What determines your place to come?

You must learn to accept success and failure alike, but you must never cease to continually resolve to do better, to rise again upon the ashes of defeat, to reach up and up, for it is this power that determines your place to come.

Wisdom from the journey of faith?

You yourself must continually seek, continuously learn, continuously absorb, that which God gives you, so that you might give forth to others.

Is it what you desire to accomplish?

It is not what you accomplish, it is what you desire to accomplish, that will determine your place in the world of spirit, for God asks for effort.

Can a Karmic disease be healed through the intercession of another person?

In many cases, it can be alleviated. To heal the manifestation of a Karmic disorder [a disorder that manifests itself through the physical and the mind, and can manifest itself in the astral vibration, which is linked to the physical], there must be an adjustment made in the entity themselves before it can be permanently eradicated.

What does give us?

God gives us the power of thought together with all other things.

You will never be satisfied with the work that you do—this is always good. If you feel at all times you could have done better, then know you are growing.

What is the power that lifts you up to a higher and more beautiful existence?

Those resolutions to do good and be stronger and be better.

The labourer is worthy of his hire?

Nothing worthwhile is attained without effort. This is only just—the labourer is worthy of his hire.

How to embrace life as a continual progression?

See your life as a continual progression along the path that you desire to tread.

Who are the salt of the healing world?

Those who work on in faith, by prayer, in humility and love.

Does God punish us for our past?

Since you must submit to the inevitable result of this law, and you will ultimately reach perfection, why make an effort on earth to do anything that will interfere with your fancy if you will be eternally happy sometime anyway?

Why not be as happy as possible on earth in your 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 you follow this infallible guide, you grow into splendid maturity, and you put into motion splendid waves of harmony, and when reaching this life, your eyes are opened―

Your intelligence perceives the reasons and the laws, which govern your development.

With this clear vision, you perceive also the tremendous task before you of creating enough good influence to overcome the bad.

This is your judgment. It is not a punishment, but an accepted consequence of your past.

 

What does pure water represent in the Bible?

Forgetfulness of self is one of the greatest of the great lessons we teach.

Thoughts of helpfulness to others, unmindful of one's bodily structure insofar as it hinders kindly thought or deed. 

Let the earthly home be a place of rest, peace and progression, not discord of inharmonious thought and act. 

If yours is such, my friend, whoever you may be reading these lines, we pray you one and all to make the effort for better and more hopeful thought.

Bathe yourself in pure life-giving water, cleanse yourself of sordid thought—

Gaze inward to the beauty of the soul, so that you may realise what a wonderful gift God has bestowed upon you.

Great and small, black or white, God has been your most generous friend—

Try to thank Him by caring for, and not neglecting the cultivation of your mind. Good friends, we pray you this good advice to heed, for it will serve you well in time of need.

—Spirit Clifford