EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here; as a group, as
individuals; and the information which has been indicated
through this channel. In continuing with the subject, and
as we come to the application of that which has been
indicated, let that which is given here and now NOT become
confusing. For, it will require deep meditation upon such,
that ye may get the correct insight; which ye will not be
able to put into words at first, and will KNOW when ye know,
but by the experience of coordinating physical, mental and
spiritual attributes into one.
For, as given, few have conceived of - or attempted to
analyze - the effect created in a physical body through the
MENTAL impressions received, or conceded that there is an
activity spiritually that may go on in active force within
the human body.
For, so oft we see contradictory effects produced in the
activities of the individuality and personality of persons.
Also it has been and is hard for individuals to conceive of
Adam sinning in a material world, - as a man, a son, made by
the hands of God.
Neither is it easy to understand the illustrations used from
the life of Kish, who conceived through righteous desire a
son, a channel chosen for a manifestation of material power
in a material world; given through the choice of the Maker
Himself, and yet the INDIVIDUAL in his personal relationships
defied even that which had been prophesied by himself!
Few can conceive of the body through which the Prince of
Peace manifested - the Son, the first and the last Adam - as
having been a channel for material desire, when considered as
a body so purified as to bear that perfect One.
Yet, all of these facts are demonstrated in the life of each
individual.
There has long been sought, by a few, the interpretation of
the seven centers; and many have in various stages of
awareness, or development, placed the association or
connection between physical, mental and spiritual in varied
portions of the body. Some have interpreted as of the mind,
motivated by impulse; and thus called the center from which
mind acts.
This is only relatively so, as will be understood by those
who analyze those conditions presented through these
interpretations; for in fact the body, the mind and the soul
are ONE, in the material manifestation. Yet in analyzing
them, as given through the Revelation by John, they are
active in the various influences that are a part of each
living organism conceived in the forces making up that known
as man; that power able to conceive - in mind - of God, and
to demonstrate same in relationships to others; that in mind
able to conceive of manners for the destruction of its fellow
man, little realizing that it is SELF being destroyed by that
very activity!
Then, why are there such contradictions within those very
influences? As is said, in the heart love finds its way.
Love is conceived as of God, as of all pleasant, as all
giving; given in that great expression - indicating to what
power it may arise - "God so loved the world as to give His
only begotten son; that through Him we might have eternal
life."
Yet the other side, or the reverse of love, is suffering,
hate, malice, injustice. It is the reverse. Why?
What is that about man's activity in body, as an individual,
that causes such?
This has been indicated through those patterns which have
been used as illustrations of what took place in the UNION of
bodies that through desire, hope, conceived or prepared in
conception a channel through which ALL this contradiction
might be made manifest.
Is the First Cause, then, that the separation of God in the
desire for companionship with Himself, that as created or
brought into a material manifestation the reverse of love, of
hope, of patience, of all the attributes that are the spirit
of activity, the moving influence or force?
This we see manifested in a physical body through the
glandular system, - as the activity of conception, the
dividing of the activity of the gland itself, that brings
conception.
Thus, this is the first of the centers from which arises all
that is movement, to bring into being both the face and the
preface - or the back, or the reverse - in the experience.
It carries with it, what? That MIND! For, remember, ever,
the pattern is ever the same - Mind the Builder!
Conceived, then the first movement is along that center or
gland which either fades or becomes a channel along which
there may move the power and might to find expression through
the very activities of the organs of the body itself.
[Leydig?]
Then the next is the pineal, through which the brain forces
make manifest, - either in its determining factor there of
becoming mighty in stature physically or dwarfed; as may be
understood by the face, as may be said, that is held to by
the INDIVIDUAL separation and COMBINATION of the activity of
the glands in that period of conception. Hence there arises
the race condition or contour, or the figure of that beheld
by that choice in its activity as it has separated itself
from the first cause, or first premise; by the very will of
the Father-God in the beginning.
Then there is the third, that is ever of the feeding or
building nature, - or the basic cord through which during the
period of gestation there is fed the imaginations, as well as
the latent response of the body to those conditions external,
- or that center from which there is drawn the growth in the
physical.
Then there becomes the first indication of individuality
being established in that movement which has come about in
its growth, its evolvement; or the gland of the solar plexus,
or that YE misinterpret and call the adrenals - as they act
with the emotions and the growth and unfoldment of the body
itself.
There begins then the gland - the heart - through which
courses begin to flow; and then the gland - the liver - its
counterpart; and then the spleen (as a balance); the thyroid
- as the outer individual begins to show activities for
self-protection, or the first laws of nature as would be made
manifest in the material associations.
Then there are the general, or the whole of the activities
through the system, as in the thymus, [See Source File Key
#281 for article in re Thymus gland, Page 19 re
281-63] all
of the centers of activity through which spirit first moves
from the lyden [Leydigian?] - the center of the spiritual
forces; the brain, or the highest force individually or
personally; then the others in their order as they control
themselves.
Then within each of the organs themselves (though they each
are, in the main, glands) the functioning is stimulated by
the activity of each organ's ability to assimilate that
needed from the environs, as well as from that upon which it
is fed, to grow INTO that direction given BY the mental
purpose, the mental desire of the PERSONALITY - AS it, as an
individual, makes itself manifest in a material environ.
Hence we find - as has been interpreted for those who would
interpret - the seven centers, the seven churches, the seven
activities to which an individual physical activity is
prompted.
We would rest for the present.
BACKGROUND
Subject of 281-51 - "Glad Helpers."
See
281-49 and preceding series.
REPORTS
1/25/41 See
2436-1 reading on baby a few months old who was
born prematurely and later found to be completely blind. The
Physical Reading indicated a study of the child's past lives
would throw light on the karma connected with the parents,
the period of conception and attraction of the soul to the
parents, etc.
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