1/09/36 EC's letter to [
1089]:
"...Thanks for yours of the 5th, and for your writing me as
you did. Think I can appreciate your feelings in the matter
better than most. I, of course, [
1089], am not a
psychologist, from the study standpoint at least, but I
believe if one will read the Good Book they will become one
without doubt. Yes, if it is possible, will be fine for you
to come, have a good long talk with me, believe can help you
understand. Of course the real work, [
1089], you will have
to do yourself. Study the paper very closely on Meditation
and apply it in your own way and manner, and you will get a
real awakening and one that will help.
"Sex, of course, is a great factor in everyone's life; it is
the line between the great and the vagabond, the good and the
bad; it is the expression of reactive forces in our very
nature; allowed to run wild, to self-indulgence, becomes
physical and mental derangement; turned into the real
influence it should be in one's life, connects man closer
with his God, and that is the use you should put it to. That
the expression of same becomes PSYCHIC in its nature is true,
and the visions the body experiences is that the mind holds
as its ideal, its goal to attain. The call has always been
to every man and woman, 'If ye will be my people, I will be
your God.' We, as individuals, have to accept that
challenge. We say we believe it, then the only thing to do
is to act like it. We are all 'Gods in the making' for we
seek to be one with Him even as the Son, Jesus Christ, who
has said and promised, 'that ye do and ask in my name, that
will ye do, for as I abide in the Father and ye in me, so
may the Father be glorified in the earth.' If we let our
minds run to baser things, then we lose sight of His Power
working in us, for man alone can and does defy God. His
love is ours if we will use it, but in relying on self or
depending alone on man-made things we lose sight of His
promises, and thus lose our way in the maze of conflicting
emotions that arise through the experiences that confront
us. But if we hold fast to His love we grow in grace and
knowledge and understanding, for the Godly life is a growth;
not a cloak put on and taken off, but a growth.
"That your experience has brought you manifestations that
have at times, or often, expressed themselves in sex is not
to be wondered at, when we realize that that is the
expression of creative life in the earth. But if we lose
sight that it is an expression of God and accredit it to
something else, we deny the very promises He has made us
all.
"Study over the reading, [
1089], read with it the 14th, 15th,
16th and 17th chapters of St. John; then read Romans 12, and
you will catch a vision of what has been promised and how it
may be fulfilled in your own experience.
"That you have been shown in vision, in many mysterious ways,
is still proof of what has been said by the Psalmist, 'He
will give His angels charge concerning thee, lest at any time
you dash your foot against a stone.' But if we continue to
deny the faith, well, He departs or rather we accept some
other way.
"You possibly have heard from [
1005] before this, who is
planning to come here in the next few weeks, last of the
month or something like that. You can see him if you decide
to come and come together; will be much cheaper for you, and
you know will be glad to see you and to do anything in the
world I can to help you get yourself straight.
"Hold fast to yourself in Christ Jesus. That is your hope
and your promise, that in HIS NAME you can do even great
things, even as He..."
1/13/36 HLC's letter to [
261]:
"...Now, relative to another matter which I believe will be
of special interest to you. A request came in a couple of
weeks ago for a Physical Reading for a young man who is
attending the University of ... His name as you will see is
[
1089]. For some time, I do not know just how long, he has
been troubled with peculiar experiences and has sought the
assistance of his professor in psychology to explain these.
He has grown worse under the treatments given him. His
condition includes periods of depression and emotional
instability, sensations as of drifting off into space,
hearing voices, etc. His reading indicated unusual psychic
ability. In fact I do not remember of hearing a reading
which suggested the possibility of such remarkable psychic
development. The matter is of special interest to me due to
the fact that years ago when we asked how my father's work
could be carried on the reading stated [GD's note:
7/28/29
See
137-123, Par. 17-A, 20-A.] that we would contact a young
man with whom [
341] had been closely associated in a past
incarnation, who would develop into a very wonderful psychic.
This boy [
1089] is just the proper age as given in the
reading and I had a strange sensation while listening to his
reading.
"Would you care to sponsor his reading on your research
membership and follow the development of his case? You are
credited with four possible readings. I will be glad to send
you a copy of his reading and advise him of your sponsorship.
His family is in very moderate circumstances and he is trying
to work his way through school. The case should prove very
interesting and I will be glad to keep you in touch with its
developments..."
[GD's note: At above writing we did not have [
1089]'s
birth date, which we later found to be not the same as
specified for Peter's rebirth in 1913.]
1/23/36 See
1089-3.
GD's note: See subsequent correspondence in date sequence
under [
1089]'s subsequent readings.
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