Mercury makes for a high mental efficiency; and with the
influence combined with same from the entity's sojourn in
Venus and Jupiter makes or brings oft the impelling mental
experience in the earth wherein the entity finds itself at
times living, experiencing (as in relation to the earth's
environs), in its imaginations, in its outer self, as if it
were floating away upon the clouds of dreams, upon the
barques of the sea of experience in its own visioning. And,
tempered through its experience upon these two influences by
Jupiter, finds itself in such visions, dreams, imaginations,
as may be termed from a purely material standpoint, dealing
with the activities not only in the imaginative world but
the material activity of individuals and those things that
in such individuals' and groups' experience have brought
about their own activity - or that have prompted them for
their own activity. Then, innately, in the present
experience these make for the ability of the entity from the
material standpoint to become, as it were, a recorder of
events, of happenings; a natural historian, natural in the
adapting of self for keeping the records of events, of meets,
of meetings, of the various characters of things that pertain
to the social activities, as to the political influences, as
to those things that are BEHIND the scenes, as it were, that
rule the State, that rule those emotions in the lives of
individuals that prompt them in making their decisions in
this or that activity in their experience and in their
relationships with individuals. Many are those things and
experiences of the entity that have made for the developments
that crowd in for their expression.
Through these sojourns in the astrological environments about
the earth there has been the tendency for the ego or self to
become not wholly as the one in the van in the expressions of
same, but rather has that ego PROMPTED through the
experiences in Mercury tempered same with judgement, and
tempered same with that true experience in Venus where love
in its essence and in its finer self vaunts not itself, does
not become puffed up, behaveth itself seemly, is bearing all
things, is enduring in all things - and yet without the hope
of self-expression in some manner through such expressions
of associations become easily discouraged and cast down.
For though there be those influences that give the power
in expression and in manifestations, unless these be tempered
with not only mercy WITH judgement but with that which is of
spiritual IMPORT in bringing justice for and to others, as
well as for the glorifying of that power that IS impelling
without the thought of self, it becomes as sounding brass,
as the bell that has been broken, as the lute whose note has
been twisted, as the wind that has lost its vestige of odor
that bore its force or import to those to whom it would bring
relief in any clime.
Hence, in those influences through Neptune with Arcturus, the
entity has swung far from the earth's influence and at times
- with these visions of the inner self, or the dreams - as
they may be termed - lost, as it were, the import of the
material activity or the material upon the activities of a
soul; yea, of a body, in its expressions in materiality.
Hence at times do those about the entity call the entity the
dreamer, the visioner of dreams, the one lost to those things
save of the superlative degree in their expressions; and as
to the manners or means of showing the beauties that are
found in self becomes questioned by others as to its choice.
Yet in itself, as from the Mercurian influence, the entity
oft finds judgements in the material bringing for self
TEMPERAMENTAL associations in the material plane. Hence
there may be numbered among the entity's associates, yea even
the entity's friends, those that are wholly spiritual-minded;
those that are turned to the cause and effect in the material
things, those of the scientific turn of mind, and yet those
that are worldly for worldly sake that there may be the
satisfying of the longings of the flesh for the fleshpots of
the gratifyings of material desires. Yet all gain, as does
the entity from such associations oft, that which makes for
the turning in their own selves for the looking-glass of
self-expression. For as the entity oft in its visions passes
from realm to realm of its visioning, so do those that
contact the entity find in the expressions or the moods of
the entity that which enables them - in meeting their own
problems, in seeking in their inner quests for those fields
of expression, of activity - to bring to life that which to
them becomes as the next stepping-stone in their experience.
So may we find from these experiences and from these
sojourns the entity using the earthly words, endowed with
that which may break men's bodies, which may aid men to mount
to their higher selves, which may make for the arousing in
the individual and in the group the seeking to use self in
service; yea for those that find in those very expressions
that which may take away from them that little footing that
had been as their hope among men.
As to the manifestations that have been the mental or the
inner experiences of the entity or soul, there has been
brought into the material experiences those things that deal
with the changes - and during those periods of changes, as in
the present - in the affairs of men of high degree, of
peoples in a wandering state, as to nations in turmoil,
seeking - seeking - ever for that light that may shine into
the darkness of their despairs and bring to them that wonder
of the hope of a light upon the hills that may guide them
through the slough of despair, that may bring them again to
the mount of hope, into those fields of light that may bring
the renewal of hope, of faith, in their experience.
Then, as to the former appearances in the earth, we find:
Before this the entity was in the land of the present
nativity, during those periods when there were the gatherings
of peoples from many lands by the changes wrought in the
different languages of that land known as the New Amsterdam,
or New York; or the changes that came.
Then the entity was in the variation of sex, in that of Jean
Du Maurierten - that made the expeditions into that new land
as one upon the point, as it may be termed from the material
things, of becoming the mutineer, or the seeker for the
destroying of those things that brought the burdens upon
others. And yet when coming in contact with those that were
in the faith of a new land, a new purpose, a new ideal, the
entity - through the material love for that one who altered
much of the experience - joined with those that brought
harmony and peace and joy not only for those people in the
new land but combined the efforts of the various groups to
join hands as a unit in their own defense, and for the
persecuting of those things that brought not only the
material gains but the sureness in their purposes and the
activities in that sojourn.
