Mental Telepathy

All right, Sister, we will talk now about the book. We selected C. L. for Mamma's helper, as we knew of no one else fit for such a task. She really cares, and whenever one can put heart into a work such work succeeds as no other can.

Let C. L. feel she has a future. We are all helping to train her for it, U. C. most of all, naturally; aided most efficiently by G. E. The latter is C. L's guardian spirit, and what C. L. lacks most, these two both have in dominating quantity, that is, steadfastness. With a bit more of the feeling of security or faith, there will be a wonderful improvement in C. L's life from day-to-day.

She must strive to live only a day at a time, for she alone must. She has strong direction and trainers for a most beautiful work. Her fibre needs solidifying; that's all. This takes time for a character as well as for a tree. One need not be disheartened at any slowness, so long as one detects the gradual drift upward.

C. L. is on the up slant. Let her find peace in that great and wonderful fact. The finest things take time to develop. The strongest, most enduring metal must be repeatedly broken up by heat, that its particles may reassemble in closer formation. Suffering souls who are frequently moved about are being tempered thus for service.

This new move of T's is one of those tempering fires. It is not a vain or undirected move. It is a vital part of the training. C. L. is also in training as T. is, for larger service than the rank and file are capable of performing.

All growth proceeds in the dark. This is according to law. Were any soul given power to watch his or her development at each instant of its procedure, interest in self would draw off most of the energy necessary for development. That is perhaps why we cannot see or remember our personal past; it would deflect energy needed elsewhere, while here on our side of life we can see, recall, and assimilate what our past has built. Then we apprehend just what we lack to balance our character, and with strong conviction as to the remedying of this lack we stamp our inborn new self at the instant of rebirth, so that we are bom with conviction of duty along lines we ourselves have previously studied out.

Each newborn human is given a certain impetus along lines it desires to travel or develop. If from ignorance, or other cause, that push was not sufficiently strong to propel itself forward far enough, then its guardians and friends help it to fulfill its destiny as planned.

C. L's love of beauty had led her to neglect the substructure somewhat. She is now repairing this lack by doing uncongenial work with a most beautiful faithfulness. Let her continue a little longer and then her body will indicate, as well as her mind, when the training is over. She will not get tired when she has completed her work of solidifying.

There is a short cut to poise and peace through the direct contact with spirit. Should she link herself with that all would arrive soon.

The true Christian Scientist does that, but anyone who believes in the power of prayer gets like results. There are numerous paths to the same centre. One should pray for light and peace, and then quit thinking of oneself at all. True happiness comes when one loses sight of oneself altogether. Let one just keep one's eyes open to the other fellow's need, and live a day at a time, giving as much happiness as one can to others each day. It is very simple, and quite easy, if one could only realise it.

Helen

Yes, Sister, I know what you wish, it is a test for D., but we do not feel as if tests were wise things even if we knew how or what we might do to convince a mind like his that we yet live. Neither his father nor mother over here think such things advisable, because as Tee says, Belief or doubt is a matter of the heart not of the head. When one is devoid of faith how simple and easy to say Mental telepathy.

Faith has its rise, like Truth, within ourselves; it never enters from without. You are perfectly right, Sister, in your feeling against tests. Your message is only for those in whose hearts the seed of faith has already begun to germinate. D. will believe when he allows his heart to govern his head, not before. If his wife should come here before him, the light would break within him; if not, she must patiently wait, and pray for his development.

In all vital matters we feel it a dishonour to use our unseen power to influence thought. Each soul should be free to decide its fate for, if unwise, it may be that the ensuing suffering is vital to that soul's development.

At some past, near or distant, we also were foolish and prized the shadow above the reality. It is youth, it is in the day's work, and we each must pass that way. God is just. He knows no favourites. He tolerates all, and imderstands where and what we are. When evil enters in is when a soul, knowing right, deliberately chooses wrong; then what follows is real punishment. For these there seems a harsh retribution, be the sinner man, or city, or country. Remember when wholesale calamity falls it never strikes the guiltless or innocent. The innocent women and children hurt in the great war were everyone past sinners. God is never unjust. None escape His justice, and He has no victims, remember that. One dies, always, by his own hand. One sows in each life, and one rarely reaps until another. Often one reaps a harvest many lives before had planted. Believe one thing, Karma is as relentless as it is just. In each life look to it that your planting be of fine, clean, honourable things, so that the reaping may be sweet; not for that alone, of course, but because in this course lies the higher service. We grow accustomed to the smaller outlook and get the habit of giving that out, rather than the larger one. Both are true, but only adult souls seek service and ignore rewards.

Helen

Harry wants to tell Tee where he went with the Master last month. Back over their past lives for a thousand years or more, tracing the development of what we call the aspiring instinct.

You see none of us were what is commonly called religious, and yet we all have a deep desire to help our brother upward, as well as to improve ourselves. This stretching upward, or aspiring, if you prefer the word, began a way back at the time of the Christian era. Jesus taught the dignity and value of individual liberty, human liberty. He fired us all with this illuminating idea. Previous to his teaching, class divisions were so absolute none even questioned or desired what seemed adamant. To be sure, Socrates and Epictetus taught that the soul was free, but they did not teach the brotherhood of all men. They taught personal individual liberty of soul, but Jesus went further and taught equality as far as heart went—kindness toward all without regard to either intelligence or merit.

One must establish the kingdom of heaven within, else nothing availed. The first requisite therefore is patient sympathy for each, and a deep love for all life, because without love no great thing can develop. Chickens must be hovered now and then or they die. The hovering idea threads through all life from the brooding of a young thing to the sheltering sympathy of the wise for the foolish.

Wisdom must be the sun to help to germinate better mental habits in the meagrely endowed. Under the warmth of sympathy the seed of wisdom germinates in the brain of the fool. Jesus, above all, understood children, and the child mind.

Harry says, Look at the rum bunch he had as disciples. None of them had either brain or courage; they all gave Him the go-by in His trouble. Not a MAN in the outfit apparently; yet look what Jesus developed out of that lot with patient love as his main asset. They got busy and died game, and developed so far along the real road that this example alone should have made the Universe sit up and take notice.

What sort of power was it that could transform a lot of dubs into heroes and martyrs and hustlers for the good? I never heard anyone preach on that subject. Jesus took a lot of low-brows and made them over in one life. He had to die to make a dent on them, but they woke up at last, as He knew they would, as anyone might know who knows that the greatest stimulant in the universe is Love, and that all souls respond to it if you give them time—even the Devil, but that is another story.

Helen