(Q) Morning of Dec. 13, 1926. It was in ... at my
grandmother's home and we were all at dinner. I resented
something my mother said or did and argued with her and
finally putting a hat (farmer's wide brimmed straw hat) on
her head, I said: "O, Ma, we don't need your constant
telling us what to do" - etc. Then [
137] suddenly
interrupted by saying as he turned to me, a spoonful of soup
half way to his mouth: "How does one breathe when one can't
move and is choked up?" I paid little attention to him at
first, not thinking the matter very serious. Finally I
noticed the glazed look in his eyes and pained expression on
his face. I rushed over to him and picking him up, carried
him to a couch. He was paralyzed from the waist down.
"We'll fix you up," I encouraged him, as I began to rub his
legs desperately, massaging him frantically from the waist
down. Then as they came to take him to the hospital, I
kissed him saying, "O, my poor dear brother!" They took him
to the hospital to have Praeger administer and tend to
[
137]. (Praeger is a customer and an accountant in reality
and not a doctor.) I kept repeating this to them over the
phone: "Have Dr. Paul Praeger tend [
137]" until finally
they heard me. The place or scene seemed changed to an
institution of some kind. Then I got Praeger on the phone
and asked him what was the matter with [
137]. "Stroke of
apoplexy!" replied Praeger. "My God, in a boy so young," I
replied. I saw [
137] later, out of the hospital, walking
about in a crippled sort of fashion. His head bent and
limping, he was a pitiable sight and I felt terrible.
"He'll never be balanced, mentally or physically,
again," I thought.
(A) In this there is presented to the entity, through this
vision, emblematical conditions - as the entity has been
warned respecting in many ways and manners - also conditions
physical that the body should be warned about, or regarding
both as to self and to the brother.
First, this is seen - that the old days, or old ways, are
considered by the vision - by the place and conditions
surrounding those in the vision. As has been given, the
mother should and will be ever much of the balance wheel to
the entity, and the entity should often be willing and able
to take advice concerning material conditions from the entity
and thus avoid many conditions in material manner, that would
be beneficial to the entity.
Again, physically, there is seen that the brother in this
condition of choking - that there has been a weakness in the
throat and bronchials as respecting the physical condition.
Be warned, then, as regarding the physical health, especially
as respecting colds and congestion, with the eliminations in
system in that way of not throwing off the poisons. Being
warned, then, be forearmed, by using those properties in
diet, and in those elements that produce the more profuse or
more coordinated eliminations from the body, and thus avoid
colds and congestion.
In the emblematical way and manner, there is shown to the
entity that there is danger in the entity's self becoming
stale, or paralyzed in the mental way of expressing or giving
to others that full lesson as has been set for self - or take
heed in those admonitions as have been given: Make haste
slowly - and, as has again been given that in due TIME the
physical will admit the working of the forces - for, as the
Lord has given often, "WAIT!" on the Lord - for, as is seen,
with the entity's forces spended in the physical manner, and
without the entity taking the proper elements of guarding
against those very conditions as may bring the materialist
to say, "With the PHYSICAL abated, with the physical in
strain, what is all the mental WORTH, without the ability to
in the physical manner give that as is seen?" Then for the
entity the lesson, that: Play as well as labor. The
emptying of self mentally is as necessary as is the proper
eliminations from the system to destroy used and refuse
matter, for to force the mental when the physical or the
mental becomes stale by worry, or by conditions that prevent
the full action of the whole coordinated spiritual element,
is to bring destructive forces that are as abhorrent as the
conditions seen in one of a physical life, in young and in
the prime of life, brought down by those conditions as are
viewed. Then apply, both materially, mentally - physically,
morally, spiritually - the lessons to the entity, for both
are seen and are here given that all may apply same - for
more and more, as is seen, direct comes the lessons to the
entity, and more and more they are seen to be of one force,
of one source, with the physical BODY giving the variations,
or PHASES of the manifesting of that one element.
(Q) We were having fire drill in what seemed a school.
Horace Block said to me, as we stood in line: "But, [
900],
you don't seem to want to do anything in case of fire."
I said that I did and volunteered to put the fire sign on the
roof tanks in case of fire, which was the hardest of all, as
well as the most perilous of all tasks. He (Block) found
that satisfactory and as the fire bell rang we all filed out:
I led Block down the stairs in a hurry, taking about six
steps at a time. Yet even so I found it hard to keep up with
the main body and we lost them in the rush. Then Block went
out, but I searched and felt the only way was to take a
chance, and went on to the bottom. There I met Block and
the rest and as they felt the work volunteered to do was
sufficient, everything seemed O.K. yet I felt that they were
taking advantage of me to make me stop to do this work in an
emergency such as this.
(A) Again these emblematical conditions through the vision
of the lesson as has just been given, and, as is seen and may
be easily viewed by the entity from the same viewpoint, the
lack of the full consistency of the entity as respecting
duties to self and to ALL OTHERS, concerning even person's or
self's own safety, as well as that of others, and the feeling
from within self that others would stop or hinder for the
entity is the lack of full consistency within the entity's
own self. Gain, then, that FULL consciousness of necessity
of complete consistency with every effort, whether material
or spiritual - for no one in this as seen attempts to gain
any control or to hinder the entity - except for the entity's
own good and own welfare!
We are through for the present.
REPORTS
12/17/26 He obtained
137-92, dream rdg., for his brother.
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