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PASSAGE THREE · WALKING WITH THE ELDER · Reading 5 of 5

A Scene: Thought-Forms

Αγαπητοί συνοδηπόροι — Dear fellow travelers

I came back from a morning practice flooded with ideas and images, and told him how wonderful it had felt. His tone went severe, almost implacable.

“We said, my brother, to practise. To concentrate. To empty your mind of yourself and of any cares, and to fill your Being with the Lord. We never said to daydream with advanced thoughts, as you call them, passing your time pleasantly in the hours you are supposed to be practising.”

— Elder Petros

I was thunderstruck, and then angry. I tried to explain that my thoughts had not been idle.

He laughed at my sudden temper, and went on without yielding.

“When you practise, you must empty completely. If you want to taste such pleasures, choose other hours. Never the hours of practice. Those hours are not yours. They belong to the Lord and only to Him. In those moments you ask for His mercy, not His knowledge.”

— Elder Petros

Later he explained what he called thought-forms, and how they are built. Just as you give heat to a pot of water until it boils, he said, so a vision is built and fed by the power of attention. That power, he added, is perhaps the strongest energy in the universe, which means a person builds his own future, and indirectly the future of the whole body of humanity, out of his thoughts.

He said the next part with force.

“Take care, my brother, to build roads of thought inside you full of angels.”

— Elder Petros

He reminded me of Saint Paisios: the mind is the airfield, where thoughts land and take off, and we have been given the right to choose which ones we let down on our runway.

Good journey, Fellow Traveler
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