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PREFACE
This and the former book purporting to
be from "Meslom" through Miss Mary
McEvilly, are among the best of the reputed
commimications from the other world of a
spiritual and ethical character.
I do not know who "Meslom" is, or that he
is, but I do know that Miss McEvilly has,
both in connection with others and with my
own experiments, given evidence of intelli-
gence other than her own, acting through
her brain and hand.
I think that to heed the Meslom messages
would indeed help one to orientate herself
in the universe, and to make harmony in
both her inner and her outer relations.
"Saying so, does indeed make it so,** as the
book affirms, in the sense that whatever is
fimdamentally integral to a life may be
brought into realization best by believing in,
affirming and expecting it.
One might think that there is an exag-
gerated idealism of womankind in the little
volume, but it is a psychological law that the
contemplation of the ideal vision of what a
thing is at its best, is the way to fixate the
attention of the soul and to set it on the track
of the realization of the ideal. It is not by
PREFACE
absorbed contemplation of faults that one
becomes able to depart from them.
The ancient prophets were not primarily
predicters, but were mouthpieces, /or-tellers
of God or supernal intelligence. I know no
reason why inspiration should be shut up be-
tween the lids of one ancient volume, or why
truth should not be told anew, reshaped to fit
the conditions of another age, or why Miss
McEvilly, considering the beauty and value
of the teachings which find expression
through her, should not be entitled to be
called one of the "Minor Prophets" of our
period.
Walter Franklin Prince.
This is what Dr. Prince has to say about Miss
McEvilly's first book^ "Meslom's Messages from the
Life Beyond."
I have been quite won by this little book^ because
of the simple beauty of its language^ the lofty quality
of its ethics^ and the soundness of its practical psy-
chology.
These qualities exists whatever the origin of the
messages.
But evidence which I have examined^ and the ex-
periments which I have myself made^ incline me to
the opinion that other intelligence than that of Miss
McEvilly at least cooperated in their production.
(Signed) Walter Franklin Prince
INTRODUCTION
Meslom, the noble intelligence who
used my hand as the instrument for the ex-
pression of his pure and lofty teachings from
the Life Beyond, gave the message two years
ago that a book would soon be given to the
world through another — ^whose name is
omitted at her request — and myself on the
subject of woman's duty and destiny.
Circumstances, however, parted us shortly
afterwards. She remained in Paris and I
spent nearly two years in America, busy with
other things. Neither one made any effort
to arrange about the carrying out of this
project. My plans called for taking me to
South America and the book seemed indef-
initely postponed.
But evidently the Higher Power was
great enough to control circumstances, for
in a quite unexpected manner we found our-
selves in Paris, free from other obligations,
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INTRODUCTION
and at our first meeting we were told that we
were to be given the promised book.
Nearly every day we met and each of the
messages was received in about one hour,
my associate giving her psychic force by
placing her hands on the table upon which
I wrote. The pencil, held in my hand,
moved with extreme rapidity across the
paper, never stopping nor being hfted, ex-
cept for the turning of the pages, until the
end of each message.
I have kept the original manuscript so as
to prove to any one interested that no
changes have been made. I have nothing
to do with the writing of these messages. I
am merely the instrument of an intelligence
that moves in mysterious ways.
In answer to our questions as to why
we should have been selected to write this
book we received the following answer:
"You have been chosen to help because
you are both extremely sensitive in your feel-
ing nature. The fact that you are not stu-
dents and that your minds are free from all
INTRODUCTION
traces of individual searching makes you bet-
ter instruments, for your feeling responds
to the vibrations put in motion by my ideas.
You are only the earthly instruments needed
for the putting into language of ideas ex-
pressed by me. You will develop under my
guidance.
"Ask freely any questions you wish, for
the questions you may ask will be asked by
many and their answers will be helpful to
others.
"Try to imderstand the meaning of the
words divine, infinite, vital, omniscient in-
telligence, which is at the same time infinite
tender love and omnipotent power.
"Try to realize in yoiu* mind and soul and
spirit that you, the spiritual, eternal you, are
actually and really one with that Infinite
Spirit, as we are all One. Find for your-
selves images to aid you.
"The atmosphere which surrounds the
earth is one whether confined to a room or
moving freely over the sea. My mind and
your minds are one with the Infinite Mind,
[xi]
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and when the way has been found of coming
into conscious harmony with the Infinite
Mind all sorrow arid suffering will cease,
for all the infinite resources and perfection
of that Spirit are eternally existent. Be-
cause the clouds obscure the sun is no reason
to doubt its existence. Because ignorance
keeps humanity so immature is no reason to
doubt eternal wisdom, but when a few are
able to imderstand the laws it must prove a
tremendous incentive to learn, for all are ca-
pable of perfection and harmon^ with their
divine source."
Further questioning as to whether Mes-
lom waits upon opportunity for divulging
his revelations, or whether he inspires his
medium or instrument to create opportunity,
invoked the following reply :
"For us time has ceased to exist. The
teachings I am giving are of tremendous im-
portance to humanity, but could be given
only when men's minds were fitted to receive
them. This has required the evolution of the
ages to attain. The suffering of the world
[xii]
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has sensitized men's minds and hearts to the
accepting of the new revelation.
"Our power is such that we are enabled by
the harmonious vibrations perceived to rec-
ognize those among you who are capable of
becoming mediums for the expression of our
teaching. When one is perceived it is like
the awakening of a reinforced resonance in
a musical instrument. We are conscious of
this deepening resonance and by an act of
volition immediately trace it to its source
and i5nd the individual. Then by remain-
ing near this person, or returning, we can ob-
serve their fitness for our work and grad-
ually influence them to put aside more and
more of their worldly occupations and give
themselves to this task.
"This has been the case with Mary. She
is extremely sensitive and loves quiet and
peace, and has been developed by my help
until she is now, at times, a perfect instru-
ment, animated by pure love of truth and
warm, vibrating, emotional joy in its per-
ception. If it were possible for her to
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live a quiet and simple life, free from care,
she could do splendid work. But in face of
all difficulties the work goes on and will go
on more and more.
^'Certainly this is only one form of my ac-
tivity but it is a form very dear to me. I,
in my turn, am the instrument for the voic-
ing of a clearer teaching of the radiant, life-
giving truth."
In order to strengthen the impression
which this book may produce upon certain
readers I consider it advisable to add in my
preface a few passages from some of the
beautiful messages which I had recorded.
The period of time extends from 1911, but
it was done in a leisurely manner.
These later teachings were plainly fore-
shadowed, as the following excerpts will
show.
"Nearly all the good that has been accom-
plished by psychic influence has been brought
about by single-minded efforts to learn the
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truth. Place yourselves in the position of
soldiers awaiting commands.
"Many aids are about you, and since we
have begun this work many of yom* dear
friends have come wishing to communicate,
but if there is anything to be hoped for
from this work all selfishness in this life as
well as in yours must be put aside. Our
message to you is too great to permit of any
interference, even from loving friends.
"Let your hearts and souls sink into the
infinite sea of vital, all-enveloping, all-
sustaining, all-seeing intelligence. Become
passive instruments for the voicing of the
particular teaching under discussion. Let
your intelligence be penetrated by the abso-
lute knowledge that you are willing parts of
one universal whole. My mind, which has
progressed further than yours but needs you
for its earthly expression, is only more
acutely conscious of its oneness with the In-
finite Mind, and so better able to extract
from that Infinite Mind the knowledge de-
sired. We are all one, but you on earth are
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the little creeping babes and we the upright
men.
**Our great longing is to make you par-
takers in an ever greater degree of the splen-
did life-giving knowledge of which we are
more and more conscious.
"It is one of my dearest hopes to be able
to establish a real and undoubtable method
of communication with the earth, for if you
can assist others to realize how much they
help their own development here by every
effort they make on earth in the way of culti-
vating their minds and hearts you will have
done the work of a savior. Even one soul
helped is of infinite price, and thousands are
ready to see when they have been shown the
way.
"The process of education consists of as-
sociation primarily with advanced spirits who
guide you and teach you without any effort
on your part, other than the desire to learn,
until you can see and hear and comprehend
the mysteries of life of which you have now
no conception. Your progress depends
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INTRODUCTION
upon yourselves and your capability of be-
coming pure and free from self.
"Faith, which to you seems to make such
great demands upon your credulity, will lose
all its vagueness. A time will come, while
yet on earth, when you will be given such
positive proofs of the reality of our existence
and ever present love and interest that your
human need of what you call faith will have
disappeared, and you will really have a fore-
taste of the beautiful certitude of immortal-
ity, which is to us the breath of life and the
glorious reason of all our efforts to fit our-
selves to see and live more nearly in the
way of the source of Light and Life.
"Most men come to maturity without much
idea of the importance of the soul. The
soul is to those who have received a religious
education a vague something which must be
looked after when they have leisure and fed
by a few paltry rules and regulations.
They seldom look at it in its true light, as
the essential principle of life and the real
vital part of their being, which grows or
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INTRODUCTION
shrinks according to the life, and above all
to the thoughts of the individual.
"The real value of life is in its outlook and
the resulting action. The soul develops by
force of influences which come to bear upon
it and strengthen it. The best way to de-
velop its faculties is to keep as much as possi-
ble free from purposeless intercourse, keep-
ing more time every day for thought and in-
spiration. There is always a messenger of
light ready to whisper words of wisdom and
comfort if only we would take time to listen.
"The soul must be paramount. Nothing
will be of greater help to you than the love
which you exercise towards your fellowmen,
and I beg of you to make no distinctions,
for the most apparently unworthy may be
one whose soul is filled with longing to do
better.
"Those who have tried to do all they could
to be of use to their fellowmen, and who in
no matter what sphere of life have acted
as they believed was right, shall be counted
blessed, and their way made clear, and their
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progress is rapid towards the state of per-
fect happiness which comes ultimately.
"What influences most of all is the infinite
charity which shows a kind word and smile to
all and is ready not only to help but to think
good. Such mortals are received at once
into a state of great light and peace and
immediately begin to progress by a process
of education and absorption. It is among
these spirits that are found those vitally in-
terested in communicating with you on
earth to try and make you realize the im-
portance of the years you have for prepara-
tion and strengthening yourselves to bear
the shock of translation without losing your
identity.
"He who passes away from the life of earth
is at first very much confused and, imtil he
finds his guide, quite lost. His will is al-
lowed him to guide him to a great extent, for
as he is an individual he must be permitted
to use his judgment, but as he develops he
soon loses interest in trivial and worldly
matters, other than those which have to do
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with the growth of his soul. Left alone the
progress would be but chaotic and misdirec-
ted, but every soul is given a guide who is
happy to help him, though many have re-
tained their self-will and other imhappy ten-
dencies, and so do not get at first the full
benefit of their guide's experience and know-
ledge. Those who are in a simple and child-
like frame of mind and have an attitude of
willingness to be guided are soon enabled
to become more than simple beginners in
spiritual knowledge, and their first steps are
in the direction of a fuller comprehension of
the wonderful wisdom and goodness of God,
whose universe is so vast that more than
human intelligence is required even to com-
prehend the words necessary to its descrip-
tion.
"No matter how simple in the ways of man
has been the soul there is rapid progress if
the heart has been pure and the will to be
good has been the guide. They merely ab-
sorb by the force of the atmosphere that sur-
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INTRODUCTION
rounds them, and there is no eflfort other
than the will to learn required of them.
"No need of the reasons of the doubts and
questions which torment mortals. All is
made clear as the intelligence is able to com-
prehend, and when the soul sees more clearly
there is no need, even on earth, of wonder-
ing about trifles, for they are so very im-
important."
It is now three months since the following
messages were received. I have studied
them attentively and tried to put them into
practice, and I am very happy and deeply
grateful that such has been my progress in
understanding since taking down the first
messages in 1911, and those recently pub-
lished as "Meslom's Messages from the
Life Beyond," that I have been able to
help others to a clearer comprehension of the
meaning of life, and I have proved that in
these Messages is found all that is necessary
to make us understand that health and hap-
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piness must follow hannonizing of mind,
soul, and spirit with the Infinite.
Mabt McEvilly.
Paris, March, 1920.
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TO WOMAN FROM MESLOM
A MESSAGE FROM MESLOM
IN THE LIFE BEYOND
Paris, October 26, 1919.
