In the center would be a white book. Upon this would be
drawn a rose, pink, with three leaves - the rose a bud just
opening. On the side of the book a honey bee; crawling, as
it were, toward the flower. The book would not be open, but
there would be a marker of ribbon extending from same; this,
of course, in the lower part, and near the center of the
book. This, alone, would be the seal; the interpretation
indicating the latent knowledge and abilities - as by the
book itself; the rose indicating the beauty and the sweetness
of the life, indicated not only by the bee but by the rose
itself, and that this life is to be given in making the
associations with others as a book that may be read of all,
and as the beauty and the sweetness of the life would be to
others.
In interpreting the records as we find them here for this
entity, there is much from which to choose. For, many have
been the appearances of the entity in the earth, and these
influence the emotional life and the spiritual life much more
than the ordinarily termed astrological aspects, or the
sojourns of the entity during the interims between
appearances in the earth.
While consciousnesses in other dimensional appearances might
be indicated in some forms of interpretation of the
experiences in the earth, we find that the earthly sojourns
bear more upon the emotional and mental life of the entity
than do astrological aspects.
As would be indicated by the seal, this is rather an unusual
experience for entities. Not that the entity has reached
perfection - others wouldn't say so, at least! yet the
entity judges others seldom, and few have attained to that in
the material world.
The entity latently holds, as it did proclaim in one of its
experiences, "Others may do as they may, but as for me, I
will hold to the purposes, the ideals, in a living God."
As to urges indicated in characteristics, we find Jupiter,
Venus, Uranus and Saturn as a part of the consciousnesses.
Thus we find the desires and hopes to be helpful to all, in a
beautiful way; not only as to the manner in which the entity
would approach or speak with others, but in the holding of
the tongue when others speak unkindly. Not that the entity
doesn't get mad, and say bad words at times even! but these
are not meant, - they are things which the entity has to hold
to in self, for they are not meant as other than being
aggravated; though patience is a virtue the entity has in its
experience. But multiply that, for ye have reached that
consciousness that, with thy patience and with that desire in
the Jupiterian influence for the universal consciousness,
there are the abilities to express this in the beauty of
character, the beauty of mien and manner, the beauty of
friendship, the beauties of home, the beauties of
associations, and - most of all - the abilities to overlook
faults in others!
Then, don't listen - oft - to that which is scandal. Ye oft
refrain, but ye listen - though ye may not comment. Don't
listen! Change the subject! It will be well for thee,
especially later on. While it may not touch thee, ye will
know such in thy experience.
In Uranus we find the extremes.
We find in Saturn the sudden changes; which have more to do -
in the extremes - with the material than the mental and
spiritual.
Hence to the self, and to others, things are never as bad as
they may appear from the outside - if the heart is kept
right. Remember, God looketh on the heart, man looketh on
the outward appearances. But keep that whole faith.
As to the appearances in the earth, we find that these have
been quite varied, and under quite varied circumstances. All
may not appear to others as beautiful, but they were to the
entity beautiful - in the experiences; and the entity made
more than may appear from the outward appearance from same.
Though all may not be given here, each one indicated
influences the entity's experience in the present:
Before this the entity was in the land of the present
nativity, but among the peoples that had settled in the
islands off the coast of Carolina - the first settlers that
were joined with some of the natives.
The entity was of the natives, but beautiful in body,
beautiful in character, and in the hopes and the desires;
seeking, though, for the expressions in the material
associations.
There the entity gained, though in some respects it wandered
far from the home in that experience - and in its
associations with some of those that were the travelers
through that portion of the land there were questions brought
that have been and will be questions with the associations in
the present, for the entity is the more closely associated
with the companion of that experience. But the associations
or connections with Bainbridge in that period were to the
companion not pretty, yet they were taken as a part of the
experience of the peoples of the period.
In the present we will find the likes and dislikes, the
surety; what the entity likes it likes, and what the entity
dislikes it says little about. These may be kept, or may be
manifested the more in the present experience.
The associations through that experience will bring those
activities that may be the building to that in which the
entity may make the greater contribution in the present
sojourn, - in the home and in the lives of those in the home,
and the associations with those contacts and those social
conditions that will arise in the experience as connected
with the home - which was that sought by the entity in that
sojourn, - as Dove.
Before that the entity was in the French land, in the period
of the second of the Louises; when there were those
activities that brought about the raising of individuals in
the positions in the court, and the relationships with those
of other countries - by the exchange of those individuals
represented in the court.
The entity was a court lady in that experience, but
questioned as to some of the associations. And wishing
itself to be as naught, the entity began all over again - so
far as the social life would be considered - in the
experience in America as just indicated.
Then as Marcelus Deleuex, the entity made for a CORRECTING of
self in the material sojourn. And this is a part of the
entity's present experience that will be found with few: It
will admit as wrong that which has proven to the entity to be
in error. It is well to adhere to this. Know what ye
believe, but know the author of thy beliefs also. This may
apply spiritually, mentally, as well as materially.
For, in that sojourn, though questioned - at times, the life
experience was one that brought an expression of helpful
influence, even in the whole of the land in that period.
