Is this according to the highest standard of love?

What is the glory of God?

What is the glory of God?

The glory of God, the glory of that profound love knows no limitations, puts no limitations to the progress to the power of you and me. Remember Christ's own words—

Unless you become as a little child, you can in no wise enter into the Kingdom of God.

—Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17

Get back to the child's attitude of faith, keep to the simple paths of thinking by concentrating on God, that wider knowledge of the things of the spirit, the wonderful laws, which govern your life and mine, the unravelling of the secrets of the earth, these will be made your own if only you would approach God, as He has directed.

The way to God is hard, but it is simple, it is steep, but it is direct, and all that anyone is asked to do is just those two things—love God and seek to serve your neighbour.

Draw your humanity to the Fount of Wisdom who lives but to pour out on you the knowledge of the things of the spirit—the truth.

Think it out alone, think it out in silence, think it out when you are closest in touch with God.

Try and realise that between you and the gift of the Holy Spirit, there is nothing but your doubts, your unpreparedness, your immaturity.

In everything, put these things to the test. In reading your scriptures, stop and question—Is this according to the highest standard of love?

And if there is anything in those records, which fails to come up to that, then you may know that the minds of those who put the words together were responsible and that God in great or little measure has been misrepresented.

The test of every question, every decision, every opportunity is—Does this bring me closer in touch with the things of the spirit? That is the path.

Duty to this one, the duty to that one stands aside, God comes first—

By ministering to the God within, so the plan of your life works out, not only best spiritually, but best practically in its highest sense.

The Father gives through many channels. Sometimes, it may be that the power, coming from on from the Most High, coming from the One who is all-holiness, all-power, all-love, charges many, as it passes from one to the other, and when you are conscious of that indwelling spirit, so its course is not ended.

Out again go the rays of power, and could you see things as they are, it would appear to you as vibrations of light, exquisite in beauty and colour, which vibrate in ever-increasing circles and expanding force, on, on, until at last, it reaches again the Source, when recharged, it is sent on its journey once more.

You cannot think of one thought of sympathy or real love without actually sending out from yourself those waves of light.

Think of what real service creates, real love for God, the wish to do His will and the wish to help others for his sake, and their own.

There is much, which lies before you, much that would seem in the nature of tests.

God is able only to test the strong because the weak would fall or fail under it.

The hard road, the road, which brings enemies to be encountered is steep, is the road to God.

And because there may be much to contend with, so God sends down His power, recharging and recharging again.

In the measure that the Light shines upon you, so the joy of the spirit will be your own!

—Spirit Florence Nightingale

What are the springs of life?

The spiritual awakening and unfoldment of our inner soul opens a true condition of life. It is the open sesame of interior life that lifts our souls out of darkness into marvellous light, illuminating the darkened chambers whose hidden mysteries have been buried from the world through fear and superstitious dread of an offended deity.

How to talk with God face to face?

Speak to the God within and that divinity will show itself stronger than all the world beside.

What is the world's most desperate need?

Love to God and man.

What happens in heaven?

Here I am free.

You have no idea of the meaning of freedom unless you can remember when you were out here last and I doubt you can remember that yet. When I say romance, I mean the charm of existence, the magic touch, which turns the grey face of life into a rose colour. You know what I mean.

It is wonderful to have the leisure to dream and to realise one’s dream, for here, the realisation goes with the dream. Everything is so real, imagination is so potent and the power to link things is so great, so almost unlimited!

The dreamers here are really not idle, for our dreaming is a kind of building, and even if it were not, you have a right to do about as you please. 

You have earned your vacation. 

The labour will come again. You will reclothe yourself in gross matter and take on its burdens.

Why, it takes more energy on earth to put one heavy foot before another heavy foot and to propel the hundred or two hundred pound body a mile than it takes here to go around the world! That will give you an idea of the quantity of surplus energy that we have, for enjoying ourselves and for dream-building.

Perhaps on earth you work too much, more than is really necessary. 

The mass of needless things that you accumulate around you, the artificial wants that you create, the breakneck pace of your lives to provide all these things seem to us absurd and rather pitiful. Your political economy is mere child’s play, your governments are cumbrous machines for doing the unnecessary, most of your work is useless and your lives would be nearly futile if you did not suffer so much that your souls learn though unwillingly that most of their strivings are vain.

How I used to sweat and groan in the early days to make my little circle in the sand! 

And now I see that if I had taken more time to think, I might have recovered something of my past knowledge gained in other lives, and though I still had felt obliged to draw my circle in the sand, I might have done it with less difficulty and in half the time.

Here if I choose I can spend hours watching the changing colours of a cloud. 

Or better still, I can lie on my back and remember. It is wonderful to remember, to let the mind go back year after year, life after life, century after century, back and back until one finds oneself a turtle! But one can, also, look ahead, forward and forward, life after life, century after century, aeon after aeon, until one finds oneself an archangel. 

Looking back is memory, looking forward is creation.

Of course, you create your own future. Who else could do it? 

You are influenced and moved and shifted and helped or retarded by others, but it is you yourself who forge the chains every time. 

You tie knots that you will have to untie often with labour and perplexity.

In going back over my past lives, I realise the why and the wherefore of my last one. It was in a way the least satisfactory of many lives save one, but now I see its purpose and that I laid the plans for it when I was last out here. 

I even arranged to go back to earth at a definite time to be with certain friends who met me there.

But I have turned the corner now and I have begun the upward march again. Already, I am laying the lines for my next coming though there is no hurry. 

Bless you! I am not going back until I have had my fill of the freedom and enjoyment of this existence here.