In the early ages of earth life perpetua-
tion of the species seemed the great neces-
sity. The laws of nature require that the
male, who is the protector of the young, be
stronger than the female, whose natiu'e is
more sensitive and requires frequently recur-
ring periods of retirement.
In the course of the ages man's sensibili-
ties have been blunted by his forced con-
tact with the hard necessities of life, while
woman's more limited sphere has left her in
closer communion with the forces of nature.
She has thus remained more instinctive and
sensitive, but during the evolution of the
ages her sphere has widened and her outlook
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broadened to such an extent that, in all but
physical strength and capacity for prolonged
mental application, she is the equal of man.
Therefore we are now facing a new situa-
tion.
From the earthly point of view the evolu-
tion is slow, but it is necessarily with this we
must deal, for from the point of view of our
present life the problem ceases. Here there
are no women and no men, for the necessity
of sex and of physical reproduction has
ceased.
Paris, November 8, 1919.
If the eternal entity has no sex, and this is
absolutely true, let us establish the evolu-
tion of the human beings of opposite sex for
whom earth life has been necessary.
In the scale of mentality the lower orders
are feminine and the higher masculine, be-
cause the woman, being the child-bearer and
so being a more sensitive, intuitive and in-
stinctive life, has not had leisure or oppor-
tunity for the development of the purely
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abstract mental side of her individuality, and
so long as she continues to be the child-bearer
she must remain man's inferior in all that
goes to make for pure mentality.
With her widening sphere of influence in
the world certainly her development takes
her far, but rare indeed are the exceptional
women who are, in a purely intellectual
sense, the equals of men.
It has been nearly impossible for woman
to reach the abstract plane of reasoning and
the realm of creative inspiration because her
very nature, so much more in unison with the
elementary forces, has kept her bound to the
earth and its more circumscribed feeling and
emotions. Even her much sung and ad-
mired capacity for splendid, unselfish love
is a purely instinctive quality, feminine in
its essence and incapable of self-effacement.
Examine if you will the cases you may have
known or studied, you will always find that
that love is tinged to some extent with self.
As she ascends the scale of intellectual
development she is more and more capable
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of humanitarian and unselfish love, but she,
with rare exceptions, is never capable of de-
voting a life of toil and study and self-
abnegation to a pure love of knowledge for
its own sake.
This is as it must and should be for the
earth. Her sphere is vast and her influence
more and more far-reaching, but while bound
to earth and its physical necessities she may
never hope to be the creator, nor would it be
possible for her to be happy in this.
The feminine and the masculine are truly
only one, and after earth's necessities are
accomplished, the metamorphosis is marvel-
ous and beautiful.
' Man's comparative freedom from physi-
cal bonds has left him freer to pursue the
abstract, and the instinct of creation, which
comes from his physical mastery, gives his
spirit wings. He is the master, and all the
discussions of all the ages cannot change
this fact — ^that while living the earth life
man is the higher. But he is incomplete.
This statement of primal fact should not
[4]
TO WOMAN FBOM MESLOM
cause discussion. From our point of view,
it should not even cause feeling of any kind.
It is a primary fact and absolutely neces-
sary for the continued life on earth.
Well, then, would it be better and more
consistent with the apparent life duty, for
women to continue to live the cloistered and
limited life of the earlier ages?
From the purely earth standpoint, yes.
But earth life is given for the development
of the human being, and himian beings, in
the sense of the complete being who is the
composite of the man and the woman, there-
fore that development must follow its course.
The life of the early stage of earth de-
velopment would not be suitable to the be-
ings of to-day. As long as earth life con-
tinues there will always be enough of the
elementary, instinctive, life-reproducing be-
ings of both sexes, but the more highly
evolved individuals will become more and
more numerous and the evolution will natu-
rally free them from the fetters of earth.
When a human being has once been given
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TO WOMAN FBOM M E S L O M
a glimpse of pure knowledge and the hope
of knowledge no earthly temptation can
ever make him completely forsake its pur-
suit, for nothing earth can oflFer compares
in exquisite, radiant happiness with this ray
of transcendent light.
It is in this light that the great inventions
have heen made, the great poems written,
the true masterpieces sung — ^imperfectly it
is true, hut even one ray of that eternal verity
gives them sufficient strength and life to en-
dure for all time, and yet no one knows
better than their creators how inadequately
they express the glimpse received of the pure
and radiant vision.
Paris, November 6, 1919.
Thebe is in the thought world, or the
spirit world, a marvelous clarity of vision.
I do not mean vision in an earthly sense,
but in the sense of grasping and seeing and
understanding and knowing the truth.
The infinite mind, in which we live and
have our being, is a warm, loving, all-power-
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f ul intelligence which moves in never ending
pulsations. The spiritual human being has
direct communication, through the sub-con-
scious, with this infinite source of life. The
important thing then must be to teach man
to understand how to come into conscious
knowledge of his eternal source.
Herein lies one of the important avenues
of usefulness for woman, for before thought
exists in the conscious mind its creative vibra-
tions are set in motion by feeling, which is
the faculty of the being functioning between
humanity and Divinity. Woman being in
so much closer harmony with nature feels
these vibrations more acutely than man. So
far in her development she has not learned
to make intellectual use of the ideas that
come in this way. She accepts them as in-
tuition, but does not even attempt to under-
stand them.
Nature makes use of her sensitiveness in
transmitting to her children her feeling, and
the more highly developed the mother is in
this way the more certain will it be that her
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TO WOMAN FBOM MESLOM
son will be capable of high abstract thought.
The whole of creation is so intimately as-
sociated that no one subject may be exhaus-
tively studied without including all, so in
studying woman we must study man.
Man in his physical mastery has ruled the
world so far and his power has come from the
one strong feeling of his nature, which is
that of reproducing his kind. This is his
strongest instinct and comes from his strong-
est, and indeed his only real feeling, for in
other respects it is his mind and judgment
which guide him while in this it is his feel-
ing.
All this is too difficult for the masses, but
it must be taught and explained to the few so
that gradually light may come to the many
and its application made to guide the young.
Let us imagine an infinity of limpid, pul-
sating, vivifying, joy-producing, buoyant
light, which has within its very nature the
power of producing and sustaining life, and
contains within itself all knowledge, all
power and all lovet Within this spbitual at-
[8]
TO WOMAN FBOM MESLOM
mosphere is the principle of creation, one of
the mfuiifestations of the infinite God. In
this light nothing inharmonious can exist —
all fear, all pain must vanish and be dissi-
pated. The subconscious man is in direct
touch with this infinite source, and the vibra-
tions which are felt from any particular
thought of the conscious mind arouse in that
sub-conscious mind the faculty of absorbing
the spiritual substance, therefore the impor-
tant thing is to teach humanity how to apply
this truth.
We must begin from the little knowledge
already possessed on earth. Nearly every
himian being forms for himself, or accepts
from some other person, an idea of God and
makes it his own according to his mental
qualities. This image or idea is not really
important. The important thing is to try
to believe that there must be a God, then in
all sincerity and himaility aspire and de-
sire to know. If the desire be real the knowl-
edge will come, and this is how it comes.
The simple but albsolutely sincere desire to
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TO WOMAN FBOM MESLOM
know God sets in motion vibrations from
the brain which are commmiieated to the
sub-conscious mind. The sub-conscious
mind always carries out automatically the
order given by the conscious, and is the link
between the human and the Divine, between
the finite and the Infinite. Being in unison
with that divine intelligence it receives
through vibration the desired certainty of
knowledge. This knowledge sets in motion
other vibrations which cause feeling and this
in turn is the source of thought and clarity
of vision, and is the du-ect way of receiving
knowledge. In the same way any desire
which is real, and in harmony with truth
may be attained. Can you not see how nec-
essary it is at this stage of development to
find this way to happiness?
God, who is the source of knowledge, is
also infinite love, and every true desire which
is in harmony with good must be answered.
Woman must be the giver of this new
spiritual life as she has always been of the
physical. She will be the tree of which man
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TO WOMAN FHOM MESLOM
has been the seed and of which the perfected
spiritual being will be the fruit. She has
this wonderful privilege and opportunity for
the bettering of humanity because her feel-
ing nature is stronger than that of man.
She will learn to recognize the truth by prop-
erly regulated exercises and each idea of the
Divine mind, voiced by her, will be developed
by man, and the two will advance side by
side towards their splendid destiny.
Paris, November 6, 1919.
When the splendid results of this teaching
are made manifest in the world there will be
marked improvement in the physical condi-
tion of himianity . Such is the force of truth
that when expressed to a very limited nima-
ber it spreads in ever widening circles and
through its influence on the feeling natiure
will be grasped first by woman. In the mys-
terious depths of that nature woman has
kept, not exactly a memory, but a lingering
reminiscence of her oneness with the great
unknown. This intuition is the link be-
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tween herself and the source of all life, and
the simple expression of the truth of its
meaning comes to her like the enmiciation of
a well known but never clearly understood
thought. With her quickness of perception
and the wonderful faculty she possesses of
inunediately making every new feeling her
own she will seize upon this exposition of
principle with all the force and enthusiasm
of her soul. ,
She will be exalted and glorified by the
individual joy it brings and in this splendid,
happy security will convince man of its truth.
He then, with his more highly developed
reasoning powers, will search deep and find
the hidden laws, and the little leaven will
penetrate the whole, to the bettering and ad-
vancement of the whole of humanity.
This book will be a simple guide to those
who are sincerely searching for truth. The
feeling evoked by the mere reading of its
words will vibrate so strongly that all earnest
searchers will know by an intimate knowl-
edge that they have within themselves the
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possibility of coming personally in conscious
touch with the infinite source of all knowl-
edge, all love, all life.
They must learn, too, that the habit of
carrying their burdens and desires to an-
other to be helped is spiritual cowardice.
No real progress can be made thus. The
way may be pointed out, but the searching,
the praying, the study, must be individual.
Remember that in each being is a ray of
divinity, that each must ultimately reach per-
fection, and that spiritually each stands alone
while earth life endures.
Paris, November 8, 1919.
"Saying so does not make it so," is often
said and accepted as an axiom, and yet the
statement is diametrically opposed to truth,
for saying so, if said understandingly, does
make it so, provided always that the par-
ticular thing be in accord with real eternal
wisdom.
Even when not understood the repeated
affirmation of anything persevered in and
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strengthened by will is capable of making
it SO. How much more is this possible when
the reason is imderstood, and there is no
mystery about it. It is a truth capable of
being understood and practiced by all. No
chiurches are necessary for its cult: no creed
is necessary for its form.
The first step must frequently be taken
blindly and in loving faith and simplicity,
and it is for this reason that those further
advanced in understanding are able to assist
those just beginning, but in this each one
must learn to think and act for himself.
As we are all conscious of oiu* bodies with
their varied sensations we must build the
foundation upon ideas which will bring
about peace and joy and consequently health
in the body, thus leaving the mind free to
carry us further.
Affirm then each day on awakening that
glory, praise and thanks are due and gladly
given to the infinitely tender and loving, all-
knowing, all-powerful Creator, the ever
present, omniscient God.
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Try to picture to yourselves God not as
a person, which limits your comprehension,
but as the never-ceasing creative Spirit, apart
from whom nothing real can exist. In that
infinite spirit exists in never ceasing activity
all knowledge, all love, all power. You who
are still human beings inhabiting the earth
are animated by a ray of divine intelligence.
That ray is your immortal spirit, which is
called into separate individuality by an ex-
pression of divine idea, clothed, so far as
earth existence is necessary, in a body
formed by earthly parents after immutable
laws of nature, and a soul or race inheritance,
forming the sub-conscious memory.
These three parts when in complete har-
mony with their divine origin bring about
health and happiness, and when in discord
cause all the ills, both physical and mental,
from which poor himaanity suflFers. There-
fore the great and urgent need is to bring
about a better imderstanding by himaanity
of his origin, his duty and his destiny.
At this stage of the earth development this
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can only come through mental conviction of
the reasons underlying the laws of nature
and science of applying these laws.
All mysticism and blind obedience has
passed away. Spirituality has come, but
not blind spirituality — spirituality which
knows and loves.
