How are you filled with the water of life?

What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

When He said that, He knew what He was saying, and He meant just that―not something else.

When you ask God to pour His spirit on you, declare with the most absolute conviction―

The power, and the presence of the Almighty is on me, anointing and healing me, instructing or guiding me.

Do not then jump up, and immediately set about doing your own sweet will. 

Stay still in absolute, profound stillness and silence, and hear what God will say―

Feel the rhythm of the divine power of God―

Be filled with the water of life.

What is the real truth?

The real truth is that you should empty yourself of self, so that God may utterly fill you and live in you, ruling your heart and mind and spirit until you are so utterly united with Him that you live in Him, and He in you, and you thus attain to your full individuality―a human soul wherein dwelleth the Almighty Father―the indwelling God.

God is wisdom.

God is wisdom, and as you live and partake of this truth, you become a child of knowledge. 

Wisdom and knowledge bring you into harmony and love, and they, into harmony of spirit-life.

May love immortal set in thy heart forever.

May love immortal set in thy heart forever.

May joy, like wreaths in nature's bowers, be thine, and when spirits come to bear thee above, may they look on thee with love.

May your highest hope be realised in the land of the loved, and may wreaths immortal encircle thy brow in that beautiful home where the sun never sets, and where execrations have never found a hiding-place, and may truth, purity and prosperity follow thee to the end of life.

 

Almighty Wisdom

Almighty Wisdom,

We submit to the divine outpourings of Thy Pure Spirit.

We are the children of Thy hand, O Lord,

Fashioned by Thy Wisdom,

And may we ever move in the right way,

And draw near unto this light which is from Thee.

May we be more merciful in our nature

As we advance step-by-step toward Thee.

We have seen a light shining in our midst;

We have heard the sweet voices of those we love;

We have seen the curtain drawn aside

By which we were hidden,

And have come here to console,

To teach and to elevate those we love above the passions of life.

May they, as they journey on, learn new lessons of love;

May they be able to withstand the shafts of bigotry,

And may they have a broader influence for good over the earth.

May our light so shine

That all may see there is something good in store for them in the future.

From the highest angel to the lowest being on earth,

We feel we are but a speck in Thy Creation.

Hear us, O Lord, and make us more truthful,

More honest and more sincere in our associations with one another.

May we all see the dawning day

And feel we have a great work to do.

Hear us now and forever.

You stand forever in the presence of Jehovah.

Learn from every babbling brook―

The majestic river, rolling its tranquil waters to the ocean in its sublimity―

Learn from every mound, towering mountain, tumbling waterfall and fruitful plain. 

The name of a wonderful intelligence is marked on every flower. 

Its signet-ring is impressed on every shell of the sea and on every leaf of the forest. 

Even every dew-drop contains a lesson of creation. 

He who does not see this intelligence is blind. 

He who does not hear it is deaf. 

He who does not feel it around and within him, speaking all the time, does not have clear intelligence to feel. 

Deity is ever-present, addressing man and spirit from age to age. 

You stand forever in the presence of Jehovah. 

He is your teacher―

All your mentality and morality are absorbed from Him. 

How, then, should you act? 

Act true to those attributes. 

Charity is the basis of greatness. 

Pure Christianity clearly teaches this, yet few Christians have sufficient charity to cover a multitude of sins.

―The Sage

Blessed Eternity

We live; we are happy; ours is a blessed eternity!

Ascension on Jupiter

Aristotle describes the ascension of a man and wife on the planet Jupiter – 

When a man and his wife have lived for about a thousand years of earth's time – it is not a thousand years of Jupiter's time – they are ready to make the ascension. Their material bodies have become very attenuated, not shrivelled, or shrunken, but larger and more expansive – lighter, thinner, more like vapour – it is a time of great rejoicing with all their friends; they gather about them with bands of music; they feast and dance for joy; and when the spiritual part of the ascending one has become entirely disengaged from its material body, it slowly ascends in plain sight of the assembled company. The etherial body has again taken on all its youthful beauty, but greatly heightened; it has become heavenly beauty. As these two forms slowly rise, they look down and bless the people assembled; and with sweet and heavenly smiles, they gradually disappear with a group of angels that join, and receive them. Then the company gradually disperse with joy and gladness. One of their number has gone from their midst, and is now with the angels in glorious and heavenly light. The nearest friends gather together the form that is left, and cast it forth with other refuse matter, as of no account; they think of it, only as they do the husks of their grain or fruit, and treat it just the same.

The Discovered Country 

Do you wish to know how fast an angel can travel?

Now, said Aristotle, we will go and pay a visit to the sun's counterpart; for the sun, like ourselves, is actually but one sun in two forms, male and female; magnetism and electricity. But we will leave our ship behind and travel on rays of light.

