As it is understood and seen, all force, all matter, is
motivative by force known as spiritual. While the body is
made up of elements that are atomic, super atomic, gas,
influences that combine, all give off their radiation, both
as to the mental reaction and what the body-mind does about
that reaction, and it is recorded or becomes a portion of the
whole radiation of that phase or manifestation in which the
entity is conscious at such a period. And it is recorded
upon that known or experienced by a conscious mind as time
and space. And it may be read even as the records of a
printed page. Hence that which has been the thought, the
activity of the entity throughout its experience in matter,
in the gaseous forces, in the atomic influences, is part and
parcel of the entity's being. Thus we are, then, the sum,
the substance, of that we do, we have, or may think and do.
For each entity has that imprint of the Creative Energies or
Force that makes of it an influence that is seen, known,
felt, throughout the universe. For it, the entity, is a part
of same, with the attributes of Creative Forces or Energies.
And in the material it is endowed with that to apply same.
The source, then, is the reading of that the entity has
accomplished in the earth, and the influences that are
activating upon same by its sojourns in the environments of
the earth's associations IN time and space.
As to the influences, then, from astrological sojourns, we
find the greater spiritual forces that arise from Venus and
Jupiter ruling the entity's INNATE experience in the present.
Hence we find these as influences controlling or giving their
influence in the experience in the present:
Duty, love, honor, position, and INDEPENDENCE! Not in self,
not of self, but rather that which may at TIMES - and has at
times in the present - become a stumblingblock. Not that
independence, honor, love, charity or faith are not a part of
the spiritual influences that make for growth. For they ARE
the manifestations OF the spirit of truth. But the
independence, the faith, the hope, the charity, may to self
become an obscession, or of such an influence that one may
overlook the application of same in one's experience.
The greater lesson, then, to be learned by the entity in this
experience is PATIENCE! For in patience one becomes aware of
one's soul and of its continuity of existence, of awareness,
of consciousness, in every sphere of activity. And as the
promise has been in Him, and FROM Him, in patience ye become
aware. And when this is not as an activative force of being
still, of being quiet, not as an ACTIVE influence, one may
find those impelling forces that make it aware of those
influences that have impelled, do promote activity, even from
the beginning.
As to the appearances in the earth and those that influence
the entity in its activative force in the present, we find it
was during those experiences in the land now known as the
English, about that place now known as Cornwall. And in the
name then Durhan, the entity saw, experienced, much of mental
turmoil in seeing those about self giving themselves for an
ideal. And the zealousness of many of those about the entity
became a stumblingblock to the entity's concept, to the
entity's awareness of truth and light. For the entity was
left, as it were, by those that went out in the Crusade
activities among those that would raise their voice against
those in the Holy Land, in the holy grounds.
From that the entity finds in the present experience the
anxieties that come from not wholly comprehending whether in
a place, in a certain rote, in a certain activity, one finds
the results in this or that; or as to whether such become
necessary. These are innate and oft find their expressions
in word and at times in acts respecting same. The entity
naturally from those experiences is inclined towards things
pertaining to historical activities in those places for the
religious fervors or those things that impel individuals from
the geographical positions and activities, that make for
influences in the experience of those that have espoused a
cause. And the constant fear of being left alone, the
constant fear of being not understood, finds expression in
the experience of the self through this present sojourn.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as
the Grecian, when there were those changes wrought in the
thought of those peoples by the journeyings of many to the
city in the hills and in the plains of the Arabian and
Persian land.
The entity was among those that were loath to go, loath to
accept a new order of things as pertaining to the moral, the
mental or the religious thought, as would be termed in those
words today. Yet when the entity finally acceded to the
wishes of those about the entity and came, and saw, and
heard, and experienced that being accomplished under many
varied phases of activity as related to the relations of
individuals to peoples of other tongue, of other climes, of
other experiences, the entity embraced same and became
outspoken in its activities, in its relationships. Yet it
suffered under same from ridicule by those that were in
authority, and later it saw the own peoples, the own
activities, attempt - by force of manpower - to quell or
change or overrun those activities. This brought
consternation, turmoils in the mental and the spiritual
experience of the entity during that sojourn, as Xentia.
In the present from that experience we find the entity loath
oft to change in its associations, its activity, and it finds
its expression rather in being slow of speech or of
EXPRESSION of self as respecting ideas that may be presented
in the varied experiences in a material world. Yet when once
embracing an ideal the entity is just as loath to change.
Before that we find the entity was in what is now known as
the Egyptian period just previous to the incoming of that
ruler from the Caucasian and Persian lands.
The entity was among the natives that attempted to arouse
those peoples to an activity that would PREVENT such changes
coming about in the experience. For the entity then was the
mother of the king or ruler of that land during the sojourn.
