SECRETS OF LIFE
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"Once upon a time there was a village in the deep woods of Transylvania.
Some miles from this village was the vampire castle - the name the
villagers gave to it because of what went on inside at night. And here's
what went on inside at night with those vampires. You should know that I'm
talking about human beings. I'm not saying a word that is disconnected from
human beings, from people you work with and walk with.
The people in the village were attacked regularly at night while they were
asleep by vampires who slunk out of the castle and came on down and bit
them. This is symbolic of what happens to everyone in the world today,
because human beings are asleep spiritually, thinking that they're awake,
thinking they know what they're doing with their lives.
None of you know what you're doing with your life. You say you know what
you're doing, but you don't know because if you knew what you were doing,
you'd be a happy, free human being instead of an angry, frustrated, hostile
human being.
Let me interrupt the story. Which are you, a happy human being, free,
pleasant all the time? Or are you sour and hostile, always looking around
for someone to blame and attack? I want you to take the lessons, what
you're hearing into your life so that you won't be a self-divided human
being anymore. Being good is the most practical and pleasant kind of a
human you could ever be....
Why are we studying this? To get rid of the mess. You either want to get
rid of the mess or you don't. What you do with this information decides the
issue for you as a human being here on earth. Make the right choice for
your sake....
The mayor of the village brought the villagers into counsel and he said,
'This can't go on. We've got to do something about these vampires coming
down every night and attacking us. All right, I'm looking for volunteers to
do certain work. I want some of you to get the equipment together for the
trip up to the castle so we can get over the walls and get inside to put
the vampires out of business. And I want this gentleman over here to do
this. You're in charge of the torches.' There's always torches in the
village in a Dracula movie, aren't there? Then he gave assignments.
Now I'm going to tell you what people are really like. Let's see if you
think it's like you or not. I'll let you be the judge. The man who was
supposed to get the torches said, 'I can't go. I have to go out of town for
several weeks.' He gave an excuse. The man who was to get the equipment
together said, 'Oh, I think it's wiser if I stay home and protect my family
instead of going with you.' One after another, all the villagers gave an
excuse why they wouldn't be brave, climb over the walls and go get rid of
the vampires. No one would help him. No one would go with him.
You know what the mayor said? This is what you want to say. This is what
you must eventually say if you're ever going to be a sane, decent, good
human being. You must say what he said, 'I'm going anyway. If necessary,
I'll go all alone.'
Someone asked him, 'Why are you going all alone?' And he said, 'Because
it's the right thing to do.' Why don't you try living by that rule once in
awhile - or, better yet, all of the time. Do something because it's the
right thing to do....
The mayor was different. He was unique. He lived by spiritual truths, not
by a lying mind. As long as you have a lying mind you're never going to be
a content, happy human being and you're always going to be afraid. You're
going to be afraid of vampires, no matter what form they come in.
The mayor said, 'I'm going.' The others stayed home. The mayor went to his
house where his wife and two children were. They came out to the yard. He
kissed them, they waved goodbye to each other and he turned and he walked
all alone into the dark woods toward the vampire castle.
He went off. Days passed. A week passed. A month passed. Finally he came
back, battered and bruised, but alive and well. He reported that he had rid
the castle of the evil vampires. And the vampires in that particular castle
would not come to the village anymore because they were out of business.
But he also reported something else that made them all a little uneasy. He
said, while he was traveling around, he saw that there were several other
castles out there and they were also inhabited by evil creatures, vampires
and demons.
After he came back, something strange happened that no one could understand
except the mayor, this one spiritual human being among a pack of miserable
cowards. What happened was that the vampires from the other castles - they
were invisible vampires you couldn't see - came down and they attacked the
village again, all except the one man who was now immune, because he had
set forth into the inner and outer adventure and conquered them. They could
not harm him anymore. He was protected by rightness, by his own goodness.
You understand, Dracula can't stand goodness. He can only stand what he is,
which is darkness, which is evil. You had better investigate your own
resistance to light right now. You're discovering something quite
unusual. Do not let it upset you. Don't let it disturb you. Just say, 'I
want to know what it's really all about,' and one day you will. That will
be the greatest day in your life."
The Mystery of Dracula - Part 1A
Find Higher Safety & Security - MP3 CD, track 1
The Mystery of Dracula - Part I
SOLVED The Mystery of Life, Chap. 4, Part 1, p. 67 (Original version)
Chap. 4, Part 1, p. 51 (Current version)