The immutable laws of nature cannot be
changed because of prayer. No personal
God answers the personal pleadings of His
children, but the divinely implanted intelli-
gence, which is a ray of divinity, can come
into conscious communion with the infinite
God, who is the source of all intelligence and
all life. This intelligence, which is the real
spiritual man, is capable of understanding
the laws which brought him into being and
of applying those laws so as to bring about
conditions of health and happiness and pros-
perity and freedom of spirit even on earth.
All the ills of humanity are the result of
ignorance. The perfect development of the
individual would follow the understanding
of the law.
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Paris, November 11, 1919.
In answer to your question of this even-
ing asking for explanation of my statement
that there is no personal God who answers
the prayers of a particular kind, I beg you
to study carefully all the messages and try
to understand their real meaning.
God is one, and contains within Himself
all power and all love. Everything that is
real in all the universe is a manifestation of
God. His expressions are so limitless that
not even two blades of grass are identical,
but the limitations of earthly language are
such that no words can express to mortal
mind His nature, nor can mortal mind grasp
His infinite perfection.
"Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard,
nor hath the mind of man conceived the
glory of God."
The inspired writers of all times have
tried with varying degrees of success to find
images to try to convey some shadow of
meaning to the human intelligence of the
grandeur and the majesty of the glory of
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God. The image which most appeals to
suffering, weak, struggling human nature
is that of a powerful but loving father, and
so this idea, fostered by the prophets, has
been accepted for long ages.
Since the Christian era the attention of
man has been preponderantly directed to his
divine Son Jesus Christ, to such an extent
that to many the man Jesus has become not
only the perfect son of God but the only ex-
pression of God, and in many cases the
hiunan personality has been the only concep-
tion of God. This is inadequate.
God, the creator and ruler of the universe,
the great giver and sustainer of life, the
fount of love, of wisdom, of justice, is too
vast to be confined in any person. As far as
the earth is concerned, Jesus Christ ex-
pressed in the purest and fullest measure
possible the Spirit, and He is indeed the Be-
loved Son in whom the Father is well
pleased, but can you not comprehend that
the words father and son are but words and
symbols — that they are the best expression
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found in language to express something of
Divine love?
But he who would try to know God must
put aside the fetters of language and find
for himself the hidden spiritual meaning.
God is spirit and can be comprehended only
by spirit.
To approach Him and receive of His in-
finite loving bounty the ways are many, but
if only the desire be real the pathway mat-
ters little, and the only sure channel for re-
ceiving of this inexhaustible love is through
a contrite and humble heart and a real, abso-
lutely sincere longing to know and under-
stand.
If the image of a personal God seem neces-
sary to your limited understanding hold to
it until you have gone beyond its need.
Paris, November 18, 1919.
WoMAN^ receiving through her feeling na-
ture the emotions caused by spiritual vibra-
tions, and learning to recognize the conse-
quent ideas not as intuition but as real, direct
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comunication, will be uplifted and glorified.
As long as earth endures she will continue
to sway man by the force of her physical
attraction, but she will learn to make use
of this attraction to take him with her into
the realm of the ideal, where he will be only
too happy to follow.
If woman only realized more that the
greatest need of man's natiu-e is to find a
woman to idealize she would be less willing
to compromise. Man's strongest feeling is
toward woman the mother, but intimately
associated with that feeling urging him to
reproduce his kind is instinctive veneration
and enni>bling of the ideal whom he imagines
he may have found. At this time he will
invariably listen and accept the ideas of
woman.
It is thus extremely important that
woman realize her tremendous influence and
her high duty. Man asks only to be per-
suaded that the woman he loves has a pure,
aspiring, spiritual nature, but when the first
blind obsession be passed his critical, analyt-
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ical mind keenly observes, and soon finds
discrepancies, if any exist, between the spir-
itual ideas and the consequences which, if
they are sincere, should be their outcome.
Let woman be true to herself. Let her
learn to listen and understand through her
sensitive feeling nature that she is in close
touch with the infinite spirit, which is all
good, all love. This knowledge will make
her face shine with a light transcending all
physical beauty. She will know that her
feeling nature is the link between the phys-
ical and the spiritual and that through it she
can receive of the infinite resources and be
the channel through which the man she loves
will also receive.
To be spiritual it is not necessary to leave
the world and its claims and shut oneself
up away from one's fellows. WMaMQ^g^uty
is to lead man into the spirit and thus ^nd
her own sajvajipii and her earthly happiness
as well. There is no incompatibility be-
tween bodily health and happiness and spir-
itual advancement. Quite the contrary.
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Because of the broadening education of
the day and the necessity of taking her place
in the economic life of the world woman has
been debased. She, in her inexperience and
desire to be the equal of man, has been too
inclined to make herself after his image, and
what in a man is only the result of desire to
cover his real feeling and become impassive,
has in her degenerated into a coarsening of
the fibre.
She must learn that nothing can or should
ever make her man's equal. There can be
no equality between the sexes — ^there is the
marvelous completion of one another when
each be true to nature. Certainly there are
exceptions, but the tendency of the time is
to try exteriorly to equalize the sexes and
this is leading to dire results, Man deduces
from what woman makes him believe and
woe to the world if man should ever really
think woman no better than himself.
In his plastic youth he must idealize a
woman or be all his life a lost and groping,
unhappy, hardened being, and in this no
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deception can permanently blind him.
Woman to lead man to higher things must
be in touch with them herself — learn to
know her duty and recognize her spirit.
Her responsibilities are very great indeed.
Paris, November 6, 1919.
SocDETY is formed of all the various
grades of humanity rising in ever narrowing
circles from its base to its summit. At the
base are the elemental masses so little
evolved, either from circumstances of birth
or lack of educational advantages or geo-
graphical environment, that the higher men-
tal qualities have not yet made their appear-
ance, except in rare and exceptional cases.
Rising on this mass in countless numbers are
the more highly evolved.
Spiritually and ethically each individual
in all creation is the equal of each. In their
final development all must attain perfection.
It is impossible in the short space of earth
life to accomplish this, and the form of earth
appearance is only the expression of one
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very fleeting phase of human development.
In the plane of life immediately succeed-
ing earth there is no necessity of increasing ;
therefore there is no sex. The creative
activity which on earth was represented by
the male is freed and enabled to find with
absolute certainty the feeling nature, which
on earth was female. There can be no mis-
takes for only two parts of the same whole
attract one another, since those parts are re-
duced to their spiritual reality, and are not
blinded and hampered by earthly coverings.
Since the vibrations put in motion by
every thought and act of earth life form for-
ever part of the eternal individuality, and
since the strongest vibrations are set in mo-
tion by pure, unselfish love, it must follow
that real love here finds its complete fulfill-
ment.
Individuality as earth knows it has ceased
when the spiritual being has developed suf-
ficiently to understand that bodies and all
that went to make up earthly personality
have ceased to be necessary for the expres-
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sion of the pure intelligence, which is the
real, eternal being. When such develop-
ment is reached love, in an earthly sense, has
lost its meaning, and love, in an eternal sense,
has dawned.
This does not necessarily mean that all
love on earth knows it has ceased. No, for
whatever was real in earth life is eternal and
will always persist and bring into its own
its component parts, making of varying ele-
ments one complete and perfect whole.
Form also, please remember this, has ceased
to exist. We are conscious of eternity and
a'bsolutely certain that we will progress and
develop until we reach perfection, which will
take us into the splendor of the comprehen-
sion of God, in whom is all knowledge, all
power, all love.
Not one beat of a loving human heart is
lost and its fulfillment is certain. Even its
human appearance is still granted to those
for whom this be necessary until such time
as they have passed beyond its need. But
there is a tremendous difference between love
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in its truth and reality and the numerous
earthly sensations dignified by the noble
name of love.
Love is the noblest passion of the human
heart, but its coimterf eits are weakening and
degrading — sentiments parading as reality
and duping weak, ignorant humanity, who
with intuitive idealizing of the instinct of
nature to reproduce itself, often lead to such
pitiful mistakes. . But can these mistakes be
avoided? No, and they are not really so
very important. They lead to the fulfilling
of the laws of nature and their very mistakes
often show the way to a better and clearer
understanding of the true love which is their
eternal ideal.
But every effort made in the world for a
better understanding of life and of love le^ds
upward. Love is a manifestation of God.
Love seeks always the good and the happi-
ness of the beloved. Love is always giving,
never receiving. Love is never concerned
with the thought of its return. Love is free
from fear and doubt. Love is the harmoni-
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ous expression of music, the soft radiance of
perfect light, the suave perfume of sunlit
gardens, the fulfillment of longing dreams,
the splendid realization of complete spiritual
and intellectual and human ideals of life.
Love is full of compassion and desire to
help. It knows by an intimate certainty that
happiness is found only in service. All this
is already known to humanity, but it remains
to find the way to show woman how to re-
ceive daily and hourly directly from the
source of all feeling the certainty of depend-
able intuitions. She must be made to under-
stand as well as feel that she is the voice
enunciating the truth revealed to her directly
from the eternal source.
Less attention may be given to the pursuit
of education in its practical aspects and more
to the development of her true, inner feeling
nature, and ability to seize the reality of the
spiritual qualities.
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Paris, November 17, 1919.
Infinity has no beginning and can have
no end, no past and no future. All limita-
tions of time and space must disappear in the
spiritual reality.
Divine Intelligence, Infinite Mind, Eter-
nal Principle, Onmipresent Love, are all
expressions used by man to convey some idea
of the infinite perfection of God.
In the seed exist the potential flower and
fruit, so in each being on earth exists the
perfect spiritual being which is to be made
manifest in another life, a future life so fax
as time lasts but a perfected life from our
point of view.
In God, therefore, all the resoiu-ces of in-
finity are forever present. It is for us to
find the way of coming in conscious touch
with them.
Man is always conscious of the mystery of
woman and woman always dominates man's
sentiments by the unconsciously high value
she puts upon the favors she bestows. This
has been the theme of countless poems,
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romances, philosophical treatises and even
religious works and yet has always remained
the mystery. Its explanation lies in the
underlying truth I have been explaining to
you, that in the one respect of feeling woman
is man's superior, and as she dominates him
in the one feeling she possesses, she will al-
ways remain for the young and inexperi-
enced the great mystery to herself as well as
to him.
Yet it is simple to understand. The two
are the complement of one another. Man is
comparatively simple to understand, for his
qualities are those of the intelligence carried
out logically and consistently from whatever
foundation he possesses of principle. His
only mystery is the fact that for the purpose
of procreation he makes an exception and is
guided by feeling.
Woman, on the contrary, is extremely
complex, for she is swayed always by intui-
tions, which are imperfectly understood im-
pulsions from the great source of all feeling
— one of the manifestations of the all-
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pervading, all-sustaining love of the omni-
present God, manifested in the feeling prin-
ciple.
Let us imagine this force as a pulsating,
electrifying, ever-present activity surround-
ing us as the air surrounds the earth, except
that it is boundless. This feeling principle
is one of the avenues of conveyance to mor-
tals of the vivifying, life-giving love. One
cannot say it is higher or lower than the
intelligence which is founded on logic and
guides man. It is another manifestation,
that is all, and is necessary in the Divine
symphony of nature.
Woman's organization is such, on account
of her being the mother, that she is domi-
nated by feeling. So far she does not under-
stand whence come these unexplainable
feelings which move her, but if you can
'imagine that through every pore she receives
directly impulsions from original feeling, as
though each were a little wire ringing a bell
somewhere in her being and such wires liable
to be set in motion by the great exterior
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force in whom is all feeling, you may perhaps
imagine in what countless ways she is played
upon.
The feeling aroused in her should be al-
ways for good, since in truth and reality in a
spiritual sense all is good, but ignorance has
built up such a mass of wrong thinking that
she is the victim not only of her own limited
understanding but of the accumulated ignor-
ance of the race.
She must be taught to discriminate be-
tween the true and the false and know that
that great surrounding, sustaining, impel-
ling original f eelmg contains only good ; that
her ineradicable instinct of sjiperiority in
feeling is well founded, but that she miist
learn to imderstand how to make proper use
of it.
She has always been guided by intuition,
that sixth sense which has always baffled
thinking, reasoning man, but now she must
learn to recognize the true in her intuition
and discriminate between it and the false.
