Why has it not been made clearer for us to understand the reason of life?
Why have we been left groping in ignorance when God in His infinite power could reveal Himself clearly?
In God’s Divine Plan of Creation, each expressed thought is an individual, perfect in its essence, and destined to ultimate perfection and accord with its Divine Creator, God.
The Divine Instinct of Immortality is our infallible guide through the difficult period of development and change of form, but our free will is our individuality, which can never be withheld. This instinct of immortality is not our only guide and help.
From the beginning of time, teachers have been divinely inspired to guide mankind. They brought to earth such measure of truth, as man was capable of grasping.
The last and perfect expression of the spirit of God was Christ Jesus.
In Him, the conscious knowledge of immortality had its fullest expression. He knew His divine origin, His task of redemption, and His glorious destiny.
Yet even He suffered untold agonies in the moments when His mortal sufferings veiled the Divine Vision.
Intelligence conscious of growth is also conscious of love and joy. Intelligence and soul are terms used synonymously to express the individual creations or expressions of the Infinite, All-inclusive Intelligence called God.
New ideas are difficult to accept—new ideas are difficult to describe.
The Infinite Creative Force has given expression to ideas, and clothed them in multitudinous forms from all eternity, each carrying within itself the seed of immortality.
Each individual is capable of growth or development, and progresses through many stages until freed from all materialism.
Many ages are necessary to reach this perfection.
No two individuals are ever alike. The divine expression, which bestows our individuality is always different.
Each soul remains forever independent, and there is always dissimilarity in the complete and perfect happiness, which perfection brings.
Perfection is reached by all, but individuality is never lost. Our individuality and consciousness take cognisance of the reasons of our creation, fitting us for further progress.
Life on earth is only a preliminary expression and must be well and nobly lived in anticipation of a higher and broader and fuller experience immediately following our so-called death.
Each individual is of immense importance.
We have left off our earthly bodies, with their pains and sorrows and mental limitations. We still have bodies, which seem as real to us now, as they did on earth, except that they have become obedient to our intelligence and can be transported by desire wherever we wish to go.
Even these bodies must disappear.
They are vehicles of expression for this sphere and will be left aside when we are able to progress beyond their necessity.
We must try to prove to all who are searching that we do actually exist in another form.
Anyone who thinks at all sees the earth, as only one of a vast number of planets, a tiny speck, even in the visible creation. There must be a Central Force, which rules the physical manifestations of creation.
The intelligence, which brought into being the Universe and guides the movements of the firmament must have had a reason in creating man and placing him on earth.
Life means movement. God is an Infinite Spirit or Intelligence, Who has existed from all eternity.
He had no beginning and can have no end.
Each expression of that Infinite Intelligence finds manifestation somewhere in the Universe, and is compelled to progress, develop and grow by overcoming obstacles and becoming Pure intelligence or Spirit in the Majestic Symphony of Nature.
The fact that no one has ever succeeded in forming or germinating the tiniest spark of life proves conclusively that life is something outside the laws of natural science.
Nothing in Nature is ever lost—life does not cease to exist because the physical body is destroyed.
Life or intelligence is spirit and continues to exist somewhere.
Since God is Infinite, and each expression of His life-giving intelligence finds manifestation somewhere, it is evident that our earth must be a small part of the Universe.
When we leave our bodies, we leave material conditions. We live in eternity, and each individual tries to understand something of his new surroundings.
Progress is essential. Standards are not the same as on earth. There are no conventions or creeds.
Each individual is taken alone, and goes on or remains behind, exactly according to the real worth of his inner self.
Everything learned on earth has a value, for it has developed the thinking power of the mind.
Cultivation of the intellect, and growth of the soul go hand-in-hand, even when that person has followed wrong ideas.
This is an intellectual or spiritual stage of existence, and the developed intelligence grasps quicker the truth, and is able to absorb love’s all-enveloping strength.
Earth education is filled with pitfalls, and human theories are often contradictory and inconsistent with simple fundamental truths. If we remain sincere, we shall be brought through this darkness into the light.
Each child should be told that he has an immortal soul that will someday reunite to God, the Creator of All Things, and the Source of Life, Truth and Love.
He should be told that truth and sincerity should guide his life, and although he himself will have to answer for every thought and act of his life, he is always surrounded by God’s infinite love. Mistakes may lead him astray, theories may bewilder him, sin may tempt him, but his instinct of immortality, divinely implanted, has been strengthened and will always guide him towards truth. His training may lead him towards materiality, but his instinct will impel him towards spirituality.
It is extremely important to put firmly into the minds of children the great fundamental truths.
The clearness of vision, which comes to all here and obliges each to see and examine his own past life in the light of truth brings a vision truly appalling to most mortals.
Such is the force of this penetrating light that no subterfuge or self-indulgent excuse can hide from view the truth.
We see ourselves in our first innocent ignorance and are forced to follow every step of our lives and weigh each advantage given by circumstance and education.
We are obliged to face the selfishness and unworthiness of each sinful act.
When the whole awful picture is complete, we are given glimpses of the part we are intended to take in the Universe.
We see that each thought and act has put into motion waves, which go on forever—
There is no escaping from the absolute necessity of overcoming the discordant waves by our own personal efforts.
Each act of our earth life is faced and judged, according to its innermost reasons, its circumstances and consequences. Each soul is forced to be its own judge.
It is made clear that no one can undo the harm except one’s own self. It is a terrible moment fraught with tremendous consequences, but each stands absolutely alone.
If they will to undo the harm, and ask for help, they are immediately granted a vision of transcendent loveliness in which they see the glorious spirits all about them amid scenes of exquisite beauty and splendour.
They are immediately conscious of an angel guide, who takes them by the hand and tells them to have no fear. They are conscious that the glory all about them, the hope and the joy is a manifestation of God’s love.
