What are the facts of being?

Godly Humor

the funny side of life

Volume 25

Sweet friends—what the women lave

For the last sleep of the grave,

Is a hut which I am quitting,

Is a garment no mere fitting,

Is a cage from which at last,

Like a bird, my soul hath passed.

Love the inmate, not the room,

The wearer, not the garb—the plume

Of eagle, not the bars

That kept him from those splendid stars.

—After Death in Arabia, Arnold

The Awakening

What is the cleansing power of water?

You should be made aware of the cleansing property of water. I refer to this in an outdoor sense.

A stream of running water is death to all smaller evil personalities.

You will recall the legend of the witches who could not cross any stream of running water. There was a great psychic truth in that notion.Stagnant water harbours evil spirits, but clear and moving streams purify all in their vicinity and safeguards.

Letters from Harry and Helen

What are the facts of being?

The infinitely small and the infinitely great are the tail and the end, of the eternal serpent.

—“X”

Do not neglect rest. For every added hour of true rest, your working capacity is increased. Have no fear. You are not wasting time when you lie down and dream. As I have said before, eternity is long.

—“X”

There is room for rest in the wayside inns, which dot the path, which the cycles tread.

Go out and play with the squirrels―or lie by the fire and dream with the household cat. The cat that enjoys the drowsy fireside also enjoys catching mice when the mood is on her. She cannot be always hunting―neither can you.

—“X”

The hardest road leads up the highest mountain, and there is rest at the top.

Your heart is superior to your brain. Remember that.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

He who adjusts to environment, adjusts even to unrest. Remember that. The human ego is coming into its own. When it loses selfishness, it will find itself. That is not a paradox for its own sake, but the statement of a psychological fact.

—“X”

The idle hours are sometimes as valuable as those that are spent in labour.

It is in so-called idle hours that you meditate, get acquainted with yourself, build air castles, which are working plans for your edifice of the future.

In unity is strength, in disunity is disintegration.

It is pain that mellows the heart.

I wish I could make you see that separation is death, and that unity is life. I wrote the other day about adepts and masters.

Jesus is a type of the greatest Master. He is revered in all the heavens.

He grasped the law, and dared to live it, to exemplify it. And when he said―The Father and I are one, He pointed the way by which you may realise mastership in yourself.

Jesus of Nazareth is a reality.

As a spiritual body, Jesus who dwelt in Galilee, He exists in space and time―

As the Christ, the paradigm of the spiritual man, He exists in the hearts of all men and women who awaken that idea in themselves. He is a light, which is reflected in many pools.

—“X”

What is the human variable?

I can feel in my bones. Them bones!