Such conditions are rather the result of merits, and as the
entity applies the knowledge it has - as the knowledge of two
and two making four, yet that two and two odors combined make
the reactions such as may come from the sojourn in other
influences - they may be used and applied, not abused; for
the abuse of even privilege, the abuse even of love, the
abuse of any of the virtues that are in the experience of
every soul, brings turmoil, discontent, unharmonious
influences; yet used in their relationships bring to each
soul the knowledge of the love that is shed in the earth to
the sons and daughters of men from a benevolent influence
that we may call Creative Force. Or, would that all souls
should know that God, the First Cause, the First Principle,
would have those forces manifested in the experience of all
that they may be one with Him through the love that has been
patterned for all - as in the mount, as in thine own body,
as in the body of Him that came into the experience that we
through Him might know the Father, having the Advocate with
the Father - or the knowledge, the consciousness, the
awareness that He dwells within.
As to the applications, then, of those things that may
shortly come to pass from the astrological influences in the
experience of this entity, know that with the greater
possibilities, the greater obligations assumed by those even
that use that influence with the abilities, there is more
required of those that are aware. Some, then, dare say that
ignorance is bliss; yet to stumble in the darkness is to
become as the groper and the dependent one upon another
influence. Yet the crying has ever been from the Father that
each soul should stand upon its own feet and dare to call God
its Father, its God, and claim the right to be one with Him,
and not a groveler in the dust of the earth - or a groper.
Hence in this experience may the entity come to know such an
awareness that it need not choose to re-enter the earth, if
it so desires to develop on; or if the ties become such that
there would be those wishes or desires in the inner self to
stand in stead of those that there had been created that
love within, then again may it manifest in the desires of the
experience. This is a possibility, dependent - of course -
upon what the entity, the soul, does with that ability it has
in hand.
As to the appearances, then, that influence the entity in the
present experience, in such ways and manners as to have
brought certain definite urges - not so much of the mental as
of the urge to activity in the physical reactions of the
body, these - we will find - have been many, and in many
varying experiences and activities; yet these, as we find,
are those that make for the greater urge in the present
activities of the entity:
Before this we find the entity in this present land and among
those peoples that were called natives of the land, with and
among those of the household of one of the great chiefs of
the land; yet the entity was born of those peoples that had
journeyed to the land - and when there came the starvation to
the peoples in Roanoke isle, when there were the changings,
and when the great chief of that land went in search of the
Friends that had been among the peoples. The entity then was
named Virginia, yet - in those associations - the name was
changed to Alahoi (A-O-I) (?) by the chief Powhatan. And in
those environs the entity grew to become chief among those
that aided in the application of the surrounding environs to
aid in the ills and in the activities of the peoples, rather
than the tom-toms or those influences that brought the
activity of what was called the medicine man. The entity
brought ease to many, aid to those that suffered with all
characters of disorder or disturbance, and rose to one of
power that was sought far and wide by a mighty peoples. And
when there had been the activities in and among the chiefs of
the five great nations, as they met in their pow wow within
the Octagon (?), what is now known as the bank of the Ohio,
the entity then acted as the counsel to those peoples as to
how they might better themselves, even with their
relationships to those peoples that later entered in to
become the settlers of the land.
From the experience (for it developed throughout) we find the
activities in the present as of no strange lands, no strange
places or peoples; and the ability to use those influences of
nature in their proper relationships to those activities of
individuals. Also the abilities within the entity to act in
the capacity of the counsel between those where disturbances
or disruptions may have been made in any character or nature.
These were indeed developments for the entity, and harken to
many of those that have come as mysteries of old; for to the
entity much that had been given by those peoples from the
sons of this fair land - especially where the sons of the
Atlanteans had settled and later became the Mound Builders,
when joined with the peoples that had crossed the Pacific -
is innate in the entity. Hence mysteries, rites, rotes that
pertain to strange peoples in strange places, to the entity
find their answer in the self through the associations in
that sojourn.
Before this we find the entity in that land now known as the
Arabian or Persian, during those places and peoples when
there was the dissemination of those tenets and truths that
had been gathered by a nomad people - yet that came to mean
much to many peoples in many lands, and a city and a
commercial center - in a manner - between the east and the
west - then had grown up.
The entity was among those peoples that came up from the
Egyptian land during that sojourn, and aided in establishing
for their own peoples as well as those of the eastern lands
the co-relationships where they might meet on the common
ground for the understanding of their religious cults,
educational factors - as they would be termed in the present
day, that might bring into the experience of those in the
various centers that which was being taught by that leader in
the land.
