What are high truths?

We are told that we are not to resist evil, but to turn the other cheek. 

The world assumes that evil must be resisted by every means available.

We are told to love our enemies and bless those who curse us. 

The world assumes that friends are to be loved and enemies hated.

We are told that the sun rises on the just and the unjust alike. 

This world considers this undiscriminating—it would like to see clouds over evil people and is offended when they go unpunished.

We are told that outcasts and harlots enter the kingdom of God before many who are perfunctorily righteous. 

Again unfair, the world thinks—respectable people should head the procession.

We are told that the gate to salvation is narrow. 

The world would prefer it to be broad.

We are told to be as carefree as birds and flowers. 

The world counsels prudence.

We are told that it is more difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom than for a camel to pass through a needle's eye. 

The world admires wealth.

We are told that happy people are those who are meek, who weep, who are merciful and pure in heart. 

The world assumes that it is the rich, the powerful, and the well-born who are happy.

—Huston Smith

What is unity explained?

Remember, in unity is strength. In disunity is disintegration.

Where will heaven be located?

 What is the true meaning of heaven?

What can triumph over the terrors of nature?

What is death? Nothing, but the separation of the soul from its earthly case. 

What becomes of the case when it is cast aside? Does it vanish from God's creation? No, it falls to dust and ashes, and is mingled with the rest of the earth whose nutritive elements formed it in the beginning. It does not leave creation, but remains there awaiting another destiny.

But what becomes of the soul stripped of its veil? Does it vanish from God's creation?

Oh, no! How could it be possible for the nobler element to cease to exist when the viler is imperishable? 

Must we believe that it has been removed from the infinite multitude of created beings because it has thrown off the veil through which it alone could reveal its presence to our senses? 

No, it lives, for its very dust, which once served to enwrap it, still exists. It lives, for God creates and does not annihilate. It lives, for in His sovereign wisdom, He could not repent in any sort for the high destiny for which He gave it being.

Is it then so painful to cast off this earthly veil? 

In truth, the natural love of life, which the Creator has so deeply implanted within you inspires you with fear at the idea of parting with your mortal form, but the power of the human mind can triumph over the terrors of nature.

How many generous men have faced death for their God, country, faith, their friends? 

Death had no terrors for them. How many poor, weak, degenerate beings, driven by despair, have voluntarily laid down the life, which had become a burden to them? 

Dying men do not dissimulate, and we can judge by their features what is going on in their mind. 

From such study, it would seem almost as if the soul must experience an agreeable sensation at the moment it lays aside its mortal spoil, for it has been often observed that the features of persons dying of painful maladies assume at the final instant an expression of calm serenity, while a peaceful smile quivers on the lips of the lifeless body, left there by the departing soul—a smile which seems to say—Ah, what relief!

—Queen Victoria In Spirit

 

How does a soul journey happen?

In the spiritual state, a soul's very essence is enough to identify it.

As a spirit, you are obliged to complete your sojourn on the material plane. In her preamble to part two, Kirkudian, What happens after death? Scientific & Personal Evidence for Survival, author, Migęne Gonzalez-Wippler, writes that the second part of the book deals with the various incarnations of a spirit who calls himself Kirkudian. This highly evolved entity chose to tell his story, Kirkudian's Story, of his various incarnations on earth, and in other worlds.

Kirkudian tells us that a soul's pilgrimage represents the sum of incarnations through which the spirit must journey for its purification.

When the cycle of incarnations ends, the spirit is offered a choice―It may remain in whatever level of the astral plane its evolutionary path has prepared it for―or it may return to the material world of its choice as either a guide or protector of one of its inhabitants. 

In certain cases, the soul may choose to become the guide to the collective soul of the race. It may do so as Valour, Love, Peace, Faith, Hope, Compassion―or any of the many virtues that help material beings overcome their baser instincts.

Migęne Gonzalez-Wippler, What Happens After Death, Scientific & Personal Evidence for Survival, 1997, Llewellyn Publications, Minnesota, U.S.A., Part Two, Kirkudian, 127

What is the spiritual meaning of ether?

Ethereal sounds are not heard by mortal ears, but the ethereal or spiritual ear hears all the sounds that the ethereal air or ether brings to it.

Can you have wisdom without love?

Marriage, to be perfectly harmonious, must be a mutual agreement between two parties on an equal footing.

Man is not complete in himself, neither is woman. United, they form a perfect whole.

But because they are not complete apart, does it follow that one is greater or less than the other? Certainly not. They are and always were the two halves of a whole—neither is perfect separately.

If man is the type of wisdom, and woman of love, wisdom is incomplete without love, and love is not perfect unless joined to wisdom. Both are equally good, equally necessary, but to be enabled to shine forth in their brightest lustre, they must be united.

—Mary Magdalene in Spirit

Do not neglect rest?

Do not neglect rest—

Your working capacity is increased for every added hour of true rest.

What are the facts of being?

What are the facts of being?

Do not neglect rest—your working capacity is increased for every added hour of true rest.

You are not wasting time when you lie down and dream.

The hardest road leads up the highest mountain, and there is rest at the top.

The idle hours are sometimes as valuable as those that are spent in labour. It is in so-called idle hours that you meditate, get acquainted with yourself, and build air castles, which are working plans for your edifice of the future.

Whatever you desire or love begins at once to travel toward you unless a stronger force from a different direction draws it away.

He who adjusts to environment adjusts even to unrest. Remember that.

To know the meaning of home, you must wander.

You are not a creature of fate. Set that down as a truth not to be denied. You are free to live your own life.

The human ego is coming into its own. When it loses selfishness, it will find itself. That is not a paradox for its own sake, but the statement of a psychological fact.

In unity is strength―In disunity is disintegration.

I wish I could make you see that separation is death and that unity is life.

I wrote the other day about adepts and masters. Jesus is a type of the greatest Master. He is revered in all the heavens. He grasped the law and dared to live it, to exemplify it. And when he said, The Father and I are one, He pointed out the way by which you may realise mastership in yourself.

Jesus of Nazareth is a reality. As a spiritual body, Jesus, Who dwelt in Galilee, He exists in space and time, as the Christ, the paradigm of the spiritual man, He exists in the hearts of all who awaken that idea in themselves. He is a light, which is reflected in many pools.

Wake up to your divinity within.

You are not of flesh and blood and bone and sinew, but you are a state of consciousness. It is because you recognise their state of consciousness as being themselves that men and women reveal themselves to you.

There is a beautiful being in everyone—the bird that sings in the heart of an earthquake, the rose that nestles in the hot mouth of the cannon, the pearl that cannot be crushed by the landslide, the angel that illumines hell.

When you become your own schoolmaster, you make great strides.

You can create almost anything if you imagine it strongly enough—even joy and courage.

You have a choice to choose anything you want in this world. Why do you not choose joy?

When you learn to think of life as a whole, of which you are a part, containing in yourself the potentialities of the whole, then you will look upon the great changes with joy.

The supple tree feels the wind, but its roots cling tightly to the soil and the rock of individuality. In the wind that sweeps across the world, cling tight to the soil of freedom and the rock of social responsibility.

You can survive the world if you do not lose your hold on the soil and the rock that has steadied and sustained you.

What a wonderful expression, being together! What poetry! Not working together, nor playing together, but simply being. You must often have felt that joy when with a loved friend. Words are not necessary for that enjoyment. Words often lessen the enjoyment by the very effort of uttering them. Effortless being. Even the birds enjoy it, and the rose could give you valuable secrets of that joy.