About the entity we find much that may be indicative of those
influences in the earth that are as the appearances. These,
as we find, bespeak of associations with heraldry, banners,
swords, stays and the like; the shield with the bow, the
coloring and the reflection of green fields and woods. And
the clash that is made in resistances of individuals as to
purposefulness, force, power, might of main, becomes
associated with the entity.
From those experiences we find that omens arise. Not that
they influence, but create by their VIBRATION an element
through which the MENTAL and the spiritual forces of the
entity may vibrate for constructive experience in their
activity.
The pearl and the moonstone, these in combination or in
their setting alone, are well to have about the body.
As to flowers - the pansy, in its reproduction of its
vibrations from the earth, is active in such manners as to
become centralizing for the entity in its meditation.
The astrological aspects, too, are as influences; yet
these are dependent upon what the entity does ABOUT their
relationships with the entity's activity.
STILL, there may be innate those influences from sojourns of
the entity in those environs that may be builded as a helpful
influence in the experience.
Then, the influence from Mercury in THIS entity's experience
we find making for rather the enquiring mind, the delving
into the varied activities of others and their experiences
with same - as to what their delving produced as mental
reactions. And the entity in itself tends to draw
conclusions from experiences of others. Not that the
entity shuns its responsibility in such, but draws upon
those influences that have been in the experience of others
as well as how they may weigh with self's own experience.
From Mars also we find a benevolent influence, so that in
the entity's experience it may be found that oft upon the
activities of others in disputes, in wrath, in anger, there
may come from the entity's own attitude - as to its mental
influences - conditions and experiences even in the MATERIAL
world that are beneficent influences in the entity's
activity.
In Jupiter we find a widening, a broadening influence; so
that things pertaining to travel, to people of other lands,
to things of other ages and other climes, make for that upon
which the entity may dwell; and which also may be used as a
stepping-stone for understandings.
From Venus we find both a benevolent and a cross influence.
And these through experiences in the earth, dependent upon
the manner in which the entity uses its opportunities in
relations to each, may become stumblingblocks or
stepping-stones; dependent upon whom and IN whom the trust is
made in the innate influences in self through such
experiences. Yet it makes for a hopefulness. While there
are periods of pessimism, the optimism is the greater in the
experiences that may arise in its relationships with its
fellow man.
Then, look upon every association that the entity may have
with those through whom others may be aided as an opportunity
of being a channel of expression for that in which the entity
has given its experiences in the earth as a manner of showing
forth His love. Thus may these be turned into great
blessings to the entity.
Too, there may be made that which will make for growing
friendships, and a better understanding of those that are
the closer in their relationships to the body in the
MATERIAL world.
As to the appearances in the earth, then, we find that
these were those making for periods when changes were being
wrought, that became far-reaching in their influence upon the
economic world, the mental and the religious thought of those
dwellers in the earth:
Before this we find the entity was in the land of its present
nativity, when there were those periods of the settlings in
the land in and about what is now called Chicago, or
Dearborn.
It was not during those periods when the settlers were being
driven away, but the entity was among those who became the
younger settlers in the land during that rebuilding, that
reestablishing of the activities that made for this position
in the EXPERIENCES of man in that portion of the earth, to
become an outlet in the economic and political influences.
But it also bore the brunt of those changes that were wrought
in man's thought and practice in the moral and spiritual life
of those portions of the peoples.
Then, in the name Lilyan Caldender, the entity became a
teacher and a minister. About the entity came to be much
of that which dealt with business influences and associations
and connections.
And the entity in the present has had an "eye," as it were,
for those activities of men in which their dealings and their
relationships with others would indicate to the entity the
tide or the turn in the affairs of a people, of a state, of a
nation.
Not that the entity, even THEN, took part in same. Rather
did the entity in the younger group, as the entity thought,
as the entity ministered to the physical needs of many during
the experience, build into the mental forces of those people
that which made for the MATERIAL experiences and
manifestations in the commercial and moral and religious or
mental associations during the period.
Gaining - yea, losing; gaining in service, gaining in the
loss of the thought of self-aggrandizement; losing when there
were such sides taken that the entity for a period lost, as
it were, control of itself.
Yet even during those experiences the entity found that those
things which would appear in an outward show would make for
that in the hearts of many in which they would come to put
their real interest, their real trust.
Before that we find the entity was in the Roman activities,
when there were those of the Roman soldiery with its pomp
that began with the Caesars, as the expansion began in other
lands.
The entity was among those that were born of the peoples in
control of the Holy Land, or Palestine, during the periods
when the Master walked in the earth.
Those experiences made for that which grew to be a barrier in
the experience of the entity from the material angle, yet the
soul, the mental forces grew through the associations that
came about during that sojourn.
Then the entity was among the ruling forces, and the
daughter of the leader of the soldiers under Pilate - one
Pontifus [?].
The entity then, in the name Charlene, through the soul and
spirit GAINED throughout. The pomp and glory in the earlier
portion of the experience came to mean much, and these find
in the present experience of the entity their place and their
usages; yet in the latter days - when the entity renounced
positions in the social life - there were periods of the
dread of same.
