(Q) Regarding the publication advised in Nov. 1940, is it
necessary to complete it by this fall?
(A) It should be better understood by seekers of truth
regarding time and space as related to conditions in
individuals' lives.
As is at times conceived by the mental attitudes of
individuals, that which is to come into materialization -
as a book, a manuscript, or even a service as related to
others must pass through its NATURAL laws; or there ARE
laws governing same that are ever uniform.
An idea, an IDEAL, first has its spiritual inception, then
its mental conceiving, and then the physical reactions that
make or bring same into materialization.
As to the time of this publication, then, - there must be at
least the mental concept fully analyzed, completed; for the
spiritual concept is a part of the entity.
Then, it may be a little later; but don't delay too long.
(Q) What direction should it take? Should it come out as a
textbook for school teachers, or should it be done with the
more creative approach? Please advise.
(A) WE would give that it be done with the more CREATIVE
approach; but it will be accepted AS a textbook, even in
some of the larger universities.
(Q) What publisher shall I try?
(A) Those publishers of schools, as well as of the regular
publications that are of the better sort. Holt, Revell and
Knopf should be considered.
(Q) Would collaboration with anyone be advisable?
(A) As we find, no. FIRST present that as of thy OWN
concept. Then in the ANALYZING of same, if there is the need
or the desire - because of the lack of clarification, to self
- consider some collaboration.
(Q) Should I work with Otto Meissner?
(A) Very well, but DO NOT work with Otto Meissner until
completed in the mental self and ready for, or being,
transposed.
(Q) Regarding my work: Should I continue private music
teaching, go into the ..., or give extension courses through
the university? Which is the best field of development?
Should I give up the private work which I've been doing
several years and go into the ... school system this fall?
(A) As the entity has done and must do creative work, as has
been indicated, that must be of a sure foundation, why limit
self to other set curriculums?
We would keep the private work; and when advisable, practical
or possible, do other extension work.
(Q) Can I go on in the ... School as planned this year?
(A) Can go on.
(Q) Give up my private work?
(A) We would not give up the private work.
(Q) Can I carry both?
(A) Of course, it would be necessary that there be
a curtailment in the AMOUNT of the private work -
naturally; but we would carry both.
(Q) Would Mildred Hendricks be a good assistant for private
work?
(A) We would rather see the life experience or record,
before giving advice for such a needed condition here.
(Q) Do you feel that I must teach in the ... school, since I
have given my word?
(A) As indicated, this may be very well; but do not give
up the private work entirely. Let this come, because it is
more creative than the work CAN be in the ... or ANY regular
curriculum activity.
(Q) Shall I study under Carson Ryan?
(A) Study under Carson Ryan.
(Q) Would there be a publication field for my collection of
children's original songs?
(A) There IS most assuredly a publication field, and these
would be sought; especially in the schools that are the more
"up to date" as might be called.
THIS we would consider with [
2174].
(Q) What publisher would be advised?
(A) We would collaborate here with this, or work together;
and we will find there are already channels open for same,
- rather than saying this or that individual publisher. Go
through these same connections or channels for such.
(Q) Is there any chance of selling the victrola records made
last year? If so, would Columbia, Victor or another concern
be best?
(A) As we find, the Columbia would be the more considerate
of such, but the Universal will be as those collaborating -
or cooperating, as they do, with the Columbia.
(Q) Should I work in the field of mental hygiene in
connection with music?
(A) As this is a portion of the whole activity, or there are
the needs for the basic consideration of same, it would be
WELL.
(Q) Shall I have Bill Perry come in for testing? or should
I find another approach?
(A) As WE find, Bill Perry would be very well; and until
there would be other needs, we would keep this connection.
(Q) What would be the best field of activity next summer?
Shall I stay in ... or shall I go elsewhere?
(A) This is rather in advance; but as we find it would be
better to go elsewhere. Whether this would be in a CAMP
activity or in the extension programs in other schools, will
depend upon the effect physically and mentally - that the
program for the present season has upon the body.
(Q) Should I work with Mr. Zanzig?
(A) As we find, as the choice is made in the activities,
this will bring about closer associations or those repellent
conditions as in relationship to Mr. Zanzig. However, we
find there ARE to be some activities which will cause or
bring about close associations, at least for a time.
