“Suffering is an earthly condition favoring the igniting of fires necessary for the highest achievements of man; a learning method that brings knowledge and experience. The causes of suffering are often earthly illusions and desires, and when man realizes this suffering has a purifying and liberating property. Of course, this does not include self-torture or self-abasement, which are clearly anti-evolutionary and useless.
Suffering refines the heart and enlightens it with the great quality of empathy. Only the long-suffering heart is able to understand someone else’s grief and suffering. Each instance of suffering creates a special substance that deposits fiery crystals in the heart. Those who have accumulated and increased this treasure have truly undergone much suffering in their lives. This, in turn, has given rise to that great quality of spirit known as compassion.
One who demonstrates compassion uplifts the condition of the sufferer, surrounding them with light, hope, cheerfulness, and joy. Thus, compassion is the acceptance and transmutation of the tribulation of one’s neighbor through the fires of the heart, thereby completely excluding the possibility of infecting the helper with the darkened condition of the person in need of help.
The highest form of suffering is the Sacrifice made by the spirit for the salvation of the world. The Great Sacrifice requires great suffering, too. The history of humanity has recorded the Sacrifices of the Great Spirits who have given their hearts to the service of the world.”
The Book Of Secret Wisdom, The Prophetic Record of Human Destiny and Evolution, Translated from the Senzar by Zinovia Dushkova, Ph.D., p. 192-193.