They are overcome by a great desire to know more of this marvellous love. Their education begins, and the strength they receive carries them forward, and enables them to return to the darkness where they may be given an opportunity to do work of atonement.
Intellect begins its experience, strengthened by the absolute certainty that God exists, and that it is His infinite love, which sustains the life His intelligence bestows.
Perfection is reached when the individual is fully conscious and capable of sustaining the dignity of his divinely bestowed individuality, freed from all sin and ignorance, experiencing in absolute perfection and intelligence, the splendour, majesty, glory, and the perfect happiness of its divinely bestowed soul.
The little ones, and the ignorant, who are simple and loving, are tenderly helped and sustained. If their earth life has been free from sin, they are able to go on without suffering, for their purity and innocence had made them capable of absorbing freely the splendid life-giving love.
God is the creator and sustainer of everything. Remember that love, truth and infinite life are inseparable.
Each moment of fuller and more complete life gives us our transcendent periods of pure joy and progress.
By helping others, we purify ourselves of the materialism, which clings to us.
We never lose the vision of our past, which came as our judgment. We must search deeply to understand the theory of expiation.
We know God is Spirit or Intelligence—Omnipresent, Omniscient and Omnipotent. He is the perfection of all the qualities we know and admire and love on earth, and an infinity of others beyond our earth conception.
God is perfect, anything other than perfection is discordant with Him. He is Love, and His compassion is without limit.
We know that ultimately each one will reach this perfection, and it is our duty to find out how it can be done.
Love in its purity puts in motion waves of great intensity. It is for this reason that Christ said that a cup of cold water given in His name was of infinite value, while the greatest act one could perform if dictated by unworthy motives would put in motion discordant waves.
Before reaching perfection, peace and happiness, the sum of all the discordant waves must be equalled by harmonious waves, both in intensity and number.
God is love—a pure and perfect love, which goes out from the Divine Centre endlessly, infinitely, sustaining, vivifying, comforting and glorifying.
To reflect this love, we must be purified of self.
We must learn to give of our inner selves, not for our own good, not even for our eternal salvation, but as a pure and selfless reflection of God.
Think of your own lives. Can you recall any one act absolutely devoid of self? Even here it is almost impossible of attainment.
When we learn the theory of good and bad waves, of harmony and discord, light and dark, we are filled with desire to begin our work of atonement.
We see our own glorious destiny, and wish to achieve it quickly.
Pride and selfishness are not yet destroyed, and to understand God’s love, we must begin by understanding human love. Fortunately, each one is given a glimpse of pure love in infancy. Almost without exception, a mother loves her child, and this pure expression of love is the most unselfish earth can know. It is accepted, as a matter of course by the child, but is understood to some extent later in life, and is the saving grace of many in a moment of darkness.
Complete unselfishness can be reached only through love.
I say this is one instance of love, as we know it, but I do not say it is quite devoid of self. It has moments of pure unselfishness, for every mother recognises from the first that the baby she has borne is a separate, independent being from the moment of its birth. By natural law, she is her child’s guide and comforter, but her moments of pure love are the rare experiences when she is able to immolate self completely.
Pure love, also, is sometimes seen in the devotion of children towards parents. Patriotism inspires some of the purest expressions of love, as it calls for entire immolation of self to a great idea. No man can show greater love than he who lays down his life for his brother, except him who lays down his life for God. The brother is one ray of light.
God is the Luminous Centre from which that ray proceeds. We must learn to love God above all things because He is the splendour of the morning, the glory of noon, the majesty of night—He is eternally giving, never receiving—His unfailing tender love is forever sustaining the life His divine intelligence bestowed—His justice makes it inevitable that each expiate his sins—His mercy and love give us strength and courage to wish to attain the glorious perfection, where we shall understand Him, commune with Him, freed from all imperfections, conscious of our own magnificent and splendid life, giving fully and freely the gifts so generously bestowed, reflecting fully the glory of God’s love.
Knowing God, we would ineludibly love Him above all things.
We would understand that knowing God means understanding that we are emanations of the divinity—
We are expressions of Divine Intelligence, we are manifestations of Eternal Spirit, we are reflections of beneficent and vivifying love. Let us, therefore, try to know God.
Remember God is not person, nor power, nor intelligence, nor love, nor life alone. He is Spirit, and Spirit includes all these.
We must try to grasp spiritually the idea of God as Infinite Spirit.
Education helps us to grasp and follow abstract ideas, but beyond these is the ever-present spiritual truth, which manifests either in instinct in the savage or idealism in the cultivated man.
This instinct of immortality is truth.
We must learn to put out of our consciousness all thought, to sink into complete silence, deeper than sleep, but still fully awake.
Let your first waking thought be desire to know truth. Glorify God for all the marvellous perfections in which you are capable of investing your highest idea of Him.
Thank Him for your life, and ask sincerely and humbly to know Him better.
Knowledge of God includes all wisdom and all love. This daily practice will lead to meditation and contemplation.
You must not expect to find miracles. The growth from materialism to spirituality is slow.
The transition from the confusion of many ideas and impressions to the peace and unity of truth is slow, but every step leads you to a fuller knowledge of that truth, which includes all knowledge and all love and is the real you—
The image, the essence, the child of God, conscious of your real self, with its glorious freedom and possibilities of perfection, and conscious, also, of the duty this brings to do all our part in aiding this growth.
The sincere desire to know God brings a sure reward.
If we truly ask this we shall receive it. We shall learn to know ourselves, and that knowledge will bring with it an immense respect for the immortal being within us. It will make us anxious to turn from all that is unworthy of our real selves. It will make us ready and willing and anxious to help others regardless of their appearance or condition, and to know their own real selves.
