In the astrological aspects we find the entity coming under
the adverse influences of Jupiter, yet WITH those influences
in Uranus, Saturn, Venus, that are innate within the entity -
and which planets are in a conjunction in the coming year and
years. These should in the next ten years make for the
greater advancement for the entity, in the material
positions, the trust by others that will be placed in the
entity, material power that is not only given by position but
by worldly means. Yet these must necessarily, with such
opportunities, carry with same that same period of test. And
unless they are motivative by the spirit of truth, the spirit
of service, the desire to show forth the glories of the Lord
rather than of self, the glories of help, aid, understanding,
brotherly love, good fellowship, faith and hope in the minds
and hearts of individuals, they must come as to naught in the
latter portion of the experience in this sojourn. But if
these opportunities, that begin within the present year, are
used in that way and manner as to make for the greater
developments in the minds and hearts of others, then may the
entity find that peace, harmony, love, understanding in the
earth as the Lord hath given, "He that loveth me and keepeth
my commandments may ask in my name, believing, and it will be
done unto him." For, "As ye do it unto the least of my
little ones, ye do it unto me. Enter thou into the joys of
thy Lord; for as thou hast been faithful over the few things
thou shalt be made lord over many." And greater and greater
may be the opportunities of the entity in this experience to
do good unto his fellow man; not only in high places, not
only in material conditions and experiences but in all walks,
in all ways of man's experience in the earth. For these have
made as these innate in the experiences of the entity, that
must become manifested in one way or another. And the entity
stands at the threshold, as it were, of those admonitions
that were given long ago: "This day, now, there is set
before thee good and evil, life and death. Choose thou."
Think not as to who will ascend into heaven to bring him
down, who will bring a message down that ye may hear or know,
or who shall go to the ends of the earth that ye may have the
greater understanding, or who shall descend to the depths to
bring up a message; for lo, it is in thine own heart! THERE
thy God, in thy temple, has promised to meet thee.
Then, study to show thyself approved unto the God within.
For thy body is the temple of the living God. Then show
forth in thy works among men that ye will honor thy God in
thy dealings with thy fellow man. Let this thy watchword be
in thy going in and thy coming out among thy fellow man:
"Lord, guide, guard and direct. Let the meditations of my
heart be in accord with that Thou would have me be, that I
may show forth in my dealings with my fellow man the fact
that THOU hast walked and talked with me."
Then, these are the attributes that we find made in this
entity's experience:
One of high mental abilities, with opportunities for good AND
evil before others.
One that will find many changes here and there in the social
life, in the political life, in the economic life, in those
phases of associations bringing the varied opportunities as
for the relationships with the fellow man.
One naturally endowed with the abilities for the evaluations
of activities in the experiences of others, yet being
naturally an exponent without the application - other than in
the material things of life - of taking advantage of the
psychological moment in the affairs of self and of others.
Yet one necessarily that must oft make quick decisions, quick
choice. And both the good and the bad will be presented, as
it were, at once.
One whose natural interest will be in those things pertaining
to the influencing of states and nations, groups and masses,
classes and those of the estate that are ever dependent upon
a leader. The entity may become a national or international
leader, if the choice is set in those directions and if the
service of self is kept as guided by the spirit of brotherly
love.
As to the appearances in the earth, then, and those that
influence the entity in the present:
Before this we find the entity was among those of the
Virginia land that pushed forward to the settlings of the
lands, and seeking for those things that were begun to being
counted as the mediums of exchange between groups and classes
and masses, and those things that would bring - though gained
under hardships - the command over others, the command for
the life of luxury or ease.
Or seeking for gold did the entity push towards the western
lands, and the hills and mountains in the land of the
entity's present nativity became a place of dwelling, a place
of activity. And there the entity found much of those things
that satisfied, that gratified the self, for the immediate
activities. Not so well did the entity use these in the
beginnings. And again did the entity push onward - onward -
and on to those hills about that which later became known as
the Silver City did the entity gain in the strength of that,
in the latter portion of that sojourn, which made for the
entity becoming as one well known, in the name Ernest Austen.
