How do you escape from disaster?

What is the path of escape when world disaster threatens?

With confidence comes fair weather, and the mind, which includes feeling governs the planet in all its details. 

As a man thinketh, so is he. As the world feeleth, so is it. 

The Light of Faith held by a few souls has more than once illumined the path of escape when world disaster threatened.

Are we at the mercy of the world?

The mind is at the mercy of its environment.

The people you mix with, the books you read, these, and a multitude of other emanations from things, as well as people, these being focused on that which is intensely impressionable build up the thought and the attitude of mind, which you carry on from day to day. But you, and all who follow in His steps, are exhorted to keep close to God, close to the protection, which He provides so lavishly.

Meet these enemies with confidence and perfect self-control, and say—

I am linked to One who is stronger than you all!

You have heard me say before that the only barrier between mankind and the higher knowledge is lack of dedication, lack of simplicity and purity of heart. By laying aside self, by preparing the physical mind, by the discipline of the physical will, man, no longer bound to that which has been proved, to that fickle mistress called science, freed from shackles, born into a new freedom, the valiant soul goes forward to see for himself, not only how God has made this or that, but something of the stupendous purpose, underlying everything, which has been created.

The Zodiac Messages, New Revelation, Volume III, January—June 1925, Plant Life and its Place in God's Purpose, 76

How do you imagine your future self?

I can express it best with this thought―

The subjective of the earth-plane mind has become the objective in this new state of being. 

This is the law of progress. 

By it you advance onwards into realms of incredible beauty and wonder. How can I make this clear?

The subjective―or inner content of your thoughts, aspirations and desires here and now will fashion the objective place to which you will pass on the next stage of your journey, just as the inner life of the soul within the body-mind on earth decides the first future home on this level.

More and more important, therefore, and invaluable is the inner life of meditation and at onement with divine beauty and truth.

The saying on earth, as a man thinks, so is he, is true in essence, truer than our ideas can conceive. Through your thoughts and inspirations, you weave for yourself your future place in this dimension. This is a logical law.

In the earth life, you can build a façade about yourself. Here you have no such mask. You are known here for what you are and for what your inner subjective has made you.

―Spirit Sister Frances Banks

As a man thinks, so is he?

Thoughts are not passive—they are active, creative forces.

Why does meditation matter?

By cultivating beauty and truth internally now, you are consciously creating a beautiful environment for your future.

How do you create your future?

 You are creating your future home with every thought you hold today.

What is a thought-responsive reality?

Thought is creative or like attracts like in the afterlife, that is, a transition from a material, illusion-based reality to a thought-responsive, objective reality.

What is the resonance analogy?

Imagine the universe is tuned to a radio, and you have a dial. On Earth, we are surrounded by static (material distractions) that mask our true frequency.

The Law

Upon passing, that static is gone. You automatically resonate (are drawn to) the frequency that matches your inner, habitual thoughts. Higher thoughts (truth/beauty) resonate with higher realms—lower thoughts resonate with lower, denser realms.

What does prison mean spiritually?

Though God be good and free be heaven,

No force divine can love compel—

And though the song of sins forgiven

May sound through lowest hell—

The sweet persuasion of His voice

Respects thy sanctity of will.

He giveth day—thou hast thy choice

To walk in darkness still—

As one who turning from the light,

Watches his own gray shadow fall,

Doubting upon his path of night,

If there be day at all!

No word of doom may shut thee out,

No wind of wrath may downward whirl,

No swords of fire keep watch about

The open gates of pearl—

A tenderer light than moon or sun,

Than song of earth a sweeter hymn,

May shine and sound forever on,

And thou be deaf and dim.

Forever round the Mercy-seat

The guiding lights of love shall burn—

But what if habit-bound thy feet

Shall lack the will to turn?

What if thine eyes refuse to see,

Thine ear of heaven's free welcome fail,

And thou a willing captive be,

Thyself thy own dark jail?

O doom beyond the saddest guess,

As the long years of God unroll

To make thy dreary selfishness

The prison of a soul!

To doubt the love that fain would break

The fetters from thy self-bound limb,

And dream that God can thee forsake

As thou forsakest Him!

—John Greenleaf Whittier

What is the architect analogy?

The Architect Analogy

Imagine that throughout your life, you are secretly creating blueprints for a house. On earth, you can live in a rented shack while secretly designing a palace, and no one knows the difference.

The Transition

When you die, those blueprints are handed to you, and you must live in the house you designed.

The Shift

If your inner life (subjective) was filled with fear, anger, or pettiness, that is the structural material of your new home. 

If your inner life was filled with love, beauty, and truth, your new home is built from those vibrations. You cannot build a mansion with cheap materials.

What is the dreamscape analogy?

The Dreamscape Analogy

Think of a lucid dream. In a dream, if you feel afraid, monsters appear. If you feel peaceful, the landscape becomes tranquil.

The Shift

The afterlife is a solidified dreamscape. Thoughts immediately become objective reality.

The Law

Because there is no physical body or mask to hide behind, your inner state is projected instantly outward. You are quite literally surrounded by your own character. 

Where do angels live?

Many seem to think that spirits and angels do not have homes, but this is not true. 

They do not need houses to shield them from the elements, but they need them for privacy and retirement.

When they build their homes, they shield themselves from the sight of other angels—they construct them for privacy, rest, and to be alone whenever they desire to be with the object of their affections, in other words, to be alone with themselves, for their other-self is but oneself.

Their houses are reared not from material substance, but from their thoughts, which become objective, and are real things to them and other angels and spirits, and they build them as they please.

The glory and beauty of the angelic spheres can never be told—their heights, depths and grandeur and variety are beyond our comprehension, yet these spirits and angels do not consider it beneath them to descend to earth and aid the smallest and meanest of creatures. 

They lend their aid equally to the highest and the lowest, they try to overcome ignorance and error by instilling truth and wisdom―they try to bring forth the greatest happiness from the utmost misery.

There is no such thing as failure, but as it took ages to form worlds, and as it takes time to form all things, so it takes time to bring forth truth from error, it takes time to bring forth happiness from misery.

Oceanides―A Psychical Novel

What ails you today?

Solitude is a simple proposition.

You can create it anywhere. It only requires concentration. Just draw into your own shell.

You must be able to withdraw from others at times. No one can bear to give out constantly.

You must take in once in a while, live rhythmically, in fact. Work and play, give and take, struggle and rest. Otherwise, there is no balance, no poise. That is what ails you right now. You need to relax and rest, to take in. Stop going for a while.

Rest until the desire is strong to work again, no matter how long. 

It is a true test of whether you are obeying the law when you find yourself either sick or nervous or blue. You know by any of these symptoms that you have drawn too heavily on your reserve vitality and let other people drain you.

The remedy is perfectly simple.

After work hours just disappear from people. Go into your shell and wait until you have time to fill up again. Relax your whole nature. Do not give anything out either by sympathy or brain power, but lie quietly and make happy plans for the future.

Always remember the cheerful thought is what renews your poise.

What is the unlimited power of God?

To be Thy angel I must unite to the love of all ages

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Amidst a glorious shade of bright white, I have earned my lavender blue

—

I am blue at core, with a clear, clearly clear, view of Thy door!

To be aligned to Thee, I can only desire to see—

Thy glory and power, and always to know that to be one with Thee is to be in great unison with the Almighty.

Before Thee a glorious occasion for all to see

A Two in One Phenomenon where two equals one in equanimity.

For then I imagine the birds aflight

Yon distance bright

And yet I can feel alright in mindsight!

Ever bright

Eternal Light

Purge within the dross

And there to bear the Christ-cross