As to these relations, then, we find rather than the position
of the planet, the zodiacal signs, the relationships in the
sun, the moon, or those influences set from the position of
the planet at birth, it is the entity's sojourning in their
environ that makes for the influence such conditions have -
rather than merely a position of same at time of birth. For
if it were alone the time of birth, those influences would
always remain either adverse or of the constructive nature;
yet - as is experienced - these change, dependent upon the
entity's entering those experiences in a sojourn when it -
the influence of a sojourn in the environ - becomes as a
benevolent or as an adverse influence; dependent upon the
manner in which the individual, the soul-entity, applies
those influences, those opportunities, in material activity.
As would be from a knowledge of a language, a dialect of a
normal activity in any environ about an earthly sojourn, the
knowledge without the application brings not that as is the
result of the knowledge. Hence as we find for this entity in
this appearance, these are as influences in the INNATE or the
soul force - or as those that come as the deeper urges, but
irrespective of what the entity does about same; but the
entity having sojourned in these environs, these conditions -
as from the expression or consciousness there - find an
active influence in the mental expression of the soul-self
of the entity:
Jupiter makes for a seeking, a breadth of vision in many
fields of activity; in those that delve into the inmost
expressions of mass, group or individual. Yet these have
been at an adverse influence in the experience; for Saturn
having also an expression in the entity's sojourning there
has made for many changes or many influences that make for
hindrances to the greater abilities of the entity in the
seeking in those directions. Yet these should, in the coming
months and year, show for a more benevolent activity.
Also the entity's sojourn in Uranus and Neptune makes for its
interests in those things of the mystic-occult natures that
deal rather with the initiate and the influences that prompt
from the baser as well as the spiritual and the higher
influences in the activities of entities, of individuals, of
the greater masses.
The associates in those environs also make for the interests
of the entity, innate and manifested, in the higher
influences in spiritual welfare of others; yet making, in
the manner of application, as it were, that which has closed
the entity to many of its own possibilities in these
directions.
As to the appearances in the earth, then, and those that make
for the greater influence in the expressions of the entity in
the present, we find these from the records here:
Before this we find the entity was in that land about what is
now known as or called Salem, or Province Town, during those
periods when there were those that were experiencing the
influence of an outer-influence in their material
expressions.
The entity then was the minister of a peoples there, that was
first questioned as to his own activity and then - belittling
his own abilities - called into question many of those that
were of his own household, even; and of those peoples that
were of his own charge, in the name then Abanethey.
And there may be found, in that particular influence and
surrounding, a record of those activities there.
That experience brought many of the questionings in the
experience of the entity, making for a period of retardment
rather than advancement during that sojourn. Yet in the
latter portion of the experience, in the attempt to make for
the correction of much that had been set in motion by self,
the entity gained by the very purpose and aim of its
activities. Though overridden by those in authority and
those that were in the State - or as the rule in same, which
caused the entity to suffer in body.
In the present from that experience, such influences - such
experiences that have had to deal with individuals, whether
in vision, in spirit, in dream, in metaphysical, in the
esoteric and esoteric influences - become questionings first,
of studying when apparent, of making for a portion or partial
application when found to be of those natures that answer to
that something builded innately within the self from that
sojourn.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as
the Roman, during those periods when there were the attempts,
when there were the beginnings of the declarations by those
in authority - as Constantine.
The entity then was associated in the capacity of what today
would be termed the physician for the court, though then as
much the barber, or as much the clerk, or as much the
footman; yet these were those activities of the entity then
for that ruler.
With those declarations of the ruler for the activities as
associated with the tenets of the church, or the tenets of
the attempts of those peoples to make for the declaring of
same as a portion of the State activity, the entity urged to
make for this as the declaration. Yet when there came many
of those changes that were wrought by the change in those of
authority in other lands, the entity attempted to withdraw
the support; making for a period of disruption in the
household of Constantine.
And the entity finds in the present those experiences,
feelings and expressions pertaining to rote in the affairs of
church or state, as a thing that at times the entity feels
gives expression to or innately finds as an activative force
that these should be one; and again as far, as far from same
as is possible.
Hence those tenets that were gained by the entity, as Abbe
Delehum in the experience, that each soul, each entity, each
body must be accountable first unto itself and the promptings
of its own conscience, and then to that authority that it has
CHOSEN as its means, manner or way of expressing itself as to
its fellows; whether this be in church, in state, in nations,
or in the affairs that pertain to greater relationships in
the earth.
This gives to the entity also in the present those interests
in the promptings of the affairs of international activity,
yet the entity remains most in the study or the seeking of
its own expressions; though these things find their part in
the meditation and in the thought of the entity.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as
the Persian or Arabian, in the city of the hills and plains
when the teacher of the nomads had arisen to one of power or
accomplishments among the Egyptians, the Indians, the
Persians, the Caucasians, the Mongoloids (that are names to
designate merely their position, for each save the Egyptian
bore different names during the experience).
The entity was among those of the Persian peoples that made a
study of, and an association with the leader Uhjltd in that
experience; being among those that made the records. And
among the treasures that may be found in those caves and
those portions of the city outside of that town in Arabia,
called Shushtar, there may be found much of the records that
the entity made; for it was what would be termed in the
present as the Town Clerk during that experience.
Through that sojourn the entity gained; for there was the
greater understanding of the Law of One, the expression of
those things that are as the fruits of the spirit that may
find expression in matter by the relations or activities of
the individual towards its fellow man - these found the
greater expression in the entity during that sojourn, as
Abiduel, and made for those periods of manifestation during
that sojourn.
In the present from that experience comes the ability for the
interpretation of relationships with individuals as to sects,
individuals and groups as to nations and their environments,
as to cities and their environments. Hence the entity in a
field of activity that would deal with the moral as well as
the social and mental relationships of groups as accorded to
law and order in city, state or nation, may make for an
activity in which the entity may find in the present among
its greater expressions and greater developments.
Before that we find the entity was in that now known or
spoken of as the Atlantean land, during those periods when
Poseidia or portions were in the rule after the first
upheaval or separations of the land or continent.
Then the entity rose to the position of power as a
representative of the Law of One, as disseminating to the
developing individuals or peoples that were in their form of
evolution from the lower forms to their activities when there
was the discarding of appendages and relationships with the
forces of the animal nature in the experience. And the
entity made for great advancements, yet making for the
uprisings with the sons of Belial that warred against the
entity as the ruler Ihuel (as would be in the form of
spelling in the present) made for the entity's advancement
in the mental, the material, the spiritual self. For then
the entity made for the giving to all the purposes for which
the self was to make the sacrifices necessary for the
alleviating of not only the material surroundings, but
keeping that purity in self as to make for the oneness with
the Creative Forces in the expression in matter.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to
which it may attain, and how:
First in self find what are the promptings for thy
activities, in relationships to thy fellow man. Know thy
ideal; not of mental or material import but of the
spiritual. For MIND is the builder, the Spirit is the
motivative force and is the turning of self to the things of
the spirit; then may the promptings make for that in the
experience in whatever direction the activities may be
taken, to be of a CONSTRUCTIVE nature in the experience of
the entity. And only these bring peace, harmony, joy of
life, of service, of activity.
Ready for questions.
(Q) How successful will the entity be with the lawsuit case
coming up - supposed to have come up the 8th, and will come
up any day now?
(A) It's been deferred until the 17th, and should arise
then; and, after a period of delay again, there should be
satisfaction.
We are through for the present.
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