(Q) Early Wednesday morning, August 5, 1925, at home in
Deal. Was on the roof of a building high in the air, looking
up at the sky. "What is God and Who is He?" I questioned.
"He is the FORCE behind everything," came words in reply.
"He is Spirit Element?" I asked, puzzled. "He is the
Force, the Being behind the Element," again the voice within
replied. "Then I am God - I am Spirit." "Yes, He is the
Force of the Spirit." "I can't see Him move though - I can
see no physical demonstration as the moving of matter without
my doing the moving?" I queried, as I pushed a Wall and it
wouldn't move and I wondered if this force would move the
wall, thus giving a physical demonstration to sense mind.
In response it began to RAIN, and I saw the individual drops,
then the downpour as a whole. "Yes," I said, "I am God -
Spirit." Then a woman said to me. "I have something that
will move alone." "Let me see," I replied. She brought over
an overshoe or rubber, put it down and I put my hand over it
and it moved towards the edge of the roof, but no further.
"You see," she said, "It won't go over the edge." Then I
moved my hand back and the shoe followed, then forward again
to the edge of the roof. "It is like my Wabash R.R. stock,"
I remarked, "Goes just so high and no higher (shoe to edge
of roof) then down to let everybody out (shoe backwards),
then up again (shoe back to edge)." I thought of my stock
and reflected on its going down to let them out. "That is
alright," I said.
(A) This, as we see, the conditions as are presented in
the mind study of the individual, [
900], and given in an
emblematical manner that shows both the action of the spirit
forces in a material world, with a material or physical
reasoning of and towards same, also the action of those of
elemental of the physical, as are shown. These, as we see,
are crossed, and hence the warning as is given: Do not let
such forces become so self-centered, see? self-centered -
not lacking of the truth being truth in itself but
self-centered as to bring detrimental forces to self, for
as the house represents the top, the pinnacle, of thought
and understanding as is acquired by the individual to the
present time, having reached through experience of such
manifestations of the force as to reach those conclusions
as bring the entity to be one with the force, one with that
Spirit, that all prevailing Spirit of the Higher Forces, as
is called in material world God, that creative force of all
material and of the power of material to create force within
itself; this becomes recognized, then, to the individual and
how the individual is a part of same. Then, as we see as
the warning, as turned toward that of attempting to make
that force a force that may be used for a material
demonstration, that would mean only in self a manifestation
of the force, see? In the movement, then, as is presented
by woman presenting some object that may be moved, the weak
forces presenting, then, to the entity that which might
become a destructive force to the entity, were the entity
to apply same in a channel wholly for selfish motives. The
reasoning, then, as to how same is showing and is giving the
understanding to the entity, is but the reasoning or, as it
were, taking stock with self as to how self may apply same
with the use of the forces as are being presented. These
then, as we have given, the lesson is as this:
Use that force in the way as the Spirit directs. Guide,
guard and keeping those elements that would give self to
the service and not expect service to self from forces to
which self should give service. These, then, as we see, are
becoming more and more of the manifestations of conditions
that may be used, see? These may be applied, yet these may
be made to serve self, but self must serve to attain same;
while these from, as we see, the physical condition to which
the entity is attached, in physical ways, these also show
the way in which same may be made a stumbling block to self,
through downpour, through moving to edge, through moving
back, as has been presented. Study well, see? SERVE GOD,
and His ways will become the service for the individual.
To force the service of God to individual uses is error.
(Q) I had Goldstein on the telephone and said: "How do you
ever expect to make money if you are always long of stock?
Get out once in a while." He mentioned some stock of [
137]'s
- that which [
137] is specialist in. "Well," I answered,
"[
137] sells some stock to see if he can't depress it,
(speaking of some stock which [
137] seemed to be specialist
in and which seemed in dream to be selling at 103) and then
or in that manner bring in some selling." At this [
137]
seemed to get angry. "I shouldn't have said that," he
claimed.
(A) This, then, again that same condition and element
as has been presented in the former, only given to the
individual mind in a different aspect of same, that the
body may attain the lesson, the truths, as go with same.
Then, classify, view same, both from the same channel.
Not that any exceptions, not that any condemnations are
being brought to the individual for the usage of the truths,
for has it not been given "manifest same through self's
application, that we may see that the law is that of the
Divine?" Yet these are given as the warnings, that they
may be used in the correct channels, and making self, then,
that channel of the blessings that come through compliance
with the laws that allow the individual minds to partake of
those acceptable ways of God in the material world. See?
BACKGROUND
8/05/25 He submitted dreams. See his letter under
900-104
Reports.
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