The very beauty and sensitiveness of this
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feminine nature has made it difficult, for,
when swayed too much by impulse, she be-
comes a victim of mistakes made by man
and human institutions and often herself
mistakes selfishness and hysterical nervous-
ness for the spiritual sensitiveness which is
the result of impulsion from original feeling.
To know the real from the false she must
willingly discipline her imagination, and
courageously face the fact that she is selfish.
She must build for herself a few firm founda-
tion stones to carry the edifice of her con-
scious holding up to the lamp of humanity.
She must begin by being sincere and in
earnest. She must make a mental ^aspira-
tion every day, the first thing on awakening,
the last before sleeping, of real desire to
know more and more of the meaning of Life.
She must beg in her inmost heart to be more
worthy of receiving the true feeling which
comes from the Divine Mind. She must
really and actually do every day some little
or big act of love, as free from self as her
nature and development will permit, and
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make an honest effort to eliminate self from
a greater and greater part of each day.
This is difficult and much more difficult
for woman than for man, for her very com-
plexity of feeling makes her subject to many
purposes, and it is extremely difficult for any
woman to completely forget self, but to hear
the truth within her it is absolutely essential.
Paris, November 18, 1919.
To discriminate between the voice of
truth and the sensations caused by imagina-
tion reflected in nerves it is absolutely es-
sential for every earnest seeker to take some
time every day to be quite alone and to still
the miad as well as the body. The time need
not be long, but undivided attention must be
given to the formulating of a wish to learn.
The whole heart and soul and mind must be
concentrated upon the one thought form-
ulated.
At the root of the study of this science
must be the desire to know God. No mat-
ter what the form of the thought may be if
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the desire be real the knowledge of God will
increase. The repeated formation of this
prayer, "Oh God, that I may know Thee!
Give me knowledge!" will open in the brain
channels to receive ideas brought throygh the
sub-conscious mind and feeling straight from
the Universal Mind, in whom is all knowl-
edge.
Since in that Mind is all knowledge it must
follow that every idea received from it brings
with enlightened vision a comprehension
though the feeling aroused of the marvelous
love penetrating, vivifying, sustaining all,
and each day will make the way clearer that
leads to peace and joy.
It is essential to persist, for only by re-
peated and persistent efforts can one hope
to understand. At first attempt nothing
further. Ask God to help you to know and
understand, not from any selfish wish to re-
ceive blessings, but from pure desire for
knowledge. Try to concentrate upon the in-
finite perfections of the Divine Creator, and
be absolutely certain that your individual
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intelligence is in this way made to vibrate in
unison with the Divine Intelligence, and that
you will surely receive a clearer vision.
Put aside yourself and your own desires,
no matter how urgent they may be. Let thq
prayer be an entirely sincere one for knowl-
edge. Rest as a babe in its mother's arms,
in absolute security, and your wish will be
gratified. This is the foundation for spir-
itual development.
Paris, November 21, 1919.
The form of communication imdertaken
by us is a very direct and simple thing in this
age because the forces of nature, as referred
to the earth, have been centralized by the
amount of suffering undergone during the
War to such an extent that events, which a
few years ago were utterly beyond the possi-
bility of humanity, axe now of everyday
occurrence.
Suffering purifies and sensitizes and lifts
men's thoughts above their everyday affairs.
It has been inevitable that as a reflection of
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all the intense suflfering humanity should be
changed. There is no one on all the earth
who is not in some way aflfected, if not
directly, then indirectly by the strength of
the vibrations set in motion by the masses.
All the spirits released from earthly
bounds in such a short space of time, pre-
pared as they were for their new life here by
the daily facing of sudden death, and the
revolt of their himianity against the idea of
annihilation, have set up on this side such a
tremendous strength of vibration that the
two worlds have been inmiensely approached,
and the establishment of their intercourse is
now almost proven.
Here each individual preserves the free-
dom of will and spirit which made his indi-
viduality and each may choose whether he
will go on alone or whether he will try to add
his weight to the evidence given to prove
continued existence after earth life.
Another factor of enormous importance is
the fact that all these thousands of beginners
in the new life were young, as earth consid-
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ered youth, and full of life and energy.
Nearly all left behind them some one who
longed to hear from them.
Truth must agree with itself in its sub-
stance, and the immense aspiration for some-
thing beyond and above the earth and its
misery was so earnestly and fervently voiced
that the Infinite Truth, that is God, respond-
ing to this desire, has put in motion such
vast and far-reaching vibrations that the
earth is rocked to its foundations.
Sensitized human beings all over the
world are affected by this condition and the
accumulated weight of evidence is tre-
mendous.
As far as earth is concerned it is woman
who perceives these vibrations, but as far
as our plane of existence is concerned, the
form is pure, creative truth.
Every woman on earth who mourns a son
or loved one is in call upon her beloved here,
so it is easy to realize that the rays of com-
munication are coimtless.
The love felt here is stronger than eSjrth
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love and yet has lost the claims of earth. It
is not less vibrant and real — ^it is bigger,
stronger, clearer and more selfless, and is
surely finding the way to prove to the wait-
ing earth that man, trimnphant immortal
man, forever glorying in splendid life, is a
magnificent reality, and is yearning to make
you still on earth partakers in the resplend-
ent truth.
Yes, you will all live here more splendidly,
with all earth's highest aspirations fulfilled
and an infinity of others undreamed of en-
joyed and understood. Ah I the pure, radi-
ant joy of the realization of our real selves 1
We are really and truly and individually
conscious partakers in the perfect life of the
infinite God, and we know that we shall re-
alize more and more our splendid destiny.
God is love. God is life. God is intel-
ligence. Every thrdb of pulsating, splendid
life of ours takes us higher and the glimpses
we are given of the ultimate transcend all
mortal mind has ever dreamed.
Have faith, be sincere, and thank God
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that humanity is beginning to grasp the
meaning of life.
Think of the one word "Life/* Repeat
it. Feel it pulsate. Know that it is some-
thing which could not be confined within
limits. It is infinite, eternal spirit, there-
fore vibrating in absolute unison with itself,
which in its entirety is God, whose infinite
power created aU the universe, whose infi-
nite intelligence understands the vaguest
thought, whose infinite love allows not even a
blade of grass to fall without knowing and
caring.
To imderstand in even the faintest degree
this tremendous truth man must change his
mental attitude. I^ife must be considered
in its entirety, not in its fleeting episode of
earth experience. Life is eternal and the
sufferings of earth are but as the mist before
the rising sim which disappears in the
splendor of the noonday.
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Paris, November 28, 1919.
With the advance made in understanding
of the possibility of communication between
earth and our plane of life has arisen a
grave situation, which may also be a danger
if not carefully explained.
Woman is the instrument of intercom-
mimication because, on account of her close-
ness to the forces of nature and her fine
sensibilities, she perceives sooner than man
the vibrations that arouse the feeling .of its
truth, but her very sensitiveness and depthr^
of feeling, and also the fact that she acts
upon those feelings without being always
capable of studying them and their logical
sequence, expose her to the danger either of
giving up her own judgment to some indi-
vidual whom she imagines more advanced
in this mental science or to some force which
has become centralized suflSciently for her to
lean upon it for guidance.
Here comes the danger and the extreme
need of discrimination and judgment. The
spirit which animates each individual is a
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part of the great Infinite Spirit which is
God. In that Infinite Spirit exists all that
ever was or ever will be, and when the clouds
of ignorance are dispelled all will see clearly
in the resplendent light of truth. It is very
difficult for mortals to understand how each
is forever a perfectly free individual and yet
in spirit substances united with the eternal
source — the great all-pervading, all-sus-
taining, all-understanding spirit. And yet
this is true.
The free will bestowed upon each being
when the Divine idea was expressed is for-
ever a part of that being. Each is capable
of development wherein the possibilities are
endless. With each advance comes a clearer
understanding of the meaning of life and its
marvelous possibilities, but the development
of that individual depends upon itself and
can never reach its perfection by the efforts
or the help of another. Those fiu1;her on
may point out the way and give comfort and
encouragement, but the growth must be in-
dividual.
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As far as earth life is concerned growth of
character and intellect proceed in direct ratio
with freely taken and fully understood de-
cisions made with full comprehension of their
responsibilities. Therefore anything which
weakens this necessity of decision weakens
also the being in all that makes for growth.
In this work of finding the true way of
communicating between individuals on
earth and their wiser brothers here great care
must be taken to preserve a perfect freedom
of mind and spirit and clear well-balanced
discussion of all theories advanced, and no
one can help in the work, or be of any use
either to themselves or others, if they give up
any part of their responsibilities to others.
Beware of the danger of becoming depend-
ent upon any one but God. Approach this
study humbly, sincerely and reverently, ask-
ing daily and hourly to know the truth.
Try to realize your imity with the Divine
Spirit, and that the attitude of asking to
imderstand puts you in the way of feeling
the truth. This progress must necessarily
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be of slow growth but it cannot be hastened
by any other personality. It must come
from inner conviction of the truth of each
step taken, and this shown in a calmer ex-
terior, a courageous facing of each day's
trials and a firm determination to let nothing
interfere with the pursuit of the truth.
Never ask another to meet your trials for
you. They axe to be conquered by yourself
and each one bravely met and overcome will
make the succeeding one easier until the
periods of light far outnumber the dark.
Each being is an expression of the Divine
Mind, an image of God. Each is ultimately
to reach perfection wherein he will be cap-
able of approaching in dignity and grandeur
the center of life itself, and each must work
out alone his destiny. Alone only so far as
earth is concerned, for here by the marvelous
change which comes, each being realizes
completion, and the restless, never-satisfied
longing for another being who understands
and loves has ceased to exist.
This may seem appalling to some human
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beings whose highest conception of love is its
earthly ideal of man and woman in harmony
and mutual love, and such would prefer
annihilation to the idea of a future wherein
they were to be deprived of the presence of
their beloved. But when earth is left, left
also are all earth's needs and ways.
Love is real and eternal but is a vastly
diflferent manifestation from earthly love.
If that love which existed on earth were real
and strong enough it will persist and its
force will be sufficient to bring together
again into one perfectly whole the two who
loved one another, but in order for this to be
so the love must have been equally sincere
on both sides and have been absolutely pure
and free from self. This is rare indeed, but
when it exists the two will surely come into
one complete being here, for each here con-
tains within its own being the two elements
which on earth were male and female, thus
bringing about complete fulfillment and
possibility of advancing in entire freedom of
spirit. This would be impossible if fettered
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by the longing and loneliness and anguish of
incomprehension which pursued earth exist-
ence. Everything that impedes the splendid
advance towards perfection must be dissi-
pated in the light of truth and the joy of
love which is here our very life.
When the proper stage of development is
reached here the two incomplete parts of the
one perfect whole are sublimated, and one
radiant being, containing within itself all
that goes to make complete and perfect hap-
piness, comes into being, capable thencefor-
ward of comprehending in ever greater de-
gree the splendor, the majesty, the harmony,
the love of God.
Paris, November 24, 1919.
How can the knowledge that comes to
each and every woman- through what is called
intuition be applied to the advancement of
the race?
By teaching them from childhood to try to
discern between the real and the imreal; by
making them understand their privilege as
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the enimciators of truth, and to know that
their instinct of worth must guide them to
ever greater aloofness than before.
Every woman is an instriunent of Divine,
all-knowledge. She must take time every
day to ask tWat this knowledge be increased.
"Oh God I my life, teach me to imder-
standl''
Repeat this many times, and then listen.
There will arise a feeling and then an intui-
tion and then a certain knowledge of truth.
Beware of blindly following any teaching.
Never forget that each and every one is
capable of perfection. God in his infinite
wisdom and love is ever present and always
responds to desires that are in harmony with
truth. That one receives more or less of
wisdom and its consequent blessings is not
because God gives more or less, but only be-
cause the individual is more or less able to
perceive.
There is behind the human race the in-
heritance of the past with all its qualities,
good and bad, with all its virtues and all its
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Vices. The record of this is a part of the
race inheritance, and is what is called the
sub-conscious mind. The result of the
thought of all the ages binds the children of
the race with bands of error which can only
be broken up by building up another race in-
heritance of truth. It cannot be done at
once but every effort counts, and every indi-
vidual who succeeds in freeing himself from
the fetters of the past is a beacon light to
thousands, nay millions, who dimly perceive
the light of truth but need help to find the
clear, resplendent day.
