In the first, then, coming under the influence of those two
influences known as Pisces and Aries, we have a headstrong
individual or mind, as well as one that - when over
influenced - becomes somewhat sullen. And if the spirit is
broken, or if there is the forcing of the issues with such
an individual by those in authority or in power, it may bring
about very detrimental influences. Not that the entity is to
be left to "run wild", as it were, with its own imaginations
or own emotions, yet these are to be used as the influences
in a constructive manner. For in the Martian as well as in
the Mercurian (and both are in the influence of the mental
body) these are to be used as judgements, and as the
application in the experience of the entity, to reason with.
For naturally, of nature itself, each soul seeks for the
expression of that which is built within self as related to
CREATIVE influences either from the objective or the
egotistical; for these are as the positive and negative
forces in the experience of every soul in its activity in the
earth - objective as positive and egotistical as negative
influences. If the appeal comes to the entity (or in a
developing mind) such that what is done is for the exaltation
of self, more and more egotism and less and less initiative
is there to be seen in the activity of the soul. If what is
done is more and more of the positive nature, that the good
may arise from those influences though they may appear to be
of the personal nature, more and more are the positive forces
developed and more and more universal is the aid that the
individual or soul may give to its surroundings, and more and
more it may gather from same.
Beware of an injury to this body during the sixteenth year,
in those activities that have to do or deal with things of
the explosive nature. Coming under Mars and Neptune makes
for an influence during those periods in the middle months,
or in July of the sixteenth year, pertaining to explosives.
As we find, there have been two influences of the entity
outside of the earth to each experience in the earth. While
the entity is an old soul, much of its activity - and much
of that in what is called time in the experience of man - has
been spent outside of earth's environs. Hence many at times
call the body or entity a dreamer. Many at other times (that
know little of such an experience, or see the activities from
a different angle) see the entity as a spitfire, or one
determined to carry out those things that are being builded
in the experience. But much is to be the change in the
experience of the mental and soul forces of this entity,
known as [
621].
As to those things, then, that are innate from the
experiences in the astrological sojourns, we find:
One that is interested rather in things than in people;
though the things may deal WITH, or have to deal with, the
lives and the affairs of individuals. Those things in
chemistry, gases, motivative forces, and activities of such a
nature, or those things that have to do with the dealings
in the affairs of individuals in such a way and manner as to
control their activities, are of the greater influence to the
entity than those things pertaining to individuals or to
people as masses or groups in their emotions or as to what
causes them to have such emotions. Things pertaining to why
things are such as they are, what induces such activity or
what produces or brings about those things that deal with the
constituent elements of things, are of the greatest
influence. And since this is the nature, naturally, for the
development of the entity in the present, those things or
environs that will bring about such activities in the
experience of the entity will be for the greater development
in the mental and material affairs of this entity.
As to the appearances, then, and those things that deal with
the material activities, we find:
Before this the entity was during those periods when there
was the development in the present sojourn of the entity,
during the environs when there was the gathering together
of the forces that made for the construction of the
government in what is now America; or during the periods of
the first continental congress.
Much may be found in the records as to the activity of the
entity, in the name Connolly; and among those that made for
the establishings of the government and the relationships
dealing with people. Hence law will have its effect upon the
activities of the entity; yet, as we find, those things that
deal more with the ELEMENTALS - or with the constituents of
THINGS rather than people will bring the greater mental and
physical development for the entity.
In that experience also the entity lent itself to those
activities that brought the lightening of the burdens in
the commercial activities, particularly as to the
developments on the acreage or farm lands; and - as we will
find from those records, where the entity dwelt in what is
known as Washington - those patents pertaining to stump
pullers, portions of wagons and buggies, those things
pertaining to locomotion of things. These applied in the
experience brought much satisfaction to the entity during
that sojourn.
Before that we find the entity was during those periods when
there was the return of the people from bondage to the Holy
City again, during that period when Nehemiah got from the
king the permission to lead the soldiery.
