-
"Saviour Christ into Thy hands I commend the spirit
of this Thy child...
-
"…You all know that you must go through the transition,
pass out of this plane of limitation and according
to past records you will find yourselves in conditions
of liberty or in bondage. The point is that many people,
even though they believe in immortality, still have
a lurking fear of the change called 'death'.
-
"So I have been asked to discuss with you: CAN MAN
RISE AGAIN AFTER THE THIRD DAY? Now you, yourselves,
would feel comforted if you thought that the stage
between the two lives could be shortened to three days,
as you recognise time. Three days represented the period
before Jesus, the Christ, manifested again in the body,
or in a body which could be recognised, could be touched,
could be seen, a body through which speech could be
given. But the point is that the Master Christ did
not sleep during those three days. He had a very active
campaign in hand. The spirit, released from the tortured
flesh, at once continued its Missionary Work. It is
recorded that He went down into the dark planes to
find Judas and ministered to him and to many others
held in a bondage most profound.
-
"Does this alter your aspect of physical death? Because
you must remember that everything the Master did was
an example to us. Nothing was reserved for Himself
alone, except that He had a greater capacity for sacrifice.
He had a wider area of endeavour than those others
who loved Him. For they did not have the same spiritual
release within.
-
"I know the sense of utter loss you feel when your
loved ones pass through the change called 'death'.
You may be in an Afterlife, you may have felt confidence
in the loving care of God, but it is almost impossible
to extricate yourselves from a sense of grief and loss
as you stand by that still form which was once so full
of life.
-
"Sometimes it comes early in your life, sometimes when
maturity has been reached and sometimes late in life.
Often you are called upon to share the grief of a friend
as well as a relative. Because you are tender-hearted
when such a loss occurs, it makes a very deep impression
on you. It seems to steal from you great power. For
in your endeavour to sympathise with those in trouble,
through your aura you have given out in great quantity
the Divine Power which you possess. All of this is
a form of training. You are buying experience in this
way and that experience is by way of being an experiment
with human nature.
-
"As you know, there are those who show a very impersonal
attitude to the troubles of others. They say 'Well,
if it was not that it would be something else', and
go on their way, self-confident and self-complacent.
This is a very dangerous attitude to hold. They hurt
or harm the one who turned to them for sympathy, but
they harm themselves in a far greater measure.
-
"Evil is brought about by lack of thoughts as well
as by evil intent. Many of you will have reason to
remember this. A moment off your guard and a 'accident'
may happen - to a child, to the one you love. You ask
yourself: 'Why was I taken unaware?' The explanation
is that those in the Spirit World could not get near
enough to attract your attention. For your attention
at that time was somewhere else. This point often enters
into life bringing tragedy in its train.
-
"That phrase - 'If only' - rings through the conditions.
'If only I had been a little more on my guard', 'If
only I had remembered', 'If only I had not yielded
to temptation', 'If only I had not had that unkind
thought'.
-
"These phrases are as whips upon the sensitive soul.
They realise, in all sincerity, that that which took
place could have been avoided. All these things have
an effect upon that time when you will grow conscious
of the Greater Life.
-
"Some advanced souls never sleep at all after the transition,
in the sense that they pass out of the physical tabernacle,
which has represented so great a test, and a moment
later they are greeting their friends in the Spirit
World. They are full of happiness and felt elated by
the experience. Not only do they realise that there
is no death, but what is far more important, they realise
that LIFE in a radiant form is held out to them for
evermore.
-
"It is a wonderful privilege. It can come to you irrespective
of your physical life, your environment, your temperament
or your physical strength.
-
"The scales of justice cannot waver. There is but one
Law made for all creation. The only thing that interferes
with the working out of the Law is the individual himself
or herself, because free choice is God's gift to mankind.
-
"If the condition is not provided, then real protection
cannot come. It cannot overcome either material things
or spiritual things. Each one builds up his or her
own little world, the world of the aura. That world
is sensitive, or insensitive, according to the will
of the one concerned.
-
"You may think that this is unfair because some people
are born with psychic gifts and you might wish to be
a medium. The spiritual side of your Self does not
depend upon mediumship as you know it to be in the
physical world. It depends entirely upon yourself as
to whether or not you can release the Divine within,
that all-powerful Spirit within, or whether you prefer
to keep it in prison.
-
"Upon this fundamental point rests the time of your
inactive existence after physical death, or the time
when once again you can be a working, happy, healthy,
vital individual.
-
"Some people, who are graded as religious or earnest
people, will be surprised to find that after transition
they are not nearly so free as they expected to be.
