What does the Bible say about opening the door?

So that joy may keep step with you, you must find from within yourself that little stream of joy to meet it.

Therefore, think happy thoughts, draw out of life the brightness, not the shadows―above all, be responsive—more responsive to the love and joy, which is so close to you, and which you should make your own because God has said—

Those who love me and keep my commandments are centred in the Light, which never fades.

The only key, which opens the door is that of love and sympathy.

Have no regrets, be steadfast, and remember this—

Though the physical mind may fail you, yet because the will holds firm to do the right thing, so God will finish what you have begun.

Only by serving others can you serve God—only by helping the weak can your own weaknesses be healed—only by raising up the fallen can you be saved from falling yourself.

Enter into the inner citadel of that which belongs to God and separate yourself equally from the discords of daily life.

Prepare your heart and mind for that deep unalloyed spiritual joy, which God has ordained will be your own.

Thinking is a gift, but you can abuse even a gift direct from God unless there is that steady anchorage to Him, which makes all other precautions unnecessary.

When your thoughts are allowed to wander on their own, the shadows get a better chance of interposing, and the more you develop mind control, so you will find that as you think, these are taking permanent shape.

The gift of God in Christ—

We shall never understand its magnitude—its selflessness—its essential Godlikeness.

We cannot take it in.

You and I stand on the outer threshold of understanding, and have to fall back again and again on the old thought that after all—it was God, and leave it there.

Taking your wish for service, your love for God, even as you cross over, the door is opened and revelation is yours.

Spiritual growth is a very delicate thing.

The growth of the spirit is a very delicate thing, inasmuch, as the trivial can retard that growth, as well as the dynamic forces of evil, which are thrown against it.

And we are here to grow—

To grow in the likeness of God—our Father and Mother.

You are here to make the most of the opportunity provided by Love.

You are here to guard the treasure within because hereafter any neglect will cause you anguish because the cry is always the same—

I did it myself!

You cannot work against the physical, but by God's grace that which is missing will be made good.

God's ways are marvellous indeed. 

He gives first to you that you may help another, and then duplicates, and triplicates His gift by making that passing on to another the means of bringing more to yourself.

In the Silence, the Voice of the Spirit is heard!

In the Silence, you hear the voice of the One who never forsakes even those who are on the outposts of spiritual life—who never forsakes and never lets go, and He, gathering up your physical distress, turns it into so rich a blessing that you are prepared, in some measure, for all the love, the beauty and the brightness that is everywhere on this side.

Power and to perfection—

That is the ultimate end of all and will be worked out down to the tiniest fraction—

Worked out because God is God and Lord of All—the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.

You are told in the Bible that no sparrow falls to the ground without the knowledge of its Creator (Matt. 10:29), but you are not told in the same definite way that not one bird—or animal—or even the tiniest insect that suffers needlessly—or necessarily is not soothed and comforted by God.

Be of good cheer!

The days may seem long, irksome this and that, which comprises your daily life, but when sleep claims you, then free with a freedom entirely unimaginable by the physical mind, so you are drawn into that higher environment, which is your own.

The animal, as it dies in physical agony, is comforted by the Saviour.

Let there be no misunderstanding on this subject.

Every pang endured throughout creation is borne in three parts by God, and so it should not be an effort for you to understand that the tiniest animal killed in play—or intentionally by a larger one is soothed and comforted by Him who is the King of kings and the Lord of All.

Do you see how God intervenes?

Because the spirit within wishes to get nearer to that perfection, which He represents because the choice is made, so the Father says—

Ah, but I have provided, even though the choice be made that my child should have that for which the spirit craves.

When the body dies, at once the soul will be faced with a great privilege, and at the same time, a responsibility most terrible in its import.

The conditions into which every soul passes are those which they have built up around themselves by their thoughts—by their feelings—by their desires.

So passing out of the body and its protection, the soul steps into that which can be described as its own place, built up portion by portion by the life—those many lives, which have sped.

In the Land of Light, there are no walls, there are no hedges—

All is open—free to everyone—yet the individual soul is held back by the consciousness of being out of harmony with those conditions, which are finer than its own.

Nothing else divides, and yet pause again and consider what division could be stronger—or greater. 

That which is your real self penetrates—it may be a step—or two nearer into the holiness, which represents God, but before the strength can come to go farther, so that which is keyed to lower vibrations must be brought up and that only by work and service.

Although you yourself bar your entry into such holy conditions, yet those in these conditions find no difficulty at all in coming to you, mingling with you—companioning you.