In the entity we find that Jupiter is the ruling force, with
Venus; which combination makes for beauty of attainment and
the longing - as it is the experience of the entity - to
present to others that phase, that part of the experience
that is beautiful, that is better. Not to exaggeration,
but rather as the entity has experienced that which is of
error, that which is of shame, that which is of disrupting
forces, becomes negligible unless given power by the thought,
by the activity on the part of some mind. Not that denying
alone makes for non-existence, but rather that those things
presenting themselves as errors, as a faux pas, as a
disrupting influence, may be used as the stepping-stones
for the creating of those atmospheres, those environs in
which each and every soul may find IN a trial, IN a
temptation, in a hardship even, that of beauty. For through
the things which He suffered He became the King of kings,
the Lord of lords. So in man, that has named a Name that is
above every name, it is found that with the using of
experiences there may be brought into his consciousness that
harmony, which is another name for peace, another name for
good, another name for joy, which will be crowned in glory.
In the urge arising from these influences we find that there
is the necessity for the entity to learn a little more of
Patience. For Selfishness is not a portion of the entity's
own being; rather is it the lack of the Patience; not with
others but the more with self. For as He gave, it is in
patience that ye become aware of thy soul!
So in its associations with others the entity needs to forget
those things that have made for hardships, that have made
for misunderstandings in relationships as one to another -
whether with individuals or with groups; though the entity
may find oft that it requires that self turn within, that
the consciousness of His Presence abiding may direct.
Thus may there be brought peace and patience, as an ACTIVE
force; not as a passive influence in the experience of self
but as an ACTIVE influence!
This has brought into self that association where tolerance
has not ALWAYS been felt, as may be seen through the
appearances of the entity in the earth; not tolerance as a
passive thing but tolerance as an active force! For while
each soul, each expression may have the right of its own
opinion and its own activity, it should not only say so but
act in such a manner; knowing that each soul is destined to
become a portion again of the First Cause, or back to its
Maker. And as there is the awareness of its individuality,
its ability to apply its portion, the SOUL-portion of the
Creative Forces or Energies or God within itself, it builds
that in a soul-body which may be One with that Creative
Force.
For while flesh and blood that is of the earth-earthy may
not gain or know glory, the body - the REAL body; not the
superficial but the REAL body - may become aware of its
presence in the Presence of the body of God and among its
brethren, and a portion of that Whole.
So does there become the awareness of tolerance in faith,
that is the activity of this entity in the present, to
become that which may make the ability in the entity or
soul experience to use that IN HAND as the influences for
such an awareness that the body-soul may not need to know
flesh save as it chooses same for its own missions for that
Creative Energy.
In Jupiter we find the influences making for abilities of
specific natures in the experience of the entity; as in
constructive thinking for individuals and for groups,
whether this be for writing or for instruction in this
or that form. It will find that in the application of self
there may be much given to others, in the form of papers,
in the form of charts, in the form of instruction that may
become - as it were - a light set on a hill for many who
grope in darkness and in doubt, who are fearful. For that
quieting through the gaining of patience in self may enable
the entity to give that light and that instruction necessary
for the guiding of many.
Venus makes for close friendships with those whom the entity
finds in its experience; not only as a great love for its
fellow man but in making for ties that hold, of the spirit
rather than of the flesh. Hence kindred souls in all walks
of life may find in associations with the entity much that
becomes as a complement, as a helpment [helper? helpmate?
helpmeet?] to their own struggles. This is expressed in a
truth He gave: "Who is my brother? Who is my mother? Who
is my sister? They that do the will of my father in heaven,
the same are my mother, my brother, my sister."
THIS is the love that all should come to know, even as it has
been attained in a great measure by this entity through the
experiences it has gained in its sojourns. And more and more
will the entity become aware of same in ACTIVE tolerance and
ACTIVE patience.