Never fear that your efforts, which must
be slight, cannot hope to undo the mistakes
of the past. Truth is far stronger than
error, and each center of truth dispels the
gloom from a wider and wider area of dark-
ness and ignorance, and men's minds are
now ready for the acceptance of the truth.
The intense feeling aroused in the world
by the war has made it possible to know by
that very feeling when the spoken word is
the reality. No sham can arouse the feeling
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that truth can, and this clear and ringing
claim will become ever louder and more in-
sistent until all join in one paean of praise
and thanksgiving for the era of truth.
It is not mysterious or complicated — ^it is,
on the contrary, very simple and direct, but
it can reach only those who are absolutely
sincere and in earnest.
The first waking thought must be an
aspiration to know God. Then the habit
must be formed of mental questioning and
aspu-ing whenever the occupation of the day
leave leisure. Much of the suffering of the
world comes from the habit of filling the
mind with idle, foolish and weak and degrad-
ing thought, aroused by reading indiscrim-
inately.
The unhappy victim of drunkenness is no
more to be pitied than the unhappy despoil-
er of his God-given intelligence who wastes
his mind and opportunities for real develop-
ment in silly reading. No one evil has done
as much to retard the spiritual progress of
the race as has trashy novel reading. By its
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appeal to the young it arouses sympathetic-
ally the feeling of imsatisfied sensual ex-
citement, which brings in its train a real de-
basing of all the faculties, both mental and
physical. Certainly nothing can do more
good than a good book, but the taste for
good books is soon ruined by an over indulg-
ence in bad ones.
' In this respect even complete ignorance
of learning, considered in its superficial
aspects, is better than the smattering of edu-
cation given the masses. The completely
illiterate have their eyes and minds open to
nature in all its aspects and their feeling
nature intact to receive the beneficent influ-
ences which come to them directly from the
great source of all feeling. The half edu-
cated are blind to these splendid, life-giving
influences. They absorb the poison aroused
by the nefarious suggestions, and as all feel-
ing must eventually be externalized in
bodily conditions, it follows that much of the
suffering of the world is caused by this very
habit of reading.
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To overcome this tendency libraries should
be very carefully supervised, more and more
time be given to out-door exercise and sim-
ple but oft-repeajed mental aspirations be
made for good. ./
There is a longing in every human being
for good. It has oiily to be encouraged. It
will grow so easily. The good, the pure, the
beautiful are all about us. Learn to seek
them and you will surely find them, and in
seeking them you will find happiness and
health, for it must follow as the night the
day that if true to oneself one can be false
to no man, and it must also follow that if we
think good wholesome, pure thoughts, prop-
erly directed, we will build up splendid bodies
full of force and energy, capable of finding
the way to the true knowledge of life, where-
in is pure happiness, splendid growth and
conscious progress towards our ultimate
destiny of becoming indeed sons of God.
Can you not imderstand that such a con-
sciousness must necessarily bring with it
complete harmony — Whence perfect health
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and happiness ? Therefore hasten to become
wise. Beg for knowledge of God. Beg for
it hourly and the way will be shown.
Paris, November 80, 1919.
Repeat slowly the words "Infinite,
eternal Spirit. Omnipresence, Omniscience,
Omnipoteiice." Then take each word and
repeat it, concentrating upon it until the
spiritual meaning which the word represents
makes itself felt in the conscious mind. This
comes about by the vibration aroused by the
repetition and concentration, and calls forth
from that Infinite Spirit the very feeling
represented by the word.
Then when you have formed an idea of the
meaning of all these words try to imagine
yourself as one of the countless expressions
of that Infinite Intelligence, as one of the
forces of that Omnipotence, as one of the
vibrating expressions of that Omnipresence,
carrying within yourself an essential, vital
emanation of that Infinite Life, capable of
greater and greater comprehension of the
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All-Intelligence, and supported and sus-
tained always, and in spite of all appearances
to the contrary, by that Infinite Love.
Take each word separately ; study it ; think
of it exclusively in all that it means, and shut
out from the consciousness every other
thought. Let your entire will be directed to
absorbing the spiritual meaning of what the
word represents. Then wait in complete
silence and let the vibrations set in motion
by the feeling evoked penetrate the brain
and arouse the thought which is the exact
expression of the meaning.
This should be done each and every day
and soon the habit of concentration and the
understanding of the truth will come.
Each individual can assimilate only so
much of truth as his development permits,
but each must work for himself. The way
can be shown but the growth is personal.
All earth life is but an expression of
limited human imderstanding. Ever3i:hing
is contained in the Infinite Intelligence, of
which we are a part. There is all knowledge.
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Nothing is new. It has always existed.
The so-called progress is only the finding
of the way to the source. This inexhaust-
ible supply is all about us, but can be reached
only by earnest desire. Those who are sat-
isfied with surface things will never find
what lies below. Those who are satisfied
with living in dark cellars will not know the
glory of the sun. The sun cannot penetrate
into their underground retreats. They
themselves must make the effort to come out.
Do not be afraid of the blazing light of
truth. It will dissipate the clouds of doubt,
the mists of ignorance, the barriers of fear,
and give an absolutely certain feeling of
peace and joy and health. Come out of the
mists into the sun I Exert your God-given
intelligence, exercise your Divine power of
comprehension, know the truth and the truth
shall make you free.
The spread of education has made it pos-
sible for these ideals to be like a ray of light
penetrating the darkness. The spirit of
liberty so splendidly felt in the world to-day,
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makes this the longed-for moment for the
generous realization by the world of its cher-
ished aspirations, and the messengers of this
new revelation are women.
They have had leisure to taste of the joy
of learning, but those who have studied most
deeply have felt beyond them unexplored
depths which they have dimly perceived and
felt. No books have been able to enlighten
them, no man has been able to lead them.
Now is the longed for moment. Woman
will seize, by her power of absorption, the
truth. She will know that the way has been
found. She will carry on gloriously from
the one beacon ray until the splendid realiza-
tion of truth itself is found. She knows by
the strength of her own vital feeling that the
truth is finding expression through her.
She feels, she sees, she knows she is in abso-
lute harmony with the Divine source of en-
ergy and eternal life. She must lead the
world and find peace and joy for humanity.
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Paris, December 1, 1919.
Socialism in its ideals is the old com-
mand "Love your neighbor as yourself," but
its application has been found impossible be-
cause of the innumerable diversions from
principle caused by selfish personal ambition.
It is the duty of woman to separate the
true from the false. She sees, by her mar-
velous intuition, the kernel of truth in the
wrappings of sophistry. She is less bound
by the forces of precedent and rule. She
recognizes more readily the equity of any
question, and she puts aside as superfluous
the difficulties and dangers of the application
of truth.
Let her continue to devote her highest
thought to the carrying out in actual life of
the ideals so generously conceived. It is
not necessary that she enter the political
fights with men, but it is absolutely essential
that she use her intelligence and her force
of mind to insist upon humanitarian laws.
She is less apt to lose sight of the ideal
than man and therefore freer to pursue its
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accomplishment. Then too she could never
be disciplined into a party asset, for it is
utterly impossible for her to be governed by
such dry and unsympathetic things as party
interests. She must always act according to
her feeling, and that feeling makes her know
instinctively which is the better man or
woman. The coverings of expediency and
party interest are unimportant in her opin-
ion. It is the moral force of the individual
which appeals to her, and if that individual
fails to carry out her idea of his duty she
hesitates not a moment in changing her al-
legiance.
Therefore there will be a new and potent
force for good brought into play, for woman
always longs for- an ideal. This is the re-
sult of her closeness to nature and her im-
satisfied desire to be at rest. She feels so
intensely the forces about her that she can
never be happy until in harmony with those
forces, and if she is not happy of course no
one can be happy, for she is the dispenser of
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love and joy and peace and happiness to all
humanity.
She will never be the ruler nor the maker
of laws, but she will be the instigator of high
and mighty ideals and the influence which
stimulates man to their realization.
When woman understands how to put
herself in conscious harmony through her
intuition and sub-conscious mind with the
Infinite, and feels the joy and strength which
comes from that harmony, she will, in the
triumph of her magnificent happiness, carry
aU before her. Knowledge, infinite vital
knowledge, will come to the world through
her. She will sweep away the covering of
customs which have grown up to hide the
truth. Truth is one and simple. Man's
ignorance and cupidity have built up such
a vast and complex system of falsehood that
it is difiicult for those who base their studies
on the past to discern the reality. Now, by
these new visions of truth and the resulting
simplification of life and education she will
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succeed in showing the need of getting at
the bottom of things.
Ideas and ideals which are the expression
of the truth are founded upon the great
Master's teaching. "Love your neighbor as
yourself" is all that is needed as a guide
when once the world has been taught how to
love his real self, and what that real self is.
It is not the human being as earth knows*
him that is the real self, nor is it the mental
being, the result of the past ages of mistakes
that is the real man. The real man is a
radiant, vital, vibrant emanation of eternal
spirit, and can never be happy until it finds
the way clear to the realization of its imity
and harmony with the infinite spirit. That
radiant, vital, vibrant, spiritual being, when
brought into the realm of human conscious-
ness, will rule absolutely, and bring as a
natural and automatic result perfect health
and happiness. The way is clear to its
realization. Each individual who has seen a
glimpse of its infinite possibilities is a tre-
mendous force in the world, and knows by a
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knowledge gained from its infinite source
that its highest duty is to pass on this knowl-
edge to others still in ignorance.
The joy of life and love is in giving. The
waves of good are endless. Let each day
see some effort made, some good done to
spread the knowledge of truth. Remember
God is Love, and love is joy and radiates
happiness and good.
It is not only the right but the duty of
all to be happy and well. Any other con-
dition is a proof of ignorance, (let back to
first principles. Realize that everything
that has spiritual, eternal reality is in truth
and indeed an expression of God, in one of
His manifold ways, and as such he has not
only the right but the sacred duty of show-
ing forth the glory and the beauty and the
grandeur of that Infijiite Spirit.
Ignorance alone prevents the full and
complete realization of this splendid truth.
The duty and destiny of all is to reflect the
infinite perfection of the All-Perfect.
The work — ^the glorious privilege of
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woman at this flowering time is to show the
waiting, suflFering world that the way is made
clear to health and happiness. Her glorious
mission is soon to be accomplished.
Paris, December 2, 1919.
Feom the beginning of time teachers have
been sent to lead men from their self-inflicted
suflFerings into the life-giving truth. That
is to say a few devoted individuals have al-
ways been willing to give their lives to the
bettering of their fellows, and their sincere
desire to be of use has always taught them
to find the way.
No one being more than another is chosen
by Grod to be His spokesman. It is the
duty and destiny of each and every one to
reflect the Divine image within him, and the
laws of nature are for all without exception.
But the infinite resources of Divine Spirit,
in whom is all good, all beauty, all harmony,
are perceived more and more clearly in exact
proportion to the desire of the individual.
Education helps to guide man towards
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the light by holding up to him the achieve-
ments of the past, and all mental training
is to be encouraged, even though founded on
mistaken premises, provided always there be
no willful deception, for all training of the
mind to search and follow ideas makes man
stronger and more capable of seizing the
truth when presented.
All human knowledge is but a feeble
glimmer compared with the light which is
given us here, as this is but a dim shadow of
the greater splendor awaiting us, and all that
is now known or ever can be known is al-
ready in existence in the Omniscient Mind.
That Mind is one with all the other qualities
of the Omnipotent God, whose word gives
life and whose life is love.
All exists in solution, as it were, in the cos-
mos, and the only way individuals can come
into conscious contact with that Infinite
source is through feeling, which is the essen-
tial link between humanity and Divinity.
Before idea flashes into the brain and be-
comes formulated in thought it has been in
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the sub-conscious mind. The sub-conscious
man carries within himself the souvenir of
all the experience of the past, but in addition
to this storehouse of experience the sub-con-
scious mind is also the actively vibrating
link between the human and the Divine.
Unquestionably the cultivation of the race
in the past aflFects the present and the present
will aflFect the future, but no individual is
ever brought into another earthly body.
