What is essential to any successful help from spirits?

Back of personal desire must lie altruistic motive to attract and hold helpers in the spirit world. 

This is absolutely essential to any successful help from them. They cannot work where vibrations are discordant.

Let your heart fill with love and sympathy for your fellows, expect help from spirits, then ask for a larger place to work. 

The details as to how and where will be their business.

Spirits are unhampered by physical limitations and can find what they seek far better than you.

The push, which brings you into the bigger stream of life will be the elemental or fundamental desire to help.

Do not waste energy in worry or disintegrating emotions of any sort. Keep as happy as possible.

Let the spirit of tolerance and charity tinge every thought you entertain toward anyone.

Night work is bad because of the drain to which a preoccupied mind is open from vampire souls who are strongest at night. 

Put a watch on your own soul when asleep.

Your will can protect you if you set your mind to pray―

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep―pray as a small child for safety while asleep.

In all spiritual encounters Love is the conquering weapon—Love and Pity. Spirits do constructive work for the raising of colour and sounds into shapes similar to buildings, bridges and tunnels―a sort of combination architecture and engineering work. 

Every material expression in life is the visible form of some mental quality or attribute.

Bridges represent the extending of a helping hand to a fellow in need. Tunnels burrow deep through some problem of life seemingly insurmountable. It is one way out or through a difficulty. 

There is always a way to arrive over, under or through. One just must arrive.

One with spiritual material can master and transmute ideas or things into many expressed forms.

The will is back of all effort. 

Spirits take their closer medium of expression and push through that to other forms or construction. You see one can change the medium of expression without at all weakening what is behind it. Form or the apparently solid thing is actually fluidic, transient.

The Mind―Spirit―Idea motive is the true substance.

Circumstance never really hampers anyone. It is the indestructible thing behind it. To be able to project one's spirit into a given channel for a definite purpose and hold it there against the opposing current until it fulfils its purpose—

This is to cultivate power as belongs to the Infinite, to feel steadily, be, do one thing, then turn and do one other thing with the same steadfastness and concentration.

You can begin this practice―carefully making plans, then focusing your will and thought upon them until they materialise before you. 

The trick has been turned by all masters of finance. They simply knew what they wanted and bent iron wills to that one end.

Any quality grows by what it feeds upon. Power upon power, greed upon greed, until one gets into the higher law when one gains by giving up.

One grows strong by yielding. One conquers by love, never by hate. This is the thing spirit call the law.

Whenever they refer to law they mean the rule of the spirit or the life-giving, dominating quality called Love in all its phases. 

Call it God, Will, Mind, Personality―what you please. Spirit is as good a term as you need.

Better be a spendthrift than a miser any day. Give to all who need the little word of warning or encouragement.

Love is in the open with a glad heart―the sun will shine on you as well as on those you try to help.