Turn within and not without, as the inclinations are at times
when thy disturbances arise; and know that He hath promised
to meet thee in thy temple. And thy body IS the temple of
thy soul, the temple of the living God. And there He hath
promised to meet thee. And His promises are sure, if ye
will but allow thyself to draw upon them in joy alike as in
sorrow, in the ups as well as the downs. For He thy God is
not a God of wrath, nor of hate, but a God of love; for He
IS love. And not only in thine distresses praise Him,
thank Him, but be consistent in thine experiences, in thine
seeking; and ye shall find that thy relationships and thy
tendencies that arise - even from the unitarian forces in
thine own activities - may bring that which will not be the
extremes. For the natural tendency is to go to the extremes.
And the entity is oft very much elated over what? That which
is bubbling as it were from within, that which is growing as
from within. For remember, as ye sow so shall ye reap. And
when that thou hast sown in thine mind (for thine mind is the
builder) has grown to fruitage it brings that thou hast sown;
some sixty, some forty, yea some an hundredfold. For a
kindness, a gentleness to a fellow person brings more harmony
into self than some great deed that may be wellspoken of.
For this is soon forgotten, but the fruits of the spirit - as
may be experienced in thy daily life - become as wells of
living water, springing up within thine self to bring that
joy, that harmony that comes from walking oft with Him.
As to the appearances in the earth, while as we find the
entity is what may be termed an old soul, seldom have the
experiences in the earth been in such close proximity as to
lap one upon another. Hence a confusion of emotions at times
that arise. For the expressions or experiences of the
soul-entity in the earth in entering flesh become the
emotional body and its reflections in the mental self and
the emotions that are created by the activities. For under
such varied experiences have these been that they bring for
the entity, then, a confusion.
Remember, then, that all is ONE, and look into SELF if ye
would understand thy neighbor, thy friend, yea thy foe. For
that ye do TO thy friend, thy neighbor, yea thy foe, is a
reflection of what THOU THINKEST of thy Creator!
Hence the injunction has been oft to remain fervent and
constant in prayer. Oft in meditation seek, not what this or
that INFLUENCE might indicate, but as He has promised, what
thy God would direct thee to do!
Before this we find the entity was in the land now known as
or called the English land, during those periods when there
were the wars in the Holy Land - called the Crusades.
Those preparations of those peoples, of those that were drawn
into such activities, brought into the experience of the
entity disturbing factors; for the entity gained in those
experiences this: The individual's life and the individual's
words should at least be compatible one with the other. Yet
those influences of being drawn by rote, by ritual, by
peculiar dress, by peculiar habits, have their influence.
Not that the entity doesn't find that it has lost patience
with those that apparently do this or that for show, or go
through regular routines for the expression of that which
in the entity's self is to be seen rather of men than
considering those forces from which the motivative influence
springs. These are urges from those experiences, as Marion
Lang.
In that experience the entity gained and lost, and gained.
For those periods when there were, as it were, the desertion
or the leaving for the lands, the entity was left with the
activities for the upkeep of the home.
Loneliness then has a peculiar influence upon the entity, and
there are moments when in the larger groups or crowds
loneliness overcomes the entity.
Know that this seeking then, this loneliness, may be filled
only by that as may prompt the self for its activities.
Before that we find (that is activative as an influence in
the entity) the entity was in the now called Arabian or
Persian land, during those periods when there were the
gatherings of many that made for the interpretation, the
understanding of the teacher in the 'city in the hills.'
Those teachings the entity embraced, for HEALING came to the
entity through the activities there.
The entity then was of the Persian peoples. Hence in the
present experience the sensitiveness, as of a mediumistic
influence; the healing forces that arise within the entity's
experience; the abilities for the entity to counsel with
those that are weak or sick, those that are not understood
by others, arise from those experiences.
Cultivate these, then, in thine own experience; when thou
hast, though, first found patience in self and with others.
Then cultivate that ability for counsel to those that seek
from loneliness, from fear, from the turmoils of their
experiences with others, those that feel slighted, those
that are disappointed in the experiences of material affairs.
