GC: You will have before you the entity [
993], born April
19, 1890, in Norfolk, Va. You will examine the records of
this entity and give detailed information regarding the past
incarnations which have the greatest influence in her present
life in regard to the continuity of her spiritual
development; considering Virginia as Nettie F. Fairfax,
France during exile of Charles II as Roula, Trojan period as
Ialea, Persia as Uhjltd's daughter Uldha, Egypt as Iskxe,
American plateau as Uzld, or any others which have a bearing
- especially the Palestine sojourn in association with the
Master if it can now be given. If any one particular
sojourn has a greater influence than any of the others in
this life, you will give a biographical life of the entity
in that day and plane of earthly existence, from entrance -
and how - into the earth's plane, and the entity's
departure, giving the development or retarding points in
such an existence. Also you will correlate such information
with the present experience, advising how the entity may
best apply self to make for the greatest spiritual
development. You will then answer the questions she has
submitted, concerning her present life and associations:
EC: This is quite a large order, considering all the various
ones and the judgments as to activities and usages of that as
indicated in the present experience of the entity.
Yes - we are given the records here of that entity now known
as or called [
993].
In analyzing or attempting to interpret those activities of
the entity in the various experiences, these have been
indicated - and the urges that are a portion of the present
experience have been outlined.
As to choices of those having the greater bearing, or as to
corrective measures to be made by the entity, these must
necessarily be answered from within self.
There may be indicated for the entity that which has been
minimized in the faults and that which has been or may be
magnified in the virtues, as expressed or manifested in each.
Yet as the law, the love of God has indicated, the activities
in the present are to be willing choices of the entity
according to the ideals that are a part of the experience.
In giving the interpretations of other appearances, or that
which has been indicated for the entity as to its
associations with the Master and those through that
experience, - this may be indicated in the present, if there
will be the acceptance of it in that desire and purpose with
which it may be given in the present.
For, through the experience all was not good; neither was all
bad. Because of associations and activities through the
present experience, this has been withheld; not because of
that indicated but because of the needs for growth in that to
be determined within the purposes of self as to the
activities in the present material plane.
As may be indicated from that sojourn through those periods,
it is not knowledge that is so important but the wisdom in
application of that known. It is not what or how much one
knows that counts, but what one does about that it knows, or
experiences; or as to whether self and its attitudes are to
be exalted or whether self-exaltation is to be renounced in
that the activities are to induce or produce growth in
spiritual determinations, - such as to bring about attitudes,
characteristics, manners of thinking and ways of
determination through a given experience.
Then, in giving the biographical sketch of that indicated
through the Palestine experience; the entrance, the varied
activities, the applications, and that as may be manifested
in the present from same:
It is well that something of those activities through the
land be given here, that there may be the understanding of
the background of the entity or the view of that taking place
which caused the entity to act or react in those varying
attitudes as assumed there.
There were those various groups that held to what might be
called determining factors or principles. As would be termed
in the present, there was the group that held to the orthodox
Jewish belief - holding to the law and the prophets as the
way of acceptance and grace in the spiritual sense. There
was a mixed group - as the Samaritans - who, as for
edification, were as well versed in the law as were those
of the more orthodox belief in that particular period, but
differed as to the manners in which there was the more oft
the interpreting of the laws by the ministers and teachers
in the synagogues of the day. Also the adherents to the
Samaritanic law felt that they were just as well in keeping
with the days, the seasons, the moons, the various
activities, as were those of the more orthodox groups. The
only factor dividing these was the differing as to place of
worship; yet the orthodox had little of that in common with
other groups. Then there were the divers groups, as well as
the Essenes - that had set themselves as a channel through
which there was expected to be the fulfilling in that
particular period of those promises indicated from the first
promise to Eve unto the last as had been recorded by
Malachi. These were individuals who in their activities of
daily life were in keeping with neither of the first
indicated groups. Then there were those of the Grecian and
Roman faiths, who held to that idea of glorifying the body
itself as a channel through which there might be sought
manifestation by the divine - if there was a choice made by
the divine, or if there were the divine (according to their
reasoning).
This entity then came into activity in that heterogeneous or
conglomerate thought, - in the name then Ulai. The parentage
of the entity was one Archaus - a close adherent of the
Essene's thought yet of the orthodox group - and of one (the
mother) who was a close associate of the mother of Martha,
Mary and Lazarus, in the name Josada.
Then, the entity was brought up in the tenets or schools of
thought that had attempted to be a reconstruction of the
former activities established by Elijah in Mount Carmel.
Hence, coming under the influence of ALL of these tenets, the
entity was greatly confused through its early experience.
