This then should be in the experience of the entity held as
that goal, that position, that understanding. Not as
impelling others by a tirade, as by speech, but by so living,
by so acting that those things, those conditions, those
experiences are expressed in such ways and manners that
others seeing, others experiencing that which the entity has
done, does do about its experience with its ideal, become
aware of a living ensample, a living example unto others.
It is not what one knows that counts, but what one does about
that it knows! Then it is the application of these
attributes to which this soul, each soul, must adhere - to
prevent confusion, to bring about harmony, to bring about not
gratifying at all times but contentment in the experience;
that first of sincerity of purpose, that of longsuffering
with others, that of patience with self, that of
understanding of others' viewpoints - and seeing thyself as
others see thee in the light of that thou proclaimest to
others that thou believest.
These are as the tests, not only to self but to those to
whom, with whom the entity may converse or be associated in
its activities.
In the astrological forces we find Jupiter, Mercury, in the
benevolent influences. Hence the high moral effect of
associations with large numbers of peoples, that is impelled
upon the expression of the entity. This though of itself at
times becomes confusing; for Venus we find rather as an
adverse influence in those experiences in relationships to
individuals UNDER certain environs.
These then are the astrological forces, that we find are
rather unusual. Mars is rather not an adverse influence,
not benevolent, but the mystery force or influence in the
experiences of the entity.
For Mars represents and is the influence that makes for urges
within the innate forces of anger, madness, wrath, strength,
endurance. And these then in their more benevolent or
expressive ways have brought, will bring, the interesting
experiences, provided these are looked upon rather as
stepping-stones and helpful experiences than those that make
for the shortcomings.
Hindrances should not create in the experience of the entity,
then, the expressions from self of indifference or of grudges
or of hate; for these are of those influences and forces that
wreck, ruin, and bring dissension and strife, and those
things that make the heart of men afraid.
As to the appearances in the earth, these as we find are of
most interesting experiences and yet quite varied in their
aspects of material development, from those angles of
position, of power, of influence, when the entity COMPARES
same to the present experience. But each has been, each WILL
be, the opportunities for self-expression, but
self-expression OF a spiritual relationship to the Creative
Forces; rather than the opportunities for self-expression for
own indulgences, own glorifications or own position of fame
or fortune or the like - for these are earthy and they canker
and they decay and they make the heart sad.
In the experience then before this we find the entity was
among those early peoples of the land of the present
nativity, or birth; among those that were called the entity's
peoples, but during those periods when there were the
changes, the interlude or relationships established among
those peoples and those of other lands.
The entity then was associated and enjoined with one
Radcliffe [?]; being then in the name of what would be
transposed as Susan, or the "Little Sunset."
In the experience the entity gained much in becoming what
would be interpreted today as an understander of the
personalities of people. For the entity gained in its
ability to bring harmony and peace, to bring the establishing
of closer relationships of a helpful nature, in aiding those
peoples through the hardships of the frontier lands - as
would be termed.
Hence in the present experience the abilities for the
improvement of relationships of individuals for their
associations as one with another become as a natural
instinct, or as in those relationships of any nature that
tend toward the beautifying of body, beautifying of home,
beautifying of surroundings. All of these become as innate;
and manifested in the experiences of the entity in its
associations and dealings with its fellow man, in connection
with and coordinating with those principles or ideals that
should be the basis of every individual's activity; that
become materially gratifying, mentally satisfying,
spiritually developing.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as
the Roman, during those periods when there were the
returnings of the soldiery, the returning of individual
groups from other lands that brought the periods when
relationships were being established or studied, in
coordination with the teachings of varied teachers.
The entity then was in a position of power, in the Romans'
experience. For it was among those of the household of a
counsellor to Augustus Caesar, in the name Praepontia. And
as there became the understandings of those experiences of a
peoples from the Judean or the Holy Land or the Palestine
land, these brought to the entity a study also of the
Persians' experiences.
Hence those things that pertain to religion as to its
FOUNDATION and its correlating with the arts of other
nations, the various experiences, become as an interesting
factor in the entity's activities in the present.
Hence astrology, numerology, Sanskrit, the findings of those
that delve into the mysteries of nature in ALL its forms
become as a portion of the entity's experience.
As to the development, this remained rather of the secular
nature, yet those very experiences applied in the present may
make for a step forward in knowing that all power that
manifests in a material world arises from one source and is
the expression of a Creative Energy. And those that usurp
authority or those that turn same into that of
self-indulgence or aggrandizement do so to their OWN
undoing.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as
or called the Indian, during those periods when there were
the wars in the hills and in the plains, when there had come
down from the mountains of hope to the plains of the Indian
land those peoples.
During the turmoils the entity was among those of the
southern Indian portion, and with those establishings of the
leader or the teacher Saneid, the entity then became one who
not only accepted those tenets as precepts but made them
become livable experiences.
With the correlating of ideas by the gatherings of peoples
for their own protection to the various groups because of the
great animal kingdom, the entity was active.
Hence the entity's adverse feelings in the present toward
certain types of animals, yet the drawing to others in the
manners in which the associations may make for helpful forces
in the experiences of men as they go about that development
of their own home or fireside conveniences.
Hence we find the artist temperament in respects to the out
of doors; and the oak and the mangrove and the living or live
oak become as a thing of beauty to the entity - and represent
that sturdiness, that of a surety in the very experience of
same.
The name then was Anusai, or - if translated the meaning
would become - "the Beloved of Saneid."
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as
or called the Egyptian, during those periods when turmoils
and strifes arose, when the rebellions arose between the ones
of the king's own household, at the period of the banishment
of the priest.
The entity then joined with those of the Ibex rebellion. Yet
when there had come the understanding in the latter portion
of its experience and sojourn, with the return of the priest,
with the correlating of the peoples' experiences from the
Atlantean land, the entity then aided in those activities
that made for its quick return into the land as has just been
shown.
The entity then was beautiful of body, beautiful of mind; yet
these owing to those relationships with those in the
rebellious forces brought experiences that made for many
disturbing factors in the experience of the entity - even in
the present.
Yet with those periods of cleansing of body, preparation for
activities in the material affairs, separating from the
animal forces and influences, there came that which made in
the latter days for a period of service to those peoples -
especially in the capacity of what would be termed in the
present as the nurse, the teacher, the instructor to those of
the young, to those in teen ages, to those who were troubled
with the experience of balancing and correlating their lives.
In the name then of Icts-us, the entity made for such
experience and expression that those periods of the
preservation, development and activity of the entity's
sojourn then are still preserved in the halls of record
there.
As to the abilities of the entity and that to which it may
attain and how in the present:
Study first to show thyself approved unto that spiritual
force from within, that directs; not as a consciousness
alone, not as to 'What will others say?' but open thy mind,
thy heart, to the spiritual forces from within, that there
may be a quickening of the abilities of the self to aid
others in INTERPRETING their life. Or in those fields of
activity wherein the preparation of the body, the preparation
of activities of individuals for specific or special service
may be a part of thine own experience.
Ready for questions.
(Q) How and with whom could I get in touch, in order to get
my song produced?
(A) In any of those channels that make for the preparation
of such in THEIR developing same for its use in those fields
to which its development, its preparation, is particularly
adapted. See? Those things that are for the everyday or to
arouse certain emotions would not be those that would be for
your character of development.
Or to that that has arisen from the T. H. Harris Company.
(Q) Shall I apply there?
(A) Apply there.
(Q) What is my vocation?
(A) That of the helpfulness as has been indicated to others
in their preparation of themselves in body and mind for
specific work.
(Q) Will there be a change in my work for more money?
(A) Be a change.
We are through for the present.
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