Last time we spoke about the heart. Now we will turn to another power that shapes our whole existence:
the influence of our thoughts.

For countless ages, human thinking has drifted far from truth. It has become speculative, hypothetical and restless. Because of this, the will has fallen to a sub human level, driven by desire rather than wisdom. In humanity’s original, pure, and sacred state, the activity of thought was directly connected with divine Reason itself. Thinking could reflect the eternal Logos.

But once the link with the Logos was lost, human thought turned outward, toward the experimental life. We no longer walked “in the ways of God,” but set out on our own expeditons and explorations. Human beings hastened ahead of themselves and, in doing so, lost contact with the divine order.

From that moment, our thoughts began to serve the preservation of the personality, often at the cost of others. And so conflicts, tensions, and misunderstandings arose within ourselves and between one another.

The Mirror of Thought

Modern science tells us, “Reality depends on the observer.” This is truer than we often realize.

Everything we observe is colored by our own state of consciousness. What we see in others, for example, is always a reflection of ourselves. This may seem like a limitation, but it can also be a great help on the path to freedom.

The question is:

which mirror am I using?

the outer or the inner?

When we see the soul, the divine essence, in another human being, we also see it within ourselves. When we recognize the divine presence in nature, in life, in the universe, we simultaneously discover its reflection in our own heart. Our state of consciousness shapes the world we see.

So we might ask:

How do I interact with the field around me?  How much is the ego directing every interplay?

The Restless Stream of Thoughts

Thoughts and images constantly demand our attention. They are a circle around us, holding us captive. They create attraction and repulsion and an endless play of emotions that keeps us in a state of anxiety.

Anyone who has tried to become silent knows this: the moment you seek stillness, you meet the wall of your own thoughts. Thoughts seem inexhaustible.

The brain reacts to every stimulus, moving the body into action. But where do these impulses really come from? Where is their source? Thinking is a remarkable human ability, it makes us creative, shaping words and ideas, writing, building, imagining. But in its ordinary state, thinking remains bound to the lower currents of the self.

The Birth of a New Thinking

For a new inner development, thought must also be transformed. We need a thinking that is not tied to the ego, but that opens itself to another value.

The source of this new thinking lies in the knowledge of the “inverted heart.” From the awakened spirit spark, a hidden wisdom arises, the science of the heart, called: Gnosis. 

This Wisdom, when it enters us, permeates our entire being just as ordinary knowledge does. It flows into the blood, the nervous system, the hormones, the spinal fire, and ultimately reshapes our whole consciousness.

What does this mean? It means the link between soul and spirit must be restored, and thought is one of the instruments for this restoration.

The new soul needs space to breathe so that it can awaken to consciousness. Just as the human being expresses itself in the threefold rhythm of: heart, head, and hands, feeling thinking, acting, and so must the soul also find its own threefold expression.

Where can the soul find the nourishment it needs? It receives it from Spirit, which descends into the world of time as liberating Light, the universal Christ power. This Light, flowing from the Father of all, seeks what was lost.

When the soul and Light meet, a new way of thinking arises. It is not another speculation, but direct insight. Not an angle or opinion, but an understanding. The soul does not deal in restlessness, it deals in clarity.

The Wisdom of Stillness

This is the wisdom that fills the whole being with a new capacity. It is the soul’s illumination, the living essence of all true religion. It allows the “I” to move into the background and lets the soul take the lead.

But to receive this wisdom, our life-sphere must be purified, our heart, our head, our entire system. This is a process the personality must undergo here and now. It requires what the Gnosis calls a “daily dying”, a continual letting go of the old self. This is as the Gospel of John 3:30 “He must become greater while I must become less.”

Through this transformation, Spirit can make itself known in both heart and head, for it is the new soul that can connect with the eternal Spirit.

Then thought is no longer driven by the impulses of the ego. Inspiration from the divine development-field takes over. From this new vantage point, daily life can be seen with clarity, and choices can be made from a higher understanding.

As Blavatsky writes in The Voice of the Silence:

“Help Nature, and work with her; and Nature will regard you as one of her creators, and make obeisance. She will lay bare before your gaze the treasures hidden in the very depths of her pure virgin bosom.”

Thought Following the Heart

In the end, how we experience creation depends entirely on which eye we use: the eye of the personality, or the eye of the soul.

Therefore, our thoughts must always and everywhere follow the heart. Guided by the soul’s radiance in the heart, the mind is illuminated.

As The Voice of the Silence, by H.P. Blavatsky, reminds us further:

“For mind is like a mirror;
it gathers dust while it reflects.
It needs the gentle breezes of Soul‑Wisdom to brush away the dust of our illusions.
Seek, O Beginner,
to blend thy Mind and Soul.”

When thought and soul unite, when the mind follows the opened heart, then the human being rediscovers true Reason, the wisdom of the Logos that leads him towards realisation.