on this reality by yourself.
7. Man, whose characteristic feature is forever connected with the display of the bright qualities of the sensual world, will never be able to perceive the whole current reality “soberly”, coldly and reasonably.
8. And this is not a shortcoming, but a peculiar uniqueness through which, by the Will of the Great God, His children will beneficially modify the material World of the Universe.
9. But the predominance of positive qualities in the sensual world is a vitally important necessity.
10. For even if man has always been in the Bosom of Harmony, the prevalence of negative qualities in his sensual world inevitably turns his life into a kind of hell,
11. Where he often painfully experiences what does not actually exist in reality, but what persistently creates a painful interest in the abnormal manifestation of his egoism.
12. And no matter if experiences of this kind are appropriate or inappropriate, they always have a negative impact on the sensual environment of man, actively undermining his life.
13. When actually someone who is more filled with positive qualities in the sensual world may also seemingly groundlessly experience positive emotions about things that may not actually exist in reality,
14. Nevertheless, regardless of the appropriateness of such experiences, they are always beneficial and conducive to the proper formation and flourishing of the sensual world.
15. Man has always perceived and will always perceive everything in full dependence on his own sensual interest,
16. Which can manifest itself either as egoistic or spiritual.
17. The eyes of man are called to become truths of the Great God, the Father of the human race, with the help of which man must truly discern the whole ongoing reality.
18. Man himself, having forever acquired unusually bright – for the entire World of the Universe – sensual features, will always remain conditionally blind.
19. For his reasoning and the whole process of comprehension will always depend on the qualities of the sensual world.
20. Which has been manifested so far primarily in dependence on the egoistic qualities with an ever increasing over time manifestation of the spiritual ones.
21. For the Heavenly Father’s wise guardianship over all your life manifestations helps you to increasingly acquire true spiritual values.
22. But in the case with the characteristic unique features of man his conditional blindness can be either life-threatening or life-affirming.
23. Getting acquainted with each other in life, you inevitably face one significant circumstance, indicating a certain peculiar blindness of each of you.
24. A man, who is more filled with negative environment in his inner world, naturally, becomes more tempted by the wiles of the darkness and has a greater ability to recognise the appearance of danger, because inwardly he is constantly expecting it.
25. When meeting and getting acquainted with someone who in turn is overfilled with positive environment, the former man naturally evaluates the latter as abnormal, supposedly poorly adapted to life.
26. For he can be easily deceived, since he is little able to pay attention to a probable danger, for he does not expect it. From which he seems to lose and suffer a lot.
27. This second man is evaluated as blind, unable to see the probable dangers lurking.
28. While the second one evaluates the first in a similar way, but with a certain difference.
29. The first man is also assessed as blind, unable to see the good and bright phenomena which surround him in abundance, and he – in the midst of all this – walks around unhappy and aggressively wary.
30. From which it is obvious that he loses and suffers a lot. But these losses are of a different kind and the sufferings – of a different quality.
31. At the same time, each of the evaluators is equally sincere in his assessment.
32. But only one of them has the greatest positive value.
33. Once, during the time of the First Accomplishment, I left a hint that only those who are pure in heart will see God.
34. He who is overfilled with negative sensual environment, is more inclined to recognise everything that comes from the darkness, for he is constantly looking for it, looking closely at everything in order to discover it in time.
35. Which is why he eventually begins to fear even his own shadow.
36. He who is overfilled with positive sensual environment, naturally, is more predisposed to recognise what comes from the Light, for he is constantly looking for it everywhere.
37. Where every sincere and tireless seeker will always find what he is looking for.
38. Therefore, the quality of your life destiny is determined by what you are actually looking for.
39. In the inanimate representatives of the mobile mind of the Universe, interest is manifested only on a reasonably-egoistic basis.
40. Where the ego-sensual peculiarities are reduced to states of insignificant vitally important manifestations which are easily controlled by the mind.
41. Such an interest is not displayed all the time and entirely depends on the reasonable, most unbiased reflection on the ongoing reality
42. And only manifests itself when some rational necessity has been reasonably determined beforehand.
43. And as your sensual world will always have extraordinarily vivid features, then, depending on the qualities of the sensual world, you will constantly manifest a certain interest beyond any connection with rational necessity.
44. And the very process of rational understanding will always proceed in direct dependence on the influence of a certain sensual colouring.
45. Which is why you are always predisposed, first of all, to follow not the purely reasonable assessment of what you have come into contact with, but the nature of the interest you have shown in relation to it.
46. Due to the fact that the great abundance of main life tests and tasks manifests itself mainly through cognition of your vitally important mystery of relationships with each other, all the abundance of bright manifestations of interests falls exactly in the field of such relations among you. And you need to remember some simple guidelines.
47. The spiritual interest in perceiving anyone of your neighbours is manifested mainly in the desire to see more positive qualities in him, which brings to you additional joy for the neighbour and gives new beneficial shades to your aspiration to comprehend life in a worthy way.