In the experience the entity passed through many periods when
from the material angle gains came, from the mental and the
spiritual angle gains and losses came to the entity. Yet in
the latter portion many called the entity blessed for the
opportunities it gave to others for the hopes. For, as He
has given, he that gives a cup of cold water in His name
shall in no wise lose his reward. Not in mighty deeds of
valor, not in those things that may bring fame or fortune
alone. Not in those things of high estate may the greater
soul development come to an entity, but rather in line upon
line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little may
the growth come that will bring indeed the true knowledge and
the true understanding of the purposes of an indwelling in
the earth.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as
the Grecian, during the periods when there were the turmoils
and the strifes which arose through the conquest of the
Romans upon many of the eastern lands during those
experiences.
The entity was among the recorders or those that kept the
counsels with those who made the associations and activities
in other lands. THEN the entity was what would be termed
today, in common parlance, a pacifist of no mean estate; in
the name then Pluenon.
In the experience the entity gained throughout. Not merely
because of the attempts to bring peace and harmony among the
nations or the peoples that strove one with another, but
rather in that the entity carried forward that which was
innate in the experience from the previous development.
That, unless that which is meted is for the greater good for
the whole it must eventually fail. THIS was the message
carried even into those lands where there were the turmoils
and the strife for the Son of man who walked in the earth.
And the entity then became in those experiences as one that
had been sent to make for peace in the land. The entity
coming under the influence of Joseph of Arimathea, and
Nicodemus, came to know much of those tenets that had made
for the moving forces among those in powers of the Sanhedrin,
of those that carried the influences in those activities in
the Roman empire when the teachers were sent hither and yon
by those who espoused the cause of the lowly Nazarene [See
826-2 Reports].
Hence those things that bespeak of proclaiming the acceptable
day of the Lord must ever stand as the influences that would
prompt the actings, the motivative influences of the entity
in its associations, in its activities among its fellow man.
From those experiences there comes the ability of the entity
to WRITE, especially in certain fields; as would be in that
which may take the lowly man and show how through such
spiritual environs - though it may arise from the soil, from
the city or from those in higher places - there is the
motivation in the experiences as to carry such a person, such
an individual, to a place where he (the individual) may
become as a light to many; though such power used for
self-aggrandizement must bring SPEEDY activities that bespeak
of selfishness. In this may the entity give out much, may
the entity rise to one in these fields of activity that may
become well known. And to the entity may come much of this
world's goods from such activities.
In the one before that we find the entity in that known as
the Arabian and Persian land, during those periods when there
were the comings of those to the city in the hills and the
plains, to the leader in those experiences to many that
brought a new hope, a new vision of brotherly love in the
earth or in those environs about that place.
The entity was the one who came to be the right hand man of
the leader Uhjltd, coming from his own peoples, HEALED by
Uhjltd in body but strong in the activities to make for not
only the material but the mental and spiritual gains to many.
Many were they that attempted to supersede or to bring about
crosses between that leader Uhjltd and the entity, then
Esdena, of his mother's own peoples; for Esdena, TOO, was
among the initiates of Egypt that came to an understanding
with those activities that were begun there; came as from
among the initiates in the land where there had been those
trainings for many of those teachers in and throughout the
earth. The entity gained during that experience.
Again the abilities, the inclinations that have been hindered
in many ways, to become a recorder of fact, a writer of
fiction, a writer of those things that may be worth while,
may be aroused in the experience of the entity as well as
those abilities to judge among its fellow man. These come
from that experience.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as
the Pervian, in those days when there were the establishings
of the peoples that had been as sojourners in the land from
the Atlantean land.
