Corners are not easily cleaned out?

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Corners are not easily cleaned out!

Self in the corners?

And now I must go, and yet that old mind of mine says, Ah, stay a little while, but that is of the old mind, which you hope to lose—it is the mind, which has self in its corners, and corners are not easily cleaned out.

—Spirit Abraham Lincoln

God's ways are not only the best?

God's ways are not only the best, but they are the brightest that could be imagined.

―Spirit Abraham Lincoln

Suicide?

Suicide, or the rejection of life. If love is not the highest emanation, one pays bitterly for one’s actions and the lesson rejected is still to be learned.

Rejection of life?

If love is not the highest emanation, one pays bitterly for one’s actions, and the lesson rejected is still to be learned.

You are capable of perfection with your divine source?

Learn, for you are capable of perfection and harmony with your divine source.

You are the forceful soul?

Behind a veil unseen, yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.

—Jean Racine

What are two most important days in your life?

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

—Mark Twain

You are a little fish in Christ?

We are little fishes in Christ, our great fish.

—Tertullian

God knows best?

Truly, God knows best!

Look to the Christ within?

Look to the Christ within—when you have purified your heart by faith, the King will enter in, and you will see his face.

There is no such thing as luck or chance?

Remember, there is no such thing as luck or chance.

What will take away the terror of the grave?

When you can be induced to seek the knowledge of immortality.

You do not live in time but for eternity?

You do not live in time but for eternity. Remember that.

You could not continue to live without it?

Without love, you could not continue to live.

Love is something of which earth gives you no idea?

Love is something of which earth gives you no idea.

Love is an active principle of life?

Love is an active principle of life.

Walk wisdom's ways?

See the light within—walk wisdom's ways.

Life must be lived for the good it radiates?

Life must be lived for the good it radiates.

What is part of God's divine essence?

Your intelligence is part of His divine essence, and persists when the envelope or body has been cast aside.

The soul is free?

The soul is free and must make its own progress.

Your soul can never die?

Your soul can never die and will one day be reunited with God in its perfection.

Try to imagine how great is the love of God?

Try to imagine how great and beneficent is the divine, all-sustaining, all-comprehending love of God.

His thought found expression in you?

In the fullness of time, and in harmony with His divine plan, His thought found expression in you and you became endowed with free will and understanding.

Painting of happiness?

Why is there such a diversity in the degree of intelligence of human beings if each is the expression of a thought of divine intelligence?

Each individual is perfect.

Each soul is a ray of divinity―an unquenchable ray, which is capable of radiating eternally, but that ray is like a seed planted in the soil. 

It must follow the law of its evolution. 

It must disintegrate and permit the living-principle to develop sufficiently, to uplift its earthly covering and permit its appearance in the sun. Even then it needs the soft rain and the warm, life-giving sun to bring it to maturity. 

It has always to struggle against the encroaching weeds, but it always follows its destiny and struggles to blossom and perfect itself in fruit or flower. 

Even when it drops again to earth and decay, it liberates its vital part and comes again to life in another form. So, each individual soul is brought to maturity through difficulties.

The differences in earthly environment and opportunities do not make great difference in the real development of the soul.

Life on earth is very short.

Each stage of development reached depends on the individual only, and not on outward circumstances. 

The very best work you can do on earth is to permit each little child to work out its own destiny. 

Give it only a few simple rules of virtue and honesty, with the fundamental of love God above all things, and your neighbour as yourself.

Love God above all things, and your neighbour as yourself contains the whole law.

If these are learned, there will be an ennobling and simplifying of life in all its expressions and liberation of the spirit, fitting it better to leave its earthly environment in tranquil faith, ready to go on untrammelled in its future evolutions.

The most essential need is to understand God.

God is Perfect Wisdom―He knows everything, nothing is hidden from Him, no secret underlying motive can be hidden from Him, and no weakness or inherited tendency is ignored by Him.

He is the Creative Force of the entire Universe. Nothing exists except as an expression of His Intelligence.

God knows the entire Plan and Scheme of Creation, and since He is goodness itself, He knows all is good.

Each individual will reach perfection eventually―the trials, which he has to meet are given for his development.

God sees all―Eternity is His outlook.

