(Q) Thursday Morning, Aug. 26, 1926. A large dinner table
at which many of us were seated, including the Merzbacks,
etc. We had steak to eat. A second affair and the same
table and a similar bill of fare. I complained because I
claimed previous arrangements called for the dinner tables
being taken elsewhere.
(A) In this way and manner, and through these emblematical
conditions, there is seen that various phases of the
body-physical are being presented to the entity, for, as
there has been given, the entity may, through self, gain the
knowledge of those conditions as are necessary to care for
the body, physically, mentally, and financially, and in
these there are seen those as relating to the health of the
body, in the meats and the associations with same - showing,
as is seen, individuals that for the entity to not partake
of certain foods would appear peculiar to others, yet the
entity, knowing that as is necessary for the better
development, must take them then in that way and manner as
is best fitted, best suited, for the better development,
mentally and physically. The same as is seen in that
presentation of wines, drinks, and being told by others that
the three as are seen on the table present water in three
different strengths, as cathartics, and the entity choosing
the middle, or that of the medium nature, showing then that
everything should be done in that way and manner, of never
an extremist in any sense, for, for the best development,
there comes that we individuals should ever be in that way
in the manner as we were not extremists in either sense,
in meat or in drink, in the conversation or in exercise,
for the intent and purpose as is set forth calls for
moderation in every way and manner.
Then, in applying these to the body, there are seen as these:
The entity sees and gains from this that as is necessary
for the best physical conditions of the body, in meat and
in drink, and in the moderation in same in every sense for
the best physical condition of the body. Then apply same
in the life.
(Q) I was on a vacation from the retail business and noticed
that another man bought some blouses cheap from a peddler.
I didn't like the selection left so I didn't buy at first.
Then the buyer found the sizes too large and returned his
purchase, and then I bought what seemed cheaper grade
merchandise. Mr. Moser, the boss, objected to my purchases,
claiming I could do better by waiting and selecting better
and more salable material. "I only bought cheap stuff," I
replied, "That always has a stable demand." [
137] was there
and did some buying also, but some controversy seemed in
progress. Then someone, seemingly Arthur Lipper, said to me:
"I don't see how you can both tend to business and to studies
at the same time." "Do you not both tend to business and
teach?" I asked in reply.
(A) In this there is again seen this presentation to the
entity - not only of the physical conditions as relating to
moderation, but also in that of study and in play, that in
business and that in the mental application of conditions,
that as is related to individuals and as related to specific
groups - all in moderation, without excess in any, would
the better conditions for the entity be obtained, for, as
is seen, even in the buying, in the selling, in the action
of the individuals for whom the entity operates, and in the
association of individuals as connected with same, all point
to these same conditions as are to be applied in the life of
the entity. Not with condemnation to any, but with that aid
in, "I would be all things to all men, that I might thereby
save the more." The same may be applied in the individual's
life, in study, in meat and in drink, being all things unto
self, all things unto all men, and through the applications
of these moderations in all brings the greater strength in
physical, in mental, and in the application of same, for he
that would make haste is the loser.
(Q) Saw Ward Coffee. Voice: "He will introduce you to
Gimbels and others who give big business." It seemed Daniel
Gugenheim gave us 10,000 shares of American Smelters to sell
at the market.
(A) This again, we find, in that condition in which the same
lessons and tenets as are seen in the first portion are
carried out, even to that of the market, and of the daily
life, for in the meeting of individuals, even as are seen
through experiences, that that in position of the mediocre
or moderately set individual brings about that which is of
the larger proportions, for, as is seen, when actions in
mental, in physical, in spiritual, in financial, are carried
FORWARD in moderation, that as once was high is only the
moderate operation or action, or health or state of being,
mentally, physically, morally, or financially, to the PRESENT
state, or the GROWTH as seen, see? Just as is seen in these:
In the meeting of individuals, as are given, these bring
about the association of other individuals, in the moderate
way and manner. These lead on, then, to where larger
conditions are necessary, even for moderation, and are the
NATURAL growth and outcome, in the way and the manner as is
set forth by all, as has been seen and given. Follow, then,
in that way.
(Q) In Philadelphia Ward Coffee may do this for me?
(A) "May do this for me," yet this is asked from the
material rather than from that of the spiritual, which
is the real growth, though the growth becomes material
in the correct way of building.
(Q) How should I act in this matter or approach this
condition?
(A) Just with that same condition and manner as has been
given. Do not jump at conclusions. Rather let it be the
outgrowth of those actions, as in the systematic and correct
way and manner.
