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"At this season of the year, many thoughts flow through
your minds. The aspects of material life will not bind
those who are spiritually intelligent. Groping and
seeking for inner truths, they are often perplexed
because there seems to be little response to the longings
of the soul.
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"Today there is much that causes heartache. The exercise
of free-will is showing itself in a rather terrifying
form. Many of the young are no longer held by the teachings
of the past; their code of conduct has entirely changed
and they throw off those restrictions that are imposed
upon them for their own good and for their own safety.
But the young alone are not to blame. Many of the older
generation have ignored the spiritual side of life
and are content to be materialistic. A strange teaching
dominates the conditions. It is the direct work of
the unseen evil forces and which must bring repercussion,
not only upon the earth world but upon all other states
as well. Do not push this thought aside, thinking that
it is but the trend of civilisation. It is nothing
of the kind. It is the abuse of liberty, the new doctrine
that everyone is capable of carving out their own career,
irrespective of others or of Divine Law.
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"Because of this sweet season of Easter, think for
a moment on The Resurrection of The Life Force. To
a great extent the Life Force is associated with things
of the physical. But things of the physical are only
one guise, one aspect of the truth. Accept this as
a fact: the things that you love in this material world
have cast off to a certain extent their material guise;
that which you desire with your baser senses are more
heavily clothed in matter, and it will take some time
after transition for you to become cleansed of the
materialism represented by your desires of the past,
unless you have resisted them. That is a most important
point. Many people would like to do better but find
that obstacles seem to stand in their way, making them
fall again and again.
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"Be comforted in your heart, for as you strive to rise
above that lesser self, you are gaining. It may not
be perceived within your limitations but God and the
angel world are marking these signs of progress. Then
when the body is cast asunder, you will find yourself
strangely free of those faults and failings from which
you shrink.
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"Take this message far and wide, for God views with
pity and understanding the struggles of humanity in
the coils of materialism and physical bondage.
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"Throughout the world there are many who have ideals
and seek to strive to attain a measure of what they
have in mind. Different kinds of religion are very
useful because of the different temperaments. It would
not do to have one great religion upon the earth because
of the various stages of evolution in which mankind
can be found. When you are in the Spirit World, these
differences are still noticeable. But because the individual
cannot escape from Reality, presented to his consciousness
is the knowledge that, to others, Service expresses
the only real religion and that Service is independent
of creed and doctrine. Man then is brought down to
fundamentals, to the law of Service. That is the Religion
of the World of Spirit to which you now belong.
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"To those who watch, there is one thing that seems
unfair from material standards. For instance, inventors
of any age, who have received inspiration from another
sphere, are seldom honoured in their own country. They
may have taken great pains to bring about a product,
seeking to safeguard it legally as the law of the country
requires, but only a few benefit from that which they
have brought to fruition. The child of their mind has
taken form in a material guise. There is one who creates
and one who can turn that creation into a practical
business proposition. Some such as these exploit those
who do not have the wherewithal to further their creation,
launching it out upon the great sea of material life.
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"This same Law relates to the arts, to music and other
lovely things. Many a true artist dies poor. They have
something they seek to express to others that they
believe will benefit the world. But those exploiters
are too much governed by their own affairs and the
desire to 'get on' in the material sense. Think of
the songs that are unsung because the music-maker has
no one to listen.
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"What beauty lies hidden in the greater mind of man.
It is like the hard green bud in the springtime. You
marvel that within there could be imprisoned such beauty
and fragrance and the power to heal. It is the same
with man. In his mind are those hard cores containing
'life' - a part of the Life Force of his Divinity.
Yet because of unsuitable environment, he lacks opportunity
or initiative. So that 'wonder' does not have the advantage
of life in its truer sense upon the earth.
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"Always remember, anything that is good or beautiful
in its highest sense - created by you or half-created,
even stifled at its birth - has a chance of life in
another sphere. There is a resurrection for it is so
wide a measure that earthly language could not convey
the truth of it to you. That unfairness referred to
earlier is not possible to eradicate during the earthly
stage. But know that unfairness is not possible in
the Realms of Spirit.
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"Often others take credit, undeserved credit, for the
efforts of others, sometimes in silence, sometimes
by implication. But the inference is there that has
power over the minds of those around.