Each must follow his destiny and complete
his development in some other life, imtil the
two essential parts of every complete being,
represented on earth by male and female, be-
come one, but this is not a losing of individ-
uality. It is a finding of completion, and
the mind of the ultimate being carries within
itself the component parts of the two, for-
ever imited in complete harmony and happi-
ness.
Human beings who seem to be developed
beyond their fellows are those whose ances-
tors have been in close touch with nature
and have realized the union between body
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and spirit. Even a passing experience of
this marvelous vibration, and its consequent
quickening of the faculties, is suflScient to
sensitize and vitalize for all time.
Every child who has shown extraordinary
talent or wisdom is the result of an accord
between the human and the Divine, and its
consequent exaltation, established by either
parent at the moment of creation. This ex-
altation, which for the moment puts them in
touch with the infinite resources of their own
spiritual selves, and therefore the opening
into their being of all the wisdom of their di-
vine source, marks with the harmony of the
Eternal the child so conceived.
That child's feeling nature is in direct
touch with Original Feeling and Infinite
Mind, and it must show forth the result in
some way setting it apart from others who
are less gifted.
The exceptional moment of accord is not
a matter of intellect, but entirely a matter
of feeling, exalted far above the earth and
its cares and sensations and in touch with the
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Infinite. The parents who have this fleeting
experience may not be able themselves to
translate it into thought, but the child will
vibrate in its inmost fibers with the forces
that surroimded its conception and must ex-
press the transcendent vision.
Paris, December 8, 1919.
The flash of inspiration in which there
exists perfect accord between the mind of the
parent or parents and the Infinite center and
source of life, with all its perfections, is
strong enough to mark the child so con-
ceived with a feeling nature so sensitive that
all the faculties are in close touch with their
Divine Father. That child absorbs uncon-
sciously from the original source knowledge
which it takes others years to attain, and as
a consequence of this extreme sensibility its
faculties develop so quickly that its life work
is accomplished sooner than that of less sen-
sitive mortals.
There is no injustice in this. To imder-
stand life and its reasons we must change
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our standpoint from that of earth life in
time, to real life in eternity.
It is extremely important that the full de-
velopment of earth be reached before leav-
ing it because earth life is given for the
purpose of taking contact through the senses
with the marvelous manifestations of nature,
and building thereon through the mental
images evoked, the ideas suggested by their
Divine origin, and the recognition through
intelligence of the union between individuals
and their Eternal Father; between rays of
light and their self -generating limiinous
center; between Divine Mind and its ex-
pressed ideas ; between life itself and its most
far reaching pulsations; between God and
man*
Each life must continue forever in its own
individuality, when once it has been given
that individuality*
The Divine plan of creation is so vast that
it is not possible for the human mind to grasp
it in its entirety, but it is absolutely neces-
sary for the race to develop to its utmost
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its mental faculties in order to go on after
leaving earth. Certainly all will go on, the
ignorant and the learned, but the difficulties
and sufferings are greatly diminished if
earth development has reached its fullest ex-
pression.
The idea of this life, immediately follow-
ing earth life, as one of either absolute happi-
ness attained at once by merely stepping
through the gate of death, or of absolute
hopeless misery, is too absurd, and its per-
sistence proves the pitiable ignorance of
earth and how little progress has been made
during the ages.
Here we have left off oiu* earthly bodies^
it is true, but until we know enough to real-
ize that bodies are no more necessary than
are clothes, we still believe we have bodies.
It is for this reason that so many eager
beings here, who long to help and comfort
the loved ones left behind, send such mis-
leading messages about bodies and houses
and other earthly conditions. They are so
new to this life, and their development has
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not yet taken them fax enough to enable
them to discern the imreality of all they de-
scribe.
Spirit is the only reality of the imiverse,
and spirit needs no earthly paraphernalia,
but before reaching the conscious realization
of spirit, and its accord with its Divine
source, many stages of mental development
are iiecessary. This is the reason it is so
vitally necessary to learn what can be learned
on earth before coming here. This life is
not material, and only those who were able
to perceive things spiritually are fitted to
take up their own development at once and
help others less advanced.
This is not only a matter of choice, but
with the clearer understanding that comes
here, it is an absolute duty, for no one can
reach complete and perfect happiness, the
center of Divine harmony wherein is found
the source and fount of life and its imspeak-
able perfection, until all have reached the
same.
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Paris, December 5, 1919.
The beautiful legend of the Angel Guar-
dian who is given each child at birth to guide
it through life's devious ways and whisper
words of direction and comfort was the ex-
pression of a revelation given to the Prophet
Ezekiel, and its persistence has been a source
of inspiration to many.
Faculties here are so different, and can
include in one spiritual being so many
phases, that it is difficult to make the human
mind comprehend the application of this
truth suggested by the legend.
Spirit being universal, its application to
any particular object does not imply that
that object alone may be accomphshed, or
that the exclusive attention of a spirit be de-
voted to a particular object.
The very expression "A Spirit" is false.
There is but one Spirit, and individuals are
but particular expressions of some phase of
the Infinite. The Guardian Angel is the
inspiration of the Prophet to describe to
earthly minds the means of reaching con-
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scious unity with the Universal Mind.
In other words, starting with the earthly
idea that each has a Guardian Angel, each
may ask that Angel for whatever knowledge
required and the link of love binding the
two is a sure guarantee that the request will
be granted, it being understood that the An-
gel is in direct communication with God, the
source of all blessings.
The legend translated into the language
of to-day means that each individual may
take from that Universal Mind surrounding
us and giving us life, any knowledge re-
quired. The All-knowing Spirit gives us
life and sustains it in love. No personal
Angel guides us and comforts us, but our
own mental and spiritual perception of our
unity with the Spirit enables us to make
conscious use of any knowledge we may de-
sire. We can be just as sure of finding the
help needed and the love to grant our wish
as if it were a personal spirit hearing our
prayer and carrying it to the all loving
Father, and we advance in knowledge of
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truth each time we prove the truth of our
understanding.
Universal Spirit contains all that is real.
It is more real and vital than the air we
breathe. It is all good, all love, all intelli-
gence. The way to take from it for our
particular use and development any knowl-
edge, is to so train our minds that we may
still the confused surface sensations and lis-
ten to the feeling evoked by the persistent
dwelling upon the simple expression of the
fundamental, universal truths.
Any desire of ours which is in accord with
Truth and Good may be obtained by us
when we understand how to ask.
I speak of us as if I too were still of earth,
but it is for the simplification of the lesson.
Here there are many stages of spiritual
development, but those of us who wish to
pursue particular research may do so, and
no matter what the stage reached may be we
are at liberty to continue that research in all
its phases. Our life is more and more spirit-
ual, and spirituality means universality. If
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you can imagine the intellect in its perfec-
tion you can then imagine the spirit as being
the perfection of that perfection, and in that
ever widening vision, that ever clearer com-
prehension, the Divine gift of free will is a
motive force which carries us where we will.
It is utterly impossible to limit the activity
of spirit, therefore the idea of saying this or
that kind of spirit has developed so far that
its return to earth is impossible is really a
contradiction. Spirit has no limitations.
Our return to earth does not in any way re-
tard our development. It is merely a matter
of the free will and the power of the being.
There is no compulsion and no limitation but
ignorance, either on your part or ours.
Here, after the realization of the change,
each is faced with his own past, and in the
clear light of truth forced to be his own
judge. The meaning of life and its glorious
possibilities is made clearer and clearer.
Each faces as much of the truth as his men-
tal development will enable him to grasp.
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Paris, December 8, 1919.
The psychic forces which are making
themselves felt in the world to-day, and
which have been greatly strengthened by the
feeling aroused by the war and the ardent
desire of all the youth taken prematurely
from their earthly environment to their new
life here, all tend in one direction — ^that is,
the proving to humanity that intercommuni-
cation between the two lives is possible.
But the very fact of the tremendous force
of vibration set in motion gives rise to a wide
variety of manifestations, and among these
comparatively few are of lasting value.
' The fact of communication of some kind
seems now fairly well established, for the
testimony has been so widespread and from
such reliable sources that most men accept
their evidence.
Now the important point is to discrimi-
nate between the messages which are merely
contributary proof of unknown forces, and
the messages which, if really of spiritual
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origin, should teach men something beyond
earthly knowledge.
One difficulty is t^at the eager youth ar-
riving in such numbers were unable to see
spiritually, and hence gave misleading ideas
of the life here, and their progress makes
them contradict their own previous messages.
Another difficulty is that to become a
teacher of man spiritual knowledge must be
attained.
And the greatest difficulty of all is that
earthly languages can not express the con-
ditions or the knowledge gained here except
in a very imperfect and inadequate manner.
Can you in the kindergarten use the same
explanations you would to a body of savants ?
No more can we explain. We can give you
an insight into spiritual matters, and let the
few among you who are capable of grasping
them lead the others.
The essential fundamentals for spiritual
development have already been given to man,
but their meaning and importance has been
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dimmed by usage and the immense amount
of custom grown around them.
Woman, by her sympathetic feeling na-
ture, will grasp the necessity of clearing
away all that impedes the realization of
truth. Every woman can become a center
for the spread of truth. She can so develop
her own intuition that she will consciously
vibrate in unison with the source of knowl-
edge. SuflFering has refined her and she
will rise to this magnificent opportunity of
bettering the world, both physically and
morally.
Let her first realize her oneness with the
infinite cosmic forces. Let her find herself
and her power.
All the forces of the imiverse, including
all knowledge, all love, all power, are the
essence and manifestation of God. To put
herself, and through her all mankind, in har-
mony with those mighty forces she must
form the habit of mental aspiration for
knowledge, and know that as she is sustained
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by Love so she must give out generously of
that love, trying always to make it purer and
freer from self •
She must sincerely and courageously try
to put into practice the Divine command
"Love thy neighbor as thyself." She must
find time to be alone and listen to the inner
voice. She must courageously try to see
earth life in its true value — as the prelimi-
nary stage of existence in which her fitness
for another life is prepared.
On woman rests the responsibility for the
spiritual progress of the race. She must see
that the lessons of the war are not lost. She
knows already that life as she formerly
thought of it was very empty and encum-
bered with superfluous care and pretended
pleasure.
Life on earth must be simplified so as to
give leisure for the pursuit of knowledge and
the exercise of brotherly love. With every
advance made more avenues of enlighten-
ment will be shown, and in the joy and health
and happiness these give to her, and to all
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about heri she will recognize her true and
splendid mission.
Paris, December 26, 1919.
The Principle imderlying all existence is
the life-giving power of God. Nothing can
exist, in so far as truth and eternity be con-
cerned, outside this. Therefore the most
important thing for a man to do is to find
the application of this principle to the affairs
of everyday hfe, for in exact proportion
with the understanding of the basic principle
will man be able to help himself and others
on the road to health and happiness, and fit
himself for his further progress after earth's
lessons are learned.
All the studies of man will never originate
anything at all. Everything that has reaUty
already exists in potentiality in spirit, but
the studies of man make him capable of in-
vestigating and bringing into human appli-
cation the ideas perceived by him through
vibrations aroused in his sub-conscious mind
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from harmony established with the source of
all knowledge.
This harmony may be established in many
ways, either by intense mental application,
or by dwelling intelligently upon spiritual
ideas. In this connection there is great need
of teachers, for dwelling unintelligently
upon any fixed idea upsets the mental equi-
librium so necessary for calm reasoning.
Life means activity. There can never be
any standing still and any one who has per-
ceived a glimpse of the truth of being is
forced to go on, or be in conscious discord
and consequent ill health and imhappiness.
We can always go on but never go back.
The progress of earth must be tested and its
proof is the ability to help others to find the
way, while increasing in health, happiness
and prosperity, for aU these things are the
natural heritage of man from his Divine
Father. If he does not enjoy them it is not
because they are denied him by an unkind
fate or a chastening God, but only that
his lack of imderstanding prevents him
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from finding the way to their enjoyment.
The forces of nature are at our command^
but their treasures are to be gained by those
who understand. Each step to a babe seems
a new world conquered, each discovery of
science appears a new revelation. Each in-
dividual who finds the way to demonstrate
truth brings not only peace and happiness
to all with whom he comes in contact, but
acts as a center of light and encouragement
to many others in their search.
The one important thing is to realize that
God IS, and that all the universe is an ex-
pression of the infinite power and love and
intelligence which created and sustains it.