Throughout the experience the entity gained, yet causing much
turmoil; for the entity then prevented many of those
associations in what would now be called wedded life, on
account of the various characters of disorders in the bodies;
and this brought dissension, yet those activities in the land
that rose in its beauty later in the Grecian influences - not
in that day, but the later day when beauty of body was almost
worshiped - were begun by the entity in those sojourns in a
hill city near what would now be called Shushtar, Arabia - or
Persia. And there may be found in those tombs there, much
that the entity accomplished in the way of making for the
preservation of bodies and of those tenets in an unusual way
and manner. These are in tablets, and - as indicated - the
sign or symbol that should be worn may be found; because they
still carry on them much of the symbols that would be written
from the Maltese cross - as would be termed in the present,
but then called the Yahama [?].
Before this we find the entity in that land now known as the
Egyptian, during those periods when there were those coming
from the Atlantean land when there were the establishings of
the relationships with other classes that entered in; for
turmoils and strife had been rampant in the land when the
entity came, among the natives of Poseidia.
The entity assisted in the hospitals, and the aid in the care
for the young; making for a dissension with the leader in
this activity when the entity joined itself rather to those
in Ibex and later established the activity for self in
Abyssinia where the exile had been spent. Hence losing for
itself, because the entity became the priestess in that land
and brought many a rite or rote to those peoples that brought
an influence that was the mis-use of the spiritual influences
- through the rhythm of body, through the rhythm of
incantations, through the movements that were brought by
those influences; and thus retarded in that experience, in
the name Istulo.
In the present experience the entity finds self often
confused by influences from without and from within, taking
issue rather within self; and yet, as indicated from its
experiences, if there is applied more of those tenets that
were seen in the Arabian - and even in the appearance as
Alahoi (?) in the Virginian land, as now called, there may
come - in the application of self for bringing influences in
the experience of others - that which will answer to the
soul's desire to know itself to be at-one with that Spirit
that is sought by every one as the ONE force in the life, in
the experience, in the sojourns throughout the earth, or in
matter, for the expression of the Fatherhood in His beings.
Keep thine body, thine mind, thine soul, pure. Let no
question be in thine inner self as to whether there is being
accorded the BEST thou knowest in THINE own environ. He
requires nothing less, and nothing more.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Please give the significance of the copper screen and
Gulf of Mexico which comes to me during meditation.
(A) The associations of the legends and the truths preserved
through those periods of sojourn when the entity aided so
much in giving them to a peoples. Dig it up, then - near
Youngstown, Ohio, where there is the tomb of the entity!
(Q) Just what does the screen represent?
(A) The message.
(Q) Just what does the water or Gulf of Mexico represent?
(A) Over which it came!
(Q) Is there any contact that I could make with relatives on
this plane that would be worth while? to them or to me?
(A) No, we do not find the necessity - or the aid, unless
led by the inner self.
(Q) In regard to present home relations, just what should I
do to work out my problem - should I just stand still, or
bring things to a head?
(A) Just stand still, and then thine own skirts will be kept
clear - and there may be activity with thine own good
conscience. Do not act in any way as to bring condemnation
for SELF, and there will be no headaches from the activities
taken.
(Q) Is the work I am doing correct? Any advice to me in
regard to it?
(A) More and more as that known in the experience is applied
in the activities of others, there is given the broader scope
of activity. Follow in the way that is set, being willing to
learn from the humblest - even though self finds self at the
head of thine own activity. GIVE and take - for He hast
given thee!
(Q) Shall I continue to use the [etheronics?] instrument in
my work?
(A) When it is found necessary for the development of the
individual, well. When it is found that in self there may be
the greater good obtained by the own activities, use THAT.
Each soul is a unit, as each corpuscle is a world. Hence
they must be met in their OWN field, in their own way. So
with the use of instruments or with the use of the faculties
or facilities that have been developed in thine own fingers,
or in thine own touch, in thine own mind, use that as He hast
given thee - depending upon Him, rather than upon someone
else, for the directions.
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND
1/26/34 She submitted questions to GD and in doing so gave us
to understand that she was secretly married to Dr. [
490],
also a naturopath.
REPORTS
1/04/35 Letter from HLC to [
500]: "...It was very good to see
you again in New York though even for a short time. We were
called away unexpectedly by the death of [...].
"We were very interested to hear of your friend's experience
in finding the burial place mentioned in your reading. Would
you be kind enough to drop us a note including the statement
you made to us in New York? Also, we would appreciate a note
from your friend on her experience. These would make a very
complete record on this matter for our files and would be of
considerable interest to our members, used of course without
the name."
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