The entity had the greater teachings, or was acquainted with
the greater teachings of the Carmelites - now the Essenes -
and of the orthodox groups that held to the service in the
temple and the close associations with these of the students
and exponents of the Roman and Grecian people. It was to
these latter mentioned teachings that the entity turned more,
in its early years.
Thus when there were the first presentations to the entity of
the thought as to the teachings of the Nazarene, and the
entity having rejected John as a disciple or even a
forerunner, these appeared as mysteries to the entity.
Hence oft in its activities the entity grew cold, and again
very enthusiastic as to the varying forms of activities, -
both as to the social and as to the more strict religious
groups.
Thus we find that urge which eventually has become a part of
the entity, from the experience there, - the urge to adhere
to a necessary form, the following of a chart or of a manner
- as to posture or position, as well as to the other
determining factors according to that taught. Yet, to the
entity each must respond to something in the material nature.
This is not indicating that the entity is a materialist in
the present; far from it! Rather that there are the needs
for something that responds to the MATERIAL application FROM
the lesson taught, or the illustration given.
In those days of the Master's teachings when He journeyed oft
in Bethany, and with the return of Mary after the conversion
and the casting out of the demons, - this brought even
greater confusion to the entity. For, to the entity, how
COULD anyone who had been SUCH a person - or who had so
disregarded persons except for the material gains - become an
honored one among those, or in association with a household
of ones such as Lazarus and Martha.
Hence the entity withheld self from such associations, until
there were the periods in which Lazarus was ill of a fever -
that today would be called the slow fever, or typhoid - and
there was the eventual death. Then the entity was among
those of the mourners, - not the hired mourners, - and came
in contact again with Mary and Martha during those periods of
the Master's expressions regarding the activities among His
disciples; not the Apostles but the disciples.
And to the entity even today, the shortest verse recorded is
that to which the entity responds the more oft, deepest
within self.
For, with that concept of how He - the friend - wept with
those of His friends in the face of criticism, in the company
of the great and near great - there came a conviction to the
entity that changed the whole concept of the entity as to the
purposes, as to the whys and wherefores of that which had
taken place in the mind and the heart of Mary; also as to why
and how that Martha and Lazarus had again accepted this
sister into their home, their company.
From that experience, and the raising of Lazarus, the entity
became rather among those seeking then to know something of
the heart and the experience of the Mother. And the entity
made that journey to notify the Mother of that taking place
in Jerusalem; missing the triumphal entry, but among those
that saw and heard and spoke with the Master on the way to
Calvary.
This brought the entity close into association then with
those of the group later designated as the Apostles.
The entity remained with or carried the Mother, not to John's
home but to her own. Later, when there were those periods of
rejoicing over the knowledge of the resurrection, the
meetings of the disciples and Apostles in the upper room, the
entity then went with the Mother - Mary - to the home of John
and saw her established there.
Later the entity became very active in the various meetings
which took place until the completing of those days when
Pentecost came.
The entity was among those who harkened to the speech, as it
were, of Peter upon that day.
Then, becoming acquainted with the young converts of the
Grecians as well as those in Laodicea, and with the
separating of those when persecutions arose and Stephen was
stoned, there was an aversion held by the entity as to the
activities of Paul - or Saul during that particular period -
such that it necessitated the entity withdrawing alone. For,
Stephen was a close friend of Lucius, Luke, AND those of the
younger group that became the companions of the teachers.
But with the spread of the teachings as brought about by the
breaking up of the Holy Women (of which the entity was
classed, though among the younger of that group), the entity
joined in the church activities in Laodicea.
With what was termed by some the faithlessness of Lucius, and
preached so even by Paul, the entity almost renounced all, -
and brought about what might be called the first separation
in the church in Laodicea.
Because of the entity's activities, differences spread in
many of the churches, not only in the local activities around
Laodicea but in Antioch and in Pygarga, Jerusalem and in
Patmos.
It was not until there was the report of Peter as to how the
Gentiles had been and were having the out-pouring of the Holy
Spirit that there was again the unison, or the united
activity of the entity, wholly, with those in the original of
the group churches.
Hence we find that throughout the rest of the entity's
experience - though as the companion of one who became a
leader in the Antioch church, and eventually the head of the
deacons of the church, - one Pathaos - the entity made for
the greater developments; never tiring of the instruction to
the young - her own as well as those of the church, as well
as the groups of the various faiths - concerning the
happenings at Bethany, the speech of Stephen.
These were the great centers from which the entity drew
through that experience, and may be those from which the
entity in the present may oft gather deep within self that as
is the safer course, that as is the assurance in the periods
of distress, disappointments, aggravation.
But know - as ye understood - He IS indeed the resurrection.