There is a Divine purpose in our creation
and if we sincerely ask to understand that
purpose, and act in accordance with it, we
will be led to find the way. Our constant
desire should be for growth in understand-
ing. God is omniscient intelligence and no
sincere desire goes imanswered. Less at-
tention should be given to individual requests
for particular favors and more to the under-
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standing of the Principle, Can you not see
that if you know how to put yourself in har-
mony with the source of all good, with in-
creased understanding of that source all the
lesser good will naturally be added?
The greatest diflSculty is to overcome self
and petty desires and devote the heart and
mind to search for truth. Beg for wisdom —
for knowledge of God, and in the joy this
brings you will find clearer imderstanding
of all and leisure to achieve the purpose of
your lives.
Paris, December 80, 1919.
I Cease, I beg of you, to think of God as a
person. Study the meaning of the words
which convey something to you of the multi-
ple aspects of the Infinite Spirit.
Think of Infinite, Eternal Spirit, filling
all space, all time, all eternity.
That Infinite Spirit is all good and con-
tains within its very essence love itself, all
comprehending and all powerful.
All the vast imiverse is an expression of
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that Spirit brought into being by that Divine
Intelligence and sustained by that never-
failing Love and Power.
The period of blind groping in ignorance
has passed. This is the dawn of a new era
of comprehension. It is about to be made
clear to mankind in general the meaning of
life. Some few have always been able to
grasp it but now all will see and understand,
and the illumination will come through
woman. She feels the pulsating, uplifting
vibration coming to her straight from the
throbbing heart of the universe. She per-
ceives through her sensitive feeling-nature
her oneness with Divine Life, and in the il-
lumination coming from that perception she
seizes the meaning of life and her own duty
and destiny.
The world must be saved by understand-
ing. Ignorance of our real selves and their
Divine possibilities must be vanquished.
Education founded on materialism must
give way to education simplified and resting
on the fundamental knowledge that man on
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earth is an expression of an idea of Divine
Mind which has always existed in that Di-
vine Mind and which must find its way
through succeeding trials and growth to
clear and perfect comprehension of its one-
ness with the Infinite Spirit.
Man must realize in everyday life that
earth existence is but a fleeting episode in
his real eternal life and that worldly honors
and gains are chaflf before the wind. AU
that counts in his true growth towards ulti-
mate perfection is his individual comprehen-
sion of truth and the consequent application
of the spirit of truth in his daily life.
You are alive and you will always be alive.
You will put oflF your earthly bodies as old
covering, but you will never cease to exist
and you must ultimately face the result of
all your acts and thoughts. No one but you
can imdo the harm or do the good which
must be done before you can reach peace and
happiness.
The world is steeped in selfishness and
ignorance, but the vision of eternity seen by
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the millions has stirred men's hearts to a
longing for truth, and the desire for mider-
standing of life and death is bringing its re-
ward. The revelation of its meaning is im-
minent.
Cast aside the fetters of the idea of a per-
sonal God. Awaken to the idea of an In-
finite, life-giving, life-sustaining Force
which brought into existence all the universe,
and carries all the heavens infallibly towards
their ultimate purpose — an Intelligence
which knows the place of each and every one
in the perfect whole and a Love which never
can and never will fail to respond to each
sincere desire for knowledge.
Paris, February 5, 1920.
The free will which guides us on earth,
and was the measure of our individual char-
acters, takes, upon arriving here, the form of
choice of the kind of activity to be pursued.
Those who were interested in the immor-
tality of man and of the possibility of his
personal persistence, find themselves brought
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together by the natural force of attraction.
An interchange of ideas and experiences
takes place, not by language — which is here
unnecessary — but by a mingling of thought.
Now is the moment for the flowering of
the long planted seed.
Remember that time has ceased to exist
for us ; that the fact of a philosopher having
lived his earth life a year ago or a thousand
years ago, as earth counts time, is here of no
importance whatever. It is only the devel-
opment of the intellect and the power of ex-
pression which count. Therefore you can
understand that in this group who are inter-
ested in proving to eairth that intercommuni-
cation is practicable, are f oimd all who while
on earth were interested in it.
The ancient civilizations developed many
profound searchers and India sent among
us many who are extremely versed in the art
of separating body and intelligence, but the
means of finding expression lacked until the
free, vigorous western world, believing
firmly in her own destiny, and with calm
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reasoning power developed both by study
and practice, has put into our hands the force
required.
Here we are grouped together into a very
powerful force, and our concentrated energy
may be used by any one of us, with the con-
sent and help of the others, and the radiation
of our thought is sufficient to influence all
those on earth who are sensitive to it.
We are now sending to earth in many
ways and through many mediums messages
of exactly similar import, and hope that the
comparison of them will convince thinkers of
the truth of intercommimication.
When once this fact is accepted we can
continue to give you help from oiu* life here.
Our work here, and oiu* duty, is oiu* own
and others' development spiritually, and
since Spirit is all intelligence and all knowl-
edge, it foHows that the development of the
intellect is your first earth duty. The brain
is only the physical organ of the intellect
given as an instrument for earth life, but
tiiat pure intellect is spirit and a part of the
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infinite, all-intelligent, universal Spirit —
God.
With the foundation of certainty of im-
mortality, and of the imity of all in spirit, de-
velopment takes splendid leaps. The cer-
tainty of this glorious knowledge opens to us
unbounded vistas of pure delight, gives wings
to our spirit, and makes us ready to do any-
thing if only we may advance in the path of
wisdom, and the exquisite joy pervading our
lives from the ever widening perception of
the wondrous eflfect of love, of life and of
power, makes us anxious to share our knowl-
edge with others still groping in the dark-
ness of ignorance.
We love you, our brothers on earth, and
we long to help you to take fullest advantage
of the few years you have to cultivate your
mind to the very highest limit of intelligence.
Do it by finding your own spirit. Let
nature speak to you, that all the splendor
and beauty of earth may be perceived by
your minds and hearts and lead you rever-
ently to the knowledge of its Creator. That
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Creator, the universal Spirit, in whom is life
and without whom nothing real can exist, is a
living, vibrating, radiating center of activity,
always ready to respond to your sincere de-
sire to know. We too are near you and each
and every one of you has only to aspire for
knowledge to attain it. It can come to you
through admiring the calm and tranquil
beauty of the night, or though the stress of
feeling aroused by the majesty and power
of the tempest. It is always at your com-
mand. Open your minds and hearts to
understand, and let them teach you of na-
ture's Creator.
Then you must learn tl*at all the sufferings
of earth are caused by man's own mistakes
and false reasoning which have built up
such an accimiulation of false premises that
all earth impressions, and consequently the
impressions made by race experience upon
the sub-conscious mind, and which are al-
ways carried into execution by the conscious
and physical man, must be changed before
finding peace and happiness, but each indi-
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vidual who has found the way will act as a
center for the diifusion of truth, and the
more he progresses in knowledge the more
plainly will he see it is his duty to help his
fellows.
Those who are able automatically to be-
come the mediums for our teachings have a
sacred duty of devoting themselves to the
diffusion of this knowledge. Men's minds
and hearts are ready for the New Revelation
and we are ready to give it to you.
Paris, March 5, 1920.
The accumulated force of the workers
here who are interested in communicating
with the earth is sufficient to give any one of
us power enough to overcome whatever diffi-
culties may arise and impress the medium
with the impulsion to give expression to oiu*
thought, but as the varied forces of the in-
telligence here see and understand the great
Universal Truth according to their own par-
ticular degree of development, it follows that
the messages conveyed must vary somewhat
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in form and detail, although agreeing in their
fundamental expression of the underlying
principle of truth.
The force of the accumulated desire here
is now so tremendous that it is frequently
used by those who are not sufficiently devel-
oped in their comprehension of the reason
and meaning of life itself to be of great use
in the instruction of earth.
Certainly they add to the accumulation of
evidence of the continued existence of the
individual, but their impressions are neces-
sarily too recent and superficial to be of any
value apart from this testimony.
Here, as with you, to be a teacher it is
first essential to have learned something un-
known to the majority of searchers, and to
reach this development requires time, as you
express it, or perfected, or at least clarified
vision.
Every one here automatically takes the
place his development fits him for, and the
attractiveness which is the outcome of this
development finds its proper circle just as
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surely as with you water finds its level.
None but God, the center and perfection
of wisdom, knows all, but spiritual existence
means intellectual activity, and with the ab-
solute certainty of immortality, and compre-
hension of God as the creative, sustaining
source of our being, the progress is certain,
and the happiness imbounded, for each as-
cending step gives a wider vision, a clearer
light, a surer comprehension.
March 6, 1920.
Among those who are devoted to this work
are f oimd thinkers and teachers of all nation-
alities and shades of opinion. There are
Christians and non-Christians, but the com-
mon desire of all to learn the truth has given
us a common backgroimd.
We see that the distinctions of earth are
superficial, and the Divine Principle of
knowledge is the One Omniscient Spirit
sending forth in never ceasing radiations the
vibrant, vital emanations of truth, which, no
matter what the exterior forms may be, al-
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ways vibrate in unison with Truth itself in
the pure tonal key.
The desire of an individual who wishes
to express an idea or mesage to earth is felt
by all who from their common interest are
desirous of assisting, and the aid given acts
as reinforcement of the resonance of a mu-
sical instrimient, permitting greater concen-
tration of tone and arousing in you on earth
a corresponding response.
I Think of us as being the perfection of
harmonious symphony, you as the individual
component vibrations, but remember that be-
sides being a resonant, harmonious tone, you
are also, in common with us, an intelligent
expression of Infinite Intelligence, partak-
ing of the omnipotence of the Divine Cre-
ator. You respond to the vibration of the
master key and you receive through the har-
mony established the feeling direct from the
source of all feeling which awakens in you
the same idea as the thought which gave it
birth.
You are not always capable of translating
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into language the exact expression of the
idea so received, but if you will cultivate
cahn by meditation you will gain the power.
You are living in the midst of Omniscient
Intelligence and are capable of perceiving
truth in its pure essence. The conscious
perception of the truth as it comes to you
thus would bring with it calm assurance of
Infinite, sustaining, never-failing love and
comprehension, and also certainty of your
own power, as you are one with the source
of life, of truth, of love and of power. We
are all united inseparably and when you have
progressed far enough to make use of your
power you will be able to call upon the supe-
rior wisdom of your more advanced brothers
and grow in health and happiness.
Remember that the Infinite Creative
Spirit is all love, never-failing, all-compre-
hending love. You have only to know this
and make use of it to open the avenues wide
for its reception.
Awaken to yoiu* splendid possibilities.
Cultivate your intuitive perception of truth.
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Form habits of aspiration for knowledge.
"Ask and you shall receive." Let your first
waking thought be a glad song of glory to
God, immediately followed by an earnest
request to grow in understanding.
You are flying in an atmosphere of all-
intelligence, sustained by Divine love, just
as really as a bird is flying in the air and
sustained by it, and your very life is an ex-
pression of one of the infinite manifestations
of God. You are really capable of under-
standing God and His universe. You are
in direct touch with the vibrant harmonies
of Divine feeling. You have but to culti-
vate the habit of aspiration and meditation*^
If the result of this study be peace and
happiness and health and assiu*ance of un-
boimded progress, is it not worth the eflFort
to understand?
The absolutely essential foimdation must
be sincere desire to know and to progress.
Then the way will be shown, for only your
own act of free will is required to put you
in time with the Infinite.
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The ways are many and the joy of the il-
lumination so exquisite that no one who has
ever perceived a glimpse of its radiance can
forsake its pursuit.
Take a little time every day. Ask God
to help you and know that the help will
automatically follow the desire when you
understand that you yourselves are one with
God and partake of His Divine qualities.
He never can refuse and never does refuse,
but your own cooperation is essential — ^your
own intelligent grasp of your divine origin
and the resulting duty of manifesting it in
yoiu* bodies and minds. It is your duty to
show forth the radiant joy and perfection
of the Divine Spirit.
March 11, 1920.
The force of our thought, united with
those of you who are beginning to imder-
stand how slight is the veil which separates
our conscious lives from yours, is so great
that its influence is felt by all the world.
The next generation of men will accept as
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proved fact that intercommunication be-
tween the two planes of existence is estab-
lished.