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"Looking back at your pioneers, were they not spiritual
inventors? They wanted to help the sick, the halt,
the lame and the blind. By gigantic effort and supreme
suffering they managed to start the work. Those who
watched were very free with their criticism. They prophesied
that it would not work, that mistakes would be made
and their efforts would be wasted.
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"But the spiritual inventor is not put off by that
kind of attack and moreover, they have to learn to
stand inured to attack in many forms. The unseen enemies
are busily engaged in using the minds of those - their
mediums upon the earth - who do not know that they
are instruments of such as these.
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"This great subject RESURRECTION does not only apply
to the coming of the Master Jesus amongst His own people
after the Crucifixion. Everything that the Master did
was a form of example. It was not something that was
delegated to Himself alone because of who He is. Certainly
the Master carried through the earth experiences in
a far better way than anyone else. He stands before
mankind, the great Exampler, bidding man to strive
more sincerely in order to raise himself up higher
where greater strength can be given to him by the One
Who loves him best.
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"You who believe in eternal life do not find it difficult
to accept that you will never see death. That is a
fact. But it depends upon your own character how much
'life' you will be able to manifest within three days
after your transition. Here lies the great difference
between the children of God. Can those who have experienced
difficult lives and who have put up a brave fight,
imagine that the coils of death could hold so much
life? Think of the warriors who made so noble a surrender
in the name of duty, who loved physical life and who
had love-ties that drew them back to their homes. Spiritual
dignity held them to their task and they passed out
of the physical body in a horrible manner, or so it
seemed to others. Yet they found that they were restored
to full vitality ere three days had passed.
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"Why did not the vitality come at once? Memories bring
about shock to the aura. The aura has a very great
influence upon the new life emerging out of the darkness
- and the pain and horror - into God's joyous world
of freedom.
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"The resurrection of the true Life Force is what the
world desperately needs today. Those who run churches,
of whatever denomination, are finding that the road
is steep and stony. Some, who have not toiled in like
manner, would like to take their place and others are
scheming to bring about their downfall.
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"The person whether in the home, or in the community,
who has the greatest capacity for sacrifice, should
be regarded as the leader. It is the only criterion
of true power and it should he expressed for the betterment
of others and the raising up of humanity.
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"When you pass into the World of Spirit, you will see
this Law in operation in all its wonder. You will find
strangers and friends, who were despised upon the earth,
in places of honour, drawing to them the love element
expressed previously through their service. Realisation
comes that there is someone with experience who can
help them, who can put them wise, who can save them
from taking the valley path and show them how strength
can come to climb the steep hillside that leads to
emancipation.
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"What is your part? Where is your life today leading
you? What will be the result of your great gift of
immortality? How much of the Life Force are you seeking
to release?
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"You are all creators. Many do not understand the law
of creation. If you have tried to bring into being
things of utility to help others, then you will find
that you have a strange power. The things that you
desire to bring to life will no longer be beyond your
range. They will have become a possibility and by learning
the Laws of God that govern creation, you can create
the roses you love so well.
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"If you were not kind to the flowers when upon the
earth then you will have to wait. A Law transgressed
against has to be worked out and the lessons have to
be learned.
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"You who have gardens, who have artistic skills, maybe
even music makers, how are you exercising your gifts?
Do you look upon your patch of soil and feel that it
cannot be productive? Many having toiled upon their
garden find that the rough places of Nature are too
much for them. But yet the effort is not wasted. They
have been working upon their spiritual garden where
flowers do not die and no insects devour. All the lessons
learned - and from which you shrink during the physical
stage - are there for Divine purpose. They will bring
you happiness, give you power and make you a healthy
child of the Most High. When you are healthy in a spiritual
sense, many other doors are opened to you and revelation
lies ahead.
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"Think about what talents you possess. Maybe you do
not consider that you have any talents. What about
the one talent from that famous parable that brought
so much reward to the one concerned? Think of those
with many talents who abuse them and who damage the
minds of others by the use to which they are put. There
is much to be considered.
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"Many great artists forget the Law Of God. They create
to appeal to the baser level of human nature. They
do not realise that in so doing they are cutting themselves
off from the use of their creative gifts when transition
has taken place.
