The Dawn Horse Testament

The Testament Of Secrets Of The Divine World Teacher and True Heart-Master,
Da Avabhasa (The “Bright”.)

New Standard Edition: 11/91.
©1991 Sri Love-Anandashram (Naitauba) Pty Ltd,
as a trustee for the Sri Love-Anandashram Trust.
ISBN: 0-918801-33-8 (cloth),
0-918801-03-6 (paper).
LOCCCN: 90-25415.

The Visionary Horse.
Foreword by Roy Finch.
Introduction:

“I Am You”: In Praise of the “Bright” Divine World-Teacher, Da Avabhasa, and His Dawn Horse Revelations by Saniel Bonder:
The Unique Birth and Trials of the Purusha.
The Significance of the Confession of the Divine Purusha’s Devotees.
“My Birth Is Submission To The Mandala (or Great Circle) Of The Cosmo”-The First of the Three Principal Stages of Sri Da Avabhasa’s Personal Ordeal (2/5/89, 9/15/82, KNEE).
The Vision and Significance of the Dawn Horse (4/30/74, 10/18/84).
“My Teaching Work Is Submission To Mankind”:
The Second and Third Great Stages of Sri Da Avabhasa’s Personal Ordeal and the Initiation of the Third, and Final, Phase of His Great Work.
“My Blessing Work Is To Stand In ‘Place’ and Merely Be For all”-The Ongoing, Ever “Brightening” Process of the Third Stage of Sri Da Avabhasa’s Personal Ordeal: His Divine Emergence Work and the Dawn Horse Manifestation (10/27-28/89).
The Secrets of Guru-Devotion, or Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga, in The The Dawn Horse Testament (3/22/86, 7/1/91).
“I Am You!”-The “Eternal Conversation” That Is The The Dawn Horse Testament, and the Great Secret of the Divine Horse (10/22/84).
The Mysterious Relationship between the Dawn Horse and Sri Da Avabhasa’s Horse Sacrifice (Ashvamedha) (4/4/87).
Sri Da Avabhasa (The “Bright”).

The Summary Result of Sri Da Avabhasa’s Teaching “Consideration”.
Key Differences between the First Edition and This New Standard Edition of The Dawn Horse Testament.

The Seven Stages of Life.

The Eternal Conversation.

The Dawn Horse Testament: The Testament Of Secrets Of The Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master, Da Avabhasa (The “Bright”) (text):

The Plight Of The Heart-Husband. (The Titles and The Pagination Of The Prologue, The Forty-Five Chapters, and The Epilogue Of The The Dawn Horse Testament).

Prologue: Beloved, This Is My Heart-Secret.

One:
I Am Da, The Realizer, The Revealer, and The Revelation Of The Divine Person, Who Is The Heart Itself, The Giver Of All To all.
( excerpt, updated )

Two:
I Am Born In Bliss, For The Sake Of Love, and As An Ordeal Of Heart-Submission To You, So That You Will Hear and See The Heart and Its Way.

Three:
I Prepare To Serve You By Freely Assuming, Wholly Understanding, and Perfectly Transcending the conditional states Of Existence.

Four:
Then I Prepare You For The Way Of The Heart, By Giving You My Word At Heart and Always Standing There, So That You, By Heart-Response To My Word, and By Heart-Responsive Feeling-Contemplation Of My Bodily (Human) Form, My Spiritual (and Always Blessing) Presence, and My Very (and Inherently Perfect) State, Will Realize You Too Are Only The Heart Itself.
( excerpt )

Five:
I Am The Man Of Understanding, The Teacher Of The Heart By Word and Sign, and I Am The True Heart-Master, Whose Mere and Blessing Presence Awakens The Heart To Itself.

Six:
My Heart-Word Is Irrefutable, If The Heart Itself Is Heard To Speak.

Seven:
And My Heart-Truth Is Obvious, If The Heart Itself Is Seen With Open Eyes.

Eight:
Only The Divine Person Is Self-Existing, Immortal, Eternal, Complete, Whole, Self-Radiant, Perfect Consciousness, Full Of Inherent Happiness, Unconditional Love, Infinite Bliss, and Boundless Energy.

Nine:
Therefore, The Divine Person Is The Only Heart, and The Way Is The Heart Itself.

Ten:
The Heart Itself Appears As The True Heart-Master, and The Heart Itself Stands As The All-Pervading Spirit-Presence, and The Heart Itself Is Always Already Awake As The Transcendental Self, and The Heart Itself Is The Inherent “Brightness” That Reveals The Divine Self-Domain.

Eleven:
And Even Your Own body Is (At Heart) The Form Of The Heart Itself.

Twelve:
Therefore, I Call You To Listen To Me, To Hear Me, To See Me, and To Assume The Great Principle Of The Heart.

Thirteen:
I Call You To Listen To Me, To Hear Me, To See Me, and To Receive My Spirit-Baptism. Through Conversion Of The Heart.