Turn their minds rather - through thine own feelings for
same - to those things that endure forever. For only the
spiritual forces for thine soul endure forever. And those
lessons that each individual learns by its disappointments,
fears, sorrows, are not as tiers that make for a weakening
but rather as tiers that may be builded up to climb to
greater heights, and greater understandings - if they will
but be put or brought into those forces where - in the temple
of self - where the own God may give the individual peace.
Not as the world giveth peace but as only the knowledge that
thy soul, thy inner self is in accord and at-oneness with
Him.
Then in the name Marmarce.
Before that we find the entity was in that land of the
entity's present nativity, during those periods when there
were the destructions of the Atlantean land.
The entity was among those that journeyed to the land of the
Incal as now called, but then to the land of Oz and Og. For
the entity then was a princess that lost its way from the
daughters of the Law of one of those that made for the
aggrandizing of the bodily forces and influences for position
and power, the temples of fame, the temples of beauty, the
hoarding of wealth, the hoarding of those mediums of exchange
that were not only beautiful in their own selves but as to
the light, as to the influence same had upon the minds of
others.
There the entity lost. Hence in the experiences of the
entity there have been the fears of those that set themselves
to be in high places, or those that look rather upon the
material manifestations than upon the spiritual things.
These have at times in the religious experiences brought
destructive or detrimental forces in the activities of the
entity.
The entity then was in the name Alsia or Amammia - for it was
named both. And there may be found yet, among the temples in
the Andean experience, the records of the entity's activities
in the storehouse of wealth of the earth - in golds!
Before that we find the entity was in the land of the long
ago, in the Lemurian land, when there were the many changes
coming about in the surface of the earth; even when there
were those interpretations between the sons and the daughters
of men and the sons of [and?] the daughters of God.
For they partook rather of those things when those
expressions or periods of the injection of thought form and
forces took their activity in the earth, and produced then in
other portions of the earth's surface the monsters that would
destroy, the periods when it is given "and in those days
there were giants in the earth."
The entity then was among those that were of the daughters
of the sons of God, those that with their physical bodies
presented those influences and forces that made for that
period of regeneration when not only the bodies must be
presented as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto
Him, but that through these the soul and the mind - being a
portion of the Universal Forces - express themselves.
Then in the name rather that would be sounded as ne-um-um or
em-um.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present and that to
which it may attain and how:
First, as has been indicated, LEARN to see, to know, the
effect of the application of patience, persistence, brotherly
love, longsuffering, fellowship, in thine OWN self.
Then give of that which thou obtainest within self to
others, in aiding them who are sorrowful, aiding those who
are fearful, in assisting those that find the way of life
hard. For these that come are directed as an opportunity for
thyself, for He hath given, he that saves a soul hath covered
a multitude of errors in self. For, "As ye do it unto the
least of these, my brethren, ye do it unto me" saith the
Lord of hosts!
Ready for questions.
(Q) Where do I vibrate best (that is, in what locality)?
(A) Where thou ART! For the vibrations should be from
WITHIN, rather than from WITHOUT! And so create within thine
inner self those closer relationships that where thy body is,
THERE may be found succor and aid and help and love for
others.
(Q) Why do I feel as if I shall marry again, or as if there
is another mate for me?
(A) Perhaps there be; for as ye seek His ways and He directs
thy ways and thine interpretations, then there will be many
who will seek thy hand.
(Q) Why did I know I would marry my present husband when I
first met him?
(A) Consider those experiences as has been indicated, and
then that feeling, that knowledge, that intuition, should be
rather as an interpretation of that as has been given - that
it is all ONE.
(Q) Why did I think of Christ when I looked at my mother?
(A) For she was oft with Him.
(Q) Why did my father antagonize me?
(A) For thou also antagonized him!
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND
6/01/36 Miss [
1182] obtained first Life Reading in A.M. via
Mrs. [
1183]'s recommendation.
REPORTS
3/08/37 Mrs. [
1183] obtained a physical reading,
1183-2.
1/22/38 See
1183-3, Par. 6-A through 12-A re home and
marriage, her husband who is an alcoholic, etc.
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