3/10/36 EC's letter to [
1089]:
"...Had wondered what had become of you, but found your
letter of the 20th here when we came back from Detroit; glad
to hear from you, though would guess from what you say, you
are not in the most optimistic frame of mind. Everything
seems to break just before you get there, but isn't that the
natural law? And after all, should it not be that way for
the best for man? For, when changes come in our lives we
should stop and consider well what we are undertaking. We
have a wonderful example in the temptation of the Master,
and it did not happen when he was 21, but 30. And then he
went apart, was alone, and after forty days of fasting, then
the temptation. Are we greater than our Master?
"Of course, [
1089], you are at that place in your experience
when you must make decisions for yourself - can't anyone do
it for you, for when they did, you would have the same old
excuse that Adam had, 'The woman thou gavest me gave me to
eat' or my friend or this or that persuaded me and I did
that. You will have to listen to the still, small voice
within.
"Sure, there is a reason for everything. Everything happens
by a law and we can know that law as a law of LOVE, will we
but apply ourselves in that way 'for he has not willed that
any should perish but has, with every temptation prepared a
way of escape' and 'He is the same yesterday and forever'
and if we are his we may walk and talk with Him.
"Better take the school of experience, a hard teacher, but
a very thorough one, and one we are not likely to forget
soon. Either get you a job carrying papers, selling shoes,
or one that will force you to meet people, but don't look
for the easy one. Choose rather the hard one that has some
definite goal at the end and keep that goal in sight.
Work toward that end, keeping the standard always before
you. Measure everything by that standard and rather keep
the consideration in your mind and ponder them in your
heart. Have your secret moments alone when you talk with
HIM all about it all, and he has never turned a deaf ear to
anyone, no matter what their associations were; whether they
collected taxes from a people who thought the tax all wrong,
and the people that collected "them worse, or whether they
directed soldiers, and they about him thought him all wrong
for being a soldier or whatnot, for the law is 'When ye call
I will HEAR' and when we begin to feel 'because of my
position in life, I can't do this or that' we but excuse
ourselves, and fall away into the errors of our fathers of
old.
"Go to the country, is my suggestion. But if that doesn't
suit you, why it is the place to go, but there you might
improve your body and mind. Oh yes, many can and do say that
with an education, why bury yourself in the dirt. Well the
best educated man of all time of old found it well to care
for sheep even though he was educated in all the mysteries of
the Egyptians, and there near to nature he learned about GOD,
and it was there he was called, and not in the house of
plenty and we just can't improve on God's plans and ways of
working with men. We think so at times, but we only fool
ourselves, and Solomon said they that do such are not wise,
but foolish. The fourth dimension, well why not see that in
the third and be able to use the advantages of same? For,
nothing is impossible with HIM and if we are his, who can be
against us? No one that matters but our own selves.
"Or to the city - I personally got off to some start in
Louisville. Yet, I would never advise one to undertake it
unless something within themselves calls for just that.
"Listen, [
1089], Thomas [House] is starting the work with the
preparations that have been given here; will need some sort
of help. Can you fit in there? If so, why not ask him for
such a place. You can find out what he will need and is as
good a shot as any if this country and environs would answer
to your needs, for after all, it isn't going to be this or
that place, but rather for what purpose ye enter in. We see
a good example in Saul, a fine mule driver and a wonderful
prophet, but a poor king. But what is the promptings of thy
heart, what is thy standard?
"Perhaps you will say I have here, only beat about the bush
and haven't said one thing that is definite. But you listen,
my boy. Knowledge of God is a growth. You know the way, you
have a workable knowledge, but are you willing to put into
practice in your own life that you know? No one can make
that decision for you nor tell you in what particular spot to
put it to work; that you alone can answer. For, you well
know God cannot save you unless you want to be saved, and if
you want to be it is up to you and to act that way,
literally, personally, spiritually. The triune exists for it
is a three dimensional world, you know.
"If I have been vague, don't fall out with me. Know this:
There is no one that thinks more of you than I - possible few
that realize the possibilities that are within you, but the
working out of the usefulness of those abilities are alone
with you. God is willing, but is [
1089]?
"Let me hear from you real often. Know if there is ever
anything that I can do knowingly, am only too anxious to do
it.
"All are pretty fair here; am feeling a lot better myself. I
still have a spell now and then, but am working out of it
with the suggestions that have been given. I hope your
father is feeling lots better. There must be a source of
the infection that causes the neuritis. It is, as you know,
a symptom and not a disease of itself. He should be able to
find it by taking stock of self and then relieve it. How is
your mother and Aunt [...]? Give them my love. Take care of
yourself. You have a great work to do, and it is time that
you were about your Father's business; the same old thing
that Moses said to his people in the 30th chapter of
Deuteronomy; that Joshua said in his last admonition; that
Jesus said when He was ready to depart; that John says in the
last chapter of Revelation, 'today will ye but hear his
voice.' Then do something about it..."
3/15/36 [
1089] wrote questions to HLC which HLC answered
6/19/36 under
1089-6 Reports.
5/01/36 Mr. [
1089] wrote that he hadn't had the nerve to write
sooner, since he had done nothing to report:
"...However, I know one thing: If I didn't know what I found
out from the readings, I would probably have departed from
this earth before now... I guess my feelings are always at
the tips of my fingers, but what people do say is frightful
to me. The peculiar thing to me is that I never have said
anything about anything to anyone except the family and yet
people say and hail me as a 'socialist' ["Someone mentioned
spiritualist, thinking of your work, and someone else
misinterpreted it 'socialist'."] - 'crazy' and other things
too silly to mention... Concerning sex relationship, people
of my own sex affect me almost to distraction. What must I
do in order to make myself attracted to the opposite sex?
Would it be advisable to change my present environment? If
so, suggest a location where I will have the greatest
opportunity to gain. What is the proper attitude to take
towards my religion? How must I feel when in company with
people who are antagonistic towards me? What is the cause of
my always having a quivering feeling?..."
6/12/36 [
1089] submitted other questions.
6/16/36 [
1089] obtained
1089-6.
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