The document discusses the concept of the "mastermind" or "Sahib-e Dil" from the perspective of Sufism. It describes the mastermind as having three aspects - the saintly temperament, the master temperament, and the prophet temperament. The saintly temperament is passive and resigned to God's will, while the master temperament is active, persistent, and uses willpower. The prophet balances these qualities and has a greater role in awakening humanity. True illumination involves synthesizing the qualities of the master and saint to become a prophet. It also discusses passages from the Bible about being "born again" through water and spirit, referring to dying to the ego and being reborn as spirit.

1. In the mastermind of a saint: 20 Seconds of Joy.

2. “In Christianity, God is understood to have a will and
personality.”

3. John 3:
“There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a
ruler of the Jews:
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him,
Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God:
for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except
God be with him.
Jesus answered and said unto him,
“Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born
again, he can not see the kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when
he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's
womb, and be born?
Jesus answered,

4. “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of
water and of the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom
of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is
born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the
sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and
whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these
things be?
Jesus answered and said unto him,
“Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

5. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know,
and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our
witness.
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how
shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came
down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in
heaven.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the
world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

6. “The world through him might be saved.”
Clueless christians.

7. From Mastery through accomplishment by Hazrat Inayat
Khan:
“There are three aspects of the mastermind or Sahib-e Dil
as he is called in Persian. These three aspects are connected
with three different temperaments. One is the saintly
temperament, another is that of the master, and the third
is the temperament of the prophet.
When a person has attained mastery, it may be called an
inner initiation. From that time he is consciously used to
fulfill a certain purpose. Every soul is here on earth in
order to fulfill a certain purpose in the scheme of life; but
when one has reached mastery, from that moment one is
chosen by Providence to be used as a tool, an instrument,
to accomplish a certain purpose. Humanity, every single
human being, is a kind of raw material which destiny uses.

8. The mastermind, however, is a finished instrument which
destiny handles to accomplish its purpose.
The saintly temperament is the negative temperament,
resigned, perfectly resigned, to the will of God. The saint
has learned patience, confidence, endurance, tolerance. He
has carried the cross, he is crucified a thousand times in his
life. He knows what love means. He has taken a path of
devotion; he leads a life of service; he has effaced himself;
he has crushed his personality. He has dissolved the rock
out of which he was made into water. His way is not the
way of the hammer but of the water.
The other aspect is the aspect of the master. Resistance
against all that increases his weakness, that appeals to his
weakness, the tendency of continual perseverance, courage

9. and boldness, firmness and steadiness, all such qualities
manifest in the master.
That is the difference between saint and master.
One is active, the other passive; one is resigned, the other
persistent.
But at the same time both are going forward. Only their
ways are different; one is the positive way, the other the
negative way; one is the way of power, the other of
gentleness.
In the master’s path the will is used mostly in regard to
outer things; in the saintly path the will is used to control
one’s own self; in other words it is used for the time being
against one’s own self. The saint is resigned to Kaza, and
the master has regard for Kadr. But in order to know the
will of God it is wise first to take one’s own will in hand

10. and use it in the knowledge that it is given for some great
purpose in life.
And the third aspect is the aspect of the prophet in whom
these two qualities are balanced. On one hand the prophet
is power, on the other hand gentleness itself. On the one
hand the prophet is courage, on the other he is the
personification of divine sympathy. On the one hand the
prophet is enthusiastic in his desire to change the condition
of humanity, on the other hand the prophet has retired
from all things of life. All these opposite qualities are
balanced in the spirit of the prophet.
The work of the prophet is a greater work than that of the
master or saint.
They can remain behind the scenes, but the prophet is
before the world to awaken humanity, to raise mankind to

11. a higher consciousness, to inspire it, and to voice the truth
so that it may have its echo on the earth, in the sky,
everywhere.
Do not be surprised, therefore, when you hear that the
words of Buddha or Muhammad are still being cherished
after so many years, or that the personality of Christ still
has power after two thousand years.”
The funny thing is that illumination is the synthesis of the
two;
- the master;
- the saint;
who becomes the “Prophet”.

12. All the initiatic rituals are about dying, 'BEING REBORN' ...
but the reborn 'IS NOT OF THE EGO' but 'OF THE SPIRIT'.
John 3:
“Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of
water and of the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom
of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is
born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”
You cannot ESCAPE the suffering that this exercise represents;
life.
Experience SO WELL DESCRIBED 'in the story of suffering'
of christ ... jesus who died and is reborn Christ.

13. Christ which precisely means that; death. The Egyptians used
it 'FOR COFFIN & BURY'.

14. See you soon.