The entity then was in the name Ruth St. Dennis, and gained
much through those sojourns there. Though the environs made
for, in the greater part, periods of material and physical
distresses, there was the ability for the entity to make for
associations with individuals of the varied conditions and
experiences in the life - and in the tradings of the peoples
in the north and west from that particular sojourn. For the
entity entered into that of aiding in establishing relations
with many different environs or habits; or the necessities
for the various environs and the various activities of groups
and individuals. Not as that of the trading or store or the
like, but rather as the assisting in forming the groups to
deal with, to trade with, the various groups. And in such
did the entity make for the material, the mental, also the
spiritual advancement; until those associations with a
peoples in which the entity had sojourned in the environs
of brought disappointments in the home associations. These
brought discouragings, these brought periods of anxiety; and
those temperamental experiences that are manifested in the
activities of the entity in the present, and the adhering
to the counsel of those that might be and were questioned by
many even in authority. Yet even in the latter portion of
the experience the entity again rose to those positions of
power and of importance in that experience.
From that in the present we find, as indicated, in those
environs and in such associations as the entity may establish
there, through those activities of associations in the
various tradings of associates, there may be made great
advancement materially and opportunities in the mental and
spiritual development in such an environ.
Before that, then, we find the entity was in that known as
the French land, during those periods when there were the
establishing of the relations between the emperor and the
adjoining kingdom when Charles the Second was in exile.
The entity then was among those that aided in the
entertaining of and the caring for others, in the
associations with those that looked toward the political and
the religious activity that went about to make for the
reestablishings of that ruler in power.
Then in the name Marceleus, the greater portion of the
entity's experience was a development. But with the false
hopes that were aroused by the associates of the ruler,
and when there was the reestablishing upon those activities
- much apparently being forgotten - the entity itself went
rather into that of the recluse for a greater portion of its
experience.
In the present we find that harkening to those in authority,
those in power, or those in position, rather than to those
things that are the real promptings of self, often. Yet when
there has been the opportunity, or in those periods of the
deeper thought that comes to the entity at periods, these are
often set aright.
The entity from that experience, that sojourn, has very
decided likes and dislikes that are almost from the first
meetings of individuals either impressed or seldom become
as friends to the entity.
The experience before that we find was in the Roman land,
during those periods when many of those that were in
authority, in power, were of the soldiery.
The entity then was in the household of those that had come
under the teachings of some of the hated peoples. And the
entity embraced then the teachings of one that was taught by
Paul when in bondage - Titus.
Then the entity was of stature beautiful, and expressed in
the Roman game activities that were beset or touched upon by
ladies of the court. For the entity then was of the
household of one Philemon, among those that counseled with
the rulers during those experiences; the second, yea the
third Caesars.
In the name then of Iola, the entity made for the greater
spiritual development in that experience; for the gentleness
of manner, the ability to use the personality, through the
individual forces of the entity, was at a period of great
activity; making for those gentlenesses, for those
kind nesses, of those that were oppressed even by the
rulers; yet keeping self ever in a position of not being
questioned by any.
The entity will find in the present the greater blessings in
soul development and in the real activities in a mental and
material world from the promptings of the spiritual self may
be had from those same lessons as were gathered from that
presented by Paul and Titus during that sojourn. Well that
the entity tarry long and oft in meditation upon those things
necessary for the establishing of self as in relation to
those things that make for peace and harmony and
understanding, and the harmony and peace being not in
inactivity or in quietness but rather in filling that
purpose for which the entity came into being, as a channel
of blessings to others. In making manifest the fruits of
the spirit that make individuals not afraid; that as given
in even those letters recorded (which are only a few). But
study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman not
ashamed, but presenting thy body as a LIVING sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto Him, for it is but a reasonable
service; keeping thine mind, thine body, unspotted from the
world.
Before that we find the entity was in that now known as or
called the Egyptian land, during those periods when there
were the establishings of associations and the tenets of
those laws being given out by the Priest Ra-Ta; in the
activities as associated with the assisting, the aiding
of those that were sick in body, in mind; those that were
entangled in the desires of the animal man, that find their
expression so oft in the fires of life that make for passions
that bring into the experience the activity of the animal
rather than of man.
The entity aided in the temple service, as also in the
distribution of those tenets as were gained much through
the music of the period that aided individuals in raising
in themselves that which would make for a unity of purpose
with the Creative Forces that overcomes the material and the
carnal forces in man.
In the name then Shem-Seaar, the entity gained throughout.
And in the activities in the present, if there is allowed
oft the raising of self through the voice, through the music,
that bespeaks of praise - as in the chant to the celestial
forces that may make for an attuning of the inner self;
these are WELL for the entity. For they bring that in the
experience even in this earth, even in the present, that
which has stood the entity - will stand the entity often -
well in hand, to harken to same.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that
to which it may attain, and how:
While there may come to the entity a career in the commercial
associations and activities among men, as experienced from
the Egyptian sojourn - and as seen greater in the activity
in the Roman forces, the HOME offers for the entity that
which will bring to the associations, to the experience,
the greater opportunity for self-expression and of making
the body, the mind, the soul, a greater channel of blessings.
And through same may the greater glory in the mental and the
soul forces come to this entity in the present.
Then, find thyself in thy associations, in thy relations,
that may bring to thee the awakening of those forces that
thou hast heard spoken oft; peace comes only in the
expression of that which is of Truth itself, as is set in
Him that gave, "Come unto me ye that are weak or heavyladen,
and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me, for I am lowly in heart, but ye shall find rest unto
your souls." For they that seek that which satisfies only
the material desires find it cankers and becomes as the sore
that eats upon the mental and the soul self. But in Him
there is rest, there is quiet, there is peace, and - most of
all - joy in the heart.
Ready for questions.
(Q) How should I shape my life to fulfill my destiny?
(A) Destiny is that made, and filling that purpose that
brings the soul in an at-oneness with the Creative Forces.
As has been indicated for this entity, the greater blessings
may come in the home.
(Q) Should I marry the boy who is now courting me?
(A) There are questions that will arise. There IS a karmic
influence with this association, but it is NOT for the best
that there be a wedded life with this particular individual.
(Q) Should I continue to live in St. Louis?
(A) As we find, those environs of Chicago - or those
associations that would make the home there - would be much
more preferable.
(Q) Should I find a place in the pursuit of moving pictures?
(A) Not the better associations.
(Q) What course should I follow to improve my stomach and
heart?
(A) These we don't have in this.
Study first to show thyself approved, as given. Let thy
going in, thy coming out, in thy associations with all,
be that "As ye would that others should do to you, do ye
even so to them."
We are through for the present.
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