And as fast as electricity and light can travel, we journeyed toward the sun's magnetic counterpart; and presently we arrived there. And here we found a great chemical laboratory. For every ray of light and heat which the sun shoots forth, travels directly to this magnetic globe, and is there again resolved into magnetism proper; and then rolls back again in great waves to the sun. This magnetic globe is invisible to man, as all magnetism is; and the electric body of the sun is also invisible to man; it is the result that is visible; it is the light and heat of magnetism and electricity that man sees and feels; for the light and heat of the sun strikes and bathes in glory, all the planets that lie between it and its counterpart; and the great magnetic waves, as they roll towards the sun, strike and bathe, and nourish all the planets that lie between it and the sun. Now as the clothing or form of the soul, is composed, equally of magnetism and electricity, it finds no difficulty in traveling on the wings of either; and if man on earth wishes to know how fast an angel can travel, he has only to watch the lightning's flash, and that truly reveals it to him. Or, an angel can move or glide, as slowly as it pleases, or remain perfectly at rest.

Pure magnetic seas

Do you realise that we are sailing on great magnetic waves of a spiritual sea?

Examine these waves, Herfronzo; examine them well. And I obeyed.

It was a vast ocean of pure amber flame, rolling in great waves all in one direction, and that direction toward the sun, as I could now see.

This is a pure magnetic sea, said Aristotle, devoid of matter; and its destination is the sun. Presently we shall arrive there.

And soon we landed on the sun. Now the sun is not a solid globe like the earth, neither is it inhabited; and it is as black as the blackest night; and is composed of pure matter, devoid of spirit, or in other words, it is pure carbon devoid of magnetism; but as these great magnetic waves strike it, and penetrate it, it continually bursts into golden flame and sends forth its rays of life, and light, and heat. The body of the sun is a dead, primary world, that has yielded up its spirit countless ages ago; and that spirit retains its form, as we retain ours; and it constantly sends back great magnetic waves to the body of the sun, which causes the sun to blaze in golden glory.

Aristotle (Archangel) to Herfronzo (Angel)

The eternal motive power

It is our spirit which pulses and magnetism or spiritual flame is the motive power. And so our hearts beat and will keep on beating while the eternal ages roll.

We are now getting at the great pulsing heart of all things – the eternal motive power; and the motive power is the little invisible flame called magnetism. Now magnetism is a pure, invisible, spiritual flame, or in other words, the vast ocean of spirit and matter are counterparts. Each little flame of magnetism attracts and holds an equal proportion of matter; which makes a perfect atom. The little flame is the central point, or nucleus of the atom; and the coalescing of the two principles, matter and magnetism, generate heat, or the little magnetic flame within the atom heats the atom to a white heat; therefore heat is the coalescing of magnetism and matter; and thus worlds are formed. But atoms, nor worlds, never cease in their motion, they forever obey the great law of magnetic attraction; and the magnetic body within a man, which animates the electric body and forever hides within it; is the secret cause of the pulsing heart. 

Galen (Angel)

We bear an immortal spirit within our material bodies

Now, said Aristotle to the scribe, write out my proof, which is pure reason that man bears an immortal spirit within his material body.

When you look at a man you see nothing before you but a man composed of skin, or, epidermis; and if you trusted to nothing but your eyes, without reason, you could not say that man was composed of anything but skin. Now there is the perfect form of a man composed of skin. Underneath the epidermis is the true skin, which is to the sight invisible. So there is another perfect form of man, composed of true skin. Underneath the true skin is another perfect form, composed of veins. Take away all else, and there stands the man of veins.

Next, there is the perfect arterial man. Next, there stands the perfect form of man, composed of nerves. Now, we have the perfect form of man, composed of muscles. Then there stands the perfect form of man, composed of bone – per se – a skeleton.

Now all this is matter, or material substance, which would be inert, or dead, if it were not for an animating principle that permeated every particle of this complex structure; and that animating principle is the perfect spiritual man; and this spiritual man is composed of magnetism and electricity.

Now there is a perfect form composed of magnetism and another one composed of electricity; and these two are the immortal, imperishable form of man; they are united, and go hand in hand. One cannot exist without the other. Now there is a third principle, which we will call the soul of man; and the magnetic form, and the electric form, bear the soul within them. The soul is the guiding principle of the spiritual body; and it clothes itself with magnetism and electricity; that is, it holds it together in the perfect form of man. Now, when the soul leaves the material body of man, it takes the magnetic and electric body with it; for these three bodies are inseparable. Magnetism, as all know, is invisible, except under certain conditions; and electricity is also an invisible substance, except under certain conditions and the soul is an invisible substance, except under certain conditions; and if man did not have a magnetic and an electric body, there would be no heat within him; for it is the uniting of magnetism and electricity that causes all light and heat. When the soul leaves the material body of a man, and has taken with it all the magnetism and electricity, the material body falls apart or decays; for its animating principle has left it – all that could think, hear, feel, or see, has left it.