In Uranus we find the extremist influences, that have been
experienced by the entity in the present and that come as
urges in the experiences day by day. Oft, from that sojourn
or environ in the Uranian experience, does the entity find
itself IMPELLED - as it were - to do this or that; which may
be entirely at variance to what reason or cold reason would
tell the entity. And it makes for those experiences with
its friendships, or a certain portion of same, wherein the
entity seems to be - or appears to others to be - SOMEWHAT
peculiar or odd in its choice of this or that activity in
relationships to its associations, its reading, its study,
its line of endeavor in this or that manner of recreation.
All of these become a portion of the entity's urge and
experience; as does also the interest in things that are
psychic or occult or mystic, these have a part in the urges
in the experience of the entity. Hence mystical signs,
mystical numbers, mystical conditions have much to do with
the entity at times. And these may come in the VISION and
in the dreams (that have been for the time set aside), more
and more as the entity turns to those PATIENCE applications.
For, as will be seen, the entity made FOR the priest the
Urim and the Thummim!
And the entity may give much of that which comes as an
influence in the experiences through the deeper meditation;
much constructive counsel to those that seek into the
mysteries that are hidden in the activities of those who
would give their expression of that they have conceived
from the Spirit, that MOTIVATES them in their activities.
Then, in these do we find the greater influences from the
astrological sojourns.
As to the appearances in the earth and those that influence
the entity in the present, we find - while far apart in
their activity - these have been those that bring to the
entity much of the urges that arise through the emotional
nature of the entity in THIS PRESENT manifestation, or
materialization:
Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present
nativity, but in and about that known as the Vinland
[Vineland - See
261-21, Par. 28-A on
4/28/36 giving correct
location as now 987-2 Salem, Mass., then all of what is now
Cape Cod area, Providence & Newport, Rhode Island] or about
Provincetown and Salem, during the early periods of those
activities when the persecutions arose for those who heard
the unusual, who experienced the moving of an influence or
force from without themselves.
The ENTITY then was close to many of those who were beset
by such experiences; hearing, knowing, experiencing many
sides of the material manifestations; hearing and knowing
many sides of the influences in the experiences of those
that HAD the meetings and were acquainted with such
activities.
Then the entity was close to, and the companion of, the
minister in the Salem activity; one Nancy Donnelly.
In the experience the entity gained; yet those things that
made for the fear of material suffering, the fear of what
people said in criticism, builded much that was hard to be
borne in the experience of the entity during that sojourn.
Yet the entity, it may be said, gained in the mental and
spiritual experience; and has brought to this present
sojourn that influence wherein the entity hears much that
others would say or would give of their activity, of their
experience, and has judged oft well, has judged oft according
to those experiences as the minister's helper.
This is a portion that must be met in that activity of
tolerance, in that active patience in self.
The abilities from that sojourn are towards the setting down
of data pertaining to the intricate activities or details
of an experience; these become a portion of the entity in
its greater activity.
The entity's social life, its marital life, its relations
with its blood IN the present have arisen much from those
experiences.
The weirdness of Salem, also the weirdness of the vault or
any of those places wherein the dead have buried their dead,
finds a gloom within the entity's experience. Yet those
places of beauty where there is honor for memory, the trust
is in the living God, bring an uplifting in the inmost being
of the entity. These are from those experiences, as it heard
the sound of those calls during that Provincetown period.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as
the Persian or Arabian, when there were the gatherings of
many to the city in the hills and in the plains.
The entity was of those Persian peoples, or the first of the
Croesus'; being in the relations to or in the household of
the king.
And as there came to be the greater understanding of the
tenets and truths given by the teacher Uhjltd, that brought
not only health in body but a balance in the mental minds
of those that came to the city in the plains for instructive
forces, the entity was one who rose to the position of the
Princess after the destruction of the king's daughter in the
raid.
Then the entity rose to power, through the healing that was
brought in the body from the leader in the tented city.