And seeing those changes gradually coming about, seeing those
activities of its own peoples and those acceptances by the
peoples of the new order and new changes that made for the
establishing of a variation in the relationships of the
individuals to the Creative Forces, as well as the
relationships of each one to another, or as man to man, these
made for periods of depression in the mental, in the soul
expression of the entity. Only after those periods of
turmoils and strife that arose in the latter portion of the
entity's sojourn in that land did the entity then accept or
become an activative force in establishing the better
relationships with the INDIAN land. For the entity in the
latter portion of its sojourn during that experience went
rather with its own peoples that journeyed toward the east
for those activities that arose in those experiences.
Hence we find in the present those interests that are arising
from the expressions from the eastern thought, as well as
that which was established by those peoples in the Egyptian
land that found the expression in the Law of One - in which
He that walked in the Egyptian, the Indian, the Persian land,
yet known as Him of Galilee, founded His material tenets.
In the experience in the present the entity finds that there
oft comes within self the confusions as to the correlations
of thoughts and ideals. Yet the material expressions find
the evaluations in the activity of the entity.
As to the abilities in the present, then, and that to which
the entity may attain, and how:
There was experienced from that sojourn which stands out the
most in the present (those periods in Greece, or the Grecian
land as called, and in the Persian influences) those little
kindnesses, the little gentlenesses, the little activities
that grow and grow in the experience of all. If these are
but applied, IN PATIENCE there may come the greater growth,
the greater understanding, the greater ability to apply that
which is in the present to make for the greatest peace and
harmony, making for more of hope, more of brotherly love,
more of faith in that in which ALL move and have their being.
For He IS a rewarder of those that love Him for HIS sake and
not for self-indulgences, self-gratifications. But losing
self in Him one becomes more and more aware of that love OF
Him, FOR Him, TO Him in one's experience.
Ready for questions.
(Q) How can I be able to hear, see, or do, more abundantly
on the spiritual plane, and to attain higher powers, to have
an abiding faith and be of better service?
(A) Just as indicated, as by turning within self, holding to
those influences as indicated from the greater expression of
self in the material plane in the hills and plains, that
there may come the greater consciousness in patience, in
hope, in PUTTING same into activity in the hearts of others.
For if ye would be loved, show thyself lovely. If ye would
have friends, be ye friendly. Not to those only of high
estate, but those that are without friends.
(Q) What can I best do in this incarnation?
(A) Show forth in thy dealings with thy fellow man thy
concept of the love of God, that is manifested in the sons of
men. First in being patient, in being gentle to thy fellow
man. And in following that which thy inner self directs in
thy relationships to others.
(Q) Please tell me of my most important past incarnations.
(A) As given.
(Q) Please give my exact time of birth.
(A) As this makes for a change in the time as would be
reckoned in the present, and that which was reckoned in the
experience or period when the entity entered this present
experience, we would find that it would be counted in the
present as nine-forty-seven (9:47) Central Standard Time in
the present - A.M.
(Q) What should my son do to safeguard and increase the
trust fund he created for me in 1927?
(A) We haven't the son. The fund as created for self, if it
is kept in the same tact and in the same associations and
relations as in the present, as we find, would be the better.
(Q) How can I aid my son?
(A) Being patient, being gentle. This may sound somewhat as
being contradictory, yet as is seen in self, if thou art
overanxious then so does it create that anxiety in those
environs about him. Thus, NOT loving indifference, but
rather as the appreciations of the opportunities that are
given thee in having such a son, and in the glory to the
Father for the gift of such an association. These create.
For, "In blessing I will bless thee, saith the Lord." Then,
as ye bless those in word, in deed, that thou hast found,
that thou hast met, so does it increase about them those
associations of the Creative Forces and influences of the
Great God - LOVE! And thus - for thoughts are deeds, and as
their currents run they become MIRACLES in the experiences of
those in whom the love or the blessing is held.
(Q) How can I best cooperate with the radiation treatment I
am now using?
(A) This is well, for the activities within the body, for
the tendencies that have been to make for the accumulations
of those influences that hinder in the circulation and in the
body itself. So the GREATER would be to be mindful of the
diets that make for the carrying into the system that upon
which the radial activity may make for not only a cleansing
but an aid to rejuvenation of those influences in same.
(Q) How can I best present its idea to my friends.
(A) As ye have received, so may ye give. As ye know that
which has been and is being accomplished, so may ye give out
to others. Speak gently. Do not ARGUE, but KNOW in what
thou hast believed - and speak like it!
(Q) How can I increase my strength of mind and body?
(A) By resting more and more in Him and meeting Him the more
often in the tabernacle of thine inner being. For He has
promised to meet thee within thine own inner self. And as ye
open thy mind, thy body, thy soul, ye will find Him there;
not in some other place, not as from without. For He is
closer than thyself. For He would be thy very self.
MEDITATE upon Him and what He would have thee do.
Finally, let thy prayer ever be:
"Here am I, Lord, use me as thou seest fit. Let my going in,
my coming out, be acceptable in Thy sight. THINE, I am!
Make my desires THY desires. Let MY desires be as thy
desires."
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