He is indeed mindful of the sorrows as well as the joys of
mankind.
The entity lived through those activities to a good old age,
being eighty-seven (87); knowing through the period all of
the Apostles, as well as many of the teachers, ministers and
interpreters of the various phases of differences which arose
between Paul and Peter, Paul and Barnabas, Mark and Matthew,
Thomas and all the rest, - where there were differences and
questions as to manner, as to form, and as to WHO was
acceptable, and as to WHO might be trusted.
In the present, then, let not those of faults or failures
make for questionings. It is not what one once did that
counts, but what one WILL do about that it knows to do today!
Let that mind be in thy activities as ye found in self in His
presence when He wept with Mary, Martha and that household.
Let that mind be in thee as was when ye listened to Stephen,
as he brought about the explaining of the various influences
which had brought about the different beliefs of the groups
of which ye were a part in thy early experiences in that
land.
Know that they all came to that conclusion as HE gave, - that
he alone whom thou crucifiest may give that forgiveness as
may bring one into the consciousness of the abiding presence
of the Christ.
Be in that mind ye had as ye listened and saw those of all
tongues, all faiths, hear the words of Peter as he sought for
all to put away the thoughts of self and to accept, believe
and be baptized.
In those thoughts remain steadfast, - in that belief as so
well expressed by one whom ye later learned to reverence, but
who so oft brought disappointment and turmoil to thee, - that
"Others may believe this or that, but on Jesus the Christ do
I stand, as the Savior, and him crucified." That is the hope
of man. That IS thy hope.
Preach that. Practise that.
Crucify in self, then, that which might in any way hinder
thee, or that might influence others to doubt or to fear.
Or, as he expressed it, "Be ye all things to all men, that ye
may thereby save the more."
Seek not to justify thyself in thought or belief. For, the
glorifying of His tenets, His truths, is that necessary in
thy own life day by day.
The spirit is willing, the flesh is weak, - but hate not the
flesh for its weakness; and know that in materiality they are
one, that must coordinate as the body, the mind and the soul,
if one would be creative in body, mind or spirit. For He,
the Lord, in the Christ, is one; and His ways are not beyond
approach. For He stands at the door and knocks, even as He
did at the tomb as He called Lazarus to come forth.
For He overcame death, hell AND the grave by His wholly
trusting in the love of the Father.
So may YE in all things, in this time, come to know the
manner in which ye may make His love known the better in the
earth; by glorifying tears, by glorifying love, by glorifying
joy. None of these are excuses, neither are they
justifications in material things. It is only as ye apply
that ye know that ye grow.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Was I associated with Martha [
560], the sister of
Lazarus; if so, how?
(A) Read that just given. A cousin, and - of course -
closely associated after the death of Lazarus.
(Q) Can the interpretation now be given of the dream [See
993-4, Par. 31-A]] in which I saw myself as a child in
Persia, which seems to connect with the Palestine sojourn?
(A) (Interrupting) We do not have this as a dream in the
present.
We are through for the present.
Copy to Self
Copy to Ass'n file
BACKGROUND
See previous readings.
REPORTS
Questions submitted which did not get asked:
(If Persia) What period in Biblical history did this sojourn
parallel? By what name was my brother Zend (Zan) listed in
Biblical history? By what name, if any, was the "city in the
hills & plains" referred to in Biblical history? Did I have
other brothers and sisters? Was Ujndt [
2091] my whole or
half brother, - older or younger? Regarding my present
associations: Is it for our mutual development that Mary
Robinson and I continue making our home together? If so,
please advise how I should conduct myself in regard to her
antagonistic attitude toward my activities outside the home?
What is my number taken on at the time of conception? Can
anything more now be given regarding my life seal? Please
explain the feeling of sadness at night before going to
sleep?
8/14/41 See
2574-1, Par. 51-A in re their past association in
Laodicea.
8/17/41 See
262-128, Par. 17-A personal message on
Righteousness Versus Sin.
1/26/42 "I wish to thank you for the privilege of joining you
in prayer for divine guidance. It is the world's only
salvation. As it was Uhjltd [
294] who taught me to pray, I
have not forgotten. I am very grateful for all you have done
for me in the past and present. As I expressed to you on
Sunday, what the rdgs. have accomplished in my life, they
have been always helpful at the time given, but they seem to
ripen with age."
5/13/42 See
281-61, Par. 6-A personal message.
7/30/42 See
5746-1 Par. 14-A in re dream of [
294] and [
993]
yrs. ago in re Egyptian plaques.
8/30/42 She wrote she was nursing her brother Walter,
suffering from a heart condition.
11/08/42 See her Aura Chart Reading -
993-6.
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