They have come up against barriers here and there.
-
"We all know those who are always seeking. But what
are they seeking? They are seeking change. They have
within them the desire to find something that gives
greater satisfaction to the physical mind. Men and
women go from church to church, circle to circle and
from medium to medium. They would tell you: 'I am a
seeker'. They are not. They represent a will-o'-the-wisp.
When they pass into Reality they will find that the
parable of the Blue Bird has been worked out in their
own conditions.
-
"Many claim that they are seekers after Truth, but
they are seekers after distraction. Thy are always
hoping to find something new, something better than
the simple faith from which they started, something
that seems to them a greater manifestation of power.
-
"As I have told you before, it is a material power. When man tries to materialise spiritual power, he has
started on a very dangerous course which he will regret
with all his heart and mind.
-
"You may perhaps be in contact with people like that
or they will come your way.
They want the so-called signs and wonders of psychic
life and they crowd into the halls of pleasure and
distraction to see what is going to happen.
But the majority go away disappointed. Doubt springs
up in the physical mind and they are not happy with
what they have seen. Doubt is a sad traveller and a
bad companion for discontent soon follows after. 'Was
it true or was it a trick?' These are forms of entertainment. Many years ago men and women did not believe that Spirit
Communion or Spirit Return was possible and these things
were necessary.
-
"But I ask you to heed the warning. When such as these
pass over, a habit of mind once formed cannot be lightly
broken. They may find themselves in the Spirit World
where there are wonders on all sides. But they will
still not be satisfied. They always want something
more, something that appeals to the memories of the
past. I can assure you that they will find these things.
For in the next state there are evolved spirits, partly
evolved spirits and there are spirits not evolved at
all. 'Like Attracts Like'.
-
"Therefore, although such as these will rise again
after the third day, you have to consider the state
in which they will rise and that is an all important
point. You all have the gift of life in the next stage
of being. But what should be important to you is how
you will rise after the transition out of the physical
body into the next body that is there for you. In what
state of mind, in what state of heart, in what state
of health will you be?
-
"Disease and illness are not confined to the physical
flesh, far from it. In those dark states built up by
human selfishness, there are worse diseases than you
can conjure up. You shudder at manifestations of the
purification of the flesh. You see what was once pure
and healthy become darkened by disease, filled with
poison and you are aghast. But that is physical alone.
It does not touch the true enduring spirit within,
which is all-beautiful and made more beautiful because
of all that which has to be endured.
-
"But things are very different with the next body.
If that body has been built up by a material life,
by a disregard of Divine Law, by those who could have
known but did not want to know, then I can assure you
that the diseases of that next body will fill them
with fear and apprehension. It is not God's Will. It
is entirely the working out of the will of man, because
man insists on having his own way.
-
"So you can see that even though you rise after three
days, it takes you only over one stile of your long
journey. What will you find in the next field? Will
it be green and beautiful; will there be flowers; will
the children come to greet you and those who you love
so well? It entirely depends upon your attitude of
mind now.
-
"You will be able to understand some of the miracles
of Divine Truth - how the soul has evolved, how it
is possible for love to triumph over time and space,
how the bright and glorious ones become bright and
glorious. There are many who want to know all these
wonders in God's Realm. But
those who are merely phenomena-seekers,
or
seekers after information about themselves alone,
will find that they have erected barriers which will
take a long time to cast down.
-
"You see the infinite justice of God. There are many
striving souls, with no advantages, who find that life
is a material struggle, or that the flesh is very troublesome
indeed. Yet they go on day by day, doing and being
to the best of their ability, not expecting much from
man's hand and not knowing what God has prepared.
-
"But they will open their eyes upon transition and
see around them the wonderful equipment that they have
won, paid for by their suffering. As they desire it,
Truth will be opened to them. They shall watch the
processes of creation in regard to human life, in regard
to nature and in regard to the evolution of flowers.
-
"Mental education does not come into it at all. Spiritual
education alone is the tuition that is required for
complete happiness after the transition has taken place.
-
"So I ask you who have hard lives and difficult problems
to meet on either side, to feel comforted, to feel
reassured. Do not think that perhaps God does not approve
of you. Rather remember that your spirit is so closely
in touch with the Divine, that for the sake of gaining
experience, it has taken upon itself heavy loads while
upon the earth plane.
-
"This applies to many who have had their trust betrayed.
Some have found in the name of friendship a hidden
enemy. Some have felt the whip of jealousy. Some have
not received help although they have given help to
others time and time again.