Now this that has left the material body, we call the spiritual body; and it is triune in its nature – the intelligent body, the magnetic body, and the electric body – and this body has lost nothing but a gross covering of matter, which it no longer needs. All that thinks, hears, sees or feels, it retains; for these are of the soul and not of the material body; for if they were, the material body would still continue to think, hear, feel and see, just the same when the soul had fled. Now the soul has an electric and magnetic body; and the magnetic and the electric body are perfectly and evenly balanced; they are in exact equilibrium; they are the clothing and the vehicles of the soul; and these three bodies in one, are all invisible to the material sight of man, because composed of invisible substance, for all know that electricity is invisible, and magnetism is invisible, and the soul is invisible, but this body may be visible under certain conditions. Now the soul is the intelligent, or animating principle of the magnetic and electric body; and it can move its electric body with the swiftness of electricity, or it can gently float, or remain quiescent; and the magnetic body attracts and holds together the electric body; for the magnetic body permeates the electric body, and the intelligent soul permeates and guides the whole; and the God that man talks so much about, sits enthroned within his own body for God and the soul of man are one and the same person; and the soul of man first exists as an invisible germ within a little invisible magnetic and electric globe; male and female in one. Therefore, God is both male and female, equally balanced, and co-existent.

Aristotle (Archangel)

Working angels

No one in earth-life is without some loving angel that often walks with them and feeds them as  much as is needful for them or as much as they will accept. The more these working angels teach earth of heaven, the nearer earth will approach heaven – the happier and better it will be.

The nest and chicks of an Australasian Pipit Anthus novaeseelandiae – Benjamint444 (CC-by-SA-3.0)

Onward and upward, around and around, is the great eternal, natural law

Onward and upward, around and around, is the great eternal, natural law.

Vernal Fall is a large waterfall on the Merced River just downstream of Nevada Fall in Yosemite National Park, USA – God of War (CC-by-SA-3.0)

The true law of the sexes

I do not yet comprehend the law of soul mates, or counterparts; although already united to my counterpart and consequently a completed angel; yet I am still ignorant of the law which governs it.

Socrates, said Galen, will you explain to our brother Herfronzo, the great law of counterparts?

Herfronzo, said Socrates, let us examine one of these spiritual germs before it has ever been breathed in by man, and we shall soon discover the law which regulates soul counterparts. Saying this, he waved his hands toward me in a gentle manner. Immediately my sight expanded and I saw innumerable small pellucid transparent globes floating here, there and everywhere. I took one of them in my hand and examined it closely. I found it was an indestructible spiritual germ, in the form of an egg, and within it were two perfect forms, the man and woman to be; the male and female in one; the future angel. The forms were perfect, but the eyes were closed; they were not yet self-conscious, or intelligent. Consciousness and intelligence were yet in store for them.

How is it, I asked, that children are born singly, not in pairs as this germ would indicate?

These globes which you now see, are perfect germs, they have never yet been breathed into the lungs of living man; that is reserved for them, answered Socrates. When these perfect germs are breathed in by man, the positive or male half germinates, or develops first; the female half or negative is thrown back into the atmosphere in the form of an oblong globe, for they must be separated in order to be born male and female; for if this were not so the law of propagation would be at an end. This latter globe, being oblong, never rises above the dense atmosphere, and the lungs of man have a far greater attraction for it than they did when it was a perfect globe; therefore, it almost immediately becomes incarnated. And now I have explained to you the true law of the sexes, for they are born into life in equal numbers. Now after these germs have expanded and become intelligent men and women, or otherwise, and then leave their bodies or die, they are again united and form one completed Angel. Yourself, dear Herfronzo and Helene, once existed within one of these perfect globes or germs, as one; from thence you became man and woman, performed your work on earth, becoming conscious and intelligent; from thence you have become again united and are now a perfected Angel, far on your road toward heavenly wisdom. Which would you prefer to be, Herfronzo, an Angel, or the undeveloped germ of an Angel? for many people say, they wish they had never been born.

There is but one answer to this question, I said. It is as much better to be an Angel than a germ, as it would be if there were a hell, to be in heaven instead of hell, for now I can examine all things with intelligent eyes and be wise as a God. I can now enjoy the happiness of eternal love; truly, love and wisdom are the everlasting hand-maidens of God. 

The Discovered Country 

God, who will render to every man according to his deeds

My heart is sad to think, if the old Book is followed in some things, why people do not take more closely to heart that passage which says, God, who will render to every man according to his deeds. That would avert much of the disappointment, for then they would know, even though they hope they are forgiven, that the old stains must be wiped out by earnest work here.

Samuel Bowles (Spirit)

We cannot escape the consequences of an evil life!

We cannot escape the consequences of an evil life!

Make every day count you higher in the scale of goodness

Think, live rightly, keep your body pure and your soul will be correspondingly better. Make every day count you higher in the scale of goodness.

A Spiritual life is only an outgrowth of earth life

A spiritual life is only an outgrowth of earth life.

Nature without blemish exists for every soul

The heaven we dream of is only our natural world intensified – nature without blemish exists for every soul.