(Q) Explain the following [See
3744-2, Par. 1-A]: "Psychic,
in the broader sense, meaning spirit, soul, or imagination
of the mind when attuned to the various phases of either of
these two portions of the entity of an individual, or from
the entity of others who are passed into other planes than
the physical or material."
(A) As we have in this: We reason with the material mind.
We have those accepted facts and conditions, for the material
mind must have a premise, or basis, in which all agree. When
we find the action of any given premise, performing same is
phenomena. When such action relates to the mind of a body
(human we are speaking of), such is then a form of psychic,
or mental, or mind force, or phenomena. Same as we have
when there is that projection from the spirit forces, as is
manifest, and as is an accepted fact or premise. This action
upon the material world (see, just opposite from that given)
is the psychic phenomena, and is given from this condition
as asked. There is both the mental phenomena, the soul
phenomena, the spiritual phenomena. All psychic phenomena,
for psychic means of the mind, in the accepted term. Then,
as we see manifestations of any of the conditions that relate
to the physical mind the portion of soul entity belonging to
physical, the portion of the spiritual belonging to physical,
we see the phenomena, or the psychic phenomena, manifested
in a material world, whether projected from the world into
mental space, or from spirit world into the mental or
material world. Keep each separate. Correlate each in its
form of projection, that applicable to the needs of the human
family, to bring those conditions, whether of the physical,
mental or spiritual, that gives the better understanding of
man's relation to man, and man's relation to Maker. Give
those conditions that others may understand and benefit
thereby. There is no condition existing in a world as the
earth plane but what there is the phenomena in every action
of psychic forces manifesting. As we find, the projection
then of such conditions should be correlated under their
various heads, and each carried to their bounds, that there
may be the more perfect understanding, and not confuse the
mental projection with spirit projection, or injection, into
the material world. Spirit is the life-giving force in every
condition, whether of mental or material action. Whatever
force is acted upon has its attributes, the same as we find
in all life-producing element. Whenever the element reaches
that stage where it, the element, is able to give or
reproduce self, we see the manifestation of the spirit
force, modified by that element's own attributes, even from
the lowest form of life to the highest. When we have the
physical body of the lord of creation, man, we find all
such conditions manifest through that body; the mind being
that element that directs and makes man the master of the
condition, situation, or creation. The soul [is] the
element, that given to man that man may be one with the
Creator. Hence the developing of that portion that becomes
the spiritual element, that it may be made one with the
Creator. Hence we see from the lowest to the highest the
manifestations of psychic phenomena in the material world.
Hence we have the psychic phenomena of the lower animal
kingdom, of the mineral kingdom, of the plant kingdom,
of the animal kingdom as advanced, and as then becomes
the man's condition, position. Hence we find the evolution
of the soul, as has been given, and as is manifest in the
material world, took place before man's appearance, the
evolution of the soul in the mind of the Creator, not in
the material world.
(Q) What form, or how can the conscious mind conceive of
this soul in a human entity, and then in the spirit plane,
after the physical has returned to earth?
(A) We have the soul as the body of the spiritual force
manifested in the individual, as we find in every body
animated with the ability to reproduce in self a thing
separate from the rest of the world, yet depending upon
the material world for sustenance, the same as we have in
the soul, as given, and separate entity, the dwelling or
indwelling in man, is that dependence upon the attributes
of the body that it possesses for that necessary for its
development. Hence the conditions as regard its developing,
depending both upon the environment and upon the hereditary
conditions, considered from the physical only. Hence the
relative attraction for conditions of the soul for that
necessary development of that soul from entity to entity,
whether material or spiritual.
(Q) How are projections received from spiritual entities in
the next plane?
(A) As each entity in the earth plane, or material plane, or
flesh plane manifestation, such entity (material now we are
speaking of) leaves with that relative conditions about the
environment that spiritual force as manifest in that entity;
when such an entity has left the material plane, or laid
aside the carnal conditions, the body then, we have that
spiritual entity in the spiritual plane. The spiritual
entity possesses that element as is known, or called, in the
earth plane, or material plane, the subconsciousness. The
subconsciousness is awakened in material plane through an
attunement, through such attunement there may be projections
from one to the other.
(Q) What form does the spirit entity take, or explain -
(A) Taking that form that the entity creates for itself in
the plane in which the existence is passed. As we have in
the earth's plane the imagination, the mind of the individual
pictures to itself, through its carnal relations, that
condition to which its individual relation of entity assumes
to itself, and the entity possessing that same ability to
assume that position in which it may manifest itself
according to its relative position to that merited
condition in its existence.
(Q) Explain the plane of spirit and soul forces, and what
relation this plane has to earth. You will start with death,
as we know it.
(A) In that moment - as in birth we have the beginning of
an earthly sojourn, little or long, as time may be - as the
birth into the spiritual plane begins with the death in earth
plane; merely the separation of the spiritual and soul forces
from the earthly connections.
We are through for the present.
BACKGROUND
See [
3744] series called Psychic Phenomena Through the
Subliminal.
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