Hence the rattle of armament, the blaze of the trumpet, the
beat of the drums in certain conditions make even in the
present a tingling that runs through the system as a dread.
Then, those experiences make in the present for the love of
that for which the Master, in the sermon on the mount, stood.
And those words make for the same tingle, but it arises to
EXPRESSION; while the dread makes for the oppressions within
self.
Hold FAST to that thou hast gained in that thou didst learn
there, "The righteous SHALL inherit the earth." This was
that upon which the entity builded its experience during that
sojourn. Then, in the present hold to that understanding
that righteousness is not goodness as man counts goodness,
but goodness as the Giver of life has given unto the sons of
man. That thou hast purposed in the HEART, that thou dost
hold in the inner recesses of thy mind - THESE be
righteousness before the Father.
Before that we find the entity was in that now known as or
called the Persian or Arabian land, during those periods when
there were the heights - as it were - of the activities of
the teacher that had builded the 'city in the hills and the
plains.'
It was when those that came for healing were taught ALSO
that, "As ye do it to thy brethren, as ye show forth the
purpose for which ye entered, ye are healed."
In the experience the entity GAINED much through the
relationships.
Hence we find in the present the abilities in those
directions where the entity may COMFORT those that are
heavyhearted, those that have lost their way mentally,
those that have allowed stumblingblocks of grudges and of
hate to build that which prevents them from awakening to the
forces that lie within their inner selves. For THERE, in
the temple in the mind in self, hath He promised to meet all
who would open themselves to an understanding of their
relationships to Him.
In these efforts, physically, mentally, may the body in
the present make for the greater experience, the greater
manifestations WITH the use of that gained in, "The righteous
shall inherit the earth." For the teachings of both periods
were one; and the law is one, even as, "Know ye, O Israel,
the Lord thy God is ONE."
The name then was Celian.
Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land,
when there was the preparation of those that were to become
the emissaries and the teachers among those of varied lands,
where there were the attempts for the correlating of the
truths of the various groups or tribes in other portions of
the land.
The ENTITY was among those that were chosen for such
activities in the land of Taoi [?], in now the Gobi, or in
the Mongoloid activity. THEN the entity was a princess of
those peoples that were in command in the activities during
those experiences, in the name then Amesh-Eshi.
In the experience much of pomp was in the heraldry of the
peoples of that particular land; for gold was then as the
sands to those peoples.
And the entity's activities were in the Temple Beautiful
that was established in Taoi [?], which may some day be
brought to light - when there have been those concentrated
efforts in the direction to uncover the activities that will
make for a greater correlating of the facts that Truth is
that which grows in the hearts of men to make them aware of
THEIR relationships to their Maker.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to
which it may attain, and how:
In applying that thou hast in hand TODAY! Do today the
things thou KNOWEST to do; tomorrow it will be given thee
that thou shouldst do THEN.
Know in whom, in what thou hast believed. For as He has kept
thee as in the shadow of His hand, as He has upheld thee when
thou didst walk in the way, so may ye strengthen thy fellow
man.
Not in precept only, but in applying that thou KNOWEST to
do - WHERE thou art!
Ready for questions.
(Q) What is my work?
(A) As indicated; the way is for encouraging the weak,
the faint; in giving strength and courage to those who have
faltered here or there; in making for THESE in the
experiences of others is the greater work for the entity.
(Q) How may I get into it?
(A) Do TODAY the things thy hands find to do!
(Q) What do you see in store for me, and where would it be
best for me to fulfil my destiny?
(A) What hast thou in hand? TODAY? Use that thou hast,
where thou art! Let HIM guide thy ways. Put thyself into
HIS hands. Be THOU the channel, not telling Him where thou
wouldst work or labor or serve or BE served! but:
"Lord, I am Thine. Thou art mine. Use me as Thou seest
fit."
(Q) Can I finish my purpose in this incarnation, so that I
will not need to return to the earth?
(A) As may any; if they will but put OFF the old and on the
new - that is in Him; becoming aware of that I AM conscience
within self that becomes one with Him. Yes.
(Q) And how long will I have to do this?
(A) How long will you require?
(Q) How will I progress most in the present?
(A) By the application of that thou knowest to do, in
bringing awareness to others of His presence in them.
(Q) In what previous incarnations, and how, have I been
associated with my daughter, [...]?
(A) In those days in the Palestine land when ye leaned
heavily upon her, for not only much of that given in message
but for protection.
(Q) How can I best assist her at present?
(A) Make aware more and more that we rely on Him; as then.
(Q) With Mrs. [
509]?
(A) Here again we find the closer associations of these (in
the Palestine land). For as they came to know the messages,
they came to know more and more of His FREEDOM from those
things that BOUND men in superstition.
(Q) Why did my son [...] come into my life?
(A) For that balance necessary, as has been needed in the
experience - as in the Fort Dearborn activity.
We are through for the present.
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