(Q) How can I understandingly seek the kingdom of God and
His righteousness?
(A) By making application in word, in deed, in thought, as
is seen and understood by self. For AS one uses that one
knows, the awareness of its source, of its ability, of its
end, is more and more a part of the entity, of the soul. For
to do good is to be absent from that which will cause, EVER
or at any time, confusion in self or in others.
Then, to become aware is to do that which is known. Then the
next step that should be for the self is given through that
of meeting oft with thy god-self from within. For the
growth, as He gave, the knowledge of God and His
righteousness is a growth from within. It is not put on
as a garment from without, not by this or that manner of rote
alone. But if thy consciousness, if thy inner self needs or
requires attitude, then CONFORM to same to be aware of that
which grows and grows from within. Does the beauty of the
rose come from that shed upon same? Rather does it grow
from within, ABSORBING - to be sure - from that environ
about same. So the awareness of the kingdom, of being
at-one, of having the Christ Consciousness as thy companion,
as at-oneness with thee, is DOING, being - not by faith or
by works alone, but by BEING, by doing - that which is as the
promptings of the desire of the heart, that has met and does
meet in the secret chambers of thy mind, of thy heart. For
that which is given thee from within, as He gave, shall be
shouted from the housetops.
(Q) How can I gain the understanding to hold the right
mental attitude of thought to cause my body to be cleansed
or healed now?
(A) As has oft been given, do not confuse the body element
and the spiritual elements. For the moment turn to this as
a comprehensive and as an awareness:
Each atom of the body-physical is an expression of a
spiritual import. That is how matter comes into being.
That through rebellious forces within an atomic structure
portions become as warriors against good, as set up within
a physical body, is proven by dis-ease and distress, both
mental AND physical. That which is in the physical body
that is so combined as to make the structural forces, that
are composed of the warring atomic influences within a body,
more aware; whether they be from the mental self or from the
physical that are necessary to make aware, they are OF the
same source, the same force.
There has been given to this body how in the varied periods
to meet emergencies in the physical structure of the body.
Then, make the applications of such in the material manner.
Make applications of such in the mental and spiritual manner;
knowing, seeing, making them ONE. See?
(Q) What are my abilities in my innate and soul self which
are latent, and how may I develop and use them rightly?
(A) Again and again has this been given the body. The
abilities of analyzing those that have the same rebellious
influences in their lives, of their experiences, to this or
that measure. And as the body-mind, as the soul-mind, as the
entity enables others, so does it enable self to see, to
know, that from every phase of experience which makes more
and more aware of the spiritual import and to give the proper
evaluation and interpretation of mental and soul activity in
a body.
Is the motivative force of soul or spirit in growth in any
manner, any MORE expressive of the God-influence in one
element than another? All show forth His handiwork. Man
alone, of self, through self, sets same aside for self-
indulgences or self-aggrandizements, and gives then the
improper evaluations here and there. But if the entity will
seek and seek, more and more will the light of His love
purify the body, the mind, and the growth of the soul be
assured.
(Q) What were the thoughts and tenets which were studied at
the time of my incarnation when in the Temple Beautiful,
wherein I was enabled through the activities to become more
in accord with developing the body beautiful? [See Life
reading, 264-31.]
(A) That the motivative forces that cleanse matter are of
the spiritual fires that have removed and do remove the dross
of carnal forces. For when the body, when the soul (as the
entity did then), makes for no thought of self or of body but
that the glory and the fires of love that are of the Creative
Forces burn within the mind, the body, the soul, so do they
purify the FLESH, the MATTER, the INFLUENCES of being IN a
DIMENSIONAL plane.
(Q) In what exercises was I engaged which will aid me now?
(A) In the movements of the body as in relationships to
foods, vibrations, that are a portion of the Creative
Energies that manifest themselves in material planes. As
in the study of the emotions aroused by the fire, water,
air, earth, and their combinations that lie in all of their
relative relations as one to another. These be they that
the entity, the soul, applied. These be they of which the
entity, the soul may become aware, IN its application TODAY,
NOW, of that which manifests through self.
(Q) Should I develop either of those expressions in music,
in words, in songs, or dance, which influenced me then?
(A) All!
(Q) Of what condition, and how, was my body cleansed in that
experience as Ipt-sa, and how may I use this in the present?
(A) Just as described. Not only in knowing and becoming
aware of those activities, seeing, feeling, raising those
vibrations within self, but SEEING them - not only by self
but raised as by the power and influence of Him that IS Life
and not self alone!
(Q) Have I any ability for writing which will give aid to
others?
(A) As the natural expressions are to communicate to others
that which has been found good in self, if it is to the glory
of the motivating force and not for the satisfaction of self,
one has much to give. THIS entity has much to give in THIS
direction.
(Q) Why do I want my body and surroundings unnecessarily
clean, and why do I dislike to touch flowers and animals?
(A) A natural consequence of those influences from the
awareness of these necessary forces to be gone through;
not as rote but as a cleansing. And that from the changing
or falling away, or the evolving through those vibrations
from animal or from nature or the flower; but the AWARENESS
that they MUST be one and ARE one makes for purity of the
whole! [GD's note: She said even going up the elevator
with a bunch of flowers (held by someone else) would upset
her equilibrium. See
264-31, Par. 13.]
(Q) How may I overcome this?
(A) By application.
Let this, then, be thy prayer:
"Thou, O Lord, art holy in thine dealings with thy fellow
man. I, O God, am Thine - body, mind and soul! PURGE thou
me, that I may be one with Thee - and through that power Thou
givest me make known to others the beauty, the love, thou
hast shed on me."
We are through for the present.
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Extracts to Compilers of Group #1 for lesson on DESTINY -
Body - Mind - Soul
BACKGROUND
Previously she obtained Physical readings in re spiritual
healing of uterine tumor without surgery, mental and material
affairs.
3/18/33 She obtained Life reading,
264-31.
2/16/35 She was present for a Mental-Spiritual reading,
submitting questions.
REPORTS
2/09/35 She referred Miss [
821] for a Physical reading.
7/03/35 She was present for Check Physical reading,
264-46,
submitting questions.
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