(Q) Will that be next summer?
(A) This is after some service or some work. Hence it
should be next summer, then, or next fall.
(Q) Will I go to the Berkshire Festival to teach next
summer?
(A) If so desired, there will be the opportunity.
(Q) Would it be good for me to go there?
(A) Be very well.
(Q) Would it be better to go there than to stay in ...?
(A) Will be better to go there than to stay in ...; though
there may be OTHER work which would require the activities in
the extension or expansion work, that might make it appear to
be, or BE, the better choice to remain in ... than going to
Berkshire. But such a choice, as indicated, will depend upon
the great stress the work will bring about, of course, in the
experience during this season.
(Q) Will the expansion take place through universities for
me?
(A) It should.
(Q) Would it be a good idea to work with Mr. Griffith of
Silver Burdett?
(A) This is very well, because it is a very good outlet for
those activities that are being carried on by self. It's a
very good one to cultivate. Rather than work with, cultivate
the activities and the needs and the requirements as come
through such an association.
(Q) How about work with Vera Beach?
(A) This we don't find a close activity, or as being the
best; though these may lead to some relationships.
(Q) Shall I work with Phoebe Barr? Would this be a good
collaboration, with the thought of publication in the arts?
Would creative work in the drama be successful?
(A) This is an excellent association.
(Q) Will I again be associated with [
1947]?
(A) As we find, as may be seen by the paralleling of
the life experiences, it'll be hard to get away from
each other! There will be associations.
(Q) Could you suggest a direction for my work, or people to
work with, that I myself don't see now? in order that it may
have the best possible expansion?
(A) As indicated, these lead step by step to the natural
expansion, with the fields of activity that HAVE been chosen
and are being indicated. And in such, these bring into the
experience, into the association, individual activities and
associations where collaboration may be needed. But follow
that which is before thee in the present. Then these will
find their places in the relationships needed for the better
work.
(Q) Can I maintain my marriage and do this work?
(A) You can maintain your marriage and do this work.
(Q) Regarding past associations: What has been my
relationship with my husband [
2298]; how can I best help
him regain health and peace of mind? How bring our mutual
interests together in closer understanding?
(A) As we find, the associations have been close - in those
experiences that have been indicated for this entity, in
activities along those lines that bring the urges for the
present activity.
The greater help is in making the better relationships that
aid in the health of the companion in the present, as well
as in the greater spiritual attunements; not merely as
formality, but the deeper, the BASIC principles of the
spiritual relationships. These will be of the most help, and
FORMULATE the grounds for the better associations of MUTUAL
interests.
(Q) Have I been associated before with Claudius Murchison?
What relationship? Should there be future association? If
so, how, and would it be good?
(A) We do not find a close relationship apparent. It
is as from afar, or a study of one another's activity in
other relationships, see? As we find, this would be well
to cultivate - an association, then.
(Q) Will I be associated with Claudius Murchison in this
life again?
(A) This depends upon those activities that are brought
about in the expansion work of the entity here; that is, to
be explicit: If there is the more stress upon that indicated
which should be a part of the entity's work or activity, of
its extension work - that is, in its various fields, see, -
these may bring closer relationships, and thus again closer
activity with Murchison.
(Q) Have I been associated before with [
4915]? If so, how
can we work together - or are we meant to work together?
(A) In the experience before this, companions; not as in
companion relationship, but companions in activity - in the
supplying of that which has become, as it might be said, as a
great SPIRIT as to the meaning of the South land.
Yes, there SHOULD be a great deal of cooperative work between
these individuals.
[
4915] had a beautiful life, didn't he?
(Q) Was that in the experience before this when I was Olga
Oglethorpe?
(A) It was in that experience of Oglethorpe; the first
governor here of Georgia, see?
(Q) In a practical way, how can I work best with [
4915]?
(A) In those things as would pertain to the putting into
ACTIVITY of songs, writings, those experiences of the
entity, and of the experiences in collaboration with [
4915].
(Q) Any further suggestions about working with him?
(A) As we find, there may be much to collaborate; and we
would cultivate and keep this association, for it may work
for the greater advantage in EVERY way for each of you.