And as it made application of those tenets, as it gathered
those of its own household and of its own kingdom for the
profession and application of those things that had been
gathered from the teacher, much came to the entity and to
the surroundings of same, in power, in glory, in the
beautiful things that were builded in that land.
From that experience in the present the entity finds that
those things oriental, those things pertaining to the
Persian plaids and Persian silks, those brocaded conditions
that were made by many of the entity's associates for their
helpfulness in bringing beauty to those peoples, become - as
it were - an influence in the entity's present experience.
And those tenets held as we have indicated will make for
harmonious experience and the joy of same; as do certain
sounds of music, certain sounds of chant, certain sounds
of activity, bring to the entity an awakening and a
consciousness of a movement from within that awakens
something as the entity experienced during that sojourn.
Before that we find the entity was in that land, that period,
when the chosen people were being given upon the holy mount
the manner of their exercise in the temple, or in the service
before the tabernacle.
The entity then was among the daughters of Levi, and those
chosen to make the vestment of the priest. And to the
entity, because of its own abilities, there was given the
preparation of the settings of the breastplate and the
putting of the stones thereon, and the preparation of the
Urim and Thummim for the interpretations of the movements
that came upon the high priest in the holy of holies to be
given to his people in or from the door of the tabernacle.
Then in the name Henriettah, the entity's activities were
in a high force EQUAL TO the cousin, Miriam.
Throughout the experience the entity gained; for it reasoned
with Nadab and Abihu; it counseled for Korah, yet did not
allow self to become entangled in any of those influences
that would have made for the rise to the position of fame.
Rather did the entity choose to remain as one in the
background that there might be given the greater
understanding to that mighty people as they stood in the
presence of the I AM that had brought them to the holy
mount.
In the present from that sojourn, those things pertaining
to the mysteries of the temple, the mysteries of numbers,
of figures, and those things that have their hidden meaning,
become as a portion of the entity. Yet oft does there
arise that sudden change as to the fearfulness of people
giving too great a power to such things that would lead them
astray; as they did in the experience of the entity in the
wilderness.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known
as the Indian and Egyptian, during those periods when there
were the gatherings of those from many of the lands for the
correlating of the truths that were presented by Saneid in
the Indian land, by Ra-Ta in the Egyptian land, by Ajax from
the Atlantean land, by those from the Carpathian land, by
those from the Pyrenees, by those from the Incal and those
from the Oz lands, and by those from that activity which
will again be uncovered in the Gobi land.
And HERE the entity may find a great interest, a great power,
in the instructions and help that it may land to others in
their choosing the places of seeking for that knowledge that
may make for a more universality of thought THROUGHOUT the
universe in spiritual lines.
Then the entity was among the natives of the Egyptian land,
and rose to power through those cleansings in the Temple of
Sacrifice; then becoming a portion of the activative service
in the Temple Beautiful when it made for those abilities
within self to mete out to many those things necessary in
their physical and mental understanding.
And with the correlating of the thought, the entity became
first as the representative of the Temple Beautiful in the
Indian land; and later - and during the period of its
greatest height - in the land of the Gobi, or the Mongoloid.
THERE the entity was as the priestess in the Temple of Gold,
which is still intact there.
The entity then, as Shu-shent, made for great development;
and from those experiences in the present comes the abilities
for the teachings, for the minsterings, for the leading of
many.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present (though
much more might be given, especially of the activities of
the entity as Shu-shent - for they were many), we find this
is the activity necessary:
Keep that faith thou INNATELY hast in the ONENESS of power
in the Creative Forces as it makes for manifestations in the
hearts and minds of men; and as ye do it in thy activities
with thy fellow man, as ye do it in thy meditation, as ye
do it in thy mind, so will it be meted to thee in thine
inner self. For all must pass under the ROD; but He has
tempered this with mercy and judgement. So must ye temper
thine judgements, so must ye find thy patience, so must ye
find those things within self that make for the answer of
thyself before the Throne of grace. For if ye would have
mercy ye must show mercy to thy fellow man; yea to thine
very enemy, to those that despitefully use you. Laugh with
those who laugh; mourn with those who mourn, in the Lord.