Later the entity's name was changed to George Maurier,
and there may be found among the old records of that
New Amsterdam or the Philadelphia land the older records
of how the joinings of those people of the simple faith,
of the simpler things in the material, influenced the greater
numbers during that sojourn.
In the present from that sojourn there is the love of the
eastern land; and the ways that pertain to mystery stories,
to the activities of individuals, become as a portion of the
entity's activity in the present.
From those influences also we find the love of
companionships, for that which will make a background or a
basis for the activities of those whom the entity may cause
to speak in their own individual sphere of activity.
Before that (among those that influence the entity the
greater in the present) we find the entity was in the earth
during that sojourn when the Master walked in the land, in
the periods when there were the persecutions of those that
were the followers of Him who walked in Galilee.
The entity then was in the associations with those of Herod's
household, that one who questioned so oft as to the one who
made the persecutions of the forerunner of that Teacher.
Through those experiences the entity suffered in the mental
associations. For had not there been in the experience of
the entity, in the formative years, the message of the Wise
Men that had come seeking? And they came to that very court
in which the entity then heard those things that aroused
within self that longing to know more of the mysteries, that
made for the arousing and the awakening in the hearts and
minds of men and women everywhere that longing for the
raising of those forces or powers that would loose them
from the bondage - not only of material things but of that
wonderment, of doubt, that so oft beset the minds of those
who have been called for a purpose, for an ideal. Though
the surroundings of the body were such that its position did
not allow the defying of custom, nor yet the judgements of
people, the entity wondered and wondered - seeking with those
ever that might gather together those things that passed from
the lips of those that had been close with that man that
preached first, "Seek the Lord while He may be found! Make
thy paths straight! Turn ye while ye may, for the acceptable
year of the Lord is at hand!" And to the entity these words
RING as something that takes hold upon the inner self. Yea,
with those periods of persecution of those that had become
the teachers and the ministers to those that were in material
bondage - and were still in doubt as to those teachings of
that Man, the entity then - in the name Dumuru - was among
those people that listened and harkened; and, being rather
in a position of power, became the friend of her that
suffered as the wife of Pilate - and of those that suffered
in the household of Herodias, also those that were enjoined
with Magdalene in the periods beyond Berea and among those
that aided when Lazarus spoke as from the dead.
THESE things bear upon the entity in its present experience,
rather as the harp strings that may be played to record those
memories upon those hills and in those cities of that land.
If the entity will turn the more often to these, there may
come in all of its activities - as a writer, as an edifier
of those that are in doubt and in fear - the ability to bring
comfort to the heart and to the mind of such.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known
as the Persian, during those periods when there were the
gatherings of those that came from the Grecian land.
The entity was among those then that came for aid and help
to the city in the hills and the plains, coming as one weak
in body from the exigencies of the activities during those
periods when there were the gratifyings rather of the desires
of the flesh and of the body. Being aroused and awakened
again to the beauties that might he had from the beautiful
body, and from the beauties in nature, the entity then joined
with those in that particular activity of making what have
become the records of the bodies - in the sculpturing art.
And this holds in the present, as it were, a peculiar
fascination for the entity; and especially the early Grecian,
Roman, Persian, and dealing with things that make for the
household activities at such periods. The entity's name was
Xergene.
In the present we find from that sojourn the entity may, as
it were, waft itself from the real to the imaginary - and
bring again to self, through those inner soundings upon the
chords of life, those things that would help in setting its
own RHYTHM to its associations and activities with those
whom it may contact.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as
the Egyptian, during the periods when there were those coming
from the Atlantean land and bringing the records.
The entity then, in the name Exia, was the wife of one of
the rulers of Atlantis - Axel. When there were the joinings
of the activities of the priest Ra-Ta and the priests of
the One, also those from the Assyrian lands, the entity's
name was changed to Apt-She-Pute; the "e" making for the
position the entity occupied among those that classified
the various tenets, the teachings that pertained to the
histories and records of the activities of the people of
the various lands; bringing development to self during the
whole sojourn in that Egyptian land.
So, as to the abilities of the entity in the present and
that to which it may attain and how:
As indicated, as a keeper of records, as a writer of script,
as a writer of those things that may be acted or depicted
upon the stage or cinema, or upon the minds of those that
labor here or there, draw upon the inner self to prepare
such; and through same find not only the material gain but
the outlets of the inner self to such expressions that the
manifestations of what have been the motivating forces in
the experience of the entity throughout its sojourn in the
earth may become as a portion of that which will influence
men here, there, everywhere, to make for themselves that
which will bring to THEIR own portion of the divine an
expression worth while.
Ready for questions.
(Q) How shall I do the writings I wish and not interfere
with household duties?
(A) BUDGET thy time! Then, when thou enterest in, ATTUNE
thyself rather with the harp cords of thine own inner self
to the periods of intuitional influence that will make thee
in accord with that thou hast gained in Judea. And it will
flow as from the fountain of life.
(Q) Should I continue helping in the spiritual lives of
others?
(A) As indicated, as ye give out what has been the
motivating influence in thine own experience, ye may make
in the experience of others that which will make each soul
find the pearl of great price.
(Q) What should be my REAL life work?
(A) Writing!
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