Evening Routine
Prefatory
In the evening, before retiring.
Evening Retrospect
Steps
- Review the scenes of the day in reverse order.
Examine the events of:- the evening
- the afternoon
- the forenoon
- the morning
- Picture to yourself — as faithfully as possible — each scene and all that took place in each pictured scene.
- Review your moral attitude in relation to each scene:
- How do you judge your actions?
- Did you do it right; could you have done it better?
- Conveyed your words the meaning you intended or did your words give a false impression?
- In relating experiences to others, did you overstate or understate them?
- Regarding the wrongs you have done.
- Take full responsibility
- Think:I couldn’t do otherwise back then, but now I can do it better and I will do it better in future.
- Regarding the good you have done
- Approve — impersonally — of the good you have done.
- Determine to do still better.
Four thoughts
I am
At the same time,
- Experience,Out of the Spirit-World my self flows down to me.
- Place your awareness on the center between the eyebrows.
- Direct toward it the words:
I am
Four thoughts
It thinks
At the same time,
- Experience,The Spirit-World ensouls the silent World.
- Place your awareness on the larynx.
- Direct toward it the words:
It thinks
Four thoughts
She feels
At the same time,
- Experience,The Spirit-World creates its own wisdom.
- Place your awareness on the heart, arms and hands.
- Direct toward it the words:
She feels
Four thoughts
He wills
At the same time,
- ExperienceIn me the Spirit-World comes to the realization of itself.
- Place your awareness on the aura.
(The aura can be taught of as enclosing the body in an oval sheath.) - Direct toward this region the words:
He wills
Keep your inner quiet after the actual meditation
Keep your inner quiet after the actual meditation
- Remain absolutely quiet for a while – Only accept the fact of your existence
- Eliminate all other thoughts about your own existence
- Feel bodiless and as if empty
Enter the Spiritual World
At night, as you enter sleep, say,
“Now I am entering the spiritual world.”