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"The things that carpenters make are open to criticism,
but never mind. In trying to do something you will
find - when this short stage is over - that you have
released the power within to bring into being the little
children of your mind that escaped you because the
hands and consciousness had not been sufficiently released
by practice to do what you hoped to do, so that you
should not be ashamed.
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"Therefore, to you cultivating gardens, let not your
heart be discouraged by your failures. Always remember
that you are tilling the spiritual soil as well as
the material mould. If you have tried to put into words
some of the imprisoned beauty in your mind and feel
disappointed with the result, remember that all the
effort and the disappointment entailed are practice
for some mighty purpose. It is for the resurrection
of the true Life Force within you, which is imprisoned
in your Divinity and waits for release.
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"The only one who can open the doors of the prison
house is you.
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"As the glad season of Easter comes and passes, do
not put aside the thought of Resurrection. It is the
Law that appertains to every minute of your life. Try
and understand the effort of those who undertake mundane
tasks with teasing irritations on your behalf.
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"You are weaving something so beautiful that the crude
physical eyes cannot be brought to bear upon it. All
the labour of the home is not something that is scattered
by others to be done again and again. It is preparation
for that lovely Home that you will inherit when this
dim earth life is over. By the striving, by the strain
of patience, by wishing that you could do something
else or have the chance for self-expression, these
are all as the furniture of your real home.
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"Through the release by discipline of the Life Force
within you, you are creating something that will fill
your hearts with delight and moreover, will never pass
away. It will only be enhanced in beauty as you strive
in that Life to come where opportunity lies all around.
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"In these words there will be comfort for some, and
others will take the trouble to analyse the meaning
of the spiritual Life Force in all Nature. There is
nothing created by God that does not have the spark
of Himself in it and that also has immortality in a
changed guise. This includes even the reptiles and
other creatures that fill you with horror. They are
but distortions of the real, and one day they must
be brought back to their true guise and fulfil their
own place in the Divine Plan and to do their work for
God. They will join with all other forms of life, man,
the Little People, the great wide spreading trees,
the vast oceans and the life within them, of those
minute forms of life in the air that escape the finest
microscope of the earth.
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"Widen the borders of your consciousness, strike off
the bondage that is associated with the physical, and
learn in the here and now that you have within your
power to bring about a resurrection of the spiritual
Life Force. Because there is Divinity within you, there
is in a tiny measure all the attributes that are in
mighty measure in the Godhead. Nothing is shut off
from man. It is man who forgets to strive, who loses
faith in God. God never loses faith in man.
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"At this joyous Easter time, put into practice what
you believe, that there is no death. Bring into being
these wonderful talents hidden within you, which lie
nigh unto death when you fail to strive, when you will
not put them into use as God intended.
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"The physical strain upon the body can - in the degree
that is wise - be triumphed over by the spirit desire,
but only when the one concerned co-operates with the
Godhead.
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"There are many who cannot respond to the spirit because
they have not had any practice. Practice is essential
for every child of God so that in due course they may
exhibit some of those finer qualities associated with
the Divinity within. Let there then be Resurrection
when you put your heel on disappointment and disillusionment
for evermore. That is of the earth, earthly. You are
of the spirit and your life is everlasting.
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"Gathered around you, unseen, are many who bind you
with cords of love, seeking to help you. Do not spurn
them. Pray in your heart and mind that you may respond
to those higher forces and so honour the One Who loves
you best: Jesus the Christ. For the benefit of mankind
He resurrected all that man had sought to kill.
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"Many people who will be uplifted with new heart over
the difficulties of life will read these words in time
to come, in lands far away. They will realise that
they have been deceived by the apparent appearance
of things. Because the clouds have been swept from
their eyes, the Light of the Spirit of God can reach
them. They will go on striving in their humdrum and
distasteful lives, knowing that all is well with their
soul. In the end, God shall be justified, for His promises
will be seen to have been kept, not only in the letter
of the Law but in the spirit of the Law.
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"You who have true hearts think of the Life to come
so that God's Home may be complete and the great band
of workers who are gathered for the dangerous and important
work for the children of mankind.
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"God has indeed blessed you, so in gratitude turn to
Him, our Father Who knows all things and Who will strengthen
you as the days go on. In the Name of the radiant Christ,
you are blessed. Amen."