The entity was among those that rose in power from the
associations or connections with those peoples from Atlantis
and the natives in the Peruvian lands. And it led towards
those activities that were later established in what is now
Central America, especially in those temple buildings. The
entity became as a ruler, as a king, as a monarch, as one to
whom many bowed; gained much, lost much. Yet in the latter
experience realizing that which has been and must ever be the
tenet: Unless those activities among men are the aid for the
greater number, rather than for the class or the few, they
must eventually fail. The name then was Omri.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and
that to which it may attain, and how:
First, as has been given, the WAY is before thee. Thou
knowest the way. Do not close same. For ye may enter into
the holy of holies and there be shown, as even the pattern in
the mount, as to ways and manners and means. But when thy
day is come, be thou faithful unto that prompting which has
so oft given thee power, authority, fame and fortune in the
earth. For the Lord loveth whom He has chastened; the Lord
purgeth those that are given the opportunity and turn same to
self-indulgences.
Keep the faith.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Is sexual intercourse outside of marriage injurious
morally and spiritually?
(A) This must ever be answered from one's own inner self.
Those attributes of pro-creation, of the pro-activity in
individuals, are from the God-Force itself. The promptings
of the inner man must ever be the guide; not from ANY source
may there be given other than, "Study to show thyself
approved unto the God that thou would worship." As ye would
have men do to you, do ye even so to them. In the light of
thine own understanding, keep thy body pure, as thou would
have others keep their bodies pure. For thy body is the
temple of the living God. Do not desecrate same in thine own
consciousness.
(Q) Should I marry, and if so, at what age?
(A) At thirty-seven.
(Q) What type of girl would be most suitable, and where can
I find her?
(A) Look within. When those periods come when there is the
natural call for the choosing of that one which should ever
be as a helpmeet, not as one that would lord over any, but
that answers first to that call from within self of the
spiritual uplift, be guided by thine own inner conscience.
One that would be dark of hair. One that would be not
beautiful of form, but LOVELY of form. One that would have
those purposes as motivative influences for the greater good
for the greater number of mankind, and the love of God as
directing the life.
(Q) Are any wives of my entity with whom I lived happily in
former sojourns now living, and where can I find them?
(A) When the right time comes ye will find them! These may
best be found by seeking those in thine own acquaintance and
those that may come into thine acquaintance. Ye have met
several. Remember, you had several wives in some!
(Q) Should I remain in my present position, or seek
employment elsewhere?
(A) In the present, for the present remain; but begin with
those abilities that are lying somewhat dormant. WRITE!
(Q) What subjects could I study with the greatest benefit?
(A) The history as related to the activities of peoples in
groups, in states, in masses, as to how these may be applied
in thine own writings and thine own seekings.
(Q) Would I be successful as a writer of books on health,
finance, economics, or other subjects?
(A) On any or all of these subjects. But, as indicated,
that which is the motivative influence from the spiritual
ANGLE would be the first. Take in thine own self, take the
farmer in thine own environ, thine own surroundings. Build
him as to a power in the earth from his application of the
spirit of truth and life that is in the light of that which
is prepared and builded for the building of the more perfect
bodies, the more perfect activities of thought; and that
these are not as shams that may be builded from drugs that
are even made from the synthetic and not the pure and true!
Build these into those things about thine men or thine
characters in same. WHEAT! call the book. [See
826-4,
Par. 21-A.]
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND
See previously obtained
826-1, a Physical Reading.
REPORTS
3/13/35 Brother's rdg.
816-4 indicated close association
in Grecian-Roman period.
3/20/35 Reporting also on his Physical Rdg: "Due to your
insistence, I have written about forty pages in my book
since you were here. Give me time; I'll get it finished
yet."
4/17/35 Ck. Physical
826-3, Par. 9-A again urged him to
WRITE!
4/23/35 "I am looking forward with much interest to the
reading about my Persian sojourn. About the book which I
am writing, you might ask if there are any suggestions or
criticisms about the book as it is being written."
4/25/35 See
826-4.
7/06/35 He obtained Ck. Life Rdg.
826-5 on his
Grecian-Roman-Palestine incarnation which, in Par. 33-A,
again commented on his close association with Joseph of
Arimathea and Nicodemus.
6/01/37 Reading
1378-1 mentions Joseph of Arimathea and
Nicodemus.
4/13/77 GD's note: See especially subsequent correspondence
and notations under
826-11 and
826-15 Reports. He died 2/77
at the age of 76, after being in a nursing home three years
with progressive cerebral arteriosclerosis.
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