In entering the present experience from that environ or
sojourn of Venus, we have one by nature or tendency to be
double-minded or very seldom making up its own mind; yet at
times would be termed by some as dissatisfied with whoever or
whatever the choice was. And whether for weal or for woe, or
whether for up or for down, the blame is for and on someone
else, innate. These are tendencies to be met, to be dealt
with, by the entity. Not as conditions that are as tasks,
but rather in the mental and spiritual self USE these as
judgments. Not as passive thinking, but rather in a
constructive, in a positive manner. For much of that which
is to the eye or to the body pleasant will be the experience
of the entity in or during this sojourn. These may easily
become stumblingblocks to the entity, as may be seen from the
sojourns and the applications of the entity in those
experiences in the earth, and the associations at that period
that are tended to make for grudges and for those conditions
where there is the tendency for such to be in the experience
of the entity. And these must be met, must be made into
ACTIVATIVE forces and not passive; not combative to
circumstances or experiences but as a man's man, meeting the
material conditions, meeting the experiences in the active
way and manner; yet with an IDEAL. For lest there be
destructive forces entering in the present experience, there
must be the foundation of the mental forces in the experience
for love, mercy, justice, honor, fellowship, brotherly love,
tolerance, faith, hope, and charity. For these are the
fruits or the attributes. Not mere words, that pertain to
the basis of desire, of activity, of experience, in the
mental forces. For the Mental IS the Builder; and these must
become active forces in the experience lest troubles overtake
thee.
Make, then, the decided activity in the self that will make
for the using of opportunities, the using of those
probabilities in the experience as constructive forces. For
as God is, and as He is the rewarder of those that in an
humble, contrite manner approach the thrones of mercy and
activity, then let the inner self and the inner ideal be
founded in same; that there may be not only the days in the
earth extended but that there may come in the inner self the
consciousness that the life, the experience in the earth in
the present, may be more and more worth while.
For, Venus is in an adverse influence, Mars is in an adverse
influence; yet Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, are in benevolent
influences. And if they are then prompted in the mental and
spiritual self with these constructive attributes of the
spirit of truth, just so as He is, so will there be definite
results in the experience and activities of the entity during
this particular sojourn.
Then, as to the appearances in the earth that have an
influence in the present, we find:
Before this the entity was in those periods when there were
those activities during the Revolution in the land of the
present nativity; when there were those various influences
that were brought about and that prompted Andre and the one
who sold his country.
The entity then was an associate in a portion of those
undertakings, and - as Warren P. Baker - found wonderments;
and was saved by the love of one of the opposite sex. For,
except for her pleadings he would have become embroiled in
the activities of Arnold and Andre.
Hence we find an experience in which there were doubts and
fears as respecting the material associations, the mental
attitude or stand, and material conditions that brought the
tendencies which express themselves in the present to blame
others. Not to the point of being dishonest with self, but
lacking in that stability necessary to turn circumstance -
that may be for the weal or the woe - into that wherein the
spirit of truth may be the directing factor in the promptings
of the inner self. Not to that point of indulgences, yet
easily would these - once given into - become a portion of
those influences in the activities.
Hence refrain from any associations in the present in which
there may be an activity as related to municipality or state
or in any office of same; but rather establish self in a
service in any manner in which there may be the constructive
activity or manufacturing of that upon which many may be
dependent for the promptness and the decidedness of the
entity. For obligations or duties that are undertaken may
become those things that are the most worth while in the
experience of the entity, if these are applied correctly.
From that sojourn, in the present it is demanded that self's
activities be in surroundings where there is somewhat of
rote, but rote as for a purpose - of strength either in body
or in mind or both.
As to the proper association for the developing body and
mind, then, it should be rather in a semi-activity of the
military influence or surroundings. This would be the
preferable field or environment for the greater mental and
material development, in the first portion of the entity's
experience or associations with the material world.
Before that we find the entity lived in the earth during the
periods of the First, the Second and a portion of the Third
Crusades for an ideal activity upon the part of those that
were leaders, or that were the prompters for same in leading
others into an active service.
It is well that the self during the present experience enjoin
itself with associations or organizations that have something
of the ideals of Freemasonry. For these were a prompting in
that experience which brought much that made for gains.
The name then was Bruce J. Eddington; and the entity gained.
For as the ideals were set, though others failed in much of
their accomplishments in these directions, the entity's
activities were in such ways and manners as to make for the
opening up of the commercial associations with its own land
and other lands, and the various experiences necessary for
the beneficent activities in all concerned.
Hence it is in that field the entity might find the
activities bringing the greater development; dealing with
groups, nations as a whole regarding trades or activities in
the manufacture of things pertaining to the greater usage -
especially in households; whether these would be electrically
driven forces or kindred subjects that make for the
interchange in the air lines, or air ways. These would be
benevolent activities for the entity, provided the inner self
as has been indicated - is prompted by the lifting up of the
consciousness or the awareness of the true inner self being
master of its ship, the maker of its destiny; the sojourner
as would point the way for many in their stumbling manners,
bound in flesh yet making for the material expressions in the
associations of one group or one land with another.
Before that we find the entity was in that known as the
Persian land. The sojourn there was not of such a great
duration, for the entity was among the tribesmen from which
the leader sprang; making for activities and counter-
activities as to the relationships of the nomad peoples to an
established routine in the city in the hills and the plains
that gradually grew up not only from the cave dwellings or
the places of abode in trees or the like during that
experience, but rather the entity was enjoined to the abodes
where groups banded together for not only self-preservation
from the nomads of its own land but for the preservation of
life, that expression of the Creative Forces in materiality;
and for the protections in the material things that also
arose from those combinations. And in such activities may
the entity also find much that will become of interest in the
experience in this sojourn.
The name then was Jeuen, and was - as oft called - a second
cousin of the leader Uhjltd.
Before that we find the entity was in that now known as the
Atlantean land, among those peoples that were not given into
charge of the moral and religious life of the country just
previous to the last destruction; but was rather among those
of the upper classes that acted in the capacity of overseers
or judges among the laboring periods or laboring activities
of a portion of those people.
From that sojourn the entity finds in the present the innate
urge to become a rover itself; the sea calling at times; at
others the heights of the mountains that might be classed or
called among those of the seeking in the present.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and
that to which it may attain and how:
First set that which is its ideal; not as of a spiritual
influence in the material lives for the bodily gain, not for
an ideal in some material welfare, but rather as the
promptings from the very life influence or force itself -
which is as true a manifestation of the creative energies and
forces themselves as those things that may be seen in nature.
For they are of the ONE; the one influence that the entity
acted upon or rebelled against in a portion, and studied in
other experiences or used such that in the present the urges
may become as stumbling-experiences for the entity. But let
thy meditations and prayer ever be in line with those things
of the greater spiritual Teacher in the experiences in the
earth. And in so doing may there grow up in the inner force
and fibre of the entity itself that which may guide, guard
and direct aright much that may be to an advantage of those
in the material world for the comforts of the material world.
But if these are guided or prompted by the ideals as set in
the spiritual influences or the spiritual life, as has been
indicated, it will make for the greater development and the
finding of self within those environs that become the
prompting force of a developing soul through the earthly
sojourn.
Study, then, to show thyself approved unto Him, a workman
divining the words of truth, making in thy activity those
corrections in the inner self first; keeping self unspotted
from the world. And ye shall find a well-rounded,
well-filled experience in this sojourn that may hear that,
"Come ye higher; I will make you fishers of men!"
Ready for questions.
(Q) What school would it be best for him to attend?
(A) That which is under discipline, or a portion of that of
the military activity, see?
We are through for the present.
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