(Q) Do I need further training in order to help him?
(A) You have the training; you only need to put it into
practise!
(Q) Will he see it?
(A) If he's given the opportunity, he can't help it!
(Q) Is that just in this life, or in future incarnations?
(A) We are speaking of this life! But there have been
associations in the past; more than once!
(Q) How have I been associated in the past with Harriet
Seymore; will I work with her again, and when?
(A) Ye were an aid to Harriet Seymore in the Chaldean
experience, when there were the temperings of those things in
which that entity now Seymore - was the gazer, or dresser, or
dancer. That was the closer association.
As we find, there will be some associations, some work
together again.
Within the next two or three seasons, perhaps. This AGAIN
depends. If there is to be the individual work, there will
be closer associations. If there are to be the regular
curriculum work, ye will be farther from associations.
(Q) What have been my past associations with [
2910]?
(A) This again would best be had through the paralleling of
the life information, or records, rather than as may be had
from the extensions or close associations in some of those
sought.
We do not find the close association; though we find - as for
self - some dependence upon, or some relationships with the
entity. These records should be paralleled.
(Q) From my last incarnation as Olga Oglethorpe, interest in
economic forces was stressed. How can this be an outlet or
channel in the present life?
(A) Economic forces as meant here, or as in those activities
there, does not apply merely to finance; but rather the
broader sense - which is the need for unison of purpose in
the activities of the individual in any attempt or activity;
that is: If there is the attempt to express self through
voice, some may express best in the classic, some best in the
folklore; but the economic conditions have a great part in
the INDIVIDUAL temperament of all, see?
Hence these are to be considered, in the training and in the
analyzing of individuals or groups respecting activities.
(Q) In my Life Rdg. I was warned to be sure of my sources.
How can I be sure of sources of things?
(A) Sources not so much of THINGS as of the principles,
the purposes, the desires, see? These, as has ever been
indicated, must within themselves indicate constructive,
creative, and not POSSESSIVE or superlative activities,
or any self-aggrandizement or indulgence. Creative in
its nature.
(Q) How should the influences from the Chaldean experience
find expression as to "forces which govern the seasons, the
crops, the war, the peace, the plenty" etc.?
(A) This is as in the RHYTHM of movement of body. This
appears to be far afield from crop, season or the like; and
yet the same rhythm does not apply to the sowing of the crop
as to the gathering of the crop. The appreciations for the
abundance in the seasons of fruition are not expressed in the
same manner (or rhythm) as the appreciations or feelings in
the seasons of labor and activities of same. See? These
are to be taken into consideration; just as they were through
the entity's experience in that particular period or sojourn.
For, in that season or period, much that had to do with the
giving of expression in such was a part of the activities of
the entity.
(Q) From this approach, is it possible to advise the cause
and remedy for the pain in my right arm?
(A) Body and mind? Pain in arm?
As we find, this is a neuritic reaction, and needs an
alkalizing.
We would alkalize through the ENO route, or ENO SALTS.
Take a teaspoonful in water each morning before breakfast
for about ten days, then leave off a few days; then take
again; and so on.
(Q) What can I do to prevent colds this winter?
(A) An alkalized system rarely has colds; and this - the
taking of the Eno Salts - is a helpful force for this very
experience.
We are through for the present.
Two copies to Self
Copy to Ass'n file
(9/14/40 GD's note at time of reading: See extra copy [which
was enclosed] of answer to Par. 17-A and 18-A, in case you
wish to write Mrs. [2174] [address given].
[2174] has had a Life Reading, and is doing some wonderful
work as an educator.)
BACKGROUND
9/05/39 She obtained Life Reading
1992-1.
On
9/30/39 and
2/15/40 she obtained Physical Rdgs.
1992-2 and
1992-3.
REPORTS
11/14/40 Mrs. [
2400] obtained a Life Reading via Mrs.
[
1992]'s recommendation.
1/13/42 Letter: "Yes, I'll be glad to set aside a few
moments each day [to pray for you and your work during the
reading period.] Let me know how and when."
3/28/42 Mrs. [
1992] obtained her third Physical Rdg.,
1992-5.
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