Advancing Souls

Sister: We wish to send a message to the folks for the wedding dinner. Harry and I want to tell them how much we wish they could see us when they are all at the table. We shall be with them, bringing the light of the upper country where Harry is now living, and where I work a great deal. We can take your spirit there too if you will sit alone at the dinner hour.

Papa has been coming over here almost every day, and we can see his face so clearly, as it will be when he is all here. Mamma has been building her body too, much more rapidly than Papa, in the last few weeks. We wonder if she won't be ready to come here as soon as, or even before. Papa does. I feel she must do all she has to do without any waste of time. Her body is far more beautiful than it was six months ago. She must realise that time to work there is short, and so she can't afford any but fine thoughts and happy days. We feel it most fitting, the reunion coming now, and on your birthday too. You could be better spared than any of the others, as we represent you there, and you have already given all you could to increase the harmony in the family. The absence of a person's body is a little thing when his spirit is right. We shall be with you in the morning, and at home with the family in the afternoon. We will give a birthday letter. You have been doing well.

One's path in any race must be cleared for action if there is to be distance travelled. One may gain for soul advancement under trying conditions, but work for the public must be done under smooth, easy, personal surroundings. One has more energy left for the race if one has not to stop to mend the road. There is always need of workers for the general or public good, and to make these most effective we try to clear their path of stumbling blocks.

Here we are always looking for people to serve the masses. When one is found with a show of promise for such work, we try him out to see how much strain he can bear, and then lead him to the gaps which need filling, and his intuition forces him into the public service.

National life must be maintained by the voluntary service of the strong, who set aside their smaller personal problems for the sake of public duty. Hopeful timber is being selected constantly by those who work here. The possible saviours are being sorted out and put into training to leaven the mass of slow moving humanity. They are tested out in a hundred ways for the role of some impending service. A weakling, at the point of greatest strain in a crisis, retards the evolution of an entire race sometimes. We here also must make no mistakes.

When any souls on your plane can sink their personal ambition or vanity in love for the rest of the race, they then become candidates for the class of higher service, and we make their personal path as easy and free as possible. When one can be willing to lose his life for others he then saves it for himself. It is like learning to swim. When you relax and stop struggling you float. All the big things follow the same law. The wild desire for self-preservation kills, because the mind is not relaxed nor receptive, and the flow of knowledge is cut off. No one generates knowledge by himself. He is just a medium for the expression of existing truth. The less he thinks he is, or knows, the more he can express. Your mind can obstruct or discolour the light, but it does not create it. It is merely a transmitter. You see the point?

There is a succession of graduated planes or evolutionary steps over here, each governed or mastered by the most advanced soul on that plane, who is responsible for the work in that division. Above him are others, ever higher, ever more complex or exalted. The great general plan is doubtless known only to the Ultimate Mind or Creator, each lower master working out some idea or detail, which in its turn
fits in with some other part.

The same plans descend to you. No one man on earth knows the entire plan of the earth's solution. He does his small part, and should be proud to do it well for the beauty of the ultimate product. We deal only with the transient details. We waste little time speculating on failures. We are too busy. We revel in the splendid swing of life as it is in the making, and gladly do our part. The greater our capacity and intelligence, the more we see to do and be. The one who can does freely and without stint. There is neither the desire nor the idea of holding back. We throw all we have, and are, into the stream, and find our highest joy in giving up self.

It is hard to get any real true idea of the plan of life over to you, but perhaps it is not a waste of energy to try at least. You and Tee have responded so well thus far that it is a great happiness to us here, and our vision of what you may be able to do expands. The limit lies with your own mental attitude merely. So long as you are in a receptive state you will grow. When your minds close we are helpless to serve you except in the slightest way, at points you have left, as it were, unlocked.

Helen