Your earthly career is only an episode in your life, and in His clear vision He knows that free will is one of His noblest gifts. It is Godlike in itself. If you could understand this, you would see that nothing in your power can interfere with this God-given gift.

The soul is free and must make its own progress. This does not mean that you should be selfish or self-centered, for love seeks the good and happiness of all regardless of earthly conditions.

God’s love is the real sustaining force of the Universe. It is an active principle. It is given fully and freely to all. It rests with the individual to decide how much he is capable of assimilating His love.

God is Infinite.

God is Intelligence.

God is Love.

God is Spirit.

Nothing could exist without Him.

Each thought of that Infinite Intelligence generates life, which is forever sustained by His inexhaustible love.

Each step counts.

Each sincere aspiration lifts you higher.

Each stumbling fall is useful if it makes you know yourself better and forces you to seek for light and help from above.

Justice and mercy are not incompatible.

Human justice and divine justice have little in common besides the principle. Divine justice is based on absolute knowledge and takes into consideration all the circumstances. For instance, when you leave the earth, no court sits in judgment, no sentence is passed.

The only judgment you must submit to is the inevitable result of the law, which brought you into being, and which declares that every act and thought of your earth life sets in motion waves or impulses, either good and harmonious with their divine origin or bad and inharmonious. Since you have a soul, which is a part of that great Creative Spirit, and which must ultimately come into perfect accord with that Creative Force or Spirit, it follows that the waves of dissonance must be accorded.

If you create, either in your earth or afterlife, sufficient waves of good, they will neutralise the bad.

A true and worthy life on earth places you in a better position for further effort than a life, which has created discordant waves. It is the discovery of this law, which is your only judgment―

God’s justice sees each tiny effort and aspiration, and these influences are great.

Since we must submit to the inevitable result of this law, and we shall ultimately reach perfection, why make an effort on earth to do anything that will interfere with our fancy if we shall be eternally happy sometime anyway? Why not be as happy as possible on earth in our own way?

In the infancy of life, which is your earth experience, each individual perceives within himself the instinct of his immortality. Regardless of civilisation or other outward circumstance, each is conscious of an aspiration for something better. 

It is an infantile grasping for a ray of light, but it is an indication of another life. 

If on earth that individual follows this infallible guide, he grows into splendid maturity, and he puts into motion splendid waves of harmony, and when reaching this life, his eyes are opened, his intelligence perceives the reasons, and the laws, which govern his development. With this clear vision, he perceives, also, the tremendous task before him, of creating enough good influence to overcome the bad.

This is our judgment.

It is not a punishment, but an accepted consequence of our past. In the stage of life immediately following earth experience, there is a longer or shorter period of darkness and unconsciousness, but as soon as an individual is awakened, he perceives the new conditions surrounding him, and faces his past, and realises that his conscious life is in its infancy. He grasps little by little the facts from which there is no escape. He understands its logic, and the stronger he becomes, the more he realises the tremendous task before him.

This task is in absolute proportion to your earth life.

Every wave of discord must be met and overcome before reaching harmony and perfect happiness.

Every step taken willingly and consciously leads to clearer vision and fuller consciousness of the glory and love of God.

God’s glory and love are realities, and their dimmest perception brings more happiness than all earth could ever offer.

How can I paint for you the joys that are ours?

How can I describe the exaltation, which possesses us when after a task is faithfully accomplished, we are permitted a glimpse of what is before us?

In the clear, soft radiance of a perfect day, we rest amid surroundings quite indescribable to you because our senses here are so much greater and we enjoy happiness beyond the power of language to convey. It is like a state of ideal perfection as to atmosphere, perfume, beauty of aspect, and free, untrammelled intercourse with beings who permit us to partake as fully as we are capable of in the perfect knowledge for which we always longed.

There are no more vague longings and inarticulate aspirations. There is fulfillment.

There is no regret, for we know that we are permitted to work out our own atonement always sustained by the never-failing love of God.

Each period of rest finds us further on with capabilities enlarged, with vision broadened, with heart overflowing with gratitude and love for God, Who gave us intelligence unbounded in its possibilities and untrammelled in its outlook.

Meslom's Messages from the Life Beyond