Before that the entity was in the Roman land, being among the
Grecian maidens that went with the activities that were
brought about as entertainers in the courts in Rome.
Thus, because of its abilities as the danseuse, because of
its abilities in the rhythm or movement of the body, the
entity was among those chosen to be active in those periods
when individuals and groups were chosen for the introduction
of those activities in the Roman experience.
The entity gained throughout that period. No word, even of
question, was ever brought; though the entity was oft in
those places where many of the other associates were
questioned.
The liking to dance, the liking of companionship with others,
the timidity also in part from that experience, arise from
that sojourn in the Grecian and in the Roman land - as
Tel-Lea.
Before that the entity was in the Persian and the Arabian
land, when there were those changes wrought by the
individuals being sent from the Grecian land.
For, the entity was a Grecian in that period. Coming under
the teachings of Uhjltd in the "city in the hills and the
plains," the entity became as one assisting in the teaching
and the ministering. Not as a nurse, as many of the others
there, but more as the teacher of trades, of painting and
sculpturing, of drawn work, embroidery work, and those things
that made for the comforts of individuals in their ways or
manners of expressing the beauties in nature, as well as in
the characteristics or characters of individuals.
The name then was Leius. The entity gained, and in its
latter associations built towards the home for the activities
that made for betterments of others as well as those periods
of activity that came later in that experience.
Before that the entity was in the Promised Land, when the
children of promise entered into the Holy Land.
The entity was among the younger peoples who came under the
direction of Joshua; not as a servant, not as a companion,
but as a helper in the activities of the entity Joshua as he
prepared the messages for the various leaders or teachers, or
the heads of the family. And the entity Joshua came to rely
upon the entity in the latter days of his sojourn in that
land.
Thus as the pronouncements were made by that leader, "Others
may do as they may, but as for me, I will choose the living
God," these became as an echo, as a symbol; and they remain
so in the present experience of the entity. These have kept,
these may keep the entity in that way of hope and understand-
ing, if still held as the ideal in the present.
The name then was Leah.
Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, in those
experiences when changes were wrought in the activities of
groups or individuals that were prepared for the entering of
the new race.
The entity was among the first of those that were changed;
not by those in the temple of Sacrifice, but by its birth.
And in that the entity became one set up as an ideal, not an
idol but as an ideal for others to attain to.
Then the entity became an assistant, a helper to the Priest
through the latter part of his activities in that land.
Living many years after the Priest had passed on, the entity
then aided in those activities that followed the priest's
demise or passage; aiding that one who came into authority as
the religious leader - which during the entity's life period
brought the greater help, even through the periods of stress
by many of those who had been companions or closely
associated with the Priest.
There the entity attained to its highest spiritual and mental
unfoldment, and those tenets, those truths that were again
proclaimed in a more understandable manner under Joshua ("Do
others as they may"), were begun in that period in Egypt.
The entity then was in the name Lola, or - as the Priest
called her - Shalmar; and that has become, to some of that
land, as the word that would bring help to many.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that to
which it may attain, and how:
Just keep in that attitude which is indicated in thy seal;
thy life itself a book, thy activities marked by thy
contribution to a helpful force to all you meet, with the
continued sweetness of purpose that may be as food to the
hungry, even sinsick world! and they that would oft serve
the Lord the more.
In the hope, in the associations, in the directing; not by
long precepts, but by the living example; ye may bring
harmony to many. For thy presence oft brings peace to
others, when they will not even admit it. But it must be
within self first, before ye may give it to others.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Why did I choose to come in this experience to my
particular parents and for what purpose?
(A) More as a means of meeting others that ye have!
(Q) What specific thing did I come into this experience to
overcome and how may I accomplish same?
(A) The little impatiences. While ye have patience, ye let
little things worry - at times.
(Q) What am I best fitted to do?
(A) Bring love and sweetness to the lives of those ye meet,
by just being thyself.
(Q) Along what lines have I developed in my previous
experiences?
(A) Read what has been indicated - you will find many!
Those abilities to teach, to practise, to give understanding;
not so much by words as by the way you live yourself.
(Q) In what previous experiences and in what relationship
have I been associated with my husband, [
2636]?
(A) In the experience before this, as indicated, and in the
Egyptian experience when - who WASN'T you associated with?
All that came into those activities having anything to do
with the religious purposes in Egypt!
(Q) With my daughter [
2942]?
(A) In both the Roman and in the experience before this.
(Q) What specific thing do I have to work out with them at
this time?
(A) These may best be had by paralleling the faults and the
virtues of each. Do not look for faults; that ye have been
thus far blessed with, in this experience - overlooking the
faults. For, as ye forgive - ONLY as ye forgive, DO ye
forgive - may ye be forgiven.
We are through for the present.
Copy to Self
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BACKGROUND
12/13/41 See husband's Life Rdg.
2636-1, Par. 45-A in re
their past relationships in early America and in Egypt.
REPORTS
8/23/43 She obtained a Check Life Reading on her early
America incarnation - see
2376-6.
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