KEEP thy paths straight, and ye will find GLORY - GLORY -
unto thyself!
In the writing of books, in the ministry of tracts or tenets
that may be helpful in song, in verse; in these are thy
activities. But forsake not thy faith in the ONENESS of
Truth!
Ready for questions.
(Q) Have I an inferiority complex, and what can I do to
overcome it?
(A) As we have indicated, through the urge from the Uranian
influence we find experiences that make for individuals
speaking so as to make the entity conscious that it has
acted quickly without thought; that it has acted quickly
by an urge from within; but not an inferiority complex.
Rather is there the necessity, as we have indicated, to meet
such experiences with patience; and to have TOLERANCE with
those that misjudge. For say oft, "They know not what they
do!"
(Q) What am I best fitted for, to make my life more
interesting in the way of accomplishment?
(A) As indicated in the preparation of tracts, in the
preparation of data, in the preparation of songs, of music,
in the preparation of rhythmical movements for those who are
seeking. For it may be said of this entity as of very few,
that in such preparations it would never allow those using
same to lose sight of the oneness of power. And so few there
be who write or meditate, or who give formulas for others,
that do not let the FORMULA become the power RATHER than the
influence being sought!
(Q) How can my husband [
1021] be influenced to develop his
spiritual nature?
(A) Not by might nor by power, but "by my word, saith the
Lord of hosts!" Be patient, be kind, be gentle. A hint
here, an understanding there; add little by little will it
be seen that the little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Not my might would thou cause him to do this or that, but
let thy activities and thy word be of such a nature, such
a character, that they IMPEL - by the desire to be more
and more in a oneness of accord with those in thine own
surroundings.
(Q) How can I improve memory and concentration?
(A) Study well that which has been given through these
sources on Meditation. Through meditation may the greater
help be gained. As it has been indicated oft to the body,
DO IT and leave the results to the Creative Forces; for they
are a part of thee. Let thy light so shine (for thou hast
gone far on the highway) that others, seeing, may take hope
and find that song, too, that springs oft within thy breast.
We are through for the present.
Copy to Self
Copy to Ass'n file
(See booklet [which was enclosed] on Meditation; also
see lesson [which was enclosed] on Patience.)
BACKGROUND
She had a Physical Reading on
8/07/35, see
987-1.
REPORTS
8/27/35 Mr. [
257]'s letter: "Mrs. [
987] says you, Gertrude
and your dad are the most wonderful people she ever met. He
(Mr. [
1021]) is coming down after Sept. 6th. You'll be crazy
about him and he'll do things for you and with you. He is
convinced in the physical 100%. She hasn't shown the 'life'
yet - she wants him to see the reading (his own) first."
10/13/35 She obtained rdgs. for husband, Mr. [
1021]. [11/38
We heard that she and Mr. [
1021] had "split up."]
10/15/35 She referred Mrs. [
1020] for a Physical and Life
Reading; also Mrs. [
1023], Mrs. [
1026].
10/29/35 She referred Mrs. [
1038], Mrs. [
1040], Miss [
1039]
for Physical Readings; Mr. [
1029], and Mrs. [
1028].
4/10/36 She referred Mrs. [
1140] and Mrs. [
1142] for a
Physical Reading.
11/10/36 She referred Mrs. [
1288].
11/01/37 She obtained a Ck. Physical - See
987-3.
11/02/37 She obtained a Mental-Spiritual - See
987-4.
2/16/44 Letter reporting on her Ck. Physical and subsequent
correspondence in re her studies, as a result of 987-2,
see under
987-5 Reports, indicating that she became a
psychologist, lecturer on Cosmology, Psychology and
Religion, Hypnosis and Extra-sensory perception, etc.
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