Chapter Six:
Meeting with Alexey
A few more years passed.
Rada was now learning a lot from Radomir. She studied to feel the Will of God in the soul and to manifest It. She studied — the soul’s work in mastering the new. She studied — to see and to feel by herself-soul the space at a great distance. She studied — how to help people in the same way that non-incarnate Divine Souls do without bodies.
Rada asked her grandfather and, with his permission, went to heal the ill in the remote villages. Blagoslav sometimes allowed his granddaughter to do it. Although he was afraid for her, he understood that, without practice, she would not be able to be sure of her new knowledge and skills.
The young healer surprised people by coming, uncalled by anyone, to the house where trouble was. And where she lived or where she came from — no one knew.
One day in late autumn, Blagoslav and Rada collected rare healing plants. They went far away from the place where the community lived. And they spent the night in the forest near the campfire.
Rada before falling asleep had sunk into a transparent silence and calm. But… in this silence, there clearly and strongly sounded a call for help from a strong and clean soul.
“Grandpa, do you hear? Someone has gotten in trouble! Maybe it is one of ours?”
“I hear… But it does not come from one of ours! So, sleep!”
“Grandpa, please, let me go to see what has happened there!”
“No! That village is too close to our community, we should not be there!
“The fear of death should not be in the soul of a worthy person: death exists only for bodies!
“We should not risk our lives without sense!”
“Well, grandpa! How can we not help?”
“Be silent now! God does not send difficulties and challenges to people just so that we can find solutions for them…
“Sleep!”
… But Rada could not fall asleep. That call to God for help was so easily perceived and bright! And that soul was so bright and pure!
Rada began to look at the situation carefully with clairvoyance. She saw a sick boy and a young man who tried to heal the child and asked for the help of God in that healing.
And Rada had an understanding that she should go and help, because God blesses this.
She called Radomir and asked for advice.
“It’s up to you, my daughter! No one has the right to decide instead of you here. But very much in your further life depends on this choice of your will.”
He said this, hugged and kissed her gently, then left.
Rada had to make this choice by herself.
She hesitated a little more… She checked: was what guided her choice here neither her personal desire to help everyone, nor the fear of disobeying her grandfather, nor the fear of compromising the secluded life of the community members — but only God’s Will? She felt that God allows her to help that soul.
And she decided!
She rose quietly, so as to not wake Blagoslav.
She whispered: “Forgive me, grandpa, if I misunderstood God, if something bad happens to me!”.
… She walked for a long time — quickly and easily, as if flying on wings. The stars shone in the sky, the moon was bright and illuminated the inconspicuous animal paths — as if the way before her spread out by itself.
And the call for help was steady, strong, and unselfish. Like a fire burning in space, not fading even for a minute. It was very easy to see the direction to go.
In the morning, when the sun had already risen brightly, Rada reached the desired village and found that house.
A teenage girl opened the door. She was not afraid of the stranger, as if she was waiting for a Divine miracle, which was about to be accomplished.
Rada saw a sick boy in the bed, and a man praying on his knees in a monk’s vestment.
“Is this a mistake caused by my self-will?…”
She swept aside, like a gray shadow, the wave of fear that tried to come: “If the death of the body must be taken, then it is necessary to calmly and dignifiedly undergo it, as my father had once done!”.
She looked again by the soul at that man.
There was no feeling of danger coming from him.
The Light of God in his spiritual heart burned brightly! He tried to direct the Light through his hands. But he did not quite understand how to do it. He tried to heal the boy, but it did not work out for him…
A tearful woman, standing on her knees before the icons, stood up towards Rada. There was no strength or hope in her, there was only confusion in her thoughts, depression, and a feeling of her own guilt in everything…
She was barely able to stand on her feet and was unaware of what was happening.
Rada bowed to all with an earthly bow. She said that she would cure the boy.
None of those present were surprised either at the arrival of Rada, or about how she learned about the illness of the child.
Rada felt clearly the Presence of the Divine Power in herself. Calm was in the soul from the understanding that she has the right now to pour out this Divine Power, and it is necessary for both this monk, and this girl, and this unfortunate woman — to be the eyewitness…
Rada put her hands on the boy and asked the Divine Light to spill, washing away all the dark clots of painful energies from the child’s body, restoring purity and bringing the body back to health.
… When she left, she looked again at the monk. He slept on the bench in the stoop…
A calm and happy face… The soul was dissolved in the Divine Light, Which filled all the space around. He had dissolved himself in the Light — as if it was his habit.
Rada had not seen for a long time such beauty and purity of soul!…
And his face was calm and beautiful! Soft light strands of slightly curly hair… A happy smile touched the lips of the sleeper…
… Rada went back, but she kept remembering this person. A monk, a priest — but with such purity and strength of the soul!… “I never thought before that it was possible!”
She went to Blagoslav, made her excuses, and told about everything.
Grandfather listened silently in discontent, and frowned.
But Rada still decided to ask:
“Let me talk with this man!”
“No! Forget it! Enough of your disobedience! Trouble can come from what you have already done!…”
… Rada obeyed.
She did not try to meet with him…
She was just happy that there is such a soul on the Earth — so bright and loving! And this knowledge now illuminated her life.
Rada had fallen in love.
Love dissolved in the soul unstoppably: like the spring waters, like the life-giving force of the awakening of nature!
Joy and tenderness now flooded everything around, pouring out from the soul by transparent radiant streams! It was — unstoppable! It was — the disclosure of the mysterious depths, in which this tenderness is kept until the spring comes to the soul in its time — and the flower of love dissolves!
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