(Q) [
137], while shaving, cut off a slice of neck flesh or
of a gland. It didn't hurt any. Then I seemed able to cut
out a form of the whole body and there remained some sort of
activity in another kind of a casing. "You see now how the
body just acts as a kind of an overcoat," I said to [
137].
(A) This is as the conclusion, as it were, of these visions
or conditions, as are presented from the physical, from the
mental, from the material, to that of the CROWNING, as it
were, of the experience of the entity through these various
conditions; for, as is seen, various portions of that as has
been called or termed a portion of an individual may be cut
out, or may be taken from by this same development, for,
as is seen, as habit, or any condition builded in the body
as habit or appetite of a physical, so may that of the
spiritual, or of the elemental (as is seen in gland) be
builded into its activity, so that the body, physical,
mental and spiritual, becomes the cloak, or the dwelling
place, or the house, for truly it has been given, the body
is the temple of the living God. Then use same. Act in that
way and manner as if same WERE the temple of Him whom thou
worshipeth, and of Him who is able to give unto the utmost,
and who is able to assist in guiding, guarding, directing,
the way, [if one will] will one make self in that full
at-oneness with Him.
(Q) Is this a theosophical indication of the astral body
assumed by the spiritual entity when the physical is cast
off?
(A) Rather that full development, as has been given from
the first - from the meat to that of the gland representing
a portion of the individual body, as is seen, which may
become the full dwelling place of that astral, and the
physical, and the whole - all combined in one.
(Q) How may I reconcile this with the fourth dimensional
concept of differences externalized from one another from
the three dimensional viewpoint?
(A) This is, as seen, a growth, and as is seen in
recognizing, or becoming conscious of a condition in ANY
way and manner, is a growth to that consciousness of same.
This may be illustrated by each and every phase of that
as is experienced through these visions as seen, from the
portion of the meat and the table, the drink and its action
on the body, the various forms of introduction, and all
leading to the various developments - the action of the gland
and its taking on its whole body and representing itself as
a cloak, or an overcoat, for the whole element, shows how
the growth, and the consciousness of the growth, through the
moderation of conditions, keeping all in an at-oneness and
an attunement to the full complete conditions, develops both
to the fourth dimension from the three dimensional views
as are seen through material forces, and as may NOT be
cognized by the purely material, for, as is seen, there
has been a diversion when such takes place, as is seen in
the way and manner as is illustrated again by the very same
conditions and experiences as are passed through. In the
meat, there is seen there arises the thought, not in that
place as it should be the mental or the action of material
taking place. In the drinks, there is seen again the
question as of which is the better, and the action of same
on the material body. In the next there is seen as of
individuals, and what would such association lead to.
In the next there is seen where the gland is cut, or
separated, it forms itself into a body, which takes
on, as it were, the whole element of the pattern of the
individual. Then, applying all of these to the physical
to guard and care for the physical body; to the mental
as may care for the physical, that the mental may act
the better through to the material, that that as is
necessary for the sustenance, position, station, and every
condition as of life, may be sustained through same; of the
spiritual, as is seen, in that it is the full at-oneness of
the whole condition, and the entity then, [
900], gains the
full concept of the lessons as have been gathered from time
to time, of the various forms of presenting the fourth
dimension to itself, and easier of understanding by others
- for it is as a growth.
(Q) Voice (of God?) "You are my boy! You will not pass
without -" Here I was awakened and wanted the sentence
finished so I returned to sleep and again the Voice: "You
are my boy. You will not pass without -" Again awakened
and sentence unfinished - yet I think it means that the
tragedy of many souls will not befall me - i.e. I will not
die before my message is delivered and that I will live to
see the day when that message spoken through the Voice and
written of my pen will be sought by many. When the world
of Thought will welcome me into its midst. Not me - but
He through me will cause me to be so identified. Correct?
(A) Correct, for, as is seen, this comes, then, as the
CROWNING of that same experience as has been given
aforetime, and when all these are followed out in their
full and complete way and manner, we see how that the body,
the entity the mental, the spiritual, of the entity,
is given that full complete way and manner of the sustaining
of the body-physical, of the mental, of the spiritual, in
this mundane sphere, for first in moderation, first in
temperance, first in every way and manner that BUILDS to
that in which the entity may gain that full knowledge,
comes the truth, the way, the light, for the message will
be given, and FOLLOWING in that way, the strength in the
entity, in the mind, in the soul, is assured.
