If the experiences are ever used for self-indulgence,
self-aggrandizement, self-exaltation, each entity does so to
its OWN undoing, or creates for self that as has been termed
or called karma - and must be met. And in meeting every
error, in meeting every trial, in meeting every temptation -
whether these be mental or really physical experiences - the
manner and purpose and approach to same should be ever in
that attitude, "Not my will but Thine, O God, be done in and
through me."
In this entity's experience we find rather the sojourns in
the earth playing then the greater part, as it were. For the
entity ever is a very busy, a very ACTIVE individual; and as
a man in its environs would have been a great commercial
personage. The ideas of business, the ideas of social life,
the ideal of social relationships, the ideals as respecting
the general work among individuals' activities in various
spheres have ever been as a warring, as a question, as an
experience in the entity's own self.
These influences are indicated from the astrological from
those sojourns as would be interpreted in the Jupiterian
forces; the greater number of changes in material
circumstance, material relationships, choice of individuals
and activities in their relationships, the very counselling
to those influences from the activities about the entity,
arise from those sojourns or experiences or latent forces in
Saturn - as well as in Aries, and the basic forces as would
be termed from that not ordinarily expressed yet of the
entity's relationships in Hermes [?]. [Dictionary defines
Hermes as "...Greek god identified by the Romans with
Mercury..."]
As to the influences in the earth, the activities in those
sojourns as make for its relationships with those forces or
individuals' activities arise from these experiences:
Before this (that bears a great influence in the activity
among relationships) we find the entity was in the earth
during those periods when there were the first settlings in
the land of the entity's present nativity, when those peoples
were pushing forward as it were from the earlier settlers
in the eastern portion of Pennsylvania.
The entity then in those activities, in those associations
with one Hemingway, the entity's name being Lila Hemingway,
was active in those experiences with the natives, with the
combinations of some that had come from the trading posts.
And the entity's activities were as a teacher, as a helper
for those peoples; for the entity founded that which might
be termed as among the first schools in those portions of
the eastern part of Ohio during that period that were of the
nature that not only economics, but home work was taught the
natives as well as those early settlers.
And the creating of the influences and forces for the use
of the products of the soil, the products of nature, the
products of the forest for exchange with others were the
greater portion of the entity's work during that experience.
Hence, the entity in its present experience finds it as
second nature, as would be termed in common parlance, to be
boss over every individual whom it may contact. Not as a
boss for personal reasons, not as for self's own motives,
but for the furtherance of ideas and purposes that have been
innate and manifested in the experience of the entity.
These may be commended in the manner they have been used
the greater portion of this experience. These must be
condemned where they have been for the belittling of or
creating in the experiences of some a tendency towards
hiding their own abilities in the attempts to live the
life or to experience those things expressed by the entity.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as
the Promised Land, during those periods when there were the
teachings, the turmoils, the strifes between the Roman
people, the natives, the people that used those conditions
to exploit their activities and to present much of their
teachings in the land.
The entity then was in a position of power, in a position
of state, as it were; thus coming in MATERIAL applications
as to a knowledge of, as to an interpreting in her own
experience of the activities of individuals in political, in
economic, in ruling influences of state, in ruling influences
of religious forces, and those forces that made for
oppressions upon those that were already burdened with
material taxation, with those that were beset by doubts and
fears by the various teachings that were being presented by
the various leaders or teachers during that sojourn.
For the entity then was in the household of those in
authority as of the Roman soldiery, but of rather a Grecian
descent; thus those teachings of Greece, the beauties in some
expressions of same were a part of the entity. For during
that period those things that made for conveniences in the
home, those things that made for the rules and laws became
a portion of the entity's activity; and thus under an
environment of Roman taxation, aesthetic Jewish reaction, the
rebellious forces as combined made for periods through which
the entity - though as the period indicated - made for the
woman power to rule in the home rather than in positions of
power, that made for an activity that changed many of those
influences as related to the authority of those that were of
the Jewish faith.
The entity then in the name Susanna gained and lost, and
gained and lost, from the spiritual and mental activity.
Yet the help that was rendered to many during those
experiences and the associations that made for those
activities have brought into the experience of the entity
many in its own household, in its own surroundings, that make
for those periods to be met in the spiritual ideals to be
set. And as to the purposes and as to those influences,
these are to be held as those that change not.
Before that we find the entity was in that now known as the
Indian land, during those periods when there were the
settlings by those peoples from the Carpathian, from the
mountain area into the valleys of the Ganges, into those
periods roundabout that have become to many - as to the
ancients of old - as sacred.
The entity then was among those people that made for their
womenfolk to become rather the rulers in that experience, and
these set much as innate in the activities of the entity; the
set ideas as to rule, as to direct, as to make for definite
opinions in the experiences of the entity upon subjects
pertaining to many relationships, whether political,
economic, national, local, or of the household - all become
as a part of the entity's experience.
For the entity then was a princess that made for counterrule
to many of those that had accepted Saneid, and then when
there came the correlations with those of the land of On [?],
Og, Ra-Ta and Carpathia, the entity then made for the greater
gains in the experience. For the entity then, as Susuan,
became as a teacher also; dwelling in tents that were of the
most beautiful.
Hence beauty, grace, things pertaining to the household have
been, are, a portion of the entity's experience in the
present.
As to the abilities of the entity, then, and that to which it
may attain, and how:
First know thyself and thy relationships to Creative Forces.
For the relationship of man and woman to God should be no
different from the relationship to the fellowman. Seeing in
the lowliest that thou would worship in the spirit of thy
Creator. For He is Father of all, and the motivating force
or life itself is an expression in the lowly as well as the
high - of Him.
And then apply self in teaching, as has been throughout the
sojourns of the entity in the earth, as to labor with the
hands as well as with the mind, as well as by precept, by
example. And the entity will find in these manners it will
bring greater harmony, greater experience, greater joy in
this experience in the earth.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Is it best for my son [
1173] to have me go with him to
..., Long Island in August, or for him to go there under
[
1151]'s escort and me not go?
(A) "Me not go."
(Q) How may I best be of help to my son [
1173]?
(A) In the manner as has been indicated, that knowing in
self and the expression of Creative Forces for a purging of
the body that the mind, the soul may be at an unison, as one
with the Creative Force or God. And we will find THESE not
as precepts but as by example; not by faith alone but by
works. But keep the faith.
We are through.
Copy to daughter, Mrs. [1158]
Copy to Ass'n file
BACKGROUND
7/10/36 Daughter [
1158]'s letter: "...If her Life Rdg. is
significant, and I feel it will be, for she is a great and
strong soul, then I can tell her all about your work and I
feel the battle to get brother [
1173] here is won..."
REPORTS
7/26/36 Daughter [
1158]'s letter: "...Mrs. [
1224]'s
Life Rdg. was most interesting..."
3/09/37 Daughter [
1158] secured a Physical Rdg., for her.
See
1224-2.
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