Fourteen:
I Call You To Listen To Me, To Hear Me, To See Me, and To Conduct My Spirit-Power In The Circle and The Heart Of the body-mind.

Fifteen:
Beloved, If You Will Do This, You Will Awaken To The “Bright” Divine Self-Domain.

Sixteen:
There Are Seven Possible Stages In That Ordeal Of The Heart.
( excerpt )

Seventeen:
The Heart Itself Must Exceed Every Stage, Until The Seventh Is Perfected As Itself.

Eighteen:
And I Am here To Help You, Even From The Beginning, and In The Perfect Moment Of The Way.

Nineteen:
Therefore, Listen To Me and Hear Me.

Twenty:
Look To Me and See Me.

Twenty-one:
Practice The Wound Of Love.
( excerpt )

Twenty-two:
And Become A Dancing Prayer Of Love.

Twenty-three:
Observe Your Separate and Separative self, Understand Your Separate and Separative self, and Freely Surrender The Ritual Of Your Separate and Separative self.

Twenty-four:
By Listening To Me, By Hearing Me, and By Seeing Me, Purify body and mind Of self-Contraction.

Twenty-five:
Therefore, When You Hear Me and See Me, Practice The Spiritual, Transcendental, and Divine Priesthood Of Whole bodily Love.

Twenty-six:
And Keep Your Feeling-attention In My Love-Bliss.

Twenty-seven:
And Invoke My Spiritual, Transcendental, and Divine Presence Constantly.

Twenty-eight:
And Practice The One and Great Sacrament That Is self-Surrendering, self-Forgetting, and self-Transcending Feeling-Contemplation Of Me.

Twenty-nine:
Beloved, I Always Reveal The Divine Person, and Only The Divine Person Is Revealed By Me.

Thirty:
Therefore, Always Submit Your Separate and Separative self To That One (By Submitting To Me) and Attend To That One (By Attending To Me).

Thirty-one:
And Cultivate My Great Company Ceremoniously.

Thirty-two:
And Be Mindful Of How You Address Me.

Thirty-three:
When You Hear Me and See Me, Give Your attention To My Bodily (Human) Form and Breathe My Spirit-Presence.

Thirty-four:
And Receive My Spirit-Presence In all Your parts.

Thirty-five:
And Become Full Of My Revelation Of The Living One.

Thirty-six:
And Let My “Brightness” Carry You Beyond Your Separate and Separative self.

Thirty-seven:
In This Swoon Of Love, Your Heart May See My Bliss-Wounded Face.

Thirty-eight:
And Your Love For Me May Become A Silent, breathless Deep.

Thirty-nine:
And You May Have Many Visions Of The Source Of “things”.

Forty:
And You May Hear A Distant soundless Sound.

Forty-one:
And You May Feel My Invisible Touch.

Forty-two:
And, all In All, You Will Forget Your Separate and Separative self In Our Secret Embrace.

Forty-three:
Then The Perfect Truth Of Who I Am Will Become Obvious.

Forty-four:
And You Will Awaken To The “Bright” Eternal Self-Domain.

Forty-five:
I Am Perfectly Certain Of All Of This.

Epilogue:
Beloved, I Am The Husband Of Man.

Notes to the Text of The DHT.
“A Unique Advantage to Mankind”: An Invitation to a Direct Relationship with Da Avabhasa by Carolyn Lee (PROOF).
The Regional Centers of the Free Daist Communion.
The Sacred Literature of Da Avabhasa (The “Bright”).
Further Notes to the Reader: An Invitation to Responsibility.
Honoring and Protecting the Sacred Word through Perpetual Copyright.
Da Avabhasa and the Sacred Treasures of Free Daism.
Index.
(820 pp.)

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Praise for
The Dawn Horse Testament

earlier editions:

New Standard Edition (second edition, revised and enlarged), 1988.
The Dawn Horse Testament of Heart-Master Da.
(Student Edition?)
ISBN: 0-918801-03-6.
LOCCCN: 87-36500.

First edition: 10/85.

The Dawn Horse Testament of Heart-Master Da Free John

The Visionary Horse.
The Ordeal of the Dawn Horse:
1. The Illuminated Birth of Heart-Master Da Free John.
2. The Early Life.
3. The Beginning of the Great Ordeal of Realization.
4. Listening.
5. The First Teachers.
7. India.
8. Love-Ananda.
9. The Independent Right to Teach.
10. The Severing of the Sahasrar.
11. The Mother Shakti.
12. The Vedanta Temple Event.
13. The Goddess and the Hero of the Heart.
14. The Link to the Great Tradition.
15. The Spontaneous Teaching Work of Heart-Master Da Free John.
16. The Formal Teaching Work Begins.
17. Garbage and the Goddess.
18. Indoor Summer.
19. “I Bless Everyone and Everything”.
20. Da, the Giver of Life.
21. Mother’s Bed.
22. Translation Island Hermitage.
23. The Turning Point.
24. The The Dawn Horse Testament.
25. The Dawn Horse Vision.
The Eternal Conversation.
The Plight of the Heart-Husband.

