(Q) "Then it seemed my father changed into some kind of an
animal, monkey or ape, and was abducted by some stranger and
more powerful brute. My mother, [
137] and I, pursued, and
we noticed the abductor choking the abducted (my father in
animal form) into unconsciousness. Unable to stand it any
longer, I drew a pistol and shot the large animal, bringing
him low and rescuing the abducted. The latter was
unconscious, but still alive, and in my sorrow and rage I
turned to the kidnapper, who was lying wounded and dying on
the ground, and said: 'You brute!' 'It is a wonder to me
God lets men like you manifest His Power in the physical
plane!' As I spoke he changed into a policeman, a blue coat,
and tried to talk to me or answer me, but I continued to
renounce him. I felt in the back of my head that Man
manifested in physical plane according to set law - not some
whim or by any special dispensation of an exalted ruler."
(A) In this there is the continuation in the way and manner
of presenting these same truths as are outlined from the
first. As is seen, when the entity loosens self from this
message, or from these truths, by this physical and mental
debilitation, or pre-occupation of mind and soul or inmost
self with other conditions, some thing, someone, some higher
force, partakes, or moves away that which would be of help
or assistance, and in its removal there is seen within the
entity that which is desired by self, that which would prove
helpful to self, being removed, and there comes the desire
to overtake and re-take, and to make same "thine own", and
as this comes about, we see the changes, the lessons, the
reasoning, as it were, from within, OR the subconscious now
projecting self into that as has been enacted as an
experience before the entity. The lesson then: Keep that
thou hast in hand in that way and manner in which same may
be made more beneficial in spiritual, mental, moral and
financial manners, for true the laws are set in motion, and
the portions of the divine spark are manifest in the world,
with their various forms of taking on that power to use or
make same for good or for bad. See?
(Q) "I saw, felt or heard some demonstration of the One
Mind, of Will manifesting its faculties in the finite minds
of man and then returning to the One Mind again."
(A) This the attempt of the subconscious or soul mind to
REASON WITH the superconscious of the entity that as has
been visioned in this, see? for more and more, as the
lessons are gained, more and more, as a consciousness is
attained by this entity, [
900], into the various mysteries
of the mind, the mental forces, the body mind, those
contingencies as are shown as relative to each phase and
position of same, and as the entity gains more of this
consciousness, more and more is the INMOST soul seeing,
viewing, understanding, the depth, breadth, height, of all
as pertain to will, mind and force, universal, infinite and
finite forces in the earth's plane.
(Q) Explain in terms of the will - i.e. define will. What
is it?
(A) Will is that faculty of the body mind with which man
either expresses the selfish desires of the flesh or THE WILL
of the Father. See? "I will arise and go to my father."
"Father, give me MY portion. I WILL go into the world and
seek." See the variation in the two? One, I will, for own
individual. I WILL arise and go to my father, coming
subservient to the Will of the Whole, and a manifestation
of self's, or self desire. In this we see the two
operations of will, and through same there may be gained
that purportful, or that as is meant by will or will's
force.
(Q) Is the will free - James [William James] says God's
Will is limited to the laws which He is Himself and may,
of course, be nothing else, for He is perfect, and the
possibility of a freedom of will to be anything else than
eternally perfect implies imperfection, which is impossible
to God. However, God's Will to create, says James, is
unlimited - infinite, or new laws are in constant process
of formation, but each new process is but a variation of the
One Substance called God, in a different creative activity.
Now Man in flesh is this infinite Free Will in finite form,
and thus may express itself as freely in finite form as the
One Will in Infinite - i.e. may use physical laws to create
physical conditions, but may not change those laws. Neither
may God change Himself, which are the laws, except to create
in an infinite manner, just so we in finite may use laws to
create in finite. The finite mind trying to change the laws
to meet a finite desire or viewpoint brings finite lack of
harmony and suffering because the law is fixed and will
function in one manner only - the perfect manner. Physical
ambition overlooks this and brings consciousness of
suffering, yet in this finite manner alone may the infinite
faculties achieve a development of self consciousness of
infinite creation, for here we see symbolically expressed the
result of our spiritual faculties. The will then is free to
use every physical force as it chooses, provided the force
is used for the achievement of its creative purposes. The
law is a functioning process, may become self conscious of
each element and use these functioning processes in the
physical life exactly as we think they should function, or
as we think they should not function. Upon our decision
rests our benefit to self - this choice to live one or
another concept constitutes free will, but this freedom
does not eliminate our suffering if we choose wrongly.
Through this process our concept grows as to the exact
functioning of God's creative activities and as each
incarnation into the physical adds to the consciousness
of these various infinite activities in finite form, the
subconscious faculties further awaken to the One Will, that
expresses its Intellect in terms of Creation. Correct?
(A) Correct in so far as this is stated in the manner as
has been given. The better illustration of same may be used
in those two views as are given, for, as we see - come, we
will make man in our own image. In image, His Image, created
He man, "and breathed into him the breadth of life, and he
became a living soul." Now, the two are combined in that
as has been given in the illustration of the application of
will, in subserviency to those laws as are set in motion,
yet MAN a portion free willed, but hedged about by that WILL
of the Perfect One, and, in the obeying or disobeying, enjoys
or suffers, as is seen.
(Q) "Then I was sitting in a big tall high chair in a
restaurant. Others were seated under me - or at lower levels
in partitions in the same chair. We were eating and this
chair was near a turn in the counter. I reached for my girl
companion, seated right at the curve in the counter. As I
did so, we laughed and were happy. 'I am near to the curve,
anyway,' I said."
(A) This, as is seen, the entity's gaining that concept of
the height, the position, the place, the entity, with the
application of the will, making self's will, purpose and
intent one WITH the universal, attains, and does attain,
over those about him who would feed at the table of the
Giver of all good and perfect gifts. As the recognition
of this ability in self holds to that one intent and purpose,
there may be seen that Truth, the companion, is ever near at
hand, bringing joy and comfort, and peace. Keep thou, then,
in that way that leads to eternal life.
