(Q) Thursday morning, October 15, 1925, in Apartment ...,
New York City. "A policeman was leading a man who had his
two hands tied up across his chest. The policeman led him up
to the gallows about which a great crowd of people gathered.
Just as they were about to slip the hang noose over his head
he slipped down a long slide - the detective clinging to him.
The man, however, crawled desperately and speedily on his
stomach through the crowd which milled about, thus escaping
the detective. I could see his black nude form as he crawled
very quickly along the ground. Finally he came into a yard
of a brick house - still crawling on this stomach very fast.
He continued in this manner until he bumped his head on the
brick wall of the house. This threw him backwards and
stunned him. As he lay there on his back, an old woman came
out of the house and regarded him. She started to do
something and as she did so the man stood up and the back of
him suddenly appeared to me as a nude negro, with an animal's
tail attached. He resembled an animal or a negro animal."
(A) In this we find there is presented to the mind of the
entity the study and conversation that the entity has engaged
in, giving emblematically from the subconscious mind those
correlations of conditions which have been visioned through
the mental forces of the body, and brought in relation to the
conditions as existent in the mind (only) of the entity in
the present.
As is seen, then, in the crowd, the multitudes, seeking the
mysterious, the conditions that bring the great distress to
someone through their own doings. The sliding away
represents, then, the escape of truth in a manner, see?
though appearing in a dark form, taking on, as it were, those
conditions which become the way of destruction, the way of
fear to the body-mind. And in this escape we find there
comes then that truth that must come up again, though it be
submerged by multitudes, by groups, though it be encased in
those conditions which to the entity become obnoxious in many
ways.
The wall represents that to which it must eventually come,
for bricked wall represents that embankment, or that
condition or wall to which all truths must eventually come
for its undoing or making, see?
The assistance from the rebound, caused by striking wall,
brings then the help or aid to the truth as seen, yet when
standing up, standing erect, again assuming those conditions,
those proportions, to the body that still grow even more
grotesque than that seen in the body about to be hanged.
Taking on the animal form, then, presenting to the entity,
itself, the still more dreaded conditions.
The lesson then: Study all elements of truth that are
presented to the entity in every manner, finding their
correlations one with another. And though there may appear
those things that become troublesome, obnoxious, to the
tastes, to the mind, to all of the phases of the mind in its
high mental development, there comes in each that lesson from
which the entity may gain knowledge and understanding of
conditions existent in a phenomenized world - through MIND.
(Q) How does this apply in my practical life and to what or
whom does it definitely refer?
(A) To truths that are seen in the daily life of the entity,
that become obnoxious at times. For as the lesson is given,
though these may appear so, study same. For knowledge
becomes power when correctly applied in the minds and lives
of individuals who would gain the ascent through same.
BACKGROUND
10/15/25 Son [
900]'s letter requested dream interpretation
reading for his mother.
REPORTS
GD's note: Mrs. [
106] was present at many of the discussions
which her sons [
900] and [
137] had with EC and regarding
the readings dealing with creation, evolution, heredity,
evolution of the animal, oneness of all force, religion
and spiritual development, etc, etc.
3/26/26 See
136-35, Par. 7-A re. karma with daughter-in-law.
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