This will change the outlook and basis of
education, and when it is understood that
health and happiness depend upon the har-
monizing of the conscious and subjective
man with the forces of the Infinite Spirit
there will be no hesitation about finding and
adopting the necessary means for its prac-
tical application.
Children will be brought up without fear
of all the diseases lying in wait for them,
and when some accidental malady arising
from upsetting of the nice balance between
the seen and the unseen occurs it will be at
once remedied, not by medicine but by quiet,
concentrated mental application.
Remember that this precious knowledge
is not the privilege of the few but the divine
heritage of all. Therefore it is your most
urgent duty to spread the knowledge. Each
one who understands, and proves his under-
standing, becomes as it were the center of a
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solar system, giving light and radiating love
and help to all within his sphere of influence.
I beg of you, take into your everyday
lives the transcendent fact that God, in the
various manifestations of Spirit, is really
ever present. Leam to realize that you are
inseparable from your Divine Creator.
Your life is a radiant, vital expression of
the Infinite Spirit. You are the image and
likeness of God, not in body, which is but
a temporary instrument of the Spu-it, but
in essence and destiny.
March 12, 1920.
A woMAN^s heart is a wonderful thing.
Her feeling nature once aroused in love will
never forget the beloved and always finds
reasons to enable her to idealize him to some
extent. In this she is but exercising the
divine, all-forgiving love of the Spirit within
her, and when self is eliminated the pure
flame of pitying love lifts her above the or-
dinary customs and duties of life. Certainly
the feeling nature should be listened to. It
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is, through intuition, her direct touch with
the Infinite, ever-present love of the Divine
Creator, in whom we all Uve.
In forgetting self and the obligations of
convention and giving consolation to the
afflicted she is fulfilling the duty to her
brother than which none is higher.
On this intense capacity for feeling, and
this fidehty to the love once awakened, in
spite of all intervening circumstances, is
built the whole structure of the emotional
life of the world, and through that very in-
tensity of emotion the way may be found to
direct intercourse with the Spirit of all
knowledge, in whom we live and of whom we
are inseparable elements.
Learn to direct the mind to aspiration for
guidance from the Infinite Spirit of love and
wisdom, and in perfect calm and assurance
await the spiritual light which must follow
the intense vibration of feeling.
Thank God for woman's capacity for in-
tense emotion. From it arises compassion,
devotion, self-annihilation. Even though
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the object be unworthy, the pure flame of
pitying love burns none the less brightly,
and love is never lost. It puts in motion
waves of exquisite radiant light which, by
their very intensity, have tremendous force
and may hghten and piu^if y many waves of
more somber hue, which also siu*round us
from less unselfish motives.
When one exercises towards another an
act of pure, compassionate love, he or she is
siu*roimded by a radiant glow of pure white
light and is a center of harmonious waves
which are in their source strong and vibrant
and in their development a mighty force of
harmony with the Divine center.
The calls of love and its outflowing in de-
votion and self-abnegation fit mortals for
their higher mission of ministering angels
and guides. Never ignore such calls, and
know that the more difficult is their execu-
tion, the more they are free from the shadow
of self-seeking, the greater is their virtue
and beneficent eflFect.
Be true to the nobility of the Spirit within,
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and learn to harmonize more and more the
promptings of that Spirit with mind and
hody and you will find peace and joy and
fulfill the mission of womanhood.
March 18, 1920.
God, Spirit, as manifested in the forces
of nature, is so really present that all will
perceive and make use of this knowledge
when woman has trained herself to under-
stand the motive power surrounding her-
The principle of proportion sustains and
coordinates the body and adjusts its
mechanism; the vital principle of life ani-
mates the body, and the link between the two
is the feeling nature. Bodily vitality, which
rules the functioning of the organs, is a re-
flection of the real vitality which is spirit,
and spirit in turn is a manifestation of the
Infinite Spirit.
Try to realize that Infinite Spirit is closer
to us than the air we breathe, more under-
standing and unfailing than the greatest
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earthly love, and more powerful than the
greatest imaginable force.
That Infinite Spirit, of which creation in
its various manifestations, from the tiniest
to the most stupendous, and which in its very
essence is creative, contains all good and
from the perfection of its nature can never
know evil.
Eva and misery and unhappiness and iU-
ness are all the result of an upsetting of the
equiUbriimi of our mental, spiritual and
bodily proportions caused by reasoning from
the wrong premises. The reasoning may
not even be oiu* own personal doing, but as
himianity is extremely sensitive the waves of
feeling evoked by one or a niraiber always
affect others coming within their sphere of
influence. There is an actual radiation sur-
rounding each human being which is ex-
tremely sensitive to outside influences.
When you learn to think right you will sur-
round yoiu'selves by such a strong, radiant
light and vitality that no wrong influence
can approach you. You have only to know
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that you are one with the Infinite Spirit to
send forth a strong, glowing radiance. The
repetition of this truth, even though not fully-
understood, will protect you and serve to
connect you with the life-giving forces all
about you, so that every one who begins is
sure to increase in understanding and con-
sequent health and happiness. Nothing else
is imaginable, for Spirit and you are one^
and your assertion of it as applied to your-
self floods your soul with the sunlight of
truth, and since that same one Infinite Spirit
is life, is love, is power, your conscious ac-
knowledgment of it must put you in ever
closer harmony and remove from your minds
all fear and anxiety.
You still have your duties to perform and
your decisions to make, for it is thus you
grow mentally, . but a few simple rules of
right and wrong and the exercise of love and
charity towards all will bring you real and
abiding happiness, and lift you above the
mistaken ideas of ambition and personal ag-
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grandizement which are at the root of so
much of human suffering.
Be not discouraged at the enormity of the
task. Do not allow yourselves to say
"What can we do to change the world?"
You can do a tremendous amount, and the
world is ready to change. Each and every
one who finds true peace and happiness,
founded upon the demonstration of the prac-
tical results of taking Spirit into oiu* daily
lives, has an immense influence over all about.
Learn to put your own house in order and
you will be surprised to find how many other
houses are put in order from the ensuing ex-
ample.
It is not necessary to surround yourselves
with complicated systems. All that is
needed is real inner conviction of the great
fact of unity with the Creator — ^unity in fact
and in deed, partaking of all the qualities
and possibilities of yoiu* Divine Creator, and
remembering that earth life is but the pre-
liminary school for human development.
[101]
TO WOMAN FBOM HESLOM
That intellect which is your guide on earth
will never leave you. It is an expression of
your Spirit, as that is an expression of Grod.
The next stage of life after earth is affected
so closely by your earth life.
If you knew that by procuring proper
letters of introduction when about to visit a
foreign country your stay would be very
much happier, and that those letters would
introduce you to congenial intellectual com-
panionship, you would not hesitate to get
such letters. So your development on earth
takes you at once among those corresponding
to your particular development.
March 18, 1920.
As all physical manifestations have ceased
on this plane of existence it is very difficult
to describe oiu* lives. We live in a soft,
vitalizing radiance, which comes from no sun
but is the piu^e radiance of life and love itself,
perceived by us spiritually and bringing with
its perception the certainty of immortality.
Into this glow is cast the varied gradation
[102]
TO WOMAN FBOM MESLOM
of tint from all individuals. We soon be-
come so familiar with these shadings of light
that we know what kind of individuality is
expressed. There are many more colors
and variations of color than you know on
earth. The beginners in this stage who re-
tain their earthly tendencies are often of a
deep violet color, emitting as they become
more spiritual a softer, lighter shade.
The pure, transcendent light of God is
only to be compared with a soft white glow-
ing radiance, unspeakajbly beautifuL In its
harmonious influence is perfect happiness
and fulfillment of one's highest and purest
aspirations. The light is a living light. It
opens our minds and hearts, as you would ex-
press it. In its glowing light we see our
own Godlike possibilities, and are given the
strength to achieve our destiny.
It is not light only but it is harmony — ^per-
fect, all-comprehending love and joy. Each
individual has an aura which takes him into
the atmosphere most congenial with its own.
Inhaxmonious shades or tones are impossible
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TO WOMAN FBOM MESLOM
at this stage, and it is impossible to remain
stationary. We must go on, for here we all
perceive the splendor of the heights to be at-
tained and know that the joy we feel is but
a dim foreshadowing of that still beyond us.
By finding congenial associations whose
light and tone harmonizes with our own we
are made stronger, and it is thus that the
combined force of those who wish to com-
municate with you on earth becomes per-
ceptible, first to ourselves as a strong, vibrant
yellow light, then as a swelling wave of men-
tal energy. This brings together the varied
elements and enables us to send earthward
a current of concentrated intention suffi-
ciently strong to aflFect you.
Your most important duty is to simplify
your lives, and really take into your con-
sciousness the fact that your earth experi-
ence is only a short stage of your real life,
and that the coming here is not more seri-
ous than the taking of a journey.
Even the pain of separation from your
beloved need not so unduly trouble you, for
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TO WOMA^ FROM MESLOM
all love that is real persists and finds its be-
loved again, and the inner fear of the pain
of death may be vanquished by conviction of
renewed hfe beyond, not as some vague, dif-
ferent life, but as a taking up of the same
inner life you have left, with the vast advan-
tage of taking it up under immensely
superior conditions and with the sure knowl-
edge of what we are doing and whyi
Earth life, with its hidden meanings and
limited imderstanding, is the most difficult
of all oiu' experiences, for even pain is bear-
able if we know why it comes and for what
it may serve. So, although we still have
many duties and even willingly go to the
dark shadows of suflFering, we know as soon
as we are developed enough to formulate the
desire for knowledge, that all life and its
meaning and reason and rewards is clear to
us.
The magnificent, splendid joy of life is
never again to leave us. So try to live as
intelligently as you can and fit yourselves to
join those who are advanced enough to be
[105]
TO WOMANFBOM MESLOM
conscious partakers of the splendor, the
luminous peace, the divine harmony of the
Eternal, Infinite Spirit, to whom be all
glory.
March 22, 1920.
YouE duty, and the duty of all who have
been given a glimpse of the truth, is to
steadily cultivate yourselves in mind and
spmt, and by concentration and meditation
achieve conscious conuhimion with the uni-
versal spirit of knowledge.
Spirit is ever present and will respond to
yoiu* desire in exact proportion with its
sincerity. Do not allow yourselves to fall
into the weak habit of foolish and unintelli-
gent idle conversation.
Keep the knowledge gained by earnest
searching as a precious and sacred thing, and
in the happiness it brings you try to practice
what you have learned by doing every day
something free from self for the bettering of
your fellows.
Try earnestly and unceasingly to make
those about you happy* The soiu'ce of life
[106]
TO WOMAN FEOM MESLOM
is also the fount of joy and health. Have
confidence that the little light will cast its
ray afar and bring peace to all within its
influence.
The communion of saints is a living
reality. You who have loved your departed
ones with real and abiding love have given
them strength in their life work here, and
now, with the acceptance of this new revela-
tion of our closeness to you, we will all be
able to help you. I say all, for though some
have long believed in the good to be obtained
from the intercession of the saints, yet the
good is not limited to those consecrated and
declared saints. All who love can help and
give strength and comfort and Ught.
The secrets of the heart are here under-
stood and the whisperings of those who so
long to help the sorrowing loved ones will
become more and more perceptible.
The veil is so very thin which still sepa-
rates us, and happily the vision of earth is
becoming keen enough to pierce it in many
places.
[107]
TO WOMAN FROM MESLOM
Try to discriminate between the messages
which reach you from the life beyond. All
here are not fitted to teach, and as the planes
of life are so varied experiences also are
varied, but if any good is to be achieved
through this intercommunication it must be
in the way of teaching you to make a better
and more intelligent use of the opportunities
you have, and realize that the development of
earth is extremely important in the placing
of the individual upon his arrival here.
Spirit is intelligence, therefore study and
earnestly search for reality. Truth is the
principle of the universe — a mode of being
of the Infinite Spirit, God.
Attune your lives to truth, warm your
hearts with love and trust in the infinite in-
telligence and power of God, the giver and
sustainer of life, the creative cause of all that
exists, the end ^.nd aim of creation, the
splendor of unspeakable majesty, the glori-
ous realization of never-ending, perfect life.
THE END
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