48. And it also manifests itself in the desire to get to know him better, in order to better determine for yourself whether you can be of any use for the benefit of the one to whom you already try to be a friend on your first acquaintance.
49. Moreover, if any of your neighbours, out of weakness, brings you negative information about this new person you know, then this information should be perceived with distrust.
50. And if, nevertheless, regarding this information, a need arises for an open confidential conversation with the person about whom the negative news has come, that should be with the single goal of further understanding the probable difficulty and the possibility to provide feasible help.
51. But the negative information in the conditions of spiritually interested perception of one’s neighbour cannot in any way negatively affect the first initially naturally manifested positive perception.
52. The wisdom of a spiritually flourishing man in this case always helps you to correctly understand the true value, above all, of your neighbour at this very moment, and not of the man he once was.
53. For the man of today is never the one he has been yesterday.
54. Therefore, after making a worthy assessment of what your neighbour is seeking today, you will participate supportively in his life destiny in accordance with the Truth of the Great God.
55. And if any of your neighbours brings you additionally something positive about your acquaintance, such news is always perceived without a shadow of a doubt and with joy for the one, about whom a kind word is spoken.
56. A man who has a spiritually interested perception, when learning that his neighbour shows a much greater skill in what he himself would also like to master, always finds joy not only for this neighbour, but also for the emerging opportunity of holding on to a real example for some time, learning it worthily and enriching himself with additional wisdom from this knowledge,
57. In this case, certainly, irrespective of the fact that he himself sometimes has many grey hairs, and the source of the wonderful example is as old as his children.
58. Under an egoistic interest in the perception of any of your neighbours, in the first place, it should be understood either the perception of the personality of the neighbour as someone, probably capable of satisfying profitably your egoistic desires,
59. From which you even hurry for some time to attribute to him those qualities that precisely you are able to present as merits, after which you strive to establish with him false friendly relations;
60. Or in the perception of the neighbour you rush, first of all, to determine for yourself more negative qualities, which you are supposedly able to find in the essence of your neighbour,
61. At that, not suspecting that, depending on definite psychological regularities, you inevitably attribute to him precisely your own vices and predisposition to them.
62. Such an interested outlook for probable negative qualities pursues not only the egoistic need to identify a supposedly necessarily existing dangerous rival, but also the need for reassurance about your own weaknesses and shortcomings through the supposedly revealed by you shortcomings of an even greater amount in your neighbour.
63. At the same time, there will not be made even the slightest efforts for veracious clarification of the trueness of the presence of such shortcomings, which is eloquently revealed by the circumstance, where the conclusion satisfying your egoistic demands is quite more significant than the truth.
64. And this is the root of man’s especially dangerous predisposition to condemn the Truth!
65. And when someone in such circumstances brings news about the positive qualities of a neighbour, it is always received with distrust, while negative information is accepted readily and without a shadow of a doubt.
66. Learning about neighbour’s capabilities that show his ability to manifest exemplary skills in any respect in which one wishes to show oneself in a similar way, those who have an egoistic interested perception will not be able to rejoice for the skillful neighbour.
67. Having failed to cope with the envy burning inside, they, on the same unchangeable base of a particularly interested desire to find more shortcomings in the neighbour, will often apply not only efforts designed to slow down or somehow complicate the exemplary manifestation, while finding supposedly reasonable justification for such a need, but also conscious efforts to somehow bring painful experiences to their neighbour, who is much more advanced in a certain way.
68. As long as in the essence of man prevails the egoistic beginning, having its roots of natural-animal character, man, like an animal, will always perceive the surrounding world of his habitat as a kind of aggressive environment, where the more cunning and powerful one can kill him or take away from him what he would like to use alone.
69. In such psychological atmosphere, formed and maintained by the efforts of man himself, the natural feature in man’s psyche, known to you as the law of self-affirmation, will be inevitably particularly displayed,
70. Which plays a significant role in the life of the entire animal world and which now reigns over almost every representative of the human society throughout Mother-Earth.
71. The presence of such an interested desire to self-affirmation, manifesting itself with a varying strength in everyone, necessarily presupposes perceiving especially the representatives of one’s own species as probable rivals, who can pretend on all values which one would like to use only on his own.
72. For which reason during the long history of human society’s existence, with the great multitude of your neighbours that make it up, each of you lives in this multitude as if in a desert.
73. For you try to notice and befriend only those who you consider favourably advantageous for you;
74. You try to be only with those from whom you, above all, expect gifts for yourself.
75. And the stronger this expectation of yours, concerning your neighbours, is being displayed, the less is the number of those around you, who would really want to be close to you.
76. Truly I tell you: only when your inner interest manifests itself, first of all, in the search for those to whom you could be useful in some way, will you ultimately find the true great Family of worthy children of the Great God.