Also, I have much studying to do. I want to review what I learned in those hitherto forgotten, but now remembered lives. Do you recall how when you went to school you had the occasion to review the lessons of the preceding weeks or months? That custom is based on a sound principle.

I am now having my review lessons. 

By and by before I return to the world, I will review these reviews, fixing by will the memories, which I especially wish to carry over with me. 

It would be practically impossible to carry over intact the great panorama of experience, which now unrolls itself before the eyes of my memory, but there are several fundamental things, philosophical principles and illustrations, which I must not forget. 

Also, I want to take with me the knowledge of certain formulae and the habit of certain practices, which you would probably call occult by means of which when I am mature again in my new body, I can recall into memory this very pageant of experience, which now rolls before me whenever I will it. No, I am not going to tell you about your own past. 

You must and can recover it for yourself. 

So can anyone who knows the difference between memory and imagination. Yes, the difference is subtle, but as real as the difference between yesterday and tomorrow. I do not want you to be in any hurry about coming out here to stay. 

Remain where you are just as long as possible. 

Much that we do on this side you can do almost as well while still in the body. Of course, you have to use more energy, but that is what energy is for, to use. Even when you store it, you store it for future use. Do not forget that.

What is energy for? To use. Even when you store it, you store it for future use. Do not forget that.

One reason why I rest much now and dream and amuse myself is because I want to store as much energy as possible to come back with power. It is well that you have taken my advice to idle a little and to get acquainted with your own soul. 

There are surprises in store for the person who will deliberately set out on the quest for his soul. The soul is not a will-o’-the-wisp, it is a beacon of light to steer by and avoid the rocks of materialism and forgetfulness.

I have had much joy in going back over my Greek incarnations. What concentration they had those Greeks! They knew much. The waters of Lethe, for instance, what a conception! brought from this side by masterly memory.

If man would even try to remember, if he would only take time to consider all that he has been, there would be more hope of what he may become! Why, do you know that man may become a god?

Or that which compared with ordinary humanity has all the magnitude and grandeur of a god? Ye are gods was not said in a merely figurative sense.

I have met the Master of Galilee and have held communication with him. There was a man and a God! The world has need of him now.

—The Judge

And yet another laugh?

How do I manifest God's love in my daily life?

You must have time to think of God and of His manifestation as love, otherwise, you will crowd God out of your life, and a life without love is a life without God.

What is the manifestation of God's love?

You must have time to think of God and of His manifestation as love, otherwise, you will crowd God out of your life and a life without love is a life without God.

Who is the brother of humankind?

God is the brother of mankind.

—Coleridge in Spirit

How to have faith in God's protecting care?

I have faith in God's protecting care!

How to find the kingdom of God within you?

The kingdom of heaven is within, and the holder of that kingdom is by your side, claiming that which belongs to him, yet only claiming that which you willingly and lovingly can offer. 

Remember that although God's gift is within, although He stands waiting to claim his own, yet because He is God, All-powerful, All-creative, so He waits for your love to prompt you, waits until willingly and without reluctance, you can hand over into his safekeeping that which He longs to possess, for only by your willingness and your love can He protect you from grief, can He show you the short direct way into the revelation of what love means.

What is reform in spirit life?

What is it to be reformed in life?

Why do humans climb?

To those who have started to climb with a thin and weak staff to help them, because within yourself the spiritual longing is so great, as you go on you will see that by the miracle of God's love, that which was weak is made strong, that which needed support will support you and others as well.

What is it to be reformed in life?

It may not be generally known that the earth is surrounded by a belt, which appears like a luminous nebula. 

It extends just outside the earth's atmosphere and is the temporary abode of most persons after the decease of the body. 

In this stratum of spiritualized earth congregate most who have grown to be drunkards, blacklegs, gamblers and villains. 

They congregate in this place, not because they are forced to do so, but from their habits―they have no desire to mingle with a better class of society.

So great is its extent it appears like a world and every nation has its representative on it. 

The inhabitants are in close proximity to earth and it is through them that materializations and physical manifestations and all communications of a gross order are given. On either side of this zone extends a desert, a dreary waste―to this place repair unhappy spirits who desire to elude companionship, wretched beings who have brought their minds to such a mental state that they prefer to live in this wilderness, and return to earth and give morbid descriptions of their spirit homes.

Most spirits are made better by improved conditions, by bright and cheerful surroundings, but the eye must be educated to perceive and the heart to appreciate before these advantages can be fully enjoyed. 

The work of reformation is very slow in those who have inherited depraved appetites and brutish tastes. It often takes a lifetime to break a habit acquired in a few years. It is for this reason that criminals are not immediately benefitted in the spirit world though their surroundings may be better―they carry with them their old earth proclivities.

A love for vice on earth encourages that love for a number of years and the mere change of worlds will not bring about a change in desire and habits. 

The time will come when lawgivers will be better informed on psychological matters and will cease to send criminals to the spirit world by way of punishment―they will grow to understand that offenders can be reformed by being placed in better and healthier conditions on earth.

Prisons should be surrounded by acres of tillable land and hours for recreation and study should be given to the most hardened criminal. 

It is only by kind treatment that radical reform can be attained, and unless a spirit can be entirely reformed, it will return to earth and instigate his companions in crime to greater evils than he himself had committed, for it is a law that when a spirit becomes disembodied and is free from gross matter, his power increases.

―Spirit Charles Kingsley

What is a compilation of humorous insights?

Godly Humor

the funny side of life

Volume 26

There's someone in my head, but it's not me. 

—Pink Floyd

If nothing else, then say—This too shall pass.

Do not be afraid of greatness. 

—William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5

What exactly is thought?

That ought to fix everything, then?

It's a zero-sum's game for me.

To each of us there is another whom we do not know.  

—Carl Jung

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