The entity then was among those people that had joined into
the active force of those lands where the people had been in
bondage, in the name then Hezekahi; and aided the activities
of Nehemiah, being a horseman of note. Hence animals and
those things that pertain to same are of particular interest
to the entity; yet the roar of the wild beast or the fetid
breath of same brings a fear, because of some of the
experiences the entity endured during that sojourn and in
those travels - yet aiding much in the rebuilding of the
walls of the city, working himself upon the wall, and among
those who worked yet had their weapons hard by as they
labored there. Hence things that pertain to the spiritual
life or the moral life of individuals and groups have a place
in the affairs and the experience of the entity, yet those
developments through which the entity is passing at the
present time show little of an influence that will later
bring much to bear - save that which deals with the return of
the peoples to the Holy Land; for if the entity were
questioned by those in the present it would be found that
there are innate manifestations that it is the desire
INNATELY, from the experience, to see the reestablishing of
his peoples as a nation in that land of promise - a
rebuilding of the house of David, a reestablishing of those
relationships, from those activities. Hence those things
that may pertain to same in the latter portion, but that will
deal more with things pertaining to wars, will have an
influence in the experience of this entity.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known
as the Indian, during those periods when there were the
journeyings of the people from what is known as the Caucasian
into the lands that later became the classes and the castes
that made for that development which is innate in the peoples
of that land in the present.
The entity was among the plainsmen who fought with those in
the hills, and rose to the position wherein the entity - in
the name Iuden - brought much to that land of those higher
influences that deal with the establishing of places that
HONORED the sufferings of man in a manner whereunto they
might be used as blessings in the experiences of the
individuals. Hence things that pertain to the occult or the
mystic will grow to be of greater and greater interest to the
entity in its development and its activity during the present
experience; and may be used in those latter portions to bring
a great activity, and a researcher that may bring much to his
own people as well as to the earth; for the entity in the
latter portion of the present experience will be a leader
among men.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as
or called the Atlantean, during those periods when there were
the destructions or separations of the land during the period
of the first destruction.
The entity was among those who aided in the preparation of
the explosives, or those things that set in motion the fires
of the inner portions of the earth that were turned into
destructive forces (unawares to many of those, yet) - as was
experienced by those that had followed in the law of the One,
and those that followed the law of Baal, the laws of nature
are used by the spiritual laws for the completing of what are
as destined forces in the lives and experiences of those that
journey through this mundane sphere. For whom the Lord hath
called, whom the Lord Himself hath ordained for a service,
whom the Lord hath joined in his activities in the earth to
make a great people, him will He preserve; if those things
that make for the growing together of the activities in a
material world, those things that satisfy for the pleasures
of the earth's sojourn, bring harmony and not contention in
the experience of those that are called.
As to that, then, to which the entity may attain in the
present, and how:
It has been seen that much depends upon the direction in
which the entity is trained or guided and directed during
this change now in its experience in this sojourn. If
trained toward those things that deal with individuals'
activities, a drudge will be the life's sojourn. If trained
or directed towards those things that deal with the elements
that will make for an expansion in the mental and soul forces
of the experiences of the entity, harmony, contentment and
peace may come into the experiences of the entity - and thus
bringing to same in THIS sojourn those things that will make
the LIFE, the experience, WORTH while.
Ready for questions.
(Q) For what specific vocation is he best fitted?
(A) As we have indicated, in those fields that deal with
things, or the elementals; as in chemistry, or the activities
in the open, or in law, rather than in those things that deal
with individuals.
(Q) Please give advice and guidance to the parents as to how
they may best guide and direct this life?
(A) As indicated, not by might or main - but by reasoning.
Not by those things such as "You must", but that "This may be
the better." Set an object lesson ever before the entity;
not as the praise for the entity, but for the accomplishments
of the mind and body; guiding, directing, in those things
that - if the life is to be made worth while - must have a
spiritual influence motivating their activity. For "the
spirit MOVED upon the waters" that it became material. So,
as the spirit moves upon the mental forces of an individual
soul, there may come into manifestations those things that
give blessings, or that bring destructive forces. Hence
surround the activities with those things that are
CONSTRUCTIVE; not merely in the material sense but in the
mental and spiritual also.
We are through for the present.
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