In giving that from the records as we have here, we find much
that might be said concerning what has been written in many
quarters respecting heredity and environment. For these,
whether the individuals will or not, go much deeper than
ordinarily seen from reasoning in one plane, one experience,
one environ. Yet oft, as we find here, individuals again and
again are drawn together that there may be the meeting in the
experience of each that which will make them aware of wherein
they, as individuals (individual entity and soul), have erred
respecting experiences in materiality or soul life even. For
the soul lives on, and unless that which has been the
trouble, the barrier, the dissenting influence in the
experience is met in self's relationships to Creative Forces,
it must gradually make for deteriorating experiences in the
expression of such a spirit influence in matter - or
materiality.
In this entity we find it coming under the influence of those
things rather in the earth, that have made for that which in
the flesh and in the mental forces makes for those
expressions of conditions that must not only be met BY self
but in those who HAVE been and are responsible for the
entering of the soul into the experience. O that men
(or man) would become cognizant of the necessity of
preparations within themselves for being the channels for
giving a soul the opportunity for expressions in the earth,
or in matter! THIS soul, or this BODY, was not wanted; yet
as it came with those surrounding environs, those attitudes
and those wishes and those desires that made for the
entrance, we have that which must be met. As we find, if
those things are adhered to in a conscientious manner that we
have indicated, much of that may be eradicated by the time
there are those periods when the alterations or changes come
in the activative influences within the body itself [at 14
yrs. of age?, second cycle?]. If it is allowed to become a
portion of the developing manhood and the expression of same
into materiality, less and less will there be the opportunity
for the eradicating of same entirely from the system.
As to the expressions of the entity in the earth, we find:
Before this it was in those environs when there were the
activities in the land now known as Salem, and the experience
about Providence Town when there were the expressions and
activities that made for the suppression of the expressions
of individuals in meeting those experiences that came as the
expressions of spiritual manifestations in the experiences of
others.
The entity was not only among those that made for the
belittling of such but induced the material activity in the
suppression, in the expression; and not only took advantage
of those that were being oppressed but used same in such a
manner as to gratify, satisfy, the passions of the body in
associations with same. These made for the expressions that
have brought in the experience of the entity in the present
that which makes for the more often the attempt of expression
of self during that sojourn, or during that experience; and
almost a possession takes place within the body when there
are those touchings upon those things when the MIND of the
body attempts to rest, such that others creep close to the
border; making for those manifestations that bring into the
experience the uncontrollableness within its own self. Yet
much of that which may make for the corrections in same lies
within those abilities of those that are responsible for its
physical entrance in the present.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as
the Palestine land, during the periods when the Master walked
in the earth.
The entity then was among those that were the scoffers, among
those of the Sanhedrin itself; for the entity then, in the
name Samaleuen, represented the tribes of Reuben, and was of
the household of those of that particular people. For it
represented same in those experiences in the beginning of the
separation of the house, for the entity was itself Reuben!
In the experience there, we find the entity lost in many
respects; gained somewhat in the latter portions, yet allowed
self to be led away by that which seemed for the moment
necessary for the satisfying of the material expressions and
material beings in the activities of the individual.
Before that we find the entity was among the first born of
Jacob and Leah, and making for the expressions that in the
beginning brought much that was in accord with the callings
into an activity where these might have brought the blessings
upon the activities in the sojourn. Yet when the desires of
the flesh entered, and the associations with those things and
about those peoples that had been as an expression of
intolerance to those peoples, the entity made for the
associations that brought disorder, discontent within those
of its own household and those of its people in that
experience and that expression.
These made for again those activities that have brought in
the present the necessity of the awareness of the spiritual
awakening within the expression and experience of the entity.
Before that we find the entity was in the period when there
were those changes in the sons of Tubal-Cain when Lamech made
for those choices of the first beginnings of when MAN as man
partook of those things that made for the multiplicity, or
when polygamy first began among those peoples.
This brought to the entity during the experience that of
disorder, disturbance, the unfavorable expressions of many
about the entity; and bringing those experiences that have
builded for disorders in the experience.
As to the abilities of the entity, then, and that to which it
may attain and how in the present:
First, as has been indicated, as it has brought to those in
the experience, aided by those in the experiences throughout
the sojourns, turmoils and strifes into its material
experience, so - with those who have meted and who have been
with same in many - must there come the deliverance from the
association of the multiplicity of activities in the spirit
associations and in the activities about the entity in the
mental and material plane. Then may we find, if the entity
turns to the universal constructive forces that may be had by
and through those promises which have ever been made to the
children of men, there may come strength and understanding.
And in those things that make for the mechanical appliances
of any nature may the entity gain activity in the present
experience for those greater expressions of material gains,
and in the applications of the simple laws, "As ye would that
men should do to you, do ye even so to them," becoming
applicable, being applied in the experience, may make for the
greater growths in this experience.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Will he be given the power and -
(A) (Interrupting) This must be aided in being received in
those manners as has been indicated. Follow those
instructions. Make for, those about same, the constant
prayer - not of a selfishness, but, "Show Thou, O Lord, the
way to this erring soul, this wandering entity, that Thou may
in Thine mercy bring harmony in the mental, coordination in
the material with a perfect mental and physical body."
We are through for the present.
Copy to Mother
Copy to Ass'n file
BACKGROUND
See
693-1 and
693-2 for epilepsy and abnormal physical
condition.
1/19/35 See mother's questions for the Life Rdg. under
693-2 Reports, indicating that [
693] was partially paralyzed
also, unable to attend to himself properly, and unable to
speak correctly. As I remember, the mother was from a
Christian background and either a widow or divorced.
[GD's note: I rather think she was divorced because I seem
to remember complaints that [
693]'s father had not lived up
to his share of the responsibilities for [
693].]
REPORTS
4/18/35 Mother referred Mr. [
898] for a Physical Reading.
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