The Law of Change

When the Master was living his earthly life, the spirit world, our world the next, all lay open to him much more fully than to most. 

There was so much in his nature that responded to heavenly influences, and so little to obstruct, that he may be said to have lived in all three at different periods of the same life. 

This “openness” of his is clearly shown in the story of his life, for the power was so abundant that even those around could not help sharing—they heard voices, they saw the heavenly messengers like birds descending; they saw the psychic body shine through the physical. 

The Master then knew enough of Spirit life to promise to his disciples that if they fulfilled certain conditions they should attain certain planes of being. 

If they followed and obeyed—not a person, but those inner principles, which belong to humanity, then they would be fit to lead others. 

So those who govern in the Spirit World are not the great ones of the earth, nor yet those who have been distinguished for great intellectual gifts—they are those men or women who, whatever position they may have filled, have been truest to their own nature, obeying the law within, without that parleying with the inner voice, which leads to self-deception and crooked ways. 

Such govern, and are as fathers to those who need help; while to others who do not need it, there is as much freedom as if they existed alone in the universe.

Spirits begin then generally as children and gradually grow up to independent maturity; they become as fathers; they pass on to other worlds, while others take their vacant places.

Thus, the law of change is still universal—the flowers change from one beauty to another or disappear from their view to reappear in other forms—the earth changes and beautifies under their faithful labour; their friends grow in spirit, and sometimes they too pass away; their work, their thought change and pass from one order to another. 

A simple, natural life is theirs with the sanctified will as the motive power; no machinery, no tools, no storehouse or barns; they are clothed upon as the lilies are; they gather the fruit for their healing straight from the tree of life. 

To those who are out of harmony with this divine order this earth may often seem a wilderness and the pools of living water like dreary wastes of sand—but this is only while their hour of tribulation lasts; only until they yield themselves to the law of their being and become united, one, a whole creation. 

Their joys and sorrows, their trials and triumphs lie closely together, as they do in our world, but the joys are greater and the triumphs more just and unsullied. 

Spirits put their lower nature in its proper place of subjection under their feet and thus ruling it they rise to perfect manhood and share the throne of all perfect humanity, and then they rise by-and-by to greater heights and share the throne of the Divine.