THE DAWN HORSE TESTAMENT OF HEART-MASTER DA FREE JOHN: (text)

Prologue: This Is My Heart-Secret.

One:
Beloved, I Am Heart-Master Da Free John, The Servant and The Realizer Of The Divine Person.

Two:
My Life Is An Ordeal Of Submission To You.

Three:
I Prepared My Self For You By Assuming, Understanding, and Transcending the conditional states Of Existence.

Four:
I Prepare You For The Way Of Submission By First Submitting To You, and Loving You, Until You Recognize Me and Make Your Life An Ordeal Of Submission To The Divine Person.

Five:
I Am The Man Of Understanding, The True Heart-Master Of My Devotees.

Six:
My Heart-Truth Is Obvious and Irrefutable.

Seven:
And Only The Heart Itself Can Recognize Me.

Eight:
Only The Divine Person Is Self-Existing, Immortal, Eternal, Complete, Whole, Self-Radiant, Perfect Consciousness, Full Of Inherent Happiness, Unconditional Love, Infinite Bliss, and Boundless Energy.

Nine:
Therefore, The Divine Person Is The Way That I Teach.

Ten:
The Divine Person Revealed By The True Heart-Master Is The All-Pervading Spirit-Presence, The Transcendental Self, and The Star-Doorway To The Divine Domain.

Eleven:
Even Your Own body Is The Form Of The Divine Person.

Twelve:
Therefore, I Call You To Assume The Great Principle Of The Heart.

Thirteen:
I Call You To Receive The Spirit-Baptism Of The Divine Person Through Conversion Of The Heart.

Fourteen:
I Call You To Conduct The Spirit-Power Of The Divine Person In The Circle and The Heart Of the body-mind.

Fifteen:
If You Do This, You Will Come To The Divine Domain.

Sixteen:
There Are Seven Stages In That Ordeal Of The Heart.

Seventeen:
The Heart Must Be Awakened At Every Stage.

Eighteen:
Therefore, I Always Stand In The Heart, and I Only Speak Of Love.

Nineteen:
Listen To Me and Hear Me.

Twenty:
Look To Me and See Me.

Twenty-one:
Practice The Wound Of Love.

Twenty-two:
Become A Dancing Prayer Of Love.

Twenty-three:
Encounter and Surrender The Ritual Of self.

Twenty-four:
Purify body and mind Of self-Contraction.

Twenty-five:
Practice The Priesthood Of whole bodily Love.

Twenty-six:
Keep Your attention In Bliss.

Twenty seven:
Invoke The Spiritual, Transcendental, and Divine Presence Constantly.

Twenty-eight: And Practice The Sacrament Of Meditation.

Twenty nine:
I Serve and Reveal The One and Great Divine Person, Who Is The Husband Of Mankind.

Thirty:
Therefore, Always Submit Your self To That One and Attend To That One.

Thirty one:
Cultivate The Great Company Ceremoniously.

Thirty-two:
Be Mindful Of How You Address The Divine Person.

Thirty-three:
Give Your attention To The Divine Person and Breathe The Spirit-Presence.

Thirty-four:
Receive The Great Person In all Your parts.

Thirty-five:
Rise Up In The Living One.

Thirty-six:
Let The Spirit-Current Carry You.

Thirty-seven:
Let The Heart Turn Up To The Wonderful Face.

Thirty-eight:
This Becomes A Silent, breathless Deep.

Thirty-nine:
And You Will Have Visions Of The Source Of things.

Forty:
And You Will Hear A Distant soundless Sound.

Forty-one:
And You Will Feel An Invisible Touch.

Forty-two:
And You Will Forget Your self In A Secret Embrace.

Forty-three:
Then The Perfect Truth Of “I AM” Will Become Obvious.

Forty-four:
And When You Love As You Are Loved, You Will Come To The Eternal Domain.

Forty-five:
I Will Certainly Love and Serve You Until Then.

Epilogue:
I Am The Heart Of Man.

Notes to the Text of The Dawn Horse Testament.
Master Da Free John, the “Great Individuals”, and Crazy Wisdom:
The Seven Stages of Life.
The “Method” of the Great Adepts.
Crazy Wisdom.
Master Da Free John and Crazy Wisdom.
“See My Likeness…”:
The Hindus.
The Buddhists.
The Glorious Option.
The Sacred Services Offered by the Johannine Daist Communion.
The Laughing Man Institute.
‘Pondering and Preparation’ (8/25/84).
The Free Communion Church.
The Renunciate Sanctuaries and Meditation Retreats of the Johannine Daist Communion.
The Hermitage Service Order.
The Free Renunciate Order.
The Vision of Mulund Association.
An Invitation.
How the Heart Lives in the World: The Written and Spoken Teaching of Master Da Free John.
Index.
(801 pp.)

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