-
"Nothing has gone wrong with the Divine Plan. It is
simply that one soul is a strong soul and another is
a weaker soul. More even than that, it means that some
individuals are making it possible to be free from
restrictions, free from sorrow, free from weariness
of the physical body
immediately
after physical death. But others will find that the
earth conditions in their material sense, have been
increased because they thought they knew better than
the Way laid down by Jesus the Christ.
-
"The Master's life was so short and filled with tests.
He was sufficiently prepared not to want to enter into
the blissful states after His ordeal upon the Cross.
By His instincts of love, He went into worse conditions
be-cause they were those who sorely needed Him.
-
"Christ took His brightness, His beauty and His power
and ministered to souls in torment. Then remembering
those upon the earth plane who were so broken-hearted,
who thought their mission had come to a dreadful end,
He came back and manifested Himself. To whom did He
manifest? To the one who was the most faithful in the
sense that she was the first at the tomb.
-
"Can you visualise who will be the first at your tomb?
You may say: 'My mother'. Yes, Love will roll the stone
from your tomb and in your new and strong and far more
beautiful body, you shall greet her, or greet the one
who loves you best and has sacrificed most in order
to express that love.
-
"Hold this thought in your mind, because when you are
in the Spirit World and the time comes for your child
to join you, you too will be the first at the tomb.
You too will be laden with gifts, bursting with joy
at the thought of reunion. You will be there to give
the word of reassurance and to show, as a proud mother,
the lovely home that awaits the one so dear, longing
to be reunited.
-
"There are many disembodied souls who are drawn into
the conditions of faithfulness and love that you provide,
who at last see the Light shining over the hill of
attainment and they, as you have done, will find the
courage to climb again.
-
"Sadly, there are disembodied souls who try to commit
suicide and try to murder each other, soldiers who
carry on fighting. But they cannot do it once they
have cast off the physical tabernacle. In the dark
planes, warfare is intense and the misery is so great
in some cases that those concerned feel that they would
rather be dead for evermore. But Life is indestructible.
-
"So then, what is the solution to this problem? To
give them something to live for. You, today, by gathering
together in your Halls of Love are being used to give
hope because you have experienced great mistakes and
have found something to live for.
-
"Those who did not put God first have lost something
for which they will grieve in time to come. Things
which are lost are hard to find. The only way to make
good is to go to others tempted in like manner and
to see that they too do not make the same mistakes.
God always provides a means to rectify, to make good,
to bring into line those who have failed their better
self. For they are still His children and in time must
regain their angelhood, or else the Father's home would
be incomplete.
-
"Therefore, you can understand why the wanderers must
be found. God's home cannot be left incomplete. God's
home has a place for each and everyone, for the little
people, gnomes and fairies, for nature in its many
forms and for a vast range of life as yet unknown to
you.
-
"I give you these hints from time to time so that you
might exercise your imagination. The flowers which
die, rise again, animals who are brutally slain and
tortured by man, will rise again far more beautiful,
for God is not mocked. The multitude of life changes
and changes again and again. They die to be born in
a higher state, for that is Divine law.
-
"Back over the past, through countless lives you have
been through in other worlds, with different kinds
of bodies, it was meant that you died to a sense of
limitation to arise with greater opportunities, with
a wider mind, with a higher conception of Truth and
with a stronger purpose to see the battle through to
the glorious end.
-
"So it is my privilege to bless you all. Your Real
Self is asking so earnestly for more to be done for
the spreading of Divine Truth; that more may be done
to bring in straying souls; that more may be done until
at last the physical self, with it's multitude of desires,
is merged into the spiritual self, when happiness is
yours for ever more.
-
"I bless you with the Spirit in command of your life,
of your mind and of your heart, in the degree that
the Divine within should take command, it shall be
so.
-
"I bless the workers, for the striving has been hard
and still they walk in faith. What record could be
better, what purpose could be higher! TO WORK HARD
AND WALK BY FAITH. That, can be the motto of you all.
-
"Whatever the opposition, however dark the days, however
pressing the clouds, while you work hard and walk by
faith, faith shall not betray you.
-
"This is the promise of the Most High and it has been
worked out in millions of cases and will be worked
out in millions of cases throughout all time to be.
-
"I bless you all. God shall hearken to your prayers
in the degree that those prayers are sincere. Yes!
Ere three days have passed you shall rise again. It
depends upon yourselves the joy that holds your being.
Many will accept the promise, put in the preparation
and thank God with a grateful heart. God has indeed
blessed this hour of holy communion. Amen."
